I recently started using Mozilla 0.9.9 rather than IE for web browsing. I haven't noticed a big difference in the way that I use the web or view web sites (with the exception of having to manually install the Java plug-in (off topic, anyone else having as much trouble with the Java 1.4 release as I am?) I'd have to say that the Mozilla product is just as reliable and stable as the IE product.
Quicktime is free, Quicktime Pro is not. What about the products that you don't mention. Like Solitaire, personally I like the WildTangent version of Solitare better. Movie Maker? TONS of video editing software exists that is better than Microsoft Movie Maker. MS Paint vs. Paint Shop Pro? You picked a very specific windows component for your comparison, one that doesn't have a lot of competition.
I personally wouldn't mind having a stripped down version of windows or at least have the option. They can keep the HTML rendering engine and scripting engine that Windows uses in IE for browsing the system files w/o having to have the IE web browser functionality installed.
Maybe a stripped down corporate version, Sally Wilson in accounting doesn't need Windows Media player, MSN messenger, Movie Maker and all the other stuff that gets bundled with Windows to do her job.
It's hard to suggest anything that we know would work.
A lot of ISP's offer 5 additional email addresses (Worldnet does I believe), you can set those up. If not for free they might offer to set up even more for a fee.
hehehehehhehe, I remember seeing a demo of the MS Agent using.NET technology and they had replaced the genies head with Steve Balmer, even used his voice. Had him saying things like "It's spectacular!!" ehheheeh funniest thing at that conference.
You can specify text areas within flash who's value are dependant upon variables. These variables can be set internally or externally. Externally via the querystring (e.g. http://flashfile.html?name=bob). The variables can also be set from a text file in a querystring format.
The way I've seen it most used is by using a dynamic web page (either ASP or JSP) to out.print (or response.write in ASP) the variables, in querystring form, to a page. (similar to how you load vars from a text file)
So the DB connection isn't contained in the Flash file, it's contained in a dynamic web page. A new flash movie isn't generated every time the user hits the page either.
>Face facts about Flash: >1) It's hard to keep up to date. Until you can >make Flash that updates itself from SQL, it's >worthless for any real data.
You can make it update from SQL sources, it can load vars from the Querystring of the page it's loaded on or by specifying a dynamic page which then writes out the vars (e.g. FirstName=Bob&LastName=Jones). I've seen messageboards written entirely in Flash and in Shockwave.
Flash has a lot of shortcomings, some of which you mentioned, but access to data isn't one of them.
Is the fact that/. is run by OSDN and hosted at OSDN. OSDN is a wholly owned subsidiary of VA Software Corporation. VA Software used to sell hardware, but couldn't make any money on it so now they are selling SourceForge.
So it's not exactly like/. is still this free site that a bunch of people thought would be cool and they are still doing this as just a hobby (I could be wrong though). They are, by association, a business run site. If VA Software can't afford to run/. that's a business problem. They are trying to recoup some of their investment. I'd much rather they move to this kind of "either or" situation than move the articles into "premium content" like Salon did (heck even my local paper the Albuquerque Journal has started charging for their online content, yeah right I'm gonna pay for that when I can just go drop $.50 on the counter at Starbucks and get it when I want it.)
That being said, I don't think I'll pay for an ad-free/. since the majority of their content is provided by us. It's kind of like paying for a pencil and some blank newsprint and having to write your own newspaper.
BTW I'm not against donation type systems, I paid for "Ad-free Sluggy" at Sluggy Freelance because I enjoy the comic.
Not necessarily true. At the Chuck Jones gallery here in Santa Fe, NM (about 50 miles North of Albuquerque, a left turn if you are going East;), Chuck re-created many of the original animation cells and is selling them. Here is his website chuckjones.com. I'm not sure how the copyright works, but it would appear that he either had permission or owns the characters images because there are a TON of them there.
in addition to Bugs and Daffy, he was also responsible for "Michigan J. Frog" (the WB frog, "every bodys doin' the Michigan raaaaaaaaag").
Truly a unique individual who saw the world just a little bit differently from everyone else. He will be missed.
Chances are the MS rep didn't understand MS clustering. He just knew that you had a Beowulf cluster and he wanted to sell you MS software so he figured he'd sell you a MS cluster, regardless of whether or not it would do what a Beowulf cluster could do.
