its an inexpensive way to distribute the project and a great idea.
You don't always have to get just movies and mp3 from torrent. People downloading that stuff are the reason the RIAA/MPAA are even paying attention to torrent
I've devloped on Sun/HP and Linux. The trouble is that there ALMOST the same. This is really really really anoying and hurts software development. Posix was supposed to help us move to a standard where we knew how the libraries where supposed to work. It didn't help.
If I write something for hpux there is a good chance it will sortof work on Sun or Red Hat or Suse. This hurts software availability on linux/unix, as its work to create different versions.
This explains why languages that are consistant and create there own "eco system" of libraries and are generaly os independant. (Perl/ Python/ Java etc..).
Remember java as a "platform" that ran anywhere making which OS you were running irrelevant. That got MS notice real quick. MS went from bundling java to creating j++ to not including it at all.
People forget Microsoft can sometimes can be absolutely devestating to competetion. (The Mono developers should be carefull).
I wish the article was online. They have references to there statitistics.
think its pretty common knowledge that most music albums released don't sell a heck of a lot of copies. Only a few albums released any year make money for the record companies. And record companies release a stagering number of albums. How and where they spend there promotional $ is another story.
I know of 2 musicians that are on small labels. People aren't sending them checks, although they did get their music on itunes which gives them a little extra cash.
AllofMp3 maybe 5cents per song. Napster/itunes 99 cents per song. p2p Free!
AllofMp3 payment to artists = 0.00 itunes payment to artists 0.05 (estimate). p2p payment to artists 0.00
Lets see, if I like a band should I purchase music from a quasi-legal place that doesn't pay the artist anything or should I buy my music legally.
For all the complaining about RIAA etc. They do pay artist something (which is significantly better than nothing)
There were some interesting music industry facts in the NewYorker. The RIAA labels make money on about 300 album of to 10000 or so they put out a year. Almost all bands major label albums are money loosing investments, and the money fronted to artist to make an album is lost.(pro recording / mixing isn't cheap, although we'll see the first apple/garageband recorded album this year)
I don't have anything agains mono, and the C#/java seem pretty much identicle to my mind (There's nothing that compelling that one has thats not in the other).
Its great to have a language that can come installed with linux (java cough* cough*). However mono ultimately will work OK, but will drive developers to windows in droves because of the better deveopment environment that Visual Studio.net offers.
I fear that ultimately there will be mono apps that can run sometimes on windows (if you install gtk# etc...etc.) and.net apps that might run on linux if you didn't use this package or that package.
Mono has its place, but I don't think cross platform apps is going to happen.
You should have called tech support and say, I bought the game and it won't let me log in. I can fax you a picture of the "key". I don't know what happened? Someone is using my key.
That or you should get the key/account from the seller or get your money back.
IE developer/lead says "I think of today's announcement as a clear statement back to our customers: "Hey, Microsoft heard you. We're committing (to ie7)."
What he means : "Damm firefox took a lot of market share. Even with our monopoly people are downloading this better and free product"
Mircosoft intended to use its domenence in browsers to control the desktop. IE distribute apps with IE/Longhorn and proprietary extentions (.net) that only worked on windows.
Firefox's success caught them off guard and now there running to catch up. I think MS was hoping to bundle ie7 with longhorn, causing massive corporate forced upgrades, but delay after delay nixed that idea.
Linspire although often put down by geeks as unsophisticated compared to its debian/geentoo/redhat/ madrake.
Note that if you poke around the homepage, no mention of if KDE/Gnome is the desktop of choice. The users he's targeting don't care, they just want a machine that works, without popups and spyware.. They "click and run" subscription seems like apt-get but for money and easier.
Linspire however represents linux's best attempt to make a Linux OS that anyone including your grandmother can use. Its not great yet, but its pretty ok. And comming pre-installed on machines from walmart\ and microcenter and it seems pretty affordable, so it seems to have some traction.
