OK, MOOII was a fun game, but once you discover that a fleet of Titans equipped only with those weapons that can hit all four shields at once ("plasma-somethings?") can pretty much win any game for you, the multi-hour slogs tend to lose some of their appeal. (I hear Galactic Civilizations suffers from a similar problem once you figure how systems cram into a ship.) For a while, I actually used ground troops to break up the monotony, but it's a lot faster (in terms of linear clock time) just to nuke your enemies from orbit...
1997 called. It wants its tech story lead back.
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You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to...
1997 called. It wants its tech story lead back. Seriously: it's 2007: if "Linux" hasn't yet established itself as a brand name in the OS world, it never will. (Also, I'd love to see the looks on the average Red Hat or Novell employee's face if HR told each one of them that instead of a paycheck, they're all volunteers now.)
In a blistering 2,000-word treatise, Mr. Deal wrote: "We're spending recklessly, to the tune of over $1.5 billion in waste every year, primarily on HealthConnect, but also on other inefficient and ineffective information technology projects."
C'mon, it really can't be that bad, can it?
Kaiser refutes Mr. Deal's assessment of its custom software system, developed by Epic Systems Corp.
Oh, Epic Systems? No wonder. Dude, you're f****ed.
Adobe's action will likely please other open source developers who use Flex, like me, and offers hope that we'll see a full open source version of Flash one day.
There's a sucker born every minute, isn't there.
What Adobe has done by throwing an "open source" SDK bone is made it appear like they're leaning toward open-source Flash without actually giving away any of the crown jewels. Adobe's move is very much like the gigabyes of "open source" code samples Microsoft makes available in its extensive MSDN library: you can use and modify them for free, but you still need Microsoft's core (and proprietary) software to make them work.
If you called your T1 provider when it was down and they didn't start working on it immediately, you'd be pissed. If you called your cable Internet provider and they sent a guy out to look at the line within two weeks you'd be amazed at the quick response time.
Dragon Quest IX will also be the first time players can customize their appearance including physical features such as your height, weight, face, hair as well as your costume. It is not yet known whether the costumes will be dependent on the class you have selected.
I can't believe this is a "feature" in 2007. This has been a standard element of RPG video games since the 1980's. Is "DragonQuest" 20 years behind the curve in other ways too?
These two things look like simple add-on utilities, not something for the core DB (the "compact..." one looks especially unfriendly for live DBs):
mypgrep.py - a tool, similar to pgrep, for managing mysql connections compact_innodb.py - compacts innodb datafiles by dumping and reloading all tables
I'd like to play with this stuff:
The new features include support for "for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to a slave, quickly promoting a slave to a master during failover, and keeping InnoDB and replication state on a slave consistent during crash recovery."
...but where's the actual doc?
And why is Google releasing these for an "unsupported" version of MySQL (4.0)?
...the large pharmacutical company in the world only has approximately 6% of the marketplace; there is no player which has 90% of the market.
Tell that to patients whose particular disease can only be treated by drugs from only one of the pharmas. There are several areas in which individual pharmas own 100% of a particular "niche" and thus have all the patients and doctors suffering through X by the balls.
The pharmacutal industry is brutal, ask any startup.
If it's tougher to get into the pharma business than the software business, then why is one software vendor the target of more anti-trust attention than various pharmas?
I hope that the Indian government can use their own satellites to help improve the lives of the average Indian citizen.
Or, at least use the rockets for ICBMs to mess up the lives of the average Chinese/Pakistani citizen. Remember, one of the goals of the original space race was to show the enemy that anything could be dropped on them at any time.
I wonder if the U.S. will turn a blind eye to such things (like we did with our recent fissionable materials agreements) because India is currently our friend...
