Darwin has already been ported to x86 as has much of Cocoa in the form of GNUstep. So all that's left of the OS itself is the Carbon aspects.
Sure there would be trouble with applications that address the hardware directly, but if apple wants any kind of significant market shar they would take the time to work out these problems.
They boy bought a dimension. those be Dell desktops. He was just commenting on Dell service in general, not specifically to laptops, which is what this is all aobut anyway
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We are at war with Eastasia, we are friends with Eurasia. Whe have always been at war with Eastasia, we have always been friends with Eurasia
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Actually it is possible. If you read an earlier post there is a string of eight 8s
The nature of Pi will not allow a repeating pattern of numbers, so long as no continuous pattern of those numbers appears to infinity, Pi can have every possible piece of information contained within.
"...I'm just a Caveman, your world frightens and confuses me. When I use my fax machine are there little deamons in there typing the message? When I'm watching my 52" TV I wonder if the people are actually inside the screen?"
Well first we wouldn't have a hard time defending our country in most military engagements as our military is quite well trained, and we have allies other than the US.
As for bashing the US, he did nothing of the sort, it was actually a comparison of the two contries, biased perhaps, but it was far from the bashing that you just gave.
As for the fact that no one wants our land, that's a pretty broad comment, especially since in 1812 the US took a stab at getting it. We are very rich in minerals and other natural resources.
Canadains don't start fights, but we fight like hell to finish them.
AT&T has a modem pool that their subscribers can use, FOR FIFTY CENTS PER MINUTE. That's adding insult to injury
This is why I went with the Sympatico ADSL service Bell Canada offers. sure I never get more than 50kB/s and it's a dynamic IP but the customer service makes up for it.
Case in point, I was having trouble with intermittant connections with the modem. Called the toll free number, got live person within 3 minutes and they were helpful going thorugh the proper steps to double check that everything was fine, and when I told them I was using Linux, I was imediatly written up for a check on the network line, tech support said "You must know what you're doing on your end then"
Next day got a call from network support to do some checks with the modem to test the line, when nothing came up that way they sent a guy out THAT DAY to get me a new modem.
compared to the 2 weeks it took to just get rogers out to my old place to hook the stuff up, the intermittant service and the hangups when I told them I ran Linux (with the phrase "Sorry we don't support that OS") I am extremely happy with my connection, even if it's slower.
I believe the term cyberpunk at it's simplest is a combination of the idea of cyberspace created by william Gibson, and the anarchistic lifestyle hardcore punks lived, but applied across society.
Basically I think cyberpunk is a society that has become technologically advanced to a point in which the world has become a true global village and thus the governments can no longer truly control anything and power has turned over to large corperations. basically because of the intrustion of the networked computer into everyone's lives the world has gone into a state of anarchy.
Actually the Golden Gate Bridge and the various other squatter villages that were described in Gibson's novels were the most facinating to me and were the aspects of the novels that I most wanted in real life.
However yes this High tech squatter village is quite impossible here in North America, mainly because they're all within easy access of the police. Gibson got around this problem by using the Golden Gate bridge. Basically the people just climbed to the very top of the towers and waited until the police left them alone.
Clack can only be attributed to the original short story "The Sentinel". It was this short story that inspired Kubrick to go to Clark and ask him to help him in writing the "Good science fiction movie".
The novel was written first becuase writing a screenplay is very tedious compared to writing a novel. Both Kubrick and Clark worked on the novel together and although Kubrick moved on to make the movie before the novel was in it's final draft, Clark often went to Kubrick for his approval various aspects of it. (Clark in the past has voiced his frustration in this as he felt that Kubrick was intentionally delaying his responces to have the move released before the book was published, and he succeeded).
Clark actually wanted to credit Kubrick as a co-author, but for reasons I cannot remember, Clark didn't give it to him.
So although Clark did originally create the story, he did so along with Kubrick.
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Well first I tend to find Scottish and irish completely different and I never need the subtitles.
However I do know that hollywood has never got the subtleties of the Canadian accent right, nor been able to really distinguish the difference east to west.
