Really? Because my MacBook has one really big gesture pad combined with a single big button. Infinitely better than the other laptops I've had where all the pad is good for is moving the cursor around the screen combined with three tiny buttons in the least ergonomically placed position possible. Now, the two look superficially similar, but functionally, the Mac design is brilliant.
And if your choice of OS doesn't include proper support for your hardware, well that's your choice isn't it. I thought the whole benefit of Open Source and Linux is that if there is something you don't like, you are free to improve it yourself.
Free software design may trounce commercial offerings, but only if you are talking about some of the back-end code and theoretical features. When it comes to UI and usability there are few complex applications where it comes close. With a couple exceptions, most Free projects effectively create their own walled garden simply because they don't adhere to any form of universal standard or target interface.
Actually, bodies do have rights. We have a lot of emotion tied up in these bags of meat that carry us around. Depending on the jurisdiction and country and what have you there is usually a law or two with names like 'inappropriate disposal of a body' or 'improper treatment of human remains' or, in this case, 'mutilating a dead body'. Mostly the laws get used to stop people form burying their relatives in the back yard or wherever.
Well, since a lot of the first motors were used on farms I suspect that it is more likely that the horses they were measuring against were great big draft horses like clydesdales. Way stronger than any riding horse.
I never got the impression that Apple has ever intentionally break jailbroken iPhones. I doubt they even test their updates against them before release. The original jailbroken phones changed some stuff the update wasn't expecting and so you ended up with a broken phone. The more recent updates happen to not interfere with jailbreak. I'd think that is as much coincidence as intentional.
Lots of Chinese students in Canada too. And one thing that I have learned is that anyone who is over here to study is not 'middle class'. That may be how we read them based on their money and possessions but from their point of view they are not. Any family who can afford to send their kids overseas is in the thick of Chinese industry and money. It is exactly the people LEAST likely to want a revolution.
I think that any group capable of assembling the various components and materials needed for a Fat Man, actually putting it together and getting it to go off can, by definition, can do better than Fat Man on their own.
The problem with this? The depressing number of office workers who use their accounts for personal type mail. A company uses your smtpx protocol and promptly sees their rating drop due to the dozen fifty year old ladies in accounting forwarding on every piece of cute spam and donate-to-save-the-children mail they get.
My biggest concern with where he is going with this is that it does not sound like it will play very nice with physics. In page two he makes some comments on how characters and other animated elements will still likely be done with more traditional methods and then mixed with this for the static objects like the world.
The problem with this is that we are moving more and more towards interactive environments where everything from the ground to the flowerpots are breakable, bendable or movable. It doesn't sound like this new system will play very nice with physics intensive or highly interactive environments. Now, i could be completely wrong. He doesn't address the point directly. But it is still a point for concern.
Actually, I was impressed with the quality of the answers. They seem to be well thought out and illuminate the intentions of the program if not the specifics. The only questions that eh really sidesteps on are ones related to policy and that is how it should be. Members of the armed forces should not be setting policy.
As if having blinking shiney flashey crap on the internet isn't bad enough now we're subjected to it in meatspace.
Except that meatspace has it's own rules. Same way that most of those anonymous internet jerks would never act the same way face to face*. Annoying flashing stuff on a website? Limited stuff you can do about it. Annoying flashing sign in meatspace? 30 seconds with a hammer or wire cutters or even a battery depending on the electrical tolerance and you are good to go. Problem solved.
*Please note. Meatspace has its own brand of assholes. I acknowledge that The two groups are not mutually exclusive.
Why should Apple go over their heads to do it? Because if the network crashes people are going to blame Apple as much as AT&T and far more than they will blame their own use of the applications in question. Allowing your customers to do something that you know is going to cause major problems is bad business.
Look, once and for all, there is a simple reason that Apple/AT&T are not letting developers have free reign on the data network. It has been brought up by Apple. it has been brought up by AT&T. Its validity has been given the nod by all sorts of people familiar with competing systems.
AT&Ts data network is not up to the task of handling all the potential traffic.
It's not. Everyone involved has been saying from the start that a single moderately popular application would be perfectly capable of saturating the entire connection. Whether that application is a VIOP app with a less than efficient protocol or bittorrent or video streaming. The network can not handle it. Now, I'm sure AT&T doesn't mind the lack of competition for its own services, but that si secondary at best. They could not allow these types of apps even if they wanted to.
So far, it looks like there is going to be little or no restrictions on what the iPhone can do when connected via Wi-Fi. They don't care what you do as long as you are doing it on someone else's connection.
So, some people want games for Linux and are waiting on the established companies to take the risk and time and effort to provide them. Well, it's not going to happen. Linux is viewed as too unpredictable a market to put that kind of money into. After all, can anyone name a single company that makes a profit selling consumer software for Linux? Not big business support, just software for single home PCs? Add to that the moving target that all the different distros make and things get interesting for anyone writing up a business proposal to take to their bosses.
If anyone out there really believes that there is a market for Linux games, then start your own company and make a game. If the market is there, you could very well strike it rich. After all, if Linux ever does become the dominant OS, or even in the running, being the established games developer on the platform would be a sweet spot to be in.
