Maybe because helium doesn't have billions in Saudi oil money, funding from the Koch family and The Carlyle Group trying to influence social opinions about balloons.
...hahahahahahaha. Haha..hahahahahahahahahaha. Oh, wo...hahahahahahahahaha. Oh WOW!
OK, so they love Open Source? Like they love Open Standards? I.e. They "LOVE" them, as long as they have absolute control over them and are able to define them arbitrarily in terms of the output of their closed source applications. Perhaps Microsoft has recently filed a patent on the concept of love, thereby redefining it? In other news, child molesters "love" children and rapists "love" women.
Utter bullshit. They may "love" Open Source because they can plunder all the BSD code they want or because, IIRC (from an interview on LugRadio), they use gcc and linux build clusters behind the scenes to make their lives easier. But the main reason they "love" Open Source? Because right now it suits them to say that they do and because they want to be framed as The Good guy next to Oracle's The Bad guy. I trust Microsoft's commitment to Open Source about as far as I could throw Steve Ballmer into a headwind (and I'm not a strong guy).
Not sure what you're inferring from the summary, or implying with your "moral high ground" comment, but he's not trying to "stick it" to Google. Google have just complied with requests to remove the photographs. I think he's going to do what they can't(or won't) do, i.e. take pictures and link them to Google maps. If the same people want to request that those photographs be taken down, presumably Google won't be able to just remove them...as they are expected to do when it's their photographs and they're trying to avoid a lawsuit/Bad PR. Even if Google does take them down, he can still find some other way to do it..
Why Google removed them in the first place I have no idea. Photographs taken of anything from the street must surely be allowed on the grounds that there's no reasonable expectation of privacy if your building is situated on a public right of way?
it is the sole remaining species in the Genus Ornithorhynchus and the Family Ornithorhynchidae. along with the echidnas (do they need explaining, too?) they make up the Order Monotremata, the egg-laying, web-footed, electrolocating mammals. they evolved, just like the rest of us.
if there had only been one remaining species of marsupial, would they need explaining?
Having read that, I want to kill myself. How the hell do you cope? At some point, surely you have to put your foot down and drag them up rather than being dragged down to their level? I'm feeling the same defeated melancholy that I did as a child when I learnt about the Luddites smashing mechanical looms.:(
Fail. The person you quoted perfectly addressed the hyperbolic complaint that a 67 year old could not install a Linux distribution on a random collection of hardware by pointing out that doing the same with any version of Windows would be equally hit-and-miss. (I contend that it would actually be more hit-and-miss. Slackware 13.* worked on my hardware out of the box. Windows 7 didn't, I had to download drivers for my network card from within Linux. I couldn't find drivers for my old Creative Soundblaster 1024 soundcard at all, so I ended up replacing it.)
The fact that one can buy Windows pre-installed on a machine is almost completely irrelevant because there are (or were, at least) a number of companies selling Linux pre-installed on tried and tested hardware. The fact that there aren't as many of them has as much to do with hardware compatibility as it has to do with currency fluctuations in central Europe in the post-war period. I submit that it has more to do with people's familiarity with Windows and their fear of change coupled with the legacy of Microsoft's monopolistic history, i.e. overwhelming dominance of the desktop OS market and the popular mis-conception that they and Apple are the only shows in town.
...offended. Tagged "thinkofthechildren". Faux News sensationalism strikes again and were it not for them, the parents of dead soldiers would probably never have even heard about the game, let alone: "The Taliban Option". So who is the real villain?
No other exchange mechanism has been this easy to use and this powerful.
The telephone's pretty cool too.
Yep, I regularly get calls from Stephen Fry, Simon Pegg, Eric Meyer, Graham Linehan, Dave Mustaine, Jono Bacon, Chris DiBona, Miguel de Icaza, Derick Rethans and Ben Heck telling me what they're up to, sharing information, links etc. Seriously, I don't know what all the brouhaha around this twitter thing is when the humble telephone can do everything much more easily! The GP's post was a bit over the top...("No other exchange mechanism has been this easy to use and this powerful.")...but for the purpose, Twitter is the most powerful tool I've seen. The only real alternative is for everyone to blog and publish an RSS feed.
