I wonder... why the change?
I doubt they had any problem with Nintendo.
I think they just changed it because the N64 is now "officially obsolete".
heh. i think that atari stick might be "officially obsolete" as well.
on topic: interesting article; the benchmarks speak volumes. I knew the MX cards were slow, but they were absolutely punished by this engine. 1.9 fps! eek!
Sure it's legal. As a minor here in california, i have the rights of a turnip. Curfew, age restrictions on movies, drinking, driving, etc. Even 18 year olds, while technically adults, can't drink. Nobody will notice if they step on our toes some more.
He doesn't adress the most plausible scenario, in which AOL is mearly picking up another weapon with which to threaten Microsoft. Like Winamp, Redhat woudl probably be let alone to continue development, but AOL could say, "Look BIll, we would like to see some AIM and AOL integration with Windows. We don't need your cheeseball OS, we can take our ball and go home."
Isn't this the problem faced by developers who resort to begging users to send money?
Likewise, an art website I frequent has recently opened up a subscription service (ostensibly to pay for bandwidth costs) on top of the basic free membership. As there is no tangible 'punishment' for non-paying members, the only real incentive to shell out the cash. I have no plans to do so myself, and according to this study it is exactly that mentality that kills voluntarily cooperative ventures.
Now, the question in my mind is if Noosphere and flames count as a reward/punishment system? ^_^
But 3D Realms CEO Scott Miller wasn't very upset to hear about his product getting the Vaporware top spot. "It's a very ambitious game," he said. "It's not cookie-cutter shooter like most are nowadays
If it's another FPS, how can it NOT be cookie-cutter ?
it probably contains an abnormally large amount of vulgarity, nudity, and monsters. perhaps even vulgar nude monsters.
"This is about 200 million years later than previously thought - an extra period of grace that humans could use to develop technologies for living on a hotter Earth, such as building communities deep underground. Alternatively, the human race could move to another planet for a while."
if they think that the human race will still be around that far into the future, i have some sad news. us crazy advanced primates are completely insignificant in the evolutionary timeline. chances are we get blasted off the face of the planet by disastor (like the dinasarus?) or do it ourselves. more likely still is that we are replaced by something better adapted.
i hardly think the race will be around lonk enough to need that extra 200 million years. it's kind of a shame though; the teasers for Final Fantasy MXXI were looking promising.
I don't know that anyone has ever asked for the source code for Word. If they did, we would give it to them.
But you can *bet* that I'm going to try it. Lemme go find a MS email address and request it. They've gotten me seriously curious. (Yes, I'm really going to do this after I post this comment.)
silly rabbit.
MS will charge you massive fees and have you sign equally daunting NDAs before you actually get to see the code. Even with source code acess, it's not as if you could turn around and give it to OpenOffice and the like without opening up yourself and anyone else who even _saw_ it to legal action.
The source is not freedom without the rights to modify and distribute. Interesting quote nonetheless.
This cracks me up, in a funny-as-in-sad sort of way.
In the Gates interview, he said "If we can't add any features, then what is Windows? I mean, there were guys who sold TCP/IP stacks for $100. Should we not have put TCP/IP stacks into Windows?"
If MS was reimplementing TCP/IP for windows today, it would probably compatible only with Windows Media Packets.
It sure can't help to know what 'color' or 'font' means, though. Especially if this is not your native alphabet - not to mention the problem of different keysets. Input could be difficult.
I guess I just feel like playing the devil's advocate today. eh.
You forget WYSIWYG editors. Perhaps that should be restated to read that 99% of well coded content will be in English. The point is that anybody with the right tools will have access to the internet, and the right tools will exist shortly.
Not everybody is a programmer, just the best of us:-)
One of the great Geek Goals of science fication has been on the fly translation. If technology continues to improve as quickly as it has, I predict real time, accurate (eh....relatively) language conversion for www material and perhaps even instant messaging type applications.
A growing Chinese user base and the currently massive English speaking web community would certainly create a market for such an app.
