"[Game]play should be able to proceed on the home platform, and on mobile platforms, and on your PC at work or school" a viable or attractive one?
HUH? Why do we need games at work or school? Or in the car for that matter? Don't we have enought real world problems to deal with as is?
If anyone should be so bored as to need this type of game, they should instead look around them and see what can be done in the real world to improve it's environment.
There is also a wicked Networking stream under Comp Sci here at Calreton. Oh, and Carleton CS is also acredited under CIPS (equivalent to IEEE, but for CS ppl).:-)
No it isn't as simple as that in most cases. See, in deployed network, where you don't have physical access to the box you can't afford to not be able to communicate with it.
So a company like Motorolla would not allow this to be a 'changable' option in the first place.
Actually it can, you just have to write a small apple script enabling the video driver to do so (look on macos hints), or the previous slashdot article about overclocking an eMac (script is on the bottom).
That script will also allow you to use it as dual screen.
Got a Samsung, works like a peach. (Even came with a n installation cd for Linux, which worked great for me). The toner is nice and cheap too- CAD 80. I couldn't beat them on price as well. I got the printer new for CAD 170.
So far I have done 2 rims of paper on the 1000 page rated 'starter' toner included with the printer and I am not seeing any graying yet.
If we each buy $1K of SCO stock would we collectivly become the largest SCO shareholder? No, you would be buying NO-VOTE stock option. There is a limited amount of the voting options (one's that allow you to sit in on the meetings and vote on issues).
Could we then just use that power and vote all of our shares in one large block? See previous. You have $1k.. I want that kinda cash. Friggin tech slump (goes off venting)
I'd love to see the SCO CEO dance naked at the demands of the board NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT. Really, I much rather eat poo. And not even that imported kind, I am willing to settle for domestic no name brand!:-)
US Postal Service Hmm. I am not buying anything from the US postal service. (And I shouldn't have to. I am not US citizen, nor inhabitant). Nor will anyone that does not live in the States. E-mail is a world wide tool, not US run service.
Besides, what would stop spammers from moving, oh, lets say to Canada.. Same quality of life, close enough for 'business' travel, but no payments for e-mails.
Or is the poster suggesting that EVERYONE in the world should pay to the US postal service for the use of e-mail...
What about some Windows user who's computer gets comprimised and becomes a spam relay or sends out thousands of emails when hit by the next email virus? Then we will call that user 'enlightened'. You bet they will research their tech then, and not run cruddy software. I say this would be a good thing. -- me in Linux land.
Realistically tho, e-mail payments would be the worst thing ever. Think of it this way. $0.02 or so per e-mail is cheap to anyone living in the first world, but what about countries that are trying to get their economies up to par, and wages are not as high? Isn't Disney paying something close to that per HOUR of sweatshop work in Malasyia? (This info is something I heard long time ago, so don't quote me on that). How would they be able to afford such a payment?
Might be so, but here in Canada we have census persons going door to door before every election. So this system will work for most (unless you moved in the last month and are too lazy to collect your mail from previous residence).
Having that said. I am still sceptical wheather voting over wire (phone/net) should be done or not. I guess I will find out soon enough if it worked for us Canadians up here.
Yes. I agree, but what they are striving to do is to priovide a service where let's say you make a proposal document, then later on you reference it from another document. Now the proposal can easily be copied over and stored in 2 places, but why not just give it a sim-link instead. Wait. That is not part of the windows file system right now. So they are solving it by keying relevant documents in a file/folder based filesystem to relational database, that will let you find data faster (i.e. I remember I did this for this project, but can't seem to rember where I did it first. So the db will store the connections and let you know). It is also worthy of noting that it will allow you to keep one copy of the document, such that you only have one place to update. Ever.
In any case, someone kick me for saying this, but M$ is going the right way here, albeit round about anywho. The filesystems do need an overhoul big time. Especially as the amount of information stored increases.
Ehm. Because the link you are showing is a damn ripoff of apple site/look. same goes for the laptop there.
