On a tangent, refusing advance reviews and litigious behaviour towards the press attempting to produce prerelease reviews can mean only one thing. The game stinks on ice and Atari know it.
What really surprises me is that Atari have done anything whatsoever to draw attention to these reviews....perhaps one of the marketing team has misunderstood the phrase "no publicity is bad publicity" (i.e. don't be forgotten) to mean all publicity is good...
(E) The officer, agent, or employee of the library, museum, or archival institution, or the merchant or his employee or agent acting under division (A) or (B) of this section shall not search the person, search or seize any property belonging to the person detained without the person's consent, or use undue restraint upon the person detained.
Timesprout: "You see, most blokes will be coding with sixty-four bit registers. You're on sixty-four, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...sixty-five. One bigger."
DiBergi: "Why don't you just write a integer maths library that can virtualize any size you define, and make that a little bigger?"
Timesprout: (baffled) "This goes up to sixty-five."
Here's a pretty simple way to figure out if something is or is not "good" science.
It's in the form of two examples:
1 - research is published in a recognised, peer-reviewed journal such as Nature, Science, etc. - probably well presented, may be reproducable, generally considered the correct way to present the findings.
2 - research is announced in the normal press first, for example on Yahoo!News via the Reuters news feed - "scientists" are either idiots, over-excitable, crave attention, being mis-represented, or a combination of the four. Generally considered an amazingly stupid way to present the findings.
I'll leave it to yourselves to decide which category this one fits into.
okay, so they're going to open an incinerator - it uses a hi-tech method to burn the waste, but it's still an incinerator.
I hope they've got an efficient waste gas management/scrubbing system, otherwise the same thing'll happen there as it happened near me. The local municipal incinerator was closed because any vegetables grown locally contained toxic levels of poisonous waste, including nastily high levels of cadmium.
I wasn't paying attention to the whole thing til mid-1994, but based on the records I believe that it was more of an emergent concept rather than a breakthrough.
The FSF saw the need a decade before, and was working to fill it. Stallman was the visionary, and Torvalds a lucky hacker with good timing.
In hindsight, if the FSF could have done their Hurd development more openly and released flawed code earlier, or even hacked together an interim monolithic kernel then Linus might have just been a contributor to that. Or if Linus had taken Andrew Tanenbaums' criticisms of the monolithic model more seriously, he might have got stuck in the same problems as the FSF and never even reached a workable public alpha.
But Linus Torvalds was in the right place at the right time, and he did have the bare-bones of a kernel that slotted into place with the FSF tools to make an OS (kinda stealing the glory from RMS and the FSF,) but even if he hadn't done so, and FSF's Hurd contributors had continued with their interminably slow and not-very-public (the irony) debug, someone else would have provided the kernel.
Re:good database, but could have been so much more
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well, it's just blue-sky thinking - an example of one possible feature that could have been useful. perhaps a straightforward checksum of tracks, with fuzzy best-matching searches would do the trick. maybe not. Trogre suggests in this thread that a very small cover graphic would be good.
Of course, I've not really looked into it - there may be technical limitations to the CDDb format the freedb has to adhere to...
good database, but could have been so much more.
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I'm sorry the staff fell out, costing us access to a useful resource. freedb was a useful tool but it was always in need of improvement.
It really should have had facilities for submitting an md5 hash of the CD so end-users could avoid collisions, perhaps an easy way to edit or rate database entries, so that submissions where the track titles were wrong could be corrected by the community, etc...
Hopefully whatever replaces it will be better and more robust..
It was always a no-brainer that the UMD format would fail in the movie arena.
It's the lack of interoperability that make the format useless - it's all very well being able to watch a film on your PSP, but there's no facility to use UMDs in your PC,PS2/3 or home cinema (unless you buy a TV adapter.)
It's the minidisc story all over again, but accelerated because UMDs aren't a home-writeable format.
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On a tangent, refusing advance reviews and litigious behaviour towards the press attempting to produce prerelease reviews can mean only one thing. The game stinks on ice and Atari know it.
What really surprises me is that Atari have done anything whatsoever to draw attention to these reviews....perhaps one of the marketing team has misunderstood the phrase "no publicity is bad publicity" (i.e. don't be forgotten) to mean all publicity is good...
I prefer this part:
(E) The officer, agent, or employee of the library, museum, or archival institution, or the merchant or his employee or agent acting under division (A) or (B) of this section shall not search the person, search or seize any property belonging to the person detained without the person's consent, or use undue restraint upon the person detained.
Unfortunately, a project being open source has no bearing on whether it is patent-encumbered.
