The real reason there are no indie console games is a bit of shoulder-work by the big boys. They have their party and the doors are closed. A couple years ago I tried to organize a console version of BZFlag and hit brick walls everywhere. To develop legally and efficiently, you need the development kits for the console(s) you're targeting. To get the dev kits, you need to already be an established game developer to get your own licenses or to even get signed under someone else. Sense the catch 22? The escape? Make a bunch of hit PC games first. So things aren't entirely hopeless, but its still a lot of proving to do before you can get anywhere close to a dev kit. You can go homebrew, but then you need to void your warranty and everyone who wants to play your disk does too. It's crap.
yes and no. Students have practically no rights when on the premises or using school resources. When off campus however is where the arguments are coming up these days- most would argue students are under normal law when not on school grounds or comitting crimes (making threats, etc) against the school, faculty or other students.
hopefully it will handle each shoe as a unique id and your ipod will know which shoes are yours, otherwise running in groups could be interesting- or even running past someone else.
This is actually a lot of corporate money (SGI, and others) that was put in to visualize anything from chemical bonds to aerospace models and more. Sometimes seeing things big and in high def is a truly great way to study something and be able to see it inside and out. Imagine walking inside a CAD/CAM model of the space shuttle during a launch and finding out ahead of time about the foam problem. (just a wild and improbably forinstance, but the idea is the same). Granted there is -some- government money, but its not how youd imagine. Some comes out of students' pockets (I'd imagine very little), etc etc..
Perhaps if the label contained a 30 digit hex unlock code that is the encryption key for the disc. The fedex folks in a hurry wouldn't write down that number and cut right through it- which would of course be on that metal film that disintegrates easily and would thus be unreadable after the fact.
The problem with this approach is that you damage the business by thinking only of yourself.
Depending on the size of the business, this may or may not matter. If you work for MS, probably not. If you work for a small business with a 1,000 to 3,000 customers, this may make a world of difference.
I started an internet service provider on good word of mouth alone. Unhappy customers told others and we avoided having unhappy customers as much as was reasonable. Some people are impossible to please.
In any case, if you were my employee and having a hard time in life but driving off customers because your family comes first, I'd fire you and find someone who will respect the customers.
Again, this is not to say that this particular support drain customer should be kept on, but he should be at least given a curteous denial.
I'm not sure I'd directly say that customers aren't a priority (because he'll certainly take it that way) and that could get around. Negative PR spreads faster than positive. Don't breed enemies. This is not to say you shouldn't dump the guy, but different phrasing might be worthwhile.
You: Good afternoon _______, what can I help you with today? Customer:............. blah blah.......... You: I understand what you're telling me, but I have to tell you that this is outside of what the management has authorized me to offer support for. I know that I've helped you with these types of issues in the past, but I really have to stick to the guidelines from now on. Is there anything directly related to one of our products I can help you with today?
now that's just an idea, but I think it takes the pressure off of you as a support rep and puts it on the customer and the management in a nice way.
Let's say for a second its only a 1% hit: 1% of 200 Mhz = 2 Mhz wasted, 1% of 2.4 Ghz = 24.58 Mhz wasted. More realistically lets say 10%: 20 Mhz and 245.76 Mhz. Do you really want to waste 245.76 * # Instructions per cycle?
There are arguments in both directions, but there's no reason that they can't make a non-microkernel stable, it just takes more time. If you can save the 245 mhz, why not?
I do hate it when searching for something about 4-10 pages in a row are purely sites that pretend to have what you're looking for but are merely meta dumps with adwords or other advertising mechanisms on them. Some of them even have valid cached pages. That said, this article, while certainly Fud, is only Fud Light. I personally prefer Fud Dark- at least I can generally laugh at the article's absurdity. This one was more or less just plain retarded.
For me, open source has enabled opportunities that wouldn't have existed otherwise- in many ways, but here are a few.
