Of course it is still a loss for Google when everyone goes through proxies and meta-engines. Tracking what everyone is searching on is far less useful than searching the patterns of individual users. That isn't to be taken as "tracking what YOU search for" but "tracking what else people who like dogs search for". Patterns are important, and when we all go through the same IPs (with meta-searchers and proxies) our searches get lumped together. Nothing is free, you pay for google with your tracking data and your eyes looking at advertisements. Pay up for what you use!
I programmed in highschool, only about five years ago. Many of my friends, who were also geeks, had learned to program more than just TI-85's. I remember as early as 8th and 9th grade comparing assembly and Java with a friend, in our own amature understanding of the field. Even as early as 6th grade, I was taking use of the class computer during free periods to program video games for the other kids in class to "wow" over. In highschool, there was even a prgramming class (teaching C, sadly) which had a fairly high signup-rate. The kids there got pretty good in the one semester it ran, going quickly from text-based address books to tank battle games. Along with all that, I knew at least half a dozen other kids who were running web design bussinesses and could do a fair ammount of perl or php in the day.
If a patent like this is able to succeed, then shouldn't it be a violation of the patent to use any device which utilizes any form of wireless networking and SMTP over that connection?
This kind of anti-sentiment toward good ideas because they seem "Big Brother"-ish demishes us. There are more good uses for this than anything else and it doesn't take away any of your rights. It doesn't take away your right to use the road, it just expresses the publics right to watch you use those roads. If someone watches you walk down the sidewalk and remembers they saw you doing so, that doesn't infringe on your rights. This just brings the rights of the public into the technological age.
IT departments aren't filled with geeks and Stallman's Soldiers, its average joes who went to the local five-month school at the strip mall to get that A+ cert and feed the kids who won't stop whining and make the car payments for the wife who won't stop spending. They have no moral, ethical, or otherwise views one way or the other on these matters. They'll install what they're told to and Cisco will make what the big customers want to buy.
A few years ago I saw something like this in a friends car. This was from a small lot, private deal, kinda thing. Only their solution didn't require any codes, it was all controlled through the satellite. How is this making the front page of slashdot when far more advanced versions of the technology were old-hat years ago?
I have been a Pandora user from the early days of the service and I love it. The price is fantastic and I actually like that they are adding a free, ad-supported service for those who can't afford it; but, it is cheap. Keeping the stations in tune with a style is a breeze and I love being able to say "Hey, this song is cool. What else is there like it?" I picked up an old record of "The Ventures" at a garage sale, and now I have a station playing late-50's and 60's beach music type stuff and songs along the lines of the old batman themesong. Of course, having the founder of Pandora comment on my blog when I posted about Pandora was cool, as was the e-mail from the CTO I got, thanking me for my early adoption of Pandora and upgrading me, free of charge, from a quarterly account to a yearly. Nine months for free, now. This really is a sweetspot.
There is no more reason to say that Blender is overkill for such a task than to say OpenGL is overkill for non-3D graphics. Just use a single view angel and don't move anything in the third coord. Southpark is even animated with such a tool. Besides, this will allow you to expand your effects in the future, should you ever find the need.
Actually layering X over OpenGL would result in less CPU drain, because the rendering would be hardware accelerated by your graphics card, instead of all processed by the CPU. Get you facts right, and stop being stubborn and not looking into the facts, first! That sort of mentality is the problem with the FOSS community!
Last night I sat down, scrolled through a list of movies I haven't seen before, and started watching one with my Wife. I didn't Tivo it, and I didn't wait for it to start. On Demand and iControl both offer this kind of service, through Comcast and Time Warner, respectively. Although, I heard On Demand is available through other cable companies, as well, but I could be wrong.
So, what's the difference? The delivery network has little or no effect on the service, so long as you still get to see the movies and shows. Besides, I'd be highly surprised if my On Demand doesn't transfer over IP, anyway. Comcast's cable broadband runs over the same network, and it would make sense if they used the same pipe for all the data.
The only novel thing here is that Tivo is doing it, meaning you can get the service without a cable provider. Also, I would enjoy downloading whole seasons. However, most On Demand television shows cycle through all the episodes, usually keep one to three of them available at a time and moving to the next one every week or so. It's a great way to catch those missed classics and hidden gems.
The M rating for video games is on par with movies' R rating. Both restrict anyone under the age of 17 and associate an amount of maturity that should be present to watch the film or play the game. Although, we won't get into how much maturity most 17 year olds have.
So, if rated R movies can show nudity, why can't rated M games?
That is all.
