It's worth noting that the Lord of the Rings pictures were the biggest use of minitures in film ever. In fact,it is widely credited as having reinvigorated the use of minitures in film
King Kong is bigger in it's use of minitures - I believe I heard Alex Funke say that the number of minis setups in King Kong was more than all three LotRs films combined.
I've seen a couple of posts already that seem to be confused by the "Only made $380 million at the box office" comment. Is the seventh highest grossing american film of all time.
DRMed CDs violate the rebook standard, and can't be CALLED CD's. Legally, by just about every definition, playing a CD in my machine with a licenced CD player (like in my Mac) is a RIGHT. I've paid money for a CD, CDs _by definition_ play in these players, and the label has a legal obligation to provide me with what I paid for.
Last couple "State of the Onion" addresses have been pretty bad - understandable, as Larry was getting increasingly ill, and Perl 5 was solidly in the hands of P5P and Perl 6 not yet pushing anything out.
Just started reading this one, and it is delighting me by not giving me the impression Larry is on his deathbed.
Ummmm . . . Tarantino and Rodriguez's "From Dusk til Dawn" comes to mind. As does the as yet unreleased Mary Lambert film "High Midnight". "Curse of the Undead" is 46 years old. And there was the Doomtown CCG (as I recall, I didn't play it) that had a cult following, and was a companion to the "Deadlands" role playing game.
Truth is those two genres have some interconnect. They weaknesses of one tend to get balenced by the other.
Yahoo! acquired Oddpost -ages- ago. Oddpost had THE badass webbased frontend for their mail, and not only that, had built a javascript toolkit like no other of the time to implement it.
I haven't seen anything out of Yahoo! that indicated they were using that toolkit _anywhere_ much less in their mail
It's not a marketing move targetted at consumers directly.
It's indirectly targeted at us.
Sun doesn't want people to see the flyover so much as post pics of the flyover on Slashdot. Think about it. This is the first Sun related thread in sometime where Linux is rarely mentioned.
Sun hopes that some of us making buying decisions on server hardware and software at our businesses, and that this will but Sun back in our heads
How in the fucks sake do you expect this to last 100+ years? Don't use lossy compression? How is that a solution?
Take Windows Bitmap image format. It's not lossy. That doesn't mean that we won't forget how to display the damn thing...
Raid 5? What problem do you think you're solving? Keeping the data around, or making the data accesible for (as the OP makes clear is the LoC's responsiblity) as long as the United States exists?
Despite the total lack of useful information in this article, does it strike any one as odd that they did not consider the possibility that the same container was used to hold multiple things over time?
It's not like they had industrial strength santizing dish washers 5000 years ago - over ten years of use, one could imagine an accumulation of residue inside such a container
You know what I see when I scroll through the comments to this article?
Some people pointing out that this is essentially not a Windows problem but a management/sysadmin/apache problem, and some others saying "look at all the Linux zealots!"
Linux zealots? Where?
Sure, the story poster may not have seen clearly what was going on, but then again, the article was written by the ignorant interviewing the ignorant, so who can blame them for having the wrong opinion.
I'm sick and tired of people trolling on the biases of the Slashdot crowd, only to have the highest moderated posts betray the fact that they are really just speaking of their own biases.
Of course, I'm critisizing a C and P post, but . . .
I'm sure Slidey's thought of this, but there has to be some checks against filtering out too much mail at the early levels, and not providing human confirmation at highers ones.
16 million messages a day. Even at a 99.99 percent success rate of tracking spam from ham, that's over 16 thousand incorrectly classified messages.
The article is a little ambiguous - this seems to be only for SEED, a Korean only strong encryption algorithm, which itself isn't native to browsers, which is why they required activex in the first place.
I'm an IT manager and head of RnD. Yes, it can be too much to ask
Get over it. You don't want an IT manager who knows more about technology than you do. You want an IT manager who trusts you to be more knowledgeable, and knows how to manage. Knows how to keep upper management out of your goddamn face so you can get your work done, knows how to motivate you, and is smart enough to make the understand that if he's busy managing he can't keep up with technology.
I basically had to give up being tops in my field anymore, because I can't recreationally pursue pure technology any more. Just the facts of the job, and I'm a better manager for it.
However, having an IT manager who can't use his computer is a problem. The question I have is it because he is incapable, or because he is stretched to thin to deal with it any more? My boss has trouble with FrontPage for god's sake, which (having never used the program in my life) I fixed in less than a minute.
Of course, this was the same guy who built all of the core technology our company is built on from scratch 7 years ago. He's just too busy managing money, manageing resources, and generally being a CEO to focus all his brain power on the problem in front of him
They do not care because they do not know. That's no good reason to criticize a series of articles that tries to the get the word out
Average users don't want to care about how their car works either. But they still know to get their oil changed every month, and have opinions on issues like the classification of SUVs.
It's pretty much established doctrine from those who watch MS that Windows and Office are their cash cows. Actually deciphering what is most profitable is difficult since they are internally always robbing Peter to pay Paul, but it seems that Windows is the number one revenue stream over at MS. Which is why they're getting concerned about Vista (nee Longhorn) crashing and burning. They had enough trouble selling XP because 2k was so good.
