Linux is still a server platform and not a desktop platform, it doesn't try to be everything. Linux is still too complex and has too many non-standard features between distributions. It's just too hard for the average user to use as a desktop OS and so it's focus is being a server platform.
Linux already has the stability and speed* to be used everywhere and beat out most competition, but unless everyone has the ability to use it, Linux won't make it into all corners of the market.
*speed in the average case for most applications, yes I know this has been arguable...
I've found from a majority of OSS projects that people just don't know how to design a program. They hardcode to many variables and data, they don't know common design principles and patterns. Most of all, they don't know how write modular code. Most people just put all the code into one big file. When they want to add a new feature, they just keep adding it into the one file a few lines at a time. Eventually the source gets so big and bloated with all these little features getting added. If anyone tries to add anything to this source, they have to wade through all the source to try and figure out what is going on where and how to change the source to do what they want.
When someone wants to add something to an OSS project, they shouldn't have to edit multiple sections of code, opening different files to modify them all to perform one basic new task, they should simple open one file, modify the functions or objects they want and that's it.
Just think of it as a new type of gameplay. Whoever can hack source best wins.=)
Ok but really, someone needs to come up with some type of CRCing program for games. Something that can get a CRC or something of an executable and send it to the server so that the server knows the client is running with an unchanged executable. I see this as the big hurdle in OS game development.
Whats the difference between not allowing minors to view R or NC-17 movies, and not allowing minors to rent violent video games? No one complains when a movie gets an R rating and minors are not allowed in, so why complain about video games?
The difference is that restricting minors from video games is new. Whenever there's change, there will always be people to complain about it. So how long until people see the similarities between games and movies? The line between movie and video game realism is slowly being ereased.
I was looking at this same idea for a game I might be developing. The way I see it, is you can just open part of the source, like the Quake engines do. Quake keeps the main engine closed source, since that's where the major competitive technology is. Everything else that uses the engine is open sourced. This way you can hide your "money making" parts of your source and still allow users to edit some of it. It may not be fully open source but it's a proven option that has worked immensely.
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Buy your books from www.elgrande.com they're cheaper than almost any other place. Just find your book on amazon.com or something, then take the ISBN number and search for it in elgrande. Calculating God's ISBN number is 0312867131 so just do an advanced search for it on elgrande.
One thing alot of new people don't understand is how linear programs run on a computer. C is very linear and would show this well. C++ will just make things more confusing for a new programmer.
C++ also seems to be turning into a buzzword now. "OOh its C, but its got a ++ after it, it must be better!" Well I have a new language called D+=2 clearly it's far superior to C++. My question is, why don't people use C instead of C++? I find it hard to hide from myself that a program runs linearly and try to hide that fact behind classes, inheritance and all those other C++ features. A program can be designed and run better than C++ in C, but C++ has more hype running around it. Giving a carpenter a nailgun doesn't make him a better builder than someone with a hammer. He can just screw things up faster.
How does the monitor work with people that only have vision out of one eye? Being someone with only one eye, I am not able to use any of the 3D technologies like VR headsets and and such since they require two eyes to fake a 3D image. Will this still have true 3D with only one eye?
Most of the people creating these lawsuits and complaining about all this "horrible evil technolgy thats going to destroy our lives", are all still thinking in terms that just don't apply to the digital age. Stealing a cd from a store causes a loss for the store that bought the cd to sell. But what does copying an mp3 from someone cause? It just creates one more person with that mp3. The real problem lies in whether or not the person that copied the mp3 would be willing to buy the mp3 if they couldn't have copied it. I've downloaded lots of mp3's that were just plain bad and would never have bought, or would have returned if I did. But then again, I've also downloaded mp3's and found new forms of music I've liked that have caused me to buy cds in a store.
So what I want to say is, even though there's thousands of people copying mp3's left and right, how many of these people are going to actually buy a cd if they can't copy it? I'm willing to say only small percentage of these people.
Goto www.elgrande.com to buy all your books. They let you buy direct from the publisher with no middle man charges. It's the cheapest place to buy books online! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12
I've been looking for a project to do for my college's MQP and this seems like an interesting thing to do for it. Just what would be required for this? Right now all I'm thinking is a bunch of perl scripts, but I'm sure it would evolve to something more complex than that. What is all the stuff that needs to be stored and searched through? More importantly how big is the demand for a Web Based Helpdesk?
This is one of the reasons why I am going to start a unified configuration program for linux, one that will work on all distros the same. This way people could go from one distro to another easily because they will have a common configuration program. Every distro now has a different configuration program which makes going from one distro of linux to another a whole new learning experience, yet they all claim they are "linux". I plan on turning this into my graduating project for my college so I'll have support from my school soon. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12
Like all turning points, someones going to be responsible which direction the Internet goes in. But who will it be? Most of the people that are on the Internet are uneducated about intellectual property laws and all the issues on the net. A majority of the average computer users think things like Amazon.coms patents are a good thing. They are still thinking of the old forms business. They don't understand it when someone with a conscious understand of the information age, speaks to them of things like freedom of information. They think its just the idea of bunch of zealotus hackers.
