A label that is similar to what you've proposed is Magnatune, which allows unlimited streaming (MP3) of their artists' music in the name of "trying before you buy." There aren't the incentives you propose (and it's a business), but the price is reasonable, their artists get half of the sale, and you can listen to the entire album and make a decision.
Of course, it doesn't matter. Just about everything on TV these days, broadcast, cable, or satelite, is pure shite these days.
I agree with you on most of television, but the day my kid makes the local news and I can't record it on my PVR is the day I'm going rue my inactivity.
On the September 4th broadcast of Nightline, Ted Koppel talked to a representative from the Justice Department about the Patriot Act, and tore right through her "warrants must be issued by a judge" and "Al Queda" schpiel so quickly that she was often whimpering when he interrupted to say that she wasn't answering his question. One of the strongest points he nailed her on was the difference between "suspected terrorist" and "citizen", which he couldn't find.
So a simple./configure && make && make install is all you need.
That should be "CFLAGS=./configure --extra-opts=/foo/bar && make && make install". They prefer to set their own flags, and don't bother with bug-reports unless you do that.
Can someone explain to me what's wrong with binary distributions?
I've never liked having a lot of unreleated binaries in/bin and/usr/bin. I also didn't like having XFree86 in/usr/X11R6.
With my Linux from Scratch system, I have the core install in / and/usr, and I have everything else installed in/opt/$NAME-VERSION and $HOME/pro/$NAME-VERSION. It makes upgrading, package management, and backups easier for me.
The customization is why I use from scratch systems.
Why bother writing? You can just wait for another novel to come out.
True, but I believe there isn't a strong emphasis on writing in this country [US]. Everything is READ READ READ and absorb. I've never seen a post that said WRITE WRITE WRITE in a public library, and I'd be happy if someone has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson basically said the same thing a little under 200 years ago in "The American Scholar". Amazing how things never change, eh?
Also, if you run that episode in MPlayer, right when Homer almost runs over Bart in the garage the first time, hit the up arrow. It goes straight to the second time...
I believe Alternet's article explains why this happens:
SELF-SATISFACTION PRIZE - CNN anchor Jack Cafferty
On CNN's "American Morning" program Aug. 5, Cafferty mixed candor with exemplary media arrogance: "This is a commercial enterprise. This is not PBS. We're not here as a public service. We're here to make money. We sell advertising, and we do it on the premise that people are going to watch. If you don't cover the miners because you want to do a story about a debt crisis in Brazil at the time everybody else is covering the miners, then Citibank calls up and says, 'You know what? We're not renewing the commercial contract.' I mean it's a business."
I own Radiant Silvergun. I think they really undersold it by saying most shmup fans call it "the greatest shoot-em-up of all time". The reason I think it's so cool is it's the only shoot-em-up that makes me feel like a ninja. Dodging a hundred bullets and a hundred enemies while the walls are closing in on you AND slicing through everything you can to stay alive is not something you'd expect from a shmup.
I can't really describe it. You have to play it, and you'd understand why it's up there on that top ten....
It would probably be best to show off the applications. Have the Linux box connect to a Windows box via Samba, perhaps? Use WINE to run some killer Windows application (Half-Life, Warcraft 3...)? Copy something onto a CDRW via UDF (just in the console, that'll get 'em)? Who is your audience? Obviously, it's geeks, but which group?
As for the book, a book is a great thing to have as a reference, but it's still gonna be tough if you can't figure something out and the book doesn't cover your program. You might want to say something about finding a LUG, too.
This is exactly One of Those Things I'd Pay For (tm). While I see the greatness of a free network, I probably won't see one unless I travel a few hundred miles.
Unfortunately, I'll probably get small fee'd to annoyance, but hey, I'll have net access at my run-down hotel in the country.
That vision would allow every Internet user in the U.S. to access their existing accounts wirelessly, anywhere in the United States, without changing their accounts or service providers.
