... I will just switch to Linux, *BSD, or any other number of free operating systems, and I suspect others will too.
I'm a coder, but I don't like having to configure all my hardware and deal with endless conf files and what-not (read: software person, not hardware). BUT, if I start getting charged everytime I reboot, I will configure whatever the hell I have to. I will not tolerate my rights being trampled by charge happy corporations.
I currently use OS X, and I think it's great, but if Apple started charging a monthly fee for it's use, I would drop it like a hot potato. I think many people would do the same. Think if Ford charged you every time you started your car. A lot of people would take the bus...
Ok, also consider the revenues from sporting events, endorsement deals, R&D, medical facilities and other assorted income.
I think the $1,000 per semester cost is a bit lowball. At OSU it's at $1,596 and rising. Residential costs, under which internet access probably falls, are significantly higher at $2,010 per semester. Now tell me, do you really think they can't afford internet access with $2,010 to play with. That's a double occupancy room, 76 (cheap) meals, and basic cable.
The way I figure, using estimates based on real world cost (not even figuring economies of scale), that's $930 for rent, $228 for meals, $30 for cable, $100 for cleaning services, and $300 for utilities. That's about $1588. That leaves just a tiny bit of room for incidentals.
I'm sure there are other hidden cost that I'm not allowing for, so if anybody knows differently (with hard facts), I'd love to know about it.
No, his tuition is paying for his education. His residence charges are another thing altogether. I would argue that his internet access falls under residence charges, which decidedly isn't an education.
When I went to OSU they kept hiking tuition, presumably to cover costs like an internet connection. That's a bill that I'm footing, so damn it, I expect them to respond in a manner befitting an ISP, rather than an altruistic organization who just happened to bless me with a connection.
They charge you money for a reason, and it certainly isn't for the food.
I thought about that, long after the fact. It occured to me that a swap could have occured, and I wouldn't have noticed. I was so agog that only the memory and cpu were missing to bother to look for other differences.
Even if it only "edged out" Real in terms of streaming speed/whatever, it certainly blows the doors of Real in terms of quality.
Their "fractal" algorithm or whatever they're calling it has been ready for retirement for the last 3 years. Can you say artifacting? Especially in medium to high motion scenes. At low bandwidth it's about the only way to go, but for broadband applications, it's just ugly.
Not only that, but I'm glad to see another alternative in streaming media. More choices is inevitably better.
A couple of years ago, I bought a brand new laptop. I went into a store for a couple of minutes and left my month old laptop sitting on the seat of my car, door unlocked (stupid, I know), knowing I would only be gone for a couple minutes.
When I got back home, I tried to boot up and nothing happened after the fan kicked on. After a couple of minutes of jiggling the power cord wire, I opened the case and found that my processor was stolen along with my two 64MB ram units. Someone had bothered to open it up, take the stuff, and close it again
That is definitely a situation in which tracking would not have helped.
I should have been more specific. I'm looking at something slightly more wideband than FM. Think about it: You have to transmit display data and remote control information.
That's a little more than FM can handle. Plus, FM is susceptible to signal drift and interference from neighbouring frequency, which makes it a no go in a radio rich area (like a big city).
It seems to me the the major price addition on these receivers is the processor. Why not do something like Sony's PCLink for their MD's (except this would use something with longer distance than USB) and feed audio, rather than MP3 data straight from the computer? That way, there is no interference with normal audio on the PC, yet the stream is processed to audio by your already purchased general purpose PC processor. It also allows for a bit more flexibility in file format support. I can't imagine these limited use processors/memory units have a lot of room for additional codec code.
I imagine some sort of cheap PCI card broadcasting wirelessly to the "receiver". Plus, it would look better than stringing CAT-5 all over the house, since a lot of PC's are no where near the nice stereo equipment.
For the last 8-10 years, I was a wintel user. I used Windows 3.1 - 2000 for it's ease of use as well as the presence of my web development language of choice (ASP).
I'd tried Linux, but I found it too unwieldy for everyday use. Too many hassles with hardware support, etc. I love the idea, I just couldn't get used to the trouble of routine maintenance.
