Give him a copy early and get him to sign a nice solid NDA. Then sit back and wait for him to be unable to control himself and spew forth the special brand of vitriolic fervour that we've come to expect in his game 'reviews'.
Then sue him for slander, breach of NDA (assuming any of his comments are even vaguely related to the game, which may be tricky) and soak up even more free publicity.
But those from the Second Foundation also used Pschohistory did they not? They just used it as a tool to help they see the patterns and weave through them and often bend them, whereas those form the First Foundation took it all in a much more fatalistic way.
I guess the real question here is who was controlling the various MIT faculty and staff. My votes on the mice!
... or the next sap with a fat wallet who turns up. I'm not saying all women do this, but come on, a story about women who know what they've got and know how to get what they want hardly means 'geeks are hot'. The linked article (yeh, sorry, I ignored protocol and read the damn thing) seems to cover some tarts jumping on some easy prey who won't drop them in a second and have cash/power/the opportunity to help them forward their career. This is hardly new. None of those mentioned are geeks. Love is rarely involved in this sort of relationshsip.
PS, I'm only a little bit bitter and twisted... honest;)
Yerp, it's definitely possible. But I also wonder if it could have been done without the outcry, without all the negative publicity. Possibly not, no-one will ever know for sure I think. I really do hope that it hasn't caused other companies to think twice about getting involved with open-source projects and that it doesn't encourage other people to think the only way to get what you want is to throw a tantrum. I'm not saying this is what the KHTML/Konq guys did at all, but it is certainly what some people on the sidelines did. I'm not trying to be negative, I'd just like to think that these things can be done in a positive way and that the only repurcussions are positive. Because in all honesty, on the face of it, things have all turned out great for everyone. So I guess I should shut up and not worry too much;)
The Konqueror devs were never at a loss or disadvantaged by Apple using KHTML. They didn't lose anything from Apple using the code, they just didn't gain as much as some users thought they were or gain as much as some devs would have liked. Apple were always abiding by the letter of the law, they were always giving code back (it just wasn't in the easiest form for the Konq devs to use) and going beyond the minimum that was needed. Sure, they may not have been getting onvolved as much as some would have liked, but that does not explicitly take anything away from KHTML. Now Apple are going even further, which is IMHO a 'good thing' even a great thing. Is it something that could have been done much earlier, sure, but a lot of the Apple backlash recently has been pretty unrealistic and not very helpful.
"though in a typical wordy brittish way" Being from a British writer.. isn't that what it should be? Adams was the product of the UK, in the same way that say Monty Python were. The comedy could not have come from anywhere else, is often not understood on a cultural or mass appeal level elsewhere and frankly should not be toned down, cut out or otherwise 'mainstreamed'. Look at previous disasters of British comedy being remade for a US audience (or vice versa for that matter). I really hope that they have not de-contextualised for the sake of the possibility of a few more bucks. If you love Hitchikers you love it, if you don't... well.. you don't. Changing the fundamental basis of the world and the humor will not please anyone.
I very very much doubt that he blocked anything. He worked extremely hard trying to get this film made, he moved where he lived, he spent years trying to get this to come out. It may be that his death (1) increased interest in his work and (2) enabled people to do things to his work that he would not have wanted (being a perfectionist). It may also just be a coincidence.
It doesn't need to be faithful to the book, it needs to be faithful to the concept (which does include the radio plays, books, records, games....). The books were not the first, last or definitive description of the Hitchikers universe.
Unfortunately I'm wary of how much it will stay true. I've read all the interviews with the people involved, and had hope. I'm still holding out a bit of hope, but now I've seen the trailers and release is coming closer... I'm scared... very scared. This means far far more to me than anything Lucas has done to Star Wars.
There's no way Mos Def can pull of being a quirky Betelgeusian pretending to be from Guildford.... even if he knew how to act.
Ah sweet irony. A story about about 'OS X people' - whomever they are - hacking the OS, having a troll about 'OS X people' - whomever they are - not wanting hack the OS;) Seriously though, it says a lot about the OS that people like Amit are abusing it and that people on/. consider abuse of the OS newsworthy. More than anything it's reached the position that submissions to/. about such fun can be ignored... now that's what i call going mainstream!
