Anyone ever take note when they see PC's advertised for say 899.99 there is almost always an asterisk next to the price which includes some kind of connection to either MSN, or Dellnet, or something similar. It's been going on for some time, and you really can't place blame on the advertisers for placing type so small you need a microscope to read it.
Politicians haven't regulated advertising, and although there are some rules against bait and switch tactics, as well as others, you have to stop and think about whether the consumer actually has a clue when purchasing something.
Same thing with so called mail in rebates. I used to work in at Grey Direct whose parent co. Grey Worldwide is one of the top ten advertisers in the world, so anyways when there, I remember asking about those mail in rebates, and was told: "Those are placed in hopes people don't bother mailing them in" more or less. I was then told that almost 85% or more of the times no one bothers to mail them in, but they're placed there to attract attention.
Either way you have to place some blame on the consumer as well for not reading the fine lines, then bitching about getting shafted in the end.
I hope a decent company buys Metricom, figures out a way to make money with the system, and bring it to the rest of the U.S., even the rest of the world.
Define "a decent company" nowadays companies are just trying to stay afloat. What does using Linux have anything to do with an ISP anyhow? I have FreeBSD running over Earthlink, Level3, and two other ISP's and have never had a problem using any ISP. I've even set my brother up over AOL so he could tinker with Linux.
There are plenty of other compsnies to choose from regarding Internet services, and anyone who counts on an Internet related company nowadays is a fool considering dozens go kaboom on a daily basis.
Isn't it sad that people can't come to reasonable conclusions in life. You know one thing that has always pissed me off was racism online, and although I despise it, I don't feel some site should be blacklisted, attacked, even put down, because they should have the same kind of rights as I do. When it comes to legalities however, lines have to be drawn, hopefully people can gain a sense of understanding of life, and grow up, before the better sites are gone, and they'll have no one to blame but themselves.
But I'm battle scarred and shell shocked. It hasn't been an easy fight. Those against us are not the governments, they are not the corporations, they are not the legal system. They are individuals self-righteous in their views. They are the very people who's freedom of speech we are trying to protect. They have a right to be heard. But at the same time they work hard to squelch any opposing opinions or speech, those others also have a right to be heard. If they succeed, they will only have given away their own freedom.
This is a bit puzzling to me:
They have one goal, shut us down or get me to shut it down because we shield someone they want to attack. All because that person said something unpopular or disagreed with their views.
What happens to anonyminity in a tight situation. Let's say a woman was raped and would like to get some counseling online, but is terrified to post her name. Why should she have to when sites like this allow for anonyminity. Should she have to feel slighted because some moronic script kiddie has too much time on their hands? Suppose someone wanted to report some form of corruption, but was afraid of the aftermath should their identity be revealed, then what.
Certainly it is very sad to see some assholes abusing the site, maybe for his own sanity, and protection, he should make everyone register with an ISP email address before allowing them to post anonymously. That would probably cut down some attacks. He could clarify that no information will be posted, sold, etc., and this is solely for theirs, and his protection
Most know already the Patent system needs an overhaul, and they recently sought comments on how it should go about the changes [123] Instead of everyone being so critical of the PTO, maybe some could all get together here, start a thread on it for a day or two, then forward the highest rated submissions to them, instead of just complaining about the same things over and over.
Why doesn't Hemos, Taco, or someone else start something similar to when they ask for questions for some interview. Who wouldn't like to have their name associated with changes to the patenting system. Sure you could bitch and moan about how messed up it is, yet when they asked the public, whose only input is negativity, it's not going to get better any time soon.
It's funny but unless it's a non commercial site, someone would have to be off the rockers to use it. Money is money any way you look at it whether it's from an IE (l)user or other. Easy way as well is to just use fix your httpd.conf like so:
BrowserMatchNoCase "MSIE" cocksucker
<FilesMatch *>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=cocksucker
</FilesMatch>
All those companies are on FuckedCompany.com now thats why you don't see them anymore. Seriously though, when things come out and are touted as `the next best thing`, especially in tech, don't expect it to last too long. Sometimes things go well but many, rather the majority of the times, things go bonkers for typical reasons.
Did you know that most of the write ups you see in magazines, and online sites were because the company who's being written up has a marketing department to overhype things? Well my guess is things were extremely overhyped, or it wasn't feasible for a company to spend to create something no one would buy.