Sure, it's early, it may be hot air, but I say "Go IBM! This is exactly what I want!" rather than wish death upon Big Business....
Game Arts doesn't really have much to do with the Lunar look and feel as much as Studio Alex does. Studio Alex and Shoten do the plot/artwork and Iwadare does the music. Game Arts only did the coding and they were the Sega freaks, hence the many Sega releases. But Working Designs has said they are shooting for PS2.
Victor Ireland has also stated that they are doing the Lunar 3 translation and Studio Alex, Game Arts, and Iwadare are showing up for another run.
It's probably a good thing to keep the hype tight lipped. Just because they aren't saying anything doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
The dangerous form of mercury is an organometallic form (methylmercury) that is converted by bacteria deep in rivers. You shouldn't be worried about playing with mercury unless you swallowed a mouthful of river mud and have a culture of said strain in your system, but even then it's a matter of waiting to see what will happen.
I still wouldn't advise playing with it (again), but no harm done it seems.
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Package management?
My current LFS install (3.3) has LFS installed in the default places, and everything else created after LFS in/opt in its own directory. The files are symlinked into their respective directories in/opt, and are uninstalled by reading the list of files in the/opt/foo/* directories. I can then rm -r the directory and uninstall the package.
My next installation is moved towards installing the core in/usr/lfs and/lfs and symlinking out from there.
This keeps me in check with the program version and what is installed with a simple ls. The only time I've had to use a package manager is to install Glide (I couldn't compile Glide, so I had to use RPM).
There was a PC version of FFVII ported by Eidos for the Windows PC. It works fine on older video cards (Voodoo2), but I have heard of problems with newer ones.
I had forgotten how fun this game is. Time to fire up WINE...
Organic means orbital hybridization (s and p orbitals merging into sp3, sp2, and sp orbials). The term organic used to concern only the compounds of life, then only carbon based compounds, and now any compound with hybridization.
So the discovery of methane, ethane, methanol, and formaldehyde is not evidence of life on Mars.
Hmm...I remember reading somewhere that Palladium allows you to run unsigned code.
I also remember hearing somewhere that states that Palladium could be used for media control, also.
The only thing I would be afraid of is the next version of Windows will require Palladium coupled hardware. According to a Slashdot poll, that affects nearly half of the users of this site, assuming they would want to upgrade.
What if Iraq launches a chemical weapon on Israel? We have to go in and support them, because the US (most of the time, to my knowledge) backs our allies. History repeats, and the World War I scenario happens again.
What if the US goes in after Saddam? We (possibly) will set up a puppet government and anger people in the Middle East, but it seems the Iraqis like the idea of self-rule, even if their comrades are holding automatic weapons...
Either way everyone loses, because lives are lost, but I don't want to be drafted to fight a war.
An innovative game is much more intensive in design, to a lesser degree art, and to an even smaller degree technology (though technology can drive huge interest also, and does). While design and to an extent technology can be free, art talent is a hard thing to come by. You have to be born with it (if you are lucky enough), work at developing the talent, or hire employees to do the art.
An idea I've been thinking about is the thought of an innovative open sourced game. Providing the source for the game on the media and the company/project website, but purchasing the art. While you still could comply with an open source model, true developmental freedom is still held back by buying the art itself to see your work on the game. This can be overcome by creating a game around the rendering engine and frame itself. Something along the lines of Ikaruga (FreeKaruga), if a community desires to do so.
An open sourced gaming model would greatly help budding game designers to get their vision to the public, but what are the problems with this business model? The obvious ones are money lost on engine licensing, and users playing the free game instead of purchasing the company's game, but are there more that aren't so apparent?
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A label that is similar to what you've proposed is Magnatune, which allows unlimited streaming (MP3) of their artists' music in the name of "trying before you buy." There aren't the incentives you propose (and it's a business), but the price is reasonable, their artists get half of the sale, and you can listen to the entire album and make a decision.
$500,000 times 67, oh, about 33.5 million dollars if you play your cards right, plus the cost of meals.
