Considering when it was announced years ago, you have to wonder a bit. Does this matter? It's like saying that Duke Nukem Forever won't come out on the GameCube -- it's sure as shit not coming out on anything else, either!
After 3 years, it's not going to live up to expectations anyways. The edge of gameplay is further out, and whatever monetary hit they took developing a game in 2002 and 2003 is 100% wasted money. Some of the code and art may transfer, but the gameplay and graphics standard have been raised in the meantime. Anything over 18 months is wasted money in game development.
"If you make the interface too simple you may loose some functionality that advanced users will like."
It's funny that unleashing the functionality that advanced users will like is apparently the result of simplifying the interface. I'm pretty sure the author did not intend this, but I'd say that the sentence is correct with such examples as Automator introduced in Mac OS 10.4 -- by making the interface simpler for advanced tasks, you make all users more advanced!
Compare: "What I really want to see is a comparison between a 2 megapixel cameraphone and a half-decent 2 megapixel digital camera, such as were top-of-the-line just a few short years ago?"
"What I really want to see is a comparison between a 2 megapixel cameraphone and a half-decent 2 megapixel digital camera, such as were top-of-the-line just a few short years ago."
One of these is a statement about what you want, the other is a question-sentence. One of them makes sense, the other does not.
"shows not only that you are a idiot, but that you have no idea that not only do people in Japan have less sex, and lower crime rates."
Just because they don't have a high teenage pregnancy rate, doesn't meant they have sex less. Suprisingly, the Japanese educate people on condoms and have started recently allowing the pill (although it took a long time for that to be approved). Safe sex, with planned parenting works.
Having people abstain and abstain until they go ahead anyways and get preggers is something that only people in the US seem to like to do.
Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publically state that there is no danger or evil from video games, or these guys are going to take your balls. We'll send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times press release staff.
Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we drive your ambulances, we connect your calls, we guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us!
"This board is a bit pricey though for sure so only gaming speed freaks need apply."
I'm really, really curious about the high-end sales for ATI and nVidia. What kind of people honestly go out and spend almost 1,000$ USD on a card every year? What benefits are there? Despite the fact that these hot, sexy cards come out, I don't see any real push to get software out that uses them. Windows Vista isn't out. Linux still doesn't have X rendering done via OpenGL. Mac OS X is the only OS that uses 3D everywhere.
Beyond that, what games push the card? WoW? Doom 3? Half-life 2? Add in Far Cry and UT, and that's pretty much it for 3D games. If you spend that same amount of money on any console, you can buy more than double those number of games.
What niche does this represent? I'm really curious as to the people that buy this kind of stuff.
MOL works because the G3/4/5 are fully virtualizable. You can trap any instruction you want, allowing you to properly virtual an OS within another OS.
x86 is not the same way. VMWare solves this by doing some really nasty tricky stuff. It's not an easy problem by far, and the performance would suck balls because you have to check all the code before it's executed, slowing everything a whole lot.
70% of your mark in any Comp Sci class here is usually 20% mid term and 50% final exam. Will rent-a-coder help there?
How about when you're on the job?
Maybe in a glorified technical college this would be useful, but at a real University, such slacking would be auto-corrected pretty quickly -- if not, I'm sure the job sites would deal with it:)
As I posted 4 days ago, Steve Jobs said in the keynote last year that he had some reasons to not release a video iPod.
Size -- other poratables are too big. Weight -- they also also too heavy. Content -- there is no content to put on it. Copyright issues are everywhere! Output screens -- they are simply too small for video.
"So how could that change?" I asked.
Simple!
The iPod video is smaller than the previous iPod photo; it is also lighter.
In terms of content, Steve Jobs has managed to secure a couple of deals to get music videos and TV shows into the iTunes store, and has provided home-grown content in the form of video pod casts. To help facilitate the production of video podcasts, he has included the iSight into every new iMac.
Watching the video is also as he wanted -- you can watch it on your computer in a unified interface via front row (with remote!), watch it directly on the iPod, or even watch it on a TV-out cable they have for the iPod video.
