Only when Lucas is done milking the cow can the really cool stuff come out!
There was rumor on one of the Offical sites that an "extended Universe" character may make it on-screen in EP3....Thrawn anyone? We know he's responsible for wiping out a large group of Masters. And his success would be a fitting opposite to the jedi...cold, cruel logic and machinery over the living force.
But yeah, the current novels are lightyears ahead of the tripe Lucas is pushing! Frankly, I think SciFi should pick up the novel rights as a series and work their way thru them after EP3. I'd be keen on mixed-media though, rather than trying to do one "series" Season long Mini-series like "taken" really can show what SciFi can do while not letting the show get canned for loosing in the first week. They got 1 full season out of only one set of shooting, ran it all at once [and repeated it often] so it would build up the hype, and of course now can cut it up into hour episodes and air it often. That would be a good model for any future Star Wars series...grab a section of novels and fire the whole story out right away. I would like to see mixed media too...some anime, some CG, maybe even [re]invent shorts and other things that "normal" franchies can't do.
LookOut is the MS hook to all of the cool server features. The cool server features are where MS makes it's cash!
Let's face it, where I work, most users barely use Office 97 features. True, you can do some really cool things with Office XP, but for users that can't remember how to do basic things like use templates, those advanced features are a waste. They only exist to cause IT calls when the users set some weird stuff up and can't get back to normal. Sure, it'd be nice to train everyone to use revisions, tracking, and macros...but that's a lost cause when you're still trying to get most users to use the network drives instead of local disk!
As far as PIM, I'd rather move all my people to webmail than continue to deal with Outlook. Again, my small shop would cost $4k+ for an exchange server [that gets rooted often , spreads viruses, etc.] versus my simple POP boxes on my as400 for "free" The current state-of-the-art in webmail is almost as good as exchange...without buying anymore expensive and buggy software. I've found the only users that care about all the office features are IT, and "power" users with way too much time on their hands!
Way to take a page from the MS playbook, now their pre-announcing viruses. This means we should see it sometime it 2005, the key disk hosing features will be broken, but a service pack to add that functionality will be released 6-9 months later. This is an anti-competitive action I say! These people are going to saturate the market for REAL viruses by keeping people from downloading products from the other hardworking virus writers.
oh, wait this is cracker software, not MS...guess we'll be seeing it real-soon-now! But is it Open Source...Should/. boycot this product?
The key for linux gaming is to use something like Knoppix! That way you bypass all the normal Linux troubleshooting issues and get straight to playing. This would turn the PC into a giant console! Granted, you would have to create a really clean API for forward and backward disc compatibility and store part of the drivers/swap files on a HDD for speed and future hardware/patches, but it could work quite nicely. With all the viruses and worms affecting hi-speed users, and PS2/Xbox going online, everyone should have basic network connections to the net thru hardware routers/firewalls real-soon-now.
Yes, directX is very cool. but never forget that when MS wanted to release Xbox they tanked PC game developement over a year to make it happen. When it's time for Xbox2, what's to stop MS from grabbing all the good games...again. [oh wait, that's on the same games main page as this article!] Or diverting all the developed DX9 games away from PC. After all, remember we still don't HAVE Halo 3 years after there was a working PC demo. Once MS picks it's "friends" if you don't already have a plan to sell games somewhere else, you'll be needing one fast...not the best time to learn Linux.
Basicly, look how much the users have spent on 3d cards only to have MS cherry-pick the very best games for their own "system". Remember when you use directx you're just a beta-tester for the next MS toy!
Yeah, and as a company they need to get off the MS teat NOW! Espically with the new Macs soon to be king of the computer hill [for a short time], there's no excuse to write non-portable code. Add that to the frightening rate MS is gobbling up all the PC licenses for Xbox and the writing is on the wall...Unless big name makers move to linux NOW there will be no more PC gaming in the very near future!
The linux community has created some way cool options for game companies [think Knoppix] if they would just USE them. With a little help, PC games could stand on their own legs with only the game devs and hardware makers getting the take...someone just needs to take that first step with a AAA class title!
I'll disagree with that! Actually Quiting is just fine! After all, they are running a business. They buy people's time and expertise to turn around and resell completed products. If a company abused contracts with suppliers, they will simply refuse to sell at the first available opening. It's not their job to keep them in business. Most employment contracts have "AT WILL" at the bottom. The company intends to use this on you. It's perfectly legal [and legal == moral to companies] for YOU to use it too. currently, He may not have any option but to comply with the boss [gotta eat!], but when the time comes, the boss clearly may be violating the law here! And he has no obligation to inform the boss why he's leaving...you don't usually tell a resturant that sux how they did, you just stop going...which is worse, you're correct. But that's how capitalism works!