And as others pointed out: OSX.
Don't get me wrong. I work as a Linux developer. Haven't looked back into Windows camp in a long time, but OSX is just too nice to pass up. Run it at home for my primary OS, and let me tell you. Nothing, Windows or Linux can muster up will ever be as user friendly as OSX.
Have you seen their API's too? They are nice (here's the developer in me talking)...
That might not be so. So far all the offerings are not only US centric, but do not come close to how flexible iTunes is.
Granted, I have not had a chance to see iTunes store yet, but I have been wowed by iTunes itself. Up untill not I used to use at most xmms/winamp2, none of that other unusable interfaces (real* ms* ***). Yet, with iTunes I can't help but find it convinent.
Another point to the whole discussion is also the fact that current iPod users get a native windows interface for their hardware and a slew of new customers who previously would have waited/opted for other solutions will now be more likely to spend money on Apple warez.
So its not the iTunes store that is so important, but the porting of iTunes themselves that is.
Its all about good exposure to Mac products. Be it on OSX platform or otherwise. This is one way Apple is getting it right. They have the right products, now they need to show a wide audience that in fact they are better than a standard windows box. And for that they need a killer app/hardware to migrate users over duriung the next purchase cycle....
But also EVERY one of your purchases is traced and logged.
With cash you don't have that problem.
I am not being paranoid, but sometimes you want to pay with cash. I.e. buying a nice gift for your loved one (some geeks have those!!), or something that might be questionable, etc.
And the best part is you don't provide demographic data for the marketeers out there to stuff even more useless advertising down our throats!
It would be nice to be able to compute on cheap platforms other than x86
Not that I am disagreeing, but why? Why is it important that we use this or the other basic set of machine instructions?
Overall, the end user sees no difference (run linux on ppc or x86. they both behave the same).
Sometimes change for the sake of change is not the desired effect. Now, if they were to come up with a revoutionary way of combining the basic operational instructions into one low-power chip (cpu, io, gpu, etc.) then there is a reason, but otherwise its just reinventing the wheel. Waste of human talent.
Other discoveries and applications remain to be found -- but the scientists are at least certain new ones will be found." -- From article
What does that sentence mean? Isn't it like saying the earth is round and it spins and because of that we are certain that there might be another sunrise around the corner???
And how does this discovery help the overclockers.. especially ones on a budget???
Oh, wait why am I asking.. This is Slashdot isn't it. Sigh, time to find a semi-credible news source.
1. Why is the Vietnam War a topic that should not be explored in games?
I mean we have Battlefield 1942, countless historical battle games (Medieval Total War comes to mind here), Terrorist encounter games (Rainbow6 anyone?) They are all based on true events.
How is it that the Vietnam War deserves different treatement?
2. Why does the developer owe anything to the participants of those events, or to the audience. Its a game, not a reconstruction. If it were so, it would be _static_. I mean there would be no game here.
I suppose that certain topics are harder for some to understand, but I am not seeing the difference between a game as Rainbow6 (very well received as far as I know) and something like the game proposed.
I am not trying to be a troll, and this is not a flame, I am simply trying to understand the issue a bit better.
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"[Game]play should be able to proceed on the home platform, and on mobile platforms, and on your PC at work or school" a viable or attractive one?
HUH? Why do we need games at work or school? Or in the car for that matter? Don't we have enought real world problems to deal with as is?
If anyone should be so bored as to need this type of game, they should instead look around them and see what can be done in the real world to improve it's environment.
There is also a wicked Networking stream under Comp Sci here at Calreton. :-)
Oh, and Carleton CS is also acredited under CIPS (equivalent to IEEE, but for CS ppl).
No it isn't as simple as that in most cases.
See, in deployed network, where you don't have physical access to the box you can't afford to not be able to communicate with it.
So a company like Motorolla would not allow this to be a 'changable' option in the first place.
Actually it can, you just have to write a small apple script enabling the video driver to do so (look on macos hints), or the previous slashdot article about overclocking an eMac (script is on the bottom).
