Took a quick swing by Fort Mason (the location) and saw some vendor trucks, but also saw the floor space being curtained off -- not a good sign for attendance, either by exhibitors or by teh curious. Of course, this is sponsored by Wired, the magazine for people who think they're cool because they read Wired.
Sad, but my first thought upon seeing the pictures is that the teams designing the next generation of naval combat sims are scratching their heads, or maybe amused that it turns out Battlezone really was a vision of the future.
If you want to get a little more background, there's also the eWEEK.com story. Always good to have more than a single source. Especially when one of them is CNet.
Apparently, at least from this report at eWeek, Microsoft's official story is that they took the site off-line intentionally to avoid the Blaster attack. Bolstering this is that the page was a redirect; however, discrediting their argument is the fact that getting to the same data is rather clumsy. You think they'd be able to have something better in place.
Seems like CNet jumped the gun and didn't get confirmation -- see this eWeek article:
"SAN FRANCISCO--Novell Inc. dismissed reports that it is planning to phase out new NetWare development in favor of Linux.
A Novell executive Wednesday told eWEEK that the Provo, Utah, company has no plans of cutting NetWare development in favor of Linux, as some reports had indicated.
Chris Stone, vice chairman of the company, said NetWare will continue in maintenance mode, comments Novell officials said were taken out of context.
Chris Stone speaks out on Ximian, Microsoft and SCO. Read his interview with Microsoft Watch.
"We're into Linux, that's why we're here," said a Novell executive, who asked not to be identified. "That's why we bought Ximian. And we said that with Version 7.0 you'll have a choice of either upgrading to the NetWare base or moving to Linux. But with $400 million of our revenue in NetWare, that would be ridiculous for us to abandon development on it."
Bruce Lowry, top spokesman for Novell, said, "The bottom line is no. The whole thing with Linux is an additive thing. We're not dumping NetWare, we're adding Linux.""
And there's more but I'm not going to paste the whole article.
Really? thanks -- I've looked online and in local stores but have had no luck. Where would you suggest to look (though pan and scan does suck)? I'll check to see if I can play Region 2 DVDs.
That's the one I've really wanted to see released on DVD. It's hard enough to find it on video; however, if I'm going to collect it, I can only do so in the more compact medium.
Been entranced by that title ever since I saw a still from it at the Cartoon Art Museum.
That's nothing. Just cruise around www.fuckedcompany.com for a while and look at executive compensation, not to mention the billions venture capitalists have tossed around each year.
Now, if the advertising market were still hot, and the owners sold lighted space on it... it'd sell itself.
When seen in terms of one thing -- through the filter of a decision about corporate versus non-corporate culture -- the decision is more consistant.
Granted, Google is a corporation but nowhere near the scope of those which run the alcohol and tobacco industries. Those -- plus the top ten media/entertainment corporations -- have immense sway on our political and cultural existence. Tobacco executives dictate to U.S. Congressmen, alcohol boards ("The Moderation Council") set legislation.
Porn, on the other hand, is a bunch of possibly exploitative, greedy and/or sleazy folk (but some decent, nice and fair people, too) -- however, none can be reasonably characterized as influential corporations.
Of course, I'm not guessing at Brin's motivations. But this is one way of looking at the decision that makes it rather justifiable.
I find it amazing that all these instant pundits and press-release-repeaters haven't noticed that the IDC study was funded by Microsoft; this could call the results into question.
"Study Finds Windows Cheaper Than Linux (continued) "Many drivers of cost need to be uncovered in such an examination and evaluation, and the 'risk/return' trade-offs of Linux versus Windows may not be as obvious as they appear at first glance," they said.
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The fact that Microsoft paid for the research is likely to be used as a weapon against the findings by some in the Linux community and will also elevate the debate about how valid calculations of total cost of ownership are for any given comparison.
