The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has nothing to do with computer (or phone) hacking (which we call "cracking").
There must be alot of 1337 hackers out there who dont even know it.
From the article...
Whedon said ``Firefly'' would in some ways be a sort of ``anti-'Star Trek''' with no regular aliens or other monstrous creatures.
Thats one thing I always hated about Star Trek, the aliens ruined every episode. Let's all hope this show has alot more personal dialog and relationship storylines.
Seriously though, why no aliens or monstrous creatures? Maybe the TV studios want more person-to-person relationship storylines, romance, and more of a drama rather than adventure nowdays.
Is this an advertisement for Tungsten Graphics? I mean, what is the story here? OK, so they are a consulting company who specialzes in graphics. Got it.
Perhaps Linux shouldn't be regarded as an operating system at all, but more as a sophisticated multi-player game with a large number of enthusiastic players
...That's when he suddenly realized he wasn't running Linux at all, but playing Unreal Tournament after a long night of binge drinking and hallucination inducing drugs.
... to sell products if you are a rich company. And it is wrong to get your products to market as fast as possible to meet demand from consumers. And it is wrong to charge a high price, even though consumers are paying for it.
I think it might disappoint you but this is just how capitalism works.
I dont want to start a big pissing match over this, but in general people who get Information Systems degrees are exposed to Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Development tools (ie VB), while people who get a Computer Science degree are exposed more to Unix and almost not at all to Windows.
Maybe if they had serveyed Computer Science graduates instead of Information Systems graduates the answer would have been different.
You're right, everything Microsoft sucks completely and Linux is the best operating system for everyone everywhere all the time. I can't even figure out how companies even make any money using Microsoft products because they suck so much.
Do you have ANY real evidence of this other than your perusal of Microsoft's marketing materials? Spend some time in the trenches doing actual work, and less time reading the trade rags, and you might BEGIN to get a clue.
Whoa, slow down there. I was not stating a fact in my post, just saying that TO ME it seems like MS has focused more effort towards developing an embedded OS than Linux has.
Linux had no 'initial goals'. When Linus 'initially' wrote it, it was for himself. And if you listen to his interviews, he plain out says that he is NOT competing with MS, nor does he really care about them.
I did not accuse him of competing with MS or caring about them. I'm just saying I would not be surprised if XP was better than Linux in alot of aspects for embedded systems, since MS has focused alot more effort towards it.
Somestimes games are actually more fun if they defy the laws of physics. Such as being able to jump 20ft in the air (I can only jump about 2ft myself). Don't get me wrong, it has to be somewhat realistic, but any good game will also be a little unrealistic too.
The creation of this group will likely improve the W3Cs ability to manage the growth of XML-based technologies that are being submitted. This should be a good thing for developers who use XML, as the really cool stuff should be available sooner now.
From the article: "There are valuable items you can collect that are worth real-world money," Augustine said. "l lost something I probably could have sold for $100 because I couldn't get in yesterday."
So this is why MS wants everyone to use passport. They can identify the chump who will pay $100 for a +1 vorpal sword...
...and sell him a +3 vorpal sword of flames instead.
(I wonder if people will complain about them getting a monopoly on the magic items market)
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Imagine how much money AOL could save in shipping if they could mail you a tiny chip instead of a CD!
The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has nothing to do with computer (or phone) hacking (which we call "cracking").
There must be alot of 1337 hackers out there who dont even know it.
Anybody got any good college prank stories?
...until the porno version of a movie comes out.
From the article...
Whedon said ``Firefly'' would in some ways be a sort of ``anti-'Star Trek''' with no regular aliens or other monstrous creatures.
Thats one thing I always hated about Star Trek, the aliens ruined every episode. Let's all hope this show has alot more personal dialog and relationship storylines.
Seriously though, why no aliens or monstrous creatures? Maybe the TV studios want more person-to-person relationship storylines, romance, and more of a drama rather than adventure nowdays.
