Granted, a lot of the OG's (Original Gamers) may be giving up their consoles. I'm in that age range, and have played on every system from Pong on up. I have a PS2 but almost never use it.
He's right, don't trust people over 30 to be playing consoles.
However, if I'm not mistaken, a whole crapload of kids have been born in the last 30 years. Said crapload of children will still play consoles for quite some time to come. I doubt the consol industry will diminish in the coming years, in fact I doubt it will be even flat. It will grow.
Experimentals can have an N-Number. In fact, if they are non-ultralight experimentals and you expect to land at any kind of an airport (or fly through Class B, C, D, etc. airspace) you *must* have an N number.
An N number is akin to a car registration. If you wanted, you could build your own car and drive it in your backyard, but as soon as you want to drive that car on a public road, you will need to get it registered, and in most states, insured as well.
Same goes for the airplanes.
Check out Experimental Aircraft Association, eaa.org, for more info.
Mod parent down. The author misses the point completely.
CMS systems are not just about managing a website. In fact, a CMS system may not even push content to the web.
The book is NOT about managing websites. It is about managing content at the enterprise level.
As an example of content, think about Boeing. The have a huge amount of CONTENT (i.e. service documentation, engineering specs, wiring diagrams, etc.) that pertain to a specific jet.
If you were to look at the printed versions of all this content, I'm sure it will fill up a room.
This book is about managing that type of content. Not generating business based on a website.
Offtopic, but maybe the reason it is distorted is because you need almost 4 printed pages (for each of the above issues) to explain the issues.
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet" is what he said. He deserves to be made fun of for that. Yes he was rambling. Yes he later made it clear that he didn't create the internet.
The stupid coffee thing is still stupid. Don't dump coffe on yourself. Was it too hot? Most definitely. Was McDonalds an asshole about it? Yes. I read it, she still didn't deserve the secret amount she got. I'm sorry she got burned, I'm happy she got money. I'll still use the incident it to prove a point when appropriate.
Ok I'll bite... (Even though you'll be modded into oblivion in a few moments).
1) Carmack's games were never intended to help society. His games help society about as much as Mountain Dew, and I think that is quite alright.
2) I think the military actually used a custom DOOM port for traning. The game wasn't influenced by Carmack, it was written by him.
3) WTF does "I'll let you decide all the psychological reasons behind the expression that forms through the media of the computer." even mean? "expression"? Did you mean "expressions", "emotions", "inspiration" (good or otherwise).
Stop pretending to be smart, it makes you look stupid.
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Yup, I failed to proofread once again. My apologies for the grammer and spelling mistakes.
One of these days...
After using both, I prefer cable.
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As someone who has used both DSL and cable, I'd have to say cable wins hand down.
My story:
1 year of DSL on the Ryhthms (now defunct) network on a 128k link, then a year of Cable (ATT Broadband), now I'm back to DSL (last 10 months or so) with a Covad 144k link.
3 different services because I've lived in 3 different places in the last ~3 years.
My first bought with DSL occured because Cable wasn't available in my area, nor was Verizon DSL. The only thing I could get at home was a business DSL line from Ryhtms (128 up and down) for $100.00 a month. Install went smooth (1 month after ordering) and I had 5 static IPs. I didn't have the bandwidth to run much in the way of servers, but I was able to host my own DNS for some other projects. Service went down probably 2 full days a month. Not too bad, but it wasn't great.
Then I moved to the next town over. They had ATT Broadband. $49.00 a month. I must have been the only one on my segment using the broadband feature, because I could have 3 or 4 downloads going at once at speeds up to 700k. I also had a static DHCP host name, and had no trouble SSH'ing into my boxes remotely (I used a netgear 311 router/gateway and had 4 machines behind it).
Well, the girlfriend didn't like where we were living, so we moved after a year back to the town that had no cable broadband.Rhythms had just gone out of business, and I was back in 56k land.
After a month of research for a faster connection, the best I found was a Covad business connection (144 up and down) for $149.00 a month for 5 static IPs.(again, not really the bandwidth for runny and kind of a server, but static IPs can be useful) Install happened a week after I ordered and went fairly smoothly.
In the ~10 months I've had Covad, they have been back no less than 6 times to fix the connection. I'd say it was down 4 full days a month, especially if we have any major rainstorms.
With cable, I never had a problem, it was up 100% of the time, was much cheaper, and a lot faster. Of course, if I lived closer to a Central Office, I could get better DSL service at a cheaper price, but I don't...
