I don't know much about Parrot, but hearing you describe it makes it sound a lot like the CLR/CLI/whateveritsnameis aspect of the.NET platform. It basically sounds like you can "byte-compile" Perl, Python, Ruby, or any number of other languages down to this byte code and run it through a Parrot interpreter, allowing you to use Python libs in Perl scripts and vice versa, for any supported language. This is the part about the.NET environment that intrigued me the most.
Is this correct? If so, I'm surprised that the open source community isn't making a bigger deal about this. Seems like a godsend for working with cross language libraries and modules.
Honestly, is there any poor soul out there who codes new projects in Tcl?
Yeah... there's this little project called TiVo. Maybe you've heard of it. Also, quite a few of the hacks (the web interface to the TiVo that I use, for example) are written in Tcl.
I never really liked the language myself. I'm a Python fan. But some people (and companies) are still using it.
Not only is this true, but they have shipped a "MAME-Dev blessed" version of MAME in the past with a CD of Capcom ROMs. This came with their HotRod PC arcade joystick. I don't know if you can still get it this way or not, but I have one.
... happened not too long ago. I sold some old gear to my inlaws, who had been using my wife's computer from college (from just 2 years earlier). I had to swap out the hard drive from their old computer, a computer that was built in '97, so they could keep their old data. The strangest thing about it was that it had a 5 1/4"-wide hard drive! I thought the industry had standardized on 3 1/2" drives by that point (all the ones I bought during that time frame were 3 1/2".
To this day, that 5 1/4", 10 gig hard drive is still churning away, happily running Windows 98.
Half the glory of a demo is seeing how well it runs on your slow hardware.
I think it would be more nostalgic if there was a "party version" of each demo, where the demo crashes about half way through.
On a serious note, it would be cool if there was some "making of" info on the disc, even if it's just text. And maybe a DVD-ROM track with all the demos?
As you can see by the chart found on the main page IcarusIndie has been running at 60-80% capacity and growing. It became necessary to find a way to either cut bandwidth usage or make money to increase available bandwidth.
Suggested short-term solution: don't voluntarily post a link to your site on Slashdot.
I know the clocks you speak of. I work for a contracting company and worked extensively in the office for some time. During that time, we moved to a new office location and showered me with "gifts" from years past, including one of those clocks. When I set the clock on the table a little too hard, both the hands on the clock fell off!
As for this year, we got a paperweight. I think they got it in a package when we "rebranded" the company. I guess I can cross that off my Christmas list for Santa.
I doubt that Microsoft would want to buy Borland because it would probably take less development resources to make Visio into a decent UML modeling tool than it would to make Together support their platform.
I have to agree, especially if any of you have seen Visio for Enterprise Architects. Lots of UML and ORM (their big push for data modeling... check out http://www.orm.net for more info) is already in there. I think the most likely plot would be to scrap the Java tools.
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Liquid Audio was used by certain major label acts (Creed comes to mind) to release "unreleased" tracks on their web site.
I don't know why people are up-in-arms about the company's demise in the slightest. They had plenty of patents on digital watermarking technologies and the content was very restrictive, besides being available only on one platform (Windows). Bye bye, Liquid Audio. I'll hardly miss ya.
My answer to what the record companies should do
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Dear Recording Industry: feel free to implement this at anytime...
A music professor of mine said that he thought the music industry would improve if it went back to a "singles" market (ie: Don't put out a whole album of crap if you've only got one or two good songs). This is the way it was in the 1950s and 1960s. This makes perfect sense for downloadable music. I see two real problems with these a la carte tracks right now.
Number One: There is not an easy way to pay for something online that costs so little
Number Two: Traditionally, you have paid for a tangible product that you hold in your hands... a work of art, if you will.
I suggest the following to counteract this:
If the music industry truly want's to treat online music as a service, how about $0.10 - $0.50 a track. You don't get unlimited downloads (except maybe a way to resume a download that did not complete or something) At this price, who cares if you lose it? You can just download it again really cheap. It's probably not even worth most people's time to back it up to a CD, but it's certainly something they can do.
Now what about the micro-payment problem? It's simple: pre-paid music cards. They work for telephone service quite successfully in the US and for cell phones overseas. Why not sell a $10 card at the local convenience store (or even at something like Tower Records to start with) that works like a phone card and allows you to download whatever music you want! Maybe you get even more "download credits" for buying more at one time (a la Dave & Busters game cards... the more money you put on at one time, the more credits you recieve) Special incentives can be offered to frequent downloaders, etc.
This would be less funny if one of my co-workers hadn't said something to me along those lines yesterday. I don't know if he was joking or not. (We run a 99% Microsoft shop.)