I think it also hints at where he'll be going in a few years. Now that you can get a nice H.264 movie trailer on your TV via front row, who's to say you won't be able to buy a complete movide for 6-8$? I'd love to be able to get a high quality, digital movie online. New release movies on DVD are about 20-30$ CAD -- too much for what you get. Hell, I could go to the theatre for less even with watery drink!
But if I could get movies that just came out for 6-8$ and watch them on my wonderful home theatre, I think I'd do it. I'm not too into 2$ music videos, but 2$ for a TV show isn't too bad. Why should I spend 80-100$ on a DVD box set of a TV show, when I'd much rather have a digital version of it for 20-30$.
With no manufacturing costs, the content providers get all the money -- no more middle men in China making all the DVDs and shipping them back and forth across the ocean!
"So if I buy a car that will tip over when I make a corner over 15 kph, the company is responsible? And if the same car can have its windows opened by pushing in and down, the company has to claim partial responsibility for the damages and theft done by any vandal who exploits this?"
Things that are fucked by design are the responsibility of the engineers who designed them, in addition to any other factors. Most people don't have the discipline to engineer good code. They should not be writing code!
It's a version of the GAIM source designed to work within the framework of MacOSX. It will integrate with your address book, supports MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/Bonjour/AIM, and is generally pretty darn spiffy.
I haven't had any of the problems I've had with other clients. It's the closest I've come to Kopete on MacOSX, plus it has some of the problems of Kopete fixed.
Back in the 80s and 90s, of course. The algorithm for verification of a CC is not hard to implement. It's trivial to generate millions of them.
How does Activision think that's going to stop anyone? Generate millions of fake CCs for getting past this, and continue. Hell, use fake CCs for all sites that won't charge your CC. Not charging it is the same as not checking, right?
"From now on, that particular pair of shoes or carton of cigarettes is associated with you."
How so? Do you even know how a UPC works? Our anonymous reader clearly does not. A UPC doesn't have a uniq bar code attached to each item, why should an RFID (which is, essentially, the same idea) suddenly have a uniq code per item attached? How would you coordinate the manufacture? It was hard enough getting everyone on the same page for UPC.
Heck, UPCs are guarded like MAC addresses -- each company pays for the intro bits, and then is responible for the sub item numbering. The master UPC database is distributed in a form that can be embedded in POS systems. I'm sure that every retailer in the world would love to pay not for the extended RFID version, but something really fancy that tracks your every purchase, plus the associated cost of making all RFIDs uniqe!
Everyone who feels like they have a say in this should go and watch "One Hour Photo" before they open their reply windows.
Seriously, you're paying for 1 thing -- privacy. Scratch that, you're also paying for convienence. How much $$ in gas do you burn driving to the store, then driving back to pick it up? That's a distance * 4 cost if you're doing nothing else. What's the time cost involved? Hey, how much do you make an hour vs. how long you spend driving? There are many advantages to home printing.
Plus, if you're into semi-illegal things, you'll know that the photo clerks are required by law to turn you into the cops if you try to get prints of scary pictures. I'd much rather the people with said prints do not set foot near photo equipment I run -- if I was in their position.
Convience is why 4L of milk (which I can get for 3$ at Wal-mart) is 6$ at the corner gas station. Why is it such a surprise that people use home printers? Hell, most people don't have laserjets! Inkjets sure cost a lot more per page, even though the initial cost is lower.
All I can say about your "Except getting rid of the booth babes." comment is:
1) I want to see half-naked male body builders and pretty boy fem-boy models at each display.
OR
2) You fuck yourself and die.
Seriously. There is no reason to turn 55% of the population into some kind of object meant to be lusted, groped, and swapped like so much coin. Either put up or shut up. Most of the introverted people I see on my E3 DVDs are too busy breathing heavily through their mouths and touching those poor models innapropriately anyways. What are they missing, exactly, that they couldn't find if they were not such terrible humans?
You're missing it too. End the booth babe tyranny. Gain us some respect for gaming. It's better entertainment than stupid Hollywood movies; I want us to not sink to their level of using breasts to sell product.
