that's probably true - but people at this organization tend to assume more than actually read. All they ever really 'research' is bad hype like SCO in the news. Moreover, these people just tend to lump all open source as one entity/commodity...
I was just saying that this adds fuel to the fire that we were trying to put out...
I still just wished that this was fixed before being made really public - after all this isn't code - a lawyer could have made changes easily to fit the spirit of the license.
I work for a large consulting company and one of our clients is a large telecom company in the south. This company is very much against open source, due to unfounded paranoia and misinformation.
They think 1) open source code's quality is much less than commercial closed source code
2) the open source code has malicious intentionally hidden 'backdoors' and 'viruses'
and 3) that open source could threaten our projects from a legal standpoint (intellectual property etc)
Recently our company has been making small strides in changing our client's attitude. News like this kills our efforts (giving more power to ignorant people against open source) and only slows down open source's adoption...
Hell, I can't use anything from Apache - like Struts or anything else from Jakarta! Reading some of the posts (and my initial reaction to the main one) it sounds like many people are happy because of this... well for me this sucks!
I think simoniker misinterpreted what Yamauchi said. Simoniker thinks Yamauchi was criticizing Sony, when instead Yamauchi was really criticizing analysts (not Sony) who think that Sony can invade Nintendo's portable market... It would be kind of dumb for Yamauchi to say that Sony doesn't understand the game business, after Sony has already proven itself to be the (pretty much) undisputed market leader.
simoniker quote:
"The legendary Yamauchi is customarily dismissive about Sony's attempts to get into handheld gaming with the PSP ("I don't think [Sony] understand the game business... but software for both machines will be much different, and it would be a mistake to consider them in direct competition."), "
orig quote from the article:
"There have been analysts who think Nintendo has a monopoly over the handheld market and Sony maybe able to break it - I don't think they understand the game business. New product competition in this industry is important."
"No doubt QNX is a good enough embedded system. So is VxWorks, so is WinCE"
I agree with wfberg. The best example would lie the BMW 745i, which has an embedded WindowsCE-based system. This system was so buggy that BMW has already done two recalls...
This is a scary (and funny) example of what has gone wrong with the car:
"Suchart Jaovisidha, Thailand's finance minister, was on his way to address central bank officials from around the world when his state-assigned BMW stalled, the Associated Press reported.
'The engine stopped, the air conditioning shut down, the doors got locked and the windows wouldn't roll down,' Suchart was quoted as saying.
'We couldn't breathe because there was no air,' he added.
To draw attention, the minister and his driver waved frantically at passers-by. The incident ended only after a nearby security guard smashed the car's windows with a sledgehammer.
Even with the heavy-duty tool, Suchart said it took a long time to break the windows as the 'glass proved to be very resistant'.
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"my country is free of racial tension because we have strictly limited immigration from trouble makers."
I take it Hitler has kept his popularity in your country...
Given Walmart's "High moral" tastes, I really doubt Netflix and Blockbuster have much to worry about. Walmart will probably never stock anything it considers too "racy or provacative".
I'm not going to name it (Hint Hint: used to be part of a famous and government killed accounting company)... but from my experience most consultants just have an air (the sound and look) of credibility - not actual knowledge that will actually help the company's bottom line or efficiency. From what I've seen, consultants are actually the ones causing the problems - pushing technological "solutions" (mostly Microsoft crap) that they themselves don't actually understand aside from the marketing hype. I've seen open source solutions (that will actually have an impact on the bottom line) push aside no matter how reliable and strong on performance, just because joe six pack has never heard of it...
I think this stems mostly from our company's hiring and placement practices. The bulk of our consultants were not technical majors in college (EE, CS, CompE, etc...). Our work force is mostly composed of marketing, business, and economics majors. While this does make sense for non-technology based consulting, unfortunately many of these consultants are placed in IT related positions for which they neither have the experience or formal training for...
Oh yeah, get this: do you know these companies come up with the quantitative "savings" they come up with for the company?
Consultant: "We have improved this imaginary thing and this imaginery thing." (Translation: We don't really keep track of anything quantitatively, because we're too busy gossiping in the office - so we pulled all of this bullshit out of our ass. You will believe us because we work for a famous big company, and we look like we know our shit.)
Person Who Hired Consulting Company: "Based on what you just told us, we believe this is worth 10 Gagillion dollars of savings to our company" (Translation: Holy shit, we paid you guys seven figures to come up with this stupid bullshit! Oh man I have to come up with some even better bullshit so I don't get Fired! Look calm...)
I don't know why people are complaining, this isn't the first time a word's meaning was replaced by another, nor will it be the last... Look at the words, gay and chauvinist. Gay used to mean "to be happy", but now when most people use it; it ussually refers to homosexuality. Chauvinist use to mean, "to be ultra patriotic/nationalistic", but now it's used to denote a male sexist... More recently look at the words, bad and sick... same thing....
D&D is still here and going strong... but Darklands... man that brings back memories. I loved that game. It was original, fun, and had long hours of game play... too bad they didn't really sell any copies... I would have really liked a sequel.
So much for the speculated US manned mission to Mars, in my lifetime... I'm sure NASA will have a ton of budget cuts similar to what happened after the Challenger accident...
