I want my super-upber-high-end gaming PC to ship with Linux so I can stress it its limits with the absolute latest, bleeding edge, hard core Linux based games...
The article was not about Linux on the Home Desktop Myths. It was about Linux on the Desktop Myths.
I use Photoshop, 3ds max, and Premiere every day I go to work. I've done that for 8+ years now. There is no collection of software on Linux that will allow me to get my job done to an equal level of quality and to file formats that I can share with my coworkers and get integrated into our final products (games).
Linux is not ready for my corporate desktop. The GIMP and Blender are interesting tools, I'll freely admit that. They are not replacements for industry standard tools like 3DS Max and Photoshop, though.
The author's marginalizing of apps he doesn't need doesn't at all imply that the apps aren't needed. The article is quite biased towards the author's views and needs. It does't present full picture of the problem.
Betamax lived a LONG time as a basic TV studio video format, despite not winning the consumer format "war".
Studios use(d) BetaCamSP. It is a massive refinement on BetaMax. Mixing up BetaCamSP and BetaMax is like looking at a moped and thinking it's the latest crotch-rocket motorcycle.
It wasn't belief in technological superiority. It was belief that you can control the content if you control the format.
Sony wouldn't let questionable content (e.g. pr0n) be released on Betamax. JVC said, "eh, we don't care." Next thing you know *everything* was coming out on VHS because you didn't have to ask Sony permission to release stuff.
The GPL even ensures that software will be close to free of price by mandating that anyone can get the source code and build it themselves for no more than a nominal distribution fee.
The source distributions don't have to be made available to everyone, only the users of the software. It in no way limits the pricing by forcing the source code out as a low-cost distribution. You buy my $500.00 piece of software, you get the source. You don't buy, no source for you.
If I recall correctally, they make a thing, that you stick on the bottom of a gamecube that lets it play gba games, its probably cheaper and more effective then sticking a whole gameboy into a console.
Which would explain why he used the Gameboy Player for the Gamecube instead of an actual Gameboy.
RTFA.
It's like saying you can't modify your car or your house...
I can mod my car to my heart's content as long as I don't do something blatantly illegal. I can't modify, move, or remove the catalytic convertor -- for example. I can't remove all of the windows and be considered street legal. I can't remove the muffler and have a car so loud it rattles the teeth out of your head. In short, there are a *LOT* of things I *CAN'T* do to my car.
I can mod my house up to the point where I am still in compliance with local building codes and safety regulations. I can paint the outside, I can remove a non-load bearing wall. I can replace the windows I can remodel the basement to add a new bedroom and a bathroom. I can't take the roof off. I can't dump raw sewage in my backyard, I can't run a commercial bar in my garage, etc...
There are legal limits to what you can (or can't) do to LOTS of things.
After all, Ebert doesn't review rough cuts of films, does he?
No, but Ebert doesn't write magazine based reviews. He writes newspaper reviews and does television shows.
Magazines typically have a 75-90 day lead time. No game magazine in their right mind is going to review a finished game knowing that it won't be out on the stands for a full 3 months. They'd constantly be scooped by the game oriented internet sites and TV shows.
I realize that it has been quite a while since the PS2, GC, and XBox came out, but they only recently seem to have acquired widespread acceptance.
In terms of the PS2 you don't get 12 Million + units sold if they have just recently acquired widespread acceptance.
Showing a unit at E3 2005 is no where near being the same as shipping production units. The PS2 was first shown at an E3 at least nine months to a year before it debuted in Japan. It was a big silver pyramid with a displaying running early code of GT3. You couldn't play it and it was most definately development hardware.
Showing a console still in development at E3 is just to get 3rd party developers/publishers to go "WHOA!!! We want to sign up for dev kits and have games ready for launch".
There's nothing in this annoucement or the Nintendo announcement that indicate either company is trying to shorten the traditional 5yr product cycle for consoles. Microsoft is kind of a black-sheep in this regard, though, as rumors about XENON have gone from "Show at E3 2005" to "Release for XMas 2005", which would definately be less than a 5 yr cycle for them.
In all seriousness I don't understand why Mozilla hasn't taken over the browser market already. It has all the features that anyone would want in a web browser and I've been using it for years...
I know, personally, that I've been waiting for the all-powerful, "mateomiguel (614660) uses it!" endorsement. Now I can switch.
When you drive your Subaru, the radio plays ads for Ford. And Chevy. And Kia, &c
No, it doesn't, not by default. It might if I turn the radio on and choose to listen to commercials. That would be an act instigated by me to gather information, though. The Subaru is not shipped with Ford ads plastered to it or blaring out of the speakers.
When you go to the grociery store, you see House Blend next to #10 cans of Folgers.
And when I go to BestBuy I see 3-4 different Linux boxes next to the WinXP boxes. Each of those Linux installs has a browser and that browser doesn't take the time to advertise all of the other browsers. So why should you expect IE to?
My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use. Most of our mothers probably don't even realize that IE is not "the Internet".
So now Microsoft is the bad guy for not advertising other browsers inside of their product?
