Yes it seems that there is a market for this. Gamespot lists the top ten games and in the top 5, Maxis pretty muchs own's 3 of them (all Sims games or addons). and at least 5 in the top ten aren't FPS games. Next week, Doom 3 may change this...temporarily...
The games that are selling well ARE the ones that run on the mid to low end systems.
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Yes and no. I have had these work flawlessly and I have had them even fail to load the Kernel correctly. It's a great idea. It should be (don't have the book) stated in the book taht not everything may work. How is a lvie CD supposed to config your 802.11b card for you? It CAN'T know your WEP or shared WPA key. Best it can do is load the driver with no config. That's it. I think the next edition of this book should also throw in a memory key and you can use that for storing settings on. On first boot, if the/etc or/home is not on the USB Drive, it can create it. It would take some doing, but it should theoretically work. This would show a new person how Linux works and they can work with Linux. After they exhaust the space on the key, they can then decide if they'd liek to install to their hard disk. Heck they could even have the install program migrate the key's data to the hard disk after first mounting it so they can copy data somewhere (external Hard disc...cd's....).
No, it doesn't. IBM could very easily switch from SuSE to Debian or even their own. Comercial apps would also switch as well. CMON! It's IB FRICKIN M! Of course you'd want your stuff to run on their systems.
This is a move that Sun would be incredibly stupid to make. Sun should either stick to Solaris, or just become a hardware only company. My only solace is Sun IS this stupid and they will buy Novell which would probably accellerate the death of Netware further. Groupwise is one of the few good things Netware shops have going for it now besides eventually switching to UNIX. Netware is way past it's prime in my opinion although I have to admit it's still does a decent job serving up files.
Personally, if the activities of a user isn't impacting the network or my application, I could really care less what they do when waiting for work to do. As a sysadmin, I do alot of waiting....on support calls from companies, waiting for user specs, waiting for users to frickin get of the system.....if I did not have Firefox open with something interesting to read, then I would go stir crazy. I usually don't stream anything during the day and when I do get sidetracked on the web, I start to think of things comeing up and start working on them. But have you ever had a day where you only had an hour or two left and you had to stay for support but in that hour or two you really did not have enough time to get anything started? That's the perfect time ot get caught up on industry websites and other items that may not pertain directly to your job, but are nice to know anyway because they MAY pertain to your job someday. Case in point, if you own a Mac and are an it person, you may browse Mac web sites for a a fe wminutes at work. That additional knowledge may pop up in a meeting...Hey so and so....didn't you say that Mac's do blah blah blah....
Solitare can work your brain. I think excess is one thing, but the occasional game is not going to do anything. If this guy just came to work and played solitare all day well then I could see that as excess. But if he cooled down from a meeting by firing off a few hands, then I doin't have an issue with that.
And this blurb would be wrong. The iPod and iTunes both still support un DRM'd Music. Ihave over 5 gigs of un DRM'd MP3's on my PowerBook with no issues.
Last I checked, Real has no spyware with the player and the features of it that can be considered iffy can all be shut off and are all shut off by default. Also AdAware and PestPatrol both seem to skip over Real. Now why is it spyware again? Oh sure, bitch att them cuz the free player is so damn hard to get too but don't try to say they are spying.
The converting IR to sound is not that interesting....what they basically did was take the same soudns that the old clicker type remotes mad and digitixed it years ago and also replaced both transducers (dunno what you'd call those) with a transmiter for the remote and a reciever for the TV....both IR driven instead of Audio driven. Audio and Light, invisible or not are both wave forms in any case. They can both have a frequency as well as be turned on and off in a certain pattern. This Hack is STUPID beyond all belief. Just go by a friggin 4 in one remote or a 10 in one or even fancier (and stil cheaper then this "hack" to control your whole house.).