Same thing happen with DLT (Digital Linear Tapes) once upon a while ago. It's no big secret that the next best thing is likely going to be the next big bust, especially with todays economy.
"Developers need to get out of the bad habit of not thinking about authentication. They stop at encryption. Encryption does not equal security. You want to identify both parties and the time. Say I sign my mortgage online, that has to be alive for 30 years."
Kapoor's recipe for security is, "Authentication, encryption, integrity, non-repudiation....If you do them right, you don't have to revisit them..."
A special tip to handling the biggest threats -- viruses and hacks, in Kapoor's estimation -- is, "If you are moving active content, an executable, make sure it's digitally signed before it can be moved, before the code is executed, so if the code contains a virus you can find out who wrote it. Get responsibility."
"Developers need to get out of the bad habit of not thinking about authentication. They stop at encryption. Encryption does not equal security. You definitely need authentication which allows the parties to identify each other."
How about holding off on who can build the fastest, neon lit, super-hyper-matic-vet-a-meat-a-veggie-matic, technology, and see who can build it correctly. Makes little sense to buy something so new, since 1) It hasn't been proven to be anything more than hype. 2) Assessments are not made to see how stable, secure, functional it is.
We've all seen so many `new technologies` this past year I don't think anyone could name em all, which shows a) They weren't that memorable b) Apparently the hype died c) somewhere along the line it wasn't the next best thing (now was it)
Little do people a lot of things like this happen. For instance, when former drug kingpin Pablo Escobar couldn't evade having his data sniffed by the CIA, Delta Force (U.S. Army), and others, he turned to good old fashioned pigeons. [Killing Pablo] I don't remember which chapter it is but it's there somewhere. Let's not forgot the recent rumors of Usama bin Laden plotting using remote controlled helicopters either.
As stated in the AC's post you sound more like an environmentalist than someone who has a clue. Let me post some comments on this.
Activism does make a difference. For every person who writes, emails, calls to complain when a large company pisses him off
Firstly where do you see any mention of activism in any of the articles linked? Secondly if you think someone is going to sit through millions of email if they were spammed, you're off your rocker. Emails such as those are almost always sent to a null account.
there are whiners in the background saying, "It won't make any difference; why should a huge company like X even listen to you?"
Company X will not listen to you, it may listen to someone close to the company who may have overheard a rumor, or someone that sees what the big bosses mis, but Company X has a paid staff that looks into how the company is going to make money. You know that thing called money right? Company X's bottom line is keeping investors happy on returns, not what the consumer wants as most people would like to think.
Well, twice in a week two of the biggest companies in the world have listened to thousands of us
Clearly this is where you sound more like a 15 year old rebel without a cause, as opposed to someone with a clue. This whole article has nothing to do with activism on any scale, so where did you get this rant from?
and done what we asked them to. We threw a collective shit-fit when Micro$oft revealed their Smart Tag plans
Who threw a collective shit fit. Do you think the people at MS care at this point what someone, especially someone using alternatives to MS, thinks? They just beat the Department of Justice, which paves the way for them to do whatever they like. Surely you'd have to be kidding yourself if you think MS' backing off Smart Tags for now has anything to do with someone bitching about it.
and they backed right away. We had another fit when Sun said they'd close the Solaris source, and they've now reversed themselves.
Again your dissillusioned by thoughts of grandeur. I'd like to see one person in this place come up with a fair rebuttal word for word to counter what I've said. I know I have some flaws, but your original post sounds like nothing but someone who's been playing quake too long, and thinking they're some sort of "Cyber Super Hero"
We haven't won the war, and we never will, because it will never end.
Nice to see they didn't do a roundabout releasing the OS, however when I think of Solaris I don't think much of its x86 arch. For those who've used it as well would know it's extremely an intense OS not made for anything under about 192mb ram, and a nice processor. It's CDE under x86 is like watching the thickest cement being sucked through a straw. Slow and clunky.
On the Sun platforms it's great, but Sun really layed it on think with enough Java to wake the dead. I like being able to jumpstart machines easily, and wish Dan Farmer and team would have kept their Titan program running over at Fish.com.
