Amiga? Nope: the OS was perfect in every way, only a conspiracy kept it down.
People don't like to admit it, but piracy kept the Amiga down.
Nobody bought software for the Amiga, nobody.
Well, one person maybe to crack it, but then it was open to anyone. So game/application developers/publishers deemed it unprofitable to continue developing for the Amiga, thus it died.
All that's left now is the demo scene, which has its roots in showing off game crackers.
By the way, mirrors are lighter than lenses, and are easier to build and control.
I thought the whole point of a fresnel lens was that it isn't a lens in the strict sense. Because it is made up of an array of thin prisms, it's much lighter than its solid glass counterpart.
In both the DVD and theatrical releases of TPM, just before Darth Maul races up behind Anakin there is a scene where a probe droid returns to Darth atop his mountain and says "The boy's a gangster. Booooy!" (Well, that's what it sounds like anyway). Darth then speeds off on his hover-bike to find his target.
Having said that, I do agree that the light-sabering of the probe droid added so much more and should definitely not have been cut out. As well as making the story more continuous, it showed the coolness yet deadly alertness of the Jedi.
I certainly would recommend continuing HIV/AIDS research, since there are already a large number of people who have little hope otherwise. But it doesn't change the fact that many people are dying unnecessarily as a result of peoples choices of short-term gratfication. Wrong choices.
You could say I was lobbying for abstinence if you want to look at it that way.
We live in a society where people are actively encouraged to engage in casual sex. Don't think so? Turn on the telly, watch a few recent movies, go to a night club, you'll see what I mean.
Sure, a few schools run abstinence programmes, but they're a minority. I suspect that so many such programmes fail because outside of school the kids are constantly being bombarded with the "Do what you want but use 'protection'" mentality.
Is it because we're scared of being labelled non-politically-correct that we let atrocities like this continue unchallenged? Are we scared that telling people that their actions have consequences might violate some god-given right?
I still think there's a lot of potential in recyclable computing. Where the bit bucket is wired not to ground, but to a secondary storage like a capacitor.
Every time a 1 becomes a 0, the battery is charged. Every time a 0 becomes a 1, the battery is drained a bit.
Only when the battery is empty would external power above the recycling overhead be required. I guess the question is whether this can be done while keeping the amount of energy needed for the recycling circuits below the amount of energy saved./. did an article on this some time last year but I can't find it.
I'll happily tell it to the faithfully monogamous women. Their husbands 'tom-cattery' gave them aids, which could have been easily prevented by said husbands. It's the husbands fault clear and simple.
Look, I never said that anybody who gets HIV deverves what they get. I'm saying that in EVERY SINGLE case, somebody is to blame even if it isn't the most recent victim. A newborn gets infected by their mother. If somebody up the chain hadn't screwed around the baby would not have been infected.
You're right on one count though. I did forget about drug addicts sharing needles, as this is effectively a blood transfer.
Okay, so now we're up to "Don't share needles. Don't screw around."
... and people still won't accept the easiest (and in fact only certain) way to prevent the spread of AIDS:
Don't have promiscuious sex.
And that's it. Nothing more than that.
But you'd have a hard time getting a message like that past PC liberals who seem to have taken up key positions of authority, and those tribes in Africa who believe the best way to cure aids is to have sex with a virgin. I wonder who told them that.
The other entry vector is blood transfer, but it's not exactly every-day practice (ie if you get AIDS through a blood transfer you're very unlikely to transfer your blood to somebody else before you start having symptoms).
So if people would simply keep it in their pants we could stop AIDS dead in its tracks within 5 years.
If you purchased Office 2004 from Microsoft (thus supporting the promotion and development of software for OS X)......thus supporting a convicted monopolist who is only tossing Apple breadcrumbs to keep the DOJ off its back.
Development and promotion for OSX would be much better supported if you looked elsewhere for your software.
Well, a reason that you're not seeing any absolutely excellent open-source games is because a team designing a game needs to work very, very closely together. This is one area where closed development wins.
True, but you'd think the same would apply to an operating system kernel.
I do take your point about artists, level designers etc. That's why I believe FOSS philosophies can and in fact need to extend far beyond the realm of computer programmers. If you could co-ordinate a group of artists to develop a work solely for the love of it there's no telling what they'd accomplish. If they could agree on anything, that is:)
This seems like just another example where the Free/OSS model has failed.
There are many FOSS alternatives to Bitkeeper such as CVS, Subversion, and arch. And none of them come close to the productivity of this one commercial package.
