Michio Kaku hosted a series of documentaries from Discovery Channel, among them is 2057 The city. They are indeed quite interesting as they speculate on how the future (specifically the year 2057) might be, but they base their predictions in current technology being developed and researched.
Multiple Virtual Desktops... All were available in Linux, Unix and even Amiga before Wind... excuse me a sec... oh shit, Windows still does not come with virtual desktops? what year is it 1984?
This is true, however I'm happy to pay that so I don't have to watch mindless fucking commercials for total shit I don't want every 3 minutes. The TV license funds the BBC, which is so refreshing in the 21st century because it doesn't bombard you with adverts. After a few weeks in the USA on business with the gash excuse you guys have for TV, getting home to BBC is utter heaven
Yeah, I love how itv, channel 4, channel five and all the other non-bbc channels have zero commercials... And I also love the letters they send you like if they were the fucking police. They really got you scared to shit dont they? Fortunately for me, I am not from the USA, although I agree the TV there is utter shit. In Mexico I got all the good quality TV I need from cable, which I can *choose* (choice, do you know what is it?) to pay if I want. Here in the UK? even if you want to watch cable or skype channels only you must pay your diezmo to the TV License "authority". LMFAO
Well, nothing stops them from using OpenGL instead. Last time I checked, OpenGL does run in Windows, even if it requires third-party drivers to do so.
Of course, I'm not a graphics developer, so there is probably more to this than simple vendor lock-in.
And that, people, is what makes DirectX shine against Linux. Every time I see a discussion concerning Direct X, people in/. keep comparing it to OpenGL. To port a Direct X game into a non Direct X technology you would need *a lot more* than Open GL, Open GL would only be good for he Direct 3D part of Direct X, you still have *a lot* of other things that are not related to graphics (like DirectPlay, DirectSound, DirectMusic among others.
Sure, you could try to glue several open source technologies like SDL, Allegro, OpenMAX, OpenML, OpenGL, OpenAL, FMOD and others to accomplish almost everything that Direct X provides you, but it would be a very cumbersome work and, as other people said, not cost effective enough for the 10% of market share that could buy your game.
Whether people like it or not, Direct X is a beast of an API, if Microsoft made something right, it was Direct X , as everything is integrated in one specific package. Shure, the Open GL modelling paradigm is better than the Direct 3D one (or it was, about 4 years ago when I used to prorgram games using both of them), but the ability to have all those multimdedia features in one integrated API makes it worth it. And of course, you can also include the ability to use MS Visual Studio for the development.
Not only that, what could be "trivial" for one people is really informative for others. There is some knowledge that does not "belong" to other sections in an article. This is knowledge that may not be large enough to fill a paragraph but is still information. Even if this information is that X character in a movie was based on Y or took some lines from Z. To some people that might look trivial but other people might find it useful for a research of say, the influence of "oldies" 1990s movies in the new 2050 movies.
Moreover, I do not find "trivial" and "trustworthy" as conflicting approaches. You can have a very trustworthy place with Trivia (like your typical neighbour woman who knows about *everything* that happens in the neighbourhood, you know her information is trustworthy, although some of it may be trivial). I think what they should be aiming for is to improve the quality of those articles that seem "trivial". Yes, even the thousand of Anime/Manga articles, they are not tririval, they are information.
In Mexico, people have the "Credencial para votar con fotografía" (voting id with picture) which is used for identification *everywhere*. There is also the CURP "clave única de registro de población" (unique key for population registry) which is a specific key that identifies every person (you can get a little card which they call "your CURP").
We have had those ID mechanisms and at least for me, it really does not hurt... Of course once you have a legal-absolute-accepted way to id someone, you get the fakes id rolling.
Things aren't always better here in the UK for students though. You often find that to get the best projects (or more importantly, project supervisors) as an undergrad, you can't just sit in line, you have to stand out. That means getting the good grades. Same goes for phd places. Unless you really stand out, you won't have nearly as much chance of being able to pick and choose. That's too much pressure for some, and they resort to cheating or underhand behavior.
Let me tell you something sad. What you need to do to get the good supervisors (i.e., the *best* people in your field) is to be an international student with funding. It really comes to that. As an international student you are providing the University (and thus, your department and supervisor) with more money and better status. Hence, they are more inclined to accept such students. I can tell you this both from personal experience (as a non-UK student doing a PhD in the uK) and from the book "How to get a PhD" by Phillips and Pugh, 3rd Edition (pages 123- 125).
'the GNU/Linux kernel' and 'the utilities and userland tools required to make it usable'.
You got it almost right, but the Linux kernel is The Linux Kernel. The GNU part was added by Stallman because they provided "the utilities and userland".
