I'm however using windows almost exclusively. Why is that? Well, I've invested heavily in learning the.net architecture and I love to do hobby programming.
I program for 8 hours at work, then I go home and program another 4 hours, and I want those 4 hours to be productive, I also want those 4 hours to help me be more productive at work.
If I used Java for work, I would probably have a Mac or run Linux at home.
Not discrediting the parent poster. But I must comment on one thing.
People keep excluding Windows as a "real OS". I've worked with a group of _really_ really good server application people. I mean "walk on water" good.
Their product runs under Solaris, HP-UX, VMS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and AIX. So one would think that they know what they are talking about when comparing operating systems.
They didn't like Microsoft, but they did grudginly admit that the Windows API was better and more efficient than the UNIX API for server applications (at least the type they were working on).
Please give Windows some credit. Don't discredit it with a herd mentality because you don't like Microsoft.
Some companies bought the $699 linux license that SCO was selling.
If (or when) SCO loses this lawsuit I would argue that they didn't have the right to sell those licenses. They were selling something they didn't own.
Will the companies that bought those licenses be refunded (yeah, sure)? But could they sue SCO to get that money back? And can they win?
Did SCO protect themselves somehow in the license agreements they sold for this very scenario. They could have done that by not really selling them licenses to use Linux, but to use Caldera Linux and telling the customers that this will give them the rights to use whatever other version of Linux that they are using too.
I don't know how many that bought those licenses but I've heard some rather large numbers. We could easily be talking about _real_ money here.
Could SCO could risk a fast and swift death if they lose their lawsauit against IBM et al?
There are songs where I think that 5 cents is 5 cents too expensive.
On the other hand. I'm already paying 99 cents per song on iTunes. I would probably pay several times that for _some_ songs. At least if my principles doesn't get the better of me.
Today they are sellings songs for 99 cents per song, or the entire album for a cost which is lower than the number of songs times their individual price. They are doing this to encourage you to buy an entire album.
However, the concept of the album might be losing ground. Maybe it'll go away completely. This is probably good because artists, bless their hearts, will no longer have filler songs. All songs they sell will have to justify their worth on an individual basis.
So maybe the future is that we'll pay $5 for hit songs and 5 cents for the fillers, and anywhere between for semi good songs.
Now, you say that $5 is too much for a single song. But in all earnest, I've bought albums for $15 for one song only. So obviously, to me, that song was worth $15. Only difference is that it is easier to justify, because I get more songs. Never mind that they are crap that I won't listen to a second time.
I don't think that Microsoft is concerned about users wanting to upgrade Win XP and Server 2003.
What Microsoft is concerned about, I think, is to evolve their product to remain competitive with the alternatives, such as Linux, so that the new desktop or server that someone buys, will run windows.
The days when people upgraded the OS on their servers and desktops because a new version was out are over.
So they don't need to motivate why a user should upgrade from XP to Longhorn, with the cost that that entails. What they need is a product that is sufficiently more attractive than Linux for most users.
So, assuming that they can keep the market share, their second priority comes to focus. Which I believe is to have features which are attractive, and will attract developers, but which won't work on Linux.
So, spending an enormous amount of money on a file system which is unique to windows. And lock in applications to Windows is very important.
I didn't know what a head mouse was so I did a little research:
HeadMouse® Extreme replaces a standard computer mouse for people who cannot use their hands. It operates from the top of a computer monitor, laptop computer, or augmentative communication device, and measures the user's head movements. The wireless sensing technology employs infrared light to track a small disposable target that is placed on the user's forehead or glasses. HeadMouse Extreme provides a wide field-of-view and superior precision, supporting even graphics-intensive applications like drawing and computer aided design.
When used with mouse button software, such as Origin Instruments' Dragger(TM), mouse clicks are performed by positioning the pointer and dwelling for a selectable period of time. Alternately, selections can be performed using an adaptive switch, such as the Origin Instruments Sip/Puff Switch, or even through use of speech recognition software. HeadMouse Extreme also comes with a built-in infrared receiver that provides optional
It does seem rather powerful, especially if it can be combined with voice recognition. Although voice recognition isn't perfect it could certainly be good enough to mimic the button pushes we make when playing a game.
It probably won't be as fast though. So you probably want a game that isn't twitch based. Lets review the categories.
1) MMORPG. Although this isn't twitch based I'm reluctant to recommend it. I don't mean to be insensitive, but I believe that you will meet a lot of insensitive impatient people who will only hurt your self esteem. I don't know the average age of an MMORPG player. All I know is that many act like 12 year olds. Maybe if you find trade skilling rewarding. You could be a very good trade skiller, I'm sure. In fact, if you enjoy trade skilling then you can build your character to the highest levels and people want to do business with you. This category is different than the two below, because there is social interatction here. And if you want more of that, then this might be your choice.
