You know, "they" can read replies, too. I don't care about dupes, or spelling errors, but I get disappointed when I see really non-stories on the front page of SlashDot. I mean, this one isn't even a geek story, it's a kiddie video game story that you usually only see on the kid sites like Digg.
When I was younger, I told my mother I was "chatting" with someone in Germany with a Shell account and she had no idea what I was talking about. When I'd tell people about the Internet, people would look at me cross-eyed.
Most of my e-mail was done with TeleMate over FidoNet. I could plagiarize CD Based encyclopedias and nobody knew the wiser.
It must suck to grow up in the Internet Age.
On a related note, I think sending in your kids' e-mail addresses isn't the worst idea. It would at least keep very young kids from creating accounts on there.
Sometimes you just can get lucky, it plays a role (although QC should ensure it doesn't. And that's what the American companies are working on.) You might have gotten a Tuesday car, and another person got a Friday car.
People bash Ford, but I've seen a lot of Fords take a punishment and keep on going. My friend had a 1996 Lincoln Town Car, and he put 250K miles on it. The only things he had to replace were a ball joint, an oxygen sensor, and normal wear and tear stuff. I mean, that says a lot. Police use Fords. NYC had switched to Monte Carlo's and it was a disaster. The Crown Vics are simply more reliable.
Personally, I've owned three Cadillacs and I'll never buy another one. My last one was a 1999 STS, black on black. I loved that car. Fast, sweet looking, just awesome. Unfortunately, everything broke on it. It needed an engine rebuild at 30K, and a replacement at 75K. You couldn't point to a single part that didn't break. Not a single one. Well, maybe the rims. They held up okay..
So I purchased a Nissan. At least they're made in the USA =)
Again, you with your "pay me" mentality. If you put your work out there as FOSS, then it's out there. You're letting people use it for whatever they want. Who cares if they want feature x or y? You don't have to listen to them. You could even say "If you want feature Z, pay me $50." There's no rules in FOSS against that. In fact, that's what some people do.
"If the developer doesn't need a feater you want just why should he spend his time putting it in?"
Nope. He or she can do whatever they want. They don't have to do anything. Generally, FOSS begins as an interesting project for some programmer(s) and might or might not turn into something that other people want to be a part in, or are willing to pay you to continue.
Big projects don't set up public bug tracking systems so they can get pissed when someone wants a feature added. Generally speaking, these suggestions are exactly what they're looking for. But THEY choose to do it, or not to do it. Nobody's on the hook.
"I guess he might if that has value for him but it isn't an obligation."
Exactly! I'm not sure how that is a disagreement with what I've been saying.
"So if you don't contribute and you don't like it then don't use it."
Again, PAY ME OR GO AWAY. No! If you insist on being paid, don't write FOSS. There will always be a huge majority of users of FOSS that don't contribute. They don't have to; you are giving away the software and source code. But, some will. And again, who cares about random users on the internet?
Grow some balls and get over it. Geez, man up already.
Well, compared to GM, I think Ford vehicles are/were better. And I think the tides will turn soon enough. Last year, Toyota had more recalls than Nissan, GM, or Ford. They're on top, riding the name, but when people realize that a Ford could be just as good as a Toyota and it's a hell of a lot cheaper, we'll see Toyota sales fall.
Even GM has been cleaning up their act and producing better quality vehicles.
They HAVE to, or they're going to go out of business.
No doubt. It's like anything else - Video games, etc. We have the tools to make our own Video games, and our own movies with CGI effects that rival hollywood studios. It might take a little longer to render, but it can be done. But can it be?
Just because I have all the software to make great CGI at home, doesn't mean I'm suddenly a 3D modeler and animation artist. Just because I have High Definition video equipment doesn't mean I can write a good script.
I guess I struck a nerve with you. He said "This is one of the reasons why FOSS will not replace all closed source software. Too many freeloaders."
And I think that claim is complete bullshit. It's fucking FREE. How can there be FREELOADERS with FREE FUCKING SOFTWARE? So my response was basically "What the hell? You don't get it."
Then you pull in here with your righteous attitude telling me what I am and am not? Telling me to get back to the point?
So, I guess I was off because I said "people that complain on Slashdot" but apparently YOU mean "breathtakingly rude complainers" - so it's a degree of rudeness, then? I claim that it STILL DOESN'T MATTER. Who gives a shit what randomdude203894@aol.com thinks? Really?