I guess I am one of those "idiots" who enjoys games that realized that as I have gotten older, fantasies and tastes have changed.
If your whole argument on how Nintendo still does try to appeal to the older gamer by helping him reminiscence about his childhood, then it's pretty weak. Though Nintendo games are on the whole fun (except for SSB), they are still based on a cutesy simple story with cutesy simple characters for children (except for Eternal Darkness, Conker, and Metroid - I liked those).
I happen like stories that are more complicated and not just black and white... and characters that might be flawed themselves... something that closer mirrors the way we now know people to be (which is different from when we were young)... so I can get lost in it. You can't create game like that if you restrict yourself to being rated G.
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I'm sure they know of Indrema's demise... taking this into account...
In the interview, the PR guy mentioned "cross compatible" and "thousands of software"... I'm wondering if in addition to the fact that it's just a broadband connected PC, that this console will be able to play NGC, PS2, PS1, and Xbox games... just a wild guess
Judging from how people drive cars, the segway would be dangerous if used on the sidewalk... I can imagine scores of people being mowed down by a drunk IT rider.
I can understand someone making a big deal out of this if it concerned deviously hiding these checkboxes on a web page registration page with javascript/dhtml... but accusing someone of "hiding" these checkboxes by "forcing" people to actually use the scrollbar is ridiculous. I mean it's not even hidden inside a 100 pages of a EULA. I guess I should sue every website for forcing me to scrolldown their registration pages on a 640 x 480 monitor... and as everyone else mentioned - junk email addresses...
if someone gets spam from Real - they deserve it.
Well considering how the most famous character he played makes really long and drawn out speeches every 5 minutes; I think it was actually refreshing for him to be brief and to the point (but somehow I think of that SNL skit, and I can't help but wonder if he sees the/. crowd as another version of the trekie crowd...)
Anyways, his last response was one of the coolest quotes I've ever heard... and somehow I can't imagine Captain Kirk saying it without added another 5 minutes of dialogue to it.
Yeah, ofcourse old people ( no offense to the more senior/. people ) don't see the value in broadband. They never went to colleges with high speed T1 lines in their dorms. They didn't grow up on NES, and most older Joe 6 packs probably don't know about divx porn or mp3s either. This will change as our generation gets older (which will probably result in more expendable income) and when consoles make a large transition online....
A lot of people I know comming out of college, have high speed Internet withdrawal once they get back on the crappy phone modem ala AOHell
Your company is nothing but a congregation of sleazy legal vultures that want to get something for nothing... leaching off of individuals and companies that have contributed to our economy
I'm too poor for Opera (and it's not so cool for javascript and dhtml)... and while mozilla is pretty cool overall; unless the web didn't have any pictures, it's just too damm slow even when compared to crap like IE. Phoenix is sooo coool (and soo fast)
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I was just saying that this adds fuel to the fire that we were trying to put out... I still just wished that this was fixed before being made really public - after all this isn't code - a lawyer could have made changes easily to fit the spirit of the license.
They think 1) open source code's quality is much less than commercial closed source code
2) the open source code has malicious intentionally hidden 'backdoors' and 'viruses' and 3) that open source could threaten our projects from a legal standpoint (intellectual property etc)
Recently our company has been making small strides in changing our client's attitude. News like this kills our efforts (giving more power to ignorant people against open source) and only slows down open source's adoption...
Hell, I can't use anything from Apache - like Struts or anything else from Jakarta! Reading some of the posts (and my initial reaction to the main one) it sounds like many people are happy because of this... well for me this sucks!
simoniker quote: "The legendary Yamauchi is customarily dismissive about Sony's attempts to get into handheld gaming with the PSP ("I don't think [Sony] understand the game business... but software for both machines will be much different, and it would be a mistake to consider them in direct competition."), "
orig quote from the article: "There have been analysts who think Nintendo has a monopoly over the handheld market and Sony maybe able to break it - I don't think they understand the game business. New product competition in this industry is important."
If he was smart enough, he would have moved to some small island, or any other country where the US has less influence, before starting up again...
I agree with wfberg. The best example would lie the BMW 745i, which has an embedded WindowsCE-based system. This system was so buggy that BMW has already done two recalls...
This is a scary (and funny) example of what has gone wrong with the car:
"Suchart Jaovisidha, Thailand's finance minister, was on his way to address central bank officials from around the world when his state-assigned BMW stalled, the Associated Press reported.
'The engine stopped, the air conditioning shut down, the doors got locked and the windows wouldn't roll down,' Suchart was quoted as saying.
'We couldn't breathe because there was no air,' he added.
To draw attention, the minister and his driver waved frantically at passers-by. The incident ended only after a nearby security guard smashed the car's windows with a sledgehammer.
Even with the heavy-duty tool, Suchart said it took a long time to break the windows as the 'glass proved to be very resistant'. "
"my country is free of racial tension because we have strictly limited immigration from trouble makers." I take it Hitler has kept his popularity in your country...
Given Walmart's "High moral" tastes, I really doubt Netflix and Blockbuster have much to worry about. Walmart will probably never stock anything it considers too "racy or provacative".
