That is correct, but just like the making of the game itself most of a marketing campaign happens out of sight of the public.
So you spend three years making a game, getting all your ducks in a row, the code written and about three months before you know you'll actually get the sucker out the door unleash the marketing blitz and a kickass, rock solid demo.
Then the buzz is still hot when the game actually ships.
Marketing something you can't actually put into your customer's hands in exchange for their money is a pointless waste for everybody concerned.
I only retired mine a few years ago. I'm afraid I abandoned it when I moved my business. The floppy drive was getting too flakey to trust.
Sometimes I miss the old girl though.
And I really don't see the point of a gaming laptop. What I want is a full sized screen transportable, and it's easy enough to build a slimline with LCD system these days that slips into a bag no bigger than the Compaq, and rather lighter.
Because sometimes the web is legitimately used as a transport mechanism for files, rather than as a provider of "web content."
Ebooks and papers, in particular are commonly formated as plain text for web distribution, allowing the reader to use whatever text editor they choose and to format the content in any way that pleases them.
As well as having formated the text for printing I have also now put a copy of the file on my laptop which I use as an ebook reader, which does not even have a browser installed, along with my "pile" of books from Project Gutenberg, all in plain text, where I will be able to view it in vi.
Sometimes distribution of text as text be good and shit.
No, we have a reasonable expectation that embryos differentiate cells. It's an observable phenomenon.
What we don't know here is whether that phenomenon is being reproduced or not. When it is, then we'll know.
If you see a pile of steel going into a Ford factory it's reasonable to consider that steel a Ford "embryo," even though it may not turn out that way in fact.
If you see that same pile of steel going into my basement it is not reasonable to assume a car is going to come out until you at least see some formed parts.
And I might point out that the accepted definition of human embryo extends to eight weeks, well into cell differentiation. Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells has been produced in graftings with embryonic cells of other species, but nothing even like development that shows viability to the stage of a fetus.
That one serves as a good example to those unaware of the situation. A friend came over to visit awhile ago while I was still fuming over some stupid patent I'd just been reading about.
He didn't get it. If it was granted a patent it must be a real invention.
So I reached across my desk, plucked my laser pointer from my pencil holder, waved it around in front of my cat for a few seconds, enough to get her a bit excited, looked at my friend and said:
It is a plain ASCII markup language, just like HTML. Thus it can be stored in any file format of your chosing. Open Office, for instance, stores its XML files as gziped files. You could use arc file compression if you wanted, or you could invent your own binary compression file format and store XML in it.
Or just plain text.
As a markup language it can inherently be searched on the basis of its tags, thus it can be used to encode data by the use of tags to function as a sort of database, although it does not, technically, meet the definition of database any more than any other flat file does. This means that database functions, such as integrity constraints, must be handled at the application level. Without a front end an XML "database" is just a grepable text file.
Downloading material under copyright is a simple and minor civil offense. That's why the RIAA isn't going after downloaders. They could only nail them for a few hundred bucks each, tops, and couldn't use the threat of criminal prosecution to obtain it.
And that wouldn't scare much of anybody.
It's the uploader who's in deep shit for distribution. He's the only one whose actions are in any way criminal.
Now here's something to think about. What if someone else downloaded it and handed it to you?
"Unfortunately, the model breaks down as soon as the core group involved in a project or distribution decides to corrupt the source, because they simply won't make the corrupted version public."
I'm still trying to figure out what the hell this is supposed to mean. It's complete gobbledegook.
If they don't make the corrupted version public, a) it isn't open source, it's propriatary and its propriataryness is the risk; b) it's of no risk to the public; c)It's of no risk to the government if they properly audit their version of the code, simply comparing it to the public code would take care of this, something a computer can do in a matter of some seconds.
And the primary reason for a government to use open source is to audit the code, so they know that MS or whoever hasn't slipped a backdoor in, and once the code is audited, built and tested you distribute internally as binaries, which you can do because it's open source and doesn't require seat licenses.
So here's what you do if you're a government. You download Open Office from three different public mirrors in three different countries. You check the MD5 of each of them and then each of them against the other. If it all checks out you know you have public code that thousands of eyeballs are looking at. You hand it off to your NSA, they audit it, modify it for internal use as necessary, build it, test it, put the binary on an internal governement agency server.
There ya go.
The statement makes absolutely no sense.
