To late dude. It is already standard for modern airlines for the final say to belong to the computer not the pilot. This has caused deaths when the computer was in the wrong.
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On the other hand lifes have been lost decades long because humans have made the wrong decisions. In the end we just have to see wich kills less people, hotshot pilots who think they are god, or computers wich don't think at all.
I recently saw a documentary about the US navy testing an autopilot system for landing aircraft on a carrier. Even in this extreme hotshot enviroment the computer is taking over. Because despite all the non-instinctive way of machines they beat us each time in reliable doing the same thing again and again.
Oh and of course a computer can not be threathened.
Star Trek, 25th aniversery. An excellent adventure set in the original and best series. Worked because it was just a good adventure that did something very new. Instead of one long story they had a bunch of shorter unrelated ones, this allowed them to have a lot of possible outcomes for each mission/episode. Every thing about it just acted and looked like you where in an episode. Most importantly as captain kirk you used the same tools as in a series, spock for analysis, the red shirt to get killed and youreselve to talk to alien babes.
The other is X-wing. It perfectly emulated the feel of being in an x-wing. Later on the series watered down in my opinion as they added to many missles being fired at you (can you remember a single fighter targetted missle in the films?)
What made these games great? They took something that was essentialy part of the series. X-wing was dogfighting in space and star trek is basically an adventure story. (Observe problem, let spock think of a solution, let McCoy apply the solution while complaning he is not x, kirk sleeps with green alien babe, go to next problem)
What was also great is that the designers had to really be creative to create the feel of the game as the hardware was then way to limited to just chuck high definition movies and soundtracks on it. (these two games came out on floppies)
If I think about the most recent licensed game I played, Elite Force II, I just don't get the same feeling as when I played those other games. Sure the voices where exactly like in the series. The feeling just wasn't. The ship looked well, empty, the bridge to small. and the constant killing spree seems a bit untrekky to me. In both of the installments you even kill off a shitload of humans.
Perhaps a license can only really succeed as a critically aclaimed game when it is just a good game regard less of the license. Then the license can be used to add something a little bit extra. Where do rather launch from, a stardestoyer or the tiger claw?
Upstart is not a fixed term. It is flexible. For instance MS can easily be described as an compared to the ancient behemoth IBM who themselves are but a spring chicken to company's like Loyds.
What you are worrying about is a reportes attempt to keep his article reasonably short and to the point. He could have pointed out the true nature of linuxs development, he could have pointed out that linux OS is really, GNU/Linux or since we are talking about desktops here KDE||Gnome GNU/Linux.
He choose not to, people who know about linux don't need to be told again. Those who don't will not read an article that runs into a dozen pages explaining all kinds of extranious details.
The news is that Microsoft has forced through an extremly controversial licensing policy on its customers. It defended this in saying that it really was in the customers best interest. That in the end it was cheaper for the customers. Most customers caved in and signed up for it and Microsoft had won. You now lease software and pay for upgrades you may never ever use while locking youreselve ever more thightly in their grip.
Then one little city rebelled and MS instantly rewrote the licensing deal. How many other MS customers who swallowed the original deal will now feel extremely pissed off? Pissed off enough to demand the same kind of cuts when their contract is up for renewal?
That is the real story. That MS has caved in on its own demands when faced with a little bit of pressure.
Sure we can rant on about how stupid this, how this proves the US patent system is long due for an overhaul.
I haven't been reading slashdot for to long but this type of story seems to be a frequent feature and absolutly nothing seems to change about it. The real world just seems not to care and absolutly no precedent is being set to deter future cases of this disease. Is there no organisation that is willing to make a trail case out of this to create precedent so that future leeches will think twice before trying this?
After all the one thing these stories have in common is that after they got a few little guys to pay up they vanish without a trace. They know that in a court they will be thrown out and will then have to pay any legal costs that have been mode by the other side. So they can only win against those that can't afford to make the initial lawyer investment.
Sad really. Oh and americans, it won't belong till the next election. Try to vote for someone else then the guy promising the lowest taxes for once will you.
To be even more accurate, there is no linux operating system. At least not in the way that people understand an OS.
