That's right we're gonna have us a great big roast on the flames of the XBOX funeral pyre? Dance naked round the flames and shit while the XBOXes all go up the fucking chimney. Wanna know why?
1 Millard Fillmore syndrome - we did it that way when he was President and we're not changing now. We know better, even if we don't we'll licence our way to prosperity.
2 The XBOX is not a console - its a computer in a kewl box and no monitor. It's too damn complex no matter how great it works. MS shoulda built a player module for your PC to play the XBOX games on. OR better yet make DirectXBOX-9 or something that shims the games to your high end GAMER PC. Those people will buy a trillion games that you make a few bucks on each copy.
Remember the good old days when a good engineer could race a computer to a solution with a circular slide rule? I do. Then there were complete IC based computers and we couldn't do that anymore. Then around 1987 we all said 25 nano lithography was the theoretical limit of the physics. Which of course was wrong because it was based on materials science that was already old.
At any rate - I don't feel comfortable making prognostications about technology 10 years in the future. Any every time I think about I also think about Turing's paraodx. That says, that if you need 10 years to solve a problem today but in 3 years you will probably have the technology to solve it in only 5 years then you should wait 3 years to start and you will be 2 years ahead of the games already.
It's a safe bet that no matter what the vendor says, they will pimp out whatever they can for money. They will lie and cheat and then lie and cheat about that.
Either don't give them any true or useful information or don't give them any information at all. Leave footprints like misspelling your own name in a very unique way. Track it and complain complain complain when you find them out. cc a copy of your complaint to your state attorney general's office.
If the transition costs you impose on your customers is too high they'll run for the door screaming. It doesn't matter how wonderful your technology is. That's why DIVX and HDTV are dead or dyeing for example. You can't make it so hard to use or purchase or install that only primary adopters use it.
cough cough hack linux cough bsd
That's the lesson of desktop linux - it doesn't matter HOW BAD MS is - what matters is HOW HARD the transition to something else is.
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"We do this thing and the other not because they are easy but because they are hard."
I read the first chapter of this posted on BN and I am underwhelmed. The author throws in these cliches that are pretty disturbing and signs of bad writing.
Baby-babble-barbarian speak. Let's face it we don't how they talked so making up something little better than kung-fu talk is not good. It makes the characters seem stupid.
All kinds of concepts about religion and philosophy tossed in like we know all about it. You practically need footnotes to enjoy the book.
Starting the book mid sentence. I understand this is vogue in the age of the sub second sound byte, but I was reading it cold with no preview from/. I would have no clue what this book was about.
Got to build a bunch of new tools for ID management, software distribution, aggregated backup/storage management, automatic help tickets and so on. For a service provider, a new golly gee whiz server type is just another lump of hard work we have to retrofit into our infrastructure. I sure help the management tools work otherwise it's going to cost tons of money to do everything by hand.
My cabinets are in a third party's cage house in New Jersey, their business office is in Santa Clara, CA, my provider CHQ is in NY, the service arm for me the customer is based in NC, the liason to the customer is in Florida and systems management is via Colorado.
Go ahead and try - it's great big beautiful world.
Honestly who are we talking about here? Kids from ages 10-13. That's about it. Earlier and most of it goes over their heads and older and they pretty much know how to deal with it.
And put the computer(s) in your home in an open common area. The ones that aren't in an open common area you should put bootup passwords on.
And ultimately the Internet will be a weapon of tyranny.
We watch we read we absorb like sponges. Uncritical, unreflective only having an emotional response to the next car ad or half naked chick. Burning buildings, quarter pounders, sports highlights, political arguments...we can't call them apart any more. Rage in the street, pick up a rock, loot burn kill. The kid with the Nike T-shirt and the gun could be Compton, Ramallah, Freetown, Kuala Kampur, Seattle, Buenos Aires.
If you watch a performance of Oedipus you will have sex with your mother and kill your father.
If you watch a performance of Phaedra you will have sex with your step mother and kill yourself.
If you watch a performance of Europa you will have sex with a cow.
