The Downfall scene is brilliantly acted, you don't need to speak the language to feel the emotion pouring out. Making it a great backdrop for the text of your rant, on top of that the Hitler element makes it a piss take too. Until some better 'rant' scene comes along, I think Downfall remixes are here to stay.
I think your'e making a bigger deal of the german speaker aspect than there is to make. My father is half german, spent a good chunk of his childhood in german. Now, ok, he lives in england, and didn't really pass on german to us, but he speaks german (and frence + latin). He found one of these Downfall remixing about something or other, and found it as funny as hell.
Ok, so you going to prosecute the anonymous commenter? How!?
Few anonymous proxies and you'll never know who they are. To implement this you need to lock everything down so much no one will support you.
Thing is, games has a really casual atmosphere, and most of the programmers are C or C++ programmers, and don't suffer from the "can only think in objects, not instructions and data/bytes". Better still most are there because it's more than just a job to them, they are interested in the technology and how it works. It's why so many are self-taught. I've spend most of my time in tools (and some engine), in central departments, so I've avoided the horrors that is common. Every time I've looked outside of games, I've been put off by all C#/Java/HTML, and "professionalism" (read, not really interested, "just a job"). Seen the odd one that interests though.
Games teams are for single 20 somethings. As they become married, and parents, they should move into central teams where the pressure is less and their experience benefits the most games. Sure it's not as "cool" but by then you shouldn't care about that sort of thing.
Fine, you stick with x86. But I'm looking forwards to the ARM netbooks, but I might wait for the A9 ones. I don't need massive about amount of CPU, just enough to play HD video comfortably. I don't need x86. ARM Linux runs what I'm running now, I can see it in the repositories. If there is something I really want that doesn't run on ARM, I'll look at porting it as a project. Which is part of the joy of open source and why so much is already cross platform. On both the netbook and desktop, you install software from the repository for, so binary compatibility doesn't matter.
Depends greatly what you trying to do. I'm amazed at how much just works with the SheevaPlug. It proves the open source model to me, if you have the source it can be ported, and much has. Check out: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/arm/
Flash and ARM shows up the problem with closed-source, things only gets ported if those with the source think it's worth it. With Flash there is a ARM port though, least looks like it's in the repository. But I'm not using my SheevaPlug for X stuff. Hopefully Flash can be replaced with Gnash or Swfdec while HTML5 comes in, really shouldn't be the case something that's taken as a big a role as Flash is controlled by Adobe (better than MS though).
As I said, I'm really looking forwards to my ARM netbook, OpenPandora looks like a possible, but really I really want it to be able to HD video comfortably. Same with the BeagleBoard, so close to being my perfect media pc!
Wikipedia is worth more trust than you give it. I've never actually found Wikipedia to be wrong. It's always seams to be the person stating Wikipedia is wrong, that is wrong. Stats seam to bear that out comparing it with other more established encyclopedias. When I have found it to be lacking, I've added to it, but not actually found it wrong, yet.
Binary compatibility is a non-issue if your free of Windows. I'm happy with my SheavaPlug. Be happier still when I can have a decent ARM netbook. I don't need Windows, Wine or not. The idea of a virtual machine Wine client with native Wine server interests me, but only technically.
Atom is ahead in performance, no denying that, but it's not clean cut as it's not by much and it is hard to compare as they eat instructions very differently. But just to be clear, the ARM is much further ahead when it comes to low power consumption and cost. If you free of Windows you are free of x86, then you are free to balance power consumption, cost and performance, which means ARM or MIPS win every time. In fact you could cheat, and fit multiple ARM cores and come out on top with performance whilst still coming out on top with cost and power consumption. That's how big a difference we are talking.
The very people who think the cloud is the future, think everything will be written in.NET or JIT'ed javascript. Last few times the thin client idea failed it was because of control, but it seams like each time it comes back there is more over head (more than you might expect from Moore's law). This time I'm not convinced a thin client will cut it. What you need is native apps from a database, one safe place to find apps, and everything kept up to date......Wait that's a repository! Compare the two side by side, mmmmm, I'll use fast native apps from a repository please, especially on a crap machine!
Judge them by their past actions not words. It's the same old trick we have seen again and again. If you embrace this standard, you will be extended and extinguished. I won't be surprised if there is suing down the line too, despite these promises, which no doubt only cover EXACTLY what there is now, under EXACT circumstances. They are fighting not just for their dominance but their way of doing software. It just takes my breath anyway anyone buys it to this. But these tend to be people who believe everything will be.NET/Mono and the whole thin client thing, sorry cloud thing too. Not sure how fat apps fit into the thin client view, but there you go....Maybe it will work better than it did last time with Java and thin clients, maybe BECAUSE of MS's embrace, extend, extinguish. But if it does, it will do nothing but greatly harm any platform not MS's, which harms everyone. Think IE without Firefox turning up, or Windows (Vista) without Linux netbooks turning up.
