Besides that... weren't the tabs actually invented by the person that invented folders for archiving documents. You know, those paper things that computers started to mimic at a certain point. IANAL but isn't that some sort of prior art? Sure it's not a digital tab, but should that matter?
Correct me if I'm wrong... but, to me, Research and Development when used together kind of imply creating something new.
No it doesn't. Performing research into improving current technologies is also research, the result will not be something new, but something better. It would be interesting to have a list of how much companies invest in fundamental research.
'Better' is to vague to answer. It was easier and was easier because technology wasn't that far that a lot of skill was needed to produce something acceptable. Everybody can mess around with a "paint" program and create something that doesn't look half bad. But for 3D modeling applications you need way more skill to even create something remotely usable. Quality standards were low back then due toch lack of technology, now with the technology the standards are much higher and skilled people are needed to create base assets. With some `wit' you can use those base assets to create the rest of your world. Not every characters has to be uniquely modeled, just some change in color and resizing can be enough to fool the player.
Putting the daily show on YouTube won't be good for it's DVD sales. I for one are interested in a +-25 DVD collection of a single season of the Daily Show.
So why should it get human rights. The question should be if a chimp should get chimprights.
Should a chimp have the right to an opinion, the right to follow a religion, the right for education, the right for a fair trial, the right to be treated equally (to other chimps and humans?). Those are some of the human rights, and I don't think it applies much to chimps.
Everything he touched turns into gold because it's made by Miyamoto. If others came with the exact same idea as Miyamoto they would be turned down. So even though his advice could be very useful it doesn't mean it'll work. Besides, Miyamoto was almost crushed by Tim Shafer. He's a fragile little man.
The whole EU has region 2. Also the prices should be equal (prices without VAT ofcourse), and there the thing that they can not restrict me from buying a DVD in an other country, something that iTunes (apperently) does.
I agree. It was the Voodoo2 that was a huge success. Even though nVidia's Geforce came out not long after it nVidia's TNT2 was vastly superior to the Voodoo3. Quake3 used OpenGL, not 3dfx' Glide. People with a Voodoo card needed to install an additonal drive to translate the OpenGL instructions to Glide just to be able to play Quake3. The TNT2 understood both Direct3D and OpenGL.
Alternatively (or additionally) they would sue PRQ for co-hosting them with known criminals
TPB are criminals now? I thought they within the boundaries of the law. If they were criminals they should have been convicted right now. But they're not. So apperently they're not criminals. Also even before the raid they (TPB) were not convicted criminals, so how could PRQ co-host clients with known criminals when they are not known criminals?
This isn't the first research done on this subject. I wonder what the score is so far? The only thing I know is that no study so far has resulting in the "video game violence does affect children/people".
No effect: a couple Inconclusive: also a few Has effect: 0
I like Delphi a lot. It takes a lot of the GUI developing stuff out of your hands, etc. But I don't see this same development method working for PHP. Simply because they use the same "application" aproach that Delphi had. But PHP, or at least webapplications, are not really persistent. Every time you need to save and restore your application session, and for good performance you want to keep this as minimal as possible. When everytime the "program" has to do something you need to restore the "application" it put some heavy load on the webserver/app in total. Also, unlike popular believe, PHP is not about presentation, while Delphi is quite a lot about presentation. Positioning elements on your form/webpage is something you do through HTML/CSS. Delphi for PHP is sort of a competitor to Dreamweaver. And on the programming side I think Delphi for PHP is much better, but the design part if probably worse. Also, no serious PHP programmer uses Dreamweaver to develop PHP applications. I don't think Delphi for PHP will ever be a way to create RIAs. I think they would have a better chance when they made a Delphi for Flash/* (where * is a server side thingy like ASP/PHP/Perl/...). At least Flash features a more Delphi like environment, and Flash could seriously use a better interface for "application" development.
On a serious note. Given the limited resources of the ReactOS team it's not even that bad. Even Microsoft had (serious) issues with pretty much every new Windows version presentation.
Joking aside. A lot of people _tried_ computer science because: - of the money, this stopped after the "crach" (or the point when investors wanted to see results) - they thought it was easy because they messed around with computers all day
As commercial software products have matured, it no longer makes sense for organizations to develop software from scratch. Accounting packages, enterprise resource packages, customer relationship management systems are the order of the day: stable, well-proven and easily available.
Switching to component based development doesn't solve all your problems. You often still need to develop your own components and stuff. With computer science a solution pretty much always introduces new problems. Work is never finished, also because people are hardly ever happy with the endresult.
On who (the actual person) wrote it, and how well you know the reviewer. Personal preference is always a big factor in game/movie/music reviews. It could very well be that I like a game what a reviewer gave a bad review, but I would only know that if I knew the reviewer's preference. Ofcourse demo'ing the game is always better than reading a review. The most useless part of a review is the grade, it says absolutely nothing, except what number the reviewer assigned. They might as well use colors for grading instead of numbers or stars. So... I rate the linked article: purple.
So the requirements of this new hot XML based operating system are at least to have a operating system and a heavy weight web browser. Why do I need an operating system to run an operating system? Oh... you mean it's nothing more than an application framework (just like the millions of others around there).
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Besides that... weren't the tabs actually invented by the person that invented folders for archiving documents. You know, those paper things that computers started to mimic at a certain point.
