I finally played Oni after having bought it several years ago. I put it on movie mode (unlimited health, no other cheats) and it still took 10 hours to finish.
All games have cheat codes. Adventure games have walk-thrus.
With walk-thrus, just because you know the answers doesn't mean you have to follow them right away. When you know the answers you can waste as much time as you want because you can. Not because you're lost.
With shoot em ups and what not, generally the only annoyance is dying. So you put it on movie-mode and the annoyance of dying goes away so you can just enjoy the game of killing things and whatever storyline the game has.
Probably a little late now but if your HD ever crashes download GetDataBack NTFS/FAT (depending on your drive) and give it a whirl. The free version does everything the registered version does except if you don't register you have to recover one file at a time (right click, open-with and then rename the tmp file created in Windows temporary files folder) which is rediculously tedious. But, if you need the file(s) Right Now(tm) the "cripped" version doesn't dangle carrots in front of your face. You can get any file you want regardless of the size with no watermarks or anything.
Anyway, the 160GB Seagate in my server decided to crap out and Windows decided it was a RAW disk. GDB found every single file and I restored everything. If you RD or shift-delete something you shouldn't have it can get those back as well.
I just picked up another 80GB Seagate so this extended warrenty is pretty nice but the drives seem to do well. I've never had to take advantage of the warrenty.
The reason the 160GB crashed was because of sloppy coding on my web-server (now fixed) and McAfee Virus scan going nuts resulting in 2.4 million files being scanned every day. There are less than 500,000 files on the entire system. It really beat the crap out of the drive.
I've since reformatted the drive and it's being used again for personal use with no problems so far.
"You are ALWAYS completely at the mercy of the share price whether you have a 200 x $1 or 2 x $100, 10% up is the same amount, and 10% down is the same amount."
A stock is far less likely to go up $10 than 10 cents. If you own 200 shares then 1 penny change is worth 2 bucks to you. If you own 2 shares of $100 stock then it's very unlikely to go up 10 bucks and the few pennies it does budge is only worth a few pennies to you.
You can't go by percentages with stocks. If you can't afford several hundred shares of a stock then you shouldn't buy it because you'll never see a worthwhile profit. The less amount of stock you own in a company the more likely it is you will lose money.
If I bought 2 shares of Google with my $18.00 commission fee from TD Waterhouse, the stock would have to go up 18 dollars just to break even on the sell. That's a very unlikely scenario. The more likely scenario is that it's going to start high and after a short time, plummet. And I'd really hate to have to live under the delusion that Google's stock will make it to $200 so I can sell and make something worthwhile.
I'll maybe buy shares in Google when it gets down to a more reasonable price and it's a good bet that the value will steadily grow. At $100 bucks a share, there's really no where for the value to go but down.
If those things aren't showing up then your e-mail messages aren't being properly formatted. It reads header information until it hits a crlf which is what is supposed to divide the header from the message body.
for the weak graphics card. And if you have a MB that supports a P4 (not cheap at all) you most likely have AGP 8X so it's only ~$100 to spring for a GeForce FX 5200 and you're done.
A new MB (if you can't support 8X AGP already), Barton or P4 (unless you've got a 1.5Ghz+ CPU and 8X AGP), plus new memory if you aren't already using DDR and the graphics card is going to run you under $500. You can pick up a GeForce FX 5200 for around $100. If you had to buy everything listed you'd come in under $500 if you shopped smart. A 2500+ Barton is ~$130 and plenty fast and easily upgradable when the faster CPUs come down in price.
If you really want to play this game and are lagging behind it's time to just suck it up and get back into the mid range.
It's $500 or less and you now have a system that will last another 2-3 years.
This is really a good excuse to get your system filled with components that can be upgraded. My current system is maxed out. It's old (4 years or so) and can't go anywhere.
You can look at it this way, you can pretend that it's good enough and continue to become obsolete and be forced to spend over a thousand bucks in a couple years when it finally dies. Or, you can spend a few hundred now, get back in the upgrade path and save some money in the long run.
It's not some great mystery why schools don't supply Macs or *nix boxes in nearly as great a quantity as Windows boxes.
