So is Windows 2000 or Mac OS X, but they're the proper names."
Actually the proper name for Windows 2000 is Microsoft Windows 2000. The system properties for my work machine lists it as running Microsoft Windows XP, not Windows XP.
Geesh, every time you design a game the players do nothing but complain about the game balance.
"Lawyers and tax collecters earn too much money, while teachers don't" "Good doesn't always win out over evil" "Some people start the game bigger/faster/smarter than other people"
These kinds of balance issues take TIME, okay? No wonder the dev stopped talking to the players years ago. All we do is complain.
Where are all these fat pasty geeks I keep hearing about? Most I see are scrawny as hell. Yeah okay, so they're pasty, but they could carry a M16(crap, just try to KEEP a geek away from a M16 for Christ's sake).
I'd think the "college degree" required bit would be a bigger limiting factor.
Don't forget to subtract the costs of battle.net from those figures. That's a huge cash drain that doesn't directly bring in any income, it's supported solely by box sales.
I think that's why Blizzard is making World of Warcraft. It'll keep battle.net funded.
So if you're a webcaster you have to pay the RIAA if you want to play their songs, but if you're a radio station the RIAA pays you??
Oh. And after working to shut down webcasters, NOW the RIAA is bitching about having to pay radio stations to get their songs out because it's the only medium?
Well, I'm also an old fart roleplayer but I enjoy these new tools.
Yes, you give up a certain creative license. You won't be creating new dungeons on the fly in NWN, but on the plus you also "give up" a lot of the labor. You spend less time rolling dice(the game engine handles the mechanics) and more time telling a story.
By logical extension I'd suppose it'd go more like this:
1> Remote hosting company notifies you that they own it before you use them, they own it. 2> Remote hosting company doesn't notify you... you should own it.
It's about the EULA. If your cell phone has a EULA that states, "we 0wnj y00 vmail" then they probably own it.
I really don't have a problem with that because I can simply not use remote storage services. I DO have a problem with EULAs that try to say they own stuff on my property just because I bought their product.
Phone company says in a EULA that they own vmail hosted on their servers? Okay, I can see that. But say an answering machine company says in a EULA that they own the messages recorded on the machine I bought? I don't think so.
Physical products don't work that way, and I really don't see how software makers who write these silly EULAs that you sometimes see think they're so special.
You know I always wondered why television advertising was so lucrative when internet advertising bombed out.
But all I know is that the only really sure thing is that people want to sell things, people want to buy things, and there will be money to be made in bringing the two together.
While I'd agree part of MS's success is it's universal nature, Linux apps are not distribution specific.
You don't have to target a specific Linux distribution, a Linux app written under Red Hat will work on Debian just fine.
The only thing that really differs from distribution to distribution are how they install and where the config files are kept(which is becoming more standardized). If you don't assume where system config files are stored your app will run just fine.
325? How about 200 bucks for a HP Laserjet off of Ebay.
I got an old HP Laserjet II that runs like a champ. A lot of those laserjets were designed for high use in corp environments. Even used ones have a lot of life in them.
The thing is, Java's strength is it's very weakness. Java is a platform neutral by design, so it's rather clunky when compared to a platform specific language. You won't ever see a game written in Java, not because Java is slow, but because you can't use Direct X with it(or whatever platform specific lib you want).
I think Java is going to own the embedded market. A cell phone company can create Java software and it can happily switch around the cell phone hardware as much as they want and still use the same single piece of software.
Palm Pilots are still popular for this same reason. There are tons of Palm apps that run on them and the new Pilots are software compatible with the older ones.
.NET appears to be different than Java in that it makes no attempt at being platform neutral, rather it tries to be language nuetral. Python.NET, VB.NET, C++.NET all compile down to the same CLR. And a VB.NET developer can use Python.NET libraries.
I think this will dominate the application market.
Today's science very much is a belief. Do you know how long it took for the idea that dinosaurs were warm blooded to be accepted? There was a lot of evidence around for it, it was even suggested by quite a few "crackpots" but it took a pop film for the idea to catch on.
The sad truth is that today's science very much rejects ideas that do not fit into the established mold of "this is how things are". The ideals of science are sound, but it's implemenation by society today is more like a religon.
My 1.4 Tbird at home runs a "cool" 60-64 C with the case off, a fan sucking air off the board, a 1.5Ghz+ rated CPU fan and Arctic Silver 3 compound spread like butter between the chip and fan.
No way I'd use AMD on a at work machine stuck inside some box that'll be beneath someone's desk being used as a footrest.
I love how when 100 windows oriented companies go down the drain each day it's because of bad business practices.
But when a company goes down and happens to make a Linux port on the side, why then it went under because the Linux crowd is a bunch of cheap bastards.
I'm sorry, but if you think high tech workers are going to migrate to Canada if it means earning 70k Can when they used to earn 70k US, you're off your rocker.
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Just because there are a few nuts in the family, doesn't mean the entire family tree is nuts.
"3: Because GNU/Linux is too damn long to say
So is Windows 2000 or Mac OS X, but they're the proper names."
Actually the proper name for Windows 2000 is Microsoft Windows 2000. The system properties for my work machine lists it as running Microsoft Windows XP, not Windows XP.
But no one uses the full name.
Geesh, every time you design a game the players do nothing but complain about the game balance.
"Lawyers and tax collecters earn too much money, while teachers don't"
"Good doesn't always win out over evil"
"Some people start the game bigger/faster/smarter than other people"
These kinds of balance issues take TIME, okay? No wonder the dev stopped talking to the players years ago. All we do is complain.
