I live in UK, but I am not from here and I just get £700 monthly to live. I am *really* looking forward to buy the Revolution (Wii), from the way I have seen prices are driven in UK, it will surely cost £199 (if it is $200 in USA) or ~ £239 if it is $250 in USA.
I can not understand how this people let themselves get screwed so hard, of course they tend not to feel it. No matter how I show them on Amazon, Ebay, etc they just do not get it. But, if we see for example my girlfried who is working in telephone answering and is getting almost the minimum, she is getting £200 weekly. Of course we have to pay the flat rent and all those things.
$800 is no meaningless at all, does anybody in the UK can see it? It was funny how a guy I just knew was all amazed because he went to Prague and got a beer for £0.50, she was coompletely shocked when I told him that was the price of a beer in Mexico also. And here they pay at least £1.50 for a beer made HERE.
Anyway, I hate the way Sony is trying to push the PS3, saying "OMG it is almost a gift for what it does!!!", but does anybody knows what the heck does it do? blue ray player?, No thanks, I will wait until I can buy a chinnese player, without all the DRM shit./rant
But the objective of this things is to "show companies" what they can do with The Grid, they want to profit selling that service but so far just a small number of persons have used it.
The problem is the cost of this services, my University was trying to get some grid time from HP for certain project, the problem was that even though they had a "special arrangement" with HP, and because of that they have "cheap prices" the cost is just TOO expensive. And, This project was not short of money (it is a UK university).
It is (still) cheaper to pay someone to build a grid to use and then you will have it for other things.
Granted, if it was a Corporration they wont want to own and maintain one of this things but nevertheless the price is still too expnensive
Personally I preffer jabref.sf.net , it is Bibtes compatible and I do use Latex/bibtex a lot. It is made in Java and it is small enough to put it in a memory stick (I have all the papers I have downloaded in a stick and JabRef to index them).
I am from Mexico and something similar happened. Although I do not remember the exact numbers back 4 years when I was going to buy one of the "next gen" consoles (GC vs XBOX vs PS2) I chose the XBOX, although all my life I have prefered Nintendo (i have had NES and SNES) but the prices of the GC games where really expensive (at least I could not affor them), usually, a standard payment in Mexico is of US$700 a month (that is a standard University profesor makes), one must consider still have to pay services and food.
Now a GC game was something like US$40, unfortunately it is "relatively" expensive for us. Then you have the Xbox games which were similar (from $40 to $60) and the PS2 which were similar. Of course witih the Xbox and PS2 you got the option of buying "backups" and that is what made me choose the Xbox.
Some months ago I bought a used GBA (the standard without light), and a SD card Reader, now I download games from internet to play.
I really would like to buy the games (I used to buy a lot of CDs as I prefer to have the "real thing") but they are not affordable.
Now, I am looking forward to buy the Wii, of course I imagine I will wait some time until it gets cheaper, and I hope that games are not very expensive, if a game costed something between $20 and $25 I would be very glad to buy them, if not, what I (and a lot of other people) will do is just buy one that allows "backups" to be played.
p.s. Sorry for the drug dealer problems you have got, hope everything is ok with people you know:)
...this process is becoming more complex, meaning that the average Joe/Jane who tries these hacks is more likely to totally disable (ie "brick") the console...
That is quite stupid if you tell me, at least in Mexico average Jose/Maria either buys their "modified" console at Tepito Market where it is set up by Mexican engineers who can not get a real job and apply their knowledge doing that.
Oh and if you wondered, all the consoles "va garantizado jefe" ("it is warranted boss") so if it does not play the USD$5 backups (some even test your unit there to make shure it works) you can return it.
I got my modded Xbox over a similar market (it is called Pericoapa) with a 80GB disk full of games (both emulated and non emulated) and 3 "backup" DVD games.
I am *REALLY* sure they will provide XBOX360 service in _no time_
Yes, there will likely be tons of crap out there because of the bar being lowered,
And then, I wish we could have the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" again here. At least I hope that if there are games downloadable at the Virtual Console, Nintendo will choose just quality games to add.
And of course, there are still TONS of crappy games out there (just look at the numer of titles for PSX or PS2) even though the bar was quite high.
