However, for older kids there's other possibilities. One interesting one off the top of my head: UnrealScript, for older kids who like games. It's also a real programming language, and kids can learn to customize Unreal and Unreal Tournament and do all sorts of neat stuff.
That's probably the best idea I've seen yet. It's interactive, it givces the kid instant, feedback, and it is definetly something they can relate to. I haven't had the chance to use UnrealScript, but the definetly sounds like it could have potential. Of course, the drawback is that your scholld computer lab would need to have some serious horses in it, and this may not be an option. Home scholling, of course, is completely different.
Along those lines though, I think I'll go you one better: QuakeC. Quake has been opensourced, so they can get right in and view the guts of it, it's been ported to damn near every OS on the planet, and I recall running it on my lowly P75 many moons ago (not running well, mind you, but running all the same).
Designing a course around Quake & QuakeC, and then letting the kids muck aorund to their hearts content might be just the thing. The artistic kids could channel themselves to doing textures or something, and they all might have some good fun with the project. --sugarman--
Well, then you may be right, but the artists you're looking for, while Japanese, are not really unsigned then, are they?
While the "not available on CD" comment of the previous poster != unsigned, it is a close enough approximation. Hard to get or obscure != unsigned *anywhere*.
So the number of downloads of an unsigned artist who is just throwing his stuff out there may well be have been one during that 48 hour period. No need to get suspicious.
Would something like the Elsa 3D Revelator specs work with this? If so, then the only real problem is the power. Grab a USB version of those numpad add-ons they use for laptops (c'mon, how many keys do you really use for quake or most games), and you should be good to go.
Even better if you can do some decent keybinding on the numpad for menu operation or the like. Use the mouse buttons as alt keys, and you could liekly get the majority of your keyboard functionality with a little retraining. Not bad at all.
Calling a PC running *nix and Apache and a RS6000 both "servers" is like calling your house and The Empire State both "buildings": technically correct, but completely missing the scope.
So, a month ago, when Be had a small user base, and of those not a lot where looking in depth at what was contained in all the libs (okay, at least I wasn't, not sure about all the others).
Now, Free Be has had 700,000+ downloads, many of them Linux users who are trying the OS for the first time, and some inconsistencies come to light. So as the OSS zelaots preach: "With many eyes, all bugs are shallow."
I imagine that Bruce is correct: this was likely unintentional. I also imagine that there may be more instances of this withing Be's libs. I mean, iut is a versatile, Posix compliant OS, so there could be a number of other apps being used in the same way.
I guess a more thorough audit of what actually is included in BeOS may be necessary, at least by someone who knows what to look for. I'm sure that whatever conflicts arise could be corrected in short order, but I'd hate to see my fave OS get caught up in licensing hell.
It seems that this thing is little more than a dig at BeIA. From the product specs, they claim that BeIA is of no use, because it requires 32MB of space, yet the machine is going to have 64MB on-board? So what? With that size display, it's not like you need that much Video Ram, and 4 year old PC games can run just fine on what's left.
Also, they state that some of the things that BeIA includes is not required? Bullshit. Protected memory, and a reliance on a GUI interface? Well, how do they think people are going to choose things with a D-pad? With a CLI? And wouldn't protected memory be a bonus, to keep your little toy from crashing while in the hands of young-uns?
Nice try kids, but trolling BeOS users is pretty weak. This thing will never see the light of day.
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There's a couple differences between the 20-30 frames per second the human brain can distinguish (movies, for example are 24 fps), and the people like Thresh being able to notice the difference between 60 and 100 fps in a game.
The main one has to do with motion blur. This has a lot to do with how the brain "fills in the cracks" when there is a fast motion from one position to the other. When an actor moves their arm quickly, there will be blurred motion between the "key frames". Noticeable doing frame-by-frame on VCR's. (not sure about DVDs). This allows a relatively slow moving format appear to be smooth to the human eye.
By contrast, computers don't do this. They need to render every frame as a static image. This means that when something is moving *really* fast in a computer game (ie, a swinging sword, a player in quake), it will still appear jerky as it goes through your FoV (if you even notice: it may just be there for one or two frames). The higher your FpS is, the smoother the motion of even fast-moving objects will appear.
There is hope however. This is supposed to be one of the key features of the new Voodoo4/5 cards. (Last I heard anyways, not sure if this is stil being implemented.) 3dFX are keying some of the features to the way the human eye actually operates. This means not only a more realistic looking picture, but also smoother gameplay even when the framerate would normally be in the tank. No hope for Ultima Ascension. 10fps still looks like crap.
