And as a contributor, I think programming for purely selfish reasons which helps yourself but harms the entire open source movement, does not count as contributing.
Why not next, port the Linux kernel to Windows and next thing you know Linux is no longer needed just use Windows.
These guys are prolly Windows programmers who cant get Linux working so they want to bring Linux to Windows instead.
How could they port something which is open source, onto a platform which is and always will be closed source.
I dont understand the logic in mixing the two.
Debian is the version of Linux for the open source supporter, follows the GPL strictly, if this is true, why choose to port it to Microsoft out of every possible OS, why not Apple? why not OS2? why not BeOS?
Whats the point in wasting the programming time and effort of providing a free service to the competition?
This time could have been used to improve debian for linux.
Lets see, they go online and come to slashdot and read your writing. I suppose they would not learn how to read and write.
Hold up, I thought the internet was all text??????? How can they not learn to write if they are writing all the damn time? And how do you use a computer if you cant read?
Teachers who dont work for the money and actually care about their job are the best teachers.
There will be less teachers, but really better to have a few great teachers (it works in college)
than have a bunch of crappy ones making kids drop out.
Teachers with good grades in college dont make them good at teaching, it makes them good at academic work.
As far as textbooks, why buy more if they havent been working all this time? Thats why the school system needs improvement.
Why keep spending money on the same things year after year with no improvements.
The laptop idea is good, now kids who want to learn have no excuse! Bad teacher? doesnt matter, the laptop will be the teacher.
Notebooks? why buy new notebooks every year wasting millions when you can reuse the same laptops.
Why even waste time taking notes when you can record the teachers voice?
If laptops help people in college, and people in harvard all get free laptops (well not free technically but they are required)
why the hell should highschool students be using stone age tools to learn when the best tools are electronic?
Instead of a student worrying about bad spelling and handwriting (stuff which doesnt matter anymore)
Now a student can actually focus on learning how to WRITE.
A student can learn to read best by READING via the laptop, not by reading some silly book and answering some stupid questions.
A student can learn to THINK, by being forced to think, not by following some rules in a text book "The rules of how to properly think" and then pass some test which says if they fail they cannot think and can never graduate.
The render exention is struggling to do something that Windows and OSX do with ease.
Until Xfree86 can do basic tasks via the render extention, theres no way its going to ever get to the point where it can do the genie effect of OSX or advanced special effects. Forget about it.
And even if we do somehow by luck get to that point within the next 5 years, it will most likely be for enlightenment not gnome or kde. I'm talking Enlightenment.18 or.19 not.17
IF Xfree86 were not so complicated, more people would be able to help develop it and it wouldnt take 5 years to get genie effect, 2 years to get alpha channelling, and 2 years for anti alaised fonts.
The fonts and very very basic alpha effects (not true alpha channeling) are availible right now.
However we are a long long way away from OSX and still trying to catch up to Windows2k.
First, who says the creator has to "APPROVE" of anything
Anything thats POSSIBLE is approved of.
Free will? If you created the universe, if the entire universe is just a thought in your mind, then technically, theres no such thing as free will, does a robot have free will? hell no.
Proof that we dont have free will? Destroy the universe and then you can prove we have free will. Literally BREAK the universe!
Oh right, you cant break the universe! Hey neither can anything else in the universe because its all perfect!! Hey I wonder why that is? I wonder why some super intelligent aliens experimenting milliosn if not billions of years before us didnt completely break the entire universe?
Because its IMPOSSIBLE.
Thats an ability we do not have and will never have.
We can destroy, we can create, but we cannot stop the cycle, we cannot END all creation and destruction. It will go on forever, as will the universe, no matter how smart we get, we will NEVER be able to stop the universe and destroy it.
The day we have that ability is the day we have free will.
Having the ability to choose right from wrong, is not free will, a computer can choose left and right, 1 or 0, even 1 AND 0, but a computer can never truely change the rules, even if it learns to reprogram itself, it can never change the fact that theres 1 and 0, the day computers can all of the sudden have free will is the day computers somehow take over the world like in terminator 2.
