It varies between $12 and $20. However, I don't know the exchange rates, so I don't know if that is in fact more or less what you pay.
Lately, I turn to iTunes for my music needs. I rarely download music anymore anyway. But every now and then there is a song I have an itch to listen to.
To me, Kazaa was an outlet to download TV episodes like "Dead Like Me" or "Stargate SG-1" (while it was owned by Showtime).
Wow. You need to turn the zealousy down. I'm all for freedom too, but what does that have to do with anything? I could understand if you were talking about Microsoft's or Adobe's shadier business decisions, but this whole rant is a bit out there.
It's not like Opera prohibits you from viewing immoral webpages or anything, it's just a tool. Sure, you can get a hammer for free from a neighbor, or buy one at Home Depot. Both will hammer just as well, but the bought one might have a nicer handle, or the older hammer might be of longer-lasting quality. You compare both before deciding.
It's all about preference. I CHOOSE to use the payware in this instance because I have the freedom to choose, and I personally like Opera just a little bit more. Who's to say I don't also choose to use OpenOffice or Linux at home. I choose to use those tools as well.
I think Opera did a good job here, and the company deserves my small payment. I could just as easily stick with the free version, or find a cracked version out there, but I choose to compensate them for their efforts and the little bit of happiness it has brought me.
Or should development shops (large or small) suffer just because they chose to charge for their product?
As someone already mentioned, the MAJOR difference is...
the student is PAYING for the services of the teacher! And a student should be able to "shop around" for a good teacher and class.
For example, when I was in college, I always asked around about a professor before signing up for a class because I didn't want to waste my time or money on moron, jerk, or someone that was just plain lazy. Hell, a professor teaching Database design better be competent, or everyone of his students will lose out and not get the skills or training they need.
If there was a site that worked the other way around, that that would SO be libelous, I don't even want to imagine the ramifications. People's futures would be ruined before they would begin.
I like Mozilla, and usually support free software, especially OSS, but I don't see what's so wrong about liking payware. It's not like I'm dirt poor, and can't afford the registration fee.
Free Software and Open Source software is great, but not every company is Microsoft; some are benigh or even benevolent. There's nothing wrong with paying for software if you like it more than the free alternatives.
Phew, I was afraid Opera was in trouble. They haven't released a new version in a long time (at one point it was every 2 weeks or maybe a month). Then again, Opera has been pretty rock solid on my systems, with the only crashes occuring during an occassional FLASH ad on tvguide.com/listings.
I'm glad the company is still going strong, as Opera is my browser of choice. While I like Mozilla and it's brother FireBird, I still think Opera is the finest browser available. People may laugh at me for buying licenses, but the overall experience has been great.
How do you integrate with BEA weblogic with a powerbook? You might be a life-save.
I'm reasonably new to Java, but VERY new to J2EE. In fact, I'm being cast into the fire and must learn on-the-fly.
We're doing a project using BEA weblogic. I'm in need of a new notebook, and am REALLY considering a powerbook. However, I WAS deciding against it since I couldn't find a way to develop bea stuff on it.
If you actually read the Wired article, you would see that it made #1 because so many people were waiting for it, and then it didn't come out. They say it's not TRUE vaporware, as in a non-existent thing that will never come out or hasn't been worked on at all. They just say they were dissapointed it didn't come out when they hoped.
And as for 2002!!! What are you, psychic? The game wasn't even officially announced until last year. They caught everyone offgaurd, because NOBODY knew they were working on it. They came out and said "Guess what, we've been working on HL2 since a few months after the original came out, and we have all of these kickass features in it."
SURE, I can say "I can't wait for Crimson Skies 2 to come out next year," but guess what... that's just a guess that a sequel will even be made.
Big deal, it was pushed back. Halo 2 was pushed back, DOOM 3 was pushed back; it's a common thing in video games. And this one isn't even the worst example.
I agree. There are few unique games on the XBox that I like. With 1 MAJOR exception...
CRIMSON SKIES!!!!
This is by far the most fun I've had playing online in a while. Sure, there are similar type games on the PC (with more realistic physics), but I love Crimson Skies. It's fun, INSTANT fun. Just hop on a server and enjoy yourself, even if you're not that good.
If you're into Oracle, then a better comparison would be "Oracle Enterprise Manager".
