The beginning of the 4th season was rather undirected and chaotic, but the second half of the 4th season was excellent. That was their best work of the show IMHO. Of course I think the 3rd season was great too.
Appropriate in a way as well, since the rumor of the untimely demise of *BSD
is so persistant. Maybe that explains the uptime of all the FreeBSD based
Apache boxes out there. They are so stable they keep running even from the
grave.
Actually, I have never found this to be a problem with ISPs. Maybe because
most of them run on *BSD or Linux and use it at home. Then again my experiences
have primarily been with smaller local ISPs or large enterprise network providers
so my results may be skewed.
It's the software OEMs that have serious issues with *nix. Don't support it,
don't know it, refuse to be reasonable about providing support if by chance
you have figured out how to run their product on a non-windows OS. As an example,
once upon a time, a time best forgotten by all, I worked for a company that
produces a popular piece of personal finacial software. At first Linux support
was unofficial. It was basically up to the tech whether they felt confident
enough to work the issue. And whether or not they were willing to take the hit
to their call stats that might result. Later, it was just unsupported. Sorry,
we can't help you with that. Are you sure you don't have a window machine we
could work this problem on. They went to a mostly fee based support system
shortly after I left. I don't know what their *nix policy is now. I no longer
use their products.
Cut the ISPs some slack. And flame the ones who have it coming. The software
manufacturers who have lost sight of the concept of what a customer is and how
they should be treated. They are quite literally the reason your company exists.
Done ranting now. Move along, nothing to see here.
As my first real forray into the MMORPG arena I was rather disappointed. My
only other similar experience has been There
which while never intended to be much more than a 3D chatroom still has far more in the way of
content than SWG. Which is very sad.
The graphics are beautiful but for the most part wasted on randomly generated
and meaningless world features. Character customization is excellent and impressive
as is the skill tree. The potential seems to be there for this to be an absolutely
amazing game, if they had finnished it before offering it to the public. Player generated
content is a good concept, but some content needs to be seeded into the world.
Otherwise you just have a lot of people paying a monthly fee to finnish Sony's
job. That makes very little sense to anyone except Sony as far as I can tell.
I cancelled my subscription and passed the game on to someone else who thought
they were interested. I may take a look again in 18 months or so to see if things
are better.
Or to see if Kirsten Dunst the Naked Jedi shows up.
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Exactly. While one the one hand there is no better resource than the older pro practiced in his craft. Inovation through ignorance however can still be inovative. The young, energetic, and basically ignorant (no offense, I put myself very much in this category if not altogether young) talent can find new and often excellent ways to look at old problems. With the former to temper and mentor the latter as well as the latter inspiring the former you can develope a powerful and dynamic team. The key is hiring the people with talent rather than some set rrange of birthdays. Just my $0.02.
Excellent comment. I hadn't really thought of the Linux/*BSD comparrison that way but it really does seem to sum up the feel very nicely. The BSD's seem to be more content with making everything work flawlessly rather than playing politics and pushing the bleeding edge.
Exactly. Have been tthinking of building one of those small palm sized keyboards for use in portable computing anyway... just haven't found the right PC for it yet and the prices on the fiber projection displays is still way out of my price range. This type of unit could work well for wearables though, certainly at the development level. I think usign some sort of wireless, possibly Bluetooth, rather than USB would make it a lot more useful however.
Of course! I get to work with unclassified science satellites i the early integration and development stages but don't get to be involved in orbit ops at all. It would be nice to play with the data once it's up and flying. Lots of good unclassified science birds up there collecting amazing data. Using all these computers for something other than e-mail and fragging is defintely worth it.
I think Farscape is the best thing i have seen on TV ever. Except for possibly MASH and X-Files. It really is a shame that not only did they cancel it, but they refuse to sell it to another network to continue. Space Above and Beyond was also a really fun show. I enjoyed it a lot until just before the end when they went low budget. I think the only quality show that suited my tastes that has stayed around recently was the X-Files, and they basically ran it into the ground at the end.
While I agree that some pieces of software that have security concerns for one reason or another might not be best released as open code, but the vast majority of government funded code is for more mundane applications and could be useful to the general public without potential harm from security issues. I have spent the last couple of months working on a piece of software for a government contract that has been written literally dozens of times before but is considered proprietary by the contractors that developed it. The cost and inefficiency is staggering. That is my opinion at least.
Looks good. Starcraft as an FPS. Different, but interesting.
Too bad it's a console game. The only game console I ever had was the Coleco Vision back in the 80's.
Anyone heard any news on Starcraft 2?
That is a HOWTO that a lot of people really ought to reread. Here on/. more so than many places. It would be very interesting to see the stats on AC posting if the average replies suddenly grew a bit of civility and courtesy. Personally I found it to be an interesting and well written article.
