Steve should be commended for his efforts over the years. His enthusiasm was infectious. Unfortunately, while he stood as a model environmentalist, he now stands as an example of the dangers of directly interacting with wild animals.
I always preferred Sir David Attenborough. That is someone who truly loves and respects nature. Perhaps Steve did too, but watching his show it seemed to be more about him being wild and wacky and less about the animals. They were just there to be annoyed and do "dangerous" things.
Try wathing Living Planet, Life in the Undergrowth, Blue Planet or something like that. Better footage, better science, better drama...
In theory we have Bluetooth, put I don't think I've ever seen a Bluetooth printer, camera, or well just about anything.
Printers are not really the intended target for Bluetooth. Bluetooth is meant to be used for small devices with low power consumption - mobile phones, headsets, cameras, PDAs, mice. And there are plenty of those using Bluetooth, at least where I live.
Nobody would blink if Sun took a cheap shot at HP. But making fun of two recently deceased Silicon Valley icons, both of whom are still deeply respected by many in the industry, is pretty poor form.
An artist has made cutouts of famous industrialists in a hitchhiking pose with and embedded GPS and placed them out to see if they reach their intended destination.
Schwartz: "Now, not everyone thought this was a cool idea. When presented with the opportunity to purchase the likeness of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, it having made the trek from the printer ink section of a San Jose Office Depot, our friends at HP elected not to honor their founders. So out of respect for HP's legacy, the fine folks in Sun's marketing team decided to acquire the artwork. Bill and Dave are absolute legends, held in the deepest respect by all of us at Sun. We were honored at the opportunity.
So we bought them, and their garage, for $6,000. Lock, stock and Java phone."
I think decking them out in an "I love Solaris" t-shirt before placing them was more intended as a gentle tease against HP rather than mocking the memory of the founders.
Schwartz is in the middle of trying to pull Sun out of a very deep hole. The company's stock is still trading at under $5/share.
It seems he is doing quite well, They are positioned quite well for the future too, with companies like Google warning that power consumption has started to cost a lot more money than the hardware. That makes well engineered hardware more competetive against large numbers of cheap boxes.
but there are still big question marks, like what they actually intend to do with Java, and how they intend to operate in a world where Open Source is squeezing them in software,
Download BTMod to de-consolify Oblivion, it's great. You get fonts suitable for monitors rather than TVs, larger viewing areas on maps and inventories, plus lots of new abilities to tweak stuff via config files (you can disable the location hints on the compass for instance if you want a hardcore roleplaying experience).
You will get the game it was ment to be on the PC.
Come on mods. Copy and pasted IRC logs, posted without a referencing link, +5? Even if this DOES turn out to be from him, does this really need to be posted here on Slashdot?
Harsh words, sounds like there is some personal conflict involved. Or maybe he just got tired and wanted to move on to something different. Best wishes to all involved anyways.
Unfortunate for the Zend team, but I'm sure it won't be the death of PHP. There are many other developers, and you can still run PHP sites with other engines, for instance, the Quercus engine in Cauchos Resin I'm sure there are similar modules available in the mono/.Net world and others.
But consumers pay, because you need to eat more fruit and veg to get the beneficial effects, and they don't taste as well.
I've worked as an editor before and I think this is the first time I've ever seen this error. You often see someone misuse "good" when they should be using "well," but not the other way around. If fruit tasted good, you probably want to eat it. If fruit tastes well, that means it is the one doing the tasting. I'm guessing this is an overcorrection and you were trying to stop misusing "good?"
Didn't really think about about it, it was the first word that came to mind. I'm not a native English speaker, but I do have a bachelors of art in English, so perhaps I should have known better...:-)
Why not instead lend a hand to GemRB effort? http://gemrb.sourceforge.net/ . You could create a new Planescape game for GemRB engine:-)
Ooh, interesting! Thanks for that link, I will defenitely take a look. I'm not much of a C++ or Python programmer (Java and Ruby are more my forte), but perhaps I can learn...
I should of course also mention that the JRuby team were grateful for all the good stuff Sourceforge had done for them. I have also personally worked on a few projects on SF and though I did have a few problems, mostly it was good, so I'm also grateful for all SF does for the the open/free software world.
I think Sourceforge needs to improve their quality if they are going to remain as central as they have been for open/free software development. There exists many alternatives these days, JForge for instance, or java.net, Codehaus...