To bring discussion (which has mostly died) back to the topic and to your point, I think you are right that MS could make a boatload by becoming and ISV primarily for other platforms (like Linux). I even think that is likely to happen in the relatively near future. But MS isn't planning on it. Yet
Microsoft is a software company. There will be software from MS which runs with Linux (or BSD, or what have you) as the host OS in the next 5 years. But they will always play to strengthen their core monopolies, so we're unlikely to see workstation software running on Linux.
Whenever MS provides software for another platform, it is always as a move to strengthen their dominance of the industry. MS Office on Macintosh is not only a solid revenue stream in it's own right (as MS acknowledges that as of yet there are some small office and home users who will not move to Windows in the near future) but also keeps their proprietary formats the dominant ones. Mac Office sales increase Windows Office sales.
Internet Explorer for SunOS - same deal. Control the primary implementation of a standard, control the standard. Controling the browser on all platforms provided a way to keep rich web applications from thriving early on, which made thick clients neccessary for real work, which in turn made the OS with the most applications the dominant player. In other words IE for Macs and Unix boxes helped strengthen the Windows monopoly.
What you really need is a development framework to build your classes around that allows for persitence. The page based, highly transitive web model is broken, and Ajax works around that.
If you put your objects in a framework which supports persistence, then old code works the same as it always has (with a potential performance boost) while allowing Ajax based applications to communicate with the object over the course of a session.
I remember seeing the heliodisplay ~9 months ago, when it was still a prototype. They has some videos of the thing in action. It had, at the time, a few problems, the biggest being that the vents that blow the air which the image is projected on can cause ripples in the air flow that affect the image.
However, the cool feature the Heliodisplay has that I've not seen anyone mention is that it can register someone placing their hand in the image field, and move the objects around.
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It's worth noting that the Lord of the Rings pictures were the biggest use of minitures in film ever. In fact,it is widely credited as having reinvigorated the use of minitures in film
King Kong is bigger in it's use of minitures - I believe I heard Alex Funke say that the number of minis setups in King Kong was more than all three LotRs films combined.
I suspect the layers of jerking each other's chain has reached postmodern circle-jerk proportions.
Oh well. Can't +5 them all I suppose
I've seen a couple of posts already that seem to be confused by the "Only made $380 million at the box office" comment. Is the seventh highest grossing american film of all time.
So, sarcasm. For the record
My fortune at the bottom of this story:
"Never ask the barber if you need a haircut".
DRMed CDs violate the rebook standard, and can't be CALLED CD's. Legally, by just about every definition, playing a CD in my machine with a licenced CD player (like in my Mac) is a RIGHT. I've paid money for a CD, CDs _by definition_ play in these players, and the label has a legal obligation to provide me with what I paid for.
Simple as that
Last couple "State of the Onion" addresses have been pretty bad - understandable, as Larry was getting increasingly ill, and Perl 5 was solidly in the hands of P5P and Perl 6 not yet pushing anything out.
Just started reading this one, and it is delighting me by not giving me the impression Larry is on his deathbed.
Ummmm . . . Tarantino and Rodriguez's "From Dusk til Dawn" comes to mind. As does the as yet unreleased Mary Lambert film "High Midnight". "Curse of the Undead" is 46 years old. And there was the Doomtown CCG (as I recall, I didn't play it) that had a cult following, and was a companion to the "Deadlands" role playing game.
Truth is those two genres have some interconnect. They weaknesses of one tend to get balenced by the other.
Yahoo! acquired Oddpost -ages- ago. Oddpost had THE badass webbased frontend for their mail, and not only that, had built a javascript toolkit like no other of the time to implement it.
I haven't seen anything out of Yahoo! that indicated they were using that toolkit _anywhere_ much less in their mail
It's not a marketing move targetted at consumers directly.
It's indirectly targeted at us.
Sun doesn't want people to see the flyover so much as post pics of the flyover on Slashdot. Think about it. This is the first Sun related thread in sometime where Linux is rarely mentioned.
Sun hopes that some of us making buying decisions on server hardware and software at our businesses, and that this will but Sun back in our heads
Meh. I've used all of those on my friends.
I want to see some yo mama jokes.
Complex data backup solutions and the use of lossless formats has not, for example, kept the critical Pioneer space probe data available, after less than 30 years (http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/pioneer_anomal y_faq.html)
How in the fucks sake do you expect this to last 100+ years? Don't use lossy compression? How is that a solution?
Take Windows Bitmap image format. It's not lossy. That doesn't mean that we won't forget how to display the damn thing...
Raid 5? What problem do you think you're solving? Keeping the data around, or making the data accesible for (as the OP makes clear is the LoC's responsiblity) as long as the United States exists?
Despite the total lack of useful information in this article, does it strike any one as odd that they did not consider the possibility that the same container was used to hold multiple things over time?
It's not like they had industrial strength santizing dish washers 5000 years ago - over ten years of use, one could imagine an accumulation of residue inside such a container
You know what I see when I scroll through the comments to this article?