Free will means the ability to choose, but something is giving us the choices we are choosing from and until we have the ability to choose something which isnt given to us, like to stop the universe itself, then, we are no diffrent than a computer program which chooses between 1 and 0.
How do you know our bodies arent just, machinery, how do you know that conciousness is not god? Conciousness is not proven to be part of the physical body, if its proven to be beyond, then COnciousness is not following the rules of the universe, meaning conciousness may have free will but this doesnt change the fact that your body doesnt.
Conciousness could be the force of god itself, thats right making us all part of god.
Open up your mind, and accept the fact that anything is possible. You do not KNOW what god wants and does not want, do not assume you do, You do not even know WHAT god is!!! I dont know but i'm at least admitting it. I have opinions on what i think god may be, But i'm not sure.
So dont be so sure yourself. I say if something is possible, then something else in the universe has already done it. If whatever created the universe didnt want it to be possible until we reach a certain state, then like gravity, forces would prevent us from doing it until we are enlightened enough to maturely handle it. Just a few hundred years ago people thought men werent allowed to fly. Now they are in space, the forces prevented you from flying, whatever created the universe obviously created these forces with a purpose. To prevent idiots from doing what they arent ready to handle.
Give a monkey a gun and he wont know how to properly handle it, let the monkey create the gun and things may be diffrent.
Read what i said about people blinded by mans description of the creator of all there is.
If something creates all this is, and didnt want us to do something, it simply wouldnt be possible.
Can you avoid death? no you cant. can you read the future? no you cant. Can you travel deep into space? no you can.
To think that the creator of all there is, doesnt know exactly every single possibility there is, and exactly what we will do, I mean come on,
if something is god, it KNOWS everything the human race will ever do PERIOD.
If you want a portible computer a laptop is far more powerful, plays games just as well if not better, and best yet, Linux was DESIGNED for it unlike the mutilated PS2 Linux.
I think this is a waste of time, just like the Dreamcast linux, If developers want to do something useful, Improve linux for the computer, work on the kernel, work on KDE, Gnome, do something which matters to everyone and not something which matters to a few thousand people LITERALLY.
You see, Whatever created us gave us the ability to create life, and gave us the abilities we have by evolving us.
So anyone here who believes in god but isnt blinded by the bibles description of god, can understand that.
If we program a computer to do something the computer does what its created to do, whatever created us obviously created us to create and to destroy.
Thats basically our job.I belive theres supposed to be a balance in creation and destruction but right now we destroy more than we create due to greed.
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SNK survived mostly because of their arcade business. With the fall of the arcades, companies whos business relies on the arcades are dying.
SNK made very good arcade games, but good games arent enough to by profitable when you compete with Sonys and Microsofts.
Sega seems to be in the same situation SNK was in, and that Atari was in before SNK.
Can Sega survive on games alone? SNK couldnt do it, Atari managed to do it just barely, while Sega has good games, will people buy them?
IF people didnt buy them for Dreamcast Segas own system, will they buy them for PSX, Xbox, or Gamecube?
Would not have radio technology. Perhaps their eyes however are so much more deveolved than ours that they communicate very well with holographic technology.
Perhaps they beam light from a laser with information on it into their eyes which gives them all the information of radio and then some.
You have no clue about aliens so why assume they are anything like us.
Even if they were exactly like us 100 percent, they still may have skipped radio, or simply thought radio was silly kinda like how we think some of the eastern sciences are silly.
Aliens also may have known how dangerous radio was and purposely kept it form transmitting into space, perhaps because unlike us they knew there was life out there and didnt want to be found.
Lastly, what if these aliens are so much more advanced than us that they mastered every technology we have and then some to such a point that they'd be a god to us. considering we are about 100 years or so from being at god level technology wise. Aliens that are 1 million years older than us most likely have the ability to travel dimensions, can prolly phase right into our planet at any moment and phase out without us being able to notice, lastly they could be monitoring us right now, and could have been trying to communicate with us for thousands of years already but because we were too dumb to understand it, we wrote bibles saying god spoke to us, made people kings and worshipped them, when these people may have just been the contactees.
Theres too many possiblities that people dont even investigate because they somehow believe that its unlikely, yet finding aliens via seti is far more unlikely than any of the stuff i've mentioned.
