You're kiding right? You mean other than being beaten to death or raped for leaving the house wearing unsuitable attire? Under Saddam women could even work.
Hey! Those people have democracy now! Sure, they now live in a more restrictive military environment than they ever saw under Saddam, but it's a small price to pay right? Sure, it now appears that Muslim law will be enforced by the state and minorities and women will revert to their second class citizen status, but hey, they're free. Democracy cures all. You can't possibly be free living under a despot who restricts the majority's right to impose their will on the minority. Allah bless America for bringing Muslim law back to Iraq.
Hehehe.. You don't actually know how right you are do you? Islamic extremists and the neo-conservatives have more in common than they have in contrast. Both are for the supression of personal liberty for greater social cohesion. The only real difference between the two is their choice of religion and their choice of methods. The measurement of how effective a government is has changed in recent years from how well their protect our freedoms and how little they burden us with taxes to how well they maintain social order. High taxes and restrictive police action is ok if it reduces the number of riots in a term. Outright supression of speech is tolerated because it stops people, who may start a riot, from gathering.
They need to install mind probes in the brain of every one of us. As well as receiving suggestive messages they also act as a tracking device. People will accept it because they get 2% off gasoline when they fill up and there's a shorter line at the airport for people who have been chipped.
Is he self taught like Plato was self taught or is he like the rest of us, having a wealth of knowledge at his fingertips to draw upon. I think it's ok to be inexperienced but trying to learn. What I don't think is ok is being ignorant and asking others for advice without doing any basic research yourself. Sheesh.
Uh huh. What they stood for was a world revolution that just wasn't happening. Stalin had the sense to recognise that Russia couldn't depend on the workers rising up in the west to come to their aid. Thus the whole "socialism in one country" approach. Unfortunately the response of his contemporaries was the knee-jerk of revolution. By liquidating them he was just assuring his own power, which history has shown was in the best interest of Soviet Russia. Had Stalin been overthrown before he implemented his first isolationist "5 year plan", Russia would have been the first country to fall when Germany attacked.
As unique as TransGaming's development model is, I think the progress that has been made in the last year to get Wine working as well as Cedega just goes to show the strengths and weaknesses of open source. TransGaming has a limited number of resources dominated by their ability to raise capital. They have to focus their work or they will lose that capital. I don't know if voting is the best way to do that but it seems like an intelligent solution. Compare this with open source development. There is a (theoretically) unlimited number of resources and those resources are spread very thin over a wide number of games, and typically not just the games that the majority want working. That's a strength I think. The weakness is the pace at which things get done and the motivators to make these things happen.
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They focus on making the most popular games work and screw the rest. I have no trouble admitting that my 3 month subscription of $5/month was a waste of money. I signed up so I could participate in the voting, only to discover how truely shallow people are. So I gave $15 to a quasi-open-source company, better than giving it to Microsoft I guess.
Militants have taken over Russia! Calling themselves "Bolshivics" a group of Marxist seperatists, led by the charismatic "Lenin", recently siezed control of the city of Petrograd and fighting has spread to every other major city. Fighting in Moscow lasted about a week but has been relatively bloodless, not interrupting the opera or the ballet. Theaters, schools and government offices are still functioning but Bolshivic dominance of the Duma now seems assured.
Call me crazy, but isn't it trivial to write your own client lib? I mean, looking at the source code here, it appears to just be a wrapper that opens a socket (tcp or unix), writes your plain text SQL request to it and reads back the response. I can remember someone asking me to add mySQL support to an app about 6 years ago and I didn't even use the client lib cause I didn't think anyone would need a library for something that simple.
When it comes to VR games I have to agree with you. There is certainly some issues there. But when it comes to augmented reality the kind of things researchers have acheived with custom built equipment is truely useful. It's so useful that commercial head mounted display systems are available for engineers and military specialists. These systems are of the "unfashionable" variety. So yeah, when it comes to consumer augmented reality the problem is not technology, it's a willingness to gamble on the creation of a new market. Everyone is waiting for someone else to do it, even the people who have the most expertise to make it happen. As for virtual reality though, yeah, you're probably right.
Good point. Ya know what I wanna know, where can I buy a display built into a pair of sunglasses? The technology exists. There's a market for it. Why has no-one taken a punt and mass produced em yet? You have to make technology acceptable to the masses to reduce the costs and get it into the market. But everyone who makes wearable computers appears to think having equipment attached to your head in new and uncomfortable ways is a sane way to introduce people to them. Consider, for example, the EyeTap. Brilliant technology. Cheap to manufacture. Absolutely no commercial interest. Why? Well, take a look at the picture on that page. If you saw someone wearing that on the street what would you do? You'd back away slowly. Instead, imagine the person had on of those things on each eye and a standard sun glasses filter over the top. Sure, it wouldn't look as avant garde but that's a good thing. You can walk about wearing a pair of enhanced sunglasses without drawing attention to yourself, which means you can actually program your wearable computer to do something useful with your augmented vision.
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You're kiding right? You mean other than being beaten to death or raped for leaving the house wearing unsuitable attire? Under Saddam women could even work.
Hey! Those people have democracy now! Sure, they now live in a more restrictive military environment than they ever saw under Saddam, but it's a small price to pay right? Sure, it now appears that Muslim law will be enforced by the state and minorities and women will revert to their second class citizen status, but hey, they're free. Democracy cures all. You can't possibly be free living under a despot who restricts the majority's right to impose their will on the minority. Allah bless America for bringing Muslim law back to Iraq.