However there is a server solution I saw demoed at a MS DPS I attended called Application Center. It allows you to manage your cluster and distributes workloads throughout the cluster.
Now, I'm not sure if you NEED this to take advantage of Windows 2000 clustering. The last time I worked with a MS cluster was under NT 4 and it was failover only. The load balancing was "faked" by a router that would just alternate which server the request was sent to.
(insert "yeah but MS is evil" comment here) (insert "yeah but Linux Beowulf clusters cost less" comment here) (insert "yeah but who wants to have to reboot your cluster all the time" comment here) (insert "I wish the sigs were longer because that's a really good quote by Richard Feynman" comment here)
I have worked for 2 companies now that exhibit those same symptoms. The first one was started during the.com boom by two "programmers" (I really doubt that one of them ever wrote a good line of code in his life) that thought they could run a business. It failed miserably due to obvious violations of the Peter principle.
My current employer seems to be run by smarter individuals who are (apparently) trying to do the right thing and deliver quality products to their clients. However they seem to have the same problems described in the original post. The managers are disconnected, end up putting out a Q&D product that you support (for free of course) for many months after delivery, yadda^3.
I think a lot of the "agile software development practices" are being tossed about to explain how software REALLY gets written. I've also seen a lot of the "processes will save us" syndrome exhibited by managers. Once things start going bad, the cry goes up "we need a process to manage our software development". They think that by labeling certain stages as "requirement gathering" and "testing" that this will somehow prevent the client from trying to squeeze every ounce of use out of us for their dollar that they can. They don't know what the devs are doing, so they try to label points of the process to help them understand, and convey to the client, what the devs are doing exactly in the hope that this will make the client happy (and coincidentally justify their jobs).
You have to remember that most of the managers didn't get to be managers because of their excellent management processes, but by being the best ass-kisser at the company or by hanging on long enough to require the company to either promote them or fire them.
Often it's not the manager directly above you that's to blame, mis-management starts at the top.
I used to be a fan, but fell off the bandwagon during an episode where Muldur could have found out all the answers to his questions about his sister and chose not to (can't remember why).
Poor, Gillian Anderson. Wonder when she'll be posing in Playboy to "boost her career"?
how do you verify the authenticity of the IM logs or email in question?
With a phone tap you can identify the people on the tape by voice.
Some IM logs are just plain text files. You can edit them to say whatever you want to. The only way to authenticate IM logs, it seems to me, would be to intercept them.
It's flammable liquid in a bottle with a rag in the top?
Add the rag and I've got 7 molotov cocktails in my liquor cabinet.
I've got some unused washcloths around the house. I suppose that coupled with a bottle of rubbing alcohol will get me arrested for possesion of bomb ingredients.
Good points. Perhaps the players will be able to make their own grand storylines as well. I can see the appeal of wanting to be in the universe. Who knows, I may end up playing a 14 day trial of the game and end up loving it.:)
Well I understand the concept of being just one person in a big world trying to make a difference. That's the point of World War II online.
But the main difference there is, there wasn't ONE person or a small group of people that were the reason the Nazis were defeated. It was all of the soldiers in the field, dying and trying.
With Star Wars, no matter how hard the guys in the X-Wing flew it still took Luke to defeat the emperor and Lando to blow up the DS.
I don't think a game called "Mediocrity" would sell very well.
"Mediocrity. The only online MMORPG that lets you be the bartender at the club, or the waitress at Hooters."
The millions playing WWII online ARE important, and the millions playing EQ or AC have the possibility of being important. I just don't see the point with Star Wars. At least even in the Star Trek universe you would have the possibility of playing a large role in a major storyline. The Star Trek universe is much more open ended.
Maybe if the SW MMORPG was set after the Empire was overthrown it would make more sense.
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uhmmm, It's been out of Beta for quite some time now.
but I understand, bashing Microsoft is more important than having your facts straight.
re: Mozilla vs. IE
I recently started using Mozilla 0.9.9 rather than IE for web browsing. I haven't noticed a big difference in the way that I use the web or view web sites (with the exception of having to manually install the Java plug-in (off topic, anyone else having as much trouble with the Java 1.4 release as I am?) I'd have to say that the Mozilla product is just as reliable and stable as the IE product.