There is a big difference between intellectual property and simply specifications for accessing the hardware. We aren't asking them for the source code for the firmware images in the rom chips, we just want to be able to make use of the hardware (which we pay them for) without their software (which, aside from being shipped with the hardware we bought, we didn't directly purchase). We're still buying the hardware, so it is in no way a free ride, and it doesn't even have to do with only Open Source/Free Software issues. What if they don't fix a bug because they are pushing another product or version, but you have a large install base of the particular hardware you need better drivers for?
Besides, open source hardware driver developers do the work for them for free. How is that getting a gift? That's giving them a gift, and they are realizing this and taking advantage of it. Look how many companies these days don't develope linux drivers.
This s very outdated news. Not only is this little "hello world" program far from the first things hacked onto a PSP, but its crap compared to the impressive feats that were created on the first day it was released, such as the PSPIRC program that lets you chat on IRC anywhere you have a PSP and a hotspot. PSPIRC was created within 24 hours of the PSPs US release, just on a whim of "wouldn't it be cool".
And, today, people want to use these things. That doesn't mean there was any evidence of the fact then. Don't misinterpret what someone says after the fact, simply in light of new evidence that was not available to them when they said it.
I accomplish most of this through the use of State Stacks. A State interface is defined and for each state of the game ("in play", "in menu", "paused") I create a class. States can be pushed onto the stack, popped off the stack, or replace other states on the stack (just a few pops and a push, of course). This works well because when you want to Pause, a PauseState class instance is pushed onto the top of the stack. Events are handled by state objects and the one on the top gets first dibs. It then deligates if the events are to be passed on to states below it or not (a "typing chat message" state, for example, might pass mouse events on to the "in play" state below it).
What does this have to do with save games and globals? Well, saving a game is merely a matter of serializing the "in play" state. As the state object holds all the data pertaining to it, there is no need for nasty globals.
The point of all this is simple: you really don't need to have global data. There is always a way to represent it in an object-oriented fashion. And, of course there are advantages. My layout can easily support interesting things, such as mini-games and the like, without any fuss at all. I can even use the exact same code to write a stand-alone puzzle game, or a mini-game. I'm just saying, it isn't all talk when people say everything should be componentized and globals are bad. There are serious benefits, beyond just academic theory.
I really hate to admit it, but you've got a point.
Still, I stand firm with my belief that the best path is to make it as easy and uninhibiting for the consumer to get music through any means that works best for them, and that more money should go to the artist.
Publishers aren't really needed for the publishing part these days. Many artists are selling MP3s on their own websites. The publishers main purpose is advertising the artist and backing up the production of the product. With falling costs of production, publishers are becoming little more than over-egotistical advertising firms.
Should some Madison Ave firm get 70% of McDonald's profits because they draw in the customers for them?
The main issue here is less "How much should they get", and more "Who is working for who". The artists traditionally work for the publishers, but it is the publisher who should work for the artist.
Everyone would benefit, especially in the near future and as wireless access is more wide-spread. When you can get wireless access for free in most public areas, how many people will benefit from better reception on their cell phones through VoIP, or network play on their PSP or Game Boy? The need drives the service, but the service also allows for more of those needs.
Games an art form which I expirience for the expirience. Free time? Hell, I never have time to play games. I cancel plans sometimes so I can make the time to fit them in, just like deciding against seeing a friend because I just have to see that great new Kevin Smith film.
Also, take a look at http://www.ironfroggy.com/content/73 for my thoughts on all this. too much to put here, but I think I debunk most this guys crap points.
point one:
I'm an advocate of digital privacy, of course, but, on the other hand... Maybe this is the push people need to start encrypting their e-mails, and then i can just filter out everyone who's key i dont trust (spammers!).
point two:
Sending an e-mail is more like a postcard than a letter. The envelope is the encryption, and people just dont lick enough on the internet!
True, but if other, cheaper phones already play those Java games, why would I get an N-Gage? none of the N-Gage exclusive games are very good or even attractive, to me.
There is already a much larger and higher-quality selection of Java games available for many more models of cell phone than the ill-fated N-Gage. There is also a much better choice of portage game devices to choose from. Trying to bring the mobile phone and gaming worlds together when it can't even compete with either is just a mistake waiting to be born.
Why not use Jabber Tickets? I already have an account with a Jabber server, and this way the site can automatically tell me if my friends are also using the site, or even notify me that they are using it, so I can spark up a conversation about some topic on the page I know they are at.
use another machine (linux) as a firewall and allow the XP box to connect only to microsoft.com and norton.com so that it can get the updates and do nothing else.
