I could understand this if it was Micro$oft making employees use exchange, or IBM making employees use Lotus notes, but why the hell would anyone want to use AOL mail for business? Is it not designed more for home use than for interoffice mail? Somehow I doubt it compares with better stuff that has productivity in mind (Of course, it might actually be great, I do not know because I do not want to install it.).
Hopefully this will hamper employees at least enough to cut profits.
My college papers were crap, but at least I wrote my own and tried to come up with a concept original enough that nobody with the same teacher would have the same subject, much less paper. And every semester, we would see at least two kids in every class get pulled aside and never come back, and someone would check and find out that they cheated. They never got much sympathy.
What bugs me most is that they don't even try hard to not get caght! Students with the same teacher cheating! In the same semester! Just a tip for potential plagarists (Not that they have the sense to take it.): DO NOT COPY WORK FROM ANYONE AT THE SAME SCHOOL, MUCH LESS TEACHER!!
- Replace casual dress codes with boxers and t-shirts.
- Even MORE paid vacation. Hell, around here people only start a new job with 3 weeks a year!
- Higher salaries. Mid level workers can only afford Audis, they need Porsches.
- Remove all web blocking, not that we don't just find ways around it anyway.
- Gaming PCs and Counterstrike servers in all offices.
- Herman-Miller desks and chairs all around as proactive defense against repetitive motion injuries.
Seriously, what the hell do we need an IT union for? IT workers have it easier than many of the executives in their own companies! Even with all the dotcom/telco fallout there will still be thousands of unfilled tech jobs! This is just silly.
An Ultra 5 is pretty much just a PC with an UltraSparc CPU. Linux was designed with this kind of hardware in mind, Solaris is meant for bigger servers running SCSI disks and such. Put Linux on an E450 and compare it with Solaris on an E450 and you would get a much better comparison.
"The purpose of the mod was to correct an infertility problem."
The mod itself was performed by Kyle of HardOCP.com using a dremel tool, artic silver heatsink compound, and ten 180mm high output fans. When asked why he was modding babies, Kyle replied "Modding computer cases was too easy. Now that I have modded babies, I plan to overclock them and see if they can play Quake ]|[ faster than unmodified babies."
Thomas Pabst of TomsHardware.com stated that "... the modded babies are imperfect, and will need further revisions before we can accurately ascertain performance enhancements."
Quit and go work for a competitor under a contract that gets you paid for all hours you work. Chances are that if you hand in a letter of resignation with that as the reason, you will get a raise (Counter-offer.) as well as having your demands satisfied.
I have seen some of Google's stuff in the Northen Virginia. Those guys really know how to do high density racks. They have double-sided racks of 1U servers, with what I believe is 47 servers per side. The cabling alone is gorgeous. The bright red and shiny steel racks full of hundreds of flashing LEDS looks like something out of a rave.
This patent would affect games like EverQuest. It seems that what really separates it from Quake is that their patent involves a scalable architecture.
I am not sure when they actually designed this technology and began patenting it. Because it is specific to a 3D environment, the only example of prior art that I can think of would be EverQuest. AFAIK, all other similar items (EG muds.) were based in only two dimensions. Given the incredibly long development time of EverQuest, it seems rather likely that EQ is the only example of prior art that one will ever need. This of course, assumes that Worlds.com did not begin their development efforts before EverQuest was started, which means that they would have been working on this stuff at least five or six years ago. I doubt that they would have been able to do so and keep a lid on it this log while maintaining any useful influx of capital.
In short, worlds.com is probably full of shit and needs to keep their lawyers in check.
DIY is cool, but I'm more concerned with opening the box, turning it on, and having it actually work with minimal effort on my part. No point having the damned thing if I have to fuck around with it to make it work. I do enough of that just getting Tribes 2, EverQuest, Quake ]|[ to all run on the same Windows box.
This is definately a huge improvement. Now all of the musicians out there being screwed by bad copyright laws and shitty record companies can release their music for free! I bet any day now we will see important artists worldwide start giving their music away under this license! Sure they won't have money for food, instruments, or recording more music, but music is information, so it wants to be free, right?
This is totally silly and unworthy of a/. post. Excuse me for being unimpressed.
The problem is not that either is easier to learn; it is that Linux has too many desktops for a neophyte to learn, and get used to. On top of that Linux desktops are growing more and more bloated with each release, with a fury that even Microsoft cannot match, especially in the different distros that go beyond all the basic tools, games, etc. to cram all of their toys in. It looks neat, and is fun to play with, bit for people who just want a computer that works, it is a huge pain in the ass.
