It's good that Wikipedia's growth is slowing. That's an indication that the job is approaching completion.
You have no proof of this. It could also be that the editors are jackasses and are discouraging any new contributors like its been with me and many other posters on this thread.
So like always, scientists (especially physicist's) obsessions with getting there first (the publication, the grant, the conference presentation), rather than doing honest science, sabotaged the project to some extent. Nice work guys. I'm glad we can believe in you.
I'm very sorry you choose the wrong license, and are unhappy with the results. However, the best advice here is just to deal with it, ok? The GPL is a specific legal document, and not a "spirit" or state of mind, whatever you think those are supposed to be. If you thought it was somehow, you missed the point of it. It is a tool (especially with regards to so called "intellectual property") specifically designed to be bullet proof with regards to the points it covers, especially should those points be dragged into court for a serious trial. It is not the charter of rights for some vague utopic coding society, where everyone lives happily in giant mushroom houses, and drinks chasta all day.
I think you can take solace in the fact that this discussion has been very informative for alot of people -- including me, who does iPhone development. While apparently many of the posters were very well aware of the chargeability of GPLv2 binaries, you and a number of other people were not.
You have an option here, which is to find a license, or create a NEW license that you can release the code under that expressly prohibits whatever you think is important to restrict in code usage (ironic isn't it that in trying to "free" the code you are restricting what can be done with it, ie: charging a price for the compiled binaries), and there maybe many idealistic developers who would appreciate this "not for profit" splinter from the GPL.
Finally I specifically resent how you are ignoring the contributions of the porters. Xcode is a very specific beast, and for sure your original code did not come in a nice compilable Project bundle, all written with Objective C and with Interface Builder Documents. So they probably did a fair amount of work (and quite frankly having seen xPilot, I personally would have written the code base from scratch, but that's another story) just in the porting. So *everyone* contributed something here. Let's be honest about that.
Oh yeah? That's nothing! Wait til Encino Man figures out how to type and then sign up on slashdot. Then he'll be telling you about how everyone used to accidentally light entire forests on fire to signal time for dinner, and tell long winded grunting stories about waiting around the cave fire for one of them to mutate and evolve.
No, don't mod him up -- the guys a troll through and through. Just substitute whatever music you listen to (heavy metal, jazz, etc) and see if you'd like what he's saying about you. Think about it -- you're one step away from becoming Digg, if you give him a +1.
You're an anonymous coward, so you probably won't even come back to see this, but never mind that, I'll reply anyways.
So let me guess you're a scientist, and most probably a physicist, and of course a massive nuclear energy deployment would keep all of you employed and out of having to sit around your mom's basement after you did your PhD and post doc and realized -- oops, gee aside from teaching college curriculum, there's not actually that much out there for you.
I'm not against nuclear. Far from it. I would have no problems if a nuclear plant were deployed near my city or even my home, assuming I thought the design and overseeing body was competent enough. But at the same time, the "nuclear" people seem so much like any other cult, blind and one sided. Engineering has shown us one thing: it gets better at doing things over time. So let the solar develop into better solar, the wind develop into better wind, geothermal into better geothermal, electricity grids into better electricity grids. At the end of the day, what you "nuclear" people refuse to admit, is that most like our energy future will be a mixed source affair, with energy coming from many different places. Happily for you, physicists will be employed at some of them.
Sure if you consider facebook WORK, and are trying to GET something out of it. But I think that misses the point. I use facebook because its fun. I have fun with my status updates, I make fun comments on other people's posts, and in general its a really fun, great distraction a few times a day. When a really great thread gets riffing off of someone's status update I think about it for the afternoon with a little inner smile if its particularly amusing.
Sounds like you might be taking it a bit too seriously. There is nothing wrong with having just "Facebook friends". Are they superficial? No more than your friends on IRC or WOW, or wherever online. Its just another community. I think the mistake is thinking that somehow facebook has to relate someway to real life. It doesn't. Sometimes it does, but often its just what it is: facebook.
