Yup, same thing happened to Mexico around 2002, when some companies (IIRC, Sun and IBM included) were pushing to improve IT in Mexico via Open Source. That, until Bill Gates went to visit our ex-president and made him an "offer he can't refuse".
. Most 10 year olds aren't going to have the patience to watch all the FMVs and read the dialog in a game like Final Fantasy.
Howdy, good that you added a "Most" there! however, that is still a generalization.
The 10 year old in me begs to differ. I *learnt* a good chunk of the English language while playing Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy and Ninja Gaiden (all NES) reading the dialog in the game. Granted, the first 10 times I read it did not make sense, but after asking my parents and looking at dictionaries I learnt several words. And I was around 10 years old!
What is funny is that, as sibling poster (SammyF70) said, nowadays I get quickly bored by FMV games. I remember liking Metal Gear Solid for PSX, but after I tried to play MGS2 I just dropped it after the first 15 mintues of video and button pressing to continue.
The same thing happened to me with Zelda TWP Wii, really boring.
Nowadays I seem to need faster and more direct satisfaction. I enjoy racing, flight sim and such types of games because the premise is usually straightforward. I also enjoyed New SMB Wii because it has a minimal of story and is also quite straightforward (and I play it with my wife, making it double fun!).
I used to love RPGs, played a lot of that from Dragon Quest to Neverwinter Nights, and tabletop-RPGs as well. But nowadays I work from around 8 to 5:00 and when I play a game I want to get the most of it in the shortest time possible.
Yeah, I checked connectify when it was first released as a beta. Unfortunately they force WPA security thus it is not useful for connecting other portable devices (say Nintendo DS). In addition it is not possible to make it work if you are behind a proxy.
The sad thing about this is that, this has NOTHING to do with illegal distribution of games.
This has all to do with greedy corporations who keep moving towards the "software as a service" paradigm.
Nowadays, a lot of games you "buy" contain only a very small offline playing offering.
I only want a multiplayer videogame that I can play at home with my friends (at home two!). I just got the "Spyborgs" game for Wii... I haven't had so much fun in some time; it is the first "cooperative player with a history when playing both of them" I have been able to play (since I played Army of Two for PS3!).
Quite possibly you're right. However it is common that when businesses grow and become more efficient, they usually start producing their own supplies rather than purchasing them.
I am sure they are in some way already producing their own energy supplies to a certain measure. However energy generation is not constant; this is one of the reasons why energy markets exist (and energy derivatives trading).
Google may produce their own energy while the sun yielding for their solar panels, but for the USA night, they have to buy their energy from other sources.
From my understanding, Google data centers require so much energy that it is completely logical for them to get energy on a wholesale basis and skip the intermediaries.
<tinfoilhat> That being said, I read somewhere in the internets that some google query trends were successfully correlated with actual increment or decrement on the value of certain assets (was it oil?? I can't recall).
Having all the information that Google database has, it is just a matter of developing some kind of model for electricity prices based on the relevant information they have and use it to forecast future trends. </tinfoilhat>
Yeah, I think it will be very easy to implement the possibility of tagging a player as "cheater" after the game ends (when you have the list of players with their game scores). Each "cheater" tag would increase your "cheater counter" and players could decide to play with other players whose "cheater counter" is below a certain level.
Of course if you are really *that good* you may get pissed when a lot of crybabies tag you as a cheater haha.
Yay, NewYorkCountryLawyer has finally catched the slashdot-groupthink: if you don't agree with what I say, you are an idiot, Welcome Mr. Beckerman.
On a slightly different note, I guess the RIAA has thrown a wave of minions and apologists to slashdot, my question would be, how much did they pay for such low slashdot IDs??
It should be their new "internet strategy" to try to reduce file sharing. Welcome to slashdot RIAA!
The first distribution destroys the exclusivity, and most of the value is in the exclusivity. Therefore, the first unlicensed distribution destroys most of the value of the property.
Basically, the defense "but it was already online, so when I distributed it, I wasn't causing additional harm" may sound good but isn't supported by the statute, and any judge who accepted it would be reversed immediately.
