Not really. IRC, IPv4 was the first publicly aviable and IP (as defined in RFC760). http://www.iana.org IPv5 was taken by the ST-II protocol, which was supposed to be the next Internet Protocol (at least in the eyes of its inventors). But it was based on connection-oriented routing. This lead to a great resitance in the internet community, which is generally opposed to the idea of connections and channels. It became experimental due to lack of support not by intend.
> But given the choice between living in China and, say, Iraq, a Talibanesque state, or even fascist Italy, I'd choose China in a heartbeat.
Interesting that you're mentioning Iraq, maybe have a look at it's foundation. Even in non-totalitarian (not suggesting that the PRC is one) there is a discrepancy between the foundation and reality. In totalitarian state the difference may be just larger. Maybe you can find somewhere a copy of the foundation of Nazi-Germany. I'm quite sure, it didn't allow mass-murder. (Don't consider this as a comparison between the PRC and Nazi-Germany. I just wanted to take an extreme totalitarian state as an example)
Of course, I can hardly argue against your first hand experience, but what about Falung Gong? Or the China Democratic Party founder Lu Xinhua, who was convicted of subversion for an article posted on the internet? Or several other dissidents? Lastly, I'd like to remember at the incident at the Tiananmen. It maybe more than ten years ago, but the leaders are the same. Furthermore they stated (in 2001) that its decision back than was correct because it was a "counter-revolutionary turmoil" aimed at overthrowing the administration. Somehow, I don't find these facts beeing in accordance with PRC's Foundation. Probably, this doesn't affect normal life not so much, but the word "subversion" alone makes me shudder.
But now back to the topic: >The only associations Red Flag Linux has with the government in China is that [...]
C) Red Flag is under the control of the China Academy of Sciences, headed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of the president Jiang Zemin I don't consider that as an argument against Red Flag Linux, but others may take a different view.
Yes, now I have registered a simple
struct myDatatype {
int a;
char b;
double c;
int d;
}
to the Message Passing Interface.
Very comfortable, I can't hardly wait to program a distributed destop enviroment in it.
Why don't we go back to punchcards?
PVM will certainly provide a similar comfort and is for a set of heterogeneous computers only.
Well, certainly for number crunching the architecture is very practicable (MPI_Gather...), but for (desktop)applications, hardly?
COSM
To quote from Cosm Project introduction:
Phase 1 Design Goals
The goal of Cosm is to build a stable, reliable, and secure system for largescale distributed processing
Problem Space
The system is not designed to tackle all problems, no system can. The most suitable tasks are those with a large demand for computational resources and low communications overhead.
Number crunching again. Certainly the perfect enviroment to base a desktop enviroment on.
MOSIX
Mosix seams to me another number-crunching enviroment. (cluster-computing) I do not see any support for inter-language operability, versioning, security.
SE-Linux
How does SE-Linux solves the authentication of code? Sandboxing untrusted or partially trusted code? Especially, dynamically loaded code from a webservice?
All those projects you've mentioned have a totally different objective than.NET (or Corba for that matter)
Of course, you might use them to achieve your goal.
You can also try to ride a cat, but a horse may be more appropriate, as a cat is more appropriate for catching mice.
CORBA is an open standard which exists, is tried and tested and free implementations exist and can be used for this problem space.
And Gnome and KDE are currently using it.
Nonetheless, its not very comfortable to program with.
(IDL, POA... getNameService, register your
Object...), but still far better for distributed (desktop) applications than MPI, PVM and the like.
Nonetheless, some might think there is still room for improvement.
E.g Java RMI is slightly more comfortable (partly based on CORBA), but still Java only.
.Net tries to be language independend (which is not quite as easy as one might think) and machine independent.
> each of which occupies how many bytes in index files?
According to "The Anatomy of Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" by Segey Brind and Lawrence Page, the inverted index ("inverted barrels") was about 47.2Gb large (Total data without repository 55.2Gb, Repository 53.5Gb). It had about 24 Million web pages indexed. Assuming a linear increase this amounts to about 5Tb.
But, to quote from the paper:
With better encoding and compression of the document index, a high quality web search engine may fit onto a 7Gb drive of a new PC.
Which is surely slightly exaggerated, but shows that they considered that there is room for improvement. (E.g using varying length index instead of fixed width)
>I dont think Linux can do it
At least they think it can do it, since they are using Linux boxes, at least accoring to
The Technology Behind Google, by Jim Reese CEO.