If you watch a performance of Orestes you will kill your mother with an axe after she kills your dad while he's having sex with his girlfriend in his bathtub. Then you will have sex with your sister and die miserably.
yes - it's the LICENCE not the code. The licence has some very vague and coy terms about not really having done THEIR OWN due dilligence which makes it anethema to my legal department.
We've had a problem for YEARS with our legal beagles and the openSSH licence because the author thought he/she was being cute. The licence has a section that more or less says "I'm not entirely sure that I haven't borrowed pieces of code where those authors may decide to come after a user for any reason. At any rate that's not my problem and strictly a matter between you and them."
Which is a horrible way to protect the author from third party lawsuits. And the result is that our corporation does not officially sanction the use of openSSH. This leads to more suspicion and resistance to other open source tools and generally makes a mess of the whole effort.
I really wish authors would get a legal reading of their own licences for a reality check before doing what commercial licences do - that is "use this software and you are on your friggin own no matter what hombre!! I mean what next for licences? Rilly rilly kewl pictures and animations and shit?
I don't care WTF kind of CGI you've loaded on - sheeeee-it I don't care if it's a three dimensional hologram that personally tosses the popcorn in my mouth in the movie house. It's a fucking chick flick/date movie. And Toby??? Hey man either get ON or OFF drugs, whatever the fuck it is you need.
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do you know what business cases are or do you have your own head up your ass
do you know what a transitional model looks like or are just wet for the rilly kewl games
stay in your moms basement and keep wanking
George Lucas could've put a Rhino turd on the screen and the dimbots would still have waited in line for 8 months to get the first ticket.
Face it. Some things are like drugs for people too timid to take drugs. For people like that we have Star Wars.
Let me get this straight you nimrods.
It's a troll when the only person who thinks that it is makes it so?
that's fucking stupid
That's right we're gonna have us a great big roast on the flames of the XBOX funeral pyre? Dance naked round the flames and shit while the XBOXes all go up the fucking chimney. Wanna know why?
1 Millard Fillmore syndrome - we did it that way when he was President and we're not changing now. We know better, even if we don't we'll licence our way to prosperity.
2 The XBOX is not a console - its a computer in a kewl box and no monitor. It's too damn complex no matter how great it works. MS shoulda built a player module for your PC to play the XBOX games on. OR better yet make DirectXBOX-9 or something that shims the games to your high end GAMER PC. Those people will buy a trillion games that you make a few bucks on each copy.
That would be great. Something along the lines of "I Heard Ramona Sing".
The Day the Earth Stood Still is greatest Sci Fi movie ever made.
And C'mon, Total Recall is the Bomb.
Remember the good old days when a good engineer could race a computer to a solution with a circular slide rule? I do. Then there were complete IC based computers and we couldn't do that anymore. Then around 1987 we all said 25 nano lithography was the theoretical limit of the physics. Which of course was wrong because it was based on materials science that was already old.
At any rate - I don't feel comfortable making prognostications about technology 10 years in the future. Any every time I think about I also think about Turing's paraodx. That says, that if you need 10 years to solve a problem today but in 3 years you will probably have the technology to solve it in only 5 years then you should wait 3 years to start and you will be 2 years ahead of the games already.
It's a safe bet that no matter what the vendor says, they will pimp out whatever they can for money. They will lie and cheat and then lie and cheat about that.
Either don't give them any true or useful information or don't give them any information at all. Leave footprints like misspelling your own name in a very unique way. Track it and complain complain complain when you find them out. cc a copy of your complaint to your state attorney general's office.
If the transition costs you impose on your customers is too high they'll run for the door screaming. It doesn't matter how wonderful your technology is. That's why DIVX and HDTV are dead or dyeing for example. You can't make it so hard to use or purchase or install that only primary adopters use it.
cough cough hack linux cough bsd
That's the lesson of desktop linux - it doesn't matter HOW BAD MS is - what matters is HOW HARD the transition to something else is.
"We do this thing and the other not because they are easy but because they are hard."