They probably understood it perfectly well. Its not like you have a monopoly on smarts in the world. Its amazing the amount of hostility there is to the iPhone on slashdot sometimes. It makes me think you guys are missing the point. Its obvious there were a million other possible solutions, but the iPhone is KNOWN to work with AGPS (cell tower assisted -- otherwise I doubt the whole thing would have worked, given that it were probably inside a big truck), and its also well understood.
But the point is that what they WANTED to use was an iPhone. So they did. So DEAL WITH IT.
Well of course no one is going to even notice this post, as everyone is all crying "piracy, wtf!!", but me and my buddies often go up north to play SC sessions at this small cabin. And so it has electricity, and we bring our laptops and a wireless router and we play. But no way in hell is it going to have internet. Not now or in a few years. Now with this, its all but impossible to play.
Given that, I wonder if Blizzard isn't shooting itself in the foot. I mean how hard would it be to write a BNet Server that you could run on your machine to validate a game and then play....talk about "piracy, wtf!!!" at the next level.
Good for you for getting the +5 but you have no idea really. What if personality is like an envelope (of parametmers), and that envelope is shaped over time by experiences, of which memories are only one aspect. In that case you could remove the memories, but the envelope remains. After all there are so many memories that we've forgotten about later in life (try accessing any memories from before you were five for example), yet our personality seems pretty pervasive and continuous. So just taking memories away from a PTSD situation or any other, may not reverse at all the effect its had on the personality...
Actually while some of your points are correct, I think the real translation of what Ben said was: "We didn't consider the different parameters of the Wii in our initial design, and when it came to porting the game over, we found we were too tied in by the assumptions we had made at the beginning of the design phase."
Ubisoft makes big fat games, that do big fat stuff. All of their AAA titles push the envelope, at least technically, and those come at a cost. With that design mentality its not a surprise that some of their titles don't translate to the Wii. On the other hand they have specifically made those titles for "Gamers", and "Gamers" wouldn't play those titles on the Wii anyways. And it's credit, Ubi has made a large effort to make games for the Wii, but they have all been specifically targeted for that platform (Red Steel, Rayman Ravin Rabbids, etc).
On the other hand there are *alot* of places that are better. I think comparing yourself to the worst is always self defeating. There is always room for improvement in politics, and if anything the lesson to take from the US situation right now is that civilian populations have to constantly keep watch over their nation-states, and ensure that the governments they put in power or support are up to THEIR standards (the population of Britian should take special note, here). The US population has been asleep at the wheel for quite a while, and is now in a slow motion highway collision. Lets hope there won't be too many casualties, and you can get yourselves back on track. A good place to start: REAL separation of the government from Special Interest Groups, Big Business, and your fun loving Christian right. You'll have to demilitarize to a large extent as well, if only for economic reasons. One of the things any democratic government needs to be to serve its population well is *disinterested* and I mean disinterested in the "Freedom from selfish bias or self-interest; impartiality." sense.
But I sure like Bloom, Synthpond, Noise.io, Bebot, Beatmaker, GigBaby (for recoding at Gigs), iTM DJ for doing quick live performances in Virtual DJ, and when I'm not being a musician, X-Plane, Fastlane, and Lightbike.
Oh wait. Your phone can't run OS X applications? Oh well. Have fun in Japan watching your TV shows off your mobile. Because my iPhone can't do that. Oh wait, I just have to buy an adapter and yes it can!
Actually its a French company from France, with a head office in Paris. Montreuil technically. And while they employ an international team, with many Canadians, and obviously local talent, the management is ALL French.
Slashdot Mirror
Another mindless rant from the we should be exploring space with machines team. Thanks so much for your opinion. We loved it so much.
Just cause its an old line, doesn't mean Iraq isn't still a relevant line.
It's good that Wikipedia's growth is slowing. That's an indication that the job is approaching completion.
You have no proof of this. It could also be that the editors are jackasses and are discouraging any new contributors like its been with me and many other posters on this thread.
