...What do you do when people don't have the same units? Total Annihilation regularly released new units when it was out, and games were decided by the lowest common denominator (i.e. if one person hadn't downloaded it, no one could use it).
This model would clearly not work if you had to pay for the units (A Catch-22 - I won't buy it unless other people buy it, but they won't buy it unless I buy it).
However, if you make people download enigne toolings or the data-files on the new units even if they don't buy it, it sounds like it would be very easy to hack (depending on how modular it was designed), which would discourage people from buying it.
And what you used wasn't even a metaphor. It's called an analogy.
I just wanted to take a stand and defend the Auto makers. They have not been ready with the technology to switch to alternative fuels for a very long time, (unless you can't a battery life that only takes you 40 km technology that is good enough) and they have done their part to create the concept cars and designs on how this will work. (Anyone who has been to a recent carshow will know this.)
The flaw lies in the infrastructure, which the car companies can't build by themselves. How many gas stations do you see with Ethanol fuel? Can you plug in your electric car there? The problem lies with the oil companies' reluctance to give up their cash cow and invest in this new technology. And it's not like the government is supporting these new technlogies either.
Now that the electric fuel cell has been more or less perfected in recent times, you could see them actually sell, if they can plug into your home at night.
While I agree with your perception of the media industry, don't make the assumption that all companies care about is making money. Perhaps you should have compared it to the energy industry, where there are an abundance of examples (Exxon Valdez, Enron Accounting)
I have pondered over this idea myself, and wondered how an "Open-source" government would work.
It would be interesting if the poll on the right was for a policy decision. And would they have a CowboyNeal option?:-)
But seriously, does anyone know of any examples of this kind of thing happening? I wonder if someone should try it with something with a small influence (student union for example).
The main problem that would occur, and is a major factor in collaborative ideas, is seriously bad groupthink, where everyone just latches onto any half-sane (and therefore any half-insane) idea.
What the poster fails to mention is that while big downloaders are getting charged this high price, Rogers is also creating an "economy" price plan, where for 20$ Canadian (that's like 13$ US) a month will get you high-speed access with download caps. This is fully in-line with Canada's (policy? suggestion?) plan to get high-speed to everyone.
Personally, I would like to see a dynamic plan, along the lines of a phone bill, that would charge you based on the amount you DOWNloaded.
And I know some people complain about the ping attacks, and various other claims, but putting on customizable hourly and daily caps (not to mention only using DOWNloads) could prevent that most of the time (not to mention not giving out your IP address in the first place)!
Don't take me too literally. While I think it is better than US coverage, that isn't saying much!
One thing I will personally never forgive Don McClean (a principle CBC sports personality) for is when he wasn't agressive enough (perhaps too Canadian?) to get the first interview with Donovan Bailey after the 100m 1996 Olympic final.
That, and the fact that while they might be less biased, doesn't mean that they aren't biased at all...
The CBC usually does an excellent job of covering the Olympics... I remember that some of my American friends near the border actually tuned in to CBC for the Nagano games...
Well, I know most people have given up on the series, but for those of you who still have hope, don't forget that David Duchovny (sorry about the spelling) has repeatedly claimed that he would be willing to do an X-Files movie....
Let's just hope it doesn't end up like Evolution....
I believe that there are two types of code... The kind you can (and should) freely copy, and the kind you can't.
This has nothing to do with copyrights or stealing someone's work. If the code fragment actually solves a conceptual problem, some form of algorithm, then it should definitely not be copied. Of course, some fragments are so common (such as a sort) that all code will look the same anyways, and you should be able to copy some of your own code.
But the kind of code that should be copied at all costs are things such as system calls, user interface calls, connecting to various sources, and much of the stuff that has nothing to do with the actual problem. These fragments are frequently tedious, and rarely are useful to understand, and such fragments should be freely available in online databases. Especially the UI stuff, you WANT your program to work the same as others!
The article talks about a program that has been around since 1993 and merely detects exact duplicates of code...
Not really a big deal... Our school uses some University's program and database which not only detects fragment duplication, but also permutations of the code (such as changing variables, white space, etc.). Not sure which University though....
