OK, from the slashdot article:
Posted by michael, written by bobz.
From the happy penguin article: In IRC today, evil genius Michael Simms... , this article was written by bobz.
I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine? I was wondering why a non-profitable game being ported to a market that has never been marketable (linux ported games) was a frontpage slashdot article. Now I know.
a turn-based strategy game that was well-reviewed but not terribly successful commercially./me breathes a sigh of relief that it's not another first-person shooter
Why in the hell would you port a game that won't bring in money? Honestly, porting games that bring in a TON of cash commercially do poorly in the Linux market, so who thinks that porting an unsuccessful game would bring in a profit?
The students do not keep the computers, unless they finish two years in the honors program.
Wow, at my old college, they are forcing all the engineers to have laptops (even have a used laptops for sale), but you have to buy them. And even if they supplied them, giving them away is -huge-. Think about it. If you get an iBook for free, its equivalent to going to school for a free semester...
From the article: "They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me."
Ok, start your bets. When will his mind click, and he understands that this is what he does to people for a living?
But, most intelligent minds were not zealotous and unwilling to be practical and professional when arguing. I've seen transcripts of debates of RMS and MS reps. The MS Rep always talked with professionalism, and when RMS was asked a tough question, he'd try to rail on MS and avoid the question altogether.
I -really- wish I had links to some of them (anyone? I think there was a recent debate at MIT that RMS went off the handle).
Basically, RMS's points have been heard, and change takes a long time. RMS isn't willing to wait for a long period of time, and isn't satisfied with how much has happened already, so I picture him as a stubborn zealot that will never truely be happy.
Sorry to sound harsh, or to bash RMS. His ideas are good, but the way he conveys it is not.
Yeah, for personal websites and such, no major MVC and EJB and other J2EE is necessary, but if you have a enterprise size 50+ page site that requires all the wizbangs and is complex (like online banking), good luck designing all that perl.
I'm sick of children that say "Hell, I coulda done that in like a week, not 3 months!" This is the difference between coding all hours of the night and true professional development.
This is, unfortunately, an issue with several open source projects. Someone just starts slapping code together, and more and more people jump in and have coding binges over the weekend. What do you end up with? A bowl of spaghetti code that only the original writers can understand.
If major design was implemented from the start, a lot of open source projects would be easier to help out (I hate to say this, cause it will sound like a troll, but slashcode really needs rewritten from scratch with a better design than what it currently has. Honestly, if it was well written, I think a lot more people would be willing to pitch in and help out.)
FYI - Struts is quickly becoming the framework of choice for all J2EE coding houses. Having struts experience is a huge plus on your resume. The other Java tech to watch out for is portals (ie - jakarta's portal engine, or WebSphere's portal engine).
I digress, but I've used struts and the MVC pattern plenty at my job, and it just makes life so easy when adding in new functionality, fixing bugs quickly, and overall maintainability.
Those that say "its good in theory, not in practice" haven't used it correctly in practice.
But remember. Back when Sean Connery was Bond it -WAS- an overdone action flick.
Have you seen action flicks from the 60s?
The reason most people say "Bond jumped the shark" or "its not as good as the old bonds" was because they were in the 80s when they saw the 60s bonds. If you saw them in the 60s you'd realize that its the same thing, just being adjusted to the times.
I'm a long time bond fan and thought this was probably the best brosnan bond (the last one, "The World is not enough" was terrible!).
And for another person's comment about the theme song, yes, madonnas song was good, but wasn't a bond song. It was the only thing I really didn't like about the flick.
True, but why do people have to keep writing programs with static buffer sizes?
I think it isn't that people WRITE programs with static buffers now-a-days as much as it is that people who maintain old software don't fix the static buffers.
Plus I could also argue what is more important to the program? Static gives me knowledge of the maximum size of memory used, if that knowledge is required. Searching is faster in arrays than linked lists (although replacing, on average, is slower). Don't assume that static buffers are ALWAYS wrong.
There's always a hole that cannot be planned. In complex systems, bugs and leaks are bound to be found, regardless of how much attention you pay.
Plus, you usually have to balance security with user friendliness (putting on flame retardent jacket). Simply adding users vs root is a hassle for your average (home) user. People need to understand security to be willing to put in secure methods. Lets face it, people just want crap to work right now. They turn off security measures (like firewalls) to get something to work (like a game), then don't turn them back on so they don't have to deal with it the next time they try to play that game.
