Yeah, on a side note, as the parent of your post failed to mention, Lineage was the game that the kid played that stole all that money from his dad. That game seems to attract a lot of nutty bastards.
All your "Digital Bits" are belong to EA. No, seriously, this is in a quote from an EA spokesperson regarding a professor whose account was taken away. I'm not making this up. What a %$@!#-wit. What the hell else could (s)he be talking about? Butt-bits?
Virtual Reality games, like all games, turned to be more about gameplay than graphics. In the '90's VR headsets were all the rage. In fact, my little mall, in an isolated city of 60,000 people (Flagstaff, AZ), had someone set up a store dedicated to headset-based virtual reality gaming. Didn't last long. And then of course there was Virtual Boy (which I liked alright and some people absolutely love).
Anyway, it turned out to be different. It just turned out that huge, smart databases transformed MUDs and BBS games to have many real-world dynamics, and make the virtual world more exciting to some than the real world. And now they are forming relationships in the virtual world. Healthy for some, unhealthy for others.
But the success of different games over others shows that it's all about the gameplay.
I hate the Slashdot way of not allowing you to moderate comments on a story that you've posted to. They could at least do it by thread. I think the whole point of it is to keep you from modding up your own comments, or replies to your own posts, and they should just code it to do things this way, rather than ruining the rest of the system.
btw...a broken browser is a relative observation. Firfox is "broken" to me when I view certain pages that work fine in IE and Netscape.
But Microsoft is in league of its own when it comes to Internet Explorer. They partially support standards, when they clearly have resources to fully support a standard, namely PNG and CSS. PNG and CSS(2) both introduce new features as well, which are not covered by IE. For example, png's with alpha channel transparency. There are very important layout features CSS2 has that aren't worked into IE, and even if MS implemented them now, they wouldn't be ubquitous enough to use on most websites for five years. Plus Microsoft refuses to support old products at too fast of a rate.
But overall an insightful post, and all your other points I agree with.
Parent: Yeah, I noticed that. Grandparent: I was checking the site out too, and thinking about using your company in the future, as it looks like you had a nice approach.P
Well, I hope Microsoft takes a lesson from Apple, and doesn't preinstall computers with an edition geared to either "Home" or "Professional". All it really does is confuse customers. There is nothing about XP Pro (and not about XP Home) that a home user will find daunting. There are many Home-branded computers that are used only in offices. It's stupid, really.
Of course, what Microsoft is trying to do is to have their cake and eat it too. They want the ubiquitous distribution of their Operating System by making deals with OEMs and retailers. They also want people to pay the ridiculous off-the-shelf upgrade prices. These people that upgrade to Pro end up paying twice.
I personally do not pay the MS tax, I just borrow a CD. I own XP home, but I install XP Pro on my computer. Don't use it regularly, only for games and stuff.
Shepard Fairey, I noticed is quoted as saying "The number Google is finite, but for all practical purposes it's infinite". AFAIK, "Google" isn't a number, but "Googol" is. I like his redesign though, but I think he was wrong about the designers never having that idea, in fact I think I recall them using it on a commemeration page, though I have no idea what it was for.
Exactly my point. We are being forced to wait. And to reply without saying anything new that adds to the conversation, I must reiterate my point that You, Sir, are Indeed an Idiot.
Well, our aim is to put as much pressure as we possibly can until the do release the source. We are being treated unfairly. We are paying customers and expect that the writers of our operating have some say in how the drivers are implemented.
Remember MyDoom? Whatever they promised before then, I'd say that this is a big enough event for them that it changes everything. If I were working for a company that was waiting on another company in their release schedule, and they promised to have it out, I would let them have at least another month to push it out, if they had to deal with something like this.
It's unfortunate that Darl would choose to stoop to the level of proimising stupid lawsuits. But if he's made any promises about time, in the face of MyDoom I've got to be lenient about it.
The problem is, most of our students these days, aren't really computer enthusiasts, and do the bare minimum, and copy each other's work. And only one or two of the professors really try to change this behavior, but what they end up with, is the idiot still asking for not only exactly how to write the code, but how to change it so the prof won't think their cheating. Students like me, who are just too nice to their fellow man, give them the help, and what we will end up with are a whole lot of stupid grads. So the great student probably was in the situation I'm in, of helping the stupid kids. Or maybe (s)he was smart enough not to waste his time hanging around them in the first place.
I am sick of seeing this quote. It just comes from a few people that are stuck on their High Academic Horse (TM) and can't seem to get back down to the real world. Not that there isn't some truth to it. But the fact of the matter is, fast code is the code that's likely to get re-used. Look at Mozilla and Expat. Damn right, the Expat devs were thinking about writing fast code when they wrote it.
Master Programming Language??? There are conflicting ideas that prevent this from happening. How are you going to have fast and light on storage UTF-8 when your strings are lists of integers? How are you going to combine the idea of assigning types to variables with having all types be pointers to any type of object? Don't work.
This shouldn't be a troll, this is a valid and witty opinion. Damn slashdot mods looking out for themselves by always marking down Anonymous Cowards as -1.
Sure, Wolfram may be a very successful entrepeneur, but that does not qualify him as an expert in the field of science or as a writer. The ratings at Amazon.com are very low. I don't think that this book is a big release, I think it is just an experiment.
He may be a smart guy, but I think he might just be recycling old material and calling it the Next Big Thing (TM). Again, I won't find out unless this book catches on, because most of my book purchases are by word of mouth or by trusted source (sorry, Slashdot, you do not fit into this category), and if it's going to get to me and my small circle of friends and acquiantences, it had better start selling.