Hehehe.. You don't actually know how right you are do you? Islamic extremists and the neo-conservatives have more in common than they have in contrast. Both are for the supression of personal liberty for greater social cohesion. The only real difference between the two is their choice of religion and their choice of methods. The measurement of how effective a government is has changed in recent years from how well their protect our freedoms and how little they burden us with taxes to how well they maintain social order. High taxes and restrictive police action is ok if it reduces the number of riots in a term. Outright supression of speech is tolerated because it stops people, who may start a riot, from gathering.
They need to install mind probes in the brain of every one of us. As well as receiving suggestive messages they also act as a tracking device. People will accept it because they get 2% off gasoline when they fill up and there's a shorter line at the airport for people who have been chipped.
Or to put it another way: you get addicted to the porn.
I know you are but what am I?
I suggest you shut your hole.
Is he self taught like Plato was self taught or is he like the rest of us, having a wealth of knowledge at his fingertips to draw upon. I think it's ok to be inexperienced but trying to learn. What I don't think is ok is being ignorant and asking others for advice without doing any basic research yourself. Sheesh.
Jesus. This is a joke right?
Uh huh. What they stood for was a world revolution that just wasn't happening. Stalin had the sense to recognise that Russia couldn't depend on the workers rising up in the west to come to their aid. Thus the whole "socialism in one country" approach. Unfortunately the response of his contemporaries was the knee-jerk of revolution. By liquidating them he was just assuring his own power, which history has shown was in the best interest of Soviet Russia. Had Stalin been overthrown before he implemented his first isolationist "5 year plan", Russia would have been the first country to fall when Germany attacked.
As unique as TransGaming's development model is, I think the progress that has been made in the last year to get Wine working as well as Cedega just goes to show the strengths and weaknesses of open source. TransGaming has a limited number of resources dominated by their ability to raise capital. They have to focus their work or they will lose that capital. I don't know if voting is the best way to do that but it seems like an intelligent solution. Compare this with open source development. There is a (theoretically) unlimited number of resources and those resources are spread very thin over a wide number of games, and typically not just the games that the majority want working. That's a strength I think. The weakness is the pace at which things get done and the motivators to make these things happen.
They focus on making the most popular games work and screw the rest. I have no trouble admitting that my 3 month subscription of $5/month was a waste of money. I signed up so I could participate in the voting, only to discover how truely shallow people are. So I gave $15 to a quasi-open-source company, better than giving it to Microsoft I guess.
I was impersonating a Slashdot story, spelling mistakes are a requirement.
Yes, they are! If you like I can mail you a few over.
I'm sure it's not just you I'd be doing a favor for by doing so.
Militants have taken over Russia! Calling themselves "Bolshivics" a group of Marxist seperatists, led by the charismatic "Lenin", recently siezed control of the city of Petrograd and fighting has spread to every other major city. Fighting in Moscow lasted about a week but has been relatively bloodless, not interrupting the opera or the ballet. Theaters, schools and government offices are still functioning but Bolshivic dominance of the Duma now seems assured.
Heh, true, when you press "Pause" it stops and when you press "Resume" it stops. Works great!
Hehehe, exactly my point. Thanks.
Call me crazy, but isn't it trivial to write your own client lib? I mean, looking at the source code here, it appears to just be a wrapper that opens a socket (tcp or unix), writes your plain text SQL request to it and reads back the response. I can remember someone asking me to add mySQL support to an app about 6 years ago and I didn't even use the client lib cause I didn't think anyone would need a library for something that simple.
westeners think?
Seriously, when was the last time you heard a westener say "how is this good for the company?" without snickering?
to summarize, "me too" is a lot easier than "this is new".
When it comes to VR games I have to agree with you. There is certainly some issues there. But when it comes to augmented reality the kind of things researchers have acheived with custom built equipment is truely useful. It's so useful that commercial head mounted display systems are available for engineers and military specialists. These systems are of the "unfashionable" variety. So yeah, when it comes to consumer augmented reality the problem is not technology, it's a willingness to gamble on the creation of a new market. Everyone is waiting for someone else to do it, even the people who have the most expertise to make it happen. As for virtual reality though, yeah, you're probably right.
Good point. Ya know what I wanna know, where can I buy a display built into a pair of sunglasses? The technology exists. There's a market for it. Why has no-one taken a punt and mass produced em yet? You have to make technology acceptable to the masses to reduce the costs and get it into the market. But everyone who makes wearable computers appears to think having equipment attached to your head in new and uncomfortable ways is a sane way to introduce people to them. Consider, for example, the EyeTap. Brilliant technology. Cheap to manufacture. Absolutely no commercial interest. Why? Well, take a look at the picture on that page. If you saw someone wearing that on the street what would you do? You'd back away slowly. Instead, imagine the person had on of those things on each eye and a standard sun glasses filter over the top. Sure, it wouldn't look as avant garde but that's a good thing. You can walk about wearing a pair of enhanced sunglasses without drawing attention to yourself, which means you can actually program your wearable computer to do something useful with your augmented vision.
I really don't give a shit about your Mac. What's the relevance of your comment to my comment?
And here I was thinking that Outlook and IE ranked much higher on the scale of both common use and bugness.
Why the hell don't I have this in FireFox? Is this yet another case where behaviour that should be standard is only available in an extension?