The same can and has been done with Windows for years. Geeks will always be able to do this, and probably enjoy it. But to really take over, Linux desktops need to go beyond that. They need to have a basic standard that my mom, a full time psychologist and red-cross volunteer, can just grab and use with no effort or need to customize beyond a few basic mouse clicks. The consumer world is full of people that dont give a fuck about form; what they want is basic functionality with little effort on their part. This is why Honda Civics, Levi Jeans, and Windows sell so well year after year.
I work with a bunch of them now. To them, work is an awful chore. Computers are just there because it pays. They have a three-year old PC at home for websurfing, and it never gets turned on. They hate UNIX because it requires more skill than shoving a mouse around. I have no backups from their servers for several months running, because no matter how many times I ask them to send me the troubleshooting logs from servers I cannot access, they ignore it, as if fixing problems is beneath them. Some of them are my bosses.
I hate those people. They have taken a job a a company that was already fucked, and made it a royal nightmare. And lucky me, living in a town where thousands of people have been getting laid off every week from dying telcos and dotcoms; I am unable to find a new job because employers hire people without jobs so they can pay them terrible salaries.
You can, but then you actually have to go through the bother of actually switching over to it and running it. With Windows and Mac, the interface is just there.
Linuxconf needs a lot of help. Linuxconf is probably the most important thing Linux has, because it makes the OS accessable to the neophyte. And right now, it sucks ass. It takes too long to do anything, freezes, and often never makes the changes it claims to have. It is incapable of configuring X, and given that Linux needs to make serious inroads on the desktop to keep growing, the lack of such a feature is inexcusable.
Every Linux vendor out there should have at least one programmer working on Linuxconf full time. They should be working on stuff that goes into the base code, no hacking it up to produce distro-specific stuff.
I guarantee you that once Linuxconf does what is can now more reliably, and also handles X configurations, Linux use will explode. Until then, we will just see Linux stagnate as the choice of geeks.
All the desktops out there are going to be one of the biggest things that keeps Linux from having a serious success in the desktop market any time soon. One thing I love about Windows - It looks the same wherever I go. Sure they have made interface changes over the years, but in thirty seconds I can make it look and act just like it did back in the 3.0 days. This is great when I have to run from computer to computer.
No such luck with Linux. There are dozens of desktops. More crap gets kludged into newer versions of GNOME and KDE with every release than Microsoft ever crams into theirs. It makes for a big, nasty, confusing mess that gets more and more annoying over the years.
I am sure people will say that this is better because it gives new choices/better code/etc.. But the consumer market our there doesn't give a damn. They want something easy to use, that barely changes, and if it does change, just gets simpler (Like OS X, or what XP would do if M$ would dump all the stuff left from old interfaces that they mix in.) over time.
I took a look, and it is nice, but it is still small and somewhat obscure. What happens when such things get huge, go back fifty years, and are easily found and often used by everyone who has a reason? Imagine the load this thing would draw in November and May as college kids worldwide start slapping term papers together?
Going be time means getting slammed big time. I think it can be done, people just need to be aware that this will not be as simple as tossing journal articles onto a extra PC running apache.
Who will pay to put this stuff online? Such web sites would require huge servers, as they would almost instanteously become common research tools for students, journalists, scientists, and science enthusiasts worldwide.
You don't host that sort of thing on tiny intel boxes running Linux or NT/2K. This will take big servers, and big bandwitdth. That stuff is NOT cheap.
Beyond that are the setup costs. All of the articles will need to be entered into text or PDF format. Easy for new papers, but what about the thousands of old ones? And what about the costs of setting it all up? Sure open software can be used for most of it, but someone still has to set it up.
This kind of thing will require loads of funding from outside sources. Hopefully the government could get involved. Perhaps the universities of world will foot part of the bill, as their students, professors, and researchers could benefit immensely from such a tool.
I hope the scientists are willing to work on getting this the funding it deserves. Hell, if they can just get things rolling I am sure that many people will be glad to call or email senators.
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I could understand this if it was Micro$oft making employees use exchange, or IBM making employees use Lotus notes, but why the hell would anyone want to use AOL mail for business? Is it not designed more for home use than for interoffice mail? Somehow I doubt it compares with better stuff that has productivity in mind (Of course, it might actually be great, I do not know because I do not want to install it.).
Hopefully this will hamper employees at least enough to cut profits.