There's plenty of upgrades by people other than Apple, in fact most hardware upgrades are from companies other than Apple, Apple are not in the upgrade market, only the new computer market. So there isn't an x86 version of OS X, so what, where's the PPC version of Windows? Airport is just a brandname, it's fully conformant 802.11 with WEP. Firewire is also just a brandname for IEE1394. I have an iPod and don't feel locked in. I've never bought music from Apple, only from consumer-friendly outfits like bleep.com. All music I've bought, all music I've encided from cd's, all works fine. The only problem with interoperability is if you buy DRM crippled music. Solution.. don't.
http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/ don't have support for the DS yet... but they will have 'soon'. They do have support for the PSP right now (it has a very nice and standards compliant WiFi module) but the DS is going to take a little longer. IMHO TeamXlink's Kai is the best hope for DS tunnelling. I'd say Nitro is vaporware at worst, and at best it's a group headed up by non-technically literate BS artists with a few real coders who'll get something working sometime after everyone else has. Then there's whatever project http://www.demasked.com/ is... something with a lot of hype, possibly commercial interests and setup by one of the WarpPipe guys. This could be interesting, but it won't be an early open tunelling solution.
And according to http://www.spamhaus.org/ which the top source of spam, above China, is still the US. China may be the biggest in terms of the market for zombie-pc network lists and does have a huge growing market for hosting spammers sites, but whose paying for these services? Most of the spam is still from a few westerners (url:http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/) most of whom are American's.
You may also be interested in the work going on at Manchester University on the Amulet project. They've been working on ARM compatible asynchronous processors for over a decade.
Yerp, the ARM chip isn't the primary CPU, as yu say thats a very nice SH4. Double points for the guess of the ARM chip being used for sound:) It's at the core of the sound processing unit from Yamaha in the Dreamcast.
Arm have a very interesting history. They were originally setup by Acorn back in the early/mid eighties to produce a CPU for the future lines of desktop machines Acorn were producing (A3000, RiscPC's etc). This enabled Acorn to be the first with RISC-on-the-Desktop machines a long time before Apple came along with their claim to this title with their PPC based desktop machines about ten years later. ARM were floated off as a seperate entity by Acorn (a very wise move which enabled ARM to grow where Acorn failed) with investment by Acorn, VLSI and Apple (they used the ARM in their Newton). Being a member of Acorn's enthusiast group I was offered dirt cheap shares and only wish I'd had the money to buy some as they rapidly increased in value. Part of this increase came about as ARM partnered with Digital to work on the StrongARM, before becoming rather closer to Digital, and then in turn Intel (as part of some agreement following the two large companies throwing law-suits at each other over unrealted matters). Intel's involvment with ARM enabled them to produce the XScale and no-doubt helped increase penetration in the wider mobile market. It's amazing to see a company that I knew from a young age grow into such a pervasive entity. I still have a couple of old Acorn machines, the most powerful of which has one of the first StrongARM chips availible in it, it wasn't until a decade later that I got my next StrongARM, in the form of a much smaller Zaurus. There's also ARM's lurking in games-consoles (GBA, Dreamcast), routers, PDA's, portable music players, mobile phones, infact just about every type of small device. A Lot of people use products with ARM tech in them without even realising it.
CSR's have also been deleting any criticism of the game or questioning of the bugs and surrounding issues from the official forums. People have had their forum access and even their gameplay accounts suspended because of public questioining of SOE's attitude and bringing up the subject of unfixed bugs and lack of support. Then SOE changed the posting guidelines..
It's a bad enough state of affairs to get a code-freeze like this, but the entire customer support situation has just compounded the problem and annoyed even more paying customers.
Mac users paid the same cover price and the same subscription as PC users but have never receieved the same level of service. Unfortunately SOE's failure to deal with this properly (I don't think they even contracted any programmers to keep up to date with patches, the original porters certainly were'nt involved) has killed EQ Mac. The failure will no doubt be seen by many within SOE and other companies as an example of the un-viability of the Mac platform (or even non Win32 platforms in general) for gaming and in particular MMO games. Thankfully companies like Blizzard and Wolfpack are proving that this is not the case.
Maybe on it's own it's narrow and irrelevant... but this seems like part of a large push by Apple to get patents for the whole 'look and feel' of OS X and it's related iApps. With a complex 'look and feel' patent portfolio, Apple are either looking to protecting themselves from lawsuits from others, or perhaps preparing to go after Microsoft again, when Longhorn comes out.
We used the a priori knowledge that when a pitcher is empty the pitcher's bottom is perpendicular to the ground..... There is a direct correlation between the maximum angle the pitcher has reached and the volume still in the pitcher.
Could this be modifed to:
We used the a priori knowledge that when a punter is full the punter's bottom is parallel with the ground..... There is a direct correlation between the maximum angle the punter has reached and the volume still in the pitcher.
Could be a good way to easily tell when you've had to much;)
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I can't help but find it amusing that I was presented with an inline advert for the PS3 at the bottom of the article.
Give him a copy early and get him to sign a nice solid NDA. Then sit back and wait for him to be unable to control himself and spew forth the special brand of vitriolic fervour that we've come to expect in his game 'reviews'.
