Personally I feel this would be a great thing for business and the consumer, but the artists may see plenty of drawbacks especially after getting used to 7 years of the current business model.
Not everyone is as perfect as you I suppose. I suppose Herman Melville should've just said "There's a captain after a whale, everyone dies except the narrator." for Moby Dick instead of writing the thousands of long, boring paragraphs. Now I'm no Herman Melville, of course, but it must be very rewarding to you to contradict and call anyone out who puts details into their posts. Seems you have something to say on many people's posts with your 4300+ comments and/or trolling. You deserve a medal.
I'm going out on a limb here and stating that I like the article and found it very useful and informative. There are plenty of.NET developers in this world and I am one of them. I also love Mac OSX and it is great to see a semi-detailed and informative account of someone who set up the very environment I have been researching as a possible development platform. A large part of the applications the author uses on OSX and Windows is exactly what I would be using in the same setup.
It will be very beneficial to me when I finally get this platform set up to test the memory allocation in the manner the author describes, and assuming I don't take the plunge and get a Mac Pro, 2GB RAM will be the amount of RAM I choose for the Macbook Pro. After reading the article I can now purchase a new Mac and know that I can do everything I'm wanting.
The network administrator of that open wireless network may now or soon be labeled a terrorist.
Stan Smith has already begun Operation StupidIsAsStupidDoes and you will be assimilated.
Hooray for freedom and our right to vote in people to help eliminate our freedoms! Next up on our agenda, an amendment to eliminate the 22nd amendment so we can keep Bush in the WhiteHouse forever because he has sure made us all feel safer now that we pay $2.00+ per gallon of gasoline and line his pockets even more.
The Newton was way ahead of its time in many aspects: versatility, portability, object-oriented based language (at first), etc. If the Newton had flourished as well as our current Palm devices and Pocket PC devices, we might all be using Newtons, or a derivative, instead.
Of course, we can all thank the Newton for paving the way to a lot of our mobile device concepts. Well, the Newton, and Star Trek.
Based on your description, as soon as I finally purchase my PS2, and after I'm done with the Star Wars Episode 3 game which I'm addicted to right now (playing on a friend's PS2), I will probably buy Chrono Cross and try it out. I still play Chrono Trigger from time to time so I would love to try Chrono Cross out.
If they decided to remake, enhance, redesign, etc., Chrono Trigger for the Revolution, I'd buy the game system simply to play that. Chrono Trigger has to have been one of the best RPGs to date. The Final Fantasy series was great, but I always keep going back to Chrono Trigger and the 12 or so possible endings to that game. I know there was Chrono Cross, but from what I hear it didn't live up to Chrono Trigger's legacy.
The main question you have to ask yourself is "Do I need this job experience on my resume?" If you are compelled to answer yes, then your best bet is to leave as cordially as possible, but explain to any other interviewer, if necessary, that you left to pursue an advancement of your career and your supervisor resented it. I say "if necessary" because there's no point conveying that if the interviewer doesn't contact them for reference. Granted, it's tough to find out whether or not they will be contacting them.
Most sane and mature employers understand that as long as you give them notice of the termination of employment that the burden of employee replacement is on the employer, not you. The fact that your current employer is doing this proves how immature he is. Withholding the last paycheck may be something stipulated in documents you signed at the beginning of employment so you may want to look those over.
I have had previous employers that I have had issues with personally, but tried my best not to burn the bridge myself. If they had burned the bridge, I would definitely talk to their boss about this. If they didn't have a boss above them then I would gladly have had choice words for them. It's all a judgement call, but if you need this on your resume, definitely don't burn the bridge yourself.
...they may just succeed in assuming the fair and honourable dominion over the world's information they so naively set out to achieve eight years ago in their garage.
Is it just me, or does it seem every computer "revolution" begins in a garage (*ahem* apple, etc)?
"To me, Babylon 5, Voyager, and all the other crappy CGI shows looked even more ridiculous than the original Trek."
The fact that you said Babylon 5 was a crappy CGI shows just how low your intelligence is. Watch the whole series before passing judgement on one of the most well written sci-fi epics ever created. May JMS smite you if you do not!
With failures like this mounting up, it's obvious why the government is so reluctant to spend more money on NASA projects. We need a victory of some sort to convince the government to give NASA the money they need. Have we simply run out of good ideas? The Saturn V rocket was a good idea. The space shuttle was a good idea, albeit now a very old one. The ISS is a good idea, but without reliable transportation to and from, it will soon become a ghost station.
