Your parents are whiny cunts! OOOOOo I have to live with DIALUP on my $2 million dollar historic house on the ocean! oooooo pooor poor you, you better call your senator and complain, oh my oooo this is fucking injustice!
No matter how much you make, you'll spend it all and get by anyway. I've made amounts from $29K to $100K in the past ten years and all that I remember is being happy or not happy and I don't have a penny of all that money to show for it anyhow.
Remember, the subjects were all MIT people. Here's my prediction:
for (subject):
25% chance: talking about how much linux is better than windows
25% chance: reading slashdot and wondering why that hot chick he met last night wasn't impressed that he's a post-graduate student
25% chance: writing in their blogs about how superior their intellects are
25% chance: modding this comment as -1 troll
True, that is an extreme example. Some might say that LaTeX is too slow and bloated and that _real hackers_ would use straight TeX or runoff or raw postscript!
But you can still fit an entire book on a floppy if you use LaTeX. The morale of the story: Don't want a slow, bloated system? Then tough it out and don't use one. But don't complain when you have to type:
\begin{enumerate} \item Open a terminal window by right clicking on your desktop and selecting ``Open Terminal'' \item In that window, become root by typing {\tt su} \item Now put a blank CD in your drive and burn the iso image to it by typing \\ {\tt cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 cdimageyouwanttoburn.iso} \end{enumerate}
instead of clicking the bullet button or asking a paperclip to make a list. It's all a matter of what you want. There are plenty of lean, mean systems out there. Don't bitch about UI slowness unless you are willing to use a plain-text console with "screen" "mutt" and "elinks" as your main applications.
"So since taking over as CIO last spring, Markezich has had a busy time of it. First, he moved Microsoft's entire network to Windows XP Service Pack 2. Nowadays, he's in the midst of testing out new versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio."
Yeah.... SURE "he" is in the midst of that... I can see it now... Markezich, holding a cup of coffee, leaning over his employee's cubical... "Hey Peter, what's happening? We need to test the new versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio ASAP. So if you could just go ahead and work on that over the weekend that would be greeaaattt."
The interesting thing about Spolsky's essay -- and I think it's a very good piece -- is that its principle example is what a big mistake Netscape made by deciding to re-write Mozilla from scratch.
In fact, he calls that "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make."
Excuse me while I piss my pants laughing. Ok... I'm back now.
That statement sheds light on another difference between one sort of software developer and another. It's not necessarily a matter of open vs closed source; it's a matter of intent. Spolsky sees Netscape's decision as disastrous, and from his perspective, he's right -- Netscape's stock went down the toilet and they lost millions.
But from another perspective, it was the perfect decision. They through out a bunch of lousy code that Andreeson wrote as an undergrad and replaced it with a real architecture. As it stands, that architecture has allowed the Mozilla foundation to produce Firefox. There's no doubt in my mind that if they were still working with Andreeson's hacked pile of crap, Firefox wouldn't have happened, IE would be the only web browser for Windows and the rest of us would be using Konqueror. And maybe Netscape's executive would have a few billion bucks more.... more power to them I guess, but speaking for myself, I'm glad they "screwed up!"
What I'm getting at is that if you think that the reason to develop software is to make a shitload of money, there are times when closed source is the best way to go. But if you think that the reason to develop software is to make the best software you can for joy or fame or the betterment of your fellow humans, then open source is almost always the right way to do it.
Is Battlemaster. It's a turn based, reasonably slow paced MMRPG. To quote from the intro page:
BattleMaster is a web-based, team-oriented blend of strategy and roleplaying.
You can play it as a strategy game with roleplaying elements, or as a
roleplaying game with a strategy wargame background, whichever aspect suits
you better.
BattleMaster is designed to be a light-weight game. Most online games require
that you spend hours every day if you want to achieve anything, and reward
only the most dedicated players, which usually means those with nothing else
to do with their day.
BattleMaster is meant to be played alongside your other activities, and you
will not gain much advantage from spending more than the few minutes a normal
turn takes.
BattleMaster is also a game under active development. New features are being
added and gameplay and balance are constantly tweaked to improve the game
further.
