As far as I'm concerned, a DVD with only french language would be of a lower quality. I enjoy, and so do a lot of my friends, to watch films in their original versions, and I don't care for the dubbed versions which often have lots of stupid translation errors and poor voice actors.
"Besides, French refuses to pick up any English words." Yes, we do. - Parking - Sandwich - CD - DVD
And some less obvious ones:
canife - comes from english knife, but we were too dumb to say it properly, said "kah-nife", and thus the spelling of that word got screwed
redingote - originally "riding coat", apparently we mangled it badly as well.
There are probably others. It surely doesn't seems much, but if you add... - About any computer science and internet related term - A lot of technology/consumer electronic terms (CD, DVD) Then we do use a fair amount of english words. Not to mention brand and company names (there are a lot of french company with english names because it's better from a marketing pov)
Of course, the morons at the Académie Française are trying to replace these terms, or even "frenchify" them. For instance, officially, we aren't supposed to write "CD", but "cédé". It's like you were writing ceedee. It's plain retarded.
On the other hand, there are people, for instance about the executive of a software development company I used to work for, who had a tendency to replace some very common french words by english words, probably because they found it a trendy thing to do. It was ridiculous. And when they actually had to talk to english or american people, they were speaking like crap and couldn't understand a damn thing.
"A company can't repackage these and sell them as new, so they are basicly worthless."
They do. At least, in france, they do, but I don't see why they wouldn't do it in the us aswell.
I guess the problem might be when people return the stuff in such a bad state that it cannot be repackaged or other kind of abuses, but basically stuff that is returned can be, and is repackaged and sold as new.
Sadly, it wouldn't be the first time the clowns that govern us say one thing and do something contradictory.
We're not that different from americans. We are arrogant, nationalistic, and we have our own jerk of a president that we were dumb enough to elect twice.
You could just have used the word "patch". French IT people just use the english words for most of these things because they're used to.
These other words frankly sound ridiculous and were created by french language nazis who can't stand that computer science vocabulary is dominated by the english language.
The aversion of my countrymen for english language and english words is something I can't even begin to understand.
I quickly looked at the sources, and it seems there's no widget implementation or even drawing code in there - only a parser for a GUI description language and a layout engine.
Don't they think before implementing such inept counter-measures ? It's useless because wine authors will implement a workaround in a snap (like, for instance, listing some specific apps like windows update as no being able to see the wine specific entries of the registry), and it risks to bring new problems for their customers. Way to go. It's about as stupid as audio cd copy protections.
This prove that then didn't think this throught. It's useless because wine authors will implement a workaround in a snap (like, for instance, listing some specific apps like windows update as no being able to see the wine specific entries of the registry), and it risks to bring new problems for their customers. Way to go. It's about as stupid as audio cd copy protections.
Since it's intended for more general usage than games, I suppose they'll provide some tools to make this easier, and not just have people writing assembly code directly.
What I think is they'll provide some c++ framework or perhaps some meta language so that programmers define small treatment units with clearly defined treatment, inputs and output streams, and interconnect them without having to write tons of boilerplate code, and with abstractions to be able not to care about the details of memory management and streaming from and toward other treatment units running on other SPEs.
Then the compiler would have enough informations to slice these up in independant binary units that would be scheduled and installed over the various SPEs automatically by the OS.
The AZERY layout does have the necessary accented letters required to type french, however it's not actually of any use that the letters are ordered differently than about everywhere else.
We could type just as well if french keyboards letters were arranged in the QWERTY fashion, if we discount the fact we're used to AZERTY. Besides, most europeans laguages have specific letters and accents and manage to fit them in QWERTY based keyboard layouts (although I guess somewhere, in Germany maybe, they have QWERTZ keyboards)
If the repartition and interconnection details of the cells is indeed done automatically, it should make things much easier.
However, you'd still need to program in a different way than today, separating and pipelining things into separate software units that could run on different cells.
I guess having a good software component model that interface nicely with current programming languages will be necessary to relieve programmers from the details of the communication, exchange data formats and such, between the software cells. Hopefully, they are working on these things aswell as on the hardware itself.
Apparently, they focused their efforts on delaying the trial.
From what is said on Groklaw, the judge hope that by conceeding more discovery to SCO, they will run out of legitimate reasons to delay things even more.
Also, as I understand it, if they're not given what they ask now, it might give them ground to appeal when^H^H^H^Hif they loose.
That's not true at all, and unsupported by anything that could have ever occured here.
As an example, in France if you, *on purpose* show intimate body parts, or someone nude, or sexually explicit language, most of the public reaction will just be to laugh and shrug, and additionally you may get a slap on the wrist from the Superior Audiovisual Council.
