...except that GC and NDS consoles (and games) are selling fairly well in Japan (unlike, say, the Xbox). I know that Slashdot is USA-centric, but it irritates me that, because Nintendo encourage games fitting to the Japanese gaming style, Americans keep saying that the company is dying. Newsflash: it isn't, and there are those of us who deeply enjoy its games.
Short answer: there are some, but the methodology and conclusions are controversial. For some (biased but good) criticism favouring games, take a look at this book if you can. From the studies cited in the book, it seems that people who are violent are likely to enjoy violent games, if they like games at all (which is seldom the case; in general they'd rather have the real thing). But people who are not violent do not become violent due to games.
Use Linux, use older software that works on the older machines.
I use GNU/Linux all the way, baby (do you think I even come near to that 9x thing? I haven't installed any proprietary software on my machines for some five years). I disagree with you on the "older software", though. My ratpoison-cvs is very new, as is emacs, XFCE, fluxbox etc. This is what I'm disagreeing it; the OP's opinion that "new software doesn't have to run in older hardware". If it wants to be used by a significant portion of the world, and Free Software often wants, yest, it does. Further, as others having pointed, minimizing the resource usage of your software is 1) a way of disciplining your code and 2) a way to make sure that it will be lightning fast when used with new hardware (Gnome devels, please hear).
Cheap for first-world citizens, maybe. U$179 is more than what my mother earns by month. Public schools around here need computer labs badly, but can barely afford a bunch of Pentium IIs. Windows 9x is still the most used OS. 128 RAM is a lot. Apple? What is Apple?
I see it all the time in slashdot. Google returns about 945,000 hits for "grammer". I mean, seriously. I am not an English speaker, and I cannot understand where this error comes from. It's not like the 'a' and 'e' keys are next to each other. It's not a potentially confusing spelling like "it's" vs. "its", or "loose" vs. "lose". And for my foreign, non-English ear, the pronounciation of the 'a' and 'e' vowels are completely distinct.
Some folks seem to be excited (or angry) with the possibility of coloring B&W movies with this technique. Forget realistic coloring, this looks amazing for artistic recoloring.
Go take a look at the "recoloring examples" in the coral cache. Also look at what a slashdotter did with the code. Photographers, designers and painters could do neat things with a filter like this in Gimp...
N-Cage here to stay... selling poorly N-Cage here to stay... unplayed N-Cage here to stay... thrown in a drawer N-Cage here to stay... without games N-Cage here to stay... dead
Do you know the names of all countries of the world in their own languages? Can you write and pronounce them all? Most Brazilians wouldn't be able to pronounce "United States of America" or "Nippon" or "Ukrayina" or "Bundesrepublik Deutschland", and they should not be required to. In fact, on slashdot I can't even input the cyrillic and kanji characters I'd need above. What we call "China" is Zhongguo, written with ideographic hanzi, and Chinese has five different vowel intonations; want to give a try at pronouncing or writing it?
Each language has its own idiosyncrasies. People shouldn't be required to learn the writing, spelling and pronounciation conventions of other languages, even for country names.
Sorry, Lucio, but our country is spelled "Brazil" (and therefore "Brazilians") in English, and this is an English-speaking site. But we have a lot to be proud of from Conectiva, including tosatti, acme, apt-rpm, synaptic, smart, the vesa driver for X...
I'm slashdotting with mod points. I followed the link and saw the guy's application to trademark the exact MAME logo and text. For I while I searched for the place to mod it down, and was frustrated that there was none...
I'm sorry, but your Linux company has been demeed a competitor by Microsoft. Now when your users search "microsoft samba incompatibility" they won't be able to find that useful error description in the help forum.
Unlike OpenBSD (and I'll never forgive them for the damn fish), NetBSD has *not* moved away from beastie. A mascot is not the same as a logo. NetBSD has opted for a daemon-less logo, but still keeps the same mascot. I hope FreeBSD is doing the same. I think it's pretty reasonable, given the amount of religious nuts out there.
No flames, please. I never really studied MySQL (other than installing, configuring, fiddling with Wordpress DBs, etc.), since my scholarship's teacher is a fan of PostGreSQL and I learned it first. Now I'm curious about why MySQL is so popular. Everytime someone is talking about a database-driven website it's Perl+MySQL, PHP+MySQL, Ruby+MySQL. What distinctive characteristics does it have over PostGres? Is it faster? Why do you like it so much?