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I'm not going to name it (Hint Hint: used to be part of a famous and government killed accounting company)... but from my experience most consultants just have an air (the sound and look) of credibility - not actual knowledge that will actually help the company's bottom line or efficiency. From what I've seen, consultants are actually the ones causing the problems - pushing technological "solutions" (mostly Microsoft crap) that they themselves don't actually understand aside from the marketing hype. I've seen open source solutions (that will actually have an impact on the bottom line) push aside no matter how reliable and strong on performance, just because joe six pack has never heard of it... I think this stems mostly from our company's hiring and placement practices. The bulk of our consultants were not technical majors in college (EE, CS, CompE, etc...). Our work force is mostly composed of marketing, business, and economics majors. While this does make sense for non-technology based consulting, unfortunately many of these consultants are placed in IT related positions for which they neither have the experience or formal training for... Oh yeah, get this: do you know these companies come up with the quantitative "savings" they come up with for the company? Consultant: "We have improved this imaginary thing and this imaginery thing." (Translation: We don't really keep track of anything quantitatively, because we're too busy gossiping in the office - so we pulled all of this bullshit out of our ass. You will believe us because we work for a famous big company, and we look like we know our shit.) Person Who Hired Consulting Company: "Based on what you just told us, we believe this is worth 10 Gagillion dollars of savings to our company" (Translation: Holy shit, we paid you guys seven figures to come up with this stupid bullshit! Oh man I have to come up with some even better bullshit so I don't get Fired! Look calm...)
I don't know why people are complaining, this isn't the first time a word's meaning was replaced by another, nor will it be the last...
Look at the words, gay and chauvinist. Gay used to mean "to be happy", but now when most people use it; it ussually refers to homosexuality. Chauvinist use to mean, "to be ultra patriotic/nationalistic", but now it's used to denote a male sexist... More recently look at the words, bad and sick... same thing....
D&D is still here and going strong... but Darklands... man that brings back memories. I loved that game. It was original, fun, and had long hours of game play... too bad they didn't really sell any copies... I would have really liked a sequel.
So much for the speculated US manned mission to Mars, in my lifetime... I'm sure NASA will have a ton of budget cuts similar to what happened after the Challenger accident...
I guess I am one of those "idiots" who enjoys games that realized that as I have gotten older, fantasies and tastes have changed. If your whole argument on how Nintendo still does try to appeal to the older gamer by helping him reminiscence about his childhood, then it's pretty weak. Though Nintendo games are on the whole fun (except for SSB), they are still based on a cutesy simple story with cutesy simple characters for children (except for Eternal Darkness, Conker, and Metroid - I liked those). I happen like stories that are more complicated and not just black and white... and characters that might be flawed themselves... something that closer mirrors the way we now know people to be (which is different from when we were young)... so I can get lost in it. You can't create game like that if you restrict yourself to being rated G.
I'm sure they know of Indrema's demise... taking this into account... In the interview, the PR guy mentioned "cross compatible" and "thousands of software"... I'm wondering if in addition to the fact that it's just a broadband connected PC, that this console will be able to play NGC, PS2, PS1, and Xbox games... just a wild guess
Judging from how people drive cars, the segway would be dangerous if used on the sidewalk... I can imagine scores of people being mowed down by a drunk IT rider.
I can understand someone making a big deal out of this if it concerned deviously hiding these checkboxes on a web page registration page with javascript/dhtml... but accusing someone of "hiding" these checkboxes by "forcing" people to actually use the scrollbar is ridiculous. I mean it's not even hidden inside a 100 pages of a EULA. I guess I should sue every website for forcing me to scrolldown their registration pages on a 640 x 480 monitor... and as everyone else mentioned - junk email addresses... if someone gets spam from Real - they deserve it.
What ever did happen to Mollar flying car? I remember seeing it on Beyond 2000 about 10 years ago when it was still on Fox, when they were "so close".
Well considering how the most famous character he played makes really long and drawn out speeches every 5 minutes; I think it was actually refreshing for him to be brief and to the point (but somehow I think of that SNL skit, and I can't help but wonder if he sees the /. crowd as another version of the trekie crowd...)
Anyways, his last response was one of the coolest quotes I've ever heard... and somehow I can't imagine Captain Kirk saying it without added another 5 minutes of dialogue to it.
Yeah, ofcourse old people ( no offense to the more senior /. people ) don't see the value in broadband. They never went to colleges with high speed T1 lines in their dorms. They didn't grow up on NES, and most older Joe 6 packs probably don't know about divx porn or mp3s either. This will change as our generation gets older (which will probably result in more expendable income) and when consoles make a large transition online....
A lot of people I know comming out of college, have high speed Internet withdrawal once they get back on the crappy phone modem ala AOHell
Your company is nothing but a congregation of sleazy legal vultures that want to get something for nothing... leaching off of individuals and companies that have contributed to our economy
I'm too poor for Opera (and it's not so cool for javascript and dhtml)... and while mozilla is pretty cool overall; unless the web didn't have any pictures, it's just too damm slow even when compared to crap like IE. Phoenix is sooo coool (and soo fast)