I got this for my PS/2. IMHO I should have been paid to take the game, it is nothing but advertising from start to finish. I was actually pretty sickened that I was paying alot of cash to have this rammed down my gullet.
It's nothing to do with "realism", it's just corporates getting more fingers in more pies in the never ending "advertise everything everywhere" game that the world seems involved in ATM.
It's a shame that, as we now come to the 100th anniversary of the first transmittion, the company Marconi founded, now GEC-Marconi, is in dire financial straits and may well go under.
So it goes......
I'm always Puzzled on how someone can be an 'expert' on something we've never really seen, poked and proded.
I can understand that we can be fairly sure about atmosphere / crust composition from spectral analysis, but surely "leading theorist" would be a more correct term for those of us who study that which we have never sampled?
I still beleive that Software engineering is as much art as science. It's just less free-form. The biggest thing that most people miss is method and Structure (can you say SSADM? Aarrgh!). This is what leads to the failure of most software projects - the winning bidders (the lowest bidders) are often just a bunch of untrained amatures (Mostly "Microsoft Certified Professionals") who, while they can talk a good project don't know how to successfully complete a large task (only 20% coding time and all that) as they're only used to banging together a quick web-site/access back end. The art comes into making it efficient (Elegant code, a lost art to most MS programmers), The Science goes into realising that art in a functioning form.
In a way that would make it very, very difficult to refuse the offer and leave M$ executives forcing the fakest of grins while they hand over the dollars for the computers and don't get to extend their monopoly!
At Heriot-Watt university, Edinburgh, there was a 'haunted computer' with a 'magic switch'.
According to the myths this thing actually did exist at one point, there was a switch on the outside of the case that wasn't connected to anything on the inside, yet when pressed turned the computer on and off.
No doubt an inspired hack by one of our Electrical Engineers but it proved an interesting story for the first years, and even inspired a newsgroup hw.cee.magic-switch to chat about other 'mysterious happenings' around the department.
I saw a Sony crusoe-based notebook today and boy, is it sweet! Let's just hope that M$ doesn't tie these into windows - the first thing i'll be doing is formatting the internal storage!
I encode my own music cds into mp3, and I suspect that most downloaded mp3s will be privately encoded as well (i.e. from others mp3 collections).
These will simply not have the protection bit set and so the 'copy protection' is rendered irrelivent. Only when they come up with some way to protect the original music source (cds / dvds etc) will we really have something to worry about - and then we'll probably find a crack within weeks (remember decss!)
When we had this problem at a school I helped out at I set tasks for the kids to program 'fun-but-useful' CGI programs. This had several advantages: 1.) Kids were interested because they saw it as 'internet' based, althought they were only actually using a small intranet 2.) Kids gained experience using a Linux shell 3.) Kids learnt Perl. I was actually astounded at how quickly basic perl can be learnt, in fact alot of the children had no problems with regular expressions, even getting into contests as to who could write the most subtle reg exp for a task. 4.) Kids could take what they had learnt into a real world job. I have to stress that these were not geeky kids, and this was not a computer club. This was a plain and simple Computing class that was crying out for something different from the usual mix (in the UK at least) of Comal and Vis Basic. The kids of all abilities loved it and many continue to enjoy computing because of this real-life experiance. Some suggested projects are: 1. Online 'statistics' generation pages 2. Online diaries, comments boards etc 3. One student made an online C compiler (see dangray.org The most important thing we found was not to give meaningless tasks. A program has to be something that a pupil wants to write. Hope that this helps Dan. dan@dangray.org SCAR - The Linux / UNIX Script Archive
I read smoewhere about crystal holography.From memory the theory seems to be that two lasers, when fired into a crystal, will generate an interferance pattern where they meet: a lower-powered laser can read this interferance pattern back. We can use this to represent binary within a crystal and this have some form of pseudo-solid-state storage. I also saw somethong similar in the Bowie film the man who fell to earth - perhaps a preminition!!