More than 10,000 Linux boxes, that is.
Not quite, you have to get the US goverment to adopt linux on 23% of the newly bought systems.
>are equavalent to 23% of annual Windows based PC procurement
Does anyone else has a problem with the figures in the little section called "About HancomLinux, Inc."
>The company now has more than 90 employees and 4 locations worldwide.
Let's assume that the 90 employees are located in the Republic of Korea and the "more than" are located in the other 3 locations worldwide.
How will they take care for those 120k desktop computers?
(Assuming, they aren't all tech-support, technicians and have other customers...
The spelling at least suggest they have no secretary and spell checker (look who's talking:) ) )
Laws are made with a certain social and technical background. Some of the assumed constants in the making of the law may have changed over the years and could have rendered the law obsolete.
The more fundamental a law is, the less likely it will be. The first amendment is not a subject to such discussions, but the second amendment already is.
Now take a look at the seventh amendment.
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved [...]
Isn't there a slight difference between $20 now and then?
The point is, it is called global warming, because the global temperature rises.
This, of course, doesn't have to mean that the temperature in the polar regions will increase.
Here is a study Effects of Atmospheric Climate Change on Ice Stability.
Another study of six Antarctic lakes has shown that the surface ice has thinned by up to 40 percent over the 80s.
(Wharton, R.A., Jr., C.P. McKay, G.D. Clow, D.T. Andersen, G.M. Simmons, Jr., and F.G. Love, 1992: J. Geophys. Res., 97, 3503)
Of course, you are free to interprete this as a sign of global warming, or not.
>On Amazon.com, for example, if reviewer X gives a film that I loathe 5 stars, I'll generally dislike all of the films that he might recommend. The converse is also true. The same concept also seems to apply to books, music, and ideas.
This might be helpful for deciding which film, or music you might enjoy, but contradicting opinions are the basis for discussions, aren't they?
Nevertheless, I don't see it neccessarily as bad, because it's my decision to use this feature (for good or evil) or not.
One could mark someone as "friend", with whom one had once a lively discussion, although (or more likely because) ones opinions differed.
There is a difference between tieing a currency to another and having the same currency.
The first is is usually a mean employed to avoid inflation, with the risk hindering exports.
The latter lets you buy with the same currency in all participating countries without any problems.
I have to admit that for an island this seams to be of lesser importance.
But from an Internet savvy person, one should expect some more creative outlook about the possibilities about a common currency.
With the reference to Argentina, you surely want to refer to the statements of some/several financial experts, who are saying that abandoning a national currency is ceding control over monetary policy.
They are, of course, right... in a way.
A common currency does imply one monetary policy, which has to fit all countries. The monetary policy of the US$ fitted only the US.
The monetary policy of the Euro has to fit all participating states, which euro-sceptical people do not consider as fine-grained enough, especially considering the economical differences between the EU states.
Or as Mr. Davis said:
"It's a problem that you have a one-size fits all interest rate across Europe."
But the US aren't in such a different position. The economical situation in all the states isn't the same neither. Should they introduce different currencies for the different regions? Or France?R eaching from La Reunion over Paris to Martinique the same currency.
The asia crisis, and interestingly the introduction of the Euro (which existed virtually over several years), lead to a tremendous rise of the US$ towards other currencies, which did not reflect the economical developement in Argentina and made importing (from Argentina) unattractive compared to other nations, while the US having a flourishing economy and importing more than exporting profited from the rise.
I consider such a developement for the EU less likely.
Re:preemptive strike
on
The Forever War
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Well, I had the feeling the film also wasn't a "hiphip hurrah for us war" film.
I had the feeling, it was a failed satire.
I only remember the scene, where the "scientist" looking like Reich SS Leader Himmler himself looking at the wounded creature uttering something like "it fears us". Probably, I only hope it was a failed satire.
Here a little statement from Verhoeven himself:
"The philosophy of Heinlein is certainly in the movie. Whether I adhere to that society myself is something else, but it is the philosophy of the world he described, and we took that from his book." [Warren, Bill. 1997: Starship Troopers: The Official Movie Magazine]
I guess they failed both understanding the book and caricaturising its society.
For me, the most disturbing about the film wasn't the film itself, but the response it created: It wasn't seen as satire, neither as a bad SciFi-flick, but as cool.
