I myself have never watched CSI but from seeing the commercials and considering the number of spinoffs I would hardly call it a "boring, institutional show."
I was wondering why this poll has not been replaced in nearly two weeks.
Serenity NOW!!!:)
Just wait till the Bay Area wireless comes online
How long will it be until Google blankets the entire nation? I sure hope they get over here to the east coast pretty soon, cause I'm paying through the nose for Adelphia.
(And on top of that, someone's been making a habit of posting bad comments from my subnet lately. I need a new IP.)
Are you actually suggesting that a web-site called "friendsofscience.org" wouldn't actually be friendly to science?
They could call themselves anything to sound good. Don't China and North Korea call themselves "People's Republics?" Doesn't Fox News say it is "fair and balanced" (Yes, I saw the anti-M$ post earlier today, but that's just one incident.)? Slashdot calls itself "stuff that matters," although some would suggest otherwise.
If it has a positive sound, chances are someone will use it.
With the Cosmos I disaster and now this, should we really be using ICBMs to launch satellites? These rockets don't seem to be bringing them to orbit...
Do some of these people even post anymore? In the past seven months, I don't think I have ever seen a story posted by HeUnique, Pudge, or Vroom. And yes, they are checked.
Exactly. Right now, my neighbors have gone away for a few weeks, leaving their neglected dogs on their own, and these dogs have turned absolutely nasty (I live in an area with no leash laws). Nobody on our street can go outside without getting attacked, and I really need to mow my lawn before it rains again.
We have had problems with these dogs before, and when someone calls to complain, he/she gets the same response: "Oh, we'll pass the word along..." - and nothing ever gets done.
unwanted, discarded animals at the shelter
I'm sure the Pet Nazi at the shelter would be happy to snatch them from these irresponsible people.
Give it MMO. I know LucasArts didn't want it to compete with Star Wars Galaxies, but from what I hear, SWG sucked (Disclaimer: I have never played SWG myself).
In other news today, Microsoft executives report that dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of kittens may be hazardous to your health
But there were no comments when the timestamp was sonething like 8:53 PM. I refreshed Firefox and then it told me that I could not see the story because I was not a subscriber. What happened? Bug in Slashcode? Or were they in the process of pulling the story? I don't see why they would; the final one looks the same.
Mythic Entertainment, developers of Dark Age of Camelot and the upcoming Warhammer MMORPG, have announced the indefinite delay of Imperator, a third massively-multiplayer project announced in October 2004. The futuristic game, which also integrated elements of the Roman Empire and was originally scheduled to be released in June 2006, has been put under review regarding its future at Mythic.
All Imperator staff will be moved onto existing projects, such as a new Dark Age of Camelot expansion titled Darkness Rising, as well as the just-announced Warhammer-licensed online game, being created following the cancellation of a similar project at developer Climax. However, none of the developers that were formerly on Mythic's Imperator project will be laid off.
Nonetheless, the move will not come without a slowdown to proposed expansion plans: as a result of the delay, Mythic is holding off on establishing a previously announced European office until the 2007 release of Warhammer.
Since TA Associates completed a $32 million venture capital investment in Mythic in March 2003, the largest ever granted to any independent game developer, the company, which is privately held and does not need to publically report financial results, can likely support the added financial burden that this cancellation brings.
Speaking on the reasons for the postponement, Mythic CEO Mark Jacobs said: "Our team made a tremendous effort with the game and the praise it drew at E3 and in previews reflected their skill and dedication. But in the final analysis it just wasn't great enough to be a Mythic game at this time."
Sun Microsystems' chief information officer (CIO) has backed the vendor's embrace of corporate blogging, despite difficulties such as ensuring senior executives don't post comments that affect the stock price and the occasional posting that makes the company's lawyers "pull their hair out".
"So far we've had very positive experiences with blogging, and I would encourage many other companies to do it as well," Bill Vass told ZDNet Australia in a wide-ranging interview about his experiences as the CIO of a high-technology company.
He cited Sun engineers' blogging of technical information and responses to questions about Sun's Solaris operating system.
Vass said Sun had faced problems with so-called 'Section 10' employees, such as senior executives that had the potential to affect the company's stock price with their blog postings.
For example, he said Sun president Jonathan Schwartz -- who keeps a public blog -- was frustrated when April Fool's day came around, because he couldn't use his blog to play a practical joke.
"A few times, he's said things like 'maybe we should acquire Novell', and it changed the stock price," Vass said of Schwartz's blog. "You have to be careful... if ever he's writing anything controversial he has to get the lawyers to look at it."
Sun faced fewer issues with blogs written by non-Section 10 employees said Vass, but the company's legal team still read all the postings. Vass said he suspected the blogs were "making some of the lawyers pull their hair out".
For example, he said, one employee used his blog to post advice on how to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley reporting legislation. The company's lawyers forced that employee to put a disclaimer on his blog in case someone called him to account for bad advice.
Just another CIO... almost Vass said his position at Sun was not that different from the average CIO in that he spent most of his time facing common drudgeries like keeping costs low (his budget has halved to US$300 million over the past several years), complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley and consolidating data warehouses.
