Myself and most of my collegues are 9-5'rs.. At one time, in the beginning, when hope was still alive, we would stay until midnight more during the week and generally always made it in on the weekend for some pushes.
Those days are now gone.. we who are dissalusioned leave as fast as fast will let us. When the door hits my ass my brain has no recollection of work. Now thats not to say I don't have a pager strapped to me with a wap that can let me fix problems that occur during the evening.. its part of the status quo.. but I'm not going to get hassled because I wasn't the one with the lack of direction or content.
Most knowledge workers just forget that they can stand up and alter things.. especially if you know what you're doing.
The Government wants to reign in control so that bad people don't have them. Bad people will still have them and now I won't.. Why.. cause I'm a good person.. and good people get fucked every single day because of a stupid people. I just wish I lived in a world where when stupid people did something, people realized it was stupid people and not the good people. Dammit, don't tell me how to live! I'm an adult dammit.
If at all possible I will sample music online through whatever means necessary to preview. I will always be a consumer, but one who is aware of what they are buying. I like having a finished product in my home. By having mp3s and sharing them I give bands money for friends that buy their music. Until someone can do a comprehensive study on record buying, music download, advert effects, then relax, cause your just fuckin too excited about YOUR shit.
I think we need to see some responsibility on M$'s part to add some checks and balances to their open ended VB scripted Outlook. While we too got his by a Melissa like virus last month the Unix group just chuckled as the windows chickens ran about trying to stop the fire from spreading, or sending more spam by trying to tell people to not check it.
Curiously, can we file suit if one of these things gets really nasty? The last one that hit us just sent the person to a p0rn site and everyone in their addr book, reg keys, desktop, startup. What if this had been a formating virii? Talk about large scale data loss.
In this months discover, 'Big Bang' somethin something. They talk about the new satellite that will be going into far orbit around the moon which will be doing lots of studies. One such study is to find out of the universe is finite or not, and what the topology is based off of the primordial acoustics still floating around in the ether. I read in a previous slashdotters post about the piece of paper. Just as a piece of paper can be flat, you can turn it into a doughnut and now you have a finite idea. The scientists/mathmaticians interviewed said that the universe might be so large that the shape will not be definable because we can't see enough of it.
Just some more interesting reading for the bin, no matter what catagory/field we choose, we're all just guessing apes. I find it interesting to hear this years theories and projections.
The entire case has been mired left and right. You have almost a religious scale jyhad going on with two sides trying to deface the other. M$ proponents say that the this is all hubub and because how fast internet time rolls on that this whole case is irrelevant, however I still see no reprieve from what they were originally charged for.
Now we're starting to get political, or have been but stepping up the ante. What does this mean? A Christian coallitionist? Makes my skin crawl. We've got two political campaigners who are both known for their idiocy. Lobbying to Bush or Gore shouldn't be too hard to convince them with a little money rubbing or saavy silk tounged maneuvers.
I grow tired of not seeing the hammer swing with swift justice and the mire of our rotten system at work.
We haven't begun to hit the tip of the gaming iceburg. The past is wrought with not enough horse power to do both graphics and thinking/logic/ai. Right around the corner 3d cards will have their own processing power and thus give the cpu cycles back to developers. Where do you think the next 5 years of gaming is going? Care to throw out any farther fetched (timeline) ideas? Lastly, how is Loki going to position itself? Porter, Developer, Activision? Malachi
Let the competition keep looking at your source.. While they are figuring out what you did and how you did it, you just released version 2.. Let them keep playing catchup because they don't realize how to tackle the market from a different angle. Also, by playing opensource, you gain marketshare faster, which if used correct is like a booster rocket that the competition can't hope to keep up with..
I think this article hits around the impact site, but there are many more rocks that can be tossed with equal or more accuracy. There are 'pirate' ships abroad, but at the same time their will always be the white knights. You will always have a company that bleeds you, and you will have those that bleed a company. God knows I've seen'm both. I was lucky enough to be at the Python conference (during that wonderful state of emergency) where ESR gave his talk, while it was briefed due to time, I think the open source community is in for a good overall road. Will there be thieves in the bushes, sure, does that surprise you?