As opposed to MS having a salesman show up, hand you a binary disk or four and say, "It's cool, trust us. Would we lie?"
If I were France or China I'd say, "Shit yeah!" and download Slack.
Hell, I don't trust closed source with my typing business anymore, let alone my country.
Not so. In fact I'm a capitalist myself. I have to be to maintain my "poor" lifestyle, as I'm no "survivalist."
For instance, I may make my own clothes but I do not make my own fabric. That, on the whole, is robotic meanial labor better done by a machine than some poor bastard of a worker who's going to die from breathing cotton fibers all his short, miserable life.
That machine requires capital which must be recovered through sales. So I produce some extra food, sell it, and buy my cloth.
Or I fix someone's computer. My skills are high tech as well as low. I'm no Luddite either.
I assembled my own computer, but I certainly didn't make the cpu. I bought it. Time-Warner has expended a good deal of capital, and continues to do so, so that I may connect to the internet. I pay them for my connection. Nothing wrong with that.
I built my bicycle frame, but I certainly didn't make the tubing. Reynolds can do that far better than I could ever hope to dream of doing it. Nor did I make my welding torch.
No, capitalism isn't harmed by my way of life, although it destroys markets like Prada's, those markets that exist to charge $100 for something that can be had for $20.
Top down heirarchy is.
Yes, then most of the rich wouldn't be quite so rich.
KFG
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I, for one, would not sneer at your money. I might, however, sneer at your behaviour, which might well include what you do with your money.
Conversely I have had plenty of people with money sneer at my poverty, even though it was my goal and I have worked hard to achieve and maintain it. Since I do with skills and labor what other people do with money (growing food rather than buying it, for instance), this, in effect, is sneering at what I do with my money as well.
Although I find that people with money these days have a great deal of trouble grasping the concept that working an hour to save a hundred bucks is the same as working an hour to "earn" a hundred bucks. And yet I am often accounted a "bum" for productive labor because that labor wasn't spent in servitude to another.
So, why do you monied sorts sneer at my hand made clothes without designer tags?
My clothes are actually hand tailored, extremely rare, designer originals.
And they fit better than yours if you bought yours off the shelf.
So, I won't sneer at your money if you don't sneer at my lack of it. Deal?
KFG
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I thought I rather let that cat out of the bag when I admited I'd never played with Lego bricks as a kid because there weren't any.
It's a bit late to try to tuck my greying ponytail under my hat now.
KFG
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It has been said that no author really has more than one idea, and merely spends his life repeating it. Shakespeare had none of his own if it comes to that, and is revered for the life he brought to stories already extant, not for any original story.
While the settings and actors change the stories have remained a well trodden field since the days of sitting around the tribal fire listening to the elders tell tales.
Why thank you Boss. I believe I will. See you tomorrow.
KFG
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No, SCO has abandoned all such claims and now only claims that butter IBM made themselves with milk from their own cows based on their own butter making research belongs to SCO anyway and is thus "stolen" and thus IBM owes them money for selling butter.
At least in law.
What they claim in a sales brochure bears no more weight than "Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it."
And me still playing Grand Prix Legends and Red Baron 3D would be another exception. There may be more of us out that than you realize.
And while implimenting the latest DirectX might well be of some high priority it is inherently impossible to achieve in a timely manner, with regards to people who will only run the latest and "greatest" games. Wine will always be at least a generation behind.
So why not start from the beginning and work up, getting games people already have to run?
My Windows partition exists solely for these games. If DX8 were fully supported I could ditch the thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Patience is not only a virtue, it saves you a shitload of money.
I like saving money.
I like saving by the shitload even more.
If I save a big enough shitload of money I can use it to buy time to spend playing my game instead of scrubbing Gator of people's computers.
KFG
That is correct, but just like the making of the game itself most of a marketing campaign happens out of sight of the public.
So you spend three years making a game, getting all your ducks in a row, the code written and about three months before you know you'll actually get the sucker out the door unleash the marketing blitz and a kickass, rock solid demo.
Then the buzz is still hot when the game actually ships.
Marketing something you can't actually put into your customer's hands in exchange for their money is a pointless waste for everybody concerned.
KFG
And the funniest part about it is they waved the joke in our faces by telling us what the joke was right in the title of the "game."
How long will you have to wait for it to be released. . . ?
KFG
I only retired mine a few years ago. I'm afraid I abandoned it when I moved my business. The floppy drive was getting too flakey to trust.
