Yes. It's already been done once, aka C99. This isn't the thing that will replace C++, it's the next revision of the language, with multithreading support etc. Once C++ has worked out the hard stuff, C will have it's own next revision based on that.
Once everything's finished, it should be finalized as C++09. It may carry on another year, in which case you might call it "C++0xa";)
Ever heard of an ODM? One company is estimated to be designing and making about 33 percent of the notebook market, on behalf of clients like Dell, Apple etc.
Did it occur to you that I live there? Kansas City Kansas is small, yes. Especially in comparison to KC Missouri. But there's a number of suburbs. I live in one. It's closer to balanced than you think from those numbers.
Actually, campaign finance laws mean you can't just drop your own wealth into someone else's pocket. At least in Kansas, donors are limited to a $500 per year. You'd have to set up multiple PACs and whatever else instead.
But fuck it. This is the way the system works. There's no law against outside donations. In the past year, the incumbent has recieved large contributions from Humana, based in Kentucky. Sure they have a national reach, including Kansas, but why should corporations be granted some right to interfere that others don't get? You are a citizen in the state in which you reside -- Humana has chosen Kentucky. Many people might consider returning to Kansas depending on an election outcome; Kansas City is half Kansas, half Missouri, let alone the thousands of people who leave each year in search of a better community.
Debian the community was broke in 2004. I know because I was there watching them. In 2004, they seemed to be holding a competition with XP for longest running stable release. Except XP got SP2, essentially making Debian the winner. They hid from users, they had no focus on the desktop. They did have a lot of great stuff that was just going nowhere, because they were paralyzed by vote. #debian was nearly a cess pool of wrath from people who felt they earned the right to it. They refused to integrate new technologies like Knoppix, even though it's based on Debian. The greatest worry at the time was how they were losing user and developers to Gentoo, and rightfully so.
However you feel about Debian today, there was previously a large void in Debian that Ubuntu brought to the table. Many of the changes Ubuntu has made are in Debian today. I know quite a few current Debian contributors that started on Ubuntu, but found it easier to work with Debian directly and let Ubuntu sync changes. It's a bit strange, but I can see why people might do that.
I'm not asking for immutable defaults, simply sane ones that don't ask me questions on dist-upgrade. When I want to change something, I'm glad I can. When I don't have to, I'm also glad;)
I don't want to put you on the spot, but you can blame Miguel for this:
* There's a difference between Suse and openSuSe. Having to pay for it is crappy. * Ubuntu has ntfs-3g as well, for quite some time (maybe a bit too long, I donno) * Ubuntu has wubi, which will install directly to your Windows partition and set up dual boot. That said, this is like competing on which bike comes with better training wheels. * Debconf is great, has a number of frontends, and doesn't need to push patches into linuxwacom etc. I haven't used Yast much, but my general opinion is that if I have to configure something, there's a bug somewhere. Which is why Ubuntu installs debconf to "Default".
The real test of SUSE's new package management is going to be upgrades. Can I upgrade from 10 to 11 or from 11 to 12?
Shuttleworth paid for ShipIt, which got them a lot of press and users. I can't say how much it really cost -- AOL gives out CDs all the time, so it's gotta be fairly cheap.
Just as important though is that he recognized that Debian was broke, and that a lot of people agreed. Paying people to fix the problems probably earned him a lot of free marketing team members. I'm not sure he ever anticipated Canonical would get significant revenue selling support and engineering.
First, I've never pirated cliffski's games, or even heard of them. So kudos I guess for figuring out how to get free marketing.
But really, I think games have a lot to compete against. The local Community College is responding to overwhelming demand for video game creation classes. In an industry full of underpaid, overworked slaves, people are still willing to work for free. Think about how many games Valve had a hand in: Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and probably more since I stopped caring. There's also Battlefield 2, which was based on a mod to Battlefield 1 called "Desert Combat". There's a history of unpaid labor here. Expecting to make a profit requires some clever thinking and is probably as likely to happen as becoming rich writing poetry. Enough people have figured this out that a few of them have given up on that dream, but decided to make an awesome game anyways.
Console games, for all their high price and lack of freedom, seem to be a better deal than the average PC game. It takes a very low price (read: free) to convince me to bother with it. There are, however games I would pay for. They're games that I like enough to keep, even though I could resell them. Yes, this basically means I don't buy PC games, since they equate selling the media with piracy. The sale and purchase of used games is a concept so central to me; I'm not buying a license to play the game, I bought a game. And I shall sell it, should it be made of suck.
