>What I didn't like about PostgreSQL was the weird >licensing problems. Yes, bizarre as it may be, the >BSD license they chose over GPL causes it to be >bizarre. You can't get replication without >downloading some weird third-party patch and >recompiling (because the patch is GPL).
So blame the dumb fuck who decided to release a patch under a different licence to the original. People need to conform to the original app, not go their own way.
It's a problem, but also an opportunity. Whereas before they might recruit in secret in mosques, now they recruit in the relative public of the internet. So now the CIA can find the bad guys by posing as radical muslims on the internet, whereas before they'd have to go to physical locations to spy on them. I guess one CIA operative could hang out in 100 virtual locations to spy whereas in the real world they could hang out at maybe 1 or 2 locations.
Even when SGI were big time successful, it always seemed inevitable that they would go bankrupt. In fact it always seemed inevitable that many of these Unix vendors would go bankrupt or otherwise disappear. I mean when you have something like Unix with little differentiation, it is inevitable that one or two players would end up dominating. So we've seen DEC and a lot of players disappear.
So HP and Sun looked like to be the winners. But now HP has made a lot of mis-steps, and Sun isn't looking too healthy either. Linux will swallow their Unix businesses up as well unless they are nimble enough to reinvent themselves. Frankly I think that's unlikely. Apple looks like it has successfully reinvented itself, which is a huge rarity in the technology business.
Why don't they just put the money into Debian? I guess I don't understand their motivation. Are they trying to become the next RedHat? Fair enough if they are I suppose, but the Debian/Ubuntu divide is a confusing one. I ended up installing Ubuntu just because the CD was free, and I didn't have to buy 20-something CDs.
My prediction is that this project will achieve very little. I doubt they know as much as they think they do, but more importantly they won't be able to bootstrap this thing to be comparable to a real person.
It seems to me that a big problem of developing such an intelligent machine (if it were possible) is that such a machine may lack motivation to do what you want it to do. You may train it so that it understands how to do task A, B and C. But then how do you bribe it to do it?
Oh man, Red Hat were warned about this two years ago. Every man and his dog knew this would happen, and said so openly here on Slashdot. Now suddenly, RedHat have figured this out. Me thinks they are slow learners. I'm still running the last version of RedHat before this debacle occured, and when I can muster the effort will leave my many MANY years of RedHat behind in favour of Debian.
I can only agree that very few large IT projects are succeeding. I put the blame partly on managers in charge of the project that are too non-technical and distant from the nuts and bolts of what is going on. They push the freight train on with the theory that the project can be brought in through determination and hard work. It can't. It has to be brought in by clever people who know what they are doing. And these manager types will push the train on till it goes over the cliff when better people would have known much earlier that the bridge was out.
Why not put a warning sticker on every single science book? Science only advances when somebody doubts the status quo. For a long time nobody doubted Newtonian physics. Then this Einstein fellow comes along and throws doubt on the whole thing.
Every theory is just a theory. Doubt them all - it's good science.
Whether you think the original n-gage was clunky or "an odd way to use a phone", is now completely irrelevant that we have the n-gage QD, which rocks in all respects. BTW the "subsidized by carriers" argument is bogus, because you pay more for calls if you buy a subsidized phone.
So what are you hanging around here trolling for? N-gage QD and the games coming out for it rock big-time.
I don't see any reason *not* to get an n-gage QD. The quality of phone cameras sucks big time, so that's no reason.
You don't know what you're talking about. n-gage has better battery life, way better graphics, and I don't know about prices where you are, but if you hunt around on the net you can get the games very cheap.
What a bunch of nonsense. Yes it's true that shipped units is not the same as sold units, but they surpassed 1 million sold quite a while back. Yes, it's not as big as Nintendo, but it's a great platform in its own right, and Nokia has a long term strategy here.
What are you? A grass roots troll? There is not, and never was any reason to mock n-gage. Sure, most of the early games were crap, but then so are most of the early Sony PSP games, and who is mocking it?
Nowdays, n-gage has heaps of awesome games, many of which are n-gage originals, with a bunch of exciting new games about to be released (like "One"). N-gage is awesome, go back to trolling somewhere else.
Speaking at EGN today, Nokia has been waxing lyrical about the success of the N-Gage, announcing that over a million units (N-Gage and N-Gage QD) have been sold so far. Indeed, many were sceptical of Nokia's foray into the games industry, and this is proof of a surprising level of success. With over 100,000 subscribers to N-Gage Arena, plenty of gamers have clearly put their faith (and their funds) into the machine.
Nokia will be pleased to have established a fairly solid user-base ahead of the DS's and PSP's respective launches, as competition in the handheld market will be reaching new levels of intensity by the beginning of next year. Fortunately, the N-Gage already has a reasonable level of support from publishers, most notably Electronic Arts, whose US Vice-President, Nancy Smith, made the following comment, "In reaching the one million milestone, we see that the N-Gage is establishing itself as a serious player in the portable gaming business."
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>Heck, with numbers like that it seems like Linux
>could run circles around XP Pro for audio/video
>apps such as streaming, recording, and playback!"
Yeah, but how feasible is it to run RTLinux just to watch DVDs?
>What I didn't like about PostgreSQL was the weird
>licensing problems. Yes, bizarre as it may be, the
>BSD license they chose over GPL causes it to be
>bizarre. You can't get replication without
>downloading some weird third-party patch and
>recompiling (because the patch is GPL).
So blame the dumb fuck who decided to release a patch under a different licence to the original. People need to conform to the original app, not go their own way.
I don't know whether to laugh at the stupidity of that comment, or cry at the probable legal truth of it.
