I would say if there's anyone still depending on SCO's product base, they would probably do well to have a migration plan in place - if not start migrating ASAP. SCO is certainly not long for this world, and who knows where their assets will go when the corpse of SCO is chopped up.
So then, Windows running in VMware wouldn't be acceptable either? You're taking a slightly extreme viewpoint there - just because it's running on Wine (not an emulator, but a reimplementation of the Win32 API in a mostly-portable fashion), doesn't mean it won't render the same, as I'm pretty sure the rendering core is part of what the IE7 installer puts in place. I'm not saying Wine is perfect, but as long as you're testing the important bits, what does it really matter how you run the software?
Actually, Liberty City Stories (at least on the PSP) uses a whole new engine, instead of RenderWare as was used for GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas; I think Vice City Stories uses an enhanced version of the LCS engine. Dunno if the materials were transferred back to RenderWare for the PS2 LCS, or if the new LCS engine was ported back to PS2.
"4.4BSD" is not the same as "FreeBSD 4.4". "4.4BSD", specifically "4.4BSD-Lite", was the last Berkeley Software Distribution release of the OS, after the ATT v. UC-Berkeley case was decided, where the last of the ATT-copyrighted code was excised and rewritten. FreeBSD and NetBSD (as well as BSDi, I believe) used 4.4BSD-Lite as the starting point for their development. NeXT also used BSD (originally earlier iterations in the 4BSD line - 4.2BSD, I think) as its starting point, and was the codebase which the first versions of MacOS X used, though OS X has used developments (mostly in userspace, to my understanding) from both FreeBSD and NetBSD to incorporate into Darwin, and by proxy, OS X.
Maybe the RAZR phones just suck. That would seem to be the case, anyway - I've not heard a happy word from one RAZR phone owner so far, even with all the advertisements for them. However, my Sanyo flip phone (the MM7500 as provided by Sprint) has been going strong for most of the year - and the hinge has remained solid and normally flexible since I got it. I explicitly avoided flip phones for a long time, as I figured I'd break the hinge right off the bat, but this phone has been surprisingly well built.
My parents got two of the RAZR phones through Verizon - they're not happy with them, but they use them as they'd rather not have to re-buy mobile phones with no good reason. (It's expensive if you're not getting them as part of a contract renewal.) Consider the tiny package that all the SMT chips and PC boards are being crammed into - it's a poor phone jammed into a necessarily flimsy housing. And people are surprised that they quickly break? Here's an idea - make more sensible choices about your technology. Less fashion-driven, more purpose-driven. You need something sturdy? Go for sturdy, not flashy. Don't be mad that the manufacturer sold you something flimsy and you bought it. Be more discriminating about your purchases. Take a little responsibility for your buying choices.
MS' own need for vendor lock-in, with its DRM, shoddy music store
You mean the one where the "PlaysForSure" tracks don't play on the Zune? The brand that Microsoft has supposedly been so interested in building for music sales - and it doesn't even work with their own brand new player? That's my favorite part. Just what we all need - a way to buy music that's incompatible with any other player. (At least with the iPod you have different models - there's only one Zune.)
Well, come now, we Americans didn't really learn the word "terrorism" until a couple years after that incident... of course, now everything's "terrorism" after that. Sheesh. Just when you think we can't look any more stupid and backward, we manage to do ourselves one better.
News flash - SuSE isn't going to be incorporating ReiserFS into future versions of the distribution. Funny that they'd choose just recently to make that call... of course, the recent controversy around Hans Reiser probably is influencing them at least a bit.
why is it always "the media", or "music", or "video games", or something else that's blamed for these kids going out and killing someone? What ever happened to "just plain fucked up"? Huh? This kid was apparently abused for years by his father, and yet of all things, it's *got* to be the video games? The parental abuse couldn't *possibly* have just warped the hell out of this kid? Thank you, Jack Thompson, for showing us that beating your kids is just fine, as long as they're never allowed to play video games. (Not that he should have been playing those games anyway... of course, dear ol' Dad probably bought him the game too.)