Smarter aliens you wont find, they find you and could easily shield their radio waves from reaching.
Dumb aliens are prolly like animals on earth.
So we must be looking for aliens exactly like us, kinda like screaming words in english in the jungle or listening for words in english in a forest.
Seti is like standing in the jungle sceaming in english "hey animals, here i am"
Or sitting in the jungle listening for words in English from animals.
100 percent of the time you will find NOTHING because animals dont speak english.
If Aliens are more intelligent they dont need radio. Even Aliens which are at the same level may not have figured out radio, you see every technology is diffrent, one gruop of aliens may have mastered genetic technologies and communicates in some weird way, another may have mastered nano technology and communicates via telepathy.
Theres just no way to figure it out, radio is communicating with sound, this is assuming aliens even have ears.
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Its leeches not leeches.
And as a contributor, I think programming for purely selfish reasons which helps yourself but harms the entire open source movement, does not count as contributing.
Why not next, port the Linux kernel to Windows and next thing you know Linux is no longer needed just use Windows.
These guys are prolly Windows programmers who cant get Linux working so they want to bring Linux to Windows instead.
Its a waste of time, this time could be used for something important.
ITs not important to port this stuff to windows. If people in windows want linux they can use linux, we dont need to port it to them.
Its as stupid as Microsoft porting games from Xbox to Windows.
Why should Microsoft do it? why keep people from buying Xbox?
How could they port something which is open source, onto a platform which is and always will be closed source.
I dont understand the logic in mixing the two.
Debian is the version of Linux for the open source supporter, follows the GPL strictly, if this is true, why choose to port it to Microsoft out of every possible OS, why not Apple? why not OS2? why not BeOS?
Whats the point in wasting the programming time and effort of providing a free service to the competition?
This time could have been used to improve debian for linux.
What a waste
Lets see, they go online and come to slashdot and read your writing. I suppose they would not learn how to read and write.
Hold up, I thought the internet was all text??????? How can they not learn to write if they are writing all the damn time? And how do you use a computer if you cant read?
A bad teacher cant figure out how to use the computer and lets the kids figure it out.
A good teacher tells the kid to type an assignment in word, and tells them to make a powerpoint and tells them what to research.
Thats right you heard me, pay LESS>
Teachers who dont work for the money and actually care about their job are the best teachers.
There will be less teachers, but really better to have a few great teachers (it works in college)
than have a bunch of crappy ones making kids drop out.
Teachers with good grades in college dont make them good at teaching, it makes them good at academic work.
As far as textbooks, why buy more if they havent been working all this time? Thats why the school system needs improvement.
Why keep spending money on the same things year after year with no improvements.
The laptop idea is good, now kids who want to learn have no excuse! Bad teacher? doesnt matter, the laptop will be the teacher.
Notebooks? why buy new notebooks every year wasting millions when you can reuse the same laptops.
Why even waste time taking notes when you can record the teachers voice?
If laptops help people in college, and people in harvard all get free laptops (well not free technically but they are required)
why the hell should highschool students be using stone age tools to learn when the best tools are electronic?
Instead of a student worrying about bad spelling and handwriting (stuff which doesnt matter anymore)
Now a student can actually focus on learning how to WRITE.
A student can learn to read best by READING via the laptop, not by reading some silly book and answering some stupid questions.
A student can learn to THINK, by being forced to think, not by following some rules in a text book "The rules of how to properly think" and then pass some test which says if they fail they cannot think and can never graduate.
Its how you spend the money not how much you spend.
Notebooks arent as good as Laptops.
You can use a notebook to take notes, and most kids with bad handwriting dont take notes much, or the kid can hit record and not have to take notes.
The teacher can be telling the kid to research blah blah for homework and the kid can research it while the teacher is telling them.
The homework can be done before the class is over.
The render exention is struggling to do something that Windows and OSX do with ease.
Until Xfree86 can do basic tasks via the render extention, theres no way its going to ever get to the point where it can do the genie effect of OSX or advanced special effects. Forget about it.