Most people seem to have taken an OS to mean the MS definition wich includes an ever changing selection of user apps depending on their mood all integrated into a UI.
Nobody has a clear definition of what an OS is. (if you do please let me know) The most technical description is that an OS sits between the hardware and the user and the software he runs. Wether this then puts the shell (grapical/command line/whatever) as part of the OS or the users programs is up for debate.
My personal opinion? OS came about to allow a layer of abstraction between software and hardware so that you didn't have to A) rewrite youre program with every hardware change and B) could have a certain number of base functions handled by the OS rather then by the program. The shell can be seen as an other layer of abstraction to provide yet more tools at a higher level then the OS itself.
In this respect Linux is an OS. Gnu just happens to be the most often used set of userspace tools to provide an extra layer of tools and abstraction to interact with the hardware.
After all it is possible to directly communicate with the kernel to get it to do stuff for you. It is a pain in the ass but it can be done.
I bet you also do foreplay and cuddle afterwards you pansy. Real men fix things now, not in 5 minutes when they spend some time thinking about how to fix it properly.
Oh and to remain on topic, anyone else laughed reading that comment on how the patent office checks for prior art? Milwaukee is in the US right?
mmm, unless I am really missing something, all LCD's are transparant. That is how the backlight manages to shine through them. (btw I am talking about the old style LCD like in the old handheld vid games. I think modern screens are the same but I am guessing here)
The LCD itself is just a piece of glass. The reason that you can't see through them is because they put something behind it to either reflect light back, or the backlight itself. But you can keep a LCD transparant. I seen them used in clocks.
hehe, but that is exactly where they are going to.
What you are perhaps suggesting is a regular tarrif or a sales tax. Both of these are just ways for goverments to get money to pay for all the stuff we use. No problem with this, if I had I would move to the US or an other country with low taxes.
This new tax is not that. No schools are build with it, no nurses trained or criminals locked up, our freedom is not defended with it. It goes to "artists" who already get tax paid benefits to save them from getting a real job.
Perhaps I should have made it clear that it was like what canada did with cd's. Except a lot more expensive.
ehm, rtfa may be in order here. The solutiuon you suggest may or may not work but is aimed at distances a bit longer then the 1km max this one is aimed at.
Buses and other carriage type transport are not well suited for this type of tranport because of the waiting time involved for the next carriage to come along. If you travel by public transport in a large city you will notice that most of the travelling time is spend waiting not acutually moving.
This solves that problem. You can get on any time.
I can remember a similar technology used in wheat processing plants. (very high factories) To move up and down there where belts with foot and handholds moving up and down between floors. Faster then stairs and not the waiting time for elevators. Of course there where strict warnings on how to use them, office staff was not allowed to use them.
Dangerous? Perhaps, you could fall all the way from the top to the bottom but then stupid people will always find a way to hurt themselves. It is called natural selection.
Simple carriages require people to wait for the next carriage. If you ever been to an airport with this type of walkway, or indeed an escalator you will notice that it is a much smoother process then the operation of the mentioned skilifts at any resort.
Nice idea, so instead of expanding the energy to propel a ton of metal you instead expand the energy to propel a ton of metal PLUS a huge slab of metal reinfored rubber.
This idea been done in science fiction, they just left out the car. You walked on instead. And before you think it will be tiring to stand all the way once you are on the belt of youre choice it wouldn't matter if you sat down.
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Yup, fortunally this is france. Although they already been so weak as to pay damages, (do car manufacturers pay damages when you slam into a wall at the cars maximum speed?) hopefully they will be less susceptible to frivilous lawsuits.
Just put a sign up that says you are using it at youre own risk and that the elderly, women and other idiots should just walk. Of course there should be a normal walkway to the side (if for no other reason then to allow maintenance)
My fists start to itch when I read that stupid womans remark about her mother being scared. You don't have to fucking use it. I am tired of having the world fit itself to the lowest common denominator. This is a nice idea wich could solve some basic problems in large public areas like airports. Stupid people will always be falling over. Don't let the stupid people rule our lives.
Well, the whole things smells of FUD anyway. Since when are software makers liable for damages anyway? I can think only of virus writers who are held accountable for the actions of the code they written. Oh and that poor guy who made DeCCS(?).
