What really get's me is that photographers have been making 360 panaramas & photo montages, albeit analog ones, for years. I am suprised that just because the picture is represented by bits instead of film-grain that it makes any difference.
It probably doesn't, but the only to find out is to provoke them into sueing you. Patents are cheap, but court wins aren't.
Note that I don't necessarily agree with this POV, but complaints about "politics" should at least take it into account. And if you reject it, how do you recommend that resource constraints be resolved?
Oh, I don't know - how about leadership ?
The total lack of leadership ability in all but my most recent employer is my biggest complaint as a programming consultant... Nothing is more irritating than dealing with someone who has eneough authority but not enough guts to deal with problems as they arrise. At times it's almost made me want to offer to take over!
Office politics over non-petty disputes are the direct result of poor management. They are a constant and intollerable impediment to getting anything done.
But, will it be significantly better than CTP? I hear that CTP is a very good game very solidly on par with Civ 1 and 2.
Which is exactly why Sid's Civ III will blow that crap away. Alpha Centauri is not "on par" with Civ and CivII - it's considerably better. Civ III will be even better.
People as good at what they do as Sid Meier is deserve a lot more respect than this! Of course Civ III will be miles above CTP. Wasn't Civ II miles above Civ?
I couldnt imagine them making it good enough to convince people to buy it. I think most people that would have bought it already would have purchased CIV CTP....
Two Words: Sid Meier.
I, and many other informed gamers, will buy anything that guy puts on the market. I've never been let down by him, and I serriously doubt I ever will.
Even Colonization, his worst by my account, is better than most other games I've played.
I don't see to many boys and girls getting this as a Birthday / Christmas / Hanukkah present. As far as I can tell, the console game market has depended upon kids begging their parents for the newest thing. How many kids do you think can pull off a $500 job of begging?
I don't know, an $800 dollar beg got me my first 286 and that was quite a while ago.
For all you doubters, I have one thing to say - animatronic Leonardo DiCaprio. If they can pull off a winking, smooching DiCaprio they could get $1000 dollars for the thing.
Realistically, I'd expect them to just take a huge loss on the machine and make it back with $75+ games.
Q3A is the first major game to be released simultaneously for Linux, and I can all but guarantee you that it'll run a good 25% slower than its Windows counterpart.
Care to back up that claim? Maybe you have some inside info worth sharing.
Aside from concerns about 3D hardware support I can't see how you could justify that. Carmack's comments have indicated that the ammount of platform specific code is quite small. If that's the case you can expect to see Q3 running faster on Linux than Windows simply as a result of lower OS overhead.
3D Hardware support will certainly improve with the comercial sales of a Linux version of Q3. Looking for Windows-level driver support before a major 3D game has been sold for a platform is not realistic.
Shouldn't be that hard to set up Linux & OpenBSD so Linux goes through the OpenBSD box for any net connection, should it?
The easy way is to just use route and set the BSD box to be the gateway for the Linux machine. This will only work if you can register your Linux box for a separate IP though. To do this with only one IP address you'll need to do IP Masquerading. I don't know if OpenBSD does ip-masq or not. Linux does!
Hahhah. Go hit the SLIC link and then say this. That shit is the worst "scripting" language I've ever seen. It reminds me of ObjectPAL from Paradox. NO FUNCTIONS! THERE ARE NO FUNCTIONS! NOT EVEN A GOSUB/RETURN!
Contrast that to something like Object Domain (http://www.objectdomain.com), a CASE tool that has TCL embedded. I was able to write an SQL generator in under 30 minutes that saved me 3 hours of work. If they'd done something like SLIC it probably would have taken several hours.
Writing your own languages is a good idea if you're an expert. Whoever created SLIC should have thought a little longer about their options.
OSS appears to be one of the only ways of pursuing a Cooperative / Good of Mankind model of business. Are there any other ideas/books on this subject for other areas (e.g., engineering)?
Yes. It's called "Not For Profit" business. The alternative high school I attended is a good example.
OSS appears to be one of the only ways of pursuing a Cooperative / Good of Mankind model of business. Are there any other ideas/books on this subject for other areas (e.g., engineering)?
Yes. It's called "Not For Profit" business. The alternative high school I attended is a good example.
Religious symbol systems, emerging in digital media as they once emerged in speech, then writing, then print, are seeking suitable forms for storing digital symbols so that, when we are ready for their meaning, they will be available to us in ways that fit how electronic networks are teaching us to think and perceive.
A hundred stinging comments suggest themselves - you babbled like an overfed infant for a lot of this essay - but this section seemed to hold something worthy of response.
Religious systems and symbols are not privilaged in any way. They emerge from "the network" (ugh) just like pornography. "She felt so full." "God is in the good we do." There you have it - Religious-Pornographic systems emerging from the mist of cyberland like some kind of Gorrilas.
But what has this changed? How is this different from the meaningless cafe chatter it so resembles? That it is recorded? Nope. That it is "electroniqa"? So what! My brain is "cyber-elektrik" too.
All in all, I encourage you to unplug from "the network." You're obviously getting far too much. And for god's sake, don't listen to anyone describing themselves as a "personal performance coach" unless you want to sleep with them.
I know that my twiddler is not exactly easy on te wrists!
Basically, my opinion is that if you're interested in wearable computing the twiddler is the best there is. If not, there's almost certainly something more comfortable and better suited. Even silly "in car" apps could probably find something more comfortable/flexible than a twiddler.
