Well, I use a wireless router at my house and i regularly get pings of under 20 on gaming servers... Low latency is quite possible...
as far as expense goes, i'm more talking about "pain in the butt" of setting up a wired lan... There's nothing easy about setting up a lan party for 200+ people...
Sounds like a nice solution to save the pain in the butt of setting up large lan gaming events like the CPL... If a company can come up with a "gaming version" of this idea that "guarantees" lower latency and such i bet a lot of places will start adopting it... The only cords you'd have would be power cords... i like.
I wonder if the managment team was given an ultimatum by the devteam before they walked...
If there was one given, i can't blame the team really. If things aren't being handled as they should have been and the management had a chance to fix it and refused to do so, then the devteam deserves the chance to develop the product in the way that seems more appropriate using the ideas of OSS/GPL "rules" as a reference (which includes leaving the organization and starting a new "fork" if need be).
I do however think that a fork is ALWAYS bad for business at least for a good while. It's going to take the dev team a while to get organized with a newly engineered focus, meanwhile the old "team" flounders... In this case theres not even really a dev team left to flounder. Sadly this looks like a lose/lose for a while. As always "we'll see what happens."
However, the patent reform plans allow for challenging any patent that's granted within 90 days of the day it's approved.
If they employed a group of people to handle these cases, I think it would make a big difference. Companies would stop spending thousands a day to patent everything they could think of because stupid patents, patents that are basically for other peoples technology (iPod) and overbroad patents would be challenged by competing companies.
You'd probably end up seeing a lot of really legit and true patents filed and there would eventually be a stop to this "patent everything you can find" crap.
Lets hope not. I think with all the work MS is "trying" to do to improve their image, this would completely thrash any sense of being human they have accumulated.
I think the first step in patent reform is for companies to start challenging patents that already exist. Not their pathetic plan for challenging new patents. And on another note, it's hard to blame the USPO since they're highly understaffed and underfunded all while having more patents submitted than ever before. i guess that would make the first step: giving them more resources...
what's interesting is that even though I suck and don't know what i'm talking about in my post, I still get modded up. thank you slashdot for helping my self esteem!!!:-)
Is this even worth arguing with you? Linux hasn't been around long enough to build the roots of the internet. The roots of the internet go back several decades. And the telephone system? My gosh that's a pathetic statement if i ever saw one. The telephone system has been around almost a century... Linux? Just over a decade. Get a clue....
The DOJ hasn't taken action against MS in ages and the only reason it did is because some loudmouthed guy wouldnt shut up about how vile MS was and eventually someone fell for his pathetic act...
Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere and learn how to spell and punctuate properly. MS is not some disease. Linux is not some Godsend. They both have mountains of problems and they both have mountains of benefits.
This pretty much proves the pathetic state of our legal system... The fact that essentially the same case can be tried twice within a very close timeframe and two different results can be achieved. I can understand that something 50 years ago may get a different result than now based on changes in society... But we're talking here about two of the same cases sitting in the same medium in a very close proximity in time. I think it's time for some judicial reform... Maybe that's just me...
well, what are you complaining about? apparently everyone else in the world has decided that when they sue MS, this is their stance. It's not a problem with them until MS has used their product for 15 years and they can sue for 500 million instead of sueing as soon as MS started "abusing" their patents for $50,000 and royalties from then on out... If everyone else does it with overbroad patents and they all attack MS, why is that OK and not for MS to do it the other way around? Double standard much? i think software patents are evil, but that goes for the people who use them against MS as well...
why should i prove the non existence of something to you? I think you need to proce the existence of it to me....
And i think it's pretty obvious you're an MS basher. MS is just a business doing business and in case you hadn't noticed, they've been working round the clock on cleaning up their act. If you want to bash something, bash the low quality code found in 95% of open source applications.
And if you want to bash Windows security, set a band of hackers, the size of the ones going after windows, after linux instead, and i'd bet tons of money Linux prolly has more holes in it than Windows. It's just a smaller target...
I'm no Microsoft lover or anything, i'm just sick of the brainless MS bashing by people who couldn't care less about facts vs blathering opinion. MS is not evil... linux is not perfect. Stop being a robot for a change...
It's pretty obvious, since MS started this patent craze after being sued over ridiculous overbroad patents, that they are just doing things like this to cover their butt. They've NEVER sued anyone over a patent. I highly doubt they ever will unless it's a blatent and public rebellion or something...
nice. I also used to write all my shell scripts in PHP as well. I changes jobs to more of a data-mining position so i dont do it anymore, but it was incredibly useful. I did all sorts of string manipulation and stuff as well.
One of my favorite things was using the functions that would open a file as an array of strings. One element for every line in the file. It makes flat file information storage a snap...