No. cPanel in particular gets its tentacles into many aspects of the system, and each major control panel (cPanel, Plesk, Ensim, Interworx, DirectAdmin,...) has its own different way of running the show. They will *not* play nice together on the same system. cPanel is certainly one of the poorer ones from a perspective of security and administration; sadly, customers synonymize control panels with cPanel, so unfortunately any of them *expect* it, regardless of its (lack of) quality. (Oh, and it's more expensive than the competition...)
First, Microsoft will never make a "perfect" product, even if they could. Microsoft has to compete with its own already-sold products every time it releases The Next Iteration. If they released a perfect product, and all their customers bought it, what then? They'd go out of business, because nobody would want The Next Iteration. Note the staunch people continuing to use Windows 2000, even after XP came out. Note the staunch people who are saying they won't buy Vista, because XP is just fine. This is what they have to compete with.
Second, Microsoft knows that bug fixes don't sell product - shiny happy screenshots, long lists of new features, and other such things do sell product. That's what the general public wants, and that's what they get.
Apple co-developed PostScript with Adobe, so they have an open-ended license to technologies that derive from it (hence their sweeping use of PDF - even right down to the guts of their display model).
And Adobe's complaints really surprise me. OS X has been able to export anything to PDF - a relatively open format - for years, and I can do the same thing on KDE.
Apple can get away with it because they are a co-creator of PostScript; therefore they have an open-ended license to both PostScript itself, and derived technologies (read: PDF). Adobe isn't suing OSS developers because they're not a threat from their perspective. They know, however, that Microsoft would love nothing more than to eat their lunch. This is what one might call enlightened self-interest.
I really, *really* wish someone would get the original voice actors back from Sam & Max Hit the Road; to me, they're still the canonical (and therefore best) voices for Sam and Max. I seem to recall one of them was Denny Delk; the other I can't recall. Maybe we'll get lucky and the Telltale folks have the necessary contacts with the old LucasArts voice acting crew to get them back?
The MIPS core that is used in the TiVo Series2 systems is a Broadcom design, licensed by Broadcom from MIPS Technologies. I see no reason that that would jeopardize Broadcom's licensing arrangement... though I could be wrong.
I've seen one of the ads - unfortunately they are very real. I thought it was pretty stupid, but I imagine it's going to carry a lot of weight with those who aren't familiar with the issue. It would sure be nice if some major company would put forth an ad campaign to smack the telcos back on this issue.
I've never seen a Linux distribution that wouldn't boot if you installed the vanilla kernel on it.
It won't stop it from *booting*, but try booting FC4 with a vanilla kernel and then log in on the console - watch how it DOES NOT WORK. Seriously, try it. They have some PAM module that uses a procfs feature added by one of their kernel packages. It can be disabled, but it's definitely an example of a fairly normal operation that should work fine with a stock kernel, but manages to fail miserably.
Apple doesn't really care about the gamer market; gamers are far too fickle. There are games available, don't get me wrong; however they're intended as a *diversion*, not as the primary focus.
It seems kinda silly for them to hold onto it, given their obvious lack of interest in it, and the interest of others in it... unless they're hoping to stir up enough interest in it to get more money for it. Maybe that's it. Maybe not.
You can certainly pop out of a song play to scroll around; press the HOME button, and the current song will continue playing. If you go out to the top level menu and go into VIDEO, GAME, SYSTEM or something like that, however, or attempt to delete a song or something, the music will stop, though.
The XMB (cross media bar) did not originate with the PSP, contrary to what some people seem to think; the PSX (not the original PlayStation, but the Japan-only Playstation 2/DVR crossover device) was the first device to actually feature it, and it's also been used in some of Sony's higher end TV sets as their menu system.
You can kill someone with a hammer; are they gonna make those illegal too now?
Dude, shut up. You're giving them ideas. Without a hammer, how can one build a house? Or enter a spirited hammer-fighting competition? These are *both* very necessary activities.
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I would say if there's anyone still depending on SCO's product base, they would probably do well to have a migration plan in place - if not start migrating ASAP. SCO is certainly not long for this world, and who knows where their assets will go when the corpse of SCO is chopped up.
So then, Windows running in VMware wouldn't be acceptable either? You're taking a slