As a lot of folks have mentioned above, the article has nothing to do with DDR, and the girl's being in arcade at the time when heart attack hit her in fact saved her life because there were so many people around her, although it's strange the disease hasn't been discovered earlier for the poor girl.
I must say that DDR is actually very refreshing. I have a soft mat and a metal dancing stage (a self-made one, say 'no' to R*dOct*ne and other ripoffers!) at home and go to dance at the arcade often. All in all it takes me about ten hours a week or more, and that's great. Regular excersizing is something you must force yourself to do, DDR is something you must force yourself to stop doing.:) I'm by far not the strongest person on the Earth and I have arythmia, which is also a heart defect. I have never felt better in my life than on that dancing stage!
Dancing games are also about socialization. You can't underestimate the feeling it gives you when people around are watching and cheering for you. So, shame on lame reporters who keep using the same old tricks to lure readers into believing facts that aren't.
Actually, I believe it should have been stated before, but I'll repeat myself from an earlier posting some time ago.
The new Crossover Office does really run Microsoft Project and does this flawlessly. I wish it could run Rational Rose as well, but since we weren't able to force the poor emu-layer to do so, we decided to evaluate Borland Together which is cross-platform by nature. Up until now, it manages just fine and even better, since it integrates with StarTeam really smoothly.
I have known about DDR and other dancing games for quite a time, but it wasn't until half a year ago when I started actually playing the game, and let me tell you, it's a bliss. Not only you do excercise and listen to pretty enjoyable music at the same time, it also improves social skills if done at the arcade and properly. People gather around watching you dance, and it always feels good to hear some complete strangers say nice things to you, doesn't it?
Myself? I have lost about 10 kilograms, and I can surely lose more. A friend of mine made a hard dance pad out of plywood and had a article written about him in the nationwide GameLand magazine. Now we are in for organizing a tournament.:)
BTW, after getting hooked up to DDR and being long-time Eurobeat fans, we went further to discover other BEMANI games like ParaParaParadise where you dance using your hands to cross infrared motion sensors imitating the para-para dancing style popular in Japan, and many others like DanceManiaX. Go and see for yourself, it's fun!
Where I work we use MS Project, Rational Rose and StarTeam, all tied closely together. Up until now myself and some other Linux zealots in the company were forced to use Project and Rational Rose from a Windows 2000 Terminal Server machine which was good enough for us and bad load on the server.
But now MS Project really runs under cxoffice, and that's great, although having a native Linux project planning and managing application would be much better. Alas, MrProject is still not good enough for us.:(
On the other hand, Rational Rose still doesn't install, and we were never able to make native Linux version if Rose run. Maybe somebody had more luck making the thing work?
BTW, StarTeam runs on Linux natively just perfect, perhaps because it's a java application.:)
Had worked on a (closed) project where several developer groups from around the globe were contributing. Pwiki, already mentioned above, BugZilla and a couple of small homebrewn scripts made the project much, much easier.
I would recommend implementing plogs wherever you think they would fit, since they give the developers and even management the idea of who they are working with and let people produce better results.
My 2 cents as a dedicated SuSE user.
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I have been using SuSE Linux on many machines at office and on all the machines at home since 8.2 came out, and I switched to using SuSE from RedHat, which I've been using since 6.0. Just can't say enough how I love the system, although it of course has its bugs and limitations, of which I will write as well.
The specs of my hardware at home are rather common: nForce2 chipsets, some old Intel chipsets, some generic noname nVidia GeForces and some old S3 PCI cards to accomodate other monitors, a pile of generic 8139 ethernet cards, a D-Link ADSL modem, and the aforementioned TFT monitors, together with a Canon flatbed scanner and an inkjet printer. I have never had any problems installing the hardware, although I had to use a commercial driver to make my cheap printer work. In SuSE 9.1 installation of several monitors with SaX went absolutely smoothly and if I weren't so picky about DPI settings and such, I could have just used the default XF86Config it made during the installation. NVidia drivers were downloaded by the YaST Online Update application and installed in the background so that I didn't even notice the fact until I ran an OpenGL screensaver and it was really fast!:)
The installation went smoothly as well. First of all, I am Russian, and I am oh-so-pleased to see my native language back again in YaST since it was missing in 9.0 due to some glitch. What's even better is that now SuSE ships with decent Unicode TrueType fonts with Cyrillics glyphs, so you don't have to stare at ugly bitmap fonts during the installationg, and, again, if one is not very picky, he or she would perfectly go with these bundled fonts without any need to install standard fonts from Microsoft Windows.
