Maybe it's just me (it is about time to go home, and the spectre of getting drunk is looming ever larger in my mind), or was that scoop extremely non-sensical and vague? I understand the importance of ReadingTFA before asking questions, but shouldn't the scoop in some way articulate the actual purpose of itself? Where the hell is Nietchze?
You know, I was really trying to think of something funny to say about this, but I just can't seem to glean any humor from the imagery in my head: 4 developers sitting in a shadowy row of cubicles, hunched over in front of terminals "extreme programming" the same file, maybe stopping to give each other high-fives and hype each other up every now and again (I guess extreme developers behave in rad ways like that).
Is the ability to have multiple people editing the same text file at once really all that exciting?
After dealing with Linux sound for 3 years.....
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"Topic discussions included in-depth presentations of the rapidly evolving Linux sound system..."
I hope so. After working with Linux for three years I have come to expect little in terms of audio. Hell, I was taken completely by suprise when the Redhat 8.0 install actually had a "play sample sound" button. It was like first time I witnessed scaling effects on the SNES. Inspiring.
Slashdot editors over-do April Fools Jokes in grand fashion! CmdrTaco, site founder, uses this faux holiday to make light of his tendancy to duplicate news submissions with a long running and thoroughly unfunny repeat posting of an "evil bit in IPv4" story! General Tommy Franks will speculate upon this development.....
Oh wait! Geraldo Rivera has just reported from the front lines that Slashdot editors have indeed made one last unfunny April Fool's post well after the April 1rst UN sanctioned deadline! The violation in question appears to be an equally unfunny LinkSys-does-something-post! Amazing! We have satellite imagery incoming......
I take the whole "Windows vs Linux" debate very seriously, both professionally and personally. I can't bring myself to buy a Microsoft product. I know what kind of company they are, I know their history, and I have seen the competition. If the only downside to not using Windows is the ability to play every game upon release, then I can live with that.
It is more important to me not fund an arguably evil monopoly, pay idioticly high prices, get locked into licensing schemes, be subject to a myriad of viruses and security issues, and be unable to have full control over my system.
I purchased this copy of Redhat 8.0 for $24 after my corporate discount. With it I recieved applications for IM'n, word processing, web browsing, web development, application testing (for free), database development and testing (for free), image and video manipulation - and for a little extra a year I can play my games with WineX. The alternative: $140-$200 for an OS that would have demanded of me more powerful hardware, anti-virus software, personal firewall software, and the need to purchase my basic office applications, image manipulation tools, web development tools, and database software.
I choose intellectual integrity and savings in excess of $2000 over the ability to play the newest games.
I bet a calm, eerie silence fell over the Microsoft developer's "War Room" when the news of this newest XP enhancement hit the fan. Even Balmer probably had nothing to say.
Why doesn't everyone just sit back and wait and see what MS does?
Because we already know what Microsoft will do: employ whatever tactics neccassary to insure their continued monopoly status and success - even if it means eliminating the private ownership of data as we know it. The rabid MS bashing going on isn't a sign of premature paranoia, rather, it is the natural reaction of those that have studied the company's history.
It is surreal how easily Microsoft is able to employ such blatant and souless cash grabs without sounding off alarms in the business sector. Microsoft is free to employ monopoly induced moves into various markets, orchestrate forced upgrade procedures, raise prices while limiting support, and engineer horrible licensing schemes without any fear of fall out.
Now MS can candidly tell consumers how they intend on outright controlling all of your data and even charge developers for the "privilage" of being able to conform.
I just can't see how so many pointy-hairs can examine Microsoft and it's products and decide that it would a good idea to spend so much money on it. Microsoft sales people are truly adept at their trade.
That's some pretty impressive stuff, you have to admit. I couldn't see this getting done very well with DHTML. Animation work, especially interactive anaimation, is the definate niche for Flash. It can be developed so cheaply and so quickly, loaded in any browser with a free plugin, and effortlessly distributed to billions via the internet. Perfect format.
I never saw the point in cheating, it just lessens the experience. I remember there was this one team of guys that used to use cheats and/or exploits in Operation Flashpoint. I never understood the logic: if you are playing a game for fun and challenge, how do you feel rewarded if you achieve victory unfairly?
