Effectively, it is the first new one in a long time. Sure, there were others. The fact that they did not topple the gameboy, despite being technically better, if anything backs up her point.
So, since no Volkswagen model has toppled the Beetle means Volkswagen never produced newer models? That the NeoGeo Pocket Color didn't sell as much as the GameBoy series (which largely survived due to Pokémon) doesn't mean it wasn't "a new system".
very few games were released supporting the miserable advance in features
This is so utter bullshit (just visit a well-stocked GBC-selling game store) that if I had moderator points you'd be swinning at Troll level. Since I don't, I post this instead.
Of course, you have to wonder why the STANDARD wasn't hashed out a LONG time ago.
It was, it was called HTML 3.0, and they beheld it and it was good. Tons of useful features for web authors.
Then the browser manufacturers ignored it completely, preferring to add their own proprietary hacks. Why APPLET and EMBED when OBJECT existed to do what both those did, in a more powerful fashin? Was it because Netscape's programmers couldn't implement it in their spaghetti?
Don't blame the standards when those who should implement them don't.
it's rather impossible to create a Braille website, no? I personally can't wait to see a site such as Slashdot be forced to switch to a 32pt font
You have abolutely no knowledge about the possibilities of web technology.
Braille is a dot-representation of normal text on the user side. There is nothing for a web designer to do, just make sure there is any text at all to present.
Font sizes are not the realm of the web designer either - it's something that happens on the user's side again. If the user wants 32pt font sizes, they will tell the browser to show the content in that font size.
Or are you one of those stupid web-DUH-signers who actually believe the user's client must present your content the exact way you have visualized it? If so, please make sure you get hit by a car before you risk reproducing.
From what I remember reading about Java's history at the Sun site, it was precisely all the money thrown into (effectively) blind alleys like NeWS that made them stop, think, look at future trends, and make Java.
You mean: "Since I don't know what OS it could be, it does not exist"? There are several for the PC architecture, such as OS/2, GEOS, CP/M-86, CCP/M,...
because
Sega (and every other technology company for that matter) doesn't comment on
rumors,
I do seem to recall the Big Boss himself had to make a statement denouncing the "Nintendo buys Sega" rumors a few weeks back, but mostly because some paper (NYT?) reprinted the mistaken rumor even after both Nintendo and Sega said it was horseshit. (Not their exact words:-))
This was announced way back in early June 2000 at the JavaOne Conference - apart from the plethora of Dreamcasts for convention goers to play on , that was Sega's sole purpose to be there, IIRC.
The difference is that now there's an actual product there.
A filter just does the "no" part, and does not answer the "why not" part. (Though the "why not" will usually be "because some arbitrary adult decided it for you".)
(perpetuates the myth that sex is a purely physical act, that sex is only about gratifying yourself, that sex outside the bounds of marriage is OK)
That's your political or religious agenda - others have different opinions on both porn and sex. Why should your opinion carry more weight than their?
So we have to filter.
No. What you fail to understand is that the filter does not know whether the person sitting in front of the computer is a child or adult. Children aren't allowed into violent movies either, so you will have to filter away violent content. And so on. And why should only children be protected? Blacks may not want to find white supremacist doggerel. White supremacist in turn may not want NAACP yadayada. Women abused on religious gounds may not want any pro-Christian content to appear. NAMBLA may be offended if you can read that sex with children is wrong.
Where do you stop?
(I won't even bother to stress the fact that the "children" are the users most likely to know how to bypass the filters in the first place.)
In a public school library you cannot find magazines like Playboy, Elle, or Martha Stuart's Living. Nor is a Kama Sutra available on the shelves or even by request. You won't find any pictographic history books of the Holocaust in the children's area. Looking for details on making beer or building a still? You strike out once again in the school library.
The argument you're missing is that these filters aren't as smart as the humans that filter the book selection.
The online filters work as if you could get "Mein Kampf" in German because it only filters on English words and you couldn't get "Business @ the Speed of Thought" because the person writing the "book filter" didn't like Bill Gates. There was a report that at least one of the filters blocked liberal sites and none of the ultra-right-wing nuts' sites, and also prevented you from reading articles negative to their product, or belonging to people who had complained.
That is not a good thing. Do you really trust a third party to restrict your access to information? Should children also be prevented from buying sweets because they should eat vegetables instead? Or should they be allowed to learn that vegetables are better for you than sweets?
No, it's your logic that is flawed. The allegory would only hold if there was a specific tax on, say, baseball bats, which was then used to compensate victims beaten with baseball bats.
It's your *right* to copy software. Any software. Any Information.
Says who? Luddites may think that only physical objects has any monetary value. If so, why should a university professor earn more per hour than a McDonald's burger flipper? The only difference is the value attributed to the professor's accumulated knowledge.
Go read www.gnu.org. Especially the stuff on intellectual property.
