a solar cell today still takes more energy to manufacture than it will produce in its usable life.
I'm not sure if this is true, but if it is it is very interesting, and significant. The key words for evomental energy conservationists are renewable and self-sustaning and manifacture is often forgoten when evaluating these technologies.
For instance, it was recently exposed that some manifactorers of the catalitic converters, which, if I recall correctly, is mandated on all new cars, where causing more polution than the use of the cat could ever prevent. In the end the proccesses where fixed, or different suppliers chosen.
There is an upside to this, if manifacture of solar pannels, rises then there will be more motivation to reduce costs and increase effecency.
Casual Passerby: "Do you know what time it is?"
Person wearing Linux Watch: "Yeah, just a sec, I need to log on... um, yeah, hang on, its... sixty six minutes past six... oh... arse, I've been 0wN3d..."
I'll use it to time hot long it takes me to tot up my phone bill on my HP Linux calculator!
the problem is, not enough people are making new ones on PC
Oh, people are designing origanal games. Some people are even developing origanal games. The problem is that no one will publish them.
Try taking an origanal game design to a publisher and see what happenes. They may well tell you they like it. What they won't do is fund it.
Try taking an origanal game (compleated) to a publisher and you *might* get a publishing deal, what you won't get is decent royalties, (because if they "take the risk" they want decent profits), and you won't get a decent investment in PR, it'll go out on the cheap, and if your lucky a brave reviewer will go against the norm and give it a good review, and you'll get a vocal fan base, and it'll turn in to a slow-burn profit maker. Assuming you got a royalty deal.
Games publishers want games with proven formats, its to expensive to gamble on an unusual idea, and thats why all you see, and all you'll ever see is clones, until the public stop eating the shit their beeing fed.
Discalaimer: I'm a published computer games developer.
For some reason PC games have to be grossly over engineered for people to accept them. On the smaller platforms people want games to be fun, and small. Bloat is doubly bad, so people accept "cheap" looking games if they play well.
In the world of commercial development, "releases" are produced to secure payment.
Usually numbered milestones are first, followed by alpha, which is the first "feature compleate" version, then "beta" which is the first major bug fix release, everything after that is a "Master Candidate". If your good/lucky the beta goes to master.
As I said, the open / evolution style development, the releases alpha/beta mean very little.
So by your theory, technology such as OpenNAP and Gnutella should not be a target since there is no profit for the developers. Care to place a wager on that?
Oh no, they will be targeted. The big bad RIAA boys will do whatever they can. But *who* will they attack? And even if they do find an individual or group that they can target, they are less likly to win. In my opinion.
Perhaps he sumbitted it as a story, and it was rejected.
Sig11 sometimes spouts shit, but that was interesting, informative, and relevent. Theres nothing wrong with preperation. Preperation for the enivitable in this case.
You (the poster to whom I'm replying) have got it, almost.
The keybord saved my life
That right, you heard me I said "The keybord saved my life", and while I mean it in a "that night the DJ saved my life" kinda way rather than a "the doctor saved your life in there" kinda way, it is never the less the truth.
I'm mildly dyslexic, I have difficulty with spelling, and remembering lists, but as a youth my main problem was with handwritting. The teachers thought I was stupid. The kids picked on me, and I was heading directly to the dole queue (do not pass go do not collect £200).
Then my parents bought me my first computer, a ZX80. Hardly CPU power, hardly a keyboard worth using. But I did. Boy did I use it. I got tested, I got help, my teachers saw my potential. I passed English, thanks to the keybord.
I was just dyslexic. Many people have much worse problems that that with writing. Like no arms, for example.
Ironicly I now use a PalmV as an organiser, and can actually code using the graffiti, but thats a matter of practice and detemination. It was the leg up I neaded. The alternative. The choice. Different input devices for different people.
I think I've made my point. And a couple of extra ones as well.:)
What do they mean by real time content generation?
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My take on it was that rather than it rendering frames and storing them on a server which pipes to the end user, it creates frames as they are requested. This would permit things like product placement to be placed in on the fly. A popular piece of content might have different adds in the background each time its watched.
Or as another poster suggested, put to better use for things like weather reporting.
Cross-platform is hard to do. Java is a 'sporting try' at it, but it's still not quite there.
Java isn't cross platform. Java is a platform.
With c-p, you necessarily take a penalty hit with a VM, or platform-specific abstraction hardware.
I disagree. A well formed C program (for example) can be efficient and cross platform, without a performace hit. If you want platform specific optermisations, well then thats some extra work, but with #defs it can still be done.