1C Company, Activision, Akella, Atari, Atlus, Disney Interactive Studios, Capcom, Codemasters, Crave Entertainment, Eidos, Electronic Arts, Konami, LucasArts, Majesco, Microsoft, Midway, Namco Bandai Games, NCsoft, Nintendo, Sega, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Online Entertainment, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, THQ, Ubisoft, Vivendi Games, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Well, I've never heard of 7 of these, but the overwhelming showing by established entertainment corporations does suggest that E3 is a pretty sleepy place if you're interested in new ideas. On the other hand, many of these companies are umbrellas for multiple studios (e.g., Blizzard-Vivendi)...
The wait for 'catch-em-all' folks in the US is over; Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are out today. Joystiq and Kotaku have coverage of yesterday's launch party at the Nintendo Store.
Um...is it "bring your kid to work day" at the SlashDot editorial offices? I think most people here are a little too old to give a flying crap about yet another product in a franchise aimed at the elementary school demographic.
Imagine if everybody dumped their focus on (name over-emphasized thing here) and applied the same amount of energy to disease, poverty, war, etc.
Bill, don't go hippy on me: this isn't an exercise to "blow your mind." See if you can follow this:
1) The EU thinks it ought to spend some time knocking down patent holders. 2) The EU thinks it the patent holders it ought to go after first are software vendors.
I'm not challenging the legitimacy of the EU or even statement #1. I am challenging statement #2, and I think pursuing pharmas rather than software vendors would help fight disease and perhaps poverty.
Let me know if you need further assistance with your mental processes...
The EU has stated the Microsoft should charge based on 'innovation, not patentability'... The EU is also starting to discuss structural remedies as opposed to the behavioral remedies they are currently enforcing.
Imagine if the EU dumped its focus on trivial crap like software patents and applied the same reasoning to medicine patents.
I read the Wiki article - it's pretty weak. (For example, it generally seems that messages are not really pushed out to clients, but the notifications are.)
It looks like "push email" works off a relatively new IMAP protocol extension.
1. Client connects to server, sends "IDLE" command
2. If/when server has mail for that client, it sends a message back through the connection opened (and left open) by the client
3. After getting a "there are messages for you" message, the client REALLY downloads the actual message (over same IMAP connection?)
4. Upon timeout, etc., client issues "DONE" and/or reconnects
Screw speed and size reduction. All I want it compatibility with other OSs (i.e., fewest things that have to be installed on a base OS to use it). For that, I'd have to say Zip and/or gzip wins.
One study cited in the article states that by 2012, 40% of women now working in IT will leave for careers with more flexible hours.
What's 40% of zero?
...said Dot Brunette, network and storage manager...
It sounds like you hired a stripper as a network and storage manager. What's her real name?
She noted that companies can fail to attract female workers, or see them leave key IT jobs because they fail to provide day care at work, or work-at-home options for someone who leaves to have a child.'"
Hmmm...my choices are an all-male IT staff or additional childcare staffing and space expenses? Sorry, but you're making it too easy.
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OK, MOOII was a fun game, but once you discover that a fleet of Titans equipped only with those weapons that can hit all four shields at once ("plasma-somethings?") can pretty much win any game for you, the multi-hour slogs tend to lose some of their appeal. (I hear Galactic Civilizations suffers from a similar problem once you figure how systems cram into a ship.) For a while, I actually used ground troops to break up the monotony, but it's a lot faster (in terms of linear clock time) just to nuke your enemies from orbit...
1997 called. It wants its tech story lead back. Seriously: it's 2007: if "Linux" hasn't yet established itself as a brand name in the OS world, it never will. (Also, I'd love to see the looks on the average Red Hat or Novell employee's face if HR told each one of them that instead of a paycheck, they're all volunteers now.)
(Also, I can't believe someone here has a PAID subscription to PCWorld; what a mark!)
Tech article in the New York Times?
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1) Doubt it.
2) If it is, the web registration is annoying.
Hey SlashDot editors, you're really nothing but a news-trailing blog. If you're looking for tech news, try the Register first.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/28/religion_
C'mon, it really can't be that bad, can it?
Oh, Epic Systems? No wonder. Dude, you're f****ed.