The power of the masses just isn't going to work if most of the mass doesn't know whats going on. Right now the only people with the power are the large corperations with the money to do what they wish. So how does the other side compete with this? Well I think people are slowly starting to understand just what the capabilities of the Internet are, and how all these future laws could restrict them and degenerate the Internet. People should realize this is where the real turning point is. If enough people were educated of the Internets capabilities and how they might be taken away, then they would be able to take the Internet back from monetary motivated corporations and uneducated legistlators.
I've learned not to get excited over this stuff. Good books just never(maybe rarely) make the transition to the movies. With Snow Crash, just look at the amount of content and plots in the book, its just to much for a movie. And alot of the content would take too much time to explain to the viewer of a movie. Is it just me, or are most book2movie conversions just dumbed down versions of the book?
We don't live in this kind of a world full of people working towards the good will of human kind. Ever hear of the word "Economy"? Thats what we live in. If it doesn't make a profit, companies don't care about it. How about we throw away all our money, just work to help our fellow man and distrubute goods to the people who need them? I don't have to say much more about that.
If all companies have free access to all ideas and it only take milliseconds to get ideas, whats the point of them? Every company would be just like everyone else. No ones going to make a profit if any consumer can go to the next store over and get the same thing. Patents, copyrights, these are all just forms of economic competition.
Unless you have some money backing your words, they are always going to stay words.
I suggest reading some Neal Stephenson books like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age. They may seem to be a bit exaggerated, but they are a good view to what we are heading towards.
America is an economy, period. Just look at it, whats its culture or ideals that make it different? Its a mix of all other countries. The best way to define America is that its an economy.
People are starting to put linux fanatics in the same light as religous fanatics. How would you feel if you said something along the lines as "religion is bad" then to have 100 fanatics denouncing everything you say and do after that, flooding your mailbox with hate mail and threating to burn down your house. Im assuming you'd get just as aggitated as the people who state their, not-so-positive opinions on Linux.
Whats it take to patent something? Is it possible to just patent every idea that you can and allow everyone to use the ideas in the patent for free? That way instead of someone grabbing a pantent for some simple section of code or something, someone else whos more technologically inclined can control that patent. Then they can allow the patent to be used for free.
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The ISBN number is 031289077X . I couldn't find the book with the other number but this one works.
Linux is still a server platform and not a desktop platform, it doesn't try to be everything. Linux is still too complex and has too many non-standard features between distributions. It's just too hard for the average user to use as a desktop OS and so it's focus is being a server platform.
Linux already has the stability and speed* to be used everywhere and beat out most competition, but unless everyone has the ability to use it, Linux won't make it into all corners of the market.
*speed in the average case for most applications, yes I know this has been arguable...
I've found from a majority of OSS projects that people just don't know how to design a program. They hardcode to many variables and data, they don't know common design principles and patterns. Most of all, they don't know how write modular code. Most people just put all the code into one big file. When they want to add a new feature, they just keep adding it into the one file a few lines at a time. Eventually the source gets so big and bloated with all these little features getting added. If anyone tries to add anything to this source, they have to wade through all the source to try and figure out what is going on where and how to change the source to do what they want.
When someone wants to add something to an OSS project, they shouldn't have to edit multiple sections of code, opening different files to modify them all to perform one basic new task, they should simple open one file, modify the functions or objects they want and that's it.
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Just think of it as a new type of gameplay. Whoever can hack source best wins.=)
Ok but really, someone needs to come up with some type of CRCing program for games. Something that can get a CRC or something of an executable and send it to the server so that the server knows the client is running with an unchanged executable. I see this as the big hurdle in OS game development.
Whats the difference between not allowing minors to view R or NC-17 movies, and not allowing minors to rent violent video games? No one complains when a movie gets an R rating and minors are not allowed in, so why complain about video games?
The difference is that restricting minors from video games is new. Whenever there's change, there will always be people to complain about it. So how long until people see the similarities between games and movies? The line between movie and video game realism is slowly being ereased.
I was looking at this same idea for a game I might be developing. The way I see it, is you can just open part of the source, like the Quake engines do. Quake keeps the main engine closed source, since that's where the major competitive technology is. Everything else that uses the engine is open sourced. This way you can hide your "money making" parts of your source and still allow users to edit some of it. It may not be fully open source but it's a proven option that has worked immensely.
Buy your books from www.elgrande.com they're cheaper than almost any other place. Just find your book on amazon.com or something, then take the ISBN number and search for it in elgrande. Calculating God's ISBN number is 0312867131 so just do an advanced search for it on elgrande.
One thing alot of new people don't understand is how linear programs run on a computer. C is very linear and would show this well. C++ will just make things more confusing for a new programmer.