And now for the surprising facts I have discovered so far. Maybe I wasn't reading reviews too carefully, but the default locale is now UTF8. We all remember how bad UTF8 was implemented in RedHat 8.0, and it never became better in RedHat 9.0. It mostly likely won't make any difference for people who don't use Cyrillic characters, but here (in Soviet Russia:) we have had The Encoding Hell for almost two decades now, resulting in U*IX clones using KOI8-R, DOS using CP866, Windows using CP1251 and MacOS using a crippled version of CP1251. You just can't imagine how complex is the task of making heterogeneous networks handle file shares with national characters properly! But surprisingly UTF8 as the default locale in SuSE 9.1 works very well and the only bad thing about it currently is that ncurses and groff think that Cyrillic characters are really two-character wide, thus resulting in slightly broken formatting. Nothing we can't live without. And I can now browse Samba shares from a Windows 2000 machine and see Japanese filenames just fine.
Fellow font maniacs, beware! If you try to build the latest Freetype (currently 2.1.8), which you most likely will want to do, at least for the sake of turning the bytecode interpreter on -- DO NOT DO IT. GTK1 and other applications using bitmap fonts will crash your X after this! I've investigated the matter and solved the problem. For the curious I can e-mail an explanation, but to cut a long story short now, the steps to take to make sure your fonts look pretty and no applications crash X, do the following:
init 3
Build and install freetype-2.1.5 or freetype-2.1.6 which are essentially the same. Yes, you will need an old version like this.
Replace the following libs in/usr/X11R6/lib/: libXfont, libXft, and libXrender, with the ones from SuSE 9.0.
Run SuSEconfig as root.
init 5
After that you should have no problems and crashes. I know that's by far not an elegant solution and will greatly appreciate other suggestions!
Samba 3 on a SuSE 8.2 box and Samba 3 on a SuSE 9.1 box export file ownership and permission data! I don't know why this works and I
The person in question wasn't hired because he was known to cause a lot of legal ruckus for a company working in the same field before. Him being a scientologist, and the fact that the proceedings dealt with certain aspects of... ahem... corporate culture, was, of course, a pure coincidence.
While this might be slightly overkill in the general case, it has helped me once to dig for info on a guy who was trying to get a position in my company. If I didn't do that, I would have hired a skilled programmer and a scientologist at the same time, a person who was totally responsible for at least one major legal conflict.
Just don't let the tin foil obstruct your line of vision. It doesn't really matter what does your applicant blog or do in his spare time as long as he is a fine fellow and a nice specialist.
This is very interesting. I've been using FreeBSD at home back at 1997, but it didn't have almost anything that could work with graphics back then, and I needed that a lot, so I was forced to move to Windows.
Some of hosting companies we were clients at were using FreeBSD, so I continued to gain my BSD experience, if not local.
Now I'm running only Linux for almost two years, and I'm happy with the system -- it doesn't have problems with my hardware (I suppose it should have, but I'm to notice them yet).
I'm definitely going to give this LiveCD a try and see if BSD has become a system fit for desktop machines. Some of my friends say so, but I didn't want to go through the hassle of installing it on a working machine and I don't have a spare HDD around. Now hopefully I don't need that. So, a toast to FreeSBIE!.. and other OSS/FS as well.
That's for sure, but it is not commented nor translated into English anywhere in the Dark Horse edition, hence the Russian-illiterate readers totally miss the fun.
One may find it very interesting to read the original manga, of which Dark Horse had made quite a nice translation several years ago (with the infamous Three Lesbian Pages out, but who does really care?).
First of all, Shirow began drawing Kokaku Kidoutai (the original name of GITS) back in 1989, the last years of Soviet Union. The plot is heavily based on the Soviet intrigue, not without the funniest blops, like calling an aircraft carrier Pirozhki, which means Patties. Note that the Soviets line was not featured anywhere else but the original manga, although in Standalone Complex and the following series both opening songs are in a strange Russian-English language mix and are sung by a Russian actress Olga Yakovleva.
Yeah, and the manga also features Annapuma and Unipuma "The Famous Catgirls" from the very Shirow's Dominion.:)
I can understand your feelings as a loyal Sun devotee, but sorry, we only need Suns to do some development for one of our clients. I do not feel oblidged to praise them at all.:)
And yes, not only we know everything about their support, we even have. Believe me, they wouldn't automagically be here in an hour. Not even in a day. In Soviet Russia support techs you, and the Sun's is not an exception.
Not to mention that the best way around is when you do not need any support at all.
All that, and don't forget it runs Solaris, thus making it almost impossible to use.
