Well that's easy: 1 man does not make a video game. Not even a team of programmers. It's an entire set of teams for art, programming, plot, gameplay, and other elements I'm sure I'm forgetting. Every time some hype says 'from the developers of x' I just laugh because even if it's under the same company, some of the talent has left and been replaced. It's not the same team, ever.
But I attack them for lying, not for the game itself. I didn't care for xcom and I didn't even try this game. Any company that flat out lies on their website won't get anything from me except badmouthing.
"Tacking "computers" onto the existing public school system will certainly prevent most children from ever becoming an expert in the field."
How has additional 'exposure' to something ever prevented someone from learning it? Without computer exposure in schools, children only learn learn what they manage to gather in the little free time they have left after doing their chores and homework. With schooltime exposure, they have that same amount of time plus 50 minutes (your number) in school each day as well as any homework assigned on it.
It's like saying 'Teaching art in school prevents kids from becoming artists.' NO! It allows more of them the option.
Everyone can't be an expert at everything. At some point, they have to choose to be an expert in 1 or 2 fields, and lousy at everything else, or a jack of all trades in which they are better than average in all things, but expert in none.
You can't force someone to be an expert at something, but you can sure give them the choice.
I lived in a town of a few thousand people. In fourth grade, the 'smart' students were introduced to programming on the Apple IIe. I'm the only 1 of the bunch that picked up on it, but I would not have had the inclination that I might like it if it wasn't 'forced' on me. I am now a software developer and I love it.
There was. They only pay $15 for the first part. The total with everything together is still only $24. That's less than it originally was for the PSP. They -did- get a discount.
Not only that, but they stupidly hype their games to the point of unrealism and expect people not only to believe that, but still believe it after they've played it for a few minutes.
And one of the games, an xcom clone, claims that they have to charge for online play because they have server maintenance costs, unlike RTS's. Eh, wait... Yes they do. Even if it's just the game hub, they have costs, too. Don't lie to me and then expect to get money from me afterwards.
Every definition of parody uses the word 'imitate'... Not copy directly. Not doctor a photo of... imitate. That means it is NOT the real thing, or a direct image of the real thing.
Calling something/someone the 'antichrist' is not a parody. It's a statement. Drawing a generic purple dinosaur with big red horns would be a parody.
If you don't believe me, try this on for size: Linux is shit. Haha, I parodied. You can't get angry because it's just a parody.
No? Yeah, doesn't work like that. Everyone with half a brain KNOWS Linux isn't shit, but that's a statement and not a parody, so it makes you angry, even when you know I don't mean it.
Now if I drew a penguin that was crawling across the ground half-dead looking, reaching towards a 4-color window... That's a parody. I didn't name the penguin, the window, or anything in it. But you get the point and I haven't made any actual statements about the items in question. (And I didn't use the real logos for it.)
This is a great idea. It's far more space-saving than any other design offered here, and it keeps the discs perfectly safe if used in a fairly dust-free environment. The FIFO aspect is genius. It fits their problem exactly.
I'm not sure I'd go for the wires, though... I'd probably go for a series of hooks on a wall or rack. The hanging wires tend to sway too much when you are adding/removing discs and could prove to be your undoing.
Why, do you think that'll somehow make more 'uncrappy games' be produced? It won't. It will simply change your perception of what is 'crappy' and you will still be dissatified with how many 'crappy' games are being produced.
Besides that, not everyone thought Lumines was crappy. I'm actually a minority here.
Hmm... Then it's the same as 'Do you have enough Open Source Adoption?'... And the answer to that question is always 'no, we could use more.' It retains an approximation of the original intent, as well.
1) Someone patents something. (Even though there's prior art.) 2) FOSS Person doesn't check patents. 3) FOSS Person writes a program violating patent. 4) FOSS Person gets sued.
