What happened to those? Are they being made but covered up by NDAs? Did they jump
ahead too far, then had to go back to do more basic research on the properties of
materials at that? Surely SOMEONE on Slashdot works at a materials lab and can
clue me in.
Nope. The Visual Quantum Mechanics Asst brought all the tiny pieces to my High School where a student inadvertantly knocked them from the tech's hand. The entire class has spent the last 6 years picking them up. Sorry about that, we'll return them to the science community real soon.
What I'd really like to see, beside stunning graphics which have become the norm for recent FF games, is a story in which a decision you make matters. I'm currently playing FF9 and it annoys me that when I have a choice to take a variety of actions, whichever I choose I see the same outcome.
1. I'd really like to see something like old-school choose your own adventure books (Lonewolf was my favorite) which provide a number of different endings or varried paths to the same outcome.
2. Moral dileams would be nice. Perhaps even a choice to be good or evil ala Fallout.
I realize the game is written for teenagers and even at 22 I will certainly buy it (and see the movie), I just wish they were more challenging and had some replay value.
But now, Mozilla is much faster, more stable, and I love the standards compliance and new features.
Are you using the Linux port? I've tried yesterdays daily and 0.9.2 and it is still more than twice as slow 4.7 to start up and much slower to render a page. I do agree that its stability is vastly improved.
Has anyone else heard the rumor that Mozilla is written in java? I know it is not and I try to inform people who propogate this. Their confusion seems to be that Mozilla's menus are slow to appear the way swing drop down/menus are.
I am all for sane policies in keeping viruses off of campus networks, but scanning directories for infected files is no longer sufficient in catching virses, especially solutions that are known for their lack of cross platform support, and certain privacy issues as well.
Why is it the job of the University to ensure student machines are virus free? I completely understand using something like this for Department machines, Computer Labs, etc, but a machine in a dorm room is not the property of the school and should not be treated as such. Viruses are part of the computer experience and students should take charge themselves.
Some weekend, I'll have to get the entire world over to my house. We can all make copies of our cd's with my burner. Stick it to the RIAA.
On a different note, I completely agree Napster's pay for music plan will be its downfall, but who really cares there are plenty of alternatives (gnutella, mojonation, etc). They all have just as much porn as Napster ever did so lets just forget this conversation ever happened and look at some Hardcore cowboyneal vids, this is the one where he ties hemos up and beats him with a palm pilot:).
You're right, but from the comments posted on that page it appears as though the argument is whether or not they are obligated to provide source code for the portions they wrote in adition to the gpl'd code. Their work requires Mr. Lee's GPL'd code. Is their code a derivative work? If so, as I understand it must be GPL'd too.
Nerds/Geeks are not the only ones who like to see a little skin, ever heard of teenage boys? Perhaps if games contained half-naked images they would stop wasting their time at church bake-sales and play.
It is obvious games are targeted at teenagers as they already have most of the nerd/geek market.
The tick was one of my favorite cartoons. I look forward to seeing it again. My only concern is how they will find an actor muscular (and tall) enough to play the Tick, but I'll certainly watch!
On an off-topic note: Slashdot owners it would be really nice if you implemented a spell-check button, perhaps with a popup window telling me which words I mispelled. *Just a thought.*
What you're suggesting would basically force us to run wine at the kernel level, which is not going to happen.
Browser drivers seems like a nice idea, but I believe it when I see it and it doesn't crash all
the time, act strangely, or require massive tweaking (e.g. as wine currently does for most windows apps)
Are you using 0.9 on windows or linux? Under linux, mozilla 0.9 and all daily builds since then are still painfully slow to start and very slow to use. In its defense it does not crash very often, but is so slow I'd rather risk netscape 4.77 even though it does crash.
FYI: I'm using a p2-450/256mb ram, debian testing, surely a fast enough system for a browser.
It will be great when C++ has many of the rich data types java does. I'm certainly looking forward to it, but I'm sure I'll still write everything in C anyway.
Thats funny. I'm using 3.2.1 and it works great here. None of the problems you describe have surfaced. It provides servlets/jsp/cocoon pages for a medium sized university (where I work).
In the least it is much faster than our perl cgi scripts.
Thats strange, I've found jsp to be faster than some of the other alternatives (especially perl). Yes jsp's compile slowly the first time, but after that it should be quite quick (although that also depends upon the servlet engine; I use tomcat 3.2.1 which is by far not the fastest, but is good enough for my needs (medium sized university)).
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What happened to those? Are they being made but covered up by NDAs? Did they jump ahead too far, then had to go back to do more basic research on the properties of materials at that? Surely SOMEONE on Slashdot works at a materials lab and can clue me in.
Nope. The Visual Quantum Mechanics Asst brought all the tiny pieces to my High School where a student inadvertantly knocked them from the tech's hand. The entire class has spent the last 6 years picking them up. Sorry about that, we'll return them to the science community real soon.
I'm going to burn down the Slashdot Geek Compound if they don't release the Gnu's. Anyone care to help?
What I'd really like to see, beside stunning graphics which have become the norm for recent FF games, is a story in which a decision you make matters. I'm currently playing FF9 and it annoys me that when I have a choice to take a variety of actions, whichever I choose I see the same outcome.
1. I'd really like to see something like old-school choose your own adventure books (Lonewolf was my favorite) which provide a number of different endings or varried paths to the same outcome.
