I find it funny when people say Moore is biased. Yes Moore is biased, just like 99.9% of the media.
The only reason Moore looks strange is because: 1. Is assumes honestly that he is biased 2. People are only used to see things in the media from an angle that is different (almost opposite?) from his (which is, BTW, probably even more biased than his) 3. Is style is different from the usually polished media.
PC games will never go away, but if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease.
Curiously I see the vast majority of games in the market today as being mainly better graphical versions of old games. There is nothing new (or almost nothing). I stopped playing because of this (and I was a buyer, not a pirate).
If his notion of quality means more graphics and no creativity at all, then I really hope they all go bust.
Hopefully some indie games producer or a whole new comercial games industry based on creativity would surface.
Just a minor (a bit offtopic I know) information point: French is not as widely spoken as most people think. Its not the "second language after english" as most people tend to think. Have a look e.g. here
I suppose that even Netscape its not a known brand (ie by average users). Most of current Internet users are either post-Netscape dominance or didn't care that much and don't remember.
Summarizing: Netscape nowadays is almost as minoritary as Firefox for Joe user.
I have been using the trains in the UK and, after having lived in The Netherlands I can only say I am shocked. In fact, I would say that the worst thing in the UK are the trains. Arround here (Birmingham) ~40% of the trains have delays bigger than 5 minutes. In the weekend it can be hours, HOURS. During the summer the line from Birmingham to London was cut for maintainence for 3 DAYS IN A ROW. Buses were at least available as an alternative. And most of the trains are not confortable. Especially the local ones. And they are the most expensive trains in Europe. They are even much worse, on average, than the portuguese ones (I am portuguese).
Wonderful country - I love being here, if you take out the so called public transport system.
I am thinking in buying a car, I don't drive for 5 years, no need until now...
And the opposite reasoning is equally true BTW: All the imigrants from India that were educated in India are now giving the benefits of that education to the US. India payed, US benefited. It goes both ways.
"An older language has had more lines of code written for it, so its weaknesses are better known, and more likely published."
And with the case of say C vs Python, you'll end up writing 10x more lines in C than in Python for the same problem. As a conclusion C matures 10x more fast than Python. Great! Better yet, lets do assembler!
This information about a Secure BGP effort might be interesting.
There is also soBGP (you can google for it), but between the 2, I don't know which has more possibilities to go forward (if any).
I have been using PostgreSQL for five years and last week I have stumbled on a show stopper:
I am doing a tool that relies heavily on metadata, namely I need to get foreign key info (via JDBC).
PgSQL 7.1 does foreign keys as triggers, and has no info in the metadata tables regarding foreign keys.
I have tried also other OS databases, MySQL and HSQL, but it was even worse.
Does anyone know if this version improves on metadata?
Also the PgSQL JDBC driver is incomplete (it has to be has at least it can't implement proper metadata retrieval), but the answers from the driver for non implemented methods are pretty lame (returning nulls instead of throwing exceptions). Has this changed? I think I will volunteer for this as the changes are easy.
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I find it funny when people say Moore is biased. Yes Moore is biased, just like 99.9% of the media.
The only reason Moore looks strange is because:
1. Is assumes honestly that he is biased
2. People are only used to see things in the media from an angle that is different (almost opposite?) from his (which is, BTW, probably even more biased than his)
3. Is style is different from the usually polished media.
PC games will never go away, but if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease.
Curiously I see the vast majority of games in the market today as being mainly better graphical versions of old games. There is nothing new (or almost nothing). I stopped playing because of this (and I was a buyer, not a pirate).
If his notion of quality means more graphics and no creativity at all, then I really hope they all go bust.
Hopefully some indie games producer or a whole new comercial games industry based on creativity would surface.
Ok, let me dream.
Just a minor (a bit offtopic I know) information point: French is not as widely spoken as most people think. Its not the "second language after english" as most people tend to think. Have a look e.g. here
I suppose that even Netscape its not a known brand (ie by average users). Most of current Internet users are either post-Netscape dominance or didn't care that much and don't remember.
Summarizing: Netscape nowadays is almost as minoritary as Firefox for Joe user.
[Writing this post on Mozilla 1.7 BTW]
Just a question to anyone knowing a little bit of German politics: Isn't CSU the biggest party in Bavaria (where Munich is)? Aren't they 60% or so?
Or is yet another case where the city is more progressive that the (rural) areas arround?
I had this view that CSU was totally pervasive in Bavaria... it seems I was wrong.
If they are against this Linux plan, have they the power to stop it?
I have been using the trains in the UK and, after having lived in The Netherlands I can only say I am shocked. In fact, I would say that the worst thing in the UK are the trains.
Arround here (Birmingham) ~40% of the trains have delays bigger than 5 minutes. In the weekend it can be hours, HOURS. During the summer the line from Birmingham to London was cut for maintainence for 3 DAYS IN A ROW. Buses were at least available as an alternative.
And most of the trains are not confortable. Especially the local ones.
And they are the most expensive trains in Europe.
They are even much worse, on average, than the portuguese ones (I am portuguese).
Wonderful country - I love being here, if you take out the so called public transport system.
I am thinking in buying a car, I don't drive for 5 years, no need until now...
Sorry for the rant.
And the opposite reasoning is equally true BTW: All the imigrants from India that were educated in India are now giving the benefits of that education to the US. India payed, US benefited. It goes both ways.
Being in Germany what language would you expect the speeches to be done? French? Dutch? Italian? Or is any other language on your mind?
"An older language has had more lines of code written for it, so its weaknesses are better known, and more likely published."
And with the case of say C vs Python, you'll end up writing 10x more lines in C than in Python for the same problem. As a conclusion C matures 10x more fast than Python. Great! Better yet, lets do assembler!
This information about a Secure BGP effort might be interesting.
There is also soBGP (you can google for it), but between the 2, I don't know which has more possibilities to go forward (if any).
I have been using PostgreSQL for five years and last week I have stumbled on a show stopper:
I am doing a tool that relies heavily on metadata, namely I need to get foreign key info (via JDBC).
PgSQL 7.1 does foreign keys as triggers, and has no info in the metadata tables regarding foreign keys.
I have tried also other OS databases, MySQL and HSQL, but it was even worse.
Does anyone know if this version improves on metadata?
Also the PgSQL JDBC driver is incomplete (it has to be has at least it can't implement proper metadata retrieval), but the answers from the driver for non implemented methods are pretty lame (returning nulls instead of throwing exceptions). Has this changed? I think I will volunteer for this as the changes are easy.