It's a tool to handle strict ADMIN things, such as user maintenance, creating schemas, etc.
Control Center is a lot like SQL Navigator or Toad, which is a great tool for handling data or creating tables. But the admin functions are not as prevalent.
"My, God the submitter needs, to learn how to use commas, properly when he writes, something that hundreds of thousands of people will potentially, read..."
"Xenophobic americans should, in large quantities, start immigrating in droves to countries that are cheaper to live in."
Well, I'd have NO problem moving to India! I don't care how much money I make, so long as I can do what I love (programming, etc) and live somewhat comfortably.
However, a previous story on slashdot pointed to a news article about how many Indian firms will not hire foreigners - ie. Americans. Yet, if US firms tried pulling that crap here, we'd have countries all over the world freaking out.
I personally think we need more wind-power... seriously. I think it's greatly efficient, probably more so than our current solar cells.
However, one major thing about putting them on the coast... we'd have to keep rebuilding them. Not even taking into account the hurricanes and tropical storms, we'd lose a lot to heavy storms.
I've heard that before. But REALLY, how expensive could it have been? Even at the time it was made.
They reused the same stock footage OVER AND OVER again. The battles were always the same scenes, and the "rag-tag" fleet of ships always seemed to be the same.
Performance issues aside, I have only 1 other problem with the demo... the interface (not the hud, but the way you interact with off-screen things).
Excample: the inventory system. They made it so it was easy to ue with a controller: Scroll here with keypad, press a button, select another item with a keypad, click a button to swap..
DX had an awesome inventory system, much like thief and ss2.
Also, try hacking a security terminal in the original DX, and the demo. You go from nice looking screen that LOOKS like a terminal, to an option screen from DOOM 1. WTF is up with that?!?!
I kept my pre-order though. I'm just hoping the overall game is still a fun experience. scroll here, and press the action-key to cycle through options.
I put the karma in my shirt-pocket, where it fits perfectly.
I don't wear jeans often (usually kacki's and dress pants), and it fits alright in them.
I don't know about jeans. The Karma is a little thick, so it might be snug in some (unless they're broken-in really well or loose-fit). If you DO put it in your jeans pocket, then make sure to "lock" the device (via the switch on teh side). Otherwise, teh joystick may move.
The one sucky thing is the karma doesn't come with a belt clip, nor is one made for it.
There's an option for left-handed people in the settings. It essentially tilts eveything 180 degrees.
If you use the toption, and place the player in the palm of your hand, the wheel is towards the bottom-left (near the base of the thumb).
I use my left hand a lot (I'm not ambidexterous, but I try not to solely focus on my right), and it doesn't feel AS comfortable there as my right hand, but it's do-able. I'd prefer it would instead flip it by 90 degrees, placing the wheel towards the TOP of the left thumb, but I guess there was a limitation to the screen.
The paragraph is misleading.
It has a 20GB hard drive. However, it also has some memory (either traditional or flash). When you select a song (or songs), it caches the song onto the memory and plays it from there.
That means that it doesn't have to spin the hard drive while the song is playing.
Some time ago, the rio line was bought by another company, "Digital Audio Networks", a maker of high-quality sound products. They've made sure that the customer service (online and phone) are better than Sonic's was (which isn't hard, considering how bad they were).
You CAN use it as an external mass storage device, but not in the normal context.
Using either the java applet, or a very lite file transfer app for windows (called taxi), you can transfer files of any types to it. With taxi, you can drag-and-drop files into taxi and it immediately transfers to the device.
It's not as efficient or as nice as having it recognized as a USB device, but it works for me. There WERE 3rd party drivers for it, but rio broke them with their most recent version of their connection software.
The problem is the Karma uses an odd partition-format (perhaps proprietary, I don't recall).
This, in my opinion, is the Karma's one major flaw, but I don't mind it that much. I primarily use windows pc's, so using taxi is not a pain for me. But I can understand how many would be turned off by this.
I hope I can answer some of these questions. I'm quite happy with my Karma. It may not be as stylish as the iPod (and has a couple moving parts), but it sounds great, cost $130 less, and is good value for my money (though some people have had problems).
Does it work over Samba/FTP/SSH, or is it all via Windows software or some crappy Java applet? You can use native windows software, or a java applet. The applet isn't crappy, but it isn't as feature-rich as the win32 native app. The win32 app is similar to itunes (though not as nice), and now allows the sending of play lists.