If I need to use a Mac, I can find one somewhere on campus. If I need a *nux box, I can find one somewhere on campus. Most likely in the Engineering college. I've never needed either.
This isn't an "Ask Slashdot" mystery. It's common sense.
If there was actually a demand for Linux and Mac there would be more of them on campus. If you want to see more of them on campus, get the students requesting them. Don't go around pretending there's some big conspiracy.
It's like wondering why Best Buy doesn't sell web-server hardware and pretending that the big name mid-tower case manufacturers have some kind of grip over Best Buy.
Even Fry's Electronics didn't start carrying that stuff until recently.
At the college of Education at ASU they have a Mac classroom in the computer lab that students are free to use whenever there isn't a class going on. There used to be a number of macs in the main lab as well. But practically nobody used them unless the rest of the PCs were already taken.
So now, when they bought brand new systems, they replaced the Macs in the main lab.
Anyone thinking it's some kind of MS conspiracy isn't in touch with what's really going on.
That's nice that somebody phoned Slashdot and asked where the Macs went but they would have gotten the answer just as easily by asking the people who made the decision to buy more PCs and not Macs.
The answer: 99.9% of the student body doesn't use Macs. And those that use Macs can just as easily use PCs.
99.9% of the student body doesn't absolutely need Linux either. A school isn't going to dedicate a $1000+ system to just a few students who might show up once in awhile to make use of the system.
A Windows machine is useful to 100% of the student body. A Linux or Mac machine isn't useful to anywhere near that number of students. That's just the way it is.
How many people who worked on those OSS projects the government is using are getting paid by the government or at all for their involvement with the project?
How many people would the government have hired to build the projects if OSS alternatives didn't exist?
The US government pays businesses a ton of money to write software. I currently work with such a company. If the US government decided to use all Open Source a lot of people would be out of work.
The Malaysian government choosing to use Open Source has just reduced the amount of money that will go to businesses and therefore employees. Which means lost jobs and/or fewer people being hired on.
I don't see how governments "wasting" money on paying people to write software or do any other job is a bad thing. The government should be more than happy to spend money on commercial software if it suits their needs. Or pay people to write it for them.
It's nice that they're using OSS but pretending it's not going to result in less jobs is silly.
that you spent thousands of your own hard earned money on music and DVDs and random people just get it for free?
Let me guess. You didn't spend money on what you have.
I let friends borrow my stuff. I wouldn't appreciate a random asshole breaking into my house on account of a false sense of entitlement getting a free copy of everything I *paid* for.
You want it, you pay for it.
I don't imagine that too many people who actually pay for things turn around and pirate them.
It wasn't too long ago that a number of highly moderated posts made fun of the union stance that it was unfair to let volunteers do the job they were being paid to do. They were objecting to volunteers stealing their livlihood.
Yet any time it comes up that companies are looking to get cheaper labor for the same work, Slashdot cries foul. It's all fun and games until it happens to you. Companies hire fresh college grads for less, too.
What's the other Slashdot mantra...oh yes "adjust or die." Isn't that what we keep telling businesses like MS and the RIAA? Oh, but this affects YOU so we have to make laws banning companies from utilizing an international work force. Like I said, join a union.
We are now in a global market. Companies for a very long time have been looking to take advantage of it. There are very few companies that don't have people working in foreign countries.
If you don't like it, you need to convince your boss that you are worth your pay and some foreign person can't match your price to value ratio.
People who work in tech fields are just simply not as valuable as they were 20 years ago. We've passed the time when people who could work in the field were few and far between.
The New York Times should add an access rule to let the GoogleBot have unlimited access to the site but not allow caching. All you have to do is add "allow googlebot." or whatever the reverse lookup for googlebot ips is. I did that for my own site which required a subscription back in the day. Now it's pure AdSense.
Their articles would then show up in search engine results but people would still have to register to read the article. The NYT could also have a simple script that checks for the referer and if it's google, the first paragraph or two could be shown to the user with a "to read more, please register" link.
dynamic languages are going to be just another tool in the toolbox. Not *the* tool.
For dynamic web-sites I can't think of any reason not to use PHP. I even use PHP when I could just as well use server side includes. I just like using PHP so that the pages are future proof in case I want to add some dynamic content later.