Quicktime is free, Quicktime Pro is not. What about the products that you don't mention. Like Solitaire, personally I like the WildTangent version of Solitare better. Movie Maker? TONS of video editing software exists that is better than Microsoft Movie Maker. MS Paint vs. Paint Shop Pro? You picked a very specific windows component for your comparison, one that doesn't have a lot of competition.
I personally wouldn't mind having a stripped down version of windows or at least have the option. They can keep the HTML rendering engine and scripting engine that Windows uses in IE for browsing the system files w/o having to have the IE web browser functionality installed.
Maybe a stripped down corporate version, Sally Wilson in accounting doesn't need Windows Media player, MSN messenger, Movie Maker and all the other stuff that gets bundled with Windows to do her job.
because we like Apple, they that are not Microsoft.
:)
Doesn't matter about how they do business.
Same with Open Source zelots bashing Microsoft, but not mentioning the fact that Java, Oracle, and Solaris are closed source.
yeah, he's got enough problems what with the dogs pissing on the floor and his neighbors singing "kum by yah" at 2AM.
It's hard to suggest anything that we know would work.
A lot of ISP's offer 5 additional email addresses (Worldnet does I believe), you can set those up. If not for free they might offer to set up even more for a fee.
hehehehehhehe, I remember seeing a demo of the MS Agent using .NET technology and they had replaced the genies head with Steve Balmer, even used his voice. Had him saying things like "It's spectacular!!" ehheheeh funniest thing at that conference.
gets started.
Somebody doesn't like the way that X distro does things and decides to do it "right".
That's the nice bit of flexibility in Linux/BSD, but it's a little frustrating too when you are trying to find support for your favorite distro.
You read it incorrectly ;)
(or more likely I described it incorrectly)
You can specify text areas within flash who's value are dependant upon variables. These variables can be set internally or externally. Externally via the querystring (e.g. http://flashfile.html?name=bob). The variables can also be set from a text file in a querystring format.
The way I've seen it most used is by using a dynamic web page (either ASP or JSP) to out.print (or response.write in ASP) the variables, in querystring form, to a page. (similar to how you load vars from a text file)
more info here Load variables into Flash
So the DB connection isn't contained in the Flash file, it's contained in a dynamic web page. A new flash movie isn't generated every time the user hits the page either.
>Face facts about Flash:
>1) It's hard to keep up to date. Until you can >make Flash that updates itself from SQL, it's >worthless for any real data.
You can make it update from SQL sources, it can load vars from the Querystring of the page it's loaded on or by specifying a dynamic page which then writes out the vars (e.g. FirstName=Bob&LastName=Jones). I've seen messageboards written entirely in Flash and in Shockwave.
Flash has a lot of shortcomings, some of which you mentioned, but access to data isn't one of them.
Can you get into it?
yah, you betcha.
Is the fact that /. is run by OSDN and hosted at OSDN. OSDN is a wholly owned subsidiary of VA Software Corporation. VA Software used to sell hardware, but couldn't make any money on it so now they are selling SourceForge.
/. is still this free site that a bunch of people thought would be cool and they are still doing this as just a hobby (I could be wrong though). They are, by association, a business run site. If VA Software can't afford to run /. that's a business problem. They are trying to recoup some of their investment. I'd much rather they move to this kind of "either or" situation than move the articles into "premium content" like Salon did (heck even my local paper the Albuquerque Journal has started charging for their online content, yeah right I'm gonna pay for that when I can just go drop $.50 on the counter at Starbucks and get it when I want it.)
/. since the majority of their content is provided by us. It's kind of like paying for a pencil and some blank newsprint and having to write your own newspaper.
So it's not exactly like
That being said, I don't think I'll pay for an ad-free
BTW I'm not against donation type systems, I paid for "Ad-free Sluggy" at Sluggy Freelance because I enjoy the comic.
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Not necessarily true. At the Chuck Jones gallery here in Santa Fe, NM (about 50 miles North of Albuquerque, a left turn if you are going East ;), Chuck re-created many of the original animation cells and is selling them. Here is his website chuckjones.com. I'm not sure how the copyright works, but it would appear that he either had permission or owns the characters images because there are a TON of them there.
in addition to Bugs and Daffy, he was also responsible for "Michigan J. Frog" (the WB frog, "every bodys doin' the Michigan raaaaaaaaag").
Truly a unique individual who saw the world just a little bit differently from everyone else. He will be missed.
Anyone here run version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel? How well did it run.
Face it, most software sucks in it's first version. It's a sad fact.