Oooh, surprise! If you write a program that violates a patent, no matter how stupid it is, you had better expect to have to go to court to fight it. They're not going to say 'Oh, my bad. You just go ahead. The thousands of $$ we spend patenting this didn't mean anything to us.'
Since I played the original Lumines for about 2 hours and wasn't past the first few boring levels, paying for part of a game and then only paying for the rest -if I care- appeals to me. I'd like to see more crappy games go this way and make my wallet happy.
Eh... That may not be quite 'textbook' english, but it's used constantly. 'on' is also frequently used. Amazingly enough, there's no law requiring people to speak english the same as it was spoken 500 years ago. It's a language, and languages evolve.
I actually find 'for' to be more natural than 'with' in this instance. It's not going anything WITH the open source adoption... It's DOING the open source adoption.
Maybe 'as far as' or 'concerning' would be better.
Oh heck, maybe there's a bajillion ways to say it and they can use whatever they want, so long as other people understand them.
Yeah, I was wondering myself how this ended up with a job. My first thought was 'You deliberately wrote code that was broken?' My second was 'Let's get this interview over as quickly as possible.'
Noooo... Why do they insist on ripping out the heart of Japanese games? Mushikai isn't pronounceable? They must think we're complete morons! "Hmm, 3 syllables... They'll never make it."
Oh, and the article is VERY clear that Amaterasu is genderless... Then calls it a 'god'... And the original Amaterasu is female. Let's get more confusing next time, guys. We're haven't quite baffled everyone.
You know, that I2P site's first page makes part of my point about the GPL.
"if a developer considering whether they can integrate I2P with their application has to stop and check with their lawyer, or conduct a code audit to make sure their own source can be released as GPL-compatible, we lose out."
This is a perfect example of the GPL hurting (theoretically) not only the user, and second developer, but first developer as well. Fear/non-compliance with the GPL will (possibly) prevent some useful utilities towards their goals. It will also prevent 'abuses' (perceived or actual) of the developers' kindness, I admit.
There's 1 more point I didn't mention, though. Lawsuits. If I'm not willing to go to court to fight for my rights on a piece of code, there's not much point in putting it under a restrictive license. If someone violates it, they'll get away with it simply because I won't fight. I don't have the time, money, or (often) inclination to do it.
Wow, great summary... The computers wouldn't be replacing investors, but 'investment advisors'... That's a whole different rung on the ladder. If they replaced the investors, there'd be no money and the stock market would die.
As for replacing the advisors... Even the article tells you that isn't going to happen. "They reflect the manager's views." Oh... So if there's no manager, there's no view... and the computer does nothing. So you can't drop the advisor.
This is simply another tool. It's not going to change much. My father will still complain bitterly when his portfolio loses money, and complain a little less when he's almost back to where he's started... again. And again.
The fact is... If everyone made money, the stock market would be an impossible thing. Some people will lose while some will gain. No magic piece of software is going to change that.
I hear what you're saying, and it's great for professionals... But when a regular joe/jane wants to write a document, he/she -does- care about the look of the document. Often above all else.
As a programmer/webdesigner, I love what you are saying. But then, I can pretty much do that in HTML anyhow. (I'm sure something could be rigged up for Latex, if I bothered to learn it.)
I see 'Office' as being the low-end version of word processing. Professionals will use tools more suited to their trade. Most Office users simply want a document made quickly and looking nice. There is no pipeline of professionals, there is only the creator.
I can see how GPL is a kind of balancing act between first-person rights and second-person freedoms... I don't know that you can say it guarantees the first-person freedoms, though. They have complete freedom to do what they want with their code regardless of what license they pick. Proprietary (and to a lesser extent, GPL) licenses guarantee their 'rights' (for lack of a better word) to their code. The 'right' to charge money for the code itself, etc.
As for Communism being a slur... As I said, it's not a curse. If the world were perfect, Communism would be the perfect government. (Well, maybe Anarchy would be as good.) And I stick by my claims that they are similar. They both try to force everyone to be the same in fundamental ways. This is true of any viral license.
