#if !defined (CS_NET_SOCKET_INVALID) // This is the stuff we stole from SCO, keep it hushed # define CS_NET_SOCKET_INVALID ((csNetworkSocket)~0) #endif
I'm wondering just how useful having this code released is. For instance, anybody can get at the Linux source but not everybody can understand it.
What I'm wondering is, are there extra tools for the developer along with these source releases? Map generators and the like? Comments that show where you can twiddle with weapons physics and such? Good modular programming that shows you were to substitute the in-game models for your own user generated ones?
That's the sort of stuff I wonder about.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to find out that it's only a good month's worth of hacking to get your own mod going. I'm just wondering if people who are more experienced dealing with this sort of source can answer...?
Is anybody else worried that this might turn into another Corel?
If Novell's got problems keeping up in terms of IT relevence as it is with its own core product, it could be really nasty if some of that starts to rub off on Suse and Ximian.
I don't mean to troll. I just liked it better when all these things were separated. I'd rather unification through proper standards (eg: LSB compliance) than through pocketbooks.
Microsoft hasn't been a big enough fast-follower to take over Google's stranglehold. Microsoft was quick enough to get a browser out there while the internet was still in the process of popularizing itself.
Given that you can get search results from Microsoft's website content quicker through Google than through Microsoft's own search engine, I think it's too late for them to edge Google out short of buying it.
What passes as a liberal slant in America is really only a liberal slant if you compare it to right-wingery that borders on fascism.
If you want to see how all major American media fails the readership, check out Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Fox is only the most flagrant violator. When push comes to shove, all corporate media is subject to your standard corporate editorial mandate, with few exceptions.
capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
The use of "anti-capitalist" in my post wasn't meant to refer to the so-called capitalism we know is practiced in modern-day America. There are other capitalist models around the world that fit the traditional definition of capitalism a lot better than the U.S.'s.
I just think it's stupid for these companies to be trying to compete with each other when the REAL competition is Kazaa. That's what's going to be determining whether or not they can make a profit.
If you're surprised by this, THAT's the news, not what the White House is doing with this information control. Click here for a list of the White House's policies with restricting FOI and other related requests since Sept 11th.
This isn't partisan politics, either. The Republican party has been trying to keep Bush from violating the Presidential Records Act.
Yes, yes, the country's at war. Makes you wonder why Bush doesn't want anybody to know about communications between Reagan and his advisors.
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Books participating in our Search Inside the Book feature with "rocket experiments" in their text will show an excerpt with your search term highlighted.
Okay, that means that any publishing company leary about having a txt version of the book leaked on the internet can at least opt out of this feature.
Still, it seems to me that the database server is going to have access to a lot of information about the books' texts. And the more useful the engine aspires to be, the more likely it is that it won't want to limit itself to simple word lists. Take into consideration how useful google's excerpts are in determining what sort of page you're looking for.
But how will unifying the brand image attract them, exactly?
Case in point: Suse consistently uses the little green chameleon as its brand. But how many people out there, if you were to ask them what a little green chameleon makes them think of, would say Suse?
Branding goes hand-in-hand with a large marketing strategy designed to get that brand into the mind of the consumer. How does Mozilla accomplish this, exactly? The fact that it's a free product makes it extremely cost-ineffective to go through the intensive and expensive motions of effectively branding.
Don't get me wrong, these are just my first impressions to the idea, and I think it could be something special if the open-source community could effectively brand something on the larger economic world when it comes to free products. I'm just having a hard time visualizing how it could be done.
The main reason you'd want to brand is to leave an imprint in the mind of somebody who's a potential consumer. People who are already using Mozilla probably won't be affected by the presence or absence of branding -- it's likely been branded enough for them. Unifying it might mean dropping the dinosaur connotations or the magical bird connotations, one for the other. But really, at this point, why bother?
Unless this is going to be part of a bigger marketing strategy by Netscape or AOL or whoever...?
Depends what they mean by "self-destructing". Maybe they're trying to advertise that the document destroys itself but doesn't take the entire system down with it?
Or maybe someone in marketing just saw a few too many episodes of Mission Impossible, decided they were running out of cachet marketing phrases, and didn't realize that the average joe would probably freak out if their spreadsheets started doing a "5... 4... 3..." countdown on them.
It'd be like Y2K paranoia, only you get it every year.
...when little Greek kids were reenacting Homer for kicks. Have you read the Illiad?
And let's not forget Titus Andronicus. They do some filthy things to each other in the name of theatre.
Yeah. Let's just ignore what's in our genes. In fact, wouldn't it be great if we could come up with a law where chess players were legally obligated to draw every game, then go have a Coke and a smile.
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Matt was being satirical and certainly there was never any issue between the show and Fox News.
Yeah, but it's funny, cuz it's true.
I copied from here...
typedef unsigned int csNetworkSocket;
#if !defined (CS_NET_SOCKET_INVALID)
// This is the stuff we stole from SCO, keep it hushed
# define CS_NET_SOCKET_INVALID ((csNetworkSocket)~0)
#endif
I'm wondering just how useful having this code released is. For instance, anybody can get at the Linux source but not everybody can understand it.
What I'm wondering is, are there extra tools for the developer along with these source releases? Map generators and the like? Comments that show where you can twiddle with weapons physics and such? Good modular programming that shows you were to substitute the in-game models for your own user generated ones?
That's the sort of stuff I wonder about.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to find out that it's only a good month's worth of hacking to get your own mod going. I'm just wondering if people who are more experienced dealing with this sort of source can answer...?
Is anybody else worried that this might turn into another Corel?
