What, were these guys dual-booting into windows98? Or were they just idiots who didn't know Windows NT (and 2000/XP) has a multi-user system that will allow 'locking down' just as much as anything in Linux. Of course, under Linux more things will be secure by default, but any competent sys-admin should be able to make a windows machine 'bored-student-proof'
Even 3d platformers. They wern't all that great though. SMB64 was really revolutionary though.
So what if he wants to make those kind of games?
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Miyamoto vs. Everyone Else
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Look the only people who are too 'mature' for bright colors and kiddy themed games are 12-14 year old boys.
Truly mature people can appreciate the quality of the game weather it has lots of blood and guts or if it doesn't. Adults can appreciate both Mario and Vice City.
The only truly adult games I can think of (besides porn, I mean) are the hard-core simulations, like Gran Tourismo or to a certain extent counterstrike.
Anyway, Nintendo has plenty of money. They can hire more 'sophisticated' artists if they want to.
I say let Miyamoto do what he wants. Don't try to control a genious.
What are you talking about?
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Decentralization
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Linux was created so that there could be a truly free OS to play around with. Minix cost money, back in the day, and modifications had to be distributed in the form of patches, which got to be extreemly annoying, even for people who already had licenses. That was the reason Linus created Linux.
The people who own the company (the stockholders) aperantly think that the salary of these people is a resonable price to pay given how much more money they are going to be making because they are there.
If You own a billion dolar company, and you think a new CEO is smart enough to make you into a two billion dolar company, then it would be stupid of you not to pay him enough for him to want the job.
It certanly makes more sense then paying sports people that kind of cash...
Chu Mei-Feng isn't a guy, it's a woman. A taiwanese Politictian who had a huge sex scandal in Taiwan.
Basically she was the 'girlfriend' you could say of a high-ranking politico who helped her get into the equivalent of congress. (most Americans would have balked, at this point, but in Taiwan it was kosher)
Anyway, he got her a house, and she got lonely so she invited a friend to live with her. Except, her friend ended up putting video cameras in her bedroom and recorded her having sex with lots of different guys. Then released the VCDs.
So, when people searched for "Chu Mei-Feng" they weren't looking for info on the Taiwan-China relations (CMF was pro-unification, fyi), but rather they were looking for.mpg files of her getting fucked.
I knew a guy at work who would usualy go to google, type in [company-name] and then hit the first link, rather then typing [company-name].com
I also used to get lots of refers from people searching for "autopr0n" on google, although weirdly enough autopr0n.com actualy dosn't show up untill the 4th page on a search for autopr0n. The first two links are too my slashdot and kuro5hin user info pages, followed by a bunch of links of people talking about my page... it's really weird.
They were searching for the the Anime "DragonBall Z" Which is about little kids figiting and stuff.
So you were wrong, the world is much, much, more geeky then you figured...
What about google?
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Web Zeitgeist
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You know its weird, google has so much more traffic then Lycos, and they are the ones who coined the term 'Zeitgeist' to refer to perotic web-search stats reports. (I.e the 'Google Zeitgeist'). In fact, Google just released their Zeitgeist for 2k2 a couple days ago, but I've been seeing the Lycos thing all over the place.
I guess Terra-Lycos, being a true media company rather then search-only knows how to play the PR game better. Ah well.
Ah well. Typing the term 'zeitgeist' over and over has really messed with my head...
They just sold over-priced servers with Linux pre-installed. It was a retarded business model, seeing as how as soon as Linux got popular the major players (dell, Compaq, HP, SGI, IBM) just start offering Linux pre-installed on their normally priced servers.
After that they tried selling Source Forge, and running OSDN (slashdot and a handful of other sites). I'm pretty sure SF isn't doing very well, and who knows about OSDN.
Red Hat, on the other hand, which basically sells shrink-wrapped Linux distros and offers support on setting up Linux in business is doing fine, and is actually profitable (last I heard).
We are willing to praise lackluster device support, and non functioning desktop environments because they don't give us a BSOD or tell us our applications are doing something "illegal".
No, it tells you that there was a segmentation fault. Moron.
It would be interesting to see where Linux would be today if Linus actually cared what went into the rest of the system. He really only worries about the kernel. If you read his comments you can see he really doesn't care what goes into the rest. And seeing how he even encourages people to use other people's version of the kernel if his doesn't include the features they want (like kernel debugging, riser-FS, etc) it's not exactly like he's a standards nazi.