Over the past 3 or so years, I've been using *nix systems more and more for web development (PHP, PERL), and I've enjoyed them more thoroughly than Windows. The flexibility of the CLI, the wide availability of development tools as well as the stability has made it particularly attractive. The only problem? I also do design work.
GIMP is a wonderful program, but it's just not robust enough for full time graphics production. For that, Photoshop is where it's at. And until now, the only options were the stuffy, static, and generally untweakable MacOS, or the generally unstable, unpleasant, and ugly Win9x dynasty.
Enter Mac OS X. My first experience with OS X was at an Apple store near my home. I fell in love with the interface. But an interface does not a good OS make. While playing around, I noticed there was a lot more to tweak and configure, and lo there was a CLI. I popped "VI" into the prompt, and there it was. Pine, check. Apache, check. Everything I knew and loved about the *NIX's was there. Within a week, I had bought a spanking new dual g4 and I couldn't be happier.
I have to use a Wintel box at work and it's sheer hell. I couldn't be happier about switching to OS X.
Activestate's Komodo has an excellent interface, excellent color coding as well as the ability to debug XSLT files, if you are so inclined. It also has an excellent regular expression builder (handy if you ever delve into PERL), it doesn't do too bad with TCL, either.
It works with windows or Linux and is available on a trial, educational, or professional license basis.
I've been using it for about 3 months and it's been rock solid so far. Better than anything else I've used.
btw, activestate's developer network is an excellent resource, too.
I find that I can generally get by with 3-4 hours of sleep if I don't eat until much later the following day (between lunch and dinner), if I eat breakfast, I'm out like a light.
Moderate exercise just before you put the lights out for your 4 hour night seems to help more than exercising in the morning. Especially if you are a jogger.
Eventually, your body gets accustomed to little sleep and adjusts the length of REM sleep accordingly, so long as you stick to a routine sleep schedule (that's where most people go wrong); it's when you awake in the middle of REM sleep that you're worthless for the rest of the day.
Also, pouring McDonalds coffee down your pants on the way to work/school/sleep clinic will surely get the blood flowing. YMMV
And I agree with that: idle hand wringing over the creative process gets you nowhere, and implementation is %100 of what ships. What I take issue with is if the implication is that creative design is somehow less worthy than technical or production process.
Pardon, but I have to ask why you feel that "strategic creativity is less than 1% of the effort"?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding here, but success can be borne of creative development being primary thrust in a gaming project. Certainly technical issues/successes are paramount to keeping a game cutting edge and therefore buzzworthy, but to completely denigrate the role of the creativity in a game is to ignore an entire subsect of gaming.
Surely ID games will continue to find success with it's fantastic engines, but I think that you guys could stand some of the creativity exhibited in games like Deus Ex and to a lesser extent Anachronox. Don't misunderstand, I'm a huge fan of ID and I will play all three Quakes until my fingers bleed, but if I'm looking for an story based, consuming game, I know I won't find it at ID (for now).
That's not to say that idle creativity does anyone good. Standing around saying "Boy that would be cool if..." or "gee wouldn't this be great..." doesn't ship games, but a certain measure of that, I feel, is good for the process.
I tremendously respect ID and what you do, and I'm a huge fan, but I have to take exception as it sounds like the ID way is the only way.
I think I may be missing something, but as it stands, that's how I see it.
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... I will just switch to Linux, *BSD, or any other number of free operating systems, and I suspect others will too.
I'm a coder, but I don't like having to configure all my hardware and deal with endless conf files and what-not (read: software person, not hardware). BUT, if I start getting charged everytime I reboot, I will configure whatever the hell I have to. I will not tolerate my rights being trampled by charge happy corporations.
I currently use OS X, and I think it's great, but if Apple started charging a monthly fee for it's use, I would drop it like a hot potato. I think many people would do the same. Think if Ford charged you every time you started your car. A lot of people would take the bus...
Quoth JWZ: Linux is only free if your time isn't worth anything...
Damn those pesky business men and the concept of time equalling money. Damn them all.
Ok, also consider the revenues from sporting events, endorsement deals, R&D, medical facilities and other assorted income.
