Nonsense, very poor analogy. The basic phone is a ubiquitous device that everyone knows how to use, that should not need an instruction manual. The cellphone should be the highly portable incarnation. "Grownup" models, forsakes the "kiddie" crap and make it smaller or enlarges the battery, are needed too.
I'm dreading the day when my four year old Motorola StarTAC dies.
That's awesome, but I wish these guys would put their brainpower and idle time towards something more productive, like OSS software development.
The problem is that much of what needs to be done is boring and/or unchallenging. Some folks program because they like to solve problems, the "journey", not because they have a strong commitment to a project, the "destination". In the OSS world there are lots of people who would like to work on the interesting things and if they cannot they are more likely to not contribute than go work on the boring parts. Commercial software has an advantage here, do the drudgery, collect a paycheck. The solution: more donations, less "free beer", that fund programmers to work on the boring stuff.
to me, it seems that many of the same things that motivated this (these?) guy(s) are the same as the motivation for being an Open Source Programmer. Just my.02
You think there is something new about writing code for free and sharing it with others? It predates "open source", it predates Linux, it predates GNU,... The only thing different nowadays is that more people have computers and that communication and distribution is much easier. Well that and religious/political overtones about all of this.
In other news, your (and my) generation did not invent sex.;-)
... I can't imagine what he did to the Mac OS X engineers when he found they'd built full support for multiple buttons and into the OS...
They were former Next engineers so he forgave them, at Next he allowed multibutton mice, it was a Unix workstation not a consumer system after all. Or perhaps the code came straight from Next.
... I bought my Logitech mouse for my G5...
The point you seem to be missing is that folks who buy a computer that is in part sold on its visual style, its look, would like to have a mouse that matches. It is also a bit embarrassing for the Apple folks doing game demos at trade shows.
Oddly enough the mouse is one thing that Microsoft has been doing a good job at for a long time. Bash them all you like but you could at least pick an area where they deserve it.
Great... People doing free work: Apple-1 Linux-Several Million
So what, its not like lots of people or hours translates to quality. Look at shareware in general, look at MS. There is only a very small core of people that have made Linux useful. Few people can read source code, fewer still can write working code at all, fewer still are able to write good code.
Now if they could only find someone that'd work night and day to invent the 2-button mouse they'd have it made.
Actually there is only one person preventing a multibutton mouse, unfortunately no one outranks him. He won't even allow a build-to-order option when you are ordering online.
Pardon the naysaying but when a post is done anonymously, when it neglects to mention what the saves-the-day Linux tool was, when it is incredibly vague in every respect I become suspicious. I understand being vague when not anonymous and I understand being anonymous when mentioning specific tools in a negative light or when mentioning engaging in question behavior. But anon and vague smells fishy.
Cancatenate two files. Surely this was not simply concatenating two binary files, as would be the case when a large movie is split into pieces for download. DOS's "copy/b" can manage that. So I'll assume you meant to say that you wanted to combine two individual and complete movies into one.
What Linux tool saved the day? What's the harm in mentioning what it is? Nothing improper about downloading the source and building it. Could it be that this tools builds under both Linux and Windows, like so many useful tools that seek a large audience?
Again, I apologize for being so suspicious but something about this post just struck me as very weird.
Going into a bank brandishing a gun is endangering the lives of others, even if you don't get money.
Wrong again, the gun is irrelevant, if you have a piece of paper saying "give me the money" the FBI is still all over you irregardless of whether you got any money or not.
Did they actually steal any credit card numbers? No.
Did they charge up a bunch of fines on said card numbers? No. We have laws to deal with theft and fraud. Since they commited neither, there is no reason for them to go to jail.
You don't get off because you were unsuccessful. Intent is an element of a crime in the US, not success. its better to nail them before they get competent.
There have been murderers sentenced to one-fourth that length of time.
Yes, a two year and three month murder sentence is way too short. Rediculously short, an aberration, and completely irrelevant to determining a proper sentence for computer crime.
Let's throw all those big badass hackers into prison and clog it up even more so that the killers and the rapists can turn parole faster.
No, we can just let the potheads out to make room. You have the mental capacity of a politician, budget cuts, well police and fire first not my pork projects. Drop the hysterics and try thinking for a moment next time.
Only Apple can make players compatible with the iTMS and DRM'ed AAC files
First, you assume that the current installed based of AAC files is relevant. I would argue that only a small number of early adopters are using iTMS and that the vast majority of the public is still untapped(*). ITMS may owns the early adopters not the public at large. But I am willing to pass on this point. The thing that really kills your argument is that even the DCMA has exceptions for interoperability. A non-Apple player decrypting a DRM'd AAC file, purely internally, producing no DRM-less data visible to the user, and strictly for the purpose of audio playback would seem to be a textbook case or approved interoperability. Sure Apple would threaten to sue, but they would lose.