The boss also knows this! I've found most bosses to be quite deluded with how they manage their employees in matters like this until things become quite sever. But, I haven't found a boss yet that doesn't like to remind employees that they can be fired at any time! They know you can "fire" them too, they just don't think you have the guts...or think so much of themselves they don't think you would want to leave.
I've also found lately that trying to negotiate is usless. The boss usually is not versed in the law by default [kinda like Linus and patents..OK not really] and it just gets in the way to doing what they want. Many bosses will "negotiate" with you in the short term, then backstab you later once they know the other "offers" have past and you're theirs again. Like many people have said: when the market turns again, there'll be hell to pay for this type of cr@p!
This is how it's supposed to work! You give some [at 2am ] and they give some [early on friday for a hot date]. I've always found management of companies to use their "salary" benifits to the fullest, but complain when YOU do.
After all when 5:00 comes around you are on your wife/kids/others time now, not the bosses. How often does the boss track that?
... ....I didn't think so. The point of "Salary" positions is that your doing the work as needed, extra/off hours and such so THEY aren't keeping score, But lately there's a trend for Bosses to Keep Score of the time you "miss" but NOT the time you give "extra"...That's against the Salary social contract buds!
of course it's THEIR IT department's problem! Many managers refuse to study IT in depth. That said, most factories don't build their own machines anymore either. Perhaps this is the way for american IT to get back into business. I don't think IT will ever be Insourced(?) again, but what if IT became like Accountants, Lawyers, doctors, or engineering? That way you'd still have lots of local "players" but they would handle projects at lots of companies in an area. That would allow lots of IT brains to solve a problem.
What would it take to make that shift from individuals that install "canned" stuff, to professionals that setup and maintain company systems? I've started to see this with business accountants selling IT services so they can more efficently monitor their customers, but what about other segments...what would general IT take to run correctly. Obviously, windows is out...you can't run and maintain it daily!
Perhaps outsourcing is the right move [rather than unions] for american IT. After all, that would force companies to put a price and a timeframe on what they REALLY want versus just hiring a guy to "fix" stuff. After all, I'd be curious how many people in American IT (1)work for small businesses, (2)what tasks they really perform, and (3) what other non-IT tasks they perform for the company [inventory, management, accounting, etc.]
Yeah, but the law is only to protect american automakers anyway. It's really to keep out all the VW bugs, Minis, etc that the rest of the world drives...supercars are just a nice catch too [keeps the cops happy] Allowing execptions for quarter-million dollar sports cars is really a moot point. After all, the CAR is worth more than most personal injury suits nowdays even if you did have an accident! I think the owners would drive very, very safely to protect their investments...
It's the american way of keeping the "supercars" out. The domestic automakers can afford to build and destroy dozens of new prototype cars to pass all the federal and state saftey rules. Ask a company that builds hand-built botique sports cars to wipe out an entire YEARS production just to sell in the US...I didn't think so, that would be a travisty.
Unless your Bill Gates with enough $$$$ to do your pals a favor and buy up enough cars to wreck! Then the feds spare the cars because it just ain't right to do that to art!
Also, this doesn't just apply to sports cars. Many other common foreign cars can't get in either. VW beetles are the most common. They were still in production in South America right up until the late 90's. But again, you couldn't import new ones unless you had cash to crash um. It's both a legitimate saftey rule and a nod to the Domestic giants to keep smaller automakers out.
This won't work. After all, the virus writers, crackers, etc are the ones breaking the laws stupid!
What DOES need to happen is for the more "grey" forms of cracking to be eliminated..i.e. Gator and such. Programs that install without user intervention and don't leave an entry in add/remove programs are viruses...same thing. Also, ISPs need to be able to handle updating users on their own...this would allow them to require/force patches before you ever get access to the internet. AOL [yes, a realy bad/. example] already does this for it's own software, they should be able to do it for the major OS too! Most people would consider it a feature. Heck AOL is already pimping virus checking for emails, port blocking, ad blocking, etc because it's too much of a problem.
The problem is that most ISPs are "common carriers" and only provide connections... and fear to loose that status [think *IAA] if they start being able to block viruses or update system. Then they could get forced into the censorship business and NOBODY wants that!
Exactly, they are already having problems with "terrorist" in Iraq...terrorists being disfranchised iraquies that want the old guard back. Funny how that "terrorist" word slips. If the US was to win such a war, the measures passed to KEEP control would be intolerable. We would succeede where Hitler failed...remember the US has NEVER, EVER been a tolerant state. The pilgrams came here to burn witches and punish cathloics...remember that! The bill of rights has always been enforced with guns by the feds over the states...now the feds think it's "inconvienent".
Sure, the media was carefully "blackmailed" into doing what they were told...After all they are capitalists above all else right. If one network was to piss off the white house and be banned from getting tidbits.....get the idea. First "honest" one goes down and sets the example for the rest.
