The great thing about the age of carts is just what the article touches on...here's a game that never made it to the store shelves but clearly a copy or two was made on actual hardware that somehow made it to this flea market.
But what happens to games today when they're cancelled? I read about games being put on "indefinite hiatus", or just being cancelled with the company essentially throwing their hands up in the air and saying "ain't gonna happen." What becomes of all that code? Since it just sits on the developer's machines, does it just get wiped when they start on a new project? Imagine if that code could reused. The release date of Duke Nukem Forever could be advanced by weeks !
About time somebody made sense in these stupid threads. The SI units may sound strange now but they'll sound perfectly natural to everybody a few years from now.
Apparently nobody remembers the Internet laughing at Wired for inventing "surfing the web".
Also, maybe you shouldn't release a work in progress. To go back to our traditional car analogies...
-"Also, sir, may I interest you in this fine work in progress I have here ?" (Eyes pile of mismatched parts suspiciously.) -"Um, does that thing even run ?" -"Oh yes, it's not *quite* done yet of course, but one day we're confident it will run just fine" -"What do you mean by 'one day' ? I need a car right now !" -"Of course ! Sorry ! it works very well right now too" -"I think I'll keep my old car for now just the same, thanks anyway" (walks away) -"wait wait, the next version will a dishwasher ! Damn another missed sale !"
If the SDK lets Windows programmers write one-line "ReadOOXMLDoc32(hMyDoc);"-style perfect implementations of the standard, great. We'll see a lot of programs that can read OOXML then. This is going to be really useful to all the Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris / etc. users...
Yay for Microsoft for finally being open ! (snicker)
If your point is that Mac-OS supports more hardware than Linux, I would agree. Very debatable. It might have changed with the coming of the intel Mac but when I used my iBook G4, finding compatible hardware that wasn't Apple branded (except for stuff that used generic protocols such as Mass Storage) was fairly difficult.
Finding a compatible webcam was pretty much impossible.
You've never experienced having to put down a perfectly adequate CPU and mobo because Tux Racer requires a faster GPU have you? *Sigh* yes, I miss My Tseng ET-4000 too:(
Been there, done that with Ubuntu...but the problem remains: The adapter is of USB form factor and its connection manager works only with Windows. There's no NDISwrappering your way around this one:( I can't believe some ISPs still do networking through a mouse port in this day and age. (duh)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 76,944 words *and* you don't have to buy Harry Potter again every year ! Great value (although not very exciting if you're over 14) ! Still, I'm moving my pages to Hogwarts Hosting !
Yeah. Do you see the Foot icon to the right of the article? What do you think that means? What ? He's going to make a movie version of the Gnome desktop ?
...I wonder if they tested this with anyone who owns cats. Mine jump up on the coffee table all the time. Does anyone know if this thing will pick up pets? And if it does, how can you upload a ringtone to them ?
So how is this any different from those nasty Active-X controls that we are told not to allow ? I'm not terribly thrilled by this thing either. At least not until there's a little more third party reviews of the security model.
Why do you have a laptop if you don't take it with you? Quite. Easy solution : don't use a laptop, find a DEC PDP 10 on eBay. Nobody will steal that. And if somebody somehow does, you'll notice immediately when it's disconnected by the way the whole city block's lights suddenly brighten.
I have the opposite problem to this "Tiller's Law": I read way more than I converse, so quite often pronounce words incorrectly! Happens to me an awful lot, especially with English as a second language. And of course because spelling only ever has a very remote connection to pronunciation (not to mention the fact that people in the US have their own pronunciation *and* spelling, and sometimes even words). Although that's a problem in many languages unfortunately.
I know that lots of Mac users wouldn't touch Firefox because "it didn't blend well" even though the Apple browser was quite inferior at the time (10.3 - 10.4). Quality or performance was completely irrelevant but dammit, it had to look good !
Things may have changed now, presumably with Safari getting better and also possibly with the Mac Firefox looking more Mac like. I don't use my Mac any more so I couldn't say.
Those are the standard Emacs shortcuts and are often supported by text manipulation programs or text editing fields. I seem to remember that there is a toggle somewhere to enable them in Gnome. Presumably in the preferences somewhere or possibly in that large XML file that holds the "advanced preferences stupid users shouldn't mess with" (editable with that tool the name of which I have forgotten).
I feel much more comfortable with Gnome. I admit Konqueror is far more powerful than Nautilus but I tend to use the CLI for non trivial tasks, however- Nautilus scripts do the trick for me as well. From users around me, I find that it's mostly a matter of taste and of habit. I tend to like both, which after all do pretty much the same thing except that Kwin makes it easy to bind "toggle window to top/bottom" to mouse3 when clicking on the border which I find convenient. I don't like Metacity much, I wish Gnome would have stuck with SawFish (I know you can change the window manager in Gnome, it's not designed to be easy though). So all in all I usually stick with KDE. In *ubuntu, I usually install Ubuntu and then kubuntu on top of that. FWIW I didn't have any of the problems listed in the article though. My laptop's wireless works fine even though it's intel) and email is managed by thunderbird (I suppose it doesn't help the original author much of course)...
I've tried KDE-4 from Ubuntu repos and it is unusable. Probably because Ubuntu repos are broken or something alike. I expect KDE-4 at Hardy be just OK. That's more because KDE 4 isn't useable. KDE 4 is there so that : - users can see what it looks like and poke at it a bit (although they aren't supposed to actually *use* it - programmers can port their apps
KDE 4.1 should start to be useable in real life. In the mean time, stick to 3.whatever your distro ships.
