Maybe Sun, Apple, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Intel, AMD will remain in there current positions in the market place and nothing will change and the status quo will remain and we will all live happily ever after with MS as a virtual monopoly keeping other companies alive and profitable enough to make them smile and their customers living without fear they will go bankrupt and while Java remains a great server side language and AMD remains a great economical alternative to Intel and Linux remains for the those willing.
"A desk is capable of supporting 10 million bacteria and the average office contains 20,961 germs per square inch, according to research.... By contrast, the average toilet seat contains 49 germs per square inch, the survey showed.'"
This usaully appears on only the geeks' desks.
There is obviously an elevation issue at hand that causes this phenomenon.
Since the managers' desks usually are made of better wood instead of particle board and formica tops like most cubicles they also sit higher.
And managers' hygiene is usually really good.
But then again all that has nothing to do with anything.
After Intel lost the x86/64bit instruction set combo battle they've decided to do the next best thing to their competition... use performance ratings to confuse the public thus ruining AMD's ratings system.
If all "good" opensource projects were kept running.
Why is it corporations kill products so you have to buy their news ones?
Open Source projects get killed since the main developers/supporters seem to get bored (as most nerds tend to do) without serious motivation (cash).
It seems open source these days has so much competition with itself that things get abandoned too easily.
Competition is supposed to be good. But when for profit software competition has none and free software ( beer and speech ) is competing with itself people lose out.
A simple example is me trying to choose Gnome or KDE... ugh! Really! The winner would be nice... if someone would tell me who it will be please. Sounds ignorant, but honestly... am I alone on this?
Companies demand experience on all posts, and then whine about lack of "qualified" applicants.
Actually everything I've read in the press and in B&N game books is that the industry can't keep it's top dogs, because they get burnt out.
I would say not only that, but since EA just closed office(s) in Austin... of forget it. Game Publishers close offices all the time after a great game is shipped,etc and this article states there aren't enough programmers?!
Well I personally know of a great programmer who left for the business world since it payed double what he was worth and the corporate bullshit stings pretty bad in game companies.
Maybe that's what happens when real greedy CEOs and businessmen collide with very immature geeks and developers.
The industry needs to reward better it's programming heros and keep them in the game.
Every geek I know dreams of this. Of course the cable that is in the ground right now is faster than the wireless technology which you propose.
While some may settle for, let's say, 10Mb/s bandwidth they get from sharing their "neighborhood" wireless connections the physical wires directly to the cable/phone/ISP will be faster due to their really expensive hardware and fiberoptics which they own. We all will have a tough time putting Cisco routers in our houses.
All of us here seem to have this otaku for wireless and free internet service so we can download our free content and free music which will all be produced for free of course.
We will find a way to live in a globalised world with more competition and commodities and a balance will be found around the monopolies we see today.
One could make the argument (easily) that our country (the US)is a monopoly and soon, if not already, we will be experiencing serious and unexpected competition which will drive many of our standards of living downward or sideways at least. It will make these industries that are threatened by the edge actually threatened more frequently and more rapidly.
It's interesting, yet you've still stated the obvious. Capitalism? America?
Do you think they will run the company and increase shareholder's happiness by having 54 billion karma points in the bank instead of 54 billion dollars?
Shareholder #666: "What's a protocol?"
Shareholder #666': "Dunno. Ran over a cat today, but it's ok since my MSFT stock went up."
Face it: Bill Gate's dropped out of Harvard to get farking rich using technology. There is no passion or philanthropic view in software for that man or the company he created.
would a comment based in such ignorance get modded up. You do realize that different CPUs need differing amounts of cache to achieve the same net effect, right?
You do realize that he mentioned Linux on his system?
BTW, I do actually dislike Intel's processors - I use AMDs on my systems and those I build for others...
I suppose you like AMD and Linux. I suppose you like your money.
Well that's not very American you terrorist!
Now go get a credit card and buy an Intel processor and motherboard for twice the money. And for the love of all that is Patriotic install the latest version of Windows!
I think he meant: if you're a programmer that plans on using Subversion, surely you can compile the damn thing yourself, rather than waiting for somebody else to do it for you.
Dude! I'll wait for the binary. We have a whole
project written in BASIC that needs to get checked in. We're not risking compiling this thing.
HL2's graphics would have been so very advanced had it not been delayed repeatedly...
It's so absurd how quickly rushed games with
the lastest graphic effects,techniques and technologies sell.
I believe today that movies and games (more so) are rushed for fear of being called old hat when put on the shelves.
5 years ago I bought Baldur's Gate and Half-Life.
My brother and I finished Half-Life and just last week I finished Baldur's Gate and now started Neverwinter Nights.
Guess what? NWN is completely 3D driven where as BG was 2D. What in god's holy #%!* earth!?
So far I am loving NWN, but oddly missing the BG Graphics.
Many designers and serious game enthusiasts will tell you it's in the quality of the play and if games dates are held up today it should be for that reason only.
Btw: Out of curiousity does BG2:DA use a new Graphics Engine?
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Good odds of this me says.
You should have positive and negative experiences when submerging electronic devices.
Are you sure you read the manual correctly?
Ba dum bum!
submerging sensitive electronic devices
What? Are drowning Aibo puppies?
This usaully appears on only the geeks' desks.
There is obviously an elevation issue at hand that causes this phenomenon.
Since the managers' desks usually are made of better wood instead of particle board and formica tops like most cubicles they also sit higher.
And managers' hygiene is usually really good.
But then again all that has nothing to do with anything.
