"It is extremely difficult for a free market economy under strict control since by definition its not a free market if it is tightly controled."
Uh... no.
the term "free market" is a complete falicy, and htat is why you are wrong. All markets are artficial constructs, with artificial rules and controls. I am not saying a "free market" can't exist, just that it doesn't, and since I am going to assume you are an American (as Americans are apt to do, myself being one) I will add even NOT in the US.
The term "free market" is used probably because of the conotations "free" has.
Netscape? I didn't think anyone included netscape since Mozilla became shippable... which was quite a while ago.... a quick "apt-cache search netscape" turns up no netscape packages in Debian.
Some of those games are great two player games (Mortal Kombat, SmashTV) I hope they do something that allows two player simultaneous... and I hope the keep the dual stick setup for SmashTV - I'd by that in a second.
A lot of the article is common sense. But I have been perturbed by the ease with which a lot of people seen to claim that OO is the end all and be all of everything.
Even on simple project I have sometimes found myself designing to fit into Java's OO and not to fit the problem. Its really a language issue when it comes down to it. I am most comfortable in C, so I start writing a Java app and can feel myself being pulled into squeezing round objects into square holes. You have to then step back and realize whats happening before you go to far. I think this is the main source of "design bugs' from myself either ignoring the strengths of a system (not taking advantage of Java's OO) or trying to squeezing a design that is comfortable without billions of objects into some vast OO system, in effect falling into the weakest parts of a language.
Its probably very similar to the ways people screw up a second spoken language, mis-conjugating verbs and whatnot -using the style they are already most familiar with.
So with that its such ridiculusly common sense to say we need an all incompasing uber-language that is completely intuitive, I jsut would like to see someone do it rather than go on about it.
Why not experiment with added every feature to Java that you feel it lacks to see if you can achieve that? because then you end up with perl:)
Seriously programming languages aren't that way by and large because they have to be designed to fight whatever problems exist that they are created to take care of. It a bit foolish to say we need a language that is perfect for everything, instead you look at what your problems are and develope a language to fight those. Invariably you end up with failings in other areas and the incremental process continues.
I think this is the big advantage for Mono. I am a GNOME zealot, but was not excited about mono at all. But after seeing the ease of doing GNOME/GTK work in Mono I have to say it looks very interresting.
Well I don't follow KDE, so I don't know mmuch about Apple's or anyyone else's involvement. But Novell bought Ximian and pratically before the ink was dry on the deal they had bounties up offering money for people that did arious tasks to improve the desktop experience. Which reminds me Ximian was a company that was directly involved in the desktop, and now thats Novell by extension.
There are tons of companies that contribute to Free and OS Software.
Lets see Sun, IBM, RedHat, Novell, CodeWeavers, oh and Apple (isn't the underlying OS for MacOS X open source?) not even mentioning the INDIVIDUALS who contribute (who arguably get less out of the deal since there is no direct profit motive)
Oh wait, is this news because you would normally assume Apple to be parasitic and not give back to anyone?
The (very short) article says that the birds will home in the firsttime a flight is done using thier own "navigational system". It does say after many flights they settle in on a routine path, that tends to follow roads. As if (big surprise!) its easier to follow the landmarks that to use that "navigational system".
Once again the slashdot blurb completely misrepresents the article. Good work guys:)
We are but a few miles from BNL, so I thought I'd mention this interresting fact to my co-workers, one of them said "I thought a 'peda-bite' had something to do with Michael Jackson":)
This is so very true. Every time i sit down at an Internet Explorer users sytem to help them with something, I am shocked they put up with the pop-ups and what not. The problem is they didn't know better, they didnt know to try another browser or a third party blocker. I feel bad for them, they are like people that constantly get ripped off by mechanics because they don't know cars. It's really the sorry state of computer userdom nowadays.
