But it's been pretty much accepted by everyone (except Nintendo) that when you launch new hardware, you're going to lose money earlier on and make some back later when you have a larger install base to milk for cash.
Yeah, but they didn't make money back later on the Xbox, and I can't see them doing it on the Xbox 360. I mean, last financial year (thru June) they had basically zero competition from the Wii and the PS3, so how on earth do they expect to do better this coming year when the Wii is already outselling the Xbox 3:1, and Wii software is already outselling Xbox software in spite of the smaller install base?
I really wish they had simply implemented tags like 'date'
And not just for forms. Imagine if you could put dates on the page by specifying them as a date element in ISO 8601 format, and having them display in the correct format and time zone for the user!
(Yes, I know Wikipedia says that Ratchet and Clank used code from Jak and Daxter, but had a different game engine, whatever that means. I read magazine articles claiming that the same engine was used, but customized. I don't have any personal knowledge as to which is correct.)
Naughty Dog's game engine for Jak and Daxter was also used for the Ratchet and Clank series from Insomniac, and (I believe) for the Sly Cooper series from Sucker Punch. The three franchises definitely competed with each other; Jak & Daxter were often directly compared to Ratchet and Clank.
For my money, R&C was by far the best series of games, followed by SC, with J&D coming in third. Naughty Dog did a great job of building a game engine, but their game design was often poor. (Particularly Jak 2, which was truly horrible in places.)
(Oh, and the game engine used Lisp. How cool is that?)
I've just submitted an enhancement request saying that NoScript + CookieSafe is how cookie and script security ought to work by default. If you agree, please pile on and vote for it.
No they won't. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft keep just as tight a rein on what you can download. It all has to be signed with their secret cryptographic keys.
No, I'm talking about my software running on my computer.
Right now, TiVo can take software I contributed to, sell it back to me with a piece of hardware, and then prevent me from changing the software I wrote on the hardware I own.
That, to me, is heinous enough to require a fix. The GPL v3 fixes it, so to me that's sufficient reason for the GPL v3 to exist and be a good thing. If the fix also protects other people's rights, that's a bonus.
Linus seems to feel that there's nothing wrong in my situation. I think he's full of it.
No, the problem is that if the system underneath isn't solid--like RPM with its database corruption problems--then the graphical interface is just lipstick on a pig.
I know that with the somewhat hasty release of v4 of RPM that there were some fairly serious reliability problems, but wasn't that a problem in Fedora Core about FOUR releases ago?
RedHat's enterprise releases are nowhere near as up to date as Fedora Core. And I gave up on Fedora Core around release #2.
By avoiding low-level/technical tools like the rpm command line there is no need to perform "bizarre incantations" or keep cheat sheets.
So the solution to RPM's horrible UI is... not to use it. Great. Except on SuSE, that means I have to use YaST (shudder). And Yum isn't without its problems either.
Fact is, there are occasionally still situations where I need to do things like check which package owns a file, restore a single package, download and install a package from somewhere other than a repository, and so on. RPM is still necessary. Unfortunately.
No, I'm saying I paid for Gentoo, paid for a copy of Xandros, but I haven't seen an obvious way to pay for Ubuntu. All the DVDs are out of stock at Amazon. Maybe when 7.10 ships...
Linus has explicitly stated that he is *absolutely fine* with what Tivo has done.
Well, as someone who has contributed to open source projects, I'm not.
The big question is whether the free software community contains more people like me who hate DRM and locked-down computers, or more people like Linus who don't care so long as they could theoretically use the source if they built their own hardware. I'm guessing the DRM-haters are the majority. We'll see when we see how the adoption of GPL 3 goes, won't we?
I think the real question is if CUPS moves to a non-GPL license and the project forks. In a years time, which code base will be better. The code for AppleCUPS with their new features, which cant use GPL code, or CUPS with opensource developers who cant see nor use AppleCUPS code?
Well, right now printing has always worked for me on the Mac, and I've never managed to get it working on Linux (to the same ipp: printer URL). So I know which one I'd put my money on.
Why on earth would you choose Java as a language/platform for doing anything with graphics?
Because object orientation is a natural fit for 3D graphics, and because I won't willingly do anything in a language so primitive that it lacks automatic memory management.
If you want something Java-like, and you're interested in experimentation, for god's sake go with Processing
...which is based on Java.
If you want a modern, high-level language, why not go with Ruby
Because it's 10-100x slower than Java?
I use Ruby most weeks, but not for 3D graphics.
I'm not a big fan of Java, but it has OO, performance to rival C (no, really), it runs on every platform I care about, and it's commonplace enough that I can be confident it'll still be around in 10 years.
I like Java, but the fact is that every end-user GUI desktop application I have ever seen written in Java is perceptibly slower than similar apps written in compiled languages
Hmm, moments ago we were talking about 3D graphics, and now suddenly it's desktop applications and GUI toolkits?
Claiming that Java is across the board as fast or faster than native code has probably done more to damage its reputation than anything else.
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The only reason 4 equal height columns is difficult is IE crapulence.
