THere is a place where people actually have a clue to share... and its called gamasutra
http://www.gamasutra.com
You can do whatever you want; as far as funding, often a publisher (Activision, EA, etc.) will fund a game, but you can also find private funding, or talk to a venture capitalist.
As with any other high-risk business, dont expect to take home a large %age unless you already have a large %age of the product done to bring to the table when getting capital.
I think a cvs diff -D "7 days ago" would be revealing enough.. couldn't be more than a thousand lines to sift through on even the biggest projects.
Also, if you don't have an offline copy of the source code, then obviously nobody is working on that program! Not having an offline copy of the source code is the sort of thing that happens in an office, not in an open-source CVS'd project.
But we don't yet know if we actually have to check our code or not... they are only asking people to change their password, not check their source code.
Actually, Windows 2000 has a pretty good shell compared to the previous ones. Check this out:
You can right-clikc to copy (if you've selected something) and right-click again to paste. Its 2x better than konsole. Anyway, then you install WebObjects and type "sh" and suddenly you can cut'n'paste and command complete and everything the average bash luser would ever want.
It's always amusing how people will COMMENT on a story without reading it. Maybe if it was open-source, slashdotters would be more interested, I dunno. I don't know why slashdot doesn't link you directly to the article before letting you post a comment or read comments... i.e. you guys coul djust open a frame or make a local cache of the article perhaps?
Regardless, this thing is damn exciting because you get huge BANG for the buck. Its the only video card where you'll get more than you paid for.
Does this mean Amazon.com will price my CDs based on how much I spent at Chapters.ca?
Getting geographical information is one thing, but its potential uses seem, well, scary. Sure its nice if I can get Canadian prices automatically at a web site, but what if this company is collecting "geographical statistics" on buying patterns as a service to its many clients?
This kind of behavior will likely be ignored until comeone can prove that, for the cases where you have a static IP, these "regions" include only a single person or household.
The #1 bonus you get, is that it includes a portable/ported set of libraries that allow you to do graphics, sound, and many other features not included in the C library.
It also lets you:
interoperate with other languages easily
use the nifty tool/library system
give one binary to all users, for whom it will automatically be compiled for their architecture
avoid the packaging issues of Java while having a Java level of portability
easily write compilers from custom languages to this one.
etc.
I could go on, but of course its not perfect, and has several factors that may lead to its demise.
Its use of user-made event loops instead of built-in mechanisms is just one weakness I noticed in this particular document...
Its current reliance on Linux as a development platform probably isn't helping much either... they are taking a small percentage (Amiga developers) of a small percentager (linux users) of the computing market and hoping for development...
"Nevermore, quoth the raven"
Re:Price-Performance of "iCubes" and other Macs
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I think the real problem with these price/performance discussions is that they assume two things:
1. Performance is measurable
2. Price is based on it in any way whatsoever
I think it would be better to take a look at the Economics 101 of the situation: Price vs. Utility
How much more *utility* (i.e. pleasure of use, productivity at work, programs to use) will you get out of a G4 cube than from a PC? And more importantly, how much more utility does the average consumer think he will get out of the G4 cube than a cheaper computer?
A week and a half ago, I said "Yes! I want a G4 cube now!" because I'd seen Mac OS X. I love project builder, their visual effects are cool, and their system seems stable as hell. Then I went to the Apple Store and discovered a few problems:
1. The price was $1000 more for the mac hardware compared to top of the line PC hardware.
2. I had very limited choices in terms of what I could get with the core of it; I couldn't get the 64MB ATI Radeon card that I could get in the much cheaper PC system, no egronomic keyboard, no 5-button wheelmouse.
Suddenly I was left horribly disappointed. To me, the difference in utility between Mac OS X and OS's that run on the PC would appear to be a $1000 permium.
Many Mac users argue that the Mac hardware is worth it because its faster. Realisticly speaking, however, the speed of the hardware is no longer a major contributing factor in the *utility* of the computer. Therefore, I dont believe that an increase in hardware performance is what I am really paying for with the G4 cube.
And of course, there is the style thing, which is worth maybe $100 but not $1000.
Others seem to have a different measure of utility. For example, mac zealots are largely concerned with whether it is a mac, or not. This "camp" difference is probably well worth $1000 price difference. For some people, the increase in usability is worth $1000. If you like playing video games, getting mac will cost you not only an extra $1000, but also all the utility you get out of playing any video games that are only for PC!
Re:It's not the broken mods that piss people off..
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Thats not actually a fact, except maybe in Quake 1.
There is a specific piece of code in the Quake2 and Quake3 source code to improve rocket jumping, I dont have the source code here (but I do have it at home) and the code actually greatly increases the knockback of weapons you use on yourself (rockets and grenades).
If you can point me to a site where I can buy the MP3s that today I might get illegally, I'll be happy to pay the royalty... 2 bucks a song is reasonable, as long as I dont have to do one credit card transaction per song (which would be annoying).
Even better, show me a place where I can pay a monthly fee for unlimited music. After all, my fervor for new songs can only last so long before my payments will catch up and exceed the royalties I incur on the company.
