Or more precisely. Game production is no longer really a problem in engineering management and thus the solutions don't reside in the techniques of engr management. Instead it is a large group creative production and the solutions almost certainly will come from that field of endeavor.
I think a better analogy is to the death of the studio system in movies. We are just at the tail end in games. Currently films are made by a large number of companies, some as small as individuals, who come together for a single project. Groups not well represented by corporations tend to band together into guilds. A project then becomes a negotiation between various service providing guilds and companies, a few stars, and the funding agency.
I suspect this is what game production will look like in the future.
I think this comes down to the same self defeating strategy we see all over the business world; it is not enough to make lots of dollars instead you must strive to make EVERY dollar.
In the effort to make every possible dollar the business world ends up destroying the reasons their clients were willing to pay them in the first place.
If Apple does not want to be inherently associated with one of the largest movements in our culture today then uhm, ok. How about we call it WalkmanCasting or MicroCasting? I doubt Sony or BillCo would mind the extra publicity.
His answer was fine though linguistically a bit short handed. His first statement summed it up. This is unsettled law, don't try to nail down answers and tell them to people.
In the case of CD ripping. You, I, and pretty much any rational person believes we have every right to rip our CDs to mp3 and put them on hard drives, ipods etc. However this is NOT settled law. The RIAA very much would like that not to be a right and are pushing with lawyers and money to make it so.
"How do you know you have a right to rip that cd?" You know it through faith and common sense. In this case faith is likely misplaced and common sense is no defense in a court of law.
Any other answer really does place you at risk. The risk may be small and illogical but it is still a risk.
The last paragraph of the article...Microsoft and Apple and all the big-time education-computerizing reformers of the MIT Media Lab are failing, miserably. For all of their high-flown education initiatives (like the "$100 laptop"), they seem bent on providing information consumption devices, not tools that teach creative thinking and technological mastery...
Sums up the change in our society nicely. No longer are we citizens called upon to create our countries future. Instead we are more and more seen as nothing more than consumers whose purpose is to purchase the output of our corporate masters.
One interesting way to put Star Trek back into the culture of its time is to watch the movie, "Forbidden Planet" and then Watch the first two, filmed, episodes of Star Trek: "The Cage" ie the original pilot, and , "Where No Man has Gone Before."
For a similar effect try "2001 a Space Odyssey" and "Space 1999" or "Star Wars" and "Battlestar Galactica".
Why is the chant always, "ads ads ads"? If millions of people love the site then it should be possible to work out a subscription model that works. Look at livejournal for an example of a tiered functional subscription model.
Advertising is not the only way to run a business in the modern world.
Cell phone networks are built on the publics airwaves with an explicit provision that they must serve the public interest. If anything the landline phone companies who own right-of-ways would have a stronger claim to private property.
This is a sad sad thread. The article clearly stated the book was aimed at the, "hobbyist coder". Despite almost religious believes to the contrary, not all human endeavors must be for profit.
A whole generation of programmers grew up with magazines such as, "Creative Computing", and books such as, "Basic computer Games". Why an entire kernel was created, to quote the author, "just for fun".
Software, especially software environments aren't just corporate owned property. People fall in love with things and ways of doing things. While ethically and morally there is no equivalence between someone dying of disease and a product being changed/discontinued the effects though of peoples live for software can be dramatic.
Remember free software, the GPL and by association Linux and much of what we think of as modern computing came about because one socially challenged bearded hacker guy was rather upset at corporations causing changes to his fun Lisp hacking pasture.
> It's amazing that the mainstream media don't cover > the coming era of DRM more.
The mainstream media is owned and run by the media companies. It's not at all surprising that the propaganda arm of the media companies doesn't report on this.
Services for Unix actually contains two products. The services components and the Interix components. The services part includes: the NFS server, the NFS client, the NIS server, and various bits and pieces to make them go. All of this is done with conventional Win32 programs and do not use the Interix system.
The Interix components include the Interix subsystem and all the unix commands and utilities etc. This is the part that sets up a more or less complete BSD system running in its own little enclave. It does not use any of the Services components and in fact a major downside of SFU is that the NFS server etc are not in any way really integrated with the Interix system.
