Marathon brings back scary memories for me. I was helping work the TypeTamer booth at MacWorld '95, and right next to us was the Bungie booth. Punky kids had 8 Macs set up running Marathon 2, with lines that stretched way out into the aisle. Marathon's hardcore techno theme was blasting full volume. Never underestimate the power of good marketing.:)
Wow, that's weird. Netscape may be a tad buggy, but it loads in 10 - 15 seconds under Linux. It usually takes 30 or more under 'Doze (NT 4.0). But, nothing can touch Netscape under 'Doze. (Well, Opera, perchance.) IE4 is just so full of security and stability problems AND it slows the rest of your machine down that it's just not worth even bothering with.
I've never had any speed problems with Nav. PARTICULARLY under Linux... under Windows Mozilla is a bit sluggish, I'll grant you that. And the rendering glitches that IE seems to exhibit regularly make me a die-hard Netscape user. Until something else that's free and as fully-featured as Mozilla comes along.
You're kidding me. IE4 final was worse crash-wise than some of the betas of Navigator 4 I've tried. Netscape is big, slow, and crash-prone but it's smaller, faster, and stabler than IE on Windows. (And Netscape's Linux incarnation is significantly faster than its Windows version.) I think Netscape has a good thing going and if the Mozilla project gets in gear Mozilla 5 will just blow everything away.
I forgot to qualify: A robot that provides no negative feedback, or acts happy when it's beaten, probably does not qualify as an intelligence approaching that of sophisticated life forms, which are "smart" enough to know to preserve and protect themselves.
I am an atheist. I understand that we are machines. I understand that happiness, feeling, and enjoyment are adaptations to our environment that make us better reproductive machines and that all emotions are nothing but carry-overs as a solution to life.
However, this is not comparable to life. It is a parody of life. It's a joke, a toy. It is 0.01% of a life form. I think that people are reclusive enough sitting in front of their TV's 24 hours a day. Social interaction with a robot isn't the same or as useful as social interaction with a living thing. You must realize that our programming brought on by evolution can be thwarted when feedback (which we are dependant on) is incorrect. For example, what if you made a robotic dog that exhibited "hapiness" when you beat it? What would that do to the human being?
Nobody's saying it's a life form of any sort. You buy a real, furry dog for fun, companionship, love, and in some cases, as in hunting dogs, fire dogs, and seeing eye dogs, to help you. Sony is selling its robotic dog for one reason only: entertainment. It's designed to make us laugh and intrigue us, get us thinking about robots and their possibilities, and not fool us into thinking it's a real animal. If someone ever builds a robot that's lifelike enough to be considered an intelligent life form of some sort, then we can begin to address these issues. If it approaches a human in intelligence, then what would it matter if one of our friends is flesh and blood or steel and silicon?
Remember that we humans are adaptive machines, too, and if one of the changes we'll have to adapt to is having intellectual equals which are made of metal then so be it.
Software comes in vending machines in Japan.:D So, I think, do CD's; I understand there's an option that allows you to choose the tracks you want to hear by the artists you like, and the machine will burn a CD with only those tracks.
Doesn't that tell the music industry over here *something*?
IBM is just the company to do it, too. They have more patents than anybody. Do you realize that they have a patent on the idea of a "web" of interconnected computers with distributed information accessible on each? Somebody should have told that to Berners-Lee. The application even has some gratuitous plugs for OS/2 in it.
I forgot the patent number though. Do a search!!!:)
I hear this kind of thing all the time. Eventually Microsoft will wake up and realize that its "One World, One OS, One Philosophy" approach doesn't fly in the Real World of mission-critical computer applications. Then it'll probably do something like buy all of SCO and say "Hey, we have Unix too!"
Note the title of the column. This was obviously written for suits.:) It takes a long, long time for Management to see the light but eventually, they do.
KDE is pretty much the realization of the vision I had for Linux some time ago: providing a flexible, powerful GUI environment for those who want or think they need it, and the legendary CLI for those who prefer that approach, making each one removable. Because of Linux's modular, keep-it-simple philosophy, it is able to do this very well. Unlike some other OS's who feel the need to integrate everything under the sun...