That script will also allow you to use it as dual screen.
Got a Samsung, works like a peach. (Even came with a n installation cd for Linux, which worked great for me).
The toner is nice and cheap too- CAD 80.
I couldn't beat them on price as well. I got the printer new for CAD 170.
So far I have done 2 rims of paper on the 1000 page rated 'starter' toner included with the printer and I am not seeing any graying yet.
Actually, they have changed the name.. :-)
its now Colorful Screen of Death instead
You know, gotta give the masses the features they 'want'.
I couldn't imagine trying to run an actual game
That's not what it was designed to do. But I digress.
Virtual PC is slow, but acceptable in my eyes (well, unless you stick XP on it.. Belch, but that's another discussion alltogether).
a dual 2GHz G5 might bring it up to the performance level of a 200 MHz Pentium.
Funny, my 800mhz G4 pbook emulates a 533 P-II no problem...
I found that VLC opened anything I threw at it in OSX.
VLC page: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Happy watching.
On the other hand, my university career has seen the demise of my P3 (fried itself like an egg), and all my AMD systems are running smoothly.
Goes to show ya. Oh yea, I also have long ago decided to not buy Intel...
If we each buy $1K of SCO stock would we collectivly become the largest SCO shareholder?
:-)
No, you would be buying NO-VOTE stock option. There is a limited amount of the voting options (one's that allow you to sit in on the meetings and vote on issues).
Could we then just use that power and vote all of our shares in one large block?
See previous. You have $1k.. I want that kinda cash. Friggin tech slump (goes off venting)
I'd love to see the SCO CEO dance naked at the demands of the board
NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT. Really, I much rather eat poo. And not even that imported kind, I am willing to settle for domestic no name brand!
US Postal Service
Hmm. I am not buying anything from the US postal service. (And I shouldn't have to. I am not US citizen, nor inhabitant). Nor will anyone that does not live in the States. E-mail is a world wide tool, not US run service.
Besides, what would stop spammers from moving, oh, lets say to Canada.. Same quality of life, close enough for 'business' travel, but no payments for e-mails.
Or is the poster suggesting that EVERYONE in the world should pay to the US postal service for the use of e-mail...
This suggestion is ridiculous at best.
What about some Windows user who's computer gets comprimised and becomes a spam relay or sends out thousands of emails when hit by the next email virus?
:-) ).
Then we will call that user 'enlightened'. You bet they will research their tech then, and not run cruddy software. I say this would be a good thing. -- me in Linux land.
Realistically tho, e-mail payments would be the worst thing ever. Think of it this way. $0.02 or so per e-mail is cheap to anyone living in the first world, but what about countries that are trying to get their economies up to par, and wages are not as high? Isn't Disney paying something close to that per HOUR of sweatshop work in Malasyia? (This info is something I heard long time ago, so don't quote me on that). How would they be able to afford such a payment?
Just my $0.02(Which I can afford
Might be so, but here in Canada we have census persons going door to door before every election. So this system will work for most (unless you moved in the last month and are too lazy to collect your mail from previous residence).
Having that said. I am still sceptical wheather voting over wire (phone/net) should be done or not. I guess I will find out soon enough if it worked for us Canadians up here.
Well, nice.
:-)
Allrighty then. I am not loosing my mind.
Went and saw Matrix III on monday
Isn't the premiere today (Wednesday?)
Just checking.
I found the opposite. My system seems to get better battery life with Panther..
Strange.
Seeing how plastics are relatively new phenomena, I'd say we can do away with them without much trouble in the first place.
Sure they are nice and convenient, but in all reality, for human life to continue, we don't need them.
Just my $.02
Yes. I agree, but what they are striving to do is to priovide a service where let's say you make a proposal document, then later on you reference it from another document. Now the proposal can easily be copied over and stored in 2 places, but why not just give it a sim-link instead. Wait. That is not part of the windows file system right now.
