This doesn't make sense at all to me, if education is to be based on this then schools should teach something like Sumerian as a first language since English is so prevalent that kids are bound to come in contact with it somewhere along the line.
Schools don't want to run two operating systems, they want one so they only need support staff for that one. Looking at the world they're preparing the kids for they see that Windows, rightly or wrongly, is almost universally prevalent except in a few tech-centric/design areas. They want to prepare their students to go out into this world, and so they'll choose Windows.
Don't worry, you can turn the Alice texture detail down yourself to get the 15% speed boost. Your graphics won't look as good, of course, but they'll have higher frame-rate.
Wow. I just 'optimised' for Alice, anyone think ATI'll have me for a Driver Developer?
If it's like most remote viewing things it'll show up exactly as it does on your screen.. these things rely on driver-level code to intercept graphics calls.
They were only 'Going to die' anyway in this rather unique situation. Assuming that everyone's going to die in a hijacking situation would have resulted in a lot more deaths in almost all previous situations.
Dungeon Master by FTL had the same kind of 'Usage based experience' with you going up seperately in Fighter, Ninja, Mage, and Priest classes.
Fighter levels gained by hitting things, Ninja levels were gained by throwing things, and Mage and Cleric levels by casting the right kind of spells. I lost count of the number of times I gained a fighter level whilst chopping through a door with a sword, or gained ninja levels whilst throwing away unwanted items.
The Playstation II game "Star Wars Starfighter" was developed using a Playstation II version of OpenGL. It looks, from reading the 'postmortem' on Gamasutra that this decision was made when the game was initially being developed for the PC, and that the change allowed the code to be migrated to the PS2 with relative ease.
Maybe the 'saviour' of OpenGL as a games-level API lies in allowing similat (I know about card-specific bits..) code to be used on all main games platforms, Windows, PS2, XBox, and so on?
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Yes it would, but this isn't what they're doing.. they're using the *profits* off Windows to allow them to push the X-Box, not the contracts.
It's a nice idea to use Perl in this way, and I have done it myself when the search facility didn't seem to be able to find the entry I needed. The first edition though did including "Learning Perl" and "Learning Perl on Win32".. the Java search worked here since it doesn't need any knowledge to get it working. I'll agree though that having the CGI version available would have been nice, although (IIRC) the Java version required the CD to be in the drive and wouldn't work from a HDD copy, maybe O'Reilly didn't want people setting up a single networked copy of this?
I do truly love the idea of getting people to write their own search engine though!
Thanks for the advice and constructive criticism.. and a compiled executable is cross-platform how exactly..? If they were going for platform-specifics then the language chosen wouldn't be as much of an issue, but to go for multi-platform then Java makes more sense than Perl.
They're not trying to copyright the idea of music, they're trying to copyright the specific music of people signed to their members. Believe it or not the RIAA won't come to your house in the middle of the night and seize your guitar 'for playing music', they won't even come and be nasty for distributing the MP3s of unsigned bands, they may come and seuze your computer if you were distributing guitar stuff by one of their artists though.
Feel free to boycott the RIAA and their members, but don't be a hypocrite and do so whilst enjoying the music that the RIAA members are producing.
I did find it somewhat concerning that 'Everything innovative in the music world' was.. errr.. Napster and MP3.com? So much for any progress in actual music.. the MP3 places are being shut, the sky is falling down!
I'll take it to mean the Smashing Pumpkins have made their money out of these recording studios and now they were breaking up decided to do the 'radical' thing and speak out against the system that'd served them so well all these years...
Wow.. you're willing to pay $20 to trade it to 1,000,000 people? I'm sure the bands will be sooo happy with their cut of the 0.0002c per listener then!
If you genuinely feel this then feel free to buy CDs from bands that want the coverage, not from bands that would actually rather you didn't trade. Don't assume that your $20 means your wishes concerning one your $20 CD overwhelm those of the business method that's paying the artists, sound engineers, and so forth.
If you want to change the world and create a whole new system then feel free, but don't make it piggyback of the system you're replacing.. ie. paid for CDs. That's parasitic.
..and all this is installed by default into a Windows system?
Perl's a great cross-platform language for server-side work, but if it was chosen as the language to implement a quick CD-distributed search system I think it'd be point-and-laugh time. Most machines do not have the ability to run Perl by default, and even if they did it'd generally take a fair bit of configuring to make it pick up on this random file in the CD drive, and I really wouldn't want the hassle of copying stuff to my cgi-bin.
My copy of the CD Bookshelf (1st.Ed) is mostly used on Win9x machines, where I've been roaming round the company Doing Stuff and suddenly need to borrow a machine to change something on a server. I think installing Perl and it's support libraries would be a little bit of a pain, so I'm fundamentally glad they chose Java.