Unless there is some fact in this statement, which is not apparent to my eyes, we still have to guess the actual size of a Java2 API supporting VM.
The PJAE provides an API equivalent to the Java 1.1.8 API.
I'd say therefor there is no such fact, which shows us, how large an assumed, because nonexistant, Java 1.3 or even Java 1.4 VM for the Zaurus is. Hence, we have to guess.
The increase of size for the Intel JREs gives us an idea about the probable increase.
My _guess_ is that a Java 1.4 API compatible JRE would be roughly 3 times larger.
The "less than 2MB of ROM, 1MB of RAM..." just gives you a basis to extrapolate the absolute size.
>cat6 hasn't been ratified yet, but will allow gigabit and beyond
AFAIK, there is no beyond.
Gigabit-ethernet was the last standard for copper.
The 802.3 will not work on faster copper standards.
The next standard 802.3ad (10 Gb/s) is fibre-only.
To jam it, you have to send such a strong noise so that any data is indistinguishable from the noise.
In contrast to the sender, the jammer has to send on the whole spectrum A. The sender only sends on a small, but changing part of the spectrum B.
The energy required is proportional to the product of signal strength and spectrum width.
So, the jammer has to send a signal, which is roughly B/A times stronger than the data signal.
How does dropping a ball let us understand nature?
You observe human behaviour and have the idea that
the behavioural pattern is based on certain stimuli and rules. If a robot with the same stimuli and assumed rules shows the same behavioural pattern you'll have good reason to assume that those rules and stimuli are the cause for the behaviour.
It's similar to Neuronal Networks. How can they teach us about real neurons?
We try to reduce the complicated interaction of neurons and try to reduce it to its bare functional minimum, which let us understand the functioning of (some) real neuronal networks.
It's not about the car assembling robots, but about behaviour simulating robots.
Well, getting Java to use unicode shouldn't be a problem:)
>One thing I'd really like to see is something for latex that would allow me to do typesetting and printing of characters.
SuSE has some good information about its support of the CJK languages.
And there is always the Linux Chinese HOWTO, which you've probably already read, but could be helpful to other people, who are reading this post.
No, it wouldn't make it (necessarily) worse.
Better artwork would surely be positive.
But better graphics usually doesn't mean better artwork alone. Changes might include a new graphics engine, or generally a new UI, a.s.o.
This could _potentially_ lead to worse gameplay.
Nostalgiker find thereafter only over a special issue and at gepfefferten prices to end of 2001 an acces, before T-Online switches off its BTX Zugangsknoten finally.
Is this written in the same language as this one?
Achtung!
Alles Lookenpeepers
Das Elektronikermaschinen ist nicht fur
Gefingerpoken und mittengrabben.
Ist easy zum schnappen der Springenwerken, poppencorken undblowenfusen mit Spitzensparken.
Ist nicht fur gewurken bei Dummkopfen. Das rubbernecker Sightseeren keepen die Hands in die Pocketten.
Bitte, relaxen und watchen alles der Blinkenlighten.
I will immediatly add windy Abzocker, first hakeliger Internet acces to my vocabulary, but what is a lozenge character? Seems to be a quite interesting name for #. Hmm, C lozenge.
Slashdot Mirror
Not really.
IRC, IPv4 was the first publicly aviable and IP (as defined in RFC760).
http://www.iana.org
IPv5 was taken by the ST-II protocol, which was supposed to be the next Internet Protocol (at least in the eyes of its inventors). But it was based on connection-oriented routing. This lead to a great resitance in the internet community, which is generally opposed to the idea of connections and channels.
It became experimental due to lack of support not by intend.
Have a look at the Version-numbers as assigned by the IANA.
For those to lazy to look it up.
IPv7 is the "TP/IX: The Next Internet"
IPv8 is "The P Internet Protocol"
IPv9 is "TUBA"
But some people are already joking that one will adopt an odd/even numbering scheme.
Interesting that you're mentioning Iraq, maybe have a look at it's foundation
Even in non-totalitarian (not suggesting that the PRC is one) there is a discrepancy between the foundation and reality. In totalitarian state the difference may be just larger. Maybe you can find somewhere a copy of the foundation of Nazi-Germany. I'm quite sure, it didn't allow mass-murder.
