Except all the games will be variants of Dance Dance Revolution with the addition of Bollywood music.
I mean, you've seen one Bollywood film, you've pretty much seen them all. The cliches of kung fu hero, beautiful girl, corrupt cops, stupid badly dressed badguy, wailing parents, and a troupe of dancers that just seem to come from nowhere at random points in the film.
How you could make a game out of that is anyone's guess.
(I've worked with their SPARC and Dual XEON servers. They seem to be doing better than Extreme's network equipment...)
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But does it run Linux?
Oh who cares.... it's Microsoft hardware. Hmm... bit of a condrum that one. If it's Microsoft hardware, shouldn't it be Microhard software? Or since soft+hard = firm, shouldn't it be Microfirm jigglyware...
You misunderstand. It became market leader due in part to being a purely reactive organization.
One might argue that Microsoft cannot innovate to save itself, or you could say that Microsoft fills a huge gap by taking best-of-breed IT concepts and working them into a viable solution for customers.
Isn't that Microsoft's job? To get existing standards and futz them up so nobody can use them too?
Sometimes I think the only reason why these PHBs buy Microsoft is because they worship the business strategy of Microsoft by putting money on the altar.
cannot install AOL software at their workstations.
AOL software must be pretty hard to install. How hard can it be? Is it harder to use than apt-get? Is it more fearsome than using the FreeBSD ports collection? Is it more shocking than the longest Gentoo compile?
Don't forget that FreeBSD is stealing in on MS and the other UNIXes as well.
Here, we're winding down Solaris and replacing it with FreeBSD.
(although patch management on BSD is an absolute PITA... portupgrade my ass. Give me Debian anyday)
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One of the more disturbing trends I've seen out on the net, is the trend that malware people take to Open Source programs.
In the case of Peer Guardian, they took the entire source code, and made a similar program loaded with spyware, and then dumped in on certain free/shareware sites.
What's worse is the dreaded spyware that respawns itself. My PC caught a strain of that and even thourgh Ad-aware caught it and wiped it, somehow it just regenerated itself and continued to try reconnecting my PC to the net when I had pulled the ethernet plug on the system.
You just about can't trust anything you put on your PC these days, and THAT is the real problem.
I guess it's a cultural thing (in USA) that sex is bad but violence is okay.
Yeah, it's completely Darwinian.
I can see why it's like this though.
Sex is made out to be evil, because somebody secretly doesn't want you enjoying "their" women.
Violence is OK, because then you can go around killing yourselves and never get "their" women.
Just about every society spreads this bullshit to some extent.
Lycos, shortly after producing a screen saver to fight spammers using a DoS-style attack appears to have been hacked. ....and now totally slashdotted off the map to boot.
Really, what the mothers are all REALLY complaining about and are REALLY trying to say, is that they don't want their kids to grow up. They'd rather have little Johnny paying attention to mommy, rather than watching him "waste" his time giving that console more attention.
I used to play games as a kid to the ire of my mother, and now that I live with a woman I've finally discovered what the fuss was REALLY all about with her.
It just seems to me that women just can't stand it when a man's hobby gets in the way of attention being paid to her. In this case, it's video games. Before then, it was other hobbies. Maybe driving around town "wasting time" would result in a car accident, or building model rockets was a waste of money, or reading books would hurt your eyes, or hanging out with friends too much would put you in risk of meeting "bad" people. etc. etc. etc.
And then when you finally get a girlfriend, your mother hates your new hobby with a passion.
Crickey!! I don't know about you lot, but strewth!, this little overflow bug is one cute little critter 'aint he? Let me just sneak up real close to him, cause I don't want to scare the little guy!
Look at him! Isn't he a beauty!? If you pay close attention to him, you'll notice that he has this small opening on him where, if attacked, he will defend himself by crashing the machine!
We've got to be REALLY careful and quiet in this bug's natural habitat... This little bug's predators could find him, and we don't want to alert them to his prescence!
Back in the day, it was pretty easy to spot couterfeit computer software. You could take one look at the floppy disk in question, check the label, and examine the disk contents.
These days, the internet has made most removable media redundant, and strong encryption is commonplace. Somebody could simply load all their illegal software onto an encrypted drive and a search by an unauthorized user would turn up absolutely nothing.
In these cases, gathering evidence of IP infringement will become pretty useless pretty quick. The only way to gain evidence would be via networks, and even then that is fraught with possible errors.
Well so far, the patent on Domain Keys *seems* pretty benign. All they seem to want is that if you implement it, Yahoo! wants the free advertising and their trademark to stay intact.
The point that worries me is that Yahoo still retain the right to alter this agreement at any time and (heaven forbid) change it to force licence payments.
I fear it may be used as a submarine patent. Damn shame.
"Why should I go to a club when I can stay at home, avoid long queues, drink cheaper alcohol, set up my own light show, and have the chance to choose your own music?"
Best advice to learning Japanese as with any language is to go to the country to live. You can do that in Japan if you start out teaching English with either an exchange program (best), or one of the dodgy English teaching companies.