When it all boils down, we are all just looking for applications that do what we want, with varying degrees of lesser tramas associated with them. As geeks get asthetics, more laymen will be able to tromp in our grounds (of cours this breaks open a whole slew of crap into our industry due to a RAD vb-ized idea.. blah blah blah.. another thread another time).. ok.. I think I'm through.. yea..
Keep on keepin on and try not to be a greedy beotch. -Malachi-
"You can vote via the Internet in the Arizona Democratic primary. Does anyone other than me think this is terrifying?"
I see no meat though.. he's afraid, and by rights so because who knows how much research went into the idea et al. I'd like to see a thurough summary done by him though.
I think some people forget that Voting would only have a limited access window. So a hacker or those being malicious would have to work very hard very fast on a very tight system. Is this to say it cannot be done, of course not, there is always that six year old who got a decoder in the cracker jack box and wants to show his stuff off.
Digressing I think that we really need to look long and hard at good crypto solutions. Right now people can steal anything, and they do, from people's social security to my CC the other day on CD Universe. You can't make anything good without breaking a few things in the making, and people continually think that it has to be 100% or nothing when most of us live in an 80% (if that) world. I think there are only two main issues. How do we keep the transaction secure, and how do we know you are you. Solutions for these are wide ranging and I'm sure others are covering them well in these threads.
I'd like to see a faux voting for a year. I really want to see some official idea count on how many people would vote. Besides just thinking for us normal two legged healthy people, think of the handicap/disabled people that could vote. You can bring out a lot more of the populous if it were available.
We're not ostriches, so lets keep our heads out of the sand, Malachi
Not going to go into too much detail, but every day is a new day, or was with potato. One day you dist-upgrade and everything is broken, the next all broken packages have been patched. Its a day to day war when you run the unstable line, once you get everything (the bare base) rocking and rolling, the rest is pretty easy. I deffinitly don't recommend unstable releases for those who don't know how to hack a package to fix it themselves. It is however good to note that a new stable branch is up and running, my stable slink hasn't had an upgrade in months, however my many "unstable" boxes run just fine with potato.
Their are two sides to the world and a huge land of gray. Half will do right and purchase, half will do wrong and pirate. The middle grounders will buy and pirate.
I know my folks will always buy, and the average consumer who has no idea or is still using AOL will buy. In 50 years when everyone understands how to use linux normally, then I'll worry that piracy will go up.
Piracy is still larger in China than it ever is here. Stop the factories from churning out copies. I'll buy a CD, I'll pirate a CD, I try to play neutral. The industry is overcharging us on all fronts. Too many greedy distributors or artists who might think they are worth more than they should be. Who knows.. people will always whine for one side or another, this ball, this argument, all arguments, will continue. I just wish people would stop tossing out hypothetical statistics that are based off of WAG theorums.
Why don't they also take a biorhythm and tell me when to poop, or when I should shower.. Hey, if they could tell me when to eat, or when to be nice, that'd be cool too.. Or if some new product came out, they can tell me to buy it.. Man.. technology is great.. If it can keep CartMan in line, the future is looking bright..
I didn't get the news by any email'd farmers almanac. I read it in last months issue of Discover.. now I'm not going to say they didn't pick up the scent somewhere, but another accredited agency has the other side.
If its mailorder out of the state, your supposed to claim it on your returns.. who does? A an NC resident (damn Helms, damn conservatives) add the line, it will be minimized or ignored like a customs trip. I dislike it, I hope we can fight it, but at this point I am underinformed. Overall I dislike taxation. I would have little problem with it if I had 80%+ control of where my money went. However not having that control, and not having choice in many matters I elect to try and rebuke the government with my libertarian privitization ideals. *scampers to find a paper*
I have gone through some serious wrist pain activities, up to the point where I would awake in the middle of the night clutching my wrist. The pain was overwhealming. The only thing that aided it to fade away and now is gone was an exercise regiment. Start light, go for toning, then move up to free weights, the stress and stretching that is caused within those ligaments aid to building stronger fibers. I also suggest items like Glucosamine/Chondroitin Sulfate, which is a cartalidge(sp?) builder, which may have indirect causalities for why your pain is there.
