Powerpoint is not just a presentation tool. It is useful for laying out blueprints of your project, software engineering mockups, and can also help you keep track of your progress. In team projects, powerpoint is very useful. Linux has yet to come up with a good substitute for it. I am frustrated when I'm writing code for a module and then want to see what the remaining pieces are, and I switch back to windows, draw a diagram and can easily see where things fit. Not that I can't do this kind of thing in Gimp (by drawing stuff), but its just a lot easier in powerpoint with its presentations.
If you want to talk about real innovation, you have to look towards the fields of medical visualization. Even some of the geophysical visualization technology is far more advanced and innovative than some PC game. The physics simulations are far superior, and the graphics themselves are beginning to hit a whole new level. This is software that is performing algorithms so complex, and pushing so much data, that they need to use the best possible hardware from SGI.
Exactly, infact we don't have hardware good enough to do everything that the scientific visualization community wants to do with their methods and algorithms. For those interested, just look at VTK's website. Or lookup Visible Human project for the techniques used to visualize scientific data. Another new thingis Information Visualization, which we don't completely know how to visualize!
I think the original poster forgot to credit Nobu Uematsu for creating the right music with the right sentiments. Wanna try watching Gladiator without the music?
Why did the Egyptians takes years to do what we can do to in a week?
The market was more fresh at the time; iTunes was not a great new way of doing things when it came out in the same way that Napster was. Napster was definitely not the first way for someone to acquire music using the internet, but it was the first one that was really big. There was no example to follow at that point.
Exactly my point! Napster rushed and lost, which shouldn't surprise anyone. Apple waited for the right moment to come out with something that both music labels and consumers feel happy about.
Depending on how you see it, your 7 years may not be so wasted after all. If you have "some" programming skills there are several companies who want to talk to you. Level designers and junior programmers are two main areas where you can start looking. And don't buy the "create your own demo game" bullshit, its too time consuming and doesn't help you that much. Instead, grab a free demo distribution of the unreal 2 engine and make some mods to show off, but you should focus more on problem-solving skills if you are really serious about any kind of job in the game industry, because unlike conventional programming, game programming deals with very specialized problems (like writing for a console that doesn't have an OS, or writing super fast code that doesn't require patching). I wrote a simple resume' detailing my problem solving skills and was invited for an interview by some top game companies on the east and west coast. But always, the first question they ask is: "Do you like playing video games?". So make sure your 7 years are listed somewhere!
Are carriers "allowed" to adhere to offer these "rights" by raising the price? Why don't we let the economics of the industry take care of this? T-Mobile offers one year contracts, but makes you (generally) pay more for the phones. You can't eat the cake (heavily subsidized phones) and have it too (short contract).
In california Bay area there is a service called Metro. It provides monthly contracts, i.e. you pay 30-40 dollars at the beginning of each month and you get unlimited local calling. The only bad side is that you cannot call outside the bay area, and in the most basic plan you don't get caller id or voicemail service.
One thing I like about MA is that having so many top quality universities in the area has some effect on how the community deals with issues. I spent about 3 months living there and a good number of laws make more sense than equivalent ones in NY or Cali (I've lived in NY for 2 years, and in cali for 4. In NY they have a law that forbids using the cellphone while driving, which is sheer stupidity. In cali car engine swaps are illegal...). Before I get flamed for this, I am just giving you some examples. MA/NH area laws are very sound in some regards.
One of the great advantages of Mono for current.NET developers is providing an easier migration path to Linux.
OK, so if you provide windows developers with tools to create.NET applications for Linux, they will end up creating more applications for Linux. Basically we are making it easier for them to migrate to Linux because previously they were not-so-interested, or it-was-too-hard-to-do-freaking-linux-stuff. I think if they really had a need to use Linux, they would have developed everything necessary under Linux long before this IBM crap came along. Move them to Linux and then what? Keep them with VB and C# in Linux, or have them totally transform into something else that is incompatible with windows?
Whenever I need to test my new firewall installation, I just open up an IRC session or post a Usenet post (containing my IP address) saying something like "Hi there, I'm a researcher for Microsoft/SCO/Natalie Portman/George Bush and I've been watching you all and you are all lamers". Then I just wait for the attack to begin.
