It will be interesting to see how much longer it takes for the games industry to catch on that there's a serious market for classic games.
While there's been a few jumbo-sized compiliations published, they are currently (IMO) missing the boat. Classic games could end up as a solid niche in much the same way classic movies are. Sure, not everyone wants to watch silents or black-and-whites, but a lot of people are happy to pay for TNT so they can watch Lillian Gish and Casablanca.
Of course, having this happen in the game industry could be a mixed blessing. Making it heasier to get at the great hits of the past would be a fine thing; however, it will most likely end up being accompanied by a crack down on ROM trading, which doesn't especially bother me, and a horde of clueless lawyers trying to kill tools like MAME, which does - because the free emulators are streets ahead of those that have been bundled with any of the compilations released to date.
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I'll agree that Napster is good for those things, but let's be honest: Napster has attracted the bulk of its audience, and continues to do so, not by offering the promise that Phil Ochs fans can obtain bootlegs of his work that will never be commercially released, but by offering the promise of Top 40 type music for free.
I don't especially like the RIAA, but the more I look at Napster's operation, the more sleazy they look to me. Notice how they suddenly started promoting unsigned artists only when the RIAA took them to court? The fact is that Napster are building a business empire by facilitating the theft of artists' work. And they've been plenty keen to attack anyone undermining their own intellectual property, too.
-- My name is Sue, How do you do? Now you gonna die!
I'm in the 300-450 bracket myself. My desktop is a 333 celery. My work laptop is a PIII-450, and I don't notice much meaningful distance for any of the work I do (development). Heck, even Win2K runs nicely under VMWare on the laptop.
My telehoused box is only a 486-100 and is just fine for everything I need to do except run Postgres - which runs on another P166.
Games might want more grunt than I have. Perhaps some really poorly written OS/App combos (but, like I say, big Java apps on W2K are OK for me). I suspect the speed market is currently sustained, on the desktop, by games and the "mine's bigger than yours" crowd.
(And SETI fans 8)
-- My name is Sue, How do you do? Now you gonna die!
Actually, M16 ground to a halt and stopped launching for me - that is, it would startup, but no windows. Bit rot. The engine was fine, since galeon worked.
Deleting the prefs regularly lets it work, and M16 runs *much faster* if you delete prefs regularly.
Which goes to show how broken stuff still is.
Think.
Don't ass-u-me.
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It was very important in the late 1800's that everyone had the right to be heard, and communicate that the "Redcoats were coming"... etc.
Actually, the main reason countries tend to have a state-run postal service is that virtually every nation is a signatory to international treaties requiring certain standards of mail delivery.
If you're interested, you can read more about it here
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This, is of course how IBM makes a huge chunk of money these days. If one wants Oracle on AIX instead of DB2 on AIX, IBM will be more than happy to support you. For a suitable fee. Ditto Apache on Linux - you name it, IBM will sell you support for it.
Of course, it pays to check on the quality of IBM support - it is a *lot* better in some countries than in others.
You should be able to hack on mailman or majordomo to have it run pgp/gpg over mail. You should also have a look at using MTAs that support TLS extensions (SMTP with SSL). Exim, qmail, sendmail, postfix, zmailer all have or are currently adding these.
(Look at the text of the censorship legislation for a great example).
Most of the exceptions here are in favour of the Customs department, not the police.
If most folk think this is like phone tapping, this should go thru with minor changes.
And, indeed, if it is tightly regulated and targeted - like phone tapping by police (but not the SIS) - then it's hardly an alarming proposal. Unfortunately, it appears that the police are pushing for draconian powers in this area, and the idea of the SIS gaining more powers in this area is downright scary, given their record of responsible use of their other powers.
One analysis of New Zealand civil society is that it is "an unenforced police state". The police have quite a good image in NZ, and mostly do good work.