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The beginning of the 4th season was rather undirected and chaotic, but the second half of the 4th season was excellent. That was their best work of the show IMHO. Of course I think the 3rd season was great too.
Funny pic!
Appropriate in a way as well, since the rumor of the untimely demise of *BSD is so persistant. Maybe that explains the uptime of all the FreeBSD based Apache boxes out there. They are so stable they keep running even from the grave.
That explains much. :-)
Actually, I have never found this to be a problem with ISPs. Maybe because most of them run on *BSD or Linux and use it at home. Then again my experiences have primarily been with smaller local ISPs or large enterprise network providers so my results may be skewed.
It's the software OEMs that have serious issues with *nix. Don't support it, don't know it, refuse to be reasonable about providing support if by chance you have figured out how to run their product on a non-windows OS. As an example, once upon a time, a time best forgotten by all, I worked for a company that produces a popular piece of personal finacial software. At first Linux support was unofficial. It was basically up to the tech whether they felt confident enough to work the issue. And whether or not they were willing to take the hit to their call stats that might result. Later, it was just unsupported. Sorry, we can't help you with that. Are you sure you don't have a window machine we could work this problem on. They went to a mostly fee based support system shortly after I left. I don't know what their *nix policy is now. I no longer use their products.
Cut the ISPs some slack. And flame the ones who have it coming. The software manufacturers who have lost sight of the concept of what a customer is and how they should be treated. They are quite literally the reason your company exists.
Done ranting now. Move along, nothing to see here.
As my first real forray into the MMORPG arena I was rather disappointed. My only other similar experience has been There which while never intended to be much more than a 3D chatroom still has far more in the way of content than SWG. Which is very sad.
The graphics are beautiful but for the most part wasted on randomly generated and meaningless world features. Character customization is excellent and impressive as is the skill tree. The potential seems to be there for this to be an absolutely amazing game, if they had finnished it before offering it to the public. Player generated content is a good concept, but some content needs to be seeded into the world. Otherwise you just have a lot of people paying a monthly fee to finnish Sony's job. That makes very little sense to anyone except Sony as far as I can tell.
I cancelled my subscription and passed the game on to someone else who thought they were interested. I may take a look again in 18 months or so to see if things are better.
Or to see if Kirsten Dunst the Naked Jedi shows up.
Exactly. While one the one hand there is no better resource than the older pro practiced in his craft. Inovation through ignorance however can still be inovative. The young, energetic, and basically ignorant (no offense, I put myself very much in this category if not altogether young) talent can find new and often excellent ways to look at old problems. With the former to temper and mentor the latter as well as the latter inspiring the former you can develope a powerful and dynamic team. The key is hiring the people with talent rather than some set rrange of birthdays. Just my $0.02.
That doesn't keep you from doing a CD based install. Or even making a bootable CD to do a NFS or FTP install.
Excellent comment. I hadn't really thought of the Linux/*BSD comparrison that way but it really does seem to sum up the feel very nicely. The BSD's seem to be more content with making everything work flawlessly rather than playing politics and pushing the bleeding edge.
Exactly. Have been tthinking of building one of those small palm sized keyboards for use in portable computing anyway ... just haven't found the right PC for it yet and the prices on the fiber projection displays is still way out of my price range. This type of unit could work well for wearables though, certainly at the development level. I think usign some sort of wireless, possibly Bluetooth, rather than USB would make it a lot more useful however.
Of course! I get to work with unclassified science satellites i the early integration and development stages but don't get to be involved in orbit ops at all. It would be nice to play with the data once it's up and flying. Lots of good unclassified science birds up there collecting amazing data. Using all these computers for something other than e-mail and fragging is defintely worth it.
I think Farscape is the best thing i have seen on TV ever. Except for possibly MASH and X-Files. It really is a shame that not only did they cancel it, but they refuse to sell it to another network to continue. Space Above and Beyond was also a really fun show. I enjoyed it a lot until just before the end when they went low budget. I think the only quality show that suited my tastes that has stayed around recently was the X-Files, and they basically ran it into the ground at the end.
While I agree that some pieces of software that have security concerns for one reason or another might not be best released as open code, but the vast majority of government funded code is for more mundane applications and could be useful to the general public without potential harm from security issues. I have spent the last couple of months working on a piece of software for a government contract that has been written literally dozens of times before but is considered proprietary by the contractors that developed it. The cost and inefficiency is staggering. That is my opinion at least.
Looks good. Starcraft as an FPS. Different, but interesting. Too bad it's a console game. The only game console I ever had was the Coleco Vision back in the 80's. Anyone heard any news on Starcraft 2?
That is a HOWTO that a lot of people really ought to reread. Here on /. more so than many places. It would be very interesting to see the stats on AC posting if the average replies suddenly grew a bit of civility and courtesy. Personally I found it to be an interesting and well written article.