Size -- other poratables are too big. Weight -- they also also too heavy. Content -- there is no content to put on it. Copyright issues are everywhere! Output screens -- they are simply too small for video.
So how could that change?
If the iPod could be made to do video playback without getting bigger or heavier, there was a source for content, and you had some kind of output, you bet he'd do it.
For output, the 12" PB shows you how it could be done -- a simple mini-DVI slot would do it. Or you could use the existing iPod photo video out.
For size, well, that's where technology will help. The playback could be done probably within a year or two. Even now, the technology could certainly fit into the relatively bulky iPod form factor (for a price).
The content is probably the stickler. iTunes rips CDs, but could it rip DVDs? What about importing other movies you download? There are no online download services.. I suppose it could sync with iMovie like it syncs with iPhoto, but obviously Apple would like to have a real content download medium. No longer would you pay 60-100$ for a season of TV on DVD; instead, you could get it downloaded for 20$. That'd be worth it.
"...However, neither of them want to work, being new-age, enlightened folks. "Why should I automatically have to stay home? This is 2005, for cryin' out loud," says the woman. "...Eventually, they get divorced. Junior plays GTA4 with his buddies in his basement while his parents are at work, and they laugh every time they run over a hooker. Then they go out under the deck behind the house and smoke a joint. Mom and Dad won't be home for hours anyway.
Welcome to 2005."
What kind of mutant baby has a gestation and growth period such that the parents argue about who has to quite a job just as she swells up, pops it out, hires and imigrant, and you know, everything else that leads to the spawn smoking pot and giggling about his own entertainment within a 12 month period?
It certainly would explain the people who enjoy that mindlessly stupid game -- they are a race of POD PEOPLE sent to DECAY SOCIETY!
Apple's Pages and Keynote use XML (this was a very pleasant surprise for me).
Gnumeric uses XML.
AbiWord uses XML.
The open document format that OpenOffice and KOffice use is XML.
The trouble is that it's not obvious. People assume they use crazy propietary formats. If it was easy to grab the source and apply an XSLT transform to get another format, why, you'd have the Universal XML viewer which could work with all those formats!
I don't know about MS Windows-land because I don't really use it that often.
'mc' is your gateway to a much more powerful shell. Combine your command line shell with quick changing to bookmarked dirs (ctrl+\); easy adding to that via alt+a; F2 menus that let you easily compress subdirs, or run other things from your actions file based on the mime-type or file pattern; two-panes at two different FS locations; undelete FS, FTPFS, and other meta-FS interfaces; good mouse support; built-in editor (Cool edit); prompts you for arguments for makefiles you hit enter on...
The list goes on. Midnight Commander is a shell designed to speed up all your common tasks. It has sane defaults you don't really have to change much. It'll make you more productive!
If only there was some kind of extensible document format that let people have it be both printable and viewable on a monitor! We'd have to let the style sheets cascade, but then we could even support things like text-to-speech from the same document meant for printing and viewing! Hey, why stop there, why not make it a markup language so that we can add other neat features, like hyper links!
Sarcasm aside, it's totally not a technology issue -- it's a people issue. PDF has its place in forms you want printed off, because it currently has momentum. I have no idea why people resist using the alternate solutions which have added benefits beyond the PDF momentum.
Bug the people who put up PDFs for use. People using PDFs where they should be using XML is lot like people using Shockwave flash where they should be using XML.
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"Sometime in the future a cute little elephant will teach the next generation how to hate -- and whom to hate"
:(
Why must the cute little elephant be so mean?
Considering when it was announced years ago, you have to wonder a bit. Does this matter? It's like saying that Duke Nukem Forever won't come out on the GameCube -- it's sure as shit not coming out on anything else, either!
After 3 years, it's not going to live up to expectations anyways. The edge of gameplay is further out, and whatever monetary hit they took developing a game in 2002 and 2003 is 100% wasted money. Some of the code and art may transfer, but the gameplay and graphics standard have been raised in the meantime. Anything over 18 months is wasted money in game development.
I don't think you know what it means.
"If you make the interface too simple you may loose some functionality that advanced users will like."
