It will end when some patron saint comes along and says "You there, you have interesting content, here's a free powerful web server and a T3 line!"
In the meantime I place google adwords on the tops of my pages. Not because I want to be a millionare, but because my approach of "hey, my logs show you people obviously like this content, how about making a donation?" Has netted me $0.00 in my efforts to fund my site and keep it online.
So, to sum up: Donations == site dies, AdWords == site lives.
I use adwords because they are relevant, are not animated, don't take over the screen, and generally don't piss visitors off (and mainly because such banners piss ME off, while adwords don't).
they don't need to buy and license ROMs from Nintendo
This is only a problem if you live in the fantasy world of making money off of your video games.
Not so much that as having the common man play the games, I can write a PC/PDA game and your average joe can download it and run the installer and play it. The average joe cannot get my game I developed using the tools you listed (great list BTW, thanks!) onto their GBA. The average Slashdotter can, but not the average joe.
I was thinking more along the lines of something that would still look and feel like a GBA with just a direction pad and some buttons. But yes, the Tungsten E is sweet.
"Maybe it would be faster for me to learn Japanese?"
I would say that you can't really grasp Japanese language without living in Japan for a while. I can say that after taking Japanese in High School and College and getting top marks in both, my Japanese skills turned out to be pathetic when I finally got to Japan.
That being said, after a few years of diving into the language (by which I mean being thrown in the deep end of the pool), I could function fairly well as an interpreter.
The big thing is to go to Japan and speak Japanese, even if you can't. Hanging around with other English speakers all the time and/or copping out and trying to get them to speak English will get you nowhere. The average english teacher I see in Japan can't speak a lick of Japanese even after several years. Why? because they either do not want to learn or constantly take the easy way out.
The thing to also remember is that you can get more games for PDAs and PCs. Why? because the cost of entry for game programming on a PDA or PC is lower. Any joe can get a compiler and write a game for a PC or a PDA. They don't need proprietary development software or testing/emulation systems, they don't need to buy and license ROMs from Nintendo, and they don't need to depend on Wal-Mart and Toys 'R Us for distribution.
The flip side of this is of course the fact that you have a lot of crap to wade through (but we are talking on Slashdot here and are obviously used to it) but there are real gems out there that rise to the top of the independant games.
What we really need is an open alternative to the Gameboy, something that had a free development environment and connects to the PC with a USB cable to download games, yet remains cheap as a GBA (of course, things like the GBA are usually cheap because it is subsidised but you get the idea). You can even still have the rom slot so commercial game companies can still sell boxed games for it.
Well, first of all laser rangefinders are nothing new, and yes, timing of the return trip is where it's at.
Modeling the tops of things is probably going to be a disadvantage for this one, but typically shape and height are enough for most scenarios, what the top looks like is not usually as much of an issue (though we can likely determine if the top is round/triangular/flat if we can get far enough away).
The advantage of this over an animator's definition is accuracy. If you want an exact 3d model of a building for, say architectual purposes, you want to know exactly where that sphere is in the room, not some abstract rendition by an artist (not to mention that my office has no spheres in it, but much more complex objects instead.
Man, as if it's bad enough for builders that some architect can come around and harass you for being 1 inch off with a divider wall, now the architect will just send the robot down to measure out the entire building in 3d and point out any screwups!
"Imagine if Microsoft tried to charge for security fixes--people would go crazy," Larholm said.
And the Apple users are going to bend over and take it?
"The Bush Administration, according to Washington, D.C. buzz, is thinking about anointing NASA with a new, beyond Earth orbit vision statement"
What the hell? This sounds like my boss issuing a new "build me a brand new OS that is more secure than OpenBSD, runs all MS software, and will allow us to recycle Commodore 64s!" vision statement.
I mean seriously, what good will a vision statement do NASA? Space programs need money, not flowery vision statements. When Kennedy comitted the States would go to the moon, he didn't stop at the speech we have all seen at one point or another, he put his money where his mouth was (ok, he put taxpayers money where his mouth was) and made sure the deed got done!
Look at MMORPGS like Everquest. They offer pre-paid cards to tap into a very lucrative market: teens. These kids make money at part-time jobs (or receive it in allowances) and have no expenses, resulting in high levels of disposable income. Problem is teens usually lack credit cards. Without prepaid cards a lot of online services cannot tap into this market because if they can't pay cash they can't pay.
I think what we'll see next is a prepaid card that a lot of online retailers choose to accept. Oh wait, that's a check-card. Well, expect to see more teens with more check-cards in the future.
1) If you get flooded with spam just go directly into MySQL and issue a DELETE...WHERE query, it's really too much trouble to use the MT frontend to delete multiple comments.
Re:Languages need novices, novices need good books
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Ouch;)
Well, what can I say, I have a niche to fill.
Languages need novices, novices need good books.
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"Although EJB is an incredibly powerful tool in the hands of experience architects, it is subject to a lot of misuse by novice developers who do not make sound choices."
At least the novice developers can use it. Look at Visual Basic: VB is the most popular language with over 3 million developers simple because anyon can pick it up and get started, this leads to more developers, which leads to more apps, which helps Windows dominate the desktop.
Now a large number of those first projects are garbage apps, but at least they give a starting point. We need languages that novices can jump into, then good books that can help steer them as they continue learning the language.
RedHat 10 (aka Fedora Linux, has a 2.6 kernel on their roadmap. Essentially they say that if 2.6 is officially released before they officially release RH10, and the switch will not cause delays, then they will ship 10 with 2.6, otherwise they will ship an updated version ASAP after the release of 2.6.