(*) My car's cd-player recognizes MP3 and WMA but not AAC, same for my living room DVD player, these devices, not handheld players, are far more likely to decide any format war. Again, Apple owns the market because it is new and largely untapped. Personally I rip to MP3 using iTunes and only use iTMS for previewing. I love my iPod, I wish Apple well, but even early iPod adopters are not necessarily locked to Apple.
You must be selling Apple stock and looking for buyers. Apple is in its own bubble. It is literally around its Year 2000 Internet Bubble price, its price/earning ratio is around 90, and about half of its current price is based on iPod euphoria. All Apple stock price will need to come crashing down is a single viable competitor to iPod, something small in size, large in capacity, and a simple if not elegant user interface. iPod will repeat Macintosh history. Initially brilliant and in a class by itself, but eventually low cost competitors that are good enough, but not superior, in design or ease of use will surpass it in popularity.
I am not saying Apple is doomed. I am not saying Apple is beleaguered. I am not saying that Apple Computer Inc is unhealthy. I am only saying that their stock price is inflated and bound to have a pretty large "correction". At $30 or $60 Apple will design and bring to market superior products. But a Mac, buy an iPod, but don't buy Apple stock at $60.
I have an idea. How about giving WoW it's own bloody section, so I can ignore it?
Bad news, the world does not revolve around your tastes. Don't like WoW, not interested, nothing wrong in that - but there is something wrong with being a self centered whiner. Clue: You can ignore WoW by not clicking on WoW articles. I hope you enjoy this new found skill.
Somebody invented a way for computers to recognize handwriting. Like, so 10 years ago.
I worked on an OCR system about 20 years ago. No pre-defined bitmaps of text, you trained the system on the font to be recognized. After a few hours you could turn it loose and it did fairly well. While goofing off we tried handwritten text. With good penmanship it worked to a degree.
Yes, they are. They are not using an off-the-shelf OCR package. The OCR functionality is embedded into their software, it is highly specialized, but it is OCR. For those who are fixated on the letter 'C', recognizing multiple characters as a single unit is nothing new.
Which is why ID software is going out of business so quickly... right?
Oh, wait, its because their products fucking rock, and Acclaim's sucked ass.
You don't understand id's business, it is not simply selling retail games. A big piece, maybe the biggest, of their business is licensing game engines. The games that id publishes are really proof-of-concepts, demos, for the engines. Consider why the games have such high system requirements: the people who license the engine won't be shipping their game for another year or two and the once state-of-the-art hardware will become more commonplace. Whether or not games using id engines fail is irrelevant to id, they cashed the check long ago, and they won't get the blame since the technology they supplied was superb.
You are not smart enough to use a devkit.;-) If you were you would not have publically announced the possibility of bidding on such a rare and highly desired piece of equipment. Your post virtually guarantees you will not get one.
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The winner of war writes history, but don't assume the 'good' side did everything Godly, Noble or whatever. They made their mistakes. They had their own
When the victor is the aggressor in a war of conquest that is often true, however in the Second World War context that argument is a load of crap. Primarily because the people who surrendered to the western Allies were not subjugated. West Germany and Japan were quite free to write their own histories, to continue their cultures, to continue their langauges, etc. Hell, the losers are free to claim they were right and being lied about, no shortage of Holocost denial propoganda as far as I can tell. Despite the fact that you probably abhor those idiots and probably do not share their "politics" your moral relevancy nonsense is not too removed from their way of thinking. You merely dress it up better. There was right and wrong in WW2, there was good and evil, this was the historical anomaly. The attrocities committed by US personnel were individual criminal acts, not highly organized state sponsored crimes receiving large scale support from the citizenry as in Germany's case.
Fishing can be done as a diversion, a gag/joke/etc, but I have also found it to be useful for feeding "pets". Feeding your pet improves its morale/loyalty and this significantly increases its fighting abilities. It originally took about 10-15 minutes to get the fishing skill to the point where I can reliably catch fish anywhere I have tried.
Your post is simply an example of the blind leading the blind, assuming it is not a troll. Now there is nothing wrong with not being an expert in the game and your appraisal of yourself as someone who doesn't play many games is probably a healthy and wise attitude. However you may want to keep a more open mind when you are ill-informed. I've found many of my own initial ill-informed opinions to be wrong and had a great time learning how wrong I was. Good luck with whatever games/hobbies/diversions you choose to try.
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Nonsense, very poor analogy. The basic phone is a ubiquitous device that everyone knows how to use, that should not need an instruction manual. The cellphone should be the highly portable incarnation. "Grownup" models, forsakes the "kiddie" crap and make it smaller or enlarges the battery, are needed too.