From the fact that you've "tried" Twitter, "repeatedly" and "hated it every time", I'll infer that you tried it for short periods of time and never really gave it much of a chance. Fair? I thought it was just nonsense for a long time until I signed up and stuck with it. There's no reason why you can't have a separate list of technologists, experts in your field etc that you can keep open during work hours without feeling guilty. As for your comment that it's for people who don't "do things", there are a few people in that list up there that "do things" instead of just talking about doing them.
There's no obligation to build a list of followers and you can quite happily consume feeds without ever tweeting yourself. If by a followers list, you mean, the people you follow, then I *really* don't understand. The list of people I follow is more or less static and has been for a long time. Occasionally I'll follow someone new, and then I might decide to unfollow them, but it's not a lot of work. No more so than adding a new RSS feed to your RSS reader of choice.
At the time of writing, there are two comments on Greg Baker's blog, congratulating Vinay on making it onto Slashdot. Jeez...he's potentially solved one of (if not) the most important open problem in computing, which could land him a million dollars in prize money...but yeah...well done on making it into that most esteemed of online publications, Slashdot.
I'm also suitably stupefied. All the "pink" and "red" flags that they are obviously so clever to spot, and which she spends almost the entire article talking about, are just her dancing around the elephant in the room: that she and her team are complete fucking idiots.
Seriously. The important things they learnt, consolidated in the "6 steps" at the bottom of the article are pure common-sense. Even if they're not concerned about "malvertisements" (ick) they should already have been checking references properly (i.e. using a bank's listed number, not one provided by the "agency" and checking the certificates of incorporation of them and their referees). It's common fucking sense even when you are just trying to establish whether or not to extend a line of credit to them! I wish I could have avoided swearing, but it makes me feel physically sick to think that someone can publically admit to being such a colossal moron and still have a job. Not only that, but to have people thanking her for her insight!! Idiots! How much time was wasted by her, her sales droids, her marketers etc.? Idiots! Using the word "creative" as a noun when referring to banner-ad files? Idiot!! AAAGHHH!
Anyway, you're not learning much about writing code from putting your code up on a website anyway, are you?
Errr...perhaps not...but you may be helping other people to learn...which seems to be a neat side-effect of students being able to share their Scratch projects.
I have no idea what you mean by:
You can code up pretty much any copyrighted works you'd like.
Imitating the game-play elements of pacman from scratch in the language of your choice is not "coding up a copyrighted work"...well, it is, but you own the copyright to it. (Unless you have directly copied code, or game resources such as sprites, midi sounds, etc.) If the sprites were ripped straight from a game rom it would be a copyright infringement, which, I agree would be stupid, but otherwise, what's the problem? Level layouts may be a grey area...
The other half is dreaming up new ideas.
Tell NAMCO.
Recap: it's pretty obvious you haven't looked at the Scratch website. Why not?
I think the stated "big"ness of those features is in comparison to the other, "lesser" features. It doesn't say it's a "big feature realease", anywhere.
And of coarse, the resin he was detained was because the Tor project facilitates the kinds of leaking/whistle-blowing that the government wants to stop. No doubt a lot of people are now under a great deal of pressure to plug the leaks and are doing everything in their power. Not a good resin, but there we are. Merely demanding that they have a "reason" isn't a very high benchmark.
2 stories?? Of which this is one? "Inordinate"? Really? I think perhaps you need a new dictionary...
/. has spent far more time discussing Starcraft 2(6) over the past year than they have Alien Swarm(2). Numbers in brackets are the actual number of stories I counted, this year. Going back further, there's another 8 SC2 stories and only 3 more Alien Swarm stories, and those are discussing the original mod, not the current Source port.
