though i'm a bit surprised why on earth would phoenix do such business with ms
My theory is pride. And by pride I mean vast spances of overwhelming hubris. It's like a girl who dates a pimp because 'she' isn't the type of girl who could be turned out - like his hookers were.
Don't make too broad of a generalization there. There's quite a few places in the states where even the shit jobs are few and far between. And even if you do find them, then what? Is McDonald's going to hire a teenager they'll have for years, or a programmer who they think will leave the second a job in his field opens up? The concept of overqualification exists in the minds of a lot of people doing the hiring. And even if you do get that minimum wage job, will that be enough money to rent somewhere to live, transportation to work, and healthy enough food to keep you alive? In some areas it will, and in others it wouldn't even come close.
Very nice! I especially like the seed listing. I always wonder if I might be the only seed left and cutting someone off when I finally shut down, this is a nice way to make sure I'm not!
Though I do wish they'd indicate a little more clearly that by source, they mean platform independant python code instead of a windows only implementation of the windows download.
Some people will jump in here now to defend new and interesting sounds, or things that "break the rules" because it's cool or interesting, but most of the time it really isn't either.
Nice to know there's someone out there better able to judge my own personal opinion about what I find cool or interesting than I myself am. By the way, steak tastes bad, you hate it.
I don't know. The way I read it, he's not only saying that something being new and different dosn't make it good - being new and different in fact will make it bad. Of course I've never felt any desire to shake anything upon hearing any music, so perhaps I'm not someone who should be having an opinion on this in the first place.
My favorite is how commercial somehow evolved into trailer. Suddenly making me sit through fifteen minutes of commercials for brain dead action films, and romantic comedies, neither of which I'd want to watch, is a feature instead of an inconvenience.
You know what bugs me? When people refer to a giant slashdot collective, as if everyone here thought the same things about every issue. Did you ever thing that perhaps it could have been different people posting whose opinion you're remembering, or even that you could simply be remembering the slant you want to remember from discussions with multiple viewpoints?
You might try checking with the zeta people. I think they had abiword in one of the screenshots they distributed. So they might be willing to contribute to keeping the beos version up-to-date.
I'm curious as well -- what does BeOS provide that other OS's don't?
In my opinion, its best feature is the very reason I prefer Linux - it's not evolving as fast and in as many different directions as Linux. While certainly there are exceptions to the rule, I've noticed that a lot of closed source software starts out great on Linux, but then gets worse every day as Linux changes and the closed source program dosn't. The most annoying example I can think of is epsxe. It started out great, and pretty much on par with the windows version in my opinion. But the OpenGL drivers, and the program itself are closed source, which is very bad as the authors of both are using pretty outdated distros. The thing not crashing if I try to use 3D, sound, and gamepad plugins at the same time is more the exception than the rule these days. Running the windows version through wine is actually more convenient, and it even runs faster via wine than the native Linux version.
That situation would be pretty rare in BeOS, OS X, or Windows simply because changes to them are made on such a rare occasion that it's a major event, and developers can use those releases as a marker to get their stuff working right there. With Linux, I can sympathise with their lethergy. Keep current with one distro and possibly break compatibility with another. Don't and risk breaking compatibility with the former.
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I've done the same thing in the past with Mandrake. Except moving Knoppix's mouse settings over to Mandrake in my case. For some reason Mandrake hasn't been very good with detecting my mouse in years.
As someone who used to do a lot of development with DirectX, I can attest that this can be a pretty bad thing. Not so much that it doesn't work on Linux, but that it only runs on Windows. This isn't a big deal if you don't think you're ever going to use anything else. But if something better suited to ones needs does pop up one day, there's going to be a lot of porting from DirectX to do. I switched to Linux a couple years back, and I've still got code I need to port. But using SDL and OpenGL now, if I should ever want to change to another operating system, it'll be trivial to take my code with me.
There's an SDL port to KOS, a small operating system which runs on the dreamcast. So most of your experience with SDL will translate into an easy path to developing for an actual console.
Presumably you make this from the perspective of someone who has watched a loved one suffering from terminal cancer be pumped full of toxic chemicals to the very limit of their mortal capabilities and then subjected to near-fatal doses of radiation in an attempt to lengthen their existance?
Well I am, and if I were ever in the unfourtunate position as the theoretical person the parent mentions, I'd say bring it on.
Sorry to break the news to you, but it had nothing to do with these online protests and petitions. You see, a wandering hobo sold me a magic 'anti-patent legislation/anti-tiger/rain making' rock a couple days ago. I find this to be the more likley cause of not only these events, but the fact that the sun continues to come up, no tigers have appeared on my lawn, and that rain is forecasted in my area next week.
Sadly, I think in mammels it won't work that way. Or at least what few rodent studies I've seen showed only a marginal gain when started in middle age, compared to a huge gain when started in infancy. In them, while it did seem to have some revitalising effect, mostly it just slowed down the aging process from the pont it was started at. So if it worked in humans, it would be more like having more time feeling like a more energetic than average 40-50 year old, instead of retention of the earlier years for a longer time.