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Petty and appropriate but lost on any American. It woks far better with Canadians and actually it's worse if you ask New Zealanders if they're Aussie.
Americans don't know what it's like to try and distinguish a culture amongst similar speech patterns. Most Americans know nothing about any other English speaking country and figure they'll be part of the states eventually.
(no offence to Americans reading this, these conclusions are from speaking to Americans during my visits and are all politically incorrect generalities.)
So far the majority of the replies are saying that one of the most important things you need is to focus on maths.
Or rather the majority of the people here are giving advice on how the programming aspect of the industry. I've found with most people wanting to get into game production focus primarily on the programming aspect and forget about the most important part, the actual design.
The question asked was how do you get into game design, which is not the same as game programming. Although maths are important they are not the last word. If your looking to do more than just design an engine, then it comes down to, can you write a clear concise and complete design doc of the game.
Now I must admit I am not a game designer myself, however this is what I aspire to be and I"ve asked the "how do I get into game design" question many times before and the answers I got were simple: Make your own games and document the process as clearly and completely as you can.
What schooling do you need for this? amongst the programing and math courses that would be beneficial, take any course that relates to information system design and learn about ERDs and DFDs and the others. It will make for a much more impressive portfolio when you go in for the interview
Actually, yes it does. Right now Look Communications has been using the CN Tower for wireless broadband internet for quite sometime. However at the moment it's only downstream. They're working on two way wireless right now so that uploading won't be limited to 56k, but I don't know what the status of that is
it's fun to try and can be very useful in some cases
Exactly why, it can be useful. The logic here is that if it can serve a useful purpose then it should be explored and improved so that it can be even more useful.
Sometime local isn't an option. Perhaps the program takes up too much space, or perhaps it's a unique situation that requires the program be on a specific computer. The fact that cases like that exist and that more useful cases can be imagined make a good case for expanding and improving the technology.
But at the most basic the best reason to develop remote GUI is the fact that people can tell the difference between local and remote (ie it's slower). Once you can't tell the difference anymore then I'm sure you'll be using it.
The reason ST was such an amazing show wasn't the fact the roddenberry and crew were able to predict many of the developments of the future, he didn't most of those developments were made because of Star Trek, no it was because they were able to so accuratly portray the society of the day. The cold war, desegregation and such were the bread and butter of the original series. The Next Generation tackled issues of homosexuality, religion and psycology all within the context of today's society and yet set in interstellar space so we'd all actually notice it.
These shows were not simple science fiction.
No Deep Space Nine has that distinction, however, DS9's point was to be a show for the existing ST fans. Day to day life in the Federation, along with a continuing story arc, much like Babylon 5 but not as involved.
So I can see how Voyager was such a good idea, show the resourcefullness of the Federation's Star Fleet but stranding them light years away from home, throw in the need for help from their enemies and you've got a good show. But the screwed up and they didn't pursue any of those concepts very far. In the end the show turned into a bunch of technobabble to further a plot straight from a pulp fiction novel and it required the addition of a blond in a tight outfit to bring it's ratings back.
To me it seems the horse has died, or at least needs a rest.
but no this fall Paramount is coming out with yet Another ST show with another toatlly new concept not realizing the fans really don't want to see it.
They should put down the whip, or at least switch to an old one.
Honestly the best Star Trek concept I've ever heard involves returning to Sulu as he commanded the Excelsior. There is so much story behind the Excelsior they would have no trouble for episode ideas and more so they would be going back to the old school star trek that was only seen in the movies. Fans would not have to digest a whole new style, production wouldn't have to design new sets and costumes from scratch. It would just work. But big studios don't listen to fans.
I reminice to the days of the Original series where a letter writing campaign to desilu saved the series for oblivion.
Honestly, and I know everyone will say this too, but I saw this coming. However it wasn't when Corel started losing money hand over fist, but when the got rid of Cowpland as CEO. If anything Cowpland did things differently throughout his career and if what i read is right, he was a true supporter of open source, unfortunatly the rest of the board was not.
Sad to see it revert to the easier old school business models instead of being on the cuting edge of something entirly new.