But good luck to the guy. At least he's writing a book, rather than writing all of his prose in Slashdot comments!
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I'm using triple boot Gentoo, WinXP Pro, and OpenBSD without problems. GRUB kicks A**.
Yeah, on a side note, as the parent of your post failed to mention, Lineage was the game that the kid played that stole all that money from his dad. That game seems to attract a lot of nutty bastards.
All your "Digital Bits" are belong to EA. No, seriously, this is in a quote from an EA spokesperson regarding a professor whose account was taken away. I'm not making this up. What a %$@!#-wit. What the hell else could (s)he be talking about? Butt-bits?
Anyway, it turned out to be different. It just turned out that huge, smart databases transformed MUDs and BBS games to have many real-world dynamics, and make the virtual world more exciting to some than the real world. And now they are forming relationships in the virtual world. Healthy for some, unhealthy for others.
But the success of different games over others shows that it's all about the gameplay.
I hate the Slashdot way of not allowing you to moderate comments on a story that you've posted to. They could at least do it by thread. I think the whole point of it is to keep you from modding up your own comments, or replies to your own posts, and they should just code it to do things this way, rather than ruining the rest of the system.
But Microsoft is in league of its own when it comes to Internet Explorer. They partially support standards, when they clearly have resources to fully support a standard, namely PNG and CSS. PNG and CSS(2) both introduce new features as well, which are not covered by IE. For example, png's with alpha channel transparency. There are very important layout features CSS2 has that aren't worked into IE, and even if MS implemented them now, they wouldn't be ubquitous enough to use on most websites for five years. Plus Microsoft refuses to support old products at too fast of a rate.
But overall an insightful post, and all your other points I agree with.
Parent: Yeah, I noticed that. Grandparent: I was checking the site out too, and thinking about using your company in the future, as it looks like you had a nice approach.P
Of course, what Microsoft is trying to do is to have their cake and eat it too. They want the ubiquitous distribution of their Operating System by making deals with OEMs and retailers. They also want people to pay the ridiculous off-the-shelf upgrade prices. These people that upgrade to Pro end up paying twice.
I personally do not pay the MS tax, I just borrow a CD. I own XP home, but I install XP Pro on my computer. Don't use it regularly, only for games and stuff.
Maybe the person that dissected this one isn't an idiot.
My point is that Google has enough money, it's about time they get a REAL web designer.
Shepard Fairey, I noticed is quoted as saying "The number Google is finite, but for all practical purposes it's infinite". AFAIK, "Google" isn't a number, but "Googol" is. I like his redesign though, but I think he was wrong about the designers never having that idea, in fact I think I recall them using it on a commemeration page, though I have no idea what it was for.
I really like the site makeover design by Shepard Fairey. I think that Google should hire an artist. Their site could be so much cooler.
Ah man, don't wait for redhat. Go on IRC, they'll help you out.
Exactly my point. We are being forced to wait. And to reply without saying anything new that adds to the conversation, I must reiterate my point that You, Sir, are Indeed an Idiot.
Open Source is what makes Linux great!!! It is not merely an alternative. It is more secure and less buggy.
Well, our aim is to put as much pressure as we possibly can until the do release the source. We are being treated unfairly. We are paying customers and expect that the writers of our operating have some say in how the drivers are implemented.
You, sir, are an idiot. Do we really want to get ourselves forced into a corner of using old hardware all the time? I should hope not.
It's unfortunate that Darl would choose to stoop to the level of proimising stupid lawsuits. But if he's made any promises about time, in the face of MyDoom I've got to be lenient about it.
That's why I didn't say Mozilla was so great. I only said that Expat was a kick-ass project.
The problem is, most of our students these days, aren't really computer enthusiasts, and do the bare minimum, and copy each other's work. And only one or two of the professors really try to change this behavior, but what they end up with, is the idiot still asking for not only exactly how to write the code, but how to change it so the prof won't think their cheating. Students like me, who are just too nice to their fellow man, give them the help, and what we will end up with are a whole lot of stupid grads. So the great student probably was in the situation I'm in, of helping the stupid kids. Or maybe (s)he was smart enough not to waste his time hanging around them in the first place.
I am sick of seeing this quote. It just comes from a few people that are stuck on their High Academic Horse (TM) and can't seem to get back down to the real world. Not that there isn't some truth to it. But the fact of the matter is, fast code is the code that's likely to get re-used. Look at Mozilla and Expat. Damn right, the Expat devs were thinking about writing fast code when they wrote it.
Northern Arizona University. What a crappy C. S. program we have.
Master Programming Language??? There are conflicting ideas that prevent this from happening. How are you going to have fast and light on storage UTF-8 when your strings are lists of integers? How are you going to combine the idea of assigning types to variables with having all types be pointers to any type of object? Don't work.
This shouldn't be a troll, this is a valid and witty opinion. Damn slashdot mods looking out for themselves by always marking down Anonymous Cowards as -1.
He may be a smart guy, but I think he might just be recycling old material and calling it the Next Big Thing (TM). Again, I won't find out unless this book catches on, because most of my book purchases are by word of mouth or by trusted source (sorry, Slashdot, you do not fit into this category), and if it's going to get to me and my small circle of friends and acquiantences, it had better start selling.
But good luck to the guy. At least he's writing a book, rather than writing all of his prose in Slashdot comments!