What I DON'T want to see is the vast majority of Linux applications becoming dependent on KDE or GNOME. I'm short on hard disk space right now and so can't run either;_;
They could grab the source from Wine which has a BSD-style license. See the GNU web site for an important difference between a BSD-style license and *the* BSD license. They just couldn't do so for Twine or Twin, which are LGPL'd. Even so, the LGPL is pretty liberal, more so than the GPL, and only covers the particular library you're working on. Proprietary code may still be linked against it. Many people would not have a problem using LGPL.
Everybody knows Beta is a better tape format than VHS. If it weren't, countless Usenet and Slashdot arguments would crumble and there'd be a paradox of the universe. Therefore, Beta is superior.:)
Seriously, I think that Beta/VHS is a bad analogy as each tape format has certain advantages and disadvantages for certain applications. VHS was just better suited for the home market.
But all that will become irrelevant in a decade or so when everyone switches to DVD, except for a few diehards who are convinced that "metal oxide" provides richer picture and sound quality than all that digital crap.
SLIGHTLY faster? The PSX2 is supposed to kick the ass of the PC sitting on your desk. At least at graphics stuff. It's got a 300-MHz 128-bit processor (which is like the equiv. of 2 or 3 PII's... hey, why don't computers get 128bit?) and a whole bunch of other stuff that's way cooler than anything a PC will have in the next few months.
One of the rules used by Mac fanatics in their arguments is that a person or institution has no credibility unless and until they praise the Mac. For example, PC Week is a biased publication that sold out to the PC crowd where as macspeedzone.com is honest, fair, and rational.
The above post seems to apply that rule to Linux as well.
Linux is a great OS. But due to its hacker-oriented nature I don't see it becoming a cookie-cutter-clone, "it just works out-of-the-box" type of deal any time soon. It's like a box of Legos that YOU have to shape into whatever suits you best, not a pre-assembled gimmick. People with ingenuity and a sense of wonder will be drawn to it. People who just want to shop online or do basic word processing and stuff like that will be repulsed by it. Linux has a market segment that it appeals to. (I won't say "niche" because it marginalizes it; Linux could easily appeal to more than just your typical computer geek). So do OS's like MacOS and BeOS. Windows has so degraded in quality that anyone who knew better wouldn't even consider it.
It's getting people to know better that's hard. And I think that's what Petreley is saying.
What's interesting is that IBM, the former Evil Empire, is now a big fan of open systems and a big Linux supporter. They're even saying, "Microsoft, watch out, we tried that and it didn't work". Very interesting times indeed.
Too many people believe the Constitution is valid... but most of those people would willingly give it up to get a little bit of security from the Man. Bill Clinton himself has said that we "need" to give up our basic freedoms in the face of new threats to our security. And look what's happening. If there were no support for this Constitution of ours, what's the point of establishing martial law in the first place?
I suspect that most of the game is written in optimized C or C++ with the really tight parts written in ASM. A Linux/PPC port should be nontrivial but not difficult. It all depends on if id Software is willing to create and support it.
The suit is probably going to be valid.
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Nintendo itself has set a precedent. They successfully got all copies of the great C64 game "The Great Giana Sisters" off the shelf. Giana Sisters was an excellent remake of Super Mario Brothers, except with female heroines (unheard of in those pre-Lara Croft days) and lots of different characters. The game used no Nintendo copyrighted names, characters or artwork. But apparently Nintendo felt it owned the rights to any game where you run, jump, bop blocks and stomp on enemies. I don't know whether or not Nintendo legitimately won its case in front of a judge. But I DO know that they sued, and as a result, Giana Sisters ceased to exist except on a few C64 diehards' machines, whether real or emulated.
The precedent set is, basically, that all game clones are illegal. Guess this means I should stop working on GNUdius....
The original currency was "rubies". (Yes, I know, they're green and blue and stuff, and not all red.) However, the item screen for Zelda 1 misspelled it as "RUPY" and "5 RUPIES". Someone must have gotten confused or something in subsequent Zeldas and changed it to Rupees. I dunno.
Sure, but the scientist in question should gain at least some smattering of understanding as to *how* the program works. Most computer users still see their machines as quasi-magical devices: you push a button, and something happens. Never mind how it happens.