What is this about no mp3's without setting up yum and grabbing the needed stuff? Okay, Joe Normal User has read up on yum and yum.conf a...
Haha, an alternate story to that is: Jose Normal User gets mp3 up and running, after that he starts playing "bad- Michael Jackson.mp3" while investigating the games menu of his cool distro, after he finds and fire ClanBomber he realizes the game doesnt have sound (although it says the contrary), he then stops his music (xmms) and tries again, this time there is sound in ClanBomber, so he presses the Play button on the winamp-like thing and he gets a "can not open the OSS sound system channel" message, he then thinks WTF.
So he decides not to listen music while playing. After playing sometime with the keyboard he plugs his Nostromo PS2-like joystick (which he uses on his Windows XP machine by just plugging it and hearing that tu-RUN sound, and if he needs to calibrate it he goes to the control panel joystick section), unfortunately he doesnt hear anything, and his new Linux OS does not give ANY signal that the joystick was connected or whatnot and he goes to control center and tries to see if his joystick is connected and...
fuck it, making love to his wife is better, and why would he need to lose all that time just to find how to USE his machine?
Lazy operating system - expecting the user to fit around it, and not vice versa - syndrome.
Darn, I could not agree more with you, it is really frustrating to read all the Linux apologist trying to hide the truth which is that Linux (and all its falvours/distros) are just a POS (S as in software, dont get me wrong hehe), and as that it is the same as every other POS, it is a TOOL that lets you do certain things in certain way.
When people start to say things like "doh that moron dont know how to use X" or "he just didnt care to spend time looking for Y" I cant help but laugh.
Linux is cool, it is a nice Piece of Software, it is a tool that does the work of some people, but it is still not ready for a specific set of users (those pesky dumb Joe S.P. like users), which btw are the majority of the people in the world (yep, you geek like I, are an endagered species).
So the operating system will get better for those set of users when the people that develop it see it as a TOOL and stop adding sentiment libraries to their software (it is just a POS!!), I know some of the implementations are extraodrinary and whatever but it is just a tool and as such it DOES or DOES not handle the work of certain person.
Now, as for an analogy (ha, thought you would be free of that?) I think that one of the main reason that "Linux is not ready for the desktop" (shit, how I hate that sentence, which Linux? Gentoo?, Suse? Xandros?, but anyway I will use it) but people that use it say that it "is ready for the desktop NOOOW!!" can be comparable to Nintendo (uh?), yes, Nintendo and this generation console, what they stated is something really true, if they continued asking their *current users* if everything was allright, of course they will say that yeah, everything is allright, maybe some small upgrades but it all is cool (ask any Xbox or PS3 *current*). In contrast what did Nintendo do? they looked for the reasons why their NON CURRENT USERS were NOT using the Nintendo.
So, it is similar, and, this article is one of those users telling the developer community just that, of course the answer is the much inflated geekego telling that they got Gentoo running perfectly on their computers after chrooting;sudoing and ap-getting all the kernel-386-64.conf.tar.gz extensions which, if they are dumb could have done using a simple $bash script after editing the proper.conf files. (hehe, that was neat)
Anyway, I hope someday any of the distributions that have realized this (Linspire or Xandros, sorry if there is another one here just add it) can get it right, of course after the "fuck, making things easy is against GPL" article I read about Koorora (spell?) and the closed source drivers, it seems the super-geekego is the one to win this battle.
You want to earn some real money? Don't waste your time in science - go study law.
Amen to that, to be really successful and recognized as that in Capitalism you have to make money, it does not matter how you do it. That is why careers in International Business, law other social sciences are the ones that have more demand, because in the eyes of the world a successful economist gets the front page of the magazine, while a successful scientist gets the 1 paragraph note in the "miscellaneous" page.
Yeah, I as the original poster are an AI researcher (currently trying to do my PhD). I read a really nice book about AI in videogames, I would recommend it a lot to anyone interested in that, it is called (mm could not find the name, I promise to add the name of the book tomrrow as it is in my house). Anyways, the book explains the different AI techniques currently used in the different kinds of games, which currently are very standard searching techniques.
