So abetter solution would be to use a minimal kernel linux with open source that acheives the same output. If its not written- write it. If you cannot write it - find someone who can. If that happens to be Cisco - bad luck. It would much furthar benefit all - and harm the "big nasty corps" much more to create an open source alternative than to steal their products. The main reason I oppose most copyright laws is when they are abused by holders- IE truetype fonts. Not because I would like to out-and-out steal their products. Remember- every pirated copy of windows still increases their compatible user-base, and indirectly- their monopoly.
Kay as much as I agree with the dead tree issue- I would have been somewhat unhappy about teacher communicating with me on my private mail though. Maybe the better solution is to have secure accessible accounts from outside the school.
You know, one thing that really annoys me about all of this is the difference between people who live to work, and those who work to live. Personally I work to live, yes my job can be interesting- but it can be a pain in the ass- some of the hours I am expected to do and given big greif about if I dont do. My boss is a live to work guy.. And I really do not appretiate it. Beleive me- when a better job comes- I will be out of the door very quickly. Its not just about money-but a better job in terms of something I would be happier with. Unhappy workforces make poor workers. As A programmer- I know that I end up adding more bugs than fixing them when I am tired and angry. As for ideas I have in my own time- I keep them under my hat and let them out when I am ready.
I would have put Pink Floyd in the stoner category myself... Along with Ozrics and The Orb... Though some of them are quite crazy - not necessarily all...
Which is a much more factually based, informative source than this artical has been. In fact I am a regular contributer to the H2G2. Long live H2g2. Long live the DNA legacy! That guy actually inspired me to read Dawkins- how about that....
Does anyone remember the statistic for people impaled by blue ice showers?
Re:Possible, but unlikely. Abilation is key.
on
Meteorite Hits Girl
·
· Score: 1
This explains a few things- as I thought it was unlikely she would still have a foot. NOw what about the massive amounts of dangerous radiation she is exposed to holding it like a common rock?
Oh - interesting sig- given it points back to localhost... (Quite obviously).. Hows your real firewall- it may survive most things- but what about the slashdot effect....
Surely given the size of it, and moving that fast--she wouldnt be smilling holding it, as medical teams would be reconstructing the smouldering remains of her legs.... Thats a fairly considerable amount of force. Saying that- the way shes smilling holding it disregards how dangerously radioactive it probably is, and you never know what else it harbors. Yes I sound negative- but either she is extremely lucky and resilient- or thats not a meteorite in her hand.
ANyway- iron does not get "Slightly warm" falling through the atmosphere on re-entry... It gets extremely hot...I am a little disappointed- I tend to credit BBC with a bit mroe savviness than this. I await the results after the lump is analysed.(Shock-horror-I actually *read* the article).
What about using ADSL enabled exchanges? But then my vid-phone would interfere with the signal. To be honest- the technology is not a problem, and the take up due to installed base/technological throwbacks would soon be overcome(how many people still use teletypes or morse code telegraphs and havent had them replaced with phones). The big issue is if the technology will be welcomed. I still think privacy, and being hounded for your full attention by people you might not really want to. GO and read some of the privacy gripes up above as they are my problem.
The nice thing about an internet webcam(with voicechatting and broadband) is its essentially the same thing but better. The charges arent the issue. I only turn on my webcam when me and the other person have confirmed thats what we want to do- in fact we only move to voice after that. Most of the time text IM will do.
Oh great- While phone phreaks, carnivore and government agencies watch us get kinky? NO thanks! You might as well still a webcam over your bed- as I can guarantee someone would try to hack it, and the movies/images would be on the web. No thanks... I think we will stick to conventiona phone sex...
Imagine how much punters would pay to watch video phone sex with real couples....