However, if you don;t think that starting your own company and risking your own livelihood on Linux gaming is a smart idea, why should anyone else?
I've not seen a single Games for Windows game that didn't require XP or Vista
You haven't seen a single 'Games for Windows' that didn't require Windows? Shocking. And you know what, all those games in the boxes labeled X-Box sure don't play very well in my PS3.
regarding the Wii; It's taking a while for the various companies to figure the quirks of the new control scheme. However, some are getting there. Drop a few dollars and rent Resident Evil or Metroid for the Wii for a weekend. I've seen it happen with a half dozen people now where they bitch about the controls for a hour and then everything clicks and away they go.
My understanding is that part of the threat to Nvidia and other dedicated graphics card makers is that ray tracing doesn't lend itself as well to dedicated solutions. Or rather, the type of processor needed tends to be the type that is already being used as a CPU with some minor tweaks to optimize performance. So instead of buying a separate chip for graphics, you get the same performance boost from just getting a second CPU or one with more cores. Instead of a graphics card with more RAM, you just add more to your general system RAM.
Well, you have a point from a business freedom point of view, it kind of falls apart in the real world. Realistically, a developer will easily lose 30% through credit card processing fees, the costs of hosting their own store and other related expenses. The only business reason not to like this would possibly be for a large company that already hosts its own software store and wants to keep all their products under one roof.
Other than that, I can see how some coders with a stick-it-to-the-man mentality might not be hot on the idea, but then again, I can't really see those people as big Apple developers in the first place.
I think that what the parent is saying is that the idea of using the cash register is inherent in the cash register itself existing. Before someone has invented a cash register, the idea of using one for business does not exist. Once the cash register has been invented (and patented), the idea of using the cash register is not a separate idea that should be protected independent of the cash register. A novel new key layout might deserve some protection. The act of pressing differnt keys should not.
For Amazon, the back end solution that drives the 1-click process possibly deserves protection. The act of clicking a button to buy something does not.
Yeah, the source of the money is the same in either case (the non-profit), but the two are completely different. A salary is agreed on compensation. In exchange for their work, the CEO (and every other employee) has agreed to take $X and possibly other benefits like an expense account.
In this case, Wales is taking more salary than has been agreed to. If he Is not being paid enough to afford expensive meals then he needs to renegotiate his salary or find another job. What he should not do is steal money for things he feels he deserves.
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Really? Because my MacBook has one really big gesture pad combined with a single big button. Infinitely better than the other laptops I've had where all the pad is good for is moving the cursor around the screen combined with three tiny buttons in the least ergonomically placed position possible. Now, the two look superficially similar, but functionally, the Mac design is brilliant.
And if your choice of OS doesn't include proper support for your hardware, well that's your choice isn't it. I thought the whole benefit of Open Source and Linux is that if there is something you don't like, you are free to improve it yourself.
Free software design may trounce commercial offerings, but only if you are talking about some of the back-end code and theoretical features. When it comes to UI and usability there are few complex applications where it comes close. With a couple exceptions, most Free projects effectively create their own walled garden simply because they don't adhere to any form of universal standard or target interface.
Actually, bodies do have rights. We have a lot of emotion tied up in these bags of meat that carry us around. Depending on the jurisdiction and country and what have you there is usually a law or two with names like 'inappropriate disposal of a body' or 'improper treatment of human remains' or, in this case, 'mutilating a dead body'. Mostly the laws get used to stop people form burying their relatives in the back yard or wherever.
Well, since a lot of the first motors were used on farms I suspect that it is more likely that the horses they were measuring against were great big draft horses like clydesdales. Way stronger than any riding horse.
I never got the impression that Apple has ever intentionally break jailbroken iPhones. I doubt they even test their updates against them before release. The original jailbroken phones changed some stuff the update wasn't expecting and so you ended up with a broken phone. The more recent updates happen to not interfere with jailbreak. I'd think that is as much coincidence as intentional.
Lots of Chinese students in Canada too. And one thing that I have learned is that anyone who is over here to study is not 'middle class'. That may be how we read them based on their money and possessions but from their point of view they are not. Any family who can afford to send their kids overseas is in the thick of Chinese industry and money. It is exactly the people LEAST likely to want a revolution.
I think that any group capable of assembling the various components and materials needed for a Fat Man, actually putting it together and getting it to go off can, by definition, can do better than Fat Man on their own.
The problem with this? The depressing number of office workers who use their accounts for personal type mail. A company uses your smtpx protocol and promptly sees their rating drop due to the dozen fifty year old ladies in accounting forwarding on every piece of cute spam and donate-to-save-the-children mail they get.
My biggest concern with where he is going with this is that it does not sound like it will play very nice with physics. In page two he makes some comments on how characters and other animated elements will still likely be done with more traditional methods and then mixed with this for the static objects like the world.
The problem with this is that we are moving more and more towards interactive environments where everything from the ground to the flowerpots are breakable, bendable or movable. It doesn't sound like this new system will play very nice with physics intensive or highly interactive environments. Now, i could be completely wrong. He doesn't address the point directly. But it is still a point for concern.
