It wouldn't also work if you need dev kits or another pieces of special equipment.
Just imagine having to buy more dev kits as you wouldn't be able to share them and the logistics of sending it to your employees back and forth...
I'd like to ask if there's the possibility of collaborating with National Libraries in scanning material (specially +25 year books) and let people access them.
I know there's a lot of material just gathering dust and I see a potential for collaboration.
I got my 1st computer, an Atari 800XL from my grandmother in Germany as a First Communion present. When I got bored of playing Donkey Kong, I took a look at the manual, wrote the first example, and ran it.
I was so amazed, that I started tweaking the numbers in the code and saw which effect they had. That's when I discovered the power XD
"We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms."
Does that include YouTube for example? As far as I remember you have to be a XBox Live Gold Member to use the YouTube application...
I'm not trying to be rude, but do people actually buy an Xbox and not have a Gold membership? It equates to something like $5 per month for access to demos, weekly arcade games, an indie game market, promo videos, media streaming, a stable staging environment for multiplayer gaming across games, etc.
Not to burst your bubble, but you'll probably need a Gold membership to use the IE browser anyways. Hopefully they launch Skype soon. That's my only real complaint.
For me the key point is why do I have to pay for something that is free? I mean, I can watch youtube without restrictions on my Windows PC but I have to pay extra to do the same on the 360.
And I don't have a gold account because I'm not into online gaming, but I'd like to watch youtube in my living room tv.
"We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms."
Does that include YouTube for example? As far as I remember you have to be a XBox Live Gold Member to use the YouTube application...
I think that a person's lifetime + some years is simply too much time. Specially when it comes to software.
Think of it, there are still people alive from almost the very first years of computing, imagine 70 years from now... There would be no one able to recover any history of computing, as it's difficult today to dump tapes, roms, disks. In 70 years from now almost nobody will remember how the origins of computing looked like.
In this case, copyright is destroying culture.
After many years, Intel finally has some challenge.
And for those of you who doubt what ARM chips are able to do, I'll tell that I've been surfing the web and chatting through MSN Messenger on an Acorn A7000+, which runs on a 48 Mhz ARM 7500FE.
Now, if they can raise that to 2ghz, I see very nice performance while still retaining a fairly low power consumption.
I started with the Atari 800XL/ Amstrad CPC basic and I think visual basic it's way too complicated because it uses many things of windows that can obscure the learning process.
That said, if we learned with older machines, why not give a try at some emulators and let him start doing things in pretty plain old basic? You can find most basic manuals for old computers quite easily and he won't be frustrated if a dll is not found or if he cannot guess why a weird event does not happen.
I find it quite ludicrous.
Do you imagine a bunch of FBI agents at your door yelling:"Put your console on the floor! Open it slowly! Oh my God! He's got a modchip!!!!"
Anyway games are too expensive. Just doing some calculations, a 60$ game equals 3.75% of my salary. I like to know that the game I'm buying is a good game before buying it.
I agree with you in that we should be doing more exercise and not eating too much, but if you take a look to the ingredients of almost any food, they all have added sugar. Meat has sugar, Bread has sugar, things that already have sugar have several kinds of sugar in large quantities....
That makes our food today pretty more energetic, so the same quantity of food delivers more energy to the body that is stored as fat. And you cannot spend unlimited hours doing exercise, so there's a problem with the amount of sugar in our food.
At least, most of the time.
There are times you see some code from another person and it can be very well done but appear a complete mess to you because everybody thinks different and when it comes to implementing code these differences can make you rewrite a whole system.
Almost all I learned in the university was completely alien to the real world.
There are lots of things you can only learn by doing it, it's the "Thousand books are not worth a trip" effect.
If he likes the industry, he should focuse on doing games by himself and entering a game company.
That was my experience.
That is also true for Viacom.
I mean, the general quality of YouTube videos is very crappy, but if I see an interesting clip, I might be interested in purchasing the whole show on DVD, and that would be revenues for Viacom.
They cannot close our eyes, our ears or our brain, so there would be always a way to copy or distribute copyrighted content. So, if they don't want their content to be copied, they should not take it to the public light, it's quite simple.
And if they want the people to buy their content, it must have value, not only price.
so stupid as he seems or is this a kind of joke?
I mean, religion has nothing to do with laws. If it were so we would find ourselves still in the dark ages.
So what's exactly Jack Thomson looking for? Publicity?