The THX certification on VHS casettes simply means that the video and audio on the casette stands up the best possible video and audio that can be displayed with VHS according to THX. Although VHS sucks compared to laserdisc and DVD there still should be a standard and THX made one. Although I think it's mainly to cash in on the lucrative home movie market. (I don't think certification is free)
Chances of any of these systems running linux by defualt is slim to nil.
unlike Dolby Digital, THX is not a method of producing sound and video it is a standard in which to gauge the quality of them. Those that measure up are certified. Now even if all the hardware in the system get certified, I doubt if any company is willing to foot the bill to try and certify and kind of software that isn't microsoft based, thus any other kind of software would nix the certification.
So you'll have THX speakers, monitor, and video hardware, but with linux you lose the complete system.
It seems you limit people with PCs into three groups: user and hobbyist. well there is a thrid, career.
Apple brought computers to the public and made them flourish. The hobbyist could never do that, becuase the hobbyist is only concerned with the neat little things he can do with the machine rather than discovering how he can bring his passion to the public.
There's a rule when dealing with people K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple Stupid. Apple did just that. Perhaps it wasn't the best machine that you could get, it was the easiest and it introduced people to the world of computers. There are many more computer hobbyists today because of the Apple and there is an industry thriving today that hobbyists can make some money in because of the Apple.
You are a bitter little nerd, you are whining because your little club isn't so little and special anymore. Well wake up and face reality. Technology only advances when society WANTS it to advance. If it wasn't for Apple putting the want for PCs into society we would still be sitting with altairs playing with soldering irons and hoping instead of the spectacular achievements we have sitting on our desks today.
Well, although 3dfx hasn't been the best with their latest stuff, at least we know who to point the finger at. I've heard many stories of the hell that people went through with 3rd party Voodoo 2s, often these were the fault of the card manufacturers rather than the chipset.
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Darwin has already been ported to x86 as has much of Cocoa in the form of GNUstep. So all that's left of the OS itself is the Carbon aspects.
Sure there would be trouble with applications that address the hardware directly, but if apple wants any kind of significant market shar they would take the time to work out these problems.
It's ~$45 for broadband in the states and it was ~$40 before the price hike.
I pay $40, however that's Canadian.
They boy bought a dimension. those be Dell desktops. He was just commenting on Dell service in general, not specifically to laptops, which is what this is all aobut anyway
service in general
They sell it as Meccano in Canada too.
Canada don't need anglofied names.
We are at war with Eastasia, we are friends with Eurasia. Whe have always been at war with Eastasia, we have always been friends with Eurasia
Actually it is possible. If you read an earlier post there is a string of eight 8s
The nature of Pi will not allow a repeating pattern of numbers, so long as no continuous pattern of those numbers appears to infinity, Pi can have every possible piece of information contained within.
Scary when you actually think about it
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
"...I'm just a Caveman, your world frightens and confuses me. When I use my fax machine are there little deamons in there typing the message? When I'm watching my 52" TV I wonder if the people are actually inside the screen?"
Well first we wouldn't have a hard time defending our country in most military engagements as our military is quite well trained, and we have allies other than the US.
As for bashing the US, he did nothing of the sort, it was actually a comparison of the two contries, biased perhaps, but it was far from the bashing that you just gave.
As for the fact that no one wants our land, that's a pretty broad comment, especially since in 1812 the US took a stab at getting it. We are very rich in minerals and other natural resources.
Canadains don't start fights, but we fight like hell to finish them.
AT&T has a modem pool that their subscribers can use, FOR FIFTY CENTS PER MINUTE. That's adding insult to injury
This is why I went with the Sympatico ADSL service Bell Canada offers. sure I never get more than 50kB/s and it's a dynamic IP but the customer service makes up for it.