Yes and no. Personally, I'd like a bit more scepticism in the area of the police here, but.nz is a curious beast here. There are plenty of people, for example, who hardly have unreserved love for the police as a result of the Springbok riots, but are quite happy with general police performance. Proposals to give the police arbitary powers in many areas (eg fighting drug or gang crime) quite regularly fail.
What is also very weird is the police assoc. spokesperson referring to political assasination!
Which is insane. If anyone was going to be offed, it would have been Muldoon.
I wonder to what degree some of this nonsense is a result of the previous, right wing government, importing so-called experts from.us organisations to come and preach at Kiwis about how we should have a proper US style war on drugs and the like. Hopefully we'll be too sensible as a country to listen.
Both. New Zealand cabinet ministers are typically involved in several roles, usually with one primary area of responsibility and a number of assistant roles.
The main potential problem we have inNew Zealand is that the New Zealand Labour party is cursed with a desire to emulate Tony Blair's Labour Party, right down to having a little proto-facist in cabinet (Phil Goff, the.nz Minister of Police, should be called mini-Straw).
The Libertarianz are very much on the fringe of New Zealand politics; we're futher to the left here, and, historically, the left have been guardians of civil liberties in most areas. Sadly, as I mentioned earlier, their desire to emulate.uk's New Labour extends to a mindless "get tough on law and order issues" posture.
This is, of course, why people should be worried about what happens in other countries. Whenever something unpleasant happens in the US, smug Europeans tend to have a good laugh, and vice versa.
This is a perfect example of why such smugness is so dumb. Attempts to grant police more draconian powers in.nz are being justified with the UK RIP bill; no doubt people in the US will be unpleasantly surprised when the FBI justify Carnivore (and more) on the same grounds.
Once it is considered acceptable for one country to behave abhorrently, other governments will do the same. How often have you heard proponents of strong government point to Asian dictatorships like Singapore as evidence of what could be achieved by strong government unquestioned (and unquestionable) by the people?
I'll doubtless be amused to watch Steve's Loyal Army explain why Apple should be able to sue alleged rip-offs of the iMac, but the cube is an original and innovative design that Cobalt have no right to complain about.
Adam Smith. You are, of course, aware that the founder of the modern intellectual framework for capitalism recognised that capitalists who refused to be concerned with moral issues would undermine the system that fed their wealth?
...was Star Trek 4. The story goes that the makers of the movie went to Commodore to get an Amiga 1000 to be the computer that Scotty used. Commodore demonstrated their usual savvy by telling Paramount they could buy one, just like anyone else.
Enter Apple, who had the smarts to work the product placement.
King regularly claims his wife is a better writer than him - the point he's trying to make is that she could be a latter day Joyce or Miller and never get published unless she was already famous-by-proxy.
Editing expertise is vital, as anyone who has seen the decline in output quality of authors who get arrogant and start believing they don't need an editor. However, there are plenty of skilled editors out there, and I'm sure they're happy to contract their skills out.
Similarly, publicity can easily be handled by a good agent. Check out sports personalities, actors, etc, most of whom have a good agent to help keep them in the news, cut deals, etc. Again, there are plenty of freelancers and companies who are more than happy to handle these things.
If publicity and editing are all a publisher brings to the table, they offer a very slim value proposition indeed.
IMO, the worst part of MySQL is the brain-dead SQL implementation. SQL is a hugely powerful programming language if one implements any non-trivial subset of it.
There are several HTML 4 quoting entities - the <q> tag, which is supposed to produce localisation-correct quoting behaviour (eg, typographic quotes, guillemot, etc). There are also explicit quote entities, such as “, which is supposed to produce a left double quote, and similar for the various national quoting standards.
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It will be interesting to see how much longer it takes for the games industry to catch on that there's a serious market for classic games.
While there's been a few jumbo-sized compiliations published, they are currently (IMO) missing the boat. Classic games could end up as a solid niche in much the same way classic movies are. Sure, not everyone wants to watch silents or black-and-whites, but a lot of people are happy to pay for TNT so they can watch Lillian Gish and Casablanca.