I do not agree with the article at all. Open source definitely has more eyes on the code then any company could ask for on their code. With that said, to get a real buy in, the PHB's have to see value. Your WHOLE IT department could be behind it but if other folks higher up then IT gang up, they can shoot it down. Not just the IT department has to be in agreement with using Open Source but the whole company has to. If they aren't, all you will here is complaints and they will search out anti-linux fud whether the fud is true or not. DOn't get me wrong, Linux is great, but in some cases more political then technical it will get shot down. It's that simple. If your trying to push Linux in your company start out small. Build in house examples to demo to the other areas that shows what it will do. The SLashdot readership may already know that Linux is great, but if Suzy in accounting doesn't like it or the Human Resources VP hates it, then it's not going to be the system you go with.
No they won't. The powers that be don't understand what you even just said! The powers that will sin that big check need to be showed, in small doses, why Linux is the right choice. Just because IT is sold on it does not mean that VP in the other department is. What you need to do to push Open Source more is use it where the big wigs either don't notice much or don't care. Then when a big system comes up for a change, when they ask what's out there, remind them of all the small projects taht have already used it. If they know that that function that that Linux box never fails, then they will feel more comfortable choosing it.
I have surfed Slashdot on the toilet with either a WiFi PDA or Laptop. The next would be a not so weird place but a weird device...a Hotel TV Internet device. Almost as slow as a modem.
Yes but this is the only model they have and right now probably the only model that can be had in the US that has a Bulverde processor AND 480x640 (or 640x480). The e805 had it, but now it's been really getting hard to find.
Microsoft used to own Expedia and Terraserver as well. Expedia is no logner owned by Microsoft and neither is Terraserver. Terraserver was initally started to promote a new version of Terraserver. Microsfto probably did not sell this when planned because there was noone who would buy it. Now they have a buyer. Microsoft is slowly but surely getting out of the content business only to keep some of the units that are doing well like MSNBC(which they only own part of).
This also pertains to other powerful logins. One example is we had a reporting tool and our training person did a report based on the applications security which was all stored in a Oracle table. He had access to the DB because he was supposed to be training and assisting users in the creation of views within the reporting tool. Well, he though he'd abuse his rights to the DB and run this report....then shared the results with some other departments on campus through a intranet web site. This site is available to anyone, even students, on campus. Needless to say, my boss told us to revoke his rights to these tables. It was OK for him to do the query, but what should have been done before posting it to the intranet was erasing the userid's. Now they have a list of what each user can do with in the system with user names associated with it. He abused his authority with out even asking if it was a good idea. THIS is the reason more people outside of IT should listen to us because they do make bad mistakes.
IT folks want you to have your mind made up. We understand if something in the business changes changing requirements (we don't like it, but we understand). What we don't understand is why you make 4 change requests changing the font and the last one is to take it back to the original font we used in the first place. Business reasons had nothing to do with that change...you just thought it would be prettier in that non proportional Font....so we give you it and you decide it's not going to work because now the report columns do not line up...doing a report from a enterprise system is NOT LIKE DOING IT IN EXCEL!
The eMac is currently $799.00 that $999 PC May or may not come with a monitore. These arguments are getting thin. It should have never been about cost. Can the educational software that needs to be run be run on a Mac? Is there some that ONLY runs on a Mac? Your going to ask someone to edit video on the 999 PC? It's possible on that eMac but probably not on tha 999 pc.
Let's be serious for a sec....how MANY games out there for the PS2 that are done by hobbyists do you want to play?? Yeah I thought so. So what else is there? Pirating. I'd say about 80-90 percent of these chips are sold to allow you to play copied games. Some people will point out fair use and that they use thier chip so they can play the backup copy so they don't ruin the original and we all know that's BS. I think what they did was all they can do. They can't chase the pirates as well as they can chase the people who make the chips. On the other hand, wil this UK law stop the practice? Highly doubt it as it really has not stopped it in the US either.
The Zen does not have a replaceable battery...at least mine does not (USB 2.0 20 GB Zen).
Right now my only beef with it and the major reason I want a iPod is that it does not work at all with iTunes....either on Windows or Mac and the program you use for syncing music on it quite frankly sucks ass. It's SO bad a lot of the Nomad people I know buy Notmad because it does nto suck as much as Creatives CRAP.
