So if I'm reading this right, a) There is already a Linux-capable SimCity b) We are talking about SimCity Classic c) The end result will be OSS d) It will be scriptable in Python SInce you're pretty close to the project: a) Are you going to keep it in Tcl/Tk, or is it a complete rewrite in Python and (insert toolkit here)? b) Will this version be usable/portable outside of the OLPC (both leagally and technically)? c) How faithful is this version to "reference" SimCity (Let's say either the Win31 or Mac versions)?
Teacher: Now class, what is the square root of 4? UAC man in black coat (MIBC): Teacher, you have queried the students. Cancel/Allow? (allow) Jimmy: Two MIBC: Jimmy, you have answered the teacher's query. Cancel/Allow? (allow) Teacher: Good job Jimmy! You get an extra point on the test MIBC: Teacher, you have issued a grade to Jimmy. Cancel/Allow? (allow) MIBC: (black one-way window drops in front of teacher)This is a restricted action. Please provide your password (gives wrong password) MIBC: Please give your password again. Do not attempt to breach the window
A self-powered SimCity machine? I'd almost sell my freaking soul for that. I wonder how receptive EA would be to letting out SimCity (classic or SC2K please) as OSS. And no, LinCity doesn't count. It's not quite the same.
I've heard of people using pandora. I think they're mostly equal, but 2 things swing me in favor of last.fm
1) It's open source. Everyone knows exactly what it's doing 2) As a side effect of 1, last.fm has plugins for nearly every media player on earth. amaroK and Banshee on linux have support built in, and the iTunes plugin will read the logs from your iPod into last.fm.
Keep in mind Adobe develops Flash. I've heard they're working on a.NET like stack with Flash, JavaScript, and a few other things. Another post mentioned it somewhere in this topic. They could have the Death Star* of web application stacks, and this is just Alderaan(sp?).
Sun Java is in the process of going GPL, and there's also Apache Harmony, GNU Classpath, and GCJ. I wouldn't put it past Adobe to do a pure Java Photoshop. I've never known Flash to be a platform for intense serious work myself, though Adobe may know something I dont, given they own the thing
I'd say the best way to take care of the problem would be just to passively monitor their Internet access, and give them *kind* warnings in their email when they go to (insert forbidden site here). Also, you could inject little "Big Brother is watching you" messages at the top of web pages on occasion, just to keep people on their toes
I'll be able to tell you for sure in 2 hours or so, but I think Feisty will auto-install restricted formats when you attempt to use one of them (MP3, mpeg-2 dvd, etc.)
Not always true. For example, Skype, Parallels and Opera, among others, deliver packages for the major distros right alongside the.msi's and.app's. Ive also seen debs (Ubuntu user, forgive me for not noting others) for quite a few OSS apps. VLC and Democracy Player come to mind. From my usage, the problem does not exist.
Dont think of it as an instant messenger then. Think of it as a "textual telephone"* that goes over the Internet. I've seen a few businesses around here where IM has become as important as email and the telephone to keep in touch
Pirates who want to breach the OSX EULA and run OSX on non-Apple hardware. That's the only real DRM contained within OSX to my knowledge (You can safely remove iTunes, and plenty of other apps as well). As much as we hate their decision, it is part of their license. Breaching it to them would be no different to MS shoving the Linux kernel into WinVi without abiding by the GPL. It just happens that since Jobs produces the hardware, he can put things in it (the TPM) to check with the software (OSX on AAPL hardware)
And therein comes the one great feature of the DS online system's friend codes. If you play MPH (like UT '99, except portable, and with a stylus for a mouse) and start playing with someone who it turns out is a 13-year old shit-mouthed freak, just drop his code from your list, and you NEVER hear from him again. Sometimes, this one feature outweighs all the other pains of Nintendo WFC
My bad./me finds his dyslexia pills. Back on topic, in 6.10, Beagle has a KDE frontend by the name of Kerry, which is more or less a KDEized version of the GNOME beagle app. (the deskbar app is a GNOME thing). It also has a KIO slave, but no OSX-ish deskbar.
Dont know what distro you were using, but in Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy), it was as easy as installing anything else.
sudo apt-get install beagle python-beagle
Just put the Deskbar app in the panel and enable the beagle plugin in the Deskbar (for Spotlight-style search-from-panel goodness), and everything works.
The thing is, what Windows did was take the computer and turn it into an actual consumer usable product. Actual real computers are indeed based on an open standard but it's a really really stupid standard. Seriously, buy one and visit the man pages for it. I've tried many with several real *nixen and they are pretty much a pain to set up even if you do know what you're doing, and as products they're under polished and buggy. That's today, go back to when Windows started up and these things were even *worse*.
So yeah it's a closed standard because, not for the first time, a company sitting down to design an operating system from scratch often comes up with something remarkably better than designed-by-commitee products.
Now I'm not saying everyone should dump stuff and go to Windows, I still find their service haphazard and buggy at best particularly when using the.NET functionality. However I think a bit of respect is due for a company that realised the killer application and went on to deliver in a consumer friendly manner that was genuinely useful and, more or less, single handedly forged the entire consumer idea of usable computers full stop.
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But if it's a virtual impossibility, it must have a finite improbability. Let's work out exactly how improbable, feed that into the drive and give it a cup of really hot tea.
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So if I'm reading this right,
a) There is already a Linux-capable SimCity
b) We are talking about SimCity Classic
c) The end result will be OSS
d) It will be scriptable in Python
SInce you're pretty close to the project:
a) Are you going to keep it in Tcl/Tk, or is it a complete rewrite in Python and (insert toolkit here)?
b) Will this version be usable/portable outside of the OLPC (both leagally and technically)?
c) How faithful is this version to "reference" SimCity (Let's say either the Win31 or Mac versions)?