I'm not going to say it wasn't a hard decision to decide to release my program under the BSD License. Like any pack-rat programmer, I have a VERY hard time letting go of anything. Especially if I've put real effort into it. But guaranteeing my rights on software that I have given away... It just doesn't make sense to me. In fact, that lesson was learned through experience... I released a utlity for a game that was the first of its kind. It was great. People loved it. They still use it today, years later. There's still no real competitors. I never gave away the source.
I have since lost the source, and nobody has created a real alternative to it. Luckily, it was free of any major bugs at the time. But if I had just bothered to release the code, who knows what someone could have done with it when I lost interest? There could have been some truly awesome things done with it. If I had released it under the GPL, it would be out there, but anyone like me wouldn't have touched it. I don't like being forced to do things.
I understand what you're saying about restricting freedom selectively... 'Good of the many' and all that. I just don't agree.
And if the GPL is about 'Freedom' then why does it restrict me more than the BSD license?
The answer is: It's not. It's about making everyone believe in his Communist propaganda. (Not using that as a curse word, it accurately describes the GPL. 'Everyone is equal and we will force you to be equal. To use our software, you must admit that equality and release your own goods that force others to admit that equality.')
The LGPL is less evil... Interesting how that works. Replace 'GPL' with 'Evil' and you get Lesser Evil. Hmm. It at least allows others to use the software in theirs without virally infecting its license.
BSD is what I chose recently when I decided to start my first open source project. The pack-rat programmer in me keeps screaming 'Mine mine! They can't use it, it's MINE!' but then I stop and release it a bit. I'm going to give it away for free anyhow. I am simply going to get it to the point that I"m happy with it, then release it under the BSD license. If someone decides they can make it better, so be it! I"ll still have my code 'untainted' by their thoughts and ideas, and I'll (probably) have theirs, too. I don't feel the need to force them to release it under the same license. (I would prefer it, but I don't require it.) And if someone else thinks they can do better yet, they'll always at least have my code to fall back on.
There's been MANY projects I've looked at and decided not to use because they were GPL and I was afraid they'd infect my work. (Through a technicality or something I didn't understand in that crazy license.)
Now the GPL v3 is even worse. They are trying to restrict what hardware I can use the software on. Don't we scream at Microsoft for that kind of thing?
I'm actually kind of glad v3 exists. It made me take another look at the GPL v2 and see how restrictive it is. Last year, for the same project, I might have chosen that license.
(I'm gonna be modded troll for this, I can just feel it.)
Maybe there's no 'real competition' in 'that segment' because the need is pretty much filled? Can you name something that you wanted to do to a document that you couldn't do in Office Or OpenOffice.org?
You know, it's funny. I -have- tried that with both my cats. My late half-bobcat did indeed sometimes seem to understand that I meant he should look where I was pointing. It was hard as hell for him to FIND that spot, but he at least tried, some of the time.
Now, I managed to get him to do that by pointing, making a very quick throwing motion, and ending that motion with another pointing... Until he got the idea. I could then just point and he'd often look. He was probably expecting the throw motion, even though it wasn't made. But he did look!
My other cat, still alive, just doesn't get it. Nothing can get it through her head that what she wants is where I'm pointing. But she isn't -nearly- as smart as my other cat was. He was quite amazing with how devious he was sometimes.
He even actually understood what a mirror was. He would totally ignore himself in the mirror and if he saw me do something in the mirror, he would turn around and look at me directly to finish watching. I think that's a pretty tough concept for an animal to grasp.
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Well that's easy: 1 man does not make a video game. Not even a team of programmers. It's an entire set of teams for art, programming, plot, gameplay, and other elements I'm sure I'm forgetting. Every time some hype says 'from the developers of x' I just laugh because even if it's under the same company, some of the talent has left and been replaced. It's not the same team, ever.
