Sure the PS2 has the power, but he's going to have to graft on a lot of technology to build a unmanned vehicle. I could see the ability to build simulators, but control systems will be much harder to graft onto the PS2.
Heck even ABNORMAL users won't want to compile anything. When I look at new apps for linux I do the following.
1) Look for a binary package.
2) Hope there's no dependency problems (for good enough apps I'll solve the dependancy problems).
3) For really, really cool apps. I'll get source if thats all that's there.
4) If the source doesn't compile I will try to fiddle with easy to solve issues for an amount of time directly proportional with how much I want to use the software.
I don't have the time right now to contribute to Linux software in any way but testing right now. However, I do concur with the statements about bad bug reports. Unless its real clear and real repetable and not a library issue (and they don't already know about it) I generally don't send off bug reports.
I agree it's probably happened. I was referring to it becoming a common trait across humanity. That would be very difficult if it did not provide some strong driver for natural selection based on the trait.
Evolution is like walking around bumping into walls. Eventaully it finds a door and goes through it.
Unless there would be some special aspect that would allow people with this type of gene to have a higher survival rate to their childbearing years(all that matters to pass your genes forward). There really wouldn't be much of a case for this causing natural selection to cause this to be prevalent in all people.
So my use of Aqua based themes must be the only thing keeping me from buying a PowerMac Cube, eh?
This isn't so much about copyrights as it is about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. The people making/using/hosting these themes are obviously fans of Apples Aqua look and feel. Apple should be happy about it.
There is a house (hell maybe even more than one) painted in the colors of the Denver Broncos. These people are raving fans of the team, do the Broncos shout "You can't paint your house the team colors, those are our colors!," or do they have the local news do a story about them. If I were Apple, I'd have the themes downloadable from my own website!!
So PERL may not be good for large projects. I use it to fill in the gap between shell scripts and full blown C. By the way I'm not currently doing any full blown C coding.
PERL is excellent for this type of task. For any size organization there are always gaps between systems, or small scale systems that can use this type of interface.
Your toolbox really needs to have more than one tool in it. This is not as true for programmers as it is for sysadmins who have to put it all together and make it work.
>If you read Chomsky's stuff you know that a 1:250
>chance that someone will die from iridium debris
>is nothing compared to the huge atrocities that
>go on all around the world.
True, true.
But that being said, I rather there be no chance I'll get hit by a falling Iridium satellite.
Use the money you save on software liscenses to hire a team to support it. They could be involved in directly fixing any problems found. I would also have them be involved in setup, configuration, and testing of the units.
The example sited is a great one. You could develop 90,000 units that are identical. This would help making problems easier to solve.
Actually its interesting that you bring up Pokemon (your spelling was correct except for the backwards ` over the e).
Pokemon is actually its own cultural phenomenon. What Nintendo has achieved is an unbeliveably effective horizontal marketing campaign built around a simple kids video game.
They have taken some simple characters and driven the marketing of them across multiple industries. You have video games, card games, toys, TV, movies, food products, and the list goes on. In my opinion, one of the best horizontal marketing campaigns ever (based on sales figures garnered by buying this stuff for my son).
But unlike Katz's doom and gloom appraisal of gaming, the Pokemon influence is IMO regardaded as positive, even though its all being generated from video games.
Society is not as fragile as Katz would want to belive, this is just Rock and Roll all over again. Someday video games will be a mainstay of pop culture, they almost are now. PS2 is the third wave of video game consoles, dating back over 20 years. As generation X and (god forbid;-) ) generation Y come into power the fear and hype will fall out an air of normailty and expetedness and dare I say it maturity to video games. But, like music there will always be a leading edge that the new adults will not apprecaite.
That's the way of things, not some great cultural sczism.
The reason I say Gore would go for a nationwide recount, is just an extrapolation of what's happening in Florida. Maybe he wouldn't, but I'm only speclulating and that's probably not fair to the VP.
But, were the shoe on the other foot I would have been extremely dissapointed if Bush had followed the same path Gore is following. In fact I am dissapointed that he filed a lawsuit to stop the hand recounts in Florida.
If the situation were reversed and Bush were to do what Gore is doing, he would have lost my support.
One thing I would like to see is to have the country actually do something to make sure THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN!! The first step I would take is to make punch card ballots, completely, absolutely, and totally illegal as a means of balloting. I know scanners have problems too, but not at the level of the punch card readers.