However, I agree with you that FreeBSD has nothing to do with netBSD and openBSD. Only that they all are "based" on the BSD distribution of Unix. But if you want to go that far, then Linux would be based on the System V distribution of Unix and all of them would be different flavrous of Unix.
in my opinion involves either: i) generate resources FROM Mars instead of spending a ton to be there
Before planning to go to mars we should do that in the Moon. Really, we should be aiming at colonizing the moon even if just for small bases. The colonization *must* be used with the objective of extracting resources from the Moon (I read that there are metals there which exist in little quantities on Earth) and creating spaceships or rocket launchers from there. I read in a comment from Isaac Asimov that, the "space conquest" wont start from the Earth, but from the Moon. Because all the cultural and physical issues that arise for the people in the earth.
Wireless cards have to be closed source to use US radio frequency spectrum. In many cases, merely the ability to change frequency or power via software will render these cards unuseable in a legal context.
Hello, that is some interesting information, would you care to elaborate (some links or other citations would be nice). I am authentically interested in your claim as I have never heard about such thing.
My boss, just doesn't like OSS at all, if you can't buy it, it must be worthless and too risky to use is his attitude..
In order to establish Open Source in any business you must have this mentality: "if it works for you, good, use it. If it does not work too bad". That, in case you want to "roll over" your own "sollution" using Open Source technologies. If as you said, you want to pay someone, you can always pay a consultancy which uses Open Source software or any other company which offers the "solution" you need (using open or closed source software).
Thanks but, no thanks: From wikipedia , the band's first commercial album was released in 2004 through MbD Records UK. The band is currently signed to Spinefarm Records Also from wikipedia: Since 2002, Spinefarm has been part of Universal Music Group.
I am not looking for free music. I am looking for music distributed through non-RIAA channels (i.e., new distribution models).
Why, o why should the guys doing these kind of music the ones that embrace the new distribution methods? I ask this because I do not really like this kind of music. I was raised having to listen to bands like Nirvana (the only ones I liked), Pearl Jam, Silverchair, Thearpy?, NiN, Smashing Pumpkins and all that alternative/grunge (sorry if I do not know the *specific* genre) until I vomited because my older brother used to play it all day long. I myself prefer Metal of different sub-genres like heavy, speed, black, epic (gay Metal... if you count Rhapsody hehehe), and that kind of stuff... However so much for the "rebellious" nature of Metal... all the bands (the good bands at least) like getting screwed by the big corporations (not that they do not get anything back of course).
Oh well, I hope that this kind of actions serve as an example for other bands of other genres.
When even Wall*Mart tells you to do what is best for customers...
a Microsoft employee, wrote that Wal-Mart is "extremely disappointed in the fact that the standards were lowered and feel like customer confusion will ensue. They would like to see Microsoft reconsider the program and allow for the use of 2 different logos; one that is strictly a Windows Vista Home Basic Capable, and the other Windows Vista Capable."
She continued, "Please give this some consideration; it would be a lot less costly to do the right thing for the customer than to spend dollars on the back end trying to fix the problem." That snippet was really insightful. Shit, Microsoft *should* have made those two stickers (Vista Home Capable and Vista Others). When they announced that there would be 6 different versions of Vista everybody *knew* it would bring problems...
Yeah, it couldn't possibly be a massive undertaking to port almost 15 years of built up code, working across an entire suite of interconnected programs,
Which are currently available for Windows and OSX (which is very close to BSD and Linux). I see no great deal on porting OSX Adobe products to Linux. It is only a matter of porting Carbon code to GTK.
But the tax will depend on how much is such property valued. So for example, If the author of the metnioned post values it at X, then he will have to pay X*k (k1) as tax. That would make companies such as RIAA and the like value whatever property they have at their real value (instead of the thousand of dollars that they want to extort from the John Does).
Something I would never ask people to do is to go to NYCountryLawyer web page and look if any of the advertisements served by google in that page interest you...
That would make NYCountryLawyer get some cash from the ads clicks...
No, but they can arrest the "John" for soliciting, But in that case, the crime itself is "soliciting", from wikipedia:
consists of a person offering money or something else of value in order to incite or induce another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime. So the crime is to offer the money, the other party do not have to accept it in order to consume the crime.
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Michio Kaku hosted a series of documentaries from Discovery Channel, among them is 2057 The city. They are indeed quite interesting as they speculate on how the future (specifically the year 2057) might be, but they base their predictions in current technology being developed and researched.
Worth to see IMHO.
Yes, there are interesting synergies between extending battery life on mobile devices vs. saving energy in the data center
Can anyone explain to me what is a synergy?
