This was quite possibly one of the worst movies i've ever seen. the scripting is absolutely horrible and the story... well... what story?
It felt like Beavis & Butthead took a joint hit from their cgi-only crack-pipe and went like "he he. let's add another CG character -- no wait, let's put in some lasers!!! -- kickass, dude -- we need more lightsabers -- beavis, hand me over the pipe, i need more visual effects".
not that episode 1 was any better. at least we now know who fucked over the senate. jar jar is responsible at last. i just *knew* that when i first saw him.
Weblogic and Websphere have one thing that JBoss will never get directly - a corporation that backs the product and promptly deals with support. And what is what you pay for.
um, i've had the "pleasure" to deal with IBM WebSphere support in Europe. The guy on the phone said: you'll get the answer within 4 working days, we have to contact the guys in the US for this particular problem. i solved it 2 hours later by myself... and it wasn't a problem with the support contract, I called with our customers support number and he has about 60 AS/400 boxen and various AIX machines sprinkled in between.
oh, to hell w/ voice recognition. as i don't work in the US i am missing out on the cubicle culture and i'm sitting in my office w/ 2 other people. i think all hell will break loose if we all start mumbling "close window", "open xterm" all day. heck, I imagine a support call coming in, someone here says "Close Window" and the guy on the other end of the phone actually does this... "Uh, no, not you, that was just someone wanting to CLOSE a WINDOW"... hm, chain reaction anyone?:)
on the other hand imagine all the pranks you could play on your co-workers computer if you can teach them to react to everyday words in a real weird way:)
Tough luck. Yeah, this is actually illegal but then again the companies actually selling this stuff on the web shouldn't go around bitching -- leaving your front door wide open and thinking "There's no one coming into my house because its illegal to steal stuff" is incredibly stupid.
Re:What irritates me about the win32 version.
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I'm hoping that the final product will be compatible with pages optimized for IE. It has XML and CSS support of course, but what about all the funky javascript and DHTML stuff that IE has? It's time to "embrace and extend" Microsoft's stuff lest we be left behind.
Argh. We've finally reached a point where one can develop web pages that look good in both IE and Mozilla without spending 80% of our time on tweaking the HTML/CSS to comply with the different "interpretations" of HTML/CSS in those two browsers. And now you're actually suggesting of fighting this stupid time-wasting war again?!
There's only one way to go: embrace existing standards (like XHTML, CSS and the DOM) and don't extend them with proprietary solutions that work only on one single platform. Everything else is just a continuation of the nightmare that we have experienced in the past. If a standard needs an extension, this extension should be developed by more than one party -- proprietary solutions are a truely gruesome and bad thing.
With sites like http://www.halfbrain.com/ and http://www.mywebos.com/, how far do you think will the integration of (X)HTML, CSS and ECMAScript go? Will this be our "new" desktop for the future?
To quote the "license" that Slade publishes on his webpage:
Also note that you are still allowed to distribute the works within freely, but please be aware that software contained herein is still under the GPL and you personally will be reponsible for the licensing restrictions of the GPL. So I strongly suggest that you have people you send to agree to similar terms.
Um, yeah. Basically, he tells me that if I download his closed-source binary and then give this binary to a friend of mine, I have to adhere to the GPL, thus giving the source to the binary to my friend if he asks for it. With the slight problem that I cannot give him the source because Slade chose to not give me the source in the first place - chicken and egg all the way. For a person (i.e. Slade) that personally states that he has been involved with the GPL for 10 years, this is a pretty whacky statement to make.
SINIX is the System V.4 complian UNIX variant jointly developed by Siemens (the third largest company in Germany) and Nixdorf Computer Systems, a pioneer hardware manufacturer in Germany in the 70's and 80's -- hence the name SINIX. Nixdorf was bought by Siemens in the late 80's though when they steered into financial troubles after their PC division (sic) wasn't doing as good as they thought it would...
There's a manual of SINIX online here for your enjoyment.
Oh and BTW, SINIX did enjoy its share of popularity in Europe (especially Germany) during the 80's and even into the 90's. I don't know though if its still under active development. Oh, and there's a 386/486 variant available for you to install over^H^H^H^H besides your Linux partition:).
I don't think that you get the point of the UDP or the point of Usenet in general.