Then what you do is study like crazy and get yourself a Japanese girl who wants to learn English. Then you do "language exchange":D
The only places where Open Source is used exclusively is in in-house IT companies where the skilled UNIX people are, and in educational/reasearch institutes which usually run exclusively on Linux/FreeBSD, once they've upgraded from their aging Solaris machines.
It's not what you know, it's who you know.
I knew Jack Shiayte about Linux 2 years ago. Instead I studied Japanese, made friends in Japan, and got a job here working in an average paying IT company... who's lending me out to work in a research institute which has a supercomputer ranked 14th on the world listings. In a year or two, I should be able to get a job with a fairly sizable salary... mainly because of my ability to translate IT technical documents between languages.
I only got that inital job because I knew somebody. It was only after that I began studying my butt off on Japanese, Cisco, Linux, and FreeBSD.
If I were you, I'd study Korean, meet a few people in the Korean IT industry, and get yourself a job like I did.
Well, if the transaction is carried out over computer - in its most literal sense it means that the transaction first gets stored into a computer system, after which the computer hardware itself is snail mailed to the company for processing.
After a 2 months wait, your PC comes back as well as the product you ordered.
I have a feeling that the PSP is going to go the way of the Sega Game Gear. The Game Gear had the flashy colour graphics, was more expensive, had less games, and poor battery life.
I mean, so far the PSP is fitting the mould. It will be too expensive, and even if you do buy it you'll be scared to take it anywhere... that screen is wide open for scratching. Even if you DO take it somewhere, the battery life will just give up on you unless you strap on a battery pack.
Nintendo got it right with the original game-boy. It was cheaper, had more games, and had exccellent battery life, worthy of being called portable.
Wasn't some light-something-or-other kind of CPU mentioned somewhere about a year or so ago? I remember that they got that one up to 8Ghz or something like that (must need a huge heatsink).
Somebody refresh my memory...
Well if Centrelink is simply web-based, I seriously doubt that using Linux will require retraining. I would imagine that Novell will lock down the PCs to act as web terminals if that's all they are going to be used for.
As for the IT department... well, if they are a half decent lot, they should know all about Linux by now and not rest on their MCSE, MinesweeperChampionSolitaireExpert qualifications.
I guess if the overall computer got cheaper, Microsoft could jack up the prices for Windows and nobody would notice a huge price change.
Well, considering Microsoft is looking at a bleak future in the PC operating systems market, this may be their only hope. A sign of desperation perhaps?
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Except all the games will be variants of Dance Dance Revolution with the addition of Bollywood music.
I mean, you've seen one Bollywood film, you've pretty much seen them all. The cliches of kung fu hero, beautiful girl, corrupt cops, stupid badly dressed badguy, wailing parents, and a troupe of dancers that just seem to come from nowhere at random points in the film.
How you could make a game out of that is anyone's guess.
Ummm.... what does Fujitsu make that is broken?
(I've worked with their SPARC and Dual XEON servers. They seem to be doing better than Extreme's network equipment...)
But does it run Linux?
Oh who cares.... it's Microsoft hardware.
Hmm... bit of a condrum that one. If it's Microsoft hardware, shouldn't it be Microhard software? Or since soft+hard = firm, shouldn't it be Microfirm jigglyware...
(Note to self: STFU)
LINUX: Linux Is Not UniX
You misunderstand. It became market leader due in part to being a purely reactive organization.
One might argue that Microsoft cannot innovate to save itself, or you could say that Microsoft fills a huge gap by taking best-of-breed IT concepts and working them into a viable solution for customers.
Depends on who the spin doctors are.
Isn't that Microsoft's job? To get existing standards and futz them up so nobody can use them too?
Sometimes I think the only reason why these PHBs buy Microsoft is because they worship the business strategy of Microsoft by putting money on the altar.
cannot install AOL software at their workstations.
AOL software must be pretty hard to install.
How hard can it be? Is it harder to use than apt-get? Is it more fearsome than using the FreeBSD ports collection? Is it more shocking than the longest Gentoo compile?
Don't forget that FreeBSD is stealing in on MS and the other UNIXes as well.
Here, we're winding down Solaris and replacing it with FreeBSD.
(although patch management on BSD is an absolute PITA... portupgrade my ass. Give me Debian anyday)
One of the more disturbing trends I've seen out on the net, is the trend that malware people take to Open Source programs.
In the case of Peer Guardian, they took the entire source code, and made a similar program loaded with spyware, and then dumped in on certain free/shareware sites.
What's worse is the dreaded spyware that respawns itself. My PC caught a strain of that and even thourgh Ad-aware caught it and wiped it, somehow it just regenerated itself and continued to try reconnecting my PC to the net when I had pulled the ethernet plug on the system.
You just about can't trust anything you put on your PC these days, and THAT is the real problem.
I guess it's a cultural thing (in USA) that sex is bad but violence is okay. Yeah, it's completely Darwinian. I can see why it's like this though. Sex is made out to be evil, because somebody secretly doesn't want you enjoying "their" women. Violence is OK, because then you can go around killing yourselves and never get "their" women. Just about every society spreads this bullshit to some extent.
Lycos, shortly after producing a screen saver to fight spammers using a DoS-style attack appears to have been hacked. ....and now totally slashdotted off the map to boot.