If Novell's got problems keeping up in terms of IT relevence as it is with its own core product, it could be really nasty if some of that starts to rub off on Suse and Ximian.
I don't mean to troll. I just liked it better when all these things were separated. I'd rather unification through proper standards (eg: LSB compliance) than through pocketbooks.
The attempt, Mr. Orr said, was that when people search, they should not get multiple copies of the same information.
Or, more likely, not get multiple answers to the same questions.
Like, for instance, "Why did the U.S. attack Iraq?"
My own two cents on why it won't happen.
Microsoft hasn't been a big enough fast-follower to take over Google's stranglehold. Microsoft was quick enough to get a browser out there while the internet was still in the process of popularizing itself.
Given that you can get search results from Microsoft's website content quicker through Google than through Microsoft's own search engine, I think it's too late for them to edge Google out short of buying it.
What sort of message does it send to the developers?
Probably something like: "Spaghetti! Spaghetti and TURTLES!!! Burgle gurgle bleep... natas, nAtAs is coming?! Zzzzzzub zzub zzzzzzze lordzzzz ofzzz ze flieezzzzzzz zub. TELETUBBIES!"
What passes as a liberal slant in America is really only a liberal slant if you compare it to right-wingery that borders on fascism.
If you want to see how all major American media fails the readership, check out Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Fox is only the most flagrant violator. When push comes to shove, all corporate media is subject to your standard corporate editorial mandate, with few exceptions.
You should have to chase these fugitives through the bombed-out ruins of a village your guys accidentally targetted.
Of course all the games we get are copies and we rarely find originals.
Well, at least the White House can now prove SOMETHING illegal has been going on in Iraq.
Merriam Webster's definition of capitalism.
capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
The use of "anti-capitalist" in my post wasn't meant to refer to the so-called capitalism we know is practiced in modern-day America. There are other capitalist models around the world that fit the traditional definition of capitalism a lot better than the U.S.'s.
"Lexmark filed its suit against SCC in December, 2002, saying the DMCA shields itself from competition from the remanufacturing industry."
Could there be a more appropriate quote that shows how the DMCA is ultimately an anti-competition and anti-capitalist tool?
Well, the question wasn't for me, really.
I just think it's stupid for these companies to be trying to compete with each other when the REAL competition is Kazaa. That's what's going to be determining whether or not they can make a profit.
Are any of these ideas going to make it worth it to stop using Kazaa?
If you're surprised by this, THAT's the news, not what the White House is doing with this information control. Click here for a list of the White House's policies with restricting FOI and other related requests since Sept 11th.
This isn't partisan politics, either. The Republican party has been trying to keep Bush from violating the Presidential Records Act.
Yes, yes, the country's at war. Makes you wonder why Bush doesn't want anybody to know about communications between Reagan and his advisors.
Or is there a service pack or a patch I missed?
Yeah. One came out. Please follow this one simple step.
Report back on how well it worked.
I see one of the icons for this story is a compact disc. That's just plain mean.
Nike, McDonald's and MS Windows all SELL stuff. Mozilla doesn't.
I'm just worried that stressing about its image might hijack a program that's otherwise progressing almost perfectly.
From the website:
Books participating in our Search Inside the Book feature with "rocket experiments" in their text will show an excerpt with your search term highlighted.
Okay, that means that any publishing company leary about having a txt version of the book leaked on the internet can at least opt out of this feature.
Still, it seems to me that the database server is going to have access to a lot of information about the books' texts. And the more useful the engine aspires to be, the more likely it is that it won't want to limit itself to simple word lists. Take into consideration how useful google's excerpts are in determining what sort of page you're looking for.
You want to search a book's text? That means the developers and the server would need to have the digital text of the book to parse for the engine.
That's one security fuckup away from free ebooks for everybody.
But how will unifying the brand image attract them, exactly?
Case in point: Suse consistently uses the little green chameleon as its brand. But how many people out there, if you were to ask them what a little green chameleon makes them think of, would say Suse?
Branding goes hand-in-hand with a large marketing strategy designed to get that brand into the mind of the consumer. How does Mozilla accomplish this, exactly? The fact that it's a free product makes it extremely cost-ineffective to go through the intensive and expensive motions of effectively branding.
Don't get me wrong, these are just my first impressions to the idea, and I think it could be something special if the open-source community could effectively brand something on the larger economic world when it comes to free products. I'm just having a hard time visualizing how it could be done.
The main reason you'd want to brand is to leave an imprint in the mind of somebody who's a potential consumer. People who are already using Mozilla probably won't be affected by the presence or absence of branding -- it's likely been branded enough for them. Unifying it might mean dropping the dinosaur connotations or the magical bird connotations, one for the other. But really, at this point, why bother?
Unless this is going to be part of a bigger marketing strategy by Netscape or AOL or whoever...?
Depends what they mean by "self-destructing". Maybe they're trying to advertise that the document destroys itself but doesn't take the entire system down with it?
Or maybe someone in marketing just saw a few too many episodes of Mission Impossible, decided they were running out of cachet marketing phrases, and didn't realize that the average joe would probably freak out if their spreadsheets started doing a "5... 4... 3..." countdown on them.
It'd be like Y2K paranoia, only you get it every year.
...when little Greek kids were reenacting Homer for kicks. Have you read the Illiad?
And let's not forget Titus Andronicus. They do some filthy things to each other in the name of theatre.
Yeah. Let's just ignore what's in our genes. In fact, wouldn't it be great if we could come up with a law where chess players were legally obligated to draw every game, then go have a Coke and a smile.