For example, CNN reported that Iraqi forces were using wallhacks, and they have been camping in spots located well outside of the battle map/field where US missles can't reach. Totally unfair.
Bitrate and bandwidth aren't being increased, so the connection isn't any faster. This will help people that just browse the web, but not gamers, IT people that work from home, those that like to download and upload large files, etc.
Call me a pessimist, but I have serious reservations about using open source in the process of manufacturing more lawyers. I thought we were supposed to be noble?!
Better how? You perform essentially the same duties in the current offerings of those franchises (Zelda and Metroid), only in a grander presentation with all of the goodies that new technology and innovation brings.
No one is denying that the first Metroid was immensely enjoyable, but it is a hard case to prove that it is "better" in any category (the classical categories for gaming: visuals, sound, ingenuity, and game ply) then Prime. I mean cmon, Metroid Prime still features platforming gaming, if that is all you are looking for. The newest Zelda game not only gives you all of the options that the originals did, it enters previously unexplored areas of graphics and gameplay.
Try selling a game that looks and plays like the original Legend of Zelda.
I could have sworn that there were only about 5 or 6 genres total. FPS, strategy (both real time and not), puzzle, sport, RPG (which includes MMORPG), adventure epic, and simulation. If ten genres are dying, then in five years we won't be playing anything.
In the real news, if America were not the dominant power to ever walk the Earth, your stupid ass would be wondering why the KGB was busting down your door when you posting your opinions on a web site. Dumb ass. We own you - deal, you stupid pussy.
...but what the fuck is a Trigun? I assume that it is anime, but the hell if I ever heard of it. If it isn't available for rental at my local Blockbuster, I haven't heard of it. I think that most people would feel the same way.
Furthermore, is this really news worthy? If so, hey, Strong Bad made a new Trogdor game!! Quick, link to it!
Concerning "Bush the war mongerer" statements
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Bush didn't demand that Saddam disarm or face war, the UN did. Specifically, the UN stated this with one of their resolutions. Powell was the one that pushed for the most recent of such resolutions, true, but such resolutions were already pre-existing. The UN basically refused to act upon it, and instead turned to a policy of appeasement. That is certaingly their right, since again, no one likes armed conflict (well, no one but Muslim terrorists that is, but anyways...). Some in the ranks of the British government were of course at odds with such a policy, as was the United States. So we decided to follow the resolutions in place and reject appeasement. The outcome: forced regime change (there could be no other logical conclusion. You can't expect to force a man like Saddam to disarm, leave him in power, and expect him to remain that way).
War sucks, I wish it didn't have to be the "way", but I don't see any other choice. If the country in question was North Korea, or the target of disarmament some African regime of warlords, no one would be complaining (no one expect the warlords or Kim Jong Il, that is). But in this case, it is a nation of an Islamic majority that has strong business deals with France. The leader of Germany would rather have strong political ties to his neigbors then to the US (not to mention the fact that he rode the peace ticket into office). So, we arrive at today.
Bla bla bla, you still can't modify the code that you're looking at. Furthermore, if it is even possible that you can modify a given product to work better with the code that you are merely looking at (Windows/Office/IIS or some component thereof), there are so many stipulations to the agreement that it is 99% impossible that you will ever be able to apply your new found knowledge in any useful way to an open source project (or a competing closed-source project).
It makes perfect sense. How can you have a truly standard hardware architecture that software developers and hardware engineers can work with openly, if it isn't all open source from the ground up (so to speak)? If you are going to push for such a model, why not choose the most established (and the most popular and the most coporate backed) open source operating system? This insures maximum future interoperability.
Besides, it's just a start. Once you have such a moidel in place, other open source OSs would be just as welcome. You just have to start as simply as possible. Right?
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Maybe it's just me (it is about time to go home, and the spectre of getting drunk is looming ever larger in my mind), or was that scoop extremely non-sensical and vague? I understand the importance of ReadingTFA before asking questions, but shouldn't the scoop in some way articulate the actual purpose of itself? Where the hell is Nietchze?
But does it run Windows?
Is the ability to have multiple people editing the same text file at once really all that exciting?
"Topic discussions included in-depth presentations of the rapidly evolving Linux sound system..."
