Who would've thought they could make a show with lots of binary jokes in it and still make it the funniest thing on TV?
Clearly you never watched Family Guy. And if you did, then that statement shows you clearly have no taste. And I'm not just talking about not taste in relation to my frame of reference, I mean in the universal sense. Oh, Family Guy, too, made binary jokes.
I love it when people who announce attempts at karma whoring, or even that their post, "will probably get modded down" actually are modded down (rather, not modded up). It makes my day happy! =D
"based upon technology that has been evolving over the past 15 years"
18 years ago!? Pre-Windows 3.1? on 468's? And for that time it has been kept a secret in some Philipine lab since? Or is it the "unix-technology" they refer to? (quite older though). Makes no sense.
15 years ago would place it at around 1989/1990, around the time linux started, right? I assume they're refering to the host technology for their software (linux), and that which they were trying to emulate, windows. It's an awkward way to put it, I know. I kind of sat there going, "GGWWAAHHH?!" but then I thought about it. It's a valid line of logic. Also, where the fuck did you get 18 from? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's a typo.
"Once we finalize our design and we determine exactly which open source code we will use"
This guy have absolutely NO idea about software development. This is 18^H5 year old technoglogy that they have been working on the for last two years (?) and they think the design is something that is decided just in the last second!?
I'm not sure what the problem is here - if they're going to use more opensource technology, but don't know precisely what it will be, how can they credit it? It is again awkwardly worded, but still logical. They're not finished with development, perhaps they have a list of projects they've been tapping code from, perhaps not - but it's entirely possibly they're not finished tapping code, and it's also entirely possible that they will tap code from other projects in the near future that they do not foresee. Granted, they could site what they have used up until now, but they're not.
That prototype partially uses existing WINE and other Open Source code, combined with our own proprietary code modules
Meaning: The hard part (the implementation of the Windows API's) are NOT done. We're not talking about a little component like a textpad, we're talking about a WHOLE OS! Its not something you just replace in a few months. This is 90% of the actual programming!
...how you got that from the former line, I have no idea. I'll just let that one sit there for a while...and...yeah..
And what is it with the language thing? Philippines finest computer scientists and software developers don't speak english!?
Any particular reason why they should speak english? They live in the philippines...they write code and theorize (assuming they're really computer scientists and not fucktarded engineers)...you don't have to speak english to theorize and write code...
This talk sounds exactly like what a client of mine got when they did business with another Philipine company. Everything sounded good but the delievered product was so crappy. We used about about a month cleaning up. In the end number of lines were reduced with 50% while functionality was added.
Ah. Now, this involves a little extrapolation on my part, but aren't you kind of implies that because this company is from the Philippines, and you've had a bad experience with a country from the Philippines, then this company is clearly as bad (if not worse?) than the company you dealt with? Even though it clearly lies withing the realm of possibility that they might not be.
At best this is a sincere explination, not business spin gone mad. They provided responses to almost all of the bitching that went on in the Open Source community. A lot of them, granted, were non answers - but they're talking about a pre-release commercial application. They have investors to appease. They don't want to say too much.
Kick back, man. I think you've had a little too much caffein today. Let them do what they want to do - even if that is a rip of another currently existing program. Wait until the product goes to market, and if you're still not happy then rip it apart.
Oh!! Well I guess I had better follow you as a model for my news assimilation behavior, shouldn't I?! Keep my mind open and not pass judgement until I have all the information, eh?!
oh wait...that makes sense...alright then, sounds good.
I think the PPC 970's architechture specs are open. I think this means a company, with enough resources and ambition, could create a PPC 970 mobo, bundle it with the CPU, and put it out on the market. I don't think this has been done (well, outside of apple), but i think it is doable. I've wanted a POWER-esk chip for at least a couple years now, and i'd be in the market to buy something like this. I wonder how much a PPC 970 system would run without all the apple branding and sleek design overhead.
There are, but i honestly think they're a waste of money. I've had my iBook for going-on three years now, and it basically lived in my back pack. It's scratched up like all hell, but it still works fine. LIke anything else, intelligence wins out. "I've got a laptop in my backpack...maybe i shouldn't throw it, as hard as i can, into the back of my car after an 8 hour day at school."
Of course, peace of mind does influence willingness to pay.
Definately agree. If you're young (19-30, i'd say) it also gives you that starving college student look. And dont' use one of those fancy ones with all the different pockets and compartments and whatnot. Just a regular old hiking daypack is probably best. Especially if you actually hike with it, that'll make it look nice and dingy.
