What is wrong w/our communities when we want to study social networks via the web and we can't even have social networks IRL?
Easy. Television has made it 'uncomfortable' to be social.
I, also, hate it when I can't be a perfect, friendly stranger, asking where the broccoli is, without triggering some "Nazi Flight"-like response from Grandma.
Of course, the flipside to this is, some Grandma's are so burning for love that any chance they get to talk to... well... you know where I'm going with this.
In the early days of the web, back when men were men and browsers were something nobody really wanted to write, there was a webcam... before there were webcams... at Netscape... before there were dot-com crashes... that was powered by a CGI script... before there was web application services (tm IBM^M^M^MMicrosoft^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^MSCO)... that was pointed (the webcam, stay with me)... at an...
LED sign. To which you could send your own messages, laugh while your coffee and TSP reports get cold, and marvel at the 'wonders of that modern Internet thingie'.
Now any punk with a screwdriver and half a tab key can hack their own 15 minutes of signage... I'm just... not... inspired by it all any more.
^ and $ are, if I recall, the sed/ed cmd for 'beginning of line', and 'end of line' so it makes sense that vi is using the same character to 'match the pattern'...
You're clearly out of your mind. Windows? Teens? "Safe from Viruses".
Bwwwwaaaaahahahahahhahahahahahah!
Okay, sorry. OSX is a much, much, much safer environment for teens to be thrown loose into, than Windows.
I'm not even going to bother with the whole "Virus" thing... no amount of Update Zone Alarm, New Updates or Anti Virus checking is going to prevent those teenagers from screwing the system.
Out of the box, you can set up an OSX account that deletes itself at the end of each session and renews the home dir every time, through the OS, safely. Check macosxhints.com for details on how to do this...
OSX is -designed- for people like this, in scenario's like this.
Second, I can't even imagine that you are an archaeologist, but if by hook or by crook you got a degree from somewhere, I assure you, most archaeologists are not like you.
hey now, no need to get personal. i'm not an archaeologist, i'm a programmer. and i acknowledge that was a terrible analogy.
i have a great deal of respect for archaeology, except that i rarely see much about the behind-the-scenes verifcations of things... beyond "national geographic" and "discovery" magazine articles that is, and even in those references i've seen time and again 'old stable archaeological standards' challenged and queried, so that the entire body of knowledge requires a new look.
So you're saying that the interface makes it a PC?
This means that an Amiga (with mouse and VGA monitor) is a PC?
I dunno about that. This article is about development of games... and I think that the API's/methods used to develop games for XBox aren't that much different than those used for PC development... whatever the end-packagin is going to be.
Would you then say that a custom-built PC running Windows and only being used as a Point of Sale (cash register) isn't a PC, since it has a cash-drawer and custom keypad interface?
From the perspective of a developer, I thought that XBox was supposed to 'be like developing for a PC', so then to me it doesn't make sense that "XBox Games are Killing PC Games"... but I truly am not an XBox programmer (nor a PC programmer) so I can't say that I really understand the hard-line difference between the two 'platforms'. To me, XBox as a platform is in the same category as a PC would be...
Just because mfr's choose not to package their games for PC's as well as XBox doesn't seem to me to infer that XBox development is killing PC gaming... just that, for some types of PC games, you need to buy a special PC to run them... one from Microsoft, directly.
Point is, Microsoft have created this 'alternative platform' situation, when in fact there is nothing really that alternative about the platform, other than, packaging-wise, that XBox PC came from the same manufacturer of its operating system...
Okay, demo songs for synthesizers are not often the 'best' example of what the synth can do. But this is also a good thing, sometimes... because musicians will often hear a 'demo song' and think to themselves "sounds great, but I could do better", and the moment someone is thinking that about a song on your product (in my business), you're closer to a sale.
IF the demo is interesting enough 'sounding' to get their attention, but turns out to be pretty 'uninspired' as a song, then this leads the musician/customer to think 'okay, great capabilities, poor execution in the track, I'll take it and see what I can do better'...
Its been known for a long time that a demo need not be 'superlative', just "demonstrative of the technology you're trying to sell", and not much else. When was the last time you heard a "Hit Demo Song" coming from a synth? But, I'll bet you anything that the demo songs on most modern synth gear these days contain factory patches that you'll recognize as sounds in popular songs, and no matter how cheesy the track is, if it somehow shows you what is 'possible' with the hardware, even if its naff, then you're closer to a sale...
