Actually, since they're naming it The Last Remnant, I halfway expect them to make fifteen of them. I mean, we saw how it ended up when they named something the Final Fantasy.
It's not worthwhile to try to argue the value of the humanities here on Slashdot. I suspect people in those fields make up less than ten percent of the population around here, and most of the tradesmen in IT consider themselves far more "well rounded" than they actually are.
Well, see, I think most workers rely on two things: word processors and spreadsheets. Those are easy to provide on any platform. Here, we also have some custom-built apps, which are very small and easy to duplicate. There is also a mainframe which many people deal with via a terminal application, which would function identically. Unfortunately, we have a lot of people who install tons of programs on their computers--and not useful programs, either. Disable the installations and they complain because they can't install a program they actually need. We use Novell Groupwise for "groupware," but honestly it's horribly underutilized and unnecessary. Nobody even uses it to schedule meetings--they just send out voice mail.
I would dispute that Windows is superior for casual programming and scripting, especially given the level to which networks and computers must be locked down, but most of our users don't even do that. I do that, and I ssh into a Linux box.
I'd probably use BSD in a workstation environment. And no, I don't agree that Windows is a great workstation system. Where I am, we've got tons of XP and 2000 workstations, and there have been a lot of virus problems in the past. If you lock them down enough to prevent that, there are problems getting real work done on the damn things. Not to mention our security issues.
That's probably more accurate, but it's really idiocy in a lot of cases. Unix is easier to administer, on the whole, than Windows. Windows has too many damn obscure errors, and buggy commercial "services" that are supposed to patch holes in its capabilities.
IBM and Red Hat don't take themselves seriously? IBM is basically the definition of "serious." Big Blue doesn't have a joke in its massive, bloated corporate body.
Self-reply: looking back at the manpages, "-Uuid" isn't even supposed to be a switch for this purpose. Ugh. I need to stop trying to do things at 2 AM.
Really? I'd done it before, I was pretty certain. I seldom have to mess with this issue, and thought there was a way for me to give a user write permissions on a mounted drive with either chmod or chown. chmod wouldn't take, though--the permissions didn't seem to "stick." So, I thought: "Maybe I did it with chown," but, as you say, no go. "mount -Uuid" also didn't work.
I installed Fedora Core 6 yesterday, and I have actually gotten a few "that operation is not allowed" messages trying to chown directory on a drive mounted by root. That's getting kind of annoying, I have to say.
(Is there a good userspace mount utility?)
There are a lot of people on the Internet who seem to have no idea that argument has any sort of foundation beyond "yelling at someone else and calling them names." The GPL folks have an unassailable logical argument in this case, and all of the OpenBSD people just make themselves look like idiots to people with a clue. It would be nice if people understood the concepts of rhetoric and logic.
I'm also a bit confused by the idea that this is motivated by real estate prices. The Lenoir data center makes no sense in that context. North Carolina is the tenth most populous state, and good chunks of it aren't actually places you can live. (The western third of the state is all wrinkly.)
Well, I think Pagan was '94, but you can be forgiven for forgetting that. What a giant up-screwing of a great franchise.
As for Insomniac, well--they don't revolutionize genres, but they do execute their games very well. Ratchet & Clank is more of a 3D Mega Man than it is a Mario 64 derivative, really.
Well, David Lynch is excellent at visualizing and filming strangeness. Many of his scenes have a surreal, haunting beauty about them, and Dune is no exception. Still doesn't get the plot across, though--it'd be almost impossible to do in film.
Honestly, this is one of the reasons I am usually underwhelmed by Western games. (A generalization, I know.) It seems that most of the "great" game designers we have in America are actually just great coders. I think it all goes back to John Carmack--everyone wants their game to be nifty, not necessarily a good game. They want to invent the Quake engine again, and don't have any unique ideas or approaches. Of course there are exceptions--Insomniac and Retro Studios have produced some great games recently, and VALVe's quality. On the other hand, two of those are second-party producers for Japanese companies (Sony and Nintendo, respectively), and VALVe's run by a crazy man.
That's true, but the media would have needed to be updated to CD-ROM (and DVD?) anyway. Remember, at the time, truecolor displays were very uncommon, and JPEG wasn't yet specified.
Dune will never produce a good cinematic version, either. You'd think people would learn to leave cerebral books with a great deal of politicking and internal monologue alone.