It's funny that unleashing the functionality that advanced users will like is apparently the result of simplifying the interface. I'm pretty sure the author did not intend this, but I'd say that the sentence is correct with such examples as Automator introduced in Mac OS 10.4 -- by making the interface simpler for advanced tasks, you make all users more advanced!
PC:
Serious Sam (2000)
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (2002)
Serious Sam 2 (2005)
Xbox:
Serious Sam 1 (which is 1 + Second Encounter).
Serious Sam 2
Compare:
"What I really want to see is a comparison between a 2 megapixel cameraphone and a half-decent 2 megapixel digital camera, such as were top-of-the-line just a few short years ago?"
"What I really want to see is a comparison between a 2 megapixel cameraphone and a half-decent 2 megapixel digital camera, such as were top-of-the-line just a few short years ago."
One of these is a statement about what you want, the other is a question-sentence. One of them makes sense, the other does not.
""Earth Simulator" supercomputer performs 36 Terra flOps / second. ...Earth Simulators required to model 1 brain = 3.0 x 1017 / 3.6 x 1013 = 8333. ...
1 Brain = 8333 State-of-the-art Supercomputers"
So, unlike what kyle90 posted, you'd actually need 1,443 (rounded up from 1,442.25) of these Blue Gene/L to accurately model a single human brain.
To exceed that would require more!
"shows not only that you are a idiot, but that you have no idea that not only do people in Japan have less sex, and lower crime rates."
Just because they don't have a high teenage pregnancy rate, doesn't meant they have sex less. Suprisingly, the Japanese educate people on condoms and have started recently allowing the pill (although it took a long time for that to be approved). Safe sex, with planned parenting works.
Having people abstain and abstain until they go ahead anyways and get preggers is something that only people in the US seem to like to do.
Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publically state that there is no danger or evil from video games, or these guys are going to take your balls. We'll send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times press release staff.
Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we drive your ambulances, we connect your calls, we guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us!
Initial creation from which IP block/for which country.
Just like Google.[ca|com|uk|etc].
"This board is a bit pricey though for sure so only gaming speed freaks need apply."
I'm really, really curious about the high-end sales for ATI and nVidia. What kind of people honestly go out and spend almost 1,000$ USD on a card every year? What benefits are there? Despite the fact that these hot, sexy cards come out, I don't see any real push to get software out that uses them. Windows Vista isn't out. Linux still doesn't have X rendering done via OpenGL. Mac OS X is the only OS that uses 3D everywhere.
Beyond that, what games push the card? WoW? Doom 3? Half-life 2? Add in Far Cry and UT, and that's pretty much it for 3D games. If you spend that same amount of money on any console, you can buy more than double those number of games.
What niche does this represent? I'm really curious as to the people that buy this kind of stuff.
Not yet, anyways.
MOL works because the G3/4/5 are fully virtualizable. You can trap any instruction you want, allowing you to properly virtual an OS within another OS.
x86 is not the same way. VMWare solves this by doing some really nasty tricky stuff. It's not an easy problem by far, and the performance would suck balls because you have to check all the code before it's executed, slowing everything a whole lot.
70% of your mark in any Comp Sci class here is usually 20% mid term and 50% final exam. Will rent-a-coder help there?
:)
How about when you're on the job?
Maybe in a glorified technical college this would be useful, but at a real University, such slacking would be auto-corrected pretty quickly -- if not, I'm sure the job sites would deal with it
As I posted 4 days ago, Steve Jobs said in the keynote last year that he had some reasons to not release a video iPod.
Size -- other poratables are too big.
Weight -- they also also too heavy.
Content -- there is no content to put on it. Copyright issues are everywhere!
Output screens -- they are simply too small for video.
"So how could that change?" I asked.
Simple!
The iPod video is smaller than the previous iPod photo; it is also lighter.
In terms of content, Steve Jobs has managed to secure a couple of deals to get music videos and TV shows into the iTunes store, and has provided home-grown content in the form of video pod casts. To help facilitate the production of video podcasts, he has included the iSight into every new iMac.
Watching the video is also as he wanted -- you can watch it on your computer in a unified interface via front row (with remote!), watch it directly on the iPod, or even watch it on a TV-out cable they have for the iPod video.