All in all it (Solaris) has its purposes, how much of that is on x86 is opinionated, and my opinion is, it shouldn't be
BSD isn't going anywhere any time soon contrary to what a troll thinks. In fact BSD should have an easier time in the upcoming months via way of (evil drum roll) Microsoft.
This week, Microsoft announced that it will work with Corel to port the.NET Common Language Infrastructure and the C# programming language to open-source OS FreeBSD, a Linux competitor... Contrary to reports, this porting effort doesn't constitute an implementation of.NET on FreeBSD, but involves only some of the low-level technologies that are part of.NET. Microsoft's decision to use FreeBSD rather than the far more widely used Linux is reportedly because of the company's disdain for Linux's GNU Public License (GPL), which Microsoft has described as "Pac-Man like" and "a cancer." The FreeBSD license is reportedly far more amenable to Microsoft because the license doesn't require the author of commercial works to provide the source code to others, as does the GPL.
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My only pseudo concern with FreeBSD is, I wish they would scrutinize what is released via the ports more, this way they wouldn't have to release patches as much as they do, but again in comparison to Linux, as with OpenBSD many services aren't run off the back, and as with OpenBSD, unless you're going to pkg_add/cdrom/packagaes/ALL || make install/usr/ports , you're not going to have as many issues as you would with other OS'. For the Linux zealots yes you have your `secure Linux` variants, and you also have advisories for those too [check Linux Security], Trustix, EnGarde, etc. they're all there.
NetBSD is a sleeper for all, it's still a nicely written BSD, and I think it'll be around for a while. Open is well Open, and isn't going anywhere soon, love or hate Theo & Team OpenBSD but I still feel comfort knowing soom rootard isn't going to to anything to my servers at any give time.
I'm not a Linux user (BSD baby) nor am I heavy on games, but isn't writing a book on Linux gaming sort of selling the Linux community short? Hear this out if you will.
If it's such a great thing to do, why haven't other gaming companies focused on creating an offspin development team focusing solely on creating Linux games? Could it be they think of Linux as still a `hobbyish' operating system not worthy of creating games for?
Its certainly a nice gesture but as stated if it's such a hot thing for a company to take up (gaming under Linux) why aren't many moving to push for stronger development. Is it just easier for companies to have Joe Bloe coder from Utah (no offense to developers) to create something for free they could capitalize on, as opposed to (dare I say this) looking into other alternatives aside from Windows.
Maybe I worded this poorly, but I see this as a free ride for gaming companies who could easily turn around and use ideas from those who read this book, and perhaps steal ideas from personal web pages and notes, get rich while they release a minimal amount of games for the *nix community.
Well congrats to the authors by all means since anything to *nix is a good thing in my eyes. Oh well back to "Tampering with Nature -- John Stoessel"
What I want to know is how the scientists managed to figure this out without killing the bugs. Did they use insect anesthesia or something to keep them alive to see their abdomens move to cause the light? If so then what about when you step on em and smear em, what causes the chemical to light, since obviously at that point the bug is dead.
So if it's just the after affect of the bug being smashed which causes the light to shine, how does it manage to halt light, is their like a belly shade covering it...
Now on a funnier note, imagine if we as people had that, well males rather. Our faces would be swollen from getting slapped at the beach by our partners.
The coding starts with a continuously generated string of random numbers, say from a satellite put up to broadcast them or from some other source. The numbers can be coming by at an enormous speed - 10 million million per second, for example.
The sender of a message and its recipient agree to start plucking a sequence of numbers from that string. They may agree, for example, to send a message, encoded with any of today's publicly available encryption systems saying "start" and giving instructions on capturing certain of the random numbers. As they capture the numbers, the sender uses them to encode a message, and the recipient uses the numbers to decode it.
An eavesdropper can know the mathematical formula used to encode and decode, but without knowing the exact sequence of random numbers that were used in the formula to send a particular message, the eavesdropper cannot decode the message. And the only way to have that sequence is to just happen to be storing numbers from the unending stream at exactly the right moment.
Blame it all on having to track people via way of their social security numbers. Nobody asks for a lot of things when it comes down to passing info from business to business, but heck look at TRW and Equifax. It's shameful that the U.S. is so dependant on the Social (In)Security system, especially with so much identity theft going on.
They also represent the majority of FPU applications. Most applications contain very few FDIV, but some scientific and engineering applications do.
