maybe things have changed since then, but the Duellists (totally amazing film BTW) is one of his first - along with Blade Runner and Alien.
things then went awry, so if he's going back to his roots, full of fabulous lighting and huge long pauses of plot and character building in between the few action seuqneces, then I would be very happy.
Actually, thinking of the Duellists again, forget the characterisation and all that, if he just went back to the lighting, I'd be very happy.
not just that, if you have a Sony BDP-s370 blu-ray player, you can (apart from play blueray discs of course), plug a USB HDD into it and play movies on that (even in mkv format), or stream vids from your PC (using a DNLA server like PS3MediaServer, Tversity, Twonky, Mezzmo or any of the others). Or you can stream video from iPlayer, GoogleTV or similar, and even LoveFilm (not sure if you get some of these in the USA, but there's bound to be alternatives).
LoveFilm for example, is £10 a month and you get a bluray disc in the post whenever you send the old one back, but you can also stream movies for free (once you're a subscriber, that is)
And its £120 for the device, which is $134 in the USA:(
they also ignored any engineering difficulties. Probably the problem of building a sail 5000 miles wide.... that and redundancy in case of accident or failed components. I'd rather have several smaller ones than one humungously large one that produces more Watts than I can count.
1 directory extract locally... my SVN repo is 12Gb. That's a lot of network traffic and disc space for a lot of stuff I do not need to see of manage. When we migrate the core product, that'll be even larger. I suppose the git solution would be to have many repositories.. but then you'er losing the benefit you've claimed.
full local history: fair enough, but its not that big a deal, on the relatively few occasions I want history (that isn't just the previous version), a hit on the server isn't a problem.
Now, the advantage with git is that you can have local branches and stash changes locally. This is a good thing, I feel, and I'd like to have it in SVN, but ultimately you're going to send your commits to the server so the local branch is a temporary thing (its not so much for the disc crashing, but for all the other reasons you make backups. You do not want to lose your work. ever).
I think git has its place, but for a business, the DVCS advantages are not so much of an advantage, and the disadvantages usually outweigh them. For a collection of open source people working on the same product almost independantly, then the DVCS is ideal - which is exactly what it was designed for.
Shares in Microsoft have already fallen 23% since April this year, with analysts concerned that the computer giant is failing to assert itself in the growing smart phone and tablet computer markets.
Ballmer's just trying to prop the value of his share options up before they force him out.
and by "never designed" you mean "has to work with the new driver model that has DRM embedded in it". They could easily have made DX10 for XP too, but that wouldn't have given them those new drivers that the user really didn't want anyway. Nothing here is for the benefit of the end user - its all for the benefit of Microsoft. Once you realise that, you'll start to understand why others (even those who used to like MS) now have such a problem with them.
lol. Considering that the actions by Oracle concerned their Java patents, patents which Microsoft infringed and now licence for 'tasty' amounts of money.
This is really a shame. Replacing JPEG is probably worthwhile - it's an ancient standard in computing terms. It comes from 1992, making it about the same age as the web. We have almost two decades of image encoding research to build on since then and, almost as importantly, computers are now much more powerful
thing is, Google has built a modern image encoding and its (allegedly) not quite as good. Sometimes the old stuff really has been around for ages for the simple reason that its still the best. Change for changes sake is not good.
Yes, I think that's the main issue - DVCS are 'cool' so lots fo devs want to use them, and then start making reasons why they are so fantastic, which pulls other devs in, and eventually management hears about it and starts believing the hyped up bits. Mercurial was positioned as a perfect solution to rolling changes to multiple branches. (when I think the problem is a human one, SVN is perfectly good for merging, until things get complicated and then all VCSs are complicated).
We have a 12Gig SVN repo so thanks for the plug to sourceRepo, but we'll stick to hosting our own internally:) I have no problem with SVN, it works fine,just that some devs from HQ are pushing for the 'cool' option, probably becuase its.. well, cool.
tell me more. My company is thinking of moving to Mercurial, and whilst I think its a fine tool, I'm a little concerned it wouldn't quite suitable for us (we have large repositories).
