I'm more intrigued by the apparent ascendance of Go, which is not tied into popular frameworks (say, the way that Obj-C has Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, and C has, um, everything), and is presumably succeeding on its own terms as a language. The fact that it has Google behind it probably doesn't hurt either.
Who knows, it might turn out to be a great successor to Obj-C/C for iPhone developme... oh, wait... section 3.3.1 and the goddamn Apple-Google pissing match. Never mind.
Crediting Clojure's growth to LISP seems a stretch, but I'm not going to complain too loudly, because I still love LISP.
I hate the article for not stating whether those are key frames or P-frames.
A typical user wouldn't know the difference, so why should the reviewer get to pick and choose? The whole point of the review is subjective visual comparison, blind to the implementation details.
Give author Jan Ozer some credit: he's been Streaming Media's compression expert for a long time, and knows what he's talking about.
Like I posted a few weeks back,/. needs to save a template to re-use each time they feel the need to write a story about a marginally-relevant, minimally-staffed, largely-forgotten Sun project that Oracle shuts down.
just what the point of this hire is? Apple-bashing aside, is it just to put the shiny open-source face on Google? That didn't exactly save his previous employer, who also hired him for apparent PR value and where he accomplished nothing of sufficient significance to merit inclusion on his Wikipedia bio.
Perhaps if Apple is very, very lucky, Google will hire Jonathan Schwartz too.
You're absolutely right, and if I had mod privs today, I'd mod you up.
Remember even ESR gave up on the "Everything should be in Ogg" argument in his World Domination 201 essay, and called for a Linux consortium to license H.264 en masse for Linux clients. And that was four years ago. Ogg has made no meaningful inroads since then.
Analogy: Ogg Theora is to video what Intelligent Design is to biology, in that it's almost completely irrelevant to the large body of experts and professionals in the field, and is clung to by a small body of religious zealots, because the realities of the field (the wide acceptance of a patent-encumbered technology on one hand, the repudiation of the Creation story on the other) is deeply offensive to the True Believers. Ogg has nothing going for it except its compatibility with the Open Source religion, but that's irrelevant to just about everyone who actually produces or consumes media.
Sorry, but this just doesn't matter, and isn't going to, no matter how many stories get posted to Slashdot about it.
blurb = "The Sun %s project, which we <a href=\"%s\">mentioned a few years ago</a> on Slashdot, is being <a href=\"%s\">shut down</a> in the wake of the Oracle acquisition.
That should save the editors a little time over the next few weeks as they iterate over every minimally-viable, staff-of-three Sun mini-project that has been terminated by Oracle.
I had the exact same thing happen back in like '84 or '85, when I was 17 and driving my parents' Mercury Cougar. While going down a four-lane street at about 30 MPH, the accelerator just floored itself. I jammed on the brakes to avoid rear-ending the car ahead of me, and then thought to throw it in neutral.
That said, I did learn on stick. Doesn't prove your statement, but it's anecdotal evidence in support.
Ford insisted the problem was with floor mats, just as Toyota does in this article.
No, they really are saying exactly that. Look at the sentence: "Endaget is reporting..." (statement of fact) "...that Nokia is suing Apple..." (statement of fact) "...because the iPhone infringes on 10 patents" (statement of fact).
I used to copy-edit at CNN, and this is a textbook case of convicting someone through sloppy writing. The summary should say "...because Nokia says the iPhone..." or "...because the iPhone allegedly..."
Of course, the other funny thing is that most every other patent story on Slashdot howls at the ridiculousness of patent cases, if not the implausibility of patents themselves.
...because the iPhone infringes on 10 Nokia patents related to GSM, UTMS and WiFi
Nice presumption that Nokia's claim is valid. If this were any company other than nefarious, evil, proprietary-everything Apple, would the/. summary be so favorable to Nokia?
One thing this (and many articles) overlook about Robotron is how its "bonus collection" morality sharply differed from other games of the time. Many contemporaries, especially Japanese games, used bonus point pickups as a lure to your death. For example, unless you're working from a known pattern, going after fruits in Pac Man is a great way to get yourself killed. I remember one early video game book whose intro said, succinctly, that "greed kills" in video games.
Except in Robotron. The bonus structure for saving the family gave you 1,000 points for the first, 2,000 for the second, and so on until you maxed it out at 5,000 per save. Since you generally got a extra life at 20,000 or 25,000 points (operator setting), you could get free life with just six saves, and a second for another four. Once the counter was at 5,000, it's a sensible tradeoff to go for risky saves: the payoff in extending your game is usually worth the very real risk of dying instead. Indeed, while Namco-style games awarded free lives on very long intervals (3-4 Galaga waves, for example), and thereby valued getting through most waves safely, Robotron had a flow of fast death and rebirth, with players often earning and losing one or more lives on each wave. Provided you could earn more lives than you lost, even at a fairly low margin, you could keep going, which is why taking risks to save the humans was a winning strategy.