You joke, but when I worked in a game store, people would buy games like Antiem! for the sole purpose of "Making sure the 'right' side wins, this time!" And I live in southern Ohio (got lotsa KY customers, though).
the creation in a new format that will be the doom of Microsoft Word.
Lets be realistic, shall we?
With the amount of marketshare that Word has on the wordprocessing market, I don't think anything will cause its 'doom' anytime soon.
Yes, MS isn't going to open up one of its proprietary license. Especially one that is so widely used. If this comes as a surprise, you need to soak your head.
But, I guess everyone will have a great time bashing MS for doing the obvious...
Man, how true that is. Don't forget to add the $20 for the tickets, and if you live near one of the new, digital, stadium seating type theaters, you can get a hamburger and fries for another $20.
I'd rather take my wife out to a fancy dinner than watch a movie. Its the same price!
They really need the advertising, too, for the reasons I give in my other post (to quick sum up: its being released right between the new James Bond and The Two Towers).
Only the biggest trekkies will be at this release. Planning on releasing the movie right inbetween the newest bond and the two towers (that preorder tickets go on sale tomorrow, btw). It just seems like they shoulda tried to release it before "Die Another Day" to get higher opening day ticket sales, instead of battling the other two movies for income.
What's worse?/. bitches and moans when MS doesn't supply a patch right away (in order to test it fully), now that MS does release a patch quickly, it is full of flaws that would have been checked if they would have just tested it longer like they normally do.
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OK, from the slashdot article:
Posted by michael, written by bobz.
From the happy penguin article:
In IRC today, evil genius Michael Simms... , this article was written by bobz.
I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine? I was wondering why a non-profitable game being ported to a market that has never been marketable (linux ported games) was a frontpage slashdot article. Now I know.
a turn-based strategy game that was well-reviewed but not terribly successful commercially. /me breathes a sigh of relief that it's not another first-person shooter
Why in the hell would you port a game that won't bring in money? Honestly, porting games that bring in a TON of cash commercially do poorly in the Linux market, so who thinks that porting an unsuccessful game would bring in a profit?
The laptop being used is made entirely of hemp.
Thank you. I've spewed coffee out of my nose. I'll actually need time to recover from that laugh!
The students do not keep the computers, unless they finish two years in the honors program.
Wow, at my old college, they are forcing all the engineers to have laptops (even have a used laptops for sale), but you have to buy them. And even if they supplied them, giving them away is -huge-. Think about it. If you get an iBook for free, its equivalent to going to school for a free semester...
Read his journal, then understand that if you were in his shoes, you'd piss your pants, and ask to stop the earth, cause you'd want to get off.
From the article:
"They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me."
Ok, start your bets. When will his mind click, and he understands that this is what he does to people for a living?
My bets on 5 years.
the so-called 'Harvard Mouse' that is especially prone to cancer...So there is at least one place where higher life forms cannot be patented
Prone to Cancer = higher life form? You're views are ass backward, friend.
But, most intelligent minds were not zealotous and unwilling to be practical and professional when arguing. I've seen transcripts of debates of RMS and MS reps. The MS Rep always talked with professionalism, and when RMS was asked a tough question, he'd try to rail on MS and avoid the question altogether.
I -really- wish I had links to some of them (anyone? I think there was a recent debate at MIT that RMS went off the handle).
Basically, RMS's points have been heard, and change takes a long time. RMS isn't willing to wait for a long period of time, and isn't satisfied with how much has happened already, so I picture him as a stubborn zealot that will never truely be happy.
Sorry to sound harsh, or to bash RMS. His ideas are good, but the way he conveys it is not.
Struts is an online J2EE framework that utilizes the Model View Controller pattern. Look on the website for a good overview.
Yeah, for personal websites and such, no major MVC and EJB and other J2EE is necessary, but if you have a enterprise size 50+ page site that requires all the wizbangs and is complex (like online banking), good luck designing all that perl.
I completely and totally agree!
I'm sick of children that say "Hell, I coulda done that in like a week, not 3 months!" This is the difference between coding all hours of the night and true professional development.
