for Music I really like MusikCube. It's somewhat like itunes, but much lighter. It has great support for naming and tagging in large batches, and has dynamic playlists. Basically a very flexible SQL query, and you can basically use any criteria, from a very large list of stuff it keeps. They have some great examples.
I also like XMplay as a pretty basic, and really lite MP3 player.
Well, there's certainly lots of MMO's out there that charge per month. And of course the indy games that are free, or some that are cheap, like 10-30. I think the game industry is facing a big change, one way or another.
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He really doesn't have anything insightful to say at all. I guess he has one point, that we've all heard before: the "Web2.0" buzzword is just that. It doesn't gaurantee anything good, but some good things could be labeled "Web2.0", as the term has been applied(buzzed). Really nothing new and exciting here. Just go read Pual Graham's article as someone else said. You may not agree with him, but I always find a few interesting thoughts in his essays, whether he's right or wrong(75%-25%, respectively, IMO).
Create a "story quality" moderator. Those people just moderate stories on submission quality, not the story topic. If a person gets too many negative quality stories, it could either warn you to check their links in the future, or give their submissions lowest priority or something(so you get the stories from other people first).
The point is : quality. If you have no-follow the links from someone who consistenly links to low-quality summaries of the actual story, they deserve the penalty. This would only negatively effect people that submit a lot, and get many complaints.
While you're at it, how about a dupes url checker. It would check the URLs of submitted stories with the links in previously published stories. Then it could at least warn an editor if it has the same urls as a previous story, which would be a clue that it might be a dupe.
Last year we go 19.2 inches of snow, in about 12 hours. I think it was a record. This is, of course, in Minnesota. A few years ago my friends experienced a 12 foot snow-dift against the west side of their house. Needless to say it caused flooods soon after.
I do remember a day that was -40 and had a nasty wind, making it about -70F windchill. You can get frostbit in less than a minute. Most diesel things can't run at that temp, like school busses and trains.
And we do have 100+ days here too. Not that common, but what's worse than 100F+ is 80%+ humidity with that. It feels like a sauna. Your body sweats, but it doesn't evaporate. You can't stay dry.
The thing I don't know if they took into account is global dimming. Because of all the airliners and other pollution, we now get over 20% less sunlight than we did in the 50's. Now consider how much less air pollution there was in Roman times. If we take that into account, maybe this would've worked just fine.
Don't believe me? Google 'global dimming' and you'll see.
I don't care what Apple's lawyers think. As far as I'm concerned they should be up against the wall by now.
The story is that the judge unsealed the documents, and those documents show that Apple didn't fulfil its obligations to investigate internally FIRST. Besides, this is the EFF, they usually pick their causes well. I trust their legal actions much more than any corporations, because they're not out just to make money, they're here to protect people's rights.
I wonder if that's grounds for a malicious prosecutions lawsuit. It would serve them right. Those laws exist to protect the rights of the people, and Apple just ignored them.
Apple does make some very good products, but that's no excuse to trample people's rights. All corporations have the ability to be evil, by their nature. They really need to be held in check when that comes out. Even Google with its "do no evil" slogan has the potential.
While the PowerPC chips in the Xbox 360 may be similar in instruction set to the G5, the chips are VERY different. It uses only in-order instruction execution, and not out-of-order, which has been standard(for powerful CPU's) since at least the Pentium Pro(?) era, excepting the Itanium, which has the compiler do the OOO scheduling.
The XBox 360 has 3 very small and rather simple PowerPC cores, and the Cell uses 1 such core, and the 7(?) SPU's along with it.
That's why Microsoft is so upset about google. Cause google is willing to invest in making real products out of its research.
And their poaching people that MS wanted to not be poached.
Google also has a better strategy in hiring people with a proven track record, and not just those proclaimed 'smart', but actually smart, focused, and hard working.
In Debian parlance, 'unstable' means 'changes often', and not 'crashes often'. It also means tracking newest version, instead of backporting fixes to older versions.
What if all the studios agreed to a salary cap for stars? No one makes more than $5 million and set a maximum percentage too.
