Considering that multiplayer gaming competitions with a cash prize have started to take off here in Australia, it's about time a national computer gaming convention happened.
All we need is a big cheap warehouse in one of our main cities. Pity our population isn't big enough to support something like this.
Hell, our telecommunications and public transport infrastructure is barely adequate for the meagre population we have. But I digress.
Perhaps having some sort of extreme gaming event would get people from overseas interested.
We host enough international sporting events, why not have an international multiplayer gaming event here?
5. NaN Holding will be sufficiently enabled to (re)start business in the future, for example licensing derived technology or by offering professional services.
This looks like a spanner in the works, if Blender is relased under the full GPL, NaN will not be able to license derived technology except under the GPL.
Or are they talking about something not related to the codebase? Like creating a patent on how blender does something?
Then there is prioir art. In any case, point 5 looks strange to me but IANAL.
The root of the problem lies in the fact that the program/product has to be released by a deadline. Causing common sense and good coding practise to be thrown out the window due to the fact that you'll lose you job if you don't do it.
Deadlines are normally imposed by companies trying to earn a living through the development of software.
Then it would be a good idea to think that the Open Source community, not faced with deadlines, would be able to code the programs in a more ideal situation, leading to code that has a higher degree of elegance and security than code developed by companies attempting to make money from it.
Then you have the flip side of that, where the software may perpetually never reach a state of stableness since it is contunually in flux. But, how you view this state is totally dependant on your point of view.
At least the code in flux has a higher chance of adapting to it's environment and thus surviving over the slower to adapt Closed Source code.
Want to be a sysadmin, say you'll do it for peanuts with on-call thrown in and even if you didn't know your 'any' key from the scroll lock, they'll hire you!
Already using that, and I don't know what I'd do without it.
Actually, got a double buffer set up. Download all the wanted packages on the master unstable workstation via an internal proxy and apt-move it to a local repisotory.
You have a good point there, if the majority of the population is being apathetic then the government can pass whatever it wants, and it will be accepeted since the majority doesn't care about it.
The comment I made is very ambiguous, intentionally so.
If the general populate of the USA rallied against the bill, it would be overthrown in a matter of time. It's the votes that keep these people in their jobs.
Australia needs a non political group controlling the DNS. Perhaps that group should also be the regulating authority for Australia's portion of the Internet.
Although, it would be a better idea for the whole world to be under one Internet Authority, but that is an idealistic situation.
In any case, the Oz government has made so many screw ups in regards to the Internet that handing them the DNS will possibly just make Australia fall back even further, in a technological sense.
Deuterium & Tritium hard to find/manufacture?
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AFAIK, both deuterium and tritium are naturally occouring isotopes of hydrogen and can be found in very small quantites of water.
David could have produced his own with that neutron gun of his, since duterium is hydrogen with a neutron and tritium is hydrogen with two neutrons.
All he had to do was bombard hydrogen gas with the gun. But then, how would he collect it?
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You zap the rustmoster with a wand of fire. -MORE-
The rustmonster divides from the heat. -MORE-
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Considering that multiplayer gaming competitions with a cash prize have started to take off here in Australia, it's about time a national computer gaming convention happened.
All we need is a big cheap warehouse in one of our main cities. Pity our population isn't big enough to support something like this.
Hell, our telecommunications and public transport infrastructure is barely adequate for the meagre population we have. But I digress.
Perhaps having some sort of extreme gaming event would get people from overseas interested.
We host enough international sporting events, why not have an international multiplayer gaming event here?
5. NaN Holding will be sufficiently enabled to (re)start business in the future, for example licensing derived technology or by offering professional services.
This looks like a spanner in the works, if Blender is relased under the full GPL, NaN will not be able to license derived technology except under the GPL.
Or are they talking about something not related to the codebase? Like creating a patent on how blender does something?
Then there is prioir art. In any case, point 5 looks strange to me but IANAL.
Cool, that was what I was wondering.
When I said "forcefully", I meant forcing it down via remote command then letting it fall eventually.
More like a kill -15 than a kill -9
If it was at all possible, would NASA consider forcefully bringing the satellite down, eg: over an unpopulated area of an ocean?
Or would this have unfortunate legal issues: international airspace, colateral damage.
I concur, reasonable deadlines with a good plan will yeild good results. I have found this works well in my experience.
The day that Management stops counting beans will be the day that the US stops being a Capitalist economy.
The root of the problem lies in the fact that the program/product has to be released by a deadline. Causing common sense and good coding practise to be thrown out the window due to the fact that you'll lose you job if you don't do it.
Deadlines are normally imposed by companies trying to earn a living through the development of software.
Then it would be a good idea to think that the Open Source community, not faced with deadlines, would be able to code the programs in a more ideal situation, leading to code that has a higher degree of elegance and security than code developed by companies attempting to make money from it.
Then you have the flip side of that, where the software may perpetually never reach a state of stableness since it is contunually in flux. But, how you view this state is totally dependant on your point of view.
At least the code in flux has a higher chance of adapting to it's environment and thus surviving over the slower to adapt Closed Source code.
Dang, wrong OS.
Want to be a sysadmin, say you'll do it for peanuts with on-call thrown in and even if you didn't know your 'any' key from the scroll lock, they'll hire you!
The game was originally designed to run on a Mac.
Already using that, and I don't know what I'd do without it.
Actually, got a double buffer set up. Download all the wanted packages on the master unstable workstation via an internal proxy and apt-move it to a local repisotory.
Debian, can I marry you?
Or those administering an office of 'sid' machines behind a 56K Modem. ;-)
Boss, boss, the pain, the pain!
You have a good point there, if the majority of the population is being apathetic then the government can pass whatever it wants, and it will be accepeted since the majority doesn't care about it.
The comment I made is very ambiguous, intentionally so.
If the general populate of the USA rallied against the bill, it would be overthrown in a matter of time. It's the votes that keep these people in their jobs.
Neither laws nor constitution can overpower the will of the populace.
Use Debian, stable releases seep out every two years or so.
Perhaps now all the IT people who jumped the sinking ship of Australia will come back!?!?!
What next, build the hand cuffs in to the keyboard?
Musical Toast!
Not a bad idea actually, hmmm, where is that toaster.
Hopefully, they will not go as blind as bats doing the first few production runs.
What I'd really like to know is this:
When is the wireless version coming out?
Does anyone know how this will affect @Home in other countries?
PS1=`cat /dev/urandom`
Australia needs a non political group controlling the DNS. Perhaps that group should also be the regulating authority for Australia's portion of the Internet.
Although, it would be a better idea for the whole world to be under one Internet Authority, but that is an idealistic situation.
In any case, the Oz government has made so many screw ups in regards to the Internet that handing them the DNS will possibly just make Australia fall back even further, in a technological sense.
AFAIK, both deuterium and tritium are naturally occouring isotopes of hydrogen and can be found in very small quantites of water.
David could have produced his own with that neutron gun of his, since duterium is hydrogen with a neutron and tritium is hydrogen with two neutrons.
All he had to do was bombard hydrogen gas with the gun. But then, how would he collect it?
Here's another way of net advertising. Creating a player decal that you spray in the game of Counter Strike (A half-life mod).
So far I don't know if it's working *grin*