Its not about market share, its about free software. When I built a system I use at home a while back I didn't do my research and thought "oh nvidia supports linux" bought an nvidia card. now I use the stock X drivers because the non-free nvidia drivers bother my politics, and they sucked ass.
I tried several versions and X would lock up after a few minutes with each one. finally I gave up. I bet if the drivers were free (or at LEAST open source) they would be much better. Quite frankly bad software sucks, but bad proprietary software is the worst!
I wouldn't accept any "title" from a remnant and reminder of totalitarian dictatorship. So-called "royal" families are a vestige of a world we all left behind a looong time ago. The queen is nothing more but a leech that lives off the back ofthe british people, and a knighthood is acceptance of this system. I say screw the royal family, if I were in power in Britain I'd propably confiscate thier property and kick them all out.
Not even to mention to disrespect accepting a title does to our country in the USA. Regardless of how you interpret the constitution it is totally offensive to our country and government to go and accept a title from another government (something we founded are current governmental system SPECIFICALLY to stand against.)
did anyone else notice the part in the ESA disclaimer about if the picture contained any recognizable individual.... wonder what they know about mars that we don't....
The sad part is I feel I have matured far more than the games have. I have a very difficult time finding "good" games with strong mature sorylines.
Too ofter "mature" means sex and violence, and "story" just doesnt mean anything.
Even critically acclaimed games have yet to reach the consistancy of say Hollywood in the story department. You may hate Hollywood "re-tread" story lines but at least they are cohesive (maybe thats why they are re-used so often)
I recently played "Enternal Darkness" which was an OK game with a very mediocre story, but for crying out loud it felt like they just forgot about the end, at one point there is a random knock on the door and a package is left for you with an item you need! This doesnt even jive with the explaination of what happend to said item, and feels like the designers just said "fuck it I don't want to spend the time explaining where this is, lets jsut give it to them!" - it takes you out of the games illusion completely and leaves you asking "why?"
Lets not even get to the problem of games often feeling like they lead you around by the nose rather than you leading them. Isn't it an interactive media? I often get the feeling that the industry has mastered puzzle games, and button mashers the why the film industry had mastered sound, and black and white, but for some reason when it comes to color no one can figure out what to do with it.
I would be in the same boat as the parent, but I got a TiVo. you know what? with the TiVo I find I am starting to burn out on TV. Last season I watched about 75% of the new shows (I think I still watch one, but maybe not) and this season I started watching 1.
When you have the availability any time you want you start realizing that there isn't a time for most the crap. Primarily I watch news type shows like the screensavers or the daily show and fast foward through the stuff I dont want to see (takes me about 10-15 minutes to "watch" a typical screensavers episode.
There are some shows I still watch, but increasingly I let the episodes pile up before bothering to watch them (last year I watched 24 in about 5 or 6 episode blocks throughout the season).
The TiVo seemed great (I still wouldn't watch TV without it, but I only pay the 5$ directv fee, 13$ or whatever it is now would probably be too much) But I think I spent the first few years adding season passes, and have steadily decreased them over the past 3/4 year. Its very easy for me to find one of a billion otehr "hobbies" that I enjoy more.
Yeah, and all Adult male TV viewser are a bigger group than Metal Gear Solid players... they make grand statements, and it sounds like a revolutionary advertisers shift, but the Sopranos is ONE show, and all gamers are users of many different products.... let's see the adman who reads that statement and then buys an ad for Big Rigs 2, claiming to his boss they will get more viewers than the Sopranos!
I've been - here is what I remember (rambling)
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I went to H2K figureing what the heck, I think its needless to say, but at 22 I was well past the median age at the time:) of attendees at least. And most of the criticism here is valid, a lot of the talks were by people who thought they knew far more than they did, and a lot of the guys are paranoid.
