The points you make are exactly why I hope the Judge does something really wise, and make MS open up their current Office file formats (and all following changes to the formats too). I think this would be far more important than the source to windows, or breaking up MS, etc.
...goes out and pings the pages that are linked to
I tried this with mozilla, before I realized that pinging requires sending of ICMP_ECHO_REQUESTs through a raw, open socket, and doing that (at least on *nix) requires root access. (if you do a ls -l `which ping` you'll see that its suid root.) so you're stuck with setting mozilla +s, or forking a 'ping', both suck.
(windows might work fine though, but I dont care about windows:)
or rather, the developers of those games! playstation, nintendo, sony, as well as microsoft, all have a slew of developers enlisted to "make the games." Microsoft in particular is able to wrangle in developers with API's that work on it's X-Box as well as desktop PC's. Developers like this, since they can easily port/cross-develop their games to 2 platforms. As much as Microsoft API's suck, are poorly designed, etc, they are being used, and used widely in PC game development.
Now consider Linux. Now think about games for Linux. Until now, the only commercially sucessful venue for games on Linux has been Loki. And all they do is ports (and according to the recent interview with the head of Loki, thats all they're interested in doing for at least the near future). My point is that for this machine to be a successful game platform, they'll have to convince developers that game development is rewarding, easy, powerful, etc. For this to happen, there needs to be proven, standard API's that are of commercial quality (open-source, or not), with support, usage statistics, examples, demos, everything! (Some tools/environments come to mind, such as OpenGL/AL; just gotta convince the developers.)
In terms of the non-game aspects of this machine, everything seems fine to me. Linux has already proven itself capable of internet-oriented tasks, and would, in my opinion, make a fine WebTV style device. However, to simply tack on "and it'll play your favorite games!" without thinking it through is not prudent, and I doubt it would sell, to either developers, or consumers.
Unfortunately, at my school, we're also being inundated with free microsoft stuff. The motivation is clear: by hooking young developers to their tools and OSi now, MS is ensuring that when they graduate and move onto real life (and have money) they will buy the only products they know how to use. Reminds me of drug dealers.:)
(What really irks me is that there is a lot if Microsoft software that is, in fact, of good quality! Unfortunately, Microsoft can't let people decide based on quality (even though they'd win sometimes) and instead use these predatory tactics. They use the same methods in pretty much everything they make (browsers, streaming media, OSi, etc.) )
I hope we can all learn something from this piece of trash movie: paid movie critics are insane! Just look at this (also given above). There are actually some positive comments in there!! "An instant popcorn classic." "Really stays with you." p-lease!! Now we know why every movie commercial on TV has at least a half-dozen positive comments from random reviewers from across the nation.
Only listen to your freinds' movie reviews, or those of people who aren't paid to give reviews.
What business does microsoft have developing a console system? Why does everyone in the media see this system as "wow, cool. should be interesting" instead of "great, another tentacle of the beast, spreading to another domain"? Maybe I'm over-zealous about this, but it really really pisses me off when a company leverages its user base around into whatever domain they want, and this seems to be what Microsoft does best. This move is analagous to using their OS monopoly to crush Netscape, only now, they're using their developer base instead of their user base.
I was thinking about the bundling deal just today. If Mozilla turns out a success, which is in high likelihood, what are the odds that vendors will ship PC's with Mozilla (or NS5, or whatever it ends up being called) installed, with a nice, shiny icon right on the desktop? Let the users choose their browser.
Would the 800-pound gorilla dare to stop them, given that their current business practices in the "muscling of vendors" realm are currently under inspection?
And what about AOL? Are they planning on making Mozilla their default browser, embedding it into AOL software much like IE is today embedded there? If so: instant market share!!
Nintendo is committing $80 million for the gloves and agreed to also provide $75,000 for the cost of the attorney general's investigation, Spitzer said.
Why did this investigation cost $75,000? Does it really cost that much to call up Nintendo and say, "hey, how many guys cut their hands?" Even if they called up all 90 of the cut-handed individuals, that's like a $500 phone bill (maximum) and 1 days wages for the AG or one of his workers, right?
I am curious how people get these performance numbers for their web sites (5hits/sec, 200hits/sec, etc.) What tools exist for determining these numbers?
I'm a big fan of the KDevelop project. However, one request I would make is to have customizable code-editing widgets. KWrite is a nice widget to use, but it is simply notepad with colors -- not very many advanced features for the seasoned hacker.
