Maybe all software developers don't do it this way, but technically 0.21 to 0.22 IS a 0.1 increase. Version numbers don't work like normal decimals - 0.22 actually should be read as 22nd sub version. If it wasn't done this way, you would run into a problem if you got to 0.9 and made a 0.1 increment.
But your point is still a good one - if this is a major change, lets call a spade a spade and make this version 1.0. Now, I know that will attract the wolves - FOSS developers have a habit of holding their major version numbers at 0 to indicate they are in beta (seemingly forever).
You don't want me to sign up so that when it turns out to be AWESOME later on, you can get 10$/mo for referring me. I'm on to your scheme, I WILL BUY A DOZEN!
My experience differs. I find the D-pad very useful for MMOs and other medium duty movement. Certainly not useful for FPS unless you want carpal tunnel - for those you're better off mapping some of the finger keys to wasd. (Maybe that's just because I'm hitting the keys harder in FPSs due to anger;)
In Guild Wars, for example, I map 1-4 as the left side of the 8 skills, 6-9 as the right side, thumb D-pad is movement, and 5,0,and thumb button are set up to allow fast calling of targets and assisting (I don't remember the exact keys off hand). The resulting increase in response speed that I can get out of using the n52 makes it worth it for a pvp mmo.
You know what I need a list of? Co-operative games.
My wife and I are both very competative, and I find that anything in which we are pitted head to head is bound to end with one of us getting upset.
What I need is a list of games we can play together toward a common goal. And as long as I'm making requests, let's have only console games, PS2 and GC specifically.
Currently our solution is to play MMORPGs, but I'm dying to actually get some damn use out of my GC.
when you use eigenvalues as a coding/compression scheme in signal processing, the result to the human senses is that you have a base "eigensignal" so to speak, and all signals are defined in how they are different from the base
the name is from either using eigenvectors/values in the signal processing, or the guy who named it knows about eigenvalue encoding's effect on signals
this is probably some of the greatest new i have ever heard - i grabbed the SBLive! value when it came out, and after running it for months in my windows machine and loving the eviornmental audio, when i upgraded my linux box to rh6.1, i decided to swap the sound cards and try out some enviornmental audio in linux (oh how silly i was).
much to my chagrin, i went to creative's site and found (oh the horror...) object files!! YUCK! I was not happy. And as if that wasn't enough of a kick in the head, the last kernel they compiled it for was 2.2.10 - i would have to DOWNGRADE my kernel to run it! No way! I didn't feel like doing that, so a couple days and an "insmod -f" later, i had sound. of course, no special features or anything, and i couldn't play.au files, but sound none the less.
So i was happy for a little while, but it didn't last very long, eventually i just became bitter towards creative - wrote them some e-mail asking for better drivers (them:"we'll have one out early 2000"). and so i eventually just decided to live with the fact that i had an awesome soundcard made by a bunch of bastards.
and then comes this story! woo hoo! I love creative!!! - i'm proud to own a card made by such a wonderful company:)
I think that this game is admirable - The fact that a company is sticking it's neck out in an attempt to make a game with some emotion - the whole good path / bad path
now i haven't seen the game yet, but if they stay true to what Jon "The Crack Addict" Katz is saying about it, then it may or may not be a good game, but it should be an admirable one. I get the feeling a lot these days that many people and companies purposely censor themselves in an attempt not to be shunned or boycotted, and it makes me sad. This company seems to be taking a stand - they're making a game that will bring emotion and morality into the experience - i mean how many comapnies will release a game where you can slaugter a praying angel - that's bound to put some feeling into the game.
One game came close to this kind of feeling - Jedi Knight - you had the option of choosing the light side or the dark side - the dark side gave you cool powers, but you had to kill off your friends and slaugter complete stangers to get there, and when you did, the cut scenes were few and far between, making the dark path seem quick and without remorse. This game just seems to take all that a step further by grounding it into the real world.
all in all - i can't wait to see this game - it should probably have a significant amount of controversy around it, but i think it will be a good experience to play both sides, evil and good.
P.S. about the only thing that could seriously kill this game is if they remove the option to play evil - then it would be the pure definition of censorship and paranoid cowardly companies. I hope the company stays true to it's intent.
It's stuff like this that results in slashdotters being called crackpots. Here, let's think about the positive aspects of sneaking in and watching movies for free, or shoplifting magazines
Stealing a magazine and sneaking into a movie are both completely different from copying software.