...has been done before. The Domesday Book was digitized by the BBC Domesday Project. Unfortunately, it ended up being a comic rather than a technical triumph. People must remember that, no matter how low-tech a method of physical data storage seems, it's more reliable in the long run than data storage relying on complex technology. I'm not against digitization by any means, of course: it could be useful as a research tool, and as an alternate method of access. It shouldn't be viewed as a long-term archival project, however. If the documents are really "disintegrating," take high-quality images of the pages and print them in good ink on acid-free archival paper (or vellum).
2K sports is actually not particularly successful compared to Rockstar and Firaxis. (If you notice, I included both of those in the post you replied to.) They come in second to EA on every title.
Take Two loses money because they publish nothing that sells outside of Firaxis (Civilization) and Rockstar games. Everything else is somewhere between the bargain bin and B-grade.
I think that you may be confusing correlation and causation. If I recall correctly, back in the late 90s there was a study of personality types of people who used the Internet extensively. It found that introverts tend to use internet-based communities a great deal more than extraverts. In particular, the INT* types (on the Myers-Briggs scale) were particularly common. It's a mistake to think that this means that someone must be rude and cold, but social interaction is not generally an introvert's strong point. On the other hand, they tend to be better at analysis and planning than some people who may seem more "together" and friendly than they are.
One thing that I particularly like about the Internet is that I can seek out discussion groups about particular subjects which interest me and, having found those discussion groups, I can participate with none of the baggage that the physical world brings. I am interested in philosophy, so I can find a philosophy discussion group and discuss philosophy there--that simple. "Real life" groups always have irritating dynamics. One member of the group wants to sleep with another member, except the latter is actually sleeping with this other one... it's counter-productive. Furthermore, if you are selective about your online communities, you can find more intelligent people online than off. Offline, you tend to be required to deal with people of average intelligence, and that's just not a good thing at all.
Disclaimer: I am an INTP, of course. A polite and "together" sort of guy, but an introvert who uses virtual communities quite a bit, nonetheless.
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Actually, since they're naming it The Last Remnant, I halfway expect them to make fifteen of them. I mean, we saw how it ended up when they named something the Final Fantasy.
It's not worthwhile to try to argue the value of the humanities here on Slashdot. I suspect people in those fields make up less than ten percent of the population around here, and most of the tradesmen in IT consider themselves far more "well rounded" than they actually are.
Well, see, I think most workers rely on two things: word processors and spreadsheets. Those are easy to provide on any platform. Here, we also have some custom-built apps, which are very small and easy to duplicate. There is also a mainframe which many people deal with via a terminal application, which would function identically. Unfortunately, we have a lot of people who install tons of programs on their computers--and not useful programs, either. Disable the installations and they complain because they can't install a program they actually need. We use Novell Groupwise for "groupware," but honestly it's horribly underutilized and unnecessary. Nobody even uses it to schedule meetings--they just send out voice mail. I would dispute that Windows is superior for casual programming and scripting, especially given the level to which networks and computers must be locked down, but most of our users don't even do that. I do that, and I ssh into a Linux box.
I'd probably use BSD in a workstation environment. And no, I don't agree that Windows is a great workstation system. Where I am, we've got tons of XP and 2000 workstations, and there have been a lot of virus problems in the past. If you lock them down enough to prevent that, there are problems getting real work done on the damn things. Not to mention our security issues.
That's probably more accurate, but it's really idiocy in a lot of cases. Unix is easier to administer, on the whole, than Windows. Windows has too many damn obscure errors, and buggy commercial "services" that are supposed to patch holes in its capabilities.
IBM and Red Hat don't take themselves seriously? IBM is basically the definition of "serious." Big Blue doesn't have a joke in its massive, bloated corporate body.
Thanks. I got it figured out eventually. I just have to learn not to mess around when it's after midnight. :)
Self-reply: looking back at the manpages, "-Uuid" isn't even supposed to be a switch for this purpose. Ugh. I need to stop trying to do things at 2 AM.
Really? I'd done it before, I was pretty certain. I seldom have to mess with this issue, and thought there was a way for me to give a user write permissions on a mounted drive with either chmod or chown. chmod wouldn't take, though--the permissions didn't seem to "stick." So, I thought: "Maybe I did it with chown," but, as you say, no go. "mount -Uuid" also didn't work.