Some people pointing out that this is essentially not a Windows problem but a management/sysadmin/apache problem, and some others saying "look at all the Linux zealots!"
Linux zealots? Where?
Sure, the story poster may not have seen clearly what was going on, but then again, the article was written by the ignorant interviewing the ignorant, so who can blame them for having the wrong opinion.
I'm sick and tired of people trolling on the biases of the Slashdot crowd, only to have the highest moderated posts betray the fact that they are really just speaking of their own biases.
Of course, I'm critisizing a C and P post, but . . .
I'm sure Slidey's thought of this, but there has to be some checks against filtering out too much mail at the early levels, and not providing human confirmation at highers ones.
16 million messages a day. Even at a 99.99 percent success rate of tracking spam from ham, that's over 16 thousand incorrectly classified messages.
Remember, this description is simplistic.
Lots of people are asking about integration of hardware virus detection into the CPU or mainboard. People seem to think it's cool
.isn't this one of the legitimate promises of DRM?
But . . .
The article is a little ambiguous - this seems to be only for SEED, a Korean only strong encryption algorithm, which itself isn't native to browsers, which is why they required activex in the first place.
I'm an IT manager and head of RnD. Yes, it can be too much to ask
Get over it. You don't want an IT manager who knows more about technology than you do. You want an IT manager who trusts you to be more knowledgeable, and knows how to manage. Knows how to keep upper management out of your goddamn face so you can get your work done, knows how to motivate you, and is smart enough to make the understand that if he's busy managing he can't keep up with technology.
I basically had to give up being tops in my field anymore, because I can't recreationally pursue pure technology any more. Just the facts of the job, and I'm a better manager for it.
However, having an IT manager who can't use his computer is a problem. The question I have is it because he is incapable, or because he is stretched to thin to deal with it any more? My boss has trouble with FrontPage for god's sake, which (having never used the program in my life) I fixed in less than a minute.
Of course, this was the same guy who built all of the core technology our company is built on from scratch 7 years ago. He's just too busy managing money, manageing resources, and generally being a CEO to focus all his brain power on the problem in front of him
It runs on Linux?
For what it's worth, I like what Theo is doing, and has done, which is why I mentioned his comment about Pegasos firmware as being likely legitimite
Out of stock is a pretty serious issue.
Besides, legend (okay, Theo De Radt) has it that the firmware is really awful
Terra Soft would probably be best to team up with another minority vendor, like those produce the Amiga One
While true, you beg the question
They do not care because they do not know. That's no good reason to criticize a series of articles that tries to the get the word out
Average users don't want to care about how their car works either. But they still know to get their oil changed every month, and have opinions on issues like the classification of SUVs.
Sorry, I wasn't real clear I realize.
It's pretty much established doctrine from those who watch MS that Windows and Office are their cash cows. Actually deciphering what is most profitable is difficult since they are internally always robbing Peter to pay Paul, but it seems that Windows is the number one revenue stream over at MS. Which is why they're getting concerned about Vista (nee Longhorn) crashing and burning. They had enough trouble selling XP because 2k was so good.
To bring discussion (which has mostly died) back to the topic and to your point, I think you are right that MS could make a boatload by becoming and ISV primarily for other platforms (like Linux). I even think that is likely to happen in the relatively near future. But MS isn't planning on it. Yet
You missed one: Windows.
Microsoft is a software company. There will be software from MS which runs with Linux (or BSD, or what have you) as the host OS in the next 5 years. But they will always play to strengthen their core monopolies, so we're unlikely to see workstation software running on Linux.
Whenever MS provides software for another platform, it is always as a move to strengthen their dominance of the industry. MS Office on Macintosh is not only a solid revenue stream in it's own right (as MS acknowledges that as of yet there are some small office and home users who will not move to Windows in the near future) but also keeps their proprietary formats the dominant ones. Mac Office sales increase Windows Office sales.
Internet Explorer for SunOS - same deal. Control the primary implementation of a standard, control the standard. Controling the browser on all platforms provided a way to keep rich web applications from thriving early on, which made thick clients neccessary for real work, which in turn made the OS with the most applications the dominant player. In other words IE for Macs and Unix boxes helped strengthen the Windows monopoly.
Of course, this drifts far afield of TFA . . .
Or that they're expecting another player in a niche genre to eat into their audience.
I'm not sure what else is opening in that late october to end of November time frame, but there could be other considerations.
It could also suck
What you really need is a development framework to build your classes around that allows for persitence. The page based, highly transitive web model is broken, and Ajax works around that.
If you put your objects in a framework which supports persistence, then old code works the same as it always has (with a potential performance boost) while allowing Ajax based applications to communicate with the object over the course of a session.
I remember seeing the heliodisplay ~9 months ago, when it was still a prototype. They has some videos of the thing in action. It had, at the time, a few problems, the biggest being that the vents that blow the air which the image is projected on can cause ripples in the air flow that affect the image.
However, the cool feature the Heliodisplay has that I've not seen anyone mention is that it can register someone placing their hand in the image field, and move the objects around.