They want to be the mac os-x of linux world. Just look at their homepage . Look like this? Its not coincidence.
Software is a funny business. Volume means alot. So if linspire is making money, expect it to improve. Hopefully all improvements they make come back and make all linux's better.
I like the fact that the presenters didn't remember/know what all the acronyms were in the cell diagram. I like the interview technique too. Get em drunk and watch em talk.
I was wondering why the article was so in depth.
Quoth " After some discussion (and more wine), it was determined that the ATO unit is most likely the Atomic (memory) unit responsible for coherency observation/interaction with dataflow on the EIB. Then, after the injection of more liquid refreshments (CH3CH2OH), it was theorized that the RTB most likely stood for some sort of Register Translation Block whose precise functionality was unknown to those outside of the SPE. However, this theory would turn out to be incorrect. "
lets say your searching for "rackspace" hosting. you type "rack space" into goole. The first two ads that pop up are titled "rack space" , but they link to someother site selling solutions (the url is listed in small type under the link).
So basically companies are createing links with names that are incorrect in ads. I think thats where the problem is, if the name of your company is trademarked. I could put a "ford" link that links to chevy.com and that is very deceptive.
buyer beware.
I leave it to the courts to figure out if it illegal.
Have you people learned nothing from sienfeld and the simpsons.
From seinfeld, old people steal batteries and are notoriously cheap.
From the simpsons: The cat burgler is an old man.
If I'm retired there nothing to stop me from firing up Kazzaa, and when being summoned playing dumb. That old woman might have had mad Ski11Z. And frisky too judging from her sceen name.
You age discrimatory slashdot bastards.
Of course she might have just had an unsecure wireless router.
Yes. The system will work well. I've edited video with imovie on a g3 600 mhz powerbook with 384 megs ram. It captured fine as well. The movie was short (10 minutes) but it was a little slow rendering transitions. MY G4 is much better editing experience. Pleasant experience even.
the editing software is better than all the consumer editing software I've used on a PC. Stopped using the PC completely when started using imovie.
More Ram is great. As in my original post I have over 1 gig. I would get at least 512 meg. 1 gig if you can afford it. You can add it yourself if your brave.
I've tried capturing video on an eternal firewire drive from my camcorder via firewire on my g4 tower. It worked for me, but it wasn't alot of video. I have fast drives mounted externally on firewire.
One nice thing about I movie is it puts all your project files in one directory. This is convient because when I'm done editing a project, I move all the files to external HD. I also back up on a DVD burner. Movies take a lot of ram.
One thing to watch out for as you add more and more features to the mini is you start approaching the price of an G5 imac/ low end g5 tower.
I said the same thing while at work.. Heh! wheres the interesting part of the article?
FWIW I did a quick google & google news search. nothing.
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Apples aren't the cheapest machines. You can always get a slighty higher spec machine for less $ in the PC realm.
But the 199$ pc you point to has some real difference to the mini. I think they have significant differences in there target markets. The PC-- No Dvd player. No CD burner. only 128 megs of ram (what century is this?) Linshpere which is fine, but if you wanted windows add $$ (I think about 200$ if bought retail).
With mac your also paying for the applications they through in and OS X os and support.
The mini really should be fast enough for most things. I have 1 ghz g4 tower. I do video editing/photoshop and dvd creation on it. The speed of that machine is good and the bus is about the same as the mini. I have 1.2 gigs of ram though.
DVD mastering and my degraining phtotoshop filter are the only things that make me wish a faster processor. I'm patient with the photoshop filter which can take 20 seconds or so, because my images are large (70 meg per file) (The DVD stuff which can take hours.)
Open a purchased itunes song in emacs and search for your email address that you use for itunes. Its in there. So each song downloaded is tagged, I'm not sure if the username is tied into the encrytption or not though. It seems a lot of work to encrypt each song purchased.
