Let them see your frustration, and keep making the case "this used to work, why is this so hard?".
That is a BAD idea. They see their secretary.. err sorry, Administrative Assistant, zooming through a word document and creating powerpoint presentations and think she is a whiz. She also makes a third of what you do.. what do you think they're thinking? "Geez, we paid all this money for these supposedly smart geeks, but they can't even find their way around Windows like our low paid secretary can. They must be retarded."
But I don't know how any mac user can live without a scrollwheel.
Are you kidding? I've tried to find a modern mouse without a scrollwheel because I fscking hate them but EVERYONE makes them now. My Logitech Trackman is going on the fritz and I wanted to get a replacement.. do you think anyone sells the same exact (dare I say perfect?) trackball format? Thumb controls ball, three full mouse buttons, no wheel. I certainly can't find one short of buying a used one off ebay which is what I'll be doing.
Though i don't use the machine often, when I need it, I need it to work. It's sad I have to consider buying a more expensive model even though I don't need/want its features, but am afraid of the one I already own failing.
I would be willing to trade my Dell Inspiron 4000 PIII-600 laptop for your iBook if you'd like. It is a very robust and stable machine and I just got a brand new battery for it. Just don't tell my wife I'm trading in her laptop.
Get this -- they caught the guy after he stole about $64,000 CAD, found out that he entered the country illegally and... sent him to prison? Nope. Our illustrious Canadian gov't deported him. They didn't recover any of the money either. Bastard's living it up in the Caribbean with the cash that he wired there before he was caught.
Can you really live it up in the Caribbean on $64,000 CAD? Isn't that more like a weekend vacation type thing?
I love PostgreSQL. It's OO, blazingly fast, easy to install, robust, and free as free can be.
Easy to install? I guess if you've installed it before. I found it amazingly complicated to install and never did get it working right. I ditched it for MySQL which was much simpler. I never need to screw around with the pg_hba.conf file (or whatever it is) to setup access permissions.
Read comment boards like on the BBC Persian, people in Iran are simply fed up with everyone (and rightfully so).
Did you just say that another member of the Axis of Evil has weapons of mass destruction? Have no fear, we've got some liberation forces in your neck of the woods and they'll pop right on over.
On a serious note, I would love to see all the hardline muslims in the arab countries be overthrown by peaceful democracies even if it means the US has to single-handedly do it. We've been dealing with arab terrorists for decades and I'm frankly sick of them. As long as those whacked out governments in the middle-east exist there will be a breeding ground for terrorists training camps.
All technical issues aside, if a damn UN standards-setting body is influenced in their decision by a couple of hotel stays and some plane tickets (which, they would have gotten anyway), then there is no hope for any of us - we might as well accept our clippy enhanced future now.
Microsoft also hired 2 members of the group. This is a pretty standard corporate tactic. Find someone who you can influence to take an early retirement from their influential position, hire them to come work for Halliburton or the Carlyle Group (thrown in for our liberal conspiracy theorist friends) and then pay them a salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to be a consultant. It increases your chances of getting that government contract a hundredfold since the "consultant" is still buddy-buddy with all his old procurement friends at the office. I'm not suprised the corruption has extended to the UN in a similar fashion.
Don't you think we will be able to read the standard optical CD/DVD media of today on future emulation systems anyway?
No. I didn't even have a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive to read a bunch of old disks I found lying around when moving them. I just ended up pitching them since they're probably magnetically dead anyway. Imagine if I had to read 8" floppy disks. Media formats die which is why it's important to transfer all your data to a new format when it becomes available. I have to deal with that at work as well... someone will bring me an ancient tape and expect me to be able to read it for them when the last drive capable of reading it was probably throw out 20 years ago.
It will be interesting to see how sought after any well-preserved games will be in their original packaging. I can easily imagine they'll be our grandchildren's baseball cards.
Hardly. You want some of my mint condition 8 track tapes? Baseball cards and comic books are collectibles because it doesn't require any additional pieces to be useful. Video games would require some kind of player which I guarentee will be obsolete and unavailable in 30 years or so rare it isn't worth buying anyway. Besides, you just need the ROM image to emulate it.. who needs the original packaging?
If a large company could provide a consumer-level IM client, plus dedicated server, plus whitepages, etc (the whole nine yards), and compete against the other gorillas, maybe this will work.
Why does it have to be a large company bundling it all together? Go to www.jabber.org, download the free Jabber server and put it on a machine, download any of the free clients for Jabber and start using it. The reason I *don't* use AOL, MSN, or Yahoo Messenger is because they're tied to a single company and they've all obviously decided to not interoperate amongst themselves. Fsck them and their little dogs too.