If someone could hack vim into a Qt or KDE widget, for use in KDevelop or stand-alone, then I would be impressed. Such a task seems more than trivial, now that I've tried it, because it seems the vim code is not exactly event-driven (or so I gather from some vim developers.)
All I see and hear are people raggin on "normal" death match. Maybe I haven't played quake[I,II,III] to the point of eye-bleeding hypnosis, but I still have fun playing straight or team DM. Am I the only one? Well, from the full servers I see every time I play, no. I'm no newbie, but I'm no thresh either, and every time I play, I have loads of fun, as I'm sure countless others do.
CTF and the other mods are fun too, but different types of fun. I doubt all of the millions of copies of Q1 sales were directly due to CTF. Saying that quake1 was "not a game until CTF came along" or "mindless DM" is insulting not only to me, but all the other "normal" DM'ers.
The Q3/UT comparison is another thread altogether...
It seems to me a VR solution like this is really clunky and difficult to pull-off. How far away are we from being able to have a Matrix-like plug in the back of our heads?
The problems at hand, I imagine, are those of figuring out how the brain works and how to interface with it in a high-speed manner, and a computer system sophisticated enought to fool our brains. (By this I mean a damn near infinite level of detail - sights, sounds, smells, everything that makes up real life. Hmmm... if said computer system is running a certian unstable OS, and it crashes... ooh, i dont even want to think about it:)
The first to pull this off will make an extremely large fortune, I suspect!
My guess is that Microsoft is out to prove a point: "We take security seriously." Well, maybe so, but only when a product is new, and they want to lead people to think that _ALL_ bug fixes will happen within minutes of their discovery.
W2K is new, it's high-profile, etc. So getting on this bug, fixing it, and then telling everyone how fast they fixed it is in their best interest because they want it to sell! But I'll change my name if the umpteenth W2K bug, a couple months from now, is crushed just as fast.
I think it's time for a reality check. Sure, everyone and their mother is talking smack about W2K. Sure, I see online publications everyday saying how companies "are not planning to upgrade to W2K until 2001" or "are taking a wait-and-see approach." But let me give you a real world example of how this is all hot air.
A few months ago, I tried W2K, RC2 I beleive it was, at work. So I called my bosses and IT managers and they looked at it, and said it was all right, but, to paraphrase, "we cannot justify upgrading to it, because there is no reason to." Ie, if it ain't broke (our NT4 network) don't fix it. Fast forward 2 months, and those same bosses come up to me and say "good news, we're gonna be ordering a new W2K server soon." WTF happened?! I'll tell you what happened, Hype. Microsoft sells one thing and one thing only, and that is the _word_ "Microsoft." They make point-and-click admin's like my bosses (and every other MCSE, NT admin, etc) beleive with all their heart (and purchasing buck) that MS is the only game in town, and one should get all their newest stuff ASAP.
I firmly beleive that's what will happend. Online publications be damned, opinions be damned, caution be damned, W2K is gonna sell like hotcakes. Novell FUD? Please... There's only one FUD source anyone listens to.
I hated this deletion of incomplete downloads too. wget kicks a lot of ass in *nix, but for those of you condemned to windows, you can use wget for windows: http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wg etwin.html
What scares me more than the legal battle is that with windowblinds, windows users now have the abilty to use skins (I'm assuming that windowblinds is the first application that allows this in the windows world). While KDE and Gnome have had this for a while, it seems now that windows users have caught up, and, from looking at the screenshots at www.windowblinds.net, surpassed both KDE and Gnome in many aspects. For example, with windowblinds it is possible to apply different skins to different applications! (I know that's not currently possible with KDE - not sure about Gnome). Also, it seems possible to make any Windows window transparent (http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/odn t-april99.jpg).
I don't know if these features are planned for either *nix desktop environment. It really sucks to see them done first in windows...
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Am I the only one that gets this? Freaking hilarious!!! This should be +5 funny, if you ask me.
LOL.
Well, I know she visited the Mechanic Shop and I know she was at the Football Stadium in Florida but I have to keep looking.
The points you make are exactly why I hope the Judge does something really wise, and make MS open up their current Office file formats (and all following changes to the formats too). I think this would be far more important than the source to windows, or breaking up MS, etc.
...goes out and pings the pages that are linked to
:)
I tried this with mozilla, before I realized that pinging requires sending of ICMP_ECHO_REQUESTs through a raw, open socket, and doing that (at least on *nix) requires root access. (if you do a ls -l `which ping` you'll see that its suid root.) so you're stuck with setting mozilla +s, or forking a 'ping', both suck.