Given that Indrema open sourced their stuff, can Nokia use that in their product?
Yeah, but is that 5/6 weeks paid vacation? Just wondering, because ours is.
My college papers were crap, but at least I wrote my own and tried to come up with a concept original enough that nobody with the same teacher would have the same subject, much less paper. And every semester, we would see at least two kids in every class get pulled aside and never come back, and someone would check and find out that they cheated. They never got much sympathy.
What bugs me most is that they don't even try hard to not get caght! Students with the same teacher cheating! In the same semester! Just a tip for potential plagarists (Not that they have the sense to take it.): DO NOT COPY WORK FROM ANYONE AT THE SAME SCHOOL, MUCH LESS TEACHER!!
I can just see it now.
- Replace casual dress codes with boxers and t-shirts.
- Even MORE paid vacation. Hell, around here people only start a new job with 3 weeks a year!
- Higher salaries. Mid level workers can only afford Audis, they need Porsches.
- Remove all web blocking, not that we don't just find ways around it anyway.
- Gaming PCs and Counterstrike servers in all offices.
- Herman-Miller desks and chairs all around as proactive defense against repetitive motion injuries.
Seriously, what the hell do we need an IT union for? IT workers have it easier than many of the executives in their own companies! Even with all the dotcom/telco fallout there will still be thousands of unfilled tech jobs! This is just silly.
An Ultra 5 is pretty much just a PC with an UltraSparc CPU. Linux was designed with this kind of hardware in mind, Solaris is meant for bigger servers running SCSI disks and such. Put Linux on an E450 and compare it with Solaris on an E450 and you would get a much better comparison.
"But that process can't even begin until the case has been appealed and re-appealed and finally settled."
And by the time that gets through the courts all current memory technologies will likely be obsolete.
"The purpose of the mod was to correct an infertility problem."
The mod itself was performed by Kyle of HardOCP.com using a dremel tool, artic silver heatsink compound, and ten 180mm high output fans. When asked why he was modding babies, Kyle replied "Modding computer cases was too easy. Now that I have modded babies, I plan to overclock them and see if they can play Quake ]|[ faster than unmodified babies."
Thomas Pabst of TomsHardware.com stated that "... the modded babies are imperfect, and will need further revisions before we can accurately ascertain performance enhancements."
And of course, this deserves front page notice because root exploits are not found in UNIX/Linux, after /. doesn't post about any...
Quit and go work for a competitor under a contract that gets you paid for all hours you work. Chances are that if you hand in a letter of resignation with that as the reason, you will get a raise (Counter-offer.) as well as having your demands satisfied.
Prof. Felten: martyr in the fight against corporatism VS. creativity. Rock on, professor.
I have seen some of Google's stuff in the Northen Virginia. Those guys really know how to do high density racks. They have double-sided racks of 1U servers, with what I believe is 47 servers per side. The cabling alone is gorgeous. The bright red and shiny steel racks full of hundreds of flashing LEDS looks like something out of a rave.
This patent would affect games like EverQuest. It seems that what really separates it from Quake is that their patent involves a scalable architecture.
I am not sure when they actually designed this technology and began patenting it. Because it is specific to a 3D environment, the only example of prior art that I can think of would be EverQuest. AFAIK, all other similar items (EG muds.) were based in only two dimensions. Given the incredibly long development time of EverQuest, it seems rather likely that EQ is the only example of prior art that one will ever need. This of course, assumes that Worlds.com did not begin their development efforts before EverQuest was started, which means that they would have been working on this stuff at least five or six years ago. I doubt that they would have been able to do so and keep a lid on it this log while maintaining any useful influx of capital.
In short, worlds.com is probably full of shit and needs to keep their lawyers in check.
DIY is cool, but I'm more concerned with opening the box, turning it on, and having it actually work with minimal effort on my part. No point having the damned thing if I have to fuck around with it to make it work. I do enough of that just getting Tribes 2, EverQuest, Quake ]|[ to all run on the same Windows box.
I think Taco just described what an iMac will be in two years.
This is definately a huge improvement. Now all of the musicians out there being screwed by bad copyright laws and shitty record companies can release their music for free! I bet any day now we will see important artists worldwide start giving their music away under this license! Sure they won't have money for food, instruments, or recording more music, but music is information, so it wants to be free, right?
/. post. Excuse me for being unimpressed.
