But then its second generation and being the perfectionist that I am that just chaps my hide. Now that we have something to work from, we must diligently begin our attempts to "crack" their little scheme and once this is accomplished we can all point and laugh at them and send press releases to all the news organizations that they are SPNAKED!
But your source code is your intellectual property and if you freely distribute your intellectual property, then you are definitely diluting the value thereof. Coca Cola keeps their recipe in a safe. If they gave it to anyone who bought a Coke, then they have freely given away their invention. This may not be a terribly relevant comparison to you, but it is to me.:-/
Not a happy day for fans of open source business models
Well, that's because there isn't much of a business model behind open source. It is a fascinating grass-roots movement but the timing for it as a sound business strategy is definitely off right now.
Open source will continue to flourish in the realms of academia and those who are not after material wealth but start up ventures like the above will continue to bleed.
There is a definite difference between a "Programmer" and a "Coder". Programmers are interested in the aesthetics of their engineering as well as the science behind it (the two are non-distinguishable) whereas Coders only care about getting the job done well enough so that they continue to have employment and not get fired.
Programmers are much more expensive than coders and harder, much harder, to find for employment. Coders are very abundant. I have never seen a development department (in the 'big corporate IT world') that had more than just a small handful of true programmers, yet dozens and dozens of coders all whittling away at these massively bloated, poorly designed, inefficient, unscalable, pieces of pure SHIT that absord millions and millions of dollars from the corporate budgets.
I don't think comparing houses and bridges to pieces of software is a very fair comparison, btw.. In construction it's quite easy to put lower skilled people to work effectively for the larger picture (doesn't take much as much skill to lay brick as it does to design the wall) than it does in coding (an inexperienced coder can virtually infect the entire project with his or her incompetence.
These are my opinions after working in big IT for too long and perhaps after reading too much Dilbert and Slashdot.
But its not just about AI and accurately mocking a human in communication and computational reasoning.
I want to push for the more philisophical questions -- can I a computer ever truly have sentient life? The feeling of "Self"? Is it possible for a computer to ever look to the heavens and ponder the meaning of its existance? To imagine that gods and spirits are behind those things which it cannot understand? Or will all these existential questions simply be answered by "General Protection Fault" and the grand AI unit simply drops into a mechanical coma?
The technical and aesthetic portion of game development has certainly exploded over the past several years but what I see as still sorely lacking is good writing talent behind the games. I for one am wondering why it is so rare to find a game with some quality script behind it and associated actor talent.
I personally don't think I've seen a truly immersive virtual reality fps since Star Wars Dark Forces.. All that we have these days are poorly translated pieces of junk that offer great eye candy but very little time and talent spent on the story and characters.
Maybe I just haven't found the right game in awhile.. I admittedly only buy maybe 4-6 games a year, tops.
I find it irritating though to read reviews that give a game high marks and I go buy it and am bored to tears (PS2 Extermination)
Ah yes, I used to just about LIVE at this poor guy's house who had a PC when I was 14.. That ol' PC (sans HD) with it's trust Radio Shack 300 bps manual modem and I had some good rockin' times..
I remember discovering my first online porn -- ascii porn -- and printing ascii centerfolds out on 6 sheets of fan-fed dot matrix paper and smuggling them into school. I was cool -- if but for a fleeting moment.
Why do politicians have to kill great science projects for their own political vandettas?
because, silly, we have much more important things to worry about what with the constant threat of an army of cyborg Michael Jackson clones running rampant across the globe. Congress has a clear mandate to protect the world from this threat and they must spend as much time as possible debating legislation around it. We also face the threat of a worldwide economic collapse if Napster and its like are allowed to run unchecked all over the recording industry.
You, sir, obviously have a problem with priorities.
Seeing as how these hearings will be held in San Jose, and what with all the recent industry blood-letting, I'm sure it will be no difficulty whatsoever gathering as many geeks as possible with time to spare on a Monday morning to go fight the power.
Have you taken into account the cost of ownership of Windows vs. Linux? (If you are paying yourself or someone else for system installations and maintenance -- how much are you paying for a Windows machine vs. a Linux machine in a given period?)
Yet more FUD from Michael and the Slashcrap crew. We might as well be debating whether or not to ban cyborgs from participating in laser battles in public gathering areas.
Michael, you are on the right path to being a useless and annoying narcissitic egomaniac who will be soon testifying before congressional committees on such trivial and nonsense matters, further wasting the country's and the taxpayer's time and money, while REAL and PRESENT issues continue being ignored in favor of this technobabble sci-fi bullshit.
(Let's forget about patients' rights, campaign reform, environmental issues, etc., and lets argue about the metaphysics behind cloning for THREE FRICKIN YEARS we'll all be much better)
You paranoid stoners. Put the bongs down and go get a job. Your conspiracy theory ravings sound like something my grandmother would be going on about.. "that wicked technology will kill us all!!!"
Have any of you even bothered to check out the demos of this technology before posting your tripe?