2) Turn based strategy. Civilisation... Oh the memories... I'd really have to recommend this genre. This is one of my all time game genres. And you can play it at any speed you like. You invest a lot of time in the strategy and you can ask a unit to do something which will take many turns. This means that later in the game it will do tons of stuff, that is really interesting to you, the player, but you won't actually be doing much pointing and clicking. Whatever else games you play, you should try to do this too. It is just too much fun to not do. To round it up, whether you win this or not _only_ depends on your thinking. Nothing else. You will be as good a player as a non handicapped person. It might take longer. But what the hey.
3) Real time strategy. This is another one of my favorite genres. Although this really can be as much twitching as a first person shooter, you can normally set the speed to anything you like. You might find that this really gets your adrenalin pump going. I know it does for me.
4) First person shooters. This might not work when you play with a random person from the Internet. But you could get a group going with the same type of problem as you. All that matters is that everyone is about similarly fast. This could be a lot of fun, _and_ it could also be super rewarding if you can organize and build a community and make friends. I currently play an MMORPG right now, and the part that is the most rewarding for me is to organize events and try to help people have fun. The game itself is secondary. You might want to look at games such as Ghost Recon which is more "suspense" and "one shot one kill" rather than the Quake "circle/strafe" "rocket jump" game play.
5) Someone else mentioned Myst. Myst and other puzzle games might be good for you. It isn't for me, but many like it. Maybe you are one of them.
And finally, good luck finding the game that is for you. I love it when I have a new game.
I'm guessing that the brain only can handle two arms. You could have an extra limb, but it would perfectly mimic either the left or the right arm.
Or your left or right leg, or maybe the arm could mimic one of your fingers. But I don't think that you can have a robotic limb which which is completely independend from all your existing limbs.
Maybe if you got the robotic limb when you were a baby.
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This is the price you pay for English being spoken by many as a second language.
You can choose. Either you can learn Swedish if you want to talk with me, or you can accept that my English isn't as good as yours.
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I mean, who in the target customer group of the PSP hasn't already seen it?
Yes, you missed the fact that Mac OS X is based on the Mach kernel and is Unix under the hood.
I love Linux. I love the Mac.
.net architecture and I love to do hobby programming.
I'm however using windows almost exclusively. Why is that? Well, I've invested heavily in learning the
I program for 8 hours at work, then I go home and program another 4 hours, and I want those 4 hours to be productive, I also want those 4 hours to help me be more productive at work.
If I used Java for work, I would probably have a Mac or run Linux at home.
PS. Yes, I know about mono.
Wow, you are a brave man.
You are trying to explain object oriented coding to novices in a community that
1) has 500 000 people who are sure they are the foremost coder in the world.
2) loves to criticise.
Anyway, I appreciate that you stuck your neck out and tried to do something productive.
While I don't have a formal definition it basically means a programming language where you have a sequence of statements.
Most languages widely used are imperative languages, such as C/C++/C#/Jave/Perl/whathaveyou.
An example of another type of language is functional programming languages such as ML, Miranda and F#.
I believe Lisp is generally considered a functional language, but it also supports sequences of statements so I guess it really is a mix.
I'm a bit rusty on this subject, so if someone wants to correct me on this then please go ahead.
Man, we need TV coverage of this event.
I live in Houston but I want to see this spectacle.
Does anyone know if the same is true in Texas?
You are almost talking about this invention called radio.
Not discrediting the parent poster. But I must comment on one thing.
People keep excluding Windows as a "real OS". I've worked with a group of _really_ really good server application people. I mean "walk on water" good.
Their product runs under Solaris, HP-UX, VMS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and AIX. So one would think that they know what they are talking about when comparing operating systems.
They didn't like Microsoft, but they did grudginly admit that the Windows API was better and more efficient than the UNIX API for server applications (at least the type they were working on).
Please give Windows some credit. Don't discredit it with a herd mentality because you don't like Microsoft.
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die."
Just the best quote ever.
I hadn't thought about that. Very insightful.
There has got to be a reason though. Maybe that validation wouldn't be as good or something like that?
That's the only thing I can think of. With the notation you can tell that something is wrong, but not necessarily where.
This is making me feel bad.
I've got a similar IP agreement with my employer. And I'm working on an open source project.
The employer is aware of it and I have a verbal agreement to do so.
But I can see myself getting into the same situation as the guy in the article.
And I'm just working on this small open source project for fun. And it has absolutely nothing to do with what the company is doing.
This type of problem is ruining the fun.
I'll buy some time to run this program
int main() {
for(;;) fork();
}
Man, people really want Microsoft to become a footnote in history.
Some companies bought the $699 linux license that SCO was selling.
If (or when) SCO loses this lawsuit I would argue that they didn't have the right to sell those licenses. They were selling something they didn't own.
Will the companies that bought those licenses be refunded (yeah, sure)? But could they sue SCO to get that money back? And can they win?
Did SCO protect themselves somehow in the license agreements they sold for this very scenario. They could have done that by not really selling them licenses to use Linux, but to use Caldera Linux and telling the customers that this will give them the rights to use whatever other version of Linux that they are using too.
I don't know how many that bought those licenses but I've heard some rather large numbers. We could easily be talking about _real_ money here.
Could SCO could risk a fast and swift death if they lose their lawsauit against IBM et al?