Until someone comes up with an Internationally Recognized symbol that you can paint on the wall, put up in the window, or otherwise make known, which means "WI-FI ACCESSIBLE HERE... USE DHCP TO GET AN IP ADDRESS", and by 'recognized' I mean on the same order as that of other major international symbols... then, WI-FI is forever going to be a 'fringe' service.
I'd use WI-FI, everywhere it was available, and I'd pay for it too, if only it was really easy to see where WI-FI was going to be accessible. Someone come up with a good WI-FI branding strategy first and then we'll see successful WI-FI economic models come into place... but until then, users of WI-FI are still going to have to be experts of the ether in order to 'know' when and where they can get on the 'net...
Apart from the fact that Microsoft are the only ones who can afford to make the XBox at its current specs, I've always considered that its just a PC made for games, like any other.
I don't see the differentiation, I guess, between an "XBox" game and a "PC" game. Aren't they using the same API's, the same fundamental OS, the same principles of development?
Why the differentiation, really, when under the covers, XBox == Microsofts Gaming PC?
Another thing I don't understand, though I think we'll probably see something on this subject within the next 6 months, is why Game Studio's don't just release their own, little, purpose-built PC system for each of their games? Its not like building cheap hardware that works is hard, any more... so throw away all cardboard packaging boxes, and just wrap a full PC around those CD's...
Nope, I don't see it either. I think this is one of those BBC stories that sounded good until they started writing it...
What I don't get is why someone just doesn't go there and start having a look around? Great, we've got satellite images... is that part of Spain really so inaccessible that we can't just call up the local museum operator and have 'em go see if they see Atlantis in their neighborhood... heh heh, okay, scratch that.
Bad Idea.
Still, this story highlights just how much we take for granted in archeology today. We can't even deal with language barriers today, here and now, and the issues they can cause for two human beings trying to understand each other... how on Earth can we be so sure that we've interpreted a few clay tablets here and there correctly? I know this is an arcane science, with its own rules and regulations, but I can't help feeling that such fundamental issues as the difference between the word for "coastal land" and "island" could have radically confused our understanding of ancient history...
Its like, great, we've got the source, but what the heck kind of CPU does it run on, and what version of the compiler do we use to build the project with? Give someone a "snippet of C" and have them re-build the PC with it... hmm... odd analogy I suppose, but I'm just too lazy to smooth out the wrinkles. Like so many archaeologists before me, perhaps?
That, and the fact that most 'modern' schools of archaeology seem to have been founded by Christian Faith movements over the years, leads me to a very nasty suscpicion that we've completely misunderstood the Ancients, too many times to be sure...
Why don't we create an industry funded board whose job is to make sure that silly software patents are no longer awarded
I asked the same question a few days ago on another/. story about patents, and was referred to PubPat...
If only people knew more about these things, and cared about them. As a developer, I despise the fact that the obvious things that I may design/develop to assist my fellow man in using my software have become 'owned' by someone else in order that they may profit.
Not saying it isn't fast, but why all the fuss over pictures?
The design of Apple computers is one of the things, small and insignificant though it is, that differentiates Apple from its competition.
Like it or not, people do have an affinity for aesthetic design. Compare your average Dell to a G5, and you'll see the difference.
There are some that assume that any 'major change in industrial design' which Apple introduces to its product line will signify a shift in direction for the company. When the tiBooks came out, for example, it was clear that Apple was 'rejuvenating its purpose as a computer designer/manufacturer'... to many Apple fans, this is a simple way of gauging Apples' intentions for the future... if they make major exterior design changes, it usually indicates a change in architecture.
Strange, perhaps, but I believe this has something to do with marketing, not technology. Many computer geeks forget that marketing is the only thing that truly counts in computers these days...
In SuSE, however, you have an 'u', so this pronounced like ooh. Very different indeed.
I know about the difference between an 'u' and an 'ü', since I speak [a little] German... but all I'm saying is thats how I hear Germans pronouncing "SUSE", the same way they say "süsse". Its not like accuracy with a trademarks' annunciation has ever stopped popular culture from having its own ways of things.
But maybe my part of Germany is different than your part...
And, to a native English speaker, the letters "ooh" together like that could mean "OH-h", or "oooo-h", the first way being like the letter O, and the second way sounding like the way you say the letter "U" only without the "y-" bit at the front.
So, "z-ooh-z-a" is "Z-O-Z-a", or "z-uuu-z-a"?
Either way you say it, just make sure the other person knows what the hell you're talking about at the end of it, eh sweetie?:)
If free software wants to do better than 'paid software' for money, then it has to be easier to pay for free software than it is to pay for 'paid software'.
