This wasn't a very unexpected development(no pun intended)
MS are worried that the windows platform is hemorrhaging developers to linux/OS X platforms. And as MS know; more developers, means more software, means more users, means more money, means more developers, etc , etc...
These downloads are aimed at drawing younger, paticularly student developers, to coding in a windows enviornment. Previously, every programming course I ever heard of started with C and Java, because of the low cost of development tools. If MS release free Dev tools, I can see schools and Universities switching to teach VB and C#, so their students are ready for the "real world".A lot of people in my course complain about this, paticularly after internships. When people don't have to pay $600 for Visual Basic, I think its uptake might increase, just a little.
Looks like a long term strategy I think. The question is will it work?
I figure it will draw more programmers back to windows, paticularly those frustrated by the C++/EMACS/Shell method of programming, which is admittedly a tough nut to swallow for the budding hacker. Most these days are likely long term GUI users, much more at home in Visual Studio type enviornments. I know I was! That why I got anjuta Anjuta be praised!!:E
Everyone at home is using IE6 which as we all know has major unpatched holes which have already been exploited by the russian mob.(P.S. do you think that had anything to do with the Akamai DNS outage) Now this would not be a huge problem, except they're using their credit cards online, passwords etc. I've got some pretty critical stuff on that windows box and I don't want some jerk from Russia or the NSA snooping about my account, which of course on a windows box is everyone's account!
Yesterday I finally decided to get Firefox 0.9(.0 >:|) for the XP computer. I was influenced in no small part by CERT's recommendation. If they've actually noticed other browsers, then something must be VERY wrong. I'm trying to get the family to use it, but you know how it is. "This isn't the proper internet!" . "What happened to the internet?" etc, etc, etc. But I'm past caring. The fact that MS haven't fixed the problem yet really was the last straw. I'm going to make them give up IE if it kills me. However Firefox on windows is still a little buggy, paticularly with autodissconnect. So Version 1.0 would be nice ASAP.
My reasons for switching are of course manifest, but on top of all of that I have a hunch that MicroSoft are going to drop IE in the near future. I know, I know they've re-constituted the IE team but that doesn't mean the team will work exclusivly on IE. I figure since IE is so full of holes, MS will just prefer to start from scratch, maybe develop new goodies/lock-ins. Tellingly IE still runs on 'number' versions; IE4,IE5,IE6 instead of the usual MS versioning; 95,98,2000,XP,2003 etc. Think about it. Hmm?
Well I'm not waiting around for them to dump the only windows browser I use, so I'm going to make a switch now. Hopefully I can keep the pain to a minimum, but it will mean downloading the ENTIRE Java runtime enviorment on a dialup... I'll see you in 2020.
1. Your biometric details are stored on the smart card 2. Your flight history is stored on the smart card 3. You go home and sell the card to an unscrupulous type, who changes the biometric data to match his own. 4. The charlaten walks right through airport security using what is essentially just a fake ID, but instead of changing the photo, he chages the biometric data(much easier). 5. Thanks to this breach of security, even tighter measures are imposed(cameras on streets, giant monitoring computers, etc) 6. Rinse and repeat.
7. 2020. Military junta at the Pentagon takes over the US, abuses the all encompasing powers of homeland security to deport subversives abroad to offshore camps. The Dictator's dream is made a reality by people who can't think past their next meal.
He talks about narratives in video games, yet nowhere does his article mention either RPGs(esp FFVII) or Metal gear solid, possibly the two greatest examples of narrative in the entire genre.
Clearly someone who has jumped on the idea of a 'new medium' (which it is) without doing ANY homework. Every game he mentions was a massive one. From the sound of it he's never even played one.
Sorry to be so negative, but I really hate the trend recently. Since games have gotten big, people have started to notice and comment on them a lot more. Unfortunatly, a lot of the academics who comment, frequently never play games and have a poor understanding of the entire medium. Does anyone know of someone who can give proper(i.e. researched) debate on the medium.
Considering that the movie almost wasn't distributed by Disney in the states, I think this article would fit well in the Your Rights Online section, typically since the YRO section frequently comments on issues that are just about rights and not nessesarily about online rights.
Also considering that the film critiques the current US administration, which has been the focus of a lot of flack on slashdot, the film I think could be commented on.