So? Buy a house. I bet the contract doesn't explicitly define what "easement" or "chattels" mean. Feel free to cite further examples and I'm sure others will help to clarify things for you. But ultimately, if you don't understand the contract, which is what the GPL is, ask a lawyer. If you break the terms of the contract, the rights extended to you by it are null and void and you're violating copyright law. And here's the thing, if you are thinking of trying to make money from selling/distributing software that you are worried might violate someone else's copyrights, why wouldn't you seek legal advice? And there's always the option of not basing your software on GPL'd code and using something that's BSD licensed...or writing it yourself of course.
When I was fresh out of university I looked at Rent-A-Coder and the typical brief was something like:
"I need an internet auction site developed from scratch, something like ebays, it should have an ACCESS database and developed in C. This should be easy for the write candidate. Budget: $500"
There would then be a flurry of people bidding to do it for $300. There is no way that I could live like that. No sane "coder" would want to work with people like that as clients for so little money.
Pretty sure it's the first. And yes, the list is complete and utter wank. There are only a few who deserve to be on that list and the only one on the list that stands out (and who would be on my list of potential inductees), Shigeru Miyamoto. Nolan Bushnell, Ralph Baer and the founder of NAMCO, are all industry pioneers who have earnt a place on the list. I might...MIGHT...even go so far as to say that Jonathon "Fatal1ty" Wendel isn't *that* out of place considering how well known he is and how he was one of the best known gamers at a time when competitive gaming was taking off, just look at all the products named after him. But trawling the past for the champion of "Berzerk"...WTF?
John Carmack, Tom Hall, American McGee, John Romero, Sandy Petersen, Gabe Newell, Alexey Pajitnov, Sid Meier, Richard Garriott and Will Wright all deserve to be honoured on that list, but I doubt that will happen while Microsoft is stacking the votes. Who the hell has ever heard of either of the XBox design team members on the list? I thought it was called a hall of *FAME*?
Oh well...I'm really good at playing Led Zeppelin on my CD player, so maybe I can get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Hang on, let's compare apples to apples, (I'll side-step theatre, because I can't think of any good examples, but I'm sure they exist) :
For every "Casablanca", there are 10 "Dude, Where's My Car?"s, "Grandma Got Her Funk Back"s and "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory"s.
For every "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" there are 10 "Harold & Kumar"s, "Cheech & Chong"s and "American Pie 3"s.
Similarly, for every "Portal", "Braid" or "Monkey Island" there are numerous generic first person shooters where you have to mow down wave upon wave of enemies with increasingly powerful, brutal weapons.
There is no doubt that film is considered by many to be a "serious" entertainment medium, and yet the number of childish, puerile, banal movies FAR FAR FAR exceeds the number of "great movies".
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are considered by some to be great movies, and even the critics who don't took the time out to review them and give them serious consideration, yet they both contain copious amounts of swearing and violence.
With that in mind, I really don't think that getting rid of gratuitous or excessive sex, violence and swearing is the silver bullet to getting gaming accepted as a "serious" entertainment medium by the mainstream that you think it is. Nor do I agree that violent games, per se, could never be taken seriously. However I totally agree that the kind of bloodthirsty, all-out FPSs you refer to will probably never be considered "high art", in the same way that "Transporter 7: School Run Traffic" will never be, but there is no reason, for example, that a survival horror game in the vein of the Resident Evil franchise couldn't receive more serious consideration as art.
Tangential, but this explains why you're wrong. Listen to MC Hawking - Entropy. Listen hard at 01:49.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw. The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system, it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe because helium doesn't have billions in Saudi oil money, funding from the Koch family and The Carlyle Group trying to influence social opinions about balloons.
Yeah, right. That's what They want you to think.
...hahahahahahaha. Haha..hahahahahahahahahaha. Oh, wo...hahahahahahahahaha. Oh WOW!