Case in point, I was having trouble with intermittant connections with the modem. Called the toll free number, got live person within 3 minutes and they were helpful going thorugh the proper steps to double check that everything was fine, and when I told them I was using Linux, I was imediatly written up for a check on the network line, tech support said "You must know what you're doing on your end then"
Next day got a call from network support to do some checks with the modem to test the line, when nothing came up that way they sent a guy out THAT DAY to get me a new modem.
compared to the 2 weeks it took to just get rogers out to my old place to hook the stuff up, the intermittant service and the hangups when I told them I ran Linux (with the phrase "Sorry we don't support that OS") I am extremely happy with my connection, even if it's slower.
I believe the term cyberpunk at it's simplest is a combination of the idea of cyberspace created by william Gibson, and the anarchistic lifestyle hardcore punks lived, but applied across society.
Basically I think cyberpunk is a society that has become technologically advanced to a point in which the world has become a true global village and thus the governments can no longer truly control anything and power has turned over to large corperations. basically because of the intrustion of the networked computer into everyone's lives the world has gone into a state of anarchy.
Cyber = networked computer punk = anarchy
Actually the Golden Gate Bridge and the various other squatter villages that were described in Gibson's novels were the most facinating to me and were the aspects of the novels that I most wanted in real life.
However yes this High tech squatter village is quite impossible here in North America, mainly because they're all within easy access of the police. Gibson got around this problem by using the Golden Gate bridge. Basically the people just climbed to the very top of the towers and waited until the police left them alone.
Clack can only be attributed to the original short story "The Sentinel". It was this short story that inspired Kubrick to go to Clark and ask him to help him in writing the "Good science fiction movie".
The novel was written first becuase writing a screenplay is very tedious compared to writing a novel. Both Kubrick and Clark worked on the novel together and although Kubrick moved on to make the movie before the novel was in it's final draft, Clark often went to Kubrick for his approval various aspects of it. (Clark in the past has voiced his frustration in this as he felt that Kubrick was intentionally delaying his responces to have the move released before the book was published, and he succeeded).
Clark actually wanted to credit Kubrick as a co-author, but for reasons I cannot remember, Clark didn't give it to him.
So although Clark did originally create the story, he did so along with Kubrick.
Well first I tend to find Scottish and irish completely different and I never need the subtitles. However I do know that hollywood has never got the subtleties of the Canadian accent right, nor been able to really distinguish the difference east to west.
Americans don't know what it's like to try and distinguish a culture amongst similar speech patterns. Most Americans know nothing about any other English speaking country and figure they'll be part of the states eventually.
(no offence to Americans reading this, these conclusions are from speaking to Americans during my visits and are all politically incorrect generalities.)
So far the majority of the replies are saying that one of the most important things you need is to focus on maths. Or rather the majority of the people here are giving advice on how the programming aspect of the industry. I've found with most people wanting to get into game production focus primarily on the programming aspect and forget about the most important part, the actual design. The question asked was how do you get into game design, which is not the same as game programming. Although maths are important they are not the last word. If your looking to do more than just design an engine, then it comes down to, can you write a clear concise and complete design doc of the game. Now I must admit I am not a game designer myself, however this is what I aspire to be and I"ve asked the "how do I get into game design" question many times before and the answers I got were simple: Make your own games and document the process as clearly and completely as you can. What schooling do you need for this? amongst the programing and math courses that would be beneficial, take any course that relates to information system design and learn about ERDs and DFDs and the others. It will make for a much more impressive portfolio when you go in for the interview
Actually, yes it does. Right now Look Communications has been using the CN Tower for wireless broadband internet for quite sometime. However at the moment it's only downstream. They're working on two way wireless right now so that uploading won't be limited to 56k, but I don't know what the status of that is
it's fun to try and can be very useful in some cases
Exactly why, it can be useful. The logic here is that if it can serve a useful purpose then it should be explored and improved so that it can be even more useful.
Sometime local isn't an option. Perhaps the program takes up too much space, or perhaps it's a unique situation that requires the program be on a specific computer. The fact that cases like that exist and that more useful cases can be imagined make a good case for expanding and improving the technology.
But at the most basic the best reason to develop remote GUI is the fact that people can tell the difference between local and remote (ie it's slower). Once you can't tell the difference anymore then I'm sure you'll be using it.