As a bit of letting off of steam for the populace, I would also televise Florida National Guard tanks running over and destroying each and every punch card counting machine in the entire state!!
We shouldn't ever have to go through this again. Computerized voting may not be the answer, but we can certainly come up with better options than stinkin' punch cards.
Sure Gore's lead in the popular vote is an "order of magnitude" larger than Bush's win in Florida. But, the number of uncounted ballots out there nationwide is an "order of magnitude" higher as well. California alone is not counting 1 MILLION absentee ballots, because they wouldn't affect the outcome.
For all of you who want the electoral college done away with consider this. The electoral college may be all the only thing keeping this an issue for only one state. If we elected the president on popular vote these disastorous selected recounts could be happening NATIONWIDE!!! Every large city in the country would have been asked to recount. The resulting chaos would be "orders of magnitude" greater.
Now having said that, if this election were based on nationwide popular vote, I think Bush would have conceded by Nov. 9th (at least that's what I would hope even after voting for him). Of course its a given what Gore would have done had we based this all on popular vote and he had come out on the loosing end.
Baseball, ha. The US won the gold, but I couldn't find the gold medal game on at all. Sure we got some highlights (once) and smarmy interviews with Lasorda (who BTW did an awesome job managing), and cheesy highlight compilations with music.
I wanted to see the actual game.
Maybe it was on one of the numerous crappy other NBC cable network stations I don't have. I dunno.
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What a great site!
Ummmm, its kinda like ILLEGAL to use your campaign money to live on.
Not to say that some politicians don't do that, but it is ILLEGAL.
What a kludge!!!
Sure the PS2 has the power, but he's going to have to graft on a lot of technology to build a unmanned vehicle. I could see the ability to build simulators, but control systems will be much harder to graft onto the PS2.
Heck even ABNORMAL users won't want to compile anything. When I look at new apps for linux I do the following.
1) Look for a binary package.
2) Hope there's no dependency problems (for good enough apps I'll solve the dependancy problems).
3) For really, really cool apps. I'll get source if thats all that's there.
4) If the source doesn't compile I will try to fiddle with easy to solve issues for an amount of time directly proportional with how much I want to use the software.
I don't have the time right now to contribute to Linux software in any way but testing right now. However, I do concur with the statements about bad bug reports. Unless its real clear and real repetable and not a library issue (and they don't already know about it) I generally don't send off bug reports.
Hear, Hear. ;-) See above...
I agree it's probably happened. I was referring to it becoming a common trait across humanity. That would be very difficult if it did not provide some strong driver for natural selection based on the trait.
Evolution is like walking around bumping into walls. Eventaully it finds a door and goes through it.
Unless there would be some special aspect that would allow people with this type of gene to have a higher survival rate to their childbearing years(all that matters to pass your genes forward). There really wouldn't be much of a case for this causing natural selection to cause this to be prevalent in all people.
So you're saying that when I make KDE look like aqua, it will start working like a Mac....cool ;-)
This is all about look, the feel isn't being done by these themes.
So my use of Aqua based themes must be the only thing keeping me from buying a PowerMac Cube, eh?
This isn't so much about copyrights as it is about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. The people making/using/hosting these themes are obviously fans of Apples Aqua look and feel. Apple should be happy about it.
There is a house (hell maybe even more than one) painted in the colors of the Denver Broncos. These people are raving fans of the team, do the Broncos shout "You can't paint your house the team colors, those are our colors!," or do they have the local news do a story about them. If I were Apple, I'd have the themes downloadable from my own website!!
Specifically, what is missing (or hidden).
;-)
But Microsoft won't tell you that.
So PERL may not be good for large projects. I use it to fill in the gap between shell scripts and full blown C. By the way I'm not currently doing any full blown C coding.
PERL is excellent for this type of task. For any size organization there are always gaps between systems, or small scale systems that can use this type of interface.
Your toolbox really needs to have more than one tool in it. This is not as true for programmers as it is for sysadmins who have to put it all together and make it work.
>If you read Chomsky's stuff you know that a 1:250
>chance that someone will die from iridium debris
>is nothing compared to the huge atrocities that
>go on all around the world.
True, true.
But that being said, I rather there be no chance I'll get hit by a falling Iridium satellite.
