Better than Shrek? I don't think so. After having seen them both Shrek has much much better animation. Sure the characters in Shrek aren't real or close copies of humans but they are a million times better animated. Plus the hair on shrek looked better than any hair in the movie. After reading numerous articles about how advanced the hair was in the FF Movie I was sorely dissapointed by the result.
... oh yeah and Shrek is a much better movie. If this movie had been done with real actors it would have been straight to Pay Cable.
Yahoo chat IDs are tied into your yahoo account as well so it uses the same password you use for the suite of yahoo services. I never get spam on yahoo clients, thats a definite feature. The default message recieved sound effect though is absolutely atrocious.
a is for add
i is for insert
J is for join
dd is for delete line
x is for delete char
. is for repeat previous acction
# in front of a command is for number of times to do command
yy is for yank a line into the buffer
p is for place buffer
:q! is for abort
:wq is for write and quit
:x is for save and exit
:r is for read in (and you can !escape shell commands)
:s is for swap s/like/a regexp/
:% makes a command work on every line
examples:
5dd deletes 5 lines
5yyp yanks 5 lines and then places them
4ihi ^[ would insert "hi " 4 times
:r!ls -la would insert an "ls -la"
:%s/big/small/g would replace ever occurance of big with small
vi isn't so bad it just has a learning curve, this should be enough to get you guys started
Can't survive in second place? doesn't know how to market in other positions?
Maybe you should pay more attention to IBM. They have comfortably made the shift from being a world dominator to just another huge conglomerate. Sure it seemed to take a while on American time but compared to companies form other parts of the world they made the shift fast. Expect Microsoft to do just as well when they do eventually get their asses handed to them on a platter. I expect in 15-20 years we will all be running an OS designed and programmed in China. They have the talent and the resources, just wait until they get the desire.
There is nothing wrong with second place... or even a 5.4% place (see Apple).
I just got email from the author of the piece after I submitted this up to kuro5hin earlier...
In it he (Stephen Marshall) discusses a lot of the missing detail had to be cut to get the piece down in size. And that much more of the detail is covered in the hearings.
He also wrote that their servers got overloaded. Guess he should be glad it didn't make it up on slashdot. I submitted it at the same time as kuro5hin, it was of course rejected here.
This may suprise you (and those who modded you up) but there are more and more people who get it starting to make the decisions when it comes to buying software/hardware and running an enterprise level IT department. But even during the current times when there are but few who do get it please don't discount the future. Who do you think will be running the IT departments and making recommendations to CTOs in 3 years? 5 years? 10 years? People who have a much better clue. Why? Because it will be people like us who read slashdot (and friends) and have a real interest in the field. Not transplants from another field or people who found themselves suddenly running an IT department. No it will be those of us actually interested in computers, those who feel great when we do our jobs. We don't read WinMagPropeganda 3.0 and we don't let fancy colour brochures make our decisions for us.
It is for these reasons that while MSoft's marketing is working for the here and now it is also hurting their future. You can only insult even the general populace for so long before they get pissed. And as vain as this sounds, we are slightly more aware than the general populace. Apparently it doesn't take much insulting at all to set us off.
Boy oh boy is slashdot full of some jealous little know-it-alls. Sheesh you guys come crawling out of the woodwork to trounce and despire these dotcom yokels who made a lot and spent it all.
Why? They did their duty as Americans. They made money. They spent it. The consumed. What more could you ask of them?
The fact is the dot com bubble and the senseless overpaying of undertalented people was a great thing for the economy of the US and especially that of California. Thanks to the dotcom fiascos Cali made it up to being the worlds 5th largest economy. Thanks to Cali the US prospered. You guys seem to forget, in your bitter jealousy over not getting paid too much to do little, that these people were in the upper tax brackets.
They paid a shiet load of taxes. 100k a year is 41.5% taxes in cali. That means they paid in one year what some people pay in 2-4 years of employment. Thats great for everyone.
They spent all their money on homes and cars they couldnt afford. Well someone built those houses and someone watched a robot build those cars;) They bought $200 dinners in places like Bix and Elisabeth Daniel in SF. Some waiters got some kick ass tips. Cab drivers made out like bandits. Even the homeless did pretty good (homeless populations increaded near record percentages).
