Since it's expensive, only the most dedicated and the ones with the deepest pockets come forward.
There's less noise only because it's too damned expensive to play in that playground unless you're dead-serious about the games you're trying to produce. The PC games are a flop, not because of a lack of licensing, but due to a lack of good focus. (Any fool with some smattering of coding skills can come forward and try to make a game in the PC arena.)
Drawback of the console licensing? Simple, it's more homogenous than in the PC world. How many of the games on Nintendo are Dokey Kong 64 "clones"? How many of them are Zelda 64 clones? Etc. How many of those 30-40 are truly novel things- different from much of the first offerings on each of the console brands? Gauntlet Ledgends? That's an arcade re-make. Any of the racing games? Ditto. What's truly novel in that arena? Not a lot. Why is that? The novel stuff comes from those PC developers and from the Arcade game developers.
Which would I have? Both. The PC and the arcade stuff is an incubator for the novel gaming experiences. The console is the just-plug-it-in-and-make-it-go expression of these sorts of new and old experiences.
The moment that anyone working on Crystal Space signs the NDA, there can be no safe clean-room implementation. The court will likely NOT believe that you did it clean-room.
Frankly speaking, while the PS2 support would be cool, I don't think that it's worth risking the Free Software aspects of Crystal Space (It's LGPLed!) to get "support" that's dubious at best (I mean, let's face it, CS is NOT ready for primetime yet- why are we even talking about this?). I'd wait, get it rocking and then use the games that are made by it as a cudgel to make Sony either make their own closed source driver for it or release the details without an NDA. Anything less is not really a good thing.
There was this SF story that showed that...
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It was called Heaven's Belt. It was about this crew of people that had built a starship to come from their planet to establish economic and social ties with the system called Heaven's Belt. When the people got there, there was no starsystem of prosperity- only squabbling peoples fighting over the scraps their civil war had left of a system of nothing but asteroids and gas giants. There was this group of asteroids that was the home of one of the more advanced groups- the Demarchy.
The Demarchy was a true democracy- more appropriately a mobocracy. It was quite nasty to deal with. Unless we're all sensible, mature, individuals without any of the BS we seem to drag about through our lives, we can't be trusted with a true democracy. The majority will invariably opress the minority- it's happened time and time again throughout history. Why, in the name of God, would you think that it'd be different now?
How many times do people have to say this before it soaks into everyone's thick skulls?
"Wasting" votes is what the damn Republicans and Democrats want you to think. If you vote what you really believe, rather than voting for the lesser of two evils (the two front-runners in the current incumbent pollitical parties...) then you are wasting a vote. Why? Because if enough people do as you should, vote their feelings, then perhaps enough people will vote for that candidate (or another) and cost a clear victory for the other two candidates at the least. If there's enough states that come in tight instead of being a shoo-in, then maybe the politicians will sit up and take notice that they're screwing up in the eyes of the electorate. And who knows, the candidate you vote for might just actually take that state after all. That would really send a message to the politicians.
It's not a wasted vote to vote Nader, Browne or any of the others. Vote what you believe in!
It was even more fun if you overclocked the CPU (Perversely, you could "overclock" the machines- one poke and it set the clock speed to double what Tandy had set it for.)
They seperated out the 600,000 shares (Note: that's NOT the same as the 800,000 shares that Red Hat had indicated on their filing and promised to the world...) that E-Trade claims were sold to through the directed shares program. They seperated them into two piles- one for the open source crowd (That comprised 200,000 shares...) and one for "Friends and Family" (That comprised 400,000 shares...). According to the findings in the arbitration, they only submitted the Open Source people to the scrutiny that we all have come to loathe and hate.
Seems to me that E-Trade DID discriminate.
Oh, and there's nothing that the FCC has to do with the trading of securities or comodities. That would be the SEC. And there's NO SEC regulations other than the "Know your Customer" requirements. Had they followed SEC regs, there'd been quite a few less disgruntled people.
The blue OLED uses a different emissive method than the blue LED you buy off the shelf. So much so that you could almost call it electroluminescent plastic instead of an LED.
It's really almost like night and day by comparison.
Light Emitting Plastics (Also known as Organic LED's, BTW) is a known. A little company in Cambridge, UK came up with the first variety, Cambridge Display Technologies- look them up.
This has been lurking for about 1-2 years now. I'm waiting for them to come out with the stuff.
...if it doesn't render pages right, it's of no use whatsoever. It doesn't seem to do anything right on any of the popular sites, overlapping text renderings all over the place.