I may sound like a troll of sorts or anti Intel, but when it comes to high end scientific engineering does anyone actually use anything outside the realms of Sun, Irix, and Alpha? Although benchmarks claim to show factual information, I've always seen them as a bit biased.
Typical PIV purchaser in my eyes: Gamer, Newbie buying preconfiged pc's. What about this end user where are the stats for the typical purchaser? Sometimes these benchmarks confuse the average person into thinking the PIV is lowly in comparison to others.
In this article we will try to answer the following three questions:
How well will the Pentium 4 and Athlon perform with software that is compiled with newer compilers (MS Visual 7.0 and Intel C 5.0.1)?
2.Can better compilers automatically create SSE-2 optimized code from simple C++ code?
3.Can Pentium 4 aware compilers boost the Pentium 4's floating-point performance past the strong FPU of the Athlon?
Again I may be off my rocker here, but most developers I've met have always customized their own machines, dual processors, other architectures, so again is it completely unbiased to say the PIV lacks? Förvirring om denna skit =\
One can easily see why most governments would try to outlaw online gaming. Taxes no other reasons why. Online gambling epsecially offshore gambling removes the currency normally given to the state/country. Here in the US well in NY at least we have OTB (Off Track Betting) which is monopolized... errr, controlled by the state, and anything in relation to horse racing passes through there without question, taxes are paid, Uncle S(c)am is happy. Lottery same thing.
Gambling is big business anywhere you go, and unless money is coming back into the state, they'll here none of it. Sort of similar to what the Secret Service did to Gold Age, a raid of their business. Governments despise people not paying money to them, and anyone doing so they're going to make sure they get them. What happened with Gold Age, is simple, no one pays taxes for buying `e-gold` and much can't be done to trace anything.
Big Bro gets pissed, we bitch, a week later another circumvention procedure takes over. Snowball Effects 101
which is why Windows XP will come bundled with a browser, media player, fire-wall, email client, and ISP.
Solution: Don't buy the thing for fucks sake. Has anyone ever had a gun stuck down their throat by an MS employee and been forced to purchase MS software? No so what the hell is the big deal?
Placing a firewall with all these moronic attacks taking place is a good thing definitely nothing wrong with MS doing so. Bundling a media player, OH MY GOD SAY IT ISN'T SO! Don't you think people would appreciate listening to music on their PC. Again no one is stopping anyone from using alternatives they can download, MS never threatened anyone for creating an alternative MS based media player.
OH MY GOD STOP IT!! An email client!! NO!!! What will they think of next, heaven knows no one really needs an email client. Nope they need a bare bones OS they can spend hours on end downloading everything from scratch. Evil Microsoft, how dare they.
All this bashing is making me sick. Shit I don't use MS, way I see it, out of sight out of mind, my opinion is let them be, they can self destruct on their own.
Immunix, NSA's SE-Linux, Bastille, Trustix, EnGarde... All seek to claim "Secure Linux" with their distributions, yet I don't understand why the core developers of Linux don't sit down and audit their coding in better fashion?
Maybe it's because I've used OpenBSD way too long, and am critical but I feel someone somewhere is missing some key factors when creating these so called "Secure" distro's.
If Woody would have checked his code beforehand... this would have never happened. Remember that Woody Woodpecker cartoon? Well since I've made the switch to BSD's (Open for my site, Free @ home) I've never looked back at Linux.
I will however say kudos to the Bastille team for having some positive news on the Linux side of things, and hopefully more vendors will start supporting, even advocating any version of Nix versus the alternative
Personally I don't use Linux anymore so I don't really care, but I think it's a dumb move on Linus' part and here's why. Suppose you've just been hired as a sys admin in a company and have to recompile kernels across a couple dozen perhaps hundreds of Linux based servers... Suppose that company was crappy via way of having things documented.
It's so easy to just do a dmesg and see exactly what's being used in order to recompile the kernel, as well as determine should something be replaced, or removed to make things better for the network. Anyways it's his dictatorship... err... OS, however it'll just makes things a bit more difficult for some
Let's take a look at the average desktop user worthy to note that would spend capital on an OS, and note that the biggest market for this would have to be businesses. I've said it once a million times, it would cost companies an arm and a leg in downtime to move legacy systems over to anything other than MS, now that they've bastardized themselves into `find . -name *MS*` .
