Money and distribution is important, but its also not fair to be charging for other people's work, and essentially making them pay for it. No one would help on any of their projects if they did that, and it would be essentially like stepping back to a closed source model.
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I remember helping a friend tape it back together so we could take it back to Wal-Mart for cash, then we burned copies of starcraft and has fun all summer long.
I do all my html by hand, and when I noticed opera and netscape were rendering stuff differently than IE I ran it through the w3c checker and got it all up to par with standards. Opera still didn't get some of the stuff right, it was kind of frustrating.
Ok, everyone seems to be agreeing, and yeah, of course I see the parallels. There is a difference though. Why do you want a pc in the first place? to do work, to play games to communicate. Cars take you places, but you can't create tools with them. PC are tools that (in a programmers sense) help you create tools. Computer geeks like fast computers, big surprise. You can always use more speed in your computer (ALWAYS!). You can't usually get someplace faster because you have a faster car. Faster computers open up new doors, faster cars are more towards fun cool stuff then opening up new possibilities.
By 'opera way of doing things' do you mean rendering pages wrong? Not to bitch too much, because there's no way I could make my own browser, but opera suck IMO.
I don't think that anyone thinks that IE is going to be surpased any time soon. I also think that opera sucks, it doesn't even render w3c standard html right sometimes. It is fast, but doesn't have much else going for it. Opera is a bad example I think.
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man, who rated that as a troll. Anyway, art of war rocks, need another server?
100 million a mile? That doesn't sound too realistic. Is that supposed to be just for new pipes or for new pipes and fiber optics. If that's how much it costs to do things no wonder DSL and stuff like it fails. Maybe they should rethink their buisness plan if it costs 1/10th of a billion dollars to dig up the ground and put down metal and glass wire for 1 mile.
Nice troll, comparing perl to BASIC and then calling Java a toy language. You obviously don't know fucking shit and haven't taken the time to learn very many languages very deep. Pretty lame. What is the problem that Lisp and Perl are both aproaching?
Consoles have much better performance than comptuers because the hardware is dedicated and static. A console with the same hardware as a computer will end up having much better graphics because game developers can write games specifically for the hardware and push it to the max. Right now, you could buy a Geforce 3 but no game is going to take advantage of it. Games are just now starting to take advantage of T & L. An example would be that the playstation, uses a 33 MHz main processor, and the nintendo 64 uses a 90 Mhz. I had a 33 MHz proc once, it didn't even run doom very well at all.
You are missing the point, if I am cloned without a brian, then yes, that would be an organ farm and if one of my organs failed what would be wrong with getting a replacement that way? An identical match with a brain would be a person, but without, it would not.
I think we all realize that (most) people who are against this don't really understand what is going on. People always seems to say, you shouldn't be playing God. Well I'm not God so I can't play God. And neither can anyone else for the same reason.
lossless compression for music is just silly. There are alot of factors when dealing with sound that make lossless compression a very poor option. One example is frequencies above and below the human hearing range. That is information that does not matter at all and doesn't need to be thrown in there and waste space.
I guess you didn't understand the point of the article, maybe you should try actually reading it and then read you post again and realize that you completley missed the point.
Actually I have read alot of stuff saying that they will probably look about the same. The xbox has worse sound compression which will probably make up for the lost RAM footing. The 405 MHz processory is a RISC chip that I am sure will be as fast as the pentium III. The graphics card is by ATI but hasn't been shown to anyone yet really, and the polygon numbers are definitly not realistic.
Zelda, Sonic, MegaMan, Donkey Kong, Mortal Kombat 5, Mario Kart, Star Wars, Waverace, etc. I won't be able to get enough. Nintendo has their focus right that's for sure, right on.
Are you willing to end up losing money so you can spend a lot of time creating something of quality? People benefiting from your work is great, but probably not enough to drive most sites unless there are many motivated individuals wanting to help out.
While I don't think that the average person is going to be switching to a virtual desktop or unloading their sound module it is a valid point. Advertisements in a "on demand" system doesn't really work so well. I end up watching some advertisements because I don't want to miss one second of the Simpsons or whatever. With interruption based advertising like that then it will be all to easy to avoid and with no consequence since, the webpage that you are trying to get to in the first place isn't going anywhere.
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Money and distribution is important, but its also not fair to be charging for other people's work, and essentially making them pay for it. No one would help on any of their projects if they did that, and it would be essentially like stepping back to a closed source model.
I am typing this on a 20" IBM P200 Aperature Grille monitor that I bought for $200. It fucking rules.