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Of course it is still a loss for Google when everyone goes through proxies and meta-engines. Tracking what everyone is searching on is far less useful than searching the patterns of individual users. That isn't to be taken as "tracking what YOU search for" but "tracking what else people who like dogs search for". Patterns are important, and when we all go through the same IPs (with meta-searchers and proxies) our searches get lumped together. Nothing is free, you pay for google with your tracking data and your eyes looking at advertisements. Pay up for what you use!
I programmed in highschool, only about five years ago. Many of my friends, who were also geeks, had learned to program more than just TI-85's. I remember as early as 8th and 9th grade comparing assembly and Java with a friend, in our own amature understanding of the field. Even as early as 6th grade, I was taking use of the class computer during free periods to program video games for the other kids in class to "wow" over. In highschool, there was even a prgramming class (teaching C, sadly) which had a fairly high signup-rate. The kids there got pretty good in the one semester it ran, going quickly from text-based address books to tank battle games. Along with all that, I knew at least half a dozen other kids who were running web design bussinesses and could do a fair ammount of perl or php in the day.
If a patent like this is able to succeed, then shouldn't it be a violation of the patent to use any device which utilizes any form of wireless networking and SMTP over that connection?
This kind of anti-sentiment toward good ideas because they seem "Big Brother"-ish demishes us. There are more good uses for this than anything else and it doesn't take away any of your rights. It doesn't take away your right to use the road, it just expresses the publics right to watch you use those roads. If someone watches you walk down the sidewalk and remembers they saw you doing so, that doesn't infringe on your rights. This just brings the rights of the public into the technological age.
IT departments aren't filled with geeks and Stallman's Soldiers, its average joes who went to the local five-month school at the strip mall to get that A+ cert and feed the kids who won't stop whining and make the car payments for the wife who won't stop spending. They have no moral, ethical, or otherwise views one way or the other on these matters. They'll install what they're told to and Cisco will make what the big customers want to buy.
A few years ago I saw something like this in a friends car. This was from a small lot, private deal, kinda thing. Only their solution didn't require any codes, it was all controlled through the satellite. How is this making the front page of slashdot when far more advanced versions of the technology were old-hat years ago?
I have been a Pandora user from the early days of the service and I love it. The price is fantastic and I actually like that they are adding a free, ad-supported service for those who can't afford it; but, it is cheap. Keeping the stations in tune with a style is a breeze and I love being able to say "Hey, this song is cool. What else is there like it?" I picked up an old record of "The Ventures" at a garage sale, and now I have a station playing late-50's and 60's beach music type stuff and songs along the lines of the old batman themesong. Of course, having the founder of Pandora comment on my blog when I posted about Pandora was cool, as was the e-mail from the CTO I got, thanking me for my early adoption of Pandora and upgrading me, free of charge, from a quarterly account to a yearly. Nine months for free, now. This really is a sweetspot.
There is no more reason to say that Blender is overkill for such a task than to say OpenGL is overkill for non-3D graphics. Just use a single view angel and don't move anything in the third coord. Southpark is even animated with such a tool. Besides, this will allow you to expand your effects in the future, should you ever find the need.
Actually layering X over OpenGL would result in less CPU drain, because the rendering would be hardware accelerated by your graphics card, instead of all processed by the CPU. Get you facts right, and stop being stubborn and not looking into the facts, first! That sort of mentality is the problem with the FOSS community!
Last night I sat down, scrolled through a list of movies I haven't seen before, and started watching one with my Wife. I didn't Tivo it, and I didn't wait for it to start. On Demand and iControl both offer this kind of service, through Comcast and Time Warner, respectively. Although, I heard On Demand is available through other cable companies, as well, but I could be wrong.
So, what's the difference? The delivery network has little or no effect on the service, so long as you still get to see the movies and shows. Besides, I'd be highly surprised if my On Demand doesn't transfer over IP, anyway. Comcast's cable broadband runs over the same network, and it would make sense if they used the same pipe for all the data.
The only novel thing here is that Tivo is doing it, meaning you can get the service without a cable provider. Also, I would enjoy downloading whole seasons. However, most On Demand television shows cycle through all the episodes, usually keep one to three of them available at a time and moving to the next one every week or so. It's a great way to catch those missed classics and hidden gems.
The M rating for video games is on par with movies' R rating. Both restrict anyone under the age of 17 and associate an amount of maturity that should be present to watch the film or play the game. Although, we won't get into how much maturity most 17 year olds have. So, if rated R movies can show nudity, why can't rated M games? That is all.
