but the netwinder 2100 (SA110) that sells
for $995 doesn't include a keyboard,
touchpad, flat-panel display, and solar panel!
Looks like they must be making about $500/unit
in profit, what ho? Them solar arrays ain't
cheap.
One of the greatest contributions to humanity
by mission workers in the field today is the
work of rendering smaller regional languages
into a written form, and providing literacy
training to the population of native speakers.
The mission workers of my acquaintance would
have, to a man/woman, benefitted tremendously
from the availablity of such a conveniently
field-operable computer which can serve as
an aid both in language acquisition (a reverse
engineering task for which Wycliffe in particular
has created a very interesting body of software)
and literacy training.
Same reason, really: You share packets, so
that others will share packets with you.
Ideally, Swarmcast should be a background
service that just makes sure that when you
want a file, it comes as fast as your little
pipe can swallow it. It will be, in time.
> Of course it's not just games. I find women
> beautiful, but I'm still sick and tired
> of seeing breasts everywhere as the
> primary focus of advertising.
You are SOOO right. I want to see clitorii
become the primary focus of advertising.
You are mistaken. Relative to the volume
of revenue, or relative to the market cap,
research spending by u.s. corporations
is less than half what it was
in 1970.
As regards Java, using gcj it can be compiled
to native code. End of problem.
As regards p2p-ness, there's nothing intrinisically slow about being a peer application. Unfortunately freenet was not
designed to accommodate Internet topology
as a distributed app, but it will be optimized
by the million monkeys, over time.
I'm a summa cum laude B.C.Sci. I spent a couple
of years as a research fellow at the Army High
Performance Computing Research Center where I
spent my time designing and optimizing physical
simulations and rendering code for SIMD computers. Then I spend a few years in parallel/
distributed networking, and now I'm coding P2P
apps, so although I've never done a lick of game
coding, I think I'm pretty well qualified.
However, I don't think there's enough money in
the game industry to pay me a competetive wage.
Hence the question: What are salaries like?
Options? Royalties? How do you get paid
in the gaming industry?
Java has code-blocks and closures.
What are inner classes if not closures?
What is n(ew Thread { DO_SOMETHING; }).run();
if not a code block?
Adopting functional features is a bad thing,
because it means you have a poisoned well
with fresh water added. Instead, start with
a clean well, and emulate the taste of poison:
Make a functional language do all the things
that the naive programmer expects to be able
to do. Otherwise, you lose the benefits of
a functional language, such as the ability to
parallelize, the ability to do formal semantic
analysis, etc.
No, it's like defining TCP without defining IP
first. There's nothing under it. So it's
impossible to implement it. The only way
to interoperate is to reverse engineer the
code. And Sun is holding out, I know, because
Applied Metacomputing is interoperating C JXTA
with the Java JXTA, so there has to be more doc
internally.
What's there is good as far as it goes.
But there's so little protocol documentation!
It's mostly undefined activity happening on an
undefined network. One shouldn't have to
reverse engineer the protocol from the source code. They must have more doc than this,
since applied meta has a C++ implementaiton.
Sure we have. We are all ignoring it.
That's why bad laws are so bad for society:
They result in widespread flagrant disregard
for the law. The result: Lawlessness.
Actually, according the the press interviews,
their families are very enthusatistic in support
of the US governments refusal to label their
people as criminals, thus allowing the
chinese to shoot them in the head, and send
a bill for the bullet back to the families,
as they usually do with political criminals.
I LOVE my Inspirion 5000e with 1600x1200 screen
and 802.11 networking. I highly recommend Orinoco
for the wireless bit. But 2.2 Linux kernels stink for laptops, as the USB and PCMCIA support is poor.
The Inspirion is great because you can swap a second
battery, a DVD, or a CD-RW in the middle bay, and
the resolution is actually good enough to *enjoy*
DVD video. I never boot Windows anymore. When I
need to do a windows compile to confirm portability,
or need to check a page in IE, I use VMWare to
run W2k.
Make sure to get your WinME refund! Don't even
boot the pre-installed OS, or you lose your right
to a refund.
The appalling feature of the/. mod system is
that popular political correctness is so heavily favored,
especially if it exercises it's bigotry and
fallacy with panache. And CF bashing is very
much the long-standing vogue.
It's all about the Heliums
on
Excess Heat
·
· Score: 1
This quote from SRI's Ed Storms summarizes the situation nicely, I think: "Ironically, it is now possible to know why we failed but it is too late to follow a more successful path... Without access to widely circulated journals, this negative attitude within the scientific community obviously cannot be changed. Even overwhelming proof, as demanded by many scientists in the past, can have no effect because no mechanism exists for it to be communicated to the scientific professions."
Absolutely right on. Locking yourself into a closed platform is suicide in such a rapidly changing environment. The only reason MSFT can get away with it is that they have a monopoly. Curl will never
fly until it is open source.
You have hit the nail on the head: I was not coerced by Microsoft. Rather, the result of their
monopoly position was such that I, and millions of
other consumers, were unfairly coerced *indirectly*
by their control over all of the manufacturers of
computers which were available to me to choose from.
Dell and Compaq acted as Microsoft's *enforcers*,
collecting extortion money from us. Dell and Compaq
should be punished, yes, but are far less culpable than the top mafioso, Don Gatesioni.
Slashdot Mirror
but the netwinder 2100 (SA110) that sells
for $995 doesn't include a keyboard,
touchpad, flat-panel display, and solar panel!
Looks like they must be making about $500/unit
in profit, what ho? Them solar arrays ain't
cheap.