I think that you people in the US need to take your teachers, journalists, polititians and those pathetic "counsellors" that people seem to insist that you need to remain a balanced person, outside and give them a good hard slap. If you want to find the cause of the problem you're going to have to try harder that blaming the internet and violent games. How very conveniant is was that there were these two issues already out there, already fueling paranoia to pin the crux of the Blame on. Oh - Why is it that that your Teachers etc have this fixation with sending you to counsellors? If I kept being counselled for every petty little problem I had that I really would start to think that something really was wrong, rather than that I was living real life. Can't someone just grab some of these pathetic, sheltered fear mongers and tell them to get a grip.
Apple should release the codec to any linux developer who want to write a player because...
a) It sure doesn't look like apple will be releaseing one for a while, so not a huge loss of revenue for them.
b) Apple hasn't APSL'd some of it's code just to be nice, it will benefit massivly from the input of the Open Software community, who will develop away code that apple still has limited rights too, or write drivers for PPC OS's meaning the OS becomes more flexable, hence more adoptable at little cost to Apple, - We're giving them all this help, who about something it return.
With all these IBM, Apple etc 'Open Sorce initiatives" we seem to be running to embrace and perhaps not being as cautious as we should. When it comes down to it IBM and Apple at Corporations with Shareholders and Executives who by-and-large don't know alot about OSS but do know alot about Making money. I hope that they don't have ulteria motives, but I suspect that they are simple covering their bases or at worst profitearing.
"Although the company remains skeptical of the open-source model, Microsoft has distributed source code for some of its products in certain cases. For instance, Microsoft has released portions of the code for Windows and Windows NT under nondisclosure agreements to various commercial and research entities."
Why did he even bother writing this, the phrase "as you do" comes to mind. I hardly think that the phrases "non-disclosure agreement" and "open-source" belong in the same paragraph!! D.
Unlike your Amarican mush, the BBC actually reports global news!. While I hate to point it out (because the UK is traditionally the home of the mad scientist;) ), this work was done in the US!!
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I got this for my PS/2. IMHO I should have been paid to take the game, it is nothing but advertising from start to finish. I was actually pretty sickened that I was paying alot of cash to have this rammed down my gullet.
It's nothing to do with "realism", it's just corporates getting more fingers in more pies in the never ending "advertise everything everywhere" game that the world seems involved in ATM.
It's a shame that, as we now come to the 100th anniversary of the first transmittion, the company Marconi founded, now GEC-Marconi, is in dire financial straits and may well go under.
So it goes......
One title "Throwing your poo at kids in the zoo" from bitemymonkey.com. Best thing i've seen in ages!
I'm always Puzzled on how someone can be an 'expert' on something we've never really seen, poked and proded.
I can understand that we can be fairly sure about atmosphere / crust composition from spectral analysis, but surely "leading theorist" would be a more correct term for those of us who study that which we have never sampled?
And here's the catch - if we all contribute no-one will be able to use the site for weeks - the poor things been slashdoted already!
I still beleive that Software engineering is as much art as science. It's just less free-form. The biggest thing that most people miss is method and Structure (can you say SSADM? Aarrgh!). This is what leads to the failure of most software projects - the winning bidders (the lowest bidders) are often just a bunch of untrained amatures (Mostly "Microsoft Certified Professionals") who, while they can talk a good project don't know how to successfully complete a large task (only 20% coding time and all that) as they're only used to banging together a quick web-site/access back end. The art comes into making it efficient (Elegant code, a lost art to most MS programmers), The Science goes into realising that art in a functioning form.
In a way that would make it very, very difficult to refuse the offer and leave M$ executives forcing the fakest of grins while they hand over the dollars for the computers and don't get to extend their monopoly!
At Heriot-Watt university, Edinburgh, there was a 'haunted computer' with a 'magic switch'.
According to the myths this thing actually did exist at one point, there was a switch on the outside of the case that wasn't connected to anything on the inside, yet when pressed turned the computer on and off.
No doubt an inspired hack by one of our Electrical Engineers but it proved an interesting story for the first years, and even inspired a newsgroup hw.cee.magic-switch to chat about other 'mysterious happenings' around the department.
I saw a Sony crusoe-based notebook today and boy, is it sweet! Let's just hope that M$ doesn't tie these into windows - the first thing i'll be doing is formatting the internal storage!