All right, I just started using Linux last month, so I ought to be able to comment on this.
First thing I did was visit my University's CS Club, where they were offering to give a full version on CD (Which happened to be convienient at the time). They ask me what version I want. I only know of Red Hat and Mandrake (from friends). He says that I should get Mandrake, while I nod my head, not really caring at that point.
So I start the installation process, and begin to enter information. I choose advanced installation (naive me), and was amazed at all the options that I could choose to install of the CD. A reasonable selection, so I picked anything that looked interesting.
About an hour later after all the files had finally copied onto the hardrive (and the partitioning, etc.), I booted up. Created my account, and was immediately greeted with a happy first-time wizard. Except the text-boxes wouldn't work. Needless to say, after a few minutes of frustrations, I just skipped it. I have no idea how to get it back, but it would sure be useful, as I still haven't got my Internet working under Linux. Plus, the fact that there are so many control pannels (3 or so, I think), I never know where to find anything. In fact, once I have KDE running, I can barely tell the difference from Windows, and besides the fixed memory leak, I can hardly tell the difference.
So what's the benefit of switching right now?
The only positives to using Linux are: it's not Microsoft, and the lack of a memory leak. Quite frankly, rebooting my computer every two days is worth the price for being able to use all my old stuff.
Personaly, I believe the best interface would be one that is so intuitive it would require no training at all, you would just 'know' what to do. And frankly, I think we said goodbye to such an interface when MAC OS X came along.
That said aside, I happen to use Linux a lot as a UNIX substitute, the terminals I work with get garbled all the time, and have broken mice. I think Linux is a wonderful replacement for UNIX!
The makers of Underlight has been advocating this feature in their game for years now, so why has it's popularity deteriorated so much since it was started?
Q: What is the intention of the Liberty Alliance Project? A: The charter members of the Liberty Alliance Project, representing a broad, global spectrum of industries, intend to create an open, federated solution for network identity - enabling ubiquitous single sign-on, decentralized authentication and open authorization from any device connected to the internet, from traditional desktop computers and cellular phones through to TVs, automobiles, credit cards and point-of-sale terminals. The alliance represents some of the world's most recognized brand names and service providers, driving products, services and partnerships across a wide range of consumer and industrial products, financial services, travel, retailing, telecommunications and technology
Quarters cause cancer! A breakthrough reporrt has discovered that ordinary Quarters cause cancer. The study was conducted by taking two groups of mice. One group had quarters surgically inserted into their bodies whle the other group was used as a control. The scientists discoverd that the occurence of cancerous cells in the test group was almost double that of the control group!
the morale: don't use quarters!
As a side note, I believe this was an actualy study, although I admit to fabricating the exact details.
But which one are we on?
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The real question is... Is this analagous to the first Palm or the earlier Newton?
After all, Steve Jobs was supporting it...
Luigi's Mansion (the "Mario-whatever") doesn't seem to be the main game for Cube. It's more of a technology demo, if anything, with stale gameplay (IMO).
Capcom is moving all it's Resident Evil games to Game Cube. Plus there's PSO2, Wave Race, and a whole bunch of other games. And don't underestimate Pikmin, you'd be surprised how a unique concept can be hugely entertaining.
This seems like yet another device where more things are rolled into one. Given the fact that market is already saturated, and that the number of people without burners is on the decline, and the fact that they use a special Mini-CD format (which means that it probably won't be compatible 100% or the time or it won't have a very large capacity - this is just speculation, of course) means that this might not be the best product right now...
Is anyone else reminded of the Kodak Digital Camera/MP3 Player? Granted, this thing has more features for the same purpose now, but...
Slashdot Mirror
...What do you do when people don't have the same units? Total Annihilation regularly released new units when it was out, and games were decided by the lowest common denominator (i.e. if one person hadn't downloaded it, no one could use it).
This model would clearly not work if you had to pay for the units (A Catch-22 - I won't buy it unless other people buy it, but they won't buy it unless I buy it).
However, if you make people download enigne toolings or the data-files on the new units even if they don't buy it, it sounds like it would be very easy to hack (depending on how modular it was designed), which would discourage people from buying it.
