As far as I can tell, since everyone has so much 'beef' with napster, they should stop settling and start supplying McDonalds...more money in that than the pay service anyways...
Standardized reply to/. Open Source Elitism actually;-) Which you might not be guilty of, I don't know. But I stick with the standards. If not, I apologize.
"Sounds like someone is bitter because he can understand quality software."
Sounds like someone is bitter because they can't spell.;o) I understand software just fine, been a Helpdesk weenie on and off for over 3 years. And believe me when I say supporting MS products is cake compared to Linux. But then half those people only run linux because its 'cool.'::sigh:: what has the world come to these days.
"Yeah I like that idea too. I especially liked it the first time I saw it in The Gimp."
Yes, and some of us have tried the Gimp, and really don't like it. At all. And neither did the family. Get off the OSS high horse for a moment. Some people don't use it. Often the learning curve it too steep for average users. The imaging software that came with our scanner, while less powerful than the Gimp, does everything we need, with a nicer interface and very friendly to the computer illiterate. And since it came with the scanner, I consider its cost negligible.
...that comes as a surprise. Just goes to show what a single omission or error on a webpage (such as the listing of Pine on OS lists) can lead to. I've talked to friends who are much more into programming and Open Source than I, and this came as rather a shock. I guess I should start paying more attention to licenses. Unfortunately, Pine is the only choice I have to access college email remotely, unless I want to use the (shudder) webmail GUI.
This looks like a real shame. Kodak's software features described in the article sounds like photo software I'd actually enjoy using. I especially like the 'digital negative' to retain unedited copies. I know, i can make that myself, but I know my family members don't remember to do that most of the time. Which leads to a lot of griping.
It probably doesn't help Kodak's cause though to laugh at MS's window-box warnings, it might make them mad. And whats this about miscommunication?? Is that translated as "We ignored kodak until it was too late for them to stop us?"
Seems to me that they're trying to cloud the issue on Open Source slinging FUD liberally. This time its official though-licensed FUD:-) Pity you can't a 12 year old code for you and get around this like you can with EULAs...
for Cisco's folks to be so empowered. I know at my tech support job I can run around my wheel for hours before being told anything of merit. During a DOS attack on my university, the operations folks did not correctly diagnose the problem for hours, and left me in tech support with about 8000 angry students calling in...I wish more places would follow Cisco and give the techs some real power.
And I love the review of what went wrong. Reminds me of similar situations with missing computers...check everything and with everyone, and no one knows where computer is, call more people, try more logs, nothing, then the one guy who's out of touch comes in and tells us he has it...
I attend a state university in Maryland. I dont know what the University standards are for GPL, just that they seem to not care what you do with your code so long as you submit and dont steal it. However, recently, in a Java project, a group of us used some GPL code (such as a string tokenizer better than the built in on) and some various sorts in Lisp, and due to the code being GPLed, we had identical code in those places. The prof. went back and reviewed our code, and gave everyone who had used the GPLed code a zero on those assignments, accusing us of cheating with it. He had previously said that we could use such sources, but I guess he meant that only the first person to find it could use it and anyone else was SOL.
I'm really interested in this topic now, however. I can retake that course easily enough, so that past incident was a pain. Now I'm taking a course about software develpoment which is the first time I'll actually be producing code that could be useful outside a classroom environment, and I would like to know what will become of it. Should I declare it to be GPLed by me before even submitting? Suggestions anyone?
I've just purchased a Handspring Visor Platinum a couple months ago (and *then* they drop the price down to $250) and it works great. It runs PalmOS 3.5 out of the box, which is what you will find most apps developed for. There is a lot of software and development options, including open source stuff. Is it really that critical that you have Linux on there? I dont know the price tag of the iPaq, but frankly I would seriously consider some of the PalmOS hardware as well. Its really quite nice. I've just started to develop on it, and its not any harder than elsewhere, except code bloat can become a problem if you dont watch it.
I dont have hands on experience with the new Palm M500 and 505, but my boss at work has a 505 (which is color with PalmOS 4.0 native i believe) and loves it to death. The Platinum and M505 both have 33mHz Dragonball processors and 8 megs of RAM, plus expansion room. Especially for the Visors, with the Springboard expansions. Reference to Handspring for their information and savings offers. I really like them so far.
Now the martians are gonna backtrack my address and send me even more spam....I wont mind so long as AOL sends plenty of disks to the martians in kind though...