OK, so they love Open Source? Like they love Open Standards? I.e. They "LOVE" them, as long as they have absolute control over them and are able to define them arbitrarily in terms of the output of their closed source applications. Perhaps Microsoft has recently filed a patent on the concept of love, thereby redefining it? In other news, child molesters "love" children and rapists "love" women.
Utter bullshit. They may "love" Open Source because they can plunder all the BSD code they want or because, IIRC (from an interview on LugRadio), they use gcc and linux build clusters behind the scenes to make their lives easier. But the main reason they "love" Open Source? Because right now it suits them to say that they do and because they want to be framed as The Good guy next to Oracle's The Bad guy. I trust Microsoft's commitment to Open Source about as far as I could throw Steve Ballmer into a headwind (and I'm not a strong guy).
Red Dwarf.
Life On Mars & Life On Mars (US)
Hahaha BURN! I always thought they should call him Dr. When..cause you know, he's like always time-travelling! LOL!
Not sure what you're inferring from the summary, or implying with your "moral high ground" comment, but he's not trying to "stick it" to Google. Google have just complied with requests to remove the photographs. I think he's going to do what they can't(or won't) do, i.e. take pictures and link them to Google maps. If the same people want to request that those photographs be taken down, presumably Google won't be able to just remove them...as they are expected to do when it's their photographs and they're trying to avoid a lawsuit/Bad PR. Even if Google does take them down, he can still find some other way to do it..
Why Google removed them in the first place I have no idea. Photographs taken of anything from the street must surely be allowed on the grounds that there's no reasonable expectation of privacy if your building is situated on a public right of way?
Better than vegemite from beer castoffs in Oz.
Better how?! To run a car on? Yes. To consume? No. Vegemite and Marmite are yet two more good reasons, as if reason were needed, to brew beer.
why does the platypus always need explaining?
it is the sole remaining species in the Genus Ornithorhynchus and the Family Ornithorhynchidae. along with the echidnas (do they need explaining, too?) they make up the Order Monotremata, the egg-laying, web-footed, electrolocating mammals. they evolved, just like the rest of us.
if there had only been one remaining species of marsupial, would they need explaining?
Yeah? So what about the Babelfish?
Having read that, I want to kill myself. How the hell do you cope? At some point, surely you have to put your foot down and drag them up rather than being dragged down to their level? I'm feeling the same defeated melancholy that I did as a child when I learnt about the Luddites smashing mechanical looms. :(
Your Dad buys the OEM Windows system bundle.
Fail. The person you quoted perfectly addressed the hyperbolic complaint that a 67 year old could not install a Linux distribution on a random collection of hardware by pointing out that doing the same with any version of Windows would be equally hit-and-miss. (I contend that it would actually be more hit-and-miss. Slackware 13.* worked on my hardware out of the box. Windows 7 didn't, I had to download drivers for my network card from within Linux. I couldn't find drivers for my old Creative Soundblaster 1024 soundcard at all, so I ended up replacing it.)
The fact that one can buy Windows pre-installed on a machine is almost completely irrelevant because there are (or were, at least) a number of companies selling Linux pre-installed on tried and tested hardware. The fact that there aren't as many of them has as much to do with hardware compatibility as it has to do with currency fluctuations in central Europe in the post-war period. I submit that it has more to do with people's familiarity with Windows and their fear of change coupled with the legacy of Microsoft's monopolistic history, i.e. overwhelming dominance of the desktop OS market and the popular mis-conception that they and Apple are the only shows in town.
...offended. Tagged "thinkofthechildren". Faux News sensationalism strikes again and were it not for them, the parents of dead soldiers would probably never have even heard about the game, let alone: "The Taliban Option". So who is the real villain?
No other exchange mechanism has been this easy to use and this powerful.
The telephone's pretty cool too.