Being able to make movies much cheaper is a good thing. Means making a movie is much less financially risky, so people are more likely to back something new and unknown. Consumer grade equipment is getting better all the time, perhaps holywood won't be needed. This plus file sharing must have holywood filling their pants, not sure drawing such attention with such large sums of money was wise for them.....
Account holders aren't gate keepers. You cannot hold them responsible for their internet connection's use any more than you hold a car owner responsible instead of the driver. "Sorry gov, you car was nicked and was used to commit a hit and run, your under arrest". Law cannot work like this. I'm sure one of the politicians isn't tech savy enough to have a secure home network, someone please download something copied via their network, then report what's happened with the politicians home network. I hope I'm misunderstanding this because I'd like to think law makers aren't this stupid.
He was great. I had been through loads of people trying to walk me through the "have you turned it on" script. Each for some reason thinking that them walking me through the script would be different then those before. None admitting they couldn't help. On about the 5th call I got pissed, and finally was put through to some one who knew about computers. He didn't have a script. We had a chat about Linux and computers in general while he tested the line and tried to connect to the router. An engineer was sent out to look at the line, but it was the router that was the problem, it was toast. All the semi skilled people with scripts in the world wouldn't have helped. Cheep support departments, Indian or otherwise, don't cover all cases, and must admit they are out of their league and hand it up to more skilled workers. The problem I had was until I got angry I couldn't get above the semi-skilled department, who couldn't order the engineer to look at the line, which was what I was asking for. After that, and the finding O2 was £20 a month cheaper, I switched, and since have found O2 much faster too. Not had cause to test their support yet......
Noted. No admin/root for children on any computer that matters. For their machine, keep a clean image to restore the system when they borked it. That was kind of what I was planning anyway. That and some crazy multiseat setup so I can have one master computer in the house.....;-)
Ah but you see why I prefer Python over.Net/Java is it doesn't try and be fast (bar a few crazy projects). You write/use a collection of fast part written in C, joining it together into a application with python. Reminds me of a little the way so many RiscOS apps where a blend of BBC BASIC and ARM code. You write the parts that need to be fast in a fast language, and the rest in a expressive language.
I can't stand the.NET invasion. I keep being told by.NET people it's really not that heavy and it much more productive etc etc. Most admit it would be a problem if every app was written in.NET, but it ok for their app. BUT the very same people blame.NET when their applications are fat and slow! It gets worse when you have multiple of these apps running, each written basically on the assumption it's the only thing to run. Apps should be written to be a good citizen, i.e. take as little as they can, and give as much as they can. Don't get me wrong, it's not just.NET, this seamed to happen before with JAVA, which didn't take over either. Now I don't know if it's an environment thing, or programmer skill level thing, but JAVA applications don't seam to be as bad as.NET.
Then worse of all, things written badly as web apps. I was in the doctors and they had been computerize. The register for your appointment system was really slow, but what blew me away was the slide show of information. It couldn't even scroll large text across the screen properly. I could see this was a web thing because some of it was broken and the page was a IE page not found page. Here we are in 2009 with crazy powerful computers from the future, and we have such bad choices of technology, so much abstraction in the way, and bad "professionals", that it's worse then I did as a kid in BASIC on a computer with 2MHz. It makes me soo angry. It feels like we are going backwards. The fact these crap systems always seam to be running on Windows doesn't help. I'm sure it would be as easy and faster+ cheaper on a stripped down Linux with just X, the required libs and python!
So not only are BT expensive, slow, with terrible customer service (bar one guy I managed to get hold of when I was stupid enough to be with BT), but they give up their customers, or even just hand them over without being ask to.
Do one thing, do it well.
Gimp can import svg files, that's enough.
If you wish to mix vector graphics and bitmaps, best do it in a vector package where it makes sense, not the other way round where it doesn't.
Inkscape fills the hole left by !Draw when leaving RiscOS.
It's kind of in the family.....
!Draw -> ArtWorks -> Xara -> Inkscape (interface heavily influenced by Xara)
Pushing it I know, but nice to think of it like that, so I do!;-)
I know your trolling, but look: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523213
That's why the UK. That and little to no language issues.
But if you want sun and good food, sure, the rest of the EU is generally better.
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The Downfall scene is brilliantly acted, you don't need to speak the language to feel the emotion pouring out. Making it a great backdrop for the text of your rant, on top of that the Hitler element makes it a piss take too. Until some better 'rant' scene comes along, I think Downfall remixes are here to stay.