Contrast this with someone showing a nipple *accidentaly* in the US.
Another example would be Zenith data systems. They used to be a major supplier of PCs for the US administrations. Then, they were bought by Bull, a french company. Curiously, US administrations then switched to another supplier.
Not to say I blame the US for doing these kind of things, the point is that governments stepping up to protect the national industries happens in every country, not just france.
I agree on this one. This is not going to hurt the PSP success. If something does, it won't be that.
Sony know what they're doing by sacrificing quality to flashy appearance, screen, and technology.
Nintendo does what is good for the customers, while Sony does what the customers wants.
Nintendo releasing a less technologically ambitious console with good quality and Sony releasing a very technologically ambitious one with sloppy quality was to be expected all along.
It's especially apparent when you compare the pictures of opened DS with the pictures of the opened PSP. It's easy to guess that the DS is easier and cheaper to build.
The PSP is very complicated, so there's probably more risk for a defect to appear. Furthermore, it probably takes a lots more time to assemble (I suppose the final assembly is done manually in either case), so it wouldn't be too far fetched to think they make people at the assembly line work faster, at the expense of quality.
My DS already emerged out of a confrontation with the floor without a scratch (I'm just that awkward). I wonder how resilient the PSP is to shocks ?
The story is indeed a fake, that was so short lived that no one even seem to have a mirror of the original page around.
Yet it got published on slashdot, apparently deemed worthy of it based only on a weblog entry by some random guy, and a few guy backing his assertions. Even with a defective bullshit detector, the absence of any picture attempting to proving that it indeed worked should have been enough to warrant at least a little wait for some kind of proof before slashdotting this.
Now for a mandatory tetris history nitpick: The gameboy tetris wasn't the "original" one by any stretch of the imagination, as can be verified there.
I remember playing it on amiga quite some time before everyone started raving about the gameboy version.
I don't think the PSP is fundamentally a bad system, but I think that at the current state of technology, the DS is better.
Here's why: 1. The obvious one, autonomy. Sure, it's easy to look like you've got better tech just because you pack more, greater, bigger features, just because you decided to not care about battery life, thus dramatically lowering the overall quality of the system.
2. The overall manufacturing quality of the device. Sony are well known for making hyped, shiny, classy products with lots of bells and whistles - but the quality (at least regarding gaming consoles) has always been lacking, in particular regarding the cd rom/dvd drives.
It was no biggie to have to put the early models of playstation upside down for the cd drive to work, it might be problematic for a portable console.
3. If you compare the inside shots of the DS and those of the PSP, you'll notice that the PSP looks much more complex, with several PCBs (some of them plugged together), various metallic shieldings, a lot of ribbon cables and connectors. So, it's probably more complex to assemble, and thus, IMHO, it's more likely that the assembly work is somewhat sloppy.
However, maybe in one year or two, battery and/or electronic components technologies may have evolved enough, and sony may do a new revision of the psp with improved (and hopefully decent) autonomy (as I've read somewhere, don't remember where), and the potential defects that may show up in the earlier models will have been fixed.
Most likely because the ads are blocked at some level.
I don't think so. I wouldn't click on ads even if I didn't block them, and I don't think I'm alone.
I must have clicked on an ad almost like three times in the last 3 years. Mostly, even if the ad is about something that could potentially interest me, I don't even notice them. They're nothing but noise to me.
Sure, studying maths, physics and stuff can help you to become a good programmer, but so does programming.
I discovered computers at about 7. But the thing is, I started to learn programming early, so I got as much interested by it as I was by video games. I became utterly focused on computers (ie, my transformation into a geek was complete) at 10. I wasn't entirely bad at school, but I was very lazy and sloppy, and my school performances were rather mitigated.
However, since I spent most of my time programming (or hacking games), it made me good at english (which is not my native language), interested me in maths (although essentialy in those portions that I could immediately see how they could be useful to me as a programmer), and overall, I acquired most of my computer science knowledge on my own. Overall, this is much more all that computer hobby rather than my homework that makes me good today at my job, even though of course without school I wouldn't have the necessary amount of math and physics knowledge.
So, IMO spending most of your free time on a computer isn't that bad from an educational point of view, if you're more interested in the technical side of things than in playing games.
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I hope it won't get THAT stupid.
As far as I'm concerned, a DVD with only french language would be of a lower quality. I enjoy, and so do a lot of my friends, to watch films in their original versions, and I don't care for the dubbed versions which often have lots of stupid translation errors and poor voice actors.