AI that learns. I am so sick of AI not keeping a log of encounters. There are many learning algorithms out there and none of them apply to full emersion games
Sure, there is enough AI development for that, take fore example genetic algorithms for evolution, the concept is not hard at all and surely will improve NPC behaviour a lot.
As for the risk for development houses in using CSc.-AI sure it is, that is why it will be a startup company with nothing to lose the one that will use the new approach.
One of my current projects is using the RPG toolkit to create a world with only NPC characters, I am still thinking the idea but I plan to implement plenty of AI concepts in the "game". For example, using JADE & JadeX for the NPCs, and use some of my research (about uncertainty management) too. Of course I will add genetic algorithms and neural networks.
The idea is to throw as much AI I can. The graphics will be very simple but I will concentrate on the AI.
Oh! one of the problems of using classical AI concepts is the processing time constraints, however there have also been advances in that direction as research in "Real Time" solutions is being done too (look at www.scopus.com)
That is despite the fact that they get 20-30% less work done as result because of dealing with all the binary blobs taking over the machine.
That is not completely true, I use Windows XP same as Linux (Fedora Core 4) and I find I am equally productive in both environments.
In fact, there are things I can do very easily in Windows which on Linux take quite a bit. You see, the truth is that all of the "niceties" that linux has (a bash shell, the GNU utilities, scripting languages like Python, etc) are freely available for Windows, AND in Windows I also have some nice IDE programming interface (Visual Studio) (no, nor KDE or Anjuta or whatever you name is 60% of what Visual Studio is), I have Whole Tomato Visual AssistX, I have an excellent diagraming tool (Microsoft Visio), I have a bunch of great utilities from Sysinternals and a really good Office Suite (Microsoft Office 2003).
To make people adopt Linux systems you should start by creating the applications users want to have, and to do them right, just take a look at sourceforge, from the 135595 projects available today, there are only 1392 which are "mature", which is the status I would choose for a software that comes without any kind of support, oh, and there are only 16239 "production/stable" projects.
That is the problem of Open source software, and that will be the problem forever. It would be nice to see some graphics of the an anylisis in the development of projects from sourceforge comparing the number of new projects per month with the projects that change category and other "maturity" rates. People just start new projects but then they get bored and abandon them.
As a simple example, look at a program called FreeMind for Mind Mapping, nowhere close to MindGenius or other mind mapping applications. Sorry but, although I advocate the use of free[como en Libre] sotware, it (all free software, not only Linux) can not provide a desktop environment for 90% of computer users.
...standards and this time STICK with them instead of dropping whatever you build simply because you don't feel like it anymore.
The main problem with open source software is that the basis of its development is Because I feel like it, when someone gets bored of doing it they just leave it there. If there is something boring that needs to be done, then it won't be done (like documentation).
Some of the wonders of open source;-)
and yeah I know this is the wrong place to post this:)
So, if you have a Linux kernel driver that is not in the main kernel 156 tree, what are you, a developer, supposed to do? Releasing a binary 157 driver for every different kernel version for every distribution is a 158 nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface 159 is also a rough job. 160 161 Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we 162 are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall 163 under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech 164
No, this sucks, I respect the GPL and other open source licenses (BSD) as well as closed source licenses. If nVidia or ATI or any other hardware manufacturer do not want to license their software as GPL it is their decision. The operating system MUST provide a standarized API.
Whoever agrees with this does not have the right to whine that X or Y company does not provides drivers and support for Linux. It is a design flaw IMNSHO.
What I would like to have is the ability to obtain "low income" independent games. As an indepenent game developer I would be really interested in using the new revolution input capabilities to create Non-3D games . They could be sold/downloaded from wherever the NES,SNES and other games will be. Nintendo could ask for a percentage of each game sold.
I consider Data Compressing algorithms a "hack" made by Computer Scientist in order to bypass the storage limitation problems.
However by using any kind of data compression algorithm you are exchanging storage by time. How much would it take to compress those 10 GB? Compressing 200 MB takes about 1 minute which will yield to about 50 mintues for compressing 10GB.
In a lot of places the data must be available (I have been in those places, have worked with IKONOS images with a multispectral resolution of 1 meter) and they are quite big.