Got Fedora Core 2 recently and hooked it up to a lexmark optra E. I have never seen anything print so slowly. typically 5 miniutes after I hit the print button the first page begins to slide out. Heaven help you if you press the test button. you could be waiting 20+ minutes. No doubt folks will blame it on windrivers, MS and printer manufactures, but I suspect that CUPS may be to blame. I mean, what kind of a name is CUPS anyway
Be assured, this is all part of a plan to privatise the weather services. Big companies want your money and gaining a monopoly over services and goods you need is the best way to get it.
Amazon tied itself toone supplier of toys, and , surprise, surprise, that supplier didn't perform. Now that they want to end the agreemnet they find their in trouble, as Toys R Us is turning out to be benifiting from this rlationship to the detrement of Amazon.
This should be a lesson to all startups not to make a pact with the devil just to increase your profile.
He grows up to have damaged skelatal structure, heart problems and will probobly die before he's forty and all the while biotech companies have patented his DNA, reaped massive benifit and he hasen't seen a cent, let alone a euro.
Now if only someone could do the same for Europe and America. There's been a lot of hurt, a lot of mean things have been said, but that's nothing a couple of million FREE fragfests couldn't patch up right? Right?
Maybe via Iceland, the Azores? Newfoundland?
Before you start, satellite isn't free. I know. I get Sky.
Remember, spyware takes place on our personal and private property.(if not in our homes then on our computer)
Hence unlike these other issues, the user should have full authority over what happens. Everyone has an inalienable right to be left alone on their own property. Except if your a cr/hacker/terrorist/foreginer/junkie/subversive/mi nority/naderer/etc/etc/etc....
Remember, if you try to find out what WhenU's spyware is doing on your computer, WhenU can sue you for breaching their copyright/patent/encryption/whateverthehelltheyfel like on the basis that the transmissions were encrypted, or that their program is protected!
OK huge exaggeration, but remember that WhenU is essentially trying to argue that you have less rights than they do over your own computer. This is the tenent of DCMA supporters. Users cannot be trusted with what they do on their computers, ergo we must administer their PCs for them. WhenU simply extends this to actions you take browsing the web.
Acts like the DCMA have taken away a huge number of rights from computer users, so don't be too surprised if WhenU win the right to, basically, remotely administer your PC by force. As long as they get government backing and/or say that spyware fights terrorism, they might very well succeed.
I found a F/OSS Midlet RSS reader on sourceforge. Unsurprizingly, It's called 'RSS Reader MIDlet'. It's available here. Cheers for the slashdot rss link as well(I feel so dim)
To avoid this comment as being blasted offtopic, I will add that cell phone growth would be increased if more cell phone owners knew about the existence of rss readers for phone(or perhaps of the existence of rss at all). At the moment most providers just push their ludicrously overpriced games and ringtones as the main feature of GPRS/WAP. It's a shame. If only more people knew what was possible with mobile browsing, they'd use it a lot more, hence better apps, more investement etc,etc. As it stands the only java Midlet investement is in overpriced and frequently shoddy games. Oh and the cost of GPRS is too high! 3c per KB!! Come ON!!!
I also hear that the US mobile phone industry is in a bit of a state due to incompatible technologies and unreasonable tarrifs. A least that's what they tell me
I disagree. Mobile internet still has its uses. GPRS is well suited to rss feeds in paticular. I have a small phone screen, 95*60 px I think and I always read the bbc news while I'm on the bus, or driving or just don't have a net connection handy.
Though for anything else, it does pretty much suck, agreed.
However a large number of, PDA type devices with larger screens are appearing, so there is hope for mobile browsing. Now if only web developers would embrace xml,rss and css like they're 'sposed too!!:E
P.S. Is it possible to get slashdot on a mobile(wap) phone. Maybe an rss reader for phones?
Run. Run now screaming in panic. Flee now lest ye face horrer the like of which ye he'na dreamed of in yer worst nit'mares. FLEE!!
The true horrers of a linux modem setup can only be truely appricated on a Dell dimension, dual boot, fedora, XP.
First off, the 'modem' will not work. It will of course be picked up by fedora, but alas, ne'er a peep is heard. So after hours, and hours, of searching through linmodems you finally just go out and get an external one as many sources will have assured you that, "all external modems will ork under linux"
Foolish mortal!! You went out and picked up the flashy new USB modem didn't you!! HAHAHAHAHAH!!! An EXTERNAL WINMODEM!!!! AFTER THEY ASSURED YOU!!!?!?!
butwait!....
Just there at the bottom of the page. "Careful, some modern external modems are also winmodems" Joyus day. Someone please kill me.
After weeks of searching I finally came across a zoom modem that worked in fedora but bluescreened XP on startup. Oh happy day. I eventually solved this issue by ignoring the zoom modem driver and using a generic XP one or something.