Yep, I regularly get calls from Stephen Fry, Simon Pegg, Eric Meyer, Graham Linehan, Dave Mustaine, Jono Bacon, Chris DiBona, Miguel de Icaza, Derick Rethans and Ben Heck telling me what they're up to, sharing information, links etc. Seriously, I don't know what all the brouhaha around this twitter thing is when the humble telephone can do everything much more easily! The GP's post was a bit over the top...("No other exchange mechanism has been this easy to use and this powerful.")...but for the purpose, Twitter is the most powerful tool I've seen. The only real alternative is for everyone to blog and publish an RSS feed.
From the fact that you've "tried" Twitter, "repeatedly" and "hated it every time", I'll infer that you tried it for short periods of time and never really gave it much of a chance. Fair? I thought it was just nonsense for a long time until I signed up and stuck with it. There's no reason why you can't have a separate list of technologists, experts in your field etc that you can keep open during work hours without feeling guilty. As for your comment that it's for people who don't "do things", there are a few people in that list up there that "do things" instead of just talking about doing them.
There's no obligation to build a list of followers and you can quite happily consume feeds without ever tweeting yourself. If by a followers list, you mean, the people you follow, then I *really* don't understand. The list of people I follow is more or less static and has been for a long time. Occasionally I'll follow someone new, and then I might decide to unfollow them, but it's not a lot of work. No more so than adding a new RSS feed to your RSS reader of choice.
At the time of writing, there are two comments on Greg Baker's blog, congratulating Vinay on making it onto Slashdot. Jeez...he's potentially solved one of (if not) the most important open problem in computing, which could land him a million dollars in prize money...but yeah...well done on making it into that most esteemed of online publications, Slashdot.
I'm also suitably stupefied. All the "pink" and "red" flags that they are obviously so clever to spot, and which she spends almost the entire article talking about, are just her dancing around the elephant in the room: that she and her team are complete fucking idiots.
Seriously. The important things they learnt, consolidated in the "6 steps" at the bottom of the article are pure common-sense. Even if they're not concerned about "malvertisements" (ick) they should already have been checking references properly (i.e. using a bank's listed number, not one provided by the "agency" and checking the certificates of incorporation of them and their referees). It's common fucking sense even when you are just trying to establish whether or not to extend a line of credit to them! I wish I could have avoided swearing, but it makes me feel physically sick to think that someone can publically admit to being such a colossal moron and still have a job. Not only that, but to have people thanking her for her insight!! Idiots! How much time was wasted by her, her sales droids, her marketers etc.? Idiots! Using the word "creative" as a noun when referring to banner-ad files? Idiot!! AAAGHHH!
Anyway, you're not learning much about writing code from putting your code up on a website anyway, are you?
Errr...perhaps not...but you may be helping other people to learn...which seems to be a neat side-effect of students being able to share their Scratch projects.
I have no idea what you mean by:
You can code up pretty much any copyrighted works you'd like.
Imitating the game-play elements of pacman from scratch in the language of your choice is not "coding up a copyrighted work"...well, it is, but you own the copyright to it. (Unless you have directly copied code, or game resources such as sprites, midi sounds, etc.) If the sprites were ripped straight from a game rom it would be a copyright infringement, which, I agree would be stupid, but otherwise, what's the problem? Level layouts may be a grey area...
The other half is dreaming up new ideas.
Tell NAMCO.
Recap: it's pretty obvious you haven't looked at the Scratch website. Why not?
I think the stated "big"ness of those features is in comparison to the other, "lesser" features. It doesn't say it's a "big feature realease", anywhere.
Trilled:
:)
1. Produce a quavering or warbling sound.
2. Sing (a note or song) with a warbling or quavering sound.
Trolled :
What you appear to have been.
And of coarse, the resin he was detained was because the Tor project facilitates the kinds of leaking/whistle-blowing that the government wants to stop. No doubt a lot of people are now under a great deal of pressure to plug the leaks and are doing everything in their power. Not a good resin, but there we are. Merely demanding that they have a "reason" isn't a very high benchmark.