This is the Internet. Those people aren't going away. I don't understand why you think FOSS is somehow different in this way. People bitch. Especially when they're anonymous. Keyboard Commandos, all of them. I say if you can't take the heat, just don't read it.
You miss the point because you APPARENTLY believe there should be a direct return on writing free and open source code. There isn't, usually. You think that because someone writes some piece of software, people all over the internet should kiss their feet. It's NOT going to happen. You shouldn't be writing FOSS because that's all bullshit. And I still contend that you don't fucking understand!
It's not some New Economy - it's that Free Software isn't Proprietary software. The money doesn't come from lines of code written. DEAL WITH IT.
And you make the same assumptions as him: If you don't write code, you have no business using the software. Right?
I mean, why NOT ask for features if you use the software? We're all supposed to just shut up and be nice because we don't write C++? It's up the the developer to use it or ignore it. If you're pissed that people aren't just "sending you money" well get this: you're in the wrong business if you think writing FOSS and putting it out there will get people to suddenly send you cash.
If you're pissed because kids on the internet aren't polite, well here's a reality check. It's not going to change. Don't read Slashdot if you're afraid of hearing people complain about Open Source software. Who gives a flying shit if they like it or not?
You miss the point of FOSS too. It's not about getting paid per line of code. There's money to be made, but that's now how you do it with open source.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, dude. Sony's tech, according to Ars, "appears to compete" with W-USB. Personally, I think that's retarded, because the Sony interface is meant to work only if you hold devices very close together, which OBVIOUSLY wouldn't work with most USB peripherals.
Hey, I'm not saying Sony hasn't tried to push their own stuff (which I think there's nothing wrong with in a FREE MARKET) but this isn't one of those times. Ars is just trying to drive traffic to their site with another "bash Sony" editorial.
Well, the USB bus is capable of 480Mbit. USB overhead is quite high for high speed transfers but still, you could achieve 40MB/sec over this interface. It's not that slow.
Current consumer flash-based hard-drive replacements are still slow as shit. Yea, you could do it all crazy with 250 1GB sticks to achieve good performance, but those are already available and they cost HUGE DOLLARS.
I realize that eventually, Flash will catch up and could very likely replace hard drives. I think it sounds wonderful. But it's just not here yet, even with the new disks introducing this year.
What do you consider a freeloader? Someone that uses OSS but doesn't write code for it? How is it freeloading when you're doing exactly what the software was intended to be used for?
People make actual, real money by running FOSS software. They don't have to write code to use the software. Lots of companies use apache, Linux, etc and pay their staff to maintain it. These people will contribute by posting on message boards, asking and answering questions, and moving FOSS into the foreground more and more.
You just don't understand. It's a different way of doing things, and if you can't get that, you're missing the whole point of it entirely.
Hard drives are actually vented. There's no pressurized compartment. They run at the same atmosphere as the rest of the machine. The lift of the hard drive heads is the "Bernoulli effect" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli's_equation) see also (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/5413198.stm).
Flash storage is certainly preferable in hard environments, no doubt. But as far as I've seen, I'm not a convert. Useful as hell for digital cameras, PDA's, MP3 players and USB drives. Not so much for primary storage. They're simply not fast enough, usually. I guess some people are making faster ones, but you still can't affordably beat the ol' hard drive when it comes to transfer speed. Seek times, flash wins, but when the transfer rates are as slow as they are on most flash, it doesn't matter.
I didn't say anything about HDV. That's a completely different story all together. While I think HDV is pretty damned good for Pro-Consumer applications, I was more referring to studio quality equipment. You won't find pro-consumers using film, either.
Studio quality gear can record uncompressed, or very slightly compressed (more like "zip" compression than MPEG compression) and retain all that color data that could otherwise be lost with a 4:2:0 HDV capture. The HDCAM stuff compresses too, but the quality is superb. Most made-for-TV High Definition uses this level of stuff. It looks awesome. You can't see any compression at all. Any compression you see on the TV is due to the compression needed to fit the signal through the satellite or cable TV.
I'm glad they did use film on a lot of TV shows (like older Law and Order, and even Knight Rider and older shows) because they can take that film and digitize it into HD. But now, they can record directly to HD and get the same quality.
