> See what happens when you overreach your abilities?
Yeah, you get a bunch of vc money, use it to pay yourself and some friends from business school (being CEO, CTO, etc.) 7-figure salaries (or at least mid 6-figures) for a couple years, and then go "bankrupt". That is, the company goes bankrupt, not the execs. The execs leave with millions. Exactly as planned. Not much of a growth plan, but these kinds of companies aren't really in it for the growth.
Do you think Robert Levitan, CEO of Flooz is poor these days?
It's easily proven that in order to generate all possible random strings of bit length n, you'd need to come up with 2^n irrationals. See compression and the counting principle. This fact makes it rather pointless to use this sort of compression, since you'd need just as many bits to represent the chosen irrational as you'd need to just represent the random string. The fewer bits you use to represent your irrational, the more detectable the psudo-rng algorithm.
Perhaps you are confusing the movie, "Roger and Me" with the review show "Siskel and Ebert". Gene Siskel was the other guy. Roger Ebert continues to review movies, and now has a new partner with a new thumb, named Richard Roeper. (That's the guy's name, not the thumb's.) The new show is called "Ebert and Roeper".
So your mom was right and reality continues to remain real.
> The first disc to get this treatment is More > Fast and Furious: Music From and Inspired by > the Motion Picture, a title that will live in > infamy. ... > Peter Cohen reports that Universal plans to > offer refunds to customers who buy a disc and > find they cannot play it.
If enough slashdot readers bought the CD and returned it, it might send a message. They lose money for each CD returned due to handling costs, so it would hit them in their wallets, where it matters.
What a great place. Between this and execution by stoning for the heinous crime of actually having sex, there's no reason not to make Nigeria your next vacation destination!
When Unga the caveman first thought about a distant location, then went through the process of going there, he created the hyperlink. Or at least, if he had the foresight to patent it, he could have vaguely worded such a patent to cover all concepts regarding thought and movement.
At the local level, the details are the campaign. It's about the "how" more than just the "what". Top-level things like party affiliations, which are hugely important at the state and national level, mean very little at the local level. Town voters want to know the means, not just the ends. You wouldn't want to make "open source software" your platform (in the political sense!) by any means, but mentioning it as part of an overall plan is certainly the right level of detail. Mentioning MySQL would probably be too detailed though.:)
It's so true. People who know Linux scare others away! Linux is just so easy, I don't know why they do this.
For example, it only takes 2 steps under Linux to install the latest NVidia graphics drivers compared with Windows 3 steps!
Windows:
1. Download the installer for 1 of 2 potential OSes (9x or 2K/XP).
2. Run the installer.
3. Reboot.
Linux:
1. Make sure I have the right glibc (what's that asks a non-programmer? Oh, well, the c runtime library changed significantly between blah blah...)
1a. Figure out which of 15 distro-specific rpms is the right one for my installation. (or maybe it's easier to assume configure, gcc, and make are reasonable tools for the average user...)
1b. Download 2 rpm files and rpm -ivh them both from the command line. Maybe gnorpm can be used to get rid of the command line?
1c. Wrangle with XFConfig86 in emacs (or some more gui-oriented text editor).
1d. Oops, I have the wrong version of XFree86. Need to upgrade to 4.x to use the latest NVidia drivers. Download about 12 different files (some labeled "optional" without explanation). Run the install script from the command line. Only 1 warning... better than expected!
1e. Make it so that I boot in console mode. Otherwise, if X doesn't start, I have to figure out what linux boot arg does this. Must be some checkbox somewhere for this...
1f. Reboot, as recommended by XF86 installation notes.
1g. Run "startx"
1h. No gui. A long list of errors about.so files not being resolved.
1i. Maybe the libraries haven't been installed. Honestly, I forgot how this problem gets solved.
1j. "startx"... Yes, an "NVidia" spash screen! It will be soon!
1k. Back to console window. An error about there being no default font.