Heck, isn't just about everything stored in ISO 8859? I actually thought it was the same as ASCII until reading this: http://kb.iu.edu/data/ahfr.html. FWIW the 8859 section of that page is in bad need of an upgrade (the tables go beyond 8858-8, for example western Europe uses 8859-15 which adds € and completes character tables that were left unfinished in -1)... You might want to check Wikipedia which appears to be much more complete (for once).
oholoh.net estimates the cost of developing the software at $2,446,697. This is +/- $5 though, so you might want to take that number with a grain of salt.
I'll be the first one who is a law & order type of person, but this one scares the crap out of me.
That's probably because this has nothing to do with law and order. This is about totalitarianism, which is a crime. It stops being one as soon as you pass the right laws.
Crimes are a relative thing legally speaking. You're thinking of ethics which have nothing whatsoever to do with the law.
Exactly, this is how slippery slope arguments work. Allow something, and then the next logical step becomes...
They may as well skip to the next next logical step and get DNA samples from everybody. Well I know I'm not going to have sex with anybody from the Association of Chief Police Officers anymore. I'll just keep my DNA to myself. So there.
I remember when I had a Commodore 64, about 24 years ago, and solid state drives were 'just around the corner'. I also seem to remember they were supposed to use "bubble memory", whatever that was supposed to be. And for just a few thousands of dollars you could have your very own 10 meg solid state disk drive "real soon now"... Those who started saving back then must have amassed a fortune by now.
What's your point? The regular backbone is operated by the telecom industry, which has demonstrated willingness to open it up to the government even when that is in direct violation of existing law. Your unencrypted content isn't safe no matter who owns the network it travels over (unless you control both endpoints and all the systems in between.) That's the "environmental monitoring" feature cited in the article I presume.
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But what happens to games today when they're cancelled? I read about games being put on "indefinite hiatus", or just being cancelled with the company essentially throwing their hands up in the air and saying "ain't gonna happen." What becomes of all that code? Since it just sits on the developer's machines, does it just get wiped when they start on a new project? Imagine if that code could reused. The release date of Duke Nukem Forever could be advanced by weeks !
Mod ++
About time somebody made sense in these stupid threads.
The SI units may sound strange now but they'll sound perfectly natural to everybody a few years from now.
Apparently nobody remembers the Internet laughing at Wired for inventing "surfing the web".
-"Also, sir, may I interest you in this fine work in progress I have here ?"
(Eyes pile of mismatched parts suspiciously.)
-"Um, does that thing even run ?"
-"Oh yes, it's not *quite* done yet of course, but one day we're confident it will run just fine"
-"What do you mean by 'one day' ? I need a car right now !"
-"Of course ! Sorry ! it works very well right now too"
-"I think I'll keep my old car for now just the same, thanks anyway"
(walks away)
-"wait wait, the next version will a dishwasher ! Damn another missed sale !"
Yay for Microsoft for finally being open ! (snicker)
Finding a compatible webcam was pretty much impossible.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 76,944 words *and* you don't have to buy Harry Potter again every year ! Great value (although not very exciting if you're over 14) !
Still, I'm moving my pages to Hogwarts Hosting !
Ok where's that petition ?
...I wonder if they tested this with anyone who owns cats. Mine jump up on the coffee table all the time. Does anyone know if this thing will pick up pets? And if it does, how can you upload a ringtone to them ?There are Adobe fans ?
I've met some fans of some Adobe products (Photoshop mostly), but none of them struck me as being fans of Adobe itself...
It's possible I hang out with the wrong crowds though.
I know that lots of Mac users wouldn't touch Firefox because "it didn't blend well" even though the Apple browser was quite inferior at the time (10.3 - 10.4).
Quality or performance was completely irrelevant but dammit, it had to look good !
Things may have changed now, presumably with Safari getting better and also possibly with the Mac Firefox looking more Mac like. I don't use my Mac any more so I couldn't say.
Those are the standard Emacs shortcuts and are often supported by text manipulation programs or text editing fields. I seem to remember that there is a toggle somewhere to enable them in Gnome. Presumably in the preferences somewhere or possibly in that large XML file that holds the "advanced preferences stupid users shouldn't mess with" (editable with that tool the name of which I have forgotten).
FWIW I didn't have any of the problems listed in the article though. My laptop's wireless works fine even though it's intel) and email is managed by thunderbird (I suppose it doesn't help the original author much of course)... I've tried KDE-4 from Ubuntu repos and it is unusable. Probably because Ubuntu repos are broken or something alike. I expect KDE-4 at Hardy be just OK. That's more because KDE 4 isn't useable. KDE 4 is there so that :
- users can see what it looks like and poke at it a bit (although they aren't supposed to actually *use* it
- programmers can port their apps
KDE 4.1 should start to be useable in real life. In the mean time, stick to 3.whatever your distro ships.
You might want to check Wikipedia which appears to be much more complete (for once).
(who comes up with that stuff, seriously ?)
That's probably because this has nothing to do with law and order. This is about totalitarianism, which is a crime. It stops being one as soon as you pass the right laws.
Crimes are a relative thing legally speaking. You're thinking of ethics which have nothing whatsoever to do with the law.
They may as well skip to the next next logical step and get DNA samples from everybody. Well I know I'm not going to have sex with anybody from the Association of Chief Police Officers anymore. I'll just keep my DNA to myself. So there.
Those who started saving back then must have amassed a fortune by now.
Wasn't the OLPC supposed to come with a wireless network that achieved this already? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1#Wireless_mesh_networking
Such a thing could easily be implemented by a piece of software running on everyones laptop, think of it like P2P only with FREE INTERNET!!!!
Hmmn, Seems I have found myself a coding project.
/quote>Since it has already been coded and is GPL, why do you want to recode it ??