I find pretty funny that this man uses the Bible as example because I remember that no man should judge his brother, only God can do it. So... yeah... Is Jack Thomson proclaiming he's God and has the right to judge?
This is pretty absurd...
It's not the Wikipedia itself what is failing here, it's actually people. As in many aspects in life there will be idiots everywhere looking forward to mess something that could be useful for everybody.
When they say they want to forbid use of social networking, what are they really trying to do?
I think some countries have a passion for over-protection and security. Restricting what people can use (or see, or hear, etc) is not a good path. Nothing can replace education. Nothing. By restricting people instead of showing them how to do things and the risks of doing it, people is becoming more and more vulnerable. When I was a kid I was told not to follow or talk with strangers. That applies to real life and to Internet.
that the politicians doesn't understand that criminalizing people is absurd. Politicians were elected to work FOR people and not AGAINST people.
For me the path is clear, if the value their intellectual properties they should not sell it and keep it in a secure vault.
I agree that children must be educated, but companies keep rising the prices using piracy as an excuse. I agree it's illegal, but it should be illegal too that a copy of Windows XP Home costs over 300 (I've seen it, really) and on your back they sell it for less than 50 to the big companies making PC's. Nobody's going to pay half of the money the computer itself costs for the operating system.
When, for god's sake, are they going to realize that it's responsability of the parents to guide their children and prevent such cases of younger people playing too many hours or inadequate games.
I have played all kind of games trough all my life and I've never kill anybody, the difference is, my parents told me when to stop.
Instead of banning games, they should made a training camp for parents.
People in the IT department are very few compared to the size of the company, and there are many people that think they're the only ones in the company, so they get very stressed if the IT people cannot solve their problem because they're mounting a new server and they stress IT people too. No wonder (though it's not the way) that the situation becomes a battlefield. When stressed, people forget that we are only people. I recommend people to take it easy whenever possible and to see the wonderful series "The IT crowd".
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It wouldn't also work if you need dev kits or another pieces of special equipment. Just imagine having to buy more dev kits as you wouldn't be able to share them and the logistics of sending it to your employees back and forth...
My first computer was an 800XL too. Quite rare in Spain, I got it as a present from my grandmother in Germany.
No. And the more they push the less I'm buying. It's really that simple.
If you are the silent type of guy and just go grab your gun and shoot people, how would all this surveillance help?
I'd like to ask if there's the possibility of collaborating with National Libraries in scanning material (specially +25 year books) and let people access them. I know there's a lot of material just gathering dust and I see a potential for collaboration.
I got my 1st computer, an Atari 800XL from my grandmother in Germany as a First Communion present. When I got bored of playing Donkey Kong, I took a look at the manual, wrote the first example, and ran it. I was so amazed, that I started tweaking the numbers in the code and saw which effect they had. That's when I discovered the power XD
"We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms." Does that include YouTube for example? As far as I remember you have to be a XBox Live Gold Member to use the YouTube application...
I'm not trying to be rude, but do people actually buy an Xbox and not have a Gold membership? It equates to something like $5 per month for access to demos, weekly arcade games, an indie game market, promo videos, media streaming, a stable staging environment for multiplayer gaming across games, etc. Not to burst your bubble, but you'll probably need a Gold membership to use the IE browser anyways. Hopefully they launch Skype soon. That's my only real complaint.
For me the key point is why do I have to pay for something that is free? I mean, I can watch youtube without restrictions on my Windows PC but I have to pay extra to do the same on the 360. And I don't have a gold account because I'm not into online gaming, but I'd like to watch youtube in my living room tv.
"We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms." Does that include YouTube for example? As far as I remember you have to be a XBox Live Gold Member to use the YouTube application...
I think that a person's lifetime + some years is simply too much time. Specially when it comes to software. Think of it, there are still people alive from almost the very first years of computing, imagine 70 years from now... There would be no one able to recover any history of computing, as it's difficult today to dump tapes, roms, disks. In 70 years from now almost nobody will remember how the origins of computing looked like. In this case, copyright is destroying culture.
After many years, Intel finally has some challenge. And for those of you who doubt what ARM chips are able to do, I'll tell that I've been surfing the web and chatting through MSN Messenger on an Acorn A7000+, which runs on a 48 Mhz ARM 7500FE. Now, if they can raise that to 2ghz, I see very nice performance while still retaining a fairly low power consumption.
