You bring up an interesting point. This is taken straight of the RIAA website.
Mission Statment The Recording Industry Association of America is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Our mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Our members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAA® members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.
In support of our mission, we work to protect intellectual property rights worldwide and the First Amendment rights of artists; conduct consumer, industry and technical research; and monitor and review - - state and federal laws, regulations and policies.
Now what I don't understand, what business model? Sounds to me they are no better than a two-bit hoods that roams the streets of Little Italy demanding little shops that they need to pay them for insurance or 'protection'. Why would you have to change that business model?
To quote Godfather III -- 'Real power cannot be given, it must be taken away'
The only way that these types of bills and tactics are stopped is only if we abolish these groups... Artists will never stop making music, even if they don't get paid 5 mill a year, so really who is the RIAA and MPAA really protecting other than themselves?
Doesn't OS X have a compatibility layer that can run old MacOS 9 programs? So building it for OS 9 would allow for it to be played on both platforms right?
There will be a time were you will absolutely have to start documenting your products, how-tos, specifications, deliverables, whatever. Finally when you realize you have to do it NOW... you'll look at all the work you have to do, and nobody likes to write. The best thing to do right away is, if you have the money, is to hire a technical writer. Then have him or her write, that's what they do all day.
Then you can worry about problems like versioning or storing the documents, whether storing them in the DB or in your CVS (I guess that is considered some form of database).
One thing to bring up is there is a lot of great ways to document these days within your code. Javadoc is a great utility if you want your coders to start documenting their own stuff, learning javadoc is easy, but doing it is a pain in the ass. I think Microsoft in their Visual Studio.NET is introducing the/// that provides printable documentation, similar to javadoc. (But who cares about that) Unfortunately if you look at some of my in-line documentation you find stuff like: /** * @author Me! * It's 2:00 in the morning, I'm tired and drunk * the following ain't pretty but it works for some reason */
Thank you, I just hit an all time low when I just looked down at my dev machine I am at right now, realizing my machine's name. The label I happen to see upon the face...
First it starts with the advertisers. Than it goes into the WSJ or NY Times "subscription model." Eventually this starts snowballing into eventually to "stay around" it no longer becomes Slashdot.org rather Slashdot.NET.
NoPayPal is a site that made me avoid getting a Pay Pal account. I think Pay Pal is a great idea, however the business practices that is being portrayed is piss poor. Is there any competitors out there?
I tried installing 98 lite... Yes you can do it, no IE. But man is that a pain in the ass. Not to get it installed without IE. The creators of 98 lite make an easy to use installation system. However installing 98 without IE, you are just setting yourself up with headaches, death by scripting errors, and overall not your usual 98 environment, that you as Joe Six Pack are use to.
You truly gain some sort of appreciation that IE is integrated to the operating system, if you are a regular Windows user by using 98 lite. Microsoft should just come out and say that they have done it to better the user experience. I mean running Windows without IE? C'mon you might as well run Linux, like I do now. ; )
That being said, City of Heroes looks pretty damned cool.
Yes it does, however the only thing it is lacking is the ability of being a villan. This may cause for some not so exciting and repetitive action, with everyone day after day battling the same AI. I guess with the exception of the Arena combat the FAQ talks about. What I would like to see is Rockstar get into the worlds of MMORPGs, maybe a Liberty City simulator, (AKA GTA4), where people can choose what kind a hood or vigilante they'd want to be, Mafia, Triad, Diablo or otherwise common hood. But if that ever came out, I think I'd lose my job, girlfriend and all ambitions in life. (So bad idea, don't listen to me Rockstar...)
"why do geeks like these while Joe Sixpack isn't buying them"
I consider myself Joe 12-pack... The reason why I haven't bought Tivo yet is, something else gets in the way, like money. I travel down the aisle in Best Buy, and the only way I could probably buy TiVo is is they were placed in the front. Since I am Joe 12-pack I am easily distracted travelling all the way to the back....
and always my $299 I brought to buy TiVo is somewhat reduced to more than half of that and I wait till next paycheck, and try to make my way to the back of Best Buy again. Maybe I should buy on-line.
Just like their was no desire for gamers to switch from DOS? Don't fear the penguins, and don't fear change, embrace it.
<SoapBox>
Think about what is going on. Desktop users aren't exactly ready to leave they're windows partition solely on the fact that their games are built for DirectX, thus not being supported on Linux, (or Mac (-- I don't know to much about this), or whatever without a level of porting)
What Loki tried to do, as well as what TuxGames and a few other companies, is trying to say "Hey! there is a market for Linux gaming". Maybe game developers will listen, maybe they won't. Maybe SDL will become easy to use, maybe it won't. Can't blame the guys at Loki for having a vision though, and trying to create a market.
I personally do not want to install a Windows partition to play games. So if Transgaming can bring it to me through WineX so be it. However nothing runs better than a pure port, and that is why I hope more companies like Loki pop up in the new future.
Why? You seem to be missing the main point of Loki's business model.