When I drive my Subaru it doesn't pop-up ads for Ford.
When I drink my Starbucks I don't get told that I could also be drinking Folgers.
Your statement is illogical. Let me ask you this. If your ignorant mother had a computer that had no web browser on it would she know a different way to get to the Internet, find an FTP site that has browsers for download, retrieve one, and install it?
Didn't think so.
Can your mother use Windows and get to the Internet easily and manage to find information that she is looking for?
Thought so.
I don't know which is more obtusely written...
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Read the Preface.pdf. It spells out exactly what the author thinks Experienced Programmers, Technical Leads, Self-Taught Programmers, and Students will get out of the book.
Just because the FAQ says you can't deploy solutions made with the beta Express Editions it doesn't necessarily mean or imply that you can't do so with ther release versions.
Dev kits are rarely, if ever, faster than the final console. The dev kits for the first XBox are a notable exception because the XBox was essentially being built using currently existing off the shelf parts--although the custom GPU was higher spec than any IHV part out at the time. The CPU was certainly available, though.
Any time you have custom GPU and CPU development going on for a console release you are going to have your game developers working in parallel to your HW development so you can get the console out on time and have launch titles. In that case there is no way that the dev units can be faster due to the simple fact that the custom chips dont exist yet. You'll either end up with a dev kit based on early tape-outs of the silicon or dev kits that rely on emulation. In either case they are going to be slower than the final unit.
No they won't for any number of reasons:
1) There is only 1 person on board and no mentioned of carrying balast equal to the weight of 2 other humans.
2) They have not file for, nor received, clearance for another flight within 2 weeks.
3) Scaled Composites has said outright that tomorrow is not the first of a two X-Prize run launch set.
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You can believe what you want, but a Placement Office with a dog-eared 5yr old book on resume writing and a database of potential jobs isn't enough. A resume is a requirement. A good resume is a leg up. An excellent resume and the skills to conduct yourself in an exemplary manner during an interview are necessity for landing a good job.
There's nothing 'vocational' about it. Resume writing and interviewing are skills a person needs to get a job. College is the place where you learn those skills. It makes *sense* to have classes in such things. I went to a Big-10 college and earned a Bachelor of Science. It wasn't a vocational school and the department has an almost 100% placement rate within the first 3 months after graduation....without having to push students through the campus placement office. One of the first things we learned in the class is that resume spamming and using an over-taxed resource like a Placement Office are the absolute *WORST* ways to go about getting an interview.
I had a required class my senior year that covered resume writing (relevent to my major), portfolio layout and creation, and mock interviewing (with representatives from the industry for which I was going to be entering).
I'm in a position in my career now where I look at resumes and portfolios;many from recent college grads wanting to get their foot in the door. It is very easy to see which people have been taught the necessary skills to present themselves effectively. Unfotunately they the minority of the resumes I receive. I can honestly say, though, that the people who can present themselves well have a *huge* competitive advantage over the regular folks who think the Word Resume Wizard and a clumsy cover letter will get you a job.
You can belittle such required college classes all you want. I know, from experience, that the class I took was one of the more important classes I attended.
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I want my super-upber-high-end gaming PC to ship with Linux so I can stress it its limits with the absolute latest, bleeding edge, hard core Linux based games...
So, are you:
* an idiot?
* a zealot?
* someone who can't make a decent strawman argument?
I use Photoshop, 3ds max, and Premiere every day I go to work. I've done that for 8+ years now. There is no collection of software on Linux that will allow me to get my job done to an equal level of quality and to file formats that I can share with my coworkers and get integrated into our final products (games).
Linux is not ready for my corporate desktop. The GIMP and Blender are interesting tools, I'll freely admit that. They are not replacements for industry standard tools like 3DS Max and Photoshop, though.
The author's marginalizing of apps he doesn't need doesn't at all imply that the apps aren't needed. The article is quite biased towards the author's views and needs. It does't present full picture of the problem.
Ok, I can see that. It was hubris all the way around.
Studios use(d) BetaCamSP. It is a massive refinement on BetaMax. Mixing up BetaCamSP and BetaMax is like looking at a moped and thinking it's the latest crotch-rocket motorcycle.
It wasn't belief in technological superiority. It was belief that you can control the content if you control the format. Sony wouldn't let questionable content (e.g. pr0n) be released on Betamax. JVC said, "eh, we don't care." Next thing you know *everything* was coming out on VHS because you didn't have to ask Sony permission to release stuff.
That's just your second heart talking.
The source distributions don't have to be made available to everyone, only the users of the software. It in no way limits the pricing by forcing the source code out as a low-cost distribution. You buy my $500.00 piece of software, you get the source. You don't buy, no source for you.
Which would explain why he used the Gameboy Player for the Gamecube instead of an actual Gameboy. RTFA.
I can mod my car to my heart's content as long as I don't do something blatantly illegal. I can't modify, move, or remove the catalytic convertor -- for example. I can't remove all of the windows and be considered street legal. I can't remove the muffler and have a car so loud it rattles the teeth out of your head. In short, there are a *LOT* of things I *CAN'T* do to my car.