If you steal a magazine, you are taking away a physical object that the company can now no longer sell to someone else, and likewise if you sneak into a movie, that seat can no longer be occupied by a paying customer.
Here's a couple analogies for you:
The magazine:
You walk into the store with a scanner, and proceed to scan in every page of a 25 page book that costs over 400 dollars, then leave. In this case, the object still exists for the company to sell to someone, and in reality, would you have bought that magazine for $400 if you didn't have a scanner?
The movies:
You walk into the movie theater carrying a chair, you set it up out of the way of everyone else, and you watch the 5 minute movie with a 700 dollar ticket price. The company has lost nothing, you haven't taken up a single seat, and again, if you didn't have your chair? would you have paid $700 to watch the movie?
This whole "piracy" = theft thing really irks me, think of software like books - some people buy them if they're good, but if you just want to read it once, wouldn't you rather go to a library?
you install it?! i write to the inodes with a magnet - software editors are for wimps! i have all the opcodes for the compiled binaries memorized! i have my own distro, it's called "you're a wuss and i'm not, so nah nah nah!"-Linux no sissy editors in there, no GUI either, and no monitor or keyboard support, and definately no mouse, if you don't know what your computer is doing without looking, you shouldn't be using it.
the funny part is that the people that posted above me thought this guy was serious, and probably will think that i'm serious too. come on people, don't you remember the old jokes?
"i had to walk 30 miles to school with nothing but rags on"
didn't/. run a story about a month ago about the same company releasing 1GHz Athalons ETA mid-Sept? i think i remember something about that. if someone has the link, please post it, i'm not lazy - i'm just working:)
if they decide to make it serious - they should make it like Everything. Except a little more moderated. "Field Agents" could write in with their entries, and it would be looked over and possibly submitted by volunteers over the network.
now we just have devise a means for interstellar space travel.
call me optimistic, but i think the US government is going to do the right thing on this one. As bad as some parts of the government have been to us, the judiciaries always seem to come through, and i'm looking forward to the break up of M$.
This is truly sick. This is the kind of thing that happens when a company gets a monopoly on the market. I don't even own a domain name, and i just logged right in and read the webmaster's e-mail. sick.
on a funny side note - someone has done some organizing on the mail account - all the "you have been own3d" mail is now in the script kiddies folder. hahhahha.
What? You don't consider a free operating system with free software that doesn't crash every 5 minutes innovative? Look around, these are the people who innovate, not the horrendous Microsoft employees who have created a kernel so disgusting that no one at their company fully understands it, and even if they did, they can't take care of any bugs in it because most of their software actually relies on the bugs to run "properly". I'm not joking. Thinking differently from the perspective that Microsoft is detrimental the future of computing would be wrong. It's not Microsoft bashing, it's the truth - their business practices resemble those of fascism, basically they have no problem with anyone who doesn't stand in the way of their total domination of computers. Maybe you think that innovation means controlling the populous with a monopoly, but I happen to think that it means making good, free software that can evolve - Open Source. That's true innovation - that's what the future should be. No more worrying about hidden Crypto keys in your OS, or wondering why you get a blue screen everytime you leave you computer running for more than an hour. If there were a bug like that in an Open Source OS, you could just submit a bug report and it's pretty much guarunteed that it'll be fixed within the week. Sounds pretty good, especially when you compare it to Microsoft's track record. Win98 shipped with over 2000 known bugs - is that innovation? Basically, anyone who is pro-Microsoft might want to take a look at www.fascism.theman.bigbrother.evil.gov, it would be right up their alley.
I would definately consider myself a geek and a nerd (yes, they are different), but i don't really display any form of autism IMO. I can dance, I'm socially adept, I have fast reflexes, and I started speaking English long before I was a year old. I'm thinking that this guy may be grossly over-generalizing. Then again, maybe he's right and as far as abnormal "geeks" go, i'm not normal.
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I thought it was a little overly fearful when I first read it. But it seems he may not be far off the mark...
The Right to Read, by Richard Stallman:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Obviously, you're not a golfer
Maybe all software developers don't do it this way, but technically 0.21 to 0.22 IS a 0.1 increase. Version numbers don't work like normal decimals - 0.22 actually should be read as 22nd sub version. If it wasn't done this way, you would run into a problem if you got to 0.9 and made a 0.1 increment.
But your point is still a good one - if this is a major change, lets call a spade a spade and make this version 1.0. Now, I know that will attract the wolves - FOSS developers have a habit of holding their major version numbers at 0 to indicate they are in beta (seemingly forever).