I think the $1,000 per semester cost is a bit lowball. At OSU it's at $1,596 and rising. Residential costs, under which internet access probably falls, are significantly higher at $2,010 per semester. Now tell me, do you really think they can't afford internet access with $2,010 to play with. That's a double occupancy room, 76 (cheap) meals, and basic cable.
The way I figure, using estimates based on real world cost (not even figuring economies of scale), that's $930 for rent, $228 for meals, $30 for cable, $100 for cleaning services, and $300 for utilities. That's about $1588. That leaves just a tiny bit of room for incidentals.
I'm sure there are other hidden cost that I'm not allowing for, so if anybody knows differently (with hard facts), I'd love to know about it.
No, his tuition is paying for his education. His residence charges are another thing altogether. I would argue that his internet access falls under residence charges, which decidedly isn't an education.
It is if you pay for it.
When I went to OSU they kept hiking tuition, presumably to cover costs like an internet connection. That's a bill that I'm footing, so damn it, I expect them to respond in a manner befitting an ISP, rather than an altruistic organization who just happened to bless me with a connection.
They charge you money for a reason, and it certainly isn't for the food.
Actually it was stuffed full of pop-rocks and soda. The damn thing nearly killed me.
I thought about that, long after the fact. It occured to me that a swap could have occured, and I wouldn't have noticed. I was so agog that only the memory and cpu were missing to bother to look for other differences.
Even if it only "edged out" Real in terms of streaming speed/whatever, it certainly blows the doors of Real in terms of quality.
Their "fractal" algorithm or whatever they're calling it has been ready for retirement for the last 3 years. Can you say artifacting? Especially in medium to high motion scenes. At low bandwidth it's about the only way to go, but for broadband applications, it's just ugly.
Not only that, but I'm glad to see another alternative in streaming media. More choices is inevitably better.
It was about 10 minutes. The laptop had an easy to open case.
A couple of years ago, I bought a brand new laptop. I went into a store for a couple of minutes and left my month old laptop sitting on the seat of my car, door unlocked (stupid, I know), knowing I would only be gone for a couple minutes.
When I got back home, I tried to boot up and nothing happened after the fan kicked on. After a couple of minutes of jiggling the power cord wire, I opened the case and found that my processor was stolen along with my two 64MB ram units. Someone had bothered to open it up, take the stuff, and close it again
That is definitely a situation in which tracking would not have helped.
I should have been more specific. I'm looking at something slightly more wideband than FM. Think about it: You have to transmit display data and remote control information.
That's a little more than FM can handle. Plus, FM is susceptible to signal drift and interference from neighbouring frequency, which makes it a no go in a radio rich area (like a big city).
It seems to me the the major price addition on these receivers is the processor. Why not do something like Sony's PCLink for their MD's (except this would use something with longer distance than USB) and feed audio, rather than MP3 data straight from the computer? That way, there is no interference with normal audio on the PC, yet the stream is processed to audio by your already purchased general purpose PC processor. It also allows for a bit more flexibility in file format support. I can't imagine these limited use processors/memory units have a lot of room for additional codec code.
I imagine some sort of cheap PCI card broadcasting wirelessly to the "receiver". Plus, it would look better than stringing CAT-5 all over the house, since a lot of PC's are no where near the nice stereo equipment.
I thought the same thing when I read the headline.
> "Linux Turning Tricks."
I could make a joke about open "sores", but I won't.
Hasn't this been mentioned before?...
Honestly though, I would hate to live in Canada right now, my iPod would cost about $150 more.
Also, it begs the question are they measuring by 1,000,000 mb or 1,048,048 mb? Not that it makes that big of a deal, I'd just be curious to see.
What kind of troll is this?
>Make it mesh seamlessly with an NT environment
It does. Easily. Just type smb:\\servername into the connect to server dialog
>Give it some PCI slots
Riiiight. It has them. Have you even looked inside?
>IBM announced the 1 ghz G3 750FX power PC six months ago
I'm using dual 1ghz G4's now. And they rip. Why would I want a G3?
>Let the businesses use their legacy monitors
It's called a VGA connector. My Mac has one.
You are right on one count though, my mac is prettier than a beige box, as well it should; I have to look at it every day.