Umm.. there seems to be one missing in your list of two books too. Was the other one meant to be the "CGI Programming in Perl" book, or did you really mean to recommend that we all have two copies of Programming the Perl DBI?
Admittedly I do have two copies of Programming the Perl DBI.. but then I'm a freak, or so I'm told.
Also you have to bear in mind here that if the 'proprietary' corn is not sterile it becomes inavoidable.
Imagine suddenly waking up to find that you carefully-nutured KMail clients had suddenly become infected with Outlook Express, and the only way to remove it was to totally trash the lot and hope against odds that it didn't happen next time.
The answer is complexity. Life is a lot of barely understood reactions which, when taken together, produce something which at the moment we have no hope whatsoever of tracing.
If it was possible to give you a nice itemised list of the possible dangers then you'd have one provided by one of the groups on one side of the argument, as it is no list exists.
Maybe the chemical the strawberries produce to protect themselves from frost will end up changing slightly into something wonderously carcinogenic, maybe the plant will be too successful when introduced to the wild and suddenly corn is being choked by strawberry vines, maybe the strawberries themselves will prove too successful after a while and will leech all the nutrients from the soil.
I'm not a biologist, I'm a programmer, but I can see enough possible problems here to see that maybe it's not worth the risk to get a few out-of-season strawberries. Humanity has a good history of completely hammering ecosystems by moving species about, and I really don't think we've progressed enough to try pushing round species which are specially designed to be *stronger* than anything nature has so far produced. The dingo was strong in Australia, look how that one turned out.
This is something we can't undo, this is not reversible. I for one am glad GM companies are so far tending to stick to sterile varieties as in a darkly pragmatic way I'd 'prefer' the destruction of entire national food supplies to the destruction of an entire planetary ecosystem.
In this case I'm afraid 'We don't know' is a good enough answer for me. We didn't know the effects of DDT when we started to use it, but the risks of DDT were tiny compared to that of a virile strain of wheat.
Sorry this sounds very 'Anti-science', I actually approve of GM research but in *very* controlled conditions. The world is not a petri dish we can throw out.P>
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Does this mean that before this version this truly was an 'OpenSource movement'?
This doesn't make sense at all to me, if education is to be based on this then schools should teach something like Sumerian as a first language since English is so prevalent that kids are bound to come in contact with it somewhere along the line.
Schools don't want to run two operating systems, they want one so they only need support staff for that one. Looking at the world they're preparing the kids for they see that Windows, rightly or wrongly, is almost universally prevalent except in a few tech-centric/design areas. They want to prepare their students to go out into this world, and so they'll choose Windows.
Don't worry, you can turn the Alice texture detail down yourself to get the 15% speed boost. Your graphics won't look as good, of course, but they'll have higher frame-rate.
Wow. I just 'optimised' for Alice, anyone think ATI'll have me for a Driver Developer?
Does The Fonz use PHP too then?
Always imagined him more of a Perl man, myself
If it's like most remote viewing things it'll show up exactly as it does on your screen.. these things rely on driver-level code to intercept graphics calls.
They were only 'Going to die' anyway in this rather unique situation. Assuming that everyone's going to die in a hijacking situation would have resulted in a lot more deaths in almost all previous situations.
Dungeon Master by FTL had the same kind of 'Usage based experience' with you going up seperately in Fighter, Ninja, Mage, and Priest classes.
Fighter levels gained by hitting things, Ninja levels were gained by throwing things, and Mage and Cleric levels by casting the right kind of spells. I lost count of the number of times I gained a fighter level whilst chopping through a door with a sword, or gained ninja levels whilst throwing away unwanted items.
The Playstation II game "Star Wars Starfighter" was developed using a Playstation II version of OpenGL. It looks, from reading the 'postmortem' on Gamasutra that this decision was made when the game was initially being developed for the PC, and that the change allowed the code to be migrated to the PS2 with relative ease.
Maybe the 'saviour' of OpenGL as a games-level API lies in allowing similat (I know about card-specific bits..) code to be used on all main games platforms, Windows, PS2, XBox, and so on?
Yes it would, but this isn't what they're doing.. they're using the *profits* off Windows to allow them to push the X-Box, not the contracts.
It's a nice idea to use Perl in this way, and I have done it myself when the search facility didn't seem to be able to find the entry I needed. The first edition though did including "Learning Perl" and "Learning Perl on Win32".. the Java search worked here since it doesn't need any knowledge to get it working. I'll agree though that having the CGI version available would have been nice, although (IIRC) the Java version required the CD to be in the drive and wouldn't work from a HDD copy, maybe O'Reilly didn't want people setting up a single networked copy of this?
I do truly love the idea of getting people to write their own search engine though!
Thanks for the advice and constructive criticism.. and a compiled executable is cross-platform how exactly..? If they were going for platform-specifics then the language chosen wouldn't be as much of an issue, but to go for multi-platform then Java makes more sense than Perl.