Really, what the mothers are all REALLY complaining about and are REALLY trying to say, is that they don't want their kids to grow up. They'd rather have little Johnny paying attention to mommy, rather than watching him "waste" his time giving that console more attention.
I used to play games as a kid to the ire of my mother, and now that I live with a woman I've finally discovered what the fuss was REALLY all about with her.
It just seems to me that women just can't stand it when a man's hobby gets in the way of attention being paid to her. In this case, it's video games. Before then, it was other hobbies. Maybe driving around town "wasting time" would result in a car accident, or building model rockets was a waste of money, or reading books would hurt your eyes, or hanging out with friends too much would put you in risk of meeting "bad" people. etc. etc. etc.
And then when you finally get a girlfriend, your mother hates your new hobby with a passion.
Crickey!! I don't know about you lot, but strewth!, this little overflow bug is one cute little critter 'aint he? Let me just sneak up real close to him, cause I don't want to scare the little guy!
Look at him! Isn't he a beauty!? If you pay close attention to him, you'll notice that he has this small opening on him where, if attacked, he will defend himself by crashing the machine!
We've got to be REALLY careful and quiet in this bug's natural habitat... This little bug's predators could find him, and we don't want to alert them to his prescence!
Back in the day, it was pretty easy to spot couterfeit computer software. You could take one look at the floppy disk in question, check the label, and examine the disk contents.
These days, the internet has made most removable media redundant, and strong encryption is commonplace. Somebody could simply load all their illegal software onto an encrypted drive and a search by an unauthorized user would turn up absolutely nothing.
In these cases, gathering evidence of IP infringement will become pretty useless pretty quick. The only way to gain evidence would be via networks, and even then that is fraught with possible errors.
Well so far, the patent on Domain Keys *seems* pretty benign. All they seem to want is that if you implement it, Yahoo! wants the free advertising and their trademark to stay intact.
The point that worries me is that Yahoo still retain the right to alter this agreement at any time and (heaven forbid) change it to force licence payments.
I fear it may be used as a submarine patent.
Damn shame.
"Why should I go to a club when I can stay at home, avoid long queues, drink cheaper alcohol, set up my own light show, and have the chance to choose your own music?"
ummm.......
Best advice to learning Japanese as with any language is to go to the country to live. You can do that in Japan if you start out teaching English with either an exchange program (best), or one of the dodgy English teaching companies.
:D
Then what you do is study like crazy and get yourself a Japanese girl who wants to learn English. Then you do "language exchange"
Very true.
The only places where Open Source is used exclusively is in in-house IT companies where the skilled UNIX people are, and in educational/reasearch institutes which usually run exclusively on Linux/FreeBSD, once they've upgraded from their aging Solaris machines.
It's not what you know, it's who you know. I knew Jack Shiayte about Linux 2 years ago. Instead I studied Japanese, made friends in Japan, and got a job here working in an average paying IT company... who's lending me out to work in a research institute which has a supercomputer ranked 14th on the world listings. In a year or two, I should be able to get a job with a fairly sizable salary... mainly because of my ability to translate IT technical documents between languages. I only got that inital job because I knew somebody. It was only after that I began studying my butt off on Japanese, Cisco, Linux, and FreeBSD. If I were you, I'd study Korean, meet a few people in the Korean IT industry, and get yourself a job like I did.
I RTFA, and so far this sounds very vague.
Well, if the transaction is carried out over computer - in its most literal sense it means that the transaction first gets stored into a computer system, after which the computer hardware itself is snail mailed to the company for processing.
After a 2 months wait, your PC comes back as well as the product you ordered.
Didn't say jack about networking....
I have a feeling that the PSP is going to go the way of the Sega Game Gear. The Game Gear had the flashy colour graphics, was more expensive, had less games, and poor battery life. I mean, so far the PSP is fitting the mould. It will be too expensive, and even if you do buy it you'll be scared to take it anywhere... that screen is wide open for scratching. Even if you DO take it somewhere, the battery life will just give up on you unless you strap on a battery pack. Nintendo got it right with the original game-boy. It was cheaper, had more games, and had exccellent battery life, worthy of being called portable.
The "secret service" doesn't make for a good name either. Cause if you tell someone what it is, it's not secret anymore.
Paging captain obvious,... captain obvious.... 8)
Wasn't some light-something-or-other kind of CPU mentioned somewhere about a year or so ago? I remember that they got that one up to 8Ghz or something like that (must need a huge heatsink). Somebody refresh my memory...
Well if Centrelink is simply web-based, I seriously doubt that using Linux will require retraining. I would imagine that Novell will lock down the PCs to act as web terminals if that's all they are going to be used for.
As for the IT department... well, if they are a half decent lot, they should know all about Linux by now and not rest on their MCSE, MinesweeperChampionSolitaireExpert qualifications.
I don't think retraining will be a huge issue.
At the moment, Windows XP costs as much as a CPU.
I guess if the overall computer got cheaper, Microsoft could jack up the prices for Windows and nobody would notice a huge price change.
Well, considering Microsoft is looking at a bleak future in the PC operating systems market, this may be their only hope. A sign of desperation perhaps?