However, my prayers were recently ordered and they just finished upgrading my part of town with the new digital cable lines. We have digital cable TV, and as soon as the year contract expires on the DSL, I'll be switching over to ATT Broadband once again.
Let's see, a guy takes some of his precious time and answers questions for your readers (unpaid I assume), and you show your gratitude with a snide comment such as Whatever. because he took a little extra time to format things the way he wanted to.
Perhaps they are being paid to provide a Solution, not just to code something for them.
Also, that's a pretty bad analogy.Would you get to keep your code if you worked for a company? No, the code would belong to them.
When you work for a company you've usually already signed away your IP rights for your work. You are an employee of the people paying you. He is working as a vendor. Whole differnent ballpark. He can do whatever he wants to do as long as the customer accepts it.
Pssst... there was more at the end of the article that you may have missed...
Let's leave aside for now the issue of totally open source vs. closed source. There are times when you want the product to be proprietary as we do, however I want them to feel comfortable using our code so that if a proverbial plane were to fly into our building and wipe us all out then they don't go down the tubes with us.
"Wrong. I'm saying the government shouldn't subsidize project losses in a profitable company. The full $177m should come out of MS's piggy banks, and I'd bet MS isn't paying much."
Uhm, what? The government isn't subsidizing anything. MS lost 177 million. You don't think they are paying much what? Taxes? On the -177 Million?
I'm Fred. I open a coffee shop next to Dunkin Donuts. I sell donuts and coffee at a loss to compete with the market leader. I lose 177,000 dollars in a year. I don't have to pay taxes on that money since I didn't make any. However, uncle sam doesn't *give* me money because I lost 177 million.
Offtopic, yes I know. But, since the site is totally/.'ed...
I've been one of the people who complain about the slashdot effect, lack of cached content, etc. etc.
But in this case, the guy did it to himself. With a database backed site no less... oh well....
Here's the havok that has been thrust upon his server if anyone is interested...
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The paper is only as good as the data from which it is derived.
He used data from SourceForge, and (apparently, I couldn't read through the whole thing) did not contact the individual projects for specifics.
Who is to say that just because a project is on sourceforge, that this is the only means being used to manage the development of the project.
A project may only have one developer listed in sourceforge, but who's to say that the sole developer listed is only the maintainer, and the maintainer collects bugfixes, feature upgrades, etc. by some other means (for example a personal CVS server), then thakes the code fixes and publishes them to SourceForge for distribution?
Add that to the countless small bigfixes that are sent into developers via email from random people, and it's easy to through this papers theories out the window.
I didn't see any degradation of service at all. I had a line split into a TV tuner card. There was no difference in the signal.
Mind, you wouldn't want to split it off onto a 75' cable and run it up three floors.
Works with Digital Cable as well.
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I had AT&T digital cable and this method still works.
It seems that they are transmitting analog cable along with the digital signal.
I paid for the "Pay" TV services as well (HBO, Skin^H^H^H^HCinemax, etc, and rented two digital converter boxes, but I spliced the line from the cable modem into a TV tuner card and had analog basic cable on my computer.
Now if they just made a tuner card that AT&T supported so you could get the pay channels on your computer (paying for them of course). The digital music channels weren't too bad. Hmm, wonder if you could rip those into MP3?:-p
The Peruvian Congressman's reply to the Microsoft FUD has to be one of the most well thought out, and level-headed arguments against MS that I have read. It's a rather long read, but you should check it out.
But wouldn't you need some sort of secure central server to keep track of karma points? Otherwise it could be easily hacked if this value were stored on the client.
Once you have a central *anything* in this type of network you defeat the main purpose of the original design. It's supposed to be distributed. A central point leaves it vulnerable to a number of bad(TM) things. Litigation being one of them.
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The order is all wacky, but here is a tase for those who don't want to get the dead tree version.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/
Granted, a lot of the OG's (Original Gamers) may be giving up their consoles. I'm in that age range, and have played on every system from Pong on up. I have a PS2 but almost never use it.
He's right, don't trust people over 30 to be playing consoles.
However, if I'm not mistaken, a whole crapload of kids have been born in the last 30 years. Said crapload of children will still play consoles for quite some time to come. I doubt the consol industry will diminish in the coming years, in fact I doubt it will be even flat. It will grow.
Wrong, you do not have to register a copyright for a work to be copyrighted.
