"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
No, that's a stereotype. I'm potentially as smart and sensitive as any woman. Some women, at some points in their lives, in some contexts are more sexually motivated than me. Some men are, in some contexts are less sexually motivated than me. Nothing to do with my sex.
In A Fall Of Moondust, Arthur C Clarke says something like, "Every space engineer would expect to use Morse twice over the course of his career. When he did use it, it would probably save his life."
The problem is that academic institutions process both the genuinely gifted and the mediocre minded. People who go on to do significant, important work in their field use their formal education as the stepping off point. I doubt that Tim Berners-Lee took a course on "Setting up networked hypertext systems" and then simply implemented it.
When I got to my mid 20s I started to release that a degree can mean very little. There's little worse than being stuck with an idiot graduate.
The behaviour in the example could be explained as an example of operate conditioning: the monkey takes the red M&M, is rewarded, and then associates rejecting the blue M&M with the reward.
"They spend half a million to record their album." --- Ah, "recording expenses". In other words: prostitutes and drugs.
"The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band's royalties."
Yeah, that's pretty typical. Most bands will spend about a million dollars on videos to support their first album.
"The system's set up so almost nobody gets paid."
Really? In that case, they were ripped off by:
"...$100,000 to their manager... $25,000 each to their lawyer and business manager..."
if they ended up a with a deal in which they they lost all of their song writing and performance royaltees.
Sounds like she's contrived a pretty unrepresentative example to back up her maths. I'm all for the restructuring of the industry that new technology will bring, but contrived nonsense like this doesn't really help the debate.
So, OLPC work out this great scheme to introduce cheap educational laptops to poor countries. This other company undercuts them and Redhat jump on board. Now Redhat have been undercut by a bigger company and we're supposed to feel sorry for them.
I'm pleased to see someone else making this observation. A lot of what I've learned about economics (for example) I learned from games. Pulling an all-nighter collecting resources to build the little tanks ingrains the skills in a way that reading a textbook cannot. I'm sure that this is one of the reasons that I find it difficult/not/ to think it in very pragmatic terms when faced with a resource management situation.
I bet a lunchtime LAN team game could form a valuable part of any team building strategy.
It's primarily a console game so sales would suffer if it were made download only.
Personally, I suspect that Rockstar have the cut version of the game sitting on their HDs ready for release. They've probably got a graph on their office wall with a red line that rises up gradually, peaks and then starts to fall again. The line is a "hype plot" and the peak is the point at which they can't possibly get any more free publicity out of the situation and at which they will release the game.
Slashdot are playing along with this far too much, IMHO.
Heh, you haven't SEEN it. Definitely one to avoid, if you if you're interested in the subject matter. To me, 4.1/10 means watchable but flawed. I only started it because I got it for free and the back of box made it seem like there would be an apocalyptic survival angle to it.
"How bad could it be?", I asked myself. Put it like this, it's the movie that William Shatner watches when someone has another go at him over Star Trek V. It's probably the film that made Travolta say, "Hey, if these guys can get a movie made, maybe I can get a movie made about scientology!"
How did this turkey get all the way up to 4.1 stars? Perhaps the ending perked up (I couldn't bring myself to sit through to the end)? Perhaps the near-nudity of the middle of the film became actual nudity at the end of the film?
Looking forward to the sociology textbook that addresses this sort of issue within its section on gender and workplace. Those men are simply privileged because their wives don't have the same opportunities that they do.
I shouldn't really be talking about it, but what the hell. A company has just emailed me with a scheme that should see me making $20,000 dollars A WEEK pretty soon. I KNEW that this internet connection was going to pay off.
A faux "driver" that was actually a software emulation of a voodoo card would be quite interesting actually.
However, as other others have pointed out, a wrapper isn't the same thing as an emulator. The point of this thread was running old games on a modern computer. A wrapper would be subject to compatibility issues from changes in the underlying graphics API, so you'd be back at square one, in terms of getting your old games to run properly.
Wrappers have to make some trade offs for performance at the expense of compatibility.
Also, a Glide wrapper doesn't help with problems such as changes in non 3D graphics parts of the underlying Windows API. For example, how would a Glide wrapper help in the case of a video codec that just wont run on a modern version of windows?
A more complete solution would be an add on for something like DOSBox that adds a 3Dcard emulation completely in software. People are more interested in running their old games than achieving blistering frame rates.
I think that a new generation of emulators is probably a better idea for older games. I wonder what it would take to software emulate a 3dfx voodoo 1 card? Any such attempt could offload some of the work onto the real GPU, of course.
One point that is certain is that people were using the Internet (including the web) before MS started including a dialer and browser. The question becomes "If MS had disappeared during the Win 3.11 era, would internet usage have declined or increased from that point onwards?"
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"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
No, that's a stereotype. I'm potentially as smart and sensitive as any woman. Some women, at some points in their lives, in some contexts are more sexually motivated than me. Some men are, in some contexts are less sexually motivated than me. Nothing to do with my sex.
Absolutely. Notice also that most of the comments supporting this very reasonable line of view are posted AC.
Oh for mod points...
Ever noticed how every man who takes his shirt off in a film has an all over tan and a six pack?
I think that you have, perhaps, understated the importance of those two marvellous inventions.