Hmmm, perhaps I worded it wrong, or maybe I just thought I typed it. I fully realize that Pinkerton is not comprised solely of meatheads. No large corporation, not even organized crime, could survive if this was the case.
Rather, the very things that make Pinkerton and other security firms attractive to thier lower levels (power, authority, and the ability to exercise them), becomes pervasive throughout the corp. The corporate fundamentals that are preached are often done to appeal to the rank and file and keep them in line (ie. To Serve and Protect, or whatever catchphrase is on the company posters that line the Head Offices). This will rub off on everyone company wide, precisely because it is pervasive, and you need to spout the company motto in order to keep your job.
So it doesn't matter wherther you come in with the best intentions or not. Eventually, those who aren't comfortable with the company line will move off to another job, another environment that more closely aligns with what they believe in. Others, who don't find the company line so objectionable, will stay on. So the prevailing stereotype remains, and in fact becomes self-fulfilling.
To paraphrase gilroy's dinosaur analogy below (apologies for not responding directly), each corp is a herd. The herd attracts like individuals to it, and those that aren't are driven out. The herd will not react to anything less than another herd, for it lacks the language to deal with anything smaller. (Ahhh frick, I;m out of practive with coming up with analogies. But I hope the gist remains.)
...the problem is that Pinkerton, as a corporation, is comprised of the very people that comprised the tormentors of geeks in high school.
While there may be people within the corporation that have entered it from other channels, the security field is by and large comprised of ex-jocks and those that tried for other forms of authority (Police, Military) and either couldn't hack it, or were removed from their previous position of power.
Quoth Bart Simpson, "I've got my first taste of power, and I like it" (I'm not sure if this was the 'Hall Monitor' episode, or the 'Ride in a Cop Car' episode (Or if those were in fact the same one...constant Simpson re-runs...all blurring together...)). Anyways, the point is the same. The people you are trying to sway are the very people who, if you were a geek, made HS a living hell for you. Why should they behave differently now? They simply have more latitude to get away with it.
So if all the arguements in the world will fall on deaf ears(any accomodations they make being simply placatory while the actual service remains in place), then the way to combat it is to take the fight to other fronts. Protests, alerting other media sources, etc. Linking WAVE to a swastika should manage to draw enough attention to the issue, if enough people see it. So make the Tabloids work for us. They love something conrtoversial, and seeing Deborah Norville leading with the headline "Are our highschools producing the next Hitler Youth?" on Inside Edition may make the traditional media run with the story. Heaven knows they've done it before, and knowledge and exposure is the only way to combat this thing.
I was wondering about this comment on the article myself, wondering what makes Napster different from the other companies that are pressing the suit. The issue turns out to not be about mega-corps vs. small start-ups, but rather about companies which produce the content vs. Napster as a distributor ONLY.
Arguably, if Napster was a record label, and signed artists which agreed to have their music distibuted via Napster, there would be nothing wrong with it. The fact that Napster does not produce the content is why "the DCMA was never intended for companies like [it]".
Grab yourself a copy of the free personal edition of BeOS, and play with that. While I haven't personally used it for DV editing, all the tools are there.
You may need to check the hardware compatibility lists, but if you are in the process of building a machine then you can make sure that your hardware is supported.
Oh, and it would be nice if the core Trek audience - you know, us geeks - could actually admire the captain in the show. Bring back the swashbuckling captain! To h*ll with the prime directive! Punch it to Warp 9, not Warp 6! Diplomacy is when you shoot first, and throw the survivors in the brig!
Well, if it is about the Birth of the Federation, then there will be no Prime Directive, at least to start. So you may just get your wish. At least, the potential for ass to be kicked will exist.
Come on! Bring back the spirit of Roddenberry!
Wait a sec...doesn't this contradict your previous wishes? I though Gene R. was Mr. Ahimsa.
Let's hope that they keep certain WWF stars out of this as well... *sigh*
Are you annoyed that this was the highest-rated episode in quite some time, or just that the r.s.p-w trolls decided to hose the voyager NG?
And Voyager is still UPNs highest rated show.
Not by any stretch of the imagination. Ask any UPN exec if they had to decide between ST:V and Smackdown, I can assure that Capt Janeway and crew would be hitching rides back from the other side of the galaxy.
From where are you drawing your conclusions that I'm a ST:TNG fan? I mean, here I am trying to be civil, and you call me a fan of Wesley Crusher? Sir, you go to far! You leave me no choice but to defend my honor. Q3A at 20 paces, perhaps?
No, I did get the entire gist of the series. The problem I have is when they completely ignored the action and devoted entirely too much time to the character development. It's a problem that re-occurs time and time again in episodic television.