1l. Research linux fonts and how they work. Only takes an hour maybe. Well, my XFConfig86 file is set up to use xfs, and a simple "ps -A" from the command line (oh wait, there's certainly a gui tool that will spit out the same info!) shows that xfs is running.
1m. Various linux newsgroup searches reveal that others have encountered similar problems. Try various incorrect solutions until it turns out that the latest X doesn't work with my distro's version of xfs, and that xfs is really unnecessary now because type 1 fonts are now supported natively, blah blah... Rather than use xfs, we just enter the directory names of fonts into the XFConfig86 file. Easy! Everyone knows that it's/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, etc.
1n. "startx"
2. Set it up again so Linux boots into X.
I can always do things in Linux in just 2 steps! Windows is so clunky!
In the videogames business (and in retail in general), there are two figures which are typically quoted depending on what makes a better press release. When Nintendo "sells-in" to the distribution channels, it means that distributors have purchased a certain amount for resale. It does not mean that end-users have purchased them all though. "Sell-through" numbers are a better guide since they count the number of units end-users have purchased from dealers. (The other big number that matters is "returns", which are not accounted for in the sell-through numbers.)
Press releases which mean sell-through tend to use the phrase "sell-through" explicitly. The Nintendo press release doesn't use these words. Combine that with the evidence of GameCube's availability, and one has to assume that these are sell-in numbers.
Just to follow up on your points... I figure Yuki Terai is about as "real" to most people as any Hollywood actor or actress. Most people haven't gotten to know too many movie stars personally. The cast of "Friends" is generated by really advanced rendering algorithms as far as I know, since I don't "hang" with that crowd. Pop icon idolotry of any sort (be it flesh-and-blood, anime, cg, a certain penguin, etc...) is where the real split from reality exists.
> I dont believe it can be done. Not until we have real 3d displays with 3d input devices and probably not even then.
I work at an R&D center which has been developing exactly this technology, and it can be done because it has been done, using standard PC's and off the shelf graphics accelerators. The work I do is for military applications, and has not been publically released. However, you can imagine it as a game of Quake in which there is one room and a number of applications running in picture frames on the walls.
[We found that other groups are doing similar things, and our project is a bit like one at Microsoft. See Task Gallery for some interesting visuals]
In our project, we can run both Windows applications and remote applications via VNC (virtual network computing) as active applications on the walls. We have additional applications which are 3D in nature, like a globe of the Earth and a terrain viewer which sit on tables within the virtual space. Navigation is done much like in Quake, with keyboard and/or mouse movement moving the user within the virtual space. We have figured out effective methods of dealing with application focus and other UI issues typically encountered in the design of windowing systems.
My personal opinion is that such a 3D windowing user interface has benefits and drawbacks (no kidding, eh?). It has proven useful in military applications in virtualizing locations like command centers, which are 3-dimensional in nature. Military people who are not heavily into computers tend to be particularly receptive to a UI which resembles the physical operating environments they are accustomed to. I'm not sure that you'd want to (or need to) use a text editor in a 3D environment for long. In recognition of this fact, we provide a way of switching between visualization modes, bringing applications to the front as 2-dimensional displays and returning them to the wall surface they were on.
The spatial awareness issue you mention is actually one where I think 3D can be beneficial. For instance, given a virtual space which has distinct walls on which applications are running, it might be the case that you could locate a particular text document more efficiently than by trying to remember which of the emacs icons in the task bar represents which document. We are still researching such issues, and it is not yet clear how effective 3D space is at aiding visual memory for task completion.
"I have always been a proponent for the private sector providing goods & services. However, here in Tacoma..."
Everyone's in favor of pure market economics until it affects them in a specific negative way.
The expanded competition created in Tacoma is certainly not localized nor unique: it is a common phenomenon when both public and private solutions exist to fill a demand.
I guess writing the DirectPlay (version 3) code for a title published by Accolade constitutes something I don't understand...