A Microsoft spokesman confirmed to eWEEK that the firm had completely sponsored the White Paper but said that IDC had controlled the methodology, data and findings. IDC analyst Al Gillen agreed, telling eWEEK that the firm undertook a lot of custom research for individual companies and customers."
And Galli also goes into detail about the methodology, so you can have fun picking that apart.
There's a good article in the Salon archives about all the roughshod abandonment of good user interface design when Apple went to the "brushed aluminum" look of the QuickTime player (Linux-only people will just have to take it on faith).
One of the major problems was placing one person's aesthetics over actual human interaction studies. Well, there's more in the article.
you know the origin of that word? tribes used to take a goat, assign to it all the sin and blame of all the tribe's members and then tie it to a stake and kill it.
the relevance? obviously this ad stunt was done with approval, at least tacit, by microsoft. now, of course, they can claim to be purging "anyone who doesn't meet microsoft's high moral standards." plausible deniability.
the good (and snarky) folk over at www.televisionwithoutpity.com would respectfully disagree about being excited about season 2 of enterprise. okay, they'd laugh in your face but you get the idea.
-- office xp sales have deen dismal. is this the fault of windows xp's slow adoption rate?
-- ms has split office v.x into a number of baffling skus, such as an entourage/word combo, a word/excel combo and so on. were sales of these packages counted in the single number they're tossing around?
-- is the soho/home productivity market saturated?
-- has the sudden stop on hardware upgrade sales affected sales of os x, new macs (which all ship with os x as a default boot) and office?
-- is office v.x just not that great of a product? either in enticing sales or enticing upgraders?
For almost two years this author has been writing extensively and authoritatively on the need for, and the problems with not using, HTML standards. She's even developed test suites for CSS and other compliance. You might be surprised that Opera doesn't fare so well.
Overall, great tips I've not seen elsewhere -- so get CodeBitch to crack the whip.
hey, what you're failing to comprehend is that we happen to live in a society; as such, we all (including you) depend on the responsibilities and contributions of others. you may rant about the guv'mint eating away at your paycheck or prying into your bidness with property tax, but yet you still use the roads the gov't has built and maintained, you use the internet, you enjoy the freedom to walk about knowing that a certain set of laws protect you, your own business could not exist without the gov't being what it is and regulating what it does.
specifically, the seatbelt law (and this applies to the motorcycle helmet law). if you think about it for a minute, who pays for the emergency care needed by car/moto crash victims? we all do and we all hope it's there for us if we require it.
by requiring the basic intelligence of buckling up or putting on a helmet, the cost of critical care is reduced drastically, saving you and me money. not to mention lives.
freedom's a relative thing. real freedom would be living in a cave, all alone, off the air.
'"It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks," Allchin testified. "Computers, including many running Windows operating systems, are used throughout the United States Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."'
Well, perhaps the DoD and the armed forces shouldn't rely on a single contractor that has admittedly delivered sub-standard and dangerously flawed product?
Mod me down, go ahead -- I know this is an obvious observation.
i've had a hard time getting a straight answer about this:
is tivo useful without cable, without satellite, with just plain old over-the-air reception?
(that means for those of us in sf, no nbc)
thanks in advance
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i was a month away from my second birthday when this happened but, as i grew up in the apollo years, it always hung over me as a cautionary, an anchor grounding all the wonder and promise of space exploration in the context of possible human cost. though i had all the apollo patches, a snoopy astronaut doll and all that -- and fully expected to be living on the moon, at least, by now -- i never forgot that anyone involved in the endeavor could end up as the men of apollo fire.
years later, i was standing in a bookstore on newbury street, a sophomore at mit, when i couldn't get the clerk's attention. he told me something had gone wrong with the shuttle and was trying to listen to the radio. i walked across the harvard bridge in the cold to get to the school student center where the nearest tvs i could watch were. and it was as unbelievable as everyone said. we'd scaled back our goals for space flight so radically, yet still there could be a disaster of this magnitude.