This is great. A better alternative is to post a message on alt.2600.hackers from the computer you want attacked (so they can use the message's header) and pretend to be a smartass. Most people there won't care but someone will definitely get your attention!
May I assume from your handle that you have first hand experience?
Yea I have first hand experience. In Indian schools and universities when students are given projects to work on, they don't have any problems whatsoever in copying existing code (regardless of where it came from) and using it for their own purposes. This practice is widely prevalent. Students copy code from books, GPL software, from websites and anywhere they can find what they can use. This is treated like stealing something worth 0.002 cents so almost everyone turns a blind eye. These students go to work in corporations in India with their other collegues who are familiar with "reusing" code and go on to contaminate new projects (sometimes without informing their manager). With GPL, these coders don't have much luck doing what they are used to. A BSD-like license provides more freedom IMHO. They don't have to make their new project GPL if they used portions of GNU code. BSD license is like a golden handshake for countries like India.
The fact is, they do understand, but their clients don't. DRM is just a cool way of ripping off these ignorant companies. This is basically an undercover strategy for pushing evolution and innovation in the hacker culture -- give them challenges and they will improve. NSF doesn't have enough money to spend on hackers doing R&D on DRM cracks, so they ask M$ for help.
To what end? To allow businesses to re-licence their modifications under proprietary terms? The BSDs already exist to that end. To be sure, they've had some prominent business adoptions. The only problem is that afterwards they're not really BSD anymore, and it's hard to see how OSX for example actually brings any benefit BDS.
I didn't suggest we change the GPL for each country, if that is your understanding of my comments. Also I don't see why the BSD license cannot be used for distributing Linux in countries like India where GPL is more of a hinderance.
I think the issue is that GPL does not fit with our style of doing business. Linux has been more sucessful in some european countries than in USA, because in america we are not used to (what some call) a "gift economy" outside universities. Some european friends I know have been using Linux sice they were 13, and it is not uncommon to find students who started with Linux in 1993 or 94. Back then, they didn't distrust or back off from software that was not manufactured or supported by a software giant. Instead, they embraced the challenge that Linux presented. In america on the other hand, people are largely used to the capitalistic way of doing things: i.e. you earn money and you find someone who can sell what you need. Anything new (like GPL) that breaks this line of thinking immediately puts people on the defensive.
I think Linux should be distributed with different licenses in different countries.
Netscape is about seven years late. I want to understand why they didn't do something like this when they were battling M$ in an anti-trust lawsuit. Well, yea it makes sense. You can't do something and go to court saying that your competitor is doing a similar thing at the same time. Gotta wait till 2005
Gandhi loses karma here, but its a cool read: I think change is a good thing. I am told, though I don't rightly recall, that I was seeking change just about an hour after being born and have been on a quest for it ever since. Change is good, if it is good change. But not all change is good change. Some change is spare change, or short change or quick change. Rodney is trying to sell us his quick change version of improvement with the spare change he's found in Maria's cushins and we are being short changed by the effort. Everyone loses but Rod! He even discusses that his change is substandard and too fast when he says, "although it may seem that we are "changing the tires while the car is moving."
Cheating AIs are not always lame. It's when the cheating becomes obvious that it detracts from the gameplay. Sid himself has said on several occasions that (to paraphrase) its the end result that matters. If you can make the game more fun by letting the computer cheat a bit, then go for it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't cheating a more 'human' trait than others? You need some sort of intelligence to cheat in the first place. If we are implementing a good AI, it should be able to use some cheating when necessary. After all, the computer is where you are running the game! If the computer wants to win, can you stop him? The main thing is, how do you incorporate this want in the computer...how do you make it feel it should win the game with any possible means? Once you can solve this problem, the AI will always win. As for now, consider yourself fortunate that you can win most games if you play hard enough!!!
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Powerpoint is not just a presentation tool. It is useful for laying out blueprints of your project, software engineering mockups, and can also help you keep track of your progress. In team projects, powerpoint is very useful. Linux has yet to come up with a good substitute for it. I am frustrated when I'm writing code for a module and then want to see what the remaining pieces are, and I switch back to windows, draw a diagram and can easily see where things fit. Not that I can't do this kind of thing in Gimp (by drawing stuff), but its just a lot easier in powerpoint with its presentations.