I have a collegue who is one of the submittors to JRuby. He told me they had huge problems with Sourceforge last 6 months. Servers were down all the time, which slowed down development. I blieve they almost didn't get the demo finished before Java ONE because of this, and now they have moved to CodeHaus instead. Subversion, JIRA for bug tracking, and so far very stable servers, so they are very pleased.
Forgot to mention - I am thinking about recreating PS:T with the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine when it comes out. Well, I doubt I will have enough time to ever complete it, and I guess it would also infringe on copyright, but one can dream, right?
SPOILER: When Ravel asked me "What can change the nature of a man", I froze. I had to go for a walk and think what I really believed, and what I though my character would believe. I think it took me half a day before I could answer. FF7 is good too, and I did get a bit misty eyed, but when it comes to depth and complexity of emotions FF7 has nothing on Planescape: Torment.
If you like good stores and settings, I can recommend Psychonauts. A much more lighthearted game, but still very good.
Brix is only a measure sugar content. Although, more sugar = better taste, more nutritious, I suppose.
Yes, the article goes in on that a bit. The fructose appareantly is a prerequisite for the plant to create other nutrients. So a low Brix value means low nutrients, but a high Brix value doesn't automatically mean the fruit is good, just that it is sweeter.
Interesting, in Sweden just a day ago a newspaper reported that they had tested fruits and vegetables sold in Sweden with a refractometer, and out of 120 tests on produce sold in different stores, 64 were poor and 56 average, not a single fruit or veggie were "good" or "exceptional".
The low Brix numbers measured indicate poor taste and nutrient levels, and are caused by too early harvesting, and speeding up growth with fertilizers and greenhouses (not enough time to accumulate nutrients from earth). Understandable, since this lowers risk for producers and allows them to ship long distances, for instance from New Zealand or Argentina. But consumers pay, because you need to eat more fruit and veg to get the beneficial effects, and they don't taste as well.
Note that this newspaper is very pro-trade, pro-globalization and generally rightwing.
At Java One this year there was a pretty interesting talk by a guy from Ebay, talking about "creating an object model that spans the world". If you join the Sun Developer Network (for free) you can get the slides, and even audio/video I believe.
Do you want to see outrage? Microsoft should make a deal with ATI and NVidia as well as major game publishers so that the latest drivers and games for XP refuse to install unless WGA is present. The outraged squealing from the gaming community will deafen the planet.
I mean, that IS coming with Vista anyway, but they could get a head start on finally killing off PC gaming for good.
Even the article got it wrong, it starts with " Japan is planning ultra long-range 30-year weather forecasts", and later states "Japan's science ministry hopes to calculate long-term patterns in the interaction of atmospheric pressure, air temperatures, ocean currents and sea temperatures", i.e. climate modelling.
This is nothing new either. Earth Simulator has been used for these things for many years, and was the worlds fastest supercomputer for several years.
I once suggested a solution to their problems. The basic philosophy is that they want to fix the crashes. But at this rate, they never will, so it's better to find ways to limit the damage done by crashes. The best solution, IMHO, is to stop using threads. Instead, fork a separate process for each document and one more for the UI, and use IPC for them to communicate.
*First of all, as another poster already pointed out, this would require a massive rewrite. *Second, on Linux forking processes and switching between them is basically as fast as using threads. This is not true for other operating systems and Firefox tries to be cross platform. *Third (and now I'm on shakier ground, because I'm not an OS guru and know very little C), I believe using IPC has drawbacks on their own, and can become complex, especially on bigger applications - handling synchronization, security etc. I was browsing through an announcement for some sound handling project on Linux (ALSA, Jack?? Don't remember) and the developer was quitting development on this module because he had used communicating processes and had reached a dead end, and he didn't have time to rewrite it from scratch using threads, especially since there were existing open source projects who had already done it.
Yes, I think this actually the tenth or so "Ruby -yay! Java -boo!" article by Bruce Tate that Slashdot posts. I think he writes about two a week for IBM devworks.
I think the quality of his writing has declined, starting with "Better, Faster, Lighter Java". He never talks about possible tradeoffs of choosing a design or technology, it is always "And see, this is the magic silver bullet that solves everything, three lines of code, bam, next project".
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Steve should be commended for his efforts over the years. His enthusiasm was infectious. Unfortunately, while he stood as a model environmentalist, he now stands as an example of the dangers of directly interacting with wild animals.
I always preferred Sir David Attenborough. That is someone who truly loves and respects nature. Perhaps Steve did too, but watching his show it seemed to be more about him being wild and wacky and less about the animals. They were just there to be annoyed and do "dangerous" things.