Slashcrap thinks Linux will save the world. Africa has a LOAD of problems -- civil wars, corrupt governments, rampant disease, terrorism, poverty, hunger, etc... What kind of jerk would start talking about laying down a fiber backbone in a land that so clearly needs so much more?
I always admired little 10 year old kids who could remember all the movement combinations in the Mortal Combat series (and clones) and execute them so seamlessly during gameplay.
Well, I suppose SSBN would be incorrect as this is a Russian sub, but still it is nice to see peaceful utilization of these doomsday machines. (I assume from what I have read that the rocket was launched from a ballistic missle sub and not a fast attack)
There is a book, considered a Bible almost in marketing circles, called The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing.
If you read this book, you will begin to understand why Linux will always be that 3rd place contender -- loyal user base forever, I'm sure, but it will be very difficult for it to pop up to #2 and #1 is just about an impossibility.
I'm proud of all the geeks who have spent countless hours in their passionate pursuit of an OS and a software library that Is For The People and Owned By The People.
Unfortunately, in the world of Capitalism, such idealism and passion really doesn't equate to much of anything when it comes to Market Share.
Keep on truckin, Linux geeks.. I'll be rootin for ya. I'll keep my Linux geek box/server and my other little Linux firewall forever, I'm sure.. On my desktop, It's still W2K for now and the forseeable future.
I need tactile response. I hate touchscreens just as much as I hated the touch-keyboard of that old Atari 700 (or whatever the model was) back in the '80s.. I require tactile feedback. Touchscreens work in kiosks at malls, but thats about it IMHO.
And btw, I much prefer the switches and dials and blinking lights and levers from Star Wars as opposed to the sleek touchscreen controls of Star Trek.
It's stupid when people say "Microsoft sucks" because there have been reports of SQL Server corrupting its databases. There have been reports of Oracle doing this as well (and I have experienced it many times). A good competent DBA on the back-end coupled with a sysadmin who have done their jobs and performed standard practice backup procedures should be able to resolve the problem within hours and have everything back online.
Even if it is a SQL Server bug (and Oracle has had them too) that resulted in the corruption, it could have just as easily been faulty hardware.
I'm not a SQL Server fan, btw -- I am an Oracle geek. But I do not buy this latest attempt to defame MS on Slashcrap.
An incompetent DBA can lose data in any RDBMS of his or her choosing, surely.
MS SQL Server is alive and kicking and pervasive throughout enterprise computing. With proper care, it can be as reliable and strong as Oracle and leagues stronger than MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Well, then, clearly we need another Cold War and NASA'll be just purring along like a kitten!
Government R&D is always best when under the pressure of the military.
Currently, I don't think the military could care one way or another about Mars, deep space, reusable launch vehicles, and everything else. Lasers in space, maybe.. We've already got the ICBM thing nailed, so no need for any further R&D on that.
What the military is currently interested in are smaller, cheaper, and more effective offensive platforms.
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But then its second generation and being the perfectionist that I am that just chaps my hide. Now that we have something to work from, we must diligently begin our attempts to "crack" their little scheme and once this is accomplished we can all point and laugh at them and send press releases to all the news organizations that they are SPNAKED!
Just do it... If you're valuable enough in your position, that is..
these people are thinking, "Shit, now everyone is going to blame all of us right away."
Regretfully, this is what happens during war. I do not think they will be treated the same as the Japanese and Germans during WWII, however.
But your source code is your intellectual property and if you freely distribute your intellectual property, then you are definitely diluting the value thereof. Coca Cola keeps their recipe in a safe. If they gave it to anyone who bought a Coke, then they have freely given away their invention. This may not be a terribly relevant comparison to you, but it is to me. :-/
Not a happy day for fans of open source business models
Well, that's because there isn't much of a business model behind open source. It is a fascinating grass-roots movement but the timing for it as a sound business strategy is definitely off right now.
Open source will continue to flourish in the realms of academia and those who are not after material wealth but start up ventures like the above will continue to bleed.
Sorry.
There is a definite difference between a "Programmer" and a "Coder". Programmers are interested in the aesthetics of their engineering as well as the science behind it (the two are non-distinguishable) whereas Coders only care about getting the job done well enough so that they continue to have employment and not get fired.
Programmers are much more expensive than coders and harder, much harder, to find for employment. Coders are very abundant. I have never seen a development department (in the 'big corporate IT world') that had more than just a small handful of true programmers, yet dozens and dozens of coders all whittling away at these massively bloated, poorly designed, inefficient, unscalable, pieces of pure SHIT that absord millions and millions of dollars from the corporate budgets.
I don't think comparing houses and bridges to pieces of software is a very fair comparison, btw.. In construction it's quite easy to put lower skilled people to work effectively for the larger picture (doesn't take much as much skill to lay brick as it does to design the wall) than it does in coding (an inexperienced coder can virtually infect the entire project with his or her incompetence.