Hey, you can spend your time supporting the one person who wants to play your game using IPX. But who is he going to play against? His buddies all run TCP/IP. And to support that one guy, you'll need to write a guaranteed messaging protocol on top of IPX/serial/modem, since MS didn't bother. (Or maybe they figured it out by now. They promised it many times and failed to deliver with each version I saw...)
When the publisher wants PS2/Mac/GameCube versions that interoperate, explain to them that it's not possible. Well, not unless you rewrite the networking code. ("Hey, it supports NULL modems!"). The go write the socket code. Spend your energy ($$$) digging through that old networking code, and replace it with something that will work on anything but Windows. And spend the time ($$$) to release a patch to the PC version so that it can interoperate with these other versions.
"Of course DirectPlay provides value, thats what it's there for"??? Lemming. DirectPlay ties your game to the OS, and that is what it's there for.
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> about once a week, someone emails me and says "I think my boyfriend/girlfriend is cheating on me and I really need to know the backdoor into hotmail to find out".
I currently synchronize my Newton with my home machines (One CHRP machine running Copland OS with OpenDOC as middleware, the other running MS Bob) , all connected by Bluetooth devices. The best part is that the monitor on my machines are all those new VisuaLABS tiled displays.
Your computer doesn't give a mouse's bottomside about the decimal representation (except perhaps to print it out, or in the odd program that uses binary coded decimal):
float pi = 3.1415...F;
float* pPi;
pPi = π
int piBits = *((int*)pPi);
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> See what happens when you overreach your abilities?
Yeah, you get a bunch of vc money, use it to pay yourself and some friends from business school (being CEO, CTO, etc.) 7-figure salaries (or at least mid 6-figures) for a couple years, and then go "bankrupt". That is, the company goes bankrupt, not the execs. The execs leave with millions. Exactly as planned. Not much of a growth plan, but these kinds of companies aren't really in it for the growth.
Do you think Robert Levitan, CEO of Flooz is poor these days?
_-_-_
It's easily proven that in order to generate all possible random strings of bit length n, you'd need to come up with 2^n irrationals. See compression and the counting principle. This fact makes it rather pointless to use this sort of compression, since you'd need just as many bits to represent the chosen irrational as you'd need to just represent the random string. The fewer bits you use to represent your irrational, the more detectable the psudo-rng algorithm.
At Circuit City, after $125 in rebates.
See www.circuitcity.com.
Perhaps you are confusing the movie, "Roger and Me" with the review show "Siskel and Ebert". Gene Siskel was the other guy. Roger Ebert continues to review movies, and now has a new partner with a new thumb, named Richard Roeper. (That's the guy's name, not the thumb's.) The new show is called "Ebert and Roeper".
So your mom was right and reality continues to remain real.
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> The first disc to get this treatment is More
> Fast and Furious: Music From and Inspired by
> the Motion Picture, a title that will live in
> infamy.
...
> Peter Cohen reports that Universal plans to
> offer refunds to customers who buy a disc and
> find they cannot play it.
If enough slashdot readers bought the CD and
returned it, it might send a message. They lose
money for each CD returned due to handling costs,
so it would hit them in their wallets, where it
matters.
_-_-_
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LSD wasn't exactly around during the times of the Salem Witch era. Look up "ergot".
On another note, were the Crusades also a small, isolated event?
When Unga the caveman first thought about a distant location, then went through the process of going there, he created the hyperlink. Or at least, if he had the foresight to patent it, he could have vaguely worded such a patent to cover all concepts regarding thought and movement.
UML is not derived from nor directly related to SGML.
See, for instance:
http://www.rational.com/uml/gstart/faq.jsp
Note also that ML, the functional language, is also not SGML-based.
M.L. Carr, the former Celtics basketball great, was also not derived from SGML.
> UML = from SGML too. all *MLs are. (HTML,
> SGML, UML, XML, etc. etc. etc.)