Imagine how many converts can be won with this one. I'm going to start repeating this one in front of the mirror, "If you use Mozilla, you don't see the dancing crazy ads!"
If I had moderator points I'd be using them. Instead, I'll just call it like it is - right on.
The benefit of the massive storage space is flushed away by the ineviatable short battery life. How do you put down or watch 10gigs of video when you can only keep the thing on for a handful of hours. The situation is even worse with audio, since playing them eats up so much of your precious time.
While the article claims the device will fit in a pocket, the odly shaped modules sure wouldn't. And at 12+ ounces already, it becomes an ungainly, low resolution digital camera...
...or a digital video camera with a _very_ long recording time. Somebody mentioned in a previous article how nice it would be to attach a 40 gig ieee1394 drive directly to a camera for hours of digital footage. 10gigs is certainly a step in the right direction, it just looks strange.
****IT SLICES IT DICES IT MAKES MPEG4 - your fully buzzword compliant device!****
The problem is that piracy _is_ doing Microsoft a favor. In pirating Windows those crazy warez monkeys create a larger installed base and a market for Windows applications. IIRC, Mircosoft doesn't generate the majority of its revenue from os sales but rather from productivity software like Office and games such as AOE (and XBOX perhaps?)
So while Microsoft doesn't get _this_ sale, users remain MS dependant and an opportunity for Free (Beer and Speech) Software is lost. I would much rather have somebody spreading around Linux discs than pirating Windows any day of the week.
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on topic: interesting article; the benchmarks speak volumes. I knew the MX cards were slow, but they were absolutely punished by this engine. 1.9 fps! eek!
Doesn't minors have civil rights?
no, they doesn't. Or perhaps even don't.
Sure it's legal. As a minor here in california, i have the rights of a turnip. Curfew, age restrictions on movies, drinking, driving, etc. Even 18 year olds, while technically adults, can't drink. Nobody will notice if they step on our toes some more.
of course a nice healthy slashdotting right now doesn't help anybody's case. :grin:
what about temp work from the point of view of this guy?
Two open source minorities combine in a brilliant flash of light Because we can. .
He doesn't adress the most plausible scenario, in which AOL is mearly picking up another weapon with which to threaten Microsoft. Like Winamp, Redhat woudl probably be let alone to continue development, but AOL could say, "Look BIll, we would like to see some AIM and AOL integration with Windows. We don't need your cheeseball OS, we can take our ball and go home."
Isn't this the problem faced by developers who resort to begging users to send money?
Likewise, an art website I frequent has recently opened up a subscription service (ostensibly to pay for bandwidth costs) on top of the basic free membership. As there is no tangible 'punishment' for non-paying members, the only real incentive to shell out the cash. I have no plans to do so myself, and according to this study it is exactly that mentality that kills voluntarily cooperative ventures.
Now, the question in my mind is if Noosphere and flames count as a reward/punishment system? ^_^
"It was imaged using adaptive optics(see also here) that correct for the blurring effect of the atmospher"
so they drew it in, right? i can do that too! look, planets!
the wonders of gimp.
(before you flame me about adaptive optics...don't.)
But 3D Realms CEO Scott Miller wasn't very upset to hear about his product getting the Vaporware top spot. "It's a very ambitious game," he said. "It's not cookie-cutter shooter like most are nowadays If it's another FPS, how can it NOT be cookie-cutter ?
it probably contains an abnormally large amount of vulgarity, nudity, and monsters. perhaps even vulgar nude monsters.
"This is about 200 million years later than previously thought - an extra period of grace that humans could use to develop technologies for living on a hotter Earth, such as building communities deep underground. Alternatively, the human race could move to another planet for a while."
if they think that the human race will still be around that far into the future, i have some sad news. us crazy advanced primates are completely insignificant in the evolutionary timeline. chances are we get blasted off the face of the planet by disastor (like the dinasarus?) or do it ourselves. more likely still is that we are replaced by something better adapted.
i hardly think the race will be around lonk enough to need that extra 200 million years. it's kind of a shame though; the teasers for Final Fantasy MXXI were looking promising.
