By your logic, Firefox on Windows isn't open source, because you can't get the source for the Windows SDK. All the source code for OpenOffice is Open Source, but not all the components it relies on are.
But long term, the "practical, pragmatic decision" is obviously to "like (stop) using Java". Sun has Free Software in it's crosshairs. Why wait for the bullet to hit, to try to duck?
You're making the same mistake. the Open Source movement is not the same as the Free Software movement...
I think it's a mistake to assume that the PSP will fail to compete with the gameboy just because nobody else has managed it.
Sony isn't aiming for the same market as the SP, certainly at launch anyway. It's a no-brainer for a parent to buy the cheaper SP for their 10 year old who may play for many hours at a go, but for the twentysomething with more disposable income who wants to play great games on his daily commute, the PSP is much more desirable. I don't think battery life is going to be as important for the modern adult gamer as it was for kids playing on their Lynxes thirteen years ago.
Sony also has an incredibly powerful brand in the Playstation, and that will carry over to the PSP. In many circles, PS2 is practically synonymous with gaming, and now you can get pretty much the same thing in your pocket.
Now, I don't think you'll find the PSP wiping out the SP, but I do think you'll find it being very successful and also expanding the market for handhelds.
What, you think nobody else has their own tools that they don't release to anybody else? It's not as if other companies can't write a similar tool. They don't owe us everything they write, you know...
Yes, but while the PSP's battery life isn't as good as the DS, it's good enough for most people who won't be doing more than 3-4 hours of gaming on it a day. Also, having held both a PSP and a DS, I'd say that the PSP is the more portable of the two - a really nice form factor. Gameswise I'd rate the PSP launch lineup over the DS lineup, but it's probably too early to tell which one will have the better games in the long term.
I confess, though that the PSP appeals to the gadget lust in me. The first time you old one you just think "Wow! look at that screen!" - the thing's just so svelte and gorgeous.
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I hate the bloody KDE help.
Mainly because all KDE applications seem to have a 'help' menu item, but when you press it THERE IS NO HELP.
I don't think he was saying that it was heavy for a laptop - he was just pointing out that it's not suited to being held out in front of you for any long periods of time.
I don't think it's unusual to find holding things out in front of you tiring. Most people's arms will get tired if they hold them out in front of themselves for any length of time - it's not a fitness issue.
I don't really get the impression that anybody at Slashdot cares a great deal about Slashdot any more. It's a living - they get paid to not do much and surf the web a lot and that's about it.
You seem to think that just because someone's anti-GPL, they're anti all FOSS licenses. I prefer the MPL to the GPL, for instance because it doesn't try to extend its cover to other code - only its own code and modifications to it.
ART VPS Ltd have been doing PCI raytracing cards for a couple of years now. I work at a post production facility and we were evaluating them two years ago. The cards are quite neat and the software takes RenderMan files as input. There were some things they were very good at - refraction, motion blurred shadows and the like that 'just worked' when compared to RenderMan. However, they didn't support RiCurve primitives or some of the RiProcedural stuff at the time (IIRC) which were were using heavily, so they turned out not to be practical for us although it's quite possible they've fixed that now. Neat stuff.
I find it odd that you're recommending a Japanese diet and also recommending cutting carbohydrates. Rice is a large part of the traditional Japanese diet.
As for the whole carbs thing - the extent to which they'll spike your blood sugar will vary a lot. White bread will be converted to sugars much more quickly than brown bread. Stick to the less-processed, high fibre stuff and you'll be fine.
That's one of the things that annoys me about the Atkins diet - it's generated this popular idea that carbs = bad.
I think some people here are getting a bit confused by the wording of the submission.
When the original poster referred to the 'Doom Console', he meant the handheld computer your character carries around in DOOM 3, not a console that you can play DOOM on.
I realise that a lot of people would like to dismiss the Xbox because it's made by Microsoft, but seriously, it's a powerful machine, it's got some good games and it's had a great deal of marketing money thrown at it. How could it not sell a fair few machines?
I think you're being a bit harsh on Xbox - Worldwide sales are around 19.9 million, as compared to 18.3 million for Gamecube. Both of these pale in comparison to Sony's 81 million PS2 sales, but still, not all that bad considering it's the company's first console and it was entering a very competitive market.
Yes, they've made a loss on Xbox (although I don't think it's as much as 4 billion), they don't expect to make a profit until the second or third generation. That's looking ahead.
Skype is the only thing out there right now That Just Works. However, there's nothing stopping someone else writing their own program That Just Works as well - in fact, much of the hard work has been done by Skype - just by proving that it can be done, and people can copy their approach.
POTS already had the market cornered, but that's not stopped Skype making inroads - why should it be any different with other VoIP programs if Skype starts charging? There's nothing Skype can do to stop people using other VoIP programs.
Skype has two things going for it: a) It's free b) It just works
Take one of those away, and people will flock to some other solution that does fulfill both of those.
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By your logic, Firefox on Windows isn't open source, because you can't get the source for the Windows SDK. All the source code for OpenOffice is Open Source, but not all the components it relies on are.
But long term, the "practical, pragmatic decision" is obviously to "like (stop) using Java". Sun has Free Software in it's crosshairs. Why wait for the bullet to hit, to try to duck?
You're making the same mistake. the Open Source movement is not the same as the Free Software movement...
I think it's a mistake to assume that the PSP will fail to compete with the gameboy just because nobody else has managed it.
