I'll second this. As a curious beginner, software installation and dependencies are the single biggest headache I've encountered in every distribution I've ever tried (Fedora, Mandrake, Debian, Suse)
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Doing no research into this question at all...
A working prototype and a car ready for the assembly line are two different things. I'm sure much more work needs to be done before this can be a production car. Japan's major automakers have vast engineering resources set up for this kind of thing. It might be the case that China has the manufacturing capability to produce such a car, but lacks whatever intermediate resources (such as expertise) are needed to take a car from prototype to production. Once Japan designs a production model though, it would be much easier to immitate.
On Windows XP the downloader leaks memory like crazy, especially when downloading a series of large files. I didn't have this problem with previous releases.
Hey guys, I'm a fellow artist still struggling with ideas and technique.
One thing that has always impressed me about you two is the way (technical fowlups aside) you've never missed an update. I'm wondering how you mustered that kind of dedication in the early days? Didn't you doubt your concept your writing or your art? Was the affection of a few lonely Tribes players enough to sustain you? When did you make the plunge into trying to support yourselves off of your work? Who quit their job first. I should stop tacking on extra questions?
I hope you get to a question this far down the forum , and I'd just like to say that even though I haven't played a game other than Freecell and Nethack in the past 5 years, I still love your stuff. Good comedy writing is near universal.
It certainly seems win-win if you're a corporation large enough to afford his fees as a middleman.
Suppose you're a big-name software company and you find out something you're doing infringes a 15-year dormant patent that he's bought rights to. You can afford to pay his $500,000 (or whatever - but it won't be small) license fee. If you're a small time engineer trying to get an idea going out of your garage, you can't.
This is a more streamlined engine still going down the wrong track.
I dunno, the nerd cred of the DIY project + projected DVDs could definitely be a plus if you're hanging out with the right women. It's a pretty good icebreaker "So last weekend I made this thing..." and a good excuse to invite someone back to your place.
In this market, Redmond is simply providing the better product, hands down.
Personally I'm happy with my old Palm 5. The battery lasts for ever and it does exactly what it needs to do very well. But I guess the market wants features.
It depends on what you mean by bad. Ed's movies are technically worse than just about any director you will ever find who tried to make freature films.
Sure I'd take one of Ed's movies over say... Pearl Harbor any day. But that's because Pearl Harbor wasn't bad, it was mediocre. But Pearl Harbor was much closer to what you'd be taught how to do in film school.
Ed's movies are amazing. It's like a kid who gets a 0 on the SAT. There's one of two things going on there. Either he knows what he's doing and making mistakes on purpose, or he's misreading the test in some fundamental way, and has no clue what's going on. Ed was either in on the joke, or he was not just inept, but posessed a fundamental misunderstanding of what movies are supposed to be.
The first option seems more likely, but watch a few of his films and you start to wonder.
If you watch 70s horror movies, or schlock kung fu action movies, or Troma, or other B movies that know that they're B movies, you don't see what you see in an Ed Wood film. Modern directors study old B movies for inspiration, just look at Tarantino. B movies have bad actors reading bad lines and working with shitty special effects on no budget, but they're at least filmed proficiently, given their resources. Watch most B movies and you're generally watching an OK filming of a bad movie. Ed Wood not only has bad actors, bad writing, bad effects, and no budget, he also has TERRIBLE pacing, camerawork thats so bad its uncomfortable, long silent pauses, and many many other unnerving problems. He gets so many things wrong it boggles the mind.
They're more than so bad they're good. They're so bad they're past good and enter the territory of the head-scratchingly bizarre.
I've definitely found C++ programs to be larger and slower running than their equivalents in C by a noticable degree. When you're dealing with something as fundamental as the kernel this is a problem
If they started implementing a C++ kernel, there would be a crowd who would insist on maintaining the C kernel for performance reasons. The two codebases would very quickly diverge and Linux would be split in half.
I don't think template functions and objects and slightly easier error handling are worth that.
My suspicion is that you are a student. I'm not a professional either, but I'm aware that there are good reasons that C++ is used sparingly and only on certain types of projects out in the real world. Just because it makes some programmer's lives easier doesn't mean it results in a better product.
Actually consider this: elections are on tuesdays. You have to vote in your home county. Many people work over an hour from home. Lines at the polls can be over an hour long. Polls generally close at 7:00.
If the boss tells you you have to stay until 6:00, you can't vote.
This happens a LOT.
Generally the people affected are unsalaried and in the service industry or low on the white collar totem. The boss can take 3 hours off to cast his ballot, but the phones still need to be answered, and the floor still needs to be washed.
Apathy is a large problem, but it isn't the only problem.
>When do we slashbots start hating google for becoming too big?
When the google browser is no longer open and has a 90% market share.