They're not trying to copyright the idea of music, they're trying to copyright the specific music of people signed to their members. Believe it or not the RIAA won't come to your house in the middle of the night and seize your guitar 'for playing music', they won't even come and be nasty for distributing the MP3s of unsigned bands, they may come and seuze your computer if you were distributing guitar stuff by one of their artists though.
Feel free to boycott the RIAA and their members, but don't be a hypocrite and do so whilst enjoying the music that the RIAA members are producing.
I did find it somewhat concerning that 'Everything innovative in the music world' was.. errr.. Napster and MP3.com? So much for any progress in actual music.. the MP3 places are being shut, the sky is falling down!
I'll take it to mean the Smashing Pumpkins have made their money out of these recording studios and now they were breaking up decided to do the 'radical' thing and speak out against the system that'd served them so well all these years...
Have you thought of listening to the crappy MP3 and then buying the CD if you want it? I hear they're almost CD-quality nowadays!
Wow.. you're willing to pay $20 to trade it to 1,000,000 people? I'm sure the bands will be sooo happy with their cut of the 0.0002c per listener then!
If you genuinely feel this then feel free to buy CDs from bands that want the coverage, not from bands that would actually rather you didn't trade. Don't assume that your $20 means your wishes concerning one your $20 CD overwhelm those of the business method that's paying the artists, sound engineers, and so forth.
If you want to change the world and create a whole new system then feel free, but don't make it piggyback of the system you're replacing.. ie. paid for CDs. That's parasitic.
I should really show your post to friends of mine who've been arrested under those laws in the UK. I'm sure they'd be interested to hear this!
..and all this is installed by default into a Windows system?
Perl's a great cross-platform language for server-side work, but if it was chosen as the language to implement a quick CD-distributed search system I think it'd be point-and-laugh time. Most machines do not have the ability to run Perl by default, and even if they did it'd generally take a fair bit of configuring to make it pick up on this random file in the CD drive, and I really wouldn't want the hassle of copying stuff to my cgi-bin.
My copy of the CD Bookshelf (1st.Ed) is mostly used on Win9x machines, where I've been roaming round the company Doing Stuff and suddenly need to borrow a machine to change something on a server. I think installing Perl and it's support libraries would be a little bit of a pain, so I'm fundamentally glad they chose Java.
Umm.. there seems to be one missing in your list of two books too. Was the other one meant to be the "CGI Programming in Perl" book, or did you really mean to recommend that we all have two copies of Programming the Perl DBI? Admittedly I do have two copies of Programming the Perl DBI.. but then I'm a freak, or so I'm told.
My God, they've realised that to defeat the rabid hordes of Linux geeks it may be necessary to patent coffee!
Coo.. can we have removable storage shaped like the Cobra III from Elite too?
Also you have to bear in mind here that if the 'proprietary' corn is not sterile it becomes inavoidable.
Imagine suddenly waking up to find that you carefully-nutured KMail clients had suddenly become infected with Outlook Express, and the only way to remove it was to totally trash the lot and hope against odds that it didn't happen next time.
What a nice silly analogy. Happy dreams!
The answer is complexity. Life is a lot of barely understood reactions which, when taken together, produce something which at the moment we have no hope whatsoever of tracing.
If it was possible to give you a nice itemised list of the possible dangers then you'd have one provided by one of the groups on one side of the argument, as it is no list exists.
Maybe the chemical the strawberries produce to protect themselves from frost will end up changing slightly into something wonderously carcinogenic, maybe the plant will be too successful when introduced to the wild and suddenly corn is being choked by strawberry vines, maybe the strawberries themselves will prove too successful after a while and will leech all the nutrients from the soil.
I'm not a biologist, I'm a programmer, but I can see enough possible problems here to see that maybe it's not worth the risk to get a few out-of-season strawberries. Humanity has a good history of completely hammering ecosystems by moving species about, and I really don't think we've progressed enough to try pushing round species which are specially designed to be *stronger* than anything nature has so far produced. The dingo was strong in Australia, look how that one turned out.
This is something we can't undo, this is not reversible. I for one am glad GM companies are so far tending to stick to sterile varieties as in a darkly pragmatic way I'd 'prefer' the destruction of entire national food supplies to the destruction of an entire planetary ecosystem.
In this case I'm afraid 'We don't know' is a good enough answer for me. We didn't know the effects of DDT when we started to use it, but the risks of DDT were tiny compared to that of a virile strain of wheat.
Sorry this sounds very 'Anti-science', I actually approve of GM research but in *very* controlled conditions. The world is not a petri dish we can throw out.P>
This is like saying it doesn't matter what the recipe for chocolate cake says as we don't eat recipes.
No, you now have the Tao operating system with kludges to let it run ten year old software. Congratulations.