Chances are the MS rep didn't understand MS clustering. He just knew that you had a Beowulf cluster and he wanted to sell you MS software so he figured he'd sell you a MS cluster, regardless of whether or not it would do what a Beowulf cluster could do.
However there is a server solution I saw demoed at a MS DPS I attended called Application Center. It allows you to manage your cluster and distributes workloads throughout the cluster.
Now, I'm not sure if you NEED this to take advantage of Windows 2000 clustering. The last time I worked with a MS cluster was under NT 4 and it was failover only. The load balancing was "faked" by a router that would just alternate which server the request was sent to.
(insert "yeah but MS is evil" comment here)
(insert "yeah but Linux Beowulf clusters cost less" comment here)
(insert "yeah but who wants to have to reboot your cluster all the time" comment here)
(insert "I wish the sigs were longer because that's a really good quote by Richard Feynman" comment here)
I have worked for 2 companies now that exhibit those same symptoms. The first one was started during the .com boom by two "programmers" (I really doubt that one of them ever wrote a good line of code in his life) that thought they could run a business. It failed miserably due to obvious violations of the Peter principle.
My current employer seems to be run by smarter individuals who are (apparently) trying to do the right thing and deliver quality products to their clients. However they seem to have the same problems described in the original post. The managers are disconnected, end up putting out a Q&D product that you support (for free of course) for many months after delivery, yadda^3.
I think a lot of the "agile software development practices" are being tossed about to explain how software REALLY gets written. I've also seen a lot of the "processes will save us" syndrome exhibited by managers. Once things start going bad, the cry goes up "we need a process to manage our software development". They think that by labeling certain stages as "requirement gathering" and "testing" that this will somehow prevent the client from trying to squeeze every ounce of use out of us for their dollar that they can. They don't know what the devs are doing, so they try to label points of the process to help them understand, and convey to the client, what the devs are doing exactly in the hope that this will make the client happy (and coincidentally justify their jobs).
You have to remember that most of the managers didn't get to be managers because of their excellent management processes, but by being the best ass-kisser at the company or by hanging on long enough to require the company to either promote them or fire them.
Often it's not the manager directly above you that's to blame, mis-management starts at the top.
I used to be a fan, but fell off the bandwagon during an episode where Muldur could have found out all the answers to his questions about his sister and chose not to (can't remember why).
Poor, Gillian Anderson. Wonder when she'll be posing in Playboy to "boost her career"?
I gotta press the little button to retrieve them. It doesn't hunt me down to tell me someone called.
you could relate pressing the little button on the answering machine to "logging on to check your email".
how do you verify the authenticity of the IM logs or email in question?
With a phone tap you can identify the people on the tape by voice.
Some IM logs are just plain text files. You can edit them to say whatever you want to. The only way to authenticate IM logs, it seems to me, would be to intercept them.
think the mouse is the foot pedal for their computer.
UL points = 1
It's flammable liquid in a bottle with a rag in the top?
Add the rag and I've got 7 molotov cocktails in my liquor cabinet.
I've got some unused washcloths around the house. I suppose that coupled with a bottle of rubbing alcohol will get me arrested for possesion of bomb ingredients.
Good points. Perhaps the players will be able to make their own grand storylines as well. I can see the appeal of wanting to be in the universe. Who knows, I may end up playing a 14 day trial of the game and end up loving it. :)
Do you really get it or are you just ig'nant too?
So I left off an "e" on the end, it's still funny yah?
no?
hehehehehehehe
Well I understand the concept of being just one person in a big world trying to make a difference. That's the point of World War II online.
But the main difference there is, there wasn't ONE person or a small group of people that were the reason the Nazis were defeated. It was all of the soldiers in the field, dying and trying.
With Star Wars, no matter how hard the guys in the X-Wing flew it still took Luke to defeat the emperor and Lando to blow up the DS.
I don't think a game called "Mediocrity" would sell very well.
"Mediocrity. The only online MMORPG that lets you be the bartender at the club, or the waitress at Hooters."
The millions playing WWII online ARE important, and the millions playing EQ or AC have the possibility of being important. I just don't see the point with Star Wars. At least even in the Star Trek universe you would have the possibility of playing a large role in a major storyline. The Star Trek universe is much more open ended.
Maybe if the SW MMORPG was set after the Empire was overthrown it would make more sense.