Java was designed for embedded systems (I believe).
My understanding is that Java was originally intended to be a cross-platform language, so that there would be a VM for every os and applications would be written for the VM. When that seemed impractical, Sun tried to reposition it as a language for embedded systems. When that failed too, it finally found it's niche as an Internet language. It's too bad because I think it's a great language and I love programming in it, but I am more interested in applications that web stuff.
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How much you'll accept is a matter of taste, but the fact that loss is bad isn't. Something that can lose less information but take up the same amount of disk space is just better, regardless of your taste.
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Qt is a cross platform tool. So, if Troll gpl'd it, someone could port it to Windows and use it create free software there. But, Troll doesn't want to allow that; you need a lisence to develop software for a non-free operating system. The only way to demand you pay a licensing fee to use it for any purpose on a non-free OS is to write your own license which says that. That's what they did, and that's why it's incompatible with the gpl.
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If you think it is worth something to someone, why not license it to them and make a few bucks?
Maybe his company has more important things to do than go door to door trying to peddle a piece of accounting software. The time and effort spent looking for someone who needs his software might be more than the money from licensing is work. On the other hand, by open-sourcing it, he gets improved code for free.
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Actually, earlier versions of the Napster client did have ads. They looked just like banner ads and were below the menus. For some reason, Napster didn't include them in later clients. Of course, at the time I only ever saw two ads run, "Your ad here" and "www.napster.com". But, at least now, it seems they should be able to get someone else to buy space. The companies selling mp3 players would love it. And besides, no one can complain that the ads take up bandwith and slow down their download times, like they do on the web, because one banner is pretty small in comparison to a bunch of songs.
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I wonder every time I see your sig: what is this book of video game koans? I've searched on barnes & noble and amazon as well as searching the web and I can't find any mention of it.
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But they're only comparing things that are available now. What's the point of comaring things that aren't out yet? If the Mac defender can use OS X as evidence of how great the Mac is then the Linux guy would have to be able to talk about Netscape 6/ KDE2/ Eazel. The discussion would just degenerate into what great stuff both platforms may have someday. The only fair discussion is one based on what's available now that people can actually use.
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Absolutely. I went to the computer science training camp for the top contestants in the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) when I was in high school (it's the equivalent of the olympiads in math, physcics, etc.) and the whole thing, including our airfare there and all expenses, was covered by USENIX. What great people!
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The only way I'd go Bleem is if there was just one game that I wanted, or if they organize the discs by genre. If I could buy one disc and get compatibility with all the RPGs, I'd go for that. But I imagine they'll mix them up...
Actually, one disc probably will have all the rpgs. From the Daily Record article: The packs contain support for games roughly based on genre, so one pack will have all the driving games on it, for example.
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I don't either. I don't know why you would assume that all DC owners have a psx. I had a Nintendo 64, but my little brother played it more than I did, so I left it home when I left for college and bought myself a Dreamcast with the money I earned programming over the summer. I've never owend a Playstation, and the same is probably true of plenty of Dreamcast owners.
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I think this is changing. As consoles become more like pc's (in terms of power, online support, etc.) the types of games that were previously only on computers will start to be feasible on consoles. This is the selling point of the x-box that it allows developers to easily port (Windows) PC games, since the API is similar.
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X-box, playstation 2, etc are supposedly going to threaten the PC (I laugh, but who knows).
Why do you laugh? When people spend more money on console games, they'll spend less on computer games. Granted, they may not kill the computer game market entirely, but they'll put a dent in it, just like the other the things you list.
I know that if I feel like buying a game, I buy one for my Dreamcast, not my computer. Incidentally, this is the same reason I'm not really affected by the lack of Linux games.
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However, it's still rather weak, and should be updated to at least perform proper mark and sweep garbage collection, like Ruby, Java, Python, Eiffel, and many others.
Let's not forge Lisp on that list of languages, since it was the first to do it and without it, those other languages might never have had it.
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If we had AI moderators, it would take about a week before someone found a way of exploiting them so he could always post stuff they would moderate to +5. Wait, Signal 11 already did that and we don't even have AI moderation yet...
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I'm not totally sure we need a "project" to do this. If people want to write music (in whatever format) and release it under this kind of license, they are free to do so. In fact, they could be doing so right now. What would a central "project" do to add to this?
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Even though the revenues of the Australian channel would go up, the revenues of the American station would go up, since they now have more viewers. As a result, Buffy's creatory would net the same total revenue as before. This system would simply favor channels who can bring shows first or in a form their viewers would prefer to see them (whatever that would mean).
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Do you know if it works on all American ps1 discs? I ask because I know some of the later discs were made somehow to avoid people disc swapping on the psx, and that the disc swap doesn't work for those (they're more concerned about people burning copies than buying imports I think). I assume it wouldn't work on the ps2 either.
And yes, they certainly do suck.
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How can people be sure the swap trick really works if there are no American games to try on the Japances playstation (or American playstations to test with Japanese games) yet?