You don't even have to state on the packaging that the work is copyrighted. It just IS.
Stop trolling.
Experimentals can have an N-Number. In fact, if they are non-ultralight experimentals and you expect to land at any kind of an airport (or fly through Class B, C, D, etc. airspace) you *must* have an N number.
An N number is akin to a car registration. If you wanted, you could build your own car and drive it in your backyard, but as soon as you want to drive that car on a public road, you will need to get it registered, and in most states, insured as well.
Same goes for the airplanes.
Check out Experimental Aircraft Association, eaa.org, for more info.
This is only art of it, but it's the color changing part...
Either that, or he is just spinning us. ;)
It's all spin baby. The man is a lobbyist. He is the king of spin. He is selling to us right now.
Mod parent down. The author misses the point completely.
CMS systems are not just about managing a website. In fact, a CMS system may not even push content to the web.
The book is NOT about managing websites. It is about managing content at the enterprise level.
As an example of content, think about Boeing. The have a huge amount of CONTENT (i.e. service documentation, engineering specs, wiring diagrams, etc.) that pertain to a specific jet.
If you were to look at the printed versions of all this content, I'm sure it will fill up a room.
This book is about managing that type of content. Not generating business based on a website.
Offtopic, but maybe the reason it is distorted is because you need almost 4 printed pages (for each of the above issues) to explain the issues.
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet" is what he said. He deserves to be made fun of for that. Yes he was rambling. Yes he later made it clear that he didn't create the internet.
The stupid coffee thing is still stupid. Don't dump coffe on yourself. Was it too hot? Most definitely. Was McDonalds an asshole about it? Yes. I read it, she still didn't deserve the secret amount she got. I'm sorry she got burned, I'm happy she got money. I'll still use the incident it to prove a point when appropriate.
Ok I'll bite... (Even though you'll be modded into oblivion in a few moments).
1) Carmack's games were never intended to help society. His games help society about as much as Mountain Dew, and I think that is quite alright.
2) I think the military actually used a custom DOOM port for traning. The game wasn't influenced by Carmack, it was written by him.
3) WTF does "I'll let you decide all the psychological reasons behind the expression that forms through the media of the computer." even mean? "expression"? Did you mean "expressions", "emotions", "inspiration" (good or otherwise).
Stop pretending to be smart, it makes you look stupid.
Yup, I failed to proofread once again. My apologies for the grammer and spelling mistakes.
One of these days...
As someone who has used both DSL and cable, I'd have to say cable wins hand down.
My story:
1 year of DSL on the Ryhthms (now defunct) network on a 128k link, then a year of Cable (ATT Broadband), now I'm back to DSL (last 10 months or so) with a Covad 144k link.
3 different services because I've lived in 3 different places in the last ~3 years.
My first bought with DSL occured because Cable wasn't available in my area, nor was Verizon DSL. The only thing I could get at home was a business DSL line from Ryhtms (128 up and down) for $100.00 a month. Install went smooth (1 month after ordering) and I had 5 static IPs. I didn't have the bandwidth to run much in the way of servers, but I was able to host my own DNS for some other projects. Service went down probably 2 full days a month. Not too bad, but it wasn't great.
Then I moved to the next town over. They had ATT Broadband. $49.00 a month. I must have been the only one on my segment using the broadband feature, because I could have 3 or 4 downloads going at once at speeds up to 700k. I also had a static DHCP host name, and had no trouble SSH'ing into my boxes remotely (I used a netgear 311 router/gateway and had 4 machines behind it).
Well, the girlfriend didn't like where we were living, so we moved after a year back to the town that had no cable broadband.Rhythms had just gone out of business, and I was back in 56k land.
After a month of research for a faster connection, the best I found was a Covad business connection (144 up and down) for $149.00 a month for 5 static IPs.(again, not really the bandwidth for runny and kind of a server, but static IPs can be useful) Install happened a week after I ordered and went fairly smoothly.
In the ~10 months I've had Covad, they have been back no less than 6 times to fix the connection. I'd say it was down 4 full days a month, especially if we have any major rainstorms.
With cable, I never had a problem, it was up 100% of the time, was much cheaper, and a lot faster. Of course, if I lived closer to a Central Office, I could get better DSL service at a cheaper price, but I don't...
However, my prayers were recently ordered and they just finished upgrading my part of town with the new digital cable lines. We have digital cable TV, and as soon as the year contract expires on the DSL, I'll be switching over to ATT Broadband once again.