I wrote a script that would open snort logs and sort through them for things of interest, decide what was worth keeping (snort gets a lot of predictable false alarms), save it to a file, e-mail the file to me, then archive the log/email files for that day. Every time the month changed it would then archive the months worth of snort detections into its own archive directory. ridiculously powerful...
....php was, for me, the easiest language to pick up. There's a plethora of built in functions to help you do just about anything and the syntax is like a hodgepodge of other languages best points put together. Maybe not everyone feels this way, but it's definatley in my top 5 favorite languages to write in. The only book(s) i think any programmer needs to pick up PHP are the visual quickstart guides from peachpit press. (shameless plug i'm afraid, but i love their stuff.)
Can you imagine if someday they release the full sourcecode? that would be pretty slick...
I honestly think if MS released an emulator like Mac did with their OS that would work with *NIX and OSX, they would cement themselves for a long time. No one would have a reason to leave if they got the performance good enough on the thing.
But this is MS here, they'd never do that unfortunatley.
I'll agree with that. Take gaming for example. The closest thing to "gaming" is nezuis (or whatever the name of it is). It's "ok" at best. The framerate is pretty much cruddy on everything and the graphics just don't provide what the framerate indicates they should.
However, there are a lot of cases in which closed source niche software sucks just as bad, so i guess there's a big picture too.
I guess there's just a million cases of "this works great here but not here" items that you'd have to take into account when make a decision.
I know we all hate to see anyone doggin on linux... To a degree they have a point though. If linux is offering free software and such but a lot of OSS apps don't have the needed/wanted features of the paid programs, a lot of people are still going to pay for the "non-free" stuff.
I will say though, that OSS apps are getting better and better about providing the user with what they would get if they were paying for a similar program. I'm not sure this post should really be titled about linux at all. it seems more of a concern of "quality of OSS software.
On the other hand, you find an OSS piece of software like firefox and you get a HUGE amount of customization potential and a ton of included features to boot... and EXTENSIONS!
There's two sides to every story i guess and to a degree they have a point, but on other plains the table is turned to a large degree. I find some OSS aps to be FAR supoerior to similar apps that you can shell money out on...
The biggest curse with inkjet/bubblejet printers is that when you want one, they all but give the thing to you, but then charge you 50+ for an ink refill which will run out within a few hundred pages (or less). The companies really pretty much stay in business based on the ink sales.
Buying a "cheap" laser printer is actually much more cost effective. You save a lot more in the long run if you don't mind printing only in B&W. 5000+ pages per toner at about $100 for the toner is a much better deal than $50 for the ink which will likely last you only around 100 pages give or take.
windows is VERY easy to use. You're just sensationalizing here.... Try going back and working on an apple 2 or even the "revolutionary" amiga workbench. Nothing that has come along really comes close to the ease of use of windows.
OSX is more complicated than any mac os so far....
Linux....that speaks for itself...
Windows, there's a button at the bottom that says start... it has a menu in there that says "all programs." seems pretty easy to me. You stick in a CD and you can an installer screen. That program now shows up in that "All Programs" menu. It's an extremely easy system to use. And in the end, it's just as secure as any other OS out there, it just happens to be a bigger target gbecause of its popularity...
If in 10 years linux was more popular than windows, it would have more holes being exploited and everyone would complain about how windows was more secure...
I'm by no means a zealot for windows, but give credit where it is due... Windows is a good product no matter how you want to whine about it. MS at times had some "interesting" business tactics and they got sued. They paid up and essentially "paid their due for the crimes." How often do you see MS going around and sueing people? rarely if ever. All these patents they get are just to cover their butt from morons looking for more reasons to sue people. The only times MS HAS sued anyone, it's been very legit and they had good reason to. Even in this whole google thing. I love the heck out of google, but if this guy signed this agreement, then he needs to stick with it and wait a year before working with google...and google is wrong to defend him. From what it looks like, other than the google PR blitz that is, MS has an open and closed case on this one. he left to work with a WELL-KNOWN direct competitor to MS and violated his agreement with MS...
You forgot the ever important point that you can't run OSX without the hardware... So essentially unless you shell out for hardware you can't have the software thus, in principal, making the hardware and software prices: one.
with almost all of the potentially vulnerable ones they only said really that 73k of them were vulnerable to something... and only 10k of those "definately" were.... 73k = 2.92% The onlther 230k might not have been vulnerable at all, they just think there's a chance that they might be. This, ladies and gents, is called sensationalism...
kinda does away with "leaving work at work" doesn't it? I think anyone under these rules would up and quit... Of course i wouldnt put it past walmart to try and implement it for some reason or another...
It's hard to say. It might be two years before they add that feature so the xbox might be selling for 200 anyway. i'd imagine it would only raise the price by like 30-50 bucks, but i may be way off...
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Well, I use a wireless router at my house and i regularly get pings of under 20 on gaming servers... Low latency is quite possible... as far as expense goes, i'm more talking about "pain in the butt" of setting up a wired lan... There's nothing easy about setting up a lan party for 200+ people...