One question that has plagued me since the destruction of Columbia: If there wouldn't have been extreme heat going into the wing, would the crew still be alive? I'm no aerodynamics expert, but isn't it possible, at the point of entry into the atmosphere, when temperatures start to rise, that the shuttle release some liquid nitrogen or some other super-coolant in some manner as to keep homeostasis of the vehicle?
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...now wearing his Anon Coward hat.
Wasn't me who posted the anony message. It's nice to have a vote of confidence though.
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McNealy's Last Stand
Technical muscle and a history of innovation made Sun a Silicon Valley standard-bearer. It also blinded famously combative Scott McNealy to the coming Linux wars. Now he's fighting to survive.
By Gary Rivlin
Stiff-legged and hunched over, Scott McNealy limps slowly to a wheat-colored couch in the corner of his office. His eyes are bleary, and a wrinkly wattle is forming about his neck. In his semi-exhausted state, McNealy looks almost frail. There was a time not that long ago when the smash-mouthed, overamped CEO of Sun Microsystems would have been shuffling along like this because of a nasty collision during a no-holds-barred intramural hockey game. Instead, the culprit is a long international flight home two days ago following a week-and-a-half swing through Asia. "I'm getting old," groans the 48-year-old McNealy.
Age may be one explanation for his woes, but there are others: his company's stock price, slumping sales, and customer defections, not to mention threats posed by a burgeoning list of competitors. Share prices of nearly every publicly traded Silicon Valley firm have plummeted since 2000, of course, but few have fallen as precipitously as Sun's. As of early May, its stock, down 94 percent from a 2000 high, was trading pretty much exactly where it was in 1996, when the computer maker was in the early arc of its dotcom-fueled rocket ride. In its heyday, Sun sometimes sold as much as $5 billion worth of computer equipment, software, and services in a single quarter, but over the past few years quarterly revenue has dropped to nearly half that. Revenue fell an additional 10 percent in the first three months of 2003, marking the eighth consecutive quarterly decline.
The problem is that Sun specializes in the kind of top-end systems - super-sleek servers running on scores of expensive, high-performance chips yoked together by Solaris, Sun's well-regarded operating system - that have fallen out of favor. Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, Pixar, and the E*Trade Group are among the major companies that have swapped out Sun machines in recent months for so-called Lintel boxes: cheaper servers running the Linux operating system on Intel-compatible microprocessors. Even Google, headed up by former Sun star Eric Schmidt, uses Lintel machines to run one of the world's busiest Web sites. Of the 20 Wall Street analysts who cover Sun, only one rates the company a buy. This month, Wired drops Sun from its list of the 40 most forward-looking companies, a group it has been part of since the list debuted in 1998.
Not long ago, Sun was celebrated as one of the Four Horsemen of the Internet. Companies looking to make their mark on the Web knew exactly which vendors to seek out: Cisco for routers, EMC for storage equipment, Oracle for database software, and Sun for servers - those centralized computers that pump out every page on the Web and every piece of email. And while Cisco, Oracle, and EMC have struggled through the downturn, none of the three has suffered nearly as much as Sun. Like all great rise and fall stories, Sun's saga is one replete with hubris, missed opportunities, and outright mistakes. But the story reduces down to this: McNealy spent the second half of the 1990s monomaniacally obsessed with everything having to do with Microsoft, from its monopoly-like practices to the general unreliability of the Windows operating system. Meanwhile, stalwarts like Hewlett-Packard and IBM began selling servers on par with Sun's most powerful and expensive machines. Dell and Intel, propelled by Linux, started cutting into Sun's core business at the low end. By the time Sun woke up to this new reality, the smart-guy pundits were asking if the company would be the first big casualty of Linux.
Now that Sun recognizes the problem, its response is familiar. The company is busily spinning out new products while simultaneously going on the attack. Sun's executives have a history of turning competitors into enemies, as if the co
is a new file system something we really need? NTFS support is still not 100% in Linux, and now there's a new filesystem to catch up with?
Since when was Microsoft so concerned with making sure their filesystems, or any part of their OS, are compatible with Linux in any form or fashion? It is up to the open source community to make Linux compatible with Windows, not vice versa.
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just go Bing it!
http://www.ipodnn.com/articles/08/03/20/unlimited.itunes.a.myth/
Personally I feel this would be a great thing for business and the consumer, but the artists may see plenty of drawbacks especially after getting used to 7 years of the current business model.