If you buy and run product X be it linux/windows/aix/????? and it destoys youre data, sleeps with youre cat and sets fire to youre wife then though luck. Sure some special contracts exist wich rememdy this but these are little more then extremely expensive insurance policies such as you could buy from any insurance agency.
But the VSI can't really be blamed for this FUD. Suse is right there in germany stealing their contracts. Damn commies must be stopped or else what did they tear down the wall for!!!!:)
Really europe makes some extremely dence laws, netherlands introduced a.5 to 1 euro tax on dvd recordables, but opensource here is pretty hot. Well compared to the us goverment. Anything to stick it to the yanks!
I am old enough to remember that games like this, although in slighly better looking casings, where full priced.
Kinda shows how far electronics have really come now that we have disposable games. Of course the enviromental impact will be nasty. Or do you really think people will make sure to dispose of these toys properly?
Simple answer why GE doesn't mind you messing with the toaster. They don't sell bread.
And I think that if you somehow found a way to copy bread that you would be far to busy accepting nobel prices to be worried about silly little laws like the dmca.
Sorry I forgot one little thing. If linux has nothing to do with games. Then why did Sony release their own version of linux for their console? Surely they didn't do it just because they like the penguin?
I think there may be one other reason why developers want to consider developing for linux.
In console world it is becoming more common for games to be released on more then one platform.
Why is this? Perhaps and I could be mistaken, because game developers don't want to be to tied to a platform owner who is often a direct comptetitor by developing their own games.
Produce a game for the DirectX platform and you are making MS more powerfull. MS who is directly competing with you for market share.
Furthermore MS has been found guilty of using secret parts of api's to boost their own apps over that of outsiders. Who can tell if the same is not happening with DirectX, if not now then perhaps in the future?
Cross platform coding, once you get over the initial hurdle is not as complex as you may think, lets not forget that game coders are pretty much at the top. Starting to get experience with cross platform issues now may safe you being locked in at a later stage.
Don't forget until windows 95 you always dropped out of windows when you wanted to play a game. And even with 95 it often paid to go into dos mode. (remember quake loosing half the available memory when run from windows)
It is not unreasoble to make sure that if something changes in the next 5 years (not long in game development terms) you prepare to be ready.
Anyway the answer is no since the 9x family is a totally different beast from the NT family (xp is closer to NT then the 9x)
But if you got a windows app you absolutly need to run on youre mainly linux machine then 98 will do for all but the most reasons of MS owns productivity apps.
About the only stuff that has made it into the chipset are cheap soundcards (yes creative is cheap to) and some extremely cheap raid solutions.
A lot of other stuff is still in one form or another on the PCI bus. Even if it is not included on a plugin board.
So yes there is a real need for it. Simple example? Raid disks. With striping (multiple disks working together) it is now very easy to saturate the PCI Bus with the cheapest disks.
Same with gigabyte ethernet.
Of course it will be a long time before any real replacement will happen if ever. If I look at some of my old boards on top of the bookclosset I can see it took a long time before ISA was off, and I also see some odd really short slots I never used or seen cards for.
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On the other hand lifes have been lost decades long because humans have made the wrong decisions. In the end we just have to see wich kills less people, hotshot pilots who think they are god, or computers wich don't think at all.
I recently saw a documentary about the US navy testing an autopilot system for landing aircraft on a carrier. Even in this extreme hotshot enviroment the computer is taking over. Because despite all the non-instinctive way of machines they beat us each time in reliable doing the same thing again and again.
Oh and of course a computer can not be threathened.
The other is X-wing. It perfectly emulated the feel of being in an x-wing. Later on the series watered down in my opinion as they added to many missles being fired at you (can you remember a single fighter targetted missle in the films?)
What made these games great? They took something that was essentialy part of the series. X-wing was dogfighting in space and star trek is basically an adventure story. (Observe problem, let spock think of a solution, let McCoy apply the solution while complaning he is not x, kirk sleeps with green alien babe, go to next problem)
What was also great is that the designers had to really be creative to create the feel of the game as the hardware was then way to limited to just chuck high definition movies and soundtracks on it. (these two games came out on floppies)
If I think about the most recent licensed game I played, Elite Force II, I just don't get the same feeling as when I played those other games. Sure the voices where exactly like in the series. The feeling just wasn't. The ship looked well, empty, the bridge to small. and the constant killing spree seems a bit untrekky to me. In both of the installments you even kill off a shitload of humans.
