Well, as you said math is definitely NOT your strong suit. The problem with "Imaginary Numbers" is that the name is unfortunate. The word "imaginary" conveys that they are something abstract and not planted in the real world, the opposite is actually the Truth. Most of the 20th century science and engineering has something to do with "complex" numbers (I think is better if you use this term instead). Almost everything that "spins" in some way is related with complex numbers, waves for example, you cannot deny that a lot of things in our modern life if governed by waves i.e. radio waves, micro waves, infrared light, etc. Predictions and design via quantum mechanics are possible due to complex numbers!!! Granted, these numbers were originally "discovered" (rather than invented) and they were no more that a mathematical curiosity, but later Quantum Mechanics made heavy use of them and gave place to modern optical and electronic devices... so much for something that is "imaginary".
Regarding this Dr. Anderson, it seems that his "findings" are a complete screwed up.
There are four or five simple game categories and nothing really new or different. The categories are shooters, puzzles and mazes, adventure games, sports games, and simulations. ... When my kids show me a game, I usually say that it's nothing but the same old running-jumping-kicking-shooting with a new background.
Actually there are more game genres: Fighting, First-person shooter, MMOGs and MMORPGs, Racing, Role-Playing, Simulation,
Sports, Strategy, Third-person shooters, Puzzles,
Stealth, Survival horror. Did I forget any?
Well, if we apply this logic to the movie industry there would be just a few categories also: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime , Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film-Noir, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Short, Thriller, War, Western.
And also we can say that it's nothing but the same old over-rated-bad-hollywood-actors-following-dumb-plo ts with a new background. (Which is partially true).
There aren't that many good movies, but from time to time there is a movie that catches our attention and we are eager to see.
The movie industry has been here for more than 100 years and I don't see it collapsing in the near future. Also, I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to say otherwise.
Game industry is here to stay and as with the movies there are the same old type of games and the ones that stand above the crowd from time to time.
By the way, perhaps Dvorak's children should look for new type of games so that their daddy don't come to dumb conclusions.
The ALSA sets the sounds to zero by default, a dumb default if you ask me.
I doesn't matter if he installs the N+1 distros out there, they all very likely of use ALSA and in all cases the volume is going to be set to zero.
I'm just saying
Most open source is imitation?
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I saw this in the article and disturbed me, what do you think?
"Most open source is imitation," Carey says. "Linux is an imitation of an operating system. If these [Linux] companies are going to create a price point that is significant enough that they are approaching the same pricing model as the innovation premium, why pay a premium for imitation when I can pay a premium and get innovation?"
Well, I think this is true however no system is free of that, not even Windows. Actually I think MicroSoft and Window are as imitators as everybody else. Let's enumerate a few examples:
DOS tree arrangement of the filesystem was a copy of UNIX
They copy the UI form Apple, who btw copied it from Xerox.
They missed the internet and IE was not the first browser
Windows was not a networked operating system it had to be "hacked" to get it as an add on with TCP/IP
Windos was not a multiuser operating system
.NET is the same idea as Java, i.e. and imitiation. Granted it was some other stuff on it, but the idea in principle is an imitiation.
The new MS initiative to put an online music store as iTMS.
An probably much more.
So, I don't know what is this guy talking about. Apple also have it's share of imitation, although I personally believe that is more innovator than MS. My personal view is that OSS is not imitating, is talking a good idea and making it possible and then making it better. Perhaps this Carey guy doesn't care much about a bad design and/or security. But that is my opinion.
Point taken. You are definitely right. I prefer a 100% free operating system. Unfortunately that is not going to happen any time soon. In the meanwhile I would rather prefer to see more people moving to linux than lose them because of the lack of drivers.
More people == more pressure on manufacturers more pressure -> released specs (maybe) specs == os drivers
I consider myself a pragmatic person. And I definitely use Linux because is better for my needs than Windows, I am also idealistic, but that is not my main reason. Is quicker to type a 'for' in bash than click 50 times (you know how to do it,though). GNU/Linux is faster, modular and you can do much more without a GUI (like calculations in a cluster).
It's true that finding drivers or supported hardware can sometimes be a pain on the neck. Also, some niceties like DVD and video playing could be hard (or illegal) to use in your computer or sometimes not as good as in Windows.
I have heard a lot of times that people complain about 'Linux' because Y hardware doesn't work or because you cannot play something as simple as a Quicktime movie (thank you xine). The thing is that these people don't think that the manufacturers are the responsible, they *blame* Linux in general.
This is a paradox, because manufacturers don't want to make drivers for linux because they are afraid to release the specs. *If* they make binary-only the OSScommunity doesn't like them. Manufacturers don't care that much because it doesn't represent a big percentage of the user base. But the userbase doesn't grow (as quickly) because most of the end users don't like this lack of hardware support.
IMHO, no drivers ->THE WORST, binary only that depend on one version ->BAD, binary only drivers that can adapt to your changes (like nvidia drivers) ->GOOD, OS drivers ->BETTER.
