You *are* running linux though, once you boot the debian installer./proc/pci is there, and you can indeed Alt-F2 into another terminal and 'more' it.
The installer doesn't make it very explicit that you can do this, but you can. You can do quite a lot before the install is complete. I suppose the root filing system is on a RAM disc or something.
I'm sure I don't need to list reasons why a newish, unheard of Office suite is not going to sign the death warrant of the most popular, (whether you like it or not), virtually defecato, Office suite in the world today.
"virtually defecato"? Seems to mean "virtually having been defecated", which is an accurate description of Office, IMO.
You may have meant "de facto", but you didn't say a "de facto" what. My vote is for "de facto monoculture".
The price of a real database is real database admin and real programming.
PostgreSQL back-end, Zope or Python/Tk front end: 2 weeks work for most things you could do in Access. No license costs or arbitrary limitations.
The price of Access is trusting critical data to a toy database. (Plus MS lock-in, if you care about that sort of thing). If I could get Access licenses for free I still wouldn't use it. It's probably fine for casual use, but if you have important data or many users, you might want to look for alternatives.
Yes, indeed. I am playing with OpenGL in pygame at the moment, and really, it's fast enough for a decent 3D game.
The graphics card is doing all the real work, and the OpenGL library is written in C, so that's as fast as it can get no matter what language is driving it.
All the Python bit is doing is deciding where the polygons go and what pretty textures to put on them. You don't need raw horsepower for that.
So, all the "but Java is too slow" posts are just spouting or trolling. If Python is fast enough, so is Java.
A Wiki is a good place to *start* documenting stuff, precisely because it doesn't impose any structure and is faily lightweight to use.
I use Zwiki on Zope for this purpose. When it comes time to pull a whole bunch of Wiki pages together into a formal document, then yeah, you probably want to use Docbook or LyX.
However, you probably also want to put it back in the Wiki in its newly structured form, so it will get updated when necessary.
I would like to see something that supports expiry dates (or review-after dates) for Wiki pages, so you could go back into a document and check that all the expired stuff still accurately reflects the current situation. Not sure how you would do this.
Re:But how true to the games is it?
on
Resident Evil
·
· Score: 2
I'm guessing the writing and delivery of the dialogue will be true to the original.
But will the characters keep finding ammo and saying to themselves... "Shall I take the handgun bullets?" (while the audience shout out "Duh!")
I'll have to wait until it's released in the UK anyway, so I don't mind waiting the extra week until it's out on video to find out;)
Anyone writing a "string compare" function is either a newbie, an idiot or working in the wrong language.
OK maybe a bit harsh, but if something is already completely understood and has been done properly before: YOU RE-USE IT.
Classical measures of productivity are based on manufacture of physical objects where to have two of something you have to make the thing twice. It's just not like that with software.
Yeah, but those 10% of developers (actually I doubt it's even that high once you include all in-house development staff employed by industries that use software) mostly *don't* sell software as a product.
They rent their work and creativity to an employer who sells the product. They could get paid to write and maintain it if it's needed, whether the revenue stream comes from sale or service, or if they work for a non-software company that relies on the code.
It doesn't make much sense to say the software-as-product business model runs rings around the Free software business models. Free software isn't about a business model.
Look at it from the other side. More people use software than sell it. If you use software but sell something else, it's in your interest to use GPL software and add your contribution back to the community.
There will always be the opportunity to sell software as a product, with per-user licensing; just not in every niche, because free alternatives edge in and undermine prices. Except for interoperability with other proprietary software, who would pay to license MS SQL server for a large project when they can get PostgreSQL for free?
that's no reason to ignore and impoverish the remaining 10% to 25% who are in the business of software-as-a-salable-product.
No, that's not the reason. We don't need a reason.
We also don't need to buy their products if we can get as good for free with no strings attached. Now you give a reason why we should. If your business model becomes obsolete, adapt or fail.
I'll just chip in and both agree and disagree with you.
You can't get high quality artwork etc. produced for nothing, and you can't make enough money on sales to cover it if anyone can easily copy and distribute what you sell for no cost.
However, there is a distinction between programs and data. You could GPL the code but retain the usual exclusive rights to sell the game content. This would in no way impact your ability to make money, and even RMS wouldn't quibble about it.
Why would you do this? I suppose you might if you wanted to save on development costs by using GPL code that is already available, or encourage your users to create hacks and extensions, thereby adding to the popularity of the game.
This doesn't mean all software should be free, just that all software *could* be free. And I mean libre, not gratis.
No mod points today, but I found that informative and interesting. I don't think Marx was right about socialism being *inevitable*. I think he was extrapolating based on over-kind assumptions about human nature. Or possibly he didn't anticipate multi-national mega-corporations with more wealth and power than individual governments, and no accountability. And most "ism" words are pretty much useless in a forum like this, where lots of people just pick a side and use one word to describe everything they don't like, and its "opposite" to apply to things they approve of.