What will change is people needing to have better scipts to attract stars instead of higher paychecks.
Some sports leagues have done this, why not hollywood. It would make it less about the money and more about good films and not just brainless summer flicks.
On the other hand, with salary caps, either the director or producer makes more money, or the studio does. So it would be more profitable for them, but would that do anything to improve quality of films, or would we just get more bad movies?
Not only that, but that 1 in 48 million person is going to find a way to kill himself. If a person is so obsessive as to die of exhaustion from playing a game online, I'm sure he could do the same with a boardgame, or heck, twiddling his thumbs. You can't protect a person from themselves.
Doesn't WoW have something similar, to a lesser scale, built in with character exhaustion after playing many hours at once?
Despite how unfair I think this is, I would welcome it as a chance to see some of my friends that got sucked into their computers via MMORPG and never came back out.
Hmmm.... did you notice in the slides it was all integer performance/watt? They never told us actual absolute performance, and never floating-point performance. My inner geek tells me there is much hype and little solid evidence of anything.
Yes, but you with the size of games today, you won't have enough time to actually load Level 3 before your battery runs out.
I bet hard disks and Cd-roms are sucking down a lot of power today compared to teh CPU. The new solid-state storage ideas look cool in helping with that.
So its the revamped P3 once again. I'm glad they optimized it for power instead of marketing, but will it scale to higher clockspeeds? Will it be able to reach 3 Ghz in the next 2 years?
It's not so much the directing, as it was the BAD SCRIPT! Much of the dialogue was bad, especially the the "love" scenes. He should've gotten someone to help him with those scenes. If the few really annoying parts were fixed, it would've made episodes 2 and 3 a whole lot better.
And yeah, "Garden State" was great, and "Closer" was a decent movie too.
You're more free to do with it as you please, like restricting the rights of others;) But seriously, you can use BSD code in proprietary projects, but GPL code must stay open, and anything that is part of it must be GPL compatible and OSS. LGPL is a middle ground. There you can link to proprietary code, but release changes back to the open part. I think that the GPL is better for communities, because it all(all redistributed code) goes back to the community, so everyone benefits. Sometimes I suspect companies use BSD code and don't contribute back even when it wouldn't hurt them to.
Of course, if you don't redistribute your code, you have no worries.
This could be really useful for buying the code to open source projects, especially older applications, or stuff from companies that are dying.
This might've been really useful for getting Blender at the time. I'm just saying it could work well for this stuff.
It could also be used for code bounties...ie how much do you want a feature, added to an OSS program.
I have to agree with some previous posters that this may not work out great for continuous OSS support, meaning paying people full-time to work on stuff, cause that requires lots of money, and you aren't quite sure what you'll get each month.
Its interesting that he calls them "God's little toys," perhaps telling us somewhat of their potential power(no not literally). I must agree with that assessment. I've always loved the idea of really being able to make whatever I can imagine, especially when it comes to computers.
Yeah, I just dug that game up last week. I already lost several weeknights to it, and much sleepy-time. That game is so addicting! I actually do like MOO better than all the Civ's. I kinda wonder if its maybe because I played it first.
Some of the depth in that game comes from choosing how you design your ships, and then how you fight with them. Very few other games had that.
MOO 2 was ok, but didn't quite have the same charm as the original, it was much more like Civ, and that lost it some "fun" because it had too much micromanagement. M00 3 tried to fix that, but didn't really succeed.
After not playing Master of Orion 1 for many years, it almost seems to go too fast, like at a breakneck pace. Especially the initial colonization of your neighborhood seems to be too easy to do quickly.
My last game that I start yesterday, I got a big fertile planet as my neighbor(70 max) and a huge 120 world next to that! It was amazing. Then two artifact planets that both gave me tech's, I couldn't believe it!
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for Music I really like MusikCube. It's somewhat like itunes, but much lighter. It has great support for naming and tagging in large batches, and has dynamic playlists. Basically a very flexible SQL query, and you can basically use any criteria, from a very large list of stuff it keeps. They have some great examples.
I also like XMplay as a pretty basic, and really lite MP3 player.