I hope so. After working with Linux for three years I have come to expect little in terms of audio. Hell, I was taken completely by suprise when the Redhat 8.0 install actually had a "play sample sound" button. It was like first time I witnessed scaling effects on the SNES. Inspiring.
But does it run Linux?
But does it run Linux?
Oh wait! Geraldo Rivera has just reported from the front lines that Slashdot editors have indeed made one last unfunny April Fool's post well after the April 1rst UN sanctioned deadline! The violation in question appears to be an equally unfunny LinkSys-does-something-post! Amazing! We have satellite imagery incoming......
It is more important to me not fund an arguably evil monopoly, pay idioticly high prices, get locked into licensing schemes, be subject to a myriad of viruses and security issues, and be unable to have full control over my system.
I purchased this copy of Redhat 8.0 for $24 after my corporate discount. With it I recieved applications for IM'n, word processing, web browsing, web development, application testing (for free), database development and testing (for free), image and video manipulation - and for a little extra a year I can play my games with WineX. The alternative: $140-$200 for an OS that would have demanded of me more powerful hardware, anti-virus software, personal firewall software, and the need to purchase my basic office applications, image manipulation tools, web development tools, and database software.
I choose intellectual integrity and savings in excess of $2000 over the ability to play the newest games.
I would have paid to see their expressions.
Because we already know what Microsoft will do: employ whatever tactics neccassary to insure their continued monopoly status and success - even if it means eliminating the private ownership of data as we know it. The rabid MS bashing going on isn't a sign of premature paranoia, rather, it is the natural reaction of those that have studied the company's history.
Now MS can candidly tell consumers how they intend on outright controlling all of your data and even charge developers for the "privilage" of being able to conform.
I just can't see how so many pointy-hairs can examine Microsoft and it's products and decide that it would a good idea to spend so much money on it. Microsoft sales people are truly adept at their trade.
they're rebels
What's this, a free software music video? this is going to be one of dumbest, geekiest things ever created. I can't wait to watch it.
Anyone care to cut and paste the text for a brother?
That's some pretty impressive stuff, you have to admit. I couldn't see this getting done very well with DHTML. Animation work, especially interactive anaimation, is the definate niche for Flash. It can be developed so cheaply and so quickly, loaded in any browser with a free plugin, and effortlessly distributed to billions via the internet. Perfect format.
For example, CNN reported that Iraqi forces were using wallhacks, and they have been camping in spots located well outside of the battle map/field where US missles can't reach. Totally unfair.
Bitrate and bandwidth aren't being increased, so the connection isn't any faster. This will help people that just browse the web, but not gamers, IT people that work from home, those that like to download and upload large files, etc.
That was a joke, by the way. Kind of.
No one is denying that the first Metroid was immensely enjoyable, but it is a hard case to prove that it is "better" in any category (the classical categories for gaming: visuals, sound, ingenuity, and game ply) then Prime. I mean cmon, Metroid Prime still features platforming gaming, if that is all you are looking for. The newest Zelda game not only gives you all of the options that the originals did, it enters previously unexplored areas of graphics and gameplay.
Try selling a game that looks and plays like the original Legend of Zelda.
I could have sworn that there were only about 5 or 6 genres total. FPS, strategy (both real time and not), puzzle, sport, RPG (which includes MMORPG), adventure epic, and simulation. If ten genres are dying, then in five years we won't be playing anything.
In the real news, if America were not the dominant power to ever walk the Earth, your stupid ass would be wondering why the KGB was busting down your door when you posting your opinions on a web site. Dumb ass. We own you - deal, you stupid pussy.
Furthermore, is this really news worthy? If so, hey, Strong Bad made a new Trogdor game!! Quick, link to it!
War sucks, I wish it didn't have to be the "way", but I don't see any other choice. If the country in question was North Korea, or the target of disarmament some African regime of warlords, no one would be complaining (no one expect the warlords or Kim Jong Il, that is). But in this case, it is a nation of an Islamic majority that has strong business deals with France. The leader of Germany would rather have strong political ties to his neigbors then to the US (not to mention the fact that he rode the peace ticket into office). So, we arrive at today.
Gotta love politics. Fun stuff.
"Shared source" is just a marketing ploy.
Besides, it's just a start. Once you have such a moidel in place, other open source OSs would be just as welcome. You just have to start as simply as possible. Right?