I personally think that a site like this is needed... before everyone uses Napster! Some sites already exist that have many MP3s, but you cant find most of the latest songs there, probably because the record companies wont license their songs to an mp3 distributor (I cant see any other reason, Im not looking for rare songs or anything).
I get dobes.vancouver.bc.ca; people who live in vancouver.bc.ca add vancouver.bc.ca, bc.ca, and.ca to their domain suffix search. Then they can use a nice short useful address to find me:
dobes if in vancouver.bc.ca
dobes.vancouver if in bc.ca
dobes.vancouver.bc if only in.ca
So basically you end up with very useful regionalised names.
Now, even though this makes perfect sense, its not done.
Why? Well for one, the internet started under UNIX, which is quite difficult to administrate properly. Thus these domains were not added to people's resolv.conf because they didn't care.
Next thing you know, this naming scheme works for one person but not another... a tech support nightmare! Thus is born the popularity of the.com suffix. It actually works, all of the time.
The localized domains WOULD be much cooler (you wouldn't even have to have.com at the end of a useful word to find something) but unfortunately the internet was setup by hackers who simply didn't care enough about these issues to really do anything about it.
I know my computer doesn't search vancouver.bc.ca or the higher level domains, I might have added.com to my search list though...
I suppose it's not surprising that the people here at/. would be attacking C# so viciously. After all, its probably the first thing where you can't actually point at something else and say, "Hey! Microsoft stole it from them!"
I don't know who M$ stole it from, but it scares the crap out of me because it spells another 20 years of Microsoft's domination on the market.
C# is giving people language interoperability using the same objects and libraries, a centralized model for distribution and packaging, etc.
It has all the advantages and non of the bullshit of Java, along with a great way to solve many other software problems.
If you ask me, Microsoft.NET pretty much spells the doom of Linux, Apple, BeOS, whoever you like.
You people have your head stuck so far up your ass being anti-microsoft you refuse to act when you see your doom coming straight for you.
If I were you, I'd be trying to find a way to do it first, free, open-source, multi-platform, supports everyone's favorite language(s), and distributed.
Anyway, I'll just stop ranting now.. probably very few of you are really interested in that kind of project right now, esp. since you'd have to stop slamming the ideas in order to implement them...
May people who write unfavorable reviews oflinux reviews get a free copy of all the reviews they are trashing. These are also freely downloadable, but its so much better when you get it for FREE!
What if I do my job so well, that no one else CAN do it? Then share your knowledge. Otherwise, if you die unexpectedly your company will collapse into a shambles and never recover. Because of this, you will go to HELL and BURN FOREVER! You've obviously missed the point of all this; people in the captalist world are putting money, their job, and all that WAY too far above their own personal well-being. Taking vacations improves you as a person, and makes you more satisfied with your life. Work can do this too, but its not enough to just work, you need to play too.
I don't think that technology is the only industry thats short of females. Probably the only sector showing an obvious oversupply is the service industry. Not that I mind... but I think that we are mostly disgruntled about the shortage of grrrl geeks because we are.. well... geeky. Girls are less attracted to pale, skinny (or obese), poorly dressed geeky types; this is a biological bias I think and there's not much we can do about it.
But really, I dont think we should consider ourselves terribly "special" just because we have a poor male/female ratio.
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THere is a place where people actually have a clue to share... and its called gamasutra
http://www.gamasutra.com
You can do whatever you want; as far as funding, often a publisher (Activision, EA, etc.) will fund a game, but you can also find private funding, or talk to a venture capitalist.
As with any other high-risk business, dont expect to take home a large %age unless you already have a large %age of the product done to bring to the table when getting capital.
Also, if you don't have an offline copy of the source code, then obviously nobody is working on that program! Not having an offline copy of the source code is the sort of thing that happens in an office, not in an open-source CVS'd project.
But we don't yet know if we actually have to check our code or not... they are only asking people to change their password, not check their source code.
Actually, Windows 2000 has a pretty good shell compared to the previous ones. Check this out: You can right-clikc to copy (if you've selected something) and right-click again to paste. Its 2x better than konsole. Anyway, then you install WebObjects and type "sh" and suddenly you can cut'n'paste and command complete and everything the average bash luser would ever want.
It's always amusing how people will COMMENT on a story without reading it. Maybe if it was open-source, slashdotters would be more interested, I dunno. I don't know why slashdot doesn't link you directly to the article before letting you post a comment or read comments... i.e. you guys coul djust open a frame or make a local cache of the article perhaps? Regardless, this thing is damn exciting because you get huge BANG for the buck. Its the only video card where you'll get more than you paid for.
Does this mean Amazon.com will price my CDs based on how much I spent at Chapters.ca?
Getting geographical information is one thing, but its potential uses seem, well, scary. Sure its nice if I can get Canadian prices automatically at a web site, but what if this company is collecting "geographical statistics" on buying patterns as a service to its many clients?
This kind of behavior will likely be ignored until comeone can prove that, for the cases where you have a static IP, these "regions" include only a single person or household.
I need to get me a tinfoil hat!