I wasn't exactly worrying.
I was describing a phenomenon in the industry and happened to spice it up with anecdotes.
I'm guessing that you would classify most of todays top 50 songs as being performed by "shit musicians" as you call it.
Is that true?
If it is, then whether they really are shitty musicians or not doesn't really change the logic of my argument. Does it?
The top selling albums have filler songs on them.
There are songs where I think that 5 cents is 5 cents too expensive.
On the other hand. I'm already paying 99 cents per song on iTunes. I would probably pay several times that for _some_ songs. At least if my principles doesn't get the better of me.
Today they are sellings songs for 99 cents per song, or the entire album for a cost which is lower than the number of songs times their individual price. They are doing this to encourage you to buy an entire album.
However, the concept of the album might be losing ground. Maybe it'll go away completely. This is probably good because artists, bless their hearts, will no longer have filler songs. All songs they sell will have to justify their worth on an individual basis.
So maybe the future is that we'll pay $5 for hit songs and 5 cents for the fillers, and anywhere between for semi good songs.
Now, you say that $5 is too much for a single song. But in all earnest, I've bought albums for $15 for one song only. So obviously, to me, that song was worth $15. Only difference is that it is easier to justify, because I get more songs. Never mind that they are crap that I won't listen to a second time.
Now seriously, why would I want to play a game where I need to sit down and rest after running 3 flights of stairs?
The root partition could be on a read only media such as a CD-ROM, right? In which case nobody could ever win.
I don't think that Microsoft is concerned about users wanting to upgrade Win XP and Server 2003.
What Microsoft is concerned about, I think, is to evolve their product to remain competitive with the alternatives, such as Linux, so that the new desktop or server that someone buys, will run windows.
The days when people upgraded the OS on their servers and desktops because a new version was out are over.
So they don't need to motivate why a user should upgrade from XP to Longhorn, with the cost that that entails. What they need is a product that is sufficiently more attractive than Linux for most users.
So, assuming that they can keep the market share, their second priority comes to focus. Which I believe is to have features which are attractive, and will attract developers, but which won't work on Linux.
So, spending an enormous amount of money on a file system which is unique to windows. And lock in applications to Windows is very important.
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It does seem rather powerful, especially if it can be combined with voice recognition. Although voice recognition isn't perfect it could certainly be good enough to mimic the button pushes we make when playing a game.
It probably won't be as fast though. So you probably want a game that isn't twitch based. Lets review the categories.
1) MMORPG. Although this isn't twitch based I'm reluctant to recommend it. I don't mean to be insensitive, but I believe that you will meet a lot of insensitive impatient people who will only hurt your self esteem. I don't know the average age of an MMORPG player. All I know is that many act like 12 year olds. Maybe if you find trade skilling rewarding. You could be a very good trade skiller, I'm sure. In fact, if you enjoy trade skilling then you can build your character to the highest levels and people want to do business with you. This category is different than the two below, because there is social interatction here. And if you want more of that, then this might be your choice.
2) Turn based strategy. Civilisation... Oh the memories... I'd really have to recommend this genre. This is one of my all time game genres. And you can play it at any speed you like. You invest a lot of time in the strategy and you can ask a unit to do something which will take many turns. This means that later in the game it will do tons of stuff, that is really interesting to you, the player, but you won't actually be doing much pointing and clicking. Whatever else games you play, you should try to do this too. It is just too much fun to not do. To round it up, whether you win this or not _only_ depends on your thinking. Nothing else. You will be as good a player as a non handicapped person. It might take longer. But what the hey.
3) Real time strategy. This is another one of my favorite genres. Although this really can be as much twitching as a first person shooter, you can normally set the speed to anything you like. You might find that this really gets your adrenalin pump going. I know it does for me.
4) First person shooters. This might not work when you play with a random person from the Internet. But you could get a group going with the same type of problem as you. All that matters is that everyone is about similarly fast. This could be a lot of fun, _and_ it could also be super rewarding if you can organize and build a community and make friends. I currently play an MMORPG right now, and the part that is the most rewarding for me is to organize events and try to help people have fun. The game itself is secondary. You might want to look at games such as Ghost Recon which is more "suspense" and "one shot one kill" rather than the Quake "circle/strafe" "rocket jump" game play.
5) Someone else mentioned Myst. Myst and other puzzle games might be good for you. It isn't for me, but many like it. Maybe you are one of them.
And finally, good luck finding the game that is for you. I love it when I have a new game.
These tests show that 64 bit generally is slower than 32 bit, so I am anxiously awaiting 16 bit applications because that should be even faster.
(yes, yes, I am kidding)
I'm guessing that the brain only can handle two arms. You could have an extra limb, but it would perfectly mimic either the left or the right arm.
Or your left or right leg, or maybe the arm could mimic one of your fingers. But I don't think that you can have a robotic limb which which is completely independend from all your existing limbs.
Maybe if you got the robotic limb when you were a baby.
This is the price you pay for English being spoken by many as a second language.
You can choose. Either you can learn Swedish if you want to talk with me, or you can accept that my English isn't as good as yours.