They forgot to mention if installing windows was part of the "infection" process?
Slack is the only distribution where KDE is actually stable. Does anybody know why this is?
Maybe because Slackware uses the raw linux kernel without any patches?
Who are these Rovers anyway -- from the Karl Rove fan club?
Don't worry, I'm sure another bubble will be along to get you a 100% raise every 6 months like the good ol days.
The Video games bubble?
If you want to talk about real innovation, you have to look towards the fields of medical visualization. Even some of the geophysical visualization technology is far more advanced and innovative than some PC game. The physics simulations are far superior, and the graphics themselves are beginning to hit a whole new level. This is software that is performing algorithms so complex, and pushing so much data, that they need to use the best possible hardware from SGI.
Exactly, infact we don't have hardware good enough to do everything that the scientific visualization community wants to do with their methods and algorithms. For those interested, just look at VTK's website. Or lookup Visible Human project for the techniques used to visualize scientific data. Another new thingis Information Visualization, which we don't completely know how to visualize!
if it's couched in the right surroundings.
I think the original poster forgot to credit Nobu Uematsu for creating the right music with the right sentiments. Wanna try watching Gladiator without the music?
Why did the Egyptians takes years to do what we can do to in a week? The market was more fresh at the time; iTunes was not a great new way of doing things when it came out in the same way that Napster was. Napster was definitely not the first way for someone to acquire music using the internet, but it was the first one that was really big. There was no example to follow at that point.
Exactly my point! Napster rushed and lost, which shouldn't surprise anyone. Apple waited for the right moment to come out with something that both music labels and consumers feel happy about.
Why did napster take an entire life cycle to do 5% of what iTunes does?
Seven years wasted! And NOW he tells me...
Depending on how you see it, your 7 years may not be so wasted after all. If you have "some" programming skills there are several companies who want to talk to you. Level designers and junior programmers are two main areas where you can start looking. And don't buy the "create your own demo game" bullshit, its too time consuming and doesn't help you that much. Instead, grab a free demo distribution of the unreal 2 engine and make some mods to show off, but you should focus more on problem-solving skills if you are really serious about any kind of job in the game industry, because unlike conventional programming, game programming deals with very specialized problems (like writing for a console that doesn't have an OS, or writing super fast code that doesn't require patching). I wrote a simple resume' detailing my problem solving skills and was invited for an interview by some top game companies on the east and west coast. But always, the first question they ask is: "Do you like playing video games?". So make sure your 7 years are listed somewhere!
Are carriers "allowed" to adhere to offer these "rights" by raising the price? Why don't we let the economics of the industry take care of this? T-Mobile offers one year contracts, but makes you (generally) pay more for the phones. You can't eat the cake (heavily subsidized phones) and have it too (short contract).
In california Bay area there is a service called Metro. It provides monthly contracts, i.e. you pay 30-40 dollars at the beginning of each month and you get unlimited local calling. The only bad side is that you cannot call outside the bay area, and in the most basic plan you don't get caller id or voicemail service.
One thing I like about MA is that having so many top quality universities in the area has some effect on how the community deals with issues. I spent about 3 months living there and a good number of laws make more sense than equivalent ones in NY or Cali (I've lived in NY for 2 years, and in cali for 4. In NY they have a law that forbids using the cellphone while driving, which is sheer stupidity. In cali car engine swaps are illegal...). Before I get flamed for this, I am just giving you some examples. MA/NH area laws are very sound in some regards.
One of the great advantages of Mono for current
OK, so if you provide windows developers with tools to create
You can definitely credit Microsoft with inventing lots of unheard-before-jobs though...
Whenever I need to test my new firewall installation, I just open up an IRC session or post a Usenet post (containing my IP address) saying something like "Hi there, I'm a researcher for Microsoft/SCO/Natalie Portman/George Bush and I've been watching you all and you are all lamers". Then I just wait for the attack to begin.
This is great. A better alternative is to post a message on alt.2600.hackers from the computer you want attacked (so they can use the message's header) and pretend to be a smartass. Most people there won't care but someone will definitely get your attention!