Sounds like a nice solution to save the pain in the butt of setting up large lan gaming events like the CPL... If a company can come up with a "gaming version" of this idea that "guarantees" lower latency and such i bet a lot of places will start adopting it... The only cords you'd have would be power cords... i like.
I wonder if the managment team was given an ultimatum by the devteam before they walked...
If there was one given, i can't blame the team really. If things aren't being handled as they should have been and the management had a chance to fix it and refused to do so, then the devteam deserves the chance to develop the product in the way that seems more appropriate using the ideas of OSS/GPL "rules" as a reference (which includes leaving the organization and starting a new "fork" if need be).
I do however think that a fork is ALWAYS bad for business at least for a good while. It's going to take the dev team a while to get organized with a newly engineered focus, meanwhile the old "team" flounders... In this case theres not even really a dev team left to flounder. Sadly this looks like a lose/lose for a while. As always "we'll see what happens."
However, the patent reform plans allow for challenging any patent that's granted within 90 days of the day it's approved.
If they employed a group of people to handle these cases, I think it would make a big difference. Companies would stop spending thousands a day to patent everything they could think of because stupid patents, patents that are basically for other peoples technology (iPod) and overbroad patents would be challenged by competing companies.
You'd probably end up seeing a lot of really legit and true patents filed and there would eventually be a stop to this "patent everything you can find" crap.
Lets hope not. I think with all the work MS is "trying" to do to improve their image, this would completely thrash any sense of being human they have accumulated.
I think the first step in patent reform is for companies to start challenging patents that already exist. Not their pathetic plan for challenging new patents. And on another note, it's hard to blame the USPO since they're highly understaffed and underfunded all while having more patents submitted than ever before. i guess that would make the first step: giving them more resources...
what's interesting is that even though I suck and don't know what i'm talking about in my post, I still get modded up. thank you slashdot for helping my self esteem!!! :-)
Is this even worth arguing with you? Linux hasn't been around long enough to build the roots of the internet. The roots of the internet go back several decades. And the telephone system? My gosh that's a pathetic statement if i ever saw one. The telephone system has been around almost a century... Linux? Just over a decade. Get a clue....
The DOJ hasn't taken action against MS in ages and the only reason it did is because some loudmouthed guy wouldnt shut up about how vile MS was and eventually someone fell for his pathetic act...
Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere and learn how to spell and punctuate properly. MS is not some disease. Linux is not some Godsend. They both have mountains of problems and they both have mountains of benefits.
This pretty much proves the pathetic state of our legal system... The fact that essentially the same case can be tried twice within a very close timeframe and two different results can be achieved. I can understand that something 50 years ago may get a different result than now based on changes in society... But we're talking here about two of the same cases sitting in the same medium in a very close proximity in time. I think it's time for some judicial reform... Maybe that's just me...
well, what are you complaining about? apparently everyone else in the world has decided that when they sue MS, this is their stance. It's not a problem with them until MS has used their product for 15 years and they can sue for 500 million instead of sueing as soon as MS started "abusing" their patents for $50,000 and royalties from then on out... If everyone else does it with overbroad patents and they all attack MS, why is that OK and not for MS to do it the other way around? Double standard much? i think software patents are evil, but that goes for the people who use them against MS as well...
why should i prove the non existence of something to you? I think you need to proce the existence of it to me....
And i think it's pretty obvious you're an MS basher. MS is just a business doing business and in case you hadn't noticed, they've been working round the clock on cleaning up their act. If you want to bash something, bash the low quality code found in 95% of open source applications.
And if you want to bash Windows security, set a band of hackers, the size of the ones going after windows, after linux instead, and i'd bet tons of money Linux prolly has more holes in it than Windows. It's just a smaller target...
I'm no Microsoft lover or anything, i'm just sick of the brainless MS bashing by people who couldn't care less about facts vs blathering opinion. MS is not evil... linux is not perfect. Stop being a robot for a change...
It's pretty obvious, since MS started this patent craze after being sued over ridiculous overbroad patents, that they are just doing things like this to cover their butt. They've NEVER sued anyone over a patent. I highly doubt they ever will unless it's a blatent and public rebellion or something...
Have you watched the video's of this thing? The graphics are absolutely amazing. No talking until you've walked :-P
nice. I also used to write all my shell scripts in PHP as well. I changes jobs to more of a data-mining position so i dont do it anymore, but it was incredibly useful. I did all sorts of string manipulation and stuff as well. One of my favorite things was using the functions that would open a file as an array of strings. One element for every line in the file. It makes flat file information storage a snap... I wrote a script that would open snort logs and sort through them for things of interest, decide what was worth keeping (snort gets a lot of predictable false alarms), save it to a file, e-mail the file to me, then archive the log/email files for that day. Every time the month changed it would then archive the months worth of snort detections into its own archive directory. ridiculously powerful...