These two are anime / sci-fi podcasters, whose show is called the Ninja Consultants. They discuss their wedding plans and how they're pulling it together in an April episode. They're pretty cool people (I met them at Anime Weekend Atlanta a few times): Erin worked on a couple of animated series and writes for Otaku USA.
I admire your pluck, but Detroit itself may be unrealistic. There's infrastructure, yes, but the police department is borderline non-functional. Startups still need civil order, and that may not be something you can count on in Detroit anymore.
Still, I'm over in Grand Rapids, MI. I've been independent and working from home for years, and decided I'd rather live here, closer to family, than in Atlanta, which admittedly is much more of a tech and VC hub. Not counting on much tech popping up here (GR is a loser when it comes to VC), but I think I can find enough remote work to keep myself going.
Seriously? When you upgrade 400 tracks to iTunes Plus and you half to wait a half-hour for the e-mail saying your songs are ready, what do you think it's doing? Duh, watermarking the files with your info before letting you download them.
And if you think the only cases where your info is encoded are the ones you can see with hexdump, I've got a Zune Phone to sell you.
FWIW, I also write books for the Pragmatic Programmers, and this is exactly how their PDF program operates: when there's an updated PDF, you have to have your personal copy generated at their website, with a prominent "Prepared Exclusively for Joe Developer" at the bottom of every page.
It's a perfectly reasonable system that enables all kinds of appropriate uses (using your tunes in personal Final Cut / iMovie projects, for example), and it's not evil just because Apple does it (sorry, Slashtards).
How does putting Safari 3.2 on Software Update, where by default it will be received by every internet-connected Mac OS X user in the world, count as a release that was "quietly slipped out"?
Granted, they're the new Bad Guy on/., but can we be a little less lazy and more accurate in our snide characterization of Apple's activities?
Seinfeld is so 10 years ago. You know who might be better to typify Microsoft? That guy who sometimes shows up as the "Resident Expert" on The Daily Show. He's also written a book, The Areas of My Expertise. John... Hodgman... I think? Anyways, he seems like he captures the spirit of Windows pretty well. A really smart company would hire him.
Those parties materially impacted by this policy, for good or ill, will presumably need to get out their checkbooks and start making contributions to candidates who will legislate/administrate in whatever manner suits the contributors.
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I'm more intrigued by the apparent ascendance of Go, which is not tied into popular frameworks (say, the way that Obj-C has Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, and C has, um, everything), and is presumably succeeding on its own terms as a language. The fact that it has Google behind it probably doesn't hurt either.
Who knows, it might turn out to be a great successor to Obj-C/C for iPhone developme... oh, wait... section 3.3.1 and the goddamn Apple-Google pissing match. Never mind.
Crediting Clojure's growth to LISP seems a stretch, but I'm not going to complain too loudly, because I still love LISP.
I hate the article for not stating whether those are key frames or P-frames.
A typical user wouldn't know the difference, so why should the reviewer get to pick and choose? The whole point of the review is subjective visual comparison, blind to the implementation details.
Give author Jan Ozer some credit: he's been Streaming Media's compression expert for a long time, and knows what he's talking about.
Like I posted a few weeks back, /. needs to save a template to re-use each time they feel the need to write a story about a marginally-relevant, minimally-staffed, largely-forgotten Sun project that Oracle shuts down.
just what the point of this hire is? Apple-bashing aside, is it just to put the shiny open-source face on Google? That didn't exactly save his previous employer, who also hired him for apparent PR value and where he accomplished nothing of sufficient significance to merit inclusion on his Wikipedia bio.
Perhaps if Apple is very, very lucky, Google will hire Jonathan Schwartz too.
and you'll recognize those submissions as the ones where the audio and video are totally out of sync.
You're absolutely right, and if I had mod privs today, I'd mod you up.
Remember even ESR gave up on the "Everything should be in Ogg" argument in his World Domination 201 essay, and called for a Linux consortium to license H.264 en masse for Linux clients. And that was four years ago. Ogg has made no meaningful inroads since then.
Analogy: Ogg Theora is to video what Intelligent Design is to biology, in that it's almost completely irrelevant to the large body of experts and professionals in the field, and is clung to by a small body of religious zealots, because the realities of the field (the wide acceptance of a patent-encumbered technology on one hand, the repudiation of the Creation story on the other) is deeply offensive to the True Believers. Ogg has nothing going for it except its compatibility with the Open Source religion, but that's irrelevant to just about everyone who actually produces or consumes media.
Sorry, but this just doesn't matter, and isn't going to, no matter how many stories get posted to Slashdot about it.
That should save the editors a little time over the next few weeks as they iterate over every minimally-viable, staff-of-three Sun mini-project that has been terminated by Oracle.
I had the exact same thing happen back in like '84 or '85, when I was 17 and driving my parents' Mercury Cougar. While going down a four-lane street at about 30 MPH, the accelerator just floored itself. I jammed on the brakes to avoid rear-ending the car ahead of me, and then thought to throw it in neutral.
That said, I did learn on stick. Doesn't prove your statement, but it's anecdotal evidence in support.
Ford insisted the problem was with floor mats, just as Toyota does in this article.