Aside from that, do you expect corporate types to understand how to compile programs, how to find the neccessary programs to support already business standardized documents such as.xls,.doc, and other files? Most of these companies' IT departments know squat as it is.
Sure you could make Mandrake as user friendly as possible, but it still won't look at good to CTO types who's only tech skills come as loading a cd and letting a self installer do its work for them. Its cost effective, and simpler that.
This is sort of an assinine idea of Mandrake considering the following factors. Right now the economy is down, and people are scared of dumping money into tech stocks. Redhat just turned it's first profit, and their profits were miniscule. Redhat will also crush them, and considering Mandrake is a Redhat spinoff, more people will take Redhat more serious than its clone.
Now only that but Redhat just announced going DB, of which it should strengthen their position among the Linux distro's. So why would someone want to invest money in Mandrake when the alternatives look alot snappier? They'd either be desperate, and going out of business hoping some quick investors would be clueless to invest in them so they could continue, or as arrogant as people depict the French. (oui!)
Judging on my log files for my site, I noticed that obviously the majority was Microsoft, followed by Netscape, then Mozilla Gecko, followed by Konqueror. I've tried Konqueror a while back and it was ok, I dreaded having to download KDE entirely though since I couldn't find konqueror as a standalone, and if I'm not mistaken it doesn't come as a standalone. (who knows I stay away from KDE2)
The browser wars really make little sense to me, for one I can view everything just fine in Netscape under FreeBSD, except Java/Javascripts blow, however when neccessary I fire up Mozilla to quash all problems. My problem with Mozilla is, it's rather (dare I say) bloated, and takes up a lot of resources, hence I guess to each their own.
Opera was cool a ways back, and I haven't tried it in some time, but I've heard, and seen posted there are click me spam ads all over the place. Lynx is great for visiting this site, but all in all I stick with good old faithful Netscape, who always loads my bitches' every curve just fine.
Some companies that can afford to open up some software to gain a new market for there hardware will come around and see the light of open source software
Amazing how MS is trying to make room for XBox isn't it. Moving towards a hardware development arena wouldn't be so hard for MS, but they'd stand to dish out a heck of a lot of money to do so, so it might be easier to buy someone... Say SGI?
What would the computing world think if MS did go out and do something similar, surely they could capture the attention of everyone, and SGI (although not at its height anymore) has some kick ass servers, Origin, Onyx.
I don't think MS is against open sourced software because they're afraid of losing revenue to the software/hardware companies like IBM, and Sun, personally I think they're afraid someone will gain insight to where they're going with their OS and create something more stabler, robust, faster, and cheaper.
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Anyone ever take note when they see PC's advertised for say 899.99 there is almost always an asterisk next to the price which includes some kind of connection to either MSN, or Dellnet, or something similar. It's been going on for some time, and you really can't place blame on the advertisers for placing type so small you need a microscope to read it.
Politicians haven't regulated advertising, and although there are some rules against bait and switch tactics, as well as others, you have to stop and think about whether the consumer actually has a clue when purchasing something.
Same thing with so called mail in rebates. I used to work in at Grey Direct whose parent co. Grey Worldwide is one of the top ten advertisers in the world, so anyways when there, I remember asking about those mail in rebates, and was told: "Those are placed in hopes people don't bother mailing them in" more or less. I was then told that almost 85% or more of the times no one bothers to mail them in, but they're placed there to attract attention.
Either way you have to place some blame on the consumer as well for not reading the fine lines, then bitching about getting shafted in the end.
I hope a decent company buys Metricom, figures out a way to make money with the system, and bring it to the rest of the U.S., even the rest of the world.
Define "a decent company" nowadays companies are just trying to stay afloat. What does using Linux have anything to do with an ISP anyhow? I have FreeBSD running over Earthlink, Level3, and two other ISP's and have never had a problem using any ISP. I've even set my brother up over AOL so he could tinker with Linux.
There are plenty of other compsnies to choose from regarding Internet services, and anyone who counts on an Internet related company nowadays is a fool considering dozens go kaboom on a daily basis.