I'm dreading the day when my four year old Motorola StarTAC dies.
That's awesome, but I wish these guys would put their brainpower and idle time towards something more productive, like OSS software development.
The problem is that much of what needs to be done is boring and/or unchallenging. Some folks program because they like to solve problems, the "journey", not because they have a strong commitment to a project, the "destination". In the OSS world there are lots of people who would like to work on the interesting things and if they cannot they are more likely to not contribute than go work on the boring parts. Commercial software has an advantage here, do the drudgery, collect a paycheck. The solution: more donations, less "free beer", that fund programmers to work on the boring stuff.
to me, it seems that many of the same things that motivated this (these?) guy(s) are the same as the motivation for being an Open Source Programmer. Just my .02
... The only thing different nowadays is that more people have computers and that communication and distribution is much easier. Well that and religious/political overtones about all of this.
;-)
You think there is something new about writing code for free and sharing it with others? It predates "open source", it predates Linux, it predates GNU,
In other news, your (and my) generation did not invent sex.
... I can't imagine what he did to the Mac OS X engineers when he found they'd built full support for multiple buttons and into the OS ...
... I bought my Logitech mouse for my G5 ...
They were former Next engineers so he forgave them, at Next he allowed multibutton mice, it was a Unix workstation not a consumer system after all. Or perhaps the code came straight from Next.
The point you seem to be missing is that folks who buy a computer that is in part sold on its visual style, its look, would like to have a mouse that matches. It is also a bit embarrassing for the Apple folks doing game demos at trade shows.
Oddly enough the mouse is one thing that Microsoft has been doing a good job at for a long time. Bash them all you like but you could at least pick an area where they deserve it.
Great... People doing free work: Apple-1 Linux-Several Million
So what, its not like lots of people or hours translates to quality. Look at shareware in general, look at MS. There is only a very small core of people that have made Linux useful. Few people can read source code, fewer still can write working code at all, fewer still are able to write good code.
Ummm, the story being told took place nearly 10 years ago
Do you really think that little details like that can stop Steve's rage?
Now if they could only find someone that'd work night and day to invent the 2-button mouse they'd have it made.
Actually there is only one person preventing a multibutton mouse, unfortunately no one outranks him. He won't even allow a build-to-order option when you are ordering online.
... my project was canceled six months ago, so I'm evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer's main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley ...
Good job, Steve will probably hear about this tomorrow and start firing people working security.
Pardon the naysaying but when a post is done anonymously, when it neglects to mention what the saves-the-day Linux tool was, when it is incredibly vague in every respect I become suspicious. I understand being vague when not anonymous and I understand being anonymous when mentioning specific tools in a negative light or when mentioning engaging in question behavior. But anon and vague smells fishy.
/b" can manage that. So I'll assume you meant to say that you wanted to combine two individual and complete movies into one.
Cancatenate two files. Surely this was not simply concatenating two binary files, as would be the case when a large movie is split into pieces for download. DOS's "copy
What Linux tool saved the day? What's the harm in mentioning what it is? Nothing improper about downloading the source and building it. Could it be that this tools builds under both Linux and Windows, like so many useful tools that seek a large audience?
Again, I apologize for being so suspicious but something about this post just struck me as very weird.
Going into a bank brandishing a gun is endangering the lives of others, even if you don't get money.
Wrong again, the gun is irrelevant, if you have a piece of paper saying "give me the money" the FBI is still all over you irregardless of whether you got any money or not.
Did they actually steal any credit card numbers? No. Did they charge up a bunch of fines on said card numbers? No. We have laws to deal with theft and fraud. Since they commited neither, there is no reason for them to go to jail.
You don't get off because you were unsuccessful. Intent is an element of a crime in the US, not success. its better to nail them before they get competent.
or a non-violent crime that didn't benefit the criminal?
Intent is an element of a crime, not success. What does it matter that he criminal did not benefit?
There have been murderers sentenced to one-fourth that length of time.
Yes, a two year and three month murder sentence is way too short. Rediculously short, an aberration, and completely irrelevant to determining a proper sentence for computer crime.
Let's throw all those big badass hackers into prison and clog it up even more so that the killers and the rapists can turn parole faster.
No, we can just let the potheads out to make room. You have the mental capacity of a politician, budget cuts, well police and fire first not my pork projects. Drop the hysterics and try thinking for a moment next time.
Only Apple can make players compatible with the iTMS and DRM'ed AAC files
First, you assume that the current installed based of AAC files is relevant. I would argue that only a small number of early adopters are using iTMS and that the vast majority of the public is still untapped(*). ITMS may owns the early adopters not the public at large. But I am willing to pass on this point. The thing that really kills your argument is that even the DCMA has exceptions for interoperability. A non-Apple player decrypting a DRM'd AAC file, purely internally, producing no DRM-less data visible to the user, and strictly for the purpose of audio playback would seem to be a textbook case or approved interoperability. Sure Apple would threaten to sue, but they would lose.