But I attack them for lying, not for the game itself. I didn't care for xcom and I didn't even try this game. Any company that flat out lies on their website won't get anything from me except badmouthing.
Odd, that's about the same time I was introduced to it and now I'm a computer programmer.
Some just aren't meant to be programmers. That doesn't mean nobody else should be allowed.
BASIC was -invented- to teach programming. It wasn't meant to be a real language. It was meant to be an easy to learn and use tool.
"Tacking "computers" onto the existing public school system will certainly prevent most children from ever becoming an expert in the field."
How has additional 'exposure' to something ever prevented someone from learning it? Without computer exposure in schools, children only learn learn what they manage to gather in the little free time they have left after doing their chores and homework. With schooltime exposure, they have that same amount of time plus 50 minutes (your number) in school each day as well as any homework assigned on it.
It's like saying 'Teaching art in school prevents kids from becoming artists.' NO! It allows more of them the option.
Everyone can't be an expert at everything. At some point, they have to choose to be an expert in 1 or 2 fields, and lousy at everything else, or a jack of all trades in which they are better than average in all things, but expert in none.
You can't force someone to be an expert at something, but you can sure give them the choice.
I lived in a town of a few thousand people. In fourth grade, the 'smart' students were introduced to programming on the Apple IIe. I'm the only 1 of the bunch that picked up on it, but I would not have had the inclination that I might like it if it wasn't 'forced' on me. I am now a software developer and I love it.
There was. They only pay $15 for the first part. The total with everything together is still only $24. That's less than it originally was for the PSP. They -did- get a discount.
Not only that, but they stupidly hype their games to the point of unrealism and expect people not only to believe that, but still believe it after they've played it for a few minutes.
And one of the games, an xcom clone, claims that they have to charge for online play because they have server maintenance costs, unlike RTS's. Eh, wait... Yes they do. Even if it's just the game hub, they have costs, too. Don't lie to me and then expect to get money from me afterwards.
I feel it's important to note that it's only '1 more' between last year and the year before, but it's 'inifintely times as many'.
Every definition of parody uses the word 'imitate'... Not copy directly. Not doctor a photo of... imitate. That means it is NOT the real thing, or a direct image of the real thing.
Calling something/someone the 'antichrist' is not a parody. It's a statement. Drawing a generic purple dinosaur with big red horns would be a parody.
If you don't believe me, try this on for size: Linux is shit. Haha, I parodied. You can't get angry because it's just a parody.
No? Yeah, doesn't work like that. Everyone with half a brain KNOWS Linux isn't shit, but that's a statement and not a parody, so it makes you angry, even when you know I don't mean it.
Now if I drew a penguin that was crawling across the ground half-dead looking, reaching towards a 4-color window... That's a parody. I didn't name the penguin, the window, or anything in it. But you get the point and I haven't made any actual statements about the items in question. (And I didn't use the real logos for it.)
If only I had mod points -sigh-
This is a great idea. It's far more space-saving than any other design offered here, and it keeps the discs perfectly safe if used in a fairly dust-free environment. The FIFO aspect is genius. It fits their problem exactly.
I'm not sure I'd go for the wires, though... I'd probably go for a series of hooks on a wall or rack. The hanging wires tend to sway too much when you are adding/removing discs and could prove to be your undoing.
Why, do you think that'll somehow make more 'uncrappy games' be produced? It won't. It will simply change your perception of what is 'crappy' and you will still be dissatified with how many 'crappy' games are being produced.
Besides that, not everyone thought Lumines was crappy. I'm actually a minority here.
Hmm... Then it's the same as 'Do you have enough Open Source Adoption?'... And the answer to that question is always 'no, we could use more.' It retains an approximation of the original intent, as well.
The summary seems to be saying:
1) Someone patents something. (Even though there's prior art.)
2) FOSS Person doesn't check patents.
3) FOSS Person writes a program violating patent.
4) FOSS Person gets sued.
