As a regular attendee of SHDH, I really have to thank you for making this happen, and for the poor homeowners that have to deal with a hundred geek shoes all over their carpets all over the house.
I guess he's still not important enough. Extremely important people like CEOs typically are asked to retire early with a 50 million dollar paycheck when they do a bad job.
Yeah, but all those are hardware interfaces. User interfaces are something Apple knows a little better than hardware interfaces that usually need acceptance from other electronics manufacturing industries as well.
Unfortunately most of the users of their new operating system will eventually be corporate users. And I'm fairly sure the company is not going to put up with re-activation every few days because a bunch of users in China are stealing their keys. So either the company will ditch the new operating system (bad for microsoft), deal with it (a serious pain for the company), or ask microsoft for a pre-activated key that cannot be reactivated (more trouble for microsoft but saves everyone's butt).
Oh, and it should run Linux too right? That way I can apt-get 1600 packages including transcode so that I can compress dvds with my spare cycles when i'm not chatting on the phone. I run many apps on my Linux phone that I would not be willing to lose.
1. Create some copyright work and post it to YouTube 2. Find an Australia-based web forum 3. Post a link to copyright work on YouTube in web forum 4. Sue ISP 5. Profit!
Even if you don't have a family, it doesn't always make sense to stay at work for the "fun" either. If you enjoy software like I do, you probably have a few open source projects that you contribute to on the side. If I had a job that demanded 60+ hours per week, I'd have no time to spend doing my hobby software projects. Plus, you're probably spending that 60+ hours in a particular language, probably not a good thing for future career advancement. I tend to learn more doing open source projects than focusing on detailed parts of a commercial project (where most of the time is usually spent writing unit/functional tests and fixing bugs).
funny perhaps... but I don't know how many months I wasted playing simcity back in the day.... most of them included "lets see what happens if I put godzilla next to a farm of nuclear reactors"
Hah dual-boot? With prices of computers these days, I just purchase another low-end computer for my "alternate" operating system so that I can run both at the same time. At least with virtualization, hopefully I won't even have to do that anymore!
I disagree. I've had lots more successes with open source software raid over hardware raid. Usually the raid overhead is relatively minimal anyway. With hardware raid, if your raid card somehow dies (it happens more often than you'd think) you'd have to get the exact same one... which is usually hard when the company that created your raid card went out of business a few years ago. At least with open source software raid, you don't have to worry about those kinds of problems.
One commenter on their website noted that you can reach Cary Sherman's direct voicemail system by dialing 202) 857-9600 and entering 9632 to access their voicemail directly. Remember to be professional!
Nah you don't want them to do this... some people will always take shortcuts and you'll end up with a system that spans 5 different databases with some of the data on flat text files & excel spreadsheets. I know this because I've been there. It's a bit much to keep tally on everyone that wants to add some more "columns" in their own sql-system. If you make it too hard on the users, the users will stick their data anywhere to saves them a bit of time.
I think this is why the grandparent suggested TWiki. Like anything else, if you don't market the product, people won't use it. At our company, everyone loves the wiki. When there is a critical mass of data on the wiki, people start relying on it. People always ask questions like, where was that document on hiring interns? oh it's on the wiki! I'd say TWiki is a pretty powerful system, and handles everything the other wikis can do. TWiki standalone can already replace most CMS systems. If you use TWiki with all the plugins, you've got a really powerful groupware suite.
We've also tried using stuff like eGroupware/php-groupware but each of their "add-on" is a bit inferior to addons in TWiki. And when there's a limitation in eGroupware, it's pretty much a pain in the ass to add the feature yourself, whereas TWiki feels a bit like zope-plone. Plus, you don't have to worry about database schemas since TWiki is completely powered by the filesystem.
but those are multiuser systems. win98 was strictly a desktop-single-user system. I think maybe only MacOS 7 could be a comparable 1998 single-user system. And MacOS 7 has it's own share of viruses as well...