The reason ST was such an amazing show wasn't the fact the roddenberry and crew were able to predict many of the developments of the future, he didn't most of those developments were made because of Star Trek, no it was because they were able to so accuratly portray the society of the day. The cold war, desegregation and such were the bread and butter of the original series. The Next Generation tackled issues of homosexuality, religion and psycology all within the context of today's society and yet set in interstellar space so we'd all actually notice it.
These shows were not simple science fiction.
No Deep Space Nine has that distinction, however, DS9's point was to be a show for the existing ST fans. Day to day life in the Federation, along with a continuing story arc, much like Babylon 5 but not as involved.
So I can see how Voyager was such a good idea, show the resourcefullness of the Federation's Star Fleet but stranding them light years away from home, throw in the need for help from their enemies and you've got a good show. But the screwed up and they didn't pursue any of those concepts very far. In the end the show turned into a bunch of technobabble to further a plot straight from a pulp fiction novel and it required the addition of a blond in a tight outfit to bring it's ratings back.
To me it seems the horse has died, or at least needs a rest.
but no this fall Paramount is coming out with yet Another ST show with another toatlly new concept not realizing the fans really don't want to see it.
They should put down the whip, or at least switch to an old one.
Honestly the best Star Trek concept I've ever heard involves returning to Sulu as he commanded the Excelsior. There is so much story behind the Excelsior they would have no trouble for episode ideas and more so they would be going back to the old school star trek that was only seen in the movies. Fans would not have to digest a whole new style, production wouldn't have to design new sets and costumes from scratch. It would just work. But big studios don't listen to fans.
I reminice to the days of the Original series where a letter writing campaign to desilu saved the series for oblivion.
I loved that episode, not only did it have the laughs but an explosion too.
and Fever thought that was the phone police too!!
Honestly, and I know everyone will say this too, but I saw this coming. However it wasn't when Corel started losing money hand over fist, but when the got rid of Cowpland as CEO. If anything Cowpland did things differently throughout his career and if what i read is right, he was a true supporter of open source, unfortunatly the rest of the board was not. Sad to see it revert to the easier old school business models instead of being on the cuting edge of something entirly new.
The THX certification on VHS casettes simply means that the video and audio on the casette stands up the best possible video and audio that can be displayed with VHS according to THX. Although VHS sucks compared to laserdisc and DVD there still should be a standard and THX made one. Although I think it's mainly to cash in on the lucrative home movie market. (I don't think certification is free)
Chances of any of these systems running linux by defualt is slim to nil.
unlike Dolby Digital, THX is not a method of producing sound and video it is a standard in which to gauge the quality of them. Those that measure up are certified. Now even if all the hardware in the system get certified, I doubt if any company is willing to foot the bill to try and certify and kind of software that isn't microsoft based, thus any other kind of software would nix the certification.
So you'll have THX speakers, monitor, and video hardware, but with linux you lose the complete system.
Shame
It seems you limit people with PCs into three groups: user and hobbyist. well there is a thrid, career.
Apple brought computers to the public and made them flourish. The hobbyist could never do that, becuase the hobbyist is only concerned with the neat little things he can do with the machine rather than discovering how he can bring his passion to the public.
There's a rule when dealing with people K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple Stupid. Apple did just that. Perhaps it wasn't the best machine that you could get, it was the easiest and it introduced people to the world of computers. There are many more computer hobbyists today because of the Apple and there is an industry thriving today that hobbyists can make some money in because of the Apple.
You are a bitter little nerd, you are whining because your little club isn't so little and special anymore. Well wake up and face reality. Technology only advances when society WANTS it to advance. If it wasn't for Apple putting the want for PCs into society we would still be sitting with altairs playing with soldering irons and hoping instead of the spectacular achievements we have sitting on our desks today.
Well, although 3dfx hasn't been the best with their latest stuff, at least we know who to point the finger at. I've heard many stories of the hell that people went through with 3rd party Voodoo 2s, often these were the fault of the card manufacturers rather than the chipset.
Ok time to work on the NyQuil to Coke ratio
I will get back to you after extensive tests.