Some people have the radical notion that perhaps an idea can't be owned by one person.
The patent system was not made for people to own ideas, it was made for people to own IMPLEMENTATIONS of ideas, this is where patents tend to fall flat on their ass with software. With every man and his dog patenting 'the ability to do x'.
call me silly but can someone explain to me how using this is better than using git, IM (shudder) and email?
I just fail to see how making everything dependent on an always on an internet connection and browser is 'beneficial'. Modifying documents properly should take time and thought, and review from others on a team project before changes being accepted into mainline doc.
Skype is far superior to SIP -- Skype can tunnel through firewalls, whereas SIP, last I checked, was worse than FTP, needing dozens of ports forwarded to be useful.
Depends on how old the implementation is, newer ones (and the sip implementation of the N95) can go through firewalls just fine.
because those little square brick NES pads were the definition of cramped hands.
I started playing nes when I was 4, I stopped around age 13, those controllers were very comfortable for me. Perhaps now that I'm not a child they wouldn't be, but to children they were fine
Most employers want resumes sent to them in Word format,
Too true, sent a resume in in pdf format to one mob, to which they said, 'need in word format' borrowed mothers xp machine with office on it and saved it as the openxml thing, another response later 'Need in old word.doc format' after that I just gave up. An IT mob that can't read proper standards like pdf, or even convert between versions of software that they have demanded be used for submission? bah to them.
I'm in the group project situation at uni atm. When I mentioned 'typesetting' and 'version control system' they all had no idea what I was speaking of, so now i'm in charge of putting it all together and formatting it.
Easiest bet was to just briefly introduce them to LaTex, have them send me in their bits, I'll fix the markup, then commit changes.
you think that's bad. Mech warrior 3: pirates moon unlocks the elemental, a 10 tonne tiny ass mech. now, strip everything, add two jump jets and engine to the max, you only have enough room left for two small lasers, but that doesn't matter terribly much
With said configuration, you can travel approx 130km/h, and if you jump jet at max speed, you can travel 1.2km before you land. locked on lrm's don't phase you, since you can out-run them.
Makes for a very interesting game though vs a regular medium-heavy mech, while it's extremely difficult for them to touch you, it takes a LOT of hits for your small lasers to do significant damage. Frustrates them to no end though, being unable to hit you.
For starters, it's a lot more clear than what you described for windows, if your instructing someone to do it, with windows there is a lot of potential of 'I don't see that window' etc etc. using the cli that is not a problem, they just type exactly what you tell them to type.
I doubt you would mind an upgrade to nethack that enhanced the visuals and keeps the game exactly the same, since the mechanics are still the same.
It's been done before, falcon's eye etc etc. I checked them out for shits and giggles but always wound up getting rid of them and returning to ascii love. Also, I had actually played Diablo 2 before nethack, however you were right in me playing Nes Metroid before Snes.
The gameplay mechanics difference between NES metroid and Super metroid is marginal at best.
Style wise they are very similar of course, it's a sequel after all, however the devil is in the details. Level design in the original metroid is vastly different (out of necessity almost with the nes hardware limits), to this day when I pick up the game I can instinctively know where every hidden thing is from basic pattern matching I learnt as a child.
And, at least in the circles I move, if you are a big enough geek to run Linux, you are enough of an enthusiast to have upgraded your machine in the last 4 years.
Personally I think that highly depends on whether the person games, and/or likes HD content.
I'm sitting here on a five year old machine, with 2gb ram running rawhide fedora, and for all of my most common tasks, I fail to see how I wouldn't be fine with a p3 450 or some such from '99.
Processing text could be done instantly on a 386/33 mhz machine, and 486's handled mp3 playback just fine. Some things can always use faster computers though (3d rendering an example) but for those tasks you can always farm it out to a cluster which would dwarf even the most expensive of single machines.
Most people never use the complete potential of their pc's, and even those who do usually are just doing trivial stuff like gaming, so why upgrade if you don't do the heavy media stuff?
I doubt anyone would take Metroid 1 (NES) over Super metroid for instance.
As a major metroid fan (own every single game except fusion.. on my to get list), I must say, I do. that isn't to say I dislike metroid 3, but metroid one was quite an excellent game.
graphics only need to be there enough for the game designers to be able to express their intention in the game.
I also prefer Nethack over Diablo 2, simply because of the sheer depth involved in the gameplay of nethack. There are people out there, that prefer quality over shiny, but there do seem to be very few in comparison to the people who simply 'must' max their SLI gtx280's.
I find it odd that a former nethack player/mudder would not see that towards the end of your argument you are essentially saying that if it isn't shiny, it is pointless.
Perhaps you need to remember that games are for having fun, maybe?
Ah, so your not a fan of casablanca, or more likely since this is a/. crowd 2001: a space odyssey?
I'm sorry, but just because something is old does not by default make it crap. Quality is quality, if something was ever truly good it should be able to stand up on it's own regardless of graphics.