Someone said to me that it's simpler, but from the little that I tried they seemed to have pretty much the same complexity.
I have been writing XSLT for some time and I'm under the same impression. Though the functional language is cool, I don't think the idea of making it XML was very good.
Wouldn't it be simpler and better to design XSLT as a API, and transform XML using existing programming languages? Any XSL gurus have anything insightful to say about?
Too lazy to search, huh? Ok, I'll give up moderation and search for you:)
And the answer, of course, is yes. "rel" attribute, valid for "a" and "link" element types. Take a look at the source of any Wordpress weblog and you'll see it being used for many things already.
The caveat is that you should define a profile about the valid keywords you'll be using in "rel"; I don't know if Google is using a profile, but it's not mandatory.
I need something like Dillo for an old laptop with 24MiB of physical RAM. Unfortunatelly I really need suport for UTF-8 and Japanese, which Dillo doesn't have. Suggestions?
Graphics are not a priority. Anyone knows if w3m under emacs works ok with Unicode? 8)
I think the tilt sensor was embeed in the cartridge. It's fairly common to put extra hardware on them, an advantage of carts over CDs or DVDs. The Boktai series for GBA, for example, has a sunray sensor (not a common light sensor, but an actual ultraviolet light sensor).
x86 is vendor-neutral? Aren't "386", "486" "586" Intel brand names?
IMHO, just like we give credit for Intel by calling it "the x86 architecture", we should give credit to AMD for the amd64 architecture. NetBSD too prefers amd64.
Amen to that, brother. Anecdotal evidence is not very useful evidence, but I worked with migrating enterprise intranets from Windows to Linux. By far the highest costs were the time and effort needed to make hardware work, especially strange monitors and graphic cards in dumb terminals.
These companies would gladly buy lots of the free software-friendly graphic cards.
Slashdot Mirror
...except that GC and NDS consoles (and games) are selling fairly well in Japan (unlike, say, the Xbox). I know that Slashdot is USA-centric, but it irritates me that, because Nintendo encourage games fitting to the Japanese gaming style, Americans keep saying that the company is dying. Newsflash: it isn't, and there are those of us who deeply enjoy its games.
I believe you are confusing slashdot with this one.
Short answer: there are some, but the methodology and conclusions are controversial. For some (biased but good) criticism favouring games, take a look at this book if you can. From the studies cited in the book, it seems that people who are violent are likely to enjoy violent games, if they like games at all (which is seldom the case; in general they'd rather have the real thing). But people who are not violent do not become violent due to games.
Use Linux, use older software that works on the older machines.
I use GNU/Linux all the way, baby (do you think I even come near to that 9x thing? I haven't installed any proprietary software on my machines for some five years). I disagree with you on the "older software", though. My ratpoison-cvs is very new, as is emacs, XFCE, fluxbox etc. This is what I'm disagreeing it; the OP's opinion that "new software doesn't have to run in older hardware". If it wants to be used by a significant portion of the world, and Free Software often wants, yest, it does. Further, as others having pointed, minimizing the resource usage of your software is 1) a way of disciplining your code and 2) a way to make sure that it will be lightning fast when used with new hardware (Gnome devels, please hear).
Cheap for first-world citizens, maybe. U$179 is more than what my mother earns by month. Public schools around here need computer labs badly, but can barely afford a bunch of Pentium IIs. Windows 9x is still the most used OS. 128 RAM is a lot. Apple? What is Apple?
I see. Thanks for the wpedia link, it was informative. I learned English with textual media, and its pronunciation is a complete mistery to me :)
I see it all the time in slashdot. Google returns about 945,000 hits for "grammer". I mean, seriously. I am not an English speaker, and I cannot understand where this error comes from. It's not like the 'a' and 'e' keys are next to each other. It's not a potentially confusing spelling like "it's" vs. "its", or "loose" vs. "lose". And for my foreign, non-English ear, the pronounciation of the 'a' and 'e' vowels are completely distinct.
WTF people write "grammer"?
Some folks seem to be excited (or angry) with the possibility of coloring B&W movies with this technique. Forget realistic coloring, this looks amazing for artistic recoloring.
Go take a look at the "recoloring examples" in the coral cache. Also look at what a slashdotter did with the code. Photographers, designers and painters could do neat things with a filter like this in Gimp...
