If you view it as the hacked version being a prototype and the rewritten version being the product then it is much better than most projects that ship an improved prototype as the final version.
I don't know why but I have been thinking about that game the past few days, with the noise he made when bouncing refusing to leave my head. It was one of the first games I ever played on an Atari ST and I really miss it.. humm, maybe Home of the Underdogs has it available?
I haven't seen the episode "Dear Doctor" but I just read the text about it on startrek.com wondering what was awful and amoral and found out that what was awful and amoral is the genesis of the oft talked about prime directive. Now you can think what you want of the prime diretive (that it is awful and amoral to you apparently) but I am surprised that you seem to have developed these feelings watching that episode and not by watching one of the countless episodes where they have dealt with the prime directive in the preceding series.
Also, don't forget that the different crews of each series have quite often broken the prime directive and that if they hadn't they would have had to do awful and amoral things too so try not to judge the Enterprise crew any differently than you would have judged the TNG crew or the DS9 crew.
Not only they care about their fanbase but by what you say they know how to seduce the modders and give them incentives to mod their game, which will probably contribute to the success of the game.
1. Invite best modders of previous game for a superb visit. 2. Let them do their magic on the graciously offered new games. 3. Let the word spread of how cool the reception was (like you just did) and make other want to go there. 4. To go there they need to make high quality mods so their number is more likely to grow (competition oblige). 5. big mod community increases the value of the game for the players, thus selling more of them. 6. Profit (at last)
An excellent way to take care of your fans and of yourself, a win-win situation.
Whoa, unless you mean that the Statue of Liberty is looking west towards France across the whole US, pacific ocean and Asian continent or unless I am very much mistaken about it being in NYC and NYC being on the US east coast, near the Atlantic ocean, they it may be possible that you just might have been confused between east and west;)
"So why is it that the French were so glad to recieve our aid when THEY needed it, but now are so unwilling to help us aid another country that needs our help?"
Because they don't agree with your reason to attack Iraq. When they agree on your reason to fight they are willing to help you, as shown during the American independence war, when France sent troops to help the revolutionaries.
Just because France doesn't support the US in all and every situation doesn't mean that they are unwilling to help, it is simply a difference of opinion between two nations.
Mandrake is the ONLY good thing ever to come from France.
Hmm, the ext2 filesystem was mainly written by a French student way back when Linux wasn't so well known. Of course, it's importance is a bit smaller now with next generation filesystems (like ReiserFS, XFS... and ext3, although ext3 owes a lot to ext2) but having it was crucial for Linux a few years ago so I would copnsider it to qualify as another good thing coming out of France.
Although, if you are American you might consider the military help that came out of France during the independance war to be another good thing coming from France given that you might still be using sterling pounds if it wasn't for it.
Just because you are prejudiced against a country doesn't mean that nothing good comes from it.
It's only monday and already Timothy posted two stories with a missing link.
As a concerned member of the slashdot community wishing to avoid a similar phenomena to the duplicate stories from starting I suggest that we should petition CmdrTaco to give Timothy some mandatory holidays, a weekend of rest (hmm, what might he have been doing last weekend?) being evidently not enough.
And of course, in the finest/. tradition I am just pointing out what the rest of the/. community should do but I don't intend to do anything about it myself except ranting in this post, do as I write, not as I do;)
There's a question I asked myself at christmas but didn't find the answer and given that we are talking about S-Video here it seems not too inappropriate to discuss it here.
Friends of mine recently bought a laptop with a DVD drive and a S-Video output. Given that they don't have a home DVD player I tried to hook up the laptop with the TV (which has got S-Video input) and got as far as getting the desktop displayed on the TV.
However, the Video displayed black. Since then I have come across information that indicates that it is because of using overlay (the video is overlayed directly on the output to the VGA port and not on the S-video) but I am not sure how to turn it of. The information I have got said that I had to turn of Hardware acceleration and I understand it to be:
Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshoot->Hard ware Acceleration->None
Unfortunately, being on holiday I haven't been able to test it yet, and, given the topic I thought I would ask the Windows-using/.ers their advice.
Note: I am also interested in how to display on the S-video port with Linux.
Anyway, even if I cannot help them here at least I managed to switch them from an unregistered Office with 50 tries left to Open Office for Windows and so far they seem happy with it.