Lazy ad hominem attack. I'm not saying that it isn't patent infringement; I'm saying it's for the courts and not for a badsummary to decide.
No, they really are saying exactly that. Look at the sentence: "Endaget is reporting..." (statement of fact) "...that Nokia is suing Apple..." (statement of fact) "...because the iPhone infringes on 10 patents" (statement of fact).
I used to copy-edit at CNN, and this is a textbook case of convicting someone through sloppy writing. The summary should say "...because Nokia says the iPhone..." or "...because the iPhone allegedly..."
Of course, the other funny thing is that most every other patent story on Slashdot howls at the ridiculousness of patent cases, if not the implausibility of patents themselves.
Nice presumption that Nokia's claim is valid. If this were any company other than nefarious, evil, proprietary-everything Apple, would the /. summary be so favorable to Nokia?
One thing this (and many articles) overlook about Robotron is how its "bonus collection" morality sharply differed from other games of the time. Many contemporaries, especially Japanese games, used bonus point pickups as a lure to your death. For example, unless you're working from a known pattern, going after fruits in Pac Man is a great way to get yourself killed. I remember one early video game book whose intro said, succinctly, that "greed kills" in video games.
Except in Robotron. The bonus structure for saving the family gave you 1,000 points for the first, 2,000 for the second, and so on until you maxed it out at 5,000 per save. Since you generally got a extra life at 20,000 or 25,000 points (operator setting), you could get free life with just six saves, and a second for another four. Once the counter was at 5,000, it's a sensible tradeoff to go for risky saves: the payoff in extending your game is usually worth the very real risk of dying instead. Indeed, while Namco-style games awarded free lives on very long intervals (3-4 Galaga waves, for example), and thereby valued getting through most waves safely, Robotron had a flow of fast death and rebirth, with players often earning and losing one or more lives on each wave. Provided you could earn more lives than you lost, even at a fairly low margin, you could keep going, which is why taking risks to save the humans was a winning strategy.
These two are anime / sci-fi podcasters, whose show is called the Ninja Consultants. They discuss their wedding plans and how they're pulling it together in an April episode. They're pretty cool people (I met them at Anime Weekend Atlanta a few times): Erin worked on a couple of animated series and writes for Otaku USA.
I admire your pluck, but Detroit itself may be unrealistic. There's infrastructure, yes, but the police department is borderline non-functional. Startups still need civil order, and that may not be something you can count on in Detroit anymore.
Still, I'm over in Grand Rapids, MI. I've been independent and working from home for years, and decided I'd rather live here, closer to family, than in Atlanta, which admittedly is much more of a tech and VC hub. Not counting on much tech popping up here (GR is a loser when it comes to VC), but I think I can find enough remote work to keep myself going.
Seriously? When you upgrade 400 tracks to iTunes Plus and you half to wait a half-hour for the e-mail saying your songs are ready, what do you think it's doing? Duh, watermarking the files with your info before letting you download them.
And if you think the only cases where your info is encoded are the ones you can see with hexdump, I've got a Zune Phone to sell you.
FWIW, I also write books for the Pragmatic Programmers, and this is exactly how their PDF program operates: when there's an updated PDF, you have to have your personal copy generated at their website, with a prominent "Prepared Exclusively for Joe Developer" at the bottom of every page.
It's a perfectly reasonable system that enables all kinds of appropriate uses (using your tunes in personal Final Cut / iMovie projects, for example), and it's not evil just because Apple does it (sorry, Slashtards).
that all entries must be in Ogg, be CC-share-alike licensed, and will only be relevant to other "I'm Linux" participants?
Good to see that Obama is sticking with Presidential tradition:
Hey, it worked for Reno, Ashcroft, and Gonzales. The hits keep on coming...
How does putting Safari 3.2 on Software Update, where by default it will be received by every internet-connected Mac OS X user in the world, count as a release that was "quietly slipped out"?
Granted, they're the new Bad Guy on /., but can we be a little less lazy and more accurate in our snide characterization of Apple's activities?
Gee, let's hope that a war over the elevator doesn't break out, causing a young pilot to detonate the Space/Time Oscillation Bomb and splitting time/space into lots of little pieces.
Seinfeld is so 10 years ago. You know who might be better to typify Microsoft? That guy who sometimes shows up as the "Resident Expert" on The Daily Show. He's also written a book, The Areas of My Expertise. John... Hodgman... I think? Anyways, he seems like he captures the spirit of Windows pretty well. A really smart company would hire him.
If the free software movement fails to rid the world of un-free software, it won't be for lack of insulting and pissing off their would-be users.
Those parties materially impacted by this policy, for good or ill, will presumably need to get out their checkbooks and start making contributions to candidates who will legislate/administrate in whatever manner suits the contributors.
First WiiWare, now 360, next thing you know, Square Enix is gonna be developing iPod games.
I made a hell of a lot more coding Java than writing books about it.
Slow news day, huh? What's next, what Lawrence Lessig had for lunch, followed by moral outrage over being charged cash money for a product or service?