Read the interview. The porting was to create a market, a need for Linux gaming. The eventual goal was to create Linux games, not ports. Draeker gives great examples in how even with the Mac, most games are just ported from Windows, which Mac isn't exactly a large market either for gamers.
Your right about the reasonable... Bad choice of wording. I was merely pointing to the ideal, and again you're right cheating wouldn't be taken to criminal court as well. However it probably wouldn't be taken to civil court either, rather taken to the school's judicial affairs, where your judged by whoever.
Civil action would be taken if you feel you got kicked out of school for doing nothing wrong.
Hope you never get in trouble with the law in CA...
You definitely bring up an excellent point. Give students a break especially during callaboration.
Grade tests harder or make them weigh more in order to test the students knowledge. Don't fail someone because you presume they are cheating, remember folks we're supposed to be innocent until until without a shadow of a doubt their is no evidence to prove that you are not guilty.
No I understand why 'The *Neal' varies anywhere from 7 - 77% of the polls... Depends on which poll he wants to lead. Cowboy Neal you cheater, quit rigging the vote!
Than probably the right degree for you is CIS. Basically CIS usually takes on the business side of Computer Science. Their exists some sort of spectrum.
MIS:::: CIS:::: CSCI:::: CE
Really MIS is little technical, but enough to allow you to get accreddited to be a DBA or a low level programmer or help desk. CSCI gives you enough of a Science (physics) background as well as different stuff like compiler theory to do pretty much anything. Then CIS rests somewhere in between. CIS enables you to become just as good of a 'coder' as a CSCI major by taken all the same lower and upper division programming classes. Basically you take all of the same classes as someone from CSCI with the exception of a few that you don't choose as additional electives. One great thing about CIS, you are not required to take physics so you might breeze through the major faster, but you might be required to get a business minor.
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You bring up an interesting point. This is taken straight of the RIAA website.
Mission Statment
The Recording Industry Association of America is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Our mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Our members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAA® members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.
In support of our mission, we work to protect intellectual property rights worldwide and the First Amendment rights of artists; conduct consumer, industry and technical research; and monitor and review - - state and federal laws, regulations and policies.
Now what I don't understand, what business model? Sounds to me they are no better than a two-bit hoods that roams the streets of Little Italy demanding little shops that they need to pay them for insurance or 'protection'. Why would you have to change that business model?
To quote Godfather III -- 'Real power cannot be given, it must be taken away'
The only way that these types of bills and tactics are stopped is only if we abolish these groups... Artists will never stop making music, even if they don't get paid 5 mill a year, so really who is the RIAA and MPAA really protecting other than themselves?
Doesn't OS X have a compatibility layer that can run old MacOS 9 programs? So building it for OS 9 would allow for it to be played on both platforms right?
How about rephrase that and when to start...
/// that provides printable documentation, similar to javadoc. (But who cares about that) Unfortunately if you look at some of my in-line documentation you find stuff like:
RIGHT NOW
Or suffer our fate...
There will be a time were you will absolutely have to start documenting your products, how-tos, specifications, deliverables, whatever. Finally when you realize you have to do it NOW... you'll look at all the work you have to do, and nobody likes to write. The best thing to do right away is, if you have the money, is to hire a technical writer. Then have him or her write, that's what they do all day.
Then you can worry about problems like versioning or storing the documents, whether storing them in the DB or in your CVS (I guess that is considered some form of database).
One thing to bring up is there is a lot of great ways to document these days within your code. Javadoc is a great utility if you want your coders to start documenting their own stuff, learning javadoc is easy, but doing it is a pain in the ass. I think Microsoft in their Visual Studio.NET is introducing the
/**
* @author Me!
* It's 2:00 in the morning, I'm tired and drunk
* the following ain't pretty but it works for some reason
*/
Is there already was a Dragonball Live action movie.
Thank you, I just hit an all time low when I just looked down at my dev machine I am at right now, realizing my machine's name. The label I happen to see upon the face...
BORON
Penny Arcade has this old strip of video games on trial. I don't think there is a better way of summing this up.
Obvious to those of us who play GTA3 regularly but still manage to overcome the urge to plough over pedestrains on the way to work in the morning
Let me tell you that urge is getting harder and harder. Thank God I don't have access to Rocket Launchers, M16's and Uzi's.
beginning of the end of Slashdot.
This might be proof the editors don't even read the stories that they post.
First it starts with the advertisers. Than it goes into the WSJ or NY Times "subscription model." Eventually this starts snowballing into eventually to "stay around" it no longer becomes Slashdot.org rather Slashdot.NET.
It sucks that bandwidth costs money.
Not according to Hammurabi, you subtle Nuissance you :)
The fact I just saw an ad for Visual Studio .NET on Slashdot.
read the fucking Wednesday comic it's getting slashdotted.
Guess I'll read it tomorrow.
NoPayPal is a site that made me avoid getting a Pay Pal account. I think Pay Pal is a great idea, however the business practices that is being portrayed is piss poor. Is there any competitors out there?