You don't want me to sign up so that when it turns out to be AWESOME later on, you can get 10$/mo for referring me.
I'm on to your scheme, I WILL BUY A DOZEN!
Only on slashdot does that post get moderated "Informative."
My experience differs. ;)
I find the D-pad very useful for MMOs and other medium duty movement. Certainly not useful for FPS unless you want carpal tunnel - for those you're better off mapping some of the finger keys to wasd. (Maybe that's just because I'm hitting the keys harder in FPSs due to anger
In Guild Wars, for example, I map 1-4 as the left side of the 8 skills, 6-9 as the right side, thumb D-pad is movement, and 5,0,and thumb button are set up to allow fast calling of targets and assisting (I don't remember the exact keys off hand). The resulting increase in response speed that I can get out of using the n52 makes it worth it for a pvp mmo.
Damn kids! GIT OFF MAH LAWN!
You spelled "Y'all" wrong.
Where is +1 Ironic when you need it?
You know what I need a list of? Co-operative games.
My wife and I are both very competative, and I find that anything in which we are pitted head to head is bound to end with one of us getting upset.
What I need is a list of games we can play together toward a common goal. And as long as I'm making requests, let's have only console games, PS2 and GC specifically.
Currently our solution is to play MMORPGs, but I'm dying to actually get some damn use out of my GC.
when you use eigenvalues as a coding/compression scheme in signal processing, the result to the human senses is that you have a base "eigensignal" so to speak, and all signals are defined in how they are different from the base
example: eigenfaces
the name is from either using eigenvectors/values in the signal processing, or the guy who named it knows about eigenvalue encoding's effect on signals
this company has sold the razor blades and tried to get us to buy the razor WHAT? someone duct taped our blades to a stick?! LAWYERS!!!!
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i like to refer to hackers as "Hackers" (hack-ers) and crackers as "Haxors" (hack-sores) :)
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(that was a Dr King-ish pun for the unknowing)
.au files, but sound none the less.
:)
this is probably some of the greatest new i have ever heard - i grabbed the SBLive! value when it came out, and after running it for months in my windows machine and loving the eviornmental audio, when i upgraded my linux box to rh6.1, i decided to swap the sound cards and try out some enviornmental audio in linux (oh how silly i was).
much to my chagrin, i went to creative's site and found (oh the horror...) object files!! YUCK! I was not happy. And as if that wasn't enough of a kick in the head, the last kernel they compiled it for was 2.2.10 - i would have to DOWNGRADE my kernel to run it! No way! I didn't feel like doing that, so a couple days and an "insmod -f" later, i had sound.
of course, no special features or anything, and i couldn't play
So i was happy for a little while, but it didn't last very long, eventually i just became bitter towards creative - wrote them some e-mail asking for better drivers (them:"we'll have one out early 2000"). and so i eventually just decided to live with the fact that i had an awesome soundcard made by a bunch of bastards.
and then comes this story! woo hoo! I love creative!!! - i'm proud to own a card made by such a wonderful company
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I think that this game is admirable - The fact that a company is sticking it's neck out in an attempt to make a game with some emotion - the whole good path / bad path
now i haven't seen the game yet, but if they stay true to what Jon "The Crack Addict" Katz is saying about it, then it may or may not be a good game, but it should be an admirable one. I get the feeling a lot these days that many people and companies purposely censor themselves in an attempt not to be shunned or boycotted, and it makes me sad. This company seems to be taking a stand - they're making a game that will bring emotion and morality into the experience - i mean how many comapnies will release a game where you can slaugter a praying angel - that's bound to put some feeling into the game.
One game came close to this kind of feeling - Jedi Knight - you had the option of choosing the light side or the dark side - the dark side gave you cool powers, but you had to kill off your friends and slaugter complete stangers to get there, and when you did, the cut scenes were few and far between, making the dark path seem quick and without remorse. This game just seems to take all that a step further by grounding it into the real world.
all in all - i can't wait to see this game - it should probably have a significant amount of controversy around it, but i think it will be a good experience to play both sides, evil and good.
P.S. about the only thing that could seriously kill this game is if they remove the option to play evil - then it would be the pure definition of censorship and paranoid cowardly companies. I hope the company stays true to it's intent.
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wow! by the time i wrote this message, the counter had already gone up 30,000 more!