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Don't worry, at no point will Elrond shove his hand into Frodo's chest, just to have Frodo become another Elrond and then explode. ;)
In the meantime I place google adwords on the tops of my pages. Not because I want to be a millionare, but because my approach of "hey, my logs show you people obviously like this content, how about making a donation?" Has netted me $0.00 in my efforts to fund my site and keep it online.
So, to sum up: Donations == site dies, AdWords == site lives.
I use adwords because they are relevant, are not animated, don't take over the screen, and generally don't piss visitors off (and mainly because such banners piss ME off, while adwords don't).
Is a good ole fashioned Slashdotting!
Now we can demoralize the enemy into surrendering by taking away their ability to surf porn!
they don't need to buy and license ROMs from Nintendo This is only a problem if you live in the fantasy world of making money off of your video games. Not so much that as having the common man play the games, I can write a PC/PDA game and your average joe can download it and run the installer and play it. The average joe cannot get my game I developed using the tools you listed (great list BTW, thanks!) onto their GBA. The average Slashdotter can, but not the average joe.
I was thinking more along the lines of something that would still look and feel like a GBA with just a direction pad and some buttons. But yes, the Tungsten E is sweet.
I would say that you can't really grasp Japanese language without living in Japan for a while. I can say that after taking Japanese in High School and College and getting top marks in both, my Japanese skills turned out to be pathetic when I finally got to Japan.
That being said, after a few years of diving into the language (by which I mean being thrown in the deep end of the pool), I could function fairly well as an interpreter.
The big thing is to go to Japan and speak Japanese, even if you can't. Hanging around with other English speakers all the time and/or copping out and trying to get them to speak English will get you nowhere. The average english teacher I see in Japan can't speak a lick of Japanese even after several years. Why? because they either do not want to learn or constantly take the easy way out.
The flip side of this is of course the fact that you have a lot of crap to wade through (but we are talking on Slashdot here and are obviously used to it) but there are real gems out there that rise to the top of the independant games.
What we really need is an open alternative to the Gameboy, something that had a free development environment and connects to the PC with a USB cable to download games, yet remains cheap as a GBA (of course, things like the GBA are usually cheap because it is subsidised but you get the idea). You can even still have the rom slot so commercial game companies can still sell boxed games for it.
Problem is then the robot who can measure to 1/100th of an inch will be riding it's ass.
Modeling the tops of things is probably going to be a disadvantage for this one, but typically shape and height are enough for most scenarios, what the top looks like is not usually as much of an issue (though we can likely determine if the top is round/triangular/flat if we can get far enough away).
The advantage of this over an animator's definition is accuracy. If you want an exact 3d model of a building for, say architectual purposes, you want to know exactly where that sphere is in the room, not some abstract rendition by an artist (not to mention that my office has no spheres in it, but much more complex objects instead.
Man, as if it's bad enough for builders that some architect can come around and harass you for being 1 inch off with a divider wall, now the architect will just send the robot down to measure out the entire building in 3d and point out any screwups!
"Imagine if Microsoft tried to charge for security fixes--people would go crazy," Larholm said. And the Apple users are going to bend over and take it?
What I am saying is that even with everyone in my department believeing in the manager's vision, we still go nowhere without adequate funding.
What the hell? This sounds like my boss issuing a new "build me a brand new OS that is more secure than OpenBSD, runs all MS software, and will allow us to recycle Commodore 64s!" vision statement.
I mean seriously, what good will a vision statement do NASA? Space programs need money, not flowery vision statements. When Kennedy comitted the States would go to the moon, he didn't stop at the speech we have all seen at one point or another, he put his money where his mouth was (ok, he put taxpayers money where his mouth was) and made sure the deed got done!
I'm disappointed.
Yes, but when you cannot get a credit card all this means is that your check card is just like cash, it gets stolen and you are SOL.
I think what we'll see next is a prepaid card that a lot of online retailers choose to accept. Oh wait, that's a check-card. Well, expect to see more teens with more check-cards in the future.
I was planning to use a scale model of the Enterprise as a hood ornament for my SR-71 Blackbird.
Because MT-Blacklist already exists, and my spam problem is not yet big enough to design my own tool, so I'll take what's available.
1) If you get flooded with spam just go directly into MySQL and issue a DELETE...WHERE query, it's really too much trouble to use the MT frontend to delete multiple comments.
2) Check out MT-Blacklist at http://www.jayallen.org/misc/projects/mt-blacklist /
Well, what can I say, I have a niche to fill.
At least the novice developers can use it. Look at Visual Basic: VB is the most popular language with over 3 million developers simple because anyon can pick it up and get started, this leads to more developers, which leads to more apps, which helps Windows dominate the desktop.
Now a large number of those first projects are garbage apps, but at least they give a starting point. We need languages that novices can jump into, then good books that can help steer them as they continue learning the language.
RedHat 10 (aka Fedora Linux, has a 2.6 kernel on their roadmap. Essentially they say that if 2.6 is officially released before they officially release RH10, and the switch will not cause delays, then they will ship 10 with 2.6, otherwise they will ship an updated version ASAP after the release of 2.6.
SATA is Serial ATA, a technology where a serial connection with thin cable replaces the parallel connector with the wide cable for your hard-drive.
XFS is a journaled high-performance file system from SGI. Nice for big servers.
CIFS is a file system for shared folders in Windows. You share files in a recent version of Windows, you use CIFS.
As I discovered here