Crossbreed this fungus with yeast...self rising CDs...3-D data storage, anyone?
I can see movie producers having fun with variants of this too-the fungus could achieve sentience inside the AOL coaster warehouse, then die of overeating...
I'm still out of luck. Since I could never afford to move to California, does that mean I'm stuck with sub-par 28.8 dialup, which is usually the max speed the ISPs here (southern maryland) can provide? I cant understand why larger companies cant have just a bit of initiative and work on stuff like this elsewhere. I would pay quite a bit to get some decent speed in my connection, and I know a lot of people around here that would too. But, of course, there is only one-way cable everywhere, and apparently our all-copper cabled county has fiber feeding it or something so DSL only happens if you are a business. It really bothers me that a business.25 miles from my house can get DSL with ease, and I'm still told it doesnt exist in my area...
Ah well, I'm stuck at work and bitter, so I'm just rambling...
Naw, TCFWXBOXDNS.
The Company From When X-BOXDid Not Suck.
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The hard drive size increase, the 3-D video card improvements, and the processor speed madness all mean one thing to me: wait. Wait until one of two things happens:
1. The race slows down. Prices settle, bugs are found and fixed. Support is available.
2. I require something better than what I have. I've used up my 27 gig drive, and need more. Or my current Voodoo3 dies in a power surge. Or I actually notice performance loss from my celeron 500.
I see no reason to run out and spend large amounts of money just so I can have the computer with the biggest [insert part here] in the neighborhood. I wait until one of the reasons above--then I usually get it cheaper, and of better quality. I'm not just an average computer user either--I play the best games and do programming, as well as some dabbling into graphics design and animation. I get the fullest use from what I have. And until that doesnt suffice, I wont spend more money on a new product. I dont keep up with specifics, but I do recall hearing about both 3dfx and Intel rushing certain developmental aspects of their products just to release them to match a competitor. I could be wrong, but even just hearing that is enough to make me think twice about buying from them. And now, with harddrive sizes increasing drastically, how long until we hit a limit? Or implement a new storage medium thats better and faster? I'd rather wait an extra year for something like that instead of blowing more money every day for the newest old technology with more stuff squeezed onto it.
Just my $0.02, but unless you really need the space/speed/pretty colors, wait a bit and watch the price go down as quality goes up.
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"But the point you wanted to make is: why explain bit details of the characters when they don't impact the story at all"
Actually, that is what I meant to say. Thanks for the clarifying point--I really do need to sleep more before writing/. posts.
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I dont recall having ever agreed with anyone but a few of my closest friends on the quality of movies. This is no exception. Katz rambles on about alienation, again. Go figure. I agree most with Rob--it was a cool action movie. I never got into comics much, simply because I saw the fact that I would never pay enough money to keep up with them all. But from the comics I borrowed and read in the store, this was a good movie. Think about it, they honestly could have went off on some tanget, made Magneto the uber-villan we all love to hate, and made this a classic good versus evil match with some dudes having a few extra 'abilities' that arent cool guns or cars (that motorcycle rules). Instead, Magneto and Prof. X both have some good and bad points to them. THe right/wrong combo doesnt have a clearly drawn line, it is very jagged at best. There were times I could understand Magneto, and times I was not too pleased with what Prof X did. And yes, both of them were justified in their views. But, does that give Magneto the right to pursue war with normal humans? Or Prof X to for a vigilant force to do with as *he* sees fit? Very cool stuff, if you think about it some. And throw in the cool effects, some great one-liners (Saw Scary Movie the night before X-Men, X-Men beats it out for best one-liner hands down). And I dont think I need to mention the special effects magic; it was just plain cool. Oh, and Michael, re-read what you wrote here:
"Somewhere in there was probably an explanation of why Cyclops can't open his eyes without huge bursts of ravening energy pouring from them, but we didn't get to see it."
This just strikes me as dumb. By the same note, why didnt we learn why Magneto got magnetized? Or why Rogue can suck you drier than a mosquito? Toad, Mystique, c'mon they didnt explain much anyone, with the partial exception of Wolverine. Singer assumed some small prior knowledge of characters, which IMHO was a good thing since it allowed us to skip a lot of background that would not have applied to the movie as a whole. Instead, the characters are given the brief explanation, like Prof X's original X-Men at his school, and then they are developed in relation to one another and Wolverine from there. Good depth for a (relatively) short movie. My opinion, should you choose to accept it, is that this is just a plain cool movie if you know of X-Men, but dont worship them. And also if you dont see the world as a huge entity working tirelessly to alienate geeks and Hollywood as a miracle working place where a movie can please 14 different levels of knowledge on the subject at once. Come on people, its a movie not an epic saga or anything, like the long-running comic strip. Give it a chance in the proper spectrum.