i don't have any conclusions from this. would i risk my life for this venture? yes. would i hope it would help us learn something? yes. would i think my life had been wasted? definitely not.
no, no cocoa code. i don't think you can have both in the same application, actually. but otherwise, you're right. (esp the last point -- ms makes more money off of office than off of windows, and a large part of that is selling office to the 25+ million mac users worldwide.)
interesting note on word 6 and later -- one of the reasons it took so much time/effort to carbonize office was because even word 2001 still has big chunks of code from the abortion that was word 6. and the reason that was such a slow pig was that there had been a push within ms to use ms foundation classes (mfc) for all applications. these had to be emulated in the mac version and that was shite. whatever my beefs with office v.x (word 5.1 forever!), they did clear out that cruft.
yes and no. os x's ui has been tagged "aqua," which refers to the visual style (i refrain from saying the phrase "ui standard" as aqua is an inconsistant mess -- but that's another rant). however, the 2d imaging model is called "quartz." this is based on an apple version of an open pdf-based standard.
also, carbon is the set of apis that are a modified subset of the standard mac os toolbox. it is used for applications that can run native in os x as well as mac os 8.6 through 9.2. it's not a windowing system.
that said, the office v.x team had to rejigger all the graphic doodads in the applications to make them all lickable... ick. to the aqua theme. double ick.
agreed. the $150m was non-voting, the $150m was a tiny percentage. i'm so tired of the "ms ownz apple" or "ms bailed out apple" misapprehensions.
not to mention -- dudes, do a teeny bit if research! a mac os x-only version of ms office has been on the shelves for months. in addition, we've all known ms was working on it for the better part of the year. i'm not a fan of either -- i'm not promoting them -- but really, think before you sound an alarm.
for a unix-based effort, go look at www.openoffice.org.
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Took a quick swing by Fort Mason (the location) and saw some vendor trucks, but also saw the floor space being curtained off -- not a good sign for attendance, either by exhibitors or by teh curious. Of course, this is sponsored by Wired, the magazine for people who think they're cool because they read Wired.
Not bitter, just tired of it.
Sad, but my first thought upon seeing the pictures is that the teams designing the next generation of naval combat sims are scratching their heads, or maybe amused that it turns out Battlezone really was a vision of the future.
If you want to get a little more background, there's also the eWEEK.com story. Always good to have more than a single source. Especially when one of them is CNet.
Apparently, at least from this report at eWeek, Microsoft's official story is that they took the site off-line intentionally to avoid the Blaster attack. Bolstering this is that the page was a redirect; however, discrediting their argument is the fact that getting to the same data is rather clumsy. You think they'd be able to have something better in place.
Yeah, it's $700, but more people like it. PC Mag says yes.
Seems like CNet jumped the gun and didn't get confirmation -- see this eWeek article:
"SAN FRANCISCO--Novell Inc. dismissed reports that it is planning to phase out new NetWare development in favor of Linux.
A Novell executive Wednesday told eWEEK that the Provo, Utah, company has no plans of cutting NetWare development in favor of Linux, as some reports had indicated.
Chris Stone, vice chairman of the company, said NetWare will continue in maintenance mode, comments Novell officials said were taken out of context.
Chris Stone speaks out on Ximian, Microsoft and SCO. Read his interview with Microsoft Watch.
"We're into Linux, that's why we're here," said a Novell executive, who asked not to be identified. "That's why we bought Ximian. And we said that with Version 7.0 you'll have a choice of either upgrading to the NetWare base or moving to Linux. But with $400 million of our revenue in NetWare, that would be ridiculous for us to abandon development on it."
Bruce Lowry, top spokesman for Novell, said, "The bottom line is no. The whole thing with Linux is an additive thing. We're not dumping NetWare, we're adding Linux.""
And there's more but I'm not going to paste the whole article.
Really? thanks -- I've looked online and in local stores but have had no luck. Where would you suggest to look (though pan and scan does suck)? I'll check to see if I can play Region 2 DVDs.