What you mean like
... All were available in Linux, Unix and even Amiga before Wind... excuse me a sec... oh shit, Windows still does not come with virtual desktops? what year is it 1984?
Multiple Virtual Desktops
This is true, however I'm happy to pay that so I don't have to watch mindless fucking commercials for total shit I don't want every 3 minutes. The TV license funds the BBC, which is so refreshing in the 21st century because it doesn't bombard you with adverts. After a few weeks in the USA on business with the gash excuse you guys have for TV, getting home to BBC is utter heaven
Yeah, I love how itv, channel 4, channel five and all the other non-bbc channels have zero commercials... And I also love the letters they send you like if they were the fucking police. They really got you scared to shit dont they? Fortunately for me, I am not from the USA, although I agree the TV there is utter shit. In Mexico I got all the good quality TV I need from cable, which I can *choose* (choice, do you know what is it?) to pay if I want. Here in the UK? even if you want to watch cable or skype channels only you must pay your diezmo to the TV License "authority". LMFAO
Shit, in the UK you even need a license to watch your TV
Those are some sick people.
Well, nothing stops them from using OpenGL instead. Last time I checked, OpenGL does run in Windows, even if it requires third-party drivers to do so.
/. keep comparing it to OpenGL. To port a Direct X game into a non Direct X technology you would need *a lot more* than Open GL, Open GL would only be good for he Direct 3D part of Direct X, you still have *a lot* of other things that are not related to graphics (like DirectPlay, DirectSound, DirectMusic among others.
Of course, I'm not a graphics developer, so there is probably more to this than simple vendor lock-in.
And that, people, is what makes DirectX shine against Linux. Every time I see a discussion concerning Direct X, people in
Sure, you could try to glue several open source technologies like SDL, Allegro, OpenMAX, OpenML, OpenGL, OpenAL, FMOD and others to accomplish almost everything that Direct X provides you, but it would be a very cumbersome work and, as other people said, not cost effective enough for the 10% of market share that could buy your game.
Whether people like it or not, Direct X is a beast of an API, if Microsoft made something right, it was Direct X , as everything is integrated in one specific package. Shure, the Open GL modelling paradigm is better than the Direct 3D one (or it was, about 4 years ago when I used to prorgram games using both of them), but the ability to have all those multimdedia features in one integrated API makes it worth it. And of course, you can also include the ability to use MS Visual Studio for the development.
Not only that, what could be "trivial" for one people is really informative for others. There is some knowledge that does not "belong" to other sections in an article. This is knowledge that may not be large enough to fill a paragraph but is still information. Even if this information is that X character in a movie was based on Y or took some lines from Z. To some people that might look trivial but other people might find it useful for a research of say, the influence of "oldies" 1990s movies in the new 2050 movies.
Moreover, I do not find "trivial" and "trustworthy" as conflicting approaches. You can have a very trustworthy place with Trivia (like your typical neighbour woman who knows about *everything* that happens in the neighbourhood, you know her information is trustworthy, although some of it may be trivial). I think what they should be aiming for is to improve the quality of those articles that seem "trivial". Yes, even the thousand of Anime/Manga articles, they are not tririval, they are information.
In Mexico, people have the "Credencial para votar con fotografía" (voting id with picture) which is used for identification *everywhere*. There is also the CURP "clave única de registro de población" (unique key for population registry) which is a specific key that identifies every person (you can get a little card which they call "your CURP").
We have had those ID mechanisms and at least for me, it really does not hurt... Of course once you have a legal-absolute-accepted way to id someone, you get the fakes id rolling.
Things aren't always better here in the UK for students though. You often find that to get the best projects (or more importantly, project supervisors) as an undergrad, you can't just sit in line, you have to stand out. That means getting the good grades. Same goes for phd places. Unless you really stand out, you won't have nearly as much chance of being able to pick and choose. That's too much pressure for some, and they resort to cheating or underhand behavior.
Let me tell you something sad. What you need to do to get the good supervisors (i.e., the *best* people in your field) is to be an international student with funding. It really comes to that. As an international student you are providing the University (and thus, your department and supervisor) with more money and better status. Hence, they are more inclined to accept such students. I can tell you this both from personal experience (as a non-UK student doing a PhD in the uK) and from the book "How to get a PhD" by Phillips and Pugh, 3rd Edition (pages 123- 125).
Let me summarize what the GP post meant:
"I am a programmer, I am your all mighty God, bow at me you simple mortals. I deserve all your admiration and respect".
I always find it funny how codemonkeys think so much of themseleves.
Yeah, and as you said, Watch them mod me way down to Uranus to see what I mean.