Yeah, but they didn't make money back later on the Xbox, and I can't see them doing it on the Xbox 360. I mean, last financial year (thru June) they had basically zero competition from the Wii and the PS3, so how on earth do they expect to do better this coming year when the Wii is already outselling the Xbox 3:1, and Wii software is already outselling Xbox software in spite of the smaller install base?
Get a better text editor. These days we have this useful feature called 'syntax coloring'.
And not just for forms. Imagine if you could put dates on the page by specifying them as a date element in ISO 8601 format, and having them display in the correct format and time zone for the user!
<center> shouldn't be in HTML at all, any more than <font>. Use CSS.
And if you need to capitalize element names so you can edit pages, FFS get a better text editor.
Nice strawman. CSS 1.0 was 11 years ago. Do you know how hard it is to make a 4-column table using HTML 2.0, which was the HTML standard 11 years ago?
(Hint: HTML 2.0 didn't have tables.)
4 columns in CSS is trivial, if you don't limit yourself to what CSS was like 11 years ago.
(Yes, I know Wikipedia says that Ratchet and Clank used code from Jak and Daxter, but had a different game engine, whatever that means. I read magazine articles claiming that the same engine was used, but customized. I don't have any personal knowledge as to which is correct.)
Well, in practice it isn't always a problem.
Naughty Dog's game engine for Jak and Daxter was also used for the Ratchet and Clank series from Insomniac, and (I believe) for the Sly Cooper series from Sucker Punch. The three franchises definitely competed with each other; Jak & Daxter were often directly compared to Ratchet and Clank.
For my money, R&C was by far the best series of games, followed by SC, with J&D coming in third. Naughty Dog did a great job of building a game engine, but their game design was often poor. (Particularly Jak 2, which was truly horrible in places.)
(Oh, and the game engine used Lisp. How cool is that?)
I've just submitted an enhancement request saying that NoScript + CookieSafe is how cookie and script security ought to work by default. If you agree, please pile on and vote for it.
If I were Rockstar, I'd be saying "Hey, Sony, are you going to release Manhunt 2 as is, or are we going to make GTA IV be an Xbox 360 exclusive?"
Then we'd see how quickly Sony caved.
(GTA IV is the one thing currently making me think I might buy a PS3 before the end of the year.)
((Not that I have any interest in playing Manhunt 2.))
No they won't. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft keep just as tight a rein on what you can download. It all has to be signed with their secret cryptographic keys.
Yes, it's a pity the PSP doesn't have a touch screen.
No, I'm talking about my software running on my computer.
Right now, TiVo can take software I contributed to, sell it back to me with a piece of hardware, and then prevent me from changing the software I wrote on the hardware I own.
That, to me, is heinous enough to require a fix. The GPL v3 fixes it, so to me that's sufficient reason for the GPL v3 to exist and be a good thing. If the fix also protects other people's rights, that's a bonus.
Linus seems to feel that there's nothing wrong in my situation. I think he's full of it.
No, the problem is that if the system underneath isn't solid--like RPM with its database corruption problems--then the graphical interface is just lipstick on a pig.
RedHat's enterprise releases are nowhere near as up to date as Fedora Core. And I gave up on Fedora Core around release #2.
So the solution to RPM's horrible UI is... not to use it. Great. Except on SuSE, that means I have to use YaST (shudder). And Yum isn't without its problems either.
Fact is, there are occasionally still situations where I need to do things like check which package owns a file, restore a single package, download and install a package from somewhere other than a repository, and so on. RPM is still necessary. Unfortunately.
No, I'm saying I paid for Gentoo, paid for a copy of Xandros, but I haven't seen an obvious way to pay for Ubuntu. All the DVDs are out of stock at Amazon. Maybe when 7.10 ships...
Because I paid for it.
Have Sun actually announced their intention to license OpenSolaris under GPL 3? I can't find anything definite via the obvious means.
Well, as someone who has contributed to open source projects, I'm not.
The big question is whether the free software community contains more people like me who hate DRM and locked-down computers, or more people like Linus who don't care so long as they could theoretically use the source if they built their own hardware. I'm guessing the DRM-haters are the majority. We'll see when we see how the adoption of GPL 3 goes, won't we?
Bluetooth + iSync.
Well, right now printing has always worked for me on the Mac, and I've never managed to get it working on Linux (to the same ipp: printer URL). So I know which one I'd put my money on.
Funny, I'm really enjoying it.
Then again, I like long adventure games. I wished Twilight Princess had been a bit bigger and a bit longer.
This is true; I used to use Gentoo.
However, I gave up on Gentoo because there was no easy way to cleanly remove a package. Has that problem been solved?
Because object orientation is a natural fit for 3D graphics, and because I won't willingly do anything in a language so primitive that it lacks automatic memory management.
...which is based on Java.
Because it's 10-100x slower than Java?
I use Ruby most weeks, but not for 3D graphics.
I'm not a big fan of Java, but it has OO, performance to rival C (no, really), it runs on every platform I care about, and it's commonplace enough that I can be confident it'll still be around in 10 years.
Hmm, moments ago we were talking about 3D graphics, and now suddenly it's desktop applications and GUI toolkits?
I don't think I've seen anyone make this claim.
Nice attempt to re-frame the debate, though.