It's because managers always shit on everyone.
oops... did I write that?
1) Sun's 10th Planet
2) Sun's iPlanet
Then again maybe the 10th Planet has a future.
Don tinfoil hats now.
Come back next week where Dean jokes will get you nothing. Who will they sue? Who has money?
Why is it corporations kill products so you have to buy their news ones?
Open Source projects get killed since the main developers/supporters seem to get bored (as most nerds tend to do) without serious motivation (cash).
It seems open source these days has so much competition with itself that things get abandoned too easily.
Competition is supposed to be good. But when for profit software competition has none and free software ( beer and speech ) is competing with itself people lose out.
A simple example is me trying to choose Gnome or KDE... ugh! Really! The winner would be nice... if someone would tell me who it will be please. Sounds ignorant, but honestly... am I alone on this?
Actually everything I've read in the press and in B&N game books is that the industry can't keep it's top dogs, because they get burnt out.
I would say not only that, but since EA just closed office(s) in Austin... of forget it. Game Publishers close offices all the time after a great game is shipped,etc and this article states there aren't enough programmers?!
Well I personally know of a great programmer who left for the business world since it payed double what he was worth and the corporate bullshit stings pretty bad in game companies.
Maybe that's what happens when real greedy CEOs and businessmen collide with very immature geeks and developers.
The industry needs to reward better it's programming heros and keep them in the game.
If you are in prison you've already been made into someone's bitch. By Judge or Jury.
Shoulda have lifted those law books and a couple others about legal ways to make money.
Course the Hollywood movies I watch always gun for the con artists. They're so darn triksy it's cool.
Well making headlines and keeping the public aware is the most important step. Free adverstising for Sun and IBM and Java.
Now that they are in the limelight MS will have to pump the marketing machine to make sure people realize C# is there.
I've seen how IBM and Sun interact. You know the outcome of this exercise already.
While some may settle for, let's say, 10Mb/s bandwidth they get from sharing their "neighborhood" wireless connections the physical wires directly to the cable/phone/ISP will be faster due to their really expensive hardware and fiberoptics which they own. We all will have a tough time putting Cisco routers in our houses.
All of us here seem to have this otaku for wireless and free internet service so we can download our free content and free music which will all be produced for free of course.
We will find a way to live in a globalised world with more competition and commodities and a balance will be found around the monopolies we see today.
One could make the argument (easily) that our country (the US)is a monopoly and soon, if not already, we will be experiencing serious and unexpected competition which will drive many of our standards of living downward or sideways at least. It will make these industries that are threatened by the edge actually threatened more frequently and more rapidly.
Smith: "One of these opertaing systems has a future. The other does not."
Neo (looking confused and stupid as always): "I know my rights. You can't scare me with this XP crap."
Smith: "And how are you going to tell anyone about Linux if our search engine returns no results."
Do you think they will run the company and increase shareholder's happiness by having 54 billion karma points in the bank instead of 54 billion dollars?
Shareholder #666: "What's a protocol?"
Shareholder #666': "Dunno. Ran over a cat today, but it's ok since my MSFT stock went up."
Face it: Bill Gate's dropped out of Harvard to get farking rich using technology. There is no passion or philanthropic view in software for that man or the company he created.
And my post is just as obvious.
You do realize that he mentioned Linux on his system?
It's the only trump card you can play here!
Haha! You should check with Blair on that one. Did he move into Bush's ranch yet?
I suppose you like AMD and Linux. I suppose you like your money.
Well that's not very American you terrorist!
Now go get a credit card and buy an Intel processor and motherboard for twice the money. And for the love of all that is Patriotic install the latest version of Windows!
Baby, when these processors are finished we're all gonna be wearing golden diapers!
Dude! I'll wait for the binary. We have a whole
project written in BASIC that needs to get checked
in. We're not risking compiling this thing.
what does compile mean anyway?
Ahhh... the PIII 1.3ghz. The last computer chip people
got when geeks had money to buy computers.
Before all those layoffs and outsourcings.
They have the same event in India
right now, cept their min requirments are
Athlon 64 3400+. Must be nice to be on
the cutting edge.
why does /. tempt me to right such things?
Is that why lawyers say, "She shoplifted so much
she made a killing. Her actions terrorized local
merchants."
So there you have it: Wynonna Ryder is a killer and
a terrorist just by the rewording of the prosecution.
I suggest a new logical language for the courts like LISP ;)
just call INS...
But you are in Vietnam. Is the INS gonna save you?
It's so absurd how quickly rushed games with
the lastest graphic effects,techniques and
technologies sell.
I believe today that movies and games (more so) are
rushed for fear of being called old hat when
put on the shelves.
5 years ago I bought Baldur's Gate and Half-Life.
My brother and I finished Half-Life and just last
week I finished Baldur's Gate and now started
Neverwinter Nights.
Guess what? NWN is completely 3D driven where as
BG was 2D. What in god's holy #%!* earth!?
So far I am loving NWN, but oddly missing the BG Graphics.
Many designers and serious game enthusiasts will
tell you it's in the quality of the play and if games dates are held up today
it should be for that reason only.
Btw: Out of curiousity does BG2:DA use a new Graphics Engine?
Good point. Other industries avoid Daikatana style ad's.
Now that the XBox is out could you imagine an ad "On September 1st, 2005, Bill Gates is going to make you his bitch!"
Well most of already are his bitch so I guess it wouldn't matter.
Ya'll know one thing that makes money.
See Here.
I hope the kitchen is stocked.
Good luck to the rest of you.