I wish it were a joke. When this came into the Dutch news 6 months ago or something, some people started the Free Magenta movement. T-mobile NL claimed that they were ordered to claim the colour in Dutch copyright by Deutsche Telecom AG.
As much as people may hate Blender, the main advantage of the program is that it is there, and that most things work. Some parts are even great. Personally I happen to like the poly-workflow, which is very fast. The main problem with blender for most users is that it takes a while to learn, but once it's learnt, it has a very effective workflow.
I think that the OP is very optimistic when he sais that it takes only a few months to port everything (and the kitchensink) to another app, that is just impossible, even with open code.
Germany, just as most other European countries has switched to Euros, a very convenient coinage, that is shared by most European countries. According to google 77.54 Euros = 103.275526 U.S. dollars, so it is a pretty nice sum.
By the way: "Deutschland" had "Deutsche Marken" back in the day.
I don't know if you are familiar with stock-photography, but many (if not most) of those pictures are shot, just to be sold on the site. Like it or not, but I think it's a great service, since it spares those copywriting persons a lot of hassle, and gives them great pictures in exchange for a little (or sometimes a lot of) money.
I have browsed the Corbis site regularly, just for the pure fun of it, and their standard is very high. If you can afford them, they are worth it.
Actually, the writer of one of the most cliché fantasy stories ever, David Eddings has written a fantasy story that starts out with a weary knight, the Elenium. Eddings being eddings it takes 6 books to finish the story, but it is quite fun.
Unfortunately old and experienced people are rare in fantasy, and it has probably to do with the fact that fantasy is usually about the projection of personal development on the world, while Science Fiction usually tells about how a world influences personal development (Stephen R. Donaldson has written an excellent essay on the topic, if only I could find it).
I've worked at three companies (work in a outsourcing company) that have applied this solution. One mental health institution, one school, and now a car dealership. One employed thin clients, one employed fat clients, and the car dealership works with a mixed environment. The car dealership (or actually a chain) has the most challenging setup, they have specific software of some ten brands, many of which aren't written for terminal server use, but integrated nonetheless with softgrid. They partly deploy thin clients, but there are some pc's with a cardreader, or diagnostic software that run that software locally, but integrated in the SBC environment with RES Powerfuse. That way we are able to run a 1000 employee company with some 150 different programs with a 10-person IT staff.
Sorry, I was a bit busy at work, and didn't really think about the formulation.
Anyhow, In any big network it usually pays off to have an image server and RIS any new machine, since it might prove a bit more flexible than ghost images. I for one am convinced that a well-built ghost image would even pay off if it is used twice, but that might be because I hate setting up a new machine. Once a basic machine has been set up, software can be pushed from the active directory, works pretty nice, even though I still have a soft spot for Novell Zenworks for those purposes.
About RES PowerFuse: I have worked at two companies now that employ fat clients on terminal servers, that run most programs on the terminal server, but powerfuse allows graphically heavy programs to run subscribed, which means it looks like it runs on the server, while it runs locally. It may not be the best thing since sliced bread, but it is pretty decent and much more affordable than Citrix (€ 350 per seat per year).
RIS and software installs from AD are your friends, I have met quite a few companies that work that way, and usually it works (TM), but most employers I encounter work with Server Based Computing these days. The local computers only run RES (powerfuse) subscriber and connect to the TS farm, where all the installing happens.
I'd rather say that it is rather typical of open source security that there is a source to fix to begin with. While there is a lot uf closed code in Apple software, this one was apparently quite easily fixable by a Darwin developer. Actually the last few big windows scares had a third party fix before the official fix as well, because some people took the trouble to hack the windows bugs.
I do in-house helpdesking work quite often and believe it or not, logging what you've done is useful, so break that in their brains. Not only from an ITIL kind of workflow, where an IT department has to document their work in order to get their funding, but it can help in problem solving as well. If someone says that he had that problem 5 months ago, you can just look up the solution from that time, instead of solving that again, and now I don't even mention continuity. What if the IT department drives down the cliff during the yearly ski trip? Get some responsibility in those heads.
Finally I'd like to state that a good ticket handling system makes a whole lot of difference. Personally I have experience with TopDesk, which can be a pain, but most of the time it works pretty nicely.
My employer knows what it's employees like. This year's Christmas present? A RC helicopter to scare away your pets, and a big New year's party that I'll have to wait for a few weeks, but as far as I have heard from my coworkers my boss knows how to throw a party, so I'm looking forward to it. Last year, when I worked at a cinema, there wasn't a present (or it was so crappy that I can't remember it) because there was a 'recession'.
Sad as it might sound, he could very well be right. Although linux may be very nice as a development tool, XNA is here and now, and already has hardware access, and is very affordable. No matter how much people may hate Microsoft, this is very possibly a good tool for indie game developers who want to create a console experience.