2 stories?? Of which this is one? "Inordinate"? Really? I think perhaps you need a new dictionary...
/. has spent far more time discussing Starcraft 2(6) over the past year than they have Alien Swarm(2). Numbers in brackets are the actual number of stories I counted, this year. Going back further, there's another 8 SC2 stories and only 3 more Alien Swarm stories, and those are discussing the original mod, not the current Source port.
The GPL itself doesn't define that term.
So? Buy a house. I bet the contract doesn't explicitly define what "easement" or "chattels" mean. Feel free to cite further examples and I'm sure others will help to clarify things for you. But ultimately, if you don't understand the contract, which is what the GPL is, ask a lawyer. If you break the terms of the contract, the rights extended to you by it are null and void and you're violating copyright law. And here's the thing, if you are thinking of trying to make money from selling/distributing software that you are worried might violate someone else's copyrights, why wouldn't you seek legal advice? And there's always the option of not basing your software on GPL'd code and using something that's BSD licensed...or writing it yourself of course.
(IANAL)
When I was fresh out of university I looked at Rent-A-Coder and the typical brief was something like:
"I need an internet auction site developed from scratch, something like ebays, it should have an ACCESS database and developed in C. This should be easy for the write candidate. Budget: $500"
There would then be a flurry of people bidding to do it for $300. There is no way that I could live like that. No sane "coder" would want to work with people like that as clients for so little money.
Pretty sure it's the first. And yes, the list is complete and utter wank. There are only a few who deserve to be on that list and the only one on the list that stands out (and who would be on my list of potential inductees), Shigeru Miyamoto. Nolan Bushnell, Ralph Baer and the founder of NAMCO, are all industry pioneers who have earnt a place on the list. I might...MIGHT...even go so far as to say that Jonathon "Fatal1ty" Wendel isn't *that* out of place considering how well known he is and how he was one of the best known gamers at a time when competitive gaming was taking off, just look at all the products named after him. But trawling the past for the champion of "Berzerk"...WTF?
John Carmack, Tom Hall, American McGee, John Romero, Sandy Petersen, Gabe Newell, Alexey Pajitnov, Sid Meier, Richard Garriott and Will Wright all deserve to be honoured on that list, but I doubt that will happen while Microsoft is stacking the votes. Who the hell has ever heard of either of the XBox design team members on the list? I thought it was called a hall of *FAME*?
Oh well...I'm really good at playing Led Zeppelin on my CD player, so maybe I can get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
For every "Casablanca", there are 10 "Dude, Where's My Car?"s, "Grandma Got Her Funk Back"s and "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory"s.
For every "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" there are 10 "Harold & Kumar"s, "Cheech & Chong"s and "American Pie 3"s.
Similarly, for every "Portal", "Braid" or "Monkey Island" there are numerous generic first person shooters where you have to mow down wave upon wave of enemies with increasingly powerful, brutal weapons.
With that in mind, I really don't think that getting rid of gratuitous or excessive sex, violence and swearing is the silver bullet to getting gaming accepted as a "serious" entertainment medium by the mainstream that you think it is. Nor do I agree that violent games, per se, could never be taken seriously. However I totally agree that the kind of bloodthirsty, all-out FPSs you refer to will probably never be considered "high art", in the same way that "Transporter 7: School Run Traffic" will never be, but there is no reason, for example, that a survival horror game in the vein of the Resident Evil franchise couldn't receive more serious consideration as art.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system, it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
Do you remember when only the most basic apps would run in WINE and required a lot of tweaking?
Yep. I remember thinking it would never reach v 1.0, just approach it asymptotically until we were running Half Life 10 on v0.9.9999999.
Don't know about vent, but I've played HL2,Portal,CStrike from Steam under Wine on Slackware for years.
Is this you?