Is tcl really that hard to implement? It always looked to me like it's made up of simple string substitution and interpretation, roughly the same effort as writing the evaulator of a Bourne shell.
Boy, you just don't know what you're talking about, do you? TCL is a jit byte-compiled platform-independent scripting language with a feature-set to rival even Perl. It also comes with TK, a platform independent widget toolkit that works seamlessly and with native look-and-feel under X, Windows, and MacOS.
What made you think you could just spout off about TCL and no one would notice?
Slashdot Mirror
You are aware that you are insanse, right?
Have _NO_ illusions. There _ARE_ physical differences between races and sexes, aside from the obvious ones.
As though political and social equality was based on some kind of absolute physical equality...
Sigh...
-sam
Is BitSpace the same thing as BullShit?
Yes.
Take your medicine for being such a jackass. If you don't want people poking you in public, then you should learn to go anonymous too.
BIT SPACE . Good god I hate you people sometimes.
-sam
It probably doesn't, but the only to find out is to provoke them into sueing you. Patents are cheap, but court wins aren't.
-sam
Oh, I don't know - how about leadership ?
The total lack of leadership ability in all but my most recent employer is my biggest complaint as a programming consultant... Nothing is more irritating than dealing with someone who has eneough authority but not enough guts to deal with problems as they arrise. At times it's almost made me want to offer to take over!
Office politics over non-petty disputes are the direct result of poor management. They are a constant and intollerable impediment to getting anything done.
-sam
Which is exactly why Sid's Civ III will blow that crap away. Alpha Centauri is not "on par" with Civ and CivII - it's considerably better. Civ III will be even better.
People as good at what they do as Sid Meier is deserve a lot more respect than this! Of course Civ III will be miles above CTP. Wasn't Civ II miles above Civ?
'nuff said.
-stan lee
Two Words: Sid Meier.
I, and many other informed gamers, will buy anything that guy puts on the market. I've never been let down by him, and I serriously doubt I ever will.
Even Colonization, his worst by my account, is better than most other games I've played.
-sam
I don't know, an $800 dollar beg got me my first 286 and that was quite a while ago.
For all you doubters, I have one thing to say - animatronic Leonardo DiCaprio. If they can pull off a winking, smooching DiCaprio they could get $1000 dollars for the thing.
Realistically, I'd expect them to just take a huge loss on the machine and make it back with $75+ games.
-sunking
Care to back up that claim? Maybe you have some inside info worth sharing.
Aside from concerns about 3D hardware support I can't see how you could justify that. Carmack's comments have indicated that the ammount of platform specific code is quite small. If that's the case you can expect to see Q3 running faster on Linux than Windows simply as a result of lower OS overhead.
3D Hardware support will certainly improve with the comercial sales of a Linux version of Q3. Looking for Windows-level driver support before a major 3D game has been sold for a platform is not realistic.
-sam
The easy way is to just use route and set the BSD box to be the gateway for the Linux machine. This will only work if you can register your Linux box for a separate IP though. To do this with only one IP address you'll need to do IP Masquerading. I don't know if OpenBSD does ip-masq or not. Linux does!
-sunking
Hahhah. Go hit the SLIC link and then say this. That shit is the worst "scripting" language I've ever seen. It reminds me of ObjectPAL from Paradox. NO FUNCTIONS! THERE ARE NO FUNCTIONS! NOT EVEN A GOSUB/RETURN!
Contrast that to something like Object Domain (http://www.objectdomain.com), a CASE tool that has TCL embedded. I was able to write an SQL generator in under 30 minutes that saved me 3 hours of work. If they'd done something like SLIC it probably would have taken several hours.
Writing your own languages is a good idea if you're an expert. Whoever created SLIC should have thought a little longer about their options.
-sunking
Yes. It's called "Not For Profit" business. The alternative high school I attended is a good example.
Geeks can be so myopic!
-sam
Mankind model of business. Are there any other ideas/books on this subject for
other areas (e.g., engineering)?
Yes. It's called "Not For Profit" business. The alternative high school I attended is a good example.
Geeks can be so myopic!
-sam
A hundred stinging comments suggest themselves - you babbled like an overfed infant for a lot of this essay - but this section seemed to hold something worthy of response.
Religious systems and symbols are not privilaged in any way. They emerge from "the network" (ugh) just like pornography. "She felt so full." "God is in the good we do." There you have it - Religious-Pornographic systems emerging from the mist of cyberland like some kind of Gorrilas.
But what has this changed? How is this different from the meaningless cafe chatter it so resembles? That it is recorded? Nope. That it is "electroniqa"? So what! My brain is "cyber-elektrik" too.
All in all, I encourage you to unplug from "the network." You're obviously getting far too much. And for god's sake, don't listen to anyone describing themselves as a "personal performance coach" unless you want to sleep with them.
Good god y'all.
-SunKing
I know that my twiddler is not exactly easy on te wrists!
Basically, my opinion is that if you're interested in wearable computing the twiddler is the best there is. If not, there's almost certainly something more comfortable and better suited. Even silly "in car" apps could probably find something more comfortable/flexible than a twiddler.
-sam
Boy, you just don't know what you're talking about, do you? TCL is a jit byte-compiled platform-independent scripting language with a feature-set to rival even Perl. It also comes with TK, a platform independent widget toolkit that works seamlessly and with native look-and-feel under X, Windows, and MacOS.
What made you think you could just spout off about TCL and no one would notice?
-Sam