Modems in linux are horrific and show no signs of improving. God I hate winmodems. But not as much as I hate the fact that fedora can't play CDs!?!?
Ahhh the rocky road to linux!! Worth it? Ask me after I've figured out how to use GIMP and EMACS.
haha.. hahaha HAHAHAHAHA......... *maniacal newbie laughter fades into the demented distance*
Didn't they say longhorn will require over 2GB of RAM just to start up?
Lets face it. By 2008 PC games will need 10GB of RAM, quad itanium 5s, DVD Blu-Ray drives, 3D Monitors, sidewinder joysticks, headset and a credit card for each and every play. The gameplay will be just as shallow as it is now, but the graphics will be 'unreal', heh, and we will all flock to buy them.
While all this is going on the 14 year old Super Mario World is still stellar, Quake is still being played, and Micro Machines 2 is STILL the pinacle of racing game fun.
Space flight is dangerous. What amazes me is that even big problems don't result in fatalities whereas, in the case of Challenger(maybe Columbia), a minor problem resulted in the death of the crew.
Could it work? Most warhammerers arn't very social beings to begin with! Dispite the fact that most warhammerers are loaded, they usually don't do credit cards, preferring to use the chopped up plastic as a customisation on models!:E
I'm wrong of course. Warhammerers have proven that they take an interest in the net. Check this out. Though the number of warhammer video games that have made it big, or anywhere for that matter, are slim.
I reckon they use a neural net type structure. Of course I may be proved wrong. I do find it unlikly that they will release the core engine part of the code. Considering how someone probobly has it patented.
EA:"It will be ready in six months, three months, two weeks. Actually here it is now. That'll be 60 euro" EA Junkie:"But this won't even start up. I.. I don't think it's even compiled?" EA:"It's got classy pictures on the front and a cool CG intro. That'll be 60 euro" EA Junkie:"The controls don't respond, wait there are no controls, it's just a rolling cutscence." EA:"The graphics are state of the art polyres, reflective,raytaced 3D with rasterised flipflop and EA's (EA)award winning Mujagavi Engine. There are lude women in it. That'll be 60 euro" EA Junkie:"Who is this guy on screen? What the hell's going on? This doesn't make any sense? Where's the story?" EA:"The plot is an intricate suspensful, thriller action mixing real time combat with sophisticated plot twists and puzzle oriented action sequences. That'll be 60 euro" EA Junkie:"I don't think I like this at all." EA:"It's a sports game with celebritys." EA Junkie:"Hot Danm!!" EA:"That'll be 60 euro!*grins*"
P.S. Why the hell won't the euro symbol show up on slashdot
Rest assured, if there is in any way whatsoever, any connection at all between these coders and bin Laden, not matter how ridiculous(their mothers,fathers,cousins,friend passed by a stall where an apple(not a mac) was purchased by someone who SAW the nefarious criminal, SHOCK!) , Microsoft will use it to say that Linux supports terrorism.
Wait,wait...sorry. Microsoft will get SCO to use it to say that Linux supports terrorism!
I think as this method becomes more popular it will displace the older method of finding the most mathematically perfect solution and designing from that.
In other word instead of fudging designs while you wait ten years for a mathematician to find the equations for the perfect wing, you just get a computer program to 'evolve' one for you. I'll bet this is what boeing and airbus already do.
Sadly this will leave most applied physics mathematicians out of a job. Danm computers!! Taking our jobs and our women!!
Well I suppose we can't complain.... much. I suppose the transgaming crowd put a lot of work into this.
I have noticed though, that games are the one area where open source/FSF hasn't really made inroads. They're aren't a lot of high quaility games for linux and the emulators on it seem to be almost always inferior to the win32 application from whence they came?
I suppose this is due to the high cost and workload associated with making a modern game. Makes you wonder though? How long until the cost and workload of 'regular' apps strays outside the domain of open source?
Though I propbobly just whinging because I have to pay. Not something a fedora user like me is used to!!:E
Slashdot Mirror
This wasn't a very unexpected development(no pun intended)
:E
MS are worried that the windows platform is hemorrhaging developers to linux/OS X platforms. And as MS know; more developers, means more software, means more users, means more money, means more developers, etc , etc...
These downloads are aimed at drawing younger, paticularly student developers, to coding in a windows enviornment. Previously, every programming course I ever heard of started with C and Java, because of the low cost of development tools. If MS release free Dev tools, I can see schools and Universities switching to teach VB and C#, so their students are ready for the "real world".A lot of people in my course complain about this, paticularly after internships. When people don't have to pay $600 for Visual Basic, I think its uptake might increase, just a little.