I guess what I meant was, even though it's undetectable to the ear doesn't mean it's not audible. Yea, it's a stretch, but there's some pretty clever people out there.
It says 1.1.610.0. It still won't show all "function" buildings in zone view but it does show terminals - bus stops, etc. To see hospitals and other things you need to view normal but select the appropriate filter such as health or education. Then, it makes these items bright green.
It would probably be nice to have a "hide all zoned buildings" but I never really found the lack of it to be a big problem.
Overall I'd say SC4 is a rare case of a decent EA game, and it's possible that because the staff at Maxis still had a hand on building it. Sim City Societies, on the other hand, is all EA and it shows. Man, I wish EA never existed.. We might actually get a decent NFL game if someone else were making them too.
Generally speaking, people aren't comparing a brand new release on Vinyl and CD, they're comparing a Beatles album or The Doors or something. In that case, neither of the formats would be affected by reducing the dynamic range.
For new recordings put on Vinyl, the sound "engineers" won't stop compressing the signal, they'll just reduce the volume so that it can fit within the limitation of Vinyl. You can end up with an even worse sounding music.
Definately. I think people are confusing pressed CD's from a factory versus CD-R's which certainly don't last as long (but, in my experience they last a long time too, as long as you take care of them.) CD's from the factory use no dye or anything and really don't break down in any meaningful way. They're plastic =)
The folks claiming three years must be pretty young or something. I have CD's that are over 15 years old that still work fine.
Yes but CD's offer enough resolution to cover the spectrum of what the human ear can hear. Studios record at higher resolutions and bit rates because when you process digital data you get rounding errors and you lose fidelity. It's not because you can actually hear any difference. They do it so that when you do master down to 44.1Khz 16-bit you have the best possible encoding of that. If you started with it, you'd lose too much information during editing and mixing.
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You know, "they" can read replies, too. I don't care about dupes, or spelling errors, but I get disappointed when I see really non-stories on the front page of SlashDot. I mean, this one isn't even a geek story, it's a kiddie video game story that you usually only see on the kid sites like Digg.
Thanks for your honesty! It's the best policy!
Slashdot has become Digg 2.0.
Who?
When I was younger, I told my mother I was "chatting" with someone in Germany with a Shell account and she had no idea what I was talking about. When I'd tell people about the Internet, people would look at me cross-eyed.
Most of my e-mail was done with TeleMate over FidoNet. I could plagiarize CD Based encyclopedias and nobody knew the wiser.
It must suck to grow up in the Internet Age.
On a related note, I think sending in your kids' e-mail addresses isn't the worst idea. It would at least keep very young kids from creating accounts on there.
I for one welcome the opportunity to rip one off of a shopping cart in the parking lot and seeing what's inside!
Yes, you're right. But it was a typical EA project. GET 'ER DONE. YESTERDAY. Tilted Mill was just outsourced programming; EA still ran the project.
.NET to program it. While pretty neat what you can do with .NET, it's slooooooow.
Horrible game. That, and they used
Sometimes you just can get lucky, it plays a role (although QC should ensure it doesn't. And that's what the American companies are working on.) You might have gotten a Tuesday car, and another person got a Friday car.
People bash Ford, but I've seen a lot of Fords take a punishment and keep on going. My friend had a 1996 Lincoln Town Car, and he put 250K miles on it. The only things he had to replace were a ball joint, an oxygen sensor, and normal wear and tear stuff. I mean, that says a lot. Police use Fords. NYC had switched to Monte Carlo's and it was a disaster. The Crown Vics are simply more reliable.
Personally, I've owned three Cadillacs and I'll never buy another one. My last one was a 1999 STS, black on black. I loved that car. Fast, sweet looking, just awesome. Unfortunately, everything broke on it. It needed an engine rebuild at 30K, and a replacement at 75K. You couldn't point to a single part that didn't break. Not a single one. Well, maybe the rims. They held up okay..
So I purchased a Nissan. At least they're made in the USA =)
Again, you with your "pay me" mentality. If you put your work out there as FOSS, then it's out there. You're letting people use it for whatever they want. Who cares if they want feature x or y? You don't have to listen to them. You could even say "If you want feature Z, pay me $50." There's no rules in FOSS against that. In fact, that's what some people do.
"If the developer doesn't need a feater you want just why should he spend his time putting it in?"