At the local level, the details are the campaign. It's about the "how" more than just the "what". Top-level things like party affiliations, which are hugely important at the state and national level, mean very little at the local level. Town voters want to know the means, not just the ends. You wouldn't want to make "open source software" your platform (in the political sense!) by any means, but mentioning it as part of an overall plan is certainly the right level of detail. Mentioning MySQL would probably be too detailed though. :)
_=_=_
It's not about timestamps. It's not "security through obscurity". It's about fundamental laws of quantum physics. Try looking at these links.
My Audiotron works quite reliably with my Linux Samba server.
It's so true. People who know Linux scare others away! Linux is just so easy, I don't know why they do this.
.so files not being resolved.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, etc.
For example, it only takes 2 steps under Linux to install the latest NVidia graphics drivers compared with Windows 3 steps!
Windows:
1. Download the installer for 1 of 2 potential OSes (9x or 2K/XP).
2. Run the installer.
3. Reboot.
Linux:
1. Make sure I have the right glibc (what's that asks a non-programmer? Oh, well, the c runtime library changed significantly between blah blah...)
1a. Figure out which of 15 distro-specific rpms is the right one for my installation. (or maybe it's easier to assume configure, gcc, and make are reasonable tools for the average user...)
1b. Download 2 rpm files and rpm -ivh them both from the command line. Maybe gnorpm can be used to get rid of the command line?
1c. Wrangle with XFConfig86 in emacs (or some more gui-oriented text editor).
1d. Oops, I have the wrong version of XFree86. Need to upgrade to 4.x to use the latest NVidia drivers. Download about 12 different files (some labeled "optional" without explanation). Run the install script from the command line. Only 1 warning... better than expected!
1e. Make it so that I boot in console mode. Otherwise, if X doesn't start, I have to figure out what linux boot arg does this. Must be some checkbox somewhere for this...
1f. Reboot, as recommended by XF86 installation notes.
1g. Run "startx"
1h. No gui. A long list of errors about
1i. Maybe the libraries haven't been installed. Honestly, I forgot how this problem gets solved.
1j. "startx"... Yes, an "NVidia" spash screen! It will be soon!
1k. Back to console window. An error about there being no default font.
1l. Research linux fonts and how they work. Only takes an hour maybe. Well, my XFConfig86 file is set up to use xfs, and a simple "ps -A" from the command line (oh wait, there's certainly a gui tool that will spit out the same info!) shows that xfs is running.
1m. Various linux newsgroup searches reveal that others have encountered similar problems. Try various incorrect solutions until it turns out that the latest X doesn't work with my distro's version of xfs, and that xfs is really unnecessary now because type 1 fonts are now supported natively, blah blah... Rather than use xfs, we just enter the directory names of fonts into the XFConfig86 file. Easy! Everyone knows that it's
1n. "startx"
2. Set it up again so Linux boots into X.
I can always do things in Linux in just 2 steps! Windows is so clunky!
In the videogames business (and in retail in general), there are two figures which are typically quoted depending on what makes a better press release. When Nintendo "sells-in" to the distribution channels, it means that distributors have purchased a certain amount for resale. It does not mean that end-users have purchased them all though. "Sell-through" numbers are a better guide since they count the number of units end-users have purchased from dealers. (The other big number that matters is "returns", which are not accounted for in the sell-through numbers.)
Press releases which mean sell-through tend to use the phrase "sell-through" explicitly. The Nintendo press release doesn't use these words. Combine that with the evidence of GameCube's availability, and one has to assume that these are sell-in numbers.
_-_-_
Just to follow up on your points... I figure Yuki Terai is about as "real" to most people as any Hollywood actor or actress. Most people haven't gotten to know too many movie stars personally. The cast of "Friends" is generated by really advanced rendering algorithms as far as I know, since I don't "hang" with that crowd. Pop icon idolotry of any sort (be it flesh-and-blood, anime, cg, a certain penguin, etc...) is where the real split from reality exists.