Whoa there. Sam played an ENGINEER, not a computer whiz, big difference ;-). You can be both, but Sam was definitely playing an Engineer.
Use the money you save on software liscenses to hire a team to support it. They could be involved in directly fixing any problems found. I would also have them be involved in setup, configuration, and testing of the units.
The example sited is a great one. You could develop 90,000 units that are identical. This would help making problems easier to solve.
Maybe as you strive to be a computer engineer, you could try to write better Linux video drivers
;-)
I really hate that. I've spent way too much time wondering why my perl script won't work, only to find the variable spelled wrong. Arrrggggh.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like strict typechecking, I like working without a net. It just smarts more when you fall.
Ok, maybe the sequencing is wrong, but Pokemon, IMO saved Nintendo from being totally blown away by Sony.
Actually its interesting that you bring up Pokemon (your spelling was correct except for the backwards ` over the e).
;-) ) generation Y come into power the fear and hype will fall out an air of normailty and expetedness and dare I say it maturity to video games. But, like music there will always be a leading edge that the new adults will not apprecaite.
Pokemon is actually its own cultural phenomenon. What Nintendo has achieved is an unbeliveably effective horizontal marketing campaign built around a simple kids video game.
They have taken some simple characters and driven the marketing of them across multiple industries. You have video games, card games, toys, TV, movies, food products, and the list goes on. In my opinion, one of the best horizontal marketing campaigns ever (based on sales figures garnered by buying this stuff for my son).
But unlike Katz's doom and gloom appraisal of gaming, the Pokemon influence is IMO regardaded as positive, even though its all being generated from video games.
Society is not as fragile as Katz would want to belive, this is just Rock and Roll all over again. Someday video games will be a mainstay of pop culture, they almost are now. PS2 is the third wave of video game consoles, dating back over 20 years. As generation X and (god forbid
That's the way of things, not some great cultural sczism.
Amen, brother!!! Someone please mod this up.
The reason I say Gore would go for a nationwide recount, is just an extrapolation of what's happening in Florida. Maybe he wouldn't, but I'm only speclulating and that's probably not fair to the VP.
But, were the shoe on the other foot I would have been extremely dissapointed if Bush had followed the same path Gore is following. In fact I am dissapointed that he filed a lawsuit to stop the hand recounts in Florida.
If the situation were reversed and Bush were to do what Gore is doing, he would have lost my support.
One thing I would like to see is to have the country actually do something to make sure THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN!! The first step I would take is to make punch card ballots, completely, absolutely, and totally illegal as a means of balloting. I know scanners have problems too, but not at the level of the punch card readers.
As a bit of letting off of steam for the populace, I would also televise Florida National Guard tanks running over and destroying each and every punch card counting machine in the entire state!!
We shouldn't ever have to go through this again. Computerized voting may not be the answer, but we can certainly come up with better options than stinkin' punch cards.
So what you're saying is that you want to apply the votes one candidate got to another candidate somewhere else?
That is patently absurd.
What a stupid statement.
Sure Gore's lead in the popular vote is an "order of magnitude" larger than Bush's win in Florida. But, the number of uncounted ballots out there nationwide is an "order of magnitude" higher as well. California alone is not counting 1 MILLION absentee ballots, because they wouldn't affect the outcome.
For all of you who want the electoral college done away with consider this. The electoral college may be all the only thing keeping this an issue for only one state. If we elected the president on popular vote these disastorous selected recounts could be happening NATIONWIDE!!! Every large city in the country would have been asked to recount. The resulting chaos would be "orders of magnitude" greater.
Now having said that, if this election were based on nationwide popular vote, I think Bush would have conceded by Nov. 9th (at least that's what I would hope even after voting for him). Of course its a given what Gore would have done had we based this all on popular vote and he had come out on the loosing end.
Awww, c'mon 60's fashion will be coming back in style (for the 1,000th time) in 10,000 years.
I kind of like how the actor playing Paul played it kind of naive last night. Now we have to see if he can start play Maud'dib as godlike.
Baseball, ha. The US won the gold, but I couldn't find the gold medal game on at all. Sure we got some highlights (once) and smarmy interviews with Lasorda (who BTW did an awesome job managing), and cheesy highlight compilations with music.
I wanted to see the actual game.
Maybe it was on one of the numerous crappy other NBC cable network stations I don't have. I dunno.