Sometimes I miss the old girl though.
And I really don't see the point of a gaming laptop. What I want is a full sized screen transportable, and it's easy enough to build a slimline with LCD system these days that slips into a bag no bigger than the Compaq, and rather lighter.
KFG
I've been down this road before. I still have the bruises. You take the beating this time and I'll see if I'm recovered enough for the next round.
Thermo for Dummies:
1.You can't win.
2.You can only break even.
3.Oh yeah, you can't break even either, not even on a European wheel.
KFG
Because sometimes the web is legitimately used as a transport mechanism for files, rather than as a provider of "web content."
Ebooks and papers, in particular are commonly formated as plain text for web distribution, allowing the reader to use whatever text editor they choose and to format the content in any way that pleases them.
As well as having formated the text for printing I have also now put a copy of the file on my laptop which I use as an ebook reader, which does not even have a browser installed, along with my "pile" of books from Project Gutenberg, all in plain text, where I will be able to view it in vi.
Sometimes distribution of text as text be good and shit.
KFG
Indeed, I just cut and pasted it into KWrite and it looks great.
Then I really got into the spirit of the thing:
I printed it and read it on paper.
KFG
Be free! Think, think!
Ummmmmmmm, I think I'll bash Microsoft.
KFG
64K of RAM...
Because no one will ever need more than 64K of memory.
KFG
No, we have a reasonable expectation that embryos differentiate cells. It's an observable phenomenon.
What we don't know here is whether that phenomenon is being reproduced or not. When it is, then we'll know.
If you see a pile of steel going into a Ford factory it's reasonable to consider that steel a Ford "embryo," even though it may not turn out that way in fact.
If you see that same pile of steel going into my basement it is not reasonable to assume a car is going to come out until you at least see some formed parts.
And I might point out that the accepted definition of human embryo extends to eight weeks, well into cell differentiation. Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells has been produced in graftings with embryonic cells of other species, but nothing even like development that shows viability to the stage of a fetus.
That's another issue entirely.
KFG
That one serves as a good example to those unaware of the situation. A friend came over to visit awhile ago while I was still fuming over some stupid patent I'd just been reading about.
He didn't get it. If it was granted a patent it must be a real invention.
So I reached across my desk, plucked my laser pointer from my pencil holder, waved it around in front of my cat for a few seconds, enough to get her a bit excited, looked at my friend and said:
"That was granted a patent."
He got it.
KFG
No, no, no. You don't get it at all, do you?
This patent only covers putting both of your examples in the same document.
Totally different and nonobvious dude.
KFG
You are incorrect. E# exists, as does B#, and any singer or violinist can produce them.
You are violating the intellectual property of J.S.Bach. His lawyers shall contact you anon.
How is your temper?
KFG
XML is neither a file format nor a database.
It is a plain ASCII markup language, just like HTML. Thus it can be stored in any file format of your chosing. Open Office, for instance, stores its XML files as gziped files. You could use arc file compression if you wanted, or you could invent your own binary compression file format and store XML in it.
Or just plain text.
As a markup language it can inherently be searched on the basis of its tags, thus it can be used to encode data by the use of tags to function as a sort of database, although it does not, technically, meet the definition of database any more than any other flat file does. This means that database functions, such as integrity constraints, must be handled at the application level. Without a front end an XML "database" is just a grepable text file.
KFG
. . .since everyone has power lines.
Well no, actually, they don't. There are those that generate their own power, and the numbers, while still small, grow steadily.
That's taking for granted that they have electricity at all, since we're talking about computer usage.
KFG
Hey, they redefined financial gain.
Cool beans, huh?
Kinda like when they redefined promoting to mean possession.
KFG
Downloading material under copyright is a simple and minor civil offense. That's why the RIAA isn't going after downloaders. They could only nail them for a few hundred bucks each, tops, and couldn't use the threat of criminal prosecution to obtain it.
And that wouldn't scare much of anybody.
It's the uploader who's in deep shit for distribution. He's the only one whose actions are in any way criminal.
Now here's something to think about. What if someone else downloaded it and handed it to you?
KFG
"Unfortunately, the model breaks down as soon as the core group involved in a project or distribution decides to corrupt the source, because they simply won't make the corrupted version public."
I'm still trying to figure out what the hell this is supposed to mean. It's complete gobbledegook.