I think your'e making a bigger deal of the german speaker aspect than there is to make. My father is half german, spent a good chunk of his childhood in german. Now, ok, he lives in england, and didn't really pass on german to us, but he speaks german (and frence + latin). He found one of these Downfall remixing about something or other, and found it as funny as hell.
Ok, so you going to prosecute the anonymous commenter? How!?
Few anonymous proxies and you'll never know who they are. To implement this you need to lock everything down so much no one will support you.
Thing is, games has a really casual atmosphere, and most of the programmers are C or C++ programmers, and don't suffer from the "can only think in objects, not instructions and data/bytes". Better still most are there because it's more than just a job to them, they are interested in the technology and how it works. It's why so many are self-taught. I've spend most of my time in tools (and some engine), in central departments, so I've avoided the horrors that is common. Every time I've looked outside of games, I've been put off by all C#/Java/HTML, and "professionalism" (read, not really interested, "just a job"). Seen the odd one that interests though.
Games teams are for single 20 somethings. As they become married, and parents, they should move into central teams where the pressure is less and their experience benefits the most games. Sure it's not as "cool" but by then you shouldn't care about that sort of thing.
Fine, you stick with x86. But I'm looking forwards to the ARM netbooks, but I might wait for the A9 ones. I don't need massive about amount of CPU, just enough to play HD video comfortably. I don't need x86. ARM Linux runs what I'm running now, I can see it in the repositories. If there is something I really want that doesn't run on ARM, I'll look at porting it as a project. Which is part of the joy of open source and why so much is already cross platform. On both the netbook and desktop, you install software from the repository for, so binary compatibility doesn't matter.
Depends greatly what you trying to do. I'm amazed at how much just works with the SheevaPlug. It proves the open source model to me, if you have the source it can be ported, and much has. Check out: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/arm/
Flash and ARM shows up the problem with closed-source, things only gets ported if those with the source think it's worth it. With Flash there is a ARM port though, least looks like it's in the repository. But I'm not using my SheevaPlug for X stuff. Hopefully Flash can be replaced with Gnash or Swfdec while HTML5 comes in, really shouldn't be the case something that's taken as a big a role as Flash is controlled by Adobe (better than MS though).
As I said, I'm really looking forwards to my ARM netbook, OpenPandora looks like a possible, but really I really want it to be able to HD video comfortably. Same with the BeagleBoard, so close to being my perfect media pc!
Wikipedia is worth more trust than you give it. I've never actually found Wikipedia to be wrong. It's always seams to be the person stating Wikipedia is wrong, that is wrong. Stats seam to bear that out comparing it with other more established encyclopedias. When I have found it to be lacking, I've added to it, but not actually found it wrong, yet.
Binary compatibility is a non-issue if your free of Windows. I'm happy with my SheavaPlug. Be happier still when I can have a decent ARM netbook. I don't need Windows, Wine or not. The idea of a virtual machine Wine client with native Wine server interests me, but only technically.
Fine:
http://www.arm.com/markets/embedded_solutions/armpp/25333.html
Doesn't take much looking.
Atom is ahead in performance, no denying that, but it's not clean cut as it's not by much and it is hard to compare as they eat instructions very differently. But just to be clear, the ARM is much further ahead when it comes to low power consumption and cost. If you free of Windows you are free of x86, then you are free to balance power consumption, cost and performance, which means ARM or MIPS win every time. In fact you could cheat, and fit multiple ARM cores and come out on top with performance whilst still coming out on top with cost and power consumption. That's how big a difference we are talking.
Dude you are being an idiot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(processor)
First line:
"Snapdragon is a name of an architecture of a family of chipsets with an ARM-based CPU."
The very people who think the cloud is the future, think everything will be written in .NET or JIT'ed javascript. Last few times the thin client idea failed it was because of control, but it seams like each time it comes back there is more over head (more than you might expect from Moore's law). This time I'm not convinced a thin client will cut it. What you need is native apps from a database, one safe place to find apps, and everything kept up to date......Wait that's a repository! Compare the two side by side, mmmmm, I'll use fast native apps from a repository please, especially on a crap machine!
Judge them by their past actions not words. It's the same old trick we have seen again and again. If you embrace this standard, you will be extended and extinguished. I won't be surprised if there is suing down the line too, despite these promises, which no doubt only cover EXACTLY what there is now, under EXACT circumstances. They are fighting not just for their dominance but their way of doing software. It just takes my breath anyway anyone buys it to this. But these tend to be people who believe everything will be .NET/Mono and the whole thin client thing, sorry cloud thing too. Not sure how fat apps fit into the thin client view, but there you go....Maybe it will work better than it did last time with Java and thin clients, maybe BECAUSE of MS's embrace, extend, extinguish. But if it does, it will do nothing but greatly harm any platform not MS's, which harms everyone. Think IE without Firefox turning up, or Windows (Vista) without Linux netbooks turning up.