Timesprout: "You see, most blokes will be coding with sixty-four bit registers. You're on sixty-four, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...sixty-five. One bigger."
DiBergi: "Why don't you just write a integer maths library that can virtualize any size you define, and make that a little bigger?"
Timesprout: (baffled) "This goes up to sixty-five."
And if you tell that to kids today...
Never mind. According to the Scientific American article the story was first printed in Nature.
Thanks for the link, MyNymWasTaken!
Here's a pretty simple way to figure out if something is or is not "good" science.
It's in the form of two examples:
1 - research is published in a recognised, peer-reviewed journal such as Nature, Science, etc. - probably well presented, may be reproducable, generally considered the correct way to present the findings.
2 - research is announced in the normal press first, for example on Yahoo!News via the Reuters news feed - "scientists" are either idiots, over-excitable, crave attention, being mis-represented, or a combination of the four. Generally considered an amazingly stupid way to present the findings.
I'll leave it to yourselves to decide which category this one fits into.
At last, a lead in the Brian Wells case!
It was you!
okay, so they're going to open an incinerator - it uses a hi-tech method to burn the waste, but it's still an incinerator.
I hope they've got an efficient waste gas management/scrubbing system, otherwise the same thing'll happen there as it happened near me. The local municipal incinerator was closed because any vegetables grown locally contained toxic levels of poisonous waste, including nastily high levels of cadmium.
oh well.
I think the login prompt is a really bad example. It's a content access control system...kinda makes it a super-basic DRM implementation
The beauty of the internet is that you can hyphen-ate any pre-fix, suf-fix or compound word...
Incidentally, I prefer "misspelt."
I wasn't paying attention to the whole thing til mid-1994, but based on the records I believe that it was more of an emergent concept rather than a breakthrough.
The FSF saw the need a decade before, and was working to fill it. Stallman was the visionary, and Torvalds a lucky hacker with good timing.
In hindsight, if the FSF could have done their Hurd development more openly and released flawed code earlier, or even hacked together an interim monolithic kernel then Linus might have just been a contributor to that. Or if Linus had taken Andrew Tanenbaums' criticisms of the monolithic model more seriously, he might have got stuck in the same problems as the FSF and never even reached a workable public alpha.
But Linus Torvalds was in the right place at the right time, and he did have the bare-bones of a kernel that slotted into place with the FSF tools to make an OS (kinda stealing the glory from RMS and the FSF,) but even if he hadn't done so, and FSF's Hurd contributors had continued with their interminably slow and not-very-public (the irony) debug, someone else would have provided the kernel.
well, it's just blue-sky thinking - an example of one possible feature that could have been useful. perhaps a straightforward checksum of tracks, with fuzzy best-matching searches would do the trick. maybe not. Trogre suggests in this thread that a very small cover graphic would be good.
Of course, I've not really looked into it - there may be technical limitations to the CDDb format the freedb has to adhere to...
I'm sorry the staff fell out, costing us access to a useful resource. freedb was a useful tool but it was always in need of improvement.
It really should have had facilities for submitting an md5 hash of the CD so end-users could avoid collisions, perhaps an easy way to edit or rate database entries, so that submissions where the track titles were wrong could be corrected by the community, etc...
Hopefully whatever replaces it will be better and more robust..
My sister has a a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science from Durham University.
That's a lot of capital letters in one sentence...
yup. They're amazing yet crap, aren't they.
It was always a no-brainer that the UMD format would fail in the movie arena.
It's the lack of interoperability that make the format useless - it's all very well being able to watch a film on your PSP, but there's no facility to use UMDs in your PC,PS2/3 or home cinema (unless you buy a TV adapter.)
It's the minidisc story all over again, but accelerated because UMDs aren't a home-writeable format.
both wars started by the USA!
Is someone in the DoD thinking of trying again?
(yes I know the US was founded as a result of the 1776 fracas)
reminds me of when Cyrix pissed off Creative Labs, and suddenly none of Creative's bundled software would install on a machine with a Cyrix CPU.
Fortunately both Cyrix CPUs and Creative's bundled software were crap, so no-one missed out.
keyword: "decent"
according to the article, the compiler's still in early stages of development...
presumably by spinning it in a centrifuge to separate the red blood cells from the plasma.
So THAT'S what Robert Stroud was up to...
In other words, voters have no convictions.
Well, that's the two-party system for you...
yeah,that's how I read it first time around.
/. for a new way for teens to ask "Wanna cyber?"
Asking
Unfortunately Namco (so far) have decided not to ship the PS2 version in europe - even in the UK, where there are no language porting costs.
If this is released on the DS over here it might just convince me to buy my very first portable nintendo device...