I'm no European either. But I say that in a few years, France, Germany, Italy, etc. will be little more than convenient regional nomenclature. Districts of one huge nation called "Europe". Asia and the Americas will soon subsequently follow a similar plan.
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Marathon brings back scary memories for me. I was helping work the TypeTamer booth at MacWorld '95, and right next to us was the Bungie booth. Punky kids had 8 Macs set up running Marathon 2, with lines that stretched way out into the aisle. Marathon's hardcore techno theme was blasting full volume. Never underestimate the power of good marketing. :)
Wow, that's weird. Netscape may be a tad buggy, but it loads in 10 - 15 seconds under Linux. It usually takes 30 or more under 'Doze (NT 4.0). But, nothing can touch Netscape under 'Doze. (Well, Opera, perchance.) IE4 is just so full of security and stability problems AND it slows the rest of your machine down that it's just not worth even bothering with.
I've never had any speed problems with Nav. PARTICULARLY under Linux... under Windows Mozilla is a bit sluggish, I'll grant you that. And the rendering glitches that IE seems to exhibit regularly make me a die-hard Netscape user. Until something else that's free and as fully-featured as Mozilla comes along.
You're kidding me. IE4 final was worse crash-wise than some of the betas of Navigator 4 I've tried. Netscape is big, slow, and crash-prone but it's smaller, faster, and stabler than IE on Windows. (And Netscape's Linux incarnation is significantly faster than its Windows version.) I think Netscape has a good thing going and if the Mozilla project gets in gear Mozilla 5 will just blow everything away.
I forgot to qualify: A robot that provides no negative feedback, or acts happy when it's beaten, probably does not qualify as an intelligence approaching that of sophisticated life forms, which are "smart" enough to know to preserve and protect themselves.
Nobody's saying it's a life form of any sort. You buy a real, furry dog for fun, companionship, love, and in some cases, as in hunting dogs, fire dogs, and seeing eye dogs, to help you. Sony is selling its robotic dog for one reason only: entertainment. It's designed to make us laugh and intrigue us, get us thinking about robots and their possibilities, and not fool us into thinking it's a real animal. If someone ever builds a robot that's lifelike enough to be considered an intelligent life form of some sort, then we can begin to address these issues. If it approaches a human in intelligence, then what would it matter if one of our friends is flesh and blood or steel and silicon?
Remember that we humans are adaptive machines, too, and if one of the changes we'll have to adapt to is having intellectual equals which are made of metal then so be it.
It's true. I've been hearing about this thing for some time now. And I've seen the robot on TV. It moves similarly to the way a real animal does!
Alphas come in models of up to, AFAIK, 600 MHz, with the 21364 being a > 1 GHz Merced-killer in the NTDF.
Software comes in vending machines in Japan. :D So, I think, do CD's; I understand there's an option that allows you to choose the tracks you want to hear by the artists you like, and the machine will burn a CD with only those tracks.
Doesn't that tell the music industry over here *something*?
vi is the "guru's editor" because virtually any unix box capable of supporting CRT terminal displays has it. Even a 486 being used as a router :)
IBM is just the company to do it, too. They have more patents than anybody. Do you realize that they have a patent on the idea of a "web" of interconnected computers with distributed information accessible on each? Somebody should have told that to Berners-Lee. The application even has some gratuitous plugs for OS/2 in it.
:)
I forgot the patent number though. Do a search!!!
I hear this kind of thing all the time. Eventually Microsoft will wake up and realize that its "One World, One OS, One Philosophy" approach doesn't fly in the Real World of mission-critical computer applications. Then it'll probably do something like buy all of SCO and say "Hey, we have Unix too!"
Note the title of the column. This was obviously written for suits. :) It takes a long, long time for Management to see the light but eventually, they do.
KDE is pretty much the realization of the vision I had for Linux some time ago: providing a flexible, powerful GUI environment for those who want or think they need it, and the legendary CLI for those who prefer that approach, making each one removable. Because of Linux's modular, keep-it-simple philosophy, it is able to do this very well. Unlike some other OS's who feel the need to integrate everything under the sun...