No
I tried installing 98 lite... Yes you can do it, no IE. But man is that a pain in the ass. Not to get it installed without IE. The creators of 98 lite make an easy to use installation system. However installing 98 without IE, you are just setting yourself up with headaches, death by scripting errors, and overall not your usual 98 environment, that you as Joe Six Pack are use to.
You truly gain some sort of appreciation that IE is integrated to the operating system, if you are a regular Windows user by using 98 lite. Microsoft should just come out and say that they have done it to better the user experience. I mean running Windows without IE? C'mon you might as well run Linux, like I do now. ; )
That being said, City of Heroes looks pretty damned cool.
Yes it does, however the only thing it is lacking is the ability of being a villan. This may cause for some not so exciting and repetitive action, with everyone day after day battling the same AI. I guess with the exception of the Arena combat the FAQ talks about. What I would like to see is Rockstar get into the worlds of MMORPGs, maybe a Liberty City simulator, (AKA GTA4), where people can choose what kind a hood or vigilante they'd want to be, Mafia, Triad, Diablo or otherwise common hood. But if that ever came out, I think I'd lose my job, girlfriend and all ambitions in life. (So bad idea, don't listen to me Rockstar...)
'GNU is a free re-implementations of Unix...'
Hey! I thought GNU is Not Unix!
Get your recursive acronyms right buddy.
"why do geeks like these while Joe Sixpack isn't buying them"
I consider myself Joe 12-pack... The reason why I haven't bought Tivo yet is, something else gets in the way, like money. I travel down the aisle in Best Buy, and the only way I could probably buy TiVo is is they were placed in the front. Since I am Joe 12-pack I am easily distracted travelling all the way to the back....
"Ohhhh GTA3, and FFX...."
or maybe
"Yowsa new Brittany Spears...." (See guilty pleasure)
or even
"(Homer Sound) GeForce 3 Video card mmmmmm...."
and always my $299 I brought to buy TiVo is somewhat reduced to more than half of that and I wait till next paycheck, and try to make my way to the back of Best Buy again. Maybe I should buy on-line.
Why should I buy Libranet?
Simply put, this is the best desktop system available.
Bold Statement...
Just like their was no desire for gamers to switch from DOS? Don't fear the penguins, and don't fear change, embrace it.
<SoapBox>
Think about what is going on. Desktop users aren't exactly ready to leave they're windows partition solely on the fact that their games are built for DirectX, thus not being supported on Linux, (or Mac (-- I don't know to much about this), or whatever without a level of porting)
What Loki tried to do, as well as what TuxGames and a few other companies, is trying to say "Hey! there is a market for Linux gaming". Maybe game developers will listen, maybe they won't. Maybe SDL will become easy to use, maybe it won't. Can't blame the guys at Loki for having a vision though, and trying to create a market.
I personally do not want to install a Windows partition to play games. So if Transgaming can bring it to me through WineX so be it. However nothing runs better than a pure port, and that is why I hope more companies like Loki pop up in the new future.
</SoapBox>
Why? You seem to be missing the main point of Loki's business model.
Read the interview. The porting was to create a market, a need for Linux gaming. The eventual goal was to create Linux games, not ports. Draeker gives great examples in how even with the Mac, most games are just ported from Windows, which Mac isn't exactly a large market either for gamers.
Or like the article says jump from rooftop to rooftop... No silly pedistrians or cars getting in the way...
With this, all you need is a blue suit, two antennae, and a City and wallah Instant Tick!
Your right about the reasonable... Bad choice of wording. I was merely pointing to the ideal, and again you're right cheating wouldn't be taken to criminal court as well. However it probably wouldn't be taken to civil court either, rather taken to the school's judicial affairs, where your judged by whoever.
Civil action would be taken if you feel you got kicked out of school for doing nothing wrong.
Hope you never get in trouble with the law in CA...
So do I.
You definitely bring up an excellent point. Give students a break especially during callaboration.
Grade tests harder or make them weigh more in order to test the students knowledge. Don't fail someone because you presume they are cheating, remember folks we're supposed to be innocent until until without a shadow of a doubt their is no evidence to prove that you are not guilty.
No I understand why 'The *Neal' varies anywhere from 7 - 77% of the polls... Depends on which poll he wants to lead. Cowboy Neal you cheater, quit rigging the vote!
Than probably the right degree for you is CIS. Basically CIS usually takes on the business side of Computer Science. Their exists some sort of spectrum.
:::: CIS :::: CSCI :::: CE
MIS
Really MIS is little technical, but enough to allow you to get accreddited to be a DBA or a low level programmer or help desk. CSCI gives you enough of a Science (physics) background as well as different stuff like compiler theory to do pretty much anything. Then CIS rests somewhere in between. CIS enables you to become just as good of a 'coder' as a CSCI major by taken all the same lower and upper division programming classes. Basically you take all of the same classes as someone from CSCI with the exception of a few that you don't choose as additional electives. One great thing about CIS, you are not required to take physics so you might breeze through the major faster, but you might be required to get a business minor.