But for real time computing you need fast compiled languages. I'm working on tutorials to teach the basics of software rendering using JavaScript. The final set of lessons deobfuscates and fully explains how Wolf5K works. From there it's on to PHP to teach the core concepts behind raytracing. And from there it's on to C to do real time raytracing and finally it's on to ASM to teach optimization tricks to enhance the quality of the graphics while still retaining acceptable frame rates.
It's going to be a very very long time before something like Anti-Planet could be written in PHP.
I'd like to get in the ballpark of what Anti-Planet is doing with my own tutorials.
They used to require you pass a captcha to get the information about the domain. Oh wait, that's 9 bucks a year and only works for domains registered through netsol now.
The obvious solution is that instead of saying "blow job" you look away from the camera, cover the side of your face and whisper quietly and spell it out.
b-l-o-w j-o-b
Or you could just call it "oral sex" which is a phrase heard on the news at least a few times. It's okay to say that and not "blow job" for the same reason it's okay to say "penis" but not "cock."
are both broken in the latest versions of Moz and FireFox.
However, JavaScript wasn't broken in earlier versions. I don't think caching has ever been properly implemented.
The teams for both projects need to fix at least caching before the next release. It shouldn't have taken so long to use the complete URL to decide the cached file name. MD5 URL + MD5 filename + filename = final cache name. Heck you could even just strip out the non filename friendly characters.
Since I'm currently working with software rendering in JavaScript, those two major problems with the browsers keep me using IE which I've never had an issue with.
you wouldn't have money to buy the house. That's the point.
"I'm sorry, but I don't buy that the economy will collapse if one industry becomes more efficient."
Nobody ever claimed it would. I'm just saying it's stupid to insist that one source of income should be abolished or that we'd be better off without it. Claiming that we shouldn't sell software because it's pointless is just rediculously short sighted. If we want a thriving economy we should encourage the buying and selling of crap. Not try to "streamline" it. The more you "streamline" the economy the more people that lose their jobs.
Every time you make a purchase you are supporting the poor and needy. Namely the people who work in the industry of which the product is from. Buying the CD is no different than giving some homeless guy five bucks. If nobody bought the CD many of the people dependent on that industry would be one of the homeless people. There has to be enough variety of industry to employ every type of people. Or you end up with jobless and poor people who just simply don't have an industry they can function in and be content.
In order to afford the things you do need you have to sell the crap that you don't need. And in order to sell the crap you need a buyer of the crap.
If everybody only bought and sold the things they actually needed there would be no economy. What's the point of selling one loaf of bread for another? Or one house for another? If all you had to sell were houses you could never sell up unless someone else was willing to get the short end of the bargain. Two houses would be excessive so you couldn't give someone two houses for one bigger house because that would be "fake." You aquired and sold something you didn't need.
I for one think that being paid to write software is a great way to make a living. The Open Source movement is undermining that idea for some very rediculous reasons. I give away a lot of source code. I believe in information being free. But I'm not so idealistic that I don't put a price on some information so I can afford to live.
But it doesn't really matter. Very little of the economy of software is from shrink wrapped products which is the only thing that Open Source can undermine. Basically, browsers, the OS and Apache. And even that's questionable. I know Linux is free and I don't feel it's worth the price. After all, I have to put it on a system. And I believe the system has more value when Windows is installed which overrides the cost of the OS.
OOS is especially lacking in the game market. Open Source development isn't rapid enough to keep up with the bleeding edge of the gaming industry to make any sort of dent.
Everyone is always waiting for ID or Valve to make the next move in that area. Nobody is ever waiting for the next OSS game to be ready to have a reason to buy the latest and greatest graphics card. ORGE has been in development for who knows how long and they're still behind. HL2 and DooM3 have been in development for much less time and will blow anything ORGE can do out of the water.
The other thing OSS lacks is the inside track to what specific customers want. The only products which have any sort of claim to fame is very generic products. The authors of GIMP don't know what professionals really want and need *now* so they just offer whatever feature whenever they get around to it. This is why Photoshop will be king for a very long time to come. Otherwise companies may use BSD licensed code as a base and pay dedicated people to finish the job the way the customer wants it.