I started with the Atari 800XL/ Amstrad CPC basic and I think visual basic it's way too complicated because it uses many things of windows that can obscure the learning process. That said, if we learned with older machines, why not give a try at some emulators and let him start doing things in pretty plain old basic? You can find most basic manuals for old computers quite easily and he won't be frustrated if a dll is not found or if he cannot guess why a weird event does not happen.
awwww, sorry I forgot to tell that was my monthly salary. Anyway, it's a 3.75% every month assuming you only buy one game which is usually not true.
I find it quite ludicrous. Do you imagine a bunch of FBI agents at your door yelling :"Put your console on the floor! Open it slowly! Oh my God! He's got a modchip!!!!"
Anyway games are too expensive. Just doing some calculations, a 60$ game equals 3.75% of my salary. I like to know that the game I'm buying is a good game before buying it.
I agree with you in that we should be doing more exercise and not eating too much, but if you take a look to the ingredients of almost any food, they all have added sugar. Meat has sugar, Bread has sugar, things that already have sugar have several kinds of sugar in large quantities.... That makes our food today pretty more energetic, so the same quantity of food delivers more energy to the body that is stored as fat. And you cannot spend unlimited hours doing exercise, so there's a problem with the amount of sugar in our food.
At least, most of the time. There are times you see some code from another person and it can be very well done but appear a complete mess to you because everybody thinks different and when it comes to implementing code these differences can make you rewrite a whole system.
Almost all I learned in the university was completely alien to the real world. There are lots of things you can only learn by doing it, it's the "Thousand books are not worth a trip" effect. If he likes the industry, he should focuse on doing games by himself and entering a game company. That was my experience.
That is also true for Viacom. I mean, the general quality of YouTube videos is very crappy, but if I see an interesting clip, I might be interested in purchasing the whole show on DVD, and that would be revenues for Viacom. They cannot close our eyes, our ears or our brain, so there would be always a way to copy or distribute copyrighted content. So, if they don't want their content to be copied, they should not take it to the public light, it's quite simple. And if they want the people to buy their content, it must have value, not only price.
so stupid as he seems or is this a kind of joke? I mean, religion has nothing to do with laws. If it were so we would find ourselves still in the dark ages. So what's exactly Jack Thomson looking for? Publicity? I find pretty funny that this man uses the Bible as example because I remember that no man should judge his brother, only God can do it. So... yeah... Is Jack Thomson proclaiming he's God and has the right to judge? This is pretty absurd...
It's not the Wikipedia itself what is failing here, it's actually people. As in many aspects in life there will be idiots everywhere looking forward to mess something that could be useful for everybody.
When they say they want to forbid use of social networking, what are they really trying to do? I think some countries have a passion for over-protection and security. Restricting what people can use (or see, or hear, etc) is not a good path. Nothing can replace education. Nothing. By restricting people instead of showing them how to do things and the risks of doing it, people is becoming more and more vulnerable. When I was a kid I was told not to follow or talk with strangers. That applies to real life and to Internet.
that the politicians doesn't understand that criminalizing people is absurd. Politicians were elected to work FOR people and not AGAINST people. For me the path is clear, if the value their intellectual properties they should not sell it and keep it in a secure vault.
I agree that children must be educated, but companies keep rising the prices using piracy as an excuse. I agree it's illegal, but it should be illegal too that a copy of Windows XP Home costs over 300 (I've seen it, really) and on your back they sell it for less than 50 to the big companies making PC's. Nobody's going to pay half of the money the computer itself costs for the operating system.
When, for god's sake, are they going to realize that it's responsability of the parents to guide their children and prevent such cases of younger people playing too many hours or inadequate games. I have played all kind of games trough all my life and I've never kill anybody, the difference is, my parents told me when to stop. Instead of banning games, they should made a training camp for parents.
Don't forget cool sites as http://remix.kwed.org/ and groups like Press Play On Tape http://www.pressplayontape.com/ and Visa Röster http://livet.se/visa
People in the IT department are very few compared to the size of the company, and there are many people that think they're the only ones in the company, so they get very stressed if the IT people cannot solve their problem because they're mounting a new server and they stress IT people too. No wonder (though it's not the way) that the situation becomes a battlefield. When stressed, people forget that we are only people. I recommend people to take it easy whenever possible and to see the wonderful series "The IT crowd".