I'm all for some sort of meta-assembly language that everyone would agree to implement; but how do you propose to do that?
Whats the problem with high level languages? Is it really such a huge problem to compile code? Compilation can be automated.
Yes, your right, in some respect, platforms will exist that "break the rules" and cause apps to fail, but thats life. I can write a C/C++ that will run native, unchanged, optermised, on more platforms than I can think of. It *is* a valid goal.
Style wise they where going in the right direction with the PalmV (which I bought). All the new models (excluding the Vx) have been cheap plastic steps backwards. Making my "same or better" garantee almost worthless. (When "better" to them is "worse" to me).
Technolgy wise, they are beeing too conservative. Now, I like the simplicity of the Palm, and I don't think they should take the WinCE road, but there are tech improvements that could be made, and not just hardware ones (which could affect price or battery life), but programming ones.
How about adding "hyperlinks" to the OS so that I can insert a link to an address book record into my diary, or to-do list, and vice versa. Now *that* would be cool.
That was kindof my point. Everyone says fix it, but in this case Miguel, being a GNOME lead developer, is actually in a position to do something about the thing hes complaining about, and in saying it I was trying to imply that joe average *isnt* in a position to, for the very reasons that you give.
Don't get me wrong, I love OOP, I'm a C++ programmer, and I do thing OOP makes it easer to create large scale systems and manage complexity, and so on, I'm just pointing out that it hasn't been shown in any kind of scientific way that OO code gets reused more.
Althought you don't expicitly state it, you seem to be implying that OOP encorages more reuse than other programming paradigms, now, while OOP does encorage more reusable code to be written, it had not been shown that this actually generates more reuse in practice.
Its open source. Do something about it. If you don't like it, change it. If its broken, fix it. Its the open source mantra.
Actually, Miguel is one of the few people who is in a position where doing something about it is actually feasable. Whatever happened to that KDE & GNOME common component archetecure? That would have been a step in the right direction.
I do believe that there is to much ego flying about for a lot of good things to get done. It takes a big man to climb down and say, okay, lets merge. Lets reuse. You can do it better than me, and with OS development kudo is currency, and to loose ego is to loose currancy.
Hmmm... does Miguel have the courage to take a step towards consolidation?
Shops sell weights in grams and kilos. (It was said that in only dope dealers use ounces now, but then Tescos decided to go back to imperial by "popular demand")
And then theres Tonnes. How heavy is a ton, anybody? Is that metric or imperial?
Fax paper dimensions are measued in mixed units, that is one its dimensions is measued in imperial, the other in metric.
Distance is normally measued in metric, except for on the road, where we have distance in miles and miles per hour.
How about a billion. How many zeros in a billion? Are you sure?
PH wouldn't have been my first choice of companies
You don't choose companies to sponser you, the offer to sponser you, and you agree. It was a brave* move by Pizza Hut, and I doubt that there where many other significant bidders. In fact, looking at the picture, I doubt there where any other bidders, as there was plenty of space still on the rocket for more logos.
If there where multiple black hole lists, they could be used together as a meta black hole list. Do for spam what dogpile (et al) did for search engines. Or something liek that.
It would be a good idea if I could explain it right...
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For instance, it was recently exposed that some manifactorers of the catalitic converters, which, if I recall correctly, is mandated on all new cars, where causing more polution than the use of the cat could ever prevent. In the end the proccesses where fixed, or different suppliers chosen.
There is an upside to this, if manifacture of solar pannels, rises then there will be more motivation to reduce costs and increase effecency.
Thad
- "Where did you here that?"
- "A bloke in the Publius told me."
Titter.(Quick reminder for the slow of brain a Pub is like a Bar, but British)
Thad
Person wearing Linux Watch: "Yeah, just a sec, I need to log on
I'll use it to time hot long it takes me to tot up my phone bill on my HP Linux calculator!
Thad
Why doesnt my every insignificant software release get announced on slashdot?
Thad
Try taking an origanal game design to a publisher and see what happenes. They may well tell you they like it. What they won't do is fund it.
Try taking an origanal game (compleated) to a publisher and you *might* get a publishing deal, what you won't get is decent royalties, (because if they "take the risk" they want decent profits), and you won't get a decent investment in PR, it'll go out on the cheap, and if your lucky a brave reviewer will go against the norm and give it a good review, and you'll get a vocal fan base, and it'll turn in to a slow-burn profit maker. Assuming you got a royalty deal.
Games publishers want games with proven formats, its to expensive to gamble on an unusual idea, and thats why all you see, and all you'll ever see is clones, until the public stop eating the shit their beeing fed.