Perhaps a license can only really succeed as a critically aclaimed game when it is just a good game regard less of the license. Then the license can be used to add something a little bit extra. Where do rather launch from, a stardestoyer or the tiger claw?
What you are worrying about is a reportes attempt to keep his article reasonably short and to the point. He could have pointed out the true nature of linuxs development, he could have pointed out that linux OS is really, GNU/Linux or since we are talking about desktops here KDE||Gnome GNU/Linux.
He choose not to, people who know about linux don't need to be told again. Those who don't will not read an article that runs into a dozen pages explaining all kinds of extranious details.
Then one little city rebelled and MS instantly rewrote the licensing deal. How many other MS customers who swallowed the original deal will now feel extremely pissed off? Pissed off enough to demand the same kind of cuts when their contract is up for renewal?
That is the real story. That MS has caved in on its own demands when faced with a little bit of pressure.
I haven't been reading slashdot for to long but this type of story seems to be a frequent feature and absolutly nothing seems to change about it. The real world just seems not to care and absolutly no precedent is being set to deter future cases of this disease. Is there no organisation that is willing to make a trail case out of this to create precedent so that future leeches will think twice before trying this?
After all the one thing these stories have in common is that after they got a few little guys to pay up they vanish without a trace. They know that in a court they will be thrown out and will then have to pay any legal costs that have been mode by the other side. So they can only win against those that can't afford to make the initial lawyer investment.
Sad really. Oh and americans, it won't belong till the next election. Try to vote for someone else then the guy promising the lowest taxes for once will you.
Yeah, it made my $20 dollar sushi look extremely boring.
Most people seem to have taken an OS to mean the MS definition wich includes an ever changing selection of user apps depending on their mood all integrated into a UI.
Nobody has a clear definition of what an OS is. (if you do please let me know) The most technical description is that an OS sits between the hardware and the user and the software he runs. Wether this then puts the shell (grapical/command line/whatever) as part of the OS or the users programs is up for debate.
My personal opinion? OS came about to allow a layer of abstraction between software and hardware so that you didn't have to A) rewrite youre program with every hardware change and B) could have a certain number of base functions handled by the OS rather then by the program. The shell can be seen as an other layer of abstraction to provide yet more tools at a higher level then the OS itself.
In this respect Linux is an OS. Gnu just happens to be the most often used set of userspace tools to provide an extra layer of tools and abstraction to interact with the hardware.
After all it is possible to directly communicate with the kernel to get it to do stuff for you. It is a pain in the ass but it can be done.
I bet you also do foreplay and cuddle afterwards you pansy. Real men fix things now, not in 5 minutes when they spend some time thinking about how to fix it properly.
Oh and to remain on topic, anyone else laughed reading that comment on how the patent office checks for prior art? Milwaukee is in the US right?
The LCD itself is just a piece of glass. The reason that you can't see through them is because they put something behind it to either reflect light back, or the backlight itself. But you can keep a LCD transparant. I seen them used in clocks.
ehm, found not guilty unless I am mistaken.
What you are perhaps suggesting is a regular tarrif or a sales tax. Both of these are just ways for goverments to get money to pay for all the stuff we use. No problem with this, if I had I would move to the US or an other country with low taxes.
This new tax is not that. No schools are build with it, no nurses trained or criminals locked up, our freedom is not defended with it. It goes to "artists" who already get tax paid benefits to save them from getting a real job.
Perhaps I should have made it clear that it was like what canada did with cd's. Except a lot more expensive.
Buses and other carriage type transport are not well suited for this type of tranport because of the waiting time involved for the next carriage to come along. If you travel by public transport in a large city you will notice that most of the travelling time is spend waiting not acutually moving.
This solves that problem. You can get on any time.
I can remember a similar technology used in wheat processing plants. (very high factories) To move up and down there where belts with foot and handholds moving up and down between floors. Faster then stairs and not the waiting time for elevators. Of course there where strict warnings on how to use them, office staff was not allowed to use them.