As far as police, the "patriot" act was their baby all along. remember, it twice was LAUGHED out of committee because it was far too extreme and nobody would pass it. Then 9/11 happened. and all the "law" enforcement people turned on their oaths to the constitution and went for the power grab. It's sepreate from Bush's agenda, but inline with conservative republicans lately...
we need to bring congress back under control of the states...not the masses. We need to repeal the amenment that allows popular election of senators. Thereby allowing states to APPOINT senetors with the state's interest in mind. At the time it was popular, senetors were choosen by legeslatures, or even governers themselves went. Perhaps Mayors of major cities?
State legeslaturs are somebody you can know. Usually, they are elected from a county or group of counties...you the voter can make them be accountable to you. Thereby making them get the federal rep by the nuts when YOU the voters want!. The point is that nation offices have been seperated from any accountability to local governments. The Senate was that organization. If senetors were appointed by states, the state could immedetaly recall them if they erred, no voting necessary! It would also help curb federal control and much of the crazy Sh!t that's been going on lately.
just look at enron...they took a public resource and thru "middle-maning" destroied an entire industry. Lights went out..people could have died. imagine an enron-scale food shortage...That was one cause of the Great Depression and why price controls exist.
Food supplies cannot be allowed to be subject to a capitalistic failure ala enron!!!!!
I completely missed the fact he jumbbled the story line. I had to read it very carefully three times just to see it "this" is such a common work. [and I usually don't read/. for spelling anyway!]
If he could figure out what makes this work for people [I'm sure similar tricks are for other languages] and apply it to machine vision it would be great. Also interesting would be what tricks like this would apply to other languages, and in turn , how those people think?
you're right! Klaus yanked Gnome in recent versions. The first version I used 5-20 still had gnome as an option. Of course, I mostly use the default setup. Once the Gnoppix servers get back from being killed I plan to try it out...gnome looks more interesting....and most setups use KDE by default now anyway..
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There was rumor on one of the Offical sites that an "extended Universe" character may make it on-screen in EP3....Thrawn anyone? We know he's responsible for wiping out a large group of Masters. And his success would be a fitting opposite to the jedi...cold, cruel logic and machinery over the living force.
But yeah, the current novels are lightyears ahead of the tripe Lucas is pushing! Frankly, I think SciFi should pick up the novel rights as a series and work their way thru them after EP3. I'd be keen on mixed-media though, rather than trying to do one "series" Season long Mini-series like "taken" really can show what SciFi can do while not letting the show get canned for loosing in the first week. They got 1 full season out of only one set of shooting, ran it all at once [and repeated it often] so it would build up the hype, and of course now can cut it up into hour episodes and air it often. That would be a good model for any future Star Wars series...grab a section of novels and fire the whole story out right away. I would like to see mixed media too...some anime, some CG, maybe even [re]invent shorts and other things that "normal" franchies can't do.
Let's face it, where I work, most users barely use Office 97 features. True, you can do some really cool things with Office XP, but for users that can't remember how to do basic things like use templates, those advanced features are a waste. They only exist to cause IT calls when the users set some weird stuff up and can't get back to normal. Sure, it'd be nice to train everyone to use revisions, tracking, and macros...but that's a lost cause when you're still trying to get most users to use the network drives instead of local disk!
As far as PIM, I'd rather move all my people to webmail than continue to deal with Outlook. Again, my small shop would cost $4k+ for an exchange server [that gets rooted often , spreads viruses, etc.] versus my simple POP boxes on my as400 for "free" The current state-of-the-art in webmail is almost as good as exchange...without buying anymore expensive and buggy software. I've found the only users that care about all the office features are IT, and "power" users with way too much time on their hands!
Usually followed by Extending and Extinguishing. Must be a slow news day.
oh, wait this is cracker software, not MS...guess we'll be seeing it real-soon-now! But is it Open Source...Should /. boycot this product?
The key for linux gaming is to use something like Knoppix! That way you bypass all the normal Linux troubleshooting issues and get straight to playing. This would turn the PC into a giant console! Granted, you would have to create a really clean API for forward and backward disc compatibility and store part of the drivers/swap files on a HDD for speed and future hardware/patches, but it could work quite nicely. With all the viruses and worms affecting hi-speed users, and PS2/Xbox going online, everyone should have basic network connections to the net thru hardware routers/firewalls real-soon-now.
Basicly, look how much the users have spent on 3d cards only to have MS cherry-pick the very best games for their own "system". Remember when you use directx you're just a beta-tester for the next MS toy!
The linux community has created some way cool options for game companies [think Knoppix] if they would just USE them. With a little help, PC games could stand on their own legs with only the game devs and hardware makers getting the take...someone just needs to take that first step with a AAA class title!
The boss also knows this! I've found most bosses to be quite deluded with how they manage their employees in matters like this until things become quite sever. But, I haven't found a boss yet that doesn't like to remind employees that they can be fired at any time! They know you can "fire" them too, they just don't think you have the guts...or think so much of themselves they don't think you would want to leave.