Nope. He or she can do whatever they want. They don't have to do anything. Generally, FOSS begins as an interesting project for some programmer(s) and might or might not turn into something that other people want to be a part in, or are willing to pay you to continue.
Big projects don't set up public bug tracking systems so they can get pissed when someone wants a feature added. Generally speaking, these suggestions are exactly what they're looking for. But THEY choose to do it, or not to do it. Nobody's on the hook.
"I guess he might if that has value for him but it isn't an obligation."
Exactly! I'm not sure how that is a disagreement with what I've been saying.
"So if you don't contribute and you don't like it then don't use it."
Again, PAY ME OR GO AWAY. No! If you insist on being paid, don't write FOSS. There will always be a huge majority of users of FOSS that don't contribute. They don't have to; you are giving away the software and source code. But, some will. And again, who cares about random users on the internet?
Grow some balls and get over it. Geez, man up already.
Well, compared to GM, I think Ford vehicles are/were better. And I think the tides will turn soon enough. Last year, Toyota had more recalls than Nissan, GM, or Ford. They're on top, riding the name, but when people realize that a Ford could be just as good as a Toyota and it's a hell of a lot cheaper, we'll see Toyota sales fall.
Even GM has been cleaning up their act and producing better quality vehicles.
They HAVE to, or they're going to go out of business.
No doubt. It's like anything else - Video games, etc. We have the tools to make our own Video games, and our own movies with CGI effects that rival hollywood studios. It might take a little longer to render, but it can be done. But can it be?
Just because I have all the software to make great CGI at home, doesn't mean I'm suddenly a 3D modeler and animation artist. Just because I have High Definition video equipment doesn't mean I can write a good script.
I guess I struck a nerve with you. He said "This is one of the reasons why FOSS will not replace all closed source software. Too many freeloaders."
And I think that claim is complete bullshit. It's fucking FREE. How can there be FREELOADERS with FREE FUCKING SOFTWARE? So my response was basically "What the hell? You don't get it."
Then you pull in here with your righteous attitude telling me what I am and am not? Telling me to get back to the point?
So, I guess I was off because I said "people that complain on Slashdot" but apparently YOU mean "breathtakingly rude complainers" - so it's a degree of rudeness, then? I claim that it STILL DOESN'T MATTER. Who gives a shit what randomdude203894@aol.com thinks? Really?
This is the Internet. Those people aren't going away. I don't understand why you think FOSS is somehow different in this way. People bitch. Especially when they're anonymous. Keyboard Commandos, all of them. I say if you can't take the heat, just don't read it.
You miss the point because you APPARENTLY believe there should be a direct return on writing free and open source code. There isn't, usually. You think that because someone writes some piece of software, people all over the internet should kiss their feet. It's NOT going to happen. You shouldn't be writing FOSS because that's all bullshit. And I still contend that you don't fucking understand!
It's not some New Economy - it's that Free Software isn't Proprietary software. The money doesn't come from lines of code written. DEAL WITH IT.
Hey, that's not original at all! All you did was take what I said, and put in your own words. How about a little creativity?
Bah, I don't have time for this. I have too much Whinge to do.
And you make the same assumptions as him: If you don't write code, you have no business using the software. Right?
I mean, why NOT ask for features if you use the software? We're all supposed to just shut up and be nice because we don't write C++? It's up the the developer to use it or ignore it. If you're pissed that people aren't just "sending you money" well get this: you're in the wrong business if you think writing FOSS and putting it out there will get people to suddenly send you cash.
If you're pissed because kids on the internet aren't polite, well here's a reality check. It's not going to change. Don't read Slashdot if you're afraid of hearing people complain about Open Source software. Who gives a flying shit if they like it or not?
You miss the point of FOSS too. It's not about getting paid per line of code. There's money to be made, but that's now how you do it with open source.
You had two options for correcting my post (which I thought it read "in a small space"):
1) Correct me by being polite (like some of the other posts) and assume I just read it wrong
2) Be a dick
You chose option 2.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, dude. Sony's tech, according to Ars, "appears to compete" with W-USB. Personally, I think that's retarded, because the Sony interface is meant to work only if you hold devices very close together, which OBVIOUSLY wouldn't work with most USB peripherals.
Hey, I'm not saying Sony hasn't tried to push their own stuff (which I think there's nothing wrong with in a FREE MARKET) but this isn't one of those times. Ars is just trying to drive traffic to their site with another "bash Sony" editorial.