Of course, I also saw on a couple of the sites I checked that there was a proposal against CRT TVs.
That is most unfortunate, as the proud owner of a rear projection TV, and having a friend with quality CRT projector, people very much underestimate the levels of quality analog can yield.
Attach a super nintendo to a 1080p LCD and it will likely look like shite, attach the same thing to an analog projector or TV and it will look excellent, same with almost any other obscure resolution source
there seems to be some gigantic gaps when enhanced services bit is highlighted from verizon, I'm sure out west the population might be sparse enough for them to not care, but still, eastern spots have people there.
and also, you've forgotten something, where do people typically live?
Your link compared with, Where aussies live. Notice that in order to not get 3g coverage, you basically have to be more than about 200km+ into absolute nothingness of desert, that's an effort.(alternatively just standing near faraday cage equivalent works)
From the looks of the maps you've linked, in the US the moment you drive out of a major city you've lost reception for data etc, but will pick it up again when you pass another town. with AU it seems to be the case that you can drive a fair way into nothingness before your reception dies.
so, what your saying is, it's fine for sharing an mp3 to basically make you the music owners slave?
I dunno, I think if that were applied to enough people, some would perhaps dislike the slavery enough to perhaps murder their captors, I mean.. murder has less of a sentence than that.
A person with nothing to lose can be pretty dangerous if you piss them off.
I'd argue with that, I've been in some military land rover defenders that have been around since the 80's and are still in service. Still in pretty darn good condition, stock civilian ones I'd probably agree with you though.
in regards to learning assembly, if you run linux, the best book I can recommend is Programming from the ground up it's licensed under the GNU free documentation license, and in my honest opinion is likely the single best book for anyone who has no idea that wants to start, I already had some clue so skipped the first two thirds of the book, but read it for shits and giggles later and found it to be a very easy to grasp book.
To this day if I forget minor details about things I pick that back up and re-read it a bit:)
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Some people have the radical notion that perhaps an idea can't be owned by one person.
The patent system was not made for people to own ideas, it was made for people to own IMPLEMENTATIONS of ideas, this is where patents tend to fall flat on their ass with software. With every man and his dog patenting 'the ability to do x'.
call me silly but can someone explain to me how using this is better than using git, IM (shudder) and email?
I just fail to see how making everything dependent on an always on an internet connection and browser is 'beneficial'. Modifying documents properly should take time and thought, and review from others on a team project before changes being accepted into mainline doc.
Skype is far superior to SIP -- Skype can tunnel through firewalls, whereas SIP, last I checked, was worse than FTP, needing dozens of ports forwarded to be useful.
Depends on how old the implementation is, newer ones (and the sip implementation of the N95) can go through firewalls just fine.
software captures the broad range of frequencies, and a little googling shows it has been done before, with a 1ghz p3 laptop decoding it in real time.
if you can think of it, gnu radio can do it, with enough cpu power to accurately model the waveforms of course.
biggest thing with gnu radio is it's cost of entry, the good hardware is expensive
Too bad it only had a 4kb framebuffer
hate to be pedantic, but it had 4kb texture cache, if it had a 4kb framebuffer it wouldn't even pull of snes style graphics.
because those little square brick NES pads were the definition of cramped hands.
I started playing nes when I was 4, I stopped around age 13, those controllers were very comfortable for me. Perhaps now that I'm not a child they wouldn't be, but to children they were fine
Most employers want resumes sent to them in Word format,
Too true, sent a resume in in pdf format to one mob, to which they said, 'need in word format' borrowed mothers xp machine with office on it and saved it as the openxml thing, another response later 'Need in old word .doc format' after that I just gave up. An IT mob that can't read proper standards like pdf, or even convert between versions of software that they have demanded be used for submission? bah to them.
I'm in the group project situation at uni atm. When I mentioned 'typesetting' and 'version control system' they all had no idea what I was speaking of, so now i'm in charge of putting it all together and formatting it.
Easiest bet was to just briefly introduce them to LaTex, have them send me in their bits, I'll fix the markup, then commit changes.
I pretty much hate the megacorps but they don't have private armies and they don't attack countries to make money
some have in the past
For real? MechWarrior 3 was the only one I skipped as it appeared to be an obvious step down from MechWarrior 2.
Your loss, MW3 was way better than MW4, in MW4 all of the mechs feel like plastic tonka toys.
you think that's bad. Mech warrior 3: pirates moon unlocks the elemental, a 10 tonne tiny ass mech. now, strip everything, add two jump jets and engine to the max, you only have enough room left for two small lasers, but that doesn't matter terribly much
With said configuration, you can travel approx 130km/h, and if you jump jet at max speed, you can travel 1.2km before you land. locked on lrm's don't phase you, since you can out-run them.
Makes for a very interesting game though vs a regular medium-heavy mech, while it's extremely difficult for them to touch you, it takes a LOT of hits for your small lasers to do significant damage. Frustrates them to no end though, being unable to hit you.