So like always, scientists (especially physicist's) obsessions with getting there first (the publication, the grant, the conference presentation), rather than doing honest science, sabotaged the project to some extent. Nice work guys. I'm glad we can believe in you.
Dear Bjorn,
I'm very sorry you choose the wrong license, and are unhappy with the results. However, the best advice here is just to deal with it, ok? The GPL is a specific legal document, and not a "spirit" or state of mind, whatever you think those are supposed to be. If you thought it was somehow, you missed the point of it. It is a tool (especially with regards to so called "intellectual property") specifically designed to be bullet proof with regards to the points it covers, especially should those points be dragged into court for a serious trial. It is not the charter of rights for some vague utopic coding society, where everyone lives happily in giant mushroom houses, and drinks chasta all day.
I think you can take solace in the fact that this discussion has been very informative for alot of people -- including me, who does iPhone development. While apparently many of the posters were very well aware of the chargeability of GPLv2 binaries, you and a number of other people were not.
You have an option here, which is to find a license, or create a NEW license that you can release the code under that expressly prohibits whatever you think is important to restrict in code usage (ironic isn't it that in trying to "free" the code you are restricting what can be done with it, ie: charging a price for the compiled binaries), and there maybe many idealistic developers who would appreciate this "not for profit" splinter from the GPL.
Finally I specifically resent how you are ignoring the contributions of the porters. Xcode is a very specific beast, and for sure your original code did not come in a nice compilable Project bundle, all written with Objective C and with Interface Builder Documents. So they probably did a fair amount of work (and quite frankly having seen xPilot, I personally would have written the code base from scratch, but that's another story) just in the porting. So *everyone* contributed something here. Let's be honest about that.
Oh yeah? That's nothing! Wait til Encino Man figures out how to type and then sign up on slashdot. Then he'll be telling you about how everyone used to accidentally light entire forests on fire to signal time for dinner, and tell long winded grunting stories about waiting around the cave fire for one of them to mutate and evolve.
Aubrey de Gray would agree with you.
http://www.mfoundation.org/
No, don't mod him up -- the guys a troll through and through. Just substitute whatever music you listen to (heavy metal, jazz, etc) and see if you'd like what he's saying about you. Think about it -- you're one step away from becoming Digg, if you give him a +1.
You're an anonymous coward, so you probably won't even come back to see this, but never mind that, I'll reply anyways.
So let me guess you're a scientist, and most probably a physicist, and of course a massive nuclear energy deployment would keep all of you employed and out of having to sit around your mom's basement after you did your PhD and post doc and realized -- oops, gee aside from teaching college curriculum, there's not actually that much out there for you.
I'm not against nuclear. Far from it. I would have no problems if a nuclear plant were deployed near my city or even my home, assuming I thought the design and overseeing body was competent enough. But at the same time, the "nuclear" people seem so much like any other cult, blind and one sided. Engineering has shown us one thing: it gets better at doing things over time. So let the solar develop into better solar, the wind develop into better wind, geothermal into better geothermal, electricity grids into better electricity grids. At the end of the day, what you "nuclear" people refuse to admit, is that most like our energy future will be a mixed source affair, with energy coming from many different places. Happily for you, physicists will be employed at some of them.
Sure if you consider facebook WORK, and are trying to GET something out of it. But I think that misses the point. I use facebook because its fun. I have fun with my status updates, I make fun comments on other people's posts, and in general its a really fun, great distraction a few times a day. When a really great thread gets riffing off of someone's status update I think about it for the afternoon with a little inner smile if its particularly amusing.
Sounds like you might be taking it a bit too seriously. There is nothing wrong with having just "Facebook friends". Are they superficial? No more than your friends on IRC or WOW, or wherever online. Its just another community. I think the mistake is thinking that somehow facebook has to relate someway to real life. It doesn't. Sometimes it does, but often its just what it is: facebook.
They probably understood it perfectly well. Its not like you have a monopoly on smarts in the world. Its amazing the amount of hostility there is to the iPhone on slashdot sometimes. It makes me think you guys are missing the point. Its obvious there were a million other possible solutions, but the iPhone is KNOWN to work with AGPS (cell tower assisted -- otherwise I doubt the whole thing would have worked, given that it were probably inside a big truck), and its also well understood.