Try wathing Living Planet, Life in the Undergrowth, Blue Planet or something like that. Better footage, better science, better drama...
In theory we have Bluetooth, put I don't think I've ever seen a Bluetooth printer, camera, or well just about anything.
Printers are not really the intended target for Bluetooth. Bluetooth is meant to be used for small devices with low power consumption - mobile phones, headsets, cameras, PDAs, mice. And there are plenty of those using Bluetooth, at least where I live.
Nobody would blink if Sun took a cheap shot at HP. But making fun of two recently deceased Silicon Valley icons, both of whom are still deeply respected by many in the industry, is pretty poor form.
Did you read Schwartz's blog?
An artist has made cutouts of famous industrialists in a hitchhiking pose with and embedded GPS and placed them out to see if they reach their intended destination.
Schwartz: "Now, not everyone thought this was a cool idea. When presented with the opportunity to purchase the likeness of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, it having made the trek from the printer ink section of a San Jose Office Depot, our friends at HP elected not to honor their founders. So out of respect for HP's legacy, the fine folks in Sun's marketing team decided to acquire the artwork. Bill and Dave are absolute legends, held in the deepest respect by all of us at Sun. We were honored at the opportunity.
So we bought them, and their garage, for $6,000. Lock, stock and Java phone."
I think decking them out in an "I love Solaris" t-shirt before placing them was more intended as a gentle tease against HP rather than mocking the memory of the founders.
Schwartz is in the middle of trying to pull Sun out of a very deep hole. The company's stock is still trading at under $5/share.
It seems he is doing quite well, They are positioned quite well for the future too, with companies like Google warning that power consumption has started to cost a lot more money than the hardware. That makes well engineered hardware more competetive against large numbers of cheap boxes.
but there are still big question marks, like what they actually intend to do with Java, and how they intend to operate in a world where Open Source is squeezing them in software,
They intend to open source it, they have even started working on it.
and commodity boxes are squeezing them in hardware.
They are one of the leading sellers of AMD64 boxes, plus they are still making some really cool hardware.
Oh, but Thailanees (people from Thailand?)
People from Thailand are called Thai, and so is the language.
If you want to play it without having to shell out for a console, there is a open source java version here.
Best way to play it though is of course around a table with some good friends.
Also, I think that the slashdotting community would probably not be adverse to you writing down some of your romantic exploits.
Yeah, not surprising that she posted anonymously...
Oblivion is a prime example of this. Grrr.
Download BTMod to de-consolify Oblivion, it's great. You get fonts suitable for monitors rather than TVs, larger viewing areas on maps and inventories, plus lots of new abilities to tweak stuff via config files (you can disable the location hints on the compass for instance if you want a hardcore roleplaying experience).
You will get the game it was ment to be on the PC.
Come on mods. Copy and pasted IRC logs, posted without a referencing link, +5? Even if this DOES turn out to be from him, does this really need to be posted here on Slashdot?
Harsh words, sounds like there is some personal conflict involved. Or maybe he just got tired and wanted to move on to something different. Best wishes to all involved anyways.
Unfortunate for the Zend team, but I'm sure it won't be the death of PHP. There are many other developers, and you can still run PHP sites with other engines, for instance, the Quercus engine in Cauchos Resin I'm sure there are similar modules available in the mono/.Net world and others.
But consumers pay, because you need to eat more fruit and veg to get the beneficial effects, and they don't taste as well.
:-)
I've worked as an editor before and I think this is the first time I've ever seen this error. You often see someone misuse "good" when they should be using "well," but not the other way around. If fruit tasted good, you probably want to eat it. If fruit tastes well, that means it is the one doing the tasting. I'm guessing this is an overcorrection and you were trying to stop misusing "good?"
Didn't really think about about it, it was the first word that came to mind. I'm not a native English speaker, but I do have a bachelors of art in English, so perhaps I should have known better...
Why not instead lend a hand to GemRB effort? http://gemrb.sourceforge.net/ . You could create a new Planescape game for GemRB engine :-)
Ooh, interesting! Thanks for that link, I will defenitely take a look. I'm not much of a C++ or Python programmer (Java and Ruby are more my forte), but perhaps I can learn...
I should of course also mention that the JRuby team were grateful for all the good stuff Sourceforge had done for them. I have also personally worked on a few projects on SF and though I did have a few problems, mostly it was good, so I'm also grateful for all SF does for the the open/free software world.
I think Sourceforge needs to improve their quality if they are going to remain as central as they have been for open/free software development. There exists many alternatives these days, JForge for instance, or java.net, Codehaus...