I can mod my house up to the point where I am still in compliance with local building codes and safety regulations. I can paint the outside, I can remove a non-load bearing wall. I can replace the windows I can remodel the basement to add a new bedroom and a bathroom. I can't take the roof off. I can't dump raw sewage in my backyard, I can't run a commercial bar in my garage, etc...
There are legal limits to what you can (or can't) do to LOTS of things.
Crap in, crap out.
So the humans on other planets can come in to audition....duh.
The XBox version is being done at Vicarious Visions in Albany, NY.
No, but Ebert doesn't write magazine based reviews. He writes newspaper reviews and does television shows.
Magazines typically have a 75-90 day lead time. No game magazine in their right mind is going to review a finished game knowing that it won't be out on the stands for a full 3 months. They'd constantly be scooped by the game oriented internet sites and TV shows.
In terms of the PS2 you don't get 12 Million + units sold if they have just recently acquired widespread acceptance.
Showing a unit at E3 2005 is no where near being the same as shipping production units. The PS2 was first shown at an E3 at least nine months to a year before it debuted in Japan. It was a big silver pyramid with a displaying running early code of GT3. You couldn't play it and it was most definately development hardware.
Showing a console still in development at E3 is just to get 3rd party developers/publishers to go "WHOA!!! We want to sign up for dev kits and have games ready for launch".
There's nothing in this annoucement or the Nintendo announcement that indicate either company is trying to shorten the traditional 5yr product cycle for consoles. Microsoft is kind of a black-sheep in this regard, though, as rumors about XENON have gone from "Show at E3 2005" to "Release for XMas 2005", which would definately be less than a 5 yr cycle for them.
I know, personally, that I've been waiting for the all-powerful, "mateomiguel (614660) uses it!" endorsement. Now I can switch.
No, it doesn't, not by default. It might if I turn the radio on and choose to listen to commercials. That would be an act instigated by me to gather information, though. The Subaru is not shipped with Ford ads plastered to it or blaring out of the speakers.
When you go to the grociery store, you see House Blend next to #10 cans of Folgers.
And when I go to BestBuy I see 3-4 different Linux boxes next to the WinXP boxes. Each of those Linux installs has a browser and that browser doesn't take the time to advertise all of the other browsers. So why should you expect IE to?
Since MS makes the OS they should be legally barred from adding in a browser? Why should such a right only be granted to system builders?
So now Microsoft is the bad guy for not advertising other browsers inside of their product?
When I drive my Subaru it doesn't pop-up ads for Ford.
When I drink my Starbucks I don't get told that I could also be drinking Folgers.
Your statement is illogical. Let me ask you this. If your ignorant mother had a computer that had no web browser on it would she know a different way to get to the Internet, find an FTP site that has browsers for download, retrieve one, and install it?
Didn't think so.
Can your mother use Windows and get to the Internet easily and manage to find information that she is looking for?
Thought so.
The post or the story to which it refers.
Read the Preface .pdf. It spells out exactly what the author thinks Experienced Programmers, Technical Leads, Self-Taught Programmers, and Students will get out of the book.
Just because the FAQ says you can't deploy solutions made with the beta Express Editions it doesn't necessarily mean or imply that you can't do so with ther release versions.
Any time you have custom GPU and CPU development going on for a console release you are going to have your game developers working in parallel to your HW development so you can get the console out on time and have launch titles. In that case there is no way that the dev units can be faster due to the simple fact that the custom chips dont exist yet. You'll either end up with a dev kit based on early tape-outs of the silicon or dev kits that rely on emulation. In either case they are going to be slower than the final unit.
No they won't for any number of reasons:
1) There is only 1 person on board and no mentioned of carrying balast equal to the weight of 2 other humans.
2) They have not file for, nor received, clearance for another flight within 2 weeks.
3) Scaled Composites has said outright that tomorrow is not the first of a two X-Prize run launch set.
There's nothing 'vocational' about it. Resume writing and interviewing are skills a person needs to get a job. College is the place where you learn those skills. It makes *sense* to have classes in such things. I went to a Big-10 college and earned a Bachelor of Science. It wasn't a vocational school and the department has an almost 100% placement rate within the first 3 months after graduation....without having to push students through the campus placement office. One of the first things we learned in the class is that resume spamming and using an over-taxed resource like a Placement Office are the absolute *WORST* ways to go about getting an interview.
I had a required class my senior year that covered resume writing (relevent to my major), portfolio layout and creation, and mock interviewing (with representatives from the industry for which I was going to be entering).
I'm in a position in my career now where I look at resumes and portfolios;many from recent college grads wanting to get their foot in the door. It is very easy to see which people have been taught the necessary skills to present themselves effectively. Unfotunately they the minority of the resumes I receive. I can honestly say, though, that the people who can present themselves well have a *huge* competitive advantage over the regular folks who think the Word Resume Wizard and a clumsy cover letter will get you a job.
You can belittle such required college classes all you want. I know, from experience, that the class I took was one of the more important classes I attended.