The first thing I do when I get a game is throw out the cardboard packaging. Especially with computer games that have a single CD and MAYBE a registration card in them. I used to keep the boxes but when I moved I found I had 30 big software boxes that I had never touched again. Do you want my mint condition Willy Beamish case?
the whole "wireless is crap reason" for suckiness is good for at least another year or so...
I've tried to get back into CS after a year hiatus playing other games like BF1942, but it's just really weird now. Some server I ended up on today had some kind of "Warcraft" thing so there were transparent people and weird magic shit going on. What happened to good plain old counter-strike? I guess I'm just getting old, but the kids playing online FPS games today seem to be real jackasses. I suppose it's a product of being pampered in a wealthy suburban family setting.. you expect to get whatever you want and get bored with real life so you go online to annoy people.
Given the ancient hardware nasa still seems to be using on their machines (still essentially powered by '91 era powerpc's) i doubt that the source will be THAT impressive.
NASA has a lot of interest in high performance computing environments, supercomputer clusters, etc. Just because the embedded processors in spacebound equipment is "old" and radiation hardened doesn't mean that they don't work with other cool software on very fast machines.
The taxpayers paid for the original work, and that's what they indeed have access to - what gives them the right to someone else's enhancements for free?
Exactly. That's the fundamental flaw with the GPL that makes the BSD license superior. Fine, if you want to give your code away that's great, but don't force derivative works to give THEIR modifications away. They're not taking anything away from it, just building upon it.
"Commercialized by Intergraph"? Where's my check from Intergraph then? If it was developed with tax dollars, it should be open sourced so it can be commercialized (or not) by everyone. That will have the most salutary effect on the economy - not one, but dozens of companies improving the quality of video.
The trouble is, how would you restrict non-US citizens from obtaining the code once it was open sourced? If you want to say that you, as a taxpayer, deserve access to that code, you can't seriously say that non-taxpayers and/or foreigners deserve access to the code developed with US taxpayer dollars.
I thought OPIE was One-time Passwords In Everything.
It is. This project suffers from Firebird syndrome. They really should change their name to avoid confusion with another, much older and widely respected, open source project.
Hopefully this will be a better release than 9 was, which should really have been called 8.5.
Gosh, I'm still installing Solaris 8 when I rebuild boxes. I like being able to keep one OS level across all my machines to make patching easier. God only knows Solaris's patch tracking and automated update support is completely worthless. I tried their Patch Pro crap but most of the patches it wants to apply require a maintenance contract. Makes me want to wipe them all and try Linux on these boxes. At least Debian would be easy to keep up to date... err... apt-get'd.
I saw him talk about Plan9 and Linux, but nowhere did I see "Solaris", "Windows", or "OS X". Did I miss something?
It was the grandparent to the post you replied to. Mr. Anonymous Coward was talking about running Solaris, Windows, and OS X. That Anonymous Coward guy gets around... he must have the most number of posts on Slashdot.
As an educated guess i would say that at least 50-100.000 people have the source currently on their harddisc.
Whoever wants it now has it....
I would say that 50-100 people actually wanting the Microsoft Windows source code is a bit high. They were probably trying to download the Paris Hilton video and got the renamed Windows Source Code zip file instead.
Besides, who would want it? What legitimate purpose does it serve anyway? You can't use any of the code from it or you'll be nailed and it's probably outdated enough that it doesn't even apply to the latest service pack versions. Again, who cares? This is a non-issue to everybody except those who collect crap like packrats.
And to cap it all, X is pretty much irrelevant (or at least it should be) from a desktop application's perspective. After all, if I build an app against GNOME/GTK or KDE/QT I shouldn't give a damn if its running on top of X, the framebuffer, or something else entirely.
As long as it's network transparent I don't care either. If I can tunnel apps over my SSH connection from one box to another then it's pretty useless for me no matter how fast it is.
My 233MHz system can decode lots of MPEG2 videos, but it can't handle 1080i (HDTV) videos worth a damn. Size matters, a lot.
Not really since the Via EPIA boards have hardware mpeg-2 decoding built in. My MythTV box easily handles 720x480 mpeg2 streams with hardware decoding using around 10%-15% of the 1GHz CPU for mythfrontend.. compare that against 90% CPU utilization for software mpeg2 decoding. It could probably handle HDTV if I cared, but I don't.