Does it run ethernet at 100BaseT? Yes
Does it appear as a USB hard drive with a FAT32 filesystem or similar? Unfortunately, no. It uses a different (perhaps proprietary) format. It does not show up as an external hard drive (anymore), and you must use some sort of software to transfer files. At one point, there were 3rd party drivers that let Windows recognize it as a removable drive, but with their recent software (not firmware) update, they broke the driver support on purpose, due to problems on some drives.
Are there any hacking efforts to put these features in? Like I said, there was a 3rd party driver to allow windows recognition, but they don't work anymore. There IS talk of rio developing their own driver, but I've yet to read any confirmation.
The Karma can be purchased for $290 on amazon.com, with another $20 off with a rebate. That's $270 versus $400.
I bought one last week, and my roomate has the recent 20GB iPod. While I think his iPod is slightly nicer (in design), I don't think it's $130 nicer. But, to each his own.
I bought one a week ago, and I was afraid that was the case.
However, I couldn't be more wrong. Holding it in my hand (Im right-handed) feels, well, right. The wheel is reasily accessible to my thumb.
You got it. They serious audit our machines on a regular basic. We have to ask what we can/can't install before hand. They run a utility to parse through the hard disks to make sure everything on your machine is on the list. And like I said, I don't want to rock the boat at this particular point in time.
I'm sure I'm gonna get modded down for this, but does anyone know when is there gonna be a version that can run in windows natively (without using Cywin)?
I ask because we are FORCED to use Windows boxes at work, and they gave all of the developers 2. We can't reformat and put linux on (or do a dual-boot) because they check to make sure everything is status-quo. And right now the atmosphere around here is not the greatest, so I'd rather not risk anything with the PHB's by trying to trick them.
I usually have my 2nd machine as a server running mySQL as a testbed for my database apps. I'd LOVE to switch to Postgresql, but I'm limited as to what I can do.
Any idea when a Windows native version will be available?
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It varies between $12 and $20. However, I don't know the exchange rates, so I don't know if that is in fact more or less what you pay.
Lately, I turn to iTunes for my music needs. I rarely download music anymore anyway. But every now and then there is a song I have an itch to listen to.
To me, Kazaa was an outlet to download TV episodes like "Dead Like Me" or "Stargate SG-1" (while it was owned by Showtime).
Wow. You need to turn the zealousy down. I'm all for freedom too, but what does that have to do with anything? I could understand if you were talking about Microsoft's or Adobe's shadier business decisions, but this whole rant is a bit out there.
It's not like Opera prohibits you from viewing immoral webpages or anything, it's just a tool. Sure, you can get a hammer for free from a neighbor, or buy one at Home Depot. Both will hammer just as well, but the bought one might have a nicer handle, or the older hammer might be of longer-lasting quality. You compare both before deciding.
It's all about preference. I CHOOSE to use the payware in this instance because I have the freedom to choose, and I personally like Opera just a little bit more. Who's to say I don't also choose to use OpenOffice or Linux at home. I choose to use those tools as well.
I think Opera did a good job here, and the company deserves my small payment. I could just as easily stick with the free version, or find a cracked version out there, but I choose to compensate them for their efforts and the little bit of happiness it has brought me.
Or should development shops (large or small) suffer just because they chose to charge for their product?
As someone already mentioned, the MAJOR difference is...
the student is PAYING for the services of the teacher! And a student should be able to "shop around" for a good teacher and class.
For example, when I was in college, I always asked around about a professor before signing up for a class because I didn't want to waste my time or money on moron, jerk, or someone that was just plain lazy. Hell, a professor teaching Database design better be competent, or everyone of his students will lose out and not get the skills or training they need.
If there was a site that worked the other way around, that that would SO be libelous, I don't even want to imagine the ramifications. People's futures would be ruined before they would begin.
I like Mozilla, and usually support free software, especially OSS, but I don't see what's so wrong about liking payware. It's not like I'm dirt poor, and can't afford the registration fee.
Free Software and Open Source software is great, but not every company is Microsoft; some are benigh or even benevolent. There's nothing wrong with paying for software if you like it more than the free alternatives.