I think it also hints at where he'll be going in a few years. Now that you can get a nice H.264 movie trailer on your TV via front row, who's to say you won't be able to buy a complete movide for 6-8$? I'd love to be able to get a high quality, digital movie online. New release movies on DVD are about 20-30$ CAD -- too much for what you get. Hell, I could go to the theatre for less even with watery drink!
But if I could get movies that just came out for 6-8$ and watch them on my wonderful home theatre, I think I'd do it. I'm not too into 2$ music videos, but 2$ for a TV show isn't too bad. Why should I spend 80-100$ on a DVD box set of a TV show, when I'd much rather have a digital version of it for 20-30$.
With no manufacturing costs, the content providers get all the money -- no more middle men in China making all the DVDs and shipping them back and forth across the ocean!
I think you're looking for:
"So if I buy a car that will tip over when I make a corner over 15 kph, the company is responsible? And if the same car can have its windows opened by pushing in and down, the company has to claim partial responsibility for the damages and theft done by any vandal who exploits this?"
Things that are fucked by design are the responsibility of the engineers who designed them, in addition to any other factors. Most people don't have the discipline to engineer good code. They should not be writing code!
It's a version of the GAIM source designed to work within the framework of MacOSX. It will integrate with your address book, supports MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/Bonjour/AIM, and is generally pretty darn spiffy.
I haven't had any of the problems I've had with other clients. It's the closest I've come to Kopete on MacOSX, plus it has some of the problems of Kopete fixed.
Back in the 80s and 90s, of course. The algorithm for verification of a CC is not hard to implement. It's trivial to generate millions of them.
How does Activision think that's going to stop anyone? Generate millions of fake CCs for getting past this, and continue. Hell, use fake CCs for all sites that won't charge your CC. Not charging it is the same as not checking, right?
It took us about 7 years to get Slashdot to switch to CSS.
How many years will it take before shit like this:
"
Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos
Posted by CmdrTaco on 9:15 11th October, 2005"
becomes this:
"
Novell Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos
Posted by SomeoneWhoIsLitterate on 9:15 11th October, 2005"
I tell you, that's when I start to pay for the subscription -- when they prove that they are editors!
"From now on, that particular pair of shoes or carton of cigarettes is associated with you."
How so? Do you even know how a UPC works? Our anonymous reader clearly does not. A UPC doesn't have a uniq bar code attached to each item, why should an RFID (which is, essentially, the same idea) suddenly have a uniq code per item attached? How would you coordinate the manufacture? It was hard enough getting everyone on the same page for UPC.
Heck, UPCs are guarded like MAC addresses -- each company pays for the intro bits, and then is responible for the sub item numbering. The master UPC database is distributed in a form that can be embedded in POS systems. I'm sure that every retailer in the world would love to pay not for the extended RFID version, but something really fancy that tracks your every purchase, plus the associated cost of making all RFIDs uniqe!
Everyone who feels like they have a say in this should go and watch "One Hour Photo" before they open their reply windows.
Seriously, you're paying for 1 thing -- privacy. Scratch that, you're also paying for convienence. How much $$ in gas do you burn driving to the store, then driving back to pick it up? That's a distance * 4 cost if you're doing nothing else. What's the time cost involved? Hey, how much do you make an hour vs. how long you spend driving? There are many advantages to home printing.
Plus, if you're into semi-illegal things, you'll know that the photo clerks are required by law to turn you into the cops if you try to get prints of scary pictures. I'd much rather the people with said prints do not set foot near photo equipment I run -- if I was in their position.
Convience is why 4L of milk (which I can get for 3$ at Wal-mart) is 6$ at the corner gas station. Why is it such a surprise that people use home printers? Hell, most people don't have laserjets! Inkjets sure cost a lot more per page, even though the initial cost is lower.
All I can say about your "Except getting rid of the booth babes." comment is:
1) I want to see half-naked male body builders and pretty boy fem-boy models at each display.
OR
2) You fuck yourself and die.