This is, unfortunately, an issue with several open source projects. Someone just starts slapping code together, and more and more people jump in and have coding binges over the weekend. What do you end up with? A bowl of spaghetti code that only the original writers can understand.
If major design was implemented from the start, a lot of open source projects would be easier to help out (I hate to say this, cause it will sound like a troll, but slashcode really needs rewritten from scratch with a better design than what it currently has. Honestly, if it was well written, I think a lot more people would be willing to pitch in and help out.)
FYI - Struts is quickly becoming the framework of choice for all J2EE coding houses. Having struts experience is a huge plus on your resume. The other Java tech to watch out for is portals (ie - jakarta's portal engine, or WebSphere's portal engine).
I digress, but I've used struts and the MVC pattern plenty at my job, and it just makes life so easy when adding in new functionality, fixing bugs quickly, and overall maintainability.
Those that say "its good in theory, not in practice" haven't used it correctly in practice.
Where's the line between a system tweaked for gaming and a gaming console?
Isn't a gaming console, in essence, a system tweaked for gaming?
But remember. Back when Sean Connery was Bond it -WAS- an overdone action flick.
Have you seen action flicks from the 60s?
The reason most people say "Bond jumped the shark" or "its not as good as the old bonds" was because they were in the 80s when they saw the 60s bonds. If you saw them in the 60s you'd realize that its the same thing, just being adjusted to the times.
I'm a long time bond fan and thought this was probably the best brosnan bond (the last one, "The World is not enough" was terrible!).
And for another person's comment about the theme song, yes, madonnas song was good, but wasn't a bond song. It was the only thing I really didn't like about the flick.
Competitors may take advantage of reading the source
There's your biggest point!
This article sounds a lot like vocal people that preach how we should abolish all patent laws. Not all patents are bad!
The approach of 'open sourcing everything' will just add truth to the "Open Source is Communism" trolls.
True, but why do people have to keep writing programs with static buffer sizes?
I think it isn't that people WRITE programs with static buffers now-a-days as much as it is that people who maintain old software don't fix the static buffers.
Plus I could also argue what is more important to the program? Static gives me knowledge of the maximum size of memory used, if that knowledge is required. Searching is faster in arrays than linked lists (although replacing, on average, is slower). Don't assume that static buffers are ALWAYS wrong.
There's always a hole that cannot be planned. In complex systems, bugs and leaks are bound to be found, regardless of how much attention you pay.
Plus, you usually have to balance security with user friendliness (putting on flame retardent jacket). Simply adding users vs root is a hassle for your average (home) user. People need to understand security to be willing to put in secure methods. Lets face it, people just want crap to work right now. They turn off security measures (like firewalls) to get something to work (like a game), then don't turn them back on so they don't have to deal with it the next time they try to play that game.
You joke, but when I worked in a game store, people would buy games like Antiem! for the sole purpose of "Making sure the 'right' side wins, this time!" And I live in southern Ohio (got lotsa KY customers, though).
the creation in a new format that will be the doom of Microsoft Word.
Lets be realistic, shall we?
With the amount of marketshare that Word has on the wordprocessing market, I don't think anything will cause its 'doom' anytime soon.
Yes, MS isn't going to open up one of its proprietary license. Especially one that is so widely used. If this comes as a surprise, you need to soak your head.
But, I guess everyone will have a great time bashing MS for doing the obvious...
That's $15.25.
Man, how true that is. Don't forget to add the $20 for the tickets, and if you live near one of the new, digital, stadium seating type theaters, you can get a hamburger and fries for another $20.
I'd rather take my wife out to a fancy dinner than watch a movie. Its the same price!
They really need the advertising, too, for the reasons I give in my other post (to quick sum up: its being released right between the new James Bond and The Two Towers).
Only the biggest trekkies will be at this release. Planning on releasing the movie right inbetween the newest bond and the two towers (that preorder tickets go on sale tomorrow, btw). It just seems like they shoulda tried to release it before "Die Another Day" to get higher opening day ticket sales, instead of battling the other two movies for income.
What's worse? /. bitches and moans when MS doesn't supply a patch right away (in order to test it fully), now that MS does release a patch quickly, it is full of flaws that would have been checked if they would have just tested it longer like they normally do.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.