Please learn what the FUCK you are talking about before talking. A Wiki is, BY DEFINITION, a user-editable web page. ANYONE can change it. If you think that's lame, well, you've got a lot of company, but don't bash Microsoft for it. All wikis work that way.
The Semantic web represents relationships between data based on metadata (i.e. data about data). This is a far more powerful way to describe the meaning of data.
And this is what makes me wonder if this will amount to much more then an interested research project for grad students. In order for the SemWeb to amount to anything useful, everyone is going to have to include the metadata necessary to integrate their data into the Semantic Web. How's that going to work? Who's going to make it work?
So if you had, say, your masters' thesis, on that UK ISP and I wanted to cause you some trouble, I could sent them a bogus C&D letter and they'd yank your thesis offline without contacting you, or attempting to verify the legitimacy of my C&D letter, and you'd think that's a good thing for them to do?
My first inclination was to hate this editorial... after all, I'm happily using Fedora Core 2 on my 512MB RAM 1.6Ghz P4. No problems here, it performs fine. But the more I read the more I found myself agreeing with his basic thesis.
He's right. It *is* a shame that Linux needs more memory and CPU power than XP, yet still feels slower. It's also more annoying, btw.. in the time I've been writing this response, Rhythmbox with the mp3 gstreamer plugin, playing an mp3 from a samba share, has dropped audio three times for a second or more. My coworkers laugh at me when they send me.wmv video files and I say err, shit... I'm not positive this will play...
Linux as a desktop os is bloated, slow and unreliable. As as Linux on the desktop advocate, I often feel like a vegetarian... sure, it's virtuous, but I'm stuck eating pasta and potatoes instead of lamb chops and meatball sandwiches.
I'm just not sure of the solution. The author of the article is a little bit glib when he says "We need to put a serious emphasis on elegant design, careful coding and making the most of RAM, not throwing in hurried features just because we can." Easy to say. Hard to do. I know the Gnome developers and the rest of the thousands of people working hard for little or no money on the OS collectively known as GNU/Linux are doing their best to pay attention to elegant design and careful coding. The problem is that as many voices as there are screaming for elegant design... there are as many voices screaming for mono, java, and other "next gen" development tools.
I bought an ultra 5 a few years ago used, and it sat running Solaris at my email server for my home domain. Then I got sick of Solaris, since it reminds me too much of my days working at Genuity. Talk about nightmares... everytime I sat down at the computer I felt my old PHB asking me for a status update and a team schedule and to update my bug reports.
So I wiped Solaris off it and starting fooling around with Debian Sparc. But it seemed... cheesy... just wrong. This is my personal box. Debian just seemed too easy. So I bit the bullet and put Gentoo for Sparc on it. Gentoo is PERFECT for reclaiming older hardware. A little reading of man gcc, some thought about my use flags... ( mine are: USE="apache2 imap maildir samba xml -arts -avi -encode -esd -gtk -gnome -imlib -kde -mad -mikmod -mpeg -oggvorbis -oss -opengl -qt -sdl -truetype -xv -xmms -motif")
And a FREAKING LONG TIME compiling everything... and I have the Unix box I've always wanted. Mine. No one else's. I mess with it, beat on it, do things do it I'd never do on a production system. It's totally fun, and Gentoo Linux on the Ultra 5 has given me a reborn enthusiasm for Linux and computers in general.
1, BT lets you throttle your upload now.
2, if you do it, your download is also throttled.
3, if you want to modify btdownload.py so that it lies about how much it's uploading in an effort to get faster downloads, have fun. It won't help you because BT itself doesn't trust what the client says, it still sends only as fast as it's getting.
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Your parents are whiny cunts! OOOOOo I have to live with DIALUP on my $2 million dollar historic house on the ocean! oooooo pooor poor you, you better call your senator and complain, oh my oooo this is fucking injustice!
No matter how much you make, you'll spend it all and get by anyway. I've made amounts from $29K to $100K in the past ten years and all that I remember is being happy or not happy and I don't have a penny of all that money to show for it anyhow.
That's it. Blizzard has yet to start rounding up and gassing Slashdot editors.
too bad.