I am a European (and a Dutch European at that), and I have had some very heated discussions about religion and politics, and mostly with people that have radically different standpoints. I am an atheist Green, and have had some very interesting discussions with Muslims, Jehovah's witnesses, and with people with radically different political standpoints (even in Europe the treehuggers are a minority).
As for knowledge about America I am not sure; most people learn about the USA through movies, but maybe we take more interest in the news, and (at least in here) international news is takes about 50% of an average news bulletin and 30% of the news in the newspaper. Maybe that did teach us a bit.
Now that I think of it, we have live broadcasts about the American elections, so maybe we do take quite a lot of interest in the USA.
I would hardly call it exploiting. It would be exploiting if people were forced to do their programming in a sort of sweatshop. As it is, it is a deliberate choice to share your code.
As it is there are some very compelling reasons for a coder to make open-source software:
It's an excellent way to get experience
Ideological reasons
It allows you to work on an idea, or a project, without having to carry the burden alone
For some developers it pays rather good, these days most leaders of large projects are employed by large companies
I for one am rather positive that most companies give back to the community one way or another, by employing OSS developers, giving back code, and by paying money. As far as I have heard Apache is quite healthy; and has big deals with large corporations, and I suppose this will be the case for many of the 'core' projects.
If you are concerned that your code will be abused by the big corporations, don't open-source it. The license is clear.
It is not like they can listen to everything that is displayed, but one of the parties has an UTF-8 character in the official party name (è), and when that is called up there is a definate difference in radiation output because that character has to be called up from a less-used register iirc.
The main reason why they wouldn't sabotage a US company is that they would have far too much to lose from that. The Chinese economy needs to export goods and to be the country that manufacturors outsource to. While the government is working very hard to increase the internal market, export is the only way to go now, and if they were sabotaging other companies, they would sabotage their major source of revenue.
I for one do believe that China is not an evil empire. Just a very big country, that is slowly emerging from communism to market capitalism. The government may not be the nicest in the world, but I think it is steadily impoving and it has been much much worse. There are many countries where it is much worse at the moment, I can't tell from the outside, but I doubt it is much better in Russia, or Belorussia. China seems quite aware that it will need to adapt to the world around it to survive, and so far they are doing better than Russia, that has collapsed on itself and is very unattrective to foreign investors because of rampant mafia and corrupt government. I hope they take Singapore as an example. Singapore was, or even still is a totalitarian state, which was necessary after some violent revolutions. Only when the economy grew, they gradually increased personal freedoms. Democracy is a very nice long-term goal, but China has a country to keep together in the meantime.
It may work already right now, but there may be tweaks or optimizations that have to be turned off, or maybe there is a more efficient way to put things through to the windows rendering system. As they said there will be IE7 engineers as well, so if one party learns something from the other it is time well spent. The FF engineers will be smart enough to retain platform compatibility with all the other platforms anyhow.
No, it was shot on an entirely different medium. Allow me to introduce you with the fantastic phenomenom film. It is heavy, cumbersome, in the old days it was prone to burn, but gosh, the resolution it captures is just great. All they have to do is scan in the old master, brush it up and it looks great. It probably will require some brushing up, but I guess that isn't a problem if they will cut a new movie out of the material anyway.
Actually I do play this game (and happen to like it thankyouverymuch) and I can tell you that taxing goes completely automatic. They just get a popup box with anouncement that they have made 500 PEDs or something that day.
The owner of the island has spent some thousands of dollars to lure new and attactive animals to the island though that are fun to hunt for high-level characters.
For normal players there is hardly any difference between Project Entropia and any other MMORPG. You pay an amount of money each month (some $15 will) do, and in exchange for that you can hunt mine, tailor and colour and generally have fun in a virtual casino annex chatroom. If you want to get very good very fast you can spend a lot of money buying skills, elite guns and other elite stuff, but this isn't much different from buying a high level WoW char on eBay.
Project Entropia is just like the real economy. In the end value is determined by the price people are willing to pay for a product.
Over the last few months since I started I have deposited $60. If I sold all I owned to the game I'd get back some $40. If i tried to sell all items and skills to player characters I'd probably break even because there is usually a difference between Trade Terminal value (the price you can sell a product for to MindArk) and marketvalue. Just like real economy, very fascinating.
Don't like gaim under windows? Try Miranda-IM. It ain't perfect, but it is fast, minimal and extendable (tip of the week: tabbed message windows). Like Gaim better though, it just works.
It might just as well completely replace metals as hull material. Bulkheads will be made of metal, of course, but I think you could make a layered skin out of this as well, if you use a filler-material. It would be like glass-enforced polyester boats.
Oh, and I don't think this material is transparant.
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I wish it were a joke. When this came into the Dutch news 6 months ago or something, some people started the Free Magenta movement. T-mobile NL claimed that they were ordered to claim the colour in Dutch copyright by Deutsche Telecom AG.