(windows might work fine though, but I dont care about windows
or rather, the developers of those games! playstation, nintendo, sony, as well as microsoft, all have a slew of developers enlisted to "make the games." Microsoft in particular is able to wrangle in developers with API's that work on it's X-Box as well as desktop PC's. Developers like this, since they can easily port/cross-develop their games to 2 platforms. As much as Microsoft API's suck, are poorly designed, etc, they are being used, and used widely in PC game development.
Now consider Linux. Now think about games for Linux. Until now, the only commercially sucessful venue for games on Linux has been Loki. And all they do is ports (and according to the recent interview with the head of Loki, thats all they're interested in doing for at least the near future). My point is that for this machine to be a successful game platform, they'll have to convince developers that game development is rewarding, easy, powerful, etc. For this to happen, there needs to be proven, standard API's that are of commercial quality (open-source, or not), with support, usage statistics, examples, demos, everything! (Some tools/environments come to mind, such as OpenGL/AL; just gotta convince the developers.)
In terms of the non-game aspects of this machine, everything seems fine to me. Linux has already proven itself capable of internet-oriented tasks, and would, in my opinion, make a fine WebTV style device. However, to simply tack on "and it'll play your favorite games!" without thinking it through is not prudent, and I doubt it would sell, to either developers, or consumers.
Yeah, I dont get it. This was a good question. Unless askslashdot questions appear on the homepage, they get _zero_ traffic. Shame...
...and leaving the Dark Side forever.
:) Now, the X-Wings are over yonder. There's gonna be a breifing pretty soon, so let's get you a helmet and suit...
Congratulations!
Unfortunately, at my school, we're also being inundated with free microsoft stuff. The motivation is clear: by hooking young developers to their tools and OSi now, MS is ensuring that when they graduate and move onto real life (and have money) they will buy the only products they know how to use. Reminds me of drug dealers. :)
(What really irks me is that there is a lot if Microsoft software that is, in fact, of good quality! Unfortunately, Microsoft can't let people decide based on quality (even though they'd win sometimes) and instead use these predatory tactics. They use the same methods in pretty much everything they make (browsers, streaming media, OSi, etc.) )
I hope we can all learn something from this piece of trash movie: paid movie critics are insane! Just look at this (also given above). There are actually some positive comments in there!! "An instant popcorn classic." "Really stays with you." p-lease!! Now we know why every movie commercial on TV has at least a half-dozen positive comments from random reviewers from across the nation.
Only listen to your freinds' movie reviews, or those of people who aren't paid to give reviews.
What business does microsoft have developing a console system? Why does everyone in the media see this system as "wow, cool. should be interesting" instead of "great, another tentacle of the beast, spreading to another domain"? Maybe I'm over-zealous about this, but it really really pisses me off when a company leverages its user base around into whatever domain they want, and this seems to be what Microsoft does best. This move is analagous to using their OS monopoly to crush Netscape, only now, they're using their developer base instead of their user base.
I sincerely hope this platform bombs.
I was thinking about the bundling deal just today. If Mozilla turns out a success, which is in high likelihood, what are the odds that vendors will ship PC's with Mozilla (or NS5, or whatever it ends up being called) installed, with a nice, shiny icon right on the desktop? Let the users choose their browser.
Would the 800-pound gorilla dare to stop them, given that their current business practices in the "muscling of vendors" realm are currently under inspection?
And what about AOL? Are they planning on making Mozilla their default browser, embedding it into AOL software much like IE is today embedded there? If so: instant market share!!
Nintendo is committing $80 million for the gloves and agreed to also provide $75,000 for the cost of the attorney general's investigation, Spitzer said.
Why did this investigation cost $75,000? Does it really cost that much to call up Nintendo and say, "hey, how many guys cut their hands?" Even if they called up all 90 of the cut-handed individuals, that's like a $500 phone bill (maximum) and 1 days wages for the AG or one of his workers, right?
At least Nintendo is picking up the bill...
I am curious how people get these performance numbers for their web sites (5hits/sec, 200hits/sec, etc.) What tools exist for determining these numbers?
KDE uses the (C++) Qt widget set from troll. KDE, therefore is mostly, if not entirely, C++ based.
KDevelop is still capable of creating C only projects, IIRC.