Then sue him for slander, breach of NDA (assuming any of his comments are even vaguely related to the game, which may be tricky) and soak up even more free publicity.
Profit...
But those from the Second Foundation also used Pschohistory did they not? They just used it as a tool to help they see the patterns and weave through them and often bend them, whereas those form the First Foundation took it all in a much more fatalistic way.
I guess the real question here is who was controlling the various MIT faculty and staff. My votes on the mice!
... or the next sap with a fat wallet who turns up.
;)
I'm not saying all women do this, but come on, a story about women who know what they've got and know how to get what they want hardly means 'geeks are hot'. The linked article (yeh, sorry, I ignored protocol and read the damn thing) seems to cover some tarts jumping on some easy prey who won't drop them in a second and have cash/power/the opportunity to help them forward their career. This is hardly new.
None of those mentioned are geeks. Love is rarely involved in this sort of relationshsip.
PS, I'm only a little bit bitter and twisted... honest
Yerp, it's definitely possible. ;)
But I also wonder if it could have been done without the outcry, without all the negative publicity. Possibly not, no-one will ever know for sure I think.
I really do hope that it hasn't caused other companies to think twice about getting involved with open-source projects and that it doesn't encourage other people to think the only way to get what you want is to throw a tantrum. I'm not saying this is what the KHTML/Konq guys did at all, but it is certainly what some people on the sidelines did.
I'm not trying to be negative, I'd just like to think that these things can be done in a positive way and that the only repurcussions are positive. Because in all honesty, on the face of it, things have all turned out great for everyone. So I guess I should shut up and not worry too much
The Konqueror devs were never at a loss or disadvantaged by Apple using KHTML. They didn't lose anything from Apple using the code, they just didn't gain as much as some users thought they were or gain as much as some devs would have liked. Apple were always abiding by the letter of the law, they were always giving code back (it just wasn't in the easiest form for the Konq devs to use) and going beyond the minimum that was needed. Sure, they may not have been getting onvolved as much as some would have liked, but that does not explicitly take anything away from KHTML. Now Apple are going even further, which is IMHO a 'good thing' even a great thing. Is it something that could have been done much earlier, sure, but a lot of the Apple backlash recently has been pretty unrealistic and not very helpful.
It's the mention of the 9650 that makes me extremely wary of these specs. Wasn't 9650 a rumoured name for a mobile part? (The Radeon Mobility 9700)
Where would the advertsing value be in that?
"though in a typical wordy brittish way"
Being from a British writer.. isn't that what it should be?
Adams was the product of the UK, in the same way that say Monty Python were. The comedy could not have come from anywhere else, is often not understood on a cultural or mass appeal level elsewhere and frankly should not be toned down, cut out or otherwise 'mainstreamed'. Look at previous disasters of British comedy being remade for a US audience (or vice versa for that matter). I really hope that they have not de-contextualised for the sake of the possibility of a few more bucks. If you love Hitchikers you love it, if you don't... well.. you don't. Changing the fundamental basis of the world and the humor will not please anyone.
I very very much doubt that he blocked anything. He worked extremely hard trying to get this film made, he moved where he lived, he spent years trying to get this to come out.
It may be that his death (1) increased interest in his work and (2) enabled people to do things to his work that he would not have wanted (being a perfectionist). It may also just be a coincidence.
It doesn't need to be faithful to the book, it needs to be faithful to the concept (which does include the radio plays, books, records, games....). The books were not the first, last or definitive description of the Hitchikers universe.
Unfortunately I'm wary of how much it will stay true. I've read all the interviews with the people involved, and had hope. I'm still holding out a bit of hope, but now I've seen the trailers and release is coming closer... I'm scared... very scared. This means far far more to me than anything Lucas has done to Star Wars.
There's no way Mos Def can pull of being a quirky Betelgeusian pretending to be from Guildford.... even if he knew how to act.
Ah sweet irony. A story about about 'OS X people' - whomever they are - hacking the OS, having a troll about 'OS X people' - whomever they are - not wanting hack the OS ;) /. consider abuse of the OS newsworthy. More than anything it's reached the position that submissions to /. about such fun can be ignored... now that's what i call going mainstream!
Seriously though, it says a lot about the OS that people like Amit are abusing it and that people on
There's plenty of upgrades by people other than Apple, in fact most hardware upgrades are from companies other than Apple, Apple are not in the upgrade market, only the new computer market.
So there isn't an x86 version of OS X, so what, where's the PPC version of Windows?
Airport is just a brandname, it's fully conformant 802.11 with WEP. Firewire is also just a brandname for IEE1394.