Yes, I consider GNU to be an authority on someone's right to what they have made - though intangible in nature - in much the same way I consider NAMBLA an authority on whether having sex with children is OK... NOT!
If they want to turn intellectual pursuits into hobbies you perform after coming home from your traditional job, by all means - until they enforce that, I prefer making a living based on my skills, even if what I produce is electronic in nature.
And to further address the point: Though I disagree with Bertrand Meyer on a lot, his essay on the ethics of free software is worth a read to counter the GNU hippies.
It boils down to how someone are compensated for their efforts, whether the costs associated with creating intangibles (information) should be shared by those benefiting from it, and - apparently - to what extent all for-profit corporations are evil bastards, aka. whether GNU is an academic ivory tower with no contact with the "real world" where the rest of us make a living.
They did a great job on a free comic and are now selling out of their t-shirts and recently started taking orders for a hard and soft-cover book. I read it every other day and I'm seriously considering the book.
Especially Kovalic has aquired a good reputation among the possible customers (read: gamers) through both online and magazine (Pyramid, Dragon) presence. (A pity their "Pokéthulu - Gotta Catch You All" T-shirt seems absent from their store...:-P)
XML is a "technology" in the same way as comma-separated list is a "technology".
Except XML is hierarchical and has syntax, a comma-separated list does not. How do you identify what each value in a comma-separated list is? Use keys in front of the values? Congratulations, you're halfway to an unreadable replacement for XML.
Game developers are stuck into microsoft's proprietary API's (mostly directx) but the beauty is that almost all PC games will be available on this system due to being portable from windows to.. windows.
The point here is that Windows on a PC is not optimized for running games. The OS on the X-Box will be. Heck, it probably won't even look like Windows API-wise once you get above the kernel.
And known hardware is easier to optimize for. Hence, the games will run faster on this box than a PC even if they do port them to it.
It runs slowly, so maybe that's not the best example:)
Actually, that makes it a very good example why 99% of developers don't use it.
Apart from that, it seems much emu software on the Dreamcast (for Spectrum etc.) uses it; presumably because the dev-kit is so readily available, and it's close enough to "real" Windows for Windows developers to write for.
A relatively small portion of the magazine itself is devoted to "God's creation" (aka. naked and semi-naked women); The rest is horribly LIBERAL and SECULAR writing with no XTIAN MESSG in them. I bet that's what they really dont want you to get at.
Anyone know if they also filter out Salon for printing negative articles on the church and its views?
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So, since no Volkswagen model has toppled the Beetle means Volkswagen never produced newer models? That the NeoGeo Pocket Color didn't sell as much as the GameBoy series (which largely survived due to Pokémon) doesn't mean it wasn't "a new system".
very few games were released supporting the miserable advance in features
This is so utter bullshit (just visit a well-stocked GBC-selling game store) that if I had moderator points you'd be swinning at Troll level. Since I don't, I post this instead.
It's also an island! Presto!
You can write decently fast GUI applications in Swing as long as you use 1.3.x and know what you are doing.
User Friendly speaks to those who have grown up and started working in the industry,
PA has that category in the bag.
PA speaks to those who haven't grown up, and spend their time playing games.
There is no comparison.
Except their product works for any Joe Schmoe with an SSL- and Javascript-capable web browser, while PGP requires extra effort for the user.
Depends on your target, I guess.
Disclaimer: I work for a company which has purchased the product for localization for a customer's use of it.
It was, it was called HTML 3.0, and they beheld it and it was good. Tons of useful features for web authors.
Then the browser manufacturers ignored it completely, preferring to add their own proprietary hacks. Why APPLET and EMBED when OBJECT existed to do what both those did, in a more powerful fashin? Was it because Netscape's programmers couldn't implement it in their spaghetti?
Don't blame the standards when those who should implement them don't.
it's rather impossible to create a Braille website, no? I personally can't wait to see a site such as Slashdot be forced to switch to a 32pt font
You have abolutely no knowledge about the possibilities of web technology.
Or are you one of those stupid web-DUH-signers who actually believe the user's client must present your content the exact way you have visualized it? If so, please make sure you get hit by a car before you risk reproducing.
From what I remember reading about Java's history at the Sun site, it was precisely all the money thrown into (effectively) blind alleys like NeWS that made them stop, think, look at future trends, and make Java.
So don't get your hopes up. :-)
You mean: "Since I don't know what OS it could be, it does not exist"? There are several for the PC architecture, such as OS/2, GEOS, CP/M-86, CCP/M, ...
It seems you are the trolling one.
I do seem to recall the Big Boss himself had to make a statement denouncing the "Nintendo buys Sega" rumors a few weeks back, but mostly because some paper (NYT?) reprinted the mistaken rumor even after both Nintendo and Sega said it was horseshit. (Not their exact words :-))
I think Borland's commercial InternetBeans library (ships with JBuilder 4 Enterprise, at least) does something like this for JSP and servlets.