Interix was created by a company called Softway Systems. Microsoft purchased them primarily for the Interix product. They already owned the services components and sold those as the Services for Unix product. Marketing decided it made sense to just push these two together into a box and keep selling it under that name. Little beyond bug fixing and maintenance has been done with the product since.
Disclaimer: I was the integration program manager for SFU at Microsoft for the 3.5 release. My opinions may be biased.
Many of these people would later go on to build netscape. Apache is something of a pun, "a patchy web server." Origonally it was a set of patches for NCSA httpd
> The shuttle can capture satellites in orbit, > and bring them back, and there is no other craft which can do this.
How often has this actually been used? To my knowledge most commercial and research satellites are in much higher orbits than shuttle can reach. In general aren't most sattelites cheaper than a shuttle mission anyway?
The Bush administration let Microsoft off the hook on anti-trust issues. Now Bill suddenly is doing something that the judgementalists like politically.
In the world of politics and power everything comes at a price.
I hope the availability of shows online and the subsequent impact to advertisers forces the netwroks out of releasing shows in one market before another.
The above comment does tell me where the drab and dreary people come from.
The poster is right though. You need to decide, and fairly soon, what is important to you. If getting a job ie any job is the most important thing in your life then the above poster is spot on.
If there is something else, then different advice may apply.
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Or more precisely. Game production is no longer really a problem in engineering management and thus the solutions don't reside in the techniques of engr management. Instead it is a large group creative production and the solutions almost certainly will come from that field of endeavor.
I think a better analogy is to the death of the studio system in movies. We are just at the tail end in games. Currently films are made by a large number of companies, some as small as individuals, who come together for a single project. Groups not well represented by corporations tend to band together into guilds. A project then becomes a negotiation between various service providing guilds and companies, a few stars, and the funding agency.
I suspect this is what game production will look like in the future.
I think this comes down to the same self defeating strategy we see all over the business world; it is not enough to make lots of dollars instead you must strive to make EVERY dollar.
In the effort to make every possible dollar the business world ends up destroying the reasons their clients were willing to pay them in the first place.
I would like to draw attention to the phrase, "The new initiative is intended to protect consumers from pirated software".
HUH?
protect consumers from pirated software? Protect? Are unathroized copies of Windows raping and pillaging towns along the Atlantic coast?
To my knowledge there has never been any harm to, "consumers".
The measure is intended to protect Microsoft from losses from authorized copying.
If Apple does not want to be inherently associated with one of the largest movements in our culture today then uhm, ok. How about we call it WalkmanCasting or MicroCasting? I doubt Sony or BillCo would mind the extra publicity.
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His answer was fine though linguistically a bit short handed. His first statement summed it up. This is unsettled law, don't try to nail down answers and tell them to people.
In the case of CD ripping. You, I, and pretty much any rational person believes we have every right to rip our CDs to mp3 and put them on hard drives, ipods etc. However this is NOT settled law. The RIAA very much would like that not to be a right and are pushing with lawyers and money to make it so.
"How do you know you have a right to rip that cd?" You know it through faith and common sense. In this case faith is likely misplaced and common sense is no defense in a court of law.
Any other answer really does place you at risk. The risk may be small and illogical but it is still a risk.
The last paragraph of the article ...Microsoft and Apple and all the big-time education-computerizing reformers of the MIT Media Lab are failing, miserably. For all of their high-flown education initiatives (like the "$100 laptop"), they seem bent on providing information consumption devices, not tools that teach creative thinking and technological mastery...
Sums up the change in our society nicely. No longer are we citizens called upon to create our countries future. Instead we are more and more seen as nothing more than consumers whose purpose is to purchase the output of our corporate masters.
One interesting way to put Star Trek back into the culture of its time is to watch the movie, "Forbidden Planet" and then Watch the first two, filmed, episodes of Star Trek: "The Cage" ie the original pilot, and , "Where No Man has Gone Before."
For a similar effect try "2001 a Space Odyssey" and "Space 1999" or "Star Wars" and "Battlestar Galactica".