From our perspective, this is a little silly, and more than a little opportunistic on google's part.
But in the big picture, this will do a lot to put a brand name on an Explorer killer. And google seems to be pretty good at making usable internet products, so I'm giving all of this a tentative thumbs-up. Anything that gets the lusers to not think of the blue e as "the internet" is good by me.
Not a terribly clever analogy. Private companies developed the desktop computer because they saw an immediate demand (and they built it off of technology that had been built in response to immediate military and business need)
Here we're talking about something completely different: a hugely dangerous and expensive public project to accomplish a task of mostly symbolic benefit.
I'm not saying going to Mars is a particularly *bad* thing to be doing, but with all the problems going on in the world, I'm just a bit puzzled as to why, particularly, it's what my tax money will be spent on. Have we run out of starving or otherwise suffering people?
I hate to be a buzzkill, but is there ANY realistic reason why sending people to Mars is good science?
It seems that if we spend the money that it would take to develop the spacecraft & lifesupport required to send people that far on better and more reliable robots, a lot more actual research would get done. Heck, we might even have enough left over to fix the Hubble.
Let's work on practical reasons to send people into space at all... then maybe the moon. Billions of tax dollars shouldn't be blown on a project of little scientific validity just because "it's cool."
You're not looking for anyone to pass along your 3 month old hardware are you?
My cheap-in-1999 desktop is still fine for the internet, word processing, hobby programming, and image editing, but maybe it's time for me to try my hand at some game other than Nethack.
I don't think the linux binaries they put out for Quake 3 ever made enough to recoup the expense of doing the port. Expect them to take their time on this...
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Burned DVD of laserdisc transfer, my friend...
I'll second this. As a curious beginner, software installation and dependencies are the single biggest headache I've encountered in every distribution I've ever tried (Fedora, Mandrake, Debian, Suse)
Doing no research into this question at all...
A working prototype and a car ready for the assembly line are two different things. I'm sure much more work needs to be done before this can be a production car. Japan's major automakers have vast engineering resources set up for this kind of thing. It might be the case that China has the manufacturing capability to produce such a car, but lacks whatever intermediate resources (such as expertise) are needed to take a car from prototype to production. Once Japan designs a production model though, it would be much easier to immitate.
Anyway, just a guess.
Actually I've had some problems with Firefox 1.0
On Windows XP the downloader leaks memory like crazy, especially when downloading a series of large files. I didn't have this problem with previous releases.
Maybe this is TMI, but I'd seriously been browsing for porn for about an hour then quickly clicked over to Slashdot and what was the top story?
Hey guys, I'm a fellow artist still struggling with ideas and technique.
One thing that has always impressed me about you two is the way (technical fowlups aside) you've never missed an update. I'm wondering how you mustered that kind of dedication in the early days? Didn't you doubt your concept your writing or your art? Was the affection of a few lonely Tribes players enough to sustain you? When did you make the plunge into trying to support yourselves off of your work? Who quit their job first. I should stop tacking on extra questions?
I hope you get to a question this far down the forum , and I'd just like to say that even though I haven't played a game other than Freecell and Nethack in the past 5 years, I still love your stuff. Good comedy writing is near universal.
I think people going for hardware that plays the sound of yesteryear are probably going to be playing the *sounds* of yesteryear as well.
Living in the past has never been more stylish.
It certainly seems win-win if you're a corporation large enough to afford his fees as a middleman.
Suppose you're a big-name software company and you find out something you're doing infringes a 15-year dormant patent that he's bought rights to. You can afford to pay his $500,000 (or whatever - but it won't be small) license fee. If you're a small time engineer trying to get an idea going out of your garage, you can't.
This is a more streamlined engine still going down the wrong track.
Hey I like that metaphor.
I dunno, the nerd cred of the DIY project + projected DVDs could definitely be a plus if you're hanging out with the right women. It's a pretty good icebreaker "So last weekend I made this thing..." and a good excuse to invite someone back to your place.
In this market, Redmond is simply providing the better product, hands down.
Personally I'm happy with my old Palm 5. The battery lasts for ever and it does exactly what it needs to do very well. But I guess the market wants features.
Linux has a loooong way to go here.
It is way too early in my day to read Apple press...
Sigh, RTFA
you too, mods...
If Nintendo ISN'T my ally in the underground war of conspiracies, then I'm putting up a white flag right now.
Jeeze, that would be like finding out my Mom was an Illuminati agent...
It depends on what you mean by bad. Ed's movies are technically worse than just about any director you will ever find who tried to make freature films.
Sure I'd take one of Ed's movies over say... Pearl Harbor any day. But that's because Pearl Harbor wasn't bad, it was mediocre. But Pearl Harbor was much closer to what you'd be taught how to do in film school.
