If good games cost less, they would already cost less. The market is already adjusted to the optimum price to support the greatest numebr of users and the industry.
I wear warmer clothing (sweaters, etc) and thick socks, and eat more, and I use the house heater a lot less.
Also, accelerating like an anemic grandmother does wonder on your car's fuel consumption. That and using a stick shift (manual transmission for the SOTBE)
Yes, but how often? Every 120 seconds? Every 360 seconds?
Could that pattern be discovered as well?
So let's say your pc, when full-powered, at room temperature, gains 1 millisecond every 20 minutes, (skew) and thus, after a while, your clock is off by a second from the official time (drift), and you change the time every 2 minuutes randomly, you will have created a detectable wobble every 2 minutes in a 20 minute pattern. Sort of like waves and tides.
What you need to be able to do is slow down/speed up your clock crystal, so that the change in millisecond has a random pattern (say like hookup the to-be-installed crystal fan to your phone: Every time the phone rings, you get a few minutes of fan, thus cooling the crystal, thus altering the pattern).
I'd have to say that this is correct. You would simply create a wobble in the skew pattern, but the skew pattern could still be detectable over time (say 10 hours) and even adjust for time of day, etc.
I suppose, as someone said, that since heat level in the mobo will affect the skew, that having a programmable fan for the crystal(s) would allow for geek-control of the skew itself. This might even lead to mightily accurate clocks, since the skew itself could then be adjusted, and clocks synchronized with the US Navy (official timekeeper in the US -- See http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/).
Apple: Bad, bad, bad... Who gives a flying fuck about your "secrets" when you're going to tell them to the world anyways? It's not like the guy was posting payroll records.
Remember that geeks can make of break you.
I say, it's going to be pretty hard to redeem yourselves after this. Not only am I not buying a mac, or an I-pod, I am not recommending it to anyone, and when people ask me why I'll say: They are not user-friendly.
You may think I am overreacting, but like my wife says: The company has to seduce me _before_ I buy their products. Apple needs to learn how to flirt better.
Yeah, and the immediate loss of great food. grandparent was right: move where there is a large japanese/asian community, so you can get mirin and udon at a local grocery store.
I live in LA, and while the city is crappy for many reasons, my japanese wife is happiest here. (Texas for 5 days depressed the hell out of her).
When the studios are catering to the advertisers, the shows are, hum, bland, and that's why they lose viewers.
I bet if the show was 50% funded by contributions, not only would the authors be able to say to the advertisers: We are making the show people actually want to watch, they would also attract better advertisers, because they would realise that there is a serious fanbase that's willing to pay good money for what they want (and that's who advertisers are trying to reach in the first place).
I also think that show writers will spend a little more time getting ideas and feeling the waters from the forums rather than in the board rooms, the quality of the show will skyrocket. And the fanbase will grow as well.
I also wonder whether they could then do some non-advertiser shows, meaning, show a 58 minute show instead of 40 minutes cut every eight minutes by commercials. I would watch that show. I would. I enjoyed the first remake with stewart, and saw many. Lately, though, can't stand the commercials and the poor acting. (send your actors to Shakespearean schools dammit!)
An ice sculpture will be gone by morning, and yet is still art.
A sand sculpture will be gone at next tide, and yet is still art.
Look at the source code for Emacs. It's written in a programming language created in the 1950s. (1954?) Yes, Lisp.
Now, 50 years later, Emacs is still considered by many to be the finest text editor in the world, and runs on the finest modern operating systems.
Lisp the language, is art. It stands the test of time. It will outlast all of us most likely. In 200 years people will study the "classical" programming languages, and those that are around (and I bet C and Lisp will be in there) will be called art because they will have stood the test of time. Britney Spears, on the other hand, will most likely have been forgotten.
I make an interface for you, clear, concise, simple, powerful.
Do you know if I program in php, python, or java on the back end? Do you know if I store my state in pickles, session vars, or in a bean? Do you know if I iterate using a fancy algorithm or via brute force? You do not. And you should not.
If the service I provide to you never fails, and through much testing you come to the conclusion that the result is predictable and reliable, you just use my service, not needing to know the how or why.
I care not what you do with it, I care not who you are, what you want.
I create art by placing a node that alters the pattern of your program, and yet you know nothing of it.
That is the unix way.
As far as the fish, consider not the fish, but the stream. See stream and you will know where the fish goes.
Slashdot Mirror
Make the time.
Now James, it's not nice to belittle Slashdotters' Most Fearsome Weapon. :)
There was a fairly substantial dose of sarcasm in my post. See my sig.
Nah,
You gotta buy the game at that price.
If good games cost less, they would already cost less. The market is already adjusted to the optimum price to support the greatest numebr of users and the industry.
>...a lot of what has been considered good business practice taught to MBAs turned out to be very poor in reality.
Really? Wow... I had no idea.
Coasting in neutral is illegal in California.
Easy: voip over 80 and 25.
Jokingly.
Although voip over smtp is going to incur some serious latency.
I wonder if strapping a 512mb usb on a carrier pigeon would be faster.
Good point.
I wear warmer clothing (sweaters, etc) and thick socks, and eat more, and I use the house heater a lot less.