Yeah, itunes DRM isn't so bad. Especially if you have an ipod. However with the advent of mp3 cd/ tivo remote players, I want my play my purchased itunes on my mp3 cds with my ripped mp3s.
I don't complain about it, I just convert them to 256+kbps mp3. Its a pain in the patukas. Its not that bad sounding (although I keep the purchased songs around).
I understand apple couldn't sell without the DRM, so I stopped complaining about it.
Seriously. Doom appears to be "opengl" cross platform for easier porting to Mac/Linux. That might not matter to others but its a huge advantage when porting your game from windows.
Cross platform can cause a slight performance hit.
I feel old, but since when is AI part of the engine? shouldn't that be somewhat specific game to game?
When you buy your exquipment, the best advice is not to look and second-guess. There will be someting better/cheaper coming out soon, there always is. So what?
Don't buy it then scour the web for new stuff/ better prices for the next few months, you'll drive yourself nuts..
If the equipment does what you need when you buy it you'll be happy with it.
We have an old 600mhz ibook that keeps running. It does what it did when we bought it. Very light usefull machine for surfing, video playing, even coding.
One thing to note, if you can get a computer with the new OS, thats great. Ususally apple gives a discount on the New OS to those that bought a computer with the old OS close to the Newos release. But if the computer ships with the new OS its free. (those major OS upgrades run >100$)
I don't know if you joking, but maybe the meant 11 K (Kelvin). Kelvin is the same increments as C degrees but 0 is in a different place. 0 degrees C = 273.? Degrees Kelvin. Kelvin starts around absolute 0.
Slashdot Mirror
Dilbert in front of a class:
"I work in a cube, its kinda like a bathroom stall but the walls are lower"
"I spend most of my days worring about the electronic fields from my monitor are killing me"
by the end all the children are in tears..
I like this approach. We have enough competetion, the fewer of us there are the more they'll have to pay us.
There is a lesson here.. The quick slashdotting apears to indicate raid works better than an ipod for running your server.
He dances for nickels..
Arrrrr.
(Its a simpsons reference...)
Popular doesn't always = good.
r ents.php
Lots of isos available, slackware even distributes via torrent now.
checkout
http://www.slackware.com/getslack/tor
its an inexpensive way to distribute the project and a great idea.
You don't always have to get just movies and mp3 from torrent. People downloading that stuff are the reason the RIAA/MPAA are even paying attention to torrent
I've devloped on Sun /HP and Linux. The trouble is that there ALMOST the same. This is really really really anoying and hurts software development. Posix was supposed to help us move to a standard where we knew how the libraries where supposed to work. It didn't help.
If I write something for hpux there is a good chance it will sortof work on Sun or Red Hat or Suse. This hurts software availability on linux/unix, as its work to create different versions.
This explains why languages that are consistant and create there own "eco system" of libraries and are generaly os independant. (Perl/ Python/ Java etc..).
Remember java as a "platform" that ran anywhere making which OS you were running irrelevant. That got MS notice real quick. MS went from bundling java to creating j++ to not including it at all.
People forget Microsoft can sometimes can be absolutely devestating to competetion. (The Mono developers should be carefull).
I wish the article was online. They have references to there statitistics.
think its pretty common knowledge that most music albums released don't sell a heck of a lot of copies. Only a few albums released any year make money for the record companies. And record companies release a stagering number of albums. How and where they spend there promotional $ is another story.
I know of 2 musicians that are on small labels. People aren't sending them checks, although they did get their music on itunes which gives them a little extra cash.
AllofMp3 maybe 5cents per song.
Napster/itunes 99 cents per song.
p2p Free!
AllofMp3 payment to artists = 0.00
itunes payment to artists 0.05 (estimate).
p2p payment to artists 0.00
Lets see, if I like a band should I purchase music from a quasi-legal place that doesn't pay the artist anything or should I buy my music legally.