If they don't make the corrupted version public, a) it isn't open source, it's propriatary and its propriataryness is the risk; b) it's of no risk to the public; c)It's of no risk to the government if they properly audit their version of the code, simply comparing it to the public code would take care of this, something a computer can do in a matter of some seconds.
And the primary reason for a government to use open source is to audit the code, so they know that MS or whoever hasn't slipped a backdoor in, and once the code is audited, built and tested you distribute internally as binaries, which you can do because it's open source and doesn't require seat licenses.
So here's what you do if you're a government. You download Open Office from three different public mirrors in three different countries. You check the MD5 of each of them and then each of them against the other. If it all checks out you know you have public code that thousands of eyeballs are looking at. You hand it off to your NSA, they audit it, modify it for internal use as necessary, build it, test it, put the binary on an internal governement agency server.
There ya go.
The statement makes absolutely no sense.
As opposed to MS having a salesman show up, hand you a binary disk or four and say, "It's cool, trust us. Would we lie?"
If I were France or China I'd say, "Shit yeah!" and download Slack.
Hell, I don't trust closed source with my typing business anymore, let alone my country.
KFG
Not so. In fact I'm a capitalist myself. I have to be to maintain my "poor" lifestyle, as I'm no "survivalist."
For instance, I may make my own clothes but I do not make my own fabric. That, on the whole, is robotic meanial labor better done by a machine than some poor bastard of a worker who's going to die from breathing cotton fibers all his short, miserable life.
That machine requires capital which must be recovered through sales. So I produce some extra food, sell it, and buy my cloth.
Or I fix someone's computer. My skills are high tech as well as low. I'm no Luddite either.
I assembled my own computer, but I certainly didn't make the cpu. I bought it. Time-Warner has expended a good deal of capital, and continues to do so, so that I may connect to the internet. I pay them for my connection. Nothing wrong with that.
I built my bicycle frame, but I certainly didn't make the tubing. Reynolds can do that far better than I could ever hope to dream of doing it. Nor did I make my welding torch.
No, capitalism isn't harmed by my way of life, although it destroys markets like Prada's, those markets that exist to charge $100 for something that can be had for $20.
Top down heirarchy is.
Yes, then most of the rich wouldn't be quite so rich.
KFG
I, for one, would not sneer at your money. I might, however, sneer at your behaviour, which might well include what you do with your money.
Conversely I have had plenty of people with money sneer at my poverty, even though it was my goal and I have worked hard to achieve and maintain it. Since I do with skills and labor what other people do with money (growing food rather than buying it, for instance), this, in effect, is sneering at what I do with my money as well.
Although I find that people with money these days have a great deal of trouble grasping the concept that working an hour to save a hundred bucks is the same as working an hour to "earn" a hundred bucks. And yet I am often accounted a "bum" for productive labor because that labor wasn't spent in servitude to another.
So, why do you monied sorts sneer at my hand made clothes without designer tags?
My clothes are actually hand tailored, extremely rare, designer originals.
And they fit better than yours if you bought yours off the shelf.
So, I won't sneer at your money if you don't sneer at my lack of it. Deal?
KFG
I thought I rather let that cat out of the bag when I admited I'd never played with Lego bricks as a kid because there weren't any.
It's a bit late to try to tuck my greying ponytail under my hat now.
KFG
It has been said that no author really has more than one idea, and merely spends his life repeating it. Shakespeare had none of his own if it comes to that, and is revered for the life he brought to stories already extant, not for any original story.
While the settings and actors change the stories have remained a well trodden field since the days of sitting around the tribal fire listening to the elders tell tales.
People are boring.
KFG
go fuck yourself
Why thank you Boss. I believe I will. See you tomorrow.
KFG
No, SCO has abandoned all such claims and now only claims that butter IBM made themselves with milk from their own cows based on their own butter making research belongs to SCO anyway and is thus "stolen" and thus IBM owes them money for selling butter.
At least in law.
What they claim in a sales brochure bears no more weight than "Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it."
KFG
And me still playing Grand Prix Legends and Red Baron 3D would be another exception. There may be more of us out that than you realize.
And while implimenting the latest DirectX might well be of some high priority it is inherently impossible to achieve in a timely manner, with regards to people who will only run the latest and "greatest" games. Wine will always be at least a generation behind.
So why not start from the beginning and work up, getting games people already have to run?
My Windows partition exists solely for these games. If DX8 were fully supported I could ditch the thing.
KFG