Of course, having this happen in the game industry could be a mixed blessing. Making it heasier to get at the great hits of the past would be a fine thing; however, it will most likely end up being accompanied by a crack down on ROM trading, which doesn't especially bother me, and a horde of clueless lawyers trying to kill tools like MAME, which does - because the free emulators are streets ahead of those that have been bundled with any of the compilations released to date.
--
My name is Sue,
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!
I'm Mr Bug. I tend to find stuff that doesn't work by the simple expediant of breaking thinks that work fine for everyone else.
I'm told it's a talent. Mostly, it's a pain in the arse.
--
My name is Sue,
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!
I'll agree that Napster is good for those things, but let's be honest: Napster has attracted the bulk of its audience, and continues to do so, not by offering the promise that Phil Ochs fans can obtain bootlegs of his work that will never be commercially released, but by offering the promise of Top 40 type music for free.
I don't especially like the RIAA, but the more I look at Napster's operation, the more sleazy they look to me. Notice how they suddenly started promoting unsigned artists only when the RIAA took them to court? The fact is that Napster are building a business empire by facilitating the theft of artists' work. And they've been plenty keen to attack anyone undermining their own intellectual property, too.
--
My name is Sue,
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!
I'm in the 300-450 bracket myself. My desktop is a 333 celery. My work laptop is a PIII-450, and I don't notice much meaningful distance for any of the work I do (development). Heck, even Win2K runs nicely under VMWare on the laptop.
My telehoused box is only a 486-100 and is just fine for everything I need to do except run Postgres - which runs on another P166.
Games might want more grunt than I have. Perhaps some really poorly written OS/App combos (but, like I say, big Java apps on W2K are OK for me). I suspect the speed market is currently sustained, on the desktop, by games and the "mine's bigger than yours" crowd.
(And SETI fans 8)
--
My name is Sue,
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!
Actually, M16 ground to a halt and stopped launching for me - that is, it would startup, but no windows. Bit rot. The engine was fine, since galeon worked.
Deleting the prefs regularly lets it work, and M16 runs *much faster* if you delete prefs regularly.
Which goes to show how broken stuff still is.
Don't ass-u-me.
--
My name is Sue,
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!
Actually, the main reason countries tend to have a state-run postal service is that virtually every nation is a signatory to international treaties requiring certain standards of mail delivery.
If you're interested, you can read more about it here
--
My name is Sue,
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!
Ahh, yes. The mark of a fine application - delete all prefs and bookmarks on a regular basis.
--
My name is Sue,
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!
This, is of course how IBM makes a huge chunk of money these days. If one wants Oracle on AIX instead of DB2 on AIX, IBM will be more than happy to support you. For a suitable fee. Ditto Apache on Linux - you name it, IBM will sell you support for it.
Of course, it pays to check on the quality of IBM support - it is a *lot* better in some countries than in others.
You should be able to hack on mailman or majordomo to have it run pgp/gpg over mail. You should also have a look at using MTAs that support TLS extensions (SMTP with SSL). Exim, qmail, sendmail, postfix, zmailer all have or are currently adding these.
There's probably a certain truth to that. Nothing so desperate as government functionaries staring at disestablishment.
Most of the exceptions here are in favour of the Customs department, not the police.
And, indeed, if it is tightly regulated and targeted - like phone tapping by police (but not the SIS) - then it's hardly an alarming proposal. Unfortunately, it appears that the police are pushing for draconian powers in this area, and the idea of the SIS gaining more powers in this area is downright scary, given their record of responsible use of their other powers.
Yes and no. Personally, I'd like a bit more scepticism in the area of the police here, but .nz is a curious beast here. There are plenty of people, for example, who hardly have unreserved love for the police as a result of the Springbok riots, but are quite happy with general police performance. Proposals to give the police arbitary powers in many areas (eg fighting drug or gang crime) quite regularly fail.