Around the same time I saw a 2600 panel at ICON (a sci-fi con on LI) and I forget the guys name but one of the little lackies that was on Off The Hook all the time was going on about how they track Metrocards, I got in an arguement with him because I said that it was possible they tracked them so they could get a better idea of traffic flow, not so they would know what a bunch of 16 year old script kiddies were up to (I put it nicer)
But H2K was around the time of the MPAA v 2600 trial and RMS showed up, and I have to say after watching him speak I haven't used a proprietary OS since (except when working with someone elses computer of course) I am even the only one in my office running GNU/Linux for all my work. I always believed in free software but I found his talk very enjoyable and it was enough to push me over the edge.
And of course there was the "Freedom Downtime" showing with long delays (nothings more fun than sitting in an over crouded room full of tennage 'hackers' while they can figure out how to project a movie) while the film was amatuerish and basically a large Michael Moore derivation it was none-the-less enjoyable.
I think the Mitnick by phone (couldn't get permission to leave the state of california at the time) social engineering panel was very good. Eric called Verizon or AT&T to enquire about a memo about hope, and they bought that he was an employee hook line and sinker (till the croud yelled.
Cult of the Dead cow was retarded, and enlighting because I learned how much I actually completely disagree with a lot of what they stand for when they arent acting like buffoons on stage.
Jello was entertaining, of course it was a typical left-wing political "they're are fucking us" speech.
I think the best part was the MPAA v 2600 Mock trial in which I manged to get a good portion of the crowd to boo and hiss at eric when he walked in (in hannabal lecter garb no less). - it was a delightful mix of real lawyer speak, and really fun jabs.
What he said reminded me of the attitude they had about the Virtual Boy, and while I love playing that occassionally my self, thats only because I got it and most the games for a tiny pittance in a bargain bin.
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I don't think so... but I am working to get it into GNOME, and I beleive it has good coverage in KDE.
"It is extremely difficult for a free market economy under strict control since by definition its not a free market if it is tightly controled."
Uh... no.
the term "free market" is a complete falicy, and htat is why you are wrong. All markets are artficial constructs, with artificial rules and controls. I am not saying a "free market" can't exist, just that it doesn't, and since I am going to assume you are an American (as Americans are apt to do, myself being one) I will add even NOT in the US.
The term "free market" is used probably because of the conotations "free" has.
Netscape? I didn't think anyone included netscape since Mozilla became shippable... which was quite a while ago.... a quick "apt-cache search netscape" turns up no netscape packages in Debian.
Some of those games are great two player games (Mortal Kombat, SmashTV) I hope they do something that allows two player simultaneous... and I hope the keep the dual stick setup for SmashTV - I'd by that in a second.
At first I read the headline as "Europe's Acid Ice Fields" - And I thought we had some real news!
While a bit specific I completely agree. Of course maybe I am just not wired for OO, because I don't particularly like it.
A lot of the article is common sense. But I have been perturbed by the ease with which a lot of people seen to claim that OO is the end all and be all of everything.
:)
Even on simple project I have sometimes found myself designing to fit into Java's OO and not to fit the problem. Its really a language issue when it comes down to it. I am most comfortable in C, so I start writing a Java app and can feel myself being pulled into squeezing round objects into square holes. You have to then step back and realize whats happening before you go to far. I think this is the main source of "design bugs' from myself either ignoring the strengths of a system (not taking advantage of Java's OO) or trying to squeezing a design that is comfortable without billions of objects into some vast OO system, in effect falling into the weakest parts of a language.
Its probably very similar to the ways people screw up a second spoken language, mis-conjugating verbs and whatnot -using the style they are already most familiar with.
So with that its such ridiculusly common sense to say we need an all incompasing uber-language that is completely intuitive, I jsut would like to see someone do it rather than go on about it.
Why not experiment with added every feature to Java that you feel it lacks to see if you can achieve that? because then you end up with perl
Seriously programming languages aren't that way by and large because they have to be designed to fight whatever problems exist that they are created to take care of. It a bit foolish to say we need a language that is perfect for everything, instead you look at what your problems are and develope a language to fight those. Invariably you end up with failings in other areas and the incremental process continues.