(*) My car's cd-player recognizes MP3 and WMA but not AAC, same for my living room DVD player, these devices, not handheld players, are far more likely to decide any format war. Again, Apple owns the market because it is new and largely untapped. Personally I rip to MP3 using iTunes and only use iTMS for previewing. I love my iPod, I wish Apple well, but even early iPod adopters are not necessarily locked to Apple.
Buy Apple stock now
You must be selling Apple stock and looking for buyers. Apple is in its own bubble. It is literally around its Year 2000 Internet Bubble price, its price/earning ratio is around 90, and about half of its current price is based on iPod euphoria. All Apple stock price will need to come crashing down is a single viable competitor to iPod, something small in size, large in capacity, and a simple if not elegant user interface. iPod will repeat Macintosh history. Initially brilliant and in a class by itself, but eventually low cost competitors that are good enough, but not superior, in design or ease of use will surpass it in popularity.
I am not saying Apple is doomed. I am not saying Apple is beleaguered. I am not saying that Apple Computer Inc is unhealthy. I am only saying that their stock price is inflated and bound to have a pretty large "correction". At $30 or $60 Apple will design and bring to market superior products. But a Mac, buy an iPod, but don't buy Apple stock at $60.
I have an idea. How about giving WoW it's own bloody section, so I can ignore it?
Bad news, the world does not revolve around your tastes. Don't like WoW, not interested, nothing wrong in that - but there is something wrong with being a self centered whiner. Clue: You can ignore WoW by not clicking on WoW articles. I hope you enjoy this new found skill.
Somebody invented a way for computers to recognize handwriting. Like, so 10 years ago.
I worked on an OCR system about 20 years ago. No pre-defined bitmaps of text, you trained the system on the font to be recognized. After a few hours you could turn it loose and it did fairly well. While goofing off we tried handwritten text. With good penmanship it worked to a degree.
No OCR is performed on the documents. The search tool operates on the image
The search tool is doing the OCR then. OCR is simply taking an image and analyzing it to recognize text.
They aren't doing OCR
Yes, they are. They are not using an off-the-shelf OCR package. The OCR functionality is embedded into their software, it is highly specialized, but it is OCR. For those who are fixated on the letter 'C', recognizing multiple characters as a single unit is nothing new.
Which is why ID software is going out of business so quickly... right? Oh, wait, its because their products fucking rock, and Acclaim's sucked ass.
You don't understand id's business, it is not simply selling retail games. A big piece, maybe the biggest, of their business is licensing game engines. The games that id publishes are really proof-of-concepts, demos, for the engines. Consider why the games have such high system requirements: the people who license the engine won't be shipping their game for another year or two and the once state-of-the-art hardware will become more commonplace. Whether or not games using id engines fail is irrelevant to id, they cashed the check long ago, and they won't get the blame since the technology they supplied was superb.
You are not smart enough to use a devkit. ;-) If you were you would not have publically announced the possibility of bidding on such a rare and highly desired piece of equipment. Your post virtually guarantees you will not get one.
The winner of war writes history, but don't assume the 'good' side did everything Godly, Noble or whatever. They made their mistakes. They had their own
When the victor is the aggressor in a war of conquest that is often true, however in the Second World War context that argument is a load of crap. Primarily because the people who surrendered to the western Allies were not subjugated. West Germany and Japan were quite free to write their own histories, to continue their cultures, to continue their langauges, etc. Hell, the losers are free to claim they were right and being lied about, no shortage of Holocost denial propoganda as far as I can tell. Despite the fact that you probably abhor those idiots and probably do not share their "politics" your moral relevancy nonsense is not too removed from their way of thinking. You merely dress it up better. There was right and wrong in WW2, there was good and evil, this was the historical anomaly. The attrocities committed by US personnel were individual criminal acts, not highly organized state sponsored crimes receiving large scale support from the citizenry as in Germany's case.
Fishing can be done as a diversion, a gag/joke/etc, but I have also found it to be useful for feeding "pets". Feeding your pet improves its morale/loyalty and this significantly increases its fighting abilities. It originally took about 10-15 minutes to get the fishing skill to the point where I can reliably catch fish anywhere I have tried.
Your post is simply an example of the blind leading the blind, assuming it is not a troll. Now there is nothing wrong with not being an expert in the game and your appraisal of yourself as someone who doesn't play many games is probably a healthy and wise attitude. However you may want to keep a more open mind when you are ill-informed. I've found many of my own initial ill-informed opinions to be wrong and had a great time learning how wrong I was. Good luck with whatever games/hobbies/diversions you choose to try.