The UDP saves me as the administrator of our (albeit small, non-full-feed) news system of/paying/ for bandwidth that is used to propagate Spam. If, as a news admin, I still want to get articles sent by a system hit by the UDP it is still at my discretion to do so. If you, as a user of Usenet, want to get articles of the UDP'd site, simply get an account there and use their servers.
Really what they should have said in the draft for nntp (why did they create it anyway when we can have e-mail?) is that is was a inherently sensored medium and that it would never be totally open?
NNTP is different from e-mail. e-mail is a "push" system where everything ends up in your mail folder -- you don't really have a choice of not receiving your e-mail. NNTP is a "pull" system where you as a reader can actually choose which newsgroups and which posts to read. Think about NNTP of something like the forums here on/. Would you rather read them online or have all posts in your mail folder? Didn't think so...
The fact that PCWeek had an insecure installation is a really good point. PCWeek is just like the "linux buzz" people who go to CompUSA and buy the $80 RedHat box.
... with the slight difference that a "linux buzz" type of guy won't use his newly installed Linux to run a public web server on it. If you really want to run a public server of any kind you *will* need a competent admin that takes the responsibility to install all vendor-supplied patches and upgrades. You don't go to a store, buy Windows whatever, install and start your new E-Bay clone on it.
For a standard end-user installation, wether it's Windows or Linux, security patches are a minor issue. If you're on a dial-up link like most of those folks the chances of actually being "hacked into" are not that high. Most corporate installations should be protected (at least in some ways) by a firewall. How many people are actually running Win95 (original release) with no security patches installed and get hacked on a regular basis?
There's a link on the salon page to an article closely related to this, IMO a quite decent piece (and actually a quite good summary of the reasons why I personally stick to vi, makefiles and all that good stuff). Check it out at http://www.salon1 999.com/21st/feature/1998/05/cov_12feature2.html.
This might sound a little bit odd but methinks that especially Hitler had a definite positive impact on history. The whole world order changed because of him and his views. Mind you, this is definitely not what he intended to do, but luckily it turned out that way.
Re:Screw all that crap on my screen
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I rather have a couple of xterms on screen simultaneously than keep pressing ALT-Fx to change between the consoles...
This is total bullshit as it would require everyone to have a connection to the net at any time. How about if I want to use a program on my laptop in the hotel w/o a net connection? Gimme a break. Yes, piracy sucks but I think that commercial software vendors should just open their eyes and look at The Real World(tm): there is no copy protection that cannot be broken. Period. Closest thing I've seen has been Half Life's scheme with serial numbers checked vs. a central database when playing on the net; other than that, copy protection is just a waste of time that would've been better spent on development and/or (oh my gosh!) bug fixing.
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This was quite possibly one of the worst movies i've ever seen. the scripting is absolutely horrible and the story ... well ... what story?
It felt like Beavis & Butthead took a joint hit from their cgi-only crack-pipe and went like "he he. let's add another CG character -- no wait, let's put in some lasers!!! -- kickass, dude -- we need more lightsabers -- beavis, hand me over the pipe, i need more visual effects".
not that episode 1 was any better. at least we now know who fucked over the senate. jar jar is responsible at last. i just *knew* that when i first saw him.
um, i've had the "pleasure" to deal with IBM WebSphere support in Europe. The guy on the phone said: you'll get the answer within 4 working days, we have to contact the guys in the US for this particular problem. i solved it 2 hours later by myself ... and it wasn't a problem with the support contract, I called with our customers support number and he has about 60 AS/400 boxen and various AIX machines sprinkled in between.
oh, to hell w/ voice recognition. as i don't work in the US i am missing out on the cubicle culture and i'm sitting in my office w/ 2 other people. i think all hell will break loose if we all start mumbling "close window", "open xterm" all day. heck, I imagine a support call coming in, someone here says "Close Window" and the guy on the other end of the phone actually does this ... "Uh, no, not you, that was just someone wanting to CLOSE a WINDOW" ... hm, chain reaction anyone? :)
:)
on the other hand imagine all the pranks you could play on your co-workers computer if you can teach them to react to everyday words in a real weird way
Tough luck. Yeah, this is actually illegal but then again the companies actually selling this stuff on the web shouldn't go around bitching -- leaving your front door wide open and thinking "There's no one coming into my house because its illegal to steal stuff" is incredibly stupid.