Big flipping deal..This means NOTHING. Most of use don't use our BIG UNIX machines run by AIX, HPUX or Solaris to surf the web....SHEESH. Don't quote me Google Zietgist numbers....they mean diddly squat when your talking about units shipped.
It's nto too bad of a deal. Most grocery stores I know of use a turnkey based system and I am sure NCR already has it working if not already patched. The only hope is that the back end that puts the prices in is compatible. Seeing as I think I have seen this type of barcode in the stores already (many US grocery stores buy stuff from Europe to sell), I think the issue is already a done deal.
Yes but every one of those that you stated are run by governments. Private and public companies should be abel to launch with thier own vehicles without needing more then a government approval of the flight plan and the resources to do it..
I knew Rutan could do it. I hope they do! Unfortunately, they'd have to develop a completely new craft to truely make it possible for regular everyday Joes and Companies to send people and their own satellites into space with out the need of NASA or the space shuttle.
What do you mean? Do you mean we get a company that oversees the selling of these frequencies? A company without a clue of ITU laws?? The FCC does this part well.
The comment by the original poster that the FCC does not require TV stations to have tapes is also wrong. As far as I know, most stations HAVE been recording everything just so they don't get sued. Radio stations already had to do this by law anyway.
Sorry...company cellphones are not perks unless I get to use it for personal calls any time I see fit with no bitching from the company if I use too much time. COmpany provided cellphones are leashes. Where I work, I even have to carry it on vacations (they said I had to carry it...not have it on!...JK:D). Having to carry a cellphone and be on call is not freedom either.
The company does not pay for broadband. But they sure as hell better pay for highspeed access when I have a company provided laptop and go on a training trip or a conference trip. If they want me to pay for my redneck walkie talkie (Nextel) then there ain't no freakin way in hell I would do it.
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Yes it seems that there is a market for this. Gamespot lists the top ten games and in the top 5, Maxis pretty muchs own's 3 of them (all Sims games or addons). and at least 5 in the top ten aren't FPS games. Next week, Doom 3 may change this...temporarily...
The games that are selling well ARE the ones that run on the mid to low end systems.
Yes and no. I have had these work flawlessly and I have had them even fail to load the Kernel correctly. It's a great idea. It should be (don't have the book) stated in the book taht not everything may work. How is a lvie CD supposed to config your 802.11b card for you? It CAN'T know your WEP or shared WPA key. Best it can do is load the driver with no config. That's it. I think the next edition of this book should also throw in a memory key and you can use that for storing settings on. On first boot, if the /etc or /home is not on the USB Drive, it can create it. It would take some doing, but it should theoretically work. This would show a new person how Linux works and they can work with Linux. After they exhaust the space on the key, they can then decide if they'd liek to install to their hard disk. Heck they could even have the install program migrate the key's data to the hard disk after first mounting it so they can copy data somewhere (external Hard disc...cd's....).
No, it doesn't. IBM could very easily switch from SuSE to Debian or even their own. Comercial apps would also switch as well. CMON! It's IB FRICKIN M! Of course you'd want your stuff to run on their systems.
This is a move that Sun would be incredibly stupid to make. Sun should either stick to Solaris, or just become a hardware only company. My only solace is Sun IS this stupid and they will buy Novell which would probably accellerate the death of Netware further. Groupwise is one of the few good things Netware shops have going for it now besides eventually switching to UNIX. Netware is way past it's prime in my opinion although I have to admit it's still does a decent job serving up files.