1) I love the stability of RedHat Enterprise Linux and the slower and more careful release schedule, but do not need the tech support- CentOS has been a boon for the organizations I work for. 2) Robust internet services for free running on commodity and inexpensive hardware = less overhead. Who needs a dual xeon 3.0 ghz with registered memory just to run a small DNS or email server? End of lease hardware from tiger direct works great. A 2.4 ghz P4 is still overkill for a lot of things, but for a hundred bucks or so, who can complain. 3) yum in conjunction with RPMs was a godsend for pushing out configurations/software to lab-fulls of identical machines. Simply push out an rpm that requires a package list and voila, yum makes sure that the machines grab those packages and their requirements. This is an oversimplification, but being able to manage several hundred machines with a few keystrokes is a miricle in itself, let alone the fact its free
and many more
Now the more interesting question, how have businesses you've worked for contributed to open source?
I've often found myself working on a commercial project that depends on some open source code either as a dependency or as the framework for expansion. There are many cases where I've fixed show-stopping bugs or contributed new features that enhanced the OSS project in a non-trivial way.
Every time such a situation crops up, it reminds me that OSS and commercialism are not in as much opposition as some in the industry think.
The free time and hobby interest that many have is a huge part of OSS, definately, but commercial interest has produced a heaping pile of very real and sometimes previously very expensive code.
OpenSource has and will continue to revolutionize the growth of knowledge and the capabilities of our machines, as well as lower the learning and creation overhead that is required to run a business. Things that used to take gobs of time to setup and maintain and wouldn't even be worth doing can now be done as an afterthought and an extra. Not to say that OSS replaces admins, but over time, as products improve and manage/configure themselves (rpms, etc) admins certainly can focus on other things.
actually, I didn't run it as root, or on a machine called localhost. But I altered the info to not give attack targets. At least every system is guaranteed to have a root. (well, almost every system)
Now if the RIAA and MPAA would offer indemnity to anyone who promises to legally obtain all future music and movies. EG, any mp3s or movies you may have downloaded in the past (and presumably destroyed) could not be used against you. Then you'd have a bunch of people that are all of a sudden on a clean slate.
what is the statute of limitations on downloads anyway? EG RIAA/MPAA discovers you downloaded a few gb of mp3s in your college days, but its 5 years later?
I spend just about every waking minute working at home on the computer. The TV is usually on in the background. Books aren't really much of an option for me. I used to love books though.
I'm in very much the same situation. We got TiVo and haven't watched ads since. The new version of the software is pretty good at finding things I like to watch.. so generally I watch everything recoded and skip the ads. When I run out of shows on my living room tivo, I check the bedroom, usually find something else to watch. When I'm totally out, I usually put in a DVD. There used to be a rare occasion when I couldn't wait to catch an episode of a show and watch it live, but these days it just isn't worth it. I wait 30 minutes, then start watching and fast forward through the ads.
The ad companies can hate me, but there's a 10% chance I wouldn't have gotten TiVo if it weren't for the constant bombardment of crap.;o)
For a while in the late 90's/early 00's, there was some downright hillarious ads that I still remember, company name and all. AdCritic.com was the best. What happened to all of that?
It unlocks all kinds of interesting ideas really. Perhaps some randomness is still a good plan- relaxed? 50% chance we scare you.. freakin out? 50% chance we really clobber you. But what if the NPC's -knew- when you were about to fire and moved accordingly (not always able to dodge- but add some delay to it or something so that it seems more like intuition rather than cheating on the computer's part).
It seems that this would be the ultimate realm of training for the special forces. Train you to control your fear, etc.
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The real reason there are no indie console games is a bit of shoulder-work by the big boys. They have their party and the doors are closed. A couple years ago I tried to organize a console version of BZFlag and hit brick walls everywhere. To develop legally and efficiently, you need the development kits for the console(s) you're targeting. To get the dev kits, you need to already be an established game developer to get your own licenses or to even get signed under someone else. Sense the catch 22? The escape? Make a bunch of hit PC games first. So things aren't entirely hopeless, but its still a lot of proving to do before you can get anywhere close to a dev kit. You can go homebrew, but then you need to void your warranty and everyone who wants to play your disk does too. It's crap.
yes and no.