It also lets you:
I could go on, but of course its not perfect, and has several factors that may lead to its demise.
Its use of user-made event loops instead of built-in mechanisms is just one weakness I noticed in this particular document...
Its current reliance on Linux as a development platform probably isn't helping much either... they are taking a small percentage (Amiga developers) of a small percentager (linux users) of the computing market and hoping for development...
"Nevermore, quoth the raven"
I think the real problem with these price/performance discussions is that they assume two things:
1. Performance is measurable
2. Price is based on it in any way whatsoever
I think it would be better to take a look at the Economics 101 of the situation: Price vs. Utility
How much more *utility* (i.e. pleasure of use, productivity at work, programs to use) will you get out of a G4 cube than from a PC? And more importantly, how much more utility does the average consumer think he will get out of the G4 cube than a cheaper computer?
A week and a half ago, I said "Yes! I want a G4 cube now!" because I'd seen Mac OS X. I love project builder, their visual effects are cool, and their system seems stable as hell. Then I went to the Apple Store and discovered a few problems:
1. The price was $1000 more for the mac hardware compared to top of the line PC hardware.
2. I had very limited choices in terms of what I could get with the core of it; I couldn't get the 64MB ATI Radeon card that I could get in the much cheaper PC system, no egronomic keyboard, no 5-button wheelmouse.
Suddenly I was left horribly disappointed. To me, the difference in utility between Mac OS X and OS's that run on the PC would appear to be a $1000 permium.
Many Mac users argue that the Mac hardware is worth it because its faster. Realisticly speaking, however, the speed of the hardware is no longer a major contributing factor in the *utility* of the computer. Therefore, I dont believe that an increase in hardware performance is what I am really paying for with the G4 cube.
And of course, there is the style thing, which is worth maybe $100 but not $1000.
Others seem to have a different measure of utility. For example, mac zealots are largely concerned with whether it is a mac, or not. This "camp" difference is probably well worth $1000 price difference. For some people, the increase in usability is worth $1000. If you like playing video games, getting mac will cost you not only an extra $1000, but also all the utility you get out of playing any video games that are only for PC!
There is a specific piece of code in the Quake2 and Quake3 source code to improve rocket jumping, I dont have the source code here (but I do have it at home) and the code actually greatly increases the knockback of weapons you use on yourself (rockets and grenades).
Even better, show me a place where I can pay a monthly fee for unlimited music. After all, my fervor for new songs can only last so long before my payments will catch up and exceed the royalties I incur on the company.
I personally think that a site like this is needed... before everyone uses Napster! Some sites already exist that have many MP3s, but you cant find most of the latest songs there, probably because the record companies wont license their songs to an mp3 distributor (I cant see any other reason, Im not looking for rare songs or anything).
I get dobes.vancouver.bc.ca; people who live in vancouver.bc.ca add vancouver.bc.ca, bc.ca, and .ca to their domain suffix search. Then they can use a nice short useful address to find me:
dobes if in vancouver.bc.ca
dobes.vancouver if in bc.ca
dobes.vancouver.bc if only in .ca
So basically you end up with very useful regionalised names.
Now, even though this makes perfect sense, its not done.
Why? Well for one, the internet started under UNIX, which is quite difficult to administrate properly. Thus these domains were not added to people's resolv.conf because they didn't care.
Next thing you know, this naming scheme works for one person but not another... a tech support nightmare! Thus is born the popularity of the .com suffix. It actually works, all of the time.
The localized domains WOULD be much cooler (you wouldn't even have to have .com at the end of a useful word to find something) but unfortunately the internet was setup by hackers who simply didn't care enough about these issues to really do anything about it.
I know my computer doesn't search vancouver.bc.ca or the higher level domains, I might have added .com to my search list though...
I don't know who M$ stole it from, but it scares the crap out of me because it spells another 20 years of Microsoft's domination on the market.
C# is giving people language interoperability using the same objects and libraries, a centralized model for distribution and packaging, etc.
It has all the advantages and non of the bullshit of Java, along with a great way to solve many other software problems.
If you ask me, Microsoft .NET pretty much spells the doom of Linux, Apple, BeOS, whoever you like.
You people have your head stuck so far up your ass being anti-microsoft you refuse to act when you see your doom coming straight for you.
If I were you, I'd be trying to find a way to do it first, free, open-source, multi-platform, supports everyone's favorite language(s), and distributed.
Anyway, I'll just stop ranting now.. probably very few of you are really interested in that kind of project right now, esp. since you'd have to stop slamming the ideas in order to implement them...
Uh... but if not gimme a jingle.
Either that, or a free copy of Windoze.
What if I do my job so well, that no one else CAN do it? Then share your knowledge. Otherwise, if you die unexpectedly your company will collapse into a shambles and never recover. Because of this, you will go to HELL and BURN FOREVER! You've obviously missed the point of all this; people in the captalist world are putting money, their job, and all that WAY too far above their own personal well-being. Taking vacations improves you as a person, and makes you more satisfied with your life. Work can do this too, but its not enough to just work, you need to play too.
But really, I dont think we should consider ourselves terribly "special" just because we have a poor male/female ratio.