I don't know what this fascination is with incredibly high resolution television broadcasts. The ONLY use I've seen for it ever has been providing a blown up picture of Janet Jackson's boob from the Super Bowl half-time. Otherwise the Super Bowl looked just fine on my 5 year old 32" non-HDTV television. The problem with television isn't that it's too grainy, it's that the content sucks. Throwing more pixels at American Idol or The Littlest Groom isn't going to make it a non-sucky show.
Anyway, back to the original guy's question, x86 mini-ITX boards are great for end users wanting to build their own boxes without designing circuit boards and knowing anything about microprocessor design, but custom boards and buying CPUs in millions of units will always be the better option. Whether it be PPC or Strongarm or some Hitachi CPU doesn't really matter when you're custom designing your appliances for bulk purchase.
I wouldn't buy a GameCube as a primary console, but if I had children under 12 or 14 who were into gaming, the GameCube would probably be my choice. Many GC games are educational, non-violent, entertaining, and look good.
That's one of the reasons a GameCube would be the last console I would think about buying. It's got too much of a stigma for being a child's console system. Who am I kidding though, I'm such a dork that I'm 28 and still playing video games. I should be going to art festivals or theater or the orchestra. I can't imagine being 30 years old and still playing video games... you're practically middle-aged.
Those rogues pretty much flaunt that they use Linux with zero regard for SCO's intellectual property rights. SCO vs. The United States Government. Who would win? I'm on the edge of my seat.
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That is a BAD idea. They see their secretary.. err sorry, Administrative Assistant, zooming through a word document and creating powerpoint presentations and think she is a whiz. She also makes a third of what you do.. what do you think they're thinking? "Geez, we paid all this money for these supposedly smart geeks, but they can't even find their way around Windows like our low paid secretary can. They must be retarded."
Are you kidding? I've tried to find a modern mouse without a scrollwheel because I fscking hate them but EVERYONE makes them now. My Logitech Trackman is going on the fritz and I wanted to get a replacement.. do you think anyone sells the same exact (dare I say perfect?) trackball format? Thumb controls ball, three full mouse buttons, no wheel. I certainly can't find one short of buying a used one off ebay which is what I'll be doing.
I would be willing to trade my Dell Inspiron 4000 PIII-600 laptop for your iBook if you'd like. It is a very robust and stable machine and I just got a brand new battery for it. Just don't tell my wife I'm trading in her laptop.
Can you really live it up in the Caribbean on $64,000 CAD? Isn't that more like a weekend vacation type thing?
Easy to install? I guess if you've installed it before. I found it amazingly complicated to install and never did get it working right. I ditched it for MySQL which was much simpler. I never need to screw around with the pg_hba.conf file (or whatever it is) to setup access permissions.
Did you just say that another member of the Axis of Evil has weapons of mass destruction? Have no fear, we've got some liberation forces in your neck of the woods and they'll pop right on over.
On a serious note, I would love to see all the hardline muslims in the arab countries be overthrown by peaceful democracies even if it means the US has to single-handedly do it. We've been dealing with arab terrorists for decades and I'm frankly sick of them. As long as those whacked out governments in the middle-east exist there will be a breeding ground for terrorists training camps.
Microsoft also hired 2 members of the group. This is a pretty standard corporate tactic. Find someone who you can influence to take an early retirement from their influential position, hire them to come work for Halliburton or the Carlyle Group (thrown in for our liberal conspiracy theorist friends) and then pay them a salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to be a consultant. It increases your chances of getting that government contract a hundredfold since the "consultant" is still buddy-buddy with all his old procurement friends at the office. I'm not suprised the corruption has extended to the UN in a similar fashion.
No. I didn't even have a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive to read a bunch of old disks I found lying around when moving them. I just ended up pitching them since they're probably magnetically dead anyway. Imagine if I had to read 8" floppy disks. Media formats die which is why it's important to transfer all your data to a new format when it becomes available. I have to deal with that at work as well... someone will bring me an ancient tape and expect me to be able to read it for them when the last drive capable of reading it was probably throw out 20 years ago.
Hardly. You want some of my mint condition 8 track tapes? Baseball cards and comic books are collectibles because it doesn't require any additional pieces to be useful. Video games would require some kind of player which I guarentee will be obsolete and unavailable in 30 years or so rare it isn't worth buying anyway. Besides, you just need the ROM image to emulate it.. who needs the original packaging?
Why does it have to be a large company bundling it all together? Go to www.jabber.org, download the free Jabber server and put it on a machine, download any of the free clients for Jabber and start using it. The reason I *don't* use AOL, MSN, or Yahoo Messenger is because they're tied to a single company and they've all obviously decided to not interoperate amongst themselves. Fsck them and their little dogs too.