(Don't consider this as a comparison between the PRC and Nazi-Germany. I just wanted to take an extreme totalitarian state as an example)
Of course, I can hardly argue against your first hand experience, but what about Falung Gong?
Or the China Democratic Party founder Lu Xinhua, who was convicted of subversion for an article posted on the internet?
Or several other dissidents?
Lastly, I'd like to remember at the incident at the Tiananmen. It maybe more than ten years ago, but the leaders are the same. Furthermore they stated (in 2001) that its decision back than was correct because it was a "counter-revolutionary turmoil" aimed at overthrowing the administration.
Somehow, I don't find these facts beeing in accordance with PRC's Foundation.
Probably, this doesn't affect normal life not so much, but the word "subversion" alone makes me shudder.
But now back to the topic:
>The only associations Red Flag Linux has with the government in China is that [...]
C) Red Flag is under the control of the China Academy of Sciences, headed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of the president Jiang Zemin
I don't consider that as an argument against Red Flag Linux, but others may take a different view.
MPI
int blocklength[4] = {1, 1, 1, 1};
MPI_Datatype types[4] = {MPI_INT, MPI_CHAR, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_INT};
displacements[0] = 0;
displacements[1] = displacements[0]+blocklength[0]*sizeof(int);
displacements[2] = displacements[1]+blocklength[1]*sizeof(char);
displacements[3] = displacements[2]+blocklength[2]*sizeof(double);
MPI_Type_struct(4, blocklength, displacements, types, &myDatatype);
Yes, now I have registered a simple
struct myDatatype {
int a;
char b;
double c;
int d;
}
to the Message Passing Interface.
Very comfortable, I can't hardly wait to program a distributed destop enviroment in it.
Why don't we go back to punchcards?
PVM will certainly provide a similar comfort and is for a set of heterogeneous computers only.
Well, certainly for number crunching the architecture is very practicable (MPI_Gather...), but for (desktop)applications, hardly?
COSM
To quote from Cosm Project introduction:
Number crunching again. Certainly the perfect enviroment to base a desktop enviroment on.
MOSIX
Mosix seams to me another number-crunching enviroment. (cluster-computing) I do not see any support for inter-language operability, versioning, security.
SE-Linux
.NET (or Corba for that matter)
How does SE-Linux solves the authentication of code? Sandboxing untrusted or partially trusted code? Especially, dynamically loaded code from a webservice?
All those projects you've mentioned have a totally different objective than
Of course, you might use them to achieve your goal.
You can also try to ride a cat, but a horse may be more appropriate, as a cat is more appropriate for catching mice.
CORBA is an open standard which exists, is tried and tested and free implementations exist and can be used for this problem space.
And Gnome and KDE are currently using it.
Nonetheless, its not very comfortable to program with.
(IDL, POA... getNameService, register your
Object...), but still far better for distributed (desktop) applications than MPI, PVM and the like.
Nonetheless, some might think there is still room for improvement.
E.g Java RMI is slightly more comfortable (partly based on CORBA), but still Java only.
.Net tries to be language independend (which is not quite as easy as one might think) and machine independent.
According to "The Anatomy of Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" by Segey Brind and Lawrence Page, the inverted index ("inverted barrels") was about 47.2Gb large (Total data without repository 55.2Gb, Repository 53.5Gb). It had about 24 Million web pages indexed. Assuming a linear increase this amounts to about 5Tb.
But, to quote from the paper:
Which is surely slightly exaggerated, but shows that they considered that there is room for improvement. (E.g using varying length index instead of fixed width)
>I dont think Linux can do it
At least they think it can do it, since they are using Linux boxes, at least accoring to
The Technology Behind Google, by Jim Reese CEO.
More than 10,000 Linux boxes, that is.
I think he (Eric Schmidt) spoke of storing the indices.
Traditionally, they are only stored partially in RAM due to their size.
Certainly, the unprocessed pages are still stored on HDs as one doesn't gain
anything from storing them in RAM.
On the thirteenth day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
Thirteen hours of slashdotting,
...
Not quite, you have to get the US goverment to adopt linux on 23% of the newly bought systems.
:) ) )
:)
>are equavalent to 23% of annual Windows based PC procurement
Does anyone else has a problem with the figures in the little section called "About HancomLinux, Inc."
>The company now has more than 90 employees and 4 locations worldwide.