If it doesn't do what it's supposed to, it doesn't matter how small/fast it is. Mozilla's only slightly better in this context as the binaries can run for minutes or hours without a hitch rendering the pages. It only goes poof every so often.
The hardware support for those G4 machines is sparse.
OS X doesn't offer a command line unless you buy server or developer versions for a lot more money.
Linux, I don't think is running on those machines.
OS X is slower than Linux on the same platform.
Yes, there IS a SMP alternative to Intel- and it's called Alpha. They're insanely great machines- just insanely expensive as well. G4 an alternative to Intel? Only when Motorola or IBM get off their duffs and sell SMP machines with the G4's processors.
The Linux option's useful if you're using software that you've the source to. Most of the applications out there for Linux are Intel only and the only games other than Civilization:CTP is the open source ones (Because of a distinct lack of support for the 3D accelerator on the laptops. While I'm working to fix that, it's going to be a while yet before I get it working and Loki and others makes versions for sale for PPC.)
The MacOS option's useful if you like being in the same boat as the Windows people with a cooler looking OS with more limited options for software.
Why would anyone buy a Crusoe- to run Windows or Linux on it. While I agree with your appraisal of the Windows option, the Linux option holds merit as everything worth having on Linux is available for x86- and Crusoe runs x86 applications surprisingly enough.
The operator's console doesn't have access to the resources to poll the last call. And if you think that an operator would do just what you suggest if they could, you're mistaken.
The thing doesn't crash (so far...) but the screen rendering's toast. It's got text overlaid all over other text, etc. At least when Nutscrape renders the screen, it gets it right.
It doesn't seem to crash, but it's fubared in the screen rendering department. It makes a right mess out of the screens here on/., overlaying text on top of text, etc.
They took great care in reminding us of improperly classifying things that should have been unclassified when I got my Secret clearance ages ago. It's apparently done often enough that they stress it as much as not classifying things that should be labeled Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, etc. I find it amazing and highly disappointing to see this all classified- the things that weren't redacted were disturbing enough as it is. This isn't a mere e-mail sniffer like it's been implied. This is an uber wiretap for the Internet.
If you play with the optics some, you can get away with a sealed dome assembly. Make it a vacuum container and drive the screen with a magnet motor. That will allow them to scale it quite a bit further. Not huge sizes, but allow it to be something manageable, about the size of a 19-21" monitor with no issues at all.
I'm a bit amazed at the claim of only 8 colors. With a little work, these beasts could do truecolor. Talk about mind-popping...
I just went to their site...
"Resolution Breakthrough: Nearly 100 million voxels"
No lasers. No goggles. Just a spinning screen target that they shine light on. It's almost too good to be true- the resolution's just too high to be "real".
If NASDAQ were using Apache, there would likely have been a fix (realize that MS knew about this exploit for months now and hasn't even bothered to fix it...) and if their admins were worth their salt, they'd have certified the fixes against their system and would have already deployed. IIS people are still waiting for a fix and many wouldn't bother with updating until the next SP was released.
Prior art is just that. Whether or not it's done in-house or not is irrelavent to the issue of whether or not someone came up with it before they did. Prior art does not imply public or private use- it only implies that was implemented in some manner at one point in time. Patents are concerned with who came up with the idea first. If someone came up with it first and can prove it, it invalidates the whole thing. That's why I snail-mail myself any invention ideas that I come up with nowadays and never open the envelope- because it proves when I came up with the idea and provides proof of prior art.
And I'd say doing something Fltk might be a better option- because it works the same on both worlds. The same could be said of wXWindows- though I've never seen it in action.
Thing is, Win32 as an API is a strange, and twisted thing. MS did a lot of horribly broken things within their API and it's not as simple as coding up something that presents the interfaces- there's bugs and design flaws that applications tend to use (Such as VC++ allowing you to alter the contents of constants during execution...:-)
It might seem like a good idea on first blush, but there's so much that's different, so much that MS products let you get away with that's not a good idea that you're better off converting it and making the result work on both platforms.
...MFC stuff doesn't abstract out well. If you use MFC and want to abstract out all but the UI, you're going to have a lot of translation layer code to abstract it. Why? Because MFC does a lot of stuff with strings and such that doesn't exist anywhere else but MFC (Like CStrings...) and you end up using them without an abstraction layer because the layer bloats up the code and makes it even slower than before.
The best policy for someone is NOT to use MFC- it's not the API for Windows, it's an app framework and a bad one for many applications at that.
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Since it's expensive, only the most dedicated and the ones with the deepest pockets come forward.
