Why squeezed down to 640x480? And what's the trick here? I bought a 37" TV two years ago that has VGA, HDMI, and DVI inputs, and it cost 400USD. It does 1360x768 native. Cheaper now for something bigger; much cheaper for something smaller.
I mean, come on, my laptop and netbook have HDMI and VGA out; hell, even my phone does! This is easier than hooking up a VCR.
In my case.. we've had a $400 PC hooked up to the TV for ~5 years. Only reason it cost that much is because we play games on it. WoW, Starcraft2, Portal,.. Zelda64:) etc etc. We don't have cable, just Hulu and the greater 'net. It's our DVD player, and we end up ripping most of the kids' DVDs to xvid anyways so we don't have to worry about scratches. Then there's Boxee, MythTV, XBMC, take your pick. Remote control, wireless game controllers, yada yada. Oh yea.. all on Ubuntu, and the wife uses it?
I'm probably not taking all the above numbers into account accordingly, but I think there are plenty of factors to consider. Businesses continue to upgrade from Server 2003 to 2008 in the past year; this should contribute to growth of Win Server sales. I'm seeing plenty of our 2003 systems finally look to upgrades as hardware comes up on renew. We're still moving clients off Exchange 2k3. The second point, and always a point I think for Linux - we'll purchase a blank server, toss a hypervisor on it, then proceed to install numerous VMs with varying flavors of Linux with varying function. None of those installs or OS sales are recorded in the above figures. Not to mention that the hypervisors are Linux, be it VMWare, Xen, KVM, etc. And of course the move to x86 hardware continues as virtualization penetrates the datacenter and clusters of commodity hardware replace big iron.
However, using another language will present all kinds of issues - which language do they use?
Why not JavaScript? It's extremely well-known, Google already has an excellent implementation (V8), and it is free of licensing worries.
WebOS went that route, I'm surprised Google didn't, especially given that Google's livelihood is the Web.
What you're suggesting would certainly end up having some relation to GWT
I used to drink a lot a have a great time with the night life. Now I have three kids and a more-than-full-time job. I'm lucky if I can get down two beers in a night.
People work on Microsoft infrastructure because it pays the bills, not because they want to. The problem with this is that in 10 years time it will be cheaper to get a LAMP administrator than it will to get a IIS/MSSQL administrator. Bugger licensing costs, it's the price of risk management that is important to companies. And with Microsoft becoming less relevant LAMP and "Cool Hip technologies" will be the replacement in 10 years when those admins grow up and start doing IT for a living like the rest of us.
Odd, it seems like you're describing the world today, as opposed to the world 10 years from now.
The math, while quick and dirty, can be used as another reference (among many used and generated) when estimating capacity and growth for similar social-based sites and applications.
I'm wondering about input methods. I was pretty reliant on a joystick when I played Vendetta Online. I enjoyed the dogfights; good control, good play. Are they developing a touch interface for the game?
We went with MAudio Delta 1010 cards for recording with Ardour and associated tools. It started out on a system with a Sempron processor and 512MB RAM; songs averaged 25 tracks, and drums were recorded live on 6 separate tracks. There were no performance issues.
This article actually made me wonder, for the first time... if the problem with Netflix on Linux is DRM, could they ship us a disc that would allow us to use Netflix streaming on Linux, just like they're doing for PS3 and Wii?
PC gamers have $2000+ computers and drop $200-500 on a video card every year. But most of them are too damn cheap to buy their games.
I know I'm probably a minority in this, but my gaming rigs (one for me, other for the Mrs.) cost around $450. ~100$ per year maintenance.. and I never spend more than $100 on a vid card. 9600GTs were $80 last time I needed to drop cash on them. Now, I'm a family man, and I love my games and pay for them, but you guys think you can keep us going on just multi-million dollar product ventures that cost us $50-60 a pop? I guess I'm probably not your target audience at all, and not of any concern, since I have to wait until the games are a more affordable $20 or so. I'm a patient man.. Bought Bioshock when it hit $20, UT3 as well, just bought Mass Effect for $10 (I can wait a year for part 2..). Valve gave me 6 games in the Orange Box, and I'm just finishing Half Life 2, Ep 2. Man was that great.. costs like $18. Great game. Speaking humbly and of my own opinion, I think you guys are just too big for yourselves. Hell, what am I saying, I"m not sure I've really played a game from Ubisoft (or have I?)