'the GNU/Linux kernel' and 'the utilities and userland tools required to make it usable'.
You got it almost right, but the Linux kernel is The Linux Kernel. The GNU part was added by Stallman because they provided "the utilities and userland".
However, I agree with you that FreeBSD has nothing to do with netBSD and openBSD. Only that they all are "based" on the BSD distribution of Unix. But if you want to go that far, then Linux would be based on the System V distribution of Unix and all of them would be different flavrous of Unix.
in my opinion involves either: i) generate resources FROM Mars instead of spending a ton to be there
Before planning to go to mars we should do that in the Moon. Really, we should be aiming at colonizing the moon even if just for small bases. The colonization *must* be used with the objective of extracting resources from the Moon (I read that there are metals there which exist in little quantities on Earth) and creating spaceships or rocket launchers from there. I read in a comment from Isaac Asimov that, the "space conquest" wont start from the Earth, but from the Moon. Because all the cultural and physical issues that arise for the people in the earth.
Wireless cards have to be closed source to use US radio frequency spectrum. In many cases, merely the ability to change frequency or power via software will render these cards unuseable in a legal context.
Hello, that is some interesting information, would you care to elaborate (some links or other citations would be nice). I am authentically interested in your claim as I have never heard about such thing.
My boss, just doesn't like OSS at all, if you can't buy it, it must be worthless and too risky to use is his attitude..
In order to establish Open Source in any business you must have this mentality: "if it works for you, good, use it. If it does not work too bad". That, in case you want to "roll over" your own "sollution" using Open Source technologies. If as you said, you want to pay someone, you can always pay a consultancy which uses Open Source software or any other company which offers the "solution" you need (using open or closed source software).
(The name "Scrabulous" probably is too close to the word Scrabble(TM) but the game itself doesn't infringe.)
You can find plenty of meanings for the word "scrab".
You could check out Machinae Supremacy, Swedish band. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinae_supremacy
Thanks but, no thanks:
From wikipedia
, the band's first commercial album was released in 2004 through MbD Records UK. The band is currently signed to Spinefarm Records
Also from wikipedia:
Since 2002, Spinefarm has been part of Universal Music Group.
I am not looking for free music. I am looking for music distributed through non-RIAA channels (i.e., new distribution models).
Why, o why should the guys doing these kind of music the ones that embrace the new distribution methods? I ask this because I do not really like this kind of music. I was raised having to listen to bands like Nirvana (the only ones I liked), Pearl Jam, Silverchair, Thearpy?, NiN, Smashing Pumpkins and all that alternative/grunge (sorry if I do not know the *specific* genre) until I vomited because my older brother used to play it all day long. I myself prefer Metal of different sub-genres like heavy, speed, black, epic (gay Metal... if you count Rhapsody hehehe), and that kind of stuff... However so much for the "rebellious" nature of Metal... all the bands (the good bands at least) like getting screwed by the big corporations (not that they do not get anything back of course).
Oh well, I hope that this kind of actions serve as an example for other bands of other genres.
Another group has published an undocumented way to bypass the adult verification in the new Leisure Suit Larry game by pressing ALT+X.
How do these guys learn this stuff??
... you insensitive clod!
She continued, "Please give this some consideration; it would be a lot less costly to do the right thing for the customer than to spend dollars on the back end trying to fix the problem." That snippet was really insightful. Shit, Microsoft *should* have made those two stickers (Vista Home Capable and Vista Others). When they announced that there would be 6 different versions of Vista everybody *knew* it would bring problems...
Yeah, it couldn't possibly be a massive undertaking to port almost 15 years of built up code, working across an entire suite of interconnected programs,
Which are currently available for Windows and OSX (which is very close to BSD and Linux). I see no great deal on porting OSX Adobe products to Linux. It is only a matter of porting Carbon code to GTK.
But the tax will depend on how much is such property valued. So for example, If the author of the metnioned post values it at X, then he will have to pay X*k (k1) as tax. That would make companies such as RIAA and the like value whatever property they have at their real value (instead of the thousand of dollars that they want to extort from the John Does).
Something I would never ask people to do is to go to NYCountryLawyer web page and look if any of the advertisements served by google in that page interest you...
That would make NYCountryLawyer get some cash from the ads clicks...
(a) Walk away.
(b) Bury the judge in paper with a 'reconsideration' motion.
(c) Ask Mr. Brennan to "settle".
(d) Send in CowboyNeal
(e) Breasts
There, I fixed it for you.
But in that case, the crime itself is "soliciting", from wikipedia: consists of a person offering money or something else of value in order to incite or induce another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime. So the crime is to offer the money, the other party do not have to accept it in order to consume the crime.