So, I share Keith's point of view that XFree86 should have an API that can be used by the manufacturers. At least we could get more drivers. After that perhaps we can convince them to release the source code.
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Well, as you said math is definitely NOT your strong suit. The problem with "Imaginary Numbers" is that the name is unfortunate. The word "imaginary" conveys that they are something abstract and not planted in the real world, the opposite is actually the Truth. Most of the 20th century science and engineering has something to do with "complex" numbers (I think is better if you use this term instead). Almost everything that "spins" in some way is related with complex numbers, waves for example, you cannot deny that a lot of things in our modern life if governed by waves i.e. radio waves, micro waves, infrared light, etc. Predictions and design via quantum mechanics are possible due to complex numbers!!! Granted, these numbers were originally "discovered" (rather than invented) and they were no more that a mathematical curiosity, but later Quantum Mechanics made heavy use of them and gave place to modern optical and electronic devices ... so much for something that is "imaginary".
Regarding this Dr. Anderson, it seems that his "findings" are a complete screwed up.
The categories are shooters, puzzles and mazes, adventure games, sports games, and simulations.
When my kids show me a game, I usually say that it's nothing but the same old running-jumping-kicking-shooting with a new background.
Actually there are more game genres: Fighting, First-person shooter, MMOGs and MMORPGs, Racing, Role-Playing, Simulation, Sports, Strategy, Third-person shooters, Puzzles, Stealth, Survival horror. Did I forget any?
Well, if we apply this logic to the movie industry there would be just a few categories also: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime , Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film-Noir, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Short, Thriller, War, Western.
And also we can say that it's nothing but the same old over-rated-bad-hollywood-actors-following-dumb-plo ts with a new background. (Which is partially true).
There aren't that many good movies, but from time to time there is a movie that catches our attention and we are eager to see.
The movie industry has been here for more than 100 years and I don't see it collapsing in the near future. Also, I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to say otherwise.
Game industry is here to stay and as with the movies there are the same old type of games and the ones that stand above the crowd from time to time.
By the way, perhaps Dvorak's children should look for new type of games so that their daddy don't come to dumb conclusions.
Isn't the weird substance needed for the fusion machine "TriLium" instead of "triTium" ?
I know, I know! Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen and trilium doesn't exist. But that could be an undeserved mistake.
Mmhh, did he turned the volume up?
The ALSA sets the sounds to zero by default, a dumb default if you ask me.
I doesn't matter if he installs the N+1 distros out there, they all very likely of use ALSA and in all cases the volume is going to be set to zero.
I'm just saying
I saw this in the article and disturbed me, what do you think?
"Most open source is imitation," Carey says. "Linux is an imitation of an operating system. If these [Linux] companies are going to create a price point that is significant enough that they are approaching the same pricing model as the innovation premium, why pay a premium for imitation when I can pay a premium and get innovation?"
Well, I think this is true however no system is free of that, not even Windows. Actually I think MicroSoft and Window are as imitators as everybody else. Let's enumerate a few examples:
An probably much more.
So, I don't know what is this guy talking about. Apple also have it's share of imitation, although I personally believe that is more innovator than MS. My personal view is that OSS is not imitating, is talking a good idea and making it possible and then making it better. Perhaps this Carey guy doesn't care much about a bad design and/or security. But that is my opinion.
Point taken. You are definitely right. I prefer a 100% free operating system. Unfortunately that is not going to happen any time soon. In the meanwhile I would rather prefer to see more people moving to linux than lose them because of the lack of drivers.
More people == more pressure on manufacturers
more pressure -> released specs (maybe)
specs == os drivers
I consider myself a pragmatic person. And I definitely use Linux because is better for my needs than Windows, I am also idealistic, but that is not my main reason. Is quicker to type a 'for' in bash than click 50 times (you know how to do it,though). GNU/Linux is faster, modular and you can do much more without a GUI (like calculations in a cluster).
It's true that finding drivers or supported hardware can sometimes be a pain on the neck. Also, some niceties like DVD and video playing could be hard (or illegal) to use in your computer or sometimes not as good as in Windows.
I have heard a lot of times that people complain about 'Linux' because Y hardware doesn't work or because you cannot play something as simple as a Quicktime movie (thank you xine). The thing is that these people don't think that the manufacturers are the responsible, they *blame* Linux in general.
This is a paradox, because manufacturers don't want to make drivers for linux because they are afraid to release the specs. *If* they make binary-only the OSScommunity doesn't like them. Manufacturers don't care that much because it doesn't represent a big percentage of the user base. But the userbase doesn't grow (as quickly) because most of the end users don't like this lack of hardware support.
IMHO, no drivers ->THE WORST, binary only that depend on one version ->BAD, binary only drivers that can adapt to your changes (like nvidia drivers) ->GOOD, OS drivers ->BETTER.
So, I share Keith's point of view that XFree86 should have an API that can be used by the manufacturers. At least we could get more drivers. After that perhaps we can convince them to release the source code.