Ah well, that was rather rambling. I need to sleep more O:-) -pogle
I worked more than 30 hours a week, plus full time high school and several college classes. My pay? Salaried, it computed out to less than $5 an hour. Needless to say, when i quit and everyone else did as well, i was hired back at $11 an hour for 10-15 hours a week. If you're a teen looking for a tech job, dont let them tell you its not worth much-tell them to go pull some Joe off the street if they want to pay that little. Work for what you're worth. >Knowledge is what I gained from reading between the lines.
A friend of mine and I waged an endless debate for over 6 years on this very topic. We began with the capabilities of my old pentium 66 vs. the SNES. Then it was the N64 and PS vs. my P166 and PII266. Various factors such as RAM and the N64 memory pack came into play at various points, and we even got down to the nitty gritty of frame rate comparison, polygon counts, game size, and control manners. I feel (naturally) that I won these arguments in most instances, but he was obstinate. I owned both a computer and the consoles, whilst he had only the console games. I felt I was better informed. The problem we decided was the root is that one cannot make a console superior to a computer without making it into yet another computer. Multitasking, boot sequences, operating systems, all the would require much more of a console than plugging in a game and going. In making a console boot up, and store items in resident memory and caches, we would essentially be negating the only advantage it possesses over PCs-the single task ability. Consoles and PCs will eventually finish their battle, I believe, with PCs on top. However, PCs will be more specific-there will be those of today, for all of us hardcore puter addicts, and those similar in devotion to consoles (ie: gamers only).
Oh, btw. my friend got his PC a few months ago, and after 20 minutes he agreed with me completly on which is better overall;)
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As far as I can tell, since everyone has so much 'beef' with napster, they should stop settling and start supplying McDonalds...more money in that than the pay service anyways...
"Uhh, that's a pretty shitty reply to a joke."
/. Open Source Elitism actually ;-) Which you might not be guilty of, I don't know. But I stick with the standards. If not, I apologize.
;o) I understand software just fine, been a Helpdesk weenie on and off for over 3 years. And believe me when I say supporting MS products is cake compared to Linux. But then half those people only run linux because its 'cool.' ::sigh:: what has the world come to these days.
Standardized reply to
"Sounds like someone is bitter because he can understand quality software."
Sounds like someone is bitter because they can't spell.
"Yeah I like that idea too. I especially liked it the first time I saw it in The Gimp."
Yes, and some of us have tried the Gimp, and really don't like it. At all. And neither did the family. Get off the OSS high horse for a moment. Some people don't use it. Often the learning curve it too steep for average users. The imaging software that came with our scanner, while less powerful than the Gimp, does everything we need, with a nicer interface and very friendly to the computer illiterate. And since it came with the scanner, I consider its cost negligible.
...that comes as a surprise. Just goes to show what a single omission or error on a webpage (such as the listing of Pine on OS lists) can lead to. I've talked to friends who are much more into programming and Open Source than I, and this came as rather a shock. I guess I should start paying more attention to licenses. Unfortunately, Pine is the only choice I have to access college email remotely, unless I want to use the (shudder) webmail GUI.
This looks like a real shame. Kodak's software features described in the article sounds like photo software I'd actually enjoy using. I especially like the 'digital negative' to retain unedited copies. I know, i can make that myself, but I know my family members don't remember to do that most of the time. Which leads to a lot of griping.
It probably doesn't help Kodak's cause though to laugh at MS's window-box warnings, it might make them mad. And whats this about miscommunication?? Is that translated as "We ignored kodak until it was too late for them to stop us?"
If you can't beat'em, join'em and deface them.
:-) Pity you can't a 12 year old code for you and get around this like you can with EULAs...
Seems to me that they're trying to cloud the issue on Open Source slinging FUD liberally. This time its official though-licensed FUD
for Cisco's folks to be so empowered. I know at my tech support job I can run around my wheel for hours before being told anything of merit. During a DOS attack on my university, the operations folks did not correctly diagnose the problem for hours, and left me in tech support with about 8000 angry students calling in...I wish more places would follow Cisco and give the techs some real power.