Like the "story-arc" shows in the X-Files, where you need to be watching from the beginning to have a clue of what is going on, or those "special episodes" of sit-coms where they try and get deep and serious and get a message across. It doesn't always (ever?) work. B5 (and most of the modern ST series as well seem to suffer from this problem more often than not. They forget why we, the fans, watch in the first place.
I'm not saying that action shows shouldn't have character development. It's just that you need above-average writing and decent actors to portray them. It works rarely in the film, to have a completely dialogue driven film, and I can think of only one television show that delivers charcacter development with action on a consistent basis.:)
The fact that the symptoms tend to get treated has little or nothing to do with stupidity or laziness. Most people do know what the answers are. Admitting the truth about those answers is what is difficult. Following through on that admission is even tougher.
And it is tough for *everybody*. In fact, the older you get, the more difficult it becomes to follow through, even when you know what the answer is ("from out of the mouths of babes"). Part of this is due to society, and cultural expectations. Often, it is due to our own human frailties and insecurities. All of us experience this, and it takes a strong person to stand against the tide. Most rocks break against the tide.
Perhaps I:m being particularly dense this morning, but I'm not seeing how Evolution is any different from BeOS or Lotus Notes when it comes to managing mail.
BeOS already treats the mail as separate files, and the built in OS query system can already generate seperate folders for each query. These queries can also be saved and used as necessary.
Lotus Notes also treats Mail (and well, everything really) like a databse, and is capable of full text indexing and scripted queries as well.
So am I missing something, 'cause I'm not seeing the innovation here.
I mean, in computers, people get nostalgic about the Amiga, and you see anyone in 15 years wishing for the simple days of Win95?
15 years? Hell I'm already nostalgic about the simple days of CivII, Warcraft and Quake I. (From a Win95 perspective, as those are the first games I recall playing on a Win95 machine)
Eye candy alone doesn't cut it anymore, and it's finally seems that we're getting games that aren't just based on eye-candy anymore. If everyone has it, you have to add gameplay back it to sell the game.
#include Doesn't the fact they did not defend the case, despite the fact the case was apparently questionable to begin with, set a dangerous precedent for any future cases that may be tried on similar grounds?
Isn't this the whole reason that lawyers cite prvious work that may be applicable, like Roe v. Wade or what have you? Won't the fact they caved in now, quickly, quietly, and easily seriously impact any and all future cases where progam reverse engineering comes into play, or future challenges to closed-list filtering software such as this?
Inquiring minds (well, me anyways) want to know.
(I apologize for the fact that the sum total of my legal knowledge has come from John Grisham movies and Law & Order re-runs on A&E)
Yes the Web is US-centric, and will likely remian so until (among other things) the US-based TLD's are removed, or at least forced to append a.us to their names, effectively pushing them up a notch.
AIR, the Russian parliament is also called the whitehouse, so why does whitehouse.gov point to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? Same with.mil. There is some cross-over in the.edu domain, but a number of the other will definetly have to be changed.
Oh well, just one more in the list of things that need to be fixed with 'net. Put it up on the chalkboard.
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Dammit, that didn't even cross my mind til you said it. No wonder everyone was looking funny at those gargoyles in "Snow Crash"
That's probably the best idea I've seen yet. It's interactive, it givces the kid instant, feedback, and it is definetly something they can relate to. I haven't had the chance to use UnrealScript, but the definetly sounds like it could have potential. Of course, the drawback is that your scholld computer lab would need to have some serious horses in it, and this may not be an option. Home scholling, of course, is completely different.
Along those lines though, I think I'll go you one better: QuakeC. Quake has been opensourced, so they can get right in and view the guts of it, it's been ported to damn near every OS on the planet, and I recall running it on my lowly P75 many moons ago (not running well, mind you, but running all the same).
Designing a course around Quake & QuakeC, and then letting the kids muck aorund to their hearts content might be just the thing. The artistic kids could channel themselves to doing textures or something, and they all might have some good fun with the project. --sugarman--
Well, then you may be right, but the artists you're looking for, while Japanese, are not really unsigned then, are they?
While the "not available on CD" comment of the previous poster != unsigned, it is a close enough approximation. Hard to get or obscure != unsigned *anywhere*.
So the number of downloads of an unsigned artist who is just throwing his stuff out there may well be have been one during that 48 hour period. No need to get suspicious.
Would something like the Elsa 3D Revelator specs work with this? If so, then the only real problem is the power. Grab a USB version of those numpad add-ons they use for laptops (c'mon, how many keys do you really use for quake or most games), and you should be good to go.