Just want to close buy saying, look at how great Braid was (in my opinion). Sure didn't take millions of dollars and DRM to make that (afaik).
When using Ubuntu, you can add software without any of that foolishness,
using synaptic package manager or apt-get from the
command line.
Don't forget about the 'Ubuntu Software Center' for non-techie users. Its simplified interface is a good alternative to Synaptic for quick search/install/remove.
I have some pretty good success stories regarding people that are ultra-non-tech using Ubuntu. A friend of mine had a system I helped him with, he uses it for all his music creation/production/promoting work. He moved out to New York, a few thousand miles from me, and about a year later his HD died. I had him order a new drive off newegg, download Ubuntu 9.10 on his wife's PC, and do the install himself. He was up and running with a fresh Ubuntu and installed all his software (VLC, Ardour, Hydrogen, QJackCtl, LADSPA plugins, etc) in under an hour. He wouldn't know how to use a command line if he tried:) Again, I think this is a good success story!
Here's a previous post from me regarding software/hardware he uses and resulting artworks if anyone's further interested.
In order to sign up for possible beta access, you have to download a program that sends your system specs to your battle.net account. The system test application for Windows worked without issue in Wine, allowing me to upload my specs and be considered for beta access.
I think when people talk of a technology being impressive, they are talking about, well, technology.
The fact that you don't want to use Silverlight or can't run it on Linux has nothing to do with how impressive the technology is.
But it might in the end have something to do with how impressive the technology is. If the technology is desirable enough, then I'd like to be able to use it on my PC, TV (I'm thinking of something like a Sharp Aquos in this instance of 'TV'), iPhone, Droid, iPad, $100 netbook, toaster, etc. Problem is, I can't guarantee Silverlight runs reliably on any of those devices.
It would be great if I saw ads on TV pertaining to my interests, instead of constant drug commercials pertaining to urinating problems or lose weight fast schemes.
A brief look at the link showed 'Multiple LDAP authentication support'. So the answer to your question is yes, Redmine can leverage Active Directory services.
I'd list out tons of rebutals to your claim, but I'm way too lazy. A few though... bought the Orange Box when it was new, for $45. 6 games in there. Bought UT3 on sale for $12. Normally $20. Buy a pack of great indie games for $20.. Braid for $10, entire ID collection (some 10 or more games?) for $75. I love just clicking to get a new game, but that's the way I am with everything. Similar case, if it's not on Hulu, I usually don't bother. I'm a sucker for easily accessible media. Wave of the future dude, 100% electronic.
Yes, same here. This article surprised me; I'm running Kubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Latitude D630. It was old and abused before I got it, and I still get ~4 hrs battery life doing research and coding projects. Default install of Kubuntu, no tweaks, default power options that it came installed with. I've been very pleased with it, especially in regards to suspend/resume - I never shut this thing down completely. Always using a wireless connection as well. I can't say much about the disk drive power usage though, as I never use it.
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Why squeezed down to 640x480? And what's the trick here? I bought a 37" TV two years ago that has VGA, HDMI, and DVI inputs, and it cost 400USD. It does 1360x768 native. Cheaper now for something bigger; much cheaper for something smaller.
.. Zelda64 :) etc etc. We don't have cable, just Hulu and the greater 'net. It's our DVD player, and we end up ripping most of the kids' DVDs to xvid anyways so we don't have to worry about scratches. Then there's Boxee, MythTV, XBMC, take your pick. Remote control, wireless game controllers, yada yada. Oh yea.. all on Ubuntu, and the wife uses it?