Personally, if the activities of a user isn't impacting the network or my application, I could really care less what they do when waiting for work to do. As a sysadmin, I do alot of waiting....on support calls from companies, waiting for user specs, waiting for users to frickin get of the system.....if I did not have Firefox open with something interesting to read, then I would go stir crazy. I usually don't stream anything during the day and when I do get sidetracked on the web, I start to think of things comeing up and start working on them. But have you ever had a day where you only had an hour or two left and you had to stay for support but in that hour or two you really did not have enough time to get anything started? That's the perfect time ot get caught up on industry websites and other items that may not pertain directly to your job, but are nice to know anyway because they MAY pertain to your job someday. Case in point, if you own a Mac and are an it person, you may browse Mac web sites for a a fe wminutes at work. That additional knowledge may pop up in a meeting...Hey so and so....didn't you say that Mac's do blah blah blah....
Solitare can work your brain. I think excess is one thing, but the occasional game is not going to do anything. If this guy just came to work and played solitare all day well then I could see that as excess. But if he cooled down from a meeting by firing off a few hands, then I doin't have an issue with that.
And this blurb would be wrong. The iPod and iTunes both still support un DRM'd Music. Ihave over 5 gigs of un DRM'd MP3's on my PowerBook with no issues.
Last I checked, Real has no spyware with the player and the features of it that can be considered iffy can all be shut off and are all shut off by default. Also AdAware and PestPatrol both seem to skip over Real. Now why is it spyware again? Oh sure, bitch att them cuz the free player is so damn hard to get too but don't try to say they are spying.
The converting IR to sound is not that interesting....what they basically did was take the same soudns that the old clicker type remotes mad and digitixed it years ago and also replaced both transducers (dunno what you'd call those) with a transmiter for the remote and a reciever for the TV....both IR driven instead of Audio driven. Audio and Light, invisible or not are both wave forms in any case. They can both have a frequency as well as be turned on and off in a certain pattern. This Hack is STUPID beyond all belief. Just go by a friggin 4 in one remote or a 10 in one or even fancier (and stil cheaper then this "hack" to control your whole house.).
I do not agree with the article at all. Open source definitely has more eyes on the code then any company could ask for on their code. With that said, to get a real buy in, the PHB's have to see value. Your WHOLE IT department could be behind it but if other folks higher up then IT gang up, they can shoot it down. Not just the IT department has to be in agreement with using Open Source but the whole company has to. If they aren't, all you will here is complaints and they will search out anti-linux fud whether the fud is true or not. DOn't get me wrong, Linux is great, but in some cases more political then technical it will get shot down. It's that simple. If your trying to push Linux in your company start out small. Build in house examples to demo to the other areas that shows what it will do. The SLashdot readership may already know that Linux is great, but if Suzy in accounting doesn't like it or the Human Resources VP hates it, then it's not going to be the system you go with.
Yeah. I bet Al Qaida terrorists are slipping bugs into Windows...
No they won't. The powers that be don't understand what you even just said! The powers that will sin that big check need to be showed, in small doses, why Linux is the right choice. Just because IT is sold on it does not mean that VP in the other department is. What you need to do to push Open Source more is use it where the big wigs either don't notice much or don't care. Then when a big system comes up for a change, when they ask what's out there, remind them of all the small projects taht have already used it. If they know that that function that that Linux box never fails, then they will feel more comfortable choosing it.
I have surfed Slashdot on the toilet with either a WiFi PDA or Laptop. The next would be a not so weird place but a weird device...a Hotel TV Internet device. Almost as slow as a modem.
Yes but this is the only model they have and right now probably the only model that can be had in the US that has a Bulverde processor AND 480x640 (or 640x480). The e805 had it, but now it's been really getting hard to find.
Microsoft used to own Expedia and Terraserver as well. Expedia is no logner owned by Microsoft and neither is Terraserver. Terraserver was initally started to promote a new version of Terraserver. Microsfto probably did not sell this when planned because there was noone who would buy it. Now they have a buyer. Microsoft is slowly but surely getting out of the content business only to keep some of the units that are doing well like MSNBC(which they only own part of).