N-Cage here to stay... selling poorly
N-Cage here to stay... unplayed
N-Cage here to stay... thrown in a drawer
N-Cage here to stay... without games
N-Cage here to stay... dead
Do you know the names of all countries of the world in their own languages? Can you write and pronounce them all? Most Brazilians wouldn't be able to pronounce "United States of America" or "Nippon" or "Ukrayina" or "Bundesrepublik Deutschland", and they should not be required to. In fact, on slashdot I can't even input the cyrillic and kanji characters I'd need above. What we call "China" is Zhongguo, written with ideographic hanzi, and Chinese has five different vowel intonations; want to give a try at pronouncing or writing it?
Each language has its own idiosyncrasies. People shouldn't be required to learn the writing, spelling and pronounciation conventions of other languages, even for country names.
Sorry, Lucio, but our country is spelled "Brazil" (and therefore "Brazilians") in English, and this is an English-speaking site. But we have a lot to be proud of from Conectiva, including tosatti, acme, apt-rpm, synaptic, smart, the vesa driver for X...
Conectiva made apt-rpm. They also made the smart package manager, which I think is underrated. I hope the Mandrake guys see its potential.
Conectiva Linux will not exactly shift to urpmi, but instead it will be merged into Mandrake Linux.
And remember guys, we're called Conectiva, with a single "n".
I'm slashdotting with mod points. I followed the link and saw the guy's application to trademark the exact MAME logo and text. For I while I searched for the place to mod it down, and was frustrated that there was none...
That's true... mea culpa ^^'
I'm sorry, but your Linux company has been demeed a competitor by Microsoft. Now when your users search "microsoft samba incompatibility" they won't be able to find that useful error description in the help forum.
Unlike OpenBSD (and I'll never forgive them for the damn fish), NetBSD has *not* moved away from beastie. A mascot is not the same as a logo. NetBSD has opted for a daemon-less logo, but still keeps the same mascot. I hope FreeBSD is doing the same. I think it's pretty reasonable, given the amount of religious nuts out there.
No flames, please. I never really studied MySQL (other than installing, configuring, fiddling with Wordpress DBs, etc.), since my scholarship's teacher is a fan of PostGreSQL and I learned it first. Now I'm curious about why MySQL is so popular. Everytime someone is talking about a database-driven website it's Perl+MySQL, PHP+MySQL, Ruby+MySQL. What distinctive characteristics does it have over PostGres? Is it faster? Why do you like it so much?
Someone said to me that it's simpler, but from the little that I tried they seemed to have pretty much the same complexity.
I have been writing XSLT for some time and I'm under the same impression. Though the functional language is cool, I don't think the idea of making it XML was very good.
Wouldn't it be simpler and better to design XSLT as a API, and transform XML using existing programming languages? Any XSL gurus have anything insightful to say about?
Too lazy to search, huh? Ok, I'll give up moderation and search for you :)
And the answer, of course, is yes. "rel" attribute, valid for "a" and "link" element types. Take a look at the source of any Wordpress weblog and you'll see it being used for many things already.
The caveat is that you should define a profile about the valid keywords you'll be using in "rel"; I don't know if Google is using a profile, but it's not mandatory.
Geez, just look at his HTML. If you're afraid, let the Validator look at it for you: plain results (4.01 Transitional), forcing charset, forcing HTML 3.2.
What are standards good for, anyway? Just use your monopoly to push your nonstandard browser and do it your way.
I need something like Dillo for an old laptop with 24MiB of physical RAM. Unfortunatelly I really need suport for UTF-8 and Japanese, which Dillo doesn't have. Suggestions?
Graphics are not a priority. Anyone knows if w3m under emacs works ok with Unicode? 8)
Yes, and "old people talk to robots... in Japan!"
I think the tilt sensor was embeed in the cartridge. It's fairly common to put extra hardware on them, an advantage of carts over CDs or DVDs. The Boktai series for GBA, for example, has a sunray sensor (not a common light sensor, but an actual ultraviolet light sensor).
Mawaru Made in Wario even has a tilt sensor.
x86 is vendor-neutral? Aren't "386", "486" "586" Intel brand names?
IMHO, just like we give credit for Intel by calling it "the x86 architecture", we should give credit to AMD for the amd64 architecture. NetBSD too prefers amd64.
Amen to that, brother. Anecdotal evidence is not very useful evidence, but I worked with migrating enterprise intranets from Windows to Linux. By far the highest costs were the time and effort needed to make hardware work, especially strange monitors and graphic cards in dumb terminals.
These companies would gladly buy lots of the free software-friendly graphic cards.