I have a collegue who is one of the submittors to JRuby. He told me they had huge problems with Sourceforge last 6 months. Servers were down all the time, which slowed down development. I blieve they almost didn't get the demo finished before Java ONE because of this, and now they have moved to CodeHaus instead. Subversion, JIRA for bug tracking, and so far very stable servers, so they are very pleased.
Forgot to mention - I am thinking about recreating PS:T with the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine when it comes out. Well, I doubt I will have enough time to ever complete it, and I guess it would also infringe on copyright, but one can dream, right?
Yep, really good game.
SPOILER:
When Ravel asked me "What can change the nature of a man", I froze. I had to go for a walk and think what I really believed, and what I though my character would believe. I think it took me half a day before I could answer. FF7 is good too, and I did get a bit misty eyed, but when it comes to depth and complexity of emotions FF7 has nothing on Planescape: Torment.
If you like good stores and settings, I can recommend Psychonauts. A much more lighthearted game, but still very good.
Brix is only a measure sugar content. Although, more sugar = better taste, more nutritious, I suppose.
Yes, the article goes in on that a bit. The fructose appareantly is a prerequisite for the plant to create other nutrients. So a low Brix value means low nutrients, but a high Brix value doesn't automatically mean the fruit is good, just that it is sweeter.
Interesting, in Sweden just a day ago a newspaper reported that they had tested fruits and vegetables sold in Sweden with a refractometer, and out of 120 tests on produce sold in different stores, 64 were poor and 56 average, not a single fruit or veggie were "good" or "exceptional".
The low Brix numbers measured indicate poor taste and nutrient levels, and are caused by too early harvesting, and speeding up growth with fertilizers and greenhouses (not enough time to accumulate nutrients from earth). Understandable, since this lowers risk for producers and allows them to ship long distances, for instance from New Zealand or Argentina. But consumers pay, because you need to eat more fruit and veg to get the beneficial effects, and they don't taste as well.
Note that this newspaper is very pro-trade, pro-globalization and generally rightwing.
Oh, so buzzwords can be used to disguise laziness and bad implementation? Where's the news?
Yes, it is yet another article that can be summed up by "Some technologies are overhyped and used inappropriately".
At Java One this year there was a pretty interesting talk by a guy from Ebay, talking about "creating an object model that spans the world". If you join the Sun Developer Network (for free) you can get the slides, and even audio/video I believe.
Do you want to see outrage? Microsoft should make a deal with ATI and NVidia as well as major game publishers so that the latest drivers and games for XP refuse to install unless WGA is present. The outraged squealing from the gaming community will deafen the planet.
I mean, that IS coming with Vista anyway, but they could get a head start on finally killing off PC gaming for good.
Even the article got it wrong, it starts with " Japan is planning ultra long-range 30-year weather forecasts", and later states "Japan's science ministry hopes to calculate long-term patterns in the interaction of atmospheric pressure, air temperatures, ocean currents and sea temperatures", i.e. climate modelling.
This is nothing new either. Earth Simulator has been used for these things for many years, and was the worlds fastest supercomputer for several years.
I once suggested a solution to their problems. The basic philosophy is that they want to fix the crashes. But at this rate, they never will, so it's better to find ways to limit the damage done by crashes. The best solution, IMHO, is to stop using threads. Instead, fork a separate process for each document and one more for the UI, and use IPC for them to communicate.
*First of all, as another poster already pointed out, this would require a massive rewrite.
*Second, on Linux forking processes and switching between them is basically as fast as using threads. This is not true for other operating systems and Firefox tries to be cross platform.
*Third (and now I'm on shakier ground, because I'm not an OS guru and know very little C), I believe using IPC has drawbacks on their own, and can become complex, especially on bigger applications - handling synchronization, security etc. I was browsing through an announcement for some sound handling project on Linux (ALSA, Jack?? Don't remember) and the developer was quitting development on this module because he had used communicating processes and had reached a dead end, and he didn't have time to rewrite it from scratch using threads, especially since there were existing open source projects who had already done it.
Yes, I think this actually the tenth or so "Ruby -yay! Java -boo!" article by Bruce Tate that Slashdot posts. I think he writes about two a week for IBM devworks.
I think the quality of his writing has declined, starting with "Better, Faster, Lighter Java". He never talks about possible tradeoffs of choosing a design or technology, it is always "And see, this is the magic silver bullet that solves everything, three lines of code, bam, next project".