Certainly it is very sad to see some assholes abusing the site, maybe for his own sanity, and protection, he should make everyone register with an ISP email address before allowing them to post anonymously. That would probably cut down some attacks. He could clarify that no information will be posted, sold, etc., and this is solely for theirs, and his protection
Most know already the Patent system needs an overhaul, and they recently sought comments on how it should go about the changes [1 2 3] Instead of everyone being so critical of the PTO, maybe some could all get together here, start a thread on it for a day or two, then forward the highest rated submissions to them, instead of just complaining about the same things over and over.
Why doesn't Hemos, Taco, or someone else start something similar to when they ask for questions for some interview. Who wouldn't like to have their name associated with changes to the patenting system. Sure you could bitch and moan about how messed up it is, yet when they asked the public, whose only input is negativity, it's not going to get better any time soon.
My two cents/sense on it all.
It's funny but unless it's a non commercial site, someone would have to be off the rockers to use it. Money is money any way you look at it whether it's from an IE (l)user or other. Easy way as well is to just use fix your httpd.conf like so:
BrowserMatchNoCase "MSIE" cocksucker
<FilesMatch *>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=cocksucker
</FilesMatch>
All those companies are on FuckedCompany.com now thats why you don't see them anymore. Seriously though, when things come out and are touted as `the next best thing`, especially in tech, don't expect it to last too long. Sometimes things go well but many, rather the majority of the times, things go bonkers for typical reasons.
Did you know that most of the write ups you see in magazines, and online sites were because the company who's being written up has a marketing department to overhype things? Well my guess is things were extremely overhyped, or it wasn't feasible for a company to spend to create something no one would buy.
Same thing happen with DLT (Digital Linear Tapes) once upon a while ago. It's no big secret that the next best thing is likely going to be the next big bust, especially with todays economy.
[Faces of Wireless]
How about holding off on who can build the fastest, neon lit, super-hyper-matic-vet-a-meat-a-veggie-matic, technology, and see who can build it correctly. Makes little sense to buy something so new, since 1) It hasn't been proven to be anything more than hype. 2) Assessments are not made to see how stable, secure, functional it is.
We've all seen so many `new technologies` this past year I don't think anyone could name em all, which shows a) They weren't that memorable b) Apparently the hype died c) somewhere along the line it wasn't the next best thing (now was it)
Little do people a lot of things like this happen. For instance, when former drug kingpin Pablo Escobar couldn't evade having his data sniffed by the CIA, Delta Force (U.S. Army), and others, he turned to good old fashioned pigeons. [Killing Pablo] I don't remember which chapter it is but it's there somewhere. Let's not forgot the recent rumors of Usama bin Laden plotting using remote controlled helicopters either.
Hey if it works and gets the job done go for it.
Company X will not listen to you, it may listen to someone close to the company who may have overheard a rumor, or someone that sees what the big bosses mis, but Company X has a paid staff that looks into how the company is going to make money. You know that thing called money right? Company X's bottom line is keeping investors happy on returns, not what the consumer wants as most people would like to think.Clearly this is where you sound more like a 15 year old rebel without a cause, as opposed to someone with a clue. This whole article has nothing to do with activism on any scale, so where did you get this rant from?Who threw a collective shit fit. Do you think the people at MS care at this point what someone, especially someone using alternatives to MS, thinks? They just beat the Department of Justice, which paves the way for them to do whatever they like. Surely you'd have to be kidding yourself if you think MS' backing off Smart Tags for now has anything to do with someone bitching about it.
Again your dissillusioned by thoughts of grandeur. I'd like to see one person in this place come up with a fair rebuttal word for word to counter what I've said. I know I have some flaws, but your original post sounds like nothing but someone who's been playing quake too long, and thinking they're some sort of "Cyber Super Hero"I rest my case
Nice to see they didn't do a roundabout releasing the OS, however when I think of Solaris I don't think much of its x86 arch. For those who've used it as well would know it's extremely an intense OS not made for anything under about 192mb ram, and a nice processor. It's CDE under x86 is like watching the thickest cement being sucked through a straw. Slow and clunky.
On the Sun platforms it's great, but Sun really layed it on think with enough Java to wake the dead. I like being able to jumpstart machines easily, and wish Dan Farmer and team would have kept their Titan program running over at Fish.com.
All in all it (Solaris) has its purposes, how much of that is on x86 is opinionated, and my opinion is, it shouldn't be
I'm not a Linux user (BSD baby) nor am I heavy on games, but isn't writing a book on Linux gaming sort of selling the Linux community short? Hear this out if you will.