Discalaimer: I'm a published computer games developer.
Thad
(I also have an all day not books made from plastic, metal and glass, its called a PalmV and I can take notes on it all day long).
Thad
For some reason PC games have to be grossly over engineered for people to accept them. On the smaller platforms people want games to be fun, and small. Bloat is doubly bad, so people accept "cheap" looking games if they play well.
Games such as SFCave, DopeWars, and piemansimon.
Thad
Usually numbered milestones are first, followed by alpha, which is the first "feature compleate" version, then "beta" which is the first major bug fix release, everything after that is a "Master Candidate". If your good/lucky the beta goes to master.
As I said, the open / evolution style development, the releases alpha/beta mean very little.
Thad
Thad
Sig11 sometimes spouts shit, but that was interesting, informative, and relevent. Theres nothing wrong with preperation. Preperation for the enivitable in this case.
Thad
This says *nothing* of the individuals right to "home copy" or bootleg for pleasure (not profit).
Thad
The keybord saved my life
That right, you heard me I said "The keybord saved my life", and while I mean it in a "that night the DJ saved my life" kinda way rather than a "the doctor saved your life in there" kinda way, it is never the less the truth.
I'm mildly dyslexic, I have difficulty with spelling, and remembering lists, but as a youth my main problem was with handwritting. The teachers thought I was stupid. The kids picked on me, and I was heading directly to the dole queue (do not pass go do not collect £200).
Then my parents bought me my first computer, a ZX80. Hardly CPU power, hardly a keyboard worth using. But I did. Boy did I use it. I got tested, I got help, my teachers saw my potential. I passed English, thanks to the keybord.
I was just dyslexic. Many people have much worse problems that that with writing. Like no arms, for example.
Ironicly I now use a PalmV as an organiser, and can actually code using the graffiti, but thats a matter of practice and detemination. It was the leg up I neaded. The alternative. The choice. Different input devices for different people.
I think I've made my point. And a couple of extra ones as well. :)
Thad
Or as another poster suggested, put to better use for things like weather reporting.
Thad
Yes, your right, in some respect, platforms will exist that "break the rules" and cause apps to fail, but thats life. I can write a C/C++ that will run native, unchanged, optermised, on more platforms than I can think of. It *is* a valid goal.
Thad
-1 Troll / Flambait if you ask me.
Thad
Style wise they where going in the right direction with the PalmV (which I bought). All the new models (excluding the Vx) have been cheap plastic steps backwards. Making my "same or better" garantee almost worthless. (When "better" to them is "worse" to me).
Technolgy wise, they are beeing too conservative. Now, I like the simplicity of the Palm, and I don't think they should take the WinCE road, but there are tech improvements that could be made, and not just hardware ones (which could affect price or battery life), but programming ones.
How about adding "hyperlinks" to the OS so that I can insert a link to an address book record into my diary, or to-do list, and vice versa. Now *that* would be cool.
Thad
Thad
Why not email me and find out.
Thad
Don't get me wrong, I love OOP, I'm a C++ programmer, and I do thing OOP makes it easer to create large scale systems and manage complexity, and so on, I'm just pointing out that it hasn't been shown in any kind of scientific way that OO code gets reused more.
Thad
Althought you don't expicitly state it, you seem to be implying that OOP encorages more reuse than other programming paradigms, now, while OOP does encorage more reusable code to be written, it had not been shown that this actually generates more reuse in practice.
Thad
Actually, Miguel is one of the few people who is in a position where doing something about it is actually feasable. Whatever happened to that KDE & GNOME common component archetecure? That would have been a step in the right direction.
I do believe that there is to much ego flying about for a lot of good things to get done. It takes a big man to climb down and say, okay, lets merge. Lets reuse. You can do it better than me, and with OS development kudo is currency, and to loose ego is to loose currancy.
Hmmm... does Miguel have the courage to take a step towards consolidation?
Thad
More information on the state of Metric vs Imperial can be found in this comment.
Thad
Shops sell weights in grams and kilos. (It was said that in only dope dealers use ounces now, but then Tescos decided to go back to imperial by "popular demand")
And then theres Tonnes. How heavy is a ton, anybody? Is that metric or imperial?
Fax paper dimensions are measued in mixed units, that is one its dimensions is measued in imperial, the other in metric.
Distance is normally measued in metric, except for on the road, where we have distance in miles and miles per hour.
How about a billion. How many zeros in a billion? Are you sure?
Progress eh? Who needs it... :)
Thad
*Brave? Stupid? Whats the difference? ;)
Thad
It would be a good idea if I could explain it right...
Thad