It's good to see that so many Linux geeks are out there, and it's definately good to see the support that slashdot's users give to Linux.
and if you aren't registered - what are you waiting for? Lets show people just how many proponents there are!
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Stealing a magazine and sneaking into a movie are both completely different from copying software.
If you steal a magazine, you are taking away a physical object that the company can now no longer sell to someone else, and likewise if you sneak into a movie, that seat can no longer be occupied by a paying customer.
Here's a couple analogies for you:
The magazine:
You walk into the store with a scanner, and proceed to scan in every page of a 25 page book that costs over 400 dollars, then leave. In this case, the object still exists for the company to sell to someone, and in reality, would you have bought that magazine for $400 if you didn't have a scanner?
The movies:
You walk into the movie theater carrying a chair, you set it up out of the way of everyone else, and you watch the 5 minute movie with a 700 dollar ticket price. The company has lost nothing, you haven't taken up a single seat, and again, if you didn't have your chair? would you have paid $700 to watch the movie?
This whole "piracy" = theft thing really irks me, think of software like books - some people buy them if they're good, but if you just want to read it once, wouldn't you rather go to a library?
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no sissy editors in there, no GUI either, and no monitor or keyboard support, and definately no mouse, if you don't know what your computer is doing without looking, you shouldn't be using it.
the funny part is that the people that posted above me thought this guy was serious, and probably will think that i'm serious too. come on people, don't you remember the old jokes?
"i had to walk 30 miles to school with nothing but rags on"
"you had rags?..."
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1. Run a marathon, finishing last
;)
2. Watch the Matrix... twice
3. Install Linux on the 8 other machines in your house
4. Renew your drivers license at the DMV
5. Get a Master Degree
6. Get your PhD
7. Read Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace"... twice
8. Read every article on Slashdot, the article it links to, and all the comments it gathered.
9. Write a lengthy letter to everyone in your family, and the families of everyone you know.
10. Hit cancel and install Linux instead
hope you enjoyed it - feel free to add your own
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yeah i know the spacing is all off in the subject
/. run a story about a month ago about the same company releasing 1GHz Athalons ETA mid-Sept? :)
didn't
i think i remember something about that.
if someone has the link, please post it, i'm not lazy - i'm just working
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if they decide to make it serious - they should make it like Everything. Except a little more moderated. "Field Agents" could write in with their entries, and it would be looked over and possibly submitted by volunteers over the network.
now we just have devise a means for interstellar space travel.
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call me optimistic, but i think the US government is going to do the right thing on this one.
As bad as some parts of the government have been to us, the judiciaries always seem to come through, and i'm looking forward to the break up of M$.
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This is truly sick. This is the kind of thing that happens when a company gets a monopoly on the market. I don't even own a domain name, and i just logged right in and read the webmaster's e-mail. sick.
on a funny side note - someone has done some organizing on the mail account - all the "you have been own3d" mail is now in the script kiddies folder. hahhahha.
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What? You don't consider a free operating system with free software that doesn't crash every 5 minutes innovative?
Look around, these are the people who innovate, not the horrendous Microsoft employees who have created a kernel so disgusting that no one at their company fully understands it, and even if they did, they can't take care of any bugs in it because most of their software actually relies on the bugs to run "properly". I'm not joking.
Thinking differently from the perspective that Microsoft is detrimental the future of computing would be wrong.
It's not Microsoft bashing, it's the truth - their business practices resemble those of fascism, basically they have no problem with anyone who doesn't stand in the way of their total domination of computers.
Maybe you think that innovation means controlling the populous with a monopoly, but I happen to think that it means making good, free software that can evolve - Open Source.
That's true innovation - that's what the future should be. No more worrying about hidden Crypto keys in your OS, or wondering why you get a blue screen everytime you leave you computer running for more than an hour. If there were a bug like that in an Open Source OS, you could just submit a bug report and it's pretty much guarunteed that it'll be fixed within the week. Sounds pretty good, especially when you compare it to Microsoft's track record.
Win98 shipped with over 2000 known bugs - is that innovation?
Basically, anyone who is pro-Microsoft might want to take a look at www.fascism.theman.bigbrother.evil.gov, it would be right up their alley.
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I would definately consider myself a geek and a nerd (yes, they are different), but i don't really display any form of autism IMO. I can dance, I'm socially adept, I have fast reflexes, and I started speaking English long before I was a year old.
I'm thinking that this guy may be grossly over-generalizing.
Then again, maybe he's right and as far as abnormal "geeks" go, i'm not normal.