Okay, could we please just fund a project to completion for the next stage vehicle? There have been several very promising designs, and every one has been scrapped because of either political bullshit or technical problems that could have been overcome, but actually required some additional research.
Hell, here's an idea, finish the damn X-33. Per NASA "Work on the X-33 vehicle has continued at the Palmdale, CA, assembly facility during the tank investigation and subsequent negotiations between NASA and Lockheed Martin. According to the press release, vehicle assembly is currently 75 percent complete, and more than 95 percent of the vehicle's components have been fabricated, tested, and delivered to Palmdale." That was on September 29 2000. The program was scrapped 7 months later in March 2001 for no apparent reason aside from no one wanting to foot the bill to finish it. The only real technical problem encountered was in design of a composite liquid hydrogen fuel tank, which was replaced with aluminum. Gotta' love scrapping a project that is that close to completion because no one wants to spend more money to finish it (and it was within budget up to that point...).
I mean, it's amazingly cool and all, but if you're going to put in all of that work, why not do it in a more modern engine that actually has true 3d and better graphics?
Hmmm... seems to me when they canceled invisible man they started time slot shuffling and running horribly out of order reruns... Gee, why would a sometimes it's on sometimes it's not and if it is on it's a rerun you've seen five times airing approach lower ratings?
There aren't 2 architectures... they're all PowerPC chips, thus the same instruction set... and the new IBM chips are also 32 bit compatible, so they will run code from current PPC chips without a recompile.
How about a version of the OS X screen saver that doesn't crash the machine? My iBook reboots randomly while running it and a buddy of mine's dual CPU tower has random lockups with the client.
Switch, you won't regret it. I've used Linux exclusively for the last 3 years (including for Java development at work) and I recently got an iBook and haven't looked back. I think I've booted my Linux workstation twice since making the purchase.
I develop 4 open source PHP/MySQL utilities, and have moved development of all of them over to OS X. Project Builder is pretty good, or if you use Vim or Emacs you can install X11 (I did). KDE is now in Fink, and Trolltech has also release an OS X native version of Qt.
One recommendation: put in a lot of RAM. When I first got the iBook (700MHz) I though it was kind of slow, but now that I maxed out the RAM (640MB), it's very nice. Also, my wife has one of the 800MHz 15" iMacs, and it's really nice as well.
Actually, you're right. Even with the one time fee (oops I mean 'cash prize') it allows them to treat it as a work for hire. The prize money is nothing compared to what a royalty-based deal would earn over time on a successful world. (Which I would imagine is why they're doing this, to get rid of the Forgotten Realms which, if I recall correctly, Ed Greenwood still owns the rights to). Think about it for a minute... you're talking not only game modules, rules, etc. but also books (I think there are at least 50 for the Forgotten Realms).
"It raises the issue again: what would Apple be like if Jobs never left?"
Actually, if Jobs hadn't left and learned many
valuable lessons by more or less falling on his face
with NeXT (amazing technology, but let's face it
a financial disaster) Apple would have probably
crashed and burned.
Jobs learned from his mistakes at NeXT and used
the experience to bring Apple back from the brink.
How long before your firm realizes that they
can hire a manager on-site in India for a fraction
of what they're paying you and not incur the
language barrier and communications problems?
It doesn't matter, as MS was already found to be
violating antitrust laws.
What's sad is that nothing is going to be done
that will even scratch MS. The only remedy that had
a chance of even starting to level the playing
field in the industry was splitting them up, and
that was shot down. That leaves fines and a
restriction on their business practices. No fine
levied will even touch MS's cash reserve, and we
already saw how effective restrictions are from
the last time around with the consent decree.
Actually, being 30 I can say if the price drops to
$200 I'll probably pick up a Game Cube just for
Resident Evil and the new Star Wars game...
The Star Wars game looks absolutely
fantastic, caught a review of it on TV the other
night.
Of course thus far those are the only 2 title
I've seen for the Cube that made me drool... other
than that my PS 2 still reigns supreme.
Or maybe it's using the same ultra-small hard drive
as the iPod, which comes in a max of 10GB right
now. The thing is only 3"x5"x.9" so this seems
likely.
It says on page 4 of the Intellisync manual (you know, the
synchronization software?) that if you have a personal
firewall you may need to disable it to complete
synchronization.
It also seems that there is mention of Outlook
in quite a few places in the same manual... I picked
this up after skimming the downloadable PDF for about 2 minutes.
It would seem the problem here is not the product,
but instead a dumbass reviewer that
Doesn't know what the hell is running on
his own PC.
Claims things are not in the documentation without
having read said documentation first.
What's a shame is the number of people that will
never look at the Zaurus because if this column.
Are you trolling or just uninformed? If it was a
Pocket PC device the stats would be unimpressive
because Pocket PC is a hog. However, for a Palm OS
device that's some seriouse power. Palm OS is
designed to run on lower power hardware.
Hell Yes! I've had similar clauses removed from
employment contracts twice in the past. There is
just no excuse for leaving a clause like that in
a contract.
Also, when striking out and writing in changes
on an existing contract make sure to date the modification
and that you and the employer both initial
the changes, or you risk the employer
stating they didn't agree to the changes.
And they've actually been working on this
tech since like 1992 or so... They put out a press
release roughly every six to twelve months, and
never deliver a product.
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"I also doubt that anyone but an extremly small minority would go through the trouble of changing the Window UI for something else."
