If we're talking at the federal level specifically (instead of the general philosophy), I don't mind paying more so the elderly can get social security checks and the destitute can get medical assistance. I like the fact that the government attempted many projects that were not touchable by the private sector at the time, such as the human genome project or the space program.
...sorry, but from my point of view, many Libertarians would throw out the baby with the bathwater. That's why I don't vote Libertarian.
So bleeding edge development, perhaps? I was pretty unawares of what DBSD was all about, although, to be fair, I didn't follow it. I think this is a good idea to breathe some new life into the BSDs...I'm sure successful features from DBSD will be borrowed by the others once they prove themselves useful and stable. Maybe even ease the linux troll's complaints about how slow development is in the BSD world.
I can attest that this is almost the case at Berkeley; many, or even most (EE)CS majors run Windows on their home desktops, but we rely entirely from day one on Solaris machines in lab and by remote shell. No MS licenses here, standard issue campus-wide software include SSH Secure Shell and Exceed.
I suppose you could say they run *NIX so I don't have to...after all, games do beckon from time to time, and device headaches are less common.
On the other hand, I have this large file which has been perma-locked by Windows, and I'm starting to get pissed...maybe I should install FreeBSD again:/
On the other hand, the original poster gave the impression that we were operating under the unconditional, unqualified "when it's done" statement, which is not really the case.
And just imagine how likely the private sector would have sunk that much money into something completely unknown without NASA (and the Russian Space Agency) to pave the way. Also consider that quite a bit of aeronautics advancement stemmed from NASA's needs and funding.
I'll keep some of my government meddling, thank you.
Let us not forget the more important implication of this: for every SUV that hits a smaller vehicle, the other passengers have a far great chance of dying. What has happened is that we've ended up in a road-mass arms race with our neighbors.
Perhaps there is another law we've all heard of that suffers from a similar case of over-scope...
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By the time any normal person can accumulate 1GB worth of e-mail from a service starting today 1GB will be so fantastically cheap (they aren't already?) that it just won't matter.
...too late. "Unbreakable" cryptography has already been accomplished. Really, unless the NSA or whoever are holding some fundamental advance over the civilian world, there is anyone is going to break conventional shared-key encryption schemes like RSA anytime soon. While your comment rings of groundless cyncism, you can in fact apply the RSA algorithm yourself by hand and see why it would be unbreakable in any reasonable amount of time with any deterministic computer.
And on the other hand, they are Berkeley professors, and we aren't (most likely). Don't sound so snide and/or judgemental unless you are prepared to be rigorous about defending your position given the details of their paper.
As for the "Synthetic Biology," it's sort of an NMR-MRI PR-name switch, although it's not totally groundless.
Bear in mind that some of these studios are also privately owned. They can do whatever the hell they want.
While it's possible to build a game on budget and on time, I wouldn't want to; there are too many things that can go wrong in the rigorous world of programming.
Evidence that pigs do fly has surfaced, new interpretations of the bible by scholars indicate that Hell is actually a frozen wasteland, and RMS backs a decision by Sun not to open Solaris.
But then they would lose a lot of market share, if they found a way to enforce "no updates for pirates." And our government would NEVER put economic interests above human interests....no, never.....
ATI makes no bones that the radeon series is for gamers. If they can give you enhanced performance during the product cycle at the sacrifice of a new feature that no game will use during this card's usability, who cares?
The real question for the gamer is how large the intersection is of the set of games that will (in the future) be able to run on these cards at a playable speed and the set of games that will use this feature. The answer is not clear to me that this intersection would be large.
Case in point: I believe that the original FX was the first "DX9" card to market. The only problem is that whenever a game was written to DX9 spec it would run horribly, hence the moans and groans of people looking at HL2 benchmarks. This was to the great annoyance of people who shelled out a lot of money for a card and presumably expected to keep it for a while, but not so much to those who bought lesser midrange or bargain versions with the intention to replace their card anyways. After all...the only DX9 blockbuster that comes to mind at the moment is Far Cry.
I certainly would buy/download my games. As aforementioned, it's easier to replace lost/broken copies, CD-keys easier to look up, and is simply a lot less hassle than going to your local store.
A couple of examples of pay-for-download games that have done alright:
P2P is simply another method of distribution: are we really talking about P2P as a way to lower the cost barrier to distribution, or about the larger idea of selling games via download in general?
Games are (generally speaking) a work of fiction that involve humans, and being fiction you need a story. I would argue that it's almost impossible to tell a story that involves human beings that would not become "political" if it has any degree of elaboration.
Example: "Bruce Wayne's parents were shot in the alley one night." OMG ANTI GUN AGENDA!
"Your parents were poor and sick, and being unable to afford medical help died when you were at a young age..." OMG SOCIALIST MEDICINE AGENDA!
Both of these are fairly standard boiler-plate backgrounds, but fall under the article's scope of questioning.
What are we going to do about bathroom and stretch breaks? Those load screens keep those regularly scheduled. Perhaps we should keep them for ergonomics' sake.
It'd be pretty useful to just carry around a storage tablet from place to place, although large transfers would just kill some of the usability for regular users of the networks, since last I checked bandwidth was split N ways between N clients.
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I like my public schools though...
...sorry, but from my point of view, many Libertarians would throw out the baby with the bathwater. That's why I don't vote Libertarian.
If we're talking at the federal level specifically (instead of the general philosophy), I don't mind paying more so the elderly can get social security checks and the destitute can get medical assistance. I like the fact that the government attempted many projects that were not touchable by the private sector at the time, such as the human genome project or the space program.