Sony's stupidity about their own damn proprietery techs is why I avoid sony at all costs.
Well, there's certainly lots of MMO's out there that charge per month. And of course the indy games that are free, or some that are cheap, like 10-30. I think the game industry is facing a big change, one way or another.
He really doesn't have anything insightful to say at all. I guess he has one point, that we've all heard before: the "Web2.0" buzzword is just that. It doesn't gaurantee anything good, but some good things could be labeled "Web2.0", as the term has been applied(buzzed). Really nothing new and exciting here. Just go read Pual Graham's article as someone else said. You may not agree with him, but I always find a few interesting thoughts in his essays, whether he's right or wrong(75%-25%, respectively, IMO).
Create a "story quality" moderator. Those people just moderate stories on submission quality, not the story topic. If a person gets too many negative quality stories, it could either warn you to check their links in the future, or give their submissions lowest priority or something(so you get the stories from other people first).
The point is : quality. If you have no-follow the links from someone who consistenly links to low-quality summaries of the actual story, they deserve the penalty. This would only negatively effect people that submit a lot, and get many complaints.
While you're at it, how about a dupes url checker. It would check the URLs of submitted stories with the links in previously published stories. Then it could at least warn an editor if it has the same urls as a previous story, which would be a clue that it might be a dupe.
Last year we go 19.2 inches of snow, in about 12 hours. I think it was a record. This is, of course, in Minnesota. A few years ago my friends experienced a 12 foot snow-dift against the west side of their house. Needless to say it caused flooods soon after.
I do remember a day that was -40 and had a nasty wind, making it about -70F windchill. You can get frostbit in less than a minute. Most diesel things can't run at that temp, like school busses and trains.
And we do have 100+ days here too. Not that common, but what's worse than 100F+ is 80%+ humidity with that. It feels like a sauna. Your body sweats, but it doesn't evaporate. You can't stay dry.
The thing I don't know if they took into account is global dimming. Because of all the airliners and other pollution, we now get over 20% less sunlight than we did in the 50's. Now consider how much less air pollution there was in Roman times. If we take that into account, maybe this would've worked just fine.
Don't believe me? Google 'global dimming' and you'll see.
I don't care what Apple's lawyers think. As far as I'm concerned they should be up against the wall by now.
The story is that the judge unsealed the documents, and those documents show that Apple didn't fulfil its obligations to investigate internally FIRST. Besides, this is the EFF, they usually pick their causes well. I trust their legal actions much more than any corporations, because they're not out just to make money, they're here to protect people's rights.
I wonder if that's grounds for a malicious prosecutions lawsuit. It would serve them right. Those laws exist to protect the rights of the people, and Apple just ignored them.
Apple does make some very good products, but that's no excuse to trample people's rights. All corporations have the ability to be evil, by their nature. They really need to be held in check when that comes out. Even Google with its "do no evil" slogan has the potential.
While the PowerPC chips in the Xbox 360 may be similar in instruction set to the G5, the chips are VERY different. It uses only in-order instruction execution, and not out-of-order, which has been standard(for powerful CPU's) since at least the Pentium Pro(?) era, excepting the Itanium, which has the compiler do the OOO scheduling.
The XBox 360 has 3 very small and rather simple PowerPC cores, and the Cell uses 1 such core, and the 7(?) SPU's along with it.
That's why Microsoft is so upset about google. Cause google is willing to invest in making real products out of its research.
And their poaching people that MS wanted to not be poached.
Google also has a better strategy in hiring people with a proven track record, and not just those proclaimed 'smart', but actually smart, focused, and hard working.
In Debian parlance, 'unstable' means 'changes often', and not 'crashes often'. It also means tracking newest version, instead of backporting fixes to older versions.
What if all the studios agreed to a salary cap for stars? No one makes more than $5 million and set a maximum percentage too.
What will change is people needing to have better scipts to attract stars instead of higher paychecks.
Some sports leagues have done this, why not hollywood. It would make it less about the money and more about good films and not just brainless summer flicks.
On the other hand, with salary caps, either the director or producer makes more money, or the studio does. So it would be more profitable for them, but would that do anything to improve quality of films, or would we just get more bad movies?