Sony isn't aiming for the same market as the SP, certainly at launch anyway. It's a no-brainer for a parent to buy the cheaper SP for their 10 year old who may play for many hours at a go, but for the twentysomething with more disposable income who wants to play great games on his daily commute, the PSP is much more desirable. I don't think battery life is going to be as important for the modern adult gamer as it was for kids playing on their Lynxes thirteen years ago.
Sony also has an incredibly powerful brand in the Playstation, and that will carry over to the PSP. In many circles, PS2 is practically synonymous with gaming, and now you can get pretty much the same thing in your pocket.
Now, I don't think you'll find the PSP wiping out the SP, but I do think you'll find it being very successful and also expanding the market for handhelds.
What, you think nobody else has their own tools that they don't release to anybody else? It's not as if other companies can't write a similar tool. They don't owe us everything they write, you know...
Yes, but while the PSP's battery life isn't as good as the DS, it's good enough for most people who won't be doing more than 3-4 hours of gaming on it a day. Also, having held both a PSP and a DS, I'd say that the PSP is the more portable of the two - a really nice form factor. Gameswise I'd rate the PSP launch lineup over the DS lineup, but it's probably too early to tell which one will have the better games in the long term.
I confess, though that the PSP appeals to the gadget lust in me. The first time you old one you just think "Wow! look at that screen!" - the thing's just so svelte and gorgeous.
I hate the bloody KDE help.
Mainly because all KDE applications seem to have a 'help' menu item, but when you press it THERE IS NO HELP.
Who?
I don't think he was saying that it was heavy for a laptop - he was just pointing out that it's not suited to being held out in front of you for any long periods of time.
I don't think it's unusual to find holding things out in front of you tiring. Most people's arms will get tired if they hold them out in front of themselves for any length of time - it's not a fitness issue.
As long as they learn how to spell 'Blue', I'm all for it.
I don't really get the impression that anybody at Slashdot cares a great deal about Slashdot any more. It's a living - they get paid to not do much and surf the web a lot and that's about it.
I never get any impression of passion from them.
As opposed to a normal car? The only difference is that you've got more battery and possibly less fuel.
You seem to think that just because someone's anti-GPL, they're anti all FOSS licenses. I prefer the MPL to the GPL, for instance because it doesn't try to extend its cover to other code - only its own code and modifications to it.
There's no explanation for such a botnet other than a professional full-time organization specifically created for profit.
That... or the network has attained self-awareness and is trying to recruit all our PCs to conquer the world!
THROW YOUR PC OUT OF THE WINDOW. IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE.
ART VPS Ltd have been doing PCI raytracing cards for a couple of years now. I work at a post production facility and we were evaluating them two years ago. The cards are quite neat and the software takes RenderMan files as input. There were some things they were very good at - refraction, motion blurred shadows and the like that 'just worked' when compared to RenderMan. However, they didn't support RiCurve primitives or some of the RiProcedural stuff at the time (IIRC) which were were using heavily, so they turned out not to be practical for us although it's quite possible they've fixed that now. Neat stuff.
Hilarious!
Oh, for mod points.
I find it odd that you're recommending a Japanese diet and also recommending cutting carbohydrates. Rice is a large part of the traditional Japanese diet.
As for the whole carbs thing - the extent to which they'll spike your blood sugar will vary a lot. White bread will be converted to sugars much more quickly than brown bread. Stick to the less-processed, high fibre stuff and you'll be fine.
That's one of the things that annoys me about the Atkins diet - it's generated this popular idea that carbs = bad.
I just ask because they're pretty common over here in the UK.
Why are they geeky? Are they new in the US?
Gizmondo is the new handheld console from Tiger Telematics, fool!
*mutters about the so-called 'editors' and their complete unwillingless to ever do any editing*
If you're so poor, why don't you just buy a Sempron?
I think some people here are getting a bit confused by the wording of the submission.
When the original poster referred to the 'Doom Console', he meant the handheld computer your character carries around in DOOM 3, not a console that you can play DOOM on.
Why, how many Xboxes do you think they've sold?
I realise that a lot of people would like to dismiss the Xbox because it's made by Microsoft, but seriously, it's a powerful machine, it's got some good games and it's had a great deal of marketing money thrown at it. How could it not sell a fair few machines?
I think you're being a bit harsh on Xbox - Worldwide sales are around 19.9 million, as compared to 18.3 million for Gamecube. Both of these pale in comparison to Sony's 81 million PS2 sales, but still, not all that bad considering it's the company's first console and it was entering a very competitive market.
Yes, they've made a loss on Xbox (although I don't think it's as much as 4 billion), they don't expect to make a profit until the second or third generation. That's looking ahead.
Western values, then they will value human rights, democracy, etc.
What, like the United States does?
AHHHHH
AAHHHHH HAAA HAA HA HA HA
*wipes tear away*
Skype is the only thing out there right now That Just Works. However, there's nothing stopping someone else writing their own program That Just Works as well - in fact, much of the hard work has been done by Skype - just by proving that it can be done, and people can copy their approach.
POTS already had the market cornered, but that's not stopped Skype making inroads - why should it be any different with other VoIP programs if Skype starts charging? There's nothing Skype can do to stop people using other VoIP programs.
Skype has two things going for it:
a) It's free
b) It just works
Take one of those away, and people will flock to some other solution that does fulfill both of those.