"...I'm so glad. I've got sunshine in a bag. I feel useless--but not for long! The future is comin' on, it's comin' on..."
I installed Fedora Core 6 yesterday, and I have actually gotten a few "that operation is not allowed" messages trying to chown directory on a drive mounted by root. That's getting kind of annoying, I have to say. (Is there a good userspace mount utility?)
There are a lot of people on the Internet who seem to have no idea that argument has any sort of foundation beyond "yelling at someone else and calling them names." The GPL folks have an unassailable logical argument in this case, and all of the OpenBSD people just make themselves look like idiots to people with a clue. It would be nice if people understood the concepts of rhetoric and logic.
I'm also a bit confused by the idea that this is motivated by real estate prices. The Lenoir data center makes no sense in that context. North Carolina is the tenth most populous state, and good chunks of it aren't actually places you can live. (The western third of the state is all wrinkly.)
Well, I think Pagan was '94, but you can be forgiven for forgetting that. What a giant up-screwing of a great franchise. As for Insomniac, well--they don't revolutionize genres, but they do execute their games very well. Ratchet & Clank is more of a 3D Mega Man than it is a Mario 64 derivative, really.
Well, David Lynch is excellent at visualizing and filming strangeness. Many of his scenes have a surreal, haunting beauty about them, and Dune is no exception. Still doesn't get the plot across, though--it'd be almost impossible to do in film.
Honestly, this is one of the reasons I am usually underwhelmed by Western games. (A generalization, I know.) It seems that most of the "great" game designers we have in America are actually just great coders. I think it all goes back to John Carmack--everyone wants their game to be nifty, not necessarily a good game. They want to invent the Quake engine again, and don't have any unique ideas or approaches. Of course there are exceptions--Insomniac and Retro Studios have produced some great games recently, and VALVe's quality. On the other hand, two of those are second-party producers for Japanese companies (Sony and Nintendo, respectively), and VALVe's run by a crazy man.
I miss Origin.
That's true, but the media would have needed to be updated to CD-ROM (and DVD?) anyway. Remember, at the time, truecolor displays were very uncommon, and JPEG wasn't yet specified.
Dune will never produce a good cinematic version, either. You'd think people would learn to leave cerebral books with a great deal of politicking and internal monologue alone.
...has been done before. The Domesday Book was digitized by the BBC Domesday Project. Unfortunately, it ended up being a comic rather than a technical triumph. People must remember that, no matter how low-tech a method of physical data storage seems, it's more reliable in the long run than data storage relying on complex technology. I'm not against digitization by any means, of course: it could be useful as a research tool, and as an alternate method of access. It shouldn't be viewed as a long-term archival project, however. If the documents are really "disintegrating," take high-quality images of the pages and print them in good ink on acid-free archival paper (or vellum).
2K sports is actually not particularly successful compared to Rockstar and Firaxis. (If you notice, I included both of those in the post you replied to.) They come in second to EA on every title.
Take Two loses money because they publish nothing that sells outside of Firaxis (Civilization) and Rockstar games. Everything else is somewhere between the bargain bin and B-grade.
As far as I am aware, Rockstar still makes blockbuster games which afford them a healthy income. How, precisely, does this constitute "ruin?"
I think that you may be confusing correlation and causation. If I recall correctly, back in the late 90s there was a study of personality types of people who used the Internet extensively. It found that introverts tend to use internet-based communities a great deal more than extraverts. In particular, the INT* types (on the Myers-Briggs scale) were particularly common. It's a mistake to think that this means that someone must be rude and cold, but social interaction is not generally an introvert's strong point. On the other hand, they tend to be better at analysis and planning than some people who may seem more "together" and friendly than they are.
One thing that I particularly like about the Internet is that I can seek out discussion groups about particular subjects which interest me and, having found those discussion groups, I can participate with none of the baggage that the physical world brings. I am interested in philosophy, so I can find a philosophy discussion group and discuss philosophy there--that simple. "Real life" groups always have irritating dynamics. One member of the group wants to sleep with another member, except the latter is actually sleeping with this other one... it's counter-productive. Furthermore, if you are selective about your online communities, you can find more intelligent people online than off. Offline, you tend to be required to deal with people of average intelligence, and that's just not a good thing at all.
Disclaimer: I am an INTP, of course. A polite and "together" sort of guy, but an introvert who uses virtual communities quite a bit, nonetheless.
Only in Serial Experiments: Lain.