Unless you have some way to prevent this?
And what you used wasn't even a metaphor. It's called an analogy.
I just wanted to take a stand and defend the Auto makers. They have not been ready with the technology to switch to alternative fuels for a very long time, (unless you can't a battery life that only takes you 40 km technology that is good enough) and they have done their part to create the concept cars and designs on how this will work. (Anyone who has been to a recent carshow will know this.)
The flaw lies in the infrastructure, which the car companies can't build by themselves. How many gas stations do you see with Ethanol fuel? Can you plug in your electric car there? The problem lies with the oil companies' reluctance to give up their cash cow and invest in this new technology. And it's not like the government is supporting these new technlogies either.
Now that the electric fuel cell has been more or less perfected in recent times, you could see them actually sell, if they can plug into your home at night.
While I agree with your perception of the media industry, don't make the assumption that all companies care about is making money. Perhaps you should have compared it to the energy industry, where there are an abundance of examples (Exxon Valdez, Enron Accounting)
I have pondered over this idea myself, and wondered how an "Open-source" government would work.
It would be interesting if the poll on the right was for a policy decision. And would they have a CowboyNeal option? :-)
But seriously, does anyone know of any examples of this kind of thing happening? I wonder if someone should try it with something with a small influence (student union for example).
The main problem that would occur, and is a major factor in collaborative ideas, is seriously bad groupthink, where everyone just latches onto any half-sane (and therefore any half-insane) idea.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
This sounds just like slashdot, maybe someone should have set up a slash site for the someone to "moderate".
What the poster fails to mention is that while big downloaders are getting charged this high price, Rogers is also creating an "economy" price plan, where for 20$ Canadian (that's like 13$ US) a month will get you high-speed access with download caps. This is fully in-line with Canada's (policy? suggestion?) plan to get high-speed to everyone.
Personally, I would like to see a dynamic plan, along the lines of a phone bill, that would charge you based on the amount you DOWNloaded.
And I know some people complain about the ping attacks, and various other claims, but putting on customizable hourly and daily caps (not to mention only using DOWNloads) could prevent that most of the time (not to mention not giving out your IP address in the first place)!
Don't take me too literally. While I think it is better than US coverage, that isn't saying much!
One thing I will personally never forgive Don McClean (a principle CBC sports personality) for is when he wasn't agressive enough (perhaps too Canadian?) to get the first interview with Donovan Bailey after the 100m 1996 Olympic final.
That, and the fact that while they might be less biased, doesn't mean that they aren't biased at all...
The CBC usually does an excellent job of covering the Olympics... I remember that some of my American friends near the border actually tuned in to CBC for the Nagano games...
And their page is much more standards compliant.
CBC Olympics Front Page
Well, I know most people have given up on the series, but for those of you who still have hope, don't forget that David Duchovny (sorry about the spelling) has repeatedly claimed that he would be willing to do an X-Files movie....
Let's just hope it doesn't end up like Evolution....
I believe that there are two types of code... The kind you can (and should) freely copy, and the kind you can't.
This has nothing to do with copyrights or stealing someone's work. If the code fragment actually solves a conceptual problem, some form of algorithm, then it should definitely not be copied. Of course, some fragments are so common (such as a sort) that all code will look the same anyways, and you should be able to copy some of your own code.
But the kind of code that should be copied at all costs are things such as system calls, user interface calls, connecting to various sources, and much of the stuff that has nothing to do with the actual problem. These fragments are frequently tedious, and rarely are useful to understand, and such fragments should be freely available in online databases. Especially the UI stuff, you WANT your program to work the same as others!
My two € cents.
The article talks about a program that has been around since 1993 and merely detects exact duplicates of code...
Not really a big deal... Our school uses some University's program and database which not only detects fragment duplication, but also permutations of the code (such as changing variables, white space, etc.). Not sure which University though....
MAC OS X.... or do we only think of 'mainstream' OSes here?
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 91783
"In any case, future wars will be fought by robots. When that day comes, your duty will be clear...
To build and maintain those robots."
-Military camp episode (Probably not excaly correct wording...)
All right, I just started using Linux last month, so I ought to be able to comment on this.