However, some unusual problems did surface sometimes, he said, citing the example of a Solaris engineer who contacted Sun's IT help desk in India and subsequently sent Vass a note complaining the help desk member who assisted him didn't know intricate kernel settings for the operating system he needed help on.
"I'm like: 'Hey, he's a help desk guy, give him a break'", said Vass.
In another example, Vass received a mysterious note that a major system had been disabled and had stopped production on a hardware chip.
Although Vass had no knowledge of this, he soon discovered the system in question was in fact the desktop machine of an engineer who had recently left the company. The desktop had been reformatted following his departure, cutting off 600 users who had over the last three years depended on it for network services.
"There was no way for us to really know that was going on," said Vass. "Fortunately we had backups and could restore it, but those are the kind of things you run into at a tech company. Everyone has an opinion and everyone's building things here and there."
Vass said while many of the Sun engineers could largely take care of their own support needs, "they're also, because of their expertise, able to really mess things up".
Risky business One of the most exciting parts of working at Sun for Vass is the fact the company runs all of its own products generally far in advance of the time they're put out to market.
The CIO runs a group called 'Sun on Beta-Sun', that rigorously tests beta software in large-scale deployments within the company's 42,000 users. Generally the people who have to use Sun's new products on a daily basis first are the ones who build them, said Vass.
I still have the manuals that came with an old Gateway 2000 PC with Office 4.3. Apparently it had:
Word 6.0 Excel 5.0 Powerpoint 4.0 Access 2.0
It also came with "Microsoft Mail." I don't remember what this was, but according to Wikipedia, this was later replaced by Outlook.
<brag> The machine also came with (and I still have them) the VBA User's Guide, the Access Building Applications Guide, and a DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11 manual. Today you'd be lucky to get a PDF of these things. </brag>
Slashdot Mirror
I myself have never watched CSI but from seeing the commercials and considering the number of spinoffs I would hardly call it a "boring, institutional show."
What's the emote for rolling eyes?
You don't know what the emote for rolling eyes is? And your name is Guy Smiley?!
^_^
Can someone give me an example.
I think I nailed a few of the problems.
I remember reading a story about this from one of the people on the DirectX 1.0 developer team.
You obviously haven't met this guy.
I was wondering why this poll has not been replaced in nearly two weeks.
Serenity NOW!!!
Just wait till the Bay Area wireless comes online
How long will it be until Google blankets the entire nation? I sure hope they get over here to the east coast pretty soon, cause I'm paying through the nose for Adelphia.
(And on top of that, someone's been making a habit of posting bad comments from my subnet lately. I need a new IP.)
Suggesting that SCO has visited another dimension
SCO came from the mirror universe. They're that evil.
because "Instruction Pointer" is my first!
And this is coming from a communist country, where by nature the government owns everything because of the belief that competition is bad.
I'm stumped.
I would guess that you're jealous it's not in Taco Bell restaurants
No, he's jealous that it's not in The Commander Taco.
You get to see the whole friggin eclipse! Meanwhile, those of us less fortunate ones on the East Coast have to look for it at moonset!
Are you actually suggesting that a web-site called "friendsofscience.org" wouldn't actually be friendly to science?
They could call themselves anything to sound good. Don't China and North Korea call themselves "People's Republics?" Doesn't Fox News say it is "fair and balanced" (Yes, I saw the anti-M$ post earlier today, but that's just one incident.)? Slashdot calls itself "stuff that matters," although some would suggest otherwise.
If it has a positive sound, chances are someone will use it.
With the Cosmos I disaster and now this, should we really be using ICBMs to launch satellites? These rockets don't seem to be bringing them to orbit...
Speaking of The Elements of Style, the full text of the book can be found here. It's online now. Use it.
IIRC, Microsoft sold each XBox at a loss, and game sales made up for the loss. Is it possible that Sony will think the same way?
Do some of these people even post anymore? In the past seven months, I don't think I have ever seen a story posted by HeUnique, Pudge, or Vroom. And yes, they are checked.
Does RSS honor my preferences via cookie?
Unfortunately, no. You have to be a subscriber for that.
more flippant irresponsible pet acquisitions
Exactly. Right now, my neighbors have gone away for a few weeks, leaving their neglected dogs on their own, and these dogs have turned absolutely nasty (I live in an area with no leash laws). Nobody on our street can go outside without getting attacked, and I really need to mow my lawn before it rains again.
We have had problems with these dogs before, and when someone calls to complain, he/she gets the same response: "Oh, we'll pass the word along..." - and nothing ever gets done.
unwanted, discarded animals at the shelter
I'm sure the Pet Nazi at the shelter would be happy to snatch them from these irresponsible people.
Give it MMO. I know LucasArts didn't want it to compete with Star Wars Galaxies, but from what I hear, SWG sucked (Disclaimer: I have never played SWG myself).
In other news today, Microsoft executives report that dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of kittens may be hazardous to your health
A little on the serious side, though, cats can't taste sweetness.