For all the complaining about RIAA etc. They do pay artist something (which is significantly better than nothing)
There were some interesting music industry facts in the NewYorker. The RIAA labels make money on about 300 album of to 10000 or so they put out a year. Almost all bands major label albums are money loosing investments, and the money fronted to artist to make an album is lost.(pro recording / mixing isn't cheap, although we'll see the first apple/garageband recorded album this year)
I don't have anything agains mono, and the C#/java seem pretty much identicle to my mind (There's nothing that compelling that one has thats not in the other).
.net apps that might run on linux if you didn't use this package or that package.
Its great to have a language that can come installed with linux (java cough* cough*). However mono ultimately will work OK, but will drive developers to windows in droves because of the better deveopment environment that Visual Studio.net offers.
I fear that ultimately there will be mono apps that can run sometimes on windows (if you install gtk# etc...etc.) and
Mono has its place, but I don't think cross platform apps is going to happen.
You should have called tech support and say, I bought the game and it won't let me log in. I can fax you a picture of the "key". I don't know what happened? Someone is using my key.
That or you should get the key/account from the seller or get your money back.
Its is good for consumers to have competetion.
We can all hope for good standard support. Mac IE had pretty good support so MS is capable of it.
IE developer/lead says "I think of today's announcement as a clear statement back to our customers: "Hey, Microsoft heard you. We're committing (to ie7)."
What he means : "Damm firefox took a lot of market share. Even with our monopoly people are downloading this better and free product"
Mircosoft intended to use its domenence in browsers to control the desktop. IE distribute apps with IE/Longhorn and proprietary extentions (.net) that only worked on windows.
Firefox's success caught them off guard and now there running to catch up. I think MS was hoping to bundle ie7 with longhorn, causing massive corporate forced upgrades, but delay after delay nixed that idea.
Linspire although often put down by geeks as unsophisticated compared to its debian/geentoo/redhat/ madrake.
Note that if you poke around the homepage, no mention of if KDE/Gnome is the desktop of choice. The users he's targeting don't care, they just want a machine that works, without popups and spyware.. They "click and run" subscription seems like apt-get but for money and easier.
Linspire however represents linux's best attempt to make a Linux OS that anyone including your grandmother can use. Its not great yet, but its pretty ok. And comming pre-installed on machines from walmart\ and microcenter and it seems pretty affordable, so it seems to have some traction.
They want to be the mac os-x of linux world. Just look at their homepage . Look like this? Its not coincidence.
Heck they even have a itunes "clone" they sell. called lsongs. (l for linux/ songs = tunes, get it ).
Software is a funny business. Volume means alot.
So if linspire is making money, expect it to improve. Hopefully all improvements they make come back and make all linux's better.
I like the fact that the presenters didn't remember/know what all the acronyms were in the cell diagram. I like the interview technique too. Get em drunk and watch em talk.
I was wondering why the article was so in depth.
Quoth
"
After some discussion (and more wine), it was determined that the ATO unit is most likely the Atomic (memory) unit responsible for coherency observation/interaction with dataflow on the EIB. Then, after the injection of more liquid refreshments (CH3CH2OH), it was theorized that the RTB most likely stood for some sort of Register Translation Block whose precise functionality was unknown to those outside of the SPE. However, this theory would turn out to be incorrect.
"
lets say your searching for "rackspace" hosting. you type "rack space" into goole. The first two ads that pop up are titled "rack space" , but they link to someother site selling solutions (the url is listed in small type under the link).
So basically companies are createing links with names that are incorrect in ads. I think thats where the problem is, if the name of your company is trademarked. I could put a "ford" link that links to chevy.com and that is very deceptive.
buyer beware.
I leave it to the courts to figure out if it illegal.
Have you people learned nothing from sienfeld and the simpsons.
From seinfeld, old people steal batteries and are notoriously cheap.
From the simpsons: The cat burgler is an old man.
If I'm retired there nothing to stop me from firing up Kazzaa, and when being summoned playing dumb. That old woman might have had mad Ski11Z. And frisky too judging from her sceen name.