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Two buttons? Ugh. I'm too used to three (so I can middle click in Netscape or KDE to open something in a new window). Also, how can you get by without a scroll wheel? No two button mice for me, thanks.
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My understanding is that Java was originally intended to be a cross-platform language, so that there would be a VM for every os and applications would be written for the VM. When that seemed impractical, Sun tried to reposition it as a language for embedded systems. When that failed too, it finally found it's niche as an Internet language. It's too bad because I think it's a great language and I love programming in it, but I am more interested in applications that web stuff.
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It's called the lottery.
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How much you'll accept is a matter of taste, but the fact that loss is bad isn't. Something that can lose less information but take up the same amount of disk space is just better, regardless of your taste.
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Qt is a cross platform tool. So, if Troll gpl'd it, someone could port it to Windows and use it create free software there. But, Troll doesn't want to allow that; you need a lisence to develop software for a non-free operating system. The only way to demand you pay a licensing fee to use it for any purpose on a non-free OS is to write your own license which says that. That's what they did, and that's why it's incompatible with the gpl.
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How true. Also missing is the algorithm that has truly shaped our world, that has changed all of our lives for the better: Spell Check
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Maybe his company has more important things to do than go door to door trying to peddle a piece of accounting software. The time and effort spent looking for someone who needs his software might be more than the money from licensing is work. On the other hand, by open-sourcing it, he gets improved code for free.
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Although it is interesting that a post saying that KDE is better than Gnome was moderated down for being "redundant".
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Actually, earlier versions of the Napster client did have ads. They looked just like banner ads and were below the menus. For some reason, Napster didn't include them in later clients. Of course, at the time I only ever saw two ads run, "Your ad here" and "www.napster.com". But, at least now, it seems they should be able to get someone else to buy space. The companies selling mp3 players would love it. And besides, no one can complain that the ads take up bandwith and slow down their download times, like they do on the web, because one banner is pretty small in comparison to a bunch of songs.
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Be patient. I'm sure the right paren is still comi) Oh! There it is.
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Do you have any others you'd like to share? I like the one in your .sig a lot.
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I wonder every time I see your sig: what is this book of video game koans? I've searched on barnes & noble and amazon as well as searching the web and I can't find any mention of it.
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But they're only comparing things that are available now. What's the point of comaring things that aren't out yet? If the Mac defender can use OS X as evidence of how great the Mac is then the Linux guy would have to be able to talk about Netscape 6/ KDE2/ Eazel. The discussion would just degenerate into what great stuff both platforms may have someday. The only fair discussion is one based on what's available now that people can actually use.
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Absolutely. I went to the computer science training camp for the top contestants in the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) when I was in high school (it's the equivalent of the olympiads in math, physcics, etc.) and the whole thing, including our airfare there and all expenses, was covered by USENIX. What great people!
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Actually, one disc probably will have all the rpgs. From the Daily Record article: The packs contain support for games roughly based on genre, so one pack will have all the driving games on it, for example.
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I don't either. I don't know why you would assume that all DC owners have a psx. I had a Nintendo 64, but my little brother played it more than I did, so I left it home when I left for college and bought myself a Dreamcast with the money I earned programming over the summer. I've never owend a Playstation, and the same is probably true of plenty of Dreamcast owners.
The bus came by and I got on
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There was cowboy Neal
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I think this is changing. As consoles become more like pc's (in terms of power, online support, etc.) the types of games that were previously only on computers will start to be feasible on consoles. This is the selling point of the x-box that it allows developers to easily port (Windows) PC games, since the API is similar.
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Why do you laugh? When people spend more money on console games, they'll spend less on computer games. Granted, they may not kill the computer game market entirely, but they'll put a dent in it, just like the other the things you list.
I know that if I feel like buying a game, I buy one for my Dreamcast, not my computer. Incidentally, this is the same reason I'm not really affected by the lack of Linux games.
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Let's not forge Lisp on that list of languages, since it was the first to do it and without it, those other languages might never have had it.
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If we had AI moderators, it would take about a week before someone found a way of exploiting them so he could always post stuff they would moderate to +5. Wait, Signal 11 already did that and we don't even have AI moderation yet...
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I'm not totally sure we need a "project" to do this. If people want to write music (in whatever format) and release it under this kind of license, they are free to do so. In fact, they could be doing so right now. What would a central "project" do to add to this?
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Even though the revenues of the Australian channel would go up, the revenues of the American station would go up, since they now have more viewers. As a result, Buffy's creatory would net the same total revenue as before. This system would simply favor channels who can bring shows first or in a form their viewers would prefer to see them (whatever that would mean).
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And yes, they certainly do suck.
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How can people be sure the swap trick really works if there are no American games to try on the Japances playstation (or American playstations to test with Japanese games) yet?
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With music, sometimes the sounds you can't hear are as important as the ones you can.
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Two buttons? Ugh. I'm too used to three (so I can middle click in Netscape or KDE to open something in a new window). Also, how can you get by without a scroll wheel? No two button mice for me, thanks.
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