Even though they are not textfiles, a lot of information generated by geospatial manipulation comes in text.
Bigger disks (more storage space) will always be good as it will help in decreasing processing time for the tasks. Just visualize a triangle whose 3 vertex are Speed, Time (at the top) and Space. To minimize the time spent in a task you may increase cpu speed or increase storage space.
Of course that would be applied only to certain tasks.
I don't think there have been *any* cases on Slashdot of entire stories disappearing along with all their comments.
But there is a slight difference there, if I submit a story to Digg it will be published "automatically", and some people will be able to see it, whereas if I submit it to slashdot the editors will reject it if they do not like it.
Following that logic you could (wrongly) say that Slashdot censors more stories that Digg. On digg, the approach may be "selectively banning" while on Slashdot it is "Selectively showing"
Just weeks ago I commented on a slashdot story about Google censoring Chinnese search results. My opinion then was that Google was just "complying with local laws".
Someone replied asking if it did not mattered if the country laws where broken to what I answered that no, it did not mattered.
Last weekend I saw a movie called "The Corporation", I recommend it a lot. After watching it I changed my point of view. I hated corporations before watching it (I was 100% against Sony in the rootkit thing and started a personal boycott after that) but now I find more difficult to see the good side of having corporations.
I completely agree with you. That is why I always laugh really hard when open source advocates say that using this kind of software will yield "free support" (in the form of forums) and online documentation. For some (a very small fraction) of projects it may be true but not for a lot of (and not only small, just look at the KDEVELOP documentation, with hunderds of sections without content).
And if you go to the "free support" you will only get RTFMs or "try playing with X and Y values".
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I live in UK, but I am not from here and I just get £700 monthly to live. I am *really* looking forward to buy the Revolution (Wii), from the way I have seen prices are driven in UK, it will surely cost £199 (if it is $200 in USA) or ~ £239 if it is $250 in USA.
/rant
I can not understand how this people let themselves get screwed so hard, of course they tend not to feel it. No matter how I show them on Amazon, Ebay, etc they just do not get it. But, if we see for example my girlfried who is working in telephone answering and is getting almost the minimum, she is getting £200 weekly. Of course we have to pay the flat rent and all those things.
$800 is no meaningless at all, does anybody in the UK can see it? It was funny how a guy I just knew was all amazed because he went to Prague and got a beer for £0.50, she was coompletely shocked when I told him that was the price of a beer in Mexico also. And here they pay at least £1.50 for a beer made HERE.
Anyway, I hate the way Sony is trying to push the PS3, saying "OMG it is almost a gift for what it does!!!", but does anybody knows what the heck does it do? blue ray player?, No thanks, I will wait until I can buy a chinnese player, without all the DRM shit.
But the objective of this things is to "show companies" what they can do with The Grid, they want to profit selling that service but so far just a small number of persons have used it.
The problem is the cost of this services, my University was trying to get some grid time from HP for certain project, the problem was that even though they had a "special arrangement" with HP, and because of that they have "cheap prices" the cost is just TOO expensive. And, This project was not short of money (it is a UK university).
It is (still) cheaper to pay someone to build a grid to use and then you will have it for other things.
Granted, if it was a Corporration they wont want to own and maintain one of this things but nevertheless the price is still too expnensive
Darn, I told you that getting a chimp to make your work while you were at the PC was not right!
Personally I preffer jabref.sf.net , it is Bibtes compatible and I do use Latex/bibtex a lot. It is made in Java and it is small enough to put it in a memory stick (I have all the papers I have downloaded in a stick and JabRef to index them).
Hey, that was quite interesting.
:)
I am from Mexico and something similar happened. Although I do not remember the exact numbers back 4 years when I was going to buy one of the "next gen" consoles (GC vs XBOX vs PS2) I chose the XBOX, although all my life I have prefered Nintendo (i have had NES and SNES) but the prices of the GC games where really expensive (at least I could not affor them), usually, a standard payment in Mexico is of US$700 a month (that is a standard University profesor makes), one must consider still have to pay services and food.
Now a GC game was something like US$40, unfortunately it is "relatively" expensive for us. Then you have the Xbox games which were similar (from $40 to $60) and the PS2 which were similar. Of course witih the Xbox and PS2 you got the option of buying "backups" and that is what made me choose the Xbox.