And I love the review of what went wrong. Reminds me of similar situations with missing computers...check everything and with everyone, and no one knows where computer is, call more people, try more logs, nothing, then the one guy who's out of touch comes in and tells us he has it...
I attend a state university in Maryland. I dont know what the University standards are for GPL, just that they seem to not care what you do with your code so long as you submit and dont steal it. However, recently, in a Java project, a group of us used some GPL code (such as a string tokenizer better than the built in on) and some various sorts in Lisp, and due to the code being GPLed, we had identical code in those places. The prof. went back and reviewed our code, and gave everyone who had used the GPLed code a zero on those assignments, accusing us of cheating with it. He had previously said that we could use such sources, but I guess he meant that only the first person to find it could use it and anyone else was SOL.
I'm really interested in this topic now, however. I can retake that course easily enough, so that past incident was a pain. Now I'm taking a course about software develpoment which is the first time I'll actually be producing code that could be useful outside a classroom environment, and I would like to know what will become of it. Should I declare it to be GPLed by me before even submitting? Suggestions anyone?
Thanks
I've just purchased a Handspring Visor Platinum a couple months ago (and *then* they drop the price down to $250) and it works great. It runs PalmOS 3.5 out of the box, which is what you will find most apps developed for. There is a lot of software and development options, including open source stuff. Is it really that critical that you have Linux on there? I dont know the price tag of the iPaq, but frankly I would seriously consider some of the PalmOS hardware as well. Its really quite nice. I've just started to develop on it, and its not any harder than elsewhere, except code bloat can become a problem if you dont watch it.
I dont have hands on experience with the new Palm M500 and 505, but my boss at work has a 505 (which is color with PalmOS 4.0 native i believe) and loves it to death. The Platinum and M505 both have 33mHz Dragonball processors and 8 megs of RAM, plus expansion room. Especially for the Visors, with the Springboard expansions. Reference to Handspring for their information and savings offers. I really like them so far.
Just my 0.2 cents.
Now the martians are gonna backtrack my address and send me even more spam....I wont mind so long as AOL sends plenty of disks to the martians in kind though...
Crossbreed this fungus with yeast...self rising CDs...3-D data storage, anyone?
I can see movie producers having fun with variants of this too-the fungus could achieve sentience inside the AOL coaster warehouse, then die of overeating...
Still bored at work...
Actually, its more in reference to insane gas prices and me being stuck at college for several years if I hope to obtain a decent job.
I'm still out of luck. Since I could never afford to move to California, does that mean I'm stuck with sub-par 28.8 dialup, which is usually the max speed the ISPs here (southern maryland) can provide? I cant understand why larger companies cant have just a bit of initiative and work on stuff like this elsewhere. I would pay quite a bit to get some decent speed in my connection, and I know a lot of people around here that would too. But, of course, there is only one-way cable everywhere, and apparently our all-copper cabled county has fiber feeding it or something so DSL only happens if you are a business. It really bothers me that a business .25 miles from my house can get DSL with ease, and I'm still told it doesnt exist in my area...
Ah well, I'm stuck at work and bitter, so I'm just rambling...
Naw, TCFWXBOXDNS. The Company From When X-BOX Did Not Suck.
The hard drive size increase, the 3-D video card improvements, and the processor speed madness all mean one thing to me: wait. Wait until one of two things happens:
1. The race slows down. Prices settle, bugs are found and fixed. Support is available.
2. I require something better than what I have. I've used up my 27 gig drive, and need more. Or my current Voodoo3 dies in a power surge. Or I actually notice performance loss from my celeron 500.
I see no reason to run out and spend large amounts of money just so I can have the computer with the biggest [insert part here] in the neighborhood. I wait until one of the reasons above--then I usually get it cheaper, and of better quality. I'm not just an average computer user either--I play the best games and do programming, as well as some dabbling into graphics design and animation. I get the fullest use from what I have. And until that doesnt suffice, I wont spend more money on a new product. I dont keep up with specifics, but I do recall hearing about both 3dfx and Intel rushing certain developmental aspects of their products just to release them to match a competitor. I could be wrong, but even just hearing that is enough to make me think twice about buying from them.