I think this is the big advantage for Mono. I am a GNOME zealot, but was not excited about mono at all. But after seeing the ease of doing GNOME/GTK work in Mono I have to say it looks very interresting.
I should add that it actaully came in handy once recently (not that a razor couldn't have done the same thing)
We had a customer with an ancient system that the company sold him years ago, the 5 1/4 disk his software was on failed and we sent him a new one.
I actually have a DiskDoubler sitting on my desk at work. never fails to strike up a conversation!
Well I don't follow KDE, so I don't know mmuch about Apple's or anyyone else's involvement. But Novell bought Ximian and pratically before the ink was dry on the deal they had bounties up offering money for people that did arious tasks to improve the desktop experience. Which reminds me Ximian was a company that was directly involved in the desktop, and now thats Novell by extension.
There are tons of companies that contribute to Free and OS Software.
Lets see Sun, IBM, RedHat, Novell, CodeWeavers, oh and Apple (isn't the underlying OS for MacOS X open source?) not even mentioning the INDIVIDUALS who contribute (who arguably get less out of the deal since there is no direct profit motive)
Oh wait, is this news because you would normally assume Apple to be parasitic and not give back to anyone?
The (very short) article says that the birds will home in the firsttime a flight is done using thier own "navigational system". It does say after many flights they settle in on a routine path, that tends to follow roads. As if (big surprise!) its easier to follow the landmarks that to use that "navigational system".
:)
Once again the slashdot blurb completely misrepresents the article. Good work guys
Well said. - if a little exageratd.
We are but a few miles from BNL, so I thought I'd mention this interresting fact to my co-workers, one of them said "I thought a 'peda-bite' had something to do with Michael Jackson" :)
This is so very true. Every time i sit down at an Internet Explorer users sytem to help them with something, I am shocked they put up with the pop-ups and what not. The problem is they didn't know better, they didnt know to try another browser or a third party blocker. I feel bad for them, they are like people that constantly get ripped off by mechanics because they don't know cars. It's really the sorry state of computer userdom nowadays.
Its not about market share, its about free software.
When I built a system I use at home a while back I didn't do my research and thought "oh nvidia supports linux" bought an nvidia card. now I use the stock X drivers because the non-free nvidia drivers bother my politics, and they sucked ass.
I tried several versions and X would lock up after a few minutes with each one. finally I gave up. I bet if the drivers were free (or at LEAST open source) they would be much better. Quite frankly bad software sucks, but bad proprietary software is the worst!
The article is so right about StarTropics... I loved that game, and I think it was very near the last NES I bought before moving on other systems.
I wouldn't accept any "title" from a remnant and reminder of totalitarian dictatorship. So-called "royal" families are a vestige of a world we all left behind a looong time ago. The queen is nothing more but a leech that lives off the back ofthe british people, and a knighthood is acceptance of this system. I say screw the royal family, if I were in power in Britain I'd propably confiscate thier property and kick them all out.
Not even to mention to disrespect accepting a title does to our country in the USA. Regardless of how you interpret the constitution it is totally offensive to our country and government to go and accept a title from another government (something we founded are current governmental system SPECIFICALLY to stand against.)
did anyone else notice the part in the ESA disclaimer about if the picture contained any recognizable individual.... wonder what they know about mars that we don't....
The sad part is I feel I have matured far more than the games have. I have a very difficult time finding "good" games with strong mature sorylines.
Too ofter "mature" means sex and violence, and "story" just doesnt mean anything.
Even critically acclaimed games have yet to reach the consistancy of say Hollywood in the story department. You may hate Hollywood "re-tread" story lines but at least they are cohesive (maybe thats why they are re-used so often)
I recently played "Enternal Darkness" which was an OK game with a very mediocre story, but for crying out loud it felt like they just forgot about the end, at one point there is a random knock on the door and a package is left for you with an item you need! This doesnt even jive with the explaination of what happend to said item, and feels like the designers just said "fuck it I don't want to spend the time explaining where this is, lets jsut give it to them!" - it takes you out of the games illusion completely and leaves you asking "why?"