Let's assume that the 90 employees are located in the Republic of Korea and the "more than" are located in the other 3 locations worldwide.
How will they take care for those 120k desktop computers?
(Assuming, they aren't all tech-support, technicians and have other customers...
The spelling at least suggest they have no secretary and spell checker (look who's talking
I smell a job-opportunity
Laws are made with a certain social and technical background. Some of the assumed constants in the making of the law may have changed over the years and could have rendered the law obsolete.
The more fundamental a law is, the less likely it will be. The first amendment is not a subject to such discussions, but the second amendment already is.
Now take a look at the seventh amendment.
Isn't there a slight difference between $20 now and then?
What about the "Cabaret Laws" in NYC, passed in 1926?
There are several laws, which now seem ridiculous, because of changes in our society:
What about same-sex marriages? Do you think future society will think the same about this as the current one?
The point is, it is called global warming, because the global temperature rises.
This, of course, doesn't have to mean that the temperature in the polar regions will increase.
Here is a study Effects of Atmospheric Climate Change on Ice Stability.
Another study of six Antarctic lakes has shown that the surface ice has thinned by up to 40 percent over the 80s.
(Wharton, R.A., Jr., C.P. McKay, G.D. Clow, D.T. Andersen, G.M. Simmons, Jr., and F.G. Love, 1992: J. Geophys. Res., 97, 3503)
Of course, you are free to interprete this as a sign of global warming, or not.
A different side on glaciers and sea levels from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Of course, you are free to neglect this source, as they get their fundings for those news.
>Ever opened your freezer on a hot day? Do you get more or less ice?
A freezer is not a self-containing system.
Try the same without external cooling system and you might get a better idea.
It doesn't rely on another (namely the MS C#-compiler) anymore.
The C#-Compiler is written in C#, therefor requires a C#-Compiler.
>On Amazon.com, for example, if reviewer X gives a film that I loathe 5 stars, I'll generally dislike all of the films that he might recommend. The converse is also true. The same concept also seems to apply to books, music, and ideas.
This might be helpful for deciding which film, or music you might enjoy, but contradicting opinions are the basis for discussions, aren't they?
Nevertheless, I don't see it neccessarily as bad, because it's my decision to use this feature (for good or evil) or not.
One could mark someone as "friend", with whom one had once a lively discussion, although (or more likely because) ones opinions differed.
There is a difference between tieing a currency to another and having the same currency.
The first is is usually a mean employed to avoid inflation, with the risk hindering exports.
The latter lets you buy with the same currency in all participating countries without any problems.
I have to admit that for an island this seams to be of lesser importance.
But from an Internet savvy person, one should expect some more creative outlook about the possibilities about a common currency.
With the reference to Argentina, you surely want to refer to the statements of some/several financial experts, who are saying that abandoning a national currency is ceding control over monetary policy.
They are, of course, right... in a way.
A common currency does imply one monetary policy, which has to fit all countries. The monetary policy of the US$ fitted only the US.
The monetary policy of the Euro has to fit all participating states, which euro-sceptical people do not consider as fine-grained enough, especially considering the economical differences between the EU states.
Or as Mr. Davis said:
"It's a problem that you have a one-size fits all interest rate across Europe."
But the US aren't in such a different position. The economical situation in all the states isn't the same neither. Should they introduce different currencies for the different regions? Or France?R eaching from La Reunion over Paris to Martinique the same currency.
The asia crisis, and interestingly the introduction of the Euro (which existed virtually over several years), lead to a tremendous rise of the US$ towards other currencies, which did not reflect the economical developement in Argentina and made importing (from Argentina) unattractive compared to other nations, while the US having a flourishing economy and importing more than exporting profited from the rise.
I consider such a developement for the EU less likely.
Well, I had the feeling the film also wasn't a "hiphip hurrah for us war" film.
I had the feeling, it was a failed satire.
I only remember the scene, where the "scientist" looking like Reich SS Leader Himmler himself looking at the wounded creature uttering something like "it fears us". Probably, I only hope it was a failed satire.
Here a little statement from Verhoeven himself:
"The philosophy of Heinlein is certainly in the movie. Whether I adhere to that society myself is something else, but it is the philosophy of the world he described, and we took that from his book." [Warren, Bill. 1997: Starship Troopers: The Official Movie Magazine]
I guess they failed both understanding the book and caricaturising its society.