Oooh, surprise! If you write a program that violates a patent, no matter how stupid it is, you had better expect to have to go to court to fight it. They're not going to say 'Oh, my bad. You just go ahead. The thousands of $$ we spend patenting this didn't mean anything to us.'
Since I played the original Lumines for about 2 hours and wasn't past the first few boring levels, paying for part of a game and then only paying for the rest -if I care- appeals to me. I'd like to see more crappy games go this way and make my wallet happy.
Eh... That may not be quite 'textbook' english, but it's used constantly. 'on' is also frequently used. Amazingly enough, there's no law requiring people to speak english the same as it was spoken 500 years ago. It's a language, and languages evolve.
I actually find 'for' to be more natural than 'with' in this instance. It's not going anything WITH the open source adoption... It's DOING the open source adoption.
Maybe 'as far as' or 'concerning' would be better.
Oh heck, maybe there's a bajillion ways to say it and they can use whatever they want, so long as other people understand them.
Yeah, I was wondering myself how this ended up with a job. My first thought was 'You deliberately wrote code that was broken?' My second was 'Let's get this interview over as quickly as possible.'
Because you didn't learn to post yet. Either add HTML markup or choose something other than HTML for the format.
She'll pretty much have to look at you funny? Huh?
Ah, the article, such a wonderful thing. It clearly states that Amaterasu is usually considered female, as well. -Usually.-
Noooo... Why do they insist on ripping out the heart of Japanese games? Mushikai isn't pronounceable? They must think we're complete morons! "Hmm, 3 syllables... They'll never make it."
Oh, and the article is VERY clear that Amaterasu is genderless... Then calls it a 'god'... And the original Amaterasu is female. Let's get more confusing next time, guys. We're haven't quite baffled everyone.
You know, that I2P site's first page makes part of my point about the GPL.
"if a developer considering whether they can integrate I2P with their application has to stop and check with their lawyer, or conduct a code audit to make sure their own source can be released as GPL-compatible, we lose out."
This is a perfect example of the GPL hurting (theoretically) not only the user, and second developer, but first developer as well. Fear/non-compliance with the GPL will (possibly) prevent some useful utilities towards their goals. It will also prevent 'abuses' (perceived or actual) of the developers' kindness, I admit.
There's 1 more point I didn't mention, though. Lawsuits. If I'm not willing to go to court to fight for my rights on a piece of code, there's not much point in putting it under a restrictive license. If someone violates it, they'll get away with it simply because I won't fight. I don't have the time, money, or (often) inclination to do it.
Wow, great summary... The computers wouldn't be replacing investors, but 'investment advisors'... That's a whole different rung on the ladder. If they replaced the investors, there'd be no money and the stock market would die.
As for replacing the advisors... Even the article tells you that isn't going to happen. "They reflect the manager's views." Oh... So if there's no manager, there's no view... and the computer does nothing. So you can't drop the advisor.
This is simply another tool. It's not going to change much. My father will still complain bitterly when his portfolio loses money, and complain a little less when he's almost back to where he's started... again. And again.
The fact is... If everyone made money, the stock market would be an impossible thing. Some people will lose while some will gain. No magic piece of software is going to change that.
I hear what you're saying, and it's great for professionals... But when a regular joe/jane wants to write a document, he/she -does- care about the look of the document. Often above all else.
As a programmer/webdesigner, I love what you are saying. But then, I can pretty much do that in HTML anyhow. (I'm sure something could be rigged up for Latex, if I bothered to learn it.)
I see 'Office' as being the low-end version of word processing. Professionals will use tools more suited to their trade. Most Office users simply want a document made quickly and looking nice. There is no pipeline of professionals, there is only the creator.
I can see how GPL is a kind of balancing act between first-person rights and second-person freedoms... I don't know that you can say it guarantees the first-person freedoms, though. They have complete freedom to do what they want with their code regardless of what license they pick. Proprietary (and to a lesser extent, GPL) licenses guarantee their 'rights' (for lack of a better word) to their code. The 'right' to charge money for the code itself, etc.