I bought one so I could use emulators and DSLinux:)
You mean, using emulators to play illegal ROM copies of games?
Just FYI, in the case of these DS carts, they are in principle all illegal because the contain a segment of an illegal copy of a game. Not only that, but illegally distributing this game segment and profiting with it.
Don't get me wrong, I got a CycloDS Evolution which is really nice (I develop homebrew for myself [dual n-back and a translator]. But it is always good to have a reality check.
Well sheesh! now that George Bush left the USA presidency, we have to find someone or something else to put all our blames off.
Personally I blame global warming for my decrease on sexual encounters; see, global warming means more heat, which means girls getting tired easily, which means they just wanting to go home to watch a movie or sleep, which means "no sex tonight" syndrome which sucks.
All this argument is stupid. Building consumer grade bug-free software is impossible, closed or not.
To develop consumer grade software you *must* use third party libraries. No consumer-grade libraries provided (either open or closed) guarantees that her software is bug-free; hence you must expect that every software libraries you use will have some kind of bug.
Nevertheless, the lots-of-eyeballs argument seems to me like this financial derivatives (futures or options): When you hold some, you can "potentially" win $100,000, but in reality you have nothing, and when the time comes and you have to exercise (hmm execute the code) you may hit jackpot or you may hit a wall (with a bug).
Agreed, Jobs should have gone to buy Liquavista (electrowetting) technology,then spend one more year developing it and make the iPad a real killer portable computer with big screen.
Definitely not, netbooks cannot be the way forward.
That being said, neither is closed-DRMd-not-really-yours iPad like appliances.
The way forward is tablets using electro-wetting like technology with touch based input capabilities.
Of course the keyboard will always be necessary, but a on-screen touchable keyboard is an option for the stuff that people would need to write while using these devices (say, small emails, forum posts, login info, etc.... something like Opera's Wii text-input)
I understand. What I find sad is the loss of a really good software engineer (I mean, the man is a very good programmer/designer or technical software developer).
Unfortunately for one or other circumstances the guy killed his wife. What I really hope is that somehow they can exploit his abilities while he is in jail.
If you see it pragmatically, the guy came from being a job-creation, economic entity (his company provided, how many jobs?) to just another guy Americans have to take care with their taxes. Not only that, because of the nature of his work, the guy was providing goods (technical goods) to the society already (open source).
Of course all that does not make the murder less terrible. But this is where the objective of the justice system comes to play. This guy is in jail so that he cannot hurt anyone else again. Whereas in other countries the objective would be to rehabilitate the guy to make it a productive member of society (or, "only" a productive member, as he already was, but he is also a murderer)
Nice to see OOo calc progressing. Still I use and preffer Gnumeric.
Gnumeric has been more complete than Calc for quite some time. One of the features I like (appart from the unlimited rows) is the statistical analysis tools.
In Gnumeric, it is very easy to do certain "trivial" statistical analysis (histograms, frequency tables, ANOVA, moving averages, regressions, etc) with it. For me it is a godsend for when I want to do exploratory stat. analysis before kicking of R/rkward. It is so good in fact that not even Microsoft has such tools by default (you have to jump through hoops to install the statistical analysis package!).
I hate having to put this on slashdot: Of course I know you can use R with OpenOffice, but the idea of having those basic statistical utilities available by default is to perform fast exploratory statistical analysis before using the full blown R. I do use R for the real data analysis.
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Yup, same thing happened to Mexico around 2002, when some companies (IIRC, Sun and IBM included) were pushing to improve IT in Mexico via Open Source. That, until Bill Gates went to visit our ex-president and made him an "offer he can't refuse".
. Most 10 year olds aren't going to have the patience to watch all the FMVs and read the dialog in a game like Final Fantasy.
Howdy, good that you added a "Most" there! however, that is still a generalization.