This is totally silly and unworthy of a
The problem is not that either is easier to learn; it is that Linux has too many desktops for a neophyte to learn, and get used to. On top of that Linux desktops are growing more and more bloated with each release, with a fury that even Microsoft cannot match, especially in the different distros that go beyond all the basic tools, games, etc. to cram all of their toys in. It looks neat, and is fun to play with, bit for people who just want a computer that works, it is a huge pain in the ass.
The same can and has been done with Windows for years. Geeks will always be able to do this, and probably enjoy it. But to really take over, Linux desktops need to go beyond that. They need to have a basic standard that my mom, a full time psychologist and red-cross volunteer, can just grab and use with no effort or need to customize beyond a few basic mouse clicks. The consumer world is full of people that dont give a fuck about form; what they want is basic functionality with little effort on their part. This is why Honda Civics, Levi Jeans, and Windows sell so well year after year.
Which still does little good for basic consumers confused by the myriad of choices and new versions.
I work with a bunch of them now. To them, work is an awful chore. Computers are just there because it pays. They have a three-year old PC at home for websurfing, and it never gets turned on. They hate UNIX because it requires more skill than shoving a mouse around. I have no backups from their servers for several months running, because no matter how many times I ask them to send me the troubleshooting logs from servers I cannot access, they ignore it, as if fixing problems is beneath them. Some of them are my bosses.
I hate those people. They have taken a job a a company that was already fucked, and made it a royal nightmare. And lucky me, living in a town where thousands of people have been getting laid off every week from dying telcos and dotcoms; I am unable to find a new job because employers hire people without jobs so they can pay them terrible salaries.
You can, but then you actually have to go through the bother of actually switching over to it and running it. With Windows and Mac, the interface is just there.
Linuxconf needs a lot of help. Linuxconf is probably the most important thing Linux has, because it makes the OS accessable to the neophyte. And right now, it sucks ass. It takes too long to do anything, freezes, and often never makes the changes it claims to have. It is incapable of configuring X, and given that Linux needs to make serious inroads on the desktop to keep growing, the lack of such a feature is inexcusable.
Every Linux vendor out there should have at least one programmer working on Linuxconf full time. They should be working on stuff that goes into the base code, no hacking it up to produce distro-specific stuff.
I guarantee you that once Linuxconf does what is can now more reliably, and also handles X configurations, Linux use will explode. Until then, we will just see Linux stagnate as the choice of geeks.
Oh great, ANOTHER open desktop.
All the desktops out there are going to be one of the biggest things that keeps Linux from having a serious success in the desktop market any time soon. One thing I love about Windows - It looks the same wherever I go. Sure they have made interface changes over the years, but in thirty seconds I can make it look and act just like it did back in the 3.0 days. This is great when I have to run from computer to computer.
No such luck with Linux. There are dozens of desktops. More crap gets kludged into newer versions of GNOME and KDE with every release than Microsoft ever crams into theirs. It makes for a big, nasty, confusing mess that gets more and more annoying over the years.
I am sure people will say that this is better because it gives new choices/better code/etc.. But the consumer market our there doesn't give a damn. They want something easy to use, that barely changes, and if it does change, just gets simpler (Like OS X, or what XP would do if M$ would dump all the stuff left from old interfaces that they mix in.) over time.
anyway...
I took a look, and it is nice, but it is still small and somewhat obscure. What happens when such things get huge, go back fifty years, and are easily found and often used by everyone who has a reason? Imagine the load this thing would draw in November and May as college kids worldwide start slapping term papers together?
Going be time means getting slammed big time. I think it can be done, people just need to be aware that this will not be as simple as tossing journal articles onto a extra PC running apache.
Who will pay to put this stuff online? Such web sites would require huge servers, as they would almost instanteously become common research tools for students, journalists, scientists, and science enthusiasts worldwide.
You don't host that sort of thing on tiny intel boxes running Linux or NT/2K. This will take big servers, and big bandwitdth. That stuff is NOT cheap.
Beyond that are the setup costs. All of the articles will need to be entered into text or PDF format. Easy for new papers, but what about the thousands of old ones? And what about the costs of setting it all up? Sure open software can be used for most of it, but someone still has to set it up.
This kind of thing will require loads of funding from outside sources. Hopefully the government could get involved. Perhaps the universities of world will foot part of the bill, as their students, professors, and researchers could benefit immensely from such a tool.
I hope the scientists are willing to work on getting this the funding it deserves. Hell, if they can just get things rolling I am sure that many people will be glad to call or email senators.
anyway, this is running on too long.