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no caps for the wicked
...and there's plenty of prior art for the fourth.
Yeah, barbed wire providing high bandwidth service to the ever popular Mobile COWs.
^_^
i see a link back to the previous article, "attack of the clones."
......it seems the pollution is worse than we know.
slashdot: bringing the latest news on mutant invasions across Alabama! ^_^
I don't know that anyone has ever asked for the source code for Word. If they did, we would give it to them.
But you can *bet* that I'm going to try it. Lemme go find a MS email address and request it. They've gotten me seriously curious. (Yes, I'm really going to do this after I post this comment.)
silly rabbit.
MS will charge you massive fees and have you sign equally daunting NDAs before you actually get to see the code. Even with source code acess, it's not as if you could turn around and give it to OpenOffice and the like without opening up yourself and anyone else who even _saw_ it to legal action.
The source is not freedom without the rights to modify and distribute. Interesting quote nonetheless.
This cracks me up, in a funny-as-in-sad sort of way.
In the Gates interview, he said "If we can't add any features, then what is Windows? I mean, there were guys who sold TCP/IP stacks for $100. Should we not have put TCP/IP stacks into Windows?"
If MS was reimplementing TCP/IP for windows today, it would probably compatible only with Windows Media Packets.
Oh well ^_^
It sure can't help to know what 'color' or 'font' means, though. Especially if this is not your native alphabet - not to mention the problem of different keysets. Input could be difficult.
I guess I just feel like playing the devil's advocate today. eh.
You forget WYSIWYG editors. Perhaps that should be restated to read that 99% of well coded content will be in English. The point is that anybody with the right tools will have access to the internet, and the right tools will exist shortly.
:-)
Not everybody is a programmer, just the best of us
One of the great Geek Goals of science fication has been on the fly translation. If technology continues to improve as quickly as it has, I predict real time, accurate (eh....relatively) language conversion for www material and perhaps even instant messaging type applications.
A growing Chinese user base and the currently massive English speaking web community would certainly create a market for such an app.
EXACTLY!
Imagine how many converts can be won with this one. I'm going to start repeating this one in front of the mirror, "If you use Mozilla, you don't see the dancing crazy ads!"
If I had moderator points I'd be using them. Instead, I'll just call it like it is - right on.
The benefit of the massive storage space is flushed away by the ineviatable short battery life. How do you put down or watch 10gigs of video when you can only keep the thing on for a handful of hours. The situation is even worse with audio, since playing them eats up so much of your precious time.
Now why didn't I think of that?
While the article claims the device will fit in a pocket, the odly shaped modules sure wouldn't. And at 12+ ounces already, it becomes an ungainly, low resolution digital camera...
...or a digital video camera with a _very_ long recording time. Somebody mentioned in a previous article how nice it would be to attach a 40 gig ieee1394 drive directly to a camera for hours of digital footage. 10gigs is certainly a step in the right direction, it just looks strange.
****IT SLICES IT DICES IT MAKES MPEG4 - your fully buzzword compliant device!****
Read that again. It doesn't say Win32 (that is to say, any microsoft product from the past 6 years), it says Win16. Hey! I can play solitare! -_-
Mr. Speedypants XP - it's speedy, renders pants, and contains the magical letters "x" and "p."
It matches nicely with our XP cpu, dram, harddrive, monitor, hamburger....
>>>Levanon says the company's proprietary chemical combination ? so secretive that he calls them the "Coca-Cola formulas"
Aw geeze, now everybody knows that Coca-Cola is the secret ingrediant.
The problem is that piracy _is_ doing Microsoft a favor. In pirating Windows those crazy warez monkeys create a larger installed base and a market for Windows applications. IIRC, Mircosoft doesn't generate the majority of its revenue from os sales but rather from productivity software like Office and games such as AOE (and XBOX perhaps?)
So while Microsoft doesn't get _this_ sale, users remain MS dependant and an opportunity for Free (Beer and Speech) Software is lost. I would much rather have somebody spreading around Linux discs than pirating Windows any day of the week.