"Besides, French refuses to pick up any English words."
Yes, we do.
- Parking
- Sandwich
- CD
- DVD
And some less obvious ones:
canife - comes from english knife, but we were too dumb to say it properly, said "kah-nife", and thus the spelling of that word got screwed
redingote - originally "riding coat", apparently we mangled it badly as well.
There are probably others.
It surely doesn't seems much, but if you add...
- About any computer science and internet related term
- A lot of technology/consumer electronic terms (CD, DVD)
Then we do use a fair amount of english words. Not to mention brand and company names (there are a lot of french company with english names because it's better from a marketing pov)
Of course, the morons at the Académie Française are trying to replace these terms, or even "frenchify" them.
For instance, officially, we aren't supposed to write "CD", but "cédé". It's like you were writing ceedee. It's plain retarded.
On the other hand, there are people, for instance about the executive of a software development company I used to work for, who had a tendency to replace some very common french words by english words, probably because they found it a trendy thing to do. It was ridiculous. And when they actually had to talk to english or american people, they were speaking like crap and couldn't understand a damn thing.
"A company can't repackage these and sell them as new, so they are basicly worthless." They do. At least, in france, they do, but I don't see why they wouldn't do it in the us aswell. I guess the problem might be when people return the stuff in such a bad state that it cannot be repackaged or other kind of abuses, but basically stuff that is returned can be, and is repackaged and sold as new.
Sadly, it wouldn't be the first time the clowns that govern us say one thing and do something contradictory. We're not that different from americans. We are arrogant, nationalistic, and we have our own jerk of a president that we were dumb enough to elect twice.
Nice try :p
"Pour ma part, je souhaite la bienvenue à nos nouveaux maîtres français des bibliothèques borg."
You could just have used the word "patch". French IT people just use the english words for most of these things because they're used to.
These other words frankly sound ridiculous and were created by french language nazis who can't stand that computer science vocabulary is dominated by the english language.
The aversion of my countrymen for english language and english words is something I can't even begin to understand.
I quickly looked at the sources, and it seems there's no widget implementation or even drawing code in there - only a parser for a GUI description language and a layout engine.
Don't they think before implementing such inept counter-measures ?
It's useless because wine authors will implement a workaround in a snap (like, for instance, listing some specific apps like windows update as no being able to see the wine specific entries of the registry), and it risks to bring new problems for their customers.
Way to go. It's about as stupid as audio cd copy protections.
This prove that then didn't think this throught.
It's useless because wine authors will implement a workaround in a snap (like, for instance, listing some specific apps like windows update as no being able to see the wine specific entries of the registry), and it risks to bring new problems for their customers.
Way to go. It's about as stupid as audio cd copy protections.
Since it's intended for more general usage than games, I suppose they'll provide some tools to make this easier, and not just have people writing assembly code directly.
What I think is they'll provide some c++ framework or perhaps some meta language so that programmers define small treatment units with clearly defined treatment, inputs and output streams, and interconnect them without having to write tons of boilerplate code, and with abstractions to be able not to care about the details of memory management and streaming from and toward other treatment units running on other SPEs.
Then the compiler would have enough informations to slice these up in independant binary units that would be scheduled and installed over the various SPEs automatically by the OS.
The AZERY layout does have the necessary accented letters required to type french, however it's not actually of any use that the letters are ordered differently than about everywhere else.
We could type just as well if french keyboards letters were arranged in the QWERTY fashion, if we discount the fact we're used to AZERTY.
Besides, most europeans laguages have specific letters and accents and manage to fit them in QWERTY based keyboard layouts (although I guess somewhere, in Germany maybe, they have QWERTZ keyboards)
If the repartition and interconnection details of the cells is indeed done automatically, it should make things much easier.
However, you'd still need to program in a different way than today, separating and pipelining things into separate software units that could run on different cells.
I guess having a good software component model that interface nicely with current programming languages will be necessary to relieve programmers from the details of the communication, exchange data formats and such, between the software cells.
Hopefully, they are working on these things aswell as on the hardware itself.
Apparently, they focused their efforts on delaying the trial. From what is said on Groklaw, the judge hope that by conceeding more discovery to SCO, they will run out of legitimate reasons to delay things even more. Also, as I understand it, if they're not given what they ask now, it might give them ground to appeal when^H^H^H^Hif they loose.
They also have a "non-mini" version that can be declined in several clusterized versions.
That's not true at all, and unsupported by anything that could have ever occured here. As an example, in France if you, *on purpose* show intimate body parts, or someone nude, or sexually explicit language, most of the public reaction will just be to laugh and shrug, and additionally you may get a slap on the wrist from the Superior Audiovisual Council. Contrast this with someone showing a nipple *accidentaly* in the US.