Now its all returning to normal and everyone who moved here for the money with no plans is getting chewed up. Oh well at least they were here long enough to pump money into the economy that will help some social services for a couple of years.
Personally I've lived on less than half of what I make now in SF. There are lots of people that work in the service industries here, who get by. It is possible. Its good to see rents on studio apartments near me drop from $1500 back to $900 in a couple months.
Ahh you got to love it, its America in all its glory rolled into a 3 year bubble. I wonder where the next one will be.
...that means they were making around 130k with cali taxes... no way any of these guys were making that. they were the 100k skimmers, cashing in on the opportunity.
1) Someone else already said it, make your program GUI independant. While not quite that simple if you have to use a toolkit there are really only two to support.
2) Bad problem with lunix. Every distro thinks they know it better than the others... unfortunately this has gotten to the BSDs as well. I don't know how may times over the course of FreeBSD 2-4 the rc files changes format and places (4? 5?).
3) Simply isn't true. Almost every old program written to be portable in unix (like a program written to be portable in windows) still compiles and works to do. Hell most every basic utility you use is old, check it.
4) I don't agree. FreeOSs strive to be free, so of course they are going to try and make copies of the good useful commerical programs. In some cases the make damn good ones and in many others, they fall a bit short. But hey this is free stuff right?
Your overall sentiment is of course right. Who thinks it would be easy to run a business supporting linux products? Raise your hands. Now list me all the companies still around or doing well supporting SCO, UnixWare, insert UNIX-like product here? There aren't many and those other unix clones (even though they suck ass) were at least standardized across installations.
But everyone needs to remember the free unix don't need commercial support. Never have and never will, sure it might make some things nicer and give us some more enterprise level programs but how does that help you personally? I choose to learn unix because I felt the power of my machine was being wasted. Why did you?
Since it seems popular to forget that every "great tale" had some basis in fact most people never bother to check into what could have led to a so-called great flood.
Which is a shame, because when the world, for all intents and purposes, consisted of the cities of Mesopotamia (Ur, Kish, Lagash, Eridu, Nippur...) there was indeed a great flood when both the Tigris and Euphrates spilled over covering some if not all of the major cities of the time. Since this would have covered most of the cities and the only records we have of large city based civilizations of the time come from these cities...
... for shame the metreon may sound nice, especially the IMAX screens but the AMC on Van Ness is a reference theater for how modern movie theaters should be built. Much clearer and crisper sounds even down at the bottom, better seating and better views.
In what fantasy world do you live in where you routinely use a boot/rescue "kit"? the lunix one?
Please. Try doing something like this in a large many host real unix server enviroment with a missmatch of server types and os's. It isn't practical. It isn't real. Having a "Rescue" kit laying around is even more dangerous than having a root password. How easy is it to copy a cd or a floppy? How easy is it to login to a machine via ssh from a secure trusted host and then sudo or su root commands?
3 is not wrong... so there is no way the whole thing can be 90% wrong.
Any company that has taken more than a couple rounds of funding will find those with ISO getting practically nothing when the company is sold (if it is). Why? Because usually the fair market value of a company that continues to take on funding is *much* less than the total amount of money pulled in. VC's and other investors know this when they invest in later rounds so they pump up their percentage of value per share during a sale. Usually a company funded this way would require a sell price of %120-%150 of fair market value before those with ISOs would ever even see a penny. The investors in Series-A make out like bandits, they get paid first... and in many cases the investors in the last round will get more than those in rounds in between. Its all one big messy gambling affair with odds only slightly better than vegas.
I followed it closely and what they were trying to do and how they were going about it showed little real knowledge of how console game systems really work. Sure they wanted to change a lot of the "normal" conventions but there was no way what they were building was capable of that. So please, and I am serious, someone with a clue explain to me it could have ever amounted to anything?
Theres an old alien guy who sent a bunch of space ships here to Earth to solve an over population problem. The ships all got blown up by nukes he made once they were here. I guess somewhere in the process was a muck up because lots of "thetans" (bad souls?) were left around. Its these thetans, scientology claims, that keep you from achieving your true goals and dreams because they compete with your true soul. Scientology says they can remove them from you and help you become a better person.
In truth this church has even less real foundation than many cults and is known for exploiting people and using is monetary muscle to hide many of the more evil facts known about it. Check out http://www.xenu.net it should answer all your questions.