Jesus dude, just use a RAM disk.
I remember helping a friend tape it back together so we could take it back to Wal-Mart for cash, then we burned copies of starcraft and has fun all summer long.
I do all my html by hand, and when I noticed opera and netscape were rendering stuff differently than IE I ran it through the w3c checker and got it all up to par with standards. Opera still didn't get some of the stuff right, it was kind of frustrating.
Ok, everyone seems to be agreeing, and yeah, of course I see the parallels. There is a difference though. Why do you want a pc in the first place? to do work, to play games to communicate. Cars take you places, but you can't create tools with them. PC are tools that (in a programmers sense) help you create tools. Computer geeks like fast computers, big surprise. You can always use more speed in your computer (ALWAYS!). You can't usually get someplace faster because you have a faster car. Faster computers open up new doors, faster cars are more towards fun cool stuff then opening up new possibilities.
By 'opera way of doing things' do you mean rendering pages wrong? Not to bitch too much, because there's no way I could make my own browser, but opera suck IMO.
I don't think that anyone thinks that IE is going to be surpased any time soon. I also think that opera sucks, it doesn't even render w3c standard html right sometimes. It is fast, but doesn't have much else going for it. Opera is a bad example I think.
man, who rated that as a troll. Anyway, art of war rocks, need another server?
100 million a mile? That doesn't sound too realistic. Is that supposed to be just for new pipes or for new pipes and fiber optics. If that's how much it costs to do things no wonder DSL and stuff like it fails. Maybe they should rethink their buisness plan if it costs 1/10th of a billion dollars to dig up the ground and put down metal and glass wire for 1 mile.
That's a good point, but software for life? There is no way I am going back to using lightwave 2.0.
Fair enough, but Java's OO system is Java. I can't see how anyone would say that it is a toy.
And Lisp was made in the 60's or something ungodly long time ago like that, so if is still aproaching anything it probably ain't going to make it*
I am not taking shots at Lisp by any means.
Nice troll, comparing perl to BASIC and then calling Java a toy language. You obviously don't know fucking shit and haven't taken the time to learn very many languages very deep. Pretty lame. What is the problem that Lisp and Perl are both aproaching?
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Becaue with a brian a person has choice, pain, and emotion.
Consoles have much better performance than comptuers because the hardware is dedicated and static. A console with the same hardware as a computer will end up having much better graphics because game developers can write games specifically for the hardware and push it to the max. Right now, you could buy a Geforce 3 but no game is going to take advantage of it. Games are just now starting to take advantage of T & L. An example would be that the playstation, uses a 33 MHz main processor, and the nintendo 64 uses a 90 Mhz. I had a 33 MHz proc once, it didn't even run doom very well at all.
You are missing the point, if I am cloned without a brian, then yes, that would be an organ farm and if one of my organs failed what would be wrong with getting a replacement that way? An identical match with a brain would be a person, but without, it would not.
I think we all realize that (most) people who are against this don't really understand what is going on. People always seems to say, you shouldn't be playing God. Well I'm not God so I can't play God. And neither can anyone else for the same reason.
lossless compression for music is just silly. There are alot of factors when dealing with sound that make lossless compression a very poor option. One example is frequencies above and below the human hearing range. That is information that does not matter at all and doesn't need to be thrown in there and waste space.
I guess you didn't understand the point of the article, maybe you should try actually reading it and then read you post again and realize that you completley missed the point.
Actually I have read alot of stuff saying that they will probably look about the same. The xbox has worse sound compression which will probably make up for the lost RAM footing. The 405 MHz processory is a RISC chip that I am sure will be as fast as the pentium III. The graphics card is by ATI but hasn't been shown to anyone yet really, and the polygon numbers are definitly not realistic.
Zelda, Sonic, MegaMan, Donkey Kong, Mortal Kombat 5, Mario Kart, Star Wars, Waverace, etc. I won't be able to get enough. Nintendo has their focus right that's for sure, right on.
Are you willing to end up losing money so you can spend a lot of time creating something of quality? People benefiting from your work is great, but probably not enough to drive most sites unless there are many motivated individuals wanting to help out.
While I don't think that the average person is going to be switching to a virtual desktop or unloading their sound module it is a valid point. Advertisements in a "on demand" system doesn't really work so well. I end up watching some advertisements because I don't want to miss one second of the Simpsons or whatever. With interruption based advertising like that then it will be all to easy to avoid and with no consequence since, the webpage that you are trying to get to in the first place isn't going anywhere.