I mean, come on, my laptop and netbook have HDMI and VGA out; hell, even my phone does! This is easier than hooking up a VCR. In my case.. we've had a $400 PC hooked up to the TV for ~5 years. Only reason it cost that much is because we play games on it. WoW, Starcraft2, Portal,
It's no secret...
Did I mention I'm typing this post on the TV.
I'm probably not taking all the above numbers into account accordingly, but I think there are plenty of factors to consider. Businesses continue to upgrade from Server 2003 to 2008 in the past year; this should contribute to growth of Win Server sales. I'm seeing plenty of our 2003 systems finally look to upgrades as hardware comes up on renew. We're still moving clients off Exchange 2k3. The second point, and always a point I think for Linux - we'll purchase a blank server, toss a hypervisor on it, then proceed to install numerous VMs with varying flavors of Linux with varying function. None of those installs or OS sales are recorded in the above figures. Not to mention that the hypervisors are Linux, be it VMWare, Xen, KVM, etc. And of course the move to x86 hardware continues as virtualization penetrates the datacenter and clusters of commodity hardware replace big iron.
However, using another language will present all kinds of issues - which language do they use?
Why not JavaScript? It's extremely well-known, Google already has an excellent implementation (V8), and it is free of licensing worries. WebOS went that route, I'm surprised Google didn't, especially given that Google's livelihood is the Web.
What you're suggesting would certainly end up having some relation to GWT
I used to drink a lot a have a great time with the night life. Now I have three kids and a more-than-full-time job. I'm lucky if I can get down two beers in a night.
Sigh!
Way off-topic, but I think you have the lowest UUID I've seen yet in comments :)
People work on Microsoft infrastructure because it pays the bills, not because they want to. The problem with this is that in 10 years time it will be cheaper to get a LAMP administrator than it will to get a IIS/MSSQL administrator. Bugger licensing costs, it's the price of risk management that is important to companies. And with Microsoft becoming less relevant LAMP and "Cool Hip technologies" will be the replacement in 10 years when those admins grow up and start doing IT for a living like the rest of us.
Odd, it seems like you're describing the world today, as opposed to the world 10 years from now.
The math, while quick and dirty, can be used as another reference (among many used and generated) when estimating capacity and growth for similar social-based sites and applications.
I'm wondering about input methods. I was pretty reliant on a joystick when I played Vendetta Online. I enjoyed the dogfights; good control, good play. Are they developing a touch interface for the game?
We went with MAudio Delta 1010 cards for recording with Ardour and associated tools. It started out on a system with a Sempron processor and 512MB RAM; songs averaged 25 tracks, and drums were recorded live on 6 separate tracks. There were no performance issues.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1275379&cid=28397147&art_pos=25
I won't argue the fact that ProTools is industry standard :)
Mac users are known for being willing to pay for software. Linux users, not so much.
This may have some relevance to the above comment.
Ah, I was just reminded of GeoWorks. Ran that on my Tandy 286, circa 1991.
Hopefully those with equally deep pockets can now focus their efforts on making this potentially new open source standard video codec better.
This article actually made me wonder, for the first time... if the problem with Netflix on Linux is DRM, could they ship us a disc that would allow us to use Netflix streaming on Linux, just like they're doing for PS3 and Wii?
Facebook did turn a profit last year, earlier than predicted:
http://www.marketingvox.com/facebook-sees-profit-on-target-for-500m-year-045281/
PC gamers have $2000+ computers and drop $200-500 on a video card every year. But most of them are too damn cheap to buy their games.