Also, accelerating like an anemic grandmother does wonder on your car's fuel consumption. That and using a stick shift (manual transmission for the SOTBE)
Yes, but how often? Every 120 seconds? Every 360 seconds?
Could that pattern be discovered as well?
So let's say your pc, when full-powered, at room temperature, gains 1 millisecond every 20 minutes, (skew) and thus, after a while, your clock is off by a second from the official time (drift), and you change the time every 2 minuutes randomly, you will have created a detectable wobble every 2 minutes in a 20 minute pattern. Sort of like waves and tides.
What you need to be able to do is slow down/speed up your clock crystal, so that the change in millisecond has a random pattern (say like hookup the to-be-installed crystal fan to your phone: Every time the phone rings, you get a few minutes of fan, thus cooling the crystal, thus altering the pattern).
Yes, I am a geek.
I'd have to say that this is correct. You would simply create a wobble in the skew pattern, but the skew pattern could still be detectable over time (say 10 hours) and even adjust for time of day, etc.
I suppose, as someone said, that since heat level in the mobo will affect the skew, that having a programmable fan for the crystal(s) would allow for geek-control of the skew itself. This might even lead to mightily accurate clocks, since the skew itself could then be adjusted, and clocks synchronized with the US Navy (official timekeeper in the US -- See http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/).
Amen!
Brother, you know it!
Let the people hear the good news!!!
I am very happy about these developments.
This will make society much better.
I am sure law enforcement will use this to better protect us.
Read my sig.
Gentlemen, time to synchronize your clock skews.
Apple: Bad, bad, bad... Who gives a flying fuck about your "secrets" when you're going to tell them to the world anyways? It's not like the guy was posting payroll records.
Remember that geeks can make of break you.
I say, it's going to be pretty hard to redeem yourselves after this. Not only am I not buying a mac, or an I-pod, I am not recommending it to anyone, and when people ask me why I'll say: They are not user-friendly.
You may think I am overreacting, but like my wife says: The company has to seduce me _before_ I buy their products. Apple needs to learn how to flirt better.
No, but the windows platform could be relegated to gaming computer, in which case it would directly compete against... the xbox!
Yeah, and the immediate loss of great food.
grandparent was right: move where there is a large japanese/asian community, so you can get mirin and udon at a local grocery store.
I live in LA, and while the city is crappy for many reasons, my japanese wife is happiest here. (Texas for 5 days depressed the hell out of her).
America has culture. It's just too impoermanent.
When the studios are catering to the advertisers, the shows are, hum, bland, and that's why they lose viewers.
I bet if the show was 50% funded by contributions, not only would the authors be able to say to the advertisers: We are making the show people actually want to watch, they would also attract better advertisers, because they would realise that there is a serious fanbase that's willing to pay good money for what they want (and that's who advertisers are trying to reach in the first place).
I also think that show writers will spend a little more time getting ideas and feeling the waters from the forums rather than in the board rooms, the quality of the show will skyrocket. And the fanbase will grow as well.
I also wonder whether they could then do some non-advertiser shows, meaning, show a 58 minute show instead of 40 minutes cut every eight minutes by commercials. I would watch that show. I would. I enjoyed the first remake with stewart, and saw many. Lately, though, can't stand the commercials and the poor acting. (send your actors to Shakespearean schools dammit!)
>But there are *very* few great programmers out there. What do the rest of the programming world do?
Study harder.
It's not complicated. Like piano and tai-chi: find great teachers, listen to them, practice, practice, practice.
Did I mention practice?
Soundtracks.
An ice sculpture will be gone by morning, and yet is still art.
A sand sculpture will be gone at next tide, and yet is still art.
Look at the source code for Emacs. It's written in a programming language created in the 1950s. (1954?) Yes, Lisp.
Now, 50 years later, Emacs is still considered by many to be the finest text editor in the world, and runs on the finest modern operating systems.
Lisp the language, is art. It stands the test of time. It will outlast all of us most likely. In 200 years people will study the "classical" programming languages, and those that are around (and I bet C and Lisp will be in there) will be called art because they will have stood the test of time. Britney Spears, on the other hand, will most likely have been forgotten.
Enjoy :)
Interesting...
Condescending are we?
I shall refer you to book 5 of Miyamoto Mushashi's book.
No more AC
I work for a fortune 500 and I administer 8 windows machine, including 2003 and ts.
I also use linux, solaris.
It's an overkill in the sense that only 100+ people companies need the stuff that's in win2k3.
And those companies are now migrating to win2k3. 2 years later.
In 2007, when companies are deploying longhorn finally, do you think linux desktop will be there? if yes, you've got your answer.
I make an interface for you, clear, concise, simple, powerful.
Do you know if I program in php, python, or java on the back end?
Do you know if I store my state in pickles, session vars, or in a bean?
Do you know if I iterate using a fancy algorithm or via brute force?
You do not.
And you should not.
If the service I provide to you never fails, and through much testing you come to the conclusion that the result is predictable and reliable, you just use my service, not needing to know the how or why.
I care not what you do with it, I care not who you are, what you want.
I create art by placing a node that alters the pattern of your program, and yet you know nothing of it.
That is the unix way.
As far as the fish, consider not the fish, but the stream. See stream and you will know where the fish goes.