First of all, that's great news, but about six years too late to help anyone, I'm afraid.
Second, why are we wasting our time with this on SlashDot; tech news it is not.
There's a sucker born every minute, isn't there.
What Adobe has done by throwing an "open source" SDK bone is made it appear like they're leaning toward open-source Flash without actually giving away any of the crown jewels. Adobe's move is very much like the gigabyes of "open source" code samples Microsoft makes available in its extensive MSDN library: you can use and modify them for free, but you still need Microsoft's core (and proprietary) software to make them work.
If you called your T1 provider when it was down and they didn't start working on it immediately, you'd be pissed. If you called your cable Internet provider and they sent a guy out to look at the line within two weeks you'd be amazed at the quick response time.
Ever chat with someone who's watched FireFly? It seems the more episodes they've watched, the more they feel they've achieved something. (Weird.)
I can't believe this is a "feature" in 2007. This has been a standard element of RPG video games since the 1980's. Is "DragonQuest" 20 years behind the curve in other ways too?
Nevermind - found the Wiki with more info...t
http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/w/lis
http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/
These two things look like simple add-on utilities, not something for the core DB (the "compact..." one looks especially unfriendly for live DBs):
I'd like to play with this stuff:
And why is Google releasing these for an "unsupported" version of MySQL (4.0)?
Tell that to patients whose particular disease can only be treated by drugs from only one of the pharmas. There are several areas in which individual pharmas own 100% of a particular "niche" and thus have all the patients and doctors suffering through X by the balls.
If it's tougher to get into the pharma business than the software business, then why is one software vendor the target of more anti-trust attention than various pharmas?
Only political science and social work majors use "betterment" when the rest of the English-speaking world would use "improvement".
Or, at least use the rockets for ICBMs to mess up the lives of the average Chinese/Pakistani citizen. Remember, one of the goals of the original space race was to show the enemy that anything could be dropped on them at any time.
I wonder if the U.S. will turn a blind eye to such things (like we did with our recent fissionable materials agreements) because India is currently our friend...
Well, I've never heard of 7 of these, but the overwhelming showing by established entertainment corporations does suggest that E3 is a pretty sleepy place if you're interested in new ideas. On the other hand, many of these companies are umbrellas for multiple studios (e.g., Blizzard-Vivendi)...
Bill, don't go hippy on me: this isn't an exercise to "blow your mind." See if you can follow this:
1) The EU thinks it ought to spend some time knocking down patent holders.
2) The EU thinks it the patent holders it ought to go after first are software vendors.
I'm not challenging the legitimacy of the EU or even statement #1. I am challenging statement #2, and I think pursuing pharmas rather than software vendors would help fight disease and perhaps poverty.
Let me know if you need further assistance with your mental processes...
Imagine if the EU dumped its focus on trivial crap like software patents and applied the same reasoning to medicine patents.
Is that with or without William Shatner?
I read the Wiki article - it's pretty weak. (For example, it generally seems that messages are not really pushed out to clients, but the notifications are.)
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I think I found a white paper that explains at least the standard-based IMAP implementation better...
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232039&cid
It looks like "push email" works off a relatively new IMAP protocol extension.
1. Client connects to server, sends "IDLE" command
2. If/when server has mail for that client, it sends a message back through the connection opened (and left open) by the client
3. After getting a "there are messages for you" message, the client REALLY downloads the actual message (over same IMAP connection?)
4. Upon timeout, etc., client issues "DONE" and/or reconnects
Nice whitepaper:
http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/imap-idle.html
RFC 2177:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2177
What is "push email"? (Seriously.)
Screw speed and size reduction. All I want it compatibility with other OSs (i.e., fewest things that have to be installed on a base OS to use it). For that, I'd have to say Zip and/or gzip wins.
What's 40% of zero?
It sounds like you hired a stripper as a network and storage manager. What's her real name?
Hmmm...my choices are an all-male IT staff or additional childcare staffing and space expenses? Sorry, but you're making it too easy.