For me, the most disturbing about the film wasn't the film itself, but the response it created: It wasn't seen as satire, neither as a bad SciFi-flick, but as cool.
Unless there is some fact in this statement, which is not apparent to my eyes, we still have to guess the actual size of a Java2 API supporting VM.
The PJAE provides an API equivalent to the Java 1.1.8 API.
I'd say therefor there is no such fact, which shows us, how large an assumed, because nonexistant, Java 1.3 or even Java 1.4 VM for the Zaurus is. Hence, we have to guess.
The increase of size for the Intel JREs gives us an idea about the probable increase.
My _guess_ is that a Java 1.4 API compatible JRE would be roughly 3 times larger.
The "less than 2MB of ROM, 1MB of RAM..." just gives you a basis to extrapolate the absolute size.
>Consumer use of the internet will still get most content from America
I think your logic is a bit flawed.
The pipes to the U.S. do not necessarily carry data originating from the U.S.
It shows that a large amount of traffic is routed through the U.S.
This may include data originating in the US, but also data from Europe. It may even include data originating from Europe and targeted for Europe.
>cat6 hasn't been ratified yet, but will allow gigabit and beyond
AFAIK, there is no beyond.
Gigabit-ethernet was the last standard for copper.
The 802.3 will not work on faster copper standards.
The next standard 802.3ad (10 Gb/s) is fibre-only.
The download size of the file
jre-1_1_8_008-win.exe = 2,764,736 bytes.
j2re-1_4_0-beta3-win.exe = 9,156,008 bytes.
j2re-1_4_0-beta3-linux-i386.bin = 21,550,344 bytes.
This could be of some concern for a PDA.
Of course, all those numbers apply only for x86 CPUs an were not optimised for size.
Lastly, the VM is based on JDK 1.1.8, which is a (industry) standard, and not necessarily a JRE.
In other words, the VM may be quite new.
Now the question, why did they use a full fledged Java-enviroment instead of the Java 2, Micro Edition? Probably, because the device can handle it.
To jam it, you have to send such a strong noise so that any data is indistinguishable from the noise.
In contrast to the sender, the jammer has to send on the whole spectrum A. The sender only sends on a small, but changing part of the spectrum B.
The energy required is proportional to the product of signal strength and spectrum width.
So, the jammer has to send a signal, which is roughly B/A times stronger than the data signal.
> If, however, spectrum is shared amongst many services, that terrorist could take out all of those services [...]
:) )
Sorry, but doesn't spread spectrum modulation get rid of jamming?
Isn't that the reason why the military uses it?
AFAIK, jamming, sufficiently broad spectrum provided, requires a several magnitude more powerful signal than the signal to be jammed.
( Well, if a terrorist wanted to block a wireless service like 802.11b or Bluetooth, he just switches on his microwave.
How does dropping a ball let us understand nature?
You observe human behaviour and have the idea that
the behavioural pattern is based on certain stimuli and rules. If a robot with the same stimuli and assumed rules shows the same behavioural pattern you'll have good reason to assume that those rules and stimuli are the cause for the behaviour.
It's similar to Neuronal Networks. How can they teach us about real neurons?
We try to reduce the complicated interaction of neurons and try to reduce it to its bare functional minimum, which let us understand the functioning of (some) real neuronal networks.
It's not about the car assembling robots, but about behaviour simulating robots.
Well, getting Java to use unicode shouldn't be a problem :)
>One thing I'd really like to see is something for latex that would allow me to do typesetting and printing of characters.
What about CJK-Latex? Or the TeX extension Omega?
SuSE has some good information about its support of the CJK languages.
And there is always the Linux Chinese HOWTO, which you've probably already read, but could be helpful to other people, who are reading this post.
No, it wouldn't make it (necessarily) worse.
Better artwork would surely be positive.
But better graphics usually doesn't mean better artwork alone. Changes might include a new graphics engine, or generally a new UI, a.s.o.
This could _potentially_ lead to worse gameplay.
Because some like playing a crap looking game with a good gameplay more than playing a beautiful looking one with a crappy gameplay.
:)
Limited (human) resources given, you usually have to choose between those two.
Why not have money and free time?
Is this written in the same language as this one?
I will immediatly add windy Abzocker, first hakeliger Internet acces to my vocabulary, but what is a lozenge character? Seems to be a quite interesting name for #. Hmm, C lozenge.