There's less noise only because it's too damned expensive to play in that playground unless you're dead-serious about the games you're trying to produce. The PC games are a flop, not because of a lack of licensing, but due to a lack of good focus. (Any fool with some smattering of coding skills can come forward and try to make a game in the PC arena.)
Drawback of the console licensing? Simple, it's more homogenous than in the PC world. How many of the games on Nintendo are Dokey Kong 64 "clones"? How many of them are Zelda 64 clones? Etc. How many of those 30-40 are truly novel things- different from much of the first offerings on each of the console brands? Gauntlet Ledgends? That's an arcade re-make. Any of the racing games? Ditto. What's truly novel in that arena? Not a lot. Why is that? The novel stuff comes from those PC developers and from the Arcade game developers.
Which would I have? Both. The PC and the arcade stuff is an incubator for the novel gaming experiences. The console is the just-plug-it-in-and-make-it-go expression of these sorts of new and old experiences.
The moment that anyone working on Crystal Space signs the NDA, there can be no safe clean-room implementation. The court will likely NOT believe that you did it clean-room.
Frankly speaking, while the PS2 support would be cool, I don't think that it's worth risking the Free Software aspects of Crystal Space (It's LGPLed!) to get "support" that's dubious at best (I mean, let's face it, CS is NOT ready for primetime yet- why are we even talking about this?). I'd wait, get it rocking and then use the games that are made by it as a cudgel to make Sony either make their own closed source driver for it or release the details without an NDA. Anything less is not really a good thing.
It was called Heaven's Belt. It was about this crew of people that had built a starship to come from their planet to establish economic and social ties with the system called Heaven's Belt. When the people got there, there was no starsystem of prosperity- only squabbling peoples fighting over the scraps their civil war had left of a system of nothing but asteroids and gas giants. There was this group of asteroids that was the home of one of the more advanced groups- the Demarchy.
The Demarchy was a true democracy- more appropriately a mobocracy. It was quite nasty to deal with. Unless we're all sensible, mature, individuals without any of the BS we seem to drag about through our lives, we can't be trusted with a true democracy. The majority will invariably opress the minority- it's happened time and time again throughout history. Why, in the name of God, would you think that it'd be different now?
How many times do people have to say this before it soaks into everyone's thick skulls?
"Wasting" votes is what the damn Republicans and Democrats want you to think. If you vote what you really believe, rather than voting for the lesser of two evils (the two front-runners in the current incumbent pollitical parties...) then you are wasting a vote. Why? Because if enough people do as you should, vote their feelings, then perhaps enough people will vote for that candidate (or another) and cost a clear victory for the other two candidates at the least. If there's enough states that come in tight instead of being a shoo-in, then maybe the politicians will sit up and take notice that they're screwing up in the eyes of the electorate. And who knows, the candidate you vote for might just actually take that state after all. That would really send a message to the politicians.
It's not a wasted vote to vote Nader, Browne or any of the others. Vote what you believe in!
It was even more fun if you overclocked the CPU (Perversely, you could "overclock" the machines- one poke and it set the clock speed to double what Tandy had set it for.)
They seperated out the 600,000 shares (Note: that's NOT the same as the 800,000 shares that Red Hat had indicated on their filing and promised to the world...) that E-Trade claims were sold to through the directed shares program. They seperated them into two piles- one for the open source crowd (That comprised 200,000 shares...) and one for "Friends and Family" (That comprised 400,000 shares...). According to the findings in the arbitration, they only submitted the Open Source people to the scrutiny that we all have come to loathe and hate.
Seems to me that E-Trade DID discriminate.
Oh, and there's nothing that the FCC has to do with the trading of securities or comodities. That would be the SEC. And there's NO SEC regulations other than the "Know your Customer" requirements. Had they followed SEC regs, there'd been quite a few less disgruntled people.
I remember them too. I just can't remember who they were, or how to get ahold of them.
The blue OLED uses a different emissive method than the blue LED you buy off the shelf. So much so that you could almost call it electroluminescent plastic instead of an LED.
It's really almost like night and day by comparison.
Light Emitting Plastics (Also known as Organic LED's, BTW) is a known. A little company in Cambridge, UK came up with the first variety, Cambridge Display Technologies- look them up.
This has been lurking for about 1-2 years now. I'm waiting for them to come out with the stuff.
...if it doesn't render pages right, it's of no use whatsoever. It doesn't seem to do anything right on any of the popular sites, overlapping text renderings all over the place.
If it doesn't do what it's supposed to, it doesn't matter how small/fast it is. Mozilla's only slightly better in this context as the binaries can run for minutes or hours without a hitch rendering the pages. It only goes poof every so often.