Actually, you're mistaken. There's a fairly sizable Windows shell replacement community. In fact, there's at least one company,
Stradock, that makes their living at it. For a ton of links to replacement shell sites check out Desktopian.
I do agree that it's not something the core Gnome team should be thinking about, though.
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Hell, here's an idea, finish the damn X-33. Per NASA "Work on the X-33 vehicle has continued at the Palmdale, CA, assembly facility during the tank investigation and subsequent negotiations between NASA and Lockheed Martin. According to the press release, vehicle assembly is currently 75 percent complete, and more than 95 percent of the vehicle's components have been fabricated, tested, and delivered to Palmdale." That was on September 29 2000. The program was scrapped 7 months later in March 2001 for no apparent reason aside from no one wanting to foot the bill to finish it. The only real technical problem encountered was in design of a composite liquid hydrogen fuel tank, which was replaced with aluminum. Gotta' love scrapping a project that is that close to completion because no one wants to spend more money to finish it (and it was within budget up to that point...).
I mean, it's amazingly cool and all, but if you're going to put in all of that work, why not do it in a more modern engine that actually has true 3d and better graphics?
Let's not harass the dyslexic =)
Because hurd is a miserable failure that no one cares about?
Hmmm... seems to me when they canceled invisible man they started time slot shuffling and running horribly out of order reruns... Gee, why would a sometimes it's on sometimes it's not and if it is on it's a rerun you've seen five times airing approach lower ratings?
Uhm, what are you talking about? This IS a PowerPC chip. It uses the PPC instruction set and is backward compatible with the 32 bit G3 and G4.
There aren't 2 architectures... they're all PowerPC chips, thus the same instruction set... and the new IBM chips are also 32 bit compatible, so they will run code from current PPC chips without a recompile.
How about a version of the OS X screen saver that doesn't crash the machine? My iBook reboots randomly while running it and a buddy of mine's dual CPU tower has random lockups with the client.
Basically, fulltext indexing is why I'm still using MySQL...
I develop 4 open source PHP/MySQL utilities, and have moved development of all of them over to OS X. Project Builder is pretty good, or if you use Vim or Emacs you can install X11 (I did). KDE is now in Fink, and Trolltech has also release an OS X native version of Qt.
One recommendation: put in a lot of RAM. When I first got the iBook (700MHz) I though it was kind of slow, but now that I maxed out the RAM (640MB), it's very nice. Also, my wife has one of the 800MHz 15" iMacs, and it's really nice as well.
I liked the last album and bought it, but the only song I've heard off the new album SUCKS so I'm in no hurry to go buy it... imagine that...
Actually, you're right. Even with the one time fee (oops I mean 'cash prize') it allows them to treat it as a work for hire. The prize money is nothing compared to what a royalty-based deal would earn over time on a successful world. (Which I would imagine is why they're doing this, to get rid of the Forgotten Realms which, if I recall correctly, Ed Greenwood still owns the rights to). Think about it for a minute... you're talking not only game modules, rules, etc. but also books (I think there are at least 50 for the Forgotten Realms).
Actually, if Jobs hadn't left and learned many valuable lessons by more or less falling on his face with NeXT (amazing technology, but let's face it a financial disaster) Apple would have probably crashed and burned.
Jobs learned from his mistakes at NeXT and used the experience to bring Apple back from the brink.
Or possibly because it lacks the HUGE security holes IE is famous for, or because the OmniWeb UI is fantastic.
I do agree that they need to improve CSS support though...
How long before your firm realizes that they can hire a manager on-site in India for a fraction of what they're paying you and not incur the language barrier and communications problems?
What's sad is that nothing is going to be done that will even scratch MS. The only remedy that had a chance of even starting to level the playing field in the industry was splitting them up, and that was shot down. That leaves fines and a restriction on their business practices. No fine levied will even touch MS's cash reserve, and we already saw how effective restrictions are from the last time around with the consent decree.
Of course thus far those are the only 2 title I've seen for the Cube that made me drool... other than that my PS 2 still reigns supreme.
Or maybe it's using the same ultra-small hard drive as the iPod, which comes in a max of 10GB right now. The thing is only 3"x5"x.9" so this seems likely.
Except it doesn't support your card. This project supports a VERY limited set of hardware which is also 99% useless if you happen to live in the US.
It seems the site doesn't like Mozilla... it's fine in Netscape and Konqueror, however.
It also seems that there is mention of Outlook in quite a few places in the same manual... I picked this up after skimming the downloadable PDF for about 2 minutes.
It would seem the problem here is not the product, but instead a dumbass reviewer that
What's a shame is the number of people that will never look at the Zaurus because if this column.
Are you trolling or just uninformed? If it was a Pocket PC device the stats would be unimpressive because Pocket PC is a hog. However, for a Palm OS device that's some seriouse power. Palm OS is designed to run on lower power hardware.
Also, when striking out and writing in changes on an existing contract make sure to date the modification and that you and the employer both initial the changes, or you risk the employer stating they didn't agree to the changes.
And they've actually been working on this tech since like 1992 or so... They put out a press release roughly every six to twelve months, and never deliver a product.
"I also doubt that anyone but an extremly small minority would go through the trouble of changing the Window UI for something else."
Actually, you're mistaken. There's a fairly sizable Windows shell replacement community. In fact, there's at least one company, Stradock, that makes their living at it. For a ton of links to replacement shell sites check out Desktopian.
I do agree that it's not something the core Gnome team should be thinking about, though.