I don't know if you've used the Rio Karma before, but it has a fairly intuitive UI. All the navigating is pretty much down with it's sexy little red nipple. It's actually kind of a turn on to use. It's all one-finger navigation, hierarchical menus with the most used menus at the top (it's not per-use based and dynamic, they're statically placed, but the placement seems pretty intelligent). I even broke the little scrolly wheel dealie on the side, and it still is completely usable just with that one nipple do-dad. Of course, it could be that I payed over $300 bucks for it, so i feel obligated to like it. I've used an iPod before and...i wasn't really that impressed.
And the karma plays FLAC, WMA, and ogg along with mp3. It's a nice little machine. Go buy one today! *thumbs up, tongue in cheek*
But seriously, it is a nice little machine.
Oh, and i do realize this has nothing really to do with it's parent, but i thought i'd throw it out there. A comprable product DOES exist. You don't have to just buy an iPod.
And they fudged it. Xenix, my (wo?)man. I honesty think microsoft has invested too much time and money into their own API's to ditch the core of it now. And if they do take FreeBSD's code, i'm not sure how that would be a bad thing. FreeBSD will live on. Microsoft will (for a change) have a solid code base. If MS feeds patches back in, great. The FreeBSD coders won't submit crap code (forgoing any kind of "fuck you, open source bitches!" code). If MS sends nothing back, meh - big deal.
One thing that people seem to never realize (or just plain ignore) about FreeBSD is that it's all about research and putting out a good, rock-solid OS. They don't want to take over the world and displace the big boys.
Look what you've did, you've gone and pulled me off topic.
Agreed. Get off your ass and find it.
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The Way the Music Died
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You got it. On the head. Last night i downloaded two full length albums, legally, in ogg vobis format, for nearly half the price of what amazon was selling the CD's for. Definately worth it.
The thing is, I think, people these days don't want to go and FIND innovation. They want it fed to them. They want to turn on the radio, tune it to whatever radio station is most convenient, and hear good, intersting, complex music. That's not going to happen, though. People's tastes are way too varied and eclectic to all enjoy the same kind of interesting music. I happen to like hardcore and klezmer/persian/greek music the best. A lot of my friends can't stand hardcore, and find the latter boring as all get-out. This is why bad music is so pervasive in our culture. It's not interesting, complex, or even musical by any means (since so much of it is canned in the case of pop superstars, or just down right simple in the case of blink 182 and all their sound alikes) because interesting and musically complex doesn't appeal to a wide audience.
Unfortunately, though, when the indy revolution hit hard a few years ago, the "Big 5" picked that up and repackaged it under spiffy new subsidiaries to stave off the perception of a monolithic record company. Now the term "Indy" is starting to apply to a particular sound, not as whiney as emo, but just as annoying, and with the same volumetric crap content.
If you ask me, the only answer to the music problem is a decentralized means of producing music, like ardour or, for the not-so-hungry college student, protools, and a centralized means of conveyance like CD Baby or audiolunchbox. Artists know how they want their music to sound. Record company hired slag producers do not.
The bottom line - in this day and age you can't be lazy when it comes to music. You have to be pro-active, seek out new genres and sounds, listen, enjoy, repeat. And support organizations that are trying to break out of the recording industry's mold. Buy from independent artists, and refuse to buy from major labels. Buy from local, family owned-and-operated record stores. OK, i'm done. I gotta gets to school.
He's just looking to the future, man. 64-bit windows will have a fairly large market share if and when 64-bit hits the main stream. Then, if microsoft doesn't act, this virus might actually "proliferate", as you put it, fairly quickly.
The ONLY usable GUI is CDE/XFCE. Everything else is obfuscated beyond all recognition. Why click one button ("start" "foot" or "weird gear thingy") to access all programs, when you can have drawers for different types of programs? It's much more intuitive. Icons are nice, but easily become the bane of any minimalist desktop user.
Does KDE 3.2.2 rocks the socks off of windows? I would say no - it's icky. But thats my own personal opinion.
The real answer to this isn't to seed vast areas of the ocean with algae (very, VERY little co2 is fixed by algae when compared to higher plants), the answer is to stop shooting ourselves in both feet.
Right now we're spewing CO2 into the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels, and destroying one of the largest carbon sinks in the world: tropical rainforest.
Stop that, alow it to regrow, and carbon will be scrubbed from the atmostphere.
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ppffffttt. Yur dumb.
Yeah, I actually have my Karma bonus modifier set to -1. No one should get extra points just because they're well-liked.
Who would've thought they could make a show with lots of binary jokes in it and still make it the funniest thing on TV?
Clearly you never watched Family Guy. And if you did, then that statement shows you clearly have no taste. And I'm not just talking about not taste in relation to my frame of reference, I mean in the universal sense. Oh, Family Guy, too, made binary jokes.
depending on who you idolize, pill-scarfing will always seem like intelligence.