It's a problem, but also an opportunity. Whereas before they might recruit in secret in mosques, now they recruit in the relative public of the internet. So now the CIA can find the bad guys by posing as radical muslims on the internet, whereas before they'd have to go to physical locations to spy on them. I guess one CIA operative could hang out in 100 virtual locations to spy whereas in the real world they could hang out at maybe 1 or 2 locations.
Even when SGI were big time successful, it always seemed inevitable that they would go bankrupt. In fact it always seemed inevitable that many of these Unix vendors would go bankrupt or otherwise disappear. I mean when you have something like Unix with little differentiation, it is inevitable that one or two players would end up dominating. So we've seen DEC and a lot of players disappear.
So HP and Sun looked like to be the winners. But now HP has made a lot of mis-steps, and Sun isn't looking too healthy either. Linux will swallow their Unix businesses up as well unless they are nimble enough to reinvent themselves. Frankly I think that's unlikely. Apple looks like it has successfully reinvented itself, which is a huge rarity in the technology business.
Why don't they just put the money into Debian? I guess I don't understand their motivation. Are they trying to become the next RedHat? Fair enough if they are I suppose, but the Debian/Ubuntu divide is a confusing one. I ended up installing Ubuntu just because the CD was free, and I didn't have to buy 20-something CDs.
My prediction is that this project will achieve very little. I doubt they know as much as they think they do, but more importantly they won't be able to bootstrap this thing to be comparable to a real person.
LED stocks are the up and coming hot thing. CREE in particular is the stock to buy to get in on this.
It seems to me that a big problem of developing such an intelligent machine (if it were possible) is that such a machine may lack motivation to do what you want it to do. You may train it so that it understands how to do task A, B and C. But then how do you bribe it to do it?
It's a wonder someone hasn't combined freenet with bittorrent. Freenet for the indexes that can't be traced, bittorrent for the throughput.
Oh man, Red Hat were warned about this two years ago. Every man and his dog knew this would happen, and said so openly here on Slashdot. Now suddenly, RedHat have figured this out. Me thinks they are slow learners. I'm still running the last version of RedHat before this debacle occured, and when I can muster the effort will leave my many MANY years of RedHat behind in favour of Debian.
>and if it had happened from a distance of 10 light
>years away, we would be talking about mass
>extinction here on earth
Uh, no. If it had happened from a 10 light year distance we wouldn't be talking about anything at all!
Usually you don't get to the point of quibbling over the definition of "succeeding". The whole thing is scrapped and consigned to the bit bucket.
Uh yeah, and now that Peoplesoft is bought out by Oracle, they'll probably have to restart the project before they can bring it in working.
I can only agree that very few large IT projects are succeeding. I put the blame partly on managers in charge of the project that are too non-technical and distant from the nuts and bolts of what is going on. They push the freight train on with the theory that the project can be brought in through determination and hard work. It can't. It has to be brought in by clever people who know what they are doing. And these manager types will push the train on till it goes over the cliff when better people would have known much earlier that the bridge was out.
Why not put a warning sticker on every single science book? Science only advances when somebody doubts the status quo. For a long time nobody doubted Newtonian physics. Then this Einstein fellow comes along and throws doubt on the whole thing.
Every theory is just a theory. Doubt them all - it's good science.
Whether you think the original n-gage was clunky or "an odd way to use a phone", is now completely irrelevant that we have the n-gage QD, which rocks in all respects. BTW the "subsidized by carriers" argument is bogus, because you pay more for calls if you buy a subsidized phone.
So what are you hanging around here trolling for? N-gage QD and the games coming out for it rock big-time.
I don't see any reason *not* to get an n-gage QD. The quality of phone cameras sucks big time, so that's no reason.
You don't know what you're talking about. n-gage has better battery life, way better graphics, and I don't know about prices where you are, but if you hunt around on the net you can get the games very cheap.
What a bunch of nonsense. Yes it's true that shipped units is not the same as sold units, but they surpassed 1 million sold quite a while back. Yes, it's not as big as Nintendo, but it's a great platform in its own right, and Nokia has a long term strategy here.
What are you? A grass roots troll? There is not, and never was any reason to mock n-gage. Sure, most of the early games were crap, but then so are most of the early Sony PSP games, and who is mocking it?
Nowdays, n-gage has heaps of awesome games, many of which are n-gage originals, with a bunch of exciting new games about to be released (like "One"). N-gage is awesome, go back to trolling somewhere else.
Rubbish, n-gage has better battery life than Gameboy.
September 2004:
Speaking at EGN today, Nokia has been waxing lyrical about the success of the N-Gage, announcing that over a million units (N-Gage and N-Gage QD) have been sold so far. Indeed, many were sceptical of Nokia's foray into the games industry, and this is proof of a surprising level of success. With over 100,000 subscribers to N-Gage Arena, plenty of gamers have clearly put their faith (and their funds) into the machine.
Nokia will be pleased to have established a fairly solid user-base ahead of the DS's and PSP's respective launches, as competition in the handheld market will be reaching new levels of intensity by the beginning of next year. Fortunately, the N-Gage already has a reasonable level of support from publishers, most notably Electronic Arts, whose US Vice-President, Nancy Smith, made the following comment, "In reaching the one million milestone, we see that the N-Gage is establishing itself as a serious player in the portable gaming business."
You're right, Tony Hawk on n-gage rocks. But so do a lot of other n-gage games - Pathway to Glory, Rally 3005, Ashphalt, Sims etc etc.
Oh yeah, and its a great full featured phone at a cheap price too.
Bullshit. Tony Hawk on n-gage is bloody brilliant. Frankly, I'm addicted to the thing. I see no problem at all with the refresh rate.