Some months ago I bought a used GBA (the standard without light), and a SD card Reader, now I download games from internet to play.
I really would like to buy the games (I used to buy a lot of CDs as I prefer to have the "real thing") but they are not affordable.
Now, I am looking forward to buy the Wii, of course I imagine I will wait some time until it gets cheaper, and I hope that games are not very expensive, if a game costed something between $20 and $25 I would be very glad to buy them, if not, what I (and a lot of other people) will do is just buy one that allows "backups" to be played.
p.s. Sorry for the drug dealer problems you have got, hope everything is ok with people you know
...this process is becoming more complex, meaning that the average Joe/Jane who tries these hacks is more likely to totally disable (ie "brick") the console...
That is quite stupid if you tell me, at least in Mexico average Jose/Maria either buys their "modified" console at Tepito Market where it is set up by Mexican engineers who can not get a real job and apply their knowledge doing that.
Oh and if you wondered, all the consoles "va garantizado jefe" ("it is warranted boss") so if it does not play the USD$5 backups (some even test your unit there to make shure it works) you can return it.
I got my modded Xbox over a similar market (it is called Pericoapa) with a 80GB disk full of games (both emulated and non emulated) and 3 "backup" DVD games.
I am *REALLY* sure they will provide XBOX360 service in _no time_
Yes, there will likely be tons of crap out there because of the bar being lowered,
And then, I wish we could have the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" again here. At least I hope that if there are games downloadable at the Virtual Console, Nintendo will choose just quality games to add.
And of course, there are still TONS of crappy games out there (just look at the numer of titles for PSX or PS2) even though the bar was quite high.
Or do what I did, pirate something that is worth [ Mandriva linux 2006 Powerpack DVD edition, straight from the Mandriva Club. I will seed as much as I can, since I onl] =o) and get everything working from the beggining.
Yeah I know it is wrong to pirate things, I do not care, that is how Microsoft Windows became so popular on the first place.
What is this about no mp3's without setting up yum and grabbing the needed stuff? Okay, Joe Normal User has read up on yum and yum.conf a...
Haha, an alternate story to that is:
Jose Normal User gets mp3 up and running, after that he starts playing "bad- Michael Jackson.mp3" while investigating the games menu of his cool distro, after he finds and fire ClanBomber he realizes the game doesnt have sound (although it says the contrary), he then stops his music (xmms) and tries again, this time there is sound in ClanBomber, so he presses the Play button on the winamp-like thing and he gets a "can not open the OSS sound system channel" message, he then thinks WTF.
So he decides not to listen music while playing. After playing sometime with the keyboard he plugs his Nostromo PS2-like joystick (which he uses on his Windows XP machine by just plugging it and hearing that tu-RUN sound, and if he needs to calibrate it he goes to the control panel joystick section), unfortunately he doesnt hear anything, and his new Linux OS does not give ANY signal that the joystick was connected or whatnot and he goes to control center and tries to see if his joystick is connected and...
fuck it, making love to his wife is better, and why would he need to lose all that time just to find how to USE his machine?
Lazy operating system - expecting the user to fit around it, and not vice versa - syndrome.
.conf files. (hehe, that was neat)
Darn, I could not agree more with you, it is really frustrating to read all the Linux apologist trying to hide the truth which is that Linux (and all its falvours/distros) are just a POS (S as in software, dont get me wrong hehe), and as that it is the same as every other POS, it is a TOOL that lets you do certain things in certain way.
When people start to say things like "doh that moron dont know how to use X" or "he just didnt care to spend time looking for Y" I cant help but laugh.
Linux is cool, it is a nice Piece of Software, it is a tool that does the work of some people, but it is still not ready for a specific set of users (those pesky dumb Joe S.P. like users), which btw are the majority of the people in the world (yep, you geek like I, are an endagered species).
So the operating system will get better for those set of users when the people that develop it see it as a TOOL and stop adding sentiment libraries to their software (it is just a POS!!), I know some of the implementations are extraodrinary and whatever but it is just a tool and as such it DOES or DOES not handle the work of certain person.