I'm a big fan of the KDevelop project. However, one request I would make is to have customizable code-editing widgets. KWrite is a nice widget to use, but it is simply notepad with colors -- not very many advanced features for the seasoned hacker.
If someone could hack vim into a Qt or KDE widget, for use in KDevelop or stand-alone, then I would be impressed. Such a task seems more than trivial, now that I've tried it, because it seems the vim code is not exactly event-driven (or so I gather from some vim developers.)
All I see and hear are people raggin on "normal" death match. Maybe I haven't played quake[I,II,III] to the point of eye-bleeding hypnosis, but I still have fun playing straight or team DM. Am I the only one? Well, from the full servers I see every time I play, no. I'm no newbie, but I'm no thresh either, and every time I play, I have loads of fun, as I'm sure countless others do.
CTF and the other mods are fun too, but different types of fun. I doubt all of the millions of copies of Q1 sales were directly due to CTF. Saying that quake1 was "not a game until CTF came along" or "mindless DM" is insulting not only to me, but all the other "normal" DM'ers.
The Q3/UT comparison is another thread altogether...
It seems to me a VR solution like this is really clunky and difficult to pull-off. How far away are we from being able to have a Matrix-like plug in the back of our heads?
:)
The problems at hand, I imagine, are those of figuring out how the brain works and how to interface with it in a high-speed manner, and a computer system sophisticated enought to fool our brains. (By this I mean a damn near infinite level of detail - sights, sounds, smells, everything that makes up real life. Hmmm... if said computer system is running a certian unstable OS, and it crashes... ooh, i dont even want to think about it
The first to pull this off will make an extremely large fortune, I suspect!
My guess is that Microsoft is out to prove a point: "We take security seriously." Well, maybe so, but only when a product is new, and they want to lead people to think that _ALL_ bug fixes will happen within minutes of their discovery.
W2K is new, it's high-profile, etc. So getting on this bug, fixing it, and then telling everyone how fast they fixed it is in their best interest because they want it to sell! But I'll change my name if the umpteenth W2K bug, a couple months from now, is crushed just as fast.
Have you tryed your web pages with Mozilla?? Just curious if they appear as they should.
What an AWESOME last name! I guess his destiny was set in stone when he was born...
:)
I think i'll change my name to Hacker Ace, just to upstage him.
I think it's time for a reality check. Sure, everyone and their mother is talking smack about W2K. Sure, I see online publications everyday saying how companies "are not planning to upgrade to W2K until 2001" or "are taking a wait-and-see approach." But let me give you a real world example of how this is all hot air.
A few months ago, I tried W2K, RC2 I beleive it was, at work. So I called my bosses and IT managers and they looked at it, and said it was all right, but, to paraphrase, "we cannot justify upgrading to it, because there is no reason to." Ie, if it ain't broke (our NT4 network) don't fix it. Fast forward 2 months, and those same bosses come up to me and say "good news, we're gonna be ordering a new W2K server soon." WTF happened?! I'll tell you what happened, Hype. Microsoft sells one thing and one thing only, and that is the _word_ "Microsoft." They make point-and-click admin's like my bosses (and every other MCSE, NT admin, etc) beleive with all their heart (and purchasing buck) that MS is the only game in town, and one should get all their newest stuff ASAP.
I firmly beleive that's what will happend. Online publications be damned, opinions be damned, caution be damned, W2K is gonna sell like hotcakes. Novell FUD? Please... There's only one FUD source anyone listens to.
corrected copyleft url:
http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/copyleft/t 039.pl
and the back:
http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/cop yleft/t039.pl?1&back
http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/copyleft/t 039.pl
and the back:
http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/cop yleft/t039.pl?1&back
I hated this deletion of incomplete downloads too. wget kicks a lot of ass in *nix, but for those of you condemned to windows, you can use wget for windows:
http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wg etwin.html
What scares me more than the legal battle is that with windowblinds, windows users now have the abilty to use skins (I'm assuming that windowblinds is the first application that allows this in the windows world). While KDE and Gnome have had this for a while, it seems now that windows users have caught up, and, from looking at the screenshots at www.windowblinds.net, surpassed both KDE and Gnome in many aspects. For example, with windowblinds it is possible to apply different skins to different applications! (I know that's not currently possible with KDE - not sure about Gnome). Also, it seems possible to make any Windows window transparent (http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/odn t-april99.jpg).
I don't know if these features are planned for either *nix desktop environment. It really sucks to see them done first in windows...