The paying for bandwith idea assumes, to me at least, that the bandwith is limited and that the growth will have a direct causality for the need of a metered system. However this is incorrect, there are so many new technologies or improvments in the pipes that bandwith is only going to get faster and broader as time goes on. We will hit crunches in our junctions where componentry needs to be upgraded but I think a metered system is just ludicrious. I'd rather pay the electric bill it cost for me to send my light pulsar through the net.
The day we reach the end of bandwith is the day the world ended. Malachi
Ever wonder what would occur if those who pirated took their skills and applied to really hammering out the system? Piracy has always used mechanisms that are at their present disposal (bbs,irc,hotline,etc).. but I was in the game way back when and I'm grown now with skills of my own.. What would happen if people took those skills and build double blind secure measures.. a new underground if you will.. a good client/server architecture all encrypted and yet free to all.. hurm..
Why worry about US piracy.. Go worry about china and their CD houses.
We are currently using Keystone, its not quite a finished product, but it gets the job done for us. I am sure it was in the freshmeat post around here, but you can find it at www.stonekeep.com. Some interoffice people are working on a JAVA trouble-ticket-project-management solution which will be contributed to open source once it gets to early stability.
However, till that glorious day, I recommend Keystone, uses mysql or postgres or oracle, has a tree structure, dependents, parents, schedules, item tracking, views/filters, none of this is at a high polish but like I've said, it works, and there aren't many I know that beat it right now.
My grandfather had a hospital induced stroke which left him for months crippled mentally. He was so down because he was forgetting everything he knew, and I hope to have this mans range of knowledge when I reach his age. Anyhow, during this I was reading a book called 'MegaBrain', one of those books you pick up to see how the ticker is working and to shed some light into our own maps.
Its whole philosophy, which makes sense to me is if you debilitate a person by putting them in a non-demanding enviornment, one that does not offer challenge or creativity, the brain shrinks (basically), however, if you put a person in an enviornment that is rich in material and challenge the person, no matter what age, will begin to grow new neurons and build cells to keep pace.
To me these are duh's (you don't use it you lose it). However, I gave this book to my grandfather and told him to cheer up, that he was going to be getting better soon, he just needed to keep challenging himself and he'd be fine. By all means don't shut off. And now, while some parts of the stroke are irreversable (dammed idiot doctors), he is as lively as he was. If we can only get the docs to let him have some vino!(twice dammed)
With the Tribes Killer, Halo, by bungie.com, I can hardly think that the platform isn't performing, just the portability. People who plan too much with the DirectSDK are just getting themselves locked into a titantic.
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Those days are now gone.. we who are dissalusioned leave as fast as fast will let us. When the door hits my ass my brain has no recollection of work. Now thats not to say I don't have a pager strapped to me with a wap that can let me fix problems that occur during the evening.. its part of the status quo.. but I'm not going to get hassled because I wasn't the one with the lack of direction or content.
Most knowledge workers just forget that they can stand up and alter things.. especially if you know what you're doing.
--Malachi
-Malachi
If at all possible I will sample music online through whatever means necessary to preview. I will always be a consumer, but one who is aware of what they are buying. I like having a finished product in my home. By having mp3s and sharing them I give bands money for friends that buy their music. Until someone can do a comprehensive study on record buying, music download, advert effects, then relax, cause your just fuckin too excited about YOUR shit.
Curiously, can we file suit if one of these things gets really nasty? The last one that hit us just sent the person to a p0rn site and everyone in their addr book, reg keys, desktop, startup. What if this had been a formating virii? Talk about large scale data loss.
-Malachi-
Just some more interesting reading for the bin, no matter what catagory/field we choose, we're all just guessing apes. I find it interesting to hear this years theories and projections.
