Running low on content lately,/.? Keep those babbling linux idiots all fueled up with stupid stories like these. Maybe they won't notice what a complete bunch of shit their OS is and how quickly it's fading away.
Scott
Your last name wouldn't happen to be Nudds, would it?:)
I'm not a Smarty Man Pattent Lawyar either, but I believe in the US if you prove something existed before it was patented, it merely invalidates the patent and makes the invention PD.
Sony to world: "THIS time for sure! Our PlayStation 3 will be the greatest invention since the printing press... no, wait, the wheel... no, wait, FIRE! And it's been graciously bestowed upon humanity by your friends at Sony. Hey, third time's a charm, right? Right?............. Anybody?"
A lone clump of tumbleweed rolls across the scene...
Most of the Slashdot writers are from the USA. This isn't CNN where every correspondent has a different foreign accent. Get a bunch of Americans together to write a Web site and you'll end up with a point of view that's distinctly American-leaning. Foreign readers are free to (and often do) contribute stories of interest to their own country but Slashdot is based in America and staffed by Americans so please take that into account before whinging about its lack of political correctness.
I have the same ambivalence towards Perl that I do towards OOP, but one thing that rocks about Perl is that it reveals these magical objects to be the frauds that they are: aggregate structures with type information that connects them with a series of functions, and some syntactic sugar in the language to make this structure appear opaque.
... except for all the others. Seriously, unless you move to Smarty Man Gaem Designar Survivar Island and live out your life as a hermit, the US is still as free as it gets, despite all the bad things happening.
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Y'know, a year or two ago, this post would have been modded UP a couple of points ("Insightful" or "Informative").
The Matrix was a virtual community, and if I recall correctly, people were trying to get OUT of it, and INTO Zion (a REAL community)! This does not bode well for virtual communities as a concept.:^)
Of course IANAL, but if it's anything like the kinds of federal laws used to deal with crimes involving firearms (jaywalking = ticket; jaywalking with permit to carry and gun in hand = 30 years jail time), yup, you're screwed.
Check out the part about acquiring their assets without getting their liabilities as well. Basically it's buying out what enables 3Dfx to do business, leaving them a hollowed-out shell to fend for themselves when it comes to liabilities. Suck-o-rama.
To me the internet hasn't "peaked" until it can support a totally immersive networked virtual reality environment capable of supporting teledildonics in real-time with believable realism. Then we'll know we're getting somewhere.:^)
I have the privilege of working with a long-time software designer who is a pretty good programmer, and a brilliant marketer. When he "talks shop" with me we're on the same wavelength but then he turns around and really knows how to pitch something to a completely clueless client. This arrangement tends to work well, usually.
Ideally the division of labor between programmers and marketing guys shouldn't be as sharp as it has historically been. The marketing guys need to get a clue about the technology involved, and the programmers need to get some people skills. (No, seriously. Try it; you might like it.) This way, the two camps can work together to deliver better stuff instead of always fighting and/or cajoling one another.:)
Street Fighter has earned the high-camp cachet of being "so cheesy it's great". Mario Bros., unfortunately, did not do so well, mainly because it was a quite good little movie. It didn't exactly resemble the games it was inspired by, but it had its own cyberpunk-parody feel to it. It was too grown-up for kids and too kiddie for grown-ups. That, I believe, is why it failed.
The game movie to keep your eyes on is Final Fantasy. I firmly expect this movie to ROCK the house. It's not based on any of the previous games, leaving the door wide open for a brand-new plot and some awesome character development. I don't know if there'll be chocobos or moogles or even summons and magic spells, but one thing is for sure: there WILL be a Cid in this movie. And it's coming from the Squaresoft team that made little pixelated sprites come alive with emotion and depth. Imagine what the cutting-edge CG is going to be like.
The Borland "No Nonsense License Agreement" from back in the day was precisely this. It stated, in English simple enough for even a software guy to understand (^_^), that the software was licensed "like a book", you could install it, transfer it, or copy it however you wished as long as only one person actually had access to a copy of the program at one time.