Why is the chant always, "ads ads ads"? If millions of people love the site then it should be possible to work out a subscription model that works. Look at livejournal for an example of a tiered functional subscription model.
Advertising is not the only way to run a business in the modern world.
Cell phone networks are built on the publics airwaves with an explicit provision that they must serve the public interest. If anything the landline phone companies who own right-of-ways would have a stronger claim to private property.
Old enough to not be impressed with a five digit user id :)
This is a sad sad thread. The article clearly stated the book was aimed at the, "hobbyist coder". Despite almost religious believes to the contrary, not all human endeavors must be for profit.
A whole generation of programmers grew up with magazines such as, "Creative Computing", and books such as, "Basic computer Games". Why an entire kernel was created, to quote the author, "just for fun".
Software, especially software environments aren't just corporate owned property. People fall in love with things and ways of doing things. While ethically and morally there is no equivalence between someone dying of disease and a product being changed/discontinued the effects though of peoples live for software can be dramatic.
Remember free software, the GPL and by association Linux and much of what we think of as modern computing came about because one socially challenged bearded hacker guy was rather upset at corporations causing changes to his fun Lisp hacking pasture.
> It's amazing that the mainstream media don't cover
> the coming era of DRM more.
The mainstream media is owned and run by the media companies.
It's not at all surprising that the propaganda arm of the media
companies doesn't report on this.
Services for Unix actually contains two products. The services components and the Interix components. The services part includes: the NFS server, the NFS client, the NIS server, and various bits and pieces to make them go. All of this is done with conventional Win32 programs and do not use the Interix system.
The Interix components include the Interix subsystem and all the unix commands and utilities etc. This is the part that sets up a more or less complete BSD system running in its own little enclave. It does not use any of the Services components and in fact a major downside of SFU is that the NFS server etc are not in any way really integrated with the Interix system.
Interix was created by a company called Softway Systems. Microsoft purchased them primarily for the Interix product. They already owned the services components and sold those as the Services for Unix product. Marketing decided it made sense to just push these two together into a box and keep selling it under that name. Little beyond bug fixing and maintenance has been done with the product since.
Disclaimer: I was the integration program manager for SFU at Microsoft for the 3.5 release. My opinions may be biased.
It's amazing how the corporate version of history tends to suplant reality in th public mind.
. html
N CSAMosaicHome.html
The first web browser and web server would have been WorldWideWeb, the man who invented the web. http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb
The first widely used and popular web server and browser were NCSA httpd http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ and NCSA mosaic http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/
These were developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, IL, USA.
Many of these people would later go on to build netscape.
Apache is something of a pun, "a patchy web server." Origonally it
was a set of patches for NCSA httpd
They did. That's essentially what Microsoft Services For Unix is.
> The shuttle can capture satellites in orbit,
> and bring them back, and there is no other craft which can do this.
How often has this actually been used? To my knowledge most commercial and research satellites are in much higher orbits than shuttle can reach. In general aren't most sattelites cheaper than a shuttle mission anyway?
My boyfriend nd I nearly fell off the sofa laughing at the weapons of destruction lines.
:)
The British have given proof of the weapons of destruction to the U.N.
The Bush administration let Microsoft off the hook on anti-trust issues.
Now Bill suddenly is doing something that the judgementalists like politically.
In the world of politics and power everything comes at a price.
um, Television is eactly that model. Many TV movies cost that much and are indeed broadcast over the air for free.
The bigest problem RIAA/MPAA has in fact is thatradio and TV have created in society the belief that content is free.
Add to this the increase of in theatre advertising and the value proposition is becoming even more blurred in the public's eye.
I hope the availability of shows online and the subsequent impact to advertisers forces the netwroks out of releasing shows in one market before another.
The above comment does tell me where the drab and dreary people come from.
The poster is right though. You need to decide, and fairly soon, what is important to you. If getting a job ie any job is the most important thing in your life then the above poster is spot on.
If there is something else, then different advice may apply.
Much of that though was due to JFK's tragic death. Perhaps Bush is intending to emulate that too :)