If it's such a great thing to do, why haven't other gaming companies focused on creating an offspin development team focusing solely on creating Linux games? Could it be they think of Linux as still a `hobbyish' operating system not worthy of creating games for?
Its certainly a nice gesture but as stated if it's such a hot thing for a company to take up (gaming under Linux) why aren't many moving to push for stronger development. Is it just easier for companies to have Joe Bloe coder from Utah (no offense to developers) to create something for free they could capitalize on, as opposed to (dare I say this) looking into other alternatives aside from Windows.
Maybe I worded this poorly, but I see this as a free ride for gaming companies who could easily turn around and use ideas from those who read this book, and perhaps steal ideas from personal web pages and notes, get rich while they release a minimal amount of games for the *nix community.
Well congrats to the authors by all means since anything to *nix is a good thing in my eyes. Oh well back to "Tampering with Nature -- John Stoessel"
What I want to know is how the scientists managed to figure this out without killing the bugs. Did they use insect anesthesia or something to keep them alive to see their abdomens move to cause the light? If so then what about when you step on em and smear em, what causes the chemical to light, since obviously at that point the bug is dead.
So if it's just the after affect of the bug being smashed which causes the light to shine, how does it manage to halt light, is their like a belly shade covering it...
Now on a funnier note, imagine if we as people had that, well males rather. Our faces would be swollen from getting slapped at the beach by our partners.
It's 100% unbreakable and available without any high tech satellites.
Blame it all on having to track people via way of their social security numbers. Nobody asks for a lot of things when it comes down to passing info from business to business, but heck look at TRW and Equifax. It's shameful that the U.S. is so dependant on the Social (In)Security system, especially with so much identity theft going on.
I may sound like a troll of sorts or anti Intel, but when it comes to high end scientific engineering does anyone actually use anything outside the realms of Sun, Irix, and Alpha? Although benchmarks claim to show factual information, I've always seen them as a bit biased.
Typical PIV purchaser in my eyes: Gamer, Newbie buying preconfiged pc's. What about this end user where are the stats for the typical purchaser? Sometimes these benchmarks confuse the average person into thinking the PIV is lowly in comparison to others.
In this article we will try to answer the following three questions:
2.Can better compilers automatically create SSE-2 optimized code from simple C++ code?
3.Can Pentium 4 aware compilers boost the Pentium 4's floating-point performance past the strong FPU of the Athlon?
Again I may be off my rocker here, but most developers I've met have always customized their own machines, dual processors, other architectures, so again is it completely unbiased to say the PIV lacks? Förvirring om denna skit =\
One can easily see why most governments would try to outlaw online gaming. Taxes no other reasons why. Online gambling epsecially offshore gambling removes the currency normally given to the state/country. Here in the US well in NY at least we have OTB (Off Track Betting) which is monopolized... errr, controlled by the state, and anything in relation to horse racing passes through there without question, taxes are paid, Uncle S(c)am is happy. Lottery same thing.
Gambling is big business anywhere you go, and unless money is coming back into the state, they'll here none of it. Sort of similar to what the Secret Service did to Gold Age, a raid of their business. Governments despise people not paying money to them, and anyone doing so they're going to make sure they get them. What happened with Gold Age, is simple, no one pays taxes for buying `e-gold` and much can't be done to trace anything.
Big Bro gets pissed, we bitch, a week later another circumvention procedure takes over. Snowball Effects 101
which is why Windows XP will come bundled with a browser, media player, fire-wall, email client, and ISP.
Solution: Don't buy the thing for fucks sake. Has anyone ever had a gun stuck down their throat by an MS employee and been forced to purchase MS software? No so what the hell is the big deal?
Placing a firewall with all these moronic attacks taking place is a good thing definitely nothing wrong with MS doing so. Bundling a media player, OH MY GOD SAY IT ISN'T SO! Don't you think people would appreciate listening to music on their PC. Again no one is stopping anyone from using alternatives they can download, MS never threatened anyone for creating an alternative MS based media player.
OH MY GOD STOP IT!! An email client!! NO!!! What will they think of next, heaven knows no one really needs an email client. Nope they need a bare bones OS they can spend hours on end downloading everything from scratch. Evil Microsoft, how dare they.