Not that there's any doubt that Rush [the band] was drug free.
(feeble karma whoring attempt)
I love it when people who announce attempts at karma whoring, or even that their post, "will probably get modded down" actually are modded down (rather, not modded up). It makes my day happy! =D
"based upon technology that has been evolving over the past 15 years"
...how you got that from the former line, I have no idea. I'll just let that one sit there for a while...and...yeah..
18 years ago!? Pre-Windows 3.1? on 468's? And for that time it has been kept a secret in some Philipine lab since? Or is it the "unix-technology" they refer to? (quite older though). Makes no sense.
15 years ago would place it at around 1989/1990, around the time linux started, right? I assume they're refering to the host technology for their software (linux), and that which they were trying to emulate, windows. It's an awkward way to put it, I know. I kind of sat there going, "GGWWAAHHH?!" but then I thought about it. It's a valid line of logic. Also, where the fuck did you get 18 from? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's a typo.
"Once we finalize our design and we determine exactly which open source code we will use"
This guy have absolutely NO idea about software development. This is 18^H5 year old technoglogy that they have been working on the for last two years (?) and they think the design is something that is decided just in the last second!?
I'm not sure what the problem is here - if they're going to use more opensource technology, but don't know precisely what it will be, how can they credit it? It is again awkwardly worded, but still logical. They're not finished with development, perhaps they have a list of projects they've been tapping code from, perhaps not - but it's entirely possibly they're not finished tapping code, and it's also entirely possible that they will tap code from other projects in the near future that they do not foresee. Granted, they could site what they have used up until now, but they're not.
That prototype partially uses existing WINE and other Open Source code, combined with our own proprietary code modules
Meaning: The hard part (the implementation of the Windows API's) are NOT done. We're not talking about a little component like a textpad, we're talking about a WHOLE OS! Its not something you just replace in a few months. This is 90% of the actual programming!
And what is it with the language thing? Philippines finest computer scientists and software developers don't speak english!?
Any particular reason why they should speak english? They live in the philippines...they write code and theorize (assuming they're really computer scientists and not fucktarded engineers)...you don't have to speak english to theorize and write code...
This talk sounds exactly like what a client of mine got when they did business with another Philipine company. Everything sounded good but the delievered product was so crappy. We used about about a month cleaning up. In the end number of lines were reduced with 50% while functionality was added.
Ah. Now, this involves a little extrapolation on my part, but aren't you kind of implies that because this company is from the Philippines, and you've had a bad experience with a country from the Philippines, then this company is clearly as bad (if not worse?) than the company you dealt with? Even though it clearly lies withing the realm of possibility that they might not be.
At best this is a sincere explination, not business spin gone mad. They provided responses to almost all of the bitching that went on in the Open Source community. A lot of them, granted, were non answers - but they're talking about a pre-release commercial application. They have investors to appease. They don't want to say too much.
Kick back, man. I think you've had a little too much caffein today. Let them do what they want to do - even if that is a rip of another currently existing program. Wait until the product goes to market, and if you're still not happy then rip it apart.
Oh!! Well I guess I had better follow you as a model for my news assimilation behavior, shouldn't I?! Keep my mind open and not pass judgement until I have all the information, eh?!
oh wait...that makes sense...alright then, sounds good.
Pft. Well they're OBVIOUSLY toy environments. Get with the times, man.
I'll just say this..
"Why not?"
I think the PPC 970's architechture specs are open. I think this means a company, with enough resources and ambition, could create a PPC 970 mobo, bundle it with the CPU, and put it out on the market. I don't think this has been done (well, outside of apple), but i think it is doable. I've wanted a POWER-esk chip for at least a couple years now, and i'd be in the market to buy something like this. I wonder how much a PPC 970 system would run without all the apple branding and sleek design overhead.
There are, but i honestly think they're a waste of money. I've had my iBook for going-on three years now, and it basically lived in my back pack. It's scratched up like all hell, but it still works fine. LIke anything else, intelligence wins out. "I've got a laptop in my backpack...maybe i shouldn't throw it, as hard as i can, into the back of my car after an 8 hour day at school."
Of course, peace of mind does influence willingness to pay.
Definately agree. If you're young (19-30, i'd say) it also gives you that starving college student look. And dont' use one of those fancy ones with all the different pockets and compartments and whatnot. Just a regular old hiking daypack is probably best. Especially if you actually hike with it, that'll make it look nice and dingy.
