His point is to give kids a game and they will eventually get interested in the OS.
It doesn't work this way. Once a kid plays a game, once they are done with it, they are done with it. Turing on the TV is too easy. Getting another game is too easy. Surfing the Internet and chatting with friends/strangers are too easy.
And if the kid doesn't have access to these things, they won't have access to a computer to waste time looking into the OS part.
Dark Forces has what made HL great for me. There was never a part where I had to go "where do I need to go now?" and not feel like it was a basic tunnel.
You just explore and let your natural curdirosities (sp) guide you.
From the article; >Automakers are fighting the legislation; they believe the real goal is to obtain proprietary "calibration codes" that are the blueprints for how parts are made. With that information, Territo said, independent mechanics and parts manufacturers could duplicate major components such as fuel injectors that automakers have spent millions of dollars developing.
So maybe its the same issue. A group wants to control their property by using technology which locks things up.
>Anyone smart enough to carry it out would understand that they'd be wiping themselves out too.
Of course about Same thing could be said about nukes. Yet "sane" governments were willing to use them.
And thats just for policical idealologies, there wasn't even a promise of virgins in the afterlife. (Personnaly, there is a lot I would do for a couple of really good professional-non-virgins).
>If they're severely mentally ill and hence willing to try, they're going to find themselves hard pressed to come up with people willing to give them weapons, supplies, money and know how to wipe out most life on the planet(not just humans);
>more people own their own homes than ever in our history
Could you post a reference? Because this would indicate that we are close to a saturation point for buyers of homes. (therefore less demand and falling house prices).
>There is a significant difference between selling you something you don't need but shipping the product to you and selling you something and never getting the end product.
Um... 75% of staff don't need to use Oracle. They didn't recieve the product.
And besides, the fact is that someone paid an insane amount of money without someone questioning it.
Umm...it depends on your point of view. To me, and alot of other people, Unix is complex. Its a big OS. To even being to state that Unix is simple is glossing over alot of history and actual functionality.
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Not being able to go into the code level would destroy the whole point of going down to the OS level, which is the whole point article.
So why even have a closed source game on CD? No one will care about what OS the game is running.
His point is to give kids a game and they will eventually get interested in the OS.
It doesn't work this way. Once a kid plays a game, once they are done with it, they are done with it. Turing on the TV is too easy. Getting another game is too easy. Surfing the Internet and chatting with friends/strangers are too easy.
And if the kid doesn't have access to these things, they won't have access to a computer to waste time looking into the OS part.
I agree with the parent.
Dark Forces has what made HL great for me. There was never a part where I had to go "where do I need to go now?" and not feel like it was a basic tunnel.
You just explore and let your natural curdirosities (sp) guide you.
I'm thinking that its not clear cut on how you would use the codes to create the parts.
I'm thinking that its the tolerences and specifications that can be reversed-engineered using the parts.
Just like you can't patent codes for CSS, you can't patent specs.
But its a bit more complex that just that.
From the article;
>Automakers are fighting the legislation; they believe the real goal is to obtain proprietary "calibration codes" that are the blueprints for how parts are made. With that information, Territo said, independent mechanics and parts manufacturers could duplicate major components such as fuel injectors that automakers have spent millions of dollars developing.
So maybe its the same issue. A group wants to control their property by using technology which locks things up.
>women can't leave it behind when you walk out the door.
Just posting in agreement.
Even if you are ok with things, she might not be. And if she isn't ok with things, then eventually you aren't.
You are brought up with the in the same household and there are some things that you have shared that will last forever.
This has nothing to do with making a sucessful business.
>Anyone smart enough to carry it out would understand that they'd be wiping themselves out too.
Of course about Same thing could be said about nukes. Yet "sane" governments were willing to use them.
And thats just for policical idealologies, there wasn't even a promise of virgins in the afterlife. (Personnaly, there is a lot I would do for a couple of really good professional-non-virgins).
>If they're severely mentally ill and hence willing to try, they're going to find themselves hard pressed to come up with people willing to give them weapons, supplies, money and know how to wipe out most life on the planet(not just humans);
Thats why they are called "Doomsday cults".
Interesting item, not sure how practial it is. I really like the LID feature.
Thank you for the post.
Some of those categories are pretty high and interesting (single females are more likely to own than single males?).
>The problem is that to use it, one must assemble its simple parts into complex patterns.
So on one hand its simple and on the other its complex?
I feel the same way. I like to travel light, I don't even wear a watch.
But I do think my Arc AAA flashlight is well worth having on my keychain.
>I challenge these people to a usability test.
I challenge this guy to a race. He must have 10 lbs of stuff he carries around.
>more people own their own homes than ever in our history
Could you post a reference? Because this would indicate that we are close to a saturation point for buyers of homes. (therefore less demand and falling house prices).
There is a difference doing something because you want to and because you are forced to.
Your dream can easily be my nightmare.
>The number of jobs being currently outsourced is fairly miniscule in comparison to the total number of jobs in the US.
If it was your job that got outsourced, then that miniscule part would suddenly become dramatically big.
>our idea of being kings/queens of the world means little or nothing when the scope is no longer limited to terra.
Our ideas of kings and queens are pretty small when our scope IS limited to earth.
How is this insightful?
/.ers.
Because before he saw this photo and was told that dot was earth, he had a big ego and though too much of himself?
Just post a degrading comment bashing SCO/MS/RIAA and ego will be inflated right back up there. Seems to work with lots of
Ummm... they already had freedom from MS. These guys have a huge investment into proprietary Unix systems and databases. Huge.
Is MS their competion? Yes. Do they need freedom from MS? No.
>There is a significant difference between selling you something you don't need but shipping the product to you and selling you something and never getting the end product.
Um... 75% of staff don't need to use Oracle. They didn't recieve the product.
And besides, the fact is that someone paid an insane amount of money without someone questioning it.
Show me anything that specified that calculators or desktop computers were designed for the unique situations of space travel.
So if MS donated a couple of lines to an OSS project, they would suddenly become 100% freedom-focused?
Its getting to a point that donating to OSS is more of an PR stunt than anything else.
> Im the kind of guy who likes my tools to work, and I dont like broken or unstable tools!
Ironically, thats what fustrated Linux users see Linux as.
"Why does it say that the linux drivers are 'beta'?"
"Why can't I sync my pocketpc with Linux?"
These are the exceptions, rather than the rule.
I just wished applications got simple things uniformed like selecting a file. Different interface on GIMP, OpenOffice, Mplayer all on Gnome.
>Unix revolves around the idea of simplicity.
Umm...it depends on your point of view. To me, and alot of other people, Unix is complex. Its a big OS. To even being to state that Unix is simple is glossing over alot of history and actual functionality.