It was on the Demo Box at the Apple store. I discovered that it wasn't on my fresh OS X install. Quick download solved that.
For the last 8-10 years, I was a wintel user. I used Windows 3.1 - 2000 for it's ease of use as well as the presence of my web development language of choice (ASP).
I'd tried Linux, but I found it too unwieldy for everyday use. Too many hassles with hardware support, etc. I love the idea, I just couldn't get used to the trouble of routine maintenance.
Over the past 3 or so years, I've been using *nix systems more and more for web development (PHP, PERL), and I've enjoyed them more thoroughly than Windows. The flexibility of the CLI, the wide availability of development tools as well as the stability has made it particularly attractive. The only problem? I also do design work.
GIMP is a wonderful program, but it's just not robust enough for full time graphics production. For that, Photoshop is where it's at. And until now, the only options were the stuffy, static, and generally untweakable MacOS, or the generally unstable, unpleasant, and ugly Win9x dynasty.
Enter Mac OS X. My first experience with OS X was at an Apple store near my home. I fell in love with the interface. But an interface does not a good OS make. While playing around, I noticed there was a lot more to tweak and configure, and lo there was a CLI. I popped "VI" into the prompt, and there it was. Pine, check. Apache, check. Everything I knew and loved about the *NIX's was there. Within a week, I had bought a spanking new dual g4 and I couldn't be happier.
I have to use a Wintel box at work and it's sheer hell. I couldn't be happier about switching to OS X.
Activestate's Komodo has an excellent interface, excellent color coding as well as the ability to debug XSLT files, if you are so inclined. It also has an excellent regular expression builder (handy if you ever delve into PERL), it doesn't do too bad with TCL, either.
It works with windows or Linux and is available on a trial, educational, or professional license basis.
I've been using it for about 3 months and it's been rock solid so far. Better than anything else I've used.
btw, activestate's developer network is an excellent resource, too.
I find that I can generally get by with 3-4 hours of sleep if I don't eat until much later the following day (between lunch and dinner), if I eat breakfast, I'm out like a light.
Moderate exercise just before you put the lights out for your 4 hour night seems to help more than exercising in the morning. Especially if you are a jogger.
Eventually, your body gets accustomed to little sleep and adjusts the length of REM sleep accordingly, so long as you stick to a routine sleep schedule (that's where most people go wrong); it's when you awake in the middle of REM sleep that you're worthless for the rest of the day.
Also, pouring McDonalds coffee down your pants on the way to work/school/sleep clinic will surely get the blood flowing. YMMV
So where were these pictures 3 months ago when evidence was found that a black hole is at the center of our galaxy? It seemed like a big deal at the time... Had no one thought of pointing a camera at the middle of the galaxy until recently?
And I agree with that: idle hand wringing over the creative process gets you nowhere, and implementation is %100 of what ships. What I take issue with is if the implication is that creative design is somehow less worthy than technical or production process.
Pardon, but I have to ask why you feel that "strategic creativity is less than 1% of the effort"?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding here, but success can be borne of creative development being primary thrust in a gaming project. Certainly technical issues/successes are paramount to keeping a game cutting edge and therefore buzzworthy, but to completely denigrate the role of the creativity in a game is to ignore an entire subsect of gaming.
Surely ID games will continue to find success with it's fantastic engines, but I think that you guys could stand some of the creativity exhibited in games like Deus Ex and to a lesser extent Anachronox. Don't misunderstand, I'm a huge fan of ID and I will play all three Quakes until my fingers bleed, but if I'm looking for an story based, consuming game, I know I won't find it at ID (for now).
That's not to say that idle creativity does anyone good. Standing around saying "Boy that would be cool if..." or "gee wouldn't this be great..." doesn't ship games, but a certain measure of that, I feel, is good for the process.
I tremendously respect ID and what you do, and I'm a huge fan, but I have to take exception as it sounds like the ID way is the only way.
I think I may be missing something, but as it stands, that's how I see it.
Computer - a history of the information machine by Martin Campbell-kelly and William Aspray is a great book.
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Users upload documents, rate them, discuss them and such. It's an interesting concept that bears mentioning.
Another online community that doesn't involve document discussion and the like is Metafilter.