On the other side of the scale, before Borland absorbed Ashton-Tate, the fine print for dBASE required, among other things, that the software be returned after fifty years from the date of purchase!
Objects are nice but I've become disillusioned about OOP as some sort of software design holy grail. OOP requires a degree of formalization which scatterbrains like me don't want to deal with in certain applications. I'm a big fan of Scheme and LISP myself, and I rather like Perl (icky syntax, but great concepts). These languages enable you to cobble together an aggregate data structure in function A and pass it to function B, and so long as function B knows what function A is talking about, everything is cool. In Java you have to formalize your structures as objects and, once you have done so, any changes to the structure made in A must not only be reflected in B but also in the formalization. It may not seem like much overhead, but the time consumed in program maintenance really adds up.
I wish I could like Java more than I do. But it is a language designed by, and for, C++ weenies, with a few cool new features added and most of the advantages of C++ removed. It's like C++ with training wheels. It's a neat language, but its primary function in the grand scope of things is in education, and in thrusting the VM idea into the spotlight.
There's a rule in the industry that no new technology exists until Microsoft invents it. Hence, the CLAW is virtually ignored by everyone except Slashdotters, and this cheapy-looking Microsoft doohickey gets a 9 in the "Innovation" dept. I know, it tilts and swivels too, but you're right, it's essentially the same design.
So does this mean that Jeff K. will be able to HaX0R into your TiVo late at night? I'd hate to think what could be done with that dangerous power... maybe something like those spy movies where the evil genius broadcasts the same mind-control show on every channel.
As opposed to the Democrats, who're hell-bent on acquiring more greed and power for themselves, and turning this country into a socialist state in the process? Let's face it. The 2-party system is an elaborate ruse. I'll be voting for Browne this election.
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Sense will lose as long as absurdity remains more profitable, period. Kind of a downside to our wonderful free economy.
Running low on content lately,
Scott
Your last name wouldn't happen to be Nudds, would it?
Write your program to one CPU and hardware specification, and then force everyone to use that specification.
After all, C and Unix are dying, and this is a wonderful thing.
</sarcasm>
I'm not a Smarty Man Pattent Lawyar either, but I believe in the US if you prove something existed before it was patented, it merely invalidates the patent and makes the invention PD.
Sony to world: "THIS time for sure! Our PlayStation 3 will be the greatest invention since the printing press... no, wait, the wheel... no, wait, FIRE! And it's been graciously bestowed upon humanity by your friends at Sony. Hey, third time's a charm, right? Right? ............. Anybody?"
A lone clump of tumbleweed rolls across the scene...
Most of the Slashdot writers are from the USA. This isn't CNN where every correspondent has a different foreign accent. Get a bunch of Americans together to write a Web site and you'll end up with a point of view that's distinctly American-leaning. Foreign readers are free to (and often do) contribute stories of interest to their own country but Slashdot is based in America and staffed by Americans so please take that into account before whinging about its lack of political correctness.
The difference is the amount of money the violated party has, and the "dream team" of lawyers they can put together.
OS X is based on a BSD variant; that's all I know. I could be wrong, but I thought it was based on the Mach-based kernel NextStep used.
I have the same ambivalence towards Perl that I do towards OOP, but one thing that rocks about Perl is that it reveals these magical objects to be the frauds that they are: aggregate structures with type information that connects them with a series of functions, and some syntactic sugar in the language to make this structure appear opaque.
... except for all the others. Seriously, unless you move to Smarty Man Gaem Designar Survivar Island and live out your life as a hermit, the US is still as free as it gets, despite all the bad things happening.
Y'know, a year or two ago, this post would have been modded UP a couple of points ("Insightful" or "Informative").
The Matrix was a virtual community, and if I recall correctly, people were trying to get OUT of it, and INTO Zion (a REAL community)! This does not bode well for virtual communities as a concept. :^)
Of course IANAL, but if it's anything like the kinds of federal laws used to deal with crimes involving firearms (jaywalking = ticket; jaywalking with permit to carry and gun in hand = 30 years jail time), yup, you're screwed.