Okay - he said some loss of quality - not bad sound. To be honest by encoding in MP3 in the first place you will loose quality. To quantify onto stereo 16 bit CD format will loose quality. If you are that *anal* about quality - use 64bit professional media (although it will be expensive, and it will be limited by the fact you cannot buy music commercially in this format)....Your speaker cables probably loose quality through oxidisation and you speakers through imperfect cone dynamics and slight decay of the fixed magnets in their drivers... The accoustics of the room you listen to it in is probably lowering the quality as well...
Well of course- this is an MS Venture- you dont think they would try some independant open-source-usurping-communist idealist alternative do you? It might actually show them up...
While your eternal soul is conscripted for the dark armies of MPAA, RIAA and MS lawyers which will rise from the West to face the armies of the east... The new kind will be Supreme Lord Balmer Dexter, with his consorts Rosen and Hollinger... Watch the red cloud engulf Redmond and Hollywood.... In which case when does Al Capone show up?
I really do hope UK's broadband and Telcos are listening. Hell NTL, Cable & Wireless, BT and Pipex have more lawyers than Napster, MPAA and RIAA for sure. The UK Film Boards certainly wouldnt be able to push this.
Put it this way - alll my machines have very high security and are well logged - all behind a logging NAT with individual logging firewalls and remapped virtual servers for anything I use. Should I find any attempts like this - I will DOS the perpetrators IP without hesitation(only after sending a stream of various OOB packets). Of course there is the distinct possibility they are behind a NAT and firewall etc.. But if this is the MPAA/RIAA then bringing down their NAT server is the most desirable outcome.
Ahhh... Now I can see it- a bunch of beardy guys linked up with Cat5s behind their ears and glasses... All chanting in unison "Too damn 'leet - Eat electric Death".... While playing HL... (I dont have a clan- never did and dont intend to)...
So lets spend less time writing windows emulators and more time writing killer apps. Its really that simple. Leave the nasty broken APIs, buggy dll's etc well alone and concentrate on making linux powerful in its own right. I dont emulate office- I run OpenOffice(in fact I use it on a windows box too). I dont run WINE. The only layer of windows I emulate at all is the SMB protocol(SAMBA) so I can do file and print sharing.
One of the problems with sound, and I experience it first hand on my game development job is that its "The Little lost child". That is - there is no way that a dev team will give it priority over graphics or AI or physics or anything. I had to loose most of my DTS functionality so they could put a better stubble texture on a characters head in EE ram. There was no way they would sacrifice any VU time for a couple of 3d sound calculations. It would be nice if there was a Linux Universal Sound Library - with the functionality to Mix in real time, provide ASIO professional audio layers with full duplex, provide DTS/3d sound functionality, a neat kernel module, a nice API/interface for Apps, a nice APi/Interface for drivers(both ends of an engine covered), a bunch of drivers, example apps, Midi stuff. How about getting a few people along to sourceforge and setting up a LUSL project with this all in mind? Better still port it to run on both Linux, windows and Mac so that porting sound is no longer a big issue. I would spend my time with a project like this.
With USB its now just device drivers for items with a recognizable device class but requiring propreitary drivers which no-one is willing to supply or develop. I own an Evolution keyboard. Evolution do not and have no intention of supporting LInux drivers. Yet again- should I find time for it- I intend to probe the device and attempt to write my own USB drivers for it.
"The console market is shifting towards a more "Home Entertainment System"
So ensuring Linux is the way ahead may be the only way to avoid nasty DRM like palladium.... Im certainly not buying into a Microsoft Intel big brother box.....
Hmm... I really should have reserved judgement for this guy - I thoroughly agree with this. (HAvent I been told never to be too quick to judge before...). The MAC has been aimed at by mainstream games companies lots in the past, and you buy games like Quake 3 and HL for it no problems.
Yes Mac OS X runs a nix environment, but it also has Mac specific graphics and sound high level APIs which have been around a while and have been developed parallel to Dx. Efforts need to be focused on X86 linux boxes, both in terms of code and image so that companies will be willing to attempt to port games to it and feel justly renumerated. My own company produce for the PS2 console, and we port our game to almost every language, and every country - but we gave up on china- the translation is too expensive, and about 4 guys will buy it and everyone else will buy their pirate versions. Not that I agree that it is quite as bad as that but thats the company line....