I've been using Unix-clones (BSD and Linux, now happy with SuSE) here and there for almost seven years now, not counting my first brief encounter with a real UNIX on a mainframe circa 1990. I've also read and highly recommend others to read The Unix Haters Handbook. Reading it in 2004 makes one cry over Windows that repeated the same mistakes all over again (note where the book resides), and, what's more important, it clearly shows that Suns have never become better ever since.
Personally I vote for two x86 servers at the cost of one SPARC.
That reminds me how we tried to get ourselves a couple of V100s and got one V250 instead while our distributor was shipping our lil' V100s here.
And when they finally got them here, one of the V100s did not boot. It did all the nifty console bootstrapping and stuff, but didn't want to boot from the supposedly preinstalled SunOS on HDD or even from the installation CD.
But it had a built-in FORTH interpreter! It could download a program off the local network and run it!
That's it, we almost ended up with a network-enabled FORTH compiler that cost us $1500.
I'm still glad we didn't wait for tech support to react (and I'm pretty sure it would take them several more weeks) to this and just pulled the cover off the V100 and found out there was something wrong with jumpers on the HDD.
By the way, the insides of a low-end-but-still-so-expensive Sun machine are so-o-o cheap, like IDE Seagate drives... why do they charge so much for them?
In our company, which has several offices across the globe, meetings are the most longed-for events of the day. They last for at least three hours every day, and at least half of the staff participate.
Needless to say, meetings are held in yahoo conferences with an occasional videocam. Most view them as the everlasting Developers vs. Marketroids struggle, but I find them fun. Well, at least we can laugh all we want at them and they will never hear us unless we will use the mike, which we won't.
Not to mention that typing a lot is tiresome for many people and it's much more often that something really useful is discussed in a conference -- and the 'meetings' are all logged for future reference -- without all the bragging and self-show typical for live meetings.
I've also suffered when my otherwise great and very silent Fujitsu HDD went down last year. I've read about the expected rise in Fujitsu's HDDs death ratio, so I had backed up all my sensitive data before my drive went down.
By the way, I got it fixed afterwards. I'm not too much into technical details when it comes to microelectronics, but it cost me close to nothing compared with the cost of a new drive. I still bought a new one, actually, just to be sure, and I occasionally use my old Fujitsu drive to move large quantities of data between offices.
If that switching was the reason for companies to drop their warranty period to just one year, it's bad again -- doesn't it mean that HDDs are now expected to die sooner? I've had a 4GB Seagate drive on my 24/7 routing machine for five years now and I'm not sure I'll be able to find a new drive this small so that the router's old motherboard could handle it. And I'm certainly not up to buying new hardware every once a month.
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We really wish your daughter to get well soon. Good luck to you and your family.
As a lot of folks have mentioned above, the article has nothing to do with DDR, and the girl's being in arcade at the time when heart attack hit her in fact saved her life because there were so many people around her, although it's strange the disease hasn't been discovered earlier for the poor girl.
:) I'm by far not the strongest person on the Earth and I have arythmia, which is also a heart defect. I have never felt better in my life than on that dancing stage!
I must say that DDR is actually very refreshing. I have a soft mat and a metal dancing stage (a self-made one, say 'no' to R*dOct*ne and other ripoffers!) at home and go to dance at the arcade often. All in all it takes me about ten hours a week or more, and that's great. Regular excersizing is something you must force yourself to do, DDR is something you must force yourself to stop doing .
Dancing games are also about socialization. You can't underestimate the feeling it gives you when people around are watching and cheering for you. So, shame on lame reporters who keep using the same old tricks to lure readers into believing facts that aren't.
Actually, I believe it should have been stated before, but I'll repeat myself from an earlier posting some time ago.
The new Crossover Office does really run Microsoft Project and does this flawlessly. I wish it could run Rational Rose as well, but since we weren't able to force the poor emu-layer to do so, we decided to evaluate Borland Together which is cross-platform by nature. Up until now, it manages just fine and even better, since it integrates with StarTeam really smoothly.
I have known about DDR and other dancing games for quite a time, but it wasn't until half a year ago when I started actually playing the game, and let me tell you, it's a bliss. Not only you do excercise and listen to pretty enjoyable music at the same time, it also improves social skills if done at the arcade and properly. People gather around watching you dance, and it always feels good to hear some complete strangers say nice things to you, doesn't it?
:)
Myself? I have lost about 10 kilograms, and I can surely lose more. A friend of mine made a hard dance pad out of plywood and had a article written about him in the nationwide GameLand magazine. Now we are in for organizing a tournament.