There is a big difference between intellectual property and simply specifications for accessing the hardware. We aren't asking them for the source code for the firmware images in the rom chips, we just want to be able to make use of the hardware (which we pay them for) without their software (which, aside from being shipped with the hardware we bought, we didn't directly purchase). We're still buying the hardware, so it is in no way a free ride, and it doesn't even have to do with only Open Source/Free Software issues. What if they don't fix a bug because they are pushing another product or version, but you have a large install base of the particular hardware you need better drivers for? Besides, open source hardware driver developers do the work for them for free. How is that getting a gift? That's giving them a gift, and they are realizing this and taking advantage of it. Look how many companies these days don't develope linux drivers.
This s very outdated news. Not only is this little "hello world" program far from the first things hacked onto a PSP, but its crap compared to the impressive feats that were created on the first day it was released, such as the PSPIRC program that lets you chat on IRC anywhere you have a PSP and a hotspot. PSPIRC was created within 24 hours of the PSPs US release, just on a whim of "wouldn't it be cool".
And, people wonder why I suggest using Jabber...
And, today, people want to use these things. That doesn't mean there was any evidence of the fact then. Don't misinterpret what someone says after the fact, simply in light of new evidence that was not available to them when they said it.
I accomplish most of this through the use of State Stacks. A State interface is defined and for each state of the game ("in play", "in menu", "paused") I create a class. States can be pushed onto the stack, popped off the stack, or replace other states on the stack (just a few pops and a push, of course). This works well because when you want to Pause, a PauseState class instance is pushed onto the top of the stack. Events are handled by state objects and the one on the top gets first dibs. It then deligates if the events are to be passed on to states below it or not (a "typing chat message" state, for example, might pass mouse events on to the "in play" state below it).
What does this have to do with save games and globals? Well, saving a game is merely a matter of serializing the "in play" state. As the state object holds all the data pertaining to it, there is no need for nasty globals.
The point of all this is simple: you really don't need to have global data. There is always a way to represent it in an object-oriented fashion. And, of course there are advantages. My layout can easily support interesting things, such as mini-games and the like, without any fuss at all. I can even use the exact same code to write a stand-alone puzzle game, or a mini-game. I'm just saying, it isn't all talk when people say everything should be componentized and globals are bad. There are serious benefits, beyond just academic theory.
I really hate to admit it, but you've got a point.
Still, I stand firm with my belief that the best path is to make it as easy and uninhibiting for the consumer to get music through any means that works best for them, and that more money should go to the artist.
Publishers aren't really needed for the publishing part these days. Many artists are selling MP3s on their own websites. The publishers main purpose is advertising the artist and backing up the production of the product. With falling costs of production, publishers are becoming little more than over-egotistical advertising firms.
Should some Madison Ave firm get 70% of McDonald's profits because they draw in the customers for them?
The main issue here is less "How much should they get", and more "Who is working for who". The artists traditionally work for the publishers, but it is the publisher who should work for the artist.
Everyone would benefit, especially in the near future and as wireless access is more wide-spread. When you can get wireless access for free in most public areas, how many people will benefit from better reception on their cell phones through VoIP, or network play on their PSP or Game Boy? The need drives the service, but the service also allows for more of those needs.
Games an art form which I expirience for the expirience. Free time? Hell, I never have time to play games. I cancel plans sometimes so I can make the time to fit them in, just like deciding against seeing a friend because I just have to see that great new Kevin Smith film. Also, take a look at http://www.ironfroggy.com/content/73 for my thoughts on all this. too much to put here, but I think I debunk most this guys crap points.
one is a book title. one is a domain name. i think we can all tell the difference.
point one: I'm an advocate of digital privacy, of course, but, on the other hand... Maybe this is the push people need to start encrypting their e-mails, and then i can just filter out everyone who's key i dont trust (spammers!). point two: Sending an e-mail is more like a postcard than a letter. The envelope is the encryption, and people just dont lick enough on the internet!
True, but if other, cheaper phones already play those Java games, why would I get an N-Gage? none of the N-Gage exclusive games are very good or even attractive, to me.
There is already a much larger and higher-quality selection of Java games available for many more models of cell phone than the ill-fated N-Gage. There is also a much better choice of portage game devices to choose from. Trying to bring the mobile phone and gaming worlds together when it can't even compete with either is just a mistake waiting to be born.
Why not use Jabber Tickets? I already have an account with a Jabber server, and this way the site can automatically tell me if my friends are also using the site, or even notify me that they are using it, so I can spark up a conversation about some topic on the page I know they are at.
use another machine (linux) as a firewall and allow the XP box to connect only to microsoft.com and norton.com so that it can get the updates and do nothing else.