In all cases its down to whether the government directly violated your rights to obtain the information. If they paid for these accounts to be stolen, then they're inadmissible. If they sent Bond to get them, inadmissible.
If someone steals them anyway, then offers them to the government - either for free, or for cash - then that's fine. You might want to prosecute the burglar, but that's not part of this discussion.
Quite often the government does advertise for information - they pay rewards for information leading to prosecution all the time, they pay informants. If you know someone cheating on benefits or tax dodging, there's a reward waiting for you too.
but I understand that supression of evidence is only available if the illegal evidence is directly obtained by the government. ie. if a cop breaks into your house and finds your stash, its not admissible (as the cop did something wrong - personally, I think prosecute the cop and let the evidence stand, but that's a different matter).
If a private individual breaks into your house, finds your stash and tells the cops - its no problem to use that evidence in court.
why would there be a problem with re-linking to an updated version of the dlls? you ship them and you're golden even in the worst case scenario. Even Apple is fine with you shipping the Qt dlls (as they're directly compiled).
It may be difficult for the end user to re-link on your phone, but no more difficult than for a closed-source app distributed to any other Linux desktop?
a fair point, Air is a common-baseline platform to develop for, more ubiquitous than Windows! Develop for Air and you'll be ok no matter where you want to put your apps.
There is an alternative: Qt.
It's a more 'serious' development platform requiring C++ skills (that pretty much get compiled to any platform) with a rather easy to use GUI, and now they also have a wonderful QML 'fluid' capabilities where you can extend the 'boring' old GUI with new fancy features very easily. It has support on Android (through the Lighthouse project) and all traditional desktops, and all Nokias (of course) with iPhone support being worked on at the moment.
Its also free for everybody. If you want to develop for multiple platforms without the 'embarrassment' of using Flash, then this could be a way to go.
hence this initiative - its not really about 'open source' at all, its more abotu splitting the huge IT contracts that usually go to one or two huge consultancies into many projects that can be won by small companies, that might happen to use open source.
I'm thinking the current IT disaster by EADS. Its about time the governmnet woke up and realised all these huge IT projects are practically failures (especially by cost criteria) and actualyl did something about it. So 10/10 so far... we'll see how it works out in the end.
But a game that contains, for all intents and purposes, unlimited replay value?
subject to it still being playable on Windows 8 when Civ6 comes out. Then you might want to get a bit of resale value from ebay for the DVD.
Besides, you get a physical DVD in case you have to reinstall one day (when your OS goes bang, drive fails, or otherwise upgrade) and don't want to wait a few hours for the download. And you save $10 for the privilege of not saturating your broadband connection. If it was $10 cheaper off steam, that'd be different.
I think he's saying the download cost of many movies is more than the 'bargain or sale price' of the same movie on physical media. I get a lot of movies from some online retailers (or ebay even), all you have to do is be a little patient and the latest must-have title becomes yesterdays news. District 9 for example, cost a lot when I went to see it at the cinema a year ago, today you can pick it up off ebay for the price of a beer.
Either way, the download cost from bittorrent is still $0, or $.20 if you add on the cost of a blank DVD+R.
I know 4chan is notorious for internet jokes, but getting their members to go download IE9 just to make IE look popular again is a bit much, even for them!
Perhaps they should have gone with Nokia E7 instead.
It's said to be the best business device Nokia, or anyone else, has ever produced and comes with the touted ability to create PowerPoint slides on the go
Android will get there soon enough, and then we'll see these devices replacing Windows desktops, first sales and management then marketing then operations, then everyone else.
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maybe things have changed since then, but the Duellists (totally amazing film BTW) is one of his first - along with Blade Runner and Alien.
things then went awry, so if he's going back to his roots, full of fabulous lighting and huge long pauses of plot and character building in between the few action seuqneces, then I would be very happy.