- JFK
Well I'm sorry I have an actual opinion. Excuse the fuck out of me?
Go get another latte, punk.
I read the first chapter of this posted on BN and I am underwhelmed. The author throws in these cliches that are pretty disturbing and signs of bad writing.
/. I would have no clue what this book was about.
Baby-babble-barbarian speak. Let's face it we don't how they talked so making up something little better than kung-fu talk is not good. It makes the characters seem stupid.
All kinds of concepts about religion and philosophy tossed in like we know all about it. You practically need footnotes to enjoy the book.
Starting the book mid sentence. I understand this is vogue in the age of the sub second sound byte, but I was reading it cold with no preview from
Got to build a bunch of new tools for ID management, software distribution, aggregated backup/storage management, automatic help tickets and so on. For a service provider, a new golly gee whiz server type is just another lump of hard work we have to retrofit into our infrastructure. I sure help the management tools work otherwise it's going to cost tons of money to do everything by hand.
My cabinets are in a third party's cage house in New Jersey, their business office is in Santa Clara, CA, my provider CHQ is in NY, the service arm for me the customer is based in NC, the liason to the customer is in Florida and systems management is via Colorado.
How many cops do you want to send? All of them?
Go ahead and try - it's great big beautiful world.
Honestly who are we talking about here? Kids from ages 10-13. That's about it. Earlier and most of it goes over their heads and older and they pretty much know how to deal with it.
And put the computer(s) in your home in an open common area. The ones that aren't in an open common area you should put bootup passwords on.
And ultimately the Internet will be a weapon of tyranny.
We watch we read we absorb like sponges. Uncritical, unreflective only having an emotional response to the next car ad or half naked chick. Burning buildings, quarter pounders, sports highlights, political arguments...we can't call them apart any more. Rage in the street, pick up a rock, loot burn kill. The kid with the Nike T-shirt and the gun could be Compton, Ramallah, Freetown, Kuala Kampur, Seattle, Buenos Aires.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Put a bigblock Cheby in't, hydrolifters, gold 17's, chain steering wheel
this lowrider gonna beat ya MoFo ass !
Here are some of the themes:
t ion
Sexual jealousy
Murder
Envy
Revenge
Paranoia
Domina
Repressed Homoeroticism
Oedipus complex
Rock On !!
What's the point - it looks almost unusuable.
Compaqard?
Hewlit ComParKQD?
Placard?
If you watch a performance of Oedipus you will have sex with your mother and kill your father.
If you watch a performance of Phaedra you will have sex with your step mother and kill yourself.
If you watch a performance of Europa you will have sex with a cow.
If you watch a performance of Orestes you will kill your mother with an axe after she kills your dad while he's having sex with his girlfriend in his bathtub. Then you will have sex with your sister and die miserably.
yes - it's the LICENCE not the code. The licence has some very vague and coy terms about not really having done THEIR OWN due dilligence which makes it anethema to my legal department.
We've had a problem for YEARS with our legal beagles and the openSSH licence because the author thought he/she was being cute. The licence has a section that more or less says "I'm not entirely sure that I haven't borrowed pieces of code where those authors may decide to come after a user for any reason. At any rate that's not my problem and strictly a matter between you and them."
Which is a horrible way to protect the author from third party lawsuits. And the result is that our corporation does not officially sanction the use of openSSH. This leads to more suspicion and resistance to other open source tools and generally makes a mess of the whole effort.
I really wish authors would get a legal reading of their own licences for a reality check before doing what commercial licences do - that is "use this software and you are on your friggin own no matter what hombre!! I mean what next for licences? Rilly rilly kewl pictures and animations and shit?
I don't care WTF kind of CGI you've loaded on - sheeeee-it I don't care if it's a three dimensional hologram that personally tosses the popcorn in my mouth in the movie house. It's a fucking chick flick/date movie. And Toby??? Hey man either get ON or OFF drugs, whatever the fuck it is you need.
You're stealing oxygen you haven't contracted to breathe so you need to drown in your own kids' blood.
and you have a nice day too!!