Exactly, they probably would get these chips if it was a viable solution but at the time being it isn't so they get cheaper ones that still give good performances.
Whenever 64 bit chips are more common and less expensive they are most likely to use it but given that they don't have anything that requires them yet they don't want to pay the premium. Sounds like good business to me (except for the chip makers of course).
""Bande Dessinée", at least in the French speaking parts of Europe, is no longer reserved to pre-teen kids and mentally impaired people. It's an Art of a (not so) new kind, no less noble than novell writing or film making."
I agree except on the "no longer" part, it has been so for a very long time and for way longer than I have been alive. Just takes Asterix & Obelix, this is both for kids and adults alike, with different levels for different geneations and is about forty years old.
Personnally I am happy to be born French because in France we have (obviously) a huge number of bandes dessinées (BD's for short) and also a great number of Manga and Anime (on TV) since the 80's (I grew up on both styles) and you an also find some American Comics but (last I checked) not as widespread. Now I live in the UK and I have more exposure to them so I have the best of all three worlds and know how to appreciate it.
I don't deny that the Mac is special, quite the opposite given that I think that it is special enough to be differenciated from the other *BSD and I sure as hell would like to have one (whenever I buy a new computer it probably will be a Mac).
As for the engine analogy, MacOS doesn't have a BSD kernel (equivalent of engine, I guess) but a microkernel+set_of_services emulating a BSD setup, which is why I don't consider it BSD but BSD-like. If I didn't then for the sake of consistency I would have to consider Linux to be Unix and not Unix-like (TM notwithstanding) given that it has a kernel and user space libraries that emulates a Unix setup (mostly).
As for MkLinux, I was given to understand that it was a Linux kernel sitting on top of Mach as opposed to MaOS X that doesn't use any BSD kernel AFAIK (otherwise why call it Linux if it doesn't use it).
Of course, all this is just a question of semantic and it probably is better that we each keep calling MacOS X whatever we want to call it, the fate of the world doesn't depend on it;).
The rumor was started as a joke in "The Simpson's 138th episode spectacular" IIRC, with Troy McClure (you may remember him...) answering different questions with clips from old episodes and some supposedly cut scenes like when Homer goes to hell and a Demon throw his head like a bowling ball and a note goes out of his head saying "IOU 1 Brain signed: God".
"actuallly. when i read through my web logs BSD beats the tar out of Linux hands down. yes, that's right, because the most popular distro of BSD (Mac OS) is on five times as many desktops as Linux."
Depends whether you consider a Mach kernel with BSD style services to really be a BSD as opposed to being BSD-like.
Personally, given the differences between MacOSX and *BSD (the underlying BSD-style Unix is irrelevent to most MacOSX users and what is relevant to them (the GUI) is totally different from what you find *BSD) I wouldn't count MacOSX as part of it unless I had no way of telling the difference, but that's just my opinion of course.
"Did they only shoot what they wanted, and did nothing get cut?"
Basically yes.
If you had seen The Matrix Revisited you would know that the brothers had a very clear picture of what they wanted to do and that they produced a lot of drawings (some comic book like) showing the important parts of a scene.
After that they had to choose how to film each individual scene when directing but the scene themselves were already fleshed out in their mind and on paper, the only risk was not to be able to do everything due to budget constraint.
True, which is why not all "buggy" code is discarded by the system, some bugs have value. Now let's go and design a system that prevent the buggiest software from running and allows unintended but good side effects to thrive, it's most likely impossible with the way we currently engineer software but thinking about it may give us other ideas.
"Of course, this might prevent you from dual-booting Linux and MS, since MS might make their system refuse to install unless you put their signature into the chip, but I have an easy solution to that. I just install Linux, and don't run anything from MS.:)"
How is that a solution?
The problem postulated is that you cannot dual boot Windows and Linux (or another Free Software OS) and your "easy solution" is not to dual boot, you solve the problem by nbot solving it? How is that a helpful solution for those that need or want to dual boot?
Slashdot Mirror
I had a look and it seems to be an excellent site, thank you.
Is that such a bad thing?
If you view it as the hacked version being a prototype and the rewritten version being the product then it is much better than most projects that ship an improved prototype as the final version.
Ahhh, Rick Dangerous.
I don't know why but I have been thinking about that game the past few days, with the noise he made when bouncing refusing to leave my head. It was one of the first games I ever played on an Atari ST and I really miss it.. humm, maybe Home of the Underdogs has it available?