TFG is much, much wittier than The Simpsons.
Well, as Reading Digest says, "Brevity is...wit."
Of course, it doesn't matter. Just about everything on TV these days, broadcast, cable, or satelite, is pure shite these days.
I agree with you on most of television, but the day my kid makes the local news and I can't record it on my PVR is the day I'm going rue my inactivity.
On the September 4th broadcast of Nightline, Ted Koppel talked to a representative from the Justice Department about the Patriot Act, and tore right through her "warrants must be issued by a judge" and "Al Queda" schpiel so quickly that she was often whimpering when he interrupted to say that she wasn't answering his question. One of the strongest points he nailed her on was the difference between "suspected terrorist" and "citizen", which he couldn't find.
So a simple ./configure && make && make install is all you need.
./configure --extra-opts=/foo/bar && make && make install". They prefer to set their own flags, and don't bother with bug-reports unless you do that.
That should be "CFLAGS=
I wish I could do that for Slashdot. All I see here is thirty ads for TiVo!
Can someone explain to me what's wrong with binary distributions?
/bin and /usr/bin. I also didn't like having XFree86 in /usr/X11R6.
/usr, and I have everything else installed in /opt/$NAME-VERSION and $HOME/pro/$NAME-VERSION. It makes upgrading, package management, and backups easier for me.
I've never liked having a lot of unreleated binaries in
With my Linux from Scratch system, I have the core install in / and
The customization is why I use from scratch systems.
True, but I believe there isn't a strong emphasis on writing in this country [US]. Everything is READ READ READ and absorb. I've never seen a post that said WRITE WRITE WRITE in a public library, and I'd be happy if someone has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson basically said the same thing a little under 200 years ago in "The American Scholar". Amazing how things never change, eh?
Hitler: Ach du lieber! Das is nicht eine Booby!
One of my favorites, too...
Also, if you run that episode in MPlayer, right when Homer almost runs over Bart in the garage the first time, hit the up arrow. It goes straight to the second time...
I think I'll watch it now!
I believe Alternet's article explains why this happens:
SELF-SATISFACTION PRIZE - CNN anchor Jack Cafferty
On CNN's "American Morning" program Aug. 5, Cafferty mixed candor with exemplary media arrogance: "This is a commercial enterprise. This is not PBS. We're not here as a public service. We're here to make money. We sell advertising, and we do it on the premise that people are going to watch. If you don't cover the miners because you want to do a story about a debt crisis in Brazil at the time everybody else is covering the miners, then Citibank calls up and says, 'You know what? We're not renewing the commercial contract.' I mean it's a business."
I've postponed learning C for years. Now that I have a better work ethic, time, and motivation I can actually finish those books I bought.
I also plan to volunteer at an AIDS shelter.
I own Radiant Silvergun. I think they really undersold it by saying most shmup fans call it "the greatest shoot-em-up of all time". The reason I think it's so cool is it's the only shoot-em-up that makes me feel like a ninja. Dodging a hundred bullets and a hundred enemies while the walls are closing in on you AND slicing through everything you can to stay alive is not something you'd expect from a shmup.
I can't really describe it. You have to play it, and you'd understand why it's up there on that top ten....
And remember: Drink your drugs, don't do school, stay in milk....
I need work!
It would probably be best to show off the applications. Have the Linux box connect to a Windows box via Samba, perhaps? Use WINE to run some killer Windows application (Half-Life, Warcraft 3...)? Copy something onto a CDRW via UDF (just in the console, that'll get 'em)? Who is your audience? Obviously, it's geeks, but which group?
As for the book, a book is a great thing to have as a reference, but it's still gonna be tough if you can't figure something out and the book doesn't cover your program. You might want to say something about finding a LUG, too.
This is exactly One of Those Things I'd Pay For (tm). While I see the greatness of a free network, I probably won't see one unless I travel a few hundred miles.
Unfortunately, I'll probably get small fee'd to annoyance, but hey, I'll have net access at my run-down hotel in the country.