Is this an advertisement for Tungsten Graphics? I mean, what is the story here? OK, so they are a consulting company who specialzes in graphics. Got it.
...is about the penis enlargement spam.
I mean, how did they know to send it to me?
From the article, July 2001:
The University of Tokyo makes a Linux-powered humanoid robot
Possible highlights from 2002's timeline:
Sept 2002... Linux-powered humanoid robot gets rooted by 1337 hacker in under 10 minutes.
Oct 2002... Microsoft makes a Windows XP-Powered Humanoid Robot, but it goes berserk, killing 12 innocent bystanders after it got a BSOD.
Nov 2002... Pay per view event: Linux-Powered Humanoid Robot vs. Windows XP-Powered Humanoid Robot in a winner-take-all death match.
Dec 2002... Army of Linux-powered humanoid robots march on Redmond, WA.
Perhaps Linux shouldn't be regarded as an operating system at all, but more as a sophisticated multi-player game with a large number of enthusiastic players
...That's when he suddenly realized he wasn't running Linux at all, but playing Unreal Tournament after a long night of binge drinking and hallucination inducing drugs.
... to sell products if you are a rich company. And it is wrong to get your products to market as fast as possible to meet demand from consumers. And it is wrong to charge a high price, even though consumers are paying for it.
I think it might disappoint you but this is just how capitalism works.
(Yeah, I know, monopoly, etc etc)
Can't fault a company for trying to make some money
/. readers do it all the time.
why not?
I dont want to start a big pissing match over this, but in general people who get Information Systems degrees are exposed to Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Development tools (ie VB), while people who get a Computer Science degree are exposed more to Unix and almost not at all to Windows.
Maybe if they had serveyed Computer Science graduates instead of Information Systems graduates the answer would have been different.
The world has enough Sodium 21. It's about time someone started converting all that crap to Magnesium 22.
You're right, everything Microsoft sucks completely and Linux is the best operating system for everyone everywhere all the time. I can't even figure out how companies even make any money using Microsoft products because they suck so much.
It must be a conspiracy.
Do you have ANY real evidence of this other than your perusal of Microsoft's marketing materials? Spend some time in the trenches doing actual work, and less time reading the trade rags, and you might BEGIN to get a clue.
Whoa, slow down there. I was not stating a fact in my post, just saying that TO ME it seems like MS has focused more effort towards developing an embedded OS than Linux has.
-- so touchy are those slashdotters!
now everywhere I go, I'll have my pr0n collection with me on my keychain.
...I can't wait until they come out with a 10GB version!
Linux had no 'initial goals'. When Linus 'initially' wrote it, it was for himself. And if you listen to his interviews, he plain out says that he is NOT competing with MS, nor does he really care about them.
I did not accuse him of competing with MS or caring about them. I'm just saying I would not be surprised if XP was better than Linux in alot of aspects for embedded systems, since MS has focused alot more effort towards it.
MS has alot more experience getting Windows to work on embedded systems. Linux is realtively new to this area, it was never their goal initially.
If you consider, NT had an embedded version since the mid 90's and they've just released version 3.x of their Windows CE line.
Somestimes games are actually more fun if they defy the laws of physics. Such as being able to jump 20ft in the air (I can only jump about 2ft myself). Don't get me wrong, it has to be somewhat realistic, but any good game will also be a little unrealistic too.
# of jobs programming for BeOS: 0
# of jobs programming for Mac OSX: 0
The creation of this group will likely improve the W3Cs ability to manage the growth of XML-based technologies that are being submitted. This should be a good thing for developers who use XML, as the really cool stuff should be available sooner now.
From the article:
...and sell him a +3 vorpal sword of flames instead.
"There are valuable items you can collect that are worth real-world money," Augustine said. "l lost something I probably could have sold for $100 because I couldn't get in yesterday."
So this is why MS wants everyone to use passport. They can identify the chump who will pay $100 for a +1 vorpal sword...
(I wonder if people will complain about them getting a monopoly on the magic items market)