Lets not even get to the problem of games often feeling like they lead you around by the nose rather than you leading them. Isn't it an interactive media? I often get the feeling that the industry has mastered puzzle games, and button mashers the why the film industry had mastered sound, and black and white, but for some reason when it comes to color no one can figure out what to do with it.
I would be in the same boat as the parent, but I got a TiVo. you know what? with the TiVo I find I am starting to burn out on TV. Last season I watched about 75% of the new shows (I think I still watch one, but maybe not) and this season I started watching 1.
When you have the availability any time you want you start realizing that there isn't a time for most the crap. Primarily I watch news type shows like the screensavers or the daily show and fast foward through the stuff I dont want to see (takes me about 10-15 minutes to "watch" a typical screensavers episode.
There are some shows I still watch, but increasingly I let the episodes pile up before bothering to watch them (last year I watched 24 in about 5 or 6 episode blocks throughout the season).
The TiVo seemed great (I still wouldn't watch TV without it, but I only pay the 5$ directv fee, 13$ or whatever it is now would probably be too much) But I think I spent the first few years adding season passes, and have steadily decreased them over the past 3/4 year. Its very easy for me to find one of a billion otehr "hobbies" that I enjoy more.
Yeah, and all Adult male TV viewser are a bigger group than Metal Gear Solid players... they make grand statements, and it sounds like a revolutionary advertisers shift, but the Sopranos is ONE show, and all gamers are users of many different products.... let's see the adman who reads that statement and then buys an ad for Big Rigs 2, claiming to his boss they will get more viewers than the Sopranos!
I went to H2K figureing what the heck, I think its needless to say, but at 22 I was well past the median age at the time :) of attendees at least. And most of the criticism here is valid, a lot of the talks were by people who thought they knew far more than they did, and a lot of the guys are paranoid.
Around the same time I saw a 2600 panel at ICON (a sci-fi con on LI) and I forget the guys name but one of the little lackies that was on Off The Hook all the time was going on about how they track Metrocards, I got in an arguement with him because I said that it was possible they tracked them so they could get a better idea of traffic flow, not so they would know what a bunch of 16 year old script kiddies were up to (I put it nicer)
But H2K was around the time of the MPAA v 2600 trial and RMS showed up, and I have to say after watching him speak I haven't used a proprietary OS since (except when working with someone elses computer of course) I am even the only one in my office running GNU/Linux for all my work. I always believed in free software but I found his talk very enjoyable and it was enough to push me over the edge.
And of course there was the "Freedom Downtime" showing with long delays (nothings more fun than sitting in an over crouded room full of tennage 'hackers' while they can figure out how to project a movie) while the film was amatuerish and basically a large Michael Moore derivation it was none-the-less enjoyable.
I think the Mitnick by phone (couldn't get permission to leave the state of california at the time) social engineering panel was very good. Eric called Verizon or AT&T to enquire about a memo about hope, and they bought that he was an employee hook line and sinker (till the croud yelled.
Cult of the Dead cow was retarded, and enlighting because I learned how much I actually completely disagree with a lot of what they stand for when they arent acting like buffoons on stage.
Jello was entertaining, of course it was a typical left-wing political "they're are fucking us" speech.
I think the best part was the MPAA v 2600 Mock trial in which I manged to get a good portion of the crowd to boo and hiss at eric when he walked in (in hannabal lecter garb no less). - it was a delightful mix of real lawyer speak, and really fun jabs.
What he said reminded me of the attitude they had about the Virtual Boy, and while I love playing that occassionally my self, thats only because I got it and most the games for a tiny pittance in a bargain bin.