Apple itself will tell you the Newton's time still has not come. And when it does, it will probably look more like a phone because a phone is what people understand.
Actually, I predict it will look like a car, because cars are what people understand. Or maybe a pizza. People understand pizzas...
Er.. yeah well non sequitor to you too buddy.
There are many similarities between hiccuping and gill ventilation in animals like tadpoles, the researchers argue.
Both are inhibited when the lungs are inflated, for example, and by high carbon dioxide levels in air or water.
Finally, a legitimate way to cure hiccups. Just hold your breath!
Re:I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing...
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Price is really not the problem with games. I consider myself an avid gamers and know many others like me who spent a vast amount of their high school/ college time playing games. If you look at the actual time spent in a one year period, most people will play at most 2-3 games for over 90% of their time. At one point a combination of starcraft, counter strike, everquest and baldurs gate and few others probably accounted for more gaming time than all other games combined. If you average it out, games that are actually purchased (as opposed to borrowed, demoed, or warezed) cost a gamer pennies on the hour. What a real gamer wants is _better_ games, not cheaper games. A bad game isnt even worth the time downloading from a warez site, but a great game is worth alot more than the $50 it costs retail. Thats why great games always come with expansions and the expansions always sell despite the fact that they cost almost as much as the game themselves.
The point of the tests is to compare the platforms not just the hardware. It only makes sense to use the best software available for the platform. A power user would always use the best software, so the test should reflect the real world use.
is to start by debunking your own most cherished beliefs. Go ahead. Give it a good wack. Kill every sacred cow. Take no prisoners. It will be highly unsettling at first, but in the end you will experience the true joy of intellectual freedom. Freedom from superstitions, prejudices, and preconceptions. Only once you have _really_ internalized the fact that no idea is above questioning can you be a true skeptic.
Re:If this is Virtual America...
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Well, I write code anyway.
But I don't type well at all. I do a two finger hunt and peck, and I doubt I'll ever train myself to do better.
Come on man. Mavis beacon teaches typing. Its areally not that hard. A coder that cant type is like a surgeon that "never really got a handle on the whole scalpel thing and probably never will"
As an avid reader I have been getting free books for years... from the public library. Seriously, there are plenty of good books to be found there and it wont cost you a penny. And for the newer stuff I can always drop in to barnes and nobles and either return it or make a nice library donation and write it off in taxes.
One mans drudgery is another mans research project. I have a friend who is really into Natural Language Processing and he might enjoy doing the spell checker and would get into it adding all sorts of context-sensitive analysis wheras someone else might find it a less enjoyable task. Plus, if its open source, it only has to be written well once so you probably dont even have to do it yourself from scratch.
The second thing that comes to mind is that Open Source is shifting the balance of power from software developers to software consultants.
I think this is the realbone of contention in the whole open source battle. Philisophical aspects of intellectual property and what-not are peripheral to what is essentially a power struggle between people who produce software and people who sell software.
Developers are make their living producing the best, most valuable code to their customers (other companies, if they are consultants, management if they are producing code for internal use). Developers, who keep the lights on and water running by the quality of their code know best that open source is generally the best way to produce a reliable and effective piece of software, all other things being equal.
People who sell shrink-wrapped boxes of software, on the otherhand, know that closed source software is the way to go when it comes to bringing in the cash money. If you're a business exec and you have to report sales and profits at the end of every quarter, you probably dont give 1.5 hoots as to how good your software is, as long as long as customers keep paying for it.
Now i'm not advocating either position (or perspective really) however I think its interesting to get past the rhetoric and strike at the more base motivations.
If there was such slow progression over millions of years, there should be millions of fossils all over the place with half man-half monkey, or half germ whatever.
There are no such thing as a "half-man half-monkey" or any other kind of half-species (excluding hybrids which are rare). A species is defined by the ability to interbreed. So you either interbreed or you don't. No inbetweens.
Look in a nicely illustrated college biology textbook and youll see a long list of distinct yet related species. Even a child could look at these pictures and draw the most obvious conclusion.
Not really. Iteration plans break down into tasks. Engineers estimate how long it will take to perfom a task (i.e. program in and test some specific feature) and then they deliver it. The whole "not committing" part comes to product design specs etc. I think your missing something on how XP works.
A good rule of thumb is to imagine that someone else is sitting beside you, someone less acquainted with the task than yourself (eg a non-technical manager). Imagine you're explaining to him/her how the code works, and put these explanations in the code as succinct yet clear comments. Imagine this person asking you, 'what's that variable'. Don't be afraid of global search'n'replace of identifier names across all the applicable files. And imagine this person sometimes getting up and leaving you in peace, so you can have those precious moments to hack to your heart's content.
Ah yeah. Better than pretend that someone is next to you to whom you are explainin the code, actually have a person there. Thats right, Pair programming is fun and good for you too. It forces you to write readable code (at least its readable to one other person). Plus if one person gets hit by a truck then there is at least one other person who understands the code.
I think (based on examining what is on my system and the dependancy links) what is being argued is that if you remove any of these pieces that people want to remove many other apps will fail as a result. For instance remove the html rendering object and over half the programs I have open right now will fail because they use it to render a part of thier UI or to display some web content in some nifty "browser window".
The only reason this is the case is because the programs you are running expect the unmodular code. A modular version would work just as well. Just like with which ever jvm you use you set a system variable (or more likely the installation program does) to which ever JVM you want to use. You could do the same thing with lots of other stuff such as the html rendering object. Its a truism of object oriented design: by properly using interfaces you can have both modularity and predictability.
Seeing as how both the judges and the lawyers are complete ignorant when it comes to video games, i wonder why they didnt parade in a slew of "expert witnesses". Amatuer and proffesional game developers, reviewers at some popular game magazine, shoot, even a particularly eloquent gamer could have contributed to the case. At least they could have had an idea of what they were talking about before blindly making a decision.