Well, the USB bus is capable of 480Mbit. USB overhead is quite high for high speed transfers but still, you could achieve 40MB/sec over this interface. It's not that slow.
Current consumer flash-based hard-drive replacements are still slow as shit. Yea, you could do it all crazy with 250 1GB sticks to achieve good performance, but those are already available and they cost HUGE DOLLARS.
I realize that eventually, Flash will catch up and could very likely replace hard drives. I think it sounds wonderful. But it's just not here yet, even with the new disks introducing this year.
What do you consider a freeloader? Someone that uses OSS but doesn't write code for it? How is it freeloading when you're doing exactly what the software was intended to be used for?
People make actual, real money by running FOSS software. They don't have to write code to use the software. Lots of companies use apache, Linux, etc and pay their staff to maintain it. These people will contribute by posting on message boards, asking and answering questions, and moving FOSS into the foreground more and more.
You just don't understand. It's a different way of doing things, and if you can't get that, you're missing the whole point of it entirely.
No, no.
Hard drives are actually vented. There's no pressurized compartment. They run at the same atmosphere as the rest of the machine. The lift of the hard drive heads is the "Bernoulli effect" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli's_equation) see also (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/5413198.stm).
Flash storage is certainly preferable in hard environments, no doubt. But as far as I've seen, I'm not a convert. Useful as hell for digital cameras, PDA's, MP3 players and USB drives. Not so much for primary storage. They're simply not fast enough, usually. I guess some people are making faster ones, but you still can't affordably beat the ol' hard drive when it comes to transfer speed. Seek times, flash wins, but when the transfer rates are as slow as they are on most flash, it doesn't matter.
I didn't say anything about HDV. That's a completely different story all together. While I think HDV is pretty damned good for Pro-Consumer applications, I was more referring to studio quality equipment. You won't find pro-consumers using film, either.
Studio quality gear can record uncompressed, or very slightly compressed (more like "zip" compression than MPEG compression) and retain all that color data that could otherwise be lost with a 4:2:0 HDV capture. The HDCAM stuff compresses too, but the quality is superb. Most made-for-TV High Definition uses this level of stuff. It looks awesome. You can't see any compression at all. Any compression you see on the TV is due to the compression needed to fit the signal through the satellite or cable TV.
I'm glad they did use film on a lot of TV shows (like older Law and Order, and even Knight Rider and older shows) because they can take that film and digitize it into HD. But now, they can record directly to HD and get the same quality.
Hey I know a Jessica McDonald in real life =)
I guess what I meant was, even though it's undetectable to the ear doesn't mean it's not audible. Yea, it's a stretch, but there's some pretty clever people out there.
It says 1.1.610.0. It still won't show all "function" buildings in zone view but it does show terminals - bus stops, etc. To see hospitals and other things you need to view normal but select the appropriate filter such as health or education. Then, it makes these items bright green.
It would probably be nice to have a "hide all zoned buildings" but I never really found the lack of it to be a big problem.
Overall I'd say SC4 is a rare case of a decent EA game, and it's possible that because the staff at Maxis still had a hand on building it. Sim City Societies, on the other hand, is all EA and it shows. Man, I wish EA never existed.. We might actually get a decent NFL game if someone else were making them too.
Generally speaking, people aren't comparing a brand new release on Vinyl and CD, they're comparing a Beatles album or The Doors or something. In that case, neither of the formats would be affected by reducing the dynamic range.
For new recordings put on Vinyl, the sound "engineers" won't stop compressing the signal, they'll just reduce the volume so that it can fit within the limitation of Vinyl. You can end up with an even worse sounding music.
Definately. I think people are confusing pressed CD's from a factory versus CD-R's which certainly don't last as long (but, in my experience they last a long time too, as long as you take care of them.) CD's from the factory use no dye or anything and really don't break down in any meaningful way. They're plastic =)
The folks claiming three years must be pretty young or something. I have CD's that are over 15 years old that still work fine.
Yes but CD's offer enough resolution to cover the spectrum of what the human ear can hear. Studios record at higher resolutions and bit rates because when you process digital data you get rounding errors and you lose fidelity. It's not because you can actually hear any difference. They do it so that when you do master down to 44.1Khz 16-bit you have the best possible encoding of that. If you started with it, you'd lose too much information during editing and mixing.