I think the sidekick is actually a mobile phone with lots of extra features. So if you're the type of person that receives 3-4 important phone calls a day, I'd say it's important enough to require buying a new one the next day. I know several of my bosses that probably couldn't go a day (much less an hour!) without access to their blackberry. But a phone is probably a bit more important than a blackberry, since most of us who own a mobile phone, don't own landline phone numbers at home.
Well if it is that girl who is doing it for fame and fortune... then this: video really doesn't help. Do you really think the girl in that video has the intelligence to go about doing all of this? Sure, they could be acting... but somehow, I doubt that. Plus, it's in NYC, where millions of people live and could easily drive by and verify for themselves.
Cynical perhaps... Maybe NASA never did land on the moon... it was all directed by Spielberg!
As another commenter noted in the previous slashdot article, the colors are also a deterrent for potential theives stealing laptops from kids. Anyone who looks older than 18 and is carrying a fisher-price laptop probably stole it from a kid. Easy way to spot.
Since there's still time before June 30 (the date of the RPS game), I'd play paper. As world rps so eloquently describes it:
Paper is often considered the most subtle throw. There is nothing aggressive about the limp documents that move through our desks and offices. Even the gesture used to represent paper is peaceful - an open palm like that used in a salute or handshake. Historically, an open palm has been a sign of friendship and peace because an open hand cannot hold a weapon. Some players, who unconsciously perceive Paper as weak or a sign of surrender, will shy away from using it entirely or drop it from their game when they are falling behind. On the other hand, Paper also connects with a player's perceptions about writing. There is a quiet power in the printed word. It has the ability to lay off thousands of employees, declare war against nations, spread scandal or confess love. Paper, in short, has power over masses. The fate of the entire world is determined by print. As such, some players perceive Paper as a subtle attack, the victory of modern culture over barbarism. Such players may use Paper to assert their superiority and dignity.
I don't know whether it's fault of my firefox browser, or fault of their webpage, but I don't have a high confidence of a software product that advertises cross-platform capability but crashes in my Linux based Firefox. Does www.openlazlo.org crash in anyone else's browser besides mine? Or perhaps I'm just an outlier.
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As a regular attendee of SHDH, I really have to thank you for making this happen, and for the poor homeowners that have to deal with a hundred geek shoes all over their carpets all over the house.
I guess he's still not important enough. Extremely important people like CEOs typically are asked to retire early with a 50 million dollar paycheck when they do a bad job.
I think the real innovation of Marathon was that it was available for the Mac...
I had Marathon 1 running on my Mac LCII. It was slow and choppy, but it was better than Doom right?
I think Apple is coming out with a tablet mac next year. I hear they're naming it "Newton"
Yeah, but all those are hardware interfaces. User interfaces are something Apple knows a little better than hardware interfaces that usually need acceptance from other electronics manufacturing industries as well.
four level 60s? Cmon level 60 is so last year. He'll be the noob in outlands asking what the heck are those fel reavers walking around for.
Unfortunately most of the users of their new operating system will eventually be corporate users. And I'm fairly sure the company is not going to put up with re-activation every few days because a bunch of users in China are stealing their keys. So either the company will ditch the new operating system (bad for microsoft), deal with it (a serious pain for the company), or ask microsoft for a pre-activated key that cannot be reactivated (more trouble for microsoft but saves everyone's butt).
Oh, and it should run Linux too right? That way I can apt-get 1600 packages including transcode so that I can compress dvds with my spare cycles when i'm not chatting on the phone. I run many apps on my Linux phone that I would not be willing to lose.
