but I have a fairly modest PC and I couldn't tell you the last time I said "Man, I wish I could render these 64 JPEGs in 4 seconds instead of this lousy 7." As far as I'm concerned, text and image rendering hasn't noticeably changed in 10+ years. But, I suppose you have to have something to make up for alienating your userbase with an interface designed for a machine it's not running.
Reading a research paper a few years ago that presented the idea that the best way to approach the game was through catastrophe avoidance. The idea was to identify the moves that would lead to a massive loss, then to take another move at random. I wonder how their AI would fare in comparison.
I've always (well, for a while) wanted a supercomputer so i could run qemu recusively and see how many levels I could run and still have a usable system(or play an old game like quake.)
I really fail to comprehend how apple has built this myth of fantastic customer service. I used to do tech support for apple- both for the ipod and their desktops. If you buy an ipod-which costs several hundred dollars, you are entitled to ONE tech support call, and then only if you call within 90 days after purchasing it. If your ipod locks up and you call in to find out how to reset it, the thirty seconds of attention (the amount of time it takes to tell you which two buttons to hold and to introduce you to the glorious Apple Knowledge Base) you receive from a tech is your one call, if it happens to be after 90 days, the answer you get is $50 please or bug off. Many of the people who call in are elderly people who received ipods as gifts and have no access to the internet and have either not the funds to pay for the call or the means (credit card) to pay for it. Apples answer-Screw you.
I for one simply cannot understand how this is such great customer service.
What about the poor bastards in tech support? It's hard enough to explain things as it is. Just imagine trying to navigate someone through a 3-D desktop over the phone. -- "No, Mrs. Thompson, it's back and to the left, no back and to the left.... Being on the call floor would be just like a never ending screening of JFK.
I have a *cough* "friend" who circumvented the "self-destruct code" on a satellite receiver by simply attaching a dip-switch to a couple of the leads on the EEPROM. If the firmware's write-protected, you cant toast it. At least that's what my friend tells me...
If you write OS software, you still own the IP look at id software they give away the Quake and Quake II source, but they still sell a proprietary license for the same source at $10,000 a pop.
A company could easily Open the source to a game the minute it came out and still make money.
Imagine if you will.... Id releases the engine and other key parts of their next big game under the GPL, BSD or similar license (For the sake of conversation, we'll call it "Kill the wonderfully rendered, yet stupid monsters with Over-powered weapons.") And release the the levels, character models, weapon models, sounds under their standard, propretary license. They could bundle them together and the end user would never know the difference- they never read the licensing agreements. People still buy the game and it can be easily ported to other platforms.
Technology is only part of a game- it's the creativity and the experience of the game itself that make if valuable, not the engine. Yes, this method allows competitors to use the code, but what the hell, imagine how quickly games would advance if just one company started releasing them like this.
Menopause exists only in Humans, Pilot whales and a few types of elephant. It is theorized that the reason for this is to provide young with the extra protection of a grandmother. Without menopause, women would eventually die giving birth, leaving young with one less guardian. So, indirectly, menopause does contribute to the passing of genes, in that it allows individual females to care after the product of their genes after they are no longer able to produce offspring.
Why is it that people always complain about how they don't like to see linux go in this direction or that but do nothing to stop it? The entire point of Open-Source is the ability to take it and do what you want with it. If you don't like the way it's going, change it.
People act as if they are at the mercy of an all-powerful entity forbidding them to change the system. Basically, what I'm trying to say is quit bitching and remember what open-source is all about: Freedom. People who do no more than bitch about the way linux-or any other O.S. project- are throwing away this freedom and are no better than the alcoholic on welfare bitching about the government.
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but I have a fairly modest PC and I couldn't tell you the last time I said "Man, I wish I could render these 64 JPEGs in 4 seconds instead of this lousy 7." As far as I'm concerned, text and image rendering hasn't noticeably changed in 10+ years. But, I suppose you have to have something to make up for alienating your userbase with an interface designed for a machine it's not running.
Reading a research paper a few years ago that presented the idea that the best way to approach the game was through catastrophe avoidance. The idea was to identify the moves that would lead to a massive loss, then to take another move at random. I wonder how their AI would fare in comparison.
I've always (well, for a while) wanted a supercomputer so i could run qemu recusively and see how many levels I could run and still have a usable system(or play an old game like quake.)
I really fail to comprehend how apple has built this myth of fantastic customer service. I used to do tech support for apple- both for the ipod and their desktops. If you buy an ipod-which costs several hundred dollars, you are entitled to ONE tech support call, and then only if you call within 90 days after purchasing it. If your ipod locks up and you call in to find out how to reset it, the thirty seconds of attention (the amount of time it takes to tell you which two buttons to hold and to introduce you to the glorious Apple Knowledge Base) you receive from a tech is your one call, if it happens to be after 90 days, the answer you get is $50 please or bug off. Many of the people who call in are elderly people who received ipods as gifts and have no access to the internet and have either not the funds to pay for the call or the means (credit card) to pay for it. Apples answer-Screw you.
I for one simply cannot understand how this is such great customer service.
The Ralink drivers for their rt2400 and rt2500 chipsets are gpl'd.
Develop this technology years ago, but for legal reasons had to market the product instead as automobile antifreeze?
What about the poor bastards in tech support? It's hard enough to explain things as it is. Just imagine trying to navigate someone through a 3-D desktop over the phone. -- "No, Mrs. Thompson, it's back and to the left, no back and to the left.... Being on the call floor would be just like a never ending screening of JFK.
I have a *cough* "friend" who circumvented the "self-destruct code" on a satellite receiver by simply attaching a dip-switch to a couple of the leads on the EEPROM. If the firmware's write-protected, you cant toast it. At least that's what my friend tells me...
If you write OS software, you still own the IP look at id software they give away the Quake and Quake II source, but they still sell a proprietary license for the same source at $10,000 a pop.
A company could easily Open the source to a game the minute it came out and still make money.
Imagine if you will.... Id releases the engine and other key parts of their next big game under the GPL, BSD or similar license (For the sake of conversation, we'll call it "Kill the wonderfully rendered, yet stupid monsters with Over-powered weapons.") And release the the levels, character models, weapon models, sounds under their standard, propretary license. They could bundle them together and the end user would never know the difference- they never read the licensing agreements. People still buy the game and it can be easily ported to other platforms.
Technology is only part of a game- it's the creativity and the experience of the game itself that make if valuable, not the engine. Yes, this method allows competitors to use the code, but what the hell, imagine how quickly games would advance if just one company started releasing them like this.
Menopause exists only in Humans, Pilot whales and a few types of elephant. It is theorized that the reason for this is to provide young with the extra protection of a grandmother. Without menopause, women would eventually die giving birth, leaving young with one less guardian. So, indirectly, menopause does contribute to the passing of genes, in that it allows individual females to care after the product of their genes after they are no longer able to produce offspring.
Why is it that people always complain about how they don't like to see linux go in this direction or that but do nothing to stop it? The entire point of Open-Source is the ability to take it and do what you want with it. If you don't like the way it's going, change it.
People act as if they are at the mercy of an all-powerful entity forbidding them to change the system. Basically, what I'm trying to say is quit bitching and remember what open-source is all about: Freedom. People who do no more than bitch about the way linux-or any other O.S. project- are throwing away this freedom and are no better than the alcoholic on welfare bitching about the government.