As time goes by, it gets cheaper and cheaper to do what google does right now. That is, right now I believe they run something like 100,000+ servers spread throught several data centers. That costs money, but the price is declining.(truth be told, nobody knows exactly how many servers they use)
So we have an industry where it's getting easier to compete. At some point, it will be relatively cheap to do exactly what google is doing right now.
So who will come out on top? You need to attract people to your service with new innovation. Or if you are microsoft, you make your site default in your operating system.
The battle will no longer be about simply finding information, but what you do with it, and related services. It will be only harder to compete in that industry.
It's strictly for a good laugh. The guide is written before the game is done, so it's generally very innacurate. Such as when I looked at a guide for SWG a while ago. It was so far off on so many things it was just hilarious.
Also buying a guide for an mmo does not make you look like the smartest person in the store. It's like saying,"Hey, I have access to tons of up-to-date information, but I'll use this instead!";)
They laughed at Galileo, and Copernicus. My point is, there's nothing wrong with exploration that goes against the popular thoughts of the society of the day.
Why so negative about these people wanting to explore this? In the past people were ridiculed for wanting to explore other parts of the world, and find other artifacts. Should they have never gone?
I would never want to discourage anyone from such an endevour, whether it is about something from the Bible or studying creatures in the Galapagos.
"I agree... a cert won't mean much once the interview process starts, but it could make the difference in getting the interview in the first place."
That's very true,I've talked with quite a few people on the issue and basically the concensus is: You must have a 4 year degree first off, if you want higher level positions. Certs help you get past the HR drones, and get your foot caught in the door.
More MHZ syndrome all over again?
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The same thing happened with CPUs, all people would ever hear about wa MHZ over and over again. AMD even changed marketing tactics to try and show how their CPUs compare to intel cpus, even at lower clock speed.
Now the same thing has happened with cameras. It's all about megapixels. Your average consumer won't do enough research to learn about how the camera works, all they know is megapixels.
But what can be done? Instead of producing higher quality optics such as that on the mars rovers(1MP mind you), we get more megapixels with crappy everything else.
The Rules read: " 3. The flight vehicle must be flown twice within a 14-day period. Each flight must carry at least one person, to minimum altitude of 100 km (62 miles). The flight vehicle must be built with the capacity (weight and volume) to carry a minimum of 3 adults of height 188 cm (6 feet 2 inches) and weight 90 kg (198 pounds) each. Three people of this size or larger must be able to enter, occupy, and be fastened into the flight vehicle on Earth's surface prior to take-off, and equivalent ballast must be carried in-flight if the number of persons on-board during flight is less than 3 persons."
It didn't look like their vehicle has the capacity required, but I could be wrong. Sure didn't look like it to me.
Quote off the site:"The EZ-Rocket has flown 15 times to date. The first 13 flights were conducted at our base of operations at the Mojave Civilian Flight Test Center in Mojave, CA. Flights 14 and 15 were performed in front of a very large crowd of airshow attendees at the EAA AirVenture fly-in at Oshkosh, Wisconsin."
Why exactly are they not in the x-prize competition? Looks like they may be some real competition.
Well everyone else has covered just about everything...but I just wanted to add why I see the military using linux is a great thing! Do you know how much money they spend every year? Tons! Now what if they put some of that to work on improving Linux?
"No they wouldn't even let us have access to it anyways" you'd say. But Look at all of the things we have today because of military research? IE: um, the internet for one. And hundreds of other things.
They have the resources to make some great contributions to Linux, so you really can't complain there.
...In between seat and desk. He never mentioned which kernel version he's using, let alone recompile it with support for his card.
Ok well not exactly. This is exactly what that new thing groklaw is doing needs, more feedback from people who don't know what they're doing.
Granted, sound card support isn't amazing, but I've booted knoppix on many pcs where the sound did work just fine. Hell my tv card even works on the SuSe live cd too!
It's not too hard now to get a very usable desktop setup via Knoppix and other live CDs. But what's ironic is that whenever I use one the stupid refresh rate is at 60hz, burning my eyes out. How hard is it to make it an easy option to switch over to say, 1024x760@ 75hz? Is that so much to ask? Getting xfree86 to work right all the time isn't fun.
It would be interesting to have an implementation that required knocks in sequence from a particular set of IPs.
Say you needed a specific knock sequence from two specific IPs: Those two knock giving access to one of them, while in that process false knocks can be sent in case anyone is monitoring packets being sent to the server.
so even if you did manage to see what was going on, it would be difficult to figure it out if it involved something like 4 IPs giving dummy sequences.
Stargate would be great. It has the possibilities of basically any star wars game or other sci-fi series. It would take a lot of talent to make it something that stands out from the crowd, but it could be great (much like any of the star wars games that could have been great but flopped.)