"You can't have your product having an odd name."
;)
Why not? This way, with Mac OS X 10.10 Apple will have an OS with an odd and even version number
Anyway, if it makes people talk about it because of its "odd" version number then it's that much more publicity for it.
I haven't seen the episode "Dear Doctor" but I just read the text about it on startrek.com wondering what was awful and amoral and found out that what was awful and amoral is the genesis of the oft talked about prime directive. Now you can think what you want of the prime diretive (that it is awful and amoral to you apparently) but I am surprised that you seem to have developed these feelings watching that episode and not by watching one of the countless episodes where they have dealt with the prime directive in the preceding series.
Also, don't forget that the different crews of each series have quite often broken the prime directive and that if they hadn't they would have had to do awful and amoral things too so try not to judge the Enterprise crew any differently than you would have judged the TNG crew or the DS9 crew.
Not only they care about their fanbase but by what you say they know how to seduce the modders and give them incentives to mod their game, which will probably contribute to the success of the game.
1. Invite best modders of previous game for a superb visit.
2. Let them do their magic on the graciously offered new games.
3. Let the word spread of how cool the reception was (like you just did) and make other want to go there.
4. To go there they need to make high quality mods so their number is more likely to grow (competition oblige).
5. big mod community increases the value of the game for the players, thus selling more of them.
6. Profit (at last)
An excellent way to take care of your fans and of yourself, a win-win situation.
I'm French but as long as they buy more wine to pour it down I don't mind
I got scared for a minute there. I read "European Life In Doubt" and wondered whether I existed or not.
"To the west, looking France"
;)
Whoa, unless you mean that the Statue of Liberty is looking west towards France across the whole US, pacific ocean and Asian continent or unless I am very much mistaken about it being in NYC and NYC being on the US east coast, near the Atlantic ocean, they it may be possible that you just might have been confused between east and west
"So why is it that the French were so glad to recieve our aid when THEY needed it, but now are so unwilling to help us aid another country that needs our help?"
Because they don't agree with your reason to attack Iraq. When they agree on your reason to fight they are willing to help you, as shown during the American independence war, when France sent troops to help the revolutionaries.
Just because France doesn't support the US in all and every situation doesn't mean that they are unwilling to help, it is simply a difference of opinion between two nations.
Mandrake is the ONLY good thing ever to come from France.
... and ext3, although ext3 owes a lot to ext2) but having it was crucial for Linux a few years ago so I would copnsider it to qualify as another good thing coming out of France.
Hmm, the ext2 filesystem was mainly written by a French student way back when Linux wasn't so well known. Of course, it's importance is a bit smaller now with next generation filesystems (like ReiserFS, XFS
Although, if you are American you might consider the military help that came out of France during the independance war to be another good thing coming from France given that you might still be using sterling pounds if it wasn't for it.
Just because you are prejudiced against a country doesn't mean that nothing good comes from it.
It's only monday and already Timothy posted two stories with a missing link.
/. tradition I am just pointing out what the rest of the /. community should do but I don't intend to do anything about it myself except ranting in this post, do as I write, not as I do ;)
As a concerned member of the slashdot community wishing to avoid a similar phenomena to the duplicate stories from starting I suggest that we should petition CmdrTaco to give Timothy some mandatory holidays, a weekend of rest (hmm, what might he have been doing last weekend?) being evidently not enough.
And of course, in the finest
Done it:
The name Morpheus is not among the top 1,000 names for 1990-2001.
February 14, 2003
Thanks for the information.
There's a question I asked myself at christmas but didn't find the answer and given that we are talking about S-Video here it seems not too inappropriate to discuss it here.
Friends of mine recently bought a laptop with a DVD drive and a S-Video output. Given that they don't have a home DVD player I tried to hook up the laptop with the TV (which has got S-Video input) and got as far as getting the desktop displayed on the TV.
However, the Video displayed black. Since then I have come across information that indicates that it is because of using overlay (the video is overlayed directly on the output to the VGA port and not on the S-video) but I am not sure how to turn it of. The information I have got said that I had to turn of Hardware acceleration and I understand it to be:
Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshoot->Har
Unfortunately, being on holiday I haven't been able to test it yet, and, given the topic I thought I would ask the Windows-using
Note: I am also interested in how to display on the S-video port with Linux.