So:
1) Develop and maintain API's which allow reasonably high level access to most gaming hardware - from Graphics(3d accelerated + all features like per-vertex-shading etc) to Sound(including Dolby Pro - screw DTS as they require massive licensing fees), to Networking and controllers/joysticks.
2) Buy these games, try them, tell us what they are like - use word of mouth as its the best form of advertising.
3) Dont pirate these games - By pirating them you will only ensure there wont be many more.
4) Use constructive criticism, bug reports for both APIs and games.
5) If you really want free games - Get involved - write games yourself. Far too many of the games that are free lack imagination and good artwork and appear to be little more than tech-demos. Artists, coders and designers are needed to fuel this.
If you want this thing to happen- you are all gonna have to work for it....
Btw- this was not particularly aimed at autopr0n.. Why arent people discusssing API's and business models - ways we can chage this situation instead of jsut debating the old "my windows c*ck is bigger than your linux one" and vice versa.
I personally like OpenGL as an API but find the sound support a problem. If Linux could have a nice unified API which can be programmed device-independantly in a similar way to OpenGL, then we would be a lot of the way there. I know of ARTS and other similar projects - and would be happy to have a delve into the source on one of them - given that I am a professional game sound programmer. Another problem is USB device support - some of the nicer joysticks etc run on USB, and although the USB device support is getting better it still has some way to go. I have a music keyboard that I have to use through the midi port in linux- which means I have to externally power it- which is not a great problem - but I would like to be able to use the single usb cable instead. Focus on developing games for linux, or improving linux's strength in running them first as a main priority.
Slashdot Mirror
So abetter solution would be to use a minimal kernel linux with open source that acheives the same output. If its not written- write it. If you cannot write it - find someone who can. If that happens to be Cisco - bad luck. It would much furthar benefit all - and harm the "big nasty corps" much more to create an open source alternative than to steal their products. The main reason I oppose most copyright laws is when they are abused by holders- IE truetype fonts. Not because I would like to out-and-out steal their products. Remember- every pirated copy of windows still increases their compatible user-base, and indirectly- their monopoly.
Something Like Megadeth - or less tastefully AC-DC....
Kay as much as I agree with the dead tree issue- I would have been somewhat unhappy about teacher communicating with me on my private mail though. Maybe the better solution is to have secure accessible accounts from outside the school.
You know, one thing that really annoys me about all of this is the difference between people who live to work, and those who work to live. Personally I work to live, yes my job can be interesting- but it can be a pain in the ass- some of the hours I am expected to do and given big greif about if I dont do. My boss is a live to work guy.. And I really do not appretiate it. Beleive me- when a better job comes- I will be out of the door very quickly. Its not just about money-but a better job in terms of something I would be happier with. Unhappy workforces make poor workers. As A programmer- I know that I end up adding more bugs than fixing them when I am tired and angry. As for ideas I have in my own time- I keep them under my hat and let them out when I am ready.
I would have put Pink Floyd in the stoner category myself... Along with Ozrics and The Orb... Though some of them are quite crazy - not necessarily all...
Which is a much more factually based, informative source than this artical has been. In fact I am a regular contributer to the H2G2. Long live H2g2. Long live the DNA legacy! That guy actually inspired me to read Dawkins- how about that....
Does anyone remember the statistic for people impaled by blue ice showers?
This explains a few things- as I thought it was unlikely she would still have a foot. NOw what about the massive amounts of dangerous radiation she is exposed to holding it like a common rock?
Oh - interesting sig- given it points back to localhost... (Quite obviously).. Hows your real firewall- it may survive most things- but what about the slashdot effect....