Argh. We've finally reached a point where one can develop web pages that look good in both IE and Mozilla without spending 80% of our time on tweaking the HTML/CSS to comply with the different "interpretations" of HTML/CSS in those two browsers. And now you're actually suggesting of fighting this stupid time-wasting war again?!
There's only one way to go: embrace existing standards (like XHTML, CSS and the DOM) and don't extend them with proprietary solutions that work only on one single platform. Everything else is just a continuation of the nightmare that we have experienced in the past. If a standard needs an extension, this extension should be developed by more than one party -- proprietary solutions are a truely gruesome and bad thing.
Just my $.02.
With sites like http://www.halfbrain.com/ and http://www.mywebos.com/, how far do you think will the integration of (X)HTML, CSS and ECMAScript go? Will this be our "new" desktop for the future?
To quote the "license" that Slade publishes on his webpage:
Um, yeah. Basically, he tells me that if I download his closed-source binary and then give this binary to a friend of mine, I have to adhere to the GPL, thus giving the source to the binary to my friend if he asks for it. With the slight problem that I cannot give him the source because Slade chose to not give me the source in the first place - chicken and egg all the way. For a person (i.e. Slade) that personally states that he has been involved with the GPL for 10 years, this is a pretty whacky statement to make.
SINIX is the System V.4 complian UNIX variant jointly developed by Siemens (the third largest company in Germany) and Nixdorf Computer Systems, a pioneer hardware manufacturer in Germany in the 70's and 80's -- hence the name SINIX. Nixdorf was bought by Siemens in the late 80's though when they steered into financial troubles after their PC division (sic) wasn't doing as good as they thought it would ...
There's a manual of SINIX online here for your enjoyment.
Oh and BTW, SINIX did enjoy its share of popularity in Europe (especially Germany) during the 80's and even into the 90's. I don't know though if its still under active development. Oh, and there's a 386/486 variant available for you to install over^H^H^H^H besides your Linux partition :).
I don't think that you get the point of the UDP or the point of Usenet in general.
/paying/ for bandwidth that is used to propagate Spam. If, as a news admin, I still want to get articles sent by a system hit by the UDP it is still at my discretion to do so. If you, as a user of Usenet, want to get articles of the UDP'd site, simply get an account there and use their servers.
/. Would you rather read them online or have all posts in your mail folder? Didn't think so ...
The UDP saves me as the administrator of our (albeit small, non-full-feed) news system of
Really what they should have said in the draft for nntp (why did they create it anyway when we can have e-mail?) is that is was a inherently sensored medium and that it would never be totally open?
NNTP is different from e-mail. e-mail is a "push" system where everything ends up in your mail folder -- you don't really have a choice of not receiving your e-mail. NNTP is a "pull" system where you as a reader can actually choose which newsgroups and which posts to read. Think about NNTP of something like the forums here on
For a standard end-user installation, wether it's Windows or Linux, security patches are a minor issue. If you're on a dial-up link like most of those folks the chances of actually being "hacked into" are not that high. Most corporate installations should be protected (at least in some ways) by a firewall. How many people are actually running Win95 (original release) with no security patches installed and get hacked on a regular basis?
There's a link on the salon page to an article closely related to this, IMO a quite decent piece (and actually a quite good summary of the reasons why I personally stick to vi, makefiles and all that good stuff).
Check it out at http://www.salon1 999.com/21st/feature/1998/05/cov_12feature2.html.
This might sound a little bit odd but methinks that especially Hitler had a definite positive impact on history. The whole world order changed because of him and his views. Mind you, this is definitely not what he intended to do, but luckily it turned out that way.
I rather have a couple of xterms on screen simultaneously than keep pressing ALT-Fx to change between the consoles ...
This is total bullshit as it would require everyone to have a connection to the net at any time. How about if I want to use a program on my laptop in the hotel w/o a net connection? Gimme a break.
Yes, piracy sucks but I think that commercial software vendors should just open their eyes and look at The Real World(tm): there is no copy protection that cannot be broken. Period. Closest thing I've seen has been Half Life's scheme with serial numbers checked vs. a central database when playing on the net; other than that, copy protection is just a waste of time that would've been better spent on development and/or (oh my gosh!) bug fixing.