As for Communism being a slur... As I said, it's not a curse. If the world were perfect, Communism would be the perfect government. (Well, maybe Anarchy would be as good.) And I stick by my claims that they are similar. They both try to force everyone to be the same in fundamental ways. This is true of any viral license.
I'm not going to say it wasn't a hard decision to decide to release my program under the BSD License. Like any pack-rat programmer, I have a VERY hard time letting go of anything. Especially if I've put real effort into it. But guaranteeing my rights on software that I have given away... It just doesn't make sense to me. In fact, that lesson was learned through experience... I released a utlity for a game that was the first of its kind. It was great. People loved it. They still use it today, years later. There's still no real competitors. I never gave away the source.
I have since lost the source, and nobody has created a real alternative to it. Luckily, it was free of any major bugs at the time. But if I had just bothered to release the code, who knows what someone could have done with it when I lost interest? There could have been some truly awesome things done with it. If I had released it under the GPL, it would be out there, but anyone like me wouldn't have touched it. I don't like being forced to do things.
I understand what you're saying about restricting freedom selectively... 'Good of the many' and all that. I just don't agree.
And if the GPL is about 'Freedom' then why does it restrict me more than the BSD license?
The answer is: It's not. It's about making everyone believe in his Communist propaganda. (Not using that as a curse word, it accurately describes the GPL. 'Everyone is equal and we will force you to be equal. To use our software, you must admit that equality and release your own goods that force others to admit that equality.')
The LGPL is less evil... Interesting how that works. Replace 'GPL' with 'Evil' and you get Lesser Evil. Hmm. It at least allows others to use the software in theirs without virally infecting its license.
BSD is what I chose recently when I decided to start my first open source project. The pack-rat programmer in me keeps screaming 'Mine mine! They can't use it, it's MINE!' but then I stop and release it a bit. I'm going to give it away for free anyhow. I am simply going to get it to the point that I"m happy with it, then release it under the BSD license. If someone decides they can make it better, so be it! I"ll still have my code 'untainted' by their thoughts and ideas, and I'll (probably) have theirs, too. I don't feel the need to force them to release it under the same license. (I would prefer it, but I don't require it.) And if someone else thinks they can do better yet, they'll always at least have my code to fall back on.
There's been MANY projects I've looked at and decided not to use because they were GPL and I was afraid they'd infect my work. (Through a technicality or something I didn't understand in that crazy license.)
Now the GPL v3 is even worse. They are trying to restrict what hardware I can use the software on. Don't we scream at Microsoft for that kind of thing?
I'm actually kind of glad v3 exists. It made me take another look at the GPL v2 and see how restrictive it is. Last year, for the same project, I might have chosen that license.
(I'm gonna be modded troll for this, I can just feel it.)
Maybe there's no 'real competition' in 'that segment' because the need is pretty much filled? Can you name something that you wanted to do to a document that you couldn't do in Office Or OpenOffice.org?
You know, it's funny. I -have- tried that with both my cats. My late half-bobcat did indeed sometimes seem to understand that I meant he should look where I was pointing. It was hard as hell for him to FIND that spot, but he at least tried, some of the time.
Now, I managed to get him to do that by pointing, making a very quick throwing motion, and ending that motion with another pointing... Until he got the idea. I could then just point and he'd often look. He was probably expecting the throw motion, even though it wasn't made. But he did look!
My other cat, still alive, just doesn't get it. Nothing can get it through her head that what she wants is where I'm pointing. But she isn't -nearly- as smart as my other cat was. He was quite amazing with how devious he was sometimes.
He even actually understood what a mirror was. He would totally ignore himself in the mirror and if he saw me do something in the mirror, he would turn around and look at me directly to finish watching. I think that's a pretty tough concept for an animal to grasp.