Ed's movies are amazing. It's like a kid who gets a 0 on the SAT. There's one of two things going on there. Either he knows what he's doing and making mistakes on purpose, or he's misreading the test in some fundamental way, and has no clue what's going on. Ed was either in on the joke, or he was not just inept, but posessed a fundamental misunderstanding of what movies are supposed to be.
The first option seems more likely, but watch a few of his films and you start to wonder.
If you watch 70s horror movies, or schlock kung fu action movies, or Troma, or other B movies that know that they're B movies, you don't see what you see in an Ed Wood film. Modern directors study old B movies for inspiration, just look at Tarantino. B movies have bad actors reading bad lines and working with shitty special effects on no budget, but they're at least filmed proficiently, given their resources. Watch most B movies and you're generally watching an OK filming of a bad movie. Ed Wood not only has bad actors, bad writing, bad effects, and no budget, he also has TERRIBLE pacing, camerawork thats so bad its uncomfortable, long silent pauses, and many many other unnerving problems. He gets so many things wrong it boggles the mind.
They're more than so bad they're good. They're so bad they're past good and enter the territory of the head-scratchingly bizarre.
It's just plain better than C eh?
I've definitely found C++ programs to be larger and slower running than their equivalents in C by a noticable degree. When you're dealing with something as fundamental as the kernel this is a problem
If they started implementing a C++ kernel, there would be a crowd who would insist on maintaining the C kernel for performance reasons. The two codebases would very quickly diverge and Linux would be split in half.
I don't think template functions and objects and slightly easier error handling are worth that.
My suspicion is that you are a student. I'm not a professional either, but I'm aware that there are good reasons that C++ is used sparingly and only on certain types of projects out in the real world. Just because it makes some programmer's lives easier doesn't mean it results in a better product.
If your time is worth nothing, no one will ever demand it of you.
They had a dark few years in the middle 90s though.
They were really late getting N64 out, and it turned out to be only a moderate success. And let's not forget Virtual Boy...
Had it not been for Pokemon the company might have been in serious trouble.
Actually consider this: elections are on tuesdays. You have to vote in your home county. Many people work over an hour from home. Lines at the polls can be over an hour long. Polls generally close at 7:00.
If the boss tells you you have to stay until 6:00, you can't vote.
This happens a LOT.
Generally the people affected are unsalaried and in the service industry or low on the white collar totem. The boss can take 3 hours off to cast his ballot, but the phones still need to be answered, and the floor still needs to be washed.
Apathy is a large problem, but it isn't the only problem.
>When do we slashbots start hating google for becoming too big?
When the google browser is no longer open and has a 90% market share.
From our perspective, this is a little silly, and more than a little opportunistic on google's part.
But in the big picture, this will do a lot to put a brand name on an Explorer killer. And google seems to be pretty good at making usable internet products, so I'm giving all of this a tentative thumbs-up. Anything that gets the lusers to not think of the blue e as "the internet" is good by me.
Not that anyone ever cares to ask me, mind you.
Not a terribly clever analogy. Private companies developed the desktop computer because they saw an immediate demand (and they built it off of technology that had been built in response to immediate military and business need)
Here we're talking about something completely different: a hugely dangerous and expensive public project to accomplish a task of mostly symbolic benefit.
I'm not saying going to Mars is a particularly *bad* thing to be doing, but with all the problems going on in the world, I'm just a bit puzzled as to why, particularly, it's what my tax money will be spent on. Have we run out of starving or otherwise suffering people?
I hate to be a buzzkill, but is there ANY realistic reason why sending people to Mars is good science?
It seems that if we spend the money that it would take to develop the spacecraft & lifesupport required to send people that far on better and more reliable robots, a lot more actual research would get done. Heck, we might even have enough left over to fix the Hubble.
Let's work on practical reasons to send people into space at all... then maybe the moon. Billions of tax dollars shouldn't be blown on a project of little scientific validity just because "it's cool."
You're not looking for anyone to pass along your 3 month old hardware are you?
My cheap-in-1999 desktop is still fine for the internet, word processing, hobby programming, and image editing, but maybe it's time for me to try my hand at some game other than Nethack.
Whether or not they've considered Linux, I hope they're smart enough to stick with Windows for the short term.
When faced with an immediate outage, doing something as big as changing the Operating System on every computer across the state would be absurd.
Even under ideal circumstances that kind of shift is a huge operation and would probably cause additional downtime.
I don't know about anyone else, but Lucas is definitely losing my money.
If he were to release the original editions on DVD, I'd certainly buy them.
As it is, I'm going to be ebaying for a DVD transfer of the 80s laserdisks.
I don't think the linux binaries they put out for Quake 3 ever made enough to recoup the expense of doing the port. Expect them to take their time on this...