I have an iPod and don't feel locked in. I've never bought music from Apple, only from consumer-friendly outfits like bleep.com. All music I've bought, all music I've encided from cd's, all works fine. The only problem with interoperability is if you buy DRM crippled music. Solution.. don't.
http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/ don't have support for the DS yet... but they will have 'soon'. They do have support for the PSP right now (it has a very nice and standards compliant WiFi module) but the DS is going to take a little longer. IMHO TeamXlink's Kai is the best hope for DS tunnelling. I'd say Nitro is vaporware at worst, and at best it's a group headed up by non-technically literate BS artists with a few real coders who'll get something working sometime after everyone else has.
Then there's whatever project http://www.demasked.com/ is... something with a lot of hype, possibly commercial interests and setup by one of the WarpPipe guys. This could be interesting, but it won't be an early open tunelling solution.
And according to http://www.spamhaus.org/ which the top source of spam, above China, is still the US.
China may be the biggest in terms of the market for zombie-pc network lists and does have a huge growing market for hosting spammers sites, but whose paying for these services? Most of the spam is still from a few westerners (url:http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/) most of whom are American's.
Read the story.. there were ARM based asynchronous chips in the lab (AMULET) a long time before 97.
You may also be interested in the work going on at Manchester University on the Amulet project. They've been working on ARM compatible asynchronous processors for over a decade.
Yerp, the ARM chip isn't the primary CPU, as yu say thats a very nice SH4. Double points for the guess of the ARM chip being used for sound :) It's at the core of the sound processing unit from Yamaha in the Dreamcast.
Arm have a very interesting history. They were originally setup by Acorn back in the early/mid eighties to produce a CPU for the future lines of desktop machines Acorn were producing (A3000, RiscPC's etc). This enabled Acorn to be the first with RISC-on-the-Desktop machines a long time before Apple came along with their claim to this title with their PPC based desktop machines about ten years later.
ARM were floated off as a seperate entity by Acorn (a very wise move which enabled ARM to grow where Acorn failed) with investment by Acorn, VLSI and Apple (they used the ARM in their Newton). Being a member of Acorn's enthusiast group I was offered dirt cheap shares and only wish I'd had the money to buy some as they rapidly increased in value. Part of this increase came about as ARM partnered with Digital to work on the StrongARM, before becoming rather closer to Digital, and then in turn Intel (as part of some agreement following the two large companies throwing law-suits at each other over unrealted matters). Intel's involvment with ARM enabled them to produce the XScale and no-doubt helped increase penetration in the wider mobile market.
It's amazing to see a company that I knew from a young age grow into such a pervasive entity. I still have a couple of old Acorn machines, the most powerful of which has one of the first StrongARM chips availible in it, it wasn't until a decade later that I got my next StrongARM, in the form of a much smaller Zaurus. There's also ARM's lurking in games-consoles (GBA, Dreamcast), routers, PDA's, portable music players, mobile phones, infact just about every type of small device. A Lot of people use products with ARM tech in them without even realising it.
I remember using more versions that that I've still got Word 4 on an old Mac here.
Want bandwidth for video, how about 'Wireless Firewire' :) More info from the 1394 Trade Association.
It's a bad enough state of affairs to get a code-freeze like this, but the entire customer support situation has just compounded the problem and annoyed even more paying customers.
Mac users paid the same cover price and the same subscription as PC users but have never receieved the same level of service. Unfortunately SOE's failure to deal with this properly (I don't think they even contracted any programmers to keep up to date with patches, the original porters certainly were'nt involved) has killed EQ Mac. The failure will no doubt be seen by many within SOE and other companies as an example of the un-viability of the Mac platform (or even non Win32 platforms in general) for gaming and in particular MMO games. Thankfully companies like Blizzard and Wolfpack are proving that this is not the case.
Maybe on it's own it's narrow and irrelevant... but this seems like part of a large push by Apple to get patents for the whole 'look and feel' of OS X and it's related iApps. With a complex 'look and feel' patent portfolio, Apple are either looking to protecting themselves from lawsuits from others, or perhaps preparing to go after Microsoft again, when Longhorn comes out.
We used the a priori knowledge that when a pitcher is empty the pitcher's bottom is perpendicular to the ground..... There is a direct correlation between the maximum angle the pitcher has reached and the volume still in the pitcher. ;)
Could this be modifed to:
We used the a priori knowledge that when a punter is full the punter's bottom is parallel with the ground..... There is a direct correlation between the maximum angle the punter has reached and the volume still in the pitcher.
Could be a good way to easily tell when you've had to much
I didn't see the "18+" link, but was intrigued by "The Lycos 50:Most Searched Bush".