Actually, thinking of the Duellists again, forget the characterisation and all that, if he just went back to the lighting, I'd be very happy.
not just that, if you have a Sony BDP-s370 blu-ray player, you can (apart from play blueray discs of course), plug a USB HDD into it and play movies on that (even in mkv format), or stream vids from your PC (using a DNLA server like PS3MediaServer, Tversity, Twonky, Mezzmo or any of the others). Or you can stream video from iPlayer, GoogleTV or similar, and even LoveFilm (not sure if you get some of these in the USA, but there's bound to be alternatives).
Nice review here.
LoveFilm for example, is £10 a month and you get a bluray disc in the post whenever you send the old one back, but you can also stream movies for free (once you're a subscriber, that is)
And its £120 for the device, which is $134 in the USA :(
who needs simultaneous when you have batteries :)
to be fair, all browsers support websockets. Well, all but IE of course.
For intranet type apps, there's no reason not to use them. For internet apps, you're probably best off sticking with flash.
they also ignored any engineering difficulties. Probably the problem of building a sail 5000 miles wide. ... that and redundancy in case of accident or failed components. I'd rather have several smaller ones than one humungously large one that produces more Watts than I can count.
thing is, those things aren't so great.
1 directory extract locally... my SVN repo is 12Gb. That's a lot of network traffic and disc space for a lot of stuff I do not need to see of manage. When we migrate the core product, that'll be even larger. I suppose the git solution would be to have many repositories.. but then you'er losing the benefit you've claimed.
full local history: fair enough, but its not that big a deal, on the relatively few occasions I want history (that isn't just the previous version), a hit on the server isn't a problem.
Now, the advantage with git is that you can have local branches and stash changes locally. This is a good thing, I feel, and I'd like to have it in SVN, but ultimately you're going to send your commits to the server so the local branch is a temporary thing (its not so much for the disc crashing, but for all the other reasons you make backups. You do not want to lose your work. ever).
I think git has its place, but for a business, the DVCS advantages are not so much of an advantage, and the disadvantages usually outweigh them. For a collection of open source people working on the same product almost independantly, then the DVCS is ideal - which is exactly what it was designed for.
Microsoft a few months (years) late and a billion dollars short... and the market analysts noticing at long last
Shares in Microsoft have already fallen 23% since April this year, with analysts concerned that the computer giant is failing to assert itself in the growing smart phone and tablet computer markets.
Ballmer's just trying to prop the value of his share options up before they force him out.
and by "never designed" you mean "has to work with the new driver model that has DRM embedded in it". They could easily have made DX10 for XP too, but that wouldn't have given them those new drivers that the user really didn't want anyway. Nothing here is for the benefit of the end user - its all for the benefit of Microsoft. Once you realise that, you'll start to understand why others (even those who used to like MS) now have such a problem with them.
lol. Considering that the actions by Oracle concerned their Java patents, patents which Microsoft infringed and now licence for 'tasty' amounts of money.
This is really a shame. Replacing JPEG is probably worthwhile - it's an ancient standard in computing terms. It comes from 1992, making it about the same age as the web. We have almost two decades of image encoding research to build on since then and, almost as importantly, computers are now much more powerful
thing is, Google has built a modern image encoding and its (allegedly) not quite as good. Sometimes the old stuff really has been around for ages for the simple reason that its still the best. Change for changes sake is not good.
Yes, I think that's the main issue - DVCS are 'cool' so lots fo devs want to use them, and then start making reasons why they are so fantastic, which pulls other devs in, and eventually management hears about it and starts believing the hyped up bits. Mercurial was positioned as a perfect solution to rolling changes to multiple branches. (when I think the problem is a human one, SVN is perfectly good for merging, until things get complicated and then all VCSs are complicated).
We have a 12Gig SVN repo so thanks for the plug to sourceRepo, but we'll stick to hosting our own internally :) I have no problem with SVN, it works fine,just that some devs from HQ are pushing for the 'cool' option, probably becuase its.. well, cool.
tell me more. My company is thinking of moving to Mercurial, and whilst I think its a fine tool, I'm a little concerned it wouldn't quite suitable for us (we have large repositories).
never heard of it, so thanks for the link
In all cases its down to whether the government directly violated your rights to obtain the information. If they paid for these accounts to be stolen, then they're inadmissible. If they sent Bond to get them, inadmissible.