;_;
What I DON'T want to see is the vast majority of Linux applications becoming dependent on KDE or GNOME. I'm short on hard disk space right now and so can't run either
They could grab the source from Wine which has a BSD-style license. See the GNU web site for an important difference between a BSD-style license and *the* BSD license. They just couldn't do so for Twine or Twin, which are LGPL'd. Even so, the LGPL is pretty liberal, more so than the GPL, and only covers the particular library you're working on. Proprietary code may still be linked against it. Many people would not have a problem using LGPL.
Everybody knows Beta is a better tape format than VHS. If it weren't, countless Usenet and Slashdot arguments would crumble and there'd be a paradox of the universe. Therefore, Beta is superior. :)
Seriously, I think that Beta/VHS is a bad analogy as each tape format has certain advantages and disadvantages for certain applications. VHS was just better suited for the home market.
But all that will become irrelevant in a decade or so when everyone switches to DVD, except for a few diehards who are convinced that "metal oxide" provides richer picture and sound quality than all that digital crap.
SLIGHTLY faster? The PSX2 is supposed to kick the ass of the PC sitting on your desk. At least at graphics stuff. It's got a 300-MHz 128-bit processor (which is like the equiv. of 2 or 3 PII's... hey, why don't computers get 128bit?) and a whole bunch of other stuff that's way cooler than anything a PC will have in the next few months.
One of the rules used by Mac fanatics in their arguments is that a person or institution has no credibility unless and until they praise the Mac. For example, PC Week is a biased publication that sold out to the PC crowd where as macspeedzone.com is honest, fair, and rational.
The above post seems to apply that rule to Linux as well.
Linux is a great OS. But due to its hacker-oriented nature I don't see it becoming a cookie-cutter-clone, "it just works out-of-the-box" type of deal any time soon. It's like a box of Legos that YOU have to shape into whatever suits you best, not a pre-assembled gimmick. People with ingenuity and a sense of wonder will be drawn to it. People who just want to shop online or do basic word processing and stuff like that will be repulsed by it. Linux has a market segment that it appeals to. (I won't say "niche" because it marginalizes it; Linux could easily appeal to more than just your typical computer geek). So do OS's like MacOS and BeOS. Windows has so degraded in quality that anyone who knew better wouldn't even consider it.
It's getting people to know better that's hard. And I think that's what Petreley is saying.
What's interesting is that IBM, the former Evil Empire, is now a big fan of open systems and a big Linux supporter. They're even saying, "Microsoft, watch out, we tried that and it didn't work". Very interesting times indeed.
Too many people believe the Constitution is valid... but most of those people would willingly give it up to get a little bit of security from the Man. Bill Clinton himself has said that we "need" to give up our basic freedoms in the face of new threats to our security. And look what's happening. If there were no support for this Constitution of ours, what's the point of establishing martial law in the first place?
I suspect that most of the game is written in optimized C or C++ with the really tight parts written in ASM. A Linux/PPC port should be nontrivial but not difficult. It all depends on if id Software is willing to create and support it.
Nintendo itself has set a precedent. They successfully got all copies of the great C64 game "The Great Giana Sisters" off the shelf. Giana Sisters was an excellent remake of Super Mario Brothers, except with female heroines (unheard of in those pre-Lara Croft days) and lots of different characters. The game used no Nintendo copyrighted names, characters or artwork. But apparently Nintendo felt it owned the rights to any game where you run, jump, bop blocks and stomp on enemies. I don't know whether or not Nintendo legitimately won its case in front of a judge. But I DO know that they sued, and as a result, Giana Sisters ceased to exist except on a few C64 diehards' machines, whether real or emulated.
The precedent set is, basically, that all game clones are illegal. Guess this means I should stop working on GNUdius....
The original currency was "rubies". (Yes, I know, they're green and blue and stuff, and not all red.) However, the item screen for Zelda 1 misspelled it as "RUPY" and "5 RUPIES". Someone must have gotten confused or something in subsequent Zeldas and changed it to Rupees. I dunno.
Sure, but the scientist in question should gain at least some smattering of understanding as to *how* the program works. Most computer users still see their machines as quasi-magical devices: you push a button, and something happens. Never mind how it happens.
I'm no European either. But I say that in a few years, France, Germany, Italy, etc. will be little more than convenient regional nomenclature. Districts of one huge nation called "Europe". Asia and the Americas will soon subsequently follow a similar plan.