It's called "supply and demand". It doesn't means anything regarding the respective merits of the two consoles.
Another example would be Zenith data systems.
They used to be a major supplier of PCs for the US administrations.
Then, they were bought by Bull, a french company.
Curiously, US administrations then switched to another supplier.
Not to say I blame the US for doing these kind of things, the point is that governments stepping up to protect the national industries happens in every country, not just france.
...USB powered appliances. Oh, wait...
I agree on this one. This is not going to hurt the PSP success. If something does, it won't be that. Sony know what they're doing by sacrificing quality to flashy appearance, screen, and technology. Nintendo does what is good for the customers, while Sony does what the customers wants.
Nintendo releasing a less technologically ambitious console with good quality and Sony releasing a very technologically ambitious one with sloppy quality was to be expected all along.
It's especially apparent when you compare the pictures of opened DS with the pictures of the opened PSP.
It's easy to guess that the DS is easier and cheaper to build.
The PSP is very complicated, so there's probably more risk for a defect to appear. Furthermore, it probably takes a lots more time to assemble (I suppose the final assembly is done manually in either case), so it wouldn't be too far fetched to think they make people at the assembly line work faster, at the expense of quality.
My DS already emerged out of a confrontation with the floor without a scratch (I'm just that awkward). I wonder how resilient the PSP is to shocks ?
The story is indeed a fake, that was so short lived that no one even seem to have a mirror of the original page around.
Yet it got published on slashdot, apparently deemed worthy of it based only on a weblog entry by some random guy, and a few guy backing his assertions.
Even with a defective bullshit detector, the absence of any picture attempting to proving that it indeed worked should have been enough to warrant at least a little wait for some kind of proof before slashdotting this.
Now for a mandatory tetris history nitpick:
The gameboy tetris wasn't the "original" one by any stretch of the imagination, as can be verified there.
I remember playing it on amiga quite some time before everyone started raving about the gameboy version.
It's not an empty IC socket, it's a connector that the main PCB plugs into: http://image.lik-sang.com/content/psp/release/psp- release73.jpg
I don't think the PSP is fundamentally a bad system, but I think that at the current state of technology, the DS is better.
Here's why:
1. The obvious one, autonomy. Sure, it's easy to look like you've got better tech just because you pack more, greater, bigger features, just because you decided to not care about battery life, thus dramatically lowering the overall quality of the system.
2. The overall manufacturing quality of the device. Sony are well known for making hyped, shiny, classy products with lots of bells and whistles - but the quality (at least regarding gaming consoles) has always been lacking, in particular regarding the cd rom/dvd drives.
It was no biggie to have to put the early models of playstation upside down for the cd drive to work, it might be problematic for a portable console.
3. If you compare the inside shots of the DS and those of the PSP, you'll notice that the PSP looks much more complex, with several PCBs (some of them plugged together), various metallic shieldings, a lot of ribbon cables and connectors.
So, it's probably more complex to assemble, and thus, IMHO, it's more likely that the assembly work is somewhat sloppy.
However, maybe in one year or two, battery and/or electronic components technologies may have evolved enough, and sony may do a new revision of the psp with improved (and hopefully decent) autonomy (as I've read somewhere, don't remember where), and the potential defects that may show up in the earlier models will have been fixed.
Most likely because the ads are blocked at some level. I don't think so. I wouldn't click on ads even if I didn't block them, and I don't think I'm alone. I must have clicked on an ad almost like three times in the last 3 years. Mostly, even if the ad is about something that could potentially interest me, I don't even notice them. They're nothing but noise to me.
Sure, studying maths, physics and stuff can help you to become a good programmer, but so does programming.
I discovered computers at about 7. But the thing is, I started to learn programming early, so I got as much interested by it as I was by video games.
I became utterly focused on computers (ie, my transformation into a geek was complete) at 10. I wasn't entirely bad at school, but I was very lazy and sloppy, and my school performances were rather mitigated.
However, since I spent most of my time programming (or hacking games), it made me good at english (which is not my native language), interested me in maths (although essentialy in those portions that I could immediately see how they could be useful to me as a programmer), and overall, I acquired most of my computer science knowledge on my own.
Overall, this is much more all that computer hobby rather than my homework that makes me good today at my job, even though of course without school I wouldn't have the necessary amount of math and physics knowledge.
So, IMO spending most of your free time on a computer isn't that bad from an educational point of view, if you're more interested in the technical side of things than in playing games.