Phew, I was afraid Opera was in trouble. They haven't released a new version in a long time (at one point it was every 2 weeks or maybe a month). Then again, Opera has been pretty rock solid on my systems, with the only crashes occuring during an occassional FLASH ad on tvguide.com/listings.
I'm glad the company is still going strong, as Opera is my browser of choice. While I like Mozilla and it's brother FireBird, I still think Opera is the finest browser available. People may laugh at me for buying licenses, but the overall experience has been great.
How do you integrate with BEA weblogic with a powerbook? You might be a life-save.
I'm reasonably new to Java, but VERY new to J2EE. In fact, I'm being cast into the fire and must learn on-the-fly.
We're doing a project using BEA weblogic. I'm in need of a new notebook, and am REALLY considering a powerbook. However, I WAS deciding against it since I couldn't find a way to develop bea stuff on it.
If you actually read the Wired article, you would see that it made #1 because so many people were waiting for it, and then it didn't come out. They say it's not TRUE vaporware, as in a non-existent thing that will never come out or hasn't been worked on at all. They just say they were dissapointed it didn't come out when they hoped.
And as for 2002!!! What are you, psychic? The game wasn't even officially announced until last year. They caught everyone offgaurd, because NOBODY knew they were working on it. They came out and said "Guess what, we've been working on HL2 since a few months after the original came out, and we have all of these kickass features in it."
SURE, I can say "I can't wait for Crimson Skies 2 to come out next year," but guess what... that's just a guess that a sequel will even be made.
Big deal, it was pushed back. Halo 2 was pushed back, DOOM 3 was pushed back; it's a common thing in video games. And this one isn't even the worst example.
I agree. There are few unique games on the XBox that I like. With 1 MAJOR exception...
CRIMSON SKIES!!!!
This is by far the most fun I've had playing online in a while. Sure, there are similar type games on the PC (with more realistic physics), but I love Crimson Skies. It's fun, INSTANT fun. Just hop on a server and enjoy yourself, even if you're not that good.
If you're into Oracle, then a better comparison would be "Oracle Enterprise Manager".
It's a tool to handle strict ADMIN things, such as user maintenance, creating schemas, etc.
Control Center is a lot like SQL Navigator or Toad, which is a great tool for handling data or creating tables. But the admin functions are not as prevalent.
You forgot...
* There is no spoon.
"My, God the submitter needs, to learn how to use commas, properly when he writes, something that hundreds of thousands of people will potentially, read..."
HOLY COW!!! William Shatner posts on SLASHDOT!!!
"Xenophobic americans should, in large quantities, start immigrating in droves to countries that are cheaper to live in."
Well, I'd have NO problem moving to India! I don't care how much money I make, so long as I can do what I love (programming, etc) and live somewhat comfortably.
However, a previous story on slashdot pointed to a news article about how many Indian firms will not hire foreigners - ie. Americans. Yet, if US firms tried pulling that crap here, we'd have countries all over the world freaking out.
I personally think we need more wind-power... seriously. I think it's greatly efficient, probably more so than our current solar cells.
However, one major thing about putting them on the coast... we'd have to keep rebuilding them. Not even taking into account the hurricanes and tropical storms, we'd lose a lot to heavy storms.
I do like the Great Lakes idea/location though.
I've heard that before. But REALLY, how expensive could it have been? Even at the time it was made.
They reused the same stock footage OVER AND OVER again. The battles were always the same scenes, and the "rag-tag" fleet of ships always seemed to be the same.
Performance issues aside, I have only 1 other problem with the demo... the interface (not the hud, but the way you interact with off-screen things).
Excample: the inventory system. They made it so it was easy to ue with a controller: Scroll here with keypad, press a button, select another item with a keypad, click a button to swap..
DX had an awesome inventory system, much like thief and ss2.
Also, try hacking a security terminal in the original DX, and the demo. You go from nice looking screen that LOOKS like a terminal, to an option screen from DOOM 1. WTF is up with that?!?!
I kept my pre-order though. I'm just hoping the overall game is still a fun experience.
scroll here, and press the action-key to cycle through options.
I put the karma in my shirt-pocket, where it fits perfectly.
I don't wear jeans often (usually kacki's and dress pants), and it fits alright in them.
I don't know about jeans. The Karma is a little thick, so it might be snug in some (unless they're broken-in really well or loose-fit). If you DO put it in your jeans pocket, then make sure to "lock" the device (via the switch on teh side). Otherwise, teh joystick may move.