Check out the part about acquiring their assets without getting their liabilities as well. Basically it's buying out what enables 3Dfx to do business, leaving them a hollowed-out shell to fend for themselves when it comes to liabilities. Suck-o-rama.
To me the internet hasn't "peaked" until it can support a totally immersive networked virtual reality environment capable of supporting teledildonics in real-time with believable realism. Then we'll know we're getting somewhere. :^)
I have the privilege of working with a long-time software designer who is a pretty good programmer, and a brilliant marketer. When he "talks shop" with me we're on the same wavelength but then he turns around and really knows how to pitch something to a completely clueless client. This arrangement tends to work well, usually. Ideally the division of labor between programmers and marketing guys shouldn't be as sharp as it has historically been. The marketing guys need to get a clue about the technology involved, and the programmers need to get some people skills. (No, seriously. Try it; you might like it.) This way, the two camps can work together to deliver better stuff instead of always fighting and/or cajoling one another. :)
Street Fighter has earned the high-camp cachet of being "so cheesy it's great". Mario Bros., unfortunately, did not do so well, mainly because it was a quite good little movie. It didn't exactly resemble the games it was inspired by, but it had its own cyberpunk-parody feel to it. It was too grown-up for kids and too kiddie for grown-ups. That, I believe, is why it failed.
The game movie to keep your eyes on is Final Fantasy. I firmly expect this movie to ROCK the house. It's not based on any of the previous games, leaving the door wide open for a brand-new plot and some awesome character development. I don't know if there'll be chocobos or moogles or even summons and magic spells, but one thing is for sure: there WILL be a Cid in this movie. And it's coming from the Squaresoft team that made little pixelated sprites come alive with emotion and depth. Imagine what the cutting-edge CG is going to be like.
The Borland "No Nonsense License Agreement" from back in the day was precisely this. It stated, in English simple enough for even a software guy to understand (^_^), that the software was licensed "like a book", you could install it, transfer it, or copy it however you wished as long as only one person actually had access to a copy of the program at one time.
On the other side of the scale, before Borland absorbed Ashton-Tate, the fine print for dBASE required, among other things, that the software be returned after fifty years from the date of purchase!
Objects are nice but I've become disillusioned about OOP as some sort of software design holy grail. OOP requires a degree of formalization which scatterbrains like me don't want to deal with in certain applications. I'm a big fan of Scheme and LISP myself, and I rather like Perl (icky syntax, but great concepts). These languages enable you to cobble together an aggregate data structure in function A and pass it to function B, and so long as function B knows what function A is talking about, everything is cool. In Java you have to formalize your structures as objects and, once you have done so, any changes to the structure made in A must not only be reflected in B but also in the formalization. It may not seem like much overhead, but the time consumed in program maintenance really adds up.
I wish I could like Java more than I do. But it is a language designed by, and for, C++ weenies, with a few cool new features added and most of the advantages of C++ removed. It's like C++ with training wheels. It's a neat language, but its primary function in the grand scope of things is in education, and in thrusting the VM idea into the spotlight.
Well, the 833-MHz Alpha is just around the bend. :) *drool*
Don't be so hasty to judge. He may have slept all day and hacked all night. It's not uncommon, y'know. :)
Feh, this guy's in larval stage. The really l33t Japanese model otakus mold their creations in metal or plastic, and then paint them. For real.
There's a rule in the industry that no new technology exists until Microsoft invents it. Hence, the CLAW is virtually ignored by everyone except Slashdotters, and this cheapy-looking Microsoft doohickey gets a 9 in the "Innovation" dept. I know, it tilts and swivels too, but you're right, it's essentially the same design.
So does this mean that Jeff K. will be able to HaX0R into your TiVo late at night? I'd hate to think what could be done with that dangerous power... maybe something like those spy movies where the evil genius broadcasts the same mind-control show on every channel.
:)
As opposed to the Democrats, who're hell-bent on acquiring more greed and power for themselves, and turning this country into a socialist state in the process? Let's face it. The 2-party system is an elaborate ruse. I'll be voting for Browne this election.