C++ also seems to be turning into a buzzword now. "OOh its C, but its got a ++ after it, it must be better!" Well I have a new language called D+=2 clearly it's far superior to C++.
My question is, why don't people use C instead of C++? I find it hard to hide from myself that a program runs linearly and try to hide that fact behind classes, inheritance and all those other C++ features. A program can be designed and run better than C++ in C, but C++ has more hype running around it.
Giving a carpenter a nailgun doesn't make him a better builder than someone with a hammer. He can just screw things up faster.
How does the monitor work with people that only have vision out of one eye? Being someone with only one eye, I am not able to use any of the 3D technologies like VR headsets and and such since they require two eyes to fake a 3D image. Will this still have true 3D with only one eye?
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Most of the people creating these lawsuits and complaining about all this "horrible evil technolgy thats going to destroy our lives", are all still thinking in terms that just don't apply to the digital age. Stealing a cd from a store causes a loss for the store that bought the cd to sell. But what does copying an mp3 from someone cause? It just creates one more person with that mp3. The real problem lies in whether or not the person that copied the mp3 would be willing to buy the mp3 if they couldn't have copied it. I've downloaded lots of mp3's that were just plain bad and would never have bought, or would have returned if I did. But then again, I've also downloaded mp3's and found new forms of music I've liked that have caused me to buy cds in a store.
So what I want to say is, even though there's thousands of people copying mp3's left and right, how many of these people are going to actually buy a cd if they can't copy it? I'm willing to say only small percentage of these people.
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Goto www.elgrande.com to buy all your books. They let you buy direct from the publisher with no middle man charges. It's the cheapest place to buy books online!
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I've been looking for a project to do for my college's MQP and this seems like an interesting thing to do for it. Just what would be required for this? Right now all I'm thinking is a bunch of perl scripts, but I'm sure it would evolve to something more complex than that. What is all the stuff that needs to be stored and searched through? More importantly how big is the demand for a Web Based Helpdesk?
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This is one of the reasons why I am going to start a unified configuration program for linux, one that will work on all distros the same. This way people could go from one distro to another easily because they will have a common configuration program. Every distro now has a different configuration program which makes going from one distro of linux to another a whole new learning experience, yet they all claim they are "linux". I plan on turning this into my graduating project for my college so I'll have support from my school soon.
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Like all turning points, someones going to be responsible which direction the Internet goes in. But who will it be? Most of the people that are on the Internet are uneducated about intellectual property laws and all the issues on the net. A majority of the average computer users think things like Amazon.coms patents are a good thing. They are still thinking of the old forms business. They don't understand it when someone with a conscious understand of the information age, speaks to them of things like freedom of information. They think its just the idea of bunch of zealotus hackers.
The power of the masses just isn't going to work if most of the mass doesn't know whats going on. Right now the only people with the power are the large corperations with the money to do what they wish. So how does the other side compete with this? Well I think people are slowly starting to understand just what the capabilities of the Internet are, and how all these future laws could restrict them and degenerate the Internet. People should realize this is where the real turning point is. If enough people were educated of the Internets capabilities and how they might be taken away, then they would be able to take the Internet back from monetary motivated corporations and uneducated legistlators.
I've learned not to get excited over this stuff. Good books just never(maybe rarely) make the transition to the movies. With Snow Crash, just look at the amount of content and plots in the book, its just to much for a movie. And alot of the content would take too much time to explain to the viewer of a movie. Is it just me, or are most book2movie conversions just dumbed down versions of the book?
We don't live in this kind of a world full of people working towards the good will of human kind. Ever hear of the word "Economy"? Thats what we live in. If it doesn't make a profit, companies don't care about it. How about we throw away all our money, just work to help our fellow man and distrubute goods to the people who need them? I don't have to say much more about that.
If all companies have free access to all ideas and it only take milliseconds to get ideas, whats the point of them? Every company would be just like everyone else. No ones going to make a profit if any consumer can go to the next store over and get the same thing. Patents, copyrights, these are all just forms of economic competition.
Unless you have some money backing your words, they are always going to stay words.
I suggest reading some Neal Stephenson books like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age. They may seem to be a bit exaggerated, but they are a good view to what we are heading towards.
America is an economy, period. Just look at it, whats its culture or ideals that make it different? Its a mix of all other countries. The best way to define America is that its an economy.
People are starting to put linux fanatics in the same light as religous fanatics. How would you feel if you said something along the lines as "religion is bad" then to have 100 fanatics denouncing everything you say and do after that, flooding your mailbox with hate mail and threating to burn down your house. Im assuming you'd get just as aggitated as the people who state their, not-so-positive opinions on Linux.
Whats it take to patent something? Is it possible to just patent every idea that you can and allow everyone to use the ideas in the patent for free? That way instead of someone grabbing a pantent for some simple section of code or something, someone else whos more technologically inclined can control that patent. Then they can allow the patent to be used for free.