Keep'n it real,
-Malachi
Now we're starting to get political, or have been but stepping up the ante. What does this mean? A Christian coallitionist? Makes my skin crawl. We've got two political campaigners who are both known for their idiocy. Lobbying to Bush or Gore shouldn't be too hard to convince them with a little money rubbing or saavy silk tounged maneuvers.
I grow tired of not seeing the hammer swing with swift justice and the mire of our rotten system at work.
We haven't begun to hit the tip of the gaming iceburg. The past is wrought with not enough horse power to do both graphics and thinking/logic/ai. Right around the corner 3d cards will have their own processing power and thus give the cpu cycles back to developers. Where do you think the next 5 years of gaming is going? Care to throw out any farther fetched (timeline) ideas? Lastly, how is Loki going to position itself? Porter, Developer, Activision?
Malachi
Follow the leader,
-Malachi-
When it all boils down, we are all just looking for applications that do what we want, with varying degrees of lesser tramas associated with them. As geeks get asthetics, more laymen will be able to tromp in our grounds (of cours this breaks open a whole slew of crap into our industry due to a RAD vb-ized idea.. blah blah blah.. another thread another time).. ok.. I think I'm through.. yea..
Keep on keepin on and try not to be a greedy beotch.
-Malachi-
Completely Agree.. However dammit my TNT2 Ultra needs much better support, 12fps just is not going to cut it.
I see no meat though.. he's afraid, and by rights so because who knows how much research went into the idea et al. I'd like to see a thurough summary done by him though.
Keep'n it real,
Malachi
Digressing I think that we really need to look long and hard at good crypto solutions. Right now people can steal anything, and they do, from people's social security to my CC the other day on CD Universe. You can't make anything good without breaking a few things in the making, and people continually think that it has to be 100% or nothing when most of us live in an 80% (if that) world. I think there are only two main issues. How do we keep the transaction secure, and how do we know you are you. Solutions for these are wide ranging and I'm sure others are covering them well in these threads.
I'd like to see a faux voting for a year. I really want to see some official idea count on how many people would vote. Besides just thinking for us normal two legged healthy people, think of the handicap/disabled people that could vote. You can bring out a lot more of the populous if it were available.
We're not ostriches, so lets keep our heads out of the sand,
Malachi
--Malachi
I know my folks will always buy, and the average consumer who has no idea or is still using AOL will buy. In 50 years when everyone understands how to use linux normally, then I'll worry that piracy will go up.
Piracy is still larger in China than it ever is here. Stop the factories from churning out copies. I'll buy a CD, I'll pirate a CD, I try to play neutral. The industry is overcharging us on all fronts. Too many greedy distributors or artists who might think they are worth more than they should be. Who knows.. people will always whine for one side or another, this ball, this argument, all arguments, will continue. I just wish people would stop tossing out hypothetical statistics that are based off of WAG theorums.
Malachi
Malachi
Playing life the silly way this day,
Malachi
You choose who you want to believe.
Malachi
Peace,
Malachi
Malachi
The day we reach the end of bandwith is the day the world ended.
Malachi
Why worry about US piracy.. Go worry about china and their CD houses.
Keep'n it Real,
-Malachi
However, till that glorious day, I recommend Keystone, uses mysql or postgres or oracle, has a tree structure, dependents, parents, schedules, item tracking, views/filters, none of this is at a high polish but like I've said, it works, and there aren't many I know that beat it right now.
-Malachi-
Its whole philosophy, which makes sense to me is if you debilitate a person by putting them in a non-demanding enviornment, one that does not offer challenge or creativity, the brain shrinks (basically), however, if you put a person in an enviornment that is rich in material and challenge the person, no matter what age, will begin to grow new neurons and build cells to keep pace.
To me these are duh's (you don't use it you lose it). However, I gave this book to my grandfather and told him to cheer up, that he was going to be getting better soon, he just needed to keep challenging himself and he'd be fine. By all means don't shut off. And now, while some parts of the stroke are irreversable (dammed idiot doctors), he is as lively as he was. If we can only get the docs to let him have some vino!(twice dammed)
-Malachi
-Malachi
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