Not everyone is as perfect as you I suppose. I suppose Herman Melville should've just said "There's a captain after a whale, everyone dies except the narrator." for Moby Dick instead of writing the thousands of long, boring paragraphs. Now I'm no Herman Melville, of course, but it must be very rewarding to you to contradict and call anyone out who puts details into their posts. Seems you have something to say on many people's posts with your 4300+ comments and/or trolling. You deserve a medal.
I'm going out on a limb here and stating that I like the article and found it very useful and informative. There are plenty of .NET developers in this world and I am one of them. I also love Mac OSX and it is great to see a semi-detailed and informative account of someone who set up the very environment I have been researching as a possible development platform. A large part of the applications the author uses on OSX and Windows is exactly what I would be using in the same setup.
It will be very beneficial to me when I finally get this platform set up to test the memory allocation in the manner the author describes, and assuming I don't take the plunge and get a Mac Pro, 2GB RAM will be the amount of RAM I choose for the Macbook Pro. After reading the article I can now purchase a new Mac and know that I can do everything I'm wanting.
Hooray for freedom and our right to vote in people to help eliminate our freedoms! Next up on our agenda, an amendment to eliminate the 22nd amendment so we can keep Bush in the WhiteHouse forever because he has sure made us all feel safer now that we pay $2.00+ per gallon of gasoline and line his pockets even more.
Has anyone gotten a joypad to work? If so, which joypad is it?
The Newton was way ahead of its time in many aspects: versatility, portability, object-oriented based language (at first), etc. If the Newton had flourished as well as our current Palm devices and Pocket PC devices, we might all be using Newtons, or a derivative, instead.
Of course, we can all thank the Newton for paving the way to a lot of our mobile device concepts. Well, the Newton, and Star Trek.
Based on your description, as soon as I finally purchase my PS2, and after I'm done with the Star Wars Episode 3 game which I'm addicted to right now (playing on a friend's PS2), I will probably buy Chrono Cross and try it out. I still play Chrono Trigger from time to time so I would love to try Chrono Cross out.
If they decided to remake, enhance, redesign, etc., Chrono Trigger for the Revolution, I'd buy the game system simply to play that. Chrono Trigger has to have been one of the best RPGs to date. The Final Fantasy series was great, but I always keep going back to Chrono Trigger and the 12 or so possible endings to that game. I know there was Chrono Cross, but from what I hear it didn't live up to Chrono Trigger's legacy.
Most sane and mature employers understand that as long as you give them notice of the termination of employment that the burden of employee replacement is on the employer, not you. The fact that your current employer is doing this proves how immature he is. Withholding the last paycheck may be something stipulated in documents you signed at the beginning of employment so you may want to look those over.
I have had previous employers that I have had issues with personally, but tried my best not to burn the bridge myself. If they had burned the bridge, I would definitely talk to their boss about this. If they didn't have a boss above them then I would gladly have had choice words for them. It's all a judgement call, but if you need this on your resume, definitely don't burn the bridge yourself.
More like .. Get a woman.
:) Darn duplex!
Maybe I can start a revolution out of the closets I have hardware stuffed in.
Got a woman, just don't have the garage
...they may just succeed in assuming the fair and honourable dominion over the world's information they so naively set out to achieve eight years ago in their garage.
Is it just me, or does it seem every computer "revolution" begins in a garage (*ahem* apple, etc)?
*Note to self* Get a garage.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~coates/video/Redefined%20- %20Nintendo%20(Video).mpg
Oh! Thank goodness! RIAA to the rescue again! I was losing so much sleep over this and cannot fathom people sharing files.
*DING*
Oooh...the Star Wars Episode 3 soundtrack is finished downloading...BRB!
His site is down now...
I guess he finally got laid.
"To me, Babylon 5, Voyager, and all the other crappy CGI shows looked even more ridiculous than the original Trek."
The fact that you said Babylon 5 was a crappy CGI shows just how low your intelligence is. Watch the whole series before passing judgement on one of the most well written sci-fi epics ever created. May JMS smite you if you do not!
...can I sign up for beta?
One question that has plagued me since the destruction of Columbia: If there wouldn't have been extreme heat going into the wing, would the crew still be alive? I'm no aerodynamics expert, but isn't it possible, at the point of entry into the atmosphere, when temperatures start to rise, that the shuttle release some liquid nitrogen or some other super-coolant in some manner as to keep homeostasis of the vehicle?