1. Create some copyright work and post it to YouTube
2. Find an Australia-based web forum
3. Post a link to copyright work on YouTube in web forum
4. Sue ISP
5. Profit!
Even if you don't have a family, it doesn't always make sense to stay at work for the "fun" either. If you enjoy software like I do, you probably have a few open source projects that you contribute to on the side. If I had a job that demanded 60+ hours per week, I'd have no time to spend doing my hobby software projects. Plus, you're probably spending that 60+ hours in a particular language, probably not a good thing for future career advancement. I tend to learn more doing open source projects than focusing on detailed parts of a commercial project (where most of the time is usually spent writing unit/functional tests and fixing bugs).
funny perhaps... but I don't know how many months I wasted playing simcity back in the day.... most of them included "lets see what happens if I put godzilla next to a farm of nuclear reactors"
Hah dual-boot? With prices of computers these days, I just purchase another low-end computer for my "alternate" operating system so that I can run both at the same time. At least with virtualization, hopefully I won't even have to do that anymore!
I disagree. I've had lots more successes with open source software raid over hardware raid. Usually the raid overhead is relatively minimal anyway. With hardware raid, if your raid card somehow dies (it happens more often than you'd think) you'd have to get the exact same one... which is usually hard when the company that created your raid card went out of business a few years ago. At least with open source software raid, you don't have to worry about those kinds of problems.
From the article:
If you would like to give them a piece of your mind, here's a few phone numbers that are worth jotting down:
Conley, Donald, Deputy Chief Executive Officer
603-594-3500
Hefferan, Timothy, Chief of Police
603-594-3600
One commenter on their website noted that you can reach Cary Sherman's direct voicemail system by dialing 202) 857-9600 and entering 9632 to access their voicemail directly. Remember to be professional!
Nah you don't want them to do this... some people will always take shortcuts and you'll end up with a system that spans 5 different databases with some of the data on flat text files & excel spreadsheets. I know this because I've been there. It's a bit much to keep tally on everyone that wants to add some more "columns" in their own sql-system. If you make it too hard on the users, the users will stick their data anywhere to saves them a bit of time.
I think this is why the grandparent suggested TWiki. Like anything else, if you don't market the product, people won't use it. At our company, everyone loves the wiki. When there is a critical mass of data on the wiki, people start relying on it. People always ask questions like, where was that document on hiring interns? oh it's on the wiki! I'd say TWiki is a pretty powerful system, and handles everything the other wikis can do. TWiki standalone can already replace most CMS systems. If you use TWiki with all the plugins, you've got a really powerful groupware suite.
We've also tried using stuff like eGroupware/php-groupware but each of their "add-on" is a bit inferior to addons in TWiki. And when there's a limitation in eGroupware, it's pretty much a pain in the ass to add the feature yourself, whereas TWiki feels a bit like zope-plone. Plus, you don't have to worry about database schemas since TWiki is completely powered by the filesystem.
but those are multiuser systems. win98 was strictly a desktop-single-user system. I think maybe only MacOS 7 could be a comparable 1998 single-user system. And MacOS 7 has it's own share of viruses as well...
I think the sidekick is actually a mobile phone with lots of extra features. So if you're the type of person that receives 3-4 important phone calls a day, I'd say it's important enough to require buying a new one the next day. I know several of my bosses that probably couldn't go a day (much less an hour!) without access to their blackberry. But a phone is probably a bit more important than a blackberry, since most of us who own a mobile phone, don't own landline phone numbers at home.
Well if it is that girl who is doing it for fame and fortune... then this: video really doesn't help. Do you really think the girl in that video has the intelligence to go about doing all of this? Sure, they could be acting... but somehow, I doubt that. Plus, it's in NYC, where millions of people live and could easily drive by and verify for themselves.
Cynical perhaps... Maybe NASA never did land on the moon... it was all directed by Spielberg!
As another commenter noted in the previous slashdot article, the colors are also a deterrent for potential theives stealing laptops from kids. Anyone who looks older than 18 and is carrying a fisher-price laptop probably stole it from a kid. Easy way to spot.
I don't know whether it's fault of my firefox browser, or fault of their webpage, but I don't have a high confidence of a software product that advertises cross-platform capability but crashes in my Linux based Firefox. Does www.openlazlo.org crash in anyone else's browser besides mine? Or perhaps I'm just an outlier.
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