Looks like a long term strategy I think. The question is will it work?
I figure it will draw more programmers back to windows, paticularly those frustrated by the C++/EMACS/Shell method of programming, which is admittedly a tough nut to swallow for the budding hacker. Most these days are likely long term GUI users, much more at home in Visual Studio type enviornments. I know I was! That why I got anjuta Anjuta be praised!!
0.9.1.
Come on guys. I need 1.0 pronto.
Everyone at home is using IE6 which as we all know has major unpatched holes which have already been exploited by the russian mob.(P.S. do you think that had anything to do with the Akamai DNS outage)
Now this would not be a huge problem, except they're using their credit cards online, passwords etc. I've got some pretty critical stuff on that windows box and I don't want some jerk from Russia or the NSA snooping about my account, which of course on a windows box is everyone's account!
Yesterday I finally decided to get Firefox 0.9(.0 >:|) for the XP computer. I was influenced in no small part by CERT's recommendation. If they've actually noticed other browsers, then something must be VERY wrong. I'm trying to get the family to use it, but you know how it is. "This isn't the proper internet!" . "What happened to the internet?" etc, etc, etc.
But I'm past caring. The fact that MS haven't fixed the problem yet really was the last straw. I'm going to make them give up IE if it kills me. However Firefox on windows is still a little buggy, paticularly with autodissconnect. So Version 1.0 would be nice ASAP.
My reasons for switching are of course manifest, but on top of all of that I have a hunch that MicroSoft are going to drop IE in the near future. I know, I know they've re-constituted the IE team but that doesn't mean the team will work exclusivly on IE. I figure since IE is so full of holes, MS will just prefer to start from scratch, maybe develop new goodies/lock-ins. Tellingly IE still runs on 'number' versions; IE4,IE5,IE6 instead of the usual MS versioning; 95,98,2000,XP,2003 etc. Think about it. Hmm?
Well I'm not waiting around for them to dump the only windows browser I use, so I'm going to make a switch now. Hopefully I can keep the pain to a minimum, but it will mean downloading the ENTIRE Java runtime enviorment on a dialup... I'll see you in 2020.
This is how I envision it being abused.
1. Your biometric details are stored on the smart card
2. Your flight history is stored on the smart card
3. You go home and sell the card to an unscrupulous type, who changes the biometric data to match his own.
4. The charlaten walks right through airport security using what is essentially just a fake ID, but instead of changing the photo, he chages the biometric data(much easier).
5. Thanks to this breach of security, even tighter measures are imposed(cameras on streets, giant monitoring computers, etc)
6. Rinse and repeat.
7. 2020. Military junta at the Pentagon takes over the US, abuses the all encompasing powers of homeland security to deport subversives abroad to offshore camps. The Dictator's dream is made a reality by people who can't think past their next meal.
He talks about narratives in video games, yet nowhere does his article mention either RPGs(esp FFVII) or Metal gear solid, possibly the two greatest examples of narrative in the entire genre.
Clearly someone who has jumped on the idea of a 'new medium' (which it is) without doing ANY homework. Every game he mentions was a massive one. From the sound of it he's never even played one.
Sorry to be so negative, but I really hate the trend recently. Since games have gotten big, people have started to notice and comment on them a lot more. Unfortunatly, a lot of the academics who comment, frequently never play games and have a poor understanding of the entire medium. Does anyone know of someone who can give proper(i.e. researched) debate on the medium.
Considering that the movie almost wasn't distributed by Disney in the states, I think this article would fit well in the Your Rights Online section, typically since the YRO section frequently comments on issues that are just about rights and not nessesarily about online rights.
Also considering that the film critiques the current US administration, which has been the focus of a lot of flack on slashdot, the film I think could be commented on.
Some articles will always be seen as Offtopic but some are important enough to us to get shown anyway.
Got Fedora Core 2 recently and hooked it up to a lexmark optra E. I have never seen anything print so slowly. typically 5 miniutes after I hit the print button the first page begins to slide out. Heaven help you if you press the test button. you could be waiting 20+ minutes. No doubt folks will blame it on windrivers, MS and printer manufactures, but I suspect that CUPS may be to blame. I mean, what kind of a name is CUPS anyway
Be assured, this is all part of a plan to privatise the weather services. Big companies want your money and gaining a monopoly over services and goods you need is the best way to get it.