Dangerous? Perhaps, you could fall all the way from the top to the bottom but then stupid people will always find a way to hurt themselves. It is called natural selection.
Simple carriages require people to wait for the next carriage. If you ever been to an airport with this type of walkway, or indeed an escalator you will notice that it is a much smoother process then the operation of the mentioned skilifts at any resort.
This idea been done in science fiction, they just left out the car. You walked on instead. And before you think it will be tiring to stand all the way once you are on the belt of youre choice it wouldn't matter if you sat down.
Just put a sign up that says you are using it at youre own risk and that the elderly, women and other idiots should just walk. Of course there should be a normal walkway to the side (if for no other reason then to allow maintenance)
My fists start to itch when I read that stupid womans remark about her mother being scared. You don't have to fucking use it. I am tired of having the world fit itself to the lowest common denominator. This is a nice idea wich could solve some basic problems in large public areas like airports. Stupid people will always be falling over. Don't let the stupid people rule our lives.
If you buy and run product X be it linux/windows/aix/????? and it destoys youre data, sleeps with youre cat and sets fire to youre wife then though luck. Sure some special contracts exist wich rememdy this but these are little more then extremely expensive insurance policies such as you could buy from any insurance agency.
But the VSI can't really be blamed for this FUD. Suse is right there in germany stealing their contracts. Damn commies must be stopped or else what did they tear down the wall for!!!! :)
Really europe makes some extremely dence laws, netherlands introduced a .5 to 1 euro tax on dvd recordables, but opensource here is pretty hot. Well compared to the us goverment. Anything to stick it to the yanks!
Kinda shows how far electronics have really come now that we have disposable games. Of course the enviromental impact will be nasty. Or do you really think people will make sure to dispose of these toys properly?
And I think that if you somehow found a way to copy bread that you would be far to busy accepting nobel prices to be worried about silly little laws like the dmca.
I presume the sony man means this to, after the adults who own gba's for themselves not becaase they kids wanted them
Sorry I forgot one little thing. If linux has nothing to do with games. Then why did Sony release their own version of linux for their console? Surely they didn't do it just because they like the penguin?
In console world it is becoming more common for games to be released on more then one platform.
Why is this? Perhaps and I could be mistaken, because game developers don't want to be to tied to a platform owner who is often a direct comptetitor by developing their own games.
Produce a game for the DirectX platform and you are making MS more powerfull. MS who is directly competing with you for market share.
Furthermore MS has been found guilty of using secret parts of api's to boost their own apps over that of outsiders. Who can tell if the same is not happening with DirectX, if not now then perhaps in the future?
Cross platform coding, once you get over the initial hurdle is not as complex as you may think, lets not forget that game coders are pretty much at the top. Starting to get experience with cross platform issues now may safe you being locked in at a later stage.
Don't forget until windows 95 you always dropped out of windows when you wanted to play a game. And even with 95 it often paid to go into dos mode. (remember quake loosing half the available memory when run from windows)
It is not unreasoble to make sure that if something changes in the next 5 years (not long in game development terms) you prepare to be ready.
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Anyway the answer is no since the 9x family is a totally different beast from the NT family (xp is closer to NT then the 9x)
But if you got a windows app you absolutly need to run on youre mainly linux machine then 98 will do for all but the most reasons of MS owns productivity apps.
The real question is, do you need office XP?
1. Xbox bombed in japan but xbox 2 wil own them.
2. We are not going to buy sega yet. Or at least we are not telling you about it
This isn't an article. This is a press clipping.
About the only stuff that has made it into the chipset are cheap soundcards (yes creative is cheap to) and some extremely cheap raid solutions. A lot of other stuff is still in one form or another on the PCI bus. Even if it is not included on a plugin board.
So yes there is a real need for it. Simple example? Raid disks. With striping (multiple disks working together) it is now very easy to saturate the PCI Bus with the cheapest disks.
Same with gigabyte ethernet.
Of course it will be a long time before any real replacement will happen if ever. If I look at some of my old boards on top of the bookclosset I can see it took a long time before ISA was off, and I also see some odd really short slots I never used or seen cards for.