BTW, after getting hooked up to DDR and being long-time Eurobeat fans, we went further to discover other BEMANI games like ParaParaParadise where you dance using your hands to cross infrared motion sensors imitating the para-para dancing style popular in Japan, and many others like DanceManiaX. Go and see for yourself, it's fun!
Where I work we use MS Project, Rational Rose and StarTeam, all tied closely together. Up until now myself and some other Linux zealots in the company were forced to use Project and Rational Rose from a Windows 2000 Terminal Server machine which was good enough for us and bad load on the server.
:(
:)
But now MS Project really runs under cxoffice, and that's great, although having a native Linux project planning and managing application would be much better. Alas, MrProject is still not good enough for us.
On the other hand, Rational Rose still doesn't install, and we were never able to make native Linux version if Rose run. Maybe somebody had more luck making the thing work?
BTW, StarTeam runs on Linux natively just perfect, perhaps because it's a java application.
Had worked on a (closed) project where several developer groups from around the globe were contributing. Pwiki, already mentioned above, BugZilla and a couple of small homebrewn scripts made the project much, much easier.
I would recommend implementing plogs wherever you think they would fit, since they give the developers and even management the idea of who they are working with and let people produce better results.
The specs of my hardware at home are rather common: nForce2 chipsets, some old Intel chipsets, some generic noname nVidia GeForces and some old S3 PCI cards to accomodate other monitors, a pile of generic 8139 ethernet cards, a D-Link ADSL modem, and the aforementioned TFT monitors, together with a Canon flatbed scanner and an inkjet printer. I have never had any problems installing the hardware, although I had to use a commercial driver to make my cheap printer work. In SuSE 9.1 installation of several monitors with SaX went absolutely smoothly and if I weren't so picky about DPI settings and such, I could have just used the default XF86Config it made during the installation. NVidia drivers were downloaded by the YaST Online Update application and installed in the background so that I didn't even notice the fact until I ran an OpenGL screensaver and it was really fast!
The installation went smoothly as well. First of all, I am Russian, and I am oh-so-pleased to see my native language back again in YaST since it was missing in 9.0 due to some glitch. What's even better is that now SuSE ships with decent Unicode TrueType fonts with Cyrillics glyphs, so you don't have to stare at ugly bitmap fonts during the installationg, and, again, if one is not very picky, he or she would perfectly go with these bundled fonts without any need to install standard fonts from Microsoft Windows.
And now for the surprising facts I have discovered so far. Maybe I wasn't reading reviews too carefully, but the default locale is now UTF8. We all remember how bad UTF8 was implemented in RedHat 8.0, and it never became better in RedHat 9.0. It mostly likely won't make any difference for people who don't use Cyrillic characters, but here (in Soviet Russia
Fellow font maniacs, beware! If you try to build the latest Freetype (currently 2.1.8), which you most likely will want to do, at least for the sake of turning the bytecode interpreter on -- DO NOT DO IT. GTK1 and other applications using bitmap fonts will crash your X after this! I've investigated the matter and solved the problem. For the curious I can e-mail an explanation, but to cut a long story short now, the steps to take to make sure your fonts look pretty and no applications crash X, do the following:
After that you should have no problems and crashes. I know that's by far not an elegant solution and will greatly appreciate other suggestions!
Samba 3 on a SuSE 8.2 box and Samba 3 on a SuSE 9.1 box export file ownership and permission data! I don't know why this works and I
Actually, there are no polar bears in the Antarctica. Penguins yes, bears no.
Polar bears live in the Arctic, being neighbours to the good ol' Santa Claus, who is going bankrupt...
...if you have a chance, try and see Porco Rosso in Spanish or, even better, in Italian dub. It adds to the spirit of the movie so much.
Wrong.
The person in question wasn't hired because he was known to cause a lot of legal ruckus for a company working in the same field before. Him being a scientologist, and the fact that the proceedings dealt with certain aspects of... ahem... corporate culture, was, of course, a pure coincidence.
While this might be slightly overkill in the general case, it has helped me once to dig for info on a guy who was trying to get a position in my company. If I didn't do that, I would have hired a skilled programmer and a scientologist at the same time, a person who was totally responsible for at least one major legal conflict.
Just don't let the tin foil obstruct your line of vision. It doesn't really matter what does your applicant blog or do in his spare time as long as he is a fine fellow and a nice specialist.
This is very interesting. I've been using FreeBSD at home back at 1997, but it didn't have almost anything that could work with graphics back then, and I needed that a lot, so I was forced to move to Windows.
Some of hosting companies we were clients at were using FreeBSD, so I continued to gain my BSD experience, if not local.