The 10 year old in me begs to differ. I *learnt* a good chunk of the English language while playing Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy and Ninja Gaiden (all NES) reading the dialog in the game. Granted, the first 10 times I read it did not make sense, but after asking my parents and looking at dictionaries I learnt several words. And I was around 10 years old!
What is funny is that, as sibling poster (SammyF70) said, nowadays I get quickly bored by FMV games. I remember liking Metal Gear Solid for PSX, but after I tried to play MGS2 I just dropped it after the first 15 mintues of video and button pressing to continue.
The same thing happened to me with Zelda TWP Wii, really boring.
Nowadays I seem to need faster and more direct satisfaction. I enjoy racing, flight sim and such types of games because the premise is usually straightforward. I also enjoyed New SMB Wii because it has a minimal of story and is also quite straightforward (and I play it with my wife, making it double fun!).
I used to love RPGs, played a lot of that from Dragon Quest to Neverwinter Nights, and tabletop-RPGs as well. But nowadays I work from around 8 to 5:00 and when I play a game I want to get the most of it in the shortest time possible.
It looks like most of the replies to this post talk about Python's large standard library
Yay! Slashdot implemented a Clippy!
Let me try...
Learn Python
Wrong
:)
Embrace Extend and Extinguish is when Microsoft does it, when Google or Apple do it, it is just a "good business move".
Yep, I've been that long here in slashdot
Yeah, I checked connectify when it was first released as a beta. Unfortunately they force WPA security thus it is not useful for connecting other portable devices (say Nintendo DS). In addition it is not possible to make it work if you are behind a proxy.
The sad thing about this is that, this has NOTHING to do with illegal distribution of games.
This has all to do with greedy corporations who keep moving towards the "software as a service" paradigm.
Nowadays, a lot of games you "buy" contain only a very small offline playing offering.
I only want a multiplayer videogame that I can play at home with my friends (at home two!). I just got the "Spyborgs" game for Wii... I haven't had so much fun in some time; it is the first "cooperative player with a history when playing both of them" I have been able to play (since I played Army of Two for PS3!).
Quite possibly you're right. However it is common that when businesses grow and become more efficient, they usually start producing their own supplies rather than purchasing them.
I am sure they are in some way already producing their own energy supplies to a certain measure. However energy generation is not constant; this is one of the reasons why energy markets exist (and energy derivatives trading).
Google may produce their own energy while the sun yielding for their solar panels, but for the USA night, they have to buy their energy from other sources.
From my understanding, Google data centers require so much energy that it is completely logical for them to get energy on a wholesale basis and skip the intermediaries.
<tinfoilhat>
That being said, I read somewhere in the internets that some google query trends were successfully correlated with actual increment or decrement on the value of certain assets (was it oil?? I can't recall).
Having all the information that Google database has, it is just a matter of developing some kind of model for electricity prices based on the relevant information they have and use it to forecast future trends.
</tinfoilhat>
Yeah, I think it will be very easy to implement the possibility of tagging a player as "cheater" after the game ends (when you have the list of players with their game scores). Each "cheater" tag would increase your "cheater counter" and players could decide to play with other players whose "cheater counter" is below a certain level.
Of course if you are really *that good* you may get pissed when a lot of crybabies tag you as a cheater haha.
Yay, NewYorkCountryLawyer has finally catched the slashdot-groupthink: if you don't agree with what I say, you are an idiot, Welcome Mr. Beckerman.
On a slightly different note, I guess the RIAA has thrown a wave of minions and apologists to slashdot, my question would be, how much did they pay for such low slashdot IDs??
It should be their new "internet strategy" to try to reduce file sharing. Welcome to slashdot RIAA!
The difference will be that if H&M does it, it will be infringing copyright for profit
The first distribution destroys the exclusivity, and most of the value is in the exclusivity. Therefore, the first unlicensed distribution destroys most of the value of the property.
Basically, the defense "but it was already online, so when I distributed it, I wasn't causing additional harm" may sound good but isn't supported by the statute, and any judge who accepted it would be reversed immediately.
Mmmmm... you are not making a lot of logic there.