That's the one I've really wanted to see released on DVD. It's hard enough to find it on video; however, if I'm going to collect it, I can only do so in the more compact medium.
Been entranced by that title ever since I saw a still from it at the Cartoon Art Museum.
That's nothing. Just cruise around www.fuckedcompany.com for a while and look at executive compensation, not to mention the billions venture capitalists have tossed around each year.
Now, if the advertising market were still hot, and the owners sold lighted space on it... it'd sell itself.
When seen in terms of one thing -- through the filter of a decision about corporate versus non-corporate culture -- the decision is more consistant.
Granted, Google is a corporation but nowhere near the scope of those which run the alcohol and tobacco industries. Those -- plus the top ten media/entertainment corporations -- have immense sway on our political and cultural existence. Tobacco executives dictate to U.S. Congressmen, alcohol boards ("The Moderation Council") set legislation.
Porn, on the other hand, is a bunch of possibly exploitative, greedy and/or sleazy folk (but some decent, nice and fair people, too) -- however, none can be reasonably characterized as influential corporations.
Of course, I'm not guessing at Brin's motivations. But this is one way of looking at the decision that makes it rather justifiable.
I find it amazing that all these instant pundits and press-release-repeaters haven't noticed that the IDC study was funded by Microsoft; this could call the results into question.
At least at eWeek, someone noticed this:
"Study Finds Windows Cheaper Than Linux (continued)
"Many drivers of cost need to be uncovered in such an examination and evaluation, and the 'risk/return' trade-offs of Linux versus Windows may not be as obvious as they appear at first glance," they said.
ADVERTISEMENT
The fact that Microsoft paid for the research is likely to be used as a weapon against the findings by some in the Linux community and will also elevate the debate about how valid calculations of total cost of ownership are for any given comparison.
A Microsoft spokesman confirmed to eWEEK that the firm had completely sponsored the White Paper but said that IDC had controlled the methodology, data and findings. IDC analyst Al Gillen agreed, telling eWEEK that the firm undertook a lot of custom research for individual companies and customers."
And Galli also goes into detail about the methodology, so you can have fun picking that apart.
There's a good article in the Salon archives about all the roughshod abandonment of good user interface design when Apple went to the "brushed aluminum" look of the QuickTime player (Linux-only people will just have to take it on faith).
One of the major problems was placing one person's aesthetics over actual human interaction studies. Well, there's more in the article.
you know the origin of that word? tribes used to take a goat, assign to it all the sin and blame of all the tribe's members and then tie it to a stake and kill it.
the relevance? obviously this ad stunt was done with approval, at least tacit, by microsoft. now, of course, they can claim to be purging "anyone who doesn't meet microsoft's high moral standards." plausible deniability.
grr
the good (and snarky) folk over at www.televisionwithoutpity.com would respectfully disagree about being excited about season 2 of enterprise. okay, they'd laugh in your face but you get the idea.
just do the math and end up with dvd*2 - r*2?
-- office xp sales have deen dismal. is this the fault of windows xp's slow adoption rate?
-- ms has split office v.x into a number of baffling skus, such as an entourage/word combo, a word/excel combo and so on. were sales of these packages counted in the single number they're tossing around?
-- is the soho/home productivity market saturated?
-- has the sudden stop on hardware upgrade sales affected sales of os x, new macs (which all ship with os x as a default boot) and office?
-- is office v.x just not that great of a product? either in enticing sales or enticing upgraders?
For almost two years this author has been writing extensively and authoritatively on the need for, and the problems with not using, HTML standards. She's even developed test suites for CSS and other compliance. You might be surprised that Opera doesn't fare so well.