The hardware support for those G4 machines is sparse.
OS X doesn't offer a command line unless you buy server or developer versions for a lot more money.
Linux, I don't think is running on those machines.
OS X is slower than Linux on the same platform.
Yes, there IS a SMP alternative to Intel- and it's called Alpha. They're insanely great machines- just insanely expensive as well. G4 an alternative to Intel? Only when Motorola or IBM get off their duffs and sell SMP machines with the G4's processors.
Run MacOS 8/9/X or run Linux.
The Linux option's useful if you're using software that you've the source to. Most of the applications out there for Linux are Intel only and the only games other than Civilization:CTP is the open source ones (Because of a distinct lack of support for the 3D accelerator on the laptops. While I'm working to fix that, it's going to be a while yet before I get it working and Loki and others makes versions for sale for PPC.)
The MacOS option's useful if you like being in the same boat as the Windows people with a cooler looking OS with more limited options for software.
Why would anyone buy a Crusoe- to run Windows or Linux on it. While I agree with your appraisal of the Windows option, the Linux option holds merit as everything worth having on Linux is available for x86- and Crusoe runs x86 applications surprisingly enough.
I want it NOW- not later.
The operator's console doesn't have access to the resources to poll the last call. And if you think that an operator would do just what you suggest if they could, you're mistaken.
The thing doesn't crash (so far...) but the screen rendering's toast.
It's got text overlaid all over other text, etc. At least when Nutscrape
renders the screen, it gets it right.
It doesn't seem to crash, but it's fubared in the screen rendering /.,
department. It makes a right mess out of the screens here on
overlaying text on top of text, etc.
They took great care in reminding us of improperly classifying things that should have been unclassified when I got my Secret clearance ages ago. It's apparently done often enough that they stress it as much as not classifying things that should be labeled Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, etc. I find it amazing and highly disappointing to see this all classified- the things that weren't redacted were disturbing enough as it is. This isn't a mere e-mail sniffer like it's been implied. This is an uber wiretap for the Internet.
We're just not using them in that manner yet.
If you play with the optics some, you can get away with a sealed dome assembly. Make it a vacuum container and drive the screen with a magnet motor. That will allow them to scale it quite a bit further. Not huge sizes, but allow it to be something manageable, about the size of a 19-21" monitor with no issues at all.
I'm a bit amazed at the claim of only 8 colors. With a little work, these beasts could do truecolor. Talk about mind-popping...
I just went to their site... "Resolution Breakthrough: Nearly 100 million voxels" No lasers. No goggles. Just a spinning screen target that they shine light on. It's almost too good to be true- the resolution's just too high to be "real".
If NASDAQ were using Apache, there would likely have been a fix (realize that MS knew about this exploit for months now and hasn't even bothered to fix it...) and if their admins were worth their salt, they'd have certified the fixes against their system and would have already deployed. IIS people are still waiting for a fix and many wouldn't bother with updating until the next SP was released.
Prior art is just that. Whether or not it's done in-house or not is irrelavent to the issue of whether or not someone came up with it before they did. Prior art does not imply public or private use- it only implies that was implemented in some manner at one point in time. Patents are concerned with who came up with the idea first. If someone came up with it first and can prove it, it invalidates the whole thing. That's why I snail-mail myself any invention ideas that I come up with nowadays and never open the envelope- because it proves when I came up with the idea and provides proof of prior art.
...I don't have to pay for any of the content I obtain from other Napster users!
And I'd say doing something Fltk might be a better option- because it works the same on both worlds. The same could be said of wXWindows- though I've never seen it in action.
Thing is, Win32 as an API is a strange, and twisted thing. MS did a lot of horribly broken things within their API and it's not as simple as coding up something that presents the interfaces- there's bugs and design flaws that applications tend to use (Such as VC++ allowing you to alter the contents of constants during execution... :-)
It might seem like a good idea on first blush, but there's so much that's different, so much that MS products let you get away with that's not a good idea that you're better off converting it and making the result work on both platforms.
...MFC stuff doesn't abstract out well. If you use MFC and want to abstract out all but the UI, you're going to have a lot of translation layer code to abstract it. Why? Because MFC does a lot of stuff with strings and such that doesn't exist anywhere else but MFC (Like CStrings...) and you end up using them without an abstraction layer because the layer bloats up the code and makes it even slower than before.
The best policy for someone is NOT to use MFC- it's not the API for Windows, it's an app framework and a bad one for many applications at that.