Now, as for an analogy (ha, thought you would be free of that?) I think that one of the main reason that "Linux is not ready for the desktop" (shit, how I hate that sentence, which Linux? Gentoo?, Suse? Xandros?, but anyway I will use it) but people that use it say that it "is ready for the desktop NOOOW!!" can be comparable to Nintendo (uh?), yes, Nintendo and this generation console, what they stated is something really true, if they continued asking their *current users* if everything was allright, of course they will say that yeah, everything is allright, maybe some small upgrades but it all is cool (ask any Xbox or PS3 *current*). In contrast what did Nintendo do? they looked for the reasons why their NON CURRENT USERS were NOT using the Nintendo.
So, it is similar, and, this article is one of those users telling the developer community just that, of course the answer is the much inflated geekego telling that they got Gentoo running perfectly on their computers after chrooting;sudoing and ap-getting all the kernel-386-64.conf.tar.gz extensions which, if they are dumb could have done using a simple $bash script after editing the proper
Anyway, I hope someday any of the distributions that have realized this (Linspire or Xandros, sorry if there is another one here just add it) can get it right, of course after the "fuck, making things easy is against GPL" article I read about Koorora (spell?) and the closed source drivers, it seems the super-geekego is the one to win this battle.
Have a nice day,
YO MERO
You want to earn some real money? Don't waste your time in science - go study law.
Amen to that, to be really successful and recognized as that in Capitalism you have to make money, it does not matter how you do it. That is why careers in International Business, law other social sciences are the ones that have more demand, because in the eyes of the world a successful economist gets the front page of the magazine, while a successful scientist gets the 1 paragraph note in the "miscellaneous" page.
Yeah, I as the original poster are an AI researcher (currently trying to do my PhD). I read a really nice book about AI in videogames, I would recommend it a lot to anyone interested in that, it is called (mm could not find the name, I promise to add the name of the book tomrrow as it is in my house). Anyways, the book explains the different AI techniques currently used in the different kinds of games, which currently are very standard searching techniques.
AI that learns. I am so sick of AI not keeping a log of encounters. There are many learning algorithms out there and none of them apply to full emersion games
Sure, there is enough AI development for that, take fore example genetic algorithms for evolution, the concept is not hard at all and surely will improve NPC behaviour a lot.
As for the risk for development houses in using CSc.-AI sure it is, that is why it will be a startup company with nothing to lose the one that will use the new approach.
One of my current projects is using the RPG toolkit to create a world with only NPC characters, I am still thinking the idea but I plan to implement plenty of AI concepts in the "game". For example, using JADE & JadeX for the NPCs, and use some of my research (about uncertainty management) too. Of course I will add genetic algorithms and neural networks.
The idea is to throw as much AI I can. The graphics will be very simple but I will concentrate on the AI.
Oh! one of the problems of using classical AI concepts is the processing time constraints, however there have also been advances in that direction as research in "Real Time" solutions is being done too (look at www.scopus.com)
That is despite the fact that they get 20-30% less work done as result because of dealing with all the binary blobs taking over the machine.
That is not completely true, I use Windows XP same as Linux (Fedora Core 4) and I find I am equally productive in both environments.
In fact, there are things I can do very easily in Windows which on Linux take quite a bit. You see, the truth is that all of the "niceties" that linux has (a bash shell, the GNU utilities, scripting languages like Python, etc) are freely available for Windows, AND in Windows I also have some nice IDE programming interface (Visual Studio) (no, nor KDE or Anjuta or whatever you name is 60% of what Visual Studio is), I have Whole Tomato Visual AssistX, I have an excellent diagraming tool (Microsoft Visio), I have a bunch of great utilities from Sysinternals and a really good Office Suite (Microsoft Office 2003).
To make people adopt Linux systems you should start by creating the applications users want to have, and to do them right, just take a look at sourceforge, from the 135595 projects available today, there are only 1392 which are "mature", which is the status I would choose for a software that comes without any kind of support, oh, and there are only 16239 "production/stable" projects.
That is the problem of Open source software, and that will be the problem forever. It would be nice to see some graphics of the an anylisis in the development of projects from sourceforge comparing the number of new projects per month with the projects that change category and other "maturity" rates. People just start new projects but then they get bored and abandon them.