Even if that holds water, it would only invalidate your individual use of the WC3 beta itself.
It CANNOT prohibit someone from emulating the communications protocol for the game for others, any more than a desktop install of Windows could come with a license that prohibited you from running Samba on your Linux servers.
Yeah. It's also not a company that "gets" Open Source, in some ways. And don't even mention the "F" word! They have enough trouble with "Open", never mind "Free".
The involvement with MySQL is just about soaking up some of the low-end database market.
Pass them by, and if you need a better database than vanilla MySQL, go for PostgreSQL. It has many features of the expensive Progress RDBMS, and can do some things that are far from easy in Progress.
I might start recommending Progress again when they post Python bindings or protocol specs on their website.
...P.S. Why'd they change to "Lycoris"? Someone needs to restore some dignity to the Redmond name. Besides, "Lycoris" sounds like a disease. ("I'm sorry, Johnny, but you have lycoris. You have six weeks to live." "Gosh, Doc, what do I tell my family?")
Well, maybe you pronounce it like licorice, to imply that it's sweet, but not to everyone's taste.
That way it would also rhyme with clitoris. I feel there must be a limerick to be got out of this situation.
Offtopic, posting from the UK - was the musical Buffy episode that bad? We don't get it until tonight. Should I watch it or will I find myself asking "can I be blind [and deaf] too?":)
I write Progress 4GL programs mostly, but bits of middleware, glue and a couple of stand-alone applications in Python. Progress is a good DB but way too expensive per license to use it for small stuff, and the 4GL is a bit crufty.
Most of this activity is to support the distilling, bottling and selling of scotch, vodka and a few other drinks.
All I can suggest is, look for companies with pressure on costs, legacy computer systems and the need to respond fast to changing requirements.
In my experience, manufacturing is less conservative about these things than white-collar businesses.
Er, what? Python is a minority language, but not "becoming" a minority language. Are we going to have an outbreak of "Python is dying" trolls now?
In terms of support, just advertise for programmers with "Object-oriented language skills". Anyone who can write good code in Java or C++ can write twice as fast in Python after a day looking through the tutorials.
In fact at my workplace we are ditching Java and shunning VB precisely because we want to narrow down the number of expensive IT skills needed to maintain our systems - we're keeping Python.
Slashdot Mirror
You *are* running linux though, once you boot the debian installer. /proc/pci is there, and you can indeed Alt-F2 into another terminal and 'more' it.
The installer doesn't make it very explicit that you can do this, but you can. You can do quite a lot before the install is complete. I suppose the root filing system is on a RAM disc or something.
Thanks. I haven't looked at apt-cache before.
I think I'll still prefer aptitude (current version 0.2.10-1) when I'm not feeling in a command-line mood.
dselect is an HCI abomination, even for those who know how to use it.
#apt-get install aptitude
#aptitude
Aaahhh. *That's* better....
"virtually defecato"? Seems to mean "virtually having been defecated", which is an accurate description of Office, IMO.
You may have meant "de facto", but you didn't say a "de facto" what. My vote is for "de facto monoculture".
The price of a real database is real database admin and real programming.
PostgreSQL back-end, Zope or Python/Tk front end: 2 weeks work for most things you could do in Access. No license costs or arbitrary limitations.
The price of Access is trusting critical data to a toy database. (Plus MS lock-in, if you care about that sort of thing). If I could get Access licenses for free I still wouldn't use it. It's probably fine for casual use, but if you have important data or many users, you might want to look for alternatives.
Yes, indeed. I am playing with OpenGL in pygame at the moment, and really, it's fast enough for a decent 3D game.
The graphics card is doing all the real work, and the OpenGL library is written in C, so that's as fast as it can get no matter what language is driving it.
All the Python bit is doing is deciding where the polygons go and what pretty textures to put on them. You don't need raw horsepower for that.
So, all the "but Java is too slow" posts are just spouting or trolling. If Python is fast enough, so is Java.
A Wiki is a good place to *start* documenting stuff, precisely because it doesn't impose any structure and is faily lightweight to use.
I use Zwiki on Zope for this purpose. When it comes time to pull a whole bunch of Wiki pages together into a formal document, then yeah, you probably want to use Docbook or LyX.
However, you probably also want to put it back in the Wiki in its newly structured form, so it will get updated when necessary.
I would like to see something that supports expiry dates (or review-after dates) for Wiki pages, so you could go back into a document and check that all the expired stuff still accurately reflects the current situation. Not sure how you would do this.
I'm guessing the writing and delivery of the dialogue will be true to the original.
;)
But will the characters keep finding ammo and saying to themselves... "Shall I take the handgun bullets?" (while the audience shout out "Duh!")