Not only that, but that 1 in 48 million person is going to find a way to kill himself. If a person is so obsessive as to die of exhaustion from playing a game online, I'm sure he could do the same with a boardgame, or heck, twiddling his thumbs. You can't protect a person from themselves.
Doesn't WoW have something similar, to a lesser scale, built in with character exhaustion after playing many hours at once?
Despite how unfair I think this is, I would welcome it as a chance to see some of my friends that got sucked into their computers via MMORPG and never came back out.
Issn't that called astro-turfing? In other words artificial grass-roots type thing?
Or is this somehow the same thing?
Hmmm.... did you notice in the slides it was all integer performance/watt? They never told us actual absolute performance, and never floating-point performance. My inner geek tells me there is much hype and little solid evidence of anything.
Yes, but you with the size of games today, you won't have enough time to actually load Level 3 before your battery runs out.
I bet hard disks and Cd-roms are sucking down a lot of power today compared to teh CPU. The new solid-state storage ideas look cool in helping with that.
Its probably AMD64...err EM64T or whatever they called it. I'm sure its software compatible with today's Intel processors.
So its the revamped P3 once again. I'm glad they optimized it for power instead of marketing, but will it scale to higher clockspeeds? Will it be able to reach 3 Ghz in the next 2 years?
If its battery you want, go to dynamism, and get a Panasonic R4. 9 hours they say; even if that's off the mark, you must get at least 7.5h or so.
Its like he's looking at a parka from a Hawaiian's point of view: "You want to wear clothes that make you hot? I don't get it."
Clearly its not for him. He's looking at it completely backwards, and obviously doesn't understand. Maybe someone can explain it to him.
It's not so much the directing, as it was the BAD SCRIPT! Much of the dialogue was bad, especially the the "love" scenes. He should've gotten someone to help him with those scenes. If the few really annoying parts were fixed, it would've made episodes 2 and 3 a whole lot better.
And yeah, "Garden State" was great, and "Closer" was a decent movie too.
You're more free to do with it as you please, like restricting the rights of others ;) But seriously, you can use BSD code in proprietary projects, but GPL code must stay open, and anything that is part of it must be GPL compatible and OSS. LGPL is a middle ground. There you can link to proprietary code, but release changes back to the open part. I think that the GPL is better for communities, because it all(all redistributed code) goes back to the community, so everyone benefits. Sometimes I suspect companies use BSD code and don't contribute back even when it wouldn't hurt them to.
Of course, if you don't redistribute your code, you have no worries.
This could be really useful for buying the code to open source projects, especially older applications, or stuff from companies that are dying.
This might've been really useful for getting Blender at the time. I'm just saying it could work well for this stuff.
It could also be used for code bounties...ie how much do you want a feature, added to an OSS program.
I have to agree with some previous posters that this may not work out great for continuous OSS support, meaning paying people full-time to work on stuff, cause that requires lots of money, and you aren't quite sure what you'll get each month.
Its interesting that he calls them "God's little toys," perhaps telling us somewhat of their potential power(no not literally). I must agree with that assessment. I've always loved the idea of really being able to make whatever I can imagine, especially when it comes to computers.
Yeah, I just dug that game up last week. I already lost several weeknights to it, and much sleepy-time. That game is so addicting! I actually do like MOO better than all the Civ's. I kinda wonder if its maybe because I played it first.
Some of the depth in that game comes from choosing how you design your ships, and then how you fight with them. Very few other games had that.
MOO 2 was ok, but didn't quite have the same charm as the original, it was much more like Civ, and that lost it some "fun" because it had too much micromanagement. M00 3 tried to fix that, but didn't really succeed.
After not playing Master of Orion 1 for many years, it almost seems to go too fast, like at a breakneck pace. Especially the initial colonization of your neighborhood seems to be too easy to do quickly.
My last game that I start yesterday, I got a big fertile planet as my neighbor(70 max) and a huge 120 world next to that! It was amazing. Then two artifact planets that both gave me tech's, I couldn't believe it!