First thing I did was visit my University's CS Club, where they were offering to give a full version on CD (Which happened to be convienient at the time). They ask me what version I want. I only know of Red Hat and Mandrake (from friends). He says that I should get Mandrake, while I nod my head, not really caring at that point.
So I start the installation process, and begin to enter information. I choose advanced installation (naive me), and was amazed at all the options that I could choose to install of the CD. A reasonable selection, so I picked anything that looked interesting.
About an hour later after all the files had finally copied onto the hardrive (and the partitioning, etc.), I booted up. Created my account, and was immediately greeted with a happy first-time wizard. Except the text-boxes wouldn't work. Needless to say, after a few minutes of frustrations, I just skipped it. I have no idea how to get it back, but it would sure be useful, as I still haven't got my Internet working under Linux. Plus, the fact that there are so many control pannels (3 or so, I think), I never know where to find anything. In fact, once I have KDE running, I can barely tell the difference from Windows, and besides the fixed memory leak, I can hardly tell the difference.
So what's the benefit of switching right now? The only positives to using Linux are: it's not Microsoft, and the lack of a memory leak. Quite frankly, rebooting my computer every two days is worth the price for being able to use all my old stuff.
Personaly, I believe the best interface would be one that is so intuitive it would require no training at all, you would just 'know' what to do. And frankly, I think we said goodbye to such an interface when MAC OS X came along.
That said aside, I happen to use Linux a lot as a UNIX substitute, the terminals I work with get garbled all the time, and have broken mice. I think Linux is a wonderful replacement for UNIX!
The makers of Underlight has been advocating this feature in their game for years now, so why has it's popularity deteriorated so much since it was started?
From the FAQ:
Q: What is the intention of the Liberty Alliance Project?
A: The charter members of the Liberty Alliance Project, representing a broad, global spectrum of industries, intend to create an open, federated solution for network identity - enabling ubiquitous single sign-on, decentralized authentication and open authorization from any device connected to the internet, from traditional desktop computers and cellular phones through to TVs, automobiles, credit cards and point-of-sale terminals. The alliance represents some of the world's most recognized brand names and service providers, driving products, services and partnerships across a wide range of consumer and industrial products, financial services, travel, retailing, telecommunications and technology
My personal favourite:
Quarters cause cancer!
A breakthrough reporrt has discovered that ordinary Quarters cause cancer. The study was conducted by taking two groups of mice. One group had quarters surgically inserted into their bodies whle the other group was used as a control. The scientists discoverd that the occurence of cancerous cells in the test group was almost double that of the control group!
the morale: don't use quarters!
As a side note, I believe this was an actualy study, although I admit to fabricating the exact details.
The real question is...
Is this analagous to the first Palm or the earlier Newton?
After all, Steve Jobs was supporting it...
You want the Panasonic version due out in a few months in Japan, and probably sometime next year in North America.
Luigi's Mansion (the "Mario-whatever") doesn't seem to be the main game for Cube. It's more of a technology demo, if anything, with stale gameplay (IMO).
Capcom is moving all it's Resident Evil games to Game Cube. Plus there's PSO2, Wave Race, and a whole bunch of other games. And don't underestimate Pikmin, you'd be surprised how a unique concept can be hugely entertaining.
Game Cube. It's not just for little kids anymore.
Starting with Resident Evil: Biohazard
For those of you who didn't know what he was talking about:
Ballmer Screaming
and
Developers, developers, developers, developers: the Ultimate Remix
Kinda funny that I found both of these browsing http://homepages.mac.com
This seems like yet another device where more things are rolled into one. Given the fact that market is already saturated, and that the number of people without burners is on the decline, and the fact that they use a special Mini-CD format (which means that it probably won't be compatible 100% or the time or it won't have a very large capacity - this is just speculation, of course) means that this might not be the best product right now...
Is anyone else reminded of the Kodak Digital Camera/MP3 Player? Granted, this thing has more features for the same purpose now, but...
Well, there's also all the BG games that work on it...
Does anyone know what an XP crash looks like? It's be nice if somone could post a screenshot for us all to laugh at... :-)