It takes a heck of a lot more people working part time to get something done than dedicated employed people working full time. Frankly it's better for the economy if companies are employing people rather than looking for free labor.
There have been numerous stories of programming jobs being shipped overseas to India and most high rated comments are complaining about it. Now companies are cutting workers and milking free source and that's perfectly okay. It takes significantly less time to figure out how a BSD licensed piece of code works and use it and modify it than it does to write that piece of code from scratch.
Hours do not translate directly from part time to full time. 100 part time hours are less efficient that 100 full time hours. 1 full time employee working 100 hours is going to get far more done than 100 people working 1 hour when they feel like it.
"What he's advocating is creating a false economy of software and 'technology' by having a hideously ineffective development and business process."
The economy has always been fake. The world works based on the making and selling of crap that nobody really needs so they can have money to buy things they do need. But if we didn't buy it, lots of people would starve.
Nobody needs makeup (okay that's debatable) but if everybody made it for free and expected to get it for free they'd have no money to pay for their house or food.
If you want to talk about a "real" economy then I guess we should all go back to a world where you cut down your own trees for shelter and grow your own food and you have absolutely nothing you can't provide for yourself. Otherwise you would be forced to make "junk" to barter for something worthwhile which is a "fake" economy.
Anybody who watches the stock market knows how fake the economy is.
Open Source is turning programmers into street performers. Slashdot complains every time jobs are given to younger cheaper labor or to other countries but Open Source, which allows anyone who wants to work for FREE, is perfectly great. Apparently it's okay to cut costs and cut labor as long as it's because of Open Source.
The company I work for could have paid me or other people thousands to develop a project management tool. But the nice people who made dotProject did it for free and put it under a very nice license that doesn't violate my right to do what I want with my own code. All we had to do then was spend under 300 hours tweaking it and adding features to work the way we wanted it to work.
Next time you complain about India or some wet eared college grad taking your jobs consider how many of those very same people are working on Open Source products for no pay at all.
It takes significantly less skill to maintain a product than it does to create it. Anyone can maintain and troubleshoot Windows without knowing a single line of code used to run it. You don't need to be an engineer to do maintenance on your car. It's also far easier to understand code that has already been written than to write it in the first place.
I couldn't have written Wolf5K without spending a lot of time on it. But in a few days I've deobfuscated the code and understand exactly how it works. Tutorials are being posted on it at my JavaScript 3D site.
Most people need to eat. Until Open Source becomes compatible with that notion it's going to be used very sparingly by companies looking to cut the fat but not the people. Why spend $200 for Windows when Linux works just as well in the situation? But if choosing Linux meant several workers had nothing to do any more then it's a tougher call. It's worth spending money for software when you can justify people working.
"An entire infrastructure for a business, city, or government is not going to run itself and generate no jobs just because the development of the software itself was done for free."
If people aren't motivated (money) or have the time to code then things aren't going to get done. I can't think of too many Open Source products which have gotten on par with the closed source counterparts in anywhere near the same time frame as the original product was created.
100 people working 1 hour each does not equal 1 person working 100 hours.
It's takes a lot of dedication and time to build large scale products. No amount of people are going to write the database front end for a bank and no bank is going to wait 10 years for it to be completed. It's much more cost efficient to pay a group of dedicated people lots of money to get it done in a short time frame. The bank has a job to do. It can't wait for freelancers to get around to getting a complete product finished.
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But let's ignore all the very real terrorist attacks going on in the world and pretend they only have box cutters and are nothing to fear.
Tell that to the people being beheaded and blown up in other countries by the terrorists that it's just a box cutter and there no real threat.
Ben
I finally played Oni after having bought it several years ago. I put it on movie mode (unlimited health, no other cheats) and it still took 10 hours to finish.
All games have cheat codes. Adventure games have walk-thrus.
With walk-thrus, just because you know the answers doesn't mean you have to follow them right away. When you know the answers you can waste as much time as you want because you can. Not because you're lost.
With shoot em ups and what not, generally the only annoyance is dying. So you put it on movie-mode and the annoyance of dying goes away so you can just enjoy the game of killing things and whatever storyline the game has.