In A Fall Of Moondust, Arthur C Clarke says something like, "Every space engineer would expect to use Morse twice over the course of his career. When he did use it, it would probably save his life."
The problem is that academic institutions process both the genuinely gifted and the mediocre minded. People who go on to do significant, important work in their field use their formal education as the stepping off point. I doubt that Tim Berners-Lee took a course on "Setting up networked hypertext systems" and then simply implemented it. When I got to my mid 20s I started to release that a degree can mean very little. There's little worse than being stuck with an idiot graduate.
I don't if there is such a thing as prior art for a trademark but there was an office suite on the 8 bit machines called Mini Office.
Look, I'm sick of these jokes about that guy that heads the Amiga OS 4 project.
I didn't read the FA but...
The behaviour in the example could be explained as an example of operate conditioning: the monkey takes the red M&M, is rewarded, and then associates rejecting the blue M&M with the reward.
"They spend half a million to record their album." --- Ah, "recording expenses". In other words: prostitutes and drugs.
"The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band's royalties."
Yeah, that's pretty typical. Most bands will spend about a million dollars on videos to support their first album.
"The system's set up so almost nobody gets paid."
Really? In that case, they were ripped off by:
"...$100,000 to their manager... $25,000 each to their lawyer and business manager..."
if they ended up a with a deal in which they they lost all of their song writing and performance royaltees.
Sounds like she's contrived a pretty unrepresentative example to back up her maths. I'm all for the restructuring of the industry that new technology will bring, but contrived nonsense like this doesn't really help the debate.
Ah, I took an extra stupid pill today. Oops. My basic point still stands though.
The news for Rockstar is just ... great. More publicity!
So, OLPC work out this great scheme to introduce cheap educational laptops to poor countries. This other company undercuts them and Redhat jump on board. Now Redhat have been undercut by a bigger company and we're supposed to feel sorry for them.
I'm pleased to see someone else making this observation. A lot of what I've learned about economics (for example) I learned from games. Pulling an all-nighter collecting resources to build the little tanks ingrains the skills in a way that reading a textbook cannot. I'm sure that this is one of the reasons that I find it difficult /not/ to think it in very pragmatic terms when faced with a resource management situation.
I bet a lunchtime LAN team game could form a valuable part of any team building strategy.
It's primarily a console game so sales would suffer if it were made download only.
Personally, I suspect that Rockstar have the cut version of the game sitting on their HDs ready for release. They've probably got a graph on their office wall with a red line that rises up gradually, peaks and then starts to fall again. The line is a "hype plot" and the peak is the point at which they can't possibly get any more free publicity out of the situation and at which they will release the game.
Slashdot are playing along with this far too much, IMHO.
I did begin to wonder how Slashdot had managed to go a week or so without advertising... erm, I mean... featuring this crap game again.
Heh, you haven't SEEN it. Definitely one to avoid, if you if you're interested in the subject matter. To me, 4.1/10 means watchable but flawed. I only started it because I got it for free and the back of box made it seem like there would be an apocalyptic survival angle to it.
"How bad could it be?", I asked myself. Put it like this, it's the movie that William Shatner watches when someone has another go at him over Star Trek V. It's probably the film that made Travolta say, "Hey, if these guys can get a movie made, maybe I can get a movie made about scientology!"
This was the plot of a crap TV movie staring Luke Perry and Martin Sheen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165498/
How did this turkey get all the way up to 4.1 stars? Perhaps the ending perked up (I couldn't bring myself to sit through to the end)? Perhaps the near-nudity of the middle of the film became actual nudity at the end of the film?
Looking forward to the sociology textbook that addresses this sort of issue within its section on gender and workplace. Those men are simply privileged because their wives don't have the same opportunities that they do.
I want to be suckered in by a clever collaborative marketing effort.
The guy's not in college now. In the real world, the correct answer is often, "I'd do my research in order to find the best solution."
I shouldn't really be talking about it, but what the hell. A company has just emailed me with a scheme that should see me making $20,000 dollars A WEEK pretty soon. I KNEW that this internet connection was going to pay off.
A faux "driver" that was actually a software emulation of a voodoo card would be quite interesting actually.
However, as other others have pointed out, a wrapper isn't the same thing as an emulator. The point of this thread was running old games on a modern computer. A wrapper would be subject to compatibility issues from changes in the underlying graphics API, so you'd be back at square one, in terms of getting your old games to run properly.
Wrappers have to make some trade offs for performance at the expense of compatibility.
Also, a Glide wrapper doesn't help with problems such as changes in non 3D graphics parts of the underlying Windows API. For example, how would a Glide wrapper help in the case of a video codec that just wont run on a modern version of windows?
A more complete solution would be an add on for something like DOSBox that adds a 3Dcard emulation completely in software. People are more interested in running their old games than achieving blistering frame rates.
I think that a new generation of emulators is probably a better idea for older games. I wonder what it would take to software emulate a 3dfx voodoo 1 card? Any such attempt could offload some of the work onto the real GPU, of course.
One point that is certain is that people were using the Internet (including the web) before MS started including a dialer and browser. The question becomes "If MS had disappeared during the Win 3.11 era, would internet usage have declined or increased from that point onwards?"