Anyway, even if I cannot help them here at least I managed to switch them from an unregistered Office with 50 tries left to Open Office for Windows and so far they seem happy with it.
Exactly, they probably would get these chips if it was a viable solution but at the time being it isn't so they get cheaper ones that still give good performances.
Whenever 64 bit chips are more common and less expensive they are most likely to use it but given that they don't have anything that requires them yet they don't want to pay the premium. Sounds like good business to me (except for the chip makers of course).
Anybody might be able to find a few blank punch cards for them?
""Bande Dessinée", at least in the French speaking parts of Europe, is no longer reserved to pre-teen kids and mentally impaired people. It's an Art of a (not so) new kind, no less noble than novell writing or film making."
I agree except on the "no longer" part, it has been so for a very long time and for way longer than I have been alive. Just takes Asterix & Obelix, this is both for kids and adults alike, with different levels for different geneations and is about forty years old.
Personnally I am happy to be born French because in France we have (obviously) a huge number of bandes dessinées (BD's for short) and also a great number of Manga and Anime (on TV) since the 80's (I grew up on both styles) and you an also find some American Comics but (last I checked) not as widespread. Now I live in the UK and I have more exposure to them so I have the best of all three worlds and know how to appreciate it.
I don't deny that the Mac is special, quite the opposite given that I think that it is special enough to be differenciated from the other *BSD and I sure as hell would like to have one (whenever I buy a new computer it probably will be a Mac).
As for the engine analogy, MacOS doesn't have a BSD kernel (equivalent of engine, I guess) but a microkernel+set_of_services emulating a BSD setup, which is why I don't consider it BSD but BSD-like. If I didn't then for the sake of consistency I would have to consider Linux to be Unix and not Unix-like (TM notwithstanding) given that it has a kernel and user space libraries that emulates a Unix setup (mostly).
As for MkLinux, I was given to understand that it was a Linux kernel sitting on top of Mach as opposed to MaOS X that doesn't use any BSD kernel AFAIK (otherwise why call it Linux if it doesn't use it).
Of course, all this is just a question of semantic and it probably is better that we each keep calling MacOS X whatever we want to call it, the fate of the world doesn't depend on it
Have a nice day!
The rumor was started as a joke in "The Simpson's 138th episode spectacular" IIRC, with Troy McClure (you may remember him...) answering different questions with clips from old episodes and some supposedly cut scenes like when Homer goes to hell and a Demon throw his head like a bowling ball and a note goes out of his head saying "IOU 1 Brain signed: God".
And at the end, when he talks with Lisa.
Bart:"Lisa, I saw the future, I get to have my own band"
Lisa:"Really, what about me?".
art:"Nah, you got some government job."
"actuallly. when i read through my web logs BSD beats the tar out of Linux hands down. yes, that's right, because the most popular distro of BSD (Mac OS) is on five times as many desktops as Linux."
Depends whether you consider a Mach kernel with BSD style services to really be a BSD as opposed to being BSD-like.
Personally, given the differences between MacOSX and *BSD (the underlying BSD-style Unix is irrelevent to most MacOSX users and what is relevant to them (the GUI) is totally different from what you find *BSD) I wouldn't count MacOSX as part of it unless I had no way of telling the difference, but that's just my opinion of course.
"Did they only shoot what they wanted, and did nothing get cut?"
Basically yes.
If you had seen The Matrix Revisited you would know that the brothers had a very clear picture of what they wanted to do and that they produced a lot of drawings (some comic book like) showing the important parts of a scene.
After that they had to choose how to film each individual scene when directing but the scene themselves were already fleshed out in their mind and on paper, the only risk was not to be able to do everything due to budget constraint.
True, which is why not all "buggy" code is discarded by the system, some bugs have value. Now let's go and design a system that prevent the buggiest software from running and allows unintended but good side effects to thrive, it's most likely impossible with the way we currently engineer software but thinking about it may give us other ideas.
"Of course, this might prevent you from dual-booting Linux and MS, since MS might make their system refuse to install unless you put their signature into the chip, but I have an easy solution to that. I just install Linux, and don't run anything from MS.
How is that a solution?
The problem postulated is that you cannot dual boot Windows and Linux (or another Free Software OS) and your "easy solution" is not to dual boot, you solve the problem by nbot solving it? How is that a helpful solution for those that need or want to dual boot?