These are my opinions after working in big IT for too long and perhaps after reading too much Dilbert and Slashdot.
But its not just about AI and accurately mocking a human in communication and computational reasoning.
I want to push for the more philisophical questions -- can I a computer ever truly have sentient life? The feeling of "Self"? Is it possible for a computer to ever look to the heavens and ponder the meaning of its existance? To imagine that gods and spirits are behind those things which it cannot understand? Or will all these existential questions simply be answered by "General Protection Fault" and the grand AI unit simply drops into a mechanical coma?
The technical and aesthetic portion of game development has certainly exploded over the past several years but what I see as still sorely lacking is good writing talent behind the games. I for one am wondering why it is so rare to find a game with some quality script behind it and associated actor talent.
I personally don't think I've seen a truly immersive virtual reality fps since Star Wars Dark Forces.. All that we have these days are poorly translated pieces of junk that offer great eye candy but very little time and talent spent on the story and characters.
Maybe I just haven't found the right game in awhile.. I admittedly only buy maybe 4-6 games a year, tops.
I find it irritating though to read reviews that give a game high marks and I go buy it and am bored to tears (PS2 Extermination)
Ah yes, I used to just about LIVE at this poor guy's house who had a PC when I was 14.. That ol' PC (sans HD) with it's trust Radio Shack 300 bps manual modem and I had some good rockin' times..
I remember discovering my first online porn -- ascii porn -- and printing ascii centerfolds out on 6 sheets of fan-fed dot matrix paper and smuggling them into school. I was cool -- if but for a fleeting moment.
You, sir, obviously have a problem with priorities.
Seeing as how these hearings will be held in San Jose, and what with all the recent industry blood-letting, I'm sure it will be no difficulty whatsoever gathering as many geeks as possible with time to spare on a Monday morning to go fight the power.
If Linux were downloaded on the Internet then everybody would make lots of money and the world would be happy okbye
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Michael, you are on the right path to being a useless and annoying narcissitic egomaniac who will be soon testifying before congressional committees on such trivial and nonsense matters, further wasting the country's and the taxpayer's time and money, while REAL and PRESENT issues continue being ignored in favor of this technobabble sci-fi bullshit.
(Let's forget about patients' rights, campaign reform, environmental issues, etc., and lets argue about the metaphysics behind cloning for THREE FRICKIN YEARS we'll all be much better)
Have any of you even bothered to check out the demos of this technology before posting your tripe?
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Slashcrap thinks Linux will save the world. Africa has a LOAD of problems -- civil wars, corrupt governments, rampant disease, terrorism, poverty, hunger, etc... What kind of jerk would start talking about laying down a fiber backbone in a land that so clearly needs so much more?
I always admired little 10 year old kids who could remember all the movement combinations in the Mortal Combat series (and clones) and execute them so seamlessly during gameplay.
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If you read this book, you will begin to understand why Linux will always be that 3rd place contender -- loyal user base forever, I'm sure, but it will be very difficult for it to pop up to #2 and #1 is just about an impossibility.
I'm proud of all the geeks who have spent countless hours in their passionate pursuit of an OS and a software library that Is For The People and Owned By The People.
Unfortunately, in the world of Capitalism, such idealism and passion really doesn't equate to much of anything when it comes to Market Share.
Keep on truckin, Linux geeks.. I'll be rootin for ya. I'll keep my Linux geek box/server and my other little Linux firewall forever, I'm sure.. On my desktop, It's still W2K for now and the forseeable future.
And btw, I much prefer the switches and dials and blinking lights and levers from Star Wars as opposed to the sleek touchscreen controls of Star Trek.
It's stupid when people say "Microsoft sucks" because there have been reports of SQL Server corrupting its databases. There have been reports of Oracle doing this as well (and I have experienced it many times). A good competent DBA on the back-end coupled with a sysadmin who have done their jobs and performed standard practice backup procedures should be able to resolve the problem within hours and have everything back online.
Even if it is a SQL Server bug (and Oracle has had them too) that resulted in the corruption, it could have just as easily been faulty hardware.
I'm not a SQL Server fan, btw -- I am an Oracle geek. But I do not buy this latest attempt to defame MS on Slashcrap.
An incompetent DBA can lose data in any RDBMS of his or her choosing, surely.
MS SQL Server is alive and kicking and pervasive throughout enterprise computing. With proper care, it can be as reliable and strong as Oracle and leagues stronger than MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Well, then, clearly we need another Cold War and NASA'll be just purring along like a kitten!
Government R&D is always best when under the pressure of the military.
Currently, I don't think the military could care one way or another about Mars, deep space, reusable launch vehicles, and everything else. Lasers in space, maybe.. We've already got the ICBM thing nailed, so no need for any further R&D on that.
What the military is currently interested in are smaller, cheaper, and more effective offensive platforms.
Well, in another 20 to 50 years when the winter never seems to thaw in New York even in July, I'm sure you'll be rethinking the above philosophy.