I know I'm probably a minority in this, but my gaming rigs (one for me, other for the Mrs.) cost around $450. ~100$ per year maintenance.. and I never spend more than $100 on a vid card. 9600GTs were $80 last time I needed to drop cash on them. Now, I'm a family man, and I love my games and pay for them, but you guys think you can keep us going on just multi-million dollar product ventures that cost us $50-60 a pop? I guess I'm probably not your target audience at all, and not of any concern, since I have to wait until the games are a more affordable $20 or so. I'm a patient man.. Bought Bioshock when it hit $20, UT3 as well, just bought Mass Effect for $10 (I can wait a year for part 2..). Valve gave me 6 games in the Orange Box, and I'm just finishing Half Life 2, Ep 2. Man was that great.. costs like $18. Great game. Speaking humbly and of my own opinion, I think you guys are just too big for yourselves. Hell, what am I saying, I"m not sure I've really played a game from Ubisoft (or have I?)
Just want to close buy saying, look at how great Braid was (in my opinion). Sure didn't take millions of dollars and DRM to make that (afaik).
When using Ubuntu, you can add software without any of that foolishness, using synaptic package manager or apt-get from the command line.
Don't forget about the 'Ubuntu Software Center' for non-techie users. Its simplified interface is a good alternative to Synaptic for quick search/install/remove.
I have some pretty good success stories regarding people that are ultra-non-tech using Ubuntu. A friend of mine had a system I helped him with, he uses it for all his music creation/production/promoting work. He moved out to New York, a few thousand miles from me, and about a year later his HD died. I had him order a new drive off newegg, download Ubuntu 9.10 on his wife's PC, and do the install himself. He was up and running with a fresh Ubuntu and installed all his software (VLC, Ardour, Hydrogen, QJackCtl, LADSPA plugins, etc) in under an hour. He wouldn't know how to use a command line if he tried :) Again, I think this is a good success story!
Here's a previous post from me regarding software/hardware he uses and resulting artworks if anyone's further interested.
In order to sign up for possible beta access, you have to download a program that sends your system specs to your battle.net account. The system test application for Windows worked without issue in Wine, allowing me to upload my specs and be considered for beta access.
I think when people talk of a technology being impressive, they are talking about, well, technology.
The fact that you don't want to use Silverlight or can't run it on Linux has nothing to do with how impressive the technology is.
But it might in the end have something to do with how impressive the technology is. If the technology is desirable enough, then I'd like to be able to use it on my PC, TV (I'm thinking of something like a Sharp Aquos in this instance of 'TV'), iPhone, Droid, iPad, $100 netbook, toaster, etc. Problem is, I can't guarantee Silverlight runs reliably on any of those devices.
I think Facebook's Thrift is worth mentioning during this discussion, as well as the other items listed under their 'open source projects'.
Good luck solving any problems without causing new ones. Unfortunately for the human race, perfect foresight is fictional.
After reading the earlier comment regarding urination problems (I should have passed it by), I unfortunately read 'foresight' as 'foreskin'. Sigh.
It would be great if I saw ads on TV pertaining to my interests, instead of constant drug commercials pertaining to urinating problems or lose weight fast schemes.
Is their software update utility still annoying?
No. Although I don't remember a time when it acted like you're describing.
A brief look at the link showed 'Multiple LDAP authentication support'. So the answer to your question is yes, Redmine can leverage Active Directory services.
I'd list out tons of rebutals to your claim, but I'm way too lazy. A few though... bought the Orange Box when it was new, for $45. 6 games in there. Bought UT3 on sale for $12. Normally $20. Buy a pack of great indie games for $20.. Braid for $10, entire ID collection (some 10 or more games?) for $75. I love just clicking to get a new game, but that's the way I am with everything. Similar case, if it's not on Hulu, I usually don't bother. I'm a sucker for easily accessible media. Wave of the future dude, 100% electronic.
Yes, same here. This article surprised me; I'm running Kubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Latitude D630. It was old and abused before I got it, and I still get ~4 hrs battery life doing research and coding projects. Default install of Kubuntu, no tweaks, default power options that it came installed with. I've been very pleased with it, especially in regards to suspend/resume - I never shut this thing down completely. Always using a wireless connection as well. I can't say much about the disk drive power usage though, as I never use it.