Wasn't me who posted the anony message. It's nice to have a vote of confidence though.
Better yet, submit a story.
I've submitted 2, have you?
Wing Seals Blamed in Columbia's Demise
Stopping NetBIOS Spam?
McNealy's Last Stand
Technical muscle and a history of innovation made Sun a Silicon Valley standard-bearer. It also blinded famously combative Scott McNealy to the coming Linux wars. Now he's fighting to survive.
By Gary Rivlin
Stiff-legged and hunched over, Scott McNealy limps slowly to a wheat-colored couch in the corner of his office. His eyes are bleary, and a wrinkly wattle is forming about his neck. In his semi-exhausted state, McNealy looks almost frail. There was a time not that long ago when the smash-mouthed, overamped CEO of Sun Microsystems would have been shuffling along like this because of a nasty collision during a no-holds-barred intramural hockey game. Instead, the culprit is a long international flight home two days ago following a week-and-a-half swing through Asia. "I'm getting old," groans the 48-year-old McNealy.
Age may be one explanation for his woes, but there are others: his company's stock price, slumping sales, and customer defections, not to mention threats posed by a burgeoning list of competitors. Share prices of nearly every publicly traded Silicon Valley firm have plummeted since 2000, of course, but few have fallen as precipitously as Sun's. As of early May, its stock, down 94 percent from a 2000 high, was trading pretty much exactly where it was in 1996, when the computer maker was in the early arc of its dotcom-fueled rocket ride. In its heyday, Sun sometimes sold as much as $5 billion worth of computer equipment, software, and services in a single quarter, but over the past few years quarterly revenue has dropped to nearly half that. Revenue fell an additional 10 percent in the first three months of 2003, marking the eighth consecutive quarterly decline.
The problem is that Sun specializes in the kind of top-end systems - super-sleek servers running on scores of expensive, high-performance chips yoked together by Solaris, Sun's well-regarded operating system - that have fallen out of favor. Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, Pixar, and the E*Trade Group are among the major companies that have swapped out Sun machines in recent months for so-called Lintel boxes: cheaper servers running the Linux operating system on Intel-compatible microprocessors. Even Google, headed up by former Sun star Eric Schmidt, uses Lintel machines to run one of the world's busiest Web sites. Of the 20 Wall Street analysts who cover Sun, only one rates the company a buy. This month, Wired drops Sun from its list of the 40 most forward-looking companies, a group it has been part of since the list debuted in 1998.
Not long ago, Sun was celebrated as one of the Four Horsemen of the Internet. Companies looking to make their mark on the Web knew exactly which vendors to seek out: Cisco for routers, EMC for storage equipment, Oracle for database software, and Sun for servers - those centralized computers that pump out every page on the Web and every piece of email. And while Cisco, Oracle, and EMC have struggled through the downturn, none of the three has suffered nearly as much as Sun. Like all great rise and fall stories, Sun's saga is one replete with hubris, missed opportunities, and outright mistakes. But the story reduces down to this: McNealy spent the second half of the 1990s monomaniacally obsessed with everything having to do with Microsoft, from its monopoly-like practices to the general unreliability of the Windows operating system. Meanwhile, stalwarts like Hewlett-Packard and IBM began selling servers on par with Sun's most powerful and expensive machines. Dell and Intel, propelled by Linux, started cutting into Sun's core business at the low end. By the time Sun woke up to this new reality, the smart-guy pundits were asking if the company would be the first big casualty of Linux.
Now that Sun recognizes the problem, its response is familiar. The company is busily spinning out new products while simultaneously going on the attack. Sun's executives have a history of turning competitors into enemies, as if the co
First Hack! There...someone had to do it :)
is a new file system something we really need? NTFS support is still not 100% in Linux, and now there's a new filesystem to catch up with?
Since when was Microsoft so concerned with making sure their filesystems, or any part of their OS, are compatible with Linux in any form or fashion? It is up to the open source community to make Linux compatible with Windows, not vice versa.
...the Acolyte Dorn from the village of Thane ventured into the ruins of Takator...</from the article>
Whoa! Michael Dorn played D&D?? Coincidence that Wil Wheaton posts this story...I think not.
...extract renewable stem cells from bone marrow...
<Cartman>: This is some quality bone marrow here Dan. Come on Dan. You're breakin' my balls here Dan. Seriously. The balls...broken.
The critics aren't much impressed with the new Star trek...
Since when have the critics ever been impressed with Star Trek? I take anything a critic says with a grain of salt.