Study suggests that Linux is strong enough to make it big in the real world even with handicaps like GPL.
Ready to reproduce!
If Iraq can be responsible for 911 then Linux can be used for disaster management (instead of FEMA).
May I assume from your handle that you have first hand experience?
Yea I have first hand experience. In Indian schools and universities when students are given projects to work on, they don't have any problems whatsoever in copying existing code (regardless of where it came from) and using it for their own purposes. This practice is widely prevalent. Students copy code from books, GPL software, from websites and anywhere they can find what they can use. This is treated like stealing something worth 0.002 cents so almost everyone turns a blind eye. These students go to work in corporations in India with their other collegues who are familiar with "reusing" code and go on to contaminate new projects (sometimes without informing their manager). With GPL, these coders don't have much luck doing what they are used to. A BSD-like license provides more freedom IMHO. They don't have to make their new project GPL if they used portions of GNU code. BSD license is like a golden handshake for countries like India.
The fact is, they do understand, but their clients don't. DRM is just a cool way of ripping off these ignorant companies. This is basically an undercover strategy for pushing evolution and innovation in the hacker culture -- give them challenges and they will improve. NSF doesn't have enough money to spend on hackers doing R&D on DRM cracks, so they ask M$ for help.
To what end? To allow businesses to re-licence their modifications under proprietary terms? The BSDs already exist to that end. To be sure, they've had some prominent business adoptions. The only problem is that afterwards they're not really BSD anymore, and it's hard to see how OSX for example actually brings any benefit BDS.
I didn't suggest we change the GPL for each country, if that is your understanding of my comments. Also I don't see why the BSD license cannot be used for distributing Linux in countries like India where GPL is more of a hinderance.
I think the issue is that GPL does not fit with our style of doing business. Linux has been more sucessful in some european countries than in USA, because in america we are not used to (what some call) a "gift economy" outside universities. Some european friends I know have been using Linux sice they were 13, and it is not uncommon to find students who started with Linux in 1993 or 94. Back then, they didn't distrust or back off from software that was not manufactured or supported by a software giant. Instead, they embraced the challenge that Linux presented. In america on the other hand, people are largely used to the capitalistic way of doing things: i.e. you earn money and you find someone who can sell what you need. Anything new (like GPL) that breaks this line of thinking immediately puts people on the defensive.
I think Linux should be distributed with different licenses in different countries.
Netscape is about seven years late. I want to understand why they didn't do something like this when they were battling M$ in an anti-trust lawsuit. Well, yea it makes sense. You can't do something and go to court saying that your competitor is doing a similar thing at the same time. Gotta wait till 2005
If you don't make a commercial "Ubuntu Professional Edition", how can Ubuntu be sustainable?
I am puzzled, don't Home Editions make money?
I will wait for the day when they award an Oscar to Cloud Strife and Sephiroth.
KDE 4 Promises Large Changes
And what about quick changes and spare changes?
Gandhi loses karma here, but its a cool read: I think change is a good thing. I am told, though I don't rightly recall, that I was seeking change just about an hour after being born and have been on a quest for it ever since. Change is good, if it is good change. But not all change is good change. Some change is spare change, or short change or quick change. Rodney is trying to sell us his quick change version of improvement with the spare change he's found in Maria's cushins and we are being short changed by the effort. Everyone loses but Rod! He even discusses that his change is substandard and too fast when he says, "although it may seem that we are "changing the tires while the car is moving."
Cheating AIs are not always lame. It's when the cheating becomes obvious that it detracts from the gameplay. Sid himself has said on several occasions that (to paraphrase) its the end result that matters. If you can make the game more fun by letting the computer cheat a bit, then go for it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't cheating a more 'human' trait than others? You need some sort of intelligence to cheat in the first place. If we are implementing a good AI, it should be able to use some cheating when necessary. After all, the computer is where you are running the game! If the computer wants to win, can you stop him? The main thing is, how do you incorporate this want in the computer...how do you make it feel it should win the game with any possible means? Once you can solve this problem, the AI will always win. As for now, consider yourself fortunate that you can win most games if you play hard enough!!!