The series is doing well too, I think they're starting a new one (new cast) and a movie in the works.
I would say that this is an interesting example of environmental art. A large, temporary display available for anyone to observe. And in this case interactive which is quite interesting. And yet even more interesting is that the observer can become part of the piece as they dial in, causing color changes.?
Well technically you could offer faster service. If you alter your cable modem's firmware you could get much higher speeds... But the company has tools to detect that and ban your modem from the network, and send you a nice letter.
But since it's shared bandwith you can't really do that anyway.
Just today was a Press Release about voice overs in EQ2. The videos are great and I can see this being a main features in most mmos to come. Not to mention Everquest has been running strong for 5 years now so they are quite established and experianced. (Death system is much better than EQlive too imo, no xp loss)
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So we have an industry where it's getting easier to compete. At some point, it will be relatively cheap to do exactly what google is doing right now.
So who will come out on top? You need to attract people to your service with new innovation. Or if you are microsoft, you make your site default in your operating system.
The battle will no longer be about simply finding information, but what you do with it, and related services. It will be only harder to compete in that industry.
I know they have some marketing sence, so why not?
Also buying a guide for an mmo does not make you look like the smartest person in the store. It's like saying,"Hey, I have access to tons of up-to-date information, but I'll use this instead!" ;)
It looked awsome, and no choppiness with quite a few people all together fighting.
They also accidentally ran it on a 512 mb system, on which is was a little choppy. But looks isn't everything.
They laughed at Galileo, and Copernicus. My point is, there's nothing wrong with exploration that goes against the popular thoughts of the society of the day.
I would never want to discourage anyone from such an endevour, whether it is about something from the Bible or studying creatures in the Galapagos.
Who knows, maybe they'll find something totally unrelated...oh that's "never" happened.
That's very true,I've talked with quite a few people on the issue and basically the concensus is: You must have a 4 year degree first off, if you want higher level positions. Certs help you get past the HR drones, and get your foot caught in the door.
Now the same thing has happened with cameras. It's all about megapixels. Your average consumer won't do enough research to learn about how the camera works, all they know is megapixels.
But what can be done? Instead of producing higher quality optics such as that on the mars rovers(1MP mind you), we get more megapixels with crappy everything else.
It didn't look like their vehicle has the capacity required, but I could be wrong. Sure didn't look like it to me.
Why exactly are they not in the x-prize competition? Looks like they may be some real competition.
I'd pay a bit more for the convenience factor. I wonder what the total operating cost is for this. hm
There doesn't seem to be any support for my axim x3i yet is there? I'd love to have mini-stumbler working on it.
If the songs are all tagged, that would be great.
"No they wouldn't even let us have access to it anyways" you'd say. But Look at all of the things we have today because of military research? IE: um, the internet for one. And hundreds of other things.
They have the resources to make some great contributions to Linux, so you really can't complain there.
As stated earlier here, plenty of people graduate without a clue about anything.
I'll take less bugs over rapid development any day.
Ok well not exactly. This is exactly what that new thing groklaw is doing needs, more feedback from people who don't know what they're doing.
Granted, sound card support isn't amazing, but I've booted knoppix on many pcs where the sound did work just fine. Hell my tv card even works on the SuSe live cd too!
It's not too hard now to get a very usable desktop setup via Knoppix and other live CDs. But what's ironic is that whenever I use one the stupid refresh rate is at 60hz, burning my eyes out. How hard is it to make it an easy option to switch over to say, 1024x760@ 75hz? Is that so much to ask? Getting xfree86 to work right all the time isn't fun.
We should start charging interest for reserve money held longer than 1 year....
Say you needed a specific knock sequence from two specific IPs: Those two knock giving access to one of them, while in that process false knocks can be sent in case anyone is monitoring packets being sent to the server.
so even if you did manage to see what was going on, it would be difficult to figure it out if it involved something like 4 IPs giving dummy sequences.
Stargate would be great. It has the possibilities of basically any star wars game or other sci-fi series. It would take a lot of talent to make it something that stands out from the crowd, but it could be great (much like any of the star wars games that could have been great but flopped.) The series is doing well too, I think they're starting a new one (new cast) and a movie in the works.
I would say that this is an interesting example of environmental art. A large, temporary display available for anyone to observe. And in this case interactive which is quite interesting. And yet even more interesting is that the observer can become part of the piece as they dial in, causing color changes.?
Well technically you could offer faster service. If you alter your cable modem's firmware you could get much higher speeds... But the company has tools to detect that and ban your modem from the network, and send you a nice letter. But since it's shared bandwith you can't really do that anyway.
Just today was a Press Release about voice overs in EQ2. The videos are great and I can see this being a main features in most mmos to come. Not to mention Everquest has been running strong for 5 years now so they are quite established and experianced. (Death system is much better than EQlive too imo, no xp loss)