Ben
Probably a little late now but if your HD ever crashes download GetDataBack NTFS/FAT (depending on your drive) and give it a whirl. The free version does everything the registered version does except if you don't register you have to recover one file at a time (right click, open-with and then rename the tmp file created in Windows temporary files folder) which is rediculously tedious. But, if you need the file(s) Right Now(tm) the "cripped" version doesn't dangle carrots in front of your face. You can get any file you want regardless of the size with no watermarks or anything.
Anyway, the 160GB Seagate in my server decided to crap out and Windows decided it was a RAW disk. GDB found every single file and I restored everything. If you RD or shift-delete something you shouldn't have it can get those back as well.
I just picked up another 80GB Seagate so this extended warrenty is pretty nice but the drives seem to do well. I've never had to take advantage of the warrenty.
The reason the 160GB crashed was because of sloppy coding on my web-server (now fixed) and McAfee Virus scan going nuts resulting in 2.4 million files being scanned every day. There are less than 500,000 files on the entire system. It really beat the crap out of the drive.
I've since reformatted the drive and it's being used again for personal use with no problems so far.
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"You are ALWAYS completely at the mercy of the share price whether you have a 200 x $1 or 2 x $100, 10% up is the same amount, and 10% down is the same amount."
A stock is far less likely to go up $10 than 10 cents. If you own 200 shares then 1 penny change is worth 2 bucks to you. If you own 2 shares of $100 stock then it's very unlikely to go up 10 bucks and the few pennies it does budge is only worth a few pennies to you.
You can't go by percentages with stocks. If you can't afford several hundred shares of a stock then you shouldn't buy it because you'll never see a worthwhile profit. The less amount of stock you own in a company the more likely it is you will lose money.
If I bought 2 shares of Google with my $18.00 commission fee from TD Waterhouse, the stock would have to go up 18 dollars just to break even on the sell. That's a very unlikely scenario. The more likely scenario is that it's going to start high and after a short time, plummet. And I'd really hate to have to live under the delusion that Google's stock will make it to $200 so I can sell and make something worthwhile.
I'll maybe buy shares in Google when it gets down to a more reasonable price and it's a good bet that the value will steadily grow. At $100 bucks a share, there's really no where for the value to go but down.
Ben
If those things aren't showing up then your e-mail messages aren't being properly formatted. It reads header information until it hits a crlf which is what is supposed to divide the header from the message body.
Ben
You can't force a company to fork out $$$ to pay for bandwidth costs just so you can have something for "free." There is no bandwidth fairy.
The easy way around this problem is simply to make the source code available but strip out all the comments and obfuscate it.
There's plenty of software to do that. They could also just not use GPL code to begin with.
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for the weak graphics card. And if you have a MB that supports a P4 (not cheap at all) you most likely have AGP 8X so it's only ~$100 to spring for a GeForce FX 5200 and you're done.
A new MB (if you can't support 8X AGP already), Barton or P4 (unless you've got a 1.5Ghz+ CPU and 8X AGP), plus new memory if you aren't already using DDR and the graphics card is going to run you under $500. You can pick up a GeForce FX 5200 for around $100. If you had to buy everything listed you'd come in under $500 if you shopped smart. A 2500+ Barton is ~$130 and plenty fast and easily upgradable when the faster CPUs come down in price.
If you really want to play this game and are lagging behind it's time to just suck it up and get back into the mid range.
It's $500 or less and you now have a system that will last another 2-3 years.
This is really a good excuse to get your system filled with components that can be upgraded. My current system is maxed out. It's old (4 years or so) and can't go anywhere.
You can look at it this way, you can pretend that it's good enough and continue to become obsolete and be forced to spend over a thousand bucks in a couple years when it finally dies. Or, you can spend a few hundred now, get back in the upgrade path and save some money in the long run.
Ben
That's the point.
It's not some great mystery why schools don't supply Macs or *nix boxes in nearly as great a quantity as Windows boxes.
If I need to use a Mac, I can find one somewhere on campus. If I need a *nux box, I can find one somewhere on campus. Most likely in the Engineering college. I've never needed either.
This isn't an "Ask Slashdot" mystery. It's common sense.