I've also found lately that trying to negotiate is usless. The boss usually is not versed in the law by default [kinda like Linus and patents..OK not really] and it just gets in the way to doing what they want. Many bosses will "negotiate" with you in the short term, then backstab you later once they know the other "offers" have past and you're theirs again. Like many people have said: when the market turns again, there'll be hell to pay for this type of cr@p!
This is how it's supposed to work! You give some [at 2am ] and they give some [early on friday for a hot date]. I've always found management of companies to use their "salary" benifits to the fullest, but complain when YOU do.
What would it take to make that shift from individuals that install "canned" stuff, to professionals that setup and maintain company systems? I've started to see this with business accountants selling IT services so they can more efficently monitor their customers, but what about other segments...what would general IT take to run correctly. Obviously, windows is out...you can't run and maintain it daily!
Perhaps outsourcing is the right move [rather than unions] for american IT. After all, that would force companies to put a price and a timeframe on what they REALLY want versus just hiring a guy to "fix" stuff. After all, I'd be curious how many people in American IT (1)work for small businesses, (2)what tasks they really perform, and (3) what other non-IT tasks they perform for the company [inventory, management, accounting, etc.]
That was the French anyway....
Yeah, but the law is only to protect american automakers anyway. It's really to keep out all the VW bugs, Minis, etc that the rest of the world drives...supercars are just a nice catch too [keeps the cops happy] Allowing execptions for quarter-million dollar sports cars is really a moot point. After all, the CAR is worth more than most personal injury suits nowdays even if you did have an accident! I think the owners would drive very, very safely to protect their investments...
Unless your Bill Gates with enough $$$$ to do your pals a favor and buy up enough cars to wreck! Then the feds spare the cars because it just ain't right to do that to art!
Also, this doesn't just apply to sports cars. Many other common foreign cars can't get in either. VW beetles are the most common. They were still in production in South America right up until the late 90's. But again, you couldn't import new ones unless you had cash to crash um. It's both a legitimate saftey rule and a nod to the Domestic giants to keep smaller automakers out.
What DOES need to happen is for the more "grey" forms of cracking to be eliminated..i.e. Gator and such. Programs that install without user intervention and don't leave an entry in add/remove programs are viruses...same thing. Also, ISPs need to be able to handle updating users on their own...this would allow them to require/force patches before you ever get access to the internet. AOL [yes, a realy bad /. example] already does this for it's own software, they should be able to do it for the major OS too! Most people would consider it a feature. Heck AOL is already pimping virus checking for emails, port blocking, ad blocking, etc because it's too much of a problem.
The problem is that most ISPs are "common carriers" and only provide connections... and fear to loose that status [think *IAA] if they start being able to block viruses or update system. Then they could get forced into the censorship business and NOBODY wants that!
many /.er would like that! shhhhh!
oops! I saw "Since Getting Laid..." then stoped reading. guess your not. sorry
After all, most people only see the backs of /.ers anyway...always hunched over a keyboard on the computer.
Exactly, they are already having problems with "terrorist" in Iraq...terrorists being disfranchised iraquies that want the old guard back. Funny how that "terrorist" word slips. If the US was to win such a war, the measures passed to KEEP control would be intolerable. We would succeede where Hitler failed...remember the US has NEVER, EVER been a tolerant state. The pilgrams came here to burn witches and punish cathloics...remember that! The bill of rights has always been enforced with guns by the feds over the states...now the feds think it's "inconvienent".
As far as police, the "patriot" act was their baby all along. remember, it twice was LAUGHED out of committee because it was far too extreme and nobody would pass it. Then 9/11 happened. and all the "law" enforcement people turned on their oaths to the constitution and went for the power grab. It's sepreate from Bush's agenda, but inline with conservative republicans lately...
State legeslaturs are somebody you can know. Usually, they are elected from a county or group of counties...you the voter can make them be accountable to you. Thereby making them get the federal rep by the nuts when YOU the voters want!. The point is that nation offices have been seperated from any accountability to local governments. The Senate was that organization. If senetors were appointed by states, the state could immedetaly recall them if they erred, no voting necessary! It would also help curb federal control and much of the crazy Sh!t that's been going on lately.
Food supplies cannot be allowed to be subject to a capitalistic failure ala enron!!!!!
He wasn't a politician...
If he could figure out what makes this work for people [I'm sure similar tricks are for other languages] and apply it to machine vision it would be great. Also interesting would be what tricks like this would apply to other languages, and in turn , how those people think?
you're right! Klaus yanked Gnome in recent versions. The first version I used 5-20 still had gnome as an option. Of course, I mostly use the default setup. Once the Gnoppix servers get back from being killed I plan to try it out...gnome looks more interesting....and most setups use KDE by default now anyway..