IANAL but isn't that some sort of prior art? Sure it's not a digital tab, but should that matter?
No it doesn't. Performing research into improving current technologies is also research, the result will not be something new, but something better. It would be interesting to have a list of how much companies invest in fundamental research.
What R&D, except the usual "how can we made our products even more bloathed", do they do? They spend even more money than nVidia and Apple.
the PC World website
'Better' is to vague to answer.
It was easier and was easier because technology wasn't that far that a lot of skill was needed to produce something acceptable. Everybody can mess around with a "paint" program and create something that doesn't look half bad. But for 3D modeling applications you need way more skill to even create something remotely usable.
Quality standards were low back then due toch lack of technology, now with the technology the standards are much higher and skilled people are needed to create base assets. With some `wit' you can use those base assets to create the rest of your world. Not every characters has to be uniquely modeled, just some change in color and resizing can be enough to fool the player.
That would be a nice replacement for my window.
Putting the daily show on YouTube won't be good for it's DVD sales. I for one are interested in a +-25 DVD collection of a single season of the Daily Show.
able to finish the game that fast.
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No wait, you said S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Kids? This is slashdot.
five ...
four
three
what? already? I didn't even finish the countdown.
So why should it get human rights. The question should be if a chimp should get chimprights.
Should a chimp have the right to an opinion, the right to follow a religion, the right for education, the right for a fair trial, the right to be treated equally (to other chimps and humans?). Those are some of the human rights, and I don't think it applies much to chimps.
Everything he touched turns into gold because it's made by Miyamoto. If others came with the exact same idea as Miyamoto they would be turned down. So even though his advice could be very useful it doesn't mean it'll work.
Besides, Miyamoto was almost crushed by Tim Shafer. He's a fragile little man.
The whole EU has region 2. Also the prices should be equal (prices without VAT ofcourse), and there the thing that they can not restrict me from buying a DVD in an other country, something that iTunes (apperently) does.
I agree. It was the Voodoo2 that was a huge success. Even though nVidia's Geforce came out not long after it nVidia's TNT2 was vastly superior to the Voodoo3.
Quake3 used OpenGL, not 3dfx' Glide. People with a Voodoo card needed to install an additonal drive to translate the OpenGL instructions to Glide just to be able to play Quake3. The TNT2 understood both Direct3D and OpenGL.
TPB are criminals now? I thought they within the boundaries of the law. If they were criminals they should have been convicted right now. But they're not. So apperently they're not criminals. Also even before the raid they (TPB) were not convicted criminals, so how could PRQ co-host clients with known criminals when they are not known criminals?
This isn't the first research done on this subject. I wonder what the score is so far? The only thing I know is that no study so far has resulting in the "video game violence does affect children/people".
No effect: a couple
Inconclusive: also a few
Has effect: 0
I like Delphi a lot. It takes a lot of the GUI developing stuff out of your hands, etc. But I don't see this same development method working for PHP.
Simply because they use the same "application" aproach that Delphi had. But PHP, or at least webapplications, are not really persistent. Every time you need to save and restore your application session, and for good performance you want to keep this as minimal as possible. When everytime the "program" has to do something you need to restore the "application" it put some heavy load on the webserver/app in total. Also, unlike popular believe, PHP is not about presentation, while Delphi is quite a lot about presentation. Positioning elements on your form/webpage is something you do through HTML/CSS.
Delphi for PHP is sort of a competitor to Dreamweaver. And on the programming side I think Delphi for PHP is much better, but the design part if probably worse. Also, no serious PHP programmer uses Dreamweaver to develop PHP applications. I don't think Delphi for PHP will ever be a way to create RIAs. I think they would have a better chance when they made a Delphi for Flash/* (where * is a server side thingy like ASP/PHP/Perl/...). At least Flash features a more Delphi like environment, and Flash could seriously use a better interface for "application" development.
It's an alpha release of Firefox 3, it uses the Gecko 1.9 engine.
On a serious note.
Given the limited resources of the ReactOS team it's not even that bad. Even Microsoft had (serious) issues with pretty much every new Windows version presentation.
Now explain why other games that were twice as expensive to be made also have the $60 pricetag.
They are internationalized urls. If they were international urls I would be able to enter them in my browser without doing funky stuff.
Joking aside. A lot of people _tried_ computer science because:
- of the money, this stopped after the "crach" (or the point when investors wanted to see results)
- they thought it was easy because they messed around with computers all day
Switching to component based development doesn't solve all your problems. You often still need to develop your own components and stuff. With computer science a solution pretty much always introduces new problems. Work is never finished, also because people are hardly ever happy with the endresult.
On who (the actual person) wrote it, and how well you know the reviewer. Personal preference is always a big factor in game/movie/music reviews. It could very well be that I like a game what a reviewer gave a bad review, but I would only know that if I knew the reviewer's preference.
Ofcourse demo'ing the game is always better than reading a review.
The most useless part of a review is the grade, it says absolutely nothing, except what number the reviewer assigned. They might as well use colors for grading instead of numbers or stars. So... I rate the linked article: purple.
If your businessplan relies on the failure of an other party you have no right to complain when said party finally manages to reduce their failures.
So the requirements of this new hot XML based operating system are at least to have a operating system and a heavy weight web browser.
Why do I need an operating system to run an operating system?
Oh... you mean it's nothing more than an application framework (just like the millions of others around there).