If there was actually a demand for Linux and Mac there would be more of them on campus. If you want to see more of them on campus, get the students requesting them. Don't go around pretending there's some big conspiracy.
It's like wondering why Best Buy doesn't sell web-server hardware and pretending that the big name mid-tower case manufacturers have some kind of grip over Best Buy.
Even Fry's Electronics didn't start carrying that stuff until recently.
Ben
At the college of Education at ASU they have a Mac classroom in the computer lab that students are free to use whenever there isn't a class going on. There used to be a number of macs in the main lab as well. But practically nobody used them unless the rest of the PCs were already taken.
So now, when they bought brand new systems, they replaced the Macs in the main lab.
Anyone thinking it's some kind of MS conspiracy isn't in touch with what's really going on.
That's nice that somebody phoned Slashdot and asked where the Macs went but they would have gotten the answer just as easily by asking the people who made the decision to buy more PCs and not Macs.
The answer: 99.9% of the student body doesn't use Macs. And those that use Macs can just as easily use PCs.
99.9% of the student body doesn't absolutely need Linux either. A school isn't going to dedicate a $1000+ system to just a few students who might show up once in awhile to make use of the system.
A Windows machine is useful to 100% of the student body. A Linux or Mac machine isn't useful to anywhere near that number of students. That's just the way it is.
Ben
TCP/IP requires a handshake. Spoofing your IP only works if the communication only needs to go one way.
The best you can do with TCP/IP spoofing is a DDoS attack.
No server that uses TCP/IP is going to respond to a request unless the handshake was successful and a connection is established.
Ben
Free as in "voluntary slavery."
Ben
How many people who worked on those OSS projects the government is using are getting paid by the government or at all for their involvement with the project?
How many people would the government have hired to build the projects if OSS alternatives didn't exist?
The US government pays businesses a ton of money to write software. I currently work with such a company. If the US government decided to use all Open Source a lot of people would be out of work.
The Malaysian government choosing to use Open Source has just reduced the amount of money that will go to businesses and therefore employees. Which means lost jobs and/or fewer people being hired on.
I don't see how governments "wasting" money on paying people to write software or do any other job is a bad thing. The government should be more than happy to spend money on commercial software if it suits their needs. Or pay people to write it for them.
It's nice that they're using OSS but pretending it's not going to result in less jobs is silly.
Ben
that you spent thousands of your own hard earned money on music and DVDs and random people just get it for free?
Let me guess. You didn't spend money on what you have.
I let friends borrow my stuff. I wouldn't appreciate a random asshole breaking into my house on account of a false sense of entitlement getting a free copy of everything I *paid* for.
You want it, you pay for it.
I don't imagine that too many people who actually pay for things turn around and pirate them.
Ben
It wasn't too long ago that a number of highly moderated posts made fun of the union stance that it was unfair to let volunteers do the job they were being paid to do. They were objecting to volunteers stealing their livlihood.
Yet any time it comes up that companies are looking to get cheaper labor for the same work, Slashdot cries foul. It's all fun and games until it happens to you. Companies hire fresh college grads for less, too.
What's the other Slashdot mantra...oh yes "adjust or die." Isn't that what we keep telling businesses like MS and the RIAA? Oh, but this affects YOU so we have to make laws banning companies from utilizing an international work force. Like I said, join a union.
We are now in a global market. Companies for a very long time have been looking to take advantage of it. There are very few companies that don't have people working in foreign countries.
If you don't like it, you need to convince your boss that you are worth your pay and some foreign person can't match your price to value ratio.
People who work in tech fields are just simply not as valuable as they were 20 years ago. We've passed the time when people who could work in the field were few and far between.
Ben
The New York Times should add an access rule to let the GoogleBot have unlimited access to the site but not allow caching. All you have to do is add "allow googlebot." or whatever the reverse lookup for googlebot ips is. I did that for my own site which required a subscription back in the day. Now it's pure AdSense.
Their articles would then show up in search engine results but people would still have to register to read the article. The NYT could also have a simple script that checks for the referer and if it's google, the first paragraph or two could be shown to the user with a "to read more, please register" link.
