(Yet Another Internet Argument) While I am quite pleased to see authority figures (even if they are just university professors) standing up to the RIAA, I must admit that Prof. Dannenberg actually did rather little to counter Sherman's arguments; while his points are good and valid, they do, unfortunately, follow one of the cardinal rules of internet arguing: Never argue the opponents points, only point out his weaknesses.
Yeah, this is a good point- and this is why the parent should have just GPL'd his code contributions, and released them on a website in addition to patching them in or whatnot.
But impossible to follow, is this: Only comment the things that are hard to understand. The problem here is that you probably understand everything you're writing.
One way out might be to have a less-talented programmer give it the once over, and point out anything s/he didn't understand, for you to comment upon.
That, and as Dr. Stroustrup (Bjarne) said in class today, your code constructs should be directly analogous to what they are trying to describe in real life... But I guess this goes down to self-documentation.
Actually, I get much more of an American Revolution feeling from the whole thing, which would make Browncoats=Redcoats (just dirtier); this seems to fit more. I.e., freedom-mongers versus "Civilized" Tyrants (the bits where you see civilization in the film seem to reinforce this).. But maybe that's just me.
If your product is really wanted, people will adapt (look at how hard people try to do this with things like reverse-engineered open-source drivers). If you freely provided complete documentation on your hardware, it would make it several orders of magnitude easier for developers to write software for your hardware.
Perhaps, but those are wrong. Testing is what's going to be the new stable when it's done being tested, and isn't current. Unstable is more like current, but is, as the name implies, somewhat often unstable, in every sense of the word. It's the front line of new releases, and sometimes there are casualties. Also, people often forget (or don't know about) Experimental. The newest of the new, the crack commando unit in the war against outdated packages. Anyway, if you really want, you can just call them 'Woody', 'Sarge', and 'Sid'. And, of course, the Experimental branch is secret and nameless.
Yeah, but for (as I spec'd mine) $983? It looks really neat, and the "bistable" display is interesting (is it like eInk or something?), but I can figure out much better ways to spend $983 *coughboozeandhookerscough*
I disagree. I would postulate that most Windows users cannot use windows. Oh, sure, they may be able to click on the blue 'e' on their desktop to get to yahoo.com, but is that really using windows?
You might look into sticking texmacs on them, for creating prose. It has a fairly gentle learning curve for something that's both (a) emacs, and (b) TeX, but it creates very professional looking result.
Plus, it's great for mathematic formulae. The teachers might like this, for making exams and whatnot..
We use a similar system at the Physics department of Texas A&M University. Except, we do use CIFS (and it works great), and we authenticate straight against an LDAP server. Pam_mount can be a little tricky to get set up the first time, but you only have to do it once, and then just mirror that box, or drop it into the proper config files on the rest..
Actually, we have two solutions that we run. The one mentioned above, and a "legacy" set-up using autofs. They both work reasonably well, although pam_mount works better.
It would help if you more accurately described what your "low budget" is, but anyway:
I was able to pick up an Orange Micro iBot, a Firewire Webcam, from eBay for about $40. It delivers great quality, but the colors are a bit wonky (looks fine in black and white). This might be due to the lighting in my room, though, so who knows, YMMV.
Anyway, firewire is great, as other people have mentioned, especially for video. I get the 30 FPS rated by my camera without breaking a sweat, at full resolution. Compare this to the 2.5 FPS I get from my USB camera (Granted, USB 1.1). You might have to buy a firewire card, but this can be had off the internet for less than $20.
I mean, everybody knows that Mississippi and Louisiana are a/dirt/ poor. All we've really got in texas is sand and clay.. I don't think that qualifies from Texas.
Natural Selection is enjoyable, but it seems to me that it suffers from an age-old affliction in multi-player games that makes it a bit not fun, and that is this: The rich get richer.
With equal numbers of players of equal skill, the game is decided in the first minute or two. With a but of luck, you don't need to be as skillful.
This sort of situation doesn't make the game fun.. At least, it didn't for me, and that's probably why I stopped playing.
To be honest, my point was mainly in regards to violent games. Also, I don't really like romance movies, DDR, driving games, or sports games...
(Also, a lot of the games I play are in a completely fictional setting... Most people would consider it rude if I brought about nuclear winter and apocalyptic death and destruction just because that's the setting I enjoy in games and, well, the real thing must be better, right?)
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..It was Shockwave (I.e., Flash).
No, but OS X is hinting that .msi is a Micro-Soft Installer...
Am I the only one reminded of Alpha Centauri by that picture?
+5 ironic
(Yet Another Internet Argument)
While I am quite pleased to see authority figures (even if they are just university professors) standing up to the RIAA, I must admit that Prof. Dannenberg actually did rather little to counter Sherman's arguments; while his points are good and valid, they do, unfortunately, follow one of the cardinal rules of internet arguing: Never argue the opponents points, only point out his weaknesses.