That is to say, its too hard to pay for free software.
All those other CD's are extra CD's containing tons of free software that you can use on your newly installed Linux system.
When was the last time you got 9gigs worth of free software with your operating system? No, don't answer that, I don't want to know... and no, MSDN & Office "updates" don't count...
I've got a Linux setup that is only 1.4 megs worth of Linux, kernel, apps and libs. Everything beyond that is add-ons... That is no bloat.
Well, I live in Germany, and I've heard Germans say it the same way they say the German word for 'sweet'... which phonetically sounds like "zoo-seh"...
Maybe we should get Linus to record how he says it for us...
Hey, I appreciated hearing that someone was considering doing this... it made me think that perhaps I ought to, as well. And I probably also will pay for SUSE (again), for the same reasons as the parents post. FTP version is good, CD version is better.
So it was a positive thing that the parent mentioned it, but I have to wonder just how someone could bother 'querying someones intentions to do something', and then bothering to mention that here...why?
What were the special challenges or obstacles faced?
Finding customers. NEVER underestimate how important this is to the success of your company.
All other problems, and yes there are many with relation to OSS in general, are insignificant.
So many startup guys get rolling, only to be void of life 4 months later because they weren't daily working on getting clients on board who will pay the bills and provide lifeblood to the rest of the company.
Sounds obvious, but I just wanna point it out before it gets lost in the/. responses... Work *hard* on finding yourself customers, harder than you want to, even...
yeah, geek port... the coolest thing i ever saw someone do with that was lighting control for their basement dungeon, but i never got around to getting one of those cables built somehow...
ah, bebox. its really just the blinkenlights i like, its so 'orac'. i'm sure theres a speech synthesizer for it... that'd be a neat party prop, heh heh... 'orac, turn down the lights', BLINKenBlinKenBlinkenblinken...
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What is wrong w/our communities when we want to study social networks via the web and we can't even have social networks IRL?
... well ... you know where I'm going with this.
Easy. Television has made it 'uncomfortable' to be social.
I, also, hate it when I can't be a perfect, friendly stranger, asking where the broccoli is, without triggering some "Nazi Flight"-like response from Grandma.
Of course, the flipside to this is, some Grandma's are so burning for love that any chance they get to talk to
In short: KILL YOUR TELEVISION!
10 years is not a long time.
Good lord no. Bored.
/. article is so 1993.
This
... comes around.
... before there were webcams ... at Netscape ... before there were dot-com crashes ... that was powered by a CGI script ... before there was web application services (tm IBM^M^M^MMicrosoft^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^MSCO) ... that was pointed (the webcam, stay with me) ... at an ...
... I'm just ... not ... inspired by it all any more.
In the early days of the web, back when men were men and browsers were something nobody really wanted to write, there was a webcam
LED sign. To which you could send your own messages, laugh while your coffee and TSP reports get cold, and marvel at the 'wonders of that modern Internet thingie'.
Now any punk with a screwdriver and half a tab key can hack their own 15 minutes of signage
So I'm not even gonna visit the link.
^ and $ are, if I recall, the sed/ed cmd for 'beginning of line', and 'end of line' so it makes sense that vi is using the same character to 'match the pattern'
You're clearly out of your mind. Windows? Teens? "Safe from Viruses".
... no amount of Update Zone Alarm, New Updates or Anti Virus checking is going to prevent those teenagers from screwing the system.
...
Bwwwwaaaaahahahahahhahahahahahah!
Okay, sorry. OSX is a much, much, much safer environment for teens to be thrown loose into, than Windows.
I'm not even going to bother with the whole "Virus" thing
Out of the box, you can set up an OSX account that deletes itself at the end of each session and renews the home dir every time, through the OS, safely. Check macosxhints.com for details on how to do this
OSX is -designed- for people like this, in scenario's like this.
no kidding? which one was that?
i'm sure a few of us have bought GPU cards with 'pro demos' included with them as well, eh?
Second, I can't even imagine that you are an archaeologist, but if by hook or by crook you got a degree from somewhere, I assure you, most archaeologists are not like you.
... beyond "national geographic" and "discovery" magazine articles that is, and even in those references i've seen time and again 'old stable archaeological standards' challenged and queried, so that the entire body of knowledge requires a new look.
...
hey now, no need to get personal. i'm not an archaeologist, i'm a programmer. and i acknowledge that was a terrible analogy.
i have a great deal of respect for archaeology, except that i rarely see much about the behind-the-scenes verifcations of things
Such as the "Xinguano" tribes, for example
So you're saying that the interface makes it a PC?