It could be a marketing reason, but I have an alternative reason:
Saying "Java 5" is a lot easier than saying "Java 1.5.0_05", when that happens (and you know it will: latest stable release 1.4.2_05)
As probably has been said before many times, one simply can't just cron an emerge on a Gentoo machine and expect it to run fine.
If you want to do this, Debian or a BSD would probably be superior choices.
Maybe in the future. For now, I stay away from Gentoo; it's like FreeBSD plus bugs, in my eyes. I have high hopes for it in a few years though.
So bleeding edge development, perhaps? I was pretty unawares of what DBSD was all about, although, to be fair, I didn't follow it. I think this is a good idea to breathe some new life into the BSDs...I'm sure successful features from DBSD will be borrowed by the others once they prove themselves useful and stable. Maybe even ease the linux troll's complaints about how slow development is in the BSD world.
I can attest that this is almost the case at Berkeley; many, or even most (EE)CS majors run Windows on their home desktops, but we rely entirely from day one on Solaris machines in lab and by remote shell. No MS licenses here, standard issue campus-wide software include SSH Secure Shell and Exceed.
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I suppose you could say they run *NIX so I don't have to...after all, games do beckon from time to time, and device headaches are less common.
On the other hand, I have this large file which has been perma-locked by Windows, and I'm starting to get pissed...maybe I should install FreeBSD again
On the other hand, the original poster gave the impression that we were operating under the unconditional, unqualified "when it's done" statement, which is not really the case.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040511/sftu128_1.html
"Activision and id Software Confirm Summer 2004 Ship Date for Doom 3"
It's not "when it's done" with no qualifiers, as you imply. id and Activision have a rough idea of when "it's done" will be.
And just imagine how likely the private sector would have sunk that much money into something completely unknown without NASA (and the Russian Space Agency) to pave the way. Also consider that quite a bit of aeronautics advancement stemmed from NASA's needs and funding.
I'll keep some of my government meddling, thank you.
Let us not forget the more important implication of this: for every SUV that hits a smaller vehicle, the other passengers have a far great chance of dying. What has happened is that we've ended up in a road-mass arms race with our neighbors.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/r
Perhaps there is another law we've all heard of that suffers from a similar case of over-scope...
By the time any normal person can accumulate 1GB worth of e-mail from a service starting today 1GB will be so fantastically cheap (they aren't already?) that it just won't matter.
...too late. "Unbreakable" cryptography has already been accomplished. Really, unless the NSA or whoever are holding some fundamental advance over the civilian world, there is anyone is going to break conventional shared-key encryption schemes like RSA anytime soon. While your comment rings of groundless cyncism, you can in fact apply the RSA algorithm yourself by hand and see why it would be unbreakable in any reasonable amount of time with any deterministic computer.
And on the other hand, they are Berkeley professors, and we aren't (most likely). Don't sound so snide and/or judgemental unless you are prepared to be rigorous about defending your position given the details of their paper.
As for the "Synthetic Biology," it's sort of an NMR-MRI PR-name switch, although it's not totally groundless.
Bear in mind that some of these studios are also privately owned. They can do whatever the hell they want.
While it's possible to build a game on budget and on time, I wouldn't want to; there are too many things that can go wrong in the rigorous world of programming.
Evidence that pigs do fly has surfaced, new interpretations of the bible by scholars indicate that Hell is actually a frozen wasteland, and RMS backs a decision by Sun not to open Solaris.
But then they would lose a lot of market share, if they found a way to enforce "no updates for pirates." And our government would NEVER put economic interests above human interests....no, never.....
At 14? That doesn't seem too bad; children by that age shouldn't have a problem knowing that they should not re-enact behavior that they play.
ATI makes no bones that the radeon series is for gamers. If they can give you enhanced performance during the product cycle at the sacrifice of a new feature that no game will use during this card's usability, who cares?
The real question for the gamer is how large the intersection is of the set of games that will (in the future) be able to run on these cards at a playable speed and the set of games that will use this feature. The answer is not clear to me that this intersection would be large.
Case in point: I believe that the original FX was the first "DX9" card to market. The only problem is that whenever a game was written to DX9 spec it would run horribly, hence the moans and groans of people looking at HL2 benchmarks. This was to the great annoyance of people who shelled out a lot of money for a card and presumably expected to keep it for a while, but not so much to those who bought lesser midrange or bargain versions with the intention to replace their card anyways. After all...the only DX9 blockbuster that comes to mind at the moment is Far Cry.
I certainly would buy/download my games. As aforementioned, it's easier to replace lost/broken copies, CD-keys easier to look up, and is simply a lot less hassle than going to your local store.
A couple of examples of pay-for-download games that have done alright:
Savage: http://www.s2games.com
Escape Velocity: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/
P2P is simply another method of distribution: are we really talking about P2P as a way to lower the cost barrier to distribution, or about the larger idea of selling games via download in general?
Games are (generally speaking) a work of fiction that involve humans, and being fiction you need a story. I would argue that it's almost impossible to tell a story that involves human beings that would not become "political" if it has any degree of elaboration.
Example:
"Bruce Wayne's parents were shot in the alley one night." OMG ANTI GUN AGENDA!
"Your parents were poor and sick, and being unable to afford medical help died when you were at a young age..." OMG SOCIALIST MEDICINE AGENDA!
Both of these are fairly standard boiler-plate backgrounds, but fall under the article's scope of questioning.
What are we going to do about bathroom and stretch breaks? Those load screens keep those regularly scheduled. Perhaps we should keep them for ergonomics' sake.
It'd be pretty useful to just carry around a storage tablet from place to place, although large transfers would just kill some of the usability for regular users of the networks, since last I checked bandwidth was split N ways between N clients.
You mean like, oh, a patent?
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How much will media cost?
of course it works both ways....Microsoft is also a mortal entity.