I guess this means I'm on the fence about download only games; Fret Nice looked interesting, but it's sad to see it's gone to WiiWare / XBLA / PSN, and other end runs around first-sale. I might be willing to pay 50 dollars for a game that I can sell for 10 or 20 later (or perhaps even 50, in rare cases). But take that away, and suddenly I'm paying for something I don't think I need to.
All that said, I have an alternative strategy. cliffski says he'll make demos, though probably not make them longer than he already does. I say, don't give away demos and sell games. Give away games and sell endings. It's a bit mercenary, but I think many people would have bought the portal ending. Hell, make it so you can sell the final level and "cheats" / plot skips. It's not a strictly new idea -- I recall a recent game promoting a "DVD chapter" style level progression as a feature, where if you get stuck you can skip to the next "chapter".
Have you seen what it is lawyers actually do? They're professional disagreers. Getting multiple firms to agree on specs or terms would be a comedy of Emmy Award winning proportion.
Inkscape is currently undergoing a Google Summer of code project to improve it's applicability for blueprints, which is why I mentioned it.
There's no interest in duplicating AutoCAD because it's a massive load of work. Somehow you've taken the idea that people not getting together and duplicating AutoCAD's massive infrastructure and lock-in for ignorance of Engineering principles and design. Autodesk can dig themselves out of the hole they're in; they have Linux experts on hand (to support Maya) to start digging themselves out with. I know tons of places that want Linux in their shop; but none want the first mover disadvantage of funding whatever replaces AutoCAD. They'll probably look at things like QCad with more lenient eyes than yourself.
I understand the need for engineering design tools; spice is a critical analysis tool, and at some point I'd love to see Oregano picked up under GSoC or some other academic project. Fedora has Electronic Lab spin that seems neat. I suppose at the end of the day, open source is written by those who need it can can write it, and EE's write code more often than architects.
Can you name one example where this specific problem has occurred? You've stated several were bitten, but I don't know of any off the top of my uninformed head. I know a few that got bitten by regular GPL violations, and they were stupid for thinking they could get away with that. But LGPL? This is news to me, and perhaps a bug.
Your post has left me massively confused. Are you angry that libc holds the dynamic linking code, or that you cant take the linking code and place it elsewhere? That said, I've seen tons of closed apps built against LGPL'd code (well, headers).
Or is there some concern that linking LGPL places a publication burden on other code?
We have Inkscape for drawings, and most every professional engineering tool has a Linux port, by way of having actually run on UNIX since the 80s. Autocad is a curious player, having dropped UNIX in the 90 and probably mucked up their base enough that the Windows platform is an inseperable assumption. It's not that autodesk can't or won't support Linux -- Maya does.
ProE runs on Linux. I can't say that all the plugins you can buy will though.
To me, go is very simple, i.e. not complex. The rules are mostly simple; the challenge of go AI isn't the complexity of the game, but finding ways to deal with the immense search space. A naive algorithm would simply calculate min-max on the game tree. That's hardly complex.
Humans compensate for this with complex strategies and pattern recognition. But its stupid to say that the game itself is complex; we may one day find that the strategies master players use are close to optimal but fall apart under computational analysis.
Perhaps they simply recognize that a Senior Sysadmin can do more than simply sysadmin. Perl programming, help desk, and security analysis are all things a good sysadmin knows about and can probably do ok at.
I don't know what kind of sales volume you had, but it's common to outsource tier 1 tech support, at least in other areas. You could raise the price a bit to cover the expense, and who knows, maybe you'll price morons out?
"Yet people expect to plunk down only $15 or $20 for an Indy game because the development studio is smaller with a lower budget."
Really? You think people know how big the budget to Serious Sam was? I dare say it's more about people getting fed up with high prices. That's your customer as an small dev studio. You make up for marketing with a lower price and clever design. Some places are smart enough to see it coming and adapt. Valve's business these days is based around 20 dollar games. Portal, TF2, CounterStrike, Day of Defeat all started as free designs that Valve integrated, priced, and bundled. They know their greatest competitor, and greatest asset, is students giving their work away for free.
I've become wary of the game development "industry", not because of the terrible pay, but the terrible hours. Or at least, the incredibly stupid combination thereof. Even your brother's article mentions the brutal hours that just drive intelligent people away.
The internet is fundamentally about trust (or the lack thereof). Why should MySpace trust anonymous strangers? Thats just stupid; I don't trust anonymous strangers with the software that runs on my computer or give them access to it. When people fail to think about trust, they give rise to trolls.
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Yes. It's already been done once, aka C99. This isn't the thing that will replace C++, it's the next revision of the language, with multithreading support etc. Once C++ has worked out the hard stuff, C will have it's own next revision based on that.