And now, with harddrive sizes increasing drastically, how long until we hit a limit? Or implement a new storage medium thats better and faster? I'd rather wait an extra year for something like that instead of blowing more money every day for the newest old technology with more stuff squeezed onto it.
Just my $0.02, but unless you really need the space/speed/pretty colors, wait a bit and watch the price go down as quality goes up.
"But the point you wanted to make is: why explain bit details of the characters when they don't impact the story at all"
/. posts.
Actually, that is what I meant to say. Thanks for the clarifying point--I really do need to sleep more before writing
I dont recall having ever agreed with anyone but a few of my closest friends on the quality of movies. This is no exception. Katz rambles on about alienation, again. Go figure. I agree most with Rob--it was a cool action movie. I never got into comics much, simply because I saw the fact that I would never pay enough money to keep up with them all. But from the comics I borrowed and read in the store, this was a good movie. Think about it, they honestly could have went off on some tanget, made Magneto the uber-villan we all love to hate, and made this a classic good versus evil match with some dudes having a few extra 'abilities' that arent cool guns or cars (that motorcycle rules).
Instead, Magneto and Prof. X both have some good and bad points to them. THe right/wrong combo doesnt have a clearly drawn line, it is very jagged at best. There were times I could understand Magneto, and times I was not too pleased with what Prof X did. And yes, both of them were justified in their views. But, does that give Magneto the right to pursue war with normal humans? Or Prof X to for a vigilant force to do with as *he* sees fit? Very cool stuff, if you think about it some. And throw in the cool effects, some great one-liners (Saw Scary Movie the night before X-Men, X-Men beats it out for best one-liner hands down). And I dont think I need to mention the special effects magic; it was just plain cool.
Oh, and Michael, re-read what you wrote here:
"Somewhere in there was probably an explanation of why Cyclops can't open his eyes without huge bursts of ravening energy pouring from them, but we didn't get to see it."
This just strikes me as dumb. By the same note, why didnt we learn why Magneto got magnetized? Or why Rogue can suck you drier than a mosquito? Toad, Mystique, c'mon they didnt explain much anyone, with the partial exception of Wolverine. Singer assumed some small prior knowledge of characters, which IMHO was a good thing since it allowed us to skip a lot of background that would not have applied to the movie as a whole. Instead, the characters are given the brief explanation, like Prof X's original X-Men at his school, and then they are developed in relation to one another and Wolverine from there. Good depth for a (relatively) short movie. My opinion, should you choose to accept it, is that this is just a plain cool movie if you know of X-Men, but dont worship them. And also if you dont see the world as a huge entity working tirelessly to alienate geeks and Hollywood as a miracle working place where a movie can please 14 different levels of knowledge on the subject at once. Come on people, its a movie not an epic saga or anything, like the long-running comic strip. Give it a chance in the proper spectrum.
Ah well, that was rather rambling. I need to sleep more O:-)
-pogle
I worked more than 30 hours a week, plus full time high school and several college classes. My pay? Salaried, it computed out to less than $5 an hour. Needless to say, when i quit and everyone else did as well, i was hired back at $11 an hour for 10-15 hours a week. If you're a teen looking for a tech job, dont let them tell you its not worth much-tell them to go pull some Joe off the street if they want to pay that little. Work for what you're worth.
>Knowledge is what I gained from reading between the lines.
A friend of mine and I waged an endless debate for over 6 years on this very topic. We began with the capabilities of my old pentium 66 vs. the SNES. Then it was the N64 and PS vs. my P166 and PII266. Various factors such as RAM and the N64 memory pack came into play at various points, and we even got down to the nitty gritty of frame rate comparison, polygon counts, game size, and control manners. I feel (naturally) that I won these arguments in most instances, but he was obstinate. I owned both a computer and the consoles, whilst he had only the console games. I felt I was better informed.
The problem we decided was the root is that one cannot make a console superior to a computer without making it into yet another computer. Multitasking, boot sequences, operating systems, all the would require much more of a console than plugging in a game and going. In making a console boot up, and store items in resident memory and caches, we would essentially be negating the only advantage it possesses over PCs-the single task ability. Consoles and PCs will eventually finish their battle, I believe, with PCs on top. However, PCs will be more specific-there will be those of today, for all of us hardcore puter addicts, and those similar in devotion to consoles (ie: gamers only).
Oh, btw. my friend got his PC a few months ago, and after 20 minutes he agreed with me completly on which is better overall;)