Amazon tied itself toone supplier of toys, and , surprise, surprise, that supplier didn't perform. Now that they want to end the agreemnet they find their in trouble, as Toys R Us is turning out to be benifiting from this rlationship to the detrement of Amazon.
This should be a lesson to all startups not to make a pact with the devil just to increase your profile.
He grows up to have damaged skelatal structure, heart problems and will probobly die before he's forty and all the while biotech companies have patented his DNA, reaped massive benifit and he hasen't seen a cent, let alone a euro.
You doubt me. Call me back in 2050 and we'll see.
Now if only someone could do the same for Europe and America.
There's been a lot of hurt, a lot of mean things have been said, but that's nothing a couple of million FREE fragfests couldn't patch up right? Right?
Maybe via Iceland, the Azores? Newfoundland?
Before you start, satellite isn't free. I know. I get Sky.
Remember, spyware takes place on our personal and private property.(if not in our homes then on our computer)
i nority/naderer/etc/etc/etc....
Hence unlike these other issues, the user should have full authority over what happens.
Everyone has an inalienable right to be left alone on their own property. Except if your a cr/hacker/terrorist/foreginer/junkie/subversive/m
Remember, if you try to find out what WhenU's spyware is doing on your computer, WhenU can sue you for breaching their copyright/patent/encryption/whateverthehelltheyfel like on the basis that the transmissions were encrypted, or that their program is protected!
OK huge exaggeration, but remember that WhenU is essentially trying to argue that you have less rights than they do over your own computer. This is the tenent of DCMA supporters. Users cannot be trusted with what they do on their computers, ergo we must administer their PCs for them. WhenU simply extends this to actions you take browsing the web.
Acts like the DCMA have taken away a huge number of rights from computer users, so don't be too surprised if WhenU win the right to, basically, remotely administer your PC by force. As long as they get government backing and/or say that spyware fights terrorism, they might very well succeed.
I found a F/OSS Midlet RSS reader on sourceforge.
Unsurprizingly, It's called 'RSS Reader MIDlet'.
It's available here. Cheers for the slashdot rss link as well(I feel so dim)
To avoid this comment as being blasted offtopic, I will add that cell phone growth would be increased if more cell phone owners knew about the existence of rss readers for phone(or perhaps of the existence of rss at all).
At the moment most providers just push their ludicrously overpriced games and ringtones as the main feature of GPRS/WAP. It's a shame. If only more people knew what was possible with mobile browsing, they'd use it a lot more, hence better apps, more investement etc,etc.
As it stands the only java Midlet investement is in overpriced and frequently shoddy games.
Oh and the cost of GPRS is too high! 3c per KB!! Come ON!!!
I also hear that the US mobile phone industry is in a bit of a state due to incompatible technologies and unreasonable tarrifs. A least that's what they tell me
I disagree.
:E
Mobile internet still has its uses.
GPRS is well suited to rss feeds in paticular. I have a small phone screen, 95*60 px I think and I always read the bbc news while I'm on the bus, or driving or just don't have a net connection handy.
Though for anything else, it does pretty much suck, agreed.
However a large number of, PDA type devices with larger screens are appearing, so there is hope for mobile browsing. Now if only web developers would embrace xml,rss and css like they're 'sposed too!!
P.S. Is it possible to get slashdot on a mobile(wap) phone. Maybe an rss reader for phones?
Run. Run now screaming in panic.
Flee now lest ye face horrer the like of which ye he'na dreamed of in yer worst nit'mares. FLEE!!
The true horrers of a linux modem setup can only be truely appricated on a Dell dimension, dual boot, fedora, XP.
First off, the 'modem' will not work. It will of course be picked up by fedora, but alas, ne'er a peep is heard.
So after hours, and hours, of searching through linmodems you finally just go out and get an external one as many sources will have assured you that, "all external modems will ork under linux"
Foolish mortal!! You went out and picked up the flashy new USB modem didn't you!! HAHAHAHAHAH!!! An EXTERNAL WINMODEM!!!! AFTER THEY ASSURED YOU!!!?!?!
butwait!....
Just there at the bottom of the page.
"Careful, some modern external modems are also winmodems"
Joyus day. Someone please kill me.
After weeks of searching I finally came across a zoom modem that worked in fedora but bluescreened XP on startup. Oh happy day. I eventually solved this issue by ignoring the zoom modem driver and using a generic XP one or something.
Modems in linux are horrific and show no signs of improving. God I hate winmodems. But not as much as I hate the fact that fedora can't play CDs!?!?