You age discrimatory slashdot bastards.
Of course she might have just had an unsecure wireless router.
Yes. The system will work well. I've edited video with imovie on a g3 600 mhz powerbook with 384 megs ram. It captured fine as well. The movie was short (10 minutes) but it was a little slow rendering transitions. MY G4 is much better editing experience. Pleasant experience even.
the editing software is better than all the consumer editing software I've used on a PC. Stopped using the PC completely when started using imovie.
More Ram is great. As in my original post I have over 1 gig. I would get at least 512 meg. 1 gig if you can afford it. You can add it yourself if your brave.
I've tried capturing video on an eternal firewire drive from my camcorder via firewire on my g4 tower. It worked for me, but it wasn't alot of video. I have fast drives mounted externally on firewire.
One nice thing about I movie is it puts all your project files in one directory. This is convient because when I'm done editing a project, I move all the files to external HD. I also back up on a DVD burner. Movies take a lot of ram.
One thing to watch out for as you add more and more features to the mini is you start approaching the price of an G5 imac/ low end g5 tower.
I said the same thing while at work.. Heh! wheres the interesting part of the article?
FWIW I did a quick google & google news search. nothing.
Apples aren't the cheapest machines. You can always get a slighty higher spec machine for less $ in the PC realm.
But the 199$ pc you point to has some real difference to the mini. I think they have significant differences in there target markets.
The PC--
No Dvd player.
No CD burner.
only 128 megs of ram (what century is this?)
Linshpere which is fine, but if you wanted windows add $$ (I think about 200$ if bought retail).
With mac your also paying for the applications they through in and OS X os and support.
The mini really should be fast enough for most things. I have 1 ghz g4 tower. I do video editing/photoshop and dvd creation on it. The speed of that machine is good and the bus is about the same as the mini. I have 1.2 gigs of ram though.
DVD mastering and my degraining phtotoshop filter are the only things that make me wish a faster processor. I'm patient with the photoshop filter which can take 20 seconds or so, because my images are large (70 meg per file) (The DVD stuff which can take hours.)
Open a purchased itunes song in emacs and search for your email address that you use for itunes. Its in there.
So each song downloaded is tagged, I'm not sure if the username is tied into the encrytption or not though. It seems a lot of work to encrypt each song purchased.
Yeah, itunes DRM isn't so bad. Especially if you have an ipod. However with the advent of mp3 cd/ tivo remote players, I want my play my purchased itunes on my mp3 cds with my ripped mp3s.
I don't complain about it, I just convert them to 256+kbps mp3. Its a pain in the patukas. Its not that bad sounding (although I keep the purchased songs around).
I understand apple couldn't sell without the DRM, so I stopped complaining about it.
Seriously. Doom appears to be "opengl" cross platform for easier porting to Mac/Linux. That might not matter to others but its a huge advantage when porting your game from windows.
Cross platform can cause a slight performance hit.
I feel old, but since when is AI part of the engine? shouldn't that be somewhat specific game to game?
When you buy your exquipment, the best advice is not to look and second-guess. There will be someting better/cheaper coming out soon, there always is. So what?
Don't buy it then scour the web for new stuff/ better prices for the next few months, you'll drive yourself nuts..
If the equipment does what you need when you buy it you'll be happy with it.
We have an old 600mhz ibook that keeps running. It does what it did when we bought it. Very light usefull machine for surfing, video playing, even coding.
One thing to note, if you can get a computer with the new OS, thats great. Ususally apple gives a discount on the New OS to those that bought a computer with the old OS close to the Newos release. But if the computer ships with the new OS its free. (those major OS upgrades run >100$)
I don't know if you joking, but maybe the meant 11 K (Kelvin). Kelvin is the same increments as C degrees but 0 is in a different place. 0 degrees C = 273.? Degrees Kelvin. Kelvin starts around absolute 0.
Maybe?