I bought one so I could use emulators and DSLinux :)
You mean, using emulators to play illegal ROM copies of games?
Just FYI, in the case of these DS carts, they are in principle all illegal because the contain a segment of an illegal copy of a game. Not only that, but illegally distributing this game segment and profiting with it.
Don't get me wrong, I got a CycloDS Evolution which is really nice (I develop homebrew for myself [dual n-back and a translator]. But it is always good to have a reality check.
Well sheesh! now that George Bush left the USA presidency, we have to find someone or something else to put all our blames off.
Personally I blame global warming for my decrease on sexual encounters; see, global warming means more heat, which means girls getting tired easily, which means they just wanting to go home to watch a movie or sleep, which means "no sex tonight" syndrome which sucks.
All this argument is stupid. Building consumer grade bug-free software is impossible, closed or not.
To develop consumer grade software you *must* use third party libraries. No consumer-grade libraries provided (either open or closed) guarantees that her software is bug-free; hence you must expect that every software libraries you use will have some kind of bug.
Nevertheless, the lots-of-eyeballs argument seems to me like this financial derivatives (futures or options): When you hold some, you can "potentially" win $100,000, but in reality you have nothing, and when the time comes and you have to exercise (hmm execute the code) you may hit jackpot or you may hit a wall (with a bug).
Thus, I won't read it unless someone provides a print-link (please?).
p.s. Sorry... Tom's hardware really annoys me, I just felt I had to do it.
among too many pages. [> Conclusion]
Agreed, Jobs should have gone to buy Liquavista (electrowetting) technology,then spend one more year developing it and make the iPad a real killer portable computer with big screen.
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interesting. [> Main meat]
surely looks very [>]
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Definitely not, netbooks cannot be the way forward.
That being said, neither is closed-DRMd-not-really-yours iPad like appliances.
The way forward is tablets using electro-wetting like technology with touch based input capabilities.
Of course the keyboard will always be necessary, but a on-screen touchable keyboard is an option for the stuff that people would need to write while using these devices (say, small emails, forum posts, login info, etc.... something like Opera's Wii text-input)
I understand. What I find sad is the loss of a really good software engineer (I mean, the man is a very good programmer/designer or technical software developer).
Unfortunately for one or other circumstances the guy killed his wife. What I really hope is that somehow they can exploit his abilities while he is in jail.
If you see it pragmatically, the guy came from being a job-creation, economic entity (his company provided, how many jobs?) to just another guy Americans have to take care with their taxes. Not only that, because of the nature of his work, the guy was providing goods (technical goods) to the society already (open source).
Of course all that does not make the murder less terrible. But this is where the objective of the justice system comes to play. This guy is in jail so that he cannot hurt anyone else again. Whereas in other countries the objective would be to rehabilitate the guy to make it a productive member of society (or, "only" a productive member, as he already was, but he is also a murderer)
Aaah OneNote, that is the one application that has done RIGHT in a long time.
There is nothing even remotely close both in the Free as in beer and Free as in Libre software world.
As for OOo vs MSOffice, it is a simple fact that MSOffice is better. If the price is not a factor, there is no reason not to go MSOffice.
As for a new "OOo release" I am just waiting for the release where they finally split the different programs instead of doing one huge beast as it is.
Nice to see OOo calc progressing. Still I use and preffer Gnumeric.
Gnumeric has been more complete than Calc for quite some time. One of the features I like (appart from the unlimited rows) is the statistical analysis tools.
In Gnumeric, it is very easy to do certain "trivial" statistical analysis (histograms, frequency tables, ANOVA, moving averages, regressions, etc) with it. For me it is a godsend for when I want to do exploratory stat. analysis before kicking of R/rkward. It is so good in fact that not even Microsoft has such tools by default (you have to jump through hoops to install the statistical analysis package!).
I hate having to put this on slashdot: Of course I know you can use R with OpenOffice, but the idea of having those basic statistical utilities available by default is to perform fast exploratory statistical analysis before using the full blown R. I do use R for the real data analysis.