I'll have to wait until it's released in the UK anyway, so I don't mind waiting the extra week until it's out on video to find out
Anyone writing a "string compare" function is either a newbie, an idiot or working in the wrong language.
OK maybe a bit harsh, but if something is already completely understood and has been done properly before: YOU RE-USE IT.
Classical measures of productivity are based on manufacture of physical objects where to have two of something you have to make the thing twice. It's just not like that with software.
Err, isn't that meiosis? Or are you an amoeba?
Yeah, but those 10% of developers (actually I doubt it's even that high once you include all in-house development staff employed by industries that use software) mostly *don't* sell software as a product.
They rent their work and creativity to an employer who sells the product. They could get paid to write and maintain it if it's needed, whether the revenue stream comes from sale or service, or if they work for a non-software company that relies on the code.
It doesn't make much sense to say the software-as-product business model runs rings around the Free software business models. Free software isn't about a business model.
Look at it from the other side. More people use software than sell it. If you use software but sell something else, it's in your interest to use GPL software and add your contribution back to the community.
There will always be the opportunity to sell software as a product, with per-user licensing; just not in every niche, because free alternatives edge in and undermine prices. Except for interoperability with other proprietary software, who would pay to license MS SQL server for a large project when they can get PostgreSQL for free?
No, that's not the reason. We don't need a reason.
We also don't need to buy their products if we can get as good for free with no strings attached. Now you give a reason why we should. If your business model becomes obsolete, adapt or fail.
I'll just chip in and both agree and disagree with you.
You can't get high quality artwork etc. produced for nothing, and you can't make enough money on sales to cover it if anyone can easily copy and distribute what you sell for no cost.
However, there is a distinction between programs and data. You could GPL the code but retain the usual exclusive rights to sell the game content. This would in no way impact your ability to make money, and even RMS wouldn't quibble about it.
Why would you do this? I suppose you might if you wanted to save on development costs by using GPL code that is already available, or encourage your users to create hacks and extensions, thereby adding to the popularity of the game.
This doesn't mean all software should be free, just that all software *could* be free. And I mean libre, not gratis.
But that's stupid, because it would certainly be more effort than just reinventing the GPL code they want to use.
No mod points today, but I found that informative and interesting.
I don't think Marx was right about socialism being *inevitable*. I think he was extrapolating based on over-kind assumptions about human nature. Or possibly he didn't anticipate multi-national mega-corporations with more wealth and power than individual governments, and no accountability.
And most "ism" words are pretty much useless in a forum like this, where lots of people just pick a side and use one word to describe everything they don't like, and its "opposite" to apply to things they approve of.
So, er, the address space inside the dongle is unreadable but the CPU can read it to execute code there?
Even if that holds water, it would only invalidate your individual use of the WC3 beta itself.
It CANNOT prohibit someone from emulating the communications protocol for the game for others, any more than a desktop install of Windows could come with a license that prohibited you from running Samba on your Linux servers.
So, to sum up: bollocks.
Yeah. It's also not a company that "gets" Open Source, in some ways. And don't even mention the "F" word! They have enough trouble with "Open", never mind "Free".
The involvement with MySQL is just about soaking up some of the low-end database market.
Pass them by, and if you need a better database than vanilla MySQL, go for PostgreSQL. It has many features of the expensive Progress RDBMS, and can do some things that are far from easy in Progress.
I might start recommending Progress again when they post Python bindings or protocol specs on their website.
Of course, you can know what Heisenberg is doing, or where he is, but not both :-)
Well, he certainly hasn't discovered the fountain of ideas any time recently.
Oh actually I'm being unfair. He just can't seem to write as good an ending as his ideas deserve.
Without the backslash, what would you use to escape characters on the UNIX command line? ^V like in vi? Eeeurrgh!
Firstly, congrats to the happy couple.
:)
Offtopic, posting from the UK - was the musical Buffy episode that bad? We don't get it until tonight. Should I watch it or will I find myself asking "can I be blind [and deaf] too?"
I write Progress 4GL programs mostly, but bits of middleware, glue and a couple of stand-alone applications in Python. Progress is a good DB but way too expensive per license to use it for small stuff, and the 4GL is a bit crufty.
Most of this activity is to support the distilling, bottling and selling of scotch, vodka and a few other drinks.
All I can suggest is, look for companies with pressure on costs, legacy computer systems and the need to respond fast to changing requirements.
In my experience, manufacturing is less conservative about these things than white-collar businesses.
Er, what? Python is a minority language, but not "becoming" a minority language. Are we going to have an outbreak of "Python is dying" trolls now?
In terms of support, just advertise for programmers with "Object-oriented language skills". Anyone who can write good code in Java or C++ can write twice as fast in Python after a day looking through the tutorials.
In fact at my workplace we are ditching Java and shunning VB precisely because we want to narrow down the number of expensive IT skills needed to maintain our systems - we're keeping Python.