So they are solving it by keying relevant documents in a file/folder based filesystem to relational database, that will let you find data faster (i.e. I remember I did this for this project, but can't seem to rember where I did it first. So the db will store the connections and let you know). It is also worthy of noting that it will allow you to keep one copy of the document, such that you only have one place to update. Ever.
In any case, someone kick me for saying this, but M$ is going the right way here, albeit round about anywho. The filesystems do need an overhoul big time. Especially as the amount of information stored increases.
Ehm. Because the link you are showing is a damn ripoff of apple site/look. same goes for the laptop there.
And as others pointed out: OSX.
Don't get me wrong. I work as a Linux developer. Haven't looked back into Windows camp in a long time, but OSX is just too nice to pass up. Run it at home for my primary OS, and let me tell you. Nothing, Windows or Linux can muster up will ever be as user friendly as OSX.
Have you seen their API's too? They are nice (here's the developer in me talking)...
That might not be so.
...
So far all the offerings are not only US centric, but do not come close to how flexible iTunes is.
Granted, I have not had a chance to see iTunes store yet, but I have been wowed by iTunes itself. Up untill not I used to use at most xmms/winamp2, none of that other unusable interfaces (real* ms* ***). Yet, with iTunes I can't help but find it convinent.
Another point to the whole discussion is also the fact that current iPod users get a native windows interface for their hardware and a slew of new customers who previously would have waited/opted for other solutions will now be more likely to spend money on Apple warez.
So its not the iTunes store that is so important, but the porting of iTunes themselves that is.
Its all about good exposure to Mac products. Be it on OSX platform or otherwise. This is one way Apple is getting it right. They have the right products, now they need to show a wide audience that in fact they are better than a standard windows box. And for that they need a killer app/hardware to migrate users over duriung the next purchase cycle.
But also EVERY one of your purchases is traced and logged.
With cash you don't have that problem.
I am not being paranoid, but sometimes you want to pay with cash. I.e. buying a nice gift for your loved one (some geeks have those!!), or something that might be questionable, etc.
And the best part is you don't provide demographic data for the marketeers out there to stuff even more useless advertising down our throats!
It would be nice to be able to compute on cheap platforms other than x86
Not that I am disagreeing, but why? Why is it important that we use this or the other basic set of machine instructions?
Overall, the end user sees no difference (run linux on ppc or x86. they both behave the same).
Sometimes change for the sake of change is not the desired effect. Now, if they were to come up with a revoutionary way of combining the basic operational instructions into one low-power chip (cpu, io, gpu, etc.) then there is a reason, but otherwise its just reinventing the wheel. Waste of human talent.
Typing this on an 800mhz G4 Powerbook?
What lag are you talking about?
The one that my old 1.6GHz Athlon showed with XP or Gnome 2.2 (Gnome being notoriously bloated..)
So to answer your question: There is NO GUI lag even on an 800MHz box.
Other discoveries and applications remain to be found -- but the scientists are at least certain new ones will be found." -- From article
What does that sentence mean? Isn't it like saying the earth is round and it spins and because of that we are certain that there might be another sunrise around the corner???
And how does this discovery help the overclockers.. especially ones on a budget???
Oh, wait why am I asking.. This is Slashdot isn't it.
Sigh, time to find a semi-credible news source.
1. Why is the Vietnam War a topic that should not be explored in games?
I mean we have Battlefield 1942, countless historical battle games (Medieval Total War comes to mind here), Terrorist encounter games (Rainbow6 anyone?)
They are all based on true events.
How is it that the Vietnam War deserves different treatement?
2. Why does the developer owe anything to the participants of those events, or to the audience.
Its a game, not a reconstruction. If it were so, it would be _static_. I mean there would be no game here.
I suppose that certain topics are harder for some to understand, but I am not seeing the difference between a game as Rainbow6 (very well received as far as I know) and something like the game proposed.
I am not trying to be a troll, and this is not a flame, I am simply trying to understand the issue a bit better.