That vision would allow every Internet user in the U.S. to access their existing accounts wirelessly, anywhere in the United States, without changing their accounts or service providers.
Sure, it's early, it may be hot air, but I say "Go IBM! This is exactly what I want!" rather than wish death upon Big Business....
Game Arts doesn't really have much to do with the Lunar look and feel as much as Studio Alex does. Studio Alex and Shoten do the plot/artwork and Iwadare does the music. Game Arts only did the coding and they were the Sega freaks, hence the many Sega releases. But Working Designs has said they are shooting for PS2.
Victor Ireland has also stated that they are doing the Lunar 3 translation and Studio Alex, Game Arts, and Iwadare are showing up for another run.
It's probably a good thing to keep the hype tight lipped. Just because they aren't saying anything doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I still wouldn't advise playing with it (again), but no harm done it seems.
My current LFS install (3.3) has LFS installed in the default places, and everything else created after LFS in /opt in its own directory. The files are symlinked into their respective directories in /opt, and are uninstalled by reading the list of files in the /opt/foo/* directories. I can then rm -r the directory and uninstall the package.
My next installation is moved towards installing the core in /usr/lfs and /lfs and symlinking out from there.
This keeps me in check with the program version and what is installed with a simple ls. The only time I've had to use a package manager is to install Glide (I couldn't compile Glide, so I had to use RPM).
There was a PC version of FFVII ported by Eidos for the Windows PC. It works fine on older video cards (Voodoo2), but I have heard of problems with newer ones.
I had forgotten how fun this game is. Time to fire up WINE...
Organic means orbital hybridization (s and p orbitals merging into sp3, sp2, and sp orbials). The term organic used to concern only the compounds of life, then only carbon based compounds, and now any compound with hybridization. So the discovery of methane, ethane, methanol, and formaldehyde is not evidence of life on Mars.
Hmm...I remember reading somewhere that Palladium allows you to run unsigned code.
I also remember hearing somewhere that states that Palladium could be used for media control, also.
The only thing I would be afraid of is the next version of Windows will require Palladium coupled hardware. According to a Slashdot poll, that affects nearly half of the users of this site, assuming they would want to upgrade.
Credits to this man.
What if Iraq launches a chemical weapon on Israel? We have to go in and support them, because the US (most of the time, to my knowledge) backs our allies. History repeats, and the World War I scenario happens again.
What if the US goes in after Saddam? We (possibly) will set up a puppet government and anger people in the Middle East, but it seems the Iraqis like the idea of self-rule, even if their comrades are holding automatic weapons...
Either way everyone loses, because lives are lost, but I don't want to be drafted to fight a war.
*break to Tron scene*
Peter: Eric?
Eric: Peter!
Peter: Oh my God! I haven't seen you since high school! God, what are you doing these days?
Eric: I'm the red guy!
Peter: Oh my God!
Eric: What are you doing?
Peter: I'm the green guy!
Eric: No kidding! Is that Stacy Beecham?
Peter: Where?
*cuts off and destroys Peter*
An innovative game is much more intensive in design, to a lesser degree art, and to an even smaller degree technology (though technology can drive huge interest also, and does). While design and to an extent technology can be free, art talent is a hard thing to come by. You have to be born with it (if you are lucky enough), work at developing the talent, or hire employees to do the art.
An idea I've been thinking about is the thought of an innovative open sourced game. Providing the source for the game on the media and the company/project website, but purchasing the art. While you still could comply with an open source model, true developmental freedom is still held back by buying the art itself to see your work on the game. This can be overcome by creating a game around the rendering engine and frame itself. Something along the lines of Ikaruga (FreeKaruga), if a community desires to do so.
An open sourced gaming model would greatly help budding game designers to get their vision to the public, but what are the problems with this business model? The obvious ones are money lost on engine licensing, and users playing the free game instead of purchasing the company's game, but are there more that aren't so apparent?