Even if it has a minor effect, why should we be willing to put up with any degradation at all?
Actually, I was impressed with the quality of the answers. They seem to be well thought out and illuminate the intentions of the program if not the specifics. The only questions that eh really sidesteps on are ones related to policy and that is how it should be. Members of the armed forces should not be setting policy.
Except that meatspace has it's own rules. Same way that most of those anonymous internet jerks would never act the same way face to face*. Annoying flashing stuff on a website? Limited stuff you can do about it. Annoying flashing sign in meatspace? 30 seconds with a hammer or wire cutters or even a battery depending on the electrical tolerance and you are good to go. Problem solved.
*Please note. Meatspace has its own brand of assholes. I acknowledge that The two groups are not mutually exclusive.
For some odd reason, the submitter has linked to the third page of a three page article. To no one's surprise, the editors did not catch this. Here is the link to page 1
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;270726757;pp;1;fp;4194304;fpid;1
Virus? What virus? Everyone is going to be smacked with regulation the first time bittorrent traffic takes down the network.
Why should Apple go over their heads to do it? Because if the network crashes people are going to blame Apple as much as AT&T and far more than they will blame their own use of the applications in question. Allowing your customers to do something that you know is going to cause major problems is bad business.
Look, once and for all, there is a simple reason that Apple/AT&T are not letting developers have free reign on the data network. It has been brought up by Apple. it has been brought up by AT&T. Its validity has been given the nod by all sorts of people familiar with competing systems.
AT&Ts data network is not up to the task of handling all the potential traffic.
It's not. Everyone involved has been saying from the start that a single moderately popular application would be perfectly capable of saturating the entire connection. Whether that application is a VIOP app with a less than efficient protocol or bittorrent or video streaming. The network can not handle it. Now, I'm sure AT&T doesn't mind the lack of competition for its own services, but that si secondary at best. They could not allow these types of apps even if they wanted to.
So far, it looks like there is going to be little or no restrictions on what the iPhone can do when connected via Wi-Fi. They don't care what you do as long as you are doing it on someone else's connection.
So, some people want games for Linux and are waiting on the established companies to take the risk and time and effort to provide them. Well, it's not going to happen. Linux is viewed as too unpredictable a market to put that kind of money into. After all, can anyone name a single company that makes a profit selling consumer software for Linux? Not big business support, just software for single home PCs?
Add to that the moving target that all the different distros make and things get interesting for anyone writing up a business proposal to take to their bosses.
If anyone out there really believes that there is a market for Linux games, then start your own company and make a game. If the market is there, you could very well strike it rich. After all, if Linux ever does become the dominant OS, or even in the running, being the established games developer on the platform would be a sweet spot to be in.
However, if you don;t think that starting your own company and risking your own livelihood on Linux gaming is a smart idea, why should anyone else?
You haven't seen a single 'Games for Windows' that didn't require Windows? Shocking. And you know what, all those games in the boxes labeled X-Box sure don't play very well in my PS3.
regarding the Wii; It's taking a while for the various companies to figure the quirks of the new control scheme. However, some are getting there. Drop a few dollars and rent Resident Evil or Metroid for the Wii for a weekend. I've seen it happen with a half dozen people now where they bitch about the controls for a hour and then everything clicks and away they go.
For anyone who cares, there is a club in Ottawa, Ontario called the Zaphod Beeblebrox, and yes, they do sell Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Actually, I don't think they charge you with visiting a URL. They charge you with looking at child porn.
My understanding is that part of the threat to Nvidia and other dedicated graphics card makers is that ray tracing doesn't lend itself as well to dedicated solutions. Or rather, the type of processor needed tends to be the type that is already being used as a CPU with some minor tweaks to optimize performance. So instead of buying a separate chip for graphics, you get the same performance boost from just getting a second CPU or one with more cores. Instead of a graphics card with more RAM, you just add more to your general system RAM.
Well, you have a point from a business freedom point of view, it kind of falls apart in the real world. Realistically, a developer will easily lose 30% through credit card processing fees, the costs of hosting their own store and other related expenses. The only business reason not to like this would possibly be for a large company that already hosts its own software store and wants to keep all their products under one roof.
Other than that, I can see how some coders with a stick-it-to-the-man mentality might not be hot on the idea, but then again, I can't really see those people as big Apple developers in the first place.
I think that what the parent is saying is that the idea of using the cash register is inherent in the cash register itself existing. Before someone has invented a cash register, the idea of using one for business does not exist. Once the cash register has been invented (and patented), the idea of using the cash register is not a separate idea that should be protected independent of the cash register. A novel new key layout might deserve some protection. The act of pressing differnt keys should not.
For Amazon, the back end solution that drives the 1-click process possibly deserves protection. The act of clicking a button to buy something does not.
Yeah, the source of the money is the same in either case (the non-profit), but the two are completely different. A salary is agreed on compensation. In exchange for their work, the CEO (and every other employee) has agreed to take $X and possibly other benefits like an expense account.
In this case, Wales is taking more salary than has been agreed to. If he Is not being paid enough to afford expensive meals then he needs to renegotiate his salary or find another job. What he should not do is steal money for things he feels he deserves.