Overall, great tips I've not seen elsewhere -- so get CodeBitch to crack the whip.
hey, what you're failing to comprehend is that we happen to live in a society; as such, we all (including you) depend on the responsibilities and contributions of others. you may rant about the guv'mint eating away at your paycheck or prying into your bidness with property tax, but yet you still use the roads the gov't has built and maintained, you use the internet, you enjoy the freedom to walk about knowing that a certain set of laws protect you, your own business could not exist without the gov't being what it is and regulating what it does.
specifically, the seatbelt law (and this applies to the motorcycle helmet law). if you think about it for a minute, who pays for the emergency care needed by car/moto crash victims? we all do and we all hope it's there for us if we require it.
by requiring the basic intelligence of buckling up or putting on a helmet, the cost of critical care is reduced drastically, saving you and me money. not to mention lives.
freedom's a relative thing. real freedom would be living in a cave, all alone, off the air.
'"It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks," Allchin testified. "Computers, including many running Windows operating systems, are used throughout the United States Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."'
Well, perhaps the DoD and the armed forces shouldn't rely on a single contractor that has admittedly delivered sub-standard and dangerously flawed product?
Mod me down, go ahead -- I know this is an obvious observation.
i've had a hard time getting a straight answer about this:
is tivo useful without cable, without satellite, with just plain old over-the-air reception?
(that means for those of us in sf, no nbc)
thanks in advance
i was a month away from my second birthday when this happened but, as i grew up in the apollo years, it always hung over me as a cautionary, an anchor grounding all the wonder and promise of space exploration in the context of possible human cost. though i had all the apollo patches, a snoopy astronaut doll and all that -- and fully expected to be living on the moon, at least, by now -- i never forgot that anyone involved in the endeavor could end up as the men of apollo fire.
years later, i was standing in a bookstore on newbury street, a sophomore at mit, when i couldn't get the clerk's attention. he told me something had gone wrong with the shuttle and was trying to listen to the radio. i walked across the harvard bridge in the cold to get to the school student center where the nearest tvs i could watch were. and it was as unbelievable as everyone said. we'd scaled back our goals for space flight so radically, yet still there could be a disaster of this magnitude.
i don't have any conclusions from this. would i risk my life for this venture? yes. would i hope it would help us learn something? yes. would i think my life had been wasted? definitely not.
using netscape 4.78 on the mac, the "2002" page yields only a grey field and:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: '[string: ""]'
/x/inc/get_guid.asp, line 10
now that's useful.
no, no cocoa code. i don't think you can have both in the same application, actually. but otherwise, you're right. (esp the last point -- ms makes more money off of office than off of windows, and a large part of that is selling office to the 25+ million mac users worldwide.)
interesting note on word 6 and later -- one of the reasons it took so much time/effort to carbonize office was because even word 2001 still has big chunks of code from the abortion that was word 6. and the reason that was such a slow pig was that there had been a push within ms to use ms foundation classes (mfc) for all applications. these had to be emulated in the mac version and that was shite. whatever my beefs with office v.x (word 5.1 forever!), they did clear out that cruft.
yes and no. os x's ui has been tagged "aqua," which refers to the visual style (i refrain from saying the phrase "ui standard" as aqua is an inconsistant mess -- but that's another rant). however, the 2d imaging model is called "quartz." this is based on an apple version of an open pdf-based standard.
also, carbon is the set of apis that are a modified subset of the standard mac os toolbox. it is used for applications that can run native in os x as well as mac os 8.6 through 9.2. it's not a windowing system.
that said, the office v.x team had to rejigger all the graphic doodads in the applications to make them all lickable... ick. to the aqua theme. double ick.
agreed. the $150m was non-voting, the $150m was a tiny percentage. i'm so tired of the "ms ownz apple" or "ms bailed out apple" misapprehensions.
not to mention -- dudes, do a teeny bit if research! a mac os x-only version of ms office has been on the shelves for months. in addition, we've all known ms was working on it for the better part of the year. i'm not a fan of either -- i'm not promoting them -- but really, think before you sound an alarm.
for a unix-based effort, go look at www.openoffice.org.