That's very interesting! It figures that the "killer asteroids will destroy the earth! OMGOMG!!!" stories allways seem to make the news, but something like this I have to hear about on slashdot. I've been curious about Walford's ideas since hearing about them, but the lack of primate data combined with how skinny I wound up while on it kept me from anything but the highest tier of an attempt...which I would have been at even without having heard about it. The idea of being able to reap the benifits while still being able to maintain some mass would be amazing. My only worry is that I'll allready be an old man by the time treatment is available in even, say, Mexico. Still, even if I do miss out on much of the benifit, what this might mean to humanity as a whole somewhat lessons the blow.
I'lll second that. I worked in a hospital for a few years, and it gave me the proverbial 'scared straight' treatment. Since working there I've become far more vigilant about excercise, eating, and even getting enough sleep. It's all well worth it even if I'm only increasing my chances of extended health by a slight percentage.
I'm sure a lot of us can even find good examples in our everyday life. I have one set of grandparents who never excercised, and had pretty bad eating habits. Neither can get around easily anymore, have trouble hearing,and are totally out of toch with the world. My other Grandmother though has always eaten well and in moderation, jogged and played some light sports like tennis. One of my twenty year old cousins went down there, and actually had trouble keeping pace with her when they went jogging together. While I know a lot of it simply comes down to genetics, if there's 'anything' I can do to find myself in the latter catagory when I'm 76, better believe I'm going to take it!
but if you avoid the junk food and make half an effort to eat sensibly, there shouldn't be much to worry about.
Except for dying when you get around eighty. The article was pretty slim on it, but the effects of caloric restriction combined with adequate nutrition slows aging down in some species, allowing a healthy life beyond the species maximum lifespan. Just eating sensibly will increase an animals chance of making it 'to' the species maximum, but he'll likely be both pretty infirm if he makes it to that point, as well as unable to actually make it past that set point. This has been tested in some species for a very long time now, so it's fairly unlikely that all the experiments will suddenly be found false one day. Whether it would work in primates is another question alltogether though.
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though i'm a bit surprised why on earth would phoenix do such business with ms
My theory is pride. And by pride I mean vast spances of overwhelming hubris. It's like a girl who dates a pimp because 'she' isn't the type of girl who could be turned out - like his hookers were.
Don't make too broad of a generalization there. There's quite a few places in the states where even the shit jobs are few and far between. And even if you do find them, then what? Is McDonald's going to hire a teenager they'll have for years, or a programmer who they think will leave the second a job in his field opens up? The concept of overqualification exists in the minds of a lot of people doing the hiring. And even if you do get that minimum wage job, will that be enough money to rent somewhere to live, transportation to work, and healthy enough food to keep you alive? In some areas it will, and in others it wouldn't even come close.
Very nice! I especially like the seed listing. I always wonder if I might be the only seed left and cutting someone off when I finally shut down, this is a nice way to make sure I'm not!
Though I do wish they'd indicate a little more clearly that by source, they mean platform independant python code instead of a windows only implementation of the windows download.
Some people will jump in here now to defend new and interesting sounds, or things that "break the rules" because it's cool or interesting, but most of the time it really isn't either.
Nice to know there's someone out there better able to judge my own personal opinion about what I find cool or interesting than I myself am. By the way, steak tastes bad, you hate it.
I don't know. The way I read it, he's not only saying that something being new and different dosn't make it good - being new and different in fact will make it bad. Of course I've never felt any desire to shake anything upon hearing any music, so perhaps I'm not someone who should be having an opinion on this in the first place.
In Soviet Russia the girls decide your dreams!!
This is the single most insightful thing I've ever seen on slashdot. Well, that and depressingly true.
My favorite is how commercial somehow evolved into trailer. Suddenly making me sit through fifteen minutes of commercials for brain dead action films, and romantic comedies, neither of which I'd want to watch, is a feature instead of an inconvenience.
You know what bugs me? When people refer to a giant slashdot collective, as if everyone here thought the same things about every issue. Did you ever thing that perhaps it could have been different people posting whose opinion you're remembering, or even that you could simply be remembering the slant you want to remember from discussions with multiple viewpoints?
I had a similar experience on my first read. I started reading it before going to bed one night, and wound up realising at 430am how late it'd become.
I admit I wasn't paying that much attention to their announcement, but I think Lindows is, or will be shipping with a licenced decoder.
The selection of games on Linux is tiny compared to what's available on PCs.
My computer stopped being a PC when I installed Linux on it?
You might try checking with the zeta people. I think they had abiword in one of the screenshots they distributed. So they might be willing to contribute to keeping the beos version up-to-date.
I'm curious as well -- what does BeOS provide that other OS's don't?