If Perl had an IDE that was as easy to use it would dominate the world. (more than it already does)
ActiveState sells a plugin for Visual Studio.NET called Visual Perl that gives you all the functionality of the VS.NET environment with the language you love. (Don't worry, Python lovers... ActiveState makes Visual Python as well)
I don't work for ActiveState, but I do love a lot of the features in Visual Studio.NET, so I thought it was note-worthy. I guess the integrated development environment is an advance?
Obviously, sites that post this information making it "too easy" for consumers to find the cheapest prices. Stores probably count on consumers to be too lazy to find the cheapest price, and this makes it easier to do just that.
It amazes me that they only care about things like this when they are at a certain scale.
Take Metallica, back when they were fighting the evil Napster. Everybody knew that they encouraged fans to trade tapes of their shows, but when it started happening on the scale that it did with Napster, it suddenly becomes this evil thing that nobody wants a part of.
I just don't understand this... The whole point of a sale is to either unload merchandise or to bring people into your store. Either way, isn't it in your best interests to publicize the sale as best as you can? Wouldn't you want everyone to tell everybody they knew about this sale?
What really boggles my mind is that most retailers have been saying they don't expect sales to be brisk due to the current economic situation and the late Thanksgiving (again, for those not in the know, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving... the "official" start of the Christmas consumption season in the US).
So, with that said... can someone please explain why a store would not want as many people as possible to know about their sales?
Everyone knows peons don't care about security. They just go around doing whatever they're told to do. Half the time, they're just standing around because there's nothing for them to do. They are oblivious to security breaches... I can't tell you how many peons I've seen getting hacked to death without them even noticing! And if they do notice, all they ever respond with is "Stop poking me!!!"
That's not true at all! Why, just the other day my peons built a barracks and several watch towers. You are right about the poking thing though... they don't like that one bit.
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That's a bit foolish. Go make an hour-and-a-half long, ahem, "adult feature" for $100k.
Of course, you only need about 30 seconds of that...
Pick a Number Between 1 and 10....
What Color am I thinknig of....
Guess which hand.....
Sounds like a simulation of that crappy casino that Cousin Eddie takes Clark to in 'Vegas Vacation'
I think a likely evolution will be towards a single VM that runs all your programs instead of the one VM per app generally used now
.NET, so get ready for it. It'll be interesting to see how much acceptance the "one VM to rule them all" gets.
FYI, Microsoft is doing this with
I don't know much about Parrot, but hearing you describe it makes it sound a lot like the CLR/CLI/whateveritsnameis aspect of the .NET platform. It basically sounds like you can "byte-compile" Perl, Python, Ruby, or any number of other languages down to this byte code and run it through a Parrot interpreter, allowing you to use Python libs in Perl scripts and vice versa, for any supported language. This is the part about the .NET environment that intrigued me the most.
Is this correct? If so, I'm surprised that the open source community isn't making a bigger deal about this. Seems like a godsend for working with cross language libraries and modules.
Honestly, is there any poor soul out there who codes new projects in Tcl?
Yeah... there's this little project called TiVo. Maybe you've heard of it. Also, quite a few of the hacks (the web interface to the TiVo that I use, for example) are written in Tcl.
I never really liked the language myself. I'm a Python fan. But some people (and companies) are still using it.
My mistake... I thought they had permission from the MAME team.
The media would have me believe that Girls are too busy Going Wild to be interested in CS. I don't know if that's the true reason though...
Not only is this true, but they have shipped a "MAME-Dev blessed" version of MAME in the past with a CD of Capcom ROMs. This came with their HotRod PC arcade joystick. I don't know if you can still get it this way or not, but I have one.
... happened not too long ago. I sold some old gear to my inlaws, who had been using my wife's computer from college (from just 2 years earlier). I had to swap out the hard drive from their old computer, a computer that was built in '97, so they could keep their old data. The strangest thing about it was that it had a 5 1/4"-wide hard drive! I thought the industry had standardized on 3 1/2" drives by that point (all the ones I bought during that time frame were 3 1/2".
To this day, that 5 1/4", 10 gig hard drive is still churning away, happily running Windows 98.
With discounts, the price has been that low for a little while.
:)
Best Buy had 7200 RPM 120 gig Maxtor drives for ~$100 just last month. Of course it was mis-priced, but I still got one while they were out there.
Half the glory of a demo is seeing how well it runs on your slow hardware.
I think it would be more nostalgic if there was a "party version" of each demo, where the demo crashes about half way through.
On a serious note, it would be cool if there was some "making of" info on the disc, even if it's just text. And maybe a DVD-ROM track with all the demos?
From the article:
As you can see by the chart found on the main page IcarusIndie has been running at 60-80% capacity and growing. It became necessary to find a way to either cut bandwidth usage or make money to increase available bandwidth.
Suggested short-term solution: don't voluntarily post a link to your site on Slashdot.
What animal is on the cover of "Surviving the Slashdot Effect"?
The cockroach.
Wow. Has anybody else noticed that the VCR vs. PVR discussions are starting to become more and more like the Vi vs. Emacs "discussions"?
