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i agree that this stuff should be labelled properly. however, there are many movies where there are so called 'directors cuts' where the director had little or nothing to do with the film, or wasn't given enough time/money to do it the way they wanted. a good example of this is blade runner. take a look at how many cuts of this movie exist. hell, there are about that many of star wars and empire as well (though most of them were done by lucas himself). probably the greatest tragedy of studio cuts was orson welles classic masterpiece 'the magnificent ambersons' which he did after citizen kane. it was chopped up and butchered (literally) by the studio and then all the film that was cut from it was destroyed (on purpose) while welles was shooting on location in south america during the war so that welles couldn't get a hold of it. a damned shame. requiem isn't alone...

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What coders who copy Windows? You do realize that to install Win4Lin, you need to already own a Win9X CD. You go through the entire Windows installation process, including loading the Windows CD and typing in a valid product ID code. An entire standard Win9X installation is created on your PC, it just happens to live in a Linux file system.

Funny that you bring up SCO. Win4Lin is based on a DOS-virtualization technology called "merge" that SCO has also used. Here is a summary I found of its very convoluted history. (Google cache; real page is broken.)

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See question 8.

As seen at dell,
Red Hat Linux AS 2.1 is supplied only as part of a SUBSCRIPTION service.

And from the Red Hat Advanced Server and Services Agreement: The term âoeInstalled Serversâ means the number of servers on which Customer installs Red Hat Linux Advanced Server.

And, lastly, from the RHAS Agreement above: 4. REPORTING AND AUDIT. If Customer wishes to increase the number of Installed Servers, then Customer will purchase from Red Hat additional Services for each additional Installed Server.

To paraphrase, the product "Red Hat Advanced Server" is a service which, incidentally, includes a package of files on installation CDs. If you install the 'package', you must pay for it.

It is clear that they are selling a service, not a software license, but I agree that it gets a little fuzzy when you start talking about requiring the 'service' if you install the set of files.

Ahhhh, whatever.

Actually... This is easily explainable.

John Carmack released a document YEARS ago explaining to hardware vendors how to optimize their OpenGL implementation for the Quake 3 engine. Such things as Vertex Array Client States (i.e. GL_VERTEX_ARRAY) never changing (always enabled), specifics for multi-texturing, vertex structure size, etc...

Given that anyone who cares to search Google for a minute or two can pull up this document (The original doc is gone :-\ - Still fun reading material though :)), I'd hardly call using it cheating. The performance DOES relate to real-world situations, as the majority of people playing Q3 Engine games don't change the name of their executable :)

What would be nice, however, is if developers had some access to this driver layer. I'm not saying anything as major as Q3's optimizations, but if a developer could tell the drivers that it won't be making any state changes to a particular attrib stack subset (i.e. GL_ALL_ATTRIB_BITS wouldn't actually push the entire stack), it'd increase render-time without any fancy 1st party vendor magic.

Also, using languages such as Cg, shader optimization is possible at run-time. I've never used it myself, I'm biased to hardware specific ASM at the moment.

Tell that to SACD engineers.
CD (or more precisely PCM) is far from perfect.
SACD FAQ(the original site seems to be dead now, so this is a google cache).