Yeah, this is a good point- and this is why the parent should have just GPL'd his code contributions, and released them on a website in addition to patching them in or whatnot.
Big electricity make little particle.
But impossible to follow, is this:
Only comment the things that are hard to understand. The problem here is that you probably understand everything you're writing.
One way out might be to have a less-talented programmer give it the once over, and point out anything s/he didn't understand, for you to comment upon.
That, and as Dr. Stroustrup (Bjarne) said in class today, your code constructs should be directly analogous to what they are trying to describe in real life... But I guess this goes down to self-documentation.
In case you aren't convinced, see the series. If nothing else, it will help tide you over until September. :)
Actually, I get much more of an American Revolution feeling from the whole thing, which would make Browncoats=Redcoats (just dirtier); this seems to fit more. I.e., freedom-mongers versus "Civilized" Tyrants (the bits where you see civilization in the film seem to reinforce this).. But maybe that's just me.
Anti-piracy companies around the world are now using the infamous "Slashdot" thinktank to refine their methods.
Do volcanos even have lungs?
My ininformed, off-the-cuff answer would be:
Complete and freely available documentation.
If your product is really wanted, people will adapt (look at how hard people try to do this with things like reverse-engineered open-source drivers). If you freely provided complete documentation on your hardware, it would make it several orders of magnitude easier for developers to write software for your hardware.
Perhaps, but those are wrong. Testing is what's going to be the new stable when it's done being tested, and isn't current. Unstable is more like current, but is, as the name implies, somewhat often unstable, in every sense of the word. It's the front line of new releases, and sometimes there are casualties. Also, people often forget (or don't know about) Experimental. The newest of the new, the crack commando unit in the war against outdated packages. Anyway, if you really want, you can just call them 'Woody', 'Sarge', and 'Sid'. And, of course, the Experimental branch is secret and nameless.
Yeah, but for (as I spec'd mine) $983? It looks really neat, and the "bistable" display is interesting (is it like eInk or something?), but I can figure out much better ways to spend $983 *coughboozeandhookerscough*
but they _can_ use Windows
I disagree. I would postulate that most Windows users cannot use windows. Oh, sure, they may be able to click on the blue 'e' on their desktop to get to yahoo.com, but is that really using windows?
You might look into sticking texmacs on them, for creating prose. It has a fairly gentle learning curve for something that's both (a) emacs, and (b) TeX, but it creates very professional looking result.
Plus, it's great for mathematic formulae. The teachers might like this, for making exams and whatnot..
Ironically, 90% of the people I see walking around campus with an MP3 player are carrying iPod minis... Perhaps you underestimate the panache, sir.
We use a similar system at the Physics department of Texas A&M University. Except, we do use CIFS (and it works great), and we authenticate straight against an LDAP server. Pam_mount can be a little tricky to get set up the first time, but you only have to do it once, and then just mirror that box, or drop it into the proper config files on the rest..
Actually, we have two solutions that we run. The one mentioned above, and a "legacy" set-up using autofs. They both work reasonably well, although pam_mount works better.
But not, of course, a butcher of meat. Rather, a butcher of logic.
It would help if you more accurately described what your "low budget" is, but anyway:
I was able to pick up an Orange Micro iBot, a Firewire Webcam, from eBay for about $40. It delivers great quality, but the colors are a bit wonky (looks fine in black and white). This might be due to the lighting in my room, though, so who knows, YMMV.
Anyway, firewire is great, as other people have mentioned, especially for video. I get the 30 FPS rated by my camera without breaking a sweat, at full resolution. Compare this to the 2.5 FPS I get from my USB camera (Granted, USB 1.1). You might have to buy a firewire card, but this can be had off the internet for less than $20.
I hope to God this is a joke...
/dirt/ poor. All we've really got in texas is sand and clay.. I don't think that qualifies from Texas.
// not poor
/// not dirt poor
I mean, everybody knows that Mississippi and Louisiana are a
/ from Texas
Natural Selection is enjoyable, but it seems to me that it suffers from an age-old affliction in multi-player games that makes it a bit not fun, and that is this: The rich get richer.
With equal numbers of players of equal skill, the game is decided in the first minute or two. With a but of luck, you don't need to be as skillful.
This sort of situation doesn't make the game fun.. At least, it didn't for me, and that's probably why I stopped playing.
To be honest, my point was mainly in regards to violent games. Also, I don't really like romance movies, DDR, driving games, or sports games...
(Also, a lot of the games I play are in a completely fictional setting... Most people would consider it rude if I brought about nuclear winter and apocalyptic death and destruction just because that's the setting I enjoy in games and, well, the real thing must be better, right?)
Did you remember to enable the flavor optimzations?