No thanks, if I want to see fat strippers I'll go here: http://www.bigburlesque.com/home.html
lol. Good one. BTW, moderator -- that wasn't a troll, it was just not funny.
lol... good one. BTW, my comment was _not_ a troll. It just wasn't as funny as I thought!
Remember, the subjects were all MIT people. Here's my prediction:
for (subject):
25% chance: talking about how much linux is better than windows
25% chance: reading slashdot and wondering why that hot chick he met last night wasn't impressed that he's a post-graduate student
25% chance: writing in their blogs about how superior their intellects are
25% chance: modding this comment as -1 troll
True, that is an extreme example. Some might say that LaTeX is too slow and bloated and that _real hackers_ would use straight TeX or runoff or raw postscript!
But you can still fit an entire book on a floppy if you use LaTeX. The morale of the story: Don't want a slow, bloated system? Then tough it out and don't use one. But don't complain when you have to type:
instead of clicking the bullet button or asking a paperclip to make a list. It's all a matter of what you want. There are plenty of lean, mean systems out there. Don't bitch about UI slowness unless you are willing to use a plain-text console with "screen" "mutt" and "elinks" as your main applications.
A recent example is that a friend of mine missed last week's episode of her favorite show, ER. I got a torrent the next day and burned her a DVD.
:-)
I bet she still won't sleep with you, though..
"So since taking over as CIO last spring, Markezich has had a busy time of it. First, he moved Microsoft's entire network to Windows XP Service Pack 2. Nowadays, he's in the midst of testing out new versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio."
Yeah.... SURE "he" is in the midst of that... I can see it now... Markezich, holding a cup of coffee, leaning over his employee's cubical... "Hey Peter, what's happening? We need to test the new versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio ASAP. So if you could just go ahead and work on that over the weekend that would be greeaaattt."
The interesting thing about Spolsky's essay -- and I think it's a very good piece -- is that its principle example is what a big mistake Netscape made by deciding to re-write Mozilla from scratch.
In fact, he calls that "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make."
Excuse me while I piss my pants laughing. Ok... I'm back now.
That statement sheds light on another difference between one sort of software developer and another. It's not necessarily a matter of open vs closed source; it's a matter of intent. Spolsky sees Netscape's decision as disastrous, and from his perspective, he's right -- Netscape's stock went down the toilet and they lost millions.
But from another perspective, it was the perfect decision. They through out a bunch of lousy code that Andreeson wrote as an undergrad and replaced it with a real architecture. As it stands, that architecture has allowed the Mozilla foundation to produce Firefox. There's no doubt in my mind that if they were still working with Andreeson's hacked pile of crap, Firefox wouldn't have happened, IE would be the only web browser for Windows and the rest of us would be using Konqueror. And maybe Netscape's executive would have a few billion bucks more.... more power to them I guess, but speaking for myself, I'm glad they "screwed up!"
What I'm getting at is that if you think that the reason to develop software is to make a shitload of money, there are times when closed source is the best way to go. But if you think that the reason to develop software is to make the best software you can for joy or fame or the betterment of your fellow humans, then open source is almost always the right way to do it.
BattleMaster is a web-based, team-oriented blend of strategy and roleplaying. You can play it as a strategy game with roleplaying elements, or as a roleplaying game with a strategy wargame background, whichever aspect suits you better.
BattleMaster is designed to be a light-weight game. Most online games require that you spend hours every day if you want to achieve anything, and reward only the most dedicated players, which usually means those with nothing else to do with their day.
BattleMaster is meant to be played alongside your other activities, and you will not gain much advantage from spending more than the few minutes a normal turn takes.
BattleMaster is also a game under active development. New features are being added and gameplay and balance are constantly tweaked to improve the game further.
Come on, get your terminology right!
In America, it's spelled and pronounced "Nukular" -- for at least four more years.
Please learn what the FUCK you are talking about before talking. A Wiki is, BY DEFINITION, a user-editable web page. ANYONE can change it. If you think that's lame, well, you've got a lot of company, but don't bash Microsoft for it. All wikis work that way.