And even if we do somehow by luck get to that point within the next 5 years, it will most likely be for enlightenment not gnome or kde. I'm talking Enlightenment
IF Xfree86 were not so complicated, more people would be able to help develop it and it wouldnt take 5 years to get genie effect, 2 years to get alpha channelling, and 2 years for anti alaised fonts.
The fonts and very very basic alpha effects (not true alpha channeling) are availible right now.
However we are a long long way away from OSX and still trying to catch up to Windows2k.
Competition = Better Codecs.
*YAWN*
First, who says the creator has to "APPROVE" of anything
Anything thats POSSIBLE is approved of.
Free will? If you created the universe, if the entire universe is just a thought in your mind, then technically, theres no such thing as free will, does a robot have free will? hell no.
Proof that we dont have free will? Destroy the universe and then you can prove we have free will. Literally BREAK the universe!
Oh right, you cant break the universe! Hey neither can anything else in the universe because its all perfect!! Hey I wonder why that is? I wonder why some super intelligent aliens experimenting milliosn if not billions of years before us didnt completely break the entire universe?
Because its IMPOSSIBLE.
Thats an ability we do not have and will never have.
We can destroy, we can create, but we cannot stop the cycle, we cannot END all creation and destruction. It will go on forever, as will the universe, no matter how smart we get, we will NEVER be able to stop the universe and destroy it.
The day we have that ability is the day we have free will.
Having the ability to choose right from wrong, is not free will, a computer can choose left and right, 1 or 0, even 1 AND 0, but a computer can never truely change the rules, even if it learns to reprogram itself, it can never change the fact that theres 1 and 0, the day computers can all of the sudden have free will is the day computers somehow take over the world like in terminator 2.
Free will means the ability to choose, but something is giving us the choices we are choosing from and until we have the ability to choose something which isnt given to us, like to stop the universe itself, then, we are no diffrent than a computer program which chooses between 1 and 0.
How do you know our bodies arent just, machinery, how do you know that conciousness is not god? Conciousness is not proven to be part of the physical body, if its proven to be beyond, then COnciousness is not following the rules of the universe, meaning conciousness may have free will but this doesnt change the fact that your body doesnt.
Conciousness could be the force of god itself, thats right making us all part of god.
Open up your mind, and accept the fact that anything is possible. You do not KNOW what god wants and does not want, do not assume you do, You do not even know WHAT god is!!! I dont know but i'm at least admitting it. I have opinions on what i think god may be, But i'm not sure.
So dont be so sure yourself. I say if something is possible, then something else in the universe has already done it. If whatever created the universe didnt want it to be possible until we reach a certain state, then like gravity, forces would prevent us from doing it until we are enlightened enough to maturely handle it. Just a few hundred years ago people thought men werent allowed to fly. Now they are in space, the forces prevented you from flying, whatever created the universe obviously created these forces with a purpose. To prevent idiots from doing what they arent ready to handle.
Give a monkey a gun and he wont know how to properly handle it, let the monkey create the gun and things may be diffrent.
Read what i said about people blinded by mans description of the creator of all there is.
If something creates all this is, and didnt want us to do something, it simply wouldnt be possible.
Can you avoid death? no you cant. can you read the future? no you cant. Can you travel deep into space? no you can.
To think that the creator of all there is, doesnt know exactly every single possibility there is, and exactly what we will do, I mean come on,
if something is god, it KNOWS everything the human race will ever do PERIOD.
Whatever we do is part of a plan.
If you want a portible computer a laptop is far more powerful, plays games just as well if not better, and best yet, Linux was DESIGNED for it unlike the mutilated PS2 Linux.
I think this is a waste of time, just like the Dreamcast linux, If developers want to do something useful, Improve linux for the computer, work on the kernel, work on KDE, Gnome, do something which matters to everyone and not something which matters to a few thousand people LITERALLY.
You see, Whatever created us gave us the ability to create life, and gave us the abilities we have by evolving us.
So anyone here who believes in god but isnt blinded by the bibles description of god, can understand that.
If we program a computer to do something the computer does what its created to do, whatever created us obviously created us to create and to destroy.
Thats basically our job.I belive theres supposed to be a balance in creation and destruction but right now we destroy more than we create due to greed.