If Linus were actually interested in how the rest of the system took shape, we would be in either of two possible worlds: A highly standardized version of Linux with some tiny offshoots, or a world where no one wants to use the OS of that hypothetical anal bastard Linus : P
Heh, thats not what the article is about?
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"People only notice telephone operators when their calls don't go through. How can we get people to recognize the importance of phone ops?"
But, that's not what the article is about. The article is about replacing tech-monkies with lots of automated IT infestructure.
IE, once you figure out how you want your network to be running, IT should simply be an issue of bots going out and figuring out how to scale things and the like, and a few people going around replacing defective hardware.
Unfortunately, and I think this is true in a lot of companies, they have their own, amazingly poorly written software that no automated tool is going to be able to handle or figure out for a *long* time.
Corps with good software engineering people (or don't need to write much of their own code) are going to be able get their technology to do a lot of their work for 'em. Other companies are not.
1) I don't want to watch TV on my monitor. My TV is nicer. My TV is in front of the couch. My TV has a better picture. My TV has sound through my stero.
It's not exactly hard to have your computer sound pumped through a sterio. Certanly not any harder then playing TV sound through a sterio.
It's also not very hard to have the computer pump video to a TV as well.
Are there any good PVRs out there that you don't need to pay a monthly service fee to use? I mean, come on. TV listings are hardly worth $5/month or whatever. I can get all of that off the web for free.
I also really don't want some company (and possibly TIA in the future) sifting through my TV viewing habits.
Are there any PVR solutions out there that just let you record TV shows and watch 'em later? (being able to transfer the files to my computer would be a huge bonus as well:P)
A year or so ago, hackers broke into M$ and stole the NT source code. I'm sure that it's floating around somewhere if you really want it.
There are also other people with the source. If a company really needs to see the windows sorce, they could probably place a corporate spy into M$ to get it.
Microsoft shares code with the US government as well as some research institutions. It's not like M$s code is super-secret or anything, it's just that they don't want anybody to be able to see how it works for whatever reason.
I'm sure if you put enough money on the table M$ would let you look at the code. And I'm sure M$ sees a lot of money in getting it's hooks in india's growing IT world.
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Who invented nuclear power?
Zee Germans?
Egads, hasn't that windbag been discredited enough.
What, were these guys dual-booting into windows98? Or were they just idiots who didn't know Windows NT (and 2000/XP) has a multi-user system that will allow 'locking down' just as much as anything in Linux. Of course, under Linux more things will be secure by default, but any competent sys-admin should be able to make a windows machine 'bored-student-proof'
Even 3d platformers. They wern't all that great though. SMB64 was really revolutionary though.
Look the only people who are too 'mature' for bright colors and kiddy themed games are 12-14 year old boys.
Truly mature people can appreciate the quality of the game weather it has lots of blood and guts or if it doesn't. Adults can appreciate both Mario and Vice City.
The only truly adult games I can think of (besides porn, I mean) are the hard-core simulations, like Gran Tourismo or to a certain extent counterstrike.
Anyway, Nintendo has plenty of money. They can hire more 'sophisticated' artists if they want to.
I say let Miyamoto do what he wants. Don't try to control a genious.
Linux was created so that there could be a truly free OS to play around with. Minix cost money, back in the day, and modifications had to be distributed in the form of patches, which got to be extreemly annoying, even for people who already had licenses. That was the reason Linus created Linux.
The people who own the company (the stockholders) aperantly think that the salary of these people is a resonable price to pay given how much more money they are going to be making because they are there.
If You own a billion dolar company, and you think a new CEO is smart enough to make you into a two billion dolar company, then it would be stupid of you not to pay him enough for him to want the job.
It certanly makes more sense then paying sports people that kind of cash...
I think I found the stuff on WinMX, personaly.
But the year before last I worked over xmas break and all I got was Jack Shit.
Chu Mei-Feng isn't a guy, it's a woman. A taiwanese Politictian who had a huge sex scandal in Taiwan.
.mpg files of her getting fucked.
Basically she was the 'girlfriend' you could say of a high-ranking politico who helped her get into the equivalent of congress. (most Americans would have balked, at this point, but in Taiwan it was kosher)
Anyway, he got her a house, and she got lonely so she invited a friend to live with her. Except, her friend ended up putting video cameras in her bedroom and recorded her having sex with lots of different guys. Then released the VCDs.