And this is what makes me wonder if this will amount to much more then an interested research project for grad students. In order for the SemWeb to amount to anything useful, everyone is going to have to include the metadata necessary to integrate their data into the Semantic Web. How's that going to work? Who's going to make it work?
Wow, a mousepad and a bumper sticker... with big-ticket sales like that it's a shock they went OOB! :-)
mod parent -1 hairsplitting...
So if you had, say, your masters' thesis, on that UK ISP and I wanted to cause you some trouble, I could sent them a bogus C&D letter and they'd yank your thesis offline without contacting you, or attempting to verify the legitimacy of my C&D letter, and you'd think that's a good thing for them to do?
Please THINK.
My first inclination was to hate this editorial... after all, I'm happily using Fedora Core 2 on my 512MB RAM 1.6Ghz P4. No problems here, it performs fine. But the more I read the more I found myself agreeing with his basic thesis.
.wmv video files and I say err, shit... I'm not positive this will play...
He's right. It *is* a shame that Linux needs more memory and CPU power than XP, yet still feels slower. It's also more annoying, btw.. in the time I've been writing this response, Rhythmbox with the mp3 gstreamer plugin, playing an mp3 from a samba share, has dropped audio three times for a second or more. My coworkers laugh at me when they send me
Linux as a desktop os is bloated, slow and unreliable. As as Linux on the desktop advocate, I often feel like a vegetarian... sure, it's virtuous, but I'm stuck eating pasta and potatoes instead of lamb chops and meatball sandwiches.
I'm just not sure of the solution. The author of the article is a little bit glib when he says "We need to put a serious emphasis on elegant design, careful coding and making the most of RAM, not throwing in hurried features just because we can." Easy to say. Hard to do. I know the Gnome developers and the rest of the thousands of people working hard for little or no money on the OS collectively known as GNU/Linux are doing their best to pay attention to elegant design and careful coding. The problem is that as many voices as there are screaming for elegant design... there are as many voices screaming for mono, java, and other "next gen" development tools.
It says "The Boston Globe reports that the Massachusetts state Revenue Department has launched a new technology offensive"...
It should say "The Boston Globe reports that the Massachusetts state Revenue Department has launched a new offensive technology"
Everyone knows that OWL stands for "Ordinary Wizarding Level." Come on, MIT, get with the program.
Grrrrrrrrr. Gnome just crashed on me a few minutes ago, the first time I've seen a linux desktop up and die like that.
I bought an ultra 5 a few years ago used, and it sat running Solaris at my email server for my home domain. Then I got sick of Solaris, since it reminds me too much of my days working at Genuity. Talk about nightmares... everytime I sat down at the computer I felt my old PHB asking me for a status update and a team schedule and to update my bug reports.
So I wiped Solaris off it and starting fooling around with Debian Sparc. But it seemed... cheesy... just wrong. This is my personal box. Debian just seemed too easy. So I bit the bullet and put Gentoo for Sparc on it. Gentoo is PERFECT for reclaiming older hardware. A little reading of man gcc, some thought about my use flags... ( mine are: USE="apache2 imap maildir samba xml -arts -avi -encode -esd -gtk -gnome -imlib -kde -mad -mikmod -mpeg -oggvorbis -oss -opengl -qt -sdl -truetype -xv -xmms -motif")
And a FREAKING LONG TIME compiling everything... and I have the Unix box I've always wanted. Mine. No one else's. I mess with it, beat on it, do things do it I'd never do on a production system. It's totally fun, and Gentoo Linux on the Ultra 5 has given me a reborn enthusiasm for Linux and computers in general.
"For instance, I frequently have to Google how to list the files in a package on my hard drive with rpm."
you just screamed "I'm a moron" at the top of your lungs.
rpm -q -l packagename
is that hard? I'll break it down for you...
rpm - this is the program you are calling
-q - stands for query, because that's what are doing
-l - stands for 'list'
1, BT lets you throttle your upload now. 2, if you do it, your download is also throttled. 3, if you want to modify btdownload.py so that it lies about how much it's uploading in an effort to get faster downloads, have fun. It won't help you because BT itself doesn't trust what the client says, it still sends only as fast as it's getting.