I encode my own music cds into mp3, and I suspect that most downloaded mp3s will be privately encoded as well (i.e. from others mp3 collections).
These will simply not have the protection bit set and so the 'copy protection' is rendered irrelivent. Only when they come up with some way to protect the original music source (cds / dvds etc) will we really have something to worry about - and then we'll probably find a crack within weeks (remember decss!)
D.
When we had this problem at a school I helped out at I set tasks for the kids to program 'fun-but-useful' CGI programs. This had several advantages: 1.) Kids were interested because they saw it as 'internet' based, althought they were only actually using a small intranet 2.) Kids gained experience using a Linux shell 3.) Kids learnt Perl. I was actually astounded at how quickly basic perl can be learnt, in fact alot of the children had no problems with regular expressions, even getting into contests as to who could write the most subtle reg exp for a task. 4.) Kids could take what they had learnt into a real world job. I have to stress that these were not geeky kids, and this was not a computer club. This was a plain and simple Computing class that was crying out for something different from the usual mix (in the UK at least) of Comal and Vis Basic. The kids of all abilities loved it and many continue to enjoy computing because of this real-life experiance. Some suggested projects are: 1. Online 'statistics' generation pages 2. Online diaries, comments boards etc 3. One student made an online C compiler (see dangray.org The most important thing we found was not to give meaningless tasks. A program has to be something that a pupil wants to write. Hope that this helps Dan. dan@dangray.org SCAR - The Linux / UNIX Script Archive
I read smoewhere about crystal holography.From memory the theory seems to be that two lasers, when fired into a crystal, will generate an interferance pattern where they meet: a lower-powered laser can read this interferance pattern back. We can use this to represent binary within a crystal and this have some form of pseudo-solid-state storage.
I also saw somethong similar in the Bowie film the man who fell to earth - perhaps a preminition!!
I think that you people in the US need to take your teachers, journalists, polititians and those pathetic "counsellors" that people seem to insist that you need to remain a balanced person, outside and give them a good hard slap.
If you want to find the cause of the problem you're going to have to try harder that blaming the internet and violent games. How very conveniant is was that there were these two issues already out there, already fueling paranoia to pin the crux of the Blame on.
Oh - Why is it that that your Teachers etc have this fixation with sending you to counsellors? If I kept being counselled for every petty little problem I had that I really would start to think that something really was wrong, rather than that I was living real life.
Can't someone just grab some of these pathetic, sheltered fear mongers and tell them to get a grip.
I'll get 'ma Shotgun, someone else bring the rope. We're gonna have ourselves a hanging.
Apple should release the codec to any linux developer who want to write a player because...
a) It sure doesn't look like apple will be releaseing one for a while, so not a huge loss of revenue for them.
b) Apple hasn't APSL'd some of it's code just to be nice, it will benefit massivly from the input of the Open Software community, who will develop away code that apple still has limited rights too, or write drivers for PPC OS's meaning the OS becomes more flexable, hence more adoptable at little cost to Apple, - We're giving them all this help, who about something it return.
With all these IBM, Apple etc 'Open Sorce initiatives" we seem to be running to embrace and perhaps not being as cautious as we should. When it comes down to it IBM and Apple at Corporations with Shareholders and Executives who by-and-large don't know alot about OSS but do know alot about Making money. I hope that they don't have ulteria motives, but I suspect that they are simple covering their bases or at worst profitearing.
D.
"Although the company remains skeptical of the open-source model, Microsoft has distributed
source code for some of its products in certain cases. For instance, Microsoft has released
portions of the code for Windows and Windows NT under nondisclosure agreements to various commercial and research entities."
Why did he even bother writing this, the phrase "as you do" comes to mind. I hardly think that the phrases "non-disclosure agreement" and "open-source" belong in the same paragraph!!
D.
Unlike your Amarican mush, the BBC actually reports global news!. While I hate to point it out (because the UK is traditionally the home of the mad scientist ;) ), this work was done in the US!!
D.
Not so sure about the 'Dirtiest XXX Porn site' banner up the top though!!
D.