But, really, can they run Linux? Are the drives supported in the kernel?
Teacher: Now class, what is the square root of 4?
UAC man in black coat (MIBC): Teacher, you have queried the students. Cancel/Allow? (allow)
Jimmy: Two
MIBC: Jimmy, you have answered the teacher's query. Cancel/Allow? (allow)
Teacher: Good job Jimmy! You get an extra point on the test
MIBC: Teacher, you have issued a grade to Jimmy. Cancel/Allow? (allow)
MIBC: (black one-way window drops in front of teacher)This is a restricted action. Please provide your password (gives wrong password)
MIBC: Please give your password again. Do not attempt to breach the window
Seconded. I've noticed people seem to change quite a bit when they're talking through a keyboard.
A self-powered SimCity machine? I'd almost sell my freaking soul for that.
I wonder how receptive EA would be to letting out SimCity (classic or SC2K please) as OSS.
And no, LinCity doesn't count. It's not quite the same.
I've heard of people using pandora. I think they're mostly equal, but 2 things swing me in favor of last.fm
1) It's open source. Everyone knows exactly what it's doing
2) As a side effect of 1, last.fm has plugins for nearly every media player on earth. amaroK and Banshee on linux have support built in, and the iTunes plugin will read the logs from your iPod into last.fm.
last.fm wins
Keep in mind Adobe develops Flash. I've heard they're working on a .NET like stack with Flash, JavaScript, and a few other things. Another post mentioned it somewhere in this topic. They could have the Death Star* of web application stacks, and this is just Alderaan(sp?).
*Let's hope they better protect the exhaust port
Im pretty sure GIMP on *nix, Preview on OSx as the sister post mentioned, and the freeware Photoshop Album on Windows can handle PSD
Sun Java is in the process of going GPL, and there's also Apache Harmony, GNU Classpath, and GCJ. I wouldn't put it past Adobe to do a pure Java Photoshop. I've never known Flash to be a platform for intense serious work myself, though Adobe may know something I dont, given they own the thing
http://www.last.fm/ anyone?
Same instructions as Kubuntu, but use xubuntu-desktop in place of kubuntu-desktop.
I'd say the best way to take care of the problem would be just to passively monitor their Internet access, and give them *kind* warnings in their email when they go to (insert forbidden site here). Also, you could inject little "Big Brother is watching you" messages at the top of web pages on occasion, just to keep people on their toes
Like uuencode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencode ?
I'll be able to tell you for sure in 2 hours or so, but I think Feisty will auto-install restricted formats when you attempt to use one of them (MP3, mpeg-2 dvd, etc.)
Not always true. For example, Skype, Parallels and Opera, among others, deliver packages for the major distros right alongside the .msi's and .app's. Ive also seen debs (Ubuntu user, forgive me for not noting others) for quite a few OSS apps. VLC and Democracy Player come to mind. From my usage, the problem does not exist.
Dont think of it as an instant messenger then. Think of it as a "textual telephone"* that goes over the Internet. I've seen a few businesses around here where IM has become as important as email and the telephone to keep in touch
*Yes, I know, GTalk does voice also
Pirates who want to breach the OSX EULA and run OSX on non-Apple hardware. That's the only real DRM contained within OSX to my knowledge (You can safely remove iTunes, and plenty of other apps as well). As much as we hate their decision, it is part of their license. Breaching it to them would be no different to MS shoving the Linux kernel into WinVi without abiding by the GPL. It just happens that since Jobs produces the hardware, he can put things in it (the TPM) to check with the software (OSX on AAPL hardware)
As soon as the labels will let him sell without DRM.
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And therein comes the one great feature of the DS online system's friend codes.
If you play MPH (like UT '99, except portable, and with a stylus for a mouse) and start playing with someone who it turns out is a 13-year old shit-mouthed freak, just drop his code from your list, and you NEVER hear from him again. Sometimes, this one feature outweighs all the other pains of Nintendo WFC
My bad. /me finds his dyslexia pills.
Back on topic, in 6.10, Beagle has a KDE frontend by the name of Kerry, which is more or less a KDEized version of the GNOME beagle app. (the deskbar app is a GNOME thing). It also has a KIO slave, but no OSX-ish deskbar.
Dont know what distro you were using, but in Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy), it was as easy as installing anything else.
sudo apt-get install beagle python-beagle
Just put the Deskbar app in the panel and enable the beagle plugin in the Deskbar (for Spotlight-style search-from-panel goodness), and everything works.
The thing is, what Windows did was take the computer and turn it into an actual consumer usable product. Actual real computers are indeed based on an open standard but it's a really really stupid standard. Seriously, buy one and visit the man pages for it. I've tried many with several real *nixen and they are pretty much a pain to set up even if you do know what you're doing, and as products they're under polished and buggy. That's today, go back to when Windows started up and these things were even *worse*.
.NET functionality. However I think a bit of respect is due for a company that realised the killer application and went on to deliver in a consumer friendly manner that was genuinely useful and, more or less, single handedly forged the entire consumer idea of usable computers full stop.
So yeah it's a closed standard because, not for the first time, a company sitting down to design an operating system from scratch often comes up with something remarkably better than designed-by-commitee products.
Now I'm not saying everyone should dump stuff and go to Windows, I still find their service haphazard and buggy at best particularly when using the
But if it's a virtual impossibility, it must have a finite improbability. Let's work out exactly how improbable, feed that into the drive and give it a cup of really hot tea.
That is brutally true for most of my family.