Surely given the size of it, and moving that fast--she wouldnt be smilling holding it, as medical teams would be reconstructing the smouldering remains of her legs.... Thats a fairly considerable amount of force. Saying that- the way shes smilling holding it disregards how dangerously radioactive it probably is, and you never know what else it harbors. Yes I sound negative- but either she is extremely lucky and resilient- or thats not a meteorite in her hand.
ANyway- iron does not get "Slightly warm" falling through the atmosphere on re-entry... It gets extremely hot...I am a little disappointed- I tend to credit BBC with a bit mroe savviness than this. I await the results after the lump is analysed.(Shock-horror-I actually *read* the article).
What the one where your machine gets DOS attacked for allowing P2P file sharing and all your files are replaced with MPAA RIAA DMCA MPAA RIAA DMCA?
Im not sure that s future I relaly want to be a part of....
What about using ADSL enabled exchanges? But then my vid-phone would interfere with the signal. To be honest- the technology is not a problem, and the take up due to installed base/technological throwbacks would soon be overcome(how many people still use teletypes or morse code telegraphs and havent had them replaced with phones). The big issue is if the technology will be welcomed. I still think privacy, and being hounded for your full attention by people you might not really want to. GO and read some of the privacy gripes up above as they are my problem.
The nice thing about an internet webcam(with voicechatting and broadband) is its essentially the same thing but better. The charges arent the issue. I only turn on my webcam when me and the other person have confirmed thats what we want to do- in fact we only move to voice after that. Most of the time text IM will do.
Oh great- While phone phreaks, carnivore and government agencies watch us get kinky? NO thanks! You might as well still a webcam over your bed- as I can guarantee someone would try to hack it, and the movies/images would be on the web. No thanks... I think we will stick to conventiona phone sex...
Imagine how much punters would pay to watch video phone sex with real couples....
Okay - he said some loss of quality - not bad sound. To be honest by encoding in MP3 in the first place you will loose quality. To quantify onto stereo 16 bit CD format will loose quality. If you are that *anal* about quality - use 64bit professional media (although it will be expensive, and it will be limited by the fact you cannot buy music commercially in this format)....Your speaker cables probably loose quality through oxidisation and you speakers through imperfect cone dynamics and slight decay of the fixed magnets in their drivers... The accoustics of the room you listen to it in is probably lowering the quality as well...
Well of course- this is an MS Venture- you dont think they would try some independant open-source-usurping-communist idealist alternative do you? It might actually show them up...
While your eternal soul is conscripted for the dark armies of MPAA, RIAA and MS lawyers which will rise from the West to face the armies of the east... The new kind will be Supreme Lord Balmer Dexter, with his consorts Rosen and Hollinger... Watch the red cloud engulf Redmond and Hollywood.... In which case when does Al Capone show up?
A global network that doesnt allow vigilante/dissident/terrorist companies to hack it.... Be it lines or wireless...
Why not implement Battle Royal for corporate lawyer/lobby groups... And televise that.... hehehehe....
I really do hope UK's broadband and Telcos are listening. Hell NTL, Cable & Wireless, BT and Pipex have more lawyers than Napster, MPAA and RIAA for sure. The UK Film Boards certainly wouldnt be able to push this.
Put it this way - alll my machines have very high security and are well logged - all behind a logging NAT with individual logging firewalls and remapped virtual servers for anything I use. Should I find any attempts like this - I will DOS the perpetrators IP without hesitation(only after sending a stream of various OOB packets). Of course there is the distinct possibility they are behind a NAT and firewall etc.. But if this is the MPAA/RIAA then bringing down their NAT server is the most desirable outcome.
Ahhh... Now I can see it- a bunch of beardy guys linked up with Cat5s behind their ears and glasses... All chanting in unison "Too damn 'leet - Eat electric Death".... While playing HL... (I dont have a clan- never did and dont intend to)...
So lets spend less time writing windows emulators and more time writing killer apps. Its really that simple. Leave the nasty broken APIs, buggy dll's etc well alone and concentrate on making linux powerful in its own right. I dont emulate office- I run OpenOffice(in fact I use it on a windows box too). I dont run WINE. The only layer of windows I emulate at all is the SMB protocol(SAMBA) so I can do file and print sharing.