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Actually, I predict it will look like a car, because cars are what people understand. Or maybe a pizza. People understand pizzas... Er.. yeah well non sequitor to you too buddy.
Duude Office is not the app you want to use for purchase order forms. Use CRM software not DRM software.
Price is really not the problem with games. I consider myself an avid gamers and know many others like me who spent a vast amount of their high school/ college time playing games. If you look at the actual time spent in a one year period, most people will play at most 2-3 games for over 90% of their time. At one point a combination of starcraft, counter strike, everquest and baldurs gate and few others probably accounted for more gaming time than all other games combined. If you average it out, games that are actually purchased (as opposed to borrowed, demoed, or warezed) cost a gamer pennies on the hour. What a real gamer wants is _better_ games, not cheaper games. A bad game isnt even worth the time downloading from a warez site, but a great game is worth alot more than the $50 it costs retail. Thats why great games always come with expansions and the expansions always sell despite the fact that they cost almost as much as the game themselves.
The point of the tests is to compare the platforms not just the hardware. It only makes sense to use the best software available for the platform. A power user would always use the best software, so the test should reflect the real world use.
is to start by debunking your own most cherished beliefs. Go ahead. Give it a good wack. Kill every sacred cow. Take no prisoners. It will be highly unsettling at first, but in the end you will experience the true joy of intellectual freedom. Freedom from superstitions, prejudices, and preconceptions. Only once you have _really_ internalized the fact that no idea is above questioning can you be a true skeptic.
Reality is banned.
Well, I write code anyway. But I don't type well at all. I do a two finger hunt and peck, and I doubt I'll ever train myself to do better. Come on man. Mavis beacon teaches typing. Its areally not that hard. A coder that cant type is like a surgeon that "never really got a handle on the whole scalpel thing and probably never will"
As an avid reader I have been getting free books for years... from the public library. Seriously, there are plenty of good books to be found there and it wont cost you a penny. And for the newer stuff I can always drop in to barnes and nobles and either return it or make a nice library donation and write it off in taxes.
blah blah apple uses their software to sell hardware blah blah
One mans drudgery is another mans research project. I have a friend who is really into Natural Language Processing and he might enjoy doing the spell checker and would get into it adding all sorts of context-sensitive analysis wheras someone else might find it a less enjoyable task. Plus, if its open source, it only has to be written well once so you probably dont even have to do it yourself from scratch.
I think this is the realbone of contention in the whole open source battle. Philisophical aspects of intellectual property and what-not are peripheral to what is essentially a power struggle between people who produce software and people who sell software.
Developers are make their living producing the best, most valuable code to their customers (other companies, if they are consultants, management if they are producing code for internal use). Developers, who keep the lights on and water running by the quality of their code know best that open source is generally the best way to produce a reliable and effective piece of software, all other things being equal.
People who sell shrink-wrapped boxes of software, on the otherhand, know that closed source software is the way to go when it comes to bringing in the cash money. If you're a business exec and you have to report sales and profits at the end of every quarter, you probably dont give 1.5 hoots as to how good your software is, as long as long as customers keep paying for it.
Now i'm not advocating either position (or perspective really) however I think its interesting to get past the rhetoric and strike at the more base motivations.
Kazaa Lite: All the wares, expcept the spying kind.
If there was such slow progression over millions of years, there should be millions of fossils all over the place with half man-half monkey, or half germ whatever. There are no such thing as a "half-man half-monkey" or any other kind of half-species (excluding hybrids which are rare). A species is defined by the ability to interbreed. So you either interbreed or you don't. No inbetweens. Look in a nicely illustrated college biology textbook and youll see a long list of distinct yet related species. Even a child could look at these pictures and draw the most obvious conclusion.
Not really. Iteration plans break down into tasks. Engineers estimate how long it will take to perfom a task (i.e. program in and test some specific feature) and then they deliver it. The whole "not committing" part comes to product design specs etc. I think your missing something on how XP works.
A good rule of thumb is to imagine that someone else is sitting beside you, someone less acquainted with the task than yourself (eg a non-technical manager). Imagine you're explaining to him/her how the code works, and put these explanations in the code as succinct yet clear comments. Imagine this person asking you, 'what's that variable'. Don't be afraid of global search'n'replace of identifier names across all the applicable files. And imagine this person sometimes getting up and leaving you in peace, so you can have those precious moments to hack to your heart's content.
Ah yeah. Better than pretend that someone is next to you to whom you are explainin the code, actually have a person there. Thats right, Pair programming is fun and good for you too. It forces you to write readable code (at least its readable to one other person). Plus if one person gets hit by a truck then there is at least one other person who understands the code.
I think (based on examining what is on my system and the dependancy links) what is being argued is that if you remove any of these pieces that people want to remove many other apps will fail as a result. For instance remove the html rendering object and over half the programs I have open right now will fail because they use it to render a part of thier UI or to display some web content in some nifty "browser window". The only reason this is the case is because the programs you are running expect the unmodular code. A modular version would work just as well. Just like with which ever jvm you use you set a system variable (or more likely the installation program does) to which ever JVM you want to use. You could do the same thing with lots of other stuff such as the html rendering object. Its a truism of object oriented design: by properly using interfaces you can have both modularity and predictability.
Seeing as how both the judges and the lawyers are complete ignorant when it comes to video games, i wonder why they didnt parade in a slew of "expert witnesses". Amatuer and proffesional game developers, reviewers at some popular game magazine, shoot, even a particularly eloquent gamer could have contributed to the case. At least they could have had an idea of what they were talking about before blindly making a decision.
Err.. I get my media from IRC and Audiogalaxy. Vivendo who?