Effectively it is the first new one in a longtime? No it isn't. Not even close. Who says the GBA will topple the GB? Only Nintendo because they will stop making the GB.
What point did "it" make? "It" didn't make any points... yet you are clamoring to defend it and calling me elitist? elitist for calling out, on a known self moderator and troll?
Your type, those who defend people because of gender (you sure wouldn't have defended a guy like this) disgust me. Besides this is a discussion site... I can post whatever I like.
You can write in a smallish input area, around the same size as the graffiti area... in that area you can use graffiti or something similiar but slightly different.
Or you use transcriber which lets you write anywhere you want on the screen. You can adjust the angle you write at with it. With transcriber you can write a single word per line, multiple words per line or entire phrases spread out across multiple lines. You can write in print or in cursive with it. With a little tuning it can recogonize even some of the worst handwriting you can throw at it.
The fact is WinCE 2.0 was atrocious. WinCE 3.0 is actually pretty decent... and transcriber is by far the best handwriting package ever put into a small portable device. As long as Palm continues to win the war, WinCE will grow by leaps and bounds to try and catch up.
I don't actually expect this project to work... In my opinion something based on ideas would have a much better impact and help speed up the possability of asking questions (ie common "words" for food/playtime/warm/cold).
But, who says we shouldn't expect dolphins to understand our linguistic nature? How will we know if we don't try? Recent studies have shown that a bit of "music" is in all mammals... and our human languages (as diverse as they may all be) are nothing but ideas expressed via sound.
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Better than Shrek? I don't think so. After having seen them both Shrek has much much better animation. Sure the characters in Shrek aren't real or close copies of humans but they are a million times better animated. Plus the hair on shrek looked better than any hair in the movie. After reading numerous articles about how advanced the hair was in the FF Movie I was sorely dissapointed by the result.
... oh yeah and Shrek is a much better movie. If this movie had been done with real actors it would have been straight to Pay Cable.
I have one and it works out.
iPaq+PCMCIA Sleeve+802.11 card. Open the panel that lets you scan and check signal strength and have fun.
Yahoo also stores the "friends" list server side.
Yahoo chat IDs are tied into your yahoo account as well so it uses the same password you use for the suite of yahoo services. I never get spam on yahoo clients, thats a definite feature. The default message recieved sound effect though is absolutely atrocious.
a is for add
i is for insert
J is for join
dd is for delete line
x is for delete char
. is for repeat previous acction
# in front of a command is for number of times to do command
yy is for yank a line into the buffer
p is for place buffer
:q! is for abort
:wq is for write and quit
:x is for save and exit
:r is for read in (and you can !escape shell commands)
:s is for swap s/like/a regexp/
:% makes a command work on every line
examples:
5dd deletes 5 lines
5yyp yanks 5 lines and then places them
4ihi ^[ would insert "hi " 4 times
:r!ls -la would insert an "ls -la"
:%s/big/small/g would replace ever occurance of big with small
vi isn't so bad it just has a learning curve, this should be enough to get you guys started
Can't survive in second place? doesn't know how to market in other positions?
Maybe you should pay more attention to IBM. They have comfortably made the shift from being a world dominator to just another huge conglomerate. Sure it seemed to take a while on American time but compared to companies form other parts of the world they made the shift fast. Expect Microsoft to do just as well when they do eventually get their asses handed to them on a platter. I expect in 15-20 years we will all be running an OS designed and programmed in China. They have the talent and the resources, just wait until they get the desire.
There is nothing wrong with second place... or even a 5.4% place (see Apple).
I just got email from the author of the piece after I submitted this up to kuro5hin earlier...
In it he (Stephen Marshall) discusses a lot of the missing detail had to be cut to get the piece down in size. And that much more of the detail is covered in the hearings.
He also wrote that their servers got overloaded. Guess he should be glad it didn't make it up on slashdot. I submitted it at the same time as kuro5hin, it was of course rejected here.
Without a doubt this should be modded up and then submitted.
Even if it isn't all true, it is quite scary and a damn riveting read given the size of the article.
How shortsighted some can be...