As a simple example, look at a program called FreeMind for Mind Mapping, nowhere close to MindGenius or other mind mapping applications. Sorry but, although I advocate the use of free[como en Libre] sotware, it (all free software, not only Linux) can not provide a desktop environment for 90% of computer users.
The main problem with open source software is that the basis of its development is Because I feel like it, when someone gets bored of doing it they just leave it there. If there is something boring that needs to be done, then it won't be done (like documentation).
Some of the wonders of open source
So, if you have a Linux kernel driver that is not in the main kernel
156 tree, what are you, a developer, supposed to do? Releasing a binary
157 driver for every different kernel version for every distribution is a
158 nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface
159 is also a rough job.
160
161 Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we
162 are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall
163 under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech
164
No, this sucks, I respect the GPL and other open source licenses (BSD) as well as closed source licenses. If nVidia or ATI or any other hardware manufacturer do not want to license their software as GPL it is their decision. The operating system MUST provide a standarized API.
Whoever agrees with this does not have the right to whine that X or Y company does not provides drivers and support for Linux. It is a design flaw IMNSHO.
That way, me and a lot of other bejeweled like game makers could port our games to the Revolution platform taking advantage of the new input.
Unfortunately that does not seems plausible.
What I would like to have is the ability to obtain "low income" independent games. As an indepenent game developer I would be really interested in using the new revolution input capabilities to create Non-3D games . They could be sold/downloaded from wherever the NES,SNES and other games will be. Nintendo could ask for a percentage of each game sold.
Haha, I love it,
i fi fi f
Generally speaking, there is a simple rule in "non CS" departments:
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He just though the CSD meant Computer Science Department, actually it is Computer Services Department :)
Mis WEBOS!!
:)
(or "My nuts" in Spanish, relatively similar to the expression "my ass").
Sorry mods, I just had to say it and did not find any relevant parent
I consider Data Compressing algorithms a "hack" made by Computer Scientist in order to bypass the storage limitation problems.
However by using any kind of data compression algorithm you are exchanging storage by time. How much would it take to compress those 10 GB? Compressing 200 MB takes about 1 minute which will yield to about 50 mintues for compressing 10GB.
In a lot of places the data must be available (I have been in those places, have worked with IKONOS images with a multispectral resolution of 1 meter) and they are quite big.
Even though they are not textfiles, a lot of information generated by geospatial manipulation comes in text.
Bigger disks (more storage space) will always be good as it will help in decreasing processing time for the tasks. Just visualize a triangle whose 3 vertex are Speed, Time (at the top) and Space. To minimize the time spent in a task you may increase cpu speed or increase storage space.
Of course that would be applied only to certain tasks.
Oh, and I DO remember looking some story in the front page of slashdot and after some minutes seeing it dissappear to oblivion with 4 or 5 comments.
I don't think there have been *any* cases on Slashdot of entire stories disappearing along with all their comments.
But there is a slight difference there, if I submit a story to Digg it will be published "automatically", and some people will be able to see it, whereas if I submit it to slashdot the editors will reject it if they do not like it.
Following that logic you could (wrongly) say that Slashdot censors more stories that Digg. On digg, the approach may be "selectively banning" while on Slashdot it is "Selectively showing"
Just weeks ago I commented on a slashdot story about Google censoring Chinnese search results. My opinion then was that Google was just "complying with local laws".
Someone replied asking if it did not mattered if the country laws where broken to what I answered that no, it did not mattered.
Last weekend I saw a movie called "The Corporation", I recommend it a lot. After watching it I changed my point of view. I hated corporations before watching it (I was 100% against Sony in the rootkit thing and started a personal boycott after that) but now I find more difficult to see the good side of having corporations.
Touche!
I completely agree with you. That is why I always laugh really hard when open source advocates say that using this kind of software will yield "free support" (in the form of forums) and online documentation. For some (a very small fraction) of projects it may be true but not for a lot of (and not only small, just look at the KDEVELOP documentation, with hunderds of sections without content).
And if you go to the "free support" you will only get RTFMs or "try playing with X and Y values".