... whatever the end-packagin is going to be.
... but I truly am not an XBox programmer (nor a PC programmer) so I can't say that I really understand the hard-line difference between the two 'platforms'. To me, XBox as a platform is in the same category as a PC would be ...
... just that, for some types of PC games, you need to buy a special PC to run them ... one from Microsoft, directly.
...
This means that an Amiga (with mouse and VGA monitor) is a PC?
I dunno about that. This article is about development of games... and I think that the API's/methods used to develop games for XBox aren't that much different than those used for PC development
Would you then say that a custom-built PC running Windows and only being used as a Point of Sale (cash register) isn't a PC, since it has a cash-drawer and custom keypad interface?
From the perspective of a developer, I thought that XBox was supposed to 'be like developing for a PC', so then to me it doesn't make sense that "XBox Games are Killing PC Games"
Just because mfr's choose not to package their games for PC's as well as XBox doesn't seem to me to infer that XBox development is killing PC gaming
Point is, Microsoft have created this 'alternative platform' situation, when in fact there is nothing really that alternative about the platform, other than, packaging-wise, that XBox PC came from the same manufacturer of its operating system
... In my industry, demo's (or, more appropriately, demo songs) have been a staple part of the released product for years.
... because musicians will often hear a 'demo song' and think to themselves "sounds great, but I could do better", and the moment someone is thinking that about a song on your product (in my business), you're closer to a sale.
...
...
Okay, demo songs for synthesizers are not often the 'best' example of what the synth can do. But this is also a good thing, sometimes
IF the demo is interesting enough 'sounding' to get their attention, but turns out to be pretty 'uninspired' as a song, then this leads the musician/customer to think 'okay, great capabilities, poor execution in the track, I'll take it and see what I can do better'
Its been known for a long time that a demo need not be 'superlative', just "demonstrative of the technology you're trying to sell", and not much else. When was the last time you heard a "Hit Demo Song" coming from a synth? But, I'll bet you anything that the demo songs on most modern synth gear these days contain factory patches that you'll recognize as sounds in popular songs, and no matter how cheesy the track is, if it somehow shows you what is 'possible' with the hardware, even if its naff, then you're closer to a sale
Until someone comes up with an Internationally Recognized symbol that you can paint on the wall, put up in the window, or otherwise make known, which means "WI-FI ACCESSIBLE HERE ... USE DHCP TO GET AN IP ADDRESS", and by 'recognized' I mean on the same order as that of other major international symbols ... then, WI-FI is forever going to be a 'fringe' service.
... but until then, users of WI-FI are still going to have to be experts of the ether in order to 'know' when and where they can get on the 'net ...
I'd use WI-FI, everywhere it was available, and I'd pay for it too, if only it was really easy to see where WI-FI was going to be accessible. Someone come up with a good WI-FI branding strategy first and then we'll see successful WI-FI economic models come into place
Apart from the fact that Microsoft are the only ones who can afford to make the XBox at its current specs, I've always considered that its just a PC made for games, like any other.
I don't see the differentiation, I guess, between an "XBox" game and a "PC" game. Aren't they using the same API's, the same fundamental OS, the same principles of development?
Why the differentiation, really, when under the covers, XBox == Microsofts Gaming PC?
Another thing I don't understand, though I think we'll probably see something on this subject within the next 6 months, is why Game Studio's don't just release their own, little, purpose-built PC system for each of their games? Its not like building cheap hardware that works is hard, any more
Nope, I don't see it either. I think this is one of those BBC stories that sounded good until they started writing it ...
... is that part of Spain really so inaccessible that we can't just call up the local museum operator and have 'em go see if they see Atlantis in their neighborhood... heh heh, okay, scratch that.
... how on Earth can we be so sure that we've interpreted a few clay tablets here and there correctly? I know this is an arcane science, with its own rules and regulations, but I can't help feeling that such fundamental issues as the difference between the word for "coastal land" and "island" could have radically confused our understanding of ancient history...
... hmm ... odd analogy I suppose, but I'm just too lazy to smooth out the wrinkles. Like so many archaeologists before me, perhaps?
...
What I don't get is why someone just doesn't go there and start having a look around? Great, we've got satellite images
Bad Idea.
Still, this story highlights just how much we take for granted in archeology today. We can't even deal with language barriers today, here and now, and the issues they can cause for two human beings trying to understand each other
Its like, great, we've got the source, but what the heck kind of CPU does it run on, and what version of the compiler do we use to build the project with? Give someone a "snippet of C" and have them re-build the PC with it
That, and the fact that most 'modern' schools of archaeology seem to have been founded by Christian Faith movements over the years, leads me to a very nasty suscpicion that we've completely misunderstood the Ancients, too many times to be sure
Why don't we create an industry funded board whose job is to make sure that silly software patents are no longer awarded
/. story about patents, and was referred to PubPat...