Why is this? Sure, we've got peer review, no deadline/bottom-line pressure, but we still get outdone. Where is Eric Raymond's bazaar now?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong believer in OSS, and occasionally contribute, but there are still areas where we are sorely lacking.
When was the last time you saw a decent FOSS fps game? Crystal Space looks promising, but it's just an engine. Look at Tux Racer, another example of FOSS failure. The game was forked when the original developer decided to go closed source, and the GPL'd OpenRacer project was started. Today the closed-source TuxRacer is a rather beautiful full-featured game, and the FOSS version hasn't progressed beyond a novelty.
Then we get to see Blender, a shining example of when FOSS developers adopt a formerly closed-source project and do it right.
Whatever we think of this institute and where they get their funding, they do have a point.
People, this is a storm cloud on the horizon. We need to be ready. I don't think any open-source developer hasn't really seen this one coming.
Many many open source products could be hauled over the coals tomorrow for violating any number of patents, usually in a corrupt US court of law, but shortly it looks like such projects won't be safe in Europe or Australasia either.
What can we do? I'm not sure, but there must be some senators/MPs who haven't been bought out who can be shown how trivial/absurd most of these patents are.
I don't se how this represents capitalism. I mean, how the hell can we consider a market free when governments grant and enforce monopolies for decades. Sounds more like fascism to me.
The point is that the government doesn't need to intervene, in fact they aren't permitted to by their campaign funding sources.
I thought that was the whole idea of capitalism. The government is controlled and eventually taken over by gargantuan corporations.
Slashdot Mirror
Amiga? Nope: the OS was perfect in every way, only a conspiracy kept it down.
People don't like to admit it, but piracy kept the Amiga down.
Nobody bought software for the Amiga, nobody.
Well, one person maybe to crack it, but then it was open to anyone. So game/application developers/publishers deemed it unprofitable to continue developing for the Amiga, thus it died.
All that's left now is the demo scene, which has its roots in showing off game crackers.
By the way, mirrors are lighter than lenses, and are easier to build and control.
I thought the whole point of a fresnel lens was that it isn't a lens in the strict sense. Because it is made up of an array of thin prisms, it's much lighter than its solid glass counterpart.
Reminds me of 007's latest movie.
Gentlemen, I give you Icarus!
I remember one instance when they're just walking into Mos Espa for the first time; "icky icky goo!".
When was the second one?
In both the DVD and theatrical releases of TPM, just before Darth Maul races up behind Anakin there is a scene where a probe droid returns to Darth atop his mountain and says "The boy's a gangster. Booooy!" (Well, that's what it sounds like anyway). Darth then speeds off on his hover-bike to find his target.
Having said that, I do agree that the light-sabering of the probe droid added so much more and should definitely not have been cut out. As well as making the story more continuous, it showed the coolness yet deadly alertness of the Jedi.
I certainly would recommend continuing HIV/AIDS research, since there are already a large number of people who have little hope otherwise. But it doesn't change the fact that many people are dying unnecessarily as a result of peoples choices of short-term gratfication. Wrong choices.
You could say I was lobbying for abstinence if you want to look at it that way.
We live in a society where people are actively encouraged to engage in casual sex. Don't think so? Turn on the telly, watch a few recent movies, go to a night club, you'll see what I mean.
Sure, a few schools run abstinence programmes, but they're a minority. I suspect that so many such programmes fail because outside of school the kids are constantly being bombarded with the "Do what you want but use 'protection'" mentality.
Is it because we're scared of being labelled non-politically-correct that we let atrocities like this continue unchallenged? Are we scared that telling people that their actions have consequences might violate some god-given right?
... if you want a practically guided tour of LLNL, watch TRON sometime. They filmed it there (the science-lab live action stuff anyway).
I still think there's a lot of potential in recyclable computing. Where the bit bucket is wired not to ground, but to a secondary storage like a capacitor.
/. did an article on this some time last year but I can't find it.
Every time a 1 becomes a 0, the battery is charged.
Every time a 0 becomes a 1, the battery is drained a bit.
Only when the battery is empty would external power above the recycling overhead be required. I guess the question is whether this can be done while keeping the amount of energy needed for the recycling circuits below the amount of energy saved.
I'll happily tell it to the faithfully monogamous women. Their husbands 'tom-cattery' gave them aids, which could have been easily prevented by said husbands. It's the husbands fault clear and simple.