I think the "slow progression" theory of evolution has been replaced by a more "rapid spurts" idea of evolution.
And there are fossil records of our ancestors: homo erectus, homo habilis, australopithecus afaranus and so on.
Does this mean that in bars instead of asking chicks their sign, it'll be "ASL plz".
Where are all these fat pasty geeks I keep hearing about? Most I see are scrawny as hell. Yeah okay, so they're pasty, but they could carry a M16(crap, just try to KEEP a geek away from a M16 for Christ's sake).
I'd think the "college degree" required bit would be a bigger limiting factor.
Don't forget to subtract the costs of battle.net from those figures. That's a huge cash drain that doesn't directly bring in any income, it's supported solely by box sales.
I think that's why Blizzard is making World of Warcraft. It'll keep battle.net funded.
Easily solved if you don't have their H1-B's dependant on keeping a job.
I mean, if they're living here they gotta spend money to eat, live, etc. Does it really matter if they decide to quit their job and just hang out?
So if you're a webcaster you have to pay the RIAA if you want to play their songs, but if you're a radio station the RIAA pays you??
Oh. And after working to shut down webcasters, NOW the RIAA is bitching about having to pay radio stations to get their songs out because it's the only medium?
Cry me a fucking river.
Well, I'm also an old fart roleplayer but I enjoy these new tools.
Yes, you give up a certain creative license. You won't be creating new dungeons on the fly in NWN, but on the plus you also "give up" a lot of the labor. You spend less time rolling dice(the game engine handles the mechanics) and more time telling a story.
By logical extension I'd suppose it'd go more like this:
1> Remote hosting company notifies you that they own it before you use them, they own it.
2> Remote hosting company doesn't notify you... you should own it.
It's about the EULA. If your cell phone has a EULA that states, "we 0wnj y00 vmail" then they probably own it.
I really don't have a problem with that because I can simply not use remote storage services. I DO have a problem with EULAs that try to say they own stuff on my property just because I bought their product.
Phone company says in a EULA that they own vmail hosted on their servers? Okay, I can see that. But say an answering machine company says in a EULA that they own the messages recorded on the machine I bought? I don't think so.
Physical products don't work that way, and I really don't see how software makers who write these silly EULAs that you sometimes see think they're so special.
You know I always wondered why television advertising was so lucrative when internet advertising bombed out.
But all I know is that the only really sure thing is that people want to sell things, people want to buy things, and there will be money to be made in bringing the two together.
Wonder if I can file a patent on it and make everyone pay me licensing fees for existing.
While I'd agree part of MS's success is it's universal nature, Linux apps are not distribution specific.
You don't have to target a specific Linux distribution, a Linux app written under Red Hat will work on Debian just fine.
The only thing that really differs from distribution to distribution are how they install and where the config files are kept(which is becoming more standardized). If you don't assume where system config files are stored your app will run just fine.
325? How about 200 bucks for a HP Laserjet off of Ebay.
I got an old HP Laserjet II that runs like a champ. A lot of those laserjets were designed for high use in corp environments. Even used ones have a lot of life in them.
No joke. You can pick up an older HP Laserjet off ebay for 200 bucks easy. And those things pretty much last forever.
The thing is, Java's strength is it's very weakness. Java is a platform neutral by design, so it's rather clunky when compared to a platform specific language. You won't ever see a game written in Java, not because Java is slow, but because you can't use Direct X with it(or whatever platform specific lib you want).
I think Java is going to own the embedded market. A cell phone company can create Java software and it can happily switch around the cell phone hardware as much as they want and still use the same single piece of software.
Palm Pilots are still popular for this same reason. There are tons of Palm apps that run on them and the new Pilots are software compatible with the older ones.
.NET appears to be different than Java in that it makes no attempt at being platform neutral, rather it tries to be language nuetral. Python.NET, VB.NET, C++.NET all compile down to the same CLR. And a VB.NET developer can use Python.NET libraries.
I think this will dominate the application market.
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Today's science very much is a belief. Do you know how long it took for the idea that dinosaurs were warm blooded to be accepted? There was a lot of evidence around for it, it was even suggested by quite a few "crackpots" but it took a pop film for the idea to catch on.
The sad truth is that today's science very much rejects ideas that do not fit into the established mold of "this is how things are". The ideals of science are sound, but it's implemenation by society today is more like a religon.
My 1.4 Tbird at home runs a "cool" 60-64 C with the case off, a fan sucking air off the board, a 1.5Ghz+ rated CPU fan and Arctic Silver 3 compound spread like butter between the chip and fan.
No way I'd use AMD on a at work machine stuck inside some box that'll be beneath someone's desk being used as a footrest.
I love how when 100 windows oriented companies go down the drain each day it's because of bad business practices.
But when a company goes down and happens to make a Linux port on the side, why then it went under because the Linux crowd is a bunch of cheap bastards.
Oh boy, EQ in pen and paper?
So now I get to sit around a table and camp the FBSS without the pretty graphics?
Player: "has the ghoul spawned?"
EM: "not yet."
(2 hours pass)
Player: "has the ghoul spawned?"
EM: "nope."
I'm sorry, but if you think high tech workers are going to migrate to Canada if it means earning 70k Can when they used to earn 70k US, you're off your rocker.
It's sort of like the fashion industry, what the models wear on the runways isn't what you're going to buy in Sears, but it does set the "trend".
Ideas are not copyrightable only works are and only those that have been written down on a physical medium.
Copyright law isn't screwed up in the US, it's actually pretty well laid out and reasonable. Now our patent system is a joke.