I don't know if you've used the Rio Karma before, but it has a fairly intuitive UI. All the navigating is pretty much down with it's sexy little red nipple. It's actually kind of a turn on to use. It's all one-finger navigation, hierarchical menus with the most used menus at the top (it's not per-use based and dynamic, they're statically placed, but the placement seems pretty intelligent). I even broke the little scrolly wheel dealie on the side, and it still is completely usable just with that one nipple do-dad. Of course, it could be that I payed over $300 bucks for it, so i feel obligated to like it. I've used an iPod before and...i wasn't really that impressed.
And the karma plays FLAC, WMA, and ogg along with mp3. It's a nice little machine. Go buy one today! *thumbs up, tongue in cheek*
But seriously, it is a nice little machine.
Oh, and i do realize this has nothing really to do with it's parent, but i thought i'd throw it out there. A comprable product DOES exist. You don't have to just buy an iPod.
And they fudged it. Xenix, my (wo?)man. I honesty think microsoft has invested too much time and money into their own API's to ditch the core of it now. And if they do take FreeBSD's code, i'm not sure how that would be a bad thing. FreeBSD will live on. Microsoft will (for a change) have a solid code base. If MS feeds patches back in, great. The FreeBSD coders won't submit crap code (forgoing any kind of "fuck you, open source bitches!" code). If MS sends nothing back, meh - big deal.
One thing that people seem to never realize (or just plain ignore) about FreeBSD is that it's all about research and putting out a good, rock-solid OS. They don't want to take over the world and displace the big boys.
Look what you've did, you've gone and pulled me off topic.
You got it. On the head. Last night i downloaded two full length albums, legally, in ogg vobis format, for nearly half the price of what amazon was selling the CD's for. Definately worth it.
The thing is, I think, people these days don't want to go and FIND innovation. They want it fed to them. They want to turn on the radio, tune it to whatever radio station is most convenient, and hear good, intersting, complex music. That's not going to happen, though. People's tastes are way too varied and eclectic to all enjoy the same kind of interesting music. I happen to like hardcore and klezmer/persian/greek music the best. A lot of my friends can't stand hardcore, and find the latter boring as all get-out. This is why bad music is so pervasive in our culture. It's not interesting, complex, or even musical by any means (since so much of it is canned in the case of pop superstars, or just down right simple in the case of blink 182 and all their sound alikes) because interesting and musically complex doesn't appeal to a wide audience.
Unfortunately, though, when the indy revolution hit hard a few years ago, the "Big 5" picked that up and repackaged it under spiffy new subsidiaries to stave off the perception of a monolithic record company. Now the term "Indy" is starting to apply to a particular sound, not as whiney as emo, but just as annoying, and with the same volumetric crap content.
If you ask me, the only answer to the music problem is a decentralized means of producing music, like ardour or, for the not-so-hungry college student, protools, and a centralized means of conveyance like CD Baby or audiolunchbox. Artists know how they want their music to sound. Record company hired slag producers do not.
The bottom line - in this day and age you can't be lazy when it comes to music. You have to be pro-active, seek out new genres and sounds, listen, enjoy, repeat. And support organizations that are trying to break out of the recording industry's mold. Buy from independent artists, and refuse to buy from major labels. Buy from local, family owned-and-operated record stores. OK, i'm done. I gotta gets to school.
cheese.
nitpick nitpick. Jeebus.
I don't know why...but this post made me want pizza.
Redundant, yes, but of all the anti-virii comments, this one's the best. It should get at least a 2.
I doubt you'll get any informed responses.
He's just looking to the future, man. 64-bit windows will have a fairly large market share if and when 64-bit hits the main stream. Then, if microsoft doesn't act, this virus might actually "proliferate", as you put it, fairly quickly.
Think of this as kind of a heads up to microsoft.
you're a moron.
The ONLY usable GUI is CDE/XFCE. Everything else is obfuscated beyond all recognition. Why click one button ("start" "foot" or "weird gear thingy") to access all programs, when you can have drawers for different types of programs? It's much more intuitive. Icons are nice, but easily become the bane of any minimalist desktop user. Does KDE 3.2.2 rocks the socks off of windows? I would say no - it's icky. But thats my own personal opinion.
The real answer to this isn't to seed vast areas of the ocean with algae (very, VERY little co2 is fixed by algae when compared to higher plants), the answer is to stop shooting ourselves in both feet.
Right now we're spewing CO2 into the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels, and destroying one of the largest carbon sinks in the world: tropical rainforest.
Stop that, alow it to regrow, and carbon will be scrubbed from the atmostphere.
Like i said - i'm sure it wasn't the intention.
I know this wasn't the intention, but the implications behind what you said is extremely funny..
"It's nice that you want to keep an open mind, but here's why you shouldn't."
Fuck idealism, right? I mean...we're talking about MICROSOFT here! Idealism only belongs in linux.
That being said, microsoft is poopy.