Whatever.
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Let's see, a guy takes some of his precious time and answers questions for your readers (unpaid I assume), and you show your gratitude with a snide comment such as Whatever. because he took a little extra time to format things the way he wanted to.
Way to go
Tools.
Perhaps they are being paid to provide a Solution, not just to code something for them.
Also, that's a pretty bad analogy.Would you get to keep your code if you worked for a company? No, the code would belong to them.
When you work for a company you've usually already signed away your IP rights for your work. You are an employee of the people paying you. He is working as a vendor. Whole differnent ballpark. He can do whatever he wants to do as long as the customer accepts it.
Pssst... there was more at the end of the article that you may have missed...
Let's leave aside for now the issue of totally open source vs. closed source. There are times when you want the product to be proprietary as we do, however I want them to feel comfortable using our code so that if a proverbial plane were to fly into our building and wipe us all out then they don't go down the tubes with us.
"Either you're a moron, or a troll. Probably both."
I bet these are on of those (probably numerous) times tha you wished you had kept your trap shut.
The article states that AMAZON made the "pregnant gay man" mistake.
TiVo did no such thing.
they lose 177 million to save 100 million in taxes?
Sounds like fuzzy math.
In the meantime, there are a lot of happy consumers who have a nice cheap gaming system.
Maybe we should just think of the XBox as our own little tax return from Xbox.
"Wrong. I'm saying the government shouldn't subsidize project losses in a profitable company. The full $177m should come out of MS's piggy banks, and I'd bet MS isn't paying much."
Uhm, what? The government isn't subsidizing anything. MS lost 177 million. You don't think they are paying much what? Taxes? On the -177 Million?
I'm Fred. I open a coffee shop next to Dunkin Donuts. I sell donuts and coffee at a loss to compete with the market leader. I lose 177,000 dollars in a year. I don't have to pay taxes on that money since I didn't make any. However, uncle sam doesn't *give* me money because I lost 177 million.
Offtopic, yes I know. But, since the site is totally /.'ed...
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I've been one of the people who complain about the slashdot effect, lack of cached content, etc. etc.
But in this case, the guy did it to himself. With a database backed site no less... oh well....
Here's the havok that has been thrust upon his server if anyone is interested...
Warning: Too many connections in
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in
Warning: MySQL: A link to the server could not be established in
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
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The paper is only as good as the data from which it is derived.
He used data from SourceForge, and (apparently, I couldn't read through the whole thing) did not contact the individual projects for specifics.
Who is to say that just because a project is on sourceforge, that this is the only means being used to manage the development of the project.
A project may only have one developer listed in sourceforge, but who's to say that the sole developer listed is only the maintainer, and the maintainer collects bugfixes, feature upgrades, etc. by some other means (for example a personal CVS server), then thakes the code fixes and publishes them to SourceForge for distribution?
Add that to the countless small bigfixes that are sent into developers via email from random people, and it's easy to through this papers theories out the window.
I didn't see any degradation of service at all. I had a line split into a TV tuner card. There was no difference in the signal.
Mind, you wouldn't want to split it off onto a 75' cable and run it up three floors.
I had AT&T digital cable and this method still works.
:-p
It seems that they are transmitting analog cable along with the digital signal.
I paid for the "Pay" TV services as well (HBO, Skin^H^H^H^HCinemax, etc, and rented two digital converter boxes, but I spliced the line from the cable modem into a TV tuner card and had analog basic cable on my computer.
Now if they just made a tuner card that AT&T supported so you could get the pay channels on your computer (paying for them of course). The digital music channels weren't too bad. Hmm, wonder if you could rip those into MP3?
How well do these things deal with heat? Seems like they'd overheat, no?>
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In *nix:
sed = "Stream EDitor"
lex = "LEXical Analyzer"
I don't think they were going for a "latin" theme for program names, they just used names that worked.
The Peruvian Congressman's reply to the Microsoft FUD has to be one of the most well thought out, and level-headed arguments against MS that I have read. It's a rather long read, but you should check it out.
But wouldn't you need some sort of secure central server to keep track of karma points? Otherwise it could be easily hacked if this value were stored on the client.
Once you have a central *anything* in this type of network you defeat the main purpose of the original design. It's supposed to be distributed. A central point leaves it vulnerable to a number of bad(TM) things. Litigation being one of them.