This may suprise you (and those who modded you up) but there are more and more people who get it starting to make the decisions when it comes to buying software/hardware and running an enterprise level IT department. But even during the current times when there are but few who do get it please don't discount the future. Who do you think will be running the IT departments and making recommendations to CTOs in 3 years? 5 years? 10 years? People who have a much better clue. Why? Because it will be people like us who read slashdot (and friends) and have a real interest in the field. Not transplants from another field or people who found themselves suddenly running an IT department. No it will be those of us actually interested in computers, those who feel great when we do our jobs. We don't read WinMagPropeganda 3.0 and we don't let fancy colour brochures make our decisions for us.
It is for these reasons that while MSoft's marketing is working for the here and now it is also hurting their future. You can only insult even the general populace for so long before they get pissed. And as vain as this sounds, we are slightly more aware than the general populace. Apparently it doesn't take much insulting at all to set us off.
Boy oh boy is slashdot full of some jealous little know-it-alls. Sheesh you guys come crawling out of the woodwork to trounce and despire these dotcom yokels who made a lot and spent it all.
;) They bought $200 dinners in places like Bix and Elisabeth Daniel in SF. Some waiters got some kick ass tips. Cab drivers made out like bandits. Even the homeless did pretty good (homeless populations increaded near record percentages).
Why? They did their duty as Americans. They made money. They spent it. The consumed. What more could you ask of them?
The fact is the dot com bubble and the senseless overpaying of undertalented people was a great thing for the economy of the US and especially that of California. Thanks to the dotcom fiascos Cali made it up to being the worlds 5th largest economy. Thanks to Cali the US prospered. You guys seem to forget, in your bitter jealousy over not getting paid too much to do little, that these people were in the upper tax brackets.
They paid a shiet load of taxes. 100k a year is 41.5% taxes in cali. That means they paid in one year what some people pay in 2-4 years of employment. Thats great for everyone.
They spent all their money on homes and cars they couldnt afford. Well someone built those houses and someone watched a robot build those cars
Now its all returning to normal and everyone who moved here for the money with no plans is getting chewed up. Oh well at least they were here long enough to pump money into the economy that will help some social services for a couple of years.
Personally I've lived on less than half of what I make now in SF. There are lots of people that work in the service industries here, who get by. It is possible. Its good to see rents on studio apartments near me drop from $1500 back to $900 in a couple months.
Ahh you got to love it, its America in all its glory rolled into a 3 year bubble. I wonder where the next one will be.
80k after taxes?
...that means they were making around 130k with cali taxes... no way any of these guys were making that. they were the 100k skimmers, cashing in on the opportunity.
Lots of biat in here, but Im hyped up on tea!
1) Someone else already said it, make your program GUI independant. While not quite that simple if you have to use a toolkit there are really only two to support.
2) Bad problem with lunix. Every distro thinks they know it better than the others... unfortunately this has gotten to the BSDs as well. I don't know how may times over the course of FreeBSD 2-4 the rc files changes format and places (4? 5?).
3) Simply isn't true. Almost every old program written to be portable in unix (like a program written to be portable in windows) still compiles and works to do. Hell most every basic utility you use is old, check it.
4) I don't agree. FreeOSs strive to be free, so of course they are going to try and make copies of the good useful commerical programs. In some cases the make damn good ones and in many others, they fall a bit short. But hey this is free stuff right?
Your overall sentiment is of course right. Who thinks it would be easy to run a business supporting linux products? Raise your hands. Now list me all the companies still around or doing well supporting SCO, UnixWare, insert UNIX-like product here? There aren't many and those other unix clones (even though they suck ass) were at least standardized across installations.
But everyone needs to remember the free unix don't need commercial support. Never have and never will, sure it might make some things nicer and give us some more enterprise level programs but how does that help you personally? I choose to learn unix because I felt the power of my machine was being wasted. Why did you?
So which slashdot editor is looking for a house and expecting a good deal from one of the sites?
This is without a doubt the most pathetic AskSlashdot in over 24 hours.
Since it seems popular to forget that every "great tale" had some basis in fact most people never bother to check into what could have led to a so-called great flood.
Which is a shame, because when the world, for all intents and purposes, consisted of the cities of Mesopotamia (Ur, Kish, Lagash, Eridu, Nippur...) there was indeed a great flood when both the Tigris and Euphrates spilled over covering some if not all of the major cities of the time. Since this would have covered most of the cities and the only records we have of large city based civilizations of the time come from these cities...