2. Moral dileams would be nice. Perhaps even a choice to be good or evil ala Fallout.
I realize the game is written for teenagers and even at 22 I will certainly buy it (and see the movie), I just wish they were more challenging and had some replay value.
Ummm, I like Visual Studio a lot.
Thats great, but have you tried kdevelop. Many people I know who cannot just use gcc/gdb find it quite usable and preferable to vc++.
Sun open sources its software to make Microsoft look bad. Plain and simple.
Can you provide some proof of this or is this pure speculation?
I personally think Sun has good intentions, but sadly history has shown their lack of direction and poor business sense in recent years.
But now, Mozilla is much faster, more stable, and I love the standards compliance and new features.
Are you using the Linux port? I've tried yesterdays daily and 0.9.2 and it is still more than twice as slow 4.7 to start up and much slower to render a page. I do agree that its stability is vastly improved.
Has anyone else heard the rumor that Mozilla is written in java? I know it is not and I try to inform people who propogate this. Their confusion seems to be that Mozilla's menus are slow to appear the way swing drop down/menus are.
Damn you Slashdot, due to your outage, I actually went outside!
The "Common Computer User" as Slashdot readers are so quick to cite does not believe everything Microsoft feeds them.
In fact the common user:
I am all for sane policies in keeping viruses off of campus networks, but scanning directories for infected files is no longer sufficient in catching virses, especially solutions that are known for their lack of cross platform support, and certain privacy issues as well.
Why is it the job of the University to ensure student machines are virus free? I completely understand using something like this for Department machines, Computer Labs, etc, but a machine in a dorm room is not the property of the school and should not be treated as such. Viruses are part of the computer experience and students should take charge themselves.
Some weekend, I'll have to get the entire world over to my house. We can all make copies of our cd's with my burner. Stick it to the RIAA.
On a different note, I completely agree Napster's pay for music plan will be its downfall, but who really cares there are plenty of alternatives (gnutella, mojonation, etc). They all have just as much porn as Napster ever did so lets just forget this conversation ever happened and look at some Hardcore cowboyneal vids, this is the one where he ties hemos up and beats him with a palm pilot :).
I don't see the how this film really relates to the FF series, except in name of course. Where are the spikey haired guys with swords?
In any case, it looks good and I'll go see it.
Hopefully OpenSource's luck will change soon. This is starting to get depressing.
That's a little dramatic, don't you think? Lets wait and hear what the error is before the condem the free software movement.
You're right, but from the comments posted on that page it appears as though the argument is whether or not they are obligated to provide source code for the portions they wrote in adition to the gpl'd code. Their work requires Mr. Lee's GPL'd code. Is their code a derivative work? If so, as I understand it must be GPL'd too.
Nerds/Geeks are not the only ones who like to see a little skin, ever heard of teenage boys? Perhaps if games contained half-naked images they would stop wasting their time at church bake-sales and play.
It is obvious games are targeted at teenagers as they already have most of the nerd/geek market.
I'd be happy to shop at Amazon as soon as they drop the foolish patents and stop spamming my email account (even though I've asked them 4 times now!)
Solomon Grundy say wormy cheese... good going down, not so good coming up.
oooooooooooon!
The tick was one of my favorite cartoons. I look forward to seeing it again. My only concern is how they will find an actor muscular (and tall) enough to play the Tick, but I'll certainly watch!
On an off-topic note: Slashdot owners it would be really nice if you implemented a spell-check button, perhaps with a popup window telling me which words I mispelled. *Just a thought.*
Jon Katz? Didn't he set up us the bomb?
thanks, you're right. I'm a little ashamed to admit, but I'm more of a java person, although PERL was my first non c/c++ language.
I'm making a cowboyneal pathogen
At least win2k will ask if you want IIS or anything, with linux its either server or workstation.
$your_post =~ s/linux/redhat (mandrake and other RH clones)/i
It is irresponsible to add fuel to the redhat==linux confusion.
Thats a terrible idea!
What you're suggesting would basically force us to run wine at the kernel level, which is not going to happen.
Browser drivers seems like a nice idea, but I believe it when I see it and it doesn't crash all the time, act strangely, or require massive tweaking (e.g. as wine currently does for most windows apps)
Are you using 0.9 on windows or linux? Under linux, mozilla 0.9 and all daily builds since then are still painfully slow to start and very slow to use. In its defense it does not crash very often, but is so slow I'd rather risk netscape 4.77 even though it does crash.
FYI: I'm using a p2-450/256mb ram, debian testing, surely a fast enough system for a browser.
Now what is it today? Will playing with IT make me go blind or not?
jon katz? Didn't he set up us the bomb?
It will be great when C++ has many of the rich data types java does. I'm certainly looking forward to it, but I'm sure I'll still write everything in C anyway.
Thats funny. I'm using 3.2.1 and it works great here. None of the problems you describe have surfaced. It provides servlets/jsp/cocoon pages for a medium sized university (where I work).
In the least it is much faster than our perl cgi scripts.
Thats strange, I've found jsp to be faster than some of the other alternatives (especially perl). Yes jsp's compile slowly the first time, but after that it should be quite quick (although that also depends upon the servlet engine; I use tomcat 3.2.1 which is by far not the fastest, but is good enough for my needs (medium sized university)).