Seriously. There is no reason to turn 55% of the population into some kind of object meant to be lusted, groped, and swapped like so much coin. Either put up or shut up. Most of the introverted people I see on my E3 DVDs are too busy breathing heavily through their mouths and touching those poor models innapropriately anyways. What are they missing, exactly, that they couldn't find if they were not such terrible humans?
You're missing it too. End the booth babe tyranny. Gain us some respect for gaming. It's better entertainment than stupid Hollywood movies; I want us to not sink to their level of using breasts to sell product.
Size -- other poratables are too big.
Weight -- they also also too heavy.
Content -- there is no content to put on it. Copyright issues are everywhere!
Output screens -- they are simply too small for video.
So how could that change?
If the iPod could be made to do video playback without getting bigger or heavier, there was a source for content, and you had some kind of output, you bet he'd do it.
For output, the 12" PB shows you how it could be done -- a simple mini-DVI slot would do it. Or you could use the existing iPod photo video out.
For size, well, that's where technology will help. The playback could be done probably within a year or two. Even now, the technology could certainly fit into the relatively bulky iPod form factor (for a price).
The content is probably the stickler. iTunes rips CDs, but could it rip DVDs? What about importing other movies you download? There are no online download services.. I suppose it could sync with iMovie like it syncs with iPhoto, but obviously Apple would like to have a real content download medium. No longer would you pay 60-100$ for a season of TV on DVD; instead, you could get it downloaded for 20$. That'd be worth it.
I doubt the media producers are cooperating.
"...However, neither of them want to work, being new-age, enlightened folks. "Why should I automatically have to stay home? This is 2005, for cryin' out loud," says the woman. "...Eventually, they get divorced. Junior plays GTA4 with his buddies in his basement while his parents are at work, and they laugh every time they run over a hooker. Then they go out under the deck behind the house and smoke a joint. Mom and Dad won't be home for hours anyway.
Welcome to 2005."
What kind of mutant baby has a gestation and growth period such that the parents argue about who has to quite a job just as she swells up, pops it out, hires and imigrant, and you know, everything else that leads to the spawn smoking pot and giggling about his own entertainment within a 12 month period?
It certainly would explain the people who enjoy that mindlessly stupid game -- they are a race of POD PEOPLE sent to DECAY SOCIETY!
Apple's Pages and Keynote use XML (this was a very pleasant surprise for me).
Gnumeric uses XML.
AbiWord uses XML.
The open document format that OpenOffice and KOffice use is XML.
The trouble is that it's not obvious. People assume they use crazy propietary formats. If it was easy to grab the source and apply an XSLT transform to get another format, why, you'd have the Universal XML viewer which could work with all those formats!
I don't know about MS Windows-land because I don't really use it that often.
'mc' is your gateway to a much more powerful shell. Combine your command line shell with quick changing to bookmarked dirs (ctrl+\); easy adding to that via alt+a; F2 menus that let you easily compress subdirs, or run other things from your actions file based on the mime-type or file pattern; two-panes at two different FS locations; undelete FS, FTPFS, and other meta-FS interfaces; good mouse support; built-in editor (Cool edit); prompts you for arguments for makefiles you hit enter on...
The list goes on. Midnight Commander is a shell designed to speed up all your common tasks. It has sane defaults you don't really have to change much. It'll make you more productive!
If only there was some kind of extensible document format that let people have it be both printable and viewable on a monitor! We'd have to let the style sheets cascade, but then we could even support things like text-to-speech from the same document meant for printing and viewing! Hey, why stop there, why not make it a markup language so that we can add other neat features, like hyper links!
Wow, though, that's a lot of standards work. We might need a standards body to oversee it. Maybe someday, people will start to encode information in this format so that we can view it comfortable on our monitors without fucking around with stupid documents.
-=-
Sarcasm aside, it's totally not a technology issue -- it's a people issue. PDF has its place in forms you want printed off, because it currently has momentum. I have no idea why people resist using the alternate solutions which have added benefits beyond the PDF momentum.
Bug the people who put up PDFs for use. People using PDFs where they should be using XML is lot like people using Shockwave flash where they should be using XML.