Ben
dynamic languages are going to be just another tool in the toolbox. Not *the* tool.
For dynamic web-sites I can't think of any reason not to use PHP. I even use PHP when I could just as well use server side includes. I just like using PHP so that the pages are future proof in case I want to add some dynamic content later.
But for real time computing you need fast compiled languages. I'm working on tutorials to teach the basics of software rendering using JavaScript. The final set of lessons deobfuscates and fully explains how Wolf5K works. From there it's on to PHP to teach the core concepts behind raytracing. And from there it's on to C to do real time raytracing and finally it's on to ASM to teach optimization tricks to enhance the quality of the graphics while still retaining acceptable frame rates.
It's going to be a very very long time before something like Anti-Planet could be written in PHP.
I'd like to get in the ballpark of what Anti-Planet is doing with my own tutorials.
Ben
They used to require you pass a captcha to get the information about the domain. Oh wait, that's 9 bucks a year and only works for domains registered through netsol now.
That was nice of them.
Ben
The obvious solution is that instead of saying "blow job" you look away from the camera, cover the side of your face and whisper quietly and spell it out.
b-l-o-w j-o-b
Or you could just call it "oral sex" which is a phrase heard on the news at least a few times. It's okay to say that and not "blow job" for the same reason it's okay to say "penis" but not "cock."
Ben
are both broken in the latest versions of Moz and FireFox.
However, JavaScript wasn't broken in earlier versions. I don't think caching has ever been properly implemented.
The teams for both projects need to fix at least caching before the next release. It shouldn't have taken so long to use the complete URL to decide the cached file name. MD5 URL + MD5 filename + filename = final cache name. Heck you could even just strip out the non filename friendly characters.
Since I'm currently working with software rendering in JavaScript, those two major problems with the browsers keep me using IE which I've never had an issue with.
Ben
and an education.
Ben
you wouldn't have money to buy the house. That's the point.
"I'm sorry, but I don't buy that the economy will collapse if one industry becomes more efficient."
Nobody ever claimed it would. I'm just saying it's stupid to insist that one source of income should be abolished or that we'd be better off without it. Claiming that we shouldn't sell software because it's pointless is just rediculously short sighted. If we want a thriving economy we should encourage the buying and selling of crap. Not try to "streamline" it. The more you "streamline" the economy the more people that lose their jobs.
Every time you make a purchase you are supporting the poor and needy. Namely the people who work in the industry of which the product is from. Buying the CD is no different than giving some homeless guy five bucks. If nobody bought the CD many of the people dependent on that industry would be one of the homeless people. There has to be enough variety of industry to employ every type of people. Or you end up with jobless and poor people who just simply don't have an industry they can function in and be content.
In order to afford the things you do need you have to sell the crap that you don't need. And in order to sell the crap you need a buyer of the crap.
If everybody only bought and sold the things they actually needed there would be no economy. What's the point of selling one loaf of bread for another? Or one house for another? If all you had to sell were houses you could never sell up unless someone else was willing to get the short end of the bargain. Two houses would be excessive so you couldn't give someone two houses for one bigger house because that would be "fake." You aquired and sold something you didn't need.
I for one think that being paid to write software is a great way to make a living. The Open Source movement is undermining that idea for some very rediculous reasons. I give away a lot of source code. I believe in information being free. But I'm not so idealistic that I don't put a price on some information so I can afford to live.
But it doesn't really matter. Very little of the economy of software is from shrink wrapped products which is the only thing that Open Source can undermine. Basically, browsers, the OS and Apache. And even that's questionable. I know Linux is free and I don't feel it's worth the price. After all, I have to put it on a system. And I believe the system has more value when Windows is installed which overrides the cost of the OS.
OOS is especially lacking in the game market. Open Source development isn't rapid enough to keep up with the bleeding edge of the gaming industry to make any sort of dent.
Everyone is always waiting for ID or Valve to make the next move in that area. Nobody is ever waiting for the next OSS game to be ready to have a reason to buy the latest and greatest graphics card. ORGE has been in development for who knows how long and they're still behind. HL2 and DooM3 have been in development for much less time and will blow anything ORGE can do out of the water.