But there were no comments when the timestamp was sonething like 8:53 PM. I refreshed Firefox and then it told me that I could not see the story because I was not a subscriber. What happened? Bug in Slashcode? Or were they in the process of pulling the story? I don't see why they would; the final one looks the same.
Mythic Entertainment, developers of Dark Age of Camelot and the upcoming Warhammer MMORPG, have announced the indefinite delay of Imperator, a third massively-multiplayer project announced in October 2004. The futuristic game, which also integrated elements of the Roman Empire and was originally scheduled to be released in June 2006, has been put under review regarding its future at Mythic.
All Imperator staff will be moved onto existing projects, such as a new Dark Age of Camelot expansion titled Darkness Rising, as well as the just-announced Warhammer-licensed online game, being created following the cancellation of a similar project at developer Climax. However, none of the developers that were formerly on Mythic's Imperator project will be laid off.
Nonetheless, the move will not come without a slowdown to proposed expansion plans: as a result of the delay, Mythic is holding off on establishing a previously announced European office until the 2007 release of Warhammer.
Since TA Associates completed a $32 million venture capital investment in Mythic in March 2003, the largest ever granted to any independent game developer, the company, which is privately held and does not need to publically report financial results, can likely support the added financial burden that this cancellation brings.
Speaking on the reasons for the postponement, Mythic CEO Mark Jacobs said: "Our team made a tremendous effort with the game and the praise it drew at E3 and in previews reflected their skill and dedication. But in the final analysis it just wasn't great enough to be a Mythic game at this time."
Article by Nich Maragos
Sun Microsystems' chief information officer (CIO) has backed the vendor's embrace of corporate blogging, despite difficulties such as ensuring senior executives don't post comments that affect the stock price and the occasional posting that makes the company's lawyers "pull their hair out".
"So far we've had very positive experiences with blogging, and I would encourage many other companies to do it as well," Bill Vass told ZDNet Australia in a wide-ranging interview about his experiences as the CIO of a high-technology company.
He cited Sun engineers' blogging of technical information and responses to questions about Sun's Solaris operating system.
Vass said Sun had faced problems with so-called 'Section 10' employees, such as senior executives that had the potential to affect the company's stock price with their blog postings.
For example, he said Sun president Jonathan Schwartz -- who keeps a public blog -- was frustrated when April Fool's day came around, because he couldn't use his blog to play a practical joke.
"A few times, he's said things like 'maybe we should acquire Novell', and it changed the stock price," Vass said of Schwartz's blog. "You have to be careful
Sun faced fewer issues with blogs written by non-Section 10 employees said Vass, but the company's legal team still read all the postings. Vass said he suspected the blogs were "making some of the lawyers pull their hair out".
For example, he said, one employee used his blog to post advice on how to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley reporting legislation. The company's lawyers forced that employee to put a disclaimer on his blog in case someone called him to account for bad advice.
Just another CIO
Vass said his position at Sun was not that different from the average CIO in that he spent most of his time facing common drudgeries like keeping costs low (his budget has halved to US$300 million over the past several years), complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley and consolidating data warehouses.
However, some unusual problems did surface sometimes, he said, citing the example of a Solaris engineer who contacted Sun's IT help desk in India and subsequently sent Vass a note complaining the help desk member who assisted him didn't know intricate kernel settings for the operating system he needed help on.
"I'm like: 'Hey, he's a help desk guy, give him a break'", said Vass.
In another example, Vass received a mysterious note that a major system had been disabled and had stopped production on a hardware chip.
Although Vass had no knowledge of this, he soon discovered the system in question was in fact the desktop machine of an engineer who had recently left the company. The desktop had been reformatted following his departure, cutting off 600 users who had over the last three years depended on it for network services.
"There was no way for us to really know that was going on," said Vass. "Fortunately we had backups and could restore it, but those are the kind of things you run into at a tech company. Everyone has an opinion and everyone's building things here and there."
Vass said while many of the Sun engineers could largely take care of their own support needs, "they're also, because of their expertise, able to really mess things up".
Risky business
One of the most exciting parts of working at Sun for Vass is the fact the company runs all of its own products generally far in advance of the time they're put out to market.
The CIO runs a group called 'Sun on Beta-Sun', that rigorously tests beta software in large-scale deployments within the company's 42,000 users. Generally the people who have to use Sun's new products on a daily basis first are the ones who build them, said Vass.
"So for instance the Sola
The nasa.gov article linked just tells what the shuttle's mission is, not more information on the damaged sensor.
I still have the manuals that came with an old Gateway 2000 PC with Office 4.3. Apparently it had:
Word 6.0
Excel 5.0
Powerpoint 4.0
Access 2.0
It also came with "Microsoft Mail." I don't remember what this was, but according to Wikipedia, this was later replaced by Outlook.
<brag>
The machine also came with (and I still have them) the VBA User's Guide, the Access Building Applications Guide, and a DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11 manual. Today you'd be lucky to get a PDF of these things.
</brag>