_-_-_
I work at an R&D center which has been developing exactly this technology, and it can be done because it has been done, using standard PC's and off the shelf graphics accelerators. The work I do is for military applications, and has not been publically released. However, you can imagine it as a game of Quake in which there is one room and a number of applications running in picture frames on the walls.
[We found that other groups are doing similar things, and our project is a bit like one at Microsoft. See Task Gallery for some interesting visuals]
In our project, we can run both Windows applications and remote applications via VNC (virtual network computing) as active applications on the walls. We have additional applications which are 3D in nature, like a globe of the Earth and a terrain viewer which sit on tables within the virtual space. Navigation is done much like in Quake, with keyboard and/or mouse movement moving the user within the virtual space. We have figured out effective methods of dealing with application focus and other UI issues typically encountered in the design of windowing systems.
My personal opinion is that such a 3D windowing user interface has benefits and drawbacks (no kidding, eh?). It has proven useful in military applications in virtualizing locations like command centers, which are 3-dimensional in nature. Military people who are not heavily into computers tend to be particularly receptive to a UI which resembles the physical operating environments they are accustomed to. I'm not sure that you'd want to (or need to) use a text editor in a 3D environment for long. In recognition of this fact, we provide a way of switching between visualization modes, bringing applications to the front as 2-dimensional displays and returning them to the wall surface they were on.
The spatial awareness issue you mention is actually one where I think 3D can be beneficial. For instance, given a virtual space which has distinct walls on which applications are running, it might be the case that you could locate a particular text document more efficiently than by trying to remember which of the emacs icons in the task bar represents which document. We are still researching such issues, and it is not yet clear how effective 3D space is at aiding visual memory for task completion.
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"I have always been a proponent for the private sector providing goods & services. However, here in Tacoma..."
Everyone's in favor of pure market economics until it affects them in a specific negative way.
The expanded competition created in Tacoma is certainly not localized nor unique: it is a common phenomenon when both public and private solutions exist to fill a demand.
Do you know of any currently manufactured? For under $100? That have Linux drivers?
I guess writing the DirectPlay (version 3) code for a title published by Accolade constitutes something I don't understand...
Hey, you can spend your time supporting the one person who wants to play your game using IPX. But who is he going to play against? His buddies all run TCP/IP. And to support that one guy, you'll need to write a guaranteed messaging protocol on top of IPX/serial/modem, since MS didn't bother. (Or maybe they figured it out by now. They promised it many times and failed to deliver with each version I saw...)
When the publisher wants PS2/Mac/GameCube versions that interoperate, explain to them that it's not possible. Well, not unless you rewrite the networking code. ("Hey, it supports NULL modems!"). The go write the socket code. Spend your energy ($$$) digging through that old networking code, and replace it with something that will work on anything but Windows. And spend the time ($$$) to release a patch to the PC version so that it can interoperate with these other versions.
"Of course DirectPlay provides value, thats what it's there for"??? Lemming. DirectPlay ties your game to the OS, and that is what it's there for.
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This is how Miss Cleo knows all the answers!
Why bother? The value of DirectPlay provides a developer is still zero over socket programming.
I currently synchronize my Newton with my home machines (One CHRP machine running Copland OS with OpenDOC as middleware, the other running MS Bob) , all connected by Bluetooth devices. The best part is that the monitor on my machines are all those new VisuaLABS tiled displays.
"There are approximately zero copywriters now employed at Rythms." Man, if yoo're gonna make fun of bad copy, at leest spel "Rhythms" corectly!
Your computer doesn't give a mouse's bottomside about the decimal representation (except perhaps to print it out, or in the odd program that uses binary coded decimal):
float pi = 3.1415...F; ;
float* pPi;
pPi = &pi
int piBits = *((int*)pPi);
It would look like one of those karate training centers in an old kung-fu movie.