In my opinion, its best feature is the very reason I prefer Linux - it's not evolving as fast and in as many different directions as Linux. While certainly there are exceptions to the rule, I've noticed that a lot of closed source software starts out great on Linux, but then gets worse every day as Linux changes and the closed source program dosn't. The most annoying example I can think of is epsxe. It started out great, and pretty much on par with the windows version in my opinion. But the OpenGL drivers, and the program itself are closed source, which is very bad as the authors of both are using pretty outdated distros. The thing not crashing if I try to use 3D, sound, and gamepad plugins at the same time is more the exception than the rule these days. Running the windows version through wine is actually more convenient, and it even runs faster via wine than the native Linux version.
That situation would be pretty rare in BeOS, OS X, or Windows simply because changes to them are made on such a rare occasion that it's a major event, and developers can use those releases as a marker to get their stuff working right there. With Linux, I can sympathise with their lethergy. Keep current with one distro and possibly break compatibility with another. Don't and risk breaking compatibility with the former.
I've done the same thing in the past with Mandrake. Except moving Knoppix's mouse settings over to Mandrake in my case. For some reason Mandrake hasn't been very good with detecting my mouse in years.
As someone who used to do a lot of development with DirectX, I can attest that this can be a pretty bad thing. Not so much that it doesn't work on Linux, but that it only runs on Windows. This isn't a big deal if you don't think you're ever going to use anything else. But if something better suited to ones needs does pop up one day, there's going to be a lot of porting from DirectX to do. I switched to Linux a couple years back, and I've still got code I need to port. But using SDL and OpenGL now, if I should ever want to change to another operating system, it'll be trivial to take my code with me.
There's an SDL port to KOS, a small operating system which runs on the dreamcast. So most of your experience with SDL will translate into an easy path to developing for an actual console.
Presumably you make this from the perspective of someone who has watched a loved one suffering from terminal cancer be pumped full of toxic chemicals to the very limit of their mortal capabilities and then subjected to near-fatal doses of radiation in an attempt to lengthen their existance?
Well I am, and if I were ever in the unfourtunate position as the theoretical person the parent mentions, I'd say bring it on.
Sorry to break the news to you, but it had nothing to do with these online protests and petitions. You see, a wandering hobo sold me a magic 'anti-patent legislation/anti-tiger/rain making' rock a couple days ago. I find this to be the more likley cause of not only these events, but the fact that the sun continues to come up, no tigers have appeared on my lawn, and that rain is forecasted in my area next week.
I allways saw it as a statement to young adults as to why they're not considered full members of society - our understanding of it at that age sucks.
Possibly. People were saying the same things 47 years ago as well though.
Sadly, I think in mammels it won't work that way. Or at least what few rodent studies I've seen showed only a marginal gain when started in middle age, compared to a huge gain when started in infancy. In them, while it did seem to have some revitalising effect, mostly it just slowed down the aging process from the pont it was started at. So if it worked in humans, it would be more like having more time feeling like a more energetic than average 40-50 year old, instead of retention of the earlier years for a longer time.
That's very interesting! It figures that the "killer asteroids will destroy the earth! OMGOMG!!!" stories allways seem to make the news, but something like this I have to hear about on slashdot. I've been curious about Walford's ideas since hearing about them, but the lack of primate data combined with how skinny I wound up while on it kept me from anything but the highest tier of an attempt...which I would have been at even without having heard about it. The idea of being able to reap the benifits while still being able to maintain some mass would be amazing. My only worry is that I'll allready be an old man by the time treatment is available in even, say, Mexico. Still, even if I do miss out on much of the benifit, what this might mean to humanity as a whole somewhat lessons the blow.
I'lll second that. I worked in a hospital for a few years, and it gave me the proverbial 'scared straight' treatment. Since working there I've become far more vigilant about excercise, eating, and even getting enough sleep. It's all well worth it even if I'm only increasing my chances of extended health by a slight percentage.
I'm sure a lot of us can even find good examples in our everyday life. I have one set of grandparents who never excercised, and had pretty bad eating habits. Neither can get around easily anymore, have trouble hearing,and are totally out of toch with the world. My other Grandmother though has always eaten well and in moderation, jogged and played some light sports like tennis. One of my twenty year old cousins went down there, and actually had trouble keeping pace with her when they went jogging together. While I know a lot of it simply comes down to genetics, if there's 'anything' I can do to find myself in the latter catagory when I'm 76, better believe I'm going to take it!
but if you avoid the junk food and make half an effort to eat sensibly, there shouldn't be much to worry about.
Except for dying when you get around eighty. The article was pretty slim on it, but the effects of caloric restriction combined with adequate nutrition slows aging down in some species, allowing a healthy life beyond the species maximum lifespan. Just eating sensibly will increase an animals chance of making it 'to' the species maximum, but he'll likely be both pretty infirm if he makes it to that point, as well as unable to actually make it past that set point. This has been tested in some species for a very long time now, so it's fairly unlikely that all the experiments will suddenly be found false one day. Whether it would work in primates is another question alltogether though.
Just like tabacco ads drives people to smoke
Those 'the truth' anti-smoking commercials do fill me with a desire to smoke, just to further distance myself from whoever writes the things.