Students have practically no rights when on the premises or using school resources. When off campus however is where the arguments are coming up these days- most would argue students are under normal law when not on school grounds or comitting crimes (making threats, etc) against the school, faculty or other students.
hopefully it will handle each shoe as a unique id and your ipod will know which shoes are yours, otherwise running in groups could be interesting- or even running past someone else.
even better would be the label looks blank but is printed in UV ink!
This is actually a lot of corporate money (SGI, and others) that was put in to visualize anything from chemical bonds to aerospace models and more. Sometimes seeing things big and in high def is a truly great way to study something and be able to see it inside and out. Imagine walking inside a CAD/CAM model of the space shuttle during a launch and finding out ahead of time about the foam problem. (just a wild and improbably forinstance, but the idea is the same). Granted there is -some- government money, but its not how youd imagine. Some comes out of students' pockets (I'd imagine very little), etc etc..
-blt@iastate.edu
Perhaps if the label contained a 30 digit hex unlock code that is the encryption key for the disc. The fedex folks in a hurry wouldn't write down that number and cut right through it- which would of course be on that metal film that disintegrates easily and would thus be unreadable after the fact.
The problem with this approach is that you damage the business by thinking only of yourself.
Depending on the size of the business, this may or may not matter. If you work for MS, probably not. If you work for a small business with a 1,000 to 3,000 customers, this may make a world of difference.
I started an internet service provider on good word of mouth alone. Unhappy customers told others and we avoided having unhappy customers as much as was reasonable. Some people are impossible to please.
In any case, if you were my employee and having a hard time in life but driving off customers because your family comes first, I'd fire you and find someone who will respect the customers.
Again, this is not to say that this particular support drain customer should be kept on, but he should be at least given a curteous denial.
I'm not sure I'd directly say that customers aren't a priority (because he'll certainly take it that way) and that could get around. Negative PR spreads faster than positive. Don't breed enemies. This is not to say you shouldn't dump the guy, but different phrasing might be worthwhile.
............. blah blah ..........
You: Good afternoon _______, what can I help you with today?
Customer:
You: I understand what you're telling me, but I have to tell you that this is outside of what the management has authorized me to offer support for. I know that I've helped you with these types of issues in the past, but I really have to stick to the guidelines from now on. Is there anything directly related to one of our products I can help you with today?
now that's just an idea, but I think it takes the pressure off of you as a support rep and puts it on the customer and the management in a nice way.
Meh, it was a weak reference, but I had just watched that episode again and amaroK just reminded me of Darmok. Thanks for the recognition though!
Let's say for a second its only a 1% hit: 1% of 200 Mhz = 2 Mhz wasted, 1% of 2.4 Ghz = 24.58 Mhz wasted.
More realistically lets say 10%: 20 Mhz and 245.76 Mhz. Do you really want to waste 245.76 * # Instructions per cycle?
There are arguments in both directions, but there's no reason that they can't make a non-microkernel stable, it just takes more time. If you can save the 245 mhz, why not?
what about Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?
They either meant "Rain Drops Cell Phone Signals", "Rain Drops Signal of Cell Phones" or "Measuring Rainfall With Cell Phone Signals"
I had the very same thought. At least I'm not alone in my perversion.
I do hate it when searching for something about 4-10 pages in a row are purely sites that pretend to have what you're looking for but are merely meta dumps with adwords or other advertising mechanisms on them. Some of them even have valid cached pages. That said, this article, while certainly Fud, is only Fud Light. I personally prefer Fud Dark- at least I can generally laugh at the article's absurdity. This one was more or less just plain retarded.
56k modems anyone?
somebody read this article.
For me, open source has enabled opportunities that wouldn't have existed otherwise- in many ways, but here are a few.
1) I love the stability of RedHat Enterprise Linux and the slower and more careful release schedule, but do not need the tech support- CentOS has been a boon for the organizations I work for.
