I quote from a posting to XBOXHACKER that quotes "I did the work in february, but it took about three months to get it positioned and cleared with both MIT and Microsoft."
I guess that means the DMCA was not violated although the posting mentions that Microsoft intend on addressing these 'holes' in future revisions of XBOX hardware.
Early versions of BeOS had a full object orientated file system and found performance was abysmal. This was from a company with no backwards compatibility to worry about and a small OS designed for speed.
In the end Be developed BFS which is basically a standard file system with support for indexes and attributes, an overall much better performing system with most of the benefits of an object orientated file system.
Disney's last few decent releases have been the animated films Toy Story, Bugs Life, Monsters Inc. all coming out of the Pixar production house.
Steve Jobs is still CEO of Pixar and major shareholder and has a well-known history of fighting fire with fire.
IIRC Pixar are contracted to do two more films and so far every one of the Pixar releases has been very successful especially when the merchandising angle is brought in.
What do you me HE's at it again?
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Infoworld's "I Cringely" column has been written by different people under that pseudonym. Do we know who is actually doing this?
One of the previous columnists - Mark Stephens - has been using the names for books (Accidental Empires) and tv (Nerds series). There have been at least two more Bob Cringely's since him in Infoworld.
More info at: http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/summer96/0088.htm l
I often see comments from this from people who have little experience in business.
What you pay for the initial product is not what it "costs" in the long-term. Businesses have a term for this called TCO or Total Cost of Ownership. It includes all the other time and materials needed to keep the item in use.
I would imagine in this case that the simple reason is that why DRAM is more expensive to purchase it is a *lot* less expensive to run, the primary cost being power.
Also consider that if speed is of essence, as it with Google, it's not 50GB or RAM vs a 50GB cheap-n-cheerful IDE drive. A 50GB Ultra160 drive costs considerably more than an IDE and still won't come near the DRAM for speed.
It's well integrated into Windows and it's still running many many sites using ASP (the equivalent of PHP).
With ASP.Net we may even see it start to compete against more powerful web development environment such as Java Server Pages (JSP) and Apple's WebObjects.
http://www.noa-engineering.com/apply/agb.html seems to state "Nintendo will no longer be accepting applications for the Game Boy Advance developer program."
Sounds like they DONT accept new developers. Perhaps you were reading the line
"For publishers who wish to work with specific developers, we will accommodate their requests by authorizing those developers. This is a courtesy to our publishers, and not our normal procedure. "
Which seems to me that you'd have to have a pretty good relationship with a Nintendo publisher or a bloody good idea for a game because you can't have access to any dev tools to show them something.
Where did you get 2 weeks from? You in some kind of time warp? GBA was released in Japan in the middle of 2000... Developers probably had the kits 6 months before... 2 weeks? 2 YEARS.
As for Microsoft getting no-name first timers, yeah why not? What was the last original game you saw from a established developer? We've had plenty of games from no-name companies that have blown people away.
On a machine like the GBA it *is* possible for a small company to produce a great game. You don't need teams of 3d animators, artists, musicians etc. that the consoles and PC's need.
You only need to look back to the age of the 8-bit and 16-bit machines with their similar screen res, RAM etc. to see how many great games were one or two man efforts.
Is a standard driver interface for x86. Preferably managed by a non-profit group who could then permit the manufacturer to display a logo on the box once the driver has been tested.
Operating systems like BeOS, Solaris, OS/2 might have stood a chance and those developing new operating systems could support a wide range from day 1.
While Nintendo currently have the hand-held crown it stopped accepting developers for the GBA a long time ago claiming that 400 was enough. From the handful of decent titles I'd guess it isn't.
Microsoft will at least get those developers wanting to do handheld games but blocked-out by Nintendo.
Like the GBA it would almost certainly use an ARM chip as that's the only supported processor for Windows 'CE' 2002.
Most DVD players have a parental control feature that can be set between 1 and 7 and then password locked.
Current discs are capable of not being played at all if the disc level is higher than the rating allowed HOWEVER using the "branching" function within the DVD spec it is IIRC possible to branch based on the parental control level.
This way the director can just put alternate chapters both on the disc and setup the branch points and there you go!
No special DVD player, no special software.
I gather however that this raises all sorts of complications with ratings classification.
It has to be functional the same way as any other consumer good. It has to be constructed out of mathematics and logic like anything that's been engineered.
With games you also often have traditional artwork, sometimes 3D, and a powerful but simple interface (Black and White anyone?)
What I'm wondering is why demos (the ones created to show off coding/art skills - not a product taster) aren't being considered. They're the computer equivalent of a music video.