The difference is that now there's an actual product there.
while the child learns why the rules exist.
A filter just does the "no" part, and does not answer the "why not" part. (Though the "why not" will usually be "because some arbitrary adult decided it for you".)
(perpetuates the myth that sex is a purely physical act, that sex is only about gratifying yourself, that sex outside the bounds of marriage is OK)
That's your political or religious agenda - others have different opinions on both porn and sex. Why should your opinion carry more weight than their?
So we have to filter.
No. What you fail to understand is that the filter does not know whether the person sitting in front of the computer is a child or adult. Children aren't allowed into violent movies either, so you will have to filter away violent content. And so on. And why should only children be protected? Blacks may not want to find white supremacist doggerel. White supremacist in turn may not want NAACP yadayada. Women abused on religious gounds may not want any pro-Christian content to appear. NAMBLA may be offended if you can read that sex with children is wrong.
Where do you stop?
(I won't even bother to stress the fact that the "children" are the users most likely to know how to bypass the filters in the first place.)
The argument you're missing is that these filters aren't as smart as the humans that filter the book selection.
The online filters work as if you could get "Mein Kampf" in German because it only filters on English words and you couldn't get "Business @ the Speed of Thought" because the person writing the "book filter" didn't like Bill Gates. There was a report that at least one of the filters blocked liberal sites and none of the ultra-right-wing nuts' sites, and also prevented you from reading articles negative to their product, or belonging to people who had complained.
That is not a good thing. Do you really trust a third party to restrict your access to information? Should children also be prevented from buying sweets because they should eat vegetables instead? Or should they be allowed to learn that vegetables are better for you than sweets?
No, it's your logic that is flawed. The allegory would only hold if there was a specific tax on, say, baseball bats, which was then used to compensate victims beaten with baseball bats.
Not here: "Shut Down" means I log off - the machine stays up. :-P
Says who? Luddites may think that only physical objects has any monetary value. If so, why should a university professor earn more per hour than a McDonald's burger flipper? The only difference is the value attributed to the professor's accumulated knowledge.
Go read www.gnu.org. Especially the stuff on intellectual property.
Yes, I consider GNU to be an authority on someone's right to what they have made - though intangible in nature - in much the same way I consider NAMBLA an authority on whether having sex with children is OK... NOT!
If they want to turn intellectual pursuits into hobbies you perform after coming home from your traditional job, by all means - until they enforce that, I prefer making a living based on my skills, even if what I produce is electronic in nature.
And to further address the point: Though I disagree with Bertrand Meyer on a lot, his essay on the ethics of free software is worth a read to counter the GNU hippies.
It boils down to how someone are compensated for their efforts, whether the costs associated with creating intangibles (information) should be shared by those benefiting from it, and - apparently - to what extent all for-profit corporations are evil bastards, aka. whether GNU is an academic ivory tower with no contact with the "real world" where the rest of us make a living.
Other examples include Kovalic who publishes varius excellent gaming-related comics (Dork Tower, Nodwick and soon PvP) and other fancy stuff (like the Sith Park T-shirt), and another small publisher, Kenzer & Co., publishers of other gaming-related comics, though they have less online presence than Kovalic.
Especially Kovalic has aquired a good reputation among the possible customers (read: gamers) through both online and magazine (Pyramid, Dragon) presence. (A pity their "Pokéthulu - Gotta Catch You All" T-shirt seems absent from their store... :-P)
URL? whatis.com's list does not know what HDF is.
But it doesn't have the redundancy of XML since it doesn't give the same item name again to close it (just a closing brace).
The people responsible for XML probably had a reason to not allow SGML's "shortcut" end tag, which allows <conf:destination-file>autoexec.bat</>
Except XML is hierarchical and has syntax, a comma-separated list does not. How do you identify what each value in a comma-separated list is? Use keys in front of the values? Congratulations, you're halfway to an unreadable replacement for XML.
The point here is that Windows on a PC is not optimized for running games. The OS on the X-Box will be. Heck, it probably won't even look like Windows API-wise once you get above the kernel.
And known hardware is easier to optimize for. Hence, the games will run faster on this box than a PC even if they do port them to it.
Actually, that makes it a very good example why 99% of developers don't use it.
Apart from that, it seems much emu software on the Dreamcast (for Spectrum etc.) uses it; presumably because the dev-kit is so readily available, and it's close enough to "real" Windows for Windows developers to write for.
Get real: The story was just a precursor to the discussion, and not important in itself.
How long have you been following Java? Two months?
A relatively small portion of the magazine itself is devoted to "God's creation" (aka. naked and semi-naked women); The rest is horribly LIBERAL and SECULAR writing with no XTIAN MESSG in them. I bet that's what they really dont want you to get at.
Anyone know if they also filter out Salon for printing negative articles on the church and its views?