Once everything's finished, it should be finalized as C++09. It may carry on another year, in which case you might call it "C++0xa" ;)
Ever heard of an ODM? One company is estimated to be designing and making about 33 percent of the notebook market, on behalf of clients like Dell, Apple etc.
Did it occur to you that I live there? Kansas City Kansas is small, yes. Especially in comparison to KC Missouri. But there's a number of suburbs. I live in one. It's closer to balanced than you think from those numbers.
For a two year term. Still, it's decent pay for a machine that only carries around 10-30k in cash.
Actually, campaign finance laws mean you can't just drop your own wealth into someone else's pocket. At least in Kansas, donors are limited to a $500 per year. You'd have to set up multiple PACs and whatever else instead.
But fuck it. This is the way the system works. There's no law against outside donations. In the past year, the incumbent has recieved large contributions from Humana, based in Kentucky. Sure they have a national reach, including Kansas, but why should corporations be granted some right to interfere that others don't get? You are a citizen in the state in which you reside -- Humana has chosen Kentucky. Many people might consider returning to Kansas depending on an election outcome; Kansas City is half Kansas, half Missouri, let alone the thousands of people who leave each year in search of a better community.
He's probably the only Web guy for his company. I imagine you can negotiate whatever title you want at that point.
Debian the community was broke in 2004. I know because I was there watching them. In 2004, they seemed to be holding a competition with XP for longest running stable release. Except XP got SP2, essentially making Debian the winner. They hid from users, they had no focus on the desktop. They did have a lot of great stuff that was just going nowhere, because they were paralyzed by vote. #debian was nearly a cess pool of wrath from people who felt they earned the right to it. They refused to integrate new technologies like Knoppix, even though it's based on Debian. The greatest worry at the time was how they were losing user and developers to Gentoo, and rightfully so.
However you feel about Debian today, there was previously a large void in Debian that Ubuntu brought to the table. Many of the changes Ubuntu has made are in Debian today. I know quite a few current Debian contributors that started on Ubuntu, but found it easier to work with Debian directly and let Ubuntu sync changes. It's a bit strange, but I can see why people might do that.
I'm not asking for immutable defaults, simply sane ones that don't ask me questions on dist-upgrade. When I want to change something, I'm glad I can. When I don't have to, I'm also glad ;)
I don't want to put you on the spot, but you can blame Miguel for this:
* There's a difference between Suse and openSuSe. Having to pay for it is crappy.
* Ubuntu has ntfs-3g as well, for quite some time (maybe a bit too long, I donno)
* Ubuntu has wubi, which will install directly to your Windows partition and set up dual boot. That said, this is like competing on which bike comes with better training wheels.
* Debconf is great, has a number of frontends, and doesn't need to push patches into linuxwacom etc. I haven't used Yast much, but my general opinion is that if I have to configure something, there's a bug somewhere. Which is why Ubuntu installs debconf to "Default".
The real test of SUSE's new package management is going to be upgrades. Can I upgrade from 10 to 11 or from 11 to 12?
Shuttleworth paid for ShipIt, which got them a lot of press and users. I can't say how much it really cost -- AOL gives out CDs all the time, so it's gotta be fairly cheap.
Just as important though is that he recognized that Debian was broke, and that a lot of people agreed. Paying people to fix the problems probably earned him a lot of free marketing team members. I'm not sure he ever anticipated Canonical would get significant revenue selling support and engineering.
First, I've never pirated cliffski's games, or even heard of them. So kudos I guess for figuring out how to get free marketing.
But really, I think games have a lot to compete against. The local Community College is responding to overwhelming demand for video game creation classes. In an industry full of underpaid, overworked slaves, people are still willing to work for free. Think about how many games Valve had a hand in: Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and probably more since I stopped caring. There's also Battlefield 2, which was based on a mod to Battlefield 1 called "Desert Combat". There's a history of unpaid labor here. Expecting to make a profit requires some clever thinking and is probably as likely to happen as becoming rich writing poetry. Enough people have figured this out that a few of them have given up on that dream, but decided to make an awesome game anyways.
Console games, for all their high price and lack of freedom, seem to be a better deal than the average PC game. It takes a very low price (read: free) to convince me to bother with it. There are, however games I would pay for. They're games that I like enough to keep, even though I could resell them. Yes, this basically means I don't buy PC games, since they equate selling the media with piracy. The sale and purchase of used games is a concept so central to me; I'm not buying a license to play the game, I bought a game. And I shall sell it, should it be made of suck.