Who comes up with these comments like "getting too much heat from IT managers" ?
Presumably somebody in university/home-hacker or generally somebody who's not worked relatively high up in IT.
Many IT managers would welcome a yearly subscription model. Any reasonably sized company has budgets, and this covers IT. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to decide 18 months in advance what software you'll be running, how many new users you can expect (often without help from HR).
To have at least the main office and o/s packages that companies use on a yearly subscription would go someway to help this. Medium-large companies like fixed monthly payments even if it does work out slightly more expensive in the end.
Why do you think financing is so popular with businesses? It's for the same reasons.
The opening Yahoo article claims that Apple have used Mach for their own gain. But:
1. Thats the licence the mach team decided on
2. They released it back with all enhancements and a new I/O kit as Darwin... even on x86!
3. All the software is written in ObjectiveC as it came from NeXT... who wrote the ObjectiveC support you'll now find in GCC and GDB.
AND FINALLY!
I wonder what the principal designer and engineer of the Mach kernel would have to say:
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/tevanian.html
After all he is Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering.
Duh. Nice researching there Yahoo.
This technique is old-hat already in use on some MGM Universal discs such as the world is not enough.
Basically the DVD specification allows you to branch to a different section based on the players region code.
The original hacks were called "Code-Free", "Region 0" or "Legs-Up". These hacks basically ignored the region code at the start of the disc then just played it.
The problem with this is that they could then region-branch all regions that should not be able to play the disc to a specific screen. The MGM disc I mentioned displays an MGM message saying the disc is not compatible rather than the DVD players own "Invalid disc" message.
This is not something new and will not affect those players that allow region-selection such has been the case on most players for a while. I brought my Panasonic A350 over 2 years ago and it has such a modification.
Those people using RemoteSelector with the Creative kit will also be able to continue watching.
Have you seen the developer tools? They are the NextStep ones that provide great UI modelling, seperation of UI code from business objects, enterprise level database design and the best framework I've ever seen.
No, you were probably thinking of emacs and gcc (which is used to do the actual compiling)
Come on Slashdot, do some research for christ sakes.
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I quote from a posting to XBOXHACKER that quotes "I did the work in february, but it took about three months to get it positioned and cleared with both MIT and Microsoft."
I guess that means the DMCA was not violated although the posting mentions that Microsoft intend on addressing these 'holes' in future revisions of XBOX hardware.
Early versions of BeOS had a full object orientated file system and found performance was abysmal. This was from a company with no backwards compatibility to worry about and a small OS designed for speed.
In the end Be developed BFS which is basically a standard file system with support for indexes and attributes, an overall much better performing system with most of the benefits of an object orientated file system.
Disney had better be pretty careful on this one.
Disney's last few decent releases have been the animated films Toy Story, Bugs Life, Monsters Inc. all coming out of the Pixar production house.
Steve Jobs is still CEO of Pixar and major shareholder and has a well-known history of fighting fire with fire.
IIRC Pixar are contracted to do two more films and so far every one of the Pixar releases has been very successful especially when the merchandising angle is brought in.
Infoworld's "I Cringely" column has been written by different people under that pseudonym. Do we know who is actually doing this?
m l
One of the previous columnists - Mark Stephens - has been using the names for books (Accidental Empires) and tv (Nerds series). There have been at least two more Bob Cringely's since him in Infoworld.
More info at: http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/summer96/0088.ht
[)amien
I often see comments from this from people who have little experience in business.
What you pay for the initial product is not what it "costs" in the long-term. Businesses have a term for this called TCO or Total Cost of Ownership. It includes all the other time and materials needed to keep the item in use.
I would imagine in this case that the simple reason is that why DRAM is more expensive to purchase it is a *lot* less expensive to run, the primary cost being power.
Also consider that if speed is of essence, as it with Google, it's not 50GB or RAM vs a 50GB cheap-n-cheerful IDE drive. A 50GB Ultra160 drive costs considerably more than an IDE and still won't come near the DRAM for speed.
Give me a break.
It's well integrated into Windows and it's still running many many sites using ASP (the equivalent of PHP).
With ASP.Net we may even see it start to compete against more powerful web development environment such as Java Server Pages (JSP) and Apple's WebObjects.
http://www.noa-engineering.com/apply/agb.html seems to state "Nintendo will no longer be accepting applications for the Game Boy Advance developer program."
Sounds like they DONT accept new developers. Perhaps you were reading the line
"For publishers who wish to work with specific developers, we will accommodate their requests by authorizing those developers. This is a courtesy to our publishers, and not our normal procedure. "
Which seems to me that you'd have to have a pretty good relationship with a Nintendo publisher or a bloody good idea for a game because you can't have access to any dev tools to show them something.