One of the greatest contributions to humanity
by mission workers in the field today is the
work of rendering smaller regional languages
into a written form, and providing literacy
training to the population of native speakers.
The mission workers of my acquaintance would
have, to a man/woman, benefitted tremendously
from the availablity of such a conveniently
field-operable computer which can serve as
an aid both in language acquisition (a reverse
engineering task for which Wycliffe in particular
has created a very interesting body of software)
and literacy training.
from this link.
You don't need a browser to use swarmcast.
Run it from a commandline once you have javaws
installed.
Same reason, really: You share packets, so
that others will share packets with you.
Ideally, Swarmcast should be a background
service that just makes sure that when you
want a file, it comes as fast as your little
pipe can swallow it. It will be, in time.
> Of course it's not just games. I find women
> beautiful, but I'm still sick and tired
> of seeing breasts everywhere as the
> primary focus of advertising.
You are SOOO right. I want to see clitorii
become the primary focus of advertising.
obviously, AOL is trying to confuse consumers
who want to find aimster into reaching them
instead. this is what trademark law is intended
to prevent.
You are mistaken. Relative to the volume
of revenue, or relative to the market cap,
research spending by u.s. corporations
is less than half what it was
in 1970.
People have been banging rocks together
for thousands of years. Why should I be
concerned when they bang together subcritical
masses of plutonium?
As regards Java, using gcj it can be compiled
to native code. End of problem.
As regards p2p-ness, there's nothing intrinisically slow about being a peer application. Unfortunately freenet was not
designed to accommodate Internet topology
as a distributed app, but it will be optimized
by the million monkeys, over time.
of years as a research fellow at the Army High
Performance Computing Research Center where I
spent my time designing and optimizing physical
simulations and rendering code for SIMD computers. Then I spend a few years in parallel/
distributed networking, and now I'm coding P2P
apps, so although I've never done a lick of game
coding, I think I'm pretty well qualified.
However, I don't think there's enough money in
the game industry to pay me a competetive wage.
Hence the question: What are salaries like?
Options? Royalties? How do you get paid
in the gaming industry?
What are inner classes if not closures?
What is n(ew Thread { DO_SOMETHING; }).run();
if not a code block?
Adopting functional features is a bad thing,
because it means you have a poisoned well
with fresh water added. Instead, start with
a clean well, and emulate the taste of poison:
Make a functional language do all the things
that the naive programmer expects to be able
to do. Otherwise, you lose the benefits of
a functional language, such as the ability to
parallelize, the ability to do formal semantic
analysis, etc.
No, it's like defining TCP without defining IP
first. There's nothing under it. So it's
impossible to implement it. The only way
to interoperate is to reverse engineer the
code. And Sun is holding out, I know, because
Applied Metacomputing is interoperating C JXTA
with the Java JXTA, so there has to be more doc
internally.
What's there is good as far as it goes.
But there's so little protocol documentation!
It's mostly undefined activity happening on an
undefined network. One shouldn't have to
reverse engineer the protocol from the source code. They must have more doc than this,
since applied meta has a C++ implementaiton.
Sure we have. We are all ignoring it.
That's why bad laws are so bad for society:
They result in widespread flagrant disregard
for the law. The result: Lawlessness.
The death of that pilot was not an accident in
any honest sense of the word. He killed himself
while committing a crime.
Actually, according the the press interviews,
their families are very enthusatistic in support
of the US governments refusal to label their
people as criminals, thus allowing the
chinese to shoot them in the head, and send
a bill for the bullet back to the families,
as they usually do with political criminals.
P4s are a miserable disappointment to Intel.
And they will run on DDR mobos too.
throw new Exception("getreal,Dave");
Me too. And a few million others feel the same way.
That's why RAMBUS will die.
I LOVE my Inspirion 5000e with 1600x1200 screen
and 802.11 networking. I highly recommend Orinoco
for the wireless bit. But 2.2 Linux kernels stink for laptops, as the USB and PCMCIA support is poor.
The Inspirion is great because you can swap a second
battery, a DVD, or a CD-RW in the middle bay, and
the resolution is actually good enough to *enjoy*
DVD video. I never boot Windows anymore. When I
need to do a windows compile to confirm portability,
or need to check a page in IE, I use VMWare to
run W2k.
Make sure to get your WinME refund! Don't even
boot the pre-installed OS, or you lose your right
to a refund.
That was Max Planck, not Niels Bohr.
/. mod system is
The appalling feature of the
that popular political correctness is so heavily favored,
especially if it exercises it's bigotry and
fallacy with panache. And CF bashing is very
much the long-standing vogue.
This quote from SRI's Ed Storms summarizes the situation nicely, I think: "Ironically, it is now possible to know why we failed but it is too late to follow a more successful path ... Without access to widely circulated journals, this negative attitude within the scientific community obviously cannot be changed. Even overwhelming proof, as demanded by many scientists in the past, can have no effect because no mechanism exists for it to be communicated to the scientific professions."
Absolutely right on. Locking yourself into a closed platform is suicide in such a rapidly changing environment. The only reason MSFT can get away with it is that they have a monopoly. Curl will never
fly until it is open source.
You have hit the nail on the head: I was not coerced by Microsoft. Rather, the result of their
monopoly position was such that I, and millions of
other consumers, were unfairly coerced *indirectly*
by their control over all of the manufacturers of
computers which were available to me to choose from.
Dell and Compaq acted as Microsoft's *enforcers*,
collecting extortion money from us. Dell and Compaq
should be punished, yes, but are far less culpable than the top mafioso, Don Gatesioni.