If someone steals them anyway, then offers them to the government - either for free, or for cash - then that's fine. You might want to prosecute the burglar, but that's not part of this discussion.
Quite often the government does advertise for information - they pay rewards for information leading to prosecution all the time, they pay informants. If you know someone cheating on benefits or tax dodging, there's a reward waiting for you too.
but I understand that supression of evidence is only available if the illegal evidence is directly obtained by the government. ie. if a cop breaks into your house and finds your stash, its not admissible (as the cop did something wrong - personally, I think prosecute the cop and let the evidence stand, but that's a different matter).
If a private individual breaks into your house, finds your stash and tells the cops - its no problem to use that evidence in court.
Nokia != Microsoft.
why would there be a problem with re-linking to an updated version of the dlls? you ship them and you're golden even in the worst case scenario. Even Apple is fine with you shipping the Qt dlls (as they're directly compiled).
It may be difficult for the end user to re-link on your phone, but no more difficult than for a closed-source app distributed to any other Linux desktop?
a fair point, Air is a common-baseline platform to develop for, more ubiquitous than Windows! Develop for Air and you'll be ok no matter where you want to put your apps.
There is an alternative: Qt.
It's a more 'serious' development platform requiring C++ skills (that pretty much get compiled to any platform) with a rather easy to use GUI, and now they also have a wonderful QML 'fluid' capabilities where you can extend the 'boring' old GUI with new fancy features very easily.
It has support on Android (through the Lighthouse project) and all traditional desktops, and all Nokias (of course) with iPhone support being worked on at the moment.
Its also free for everybody. If you want to develop for multiple platforms without the 'embarrassment' of using Flash, then this could be a way to go.
nope, I am referring to FireControl, managed by EADS - the defence and security (plus other stuff) contractor.
Now called Cassidian - a sure sign of things going wrong, once these types of companies rename themselves.
hence this initiative - its not really about 'open source' at all, its more abotu splitting the huge IT contracts that usually go to one or two huge consultancies into many projects that can be won by small companies, that might happen to use open source.
I'm thinking the current IT disaster by EADS. Its about time the governmnet woke up and realised all these huge IT projects are practically failures (especially by cost criteria) and actualyl did something about it. So 10/10 so far... we'll see how it works out in the end.
that was the last government... all talk, useless in delivery.
Unless it was suggested by their mates in big business, when legislation would be forced through PDQ.
Or have they managed to invent some magical new codec that's ~10x as efficient
no, they've just dsicovered that people watching streamed films are doing so on very, very small screens.
But a game that contains, for all intents and purposes, unlimited replay value?
subject to it still being playable on Windows 8 when Civ6 comes out. Then you might want to get a bit of resale value from ebay for the DVD.
Besides, you get a physical DVD in case you have to reinstall one day (when your OS goes bang, drive fails, or otherwise upgrade) and don't want to wait a few hours for the download. And you save $10 for the privilege of not saturating your broadband connection. If it was $10 cheaper off steam, that'd be different.
I think he's saying the download cost of many movies is more than the 'bargain or sale price' of the same movie on physical media. I get a lot of movies from some online retailers (or ebay even), all you have to do is be a little patient and the latest must-have title becomes yesterdays news. District 9 for example, cost a lot when I went to see it at the cinema a year ago, today you can pick it up off ebay for the price of a beer.
Either way, the download cost from bittorrent is still $0, or $.20 if you add on the cost of a blank DVD+R.
I know 4chan is notorious for internet jokes, but getting their members to go download IE9 just to make IE look popular again is a bit much, even for them!
Perhaps they should have gone with Nokia E7 instead.
It's said to be the best business device Nokia, or anyone else, has ever produced and comes with the touted ability to create PowerPoint slides on the go
Android will get there soon enough, and then we'll see these devices replacing Windows desktops, first sales and management then marketing then operations, then everyone else.