This also pertains to other powerful logins. One example is we had a reporting tool and our training person did a report based on the applications security which was all stored in a Oracle table. He had access to the DB because he was supposed to be training and assisting users in the creation of views within the reporting tool. Well, he though he'd abuse his rights to the DB and run this report....then shared the results with some other departments on campus through a intranet web site. This site is available to anyone, even students, on campus. Needless to say, my boss told us to revoke his rights to these tables. It was OK for him to do the query, but what should have been done before posting it to the intranet was erasing the userid's. Now they have a list of what each user can do with in the system with user names associated with it. He abused his authority with out even asking if it was a good idea. THIS is the reason more people outside of IT should listen to us because they do make bad mistakes.
IT folks want you to have your mind made up. We understand if something in the business changes changing requirements (we don't like it, but we understand). What we don't understand is why you make 4 change requests changing the font and the last one is to take it back to the original font we used in the first place. Business reasons had nothing to do with that change...you just thought it would be prettier in that non proportional Font....so we give you it and you decide it's not going to work because now the report columns do not line up...doing a report from a enterprise system is NOT LIKE DOING IT IN EXCEL!
The eMac is currently $799.00 that $999 PC May or may not come with a monitore. These arguments are getting thin. It should have never been about cost. Can the educational software that needs to be run be run on a Mac? Is there some that ONLY runs on a Mac? Your going to ask someone to edit video on the 999 PC? It's possible on that eMac but probably not on tha 999 pc.
Let's be serious for a sec....how MANY games out there for the PS2 that are done by hobbyists do you want to play?? Yeah I thought so. So what else is there? Pirating. I'd say about 80-90 percent of these chips are sold to allow you to play copied games. Some people will point out fair use and that they use thier chip so they can play the backup copy so they don't ruin the original and we all know that's BS. I think what they did was all they can do. They can't chase the pirates as well as they can chase the people who make the chips. On the other hand, wil this UK law stop the practice? Highly doubt it as it really has not stopped it in the US either.
The Zen does not have a replaceable battery...at least mine does not (USB 2.0 20 GB Zen).
Right now my only beef with it and the major reason I want a iPod is that it does not work at all with iTunes....either on Windows or Mac and the program you use for syncing music on it quite frankly sucks ass. It's SO bad a lot of the Nomad people I know buy Notmad because it does nto suck as much as Creatives CRAP.
All I need is vi and maybe the Xfree86 configurator.
Big flipping deal..This means NOTHING. Most of use don't use our BIG UNIX machines run by AIX, HPUX or Solaris to surf the web....SHEESH. Don't quote me Google Zietgist numbers....they mean diddly squat when your talking about units shipped.
It's nto too bad of a deal. Most grocery stores I know of use a turnkey based system and I am sure NCR already has it working if not already patched. The only hope is that the back end that puts the prices in is compatible. Seeing as I think I have seen this type of barcode in the stores already (many US grocery stores buy stuff from Europe to sell), I think the issue is already a done deal.
Yes but every one of those that you stated are run by governments. Private and public companies should be abel to launch with thier own vehicles without needing more then a government approval of the flight plan and the resources to do it..
I knew Rutan could do it. I hope they do! Unfortunately, they'd have to develop a completely new craft to truely make it possible for regular everyday Joes and Companies to send people and their own satellites into space with out the need of NASA or the space shuttle.
What do you mean? Do you mean we get a company that oversees the selling of these frequencies? A company without a clue of ITU laws?? The FCC does this part well.
The comment by the original poster that the FCC does not require TV stations to have tapes is also wrong. As far as I know, most stations HAVE been recording everything just so they don't get sued. Radio stations already had to do this by law anyway.
Sorry...company cellphones are not perks unless I get to use it for personal calls any time I see fit with no bitching from the company if I use too much time. COmpany provided cellphones are leashes. Where I work, I even have to carry it on vacations (they said I had to carry it...not have it on!...JK :D). Having to carry a cellphone and be on call is not freedom either.
The company does not pay for broadband. But they sure as hell better pay for highspeed access when I have a company provided laptop and go on a training trip or a conference trip. If they want me to pay for my redneck walkie talkie (Nextel) then there ain't no freakin way in hell I would do it.