The other thing OSS lacks is the inside track to what specific customers want. The only products which have any sort of claim to fame is very generic products. The authors of GIMP don't know what professionals really want and need *now* so they just offer whatever feature whenever they get around to it. This is why Photoshop will be king for a very long time to come. Otherwise companies may use BSD licensed code as a base and pay dedicated people to finish the job the way the customer wants it.
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not fewer working on the project.
It takes a heck of a lot more people working part time to get something done than dedicated employed people working full time. Frankly it's better for the economy if companies are employing people rather than looking for free labor.
There have been numerous stories of programming jobs being shipped overseas to India and most high rated comments are complaining about it. Now companies are cutting workers and milking free source and that's perfectly okay. It takes significantly less time to figure out how a BSD licensed piece of code works and use it and modify it than it does to write that piece of code from scratch.
Hours do not translate directly from part time to full time. 100 part time hours are less efficient that 100 full time hours. 1 full time employee working 100 hours is going to get far more done than 100 people working 1 hour when they feel like it.
"What he's advocating is creating a false economy of software and 'technology' by having a hideously ineffective development and business process."
The economy has always been fake. The world works based on the making and selling of crap that nobody really needs so they can have money to buy things they do need. But if we didn't buy it, lots of people would starve.
Nobody needs makeup (okay that's debatable) but if everybody made it for free and expected to get it for free they'd have no money to pay for their house or food.
If you want to talk about a "real" economy then I guess we should all go back to a world where you cut down your own trees for shelter and grow your own food and you have absolutely nothing you can't provide for yourself. Otherwise you would be forced to make "junk" to barter for something worthwhile which is a "fake" economy.
Anybody who watches the stock market knows how fake the economy is.
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is still stupid. Linking to it again makes it no less irrelavent and unrelated to anything I said.
If you can't see the blantent hyprocicy of complaining about shipping jobs overseas while hailing Open Source then that's your problem.
It has nothing to do with patents no matter how much your thick skull won't let you comprehend it.
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try reading my post again. Then try responding with something that has anything to do with.
Got it? Good. Now you understand why your post has zero relavence.
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Open Source is turning programmers into street performers. Slashdot complains every time jobs are given to younger cheaper labor or to other countries but Open Source, which allows anyone who wants to work for FREE, is perfectly great. Apparently it's okay to cut costs and cut labor as long as it's because of Open Source.
The company I work for could have paid me or other people thousands to develop a project management tool. But the nice people who made dotProject did it for free and put it under a very nice license that doesn't violate my right to do what I want with my own code. All we had to do then was spend under 300 hours tweaking it and adding features to work the way we wanted it to work.
Next time you complain about India or some wet eared college grad taking your jobs consider how many of those very same people are working on Open Source products for no pay at all.
It takes significantly less skill to maintain a product than it does to create it. Anyone can maintain and troubleshoot Windows without knowing a single line of code used to run it. You don't need to be an engineer to do maintenance on your car. It's also far easier to understand code that has already been written than to write it in the first place.
I couldn't have written Wolf5K without spending a lot of time on it. But in a few days I've deobfuscated the code and understand exactly how it works. Tutorials are being posted on it at my JavaScript 3D site.
Most people need to eat. Until Open Source becomes compatible with that notion it's going to be used very sparingly by companies looking to cut the fat but not the people. Why spend $200 for Windows when Linux works just as well in the situation? But if choosing Linux meant several workers had nothing to do any more then it's a tougher call. It's worth spending money for software when you can justify people working.
"An entire infrastructure for a business, city, or government is not going to run itself and generate no jobs just because the development of the software itself was done for free."
If people aren't motivated (money) or have the time to code then things aren't going to get done. I can't think of too many Open Source products which have gotten on par with the closed source counterparts in anywhere near the same time frame as the original product was created.
100 people working 1 hour each does not equal 1 person working 100 hours.
It's takes a lot of dedication and time to build large scale products. No amount of people are going to write the database front end for a bank and no bank is going to wait 10 years for it to be completed. It's much more cost efficient to pay a group of dedicated people lots of money to get it done in a short time frame. The bank has a job to do. It can't wait for freelancers to get around to getting a complete product finished.
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