One of the most annoying things about google for me is how it interprets queries with strange characters common to almost all programming languages.
You should try google code search.
As much as people may hate Blender, the main advantage of the program is that it is there, and that most things work. Some parts are even great. Personally I happen to like the poly-workflow, which is very fast. The main problem with blender for most users is that it takes a while to learn, but once it's learnt, it has a very effective workflow.
I think that the OP is very optimistic when he sais that it takes only a few months to port everything (and the kitchensink) to another app, that is just impossible, even with open code.
Germany, just as most other European countries has switched to Euros, a very convenient coinage, that is shared by most European countries. According to google 77.54 Euros = 103.275526 U.S. dollars, so it is a pretty nice sum.
By the way: "Deutschland" had "Deutsche Marken" back in the day.
I don't know if you are familiar with stock-photography, but many (if not most) of those pictures are shot, just to be sold on the site. Like it or not, but I think it's a great service, since it spares those copywriting persons a lot of hassle, and gives them great pictures in exchange for a little (or sometimes a lot of) money.
I have browsed the Corbis site regularly, just for the pure fun of it, and their standard is very high. If you can afford them, they are worth it.
Actually, the writer of one of the most cliché fantasy stories ever, David Eddings has written a fantasy story that starts out with a weary knight, the Elenium. Eddings being eddings it takes 6 books to finish the story, but it is quite fun.
Unfortunately old and experienced people are rare in fantasy, and it has probably to do with the fact that fantasy is usually about the projection of personal development on the world, while Science Fiction usually tells about how a world influences personal development (Stephen R. Donaldson has written an excellent essay on the topic, if only I could find it).
Not necessarily bad, at least you keep up with the useless posts. At least this proves once again that duping on /. can take years.
I've worked at three companies (work in a outsourcing company) that have applied this solution. One mental health institution, one school, and now a car dealership. One employed thin clients, one employed fat clients, and the car dealership works with a mixed environment. The car dealership (or actually a chain) has the most challenging setup, they have specific software of some ten brands, many of which aren't written for terminal server use, but integrated nonetheless with softgrid. They partly deploy thin clients, but there are some pc's with a cardreader, or diagnostic software that run that software locally, but integrated in the SBC environment with RES Powerfuse. That way we are able to run a 1000 employee company with some 150 different programs with a 10-person IT staff.
Sorry, I was a bit busy at work, and didn't really think about the formulation.
Anyhow, In any big network it usually pays off to have an image server and RIS any new machine, since it might prove a bit more flexible than ghost images. I for one am convinced that a well-built ghost image would even pay off if it is used twice, but that might be because I hate setting up a new machine. Once a basic machine has been set up, software can be pushed from the active directory, works pretty nice, even though I still have a soft spot for Novell Zenworks for those purposes.
About RES PowerFuse: I have worked at two companies now that employ fat clients on terminal servers, that run most programs on the terminal server, but powerfuse allows graphically heavy programs to run subscribed, which means it looks like it runs on the server, while it runs locally. It may not be the best thing since sliced bread, but it is pretty decent and much more affordable than Citrix (€ 350 per seat per year).
RIS and software installs from AD are your friends, I have met quite a few companies that work that way, and usually it works (TM), but most employers I encounter work with Server Based Computing these days. The local computers only run RES (powerfuse) subscriber and connect to the TS farm, where all the installing happens.
I'd rather say that it is rather typical of open source security that there is a source to fix to begin with. While there is a lot uf closed code in Apple software, this one was apparently quite easily fixable by a Darwin developer. Actually the last few big windows scares had a third party fix before the official fix as well, because some people took the trouble to hack the windows bugs.
I do in-house helpdesking work quite often and believe it or not, logging what you've done is useful, so break that in their brains. Not only from an ITIL kind of workflow, where an IT department has to document their work in order to get their funding, but it can help in problem solving as well. If someone says that he had that problem 5 months ago, you can just look up the solution from that time, instead of solving that again, and now I don't even mention continuity. What if the IT department drives down the cliff during the yearly ski trip? Get some responsibility in those heads.
Finally I'd like to state that a good ticket handling system makes a whole lot of difference. Personally I have experience with TopDesk, which can be a pain, but most of the time it works pretty nicely.
My employer knows what it's employees like. This year's Christmas present? A RC helicopter to scare away your pets, and a big New year's party that I'll have to wait for a few weeks, but as far as I have heard from my coworkers my boss knows how to throw a party, so I'm looking forward to it. Last year, when I worked at a cinema, there wasn't a present (or it was so crappy that I can't remember it) because there was a 'recession'.