Even better if you can do some decent keybinding on the numpad for menu operation or the like. Use the mouse buttons as alt keys, and you could liekly get the majority of your keyboard functionality with a little retraining. Not bad at all.
Sorry, link is here, my bad
Gamepsot has a review also, for the less technically inclined.
Well for a brief summary, look here. Briefly summazrized: roughly the same horses with half the cost and 1/3 the processors.
Calling a PC running *nix and Apache and a RS6000 both "servers" is like calling your house and The Empire State both "buildings": technically correct, but completely missing the scope.
Now, Free Be has had 700,000+ downloads, many of them Linux users who are trying the OS for the first time, and some inconsistencies come to light. So as the OSS zelaots preach: "With many eyes, all bugs are shallow."
I imagine that Bruce is correct: this was likely unintentional. I also imagine that there may be more instances of this withing Be's libs. I mean, iut is a versatile, Posix compliant OS, so there could be a number of other apps being used in the same way.
I guess a more thorough audit of what actually is included in BeOS may be necessary, at least by someone who knows what to look for. I'm sure that whatever conflicts arise could be corrected in short order, but I'd hate to see my fave OS get caught up in licensing hell.
Also, they state that some of the things that BeIA includes is not required? Bullshit. Protected memory, and a reliance on a GUI interface? Well, how do they think people are going to choose things with a D-pad? With a CLI? And wouldn't protected memory be a bonus, to keep your little toy from crashing while in the hands of young-uns?
Nice try kids, but trolling BeOS users is pretty weak. This thing will never see the light of day.
The main one has to do with motion blur. This has a lot to do with how the brain "fills in the cracks" when there is a fast motion from one position to the other. When an actor moves their arm quickly, there will be blurred motion between the "key frames". Noticeable doing frame-by-frame on VCR's. (not sure about DVDs). This allows a relatively slow moving format appear to be smooth to the human eye.
By contrast, computers don't do this. They need to render every frame as a static image. This means that when something is moving *really* fast in a computer game (ie, a swinging sword, a player in quake), it will still appear jerky as it goes through your FoV (if you even notice: it may just be there for one or two frames). The higher your FpS is, the smoother the motion of even fast-moving objects will appear.
There is hope however. This is supposed to be one of the key features of the new Voodoo4/5 cards. (Last I heard anyways, not sure if this is stil being implemented.) 3dFX are keying some of the features to the way the human eye actually operates. This means not only a more realistic looking picture, but also smoother gameplay even when the framerate would normally be in the tank. No hope for Ultima Ascension. 10fps still looks like crap.
Rather, the very things that make Pinkerton and other security firms attractive to thier lower levels (power, authority, and the ability to exercise them), becomes pervasive throughout the corp. The corporate fundamentals that are preached are often done to appeal to the rank and file and keep them in line (ie. To Serve and Protect, or whatever catchphrase is on the company posters that line the Head Offices). This will rub off on everyone company wide, precisely because it is pervasive, and you need to spout the company motto in order to keep your job.
So it doesn't matter wherther you come in with the best intentions or not. Eventually, those who aren't comfortable with the company line will move off to another job, another environment that more closely aligns with what they believe in. Others, who don't find the company line so objectionable, will stay on. So the prevailing stereotype remains, and in fact becomes self-fulfilling.
To paraphrase gilroy's dinosaur analogy below (apologies for not responding directly), each corp is a herd. The herd attracts like individuals to it, and those that aren't are driven out. The herd will not react to anything less than another herd, for it lacks the language to deal with anything smaller. (Ahhh frick, I;m out of practive with coming up with analogies. But I hope the gist remains.)
While there may be people within the corporation that have entered it from other channels, the security field is by and large comprised of ex-jocks and those that tried for other forms of authority (Police, Military) and either couldn't hack it, or were removed from their previous position of power.
Quoth Bart Simpson, "I've got my first taste of power, and I like it" (I'm not sure if this was the 'Hall Monitor' episode, or the 'Ride in a Cop Car' episode (Or if those were in fact the same one...constant Simpson re-runs...all blurring together...)). Anyways, the point is the same. The people you are trying to sway are the very people who, if you were a geek, made HS a living hell for you. Why should they behave differently now? They simply have more latitude to get away with it.
So if all the arguements in the world will fall on deaf ears(any accomodations they make being simply placatory while the actual service remains in place), then the way to combat it is to take the fight to other fronts. Protests, alerting other media sources, etc. Linking WAVE to a swastika should manage to draw enough attention to the issue, if enough people see it. So make the Tabloids work for us. They love something conrtoversial, and seeing Deborah Norville leading with the headline "Are our highschools producing the next Hitler Youth?" on Inside Edition may make the traditional media run with the story. Heaven knows they've done it before, and knowledge and exposure is the only way to combat this thing.