But the point is that what they WANTED to use was an iPhone. So they did. So DEAL WITH IT.
Sheesh.
Yet another Linux Distro! Just what we've all been waiting for!!
I presume you are telling us this because you have the security clearance to know so.
Well of course no one is going to even notice this post, as everyone is all crying "piracy, wtf!!", but me and my buddies often go up north to play SC sessions at this small cabin. And so it has electricity, and we bring our laptops and a wireless router and we play. But no way in hell is it going to have internet. Not now or in a few years. Now with this, its all but impossible to play.
Given that, I wonder if Blizzard isn't shooting itself in the foot. I mean how hard would it be to write a BNet Server that you could run on your machine to validate a game and then play....talk about "piracy, wtf!!!" at the next level.
Modding him up +1 FUNNY, was the other option. I quite enjoyed it. :)
Welcome to America, huh?
Good for you for getting the +5 but you have no idea really. What if personality is like an envelope (of parametmers), and that envelope is shaped over time by experiences, of which memories are only one aspect. In that case you could remove the memories, but the envelope remains. After all there are so many memories that we've forgotten about later in life (try accessing any memories from before you were five for example), yet our personality seems pretty pervasive and continuous. So just taking memories away from a PTSD situation or any other, may not reverse at all the effect its had on the personality...
Actually while some of your points are correct, I think the real translation of what Ben said was: "We didn't consider the different parameters of the Wii in our initial design, and when it came to porting the game over, we found we were too tied in by the assumptions we had made at the beginning of the design phase."
Ubisoft makes big fat games, that do big fat stuff. All of their AAA titles push the envelope, at least technically, and those come at a cost. With that design mentality its not a surprise that some of their titles don't translate to the Wii. On the other hand they have specifically made those titles for "Gamers", and "Gamers" wouldn't play those titles on the Wii anyways. And it's credit, Ubi has made a large effort to make games for the Wii, but they have all been specifically targeted for that platform (Red Steel, Rayman Ravin Rabbids, etc).
Thanks for the Culture of Cynicism comment -- we definitely need more people like you around that needlessly shit on others doing new stuff.
On the other hand there are *alot* of places that are better. I think comparing yourself to the worst is always self defeating. There is always room for improvement in politics, and if anything the lesson to take from the US situation right now is that civilian populations have to constantly keep watch over their nation-states, and ensure that the governments they put in power or support are up to THEIR standards (the population of Britian should take special note, here). The US population has been asleep at the wheel for quite a while, and is now in a slow motion highway collision. Lets hope there won't be too many casualties, and you can get yourselves back on track. A good place to start: REAL separation of the government from Special Interest Groups, Big Business, and your fun loving Christian right. You'll have to demilitarize to a large extent as well, if only for economic reasons. One of the things any democratic government needs to be to serve its population well is *disinterested* and I mean disinterested in the "Freedom from selfish bias or self-interest; impartiality." sense.
....I think what people are really wanting this year is an Apple netbook. Come on Apple, take some risks, surprise us a little.
I don't watch tv.
But I sure like Bloom, Synthpond, Noise.io, Bebot, Beatmaker, GigBaby (for recoding at Gigs), iTM DJ for doing quick live performances in Virtual DJ, and when I'm not being a musician, X-Plane, Fastlane, and Lightbike.
Oh wait. Your phone can't run OS X applications? Oh well. Have fun in Japan watching your TV shows off your mobile. Because my iPhone can't do that. Oh wait, I just have to buy an adapter and yes it can!
Sounds like I win this one. Lol.
-=g
Bad day?
(Written from my iPhone).
Actually its a French company from France, with a head office in Paris. Montreuil technically. And while they employ an international team, with many Canadians, and obviously local talent, the management is ALL French.
Nice try though.
Much like any music that has peaked (ie: Jazz and Classical just to name a couple).