The first thing I do when I get a game is throw out the cardboard packaging. Especially with computer games that have a single CD and MAYBE a registration card in them. I used to keep the boxes but when I moved I found I had 30 big software boxes that I had never touched again. Do you want my mint condition Willy Beamish case?
I've tried to get back into CS after a year hiatus playing other games like BF1942, but it's just really weird now. Some server I ended up on today had some kind of "Warcraft" thing so there were transparent people and weird magic shit going on. What happened to good plain old counter-strike? I guess I'm just getting old, but the kids playing online FPS games today seem to be real jackasses. I suppose it's a product of being pampered in a wealthy suburban family setting.. you expect to get whatever you want and get bored with real life so you go online to annoy people.
NASA has a lot of interest in high performance computing environments, supercomputer clusters, etc. Just because the embedded processors in spacebound equipment is "old" and radiation hardened doesn't mean that they don't work with other cool software on very fast machines.
I'm sure there's lots of code foreign governments would love to get their hand on to improve their missiles and weapons guidance systems.
Exactly. That's the fundamental flaw with the GPL that makes the BSD license superior. Fine, if you want to give your code away that's great, but don't force derivative works to give THEIR modifications away. They're not taking anything away from it, just building upon it.
The trouble is, how would you restrict non-US citizens from obtaining the code once it was open sourced? If you want to say that you, as a taxpayer, deserve access to that code, you can't seriously say that non-taxpayers and/or foreigners deserve access to the code developed with US taxpayer dollars.
Someone's probably just using an electromagnetic pulse device to rob a casino. Round up the usual suspects (Clooney, Pitt, etc.)
It is. This project suffers from Firebird syndrome. They really should change their name to avoid confusion with another, much older and widely respected, open source project.
Gosh, I'm still installing Solaris 8 when I rebuild boxes. I like being able to keep one OS level across all my machines to make patching easier. God only knows Solaris's patch tracking and automated update support is completely worthless. I tried their Patch Pro crap but most of the patches it wants to apply require a maintenance contract. Makes me want to wipe them all and try Linux on these boxes. At least Debian would be easy to keep up to date... err... apt-get'd.
It was the grandparent to the post you replied to. Mr. Anonymous Coward was talking about running Solaris, Windows, and OS X. That Anonymous Coward guy gets around... he must have the most number of posts on Slashdot.
Whoever wants it now has it....
I would say that 50-100 people actually wanting the Microsoft Windows source code is a bit high. They were probably trying to download the Paris Hilton video and got the renamed Windows Source Code zip file instead.
Besides, who would want it? What legitimate purpose does it serve anyway? You can't use any of the code from it or you'll be nailed and it's probably outdated enough that it doesn't even apply to the latest service pack versions. Again, who cares? This is a non-issue to everybody except those who collect crap like packrats.
As long as it's network transparent I don't care either. If I can tunnel apps over my SSH connection from one box to another then it's pretty useless for me no matter how fast it is.
Not really since the Via EPIA boards have hardware mpeg-2 decoding built in. My MythTV box easily handles 720x480 mpeg2 streams with hardware decoding using around 10%-15% of the 1GHz CPU for mythfrontend.. compare that against 90% CPU utilization for software mpeg2 decoding. It could probably handle HDTV if I cared, but I don't.
I don't know what this fascination is with incredibly high resolution television broadcasts. The ONLY use I've seen for it ever has been providing a blown up picture of Janet Jackson's boob from the Super Bowl half-time. Otherwise the Super Bowl looked just fine on my 5 year old 32" non-HDTV television. The problem with television isn't that it's too grainy, it's that the content sucks. Throwing more pixels at American Idol or The Littlest Groom isn't going to make it a non-sucky show.
Anyway, back to the original guy's question, x86 mini-ITX boards are great for end users wanting to build their own boxes without designing circuit boards and knowing anything about microprocessor design, but custom boards and buying CPUs in millions of units will always be the better option. Whether it be PPC or Strongarm or some Hitachi CPU doesn't really matter when you're custom designing your appliances for bulk purchase.
That's one of the reasons a GameCube would be the last console I would think about buying. It's got too much of a stigma for being a child's console system. Who am I kidding though, I'm such a dork that I'm 28 and still playing video games. I should be going to art festivals or theater or the orchestra. I can't imagine being 30 years old and still playing video games... you're practically middle-aged.
Those rogues pretty much flaunt that they use Linux with zero regard for SCO's intellectual property rights. SCO vs. The United States Government. Who would win? I'm on the edge of my seat.