Now I'm running only Linux for almost two years, and I'm happy with the system -- it doesn't have problems with my hardware (I suppose it should have, but I'm to notice them yet).
I'm definitely going to give this LiveCD a try and see if BSD has become a system fit for desktop machines. Some of my friends say so, but I didn't want to go through the hassle of installing it on a working machine and I don't have a spare HDD around. Now hopefully I don't need that. So, a toast to FreeSBIE!.. and other OSS/FS as well.
That's for sure, but it is not commented nor translated into English anywhere in the Dark Horse edition, hence the Russian-illiterate readers totally miss the fun.
One may find it very interesting to read the original manga, of which Dark Horse had made quite a nice translation several years ago (with the infamous Three Lesbian Pages out, but who does really care?).
:)
First of all, Shirow began drawing Kokaku Kidoutai (the original name of GITS) back in 1989, the last years of Soviet Union. The plot is heavily based on the Soviet intrigue, not without the funniest blops, like calling an aircraft carrier Pirozhki, which means Patties. Note that the Soviets line was not featured anywhere else but the original manga, although in Standalone Complex and the following series both opening songs are in a strange Russian-English language mix and are sung by a Russian actress Olga Yakovleva.
Yeah, and the manga also features Annapuma and Unipuma "The Famous Catgirls" from the very Shirow's Dominion.
I can understand your feelings as a loyal Sun devotee, but sorry, we only need Suns to do some development for one of our clients. I do not feel oblidged to praise them at all. :)
And yes, not only we know everything about their support, we even have. Believe me, they wouldn't automagically be here in an hour. Not even in a day. In Soviet Russia support techs you, and the Sun's is not an exception.
Not to mention that the best way around is when you do not need any support at all.
All that, and don't forget it runs Solaris, thus making it almost impossible to use.
I've been using Unix-clones (BSD and Linux, now happy with SuSE) here and there for almost seven years now, not counting my first brief encounter with a real UNIX on a mainframe circa 1990. I've also read and highly recommend others to read The Unix Haters Handbook. Reading it in 2004 makes one cry over Windows that repeated the same mistakes all over again (note where the book resides), and, what's more important, it clearly shows that Suns have never become better ever since.
Personally I vote for two x86 servers at the cost of one SPARC.
That reminds me how we tried to get ourselves a couple of V100s and got one V250 instead while our distributor was shipping our lil' V100s here.
And when they finally got them here, one of the V100s did not boot. It did all the nifty console bootstrapping and stuff, but didn't want to boot from the supposedly preinstalled SunOS on HDD or even from the installation CD.
But it had a built-in FORTH interpreter! It could download a program off the local network and run it!
That's it, we almost ended up with a network-enabled FORTH compiler that cost us $1500.
I'm still glad we didn't wait for tech support to react (and I'm pretty sure it would take them several more weeks) to this and just pulled the cover off the V100 and found out there was something wrong with jumpers on the HDD.
By the way, the insides of a low-end-but-still-so-expensive Sun machine are so-o-o cheap, like IDE Seagate drives... why do they charge so much for them?
In our company, which has several offices across the globe, meetings are the most longed-for events of the day. They last for at least three hours every day, and at least half of the staff participate.
Needless to say, meetings are held in yahoo conferences with an occasional videocam. Most view them as the everlasting Developers vs. Marketroids struggle, but I find them fun. Well, at least we can laugh all we want at them and they will never hear us unless we will use the mike, which we won't.
Not to mention that typing a lot is tiresome for many people and it's much more often that something really useful is discussed in a conference -- and the 'meetings' are all logged for future reference -- without all the bragging and self-show typical for live meetings.
I've also suffered when my otherwise great and very silent Fujitsu HDD went down last year. I've read about the expected rise in Fujitsu's HDDs death ratio, so I had backed up all my sensitive data before my drive went down.
By the way, I got it fixed afterwards. I'm not too much into technical details when it comes to microelectronics, but it cost me close to nothing compared with the cost of a new drive. I still bought a new one, actually, just to be sure, and I occasionally use my old Fujitsu drive to move large quantities of data between offices.
If that switching was the reason for companies to drop their warranty period to just one year, it's bad again -- doesn't it mean that HDDs are now expected to die sooner? I've had a 4GB Seagate drive on my 24/7 routing machine for five years now and I'm not sure I'll be able to find a new drive this small so that the router's old motherboard could handle it. And I'm certainly not up to buying new hardware every once a month.
A manic-depressive power-hungry restriction bot, named ICARUS on top of it. Sounds a lot like "Deus Ex" to me.
Where's the DAEDALUS then, and how soon are we going to witness the coming of HELIOS?
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