I know the clocks you speak of. I work for a contracting company and worked extensively in the office for some time. During that time, we moved to a new office location and showered me with "gifts" from years past, including one of those clocks. When I set the clock on the table a little too hard, both the hands on the clock fell off!
As for this year, we got a paperweight. I think they got it in a package when we "rebranded" the company. I guess I can cross that off my Christmas list for Santa.
I doubt that Microsoft would want to buy Borland because it would probably take less development resources to make Visio into a decent UML modeling tool than it would to make Together support their platform.
I have to agree, especially if any of you have seen Visio for Enterprise Architects. Lots of UML and ORM (their big push for data modeling... check out http://www.orm.net for more info) is already in there. I think the most likely plot would be to scrap the Java tools.
Liquid Audio was used by certain major label acts (Creed comes to mind) to release "unreleased" tracks on their web site.
I don't know why people are up-in-arms about the company's demise in the slightest. They had plenty of patents on digital watermarking technologies and the content was very restrictive, besides being available only on one platform (Windows). Bye bye, Liquid Audio. I'll hardly miss ya.
Dear Recording Industry: feel free to implement this at anytime...
A music professor of mine said that he thought the music industry would improve if it went back to a "singles" market (ie: Don't put out a whole album of crap if you've only got one or two good songs). This is the way it was in the 1950s and 1960s. This makes perfect sense for downloadable music. I see two real problems with these a la carte tracks right now.
Number One: There is not an easy way to pay for something online that costs so little
Number Two: Traditionally, you have paid for a tangible product that you hold in your hands... a work of art, if you will.
I suggest the following to counteract this:
If the music industry truly want's to treat online music as a service, how about $0.10 - $0.50 a track. You don't get unlimited downloads (except maybe a way to resume a download that did not complete or something) At this price, who cares if you lose it? You can just download it again really cheap. It's probably not even worth most people's time to back it up to a CD, but it's certainly something they can do.
Now what about the micro-payment problem? It's simple: pre-paid music cards. They work for telephone service quite successfully in the US and for cell phones overseas. Why not sell a $10 card at the local convenience store (or even at something like Tower Records to start with) that works like a phone card and allows you to download whatever music you want! Maybe you get even more "download credits" for buying more at one time (a la Dave & Busters game cards... the more money you put on at one time, the more credits you recieve) Special incentives can be offered to frequent downloaders, etc.
This would be less funny if one of my co-workers hadn't said something to me along those lines yesterday. I don't know if he was joking or not. (We run a 99% Microsoft shop.)
I guess I'll just have to settle for the emulated Saturn version in the Phantasy Star collection on my modded Saturn
The Gameboy Advance keeps bringing back the classic hits... including all 3 Phantasy Star games on one cart.
If Perl had an IDE that was as easy to use it would dominate the world. (more than it already does)
.NET called Visual Perl that gives you all the functionality of the VS.NET environment with the language you love. (Don't worry, Python lovers... ActiveState makes Visual Python as well)
.NET, so I thought it was note-worthy. I guess the integrated development environment is an advance?
ActiveState sells a plugin for Visual Studio
I don't work for ActiveState, but I do love a lot of the features in Visual Studio
HTML and Perl have probably set us back 15-20 years.
The deadly combination of these elements into something known as Slashdot... that's the real set back.
Obviously, sites that post this information making it "too easy" for consumers to find the cheapest prices. Stores probably count on consumers to be too lazy to find the cheapest price, and this makes it easier to do just that.
It amazes me that they only care about things like this when they are at a certain scale.
Take Metallica, back when they were fighting the evil Napster. Everybody knew that they encouraged fans to trade tapes of their shows, but when it started happening on the scale that it did with Napster, it suddenly becomes this evil thing that nobody wants a part of.
I just don't understand this... The whole point of a sale is to either unload merchandise or to bring people into your store. Either way, isn't it in your best interests to publicize the sale as best as you can? Wouldn't you want everyone to tell everybody they knew about this sale?
What really boggles my mind is that most retailers have been saying they don't expect sales to be brisk due to the current economic situation and the late Thanksgiving (again, for those not in the know, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving... the "official" start of the Christmas consumption season in the US).
So, with that said... can someone please explain why a store would not want as many people as possible to know about their sales?
A cheat-free online game experience is something most people I know would give their first-born for.
you must know some sick, sick people.
No worries... these people aren't likely to have a child anytime soon.
Everyone knows peons don't care about security. They just go around doing whatever they're told to do. Half the time, they're just standing around because there's nothing for them to do. They are oblivious to security breaches... I can't tell you how many peons I've seen getting hacked to death without them even noticing! And if they do notice, all they ever respond with is "Stop poking me!!!"
That's not true at all! Why, just the other day my peons built a barracks and several watch towers. You are right about the poking thing though... they don't like that one bit.