I guess this means I'm on the fence about download only games; Fret Nice looked interesting, but it's sad to see it's gone to WiiWare / XBLA / PSN, and other end runs around first-sale. I might be willing to pay 50 dollars for a game that I can sell for 10 or 20 later (or perhaps even 50, in rare cases). But take that away, and suddenly I'm paying for something I don't think I need to.
All that said, I have an alternative strategy. cliffski says he'll make demos, though probably not make them longer than he already does. I say, don't give away demos and sell games. Give away games and sell endings. It's a bit mercenary, but I think many people would have bought the portal ending. Hell, make it so you can sell the final level and "cheats" / plot skips. It's not a strictly new idea -- I recall a recent game promoting a "DVD chapter" style level progression as a feature, where if you get stuck you can skip to the next "chapter".
Have you seen what it is lawyers actually do? They're professional disagreers. Getting multiple firms to agree on specs or terms would be a comedy of Emmy Award winning proportion.
Inkscape is currently undergoing a Google Summer of code project to improve it's applicability for blueprints, which is why I mentioned it.
There's no interest in duplicating AutoCAD because it's a massive load of work. Somehow you've taken the idea that people not getting together and duplicating AutoCAD's massive infrastructure and lock-in for ignorance of Engineering principles and design. Autodesk can dig themselves out of the hole they're in; they have Linux experts on hand (to support Maya) to start digging themselves out with. I know tons of places that want Linux in their shop; but none want the first mover disadvantage of funding whatever replaces AutoCAD. They'll probably look at things like QCad with more lenient eyes than yourself.
I understand the need for engineering design tools; spice is a critical analysis tool, and at some point I'd love to see Oregano picked up under GSoC or some other academic project. Fedora has Electronic Lab spin that seems neat. I suppose at the end of the day, open source is written by those who need it can can write it, and EE's write code more often than architects.
Can you name one example where this specific problem has occurred? You've stated several were bitten, but I don't know of any off the top of my uninformed head. I know a few that got bitten by regular GPL violations, and they were stupid for thinking they could get away with that. But LGPL? This is news to me, and perhaps a bug.
Your post has left me massively confused. Are you angry that libc holds the dynamic linking code, or that you cant take the linking code and place it elsewhere? That said, I've seen tons of closed apps built against LGPL'd code (well, headers).
Or is there some concern that linking LGPL places a publication burden on other code?
We have Inkscape for drawings, and most every professional engineering tool has a Linux port, by way of having actually run on UNIX since the 80s. Autocad is a curious player, having dropped UNIX in the 90 and probably mucked up their base enough that the Windows platform is an inseperable assumption. It's not that autodesk can't or won't support Linux -- Maya does.
ProE runs on Linux. I can't say that all the plugins you can buy will though.
To me, go is very simple, i.e. not complex. The rules are mostly simple; the challenge of go AI isn't the complexity of the game, but finding ways to deal with the immense search space. A naive algorithm would simply calculate min-max on the game tree. That's hardly complex.
Humans compensate for this with complex strategies and pattern recognition. But its stupid to say that the game itself is complex; we may one day find that the strategies master players use are close to optimal but fall apart under computational analysis.
Perhaps they simply recognize that a Senior Sysadmin can do more than simply sysadmin. Perl programming, help desk, and security analysis are all things a good sysadmin knows about and can probably do ok at.
I don't know what kind of sales volume you had, but it's common to outsource tier 1 tech support, at least in other areas. You could raise the price a bit to cover the expense, and who knows, maybe you'll price morons out?
"Yet people expect to plunk down only $15 or $20 for an Indy game because the development studio is smaller with a lower budget."
Really? You think people know how big the budget to Serious Sam was? I dare say it's more about people getting fed up with high prices. That's your customer as an small dev studio. You make up for marketing with a lower price and clever design. Some places are smart enough to see it coming and adapt. Valve's business these days is based around 20 dollar games. Portal, TF2, CounterStrike, Day of Defeat all started as free designs that Valve integrated, priced, and bundled. They know their greatest competitor, and greatest asset, is students giving their work away for free.
I've become wary of the game development "industry", not because of the terrible pay, but the terrible hours. Or at least, the incredibly stupid combination thereof. Even your brother's article mentions the brutal hours that just drive intelligent people away.
Well good luck with that. I don't speak Hebrew, but if you're headed for Israel, that's a whole new level of conservative oppression waiting for ya.
So whenever someone says anything mean to me, and it makes me depressed, I have the right to sue back
Yes. You might do this, for example, to get a restraining order. Go figure.
The internet is fundamentally about trust (or the lack thereof). Why should MySpace trust anonymous strangers? Thats just stupid; I don't trust anonymous strangers with the software that runs on my computer or give them access to it. When people fail to think about trust, they give rise to trolls.
Yes.