SNK survived mostly because of their arcade business. With the fall of the arcades, companies whos business relies on the arcades are dying.
SNK made very good arcade games, but good games arent enough to by profitable when you compete with Sonys and Microsofts.
Sega seems to be in the same situation SNK was in, and that Atari was in before SNK.
Can Sega survive on games alone? SNK couldnt do it, Atari managed to do it just barely, while Sega has good games, will people buy them?
IF people didnt buy them for Dreamcast Segas own system, will they buy them for PSX, Xbox, or Gamecube?
I dont know
DUH!
He was a programmer, then a designer, then a producer, and now hes a supervisor.
So why would they buy them for PS2?
Dreamcast sold 10 million systems. Where is it now?
Would not have radio technology. Perhaps their eyes however are so much more deveolved than ours that they communicate very well with holographic technology.
Perhaps they beam light from a laser with information on it into their eyes which gives them all the information of radio and then some.
You have no clue about aliens so why assume they are anything like us.
Even if they were exactly like us 100 percent, they still may have skipped radio, or simply thought radio was silly kinda like how we think some of the eastern sciences are silly.
Aliens also may have known how dangerous radio was and purposely kept it form transmitting into space, perhaps because unlike us they knew there was life out there and didnt want to be found.
Lastly, what if these aliens are so much more advanced than us that they mastered every technology we have and then some to such a point that they'd be a god to us. considering we are about 100 years or so from being at god level technology wise. Aliens that are 1 million years older than us most likely have the ability to travel dimensions, can prolly phase right into our planet at any moment and phase out without us being able to notice, lastly they could be monitoring us right now, and could have been trying to communicate with us for thousands of years already but because we were too dumb to understand it, we wrote bibles saying god spoke to us, made people kings and worshipped them, when these people may have just been the contactees.
Theres too many possiblities that people dont even investigate because they somehow believe that its unlikely, yet finding aliens via seti is far more unlikely than any of the stuff i've mentioned.
Smarter aliens you wont find, they find you and could easily shield their radio waves from reaching.
Dumb aliens are prolly like animals on earth.
So we must be looking for aliens exactly like us, kinda like screaming words in english in the jungle or listening for words in english in a forest.
Seti is like standing in the jungle sceaming in english "hey animals, here i am"
Or sitting in the jungle listening for words in English from animals.
100 percent of the time you will find NOTHING because animals dont speak english.
If Aliens are more intelligent they dont need radio. Even Aliens which are at the same level may not have figured out radio, you see every technology is diffrent, one gruop of aliens may have mastered genetic technologies and communicates in some weird way, another may have mastered nano technology and communicates via telepathy.
Theres just no way to figure it out, radio is communicating with sound, this is assuming aliens even have ears.
N64 was hard to develop for on purpose, Nintendo didnt expect competition from Sony and wanted the most powerful System possible to compete with Sega.
Please, you arent a programmer compared to guys like Miyamoto who have been programming games for the past 20-30 years.
IF you are truely better than them then prove it in your games ELSE shut up.
I dont think Nintendo is targeting kids with these ads.
Let Slashdot be the judge.
Zelda ad 1
Zelda ad 2
Zelda ad 3
Luigis Mansion
GameCube
Xbox commercial
Xbox2
Xbox1
Xbox site Has the rest
What? You think nothing can be Easier than DirectX now? Now you think No company can compete with Microsft here?
Nintendo has been making DirectX like software since before Microsoft even created Windows 1.0.
Who do you think is better at making development software, Nintendo whos been doing it for 20 years, or Microsoft?
Redstorm and all these PC companies love Microsoft, but their games arent as good as alot of Japanese game companies.
Sure Microsoft will have the support of all American developers, but the Japanese developers prefer the game cube.
Just like some people prefer Linux over Windows.
The reason Gamecube is the easiest to program for, is if you look at the games, all of them look good, theres not a single ugly Gamecube game.
Look at Xbox or PS2 and i can find some games which look like shit, worse than Dreamcast, these games show that the system is hard to program for.
Dreamcast game was easy to program for too thats why the standard dreamcast game looked pretty good.