The one sucky thing is the karma doesn't come with a belt clip, nor is one made for it.
There's an option for left-handed people in the settings. It essentially tilts eveything 180 degrees.
If you use the toption, and place the player in the palm of your hand, the wheel is towards the bottom-left (near the base of the thumb).
I use my left hand a lot (I'm not ambidexterous, but I try not to solely focus on my right), and it doesn't feel AS comfortable there as my right hand, but it's do-able. I'd prefer it would instead flip it by 90 degrees, placing the wheel towards the TOP of the left thumb, but I guess there was a limitation to the screen.
I recommend trying it before you buy it.
The paragraph is misleading. It has a 20GB hard drive. However, it also has some memory (either traditional or flash). When you select a song (or songs), it caches the song onto the memory and plays it from there. That means that it doesn't have to spin the hard drive while the song is playing.
Actually, that is no longer correct.
Some time ago, the rio line was bought by another company, "Digital Audio Networks", a maker of high-quality sound products. They've made sure that the customer service (online and phone) are better than Sonic's was (which isn't hard, considering how bad they were).
You CAN use it as an external mass storage device, but not in the normal context.
Using either the java applet, or a very lite file transfer app for windows (called taxi), you can transfer files of any types to it. With taxi, you can drag-and-drop files into taxi and it immediately transfers to the device.
It's not as efficient or as nice as having it recognized as a USB device, but it works for me. There WERE 3rd party drivers for it, but rio broke them with their most recent version of their connection software.
The problem is the Karma uses an odd partition-format (perhaps proprietary, I don't recall).
This, in my opinion, is the Karma's one major flaw, but I don't mind it that much. I primarily use windows pc's, so using taxi is not a pain for me. But I can understand how many would be turned off by this.
I hope I can answer some of these questions. I'm quite happy with my Karma. It may not be as stylish as the iPod (and has a couple moving parts), but it sounds great, cost $130 less, and is good value for my money (though some people have had problems).
Does it work over Samba/FTP/SSH, or is it all via Windows software or some crappy Java applet?
You can use native windows software, or a java applet. The applet isn't crappy, but it isn't as feature-rich as the win32 native app. The win32 app is similar to itunes (though not as nice), and now allows the sending of play lists.
Does it run ethernet at 100BaseT?
Yes
Does it appear as a USB hard drive with a FAT32 filesystem or similar?
Unfortunately, no. It uses a different (perhaps proprietary) format. It does not show up as an external hard drive (anymore), and you must use some sort of software to transfer files. At one point, there were 3rd party drivers that let Windows recognize it as a removable drive, but with their recent software (not firmware) update, they broke the driver support on purpose, due to problems on some drives.
Are there any hacking efforts to put these features in?
Like I said, there was a 3rd party driver to allow windows recognition, but they don't work anymore. There IS talk of rio developing their own driver, but I've yet to read any confirmation.
The Karma can be purchased for $290 on amazon.com, with another $20 off with a rebate. That's $270 versus $400.
I bought one last week, and my roomate has the recent 20GB iPod. While I think his iPod is slightly nicer (in design), I don't think it's $130 nicer. But, to each his own.
I bought one a week ago, and I was afraid that was the case. However, I couldn't be more wrong. Holding it in my hand (Im right-handed) feels, well, right. The wheel is reasily accessible to my thumb.
"Not on the "approved" list?"
You got it. They serious audit our machines on a regular basic. We have to ask what we can/can't install before hand. They run a utility to parse through the hard disks to make sure everything on your machine is on the list. And like I said, I don't want to rock the boat at this particular point in time.
I'm sure I'm gonna get modded down for this, but does anyone know when is there gonna be a version that can run in windows natively (without using Cywin)?
I ask because we are FORCED to use Windows boxes at work, and they gave all of the developers 2. We can't reformat and put linux on (or do a dual-boot) because they check to make sure everything is status-quo. And right now the atmosphere around here is not the greatest, so I'd rather not risk anything with the PHB's by trying to trick them.
I usually have my 2nd machine as a server running mySQL as a testbed for my database apps. I'd LOVE to switch to Postgresql, but I'm limited as to what I can do.
Any idea when a Windows native version will be available?