Well, enough ranting here, any other suggestions?
Arguably, if Napster was a record label, and signed artists which agreed to have their music distibuted via Napster, there would be nothing wrong with it. The fact that Napster does not produce the content is why "the DCMA was never intended for companies like [it]".
You may need to check the hardware compatibility lists, but if you are in the process of building a machine then you can make sure that your hardware is supported.
Have fun.
Well, if it is about the Birth of the Federation, then there will be no Prime Directive, at least to start. So you may just get your wish. At least, the potential for ass to be kicked will exist.
Come on! Bring back the spirit of Roddenberry!
Wait a sec...doesn't this contradict your previous wishes? I though Gene R. was Mr. Ahimsa.
Let's hope that they keep certain WWF stars out of this as well... *sigh*
Are you annoyed that this was the highest-rated episode in quite some time, or just that the r.s.p-w trolls decided to hose the voyager NG?
And Voyager is still UPNs highest rated show.
Not by any stretch of the imagination. Ask any UPN exec if they had to decide between ST:V and Smackdown, I can assure that Capt Janeway and crew would be hitching rides back from the other side of the galaxy.
From where are you drawing your conclusions that I'm a ST:TNG fan? I mean, here I am trying to be civil, and you call me a fan of Wesley Crusher? Sir, you go to far! You leave me no choice but to defend my honor. Q3A at 20 paces, perhaps?
Like the "story-arc" shows in the X-Files, where you need to be watching from the beginning to have a clue of what is going on, or those "special episodes" of sit-coms where they try and get deep and serious and get a message across. It doesn't always (ever?) work. B5 (and most of the modern ST series as well seem to suffer from this problem more often than not. They forget why we, the fans, watch in the first place.
I'm not saying that action shows shouldn't have character development. It's just that you need above-average writing and decent actors to portray them. It works rarely in the film, to have a completely dialogue driven film, and I can think of only one television show that delivers charcacter development with action on a consistent basis. :)
Bullshit.
The fact that the symptoms tend to get treated has little or nothing to do with stupidity or laziness. Most people do know what the answers are. Admitting the truth about those answers is what is difficult. Following through on that admission is even tougher.
And it is tough for *everybody*. In fact, the older you get, the more difficult it becomes to follow through, even when you know what the answer is ("from out of the mouths of babes"). Part of this is due to society, and cultural expectations. Often, it is due to our own human frailties and insecurities. All of us experience this, and it takes a strong person to stand against the tide. Most rocks break against the tide.
Perhaps I:m being particularly dense this morning, but I'm not seeing how Evolution is any different from BeOS or Lotus Notes when it comes to managing mail.
BeOS already treats the mail as separate files, and the built in OS query system can already generate seperate folders for each query. These queries can also be saved and used as necessary.
Lotus Notes also treats Mail (and well, everything really) like a databse, and is capable of full text indexing and scripted queries as well.
So am I missing something, 'cause I'm not seeing the innovation here.
Well, it's unlikely that the bandwidth would be chewed up by pr0n...
I mean, in computers, people get nostalgic about the Amiga, and you see anyone in 15 years wishing for the simple days of Win95?
15 years? Hell I'm already nostalgic about the simple days of CivII, Warcraft and Quake I. (From a Win95 perspective, as those are the first games I recall playing on a Win95 machine)
Eye candy alone doesn't cut it anymore, and it's finally seems that we're getting games that aren't just based on eye-candy anymore. If everyone has it, you have to add gameplay back it to sell the game.
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Doesn't the fact they did not defend the case, despite the fact the case was apparently questionable to begin with, set a dangerous precedent for any future cases that may be tried on similar grounds?
Isn't this the whole reason that lawyers cite prvious work that may be applicable, like Roe v. Wade or what have you? Won't the fact they caved in now, quickly, quietly, and easily seriously impact any and all future cases where progam reverse engineering comes into play, or future challenges to closed-list filtering software such as this?
Inquiring minds (well, me anyways) want to know.
(I apologize for the fact that the sum total of my legal knowledge has come from John Grisham movies and Law & Order re-runs on A&E)
Yes the Web is US-centric, and will likely remian so until (among other things) the US-based TLD's are removed, or at least forced to append a .us to their names, effectively pushing them up a notch.
.mil. There is some cross-over in the .edu domain, but a number of the other will definetly have to be changed.
AIR, the Russian parliament is also called the whitehouse, so why does whitehouse.gov point to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? Same with
Oh well, just one more in the list of things that need to be fixed with 'net. Put it up on the chalkboard.