One of the problems with sound, and I experience it first hand on my game development job is that its "The Little lost child". That is - there is no way that a dev team will give it priority over graphics or AI or physics or anything. I had to loose most of my DTS functionality so they could put a better stubble texture on a characters head in EE ram. There was no way they would sacrifice any VU time for a couple of 3d sound calculations. It would be nice if there was a Linux Universal Sound Library - with the functionality to Mix in real time, provide ASIO professional audio layers with full duplex, provide DTS/3d sound functionality, a neat kernel module, a nice API/interface for Apps, a nice APi/Interface for drivers(both ends of an engine covered), a bunch of drivers, example apps, Midi stuff. How about getting a few people along to sourceforge and setting up a LUSL project with this all in mind? Better still port it to run on both Linux, windows and Mac so that porting sound is no longer a big issue. I would spend my time with a project like this.
With USB its now just device drivers for items with a recognizable device class but requiring propreitary drivers which no-one is willing to supply or develop. I own an Evolution keyboard. Evolution do not and have no intention of supporting LInux drivers. Yet again- should I find time for it- I intend to probe the device and attempt to write my own USB drivers for it.
Why do you feel you should even have bothered posting that? Go back to your Deerhunter game and leave geeks to themselves.....
"The console market is shifting towards a more "Home Entertainment System"
So ensuring Linux is the way ahead may be the only way to avoid nasty DRM like palladium.... Im certainly not buying into a Microsoft Intel big brother box.....
Hmm... I really should have reserved judgement for this guy - I thoroughly agree with this. (HAvent I been told never to be too quick to judge before...). The MAC has been aimed at by mainstream games companies lots in the past, and you buy games like Quake 3 and HL for it no problems.
:
Yes Mac OS X runs a nix environment, but it also has Mac specific graphics and sound high level APIs which have been around a while and have been developed parallel to Dx. Efforts need to be focused on X86 linux boxes, both in terms of code and image so that companies will be willing to attempt to port games to it and feel justly renumerated. My own company produce for the PS2 console, and we port our game to almost every language, and every country - but we gave up on china- the translation is too expensive, and about 4 guys will buy it and everyone else will buy their pirate versions. Not that I agree that it is quite as bad as that but thats the company line....
So
1) Develop and maintain API's which allow reasonably high level access to most gaming hardware - from Graphics(3d accelerated + all features like per-vertex-shading etc) to Sound(including Dolby Pro - screw DTS as they require massive licensing fees), to Networking and controllers/joysticks.
2) Buy these games, try them, tell us what they are like - use word of mouth as its the best form of advertising.
3) Dont pirate these games - By pirating them you will only ensure there wont be many more.
4) Use constructive criticism, bug reports for both APIs and games.
5) If you really want free games - Get involved - write games yourself. Far too many of the games that are free lack imagination and good artwork and appear to be little more than tech-demos. Artists, coders and designers are needed to fuel this.
If you want this thing to happen- you are all gonna have to work for it....
Btw- this was not particularly aimed at autopr0n.. Why arent people discusssing API's and business models - ways we can chage this situation instead of jsut debating the old "my windows c*ck is bigger than your linux one" and vice versa.
I personally like OpenGL as an API but find the sound support a problem. If Linux could have a nice unified API which can be programmed device-independantly in a similar way to OpenGL, then we would be a lot of the way there. I know of ARTS and other similar projects - and would be happy to have a delve into the source on one of them - given that I am a professional game sound programmer. Another problem is USB device support - some of the nicer joysticks etc run on USB, and although the USB device support is getting better it still has some way to go. I have a music keyboard that I have to use through the midi port in linux- which means I have to externally power it- which is not a great problem - but I would like to be able to use the single usb cable instead. Focus on developing games for linux, or improving linux's strength in running them first as a main priority.