So, when people searched for "Chu Mei-Feng" they weren't looking for info on the Taiwan-China relations (CMF was pro-unification, fyi), but rather they were looking for
I knew a guy at work who would usualy go to google, type in [company-name] and then hit the first link, rather then typing [company-name].com
I also used to get lots of refers from people searching for "autopr0n" on google, although weirdly enough autopr0n.com actualy dosn't show up untill the 4th page on a search for autopr0n. The first two links are too my slashdot and kuro5hin user info pages, followed by a bunch of links of people talking about my page... it's really weird.
Wow, the world is much geekier than i thought.
They were searching for the the Anime "DragonBall Z" Which is about little kids figiting and stuff.
So you were wrong, the world is much, much, more geeky then you figured...
You know its weird, google has so much more traffic then Lycos, and they are the ones who coined the term 'Zeitgeist' to refer to perotic web-search stats reports. (I.e the 'Google Zeitgeist'). In fact, Google just released their Zeitgeist for 2k2 a couple days ago, but I've been seeing the Lycos thing all over the place.
I guess Terra-Lycos, being a true media company rather then search-only knows how to play the PR game better. Ah well.
Ah well. Typing the term 'zeitgeist' over and over has really messed with my head...
They just sold over-priced servers with Linux pre-installed. It was a retarded business model, seeing as how as soon as Linux got popular the major players (dell, Compaq, HP, SGI, IBM) just start offering Linux pre-installed on their normally priced servers.
After that they tried selling Source Forge, and running OSDN (slashdot and a handful of other sites). I'm pretty sure SF isn't doing very well, and who knows about OSDN.
Red Hat, on the other hand, which basically sells shrink-wrapped Linux distros and offers support on setting up Linux in business is doing fine, and is actually profitable (last I heard).
We are willing to praise lackluster device support, and non functioning desktop environments because they don't give us a BSOD or tell us our applications are doing something "illegal".
No, it tells you that there was a segmentation fault. Moron.
It would be interesting to see where Linux would be today if Linus actually cared what went into the rest of the system. He really only worries about the kernel. If you read his comments you can see he really doesn't care what goes into the rest. And seeing how he even encourages people to use other people's version of the kernel if his doesn't include the features they want (like kernel debugging, riser-FS, etc) it's not exactly like he's a standards nazi.
If Linus were actually interested in how the rest of the system took shape, we would be in either of two possible worlds: A highly standardized version of Linux with some tiny offshoots, or a world where no one wants to use the OS of that hypothetical anal bastard Linus : P
"People only notice telephone operators when their calls don't go through. How can we get people to recognize the importance of phone ops?"
But, that's not what the article is about. The article is about replacing tech-monkies with lots of automated IT infestructure.
IE, once you figure out how you want your network to be running, IT should simply be an issue of bots going out and figuring out how to scale things and the like, and a few people going around replacing defective hardware.
Unfortunately, and I think this is true in a lot of companies, they have their own, amazingly poorly written software that no automated tool is going to be able to handle or figure out for a *long* time.
Corps with good software engineering people (or don't need to write much of their own code) are going to be able get their technology to do a lot of their work for 'em. Other companies are not.
I think they're a bit late with that one. For a while now I've been spending every day sitting in front of a computer display...
Oh, wait...
They have air on mars now?
Hrm... I thought up a cool way to save banwidth by using javascript for layout. perhaps one day it could be used on mars!
I don't "pay a fee." That implies I'm getting nothing in return.
What? What language are you speaking?
1) I don't want to watch TV on my monitor. My TV is nicer. My TV is in front of the couch. My TV has a better picture. My TV has sound through my stero.
It's not exactly hard to have your computer sound pumped through a sterio. Certanly not any harder then playing TV sound through a sterio.
It's also not very hard to have the computer pump video to a TV as well.
Are there any good PVRs out there that you don't need to pay a monthly service fee to use? I mean, come on. TV listings are hardly worth $5/month or whatever. I can get all of that off the web for free.
:P)
I also really don't want some company (and possibly TIA in the future) sifting through my TV viewing habits.
Are there any PVR solutions out there that just let you record TV shows and watch 'em later? (being able to transfer the files to my computer would be a huge bonus as well
A year or so ago, hackers broke into M$ and stole the NT source code. I'm sure that it's floating around somewhere if you really want it.
There are also other people with the source. If a company really needs to see the windows sorce, they could probably place a corporate spy into M$ to get it.
Microsoft shares code with the US government as well as some research institutions. It's not like M$s code is super-secret or anything, it's just that they don't want anybody to be able to see how it works for whatever reason.
I'm sure if you put enough money on the table M$ would let you look at the code. And I'm sure M$ sees a lot of money in getting it's hooks in india's growing IT world.
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