All this bashing is making me sick. Shit I don't use MS, way I see it, out of sight out of mind, my opinion is let them be, they can self destruct on their own.
Immunix, NSA's SE-Linux, Bastille, Trustix, EnGarde ... All seek to claim "Secure Linux" with their distributions, yet I don't understand why the core developers of Linux don't sit down and audit their coding in better fashion?
Maybe it's because I've used OpenBSD way too long, and am critical but I feel someone somewhere is missing some key factors when creating these so called "Secure" distro's.
If Woody would have checked his code beforehand... this would have never happened. Remember that Woody Woodpecker cartoon? Well since I've made the switch to BSD's (Open for my site, Free @ home) I've never looked back at Linux.
I will however say kudos to the Bastille team for having some positive news on the Linux side of things, and hopefully more vendors will start supporting, even advocating any version of Nix versus the alternative
Personally I don't use Linux anymore so I don't really care, but I think it's a dumb move on Linus' part and here's why. Suppose you've just been hired as a sys admin in a company and have to recompile kernels across a couple dozen perhaps hundreds of Linux based servers... Suppose that company was crappy via way of having things documented.
It's so easy to just do a dmesg and see exactly what's being used in order to recompile the kernel, as well as determine should something be replaced, or removed to make things better for the network. Anyways it's his dictatorship... err... OS, however it'll just makes things a bit more difficult for some
You can download STunnel and do this on your own, it's definitely not a hard task to do.
Let's take a look at the average desktop user worthy to note that would spend capital on an OS, and note that the biggest market for this would have to be businesses. I've said it once a million times, it would cost companies an arm and a leg in downtime to move legacy systems over to anything other than MS, now that they've bastardized themselves into `find . -name *MS*` .
Aside from that, do you expect corporate types to understand how to compile programs, how to find the neccessary programs to support already business standardized documents such as
Sure you could make Mandrake as user friendly as possible, but it still won't look at good to CTO types who's only tech skills come as loading a cd and letting a self installer do its work for them. Its cost effective, and simpler that.
This is sort of an assinine idea of Mandrake considering the following factors. Right now the economy is down, and people are scared of dumping money into tech stocks. Redhat just turned it's first profit, and their profits were miniscule. Redhat will also crush them, and considering Mandrake is a Redhat spinoff, more people will take Redhat more serious than its clone.
Now only that but Redhat just announced going DB, of which it should strengthen their position among the Linux distro's. So why would someone want to invest money in Mandrake when the alternatives look alot snappier? They'd either be desperate, and going out of business hoping some quick investors would be clueless to invest in them so they could continue, or as arrogant as people depict the French. (oui!)
Judging on my log files for my site, I noticed that obviously the majority was Microsoft, followed by Netscape, then Mozilla Gecko, followed by Konqueror. I've tried Konqueror a while back and it was ok, I dreaded having to download KDE entirely though since I couldn't find konqueror as a standalone, and if I'm not mistaken it doesn't come as a standalone. (who knows I stay away from KDE2)
The browser wars really make little sense to me, for one I can view everything just fine in Netscape under FreeBSD, except Java/Javascripts blow, however when neccessary I fire up Mozilla to quash all problems. My problem with Mozilla is, it's rather (dare I say) bloated, and takes up a lot of resources, hence I guess to each their own.
Opera was cool a ways back, and I haven't tried it in some time, but I've heard, and seen posted there are click me spam ads all over the place. Lynx is great for visiting this site, but all in all I stick with good old faithful Netscape, who always loads my bitches' every curve just fine.
Some companies that can afford to open up some software to gain a new market for there hardware will come around and see the light of open source software
Amazing how MS is trying to make room for XBox isn't it. Moving towards a hardware development arena wouldn't be so hard for MS, but they'd stand to dish out a heck of a lot of money to do so, so it might be easier to buy someone... Say SGI?
What would the computing world think if MS did go out and do something similar, surely they could capture the attention of everyone, and SGI (although not at its height anymore) has some kick ass servers, Origin, Onyx.
I don't think MS is against open sourced software because they're afraid of losing revenue to the software/hardware companies like IBM, and Sun, personally I think they're afraid someone will gain insight to where they're going with their OS and create something more stabler, robust, faster, and cheaper.