Ahhh the rocky road to linux!! Worth it? Ask me after I've figured out how to use GIMP and EMACS.
haha.. hahaha HAHAHAHAHA.........
*maniacal newbie laughter fades into the demented distance*
Didn't they say longhorn will require over 2GB of RAM just to start up?
Lets face it. By 2008 PC games will need 10GB of RAM, quad itanium 5s, DVD Blu-Ray drives, 3D Monitors, sidewinder joysticks, headset and a credit card for each and every play. The gameplay will be just as shallow as it is now, but the graphics will be 'unreal', heh, and we will all flock to buy them.
While all this is going on the 14 year old Super Mario World is still stellar, Quake is still being played, and Micro Machines 2 is STILL the pinacle of racing game fun.
Wake me up when gameplay gets past 1999.
Remember, cheaters and cheat sites have already broken the DMCA, by revealing bugs and flaws in the software.
This of course gives companies the right to sue, shut down and ultimatly execute the webmasters of these sites.
Welcome to 2004!
Consider as well that even the big boys have had their fair share of problems, and still managed to get out with everyone alive.
Space flight is dangerous. What amazes me is that even big problems don't result in fatalities whereas, in the case of Challenger(maybe Columbia), a minor problem resulted in the death of the crew.
Could it work? Most warhammerers arn't very social beings to begin with! Dispite the fact that most warhammerers are loaded, they usually don't do credit cards, preferring to use the chopped up plastic as a customisation on models! :E
I'm wrong of course. Warhammerers have proven that they take an interest in the net. Check this out.
Though the number of warhammer video games that have made it big, or anywhere for that matter, are slim.
I wonder exactly how google go about it.
I reckon they use a neural net type structure.
Of course I may be proved wrong. I do find it unlikly that they will release the core engine part of the code. Considering how someone probobly has it patented.
Contrast this to EA.
EA:"It will be ready in six months, three months, two weeks. Actually here it is now. That'll be 60 euro"
EA Junkie:"But this won't even start up. I.. I don't think it's even compiled?"
EA:"It's got classy pictures on the front and a cool CG intro. That'll be 60 euro"
EA Junkie:"The controls don't respond, wait there are no controls, it's just a rolling cutscence."
EA:"The graphics are state of the art polyres, reflective,raytaced 3D with rasterised flipflop and EA's (EA)award winning Mujagavi Engine. There are lude women in it. That'll be 60 euro"
EA Junkie:"Who is this guy on screen? What the hell's going on? This doesn't make any sense? Where's the story?"
EA:"The plot is an intricate suspensful, thriller action mixing real time combat with sophisticated plot twists and puzzle oriented action sequences. That'll be 60 euro"
EA Junkie:"I don't think I like this at all."
EA:"It's a sports game with celebritys."
EA Junkie:"Hot Danm!!"
EA:"That'll be 60 euro!*grins*"
P.S. Why the hell won't the euro symbol show up on slashdot
Rest assured, if there is in any way whatsoever, any connection at all between these coders and bin Laden, not matter how ridiculous(their mothers,fathers,cousins,friend passed by a stall where an apple(not a mac) was purchased by someone who SAW the nefarious criminal, SHOCK!) , Microsoft will use it to say that Linux supports terrorism.
Wait,wait...sorry. Microsoft will get SCO to use it to say that Linux supports terrorism!
I think as this method becomes more popular it will displace the older method of finding the most mathematically perfect solution and designing from that.
In other word instead of fudging designs while you wait ten years for a mathematician to find the equations for the perfect wing, you just get a computer program to 'evolve' one for you. I'll bet this is what boeing and airbus already do.
Sadly this will leave most applied physics mathematicians out of a job. Danm computers!! Taking our jobs and our women!!
How many more slashdot frontpages before the NY times realise that by taking away registration, their advertising revenues will quintuple?
Or maybe they don't care about revenues! Maybe they just want our DATA?!?
Wait, wait.... sorry. It's the NEW YORK times! Silly me
Well I suppose we can't complain.... much.
:E
I suppose the transgaming crowd put a lot of work into this.
I have noticed though, that games are the one area where open source/FSF hasn't really made inroads. They're aren't a lot of high quaility games for linux and the emulators on it seem to be almost always inferior to the win32 application from whence they came?
I suppose this is due to the high cost and workload associated with making a modern game. Makes you wonder though? How long until the cost and workload of 'regular' apps strays outside the domain of open source?
Though I propbobly just whinging because I have to pay. Not something a fedora user like me is used to!!