How is that superior ?
For starters, it's a lot more clear than what you described for windows, if your instructing someone to do it, with windows there is a lot of potential of 'I don't see that window' etc etc. using the cli that is not a problem, they just type exactly what you tell them to type.
I doubt you would mind an upgrade to nethack that enhanced the visuals and keeps the game exactly the same, since the mechanics are still the same.
It's been done before, falcon's eye etc etc. I checked them out for shits and giggles but always wound up getting rid of them and returning to ascii love. Also, I had actually played Diablo 2 before nethack, however you were right in me playing Nes Metroid before Snes.
The gameplay mechanics difference between NES metroid and Super metroid is marginal at best.
Style wise they are very similar of course, it's a sequel after all, however the devil is in the details. Level design in the original metroid is vastly different (out of necessity almost with the nes hardware limits), to this day when I pick up the game I can instinctively know where every hidden thing is from basic pattern matching I learnt as a child.
And, at least in the circles I move, if you are a big enough geek to run Linux, you are enough of an enthusiast to have upgraded your machine in the last 4 years.
Personally I think that highly depends on whether the person games, and/or likes HD content.
I'm sitting here on a five year old machine, with 2gb ram running rawhide fedora, and for all of my most common tasks, I fail to see how I wouldn't be fine with a p3 450 or some such from '99.
Processing text could be done instantly on a 386/33 mhz machine, and 486's handled mp3 playback just fine. Some things can always use faster computers though (3d rendering an example) but for those tasks you can always farm it out to a cluster which would dwarf even the most expensive of single machines.
Most people never use the complete potential of their pc's, and even those who do usually are just doing trivial stuff like gaming, so why upgrade if you don't do the heavy media stuff?
I doubt anyone would take Metroid 1 (NES) over Super metroid for instance.
As a major metroid fan (own every single game except fusion.. on my to get list), I must say, I do. that isn't to say I dislike metroid 3, but metroid one was quite an excellent game.
graphics only need to be there enough for the game designers to be able to express their intention in the game.
I also prefer Nethack over Diablo 2, simply because of the sheer depth involved in the gameplay of nethack. There are people out there, that prefer quality over shiny, but there do seem to be very few in comparison to the people who simply 'must' max their SLI gtx280's.
I find it odd that a former nethack player/mudder would not see that towards the end of your argument you are essentially saying that if it isn't shiny, it is pointless.
Perhaps you need to remember that games are for having fun, maybe?
Ah, so your not a fan of casablanca, or more likely since this is a /. crowd 2001: a space odyssey?
I'm sorry, but just because something is old does not by default make it crap. Quality is quality, if something was ever truly good it should be able to stand up on it's own regardless of graphics.
Of course, I also saw on a couple of the sites I checked that there was a proposal against CRT TVs.
That is most unfortunate, as the proud owner of a rear projection TV, and having a friend with quality CRT projector, people very much underestimate the levels of quality analog can yield.
Attach a super nintendo to a 1080p LCD and it will likely look like shite, attach the same thing to an analog projector or TV and it will look excellent, same with almost any other obscure resolution source
Integrity is dead, plain and simple. We have Gen X and Y to thank for that.
Integrity is not dead, but it is rare, and always has been, Gen X and Y have done nothing to change this
there seems to be some gigantic gaps when enhanced services bit is highlighted from verizon, I'm sure out west the population might be sparse enough for them to not care, but still, eastern spots have people there.
and also, you've forgotten something, where do people typically live?
Your link compared with, Where aussies live. Notice that in order to not get 3g coverage, you basically have to be more than about 200km+ into absolute nothingness of desert, that's an effort.(alternatively just standing near faraday cage equivalent works)
Now This map (with enhanced etc selected when you get there, 3g does broadband, mms etc) vs US population distribution
From the looks of the maps you've linked, in the US the moment you drive out of a major city you've lost reception for data etc, but will pick it up again when you pass another town. with AU it seems to be the case that you can drive a fair way into nothingness before your reception dies.
and likely with significantly better 3g coverage too.
as such, the sky's the limit.
so, what your saying is, it's fine for sharing an mp3 to basically make you the music owners slave?
I dunno, I think if that were applied to enough people, some would perhaps dislike the slavery enough to perhaps murder their captors, I mean.. murder has less of a sentence than that.
A person with nothing to lose can be pretty dangerous if you piss them off.
but RELIABLE is something no LR can claim
I'd argue with that, I've been in some military land rover defenders that have been around since the 80's and are still in service. Still in pretty darn good condition, stock civilian ones I'd probably agree with you though.
in regards to learning assembly, if you run linux, the best book I can recommend is Programming from the ground up it's licensed under the GNU free documentation license, and in my honest opinion is likely the single best book for anyone who has no idea that wants to start, I already had some clue so skipped the first two thirds of the book, but read it for shits and giggles later and found it to be a very easy to grasp book.
To this day if I forget minor details about things I pick that back up and re-read it a bit :)