....php was, for me, the easiest language to pick up. There's a plethora of built in functions to help you do just about anything and the syntax is like a hodgepodge of other languages best points put together. Maybe not everyone feels this way, but it's definatley in my top 5 favorite languages to write in. The only book(s) i think any programmer needs to pick up PHP are the visual quickstart guides from peachpit press. (shameless plug i'm afraid, but i love their stuff.)
He also offered to buy all the VP's on their staff's laptops loaded with windows or linux if they did...
Can you imagine if someday they release the full sourcecode? that would be pretty slick...
I honestly think if MS released an emulator like Mac did with their OS that would work with *NIX and OSX, they would cement themselves for a long time. No one would have a reason to leave if they got the performance good enough on the thing.
But this is MS here, they'd never do that unfortunatley.
I thought amazon bought out netflix.... or was that another company? Wasn't there a story about the sale a little hwile back on /.?
I'll agree with that. Take gaming for example. The closest thing to "gaming" is nezuis (or whatever the name of it is). It's "ok" at best. The framerate is pretty much cruddy on everything and the graphics just don't provide what the framerate indicates they should. However, there are a lot of cases in which closed source niche software sucks just as bad, so i guess there's a big picture too. I guess there's just a million cases of "this works great here but not here" items that you'd have to take into account when make a decision.
I know we all hate to see anyone doggin on linux... To a degree they have a point though. If linux is offering free software and such but a lot of OSS apps don't have the needed/wanted features of the paid programs, a lot of people are still going to pay for the "non-free" stuff.
I will say though, that OSS apps are getting better and better about providing the user with what they would get if they were paying for a similar program. I'm not sure this post should really be titled about linux at all. it seems more of a concern of "quality of OSS software.
On the other hand, you find an OSS piece of software like firefox and you get a HUGE amount of customization potential and a ton of included features to boot... and EXTENSIONS!
There's two sides to every story i guess and to a degree they have a point, but on other plains the table is turned to a large degree. I find some OSS aps to be FAR supoerior to similar apps that you can shell money out on...
The biggest curse with inkjet/bubblejet printers is that when you want one, they all but give the thing to you, but then charge you 50+ for an ink refill which will run out within a few hundred pages (or less). The companies really pretty much stay in business based on the ink sales.
Buying a "cheap" laser printer is actually much more cost effective. You save a lot more in the long run if you don't mind printing only in B&W. 5000+ pages per toner at about $100 for the toner is a much better deal than $50 for the ink which will likely last you only around 100 pages give or take.
windows is VERY easy to use. You're just sensationalizing here.... Try going back and working on an apple 2 or even the "revolutionary" amiga workbench. Nothing that has come along really comes close to the ease of use of windows. OSX is more complicated than any mac os so far.... Linux....that speaks for itself... Windows, there's a button at the bottom that says start... it has a menu in there that says "all programs." seems pretty easy to me. You stick in a CD and you can an installer screen. That program now shows up in that "All Programs" menu. It's an extremely easy system to use. And in the end, it's just as secure as any other OS out there, it just happens to be a bigger target gbecause of its popularity... If in 10 years linux was more popular than windows, it would have more holes being exploited and everyone would complain about how windows was more secure... I'm by no means a zealot for windows, but give credit where it is due... Windows is a good product no matter how you want to whine about it. MS at times had some "interesting" business tactics and they got sued. They paid up and essentially "paid their due for the crimes." How often do you see MS going around and sueing people? rarely if ever. All these patents they get are just to cover their butt from morons looking for more reasons to sue people. The only times MS HAS sued anyone, it's been very legit and they had good reason to. Even in this whole google thing. I love the heck out of google, but if this guy signed this agreement, then he needs to stick with it and wait a year before working with google...and google is wrong to defend him. From what it looks like, other than the google PR blitz that is, MS has an open and closed case on this one. he left to work with a WELL-KNOWN direct competitor to MS and violated his agreement with MS...
You forgot the ever important point that you can't run OSX without the hardware... So essentially unless you shell out for hardware you can't have the software thus, in principal, making the hardware and software prices: one.
with almost all of the potentially vulnerable ones they only said really that 73k of them were vulnerable to something... and only 10k of those "definately" were.... 73k = 2.92% The onlther 230k might not have been vulnerable at all, they just think there's a chance that they might be. This, ladies and gents, is called sensationalism...
kinda does away with "leaving work at work" doesn't it? I think anyone under these rules would up and quit... Of course i wouldnt put it past walmart to try and implement it for some reason or another...
It's hard to say. It might be two years before they add that feature so the xbox might be selling for 200 anyway. i'd imagine it would only raise the price by like 30-50 bucks, but i may be way off...