Where did you get 2 weeks from? You in some kind of time warp? GBA was released in Japan in the middle of 2000... Developers probably had the kits 6 months before... 2 weeks? 2 YEARS.
As for Microsoft getting no-name first timers, yeah why not? What was the last original game you saw from a established developer? We've had plenty of games from no-name companies that have blown people away.
On a machine like the GBA it *is* possible for a small company to produce a great game. You don't need teams of 3d animators, artists, musicians etc. that the consoles and PC's need.
You only need to look back to the age of the 8-bit and 16-bit machines with their similar screen res, RAM etc. to see how many great games were one or two man efforts.
Is a standard driver interface for x86. Preferably managed by a non-profit group who could then permit the manufacturer to display a logo on the box once the driver has been tested.
Operating systems like BeOS, Solaris, OS/2 might have stood a chance and those developing new operating systems could support a wide range from day 1.
Oh well, we can dream can't we?
While Nintendo currently have the hand-held crown it stopped accepting developers for the GBA a long time ago claiming that 400 was enough. From the handful of decent titles I'd guess it isn't.
Microsoft will at least get those developers wanting to do handheld games but blocked-out by Nintendo.
Like the GBA it would almost certainly use an ARM chip as that's the only supported processor for Windows 'CE' 2002.
Don't buy em.
Vote with your wallet. It's the only true voice you have in a capitalist society.
Most DVD players have a parental control feature that can be set between 1 and 7 and then password locked.
Current discs are capable of not being played at all if the disc level is higher than the rating allowed HOWEVER using the "branching" function within the DVD spec it is IIRC possible to branch based on the parental control level.
This way the director can just put alternate chapters both on the disc and setup the branch points and there you go!
No special DVD player, no special software.
I gather however that this raises all sorts of complications with ratings classification.
All programming is an art.
It has to be functional the same way as any other consumer good. It has to be constructed out of mathematics and logic like anything that's been engineered.
With games you also often have traditional artwork, sometimes 3D, and a powerful but simple interface (Black and White anyone?)
What I'm wondering is why demos (the ones created to show off coding/art skills - not a product taster) aren't being considered. They're the computer equivalent of a music video.
There's a difference between missing BBS's and actively not importing anything from outside the US.
He claims to have used FidoNet as one of his sources. Well, that included several regions, the US being just one.
If he only want's to bother with US ones, thats fine but then call it "Every BBS that ever was within the USA"
[)amien
Who comes up with these comments like "getting too much heat from IT managers" ?
Presumably somebody in university/home-hacker or generally somebody who's not worked relatively high up in IT.
Many IT managers would welcome a yearly subscription model. Any reasonably sized company has budgets, and this covers IT. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to decide 18 months in advance what software you'll be running, how many new users you can expect (often without help from HR).
To have at least the main office and o/s packages that companies use on a yearly subscription would go someway to help this. Medium-large companies like fixed monthly payments even if it does work out slightly more expensive in the end.
Why do you think financing is so popular with businesses? It's for the same reasons.
The opening Yahoo article claims that Apple have used Mach for their own gain. But: 1. Thats the licence the mach team decided on 2. They released it back with all enhancements and a new I/O kit as Darwin... even on x86! 3. All the software is written in ObjectiveC as it came from NeXT... who wrote the ObjectiveC support you'll now find in GCC and GDB. AND FINALLY! I wonder what the principal designer and engineer of the Mach kernel would have to say: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/tevanian.html After all he is Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. Duh. Nice researching there Yahoo.
This technique is old-hat already in use on some MGM Universal discs such as the world is not enough. Basically the DVD specification allows you to branch to a different section based on the players region code. The original hacks were called "Code-Free", "Region 0" or "Legs-Up". These hacks basically ignored the region code at the start of the disc then just played it. The problem with this is that they could then region-branch all regions that should not be able to play the disc to a specific screen. The MGM disc I mentioned displays an MGM message saying the disc is not compatible rather than the DVD players own "Invalid disc" message. This is not something new and will not affect those players that allow region-selection such has been the case on most players for a while. I brought my Panasonic A350 over 2 years ago and it has such a modification. Those people using RemoteSelector with the Creative kit will also be able to continue watching.
Another uninformed news article. Sigh.
Have you seen the developer tools? They are the NextStep ones that provide great UI modelling, seperation of UI code from business objects, enterprise level database design and the best framework I've ever seen.
No, you were probably thinking of emacs and gcc (which is used to do the actual compiling)
Come on Slashdot, do some research for christ sakes.