2) Robust internet services for free running on commodity and inexpensive hardware = less overhead. Who needs a dual xeon 3.0 ghz with registered memory just to run a small DNS or email server? End of lease hardware from tiger direct works great. A 2.4 ghz P4 is still overkill for a lot of things, but for a hundred bucks or so, who can complain.
3) yum in conjunction with RPMs was a godsend for pushing out configurations/software to lab-fulls of identical machines. Simply push out an rpm that requires a package list and voila, yum makes sure that the machines grab those packages and their requirements. This is an oversimplification, but being able to manage several hundred machines with a few keystrokes is a miricle in itself, let alone the fact its free
and many more
Now the more interesting question, how have businesses you've worked for contributed to open source?
I've often found myself working on a commercial project that depends on some open source code either as a dependency or as the framework for expansion. There are many cases where I've fixed show-stopping bugs or contributed new features that enhanced the OSS project in a non-trivial way.
Every time such a situation crops up, it reminds me that OSS and commercialism are not in as much opposition as some in the industry think.
The free time and hobby interest that many have is a huge part of OSS, definately, but commercial interest has produced a heaping pile of very real and sometimes previously very expensive code.
OpenSource has and will continue to revolutionize the growth of knowledge and the capabilities of our machines, as well as lower the learning and creation overhead that is required to run a business. Things that used to take gobs of time to setup and maintain and wouldn't even be worth doing can now be done as an afterthought and an extra. Not to say that OSS replaces admins, but over time, as products improve and manage/configure themselves (rpms, etc) admins certainly can focus on other things.
I for one welcome the OSS revolution.
actually, I didn't run it as root, or on a machine called localhost. But I altered the info to not give attack targets. At least every system is guaranteed to have a root. (well, almost every system)
Now if the RIAA and MPAA would offer indemnity to anyone who promises to legally obtain all future music and movies. EG, any mp3s or movies you may have downloaded in the past (and presumably destroyed) could not be used against you. Then you'd have a bunch of people that are all of a sudden on a clean slate.
what is the statute of limitations on downloads anyway? EG RIAA/MPAA discovers you downloaded a few gb of mp3s in your college days, but its 5 years later?
oops, shouldn't have had the $ on the first foo..
;o)
[root@localhost ~]# for foo in a b c; do $foo; done
-bash: a: command not found
-bash: b: command not found
-bash: c: command not found
had a, b, and c been commands, they would have executed
for $foo in a b c; do
:o)
$foo
done
that's how you do a b c in a shell.
I spend just about every waking minute working at home on the computer. The TV is usually on in the background. Books aren't really much of an option for me. I used to love books though.
I'm in very much the same situation. We got TiVo and haven't watched ads since. The new version of the software is pretty good at finding things I like to watch.. so generally I watch everything recoded and skip the ads. When I run out of shows on my living room tivo, I check the bedroom, usually find something else to watch. When I'm totally out, I usually put in a DVD. There used to be a rare occasion when I couldn't wait to catch an episode of a show and watch it live, but these days it just isn't worth it. I wait 30 minutes, then start watching and fast forward through the ads.
;o)
The ad companies can hate me, but there's a 10% chance I wouldn't have gotten TiVo if it weren't for the constant bombardment of crap.
For a while in the late 90's/early 00's, there was some downright hillarious ads that I still remember, company name and all. AdCritic.com was the best. What happened to all of that?
I hadn't thought of it as 'seeing a browser' in my head so much as thinking of keywords and just getting the information.
It unlocks all kinds of interesting ideas really. Perhaps some randomness is still a good plan- relaxed? 50% chance we scare you.. freakin out? 50% chance we really clobber you. But what if the NPC's -knew- when you were about to fire and moved accordingly (not always able to dodge- but add some delay to it or something so that it seems more like intuition rather than cheating on the computer's part).
It seems that this would be the ultimate realm of training for the special forces. Train you to control your fear, etc.