Look, I never said that anybody who gets HIV deverves what they get. I'm saying that in EVERY SINGLE case, somebody is to blame even if it isn't the most recent victim. A newborn gets infected by their mother. If somebody up the chain hadn't screwed around the baby would not have been infected.
You're right on one count though. I did forget about drug addicts sharing needles, as this is effectively a blood transfer.
Okay, so now we're up to "Don't share needles. Don't screw around."
... and people still won't accept the easiest (and in fact only certain) way to prevent the spread of AIDS:
Don't have promiscuious sex.
And that's it. Nothing more than that.
But you'd have a hard time getting a message like that past PC liberals who seem to have taken up key positions of authority, and those tribes in Africa who believe the best way to cure aids is to have sex with a virgin. I wonder who told them that.
The other entry vector is blood transfer, but it's not exactly every-day practice (ie if you get AIDS through a blood transfer you're very unlikely to transfer your blood to somebody else before you start having symptoms).
So if people would simply keep it in their pants we could stop AIDS dead in its tracks within 5 years.
The Fog Of War page has heavy flash content.
*sigh*
How about somewhere between Whitehouse 1.0 and Whitehouse 2.0
Damn, that's going to make a dent in my Folding@Home rank.
Vijay, are you going to apply?
Gates foundation gives billions to 3rd world countries, and it doesn't even make a slashdot story.
Two words: gift culture.
If you purchased Office 2004 from Microsoft (thus supporting the promotion and development of software for OS X)... ...thus supporting a convicted monopolist who is only tossing Apple breadcrumbs to keep the DOJ off its back.
Development and promotion for OSX would be much better supported if you looked elsewhere for your software.
The Cisco is banished from Bejor, never to return.
The prophets have spoken.
Boo to Cisco for applying for dodgy software patents.
Yay to Cisco for being honest and telling people about it from the get-go.
Well, a reason that you're not seeing any absolutely excellent open-source games is because a team designing a game needs to work very, very closely together. This is one area where closed development wins.
:)
True, but you'd think the same would apply to an operating system kernel.
I do take your point about artists, level designers etc. That's why I believe FOSS philosophies can and in fact need to extend far beyond the realm of computer programmers. If you could co-ordinate a group of artists to develop a work solely for the love of it there's no telling what they'd accomplish. If they could agree on anything, that is
This seems like just another example where the Free/OSS model has failed.
There are many FOSS alternatives to Bitkeeper such as CVS, Subversion, and arch. And none of them come close to the productivity of this one commercial package.
Why is this? Sure, we've got peer review, no deadline/bottom-line pressure, but we still get outdone. Where is Eric Raymond's bazaar now?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong believer in OSS, and occasionally contribute, but there are still areas where we are sorely lacking.
When was the last time you saw a decent FOSS fps game? Crystal Space looks promising, but it's just an engine. Look at Tux Racer, another example of FOSS failure. The game was forked when the original developer decided to go closed source, and the GPL'd OpenRacer project was started. Today the closed-source TuxRacer is a rather beautiful full-featured game, and the FOSS version hasn't progressed beyond a novelty.
Then we get to see Blender, a shining example of when FOSS developers adopt a formerly closed-source project and do it right.
Whatever we think of this institute and where they get their funding, they do have a point.
People, this is a storm cloud on the horizon. We need to be ready. I don't think any open-source developer hasn't really seen this one coming.
Many many open source products could be hauled over the coals tomorrow for violating any number of patents, usually in a corrupt US court of law, but shortly it looks like such projects won't be safe in Europe or Australasia either.
What can we do? I'm not sure, but there must be some senators/MPs who haven't been bought out who can be shown how trivial/absurd most of these patents are.
name a "major browser" that won't support PNG.
How about that legacy browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer?
Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of PNG, just not a fan of MSIE.
I don't se how this represents capitalism. I mean, how the hell can we consider a market free when governments grant and enforce monopolies for decades. Sounds more like fascism to me.
The point is that the government doesn't need to intervene, in fact they aren't permitted to by their campaign funding sources.
I thought that was the whole idea of capitalism.
The government is controlled and eventually taken over by gargantuan corporations.
... and it's still prohibited by law to make backup copies of your CDs/DVDs in New Zealand.
Microsoft quit the OpenGL ARB in March 2003.
A good thing too. IMO, they were just there to keep an eye on the competition and stifle growth.
Kind of like freemasons sitting in on church committees.
*sigh*
Long live capitalism.
</sarcasm>