Which is insane. If anyone was going to be offed, it would have been Muldoon.
I wonder to what degree some of this nonsense is a result of the previous, right wing government, importing so-called experts from .us organisations to come and preach at Kiwis about how we should have a proper US style war on drugs and the like. Hopefully we'll be too sensible as a country to listen.
Both. New Zealand cabinet ministers are typically involved in several roles, usually with one primary area of responsibility and a number of assistant roles.
The main potential problem we have inNew Zealand is that the New Zealand Labour party is cursed with a desire to emulate Tony Blair's Labour Party, right down to having a little proto-facist in cabinet (Phil Goff, the .nz Minister of Police, should be called mini-Straw).
The Libertarianz are very much on the fringe of New Zealand politics; we're futher to the left here, and, historically, the left have been guardians of civil liberties in most areas. Sadly, as I mentioned earlier, their desire to emulate .uk's New Labour extends to a mindless "get tough on law and order issues" posture.
So I notice any time I contemplate nipping to Spain for a holiday 8)
Seriously, it's a trend, and that's one example. One could equally cite people who feel smug that they aren't in Australia, for example.
This is, of course, why people should be worried about what happens in other countries. Whenever something unpleasant happens in the US, smug Europeans tend to have a good laugh, and vice versa.
This is a perfect example of why such smugness is so dumb. Attempts to grant police more draconian powers in .nz are being justified with the UK RIP bill; no doubt people in the US will be unpleasantly surprised when the FBI justify Carnivore (and more) on the same grounds.
Once it is considered acceptable for one country to behave abhorrently, other governments will do the same. How often have you heard proponents of strong government point to Asian dictatorships like Singapore as evidence of what could be achieved by strong government unquestioned (and unquestionable) by the people?
I'll doubtless be amused to watch Steve's Loyal Army explain why Apple should be able to sue alleged rip-offs of the iMac, but the cube is an original and innovative design that Cobalt have no right to complain about.
Adam Smith. You are, of course, aware that the founder of the modern intellectual framework for capitalism recognised that capitalists who refused to be concerned with moral issues would undermine the system that fed their wealth?
...was Star Trek 4. The story goes that the makers of the movie went to Commodore to get an Amiga 1000 to be the computer that Scotty used. Commodore demonstrated their usual savvy by telling Paramount they could buy one, just like anyone else.
Enter Apple, who had the smarts to work the product placement.
Mac, dammit! Mac, Mac, Mac. MACs are for ethernet.
Whenever I see a CV with someone claiming MAC experience, in the bin it goes...
King regularly claims his wife is a better writer than him - the point he's trying to make is that she could be a latter day Joyce or Miller and never get published unless she was already famous-by-proxy.
Editing expertise is vital, as anyone who has seen the decline in output quality of authors who get arrogant and start believing they don't need an editor. However, there are plenty of skilled editors out there, and I'm sure they're happy to contract their skills out.
Similarly, publicity can easily be handled by a good agent. Check out sports personalities, actors, etc, most of whom have a good agent to help keep them in the news, cut deals, etc. Again, there are plenty of freelancers and companies who are more than happy to handle these things.
If publicity and editing are all a publisher brings to the table, they offer a very slim value proposition indeed.
IMO, the worst part of MySQL is the brain-dead SQL implementation. SQL is a hugely powerful programming language if one implements any non-trivial subset of it.
Unless, of course, your heavy IO involves NFS, HTTP, or parallel compiles. Or did you just look at the first two slides and rush back to post?
It isn't aimed at the average person. It's aimed at people with lots of money and no life 8)
There are several HTML 4 quoting entities - the <q> tag, which is supposed to produce localisation-correct quoting behaviour (eg, typographic quotes, guillemot, etc). There are also explicit quote entities, such as “, which is supposed to produce a left double quote, and similar for the various national quoting standards.