... there was a great flood.
... for shame the metreon may sound nice, especially the IMAX screens but the AMC on Van Ness is a reference theater for how modern movie theaters should be built. Much clearer and crisper sounds even down at the bottom, better seating and better views.
The ability to leave out authors was the greatest single enhancment ever made to the slashdot code.
The next greatest one hasn't happened yet, the ability to pull out users that get heavy moderation (ie the self moderators).
In what fantasy world do you live in where you routinely use a boot/rescue "kit"? the lunix one?
Please. Try doing something like this in a large many host real unix server enviroment with a missmatch of server types and os's. It isn't practical. It isn't real. Having a "Rescue" kit laying around is even more dangerous than having a root password. How easy is it to copy a cd or a floppy? How easy is it to login to a machine via ssh from a secure trusted host and then sudo or su root commands?
3 is not wrong... so there is no way the whole thing can be 90% wrong.
Any company that has taken more than a couple rounds of funding will find those with ISO getting practically nothing when the company is sold (if it is). Why? Because usually the fair market value of a company that continues to take on funding is *much* less than the total amount of money pulled in. VC's and other investors know this when they invest in later rounds so they pump up their percentage of value per share during a sale. Usually a company funded this way would require a sell price of %120-%150 of fair market value before those with ISOs would ever even see a penny. The investors in Series-A make out like bandits, they get paid first... and in many cases the investors in the last round will get more than those in rounds in between. Its all one big messy gambling affair with odds only slightly better than vegas.
What retard didn't know this when they purchased such equipement? The same ones that have never used a learning remote?
How the hell does this warrant a front page story.
Slashdot, news for people who can't think or figure anything out for themselves.
This guy only has two.
How did it look like it could be something?
I followed it closely and what they were trying to do and how they were going about it showed little real knowledge of how console game systems really work. Sure they wanted to change a lot of the "normal" conventions but there was no way what they were building was capable of that. So please, and I am serious, someone with a clue explain to me it could have ever amounted to anything?
I tried to use opera once.
Can someone explain to me whose retarded idea it was that doesn't page down? How do you enable this "feature" under opera?
Theres an old alien guy who sent a bunch of space ships here to Earth to solve an over population problem. The ships all got blown up by nukes he made once they were here. I guess somewhere in the process was a muck up because lots of "thetans" (bad souls?) were left around. Its these thetans, scientology claims, that keep you from achieving your true goals and dreams because they compete with your true soul. Scientology says they can remove them from you and help you become a better person.
In truth this church has even less real foundation than many cults and is known for exploiting people and using is monetary muscle to hide many of the more evil facts known about it. Check out http://www.xenu.net it should answer all your questions.
Effectively it is the first new one in a longtime? No it isn't. Not even close. Who says the GBA will topple the GB? Only Nintendo because they will stop making the GB.
What point did "it" make? "It" didn't make any points... yet you are clamoring to defend it and calling me elitist? elitist for calling out, on a known self moderator and troll?
Your type, those who defend people because of gender (you sure wouldn't have defended a guy like this) disgust me. Besides this is a discussion site... I can post whatever I like.
ps: HITLER
You can write in a smallish input area, around the same size as the graffiti area... in that area you can use graffiti or something similiar but slightly different.
Or you use transcriber which lets you write anywhere you want on the screen. You can adjust the angle you write at with it. With transcriber you can write a single word per line, multiple words per line or entire phrases spread out across multiple lines. You can write in print or in cursive with it. With a little tuning it can recogonize even some of the worst handwriting you can throw at it.
The fact is WinCE 2.0 was atrocious. WinCE 3.0 is actually pretty decent... and transcriber is by far the best handwriting package ever put into a small portable device. As long as Palm continues to win the war, WinCE will grow by leaps and bounds to try and catch up.
I don't actually expect this project to work... In my opinion something based on ideas would have a much better impact and help speed up the possability of asking questions (ie common "words" for food/playtime/warm/cold).
But, who says we shouldn't expect dolphins to understand our linguistic nature? How will we know if we don't try? Recent studies have shown that a bit of "music" is in all mammals... and our human languages (as diverse as they may all be) are nothing but ideas expressed via sound.
That's a pretty good core to share.