Sad as it might sound, he could very well be right. Although linux may be very nice as a development tool, XNA is here and now, and already has hardware access, and is very affordable. No matter how much people may hate Microsoft, this is very possibly a good tool for indie game developers who want to create a console experience.
how about Irrelevant?
I'd say futile, you will be assimilated.
I am a European (and a Dutch European at that), and I have had some very heated discussions about religion and politics, and mostly with people that have radically different standpoints. I am an atheist Green, and have had some very interesting discussions with Muslims, Jehovah's witnesses, and with people with radically different political standpoints (even in Europe the treehuggers are a minority).
As for knowledge about America I am not sure; most people learn about the USA through movies, but maybe we take more interest in the news, and (at least in here) international news is takes about 50% of an average news bulletin and 30% of the news in the newspaper. Maybe that did teach us a bit.
Now that I think of it, we have live broadcasts about the American elections, so maybe we do take quite a lot of interest in the USA.
I would hardly call it exploiting. It would be exploiting if people were forced to do their programming in a sort of sweatshop. As it is, it is a deliberate choice to share your code.
As it is there are some very compelling reasons for a coder to make open-source software:
I for one am rather positive that most companies give back to the community one way or another, by employing OSS developers, giving back code, and by paying money. As far as I have heard Apache is quite healthy; and has big deals with large corporations, and I suppose this will be the case for many of the 'core' projects.
If you are concerned that your code will be abused by the big corporations, don't open-source it. The license is clear.
It is not like they can listen to everything that is displayed, but one of the parties has an UTF-8 character in the official party name (è), and when that is called up there is a definate difference in radiation output because that character has to be called up from a less-used register iirc.
The main reason why they wouldn't sabotage a US company is that they would have far too much to lose from that. The Chinese economy needs to export goods and to be the country that manufacturors outsource to. While the government is working very hard to increase the internal market, export is the only way to go now, and if they were sabotaging other companies, they would sabotage their major source of revenue. I for one do believe that China is not an evil empire. Just a very big country, that is slowly emerging from communism to market capitalism. The government may not be the nicest in the world, but I think it is steadily impoving and it has been much much worse. There are many countries where it is much worse at the moment, I can't tell from the outside, but I doubt it is much better in Russia, or Belorussia. China seems quite aware that it will need to adapt to the world around it to survive, and so far they are doing better than Russia, that has collapsed on itself and is very unattrective to foreign investors because of rampant mafia and corrupt government. I hope they take Singapore as an example. Singapore was, or even still is a totalitarian state, which was necessary after some violent revolutions. Only when the economy grew, they gradually increased personal freedoms. Democracy is a very nice long-term goal, but China has a country to keep together in the meantime.
Sorry, don't have the time to for contributing to OSS, I make a living by supporting MS. Endless work! I love Microsoft.
It may work already right now, but there may be tweaks or optimizations that have to be turned off, or maybe there is a more efficient way to put things through to the windows rendering system. As they said there will be IE7 engineers as well, so if one party learns something from the other it is time well spent. The FF engineers will be smart enough to retain platform compatibility with all the other platforms anyhow.
Except no part of the movie was shot in HD
No, it was shot on an entirely different medium. Allow me to introduce you with the fantastic phenomenom film. It is heavy, cumbersome, in the old days it was prone to burn, but gosh, the resolution it captures is just great. All they have to do is scan in the old master, brush it up and it looks great. It probably will require some brushing up, but I guess that isn't a problem if they will cut a new movie out of the material anyway.
Actually I do play this game (and happen to like it thankyouverymuch) and I can tell you that taxing goes completely automatic. They just get a popup box with anouncement that they have made 500 PEDs or something that day.
The owner of the island has spent some thousands of dollars to lure new and attactive animals to the island though that are fun to hunt for high-level characters.
For normal players there is hardly any difference between Project Entropia and any other MMORPG. You pay an amount of money each month (some $15 will) do, and in exchange for that you can hunt mine, tailor and colour and generally have fun in a virtual casino annex chatroom. If you want to get very good very fast you can spend a lot of money buying skills, elite guns and other elite stuff, but this isn't much different from buying a high level WoW char on eBay.
Project Entropia is just like the real economy. In the end value is determined by the price people are willing to pay for a product.
Over the last few months since I started I have deposited $60. If I sold all I owned to the game I'd get back some $40. If i tried to sell all items and skills to player characters I'd probably break even because there is usually a difference between Trade Terminal value (the price you can sell a product for to MindArk) and marketvalue. Just like real economy, very fascinating.
Don't like gaim under windows? Try Miranda-IM. It ain't perfect, but it is fast, minimal and extendable (tip of the week: tabbed message windows). Like Gaim better though, it just works.
It might just as well completely replace metals as hull material. Bulkheads will be made of metal, of course, but I think you could make a layered skin out of this as well, if you use a filler-material. It would be like glass-enforced polyester boats.
Oh, and I don't think this material is transparant.