Being able to make movies much cheaper is a good thing. Means making a movie is much less financially risky, so people are more likely to back something new and unknown. Consumer grade equipment is getting better all the time, perhaps holywood won't be needed. This plus file sharing must have holywood filling their pants, not sure drawing such attention with such large sums of money was wise for them.....
Account holders aren't gate keepers. You cannot hold them responsible for their internet connection's use any more than you hold a car owner responsible instead of the driver. "Sorry gov, you car was nicked and was used to commit a hit and run, your under arrest". Law cannot work like this. I'm sure one of the politicians isn't tech savy enough to have a secure home network, someone please download something copied via their network, then report what's happened with the politicians home network. I hope I'm misunderstanding this because I'd like to think law makers aren't this stupid.
Sounds like the BBC. The BBC is great, but I do wonder about it's future. I hope it survives.
He was great. I had been through loads of people trying to walk me through the "have you turned it on" script. Each for some reason thinking that them walking me through the script would be different then those before. None admitting they couldn't help. On about the 5th call I got pissed, and finally was put through to some one who knew about computers. He didn't have a script. We had a chat about Linux and computers in general while he tested the line and tried to connect to the router. An engineer was sent out to look at the line, but it was the router that was the problem, it was toast. All the semi skilled people with scripts in the world wouldn't have helped. Cheep support departments, Indian or otherwise, don't cover all cases, and must admit they are out of their league and hand it up to more skilled workers. The problem I had was until I got angry I couldn't get above the semi-skilled department, who couldn't order the engineer to look at the line, which was what I was asking for. After that, and the finding O2 was £20 a month cheaper, I switched, and since have found O2 much faster too. Not had cause to test their support yet......
Noted. No admin/root for children on any computer that matters. For their machine, keep a clean image to restore the system when they borked it. That was kind of what I was planning anyway. That and some crazy multiseat setup so I can have one master computer in the house..... ;-)
Ah but you see why I prefer Python over .Net/Java is it doesn't try and be fast (bar a few crazy projects). You write/use a collection of fast part written in C, joining it together into a application with python. Reminds me of a little the way so many RiscOS apps where a blend of BBC BASIC and ARM code. You write the parts that need to be fast in a fast language, and the rest in a expressive language.
I can't stand the .NET invasion. I keep being told by .NET people it's really not that heavy and it much more productive etc etc. Most admit it would be a problem if every app was written in .NET, but it ok for their app. BUT the very same people blame .NET when their applications are fat and slow! It gets worse when you have multiple of these apps running, each written basically on the assumption it's the only thing to run. Apps should be written to be a good citizen, i.e. take as little as they can, and give as much as they can. Don't get me wrong, it's not just .NET, this seamed to happen before with JAVA, which didn't take over either. Now I don't know if it's an environment thing, or programmer skill level thing, but JAVA applications don't seam to be as bad as .NET.
Then worse of all, things written badly as web apps. I was in the doctors and they had been computerize. The register for your appointment system was really slow, but what blew me away was the slide show of information. It couldn't even scroll large text across the screen properly. I could see this was a web thing because some of it was broken and the page was a IE page not found page. Here we are in 2009 with crazy powerful computers from the future, and we have such bad choices of technology, so much abstraction in the way, and bad "professionals", that it's worse then I did as a kid in BASIC on a computer with 2MHz. It makes me soo angry. It feels like we are going backwards. The fact these crap systems always seam to be running on Windows doesn't help. I'm sure it would be as easy and faster+ cheaper on a stripped down Linux with just X, the required libs and python!
So not only are BT expensive, slow, with terrible customer service (bar one guy I managed to get hold of when I was stupid enough to be with BT), but they give up their customers, or even just hand them over without being ask to.
Do one thing, do it well.
Gimp can import svg files, that's enough.
If you wish to mix vector graphics and bitmaps, best do it in a vector package where it makes sense, not the other way round where it doesn't.
Inkscape fills the hole left by !Draw when leaving RiscOS.
;-)
It's kind of in the family.....
!Draw -> ArtWorks -> Xara -> Inkscape (interface heavily influenced by Xara)
Pushing it I know, but nice to think of it like that, so I do!
I know your trolling, but look: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523213
That's why the UK. That and little to no language issues.
But if you want sun and good food, sure, the rest of the EU is generally better.