I asked the same question a few days ago on another
If only people knew more about these things, and cared about them. As a developer, I despise the fact that the obvious things that I may design/develop to assist my fellow man in using my software have become 'owned' by someone else in order that they may profit.
Patents suck. Period.
Not saying it isn't fast, but why all the fuss over pictures?
... to many Apple fans, this is a simple way of gauging Apples' intentions for the future... if they make major exterior design changes, it usually indicates a change in architecture.
...
The design of Apple computers is one of the things, small and insignificant though it is, that differentiates Apple from its competition.
Like it or not, people do have an affinity for aesthetic design. Compare your average Dell to a G5, and you'll see the difference.
There are some that assume that any 'major change in industrial design' which Apple introduces to its product line will signify a shift in direction for the company. When the tiBooks came out, for example, it was clear that Apple was 'rejuvenating its purpose as a computer designer/manufacturer'
Strange, perhaps, but I believe this has something to do with marketing, not technology. Many computer geeks forget that marketing is the only thing that truly counts in computers these days
In SuSE, however, you have an 'u', so this pronounced like ooh. Very different indeed.
... but all I'm saying is thats how I hear Germans pronouncing "SUSE", the same way they say "süsse". Its not like accuracy with a trademarks' annunciation has ever stopped popular culture from having its own ways of things.
:)
I know about the difference between an 'u' and an 'ü', since I speak [a little] German
But maybe my part of Germany is different than your part...
And, to a native English speaker, the letters "ooh" together like that could mean "OH-h", or "oooo-h", the first way being like the letter O, and the second way sounding like the way you say the letter "U" only without the "y-" bit at the front.
So, "z-ooh-z-a" is "Z-O-Z-a", or "z-uuu-z-a"?
Either way you say it, just make sure the other person knows what the hell you're talking about at the end of it, eh sweetie?
Because they are lazy.
If free software wants to do better than 'paid software' for money, then it has to be easier to pay for free software than it is to pay for 'paid software'.
That is to say, its too hard to pay for free software.
Here's the rub: "I just payed for SUSE" vs. "I want to pay for SUSE".
Well, I just paid for SUSE (even though I didn't). How is this going to affect the sway of your 'analysis'.
Scientific sensibilities aside, PAY FOR YOUR FREE SOFTWARE!
My interest is primarily investigative, in the scientific sense of the word.
... "SLASHDOT EXCEPTION ALERT: subject is attempting clean petri-dish science in a cesspool."
... sorry.
Ermm
Doesn't make sense
... you Anonymous Logic-Impaired moron.
... and no, MSDN & Office "updates" don't count ...
... That is no bloat.
All those other CD's are extra CD's containing tons of free software that you can use on your newly installed Linux system.
When was the last time you got 9gigs worth of free software with your operating system? No, don't answer that, I don't want to know
I've got a Linux setup that is only 1.4 megs worth of Linux, kernel, apps and libs. Everything beyond that is add-ons
Well, I live in Germany, and I've heard Germans say it the same way they say the German word for 'sweet'
Maybe we should get Linus to record how he says it for us
Hey, I appreciated hearing that someone was considering doing this
So it was a positive thing that the parent mentioned it, but I have to wonder just how someone could bother 'querying someones intentions to do something', and then bothering to mention that here
No I am not trading you my BeBox for your Be T-shirt.
Even though I do not have one. Yet.
What were the special challenges or obstacles faced?
/. responses ... Work *hard* on finding yourself customers, harder than you want to, even ...
Finding customers. NEVER underestimate how important this is to the success of your company.
All other problems, and yes there are many with relation to OSS in general, are insignificant.
So many startup guys get rolling, only to be void of life 4 months later because they weren't daily working on getting clients on board who will pay the bills and provide lifeblood to the rest of the company.
Sounds obvious, but I just wanna point it out before it gets lost in the
yeah, geek port ... the coolest thing i ever saw someone do with that was lighting control for their basement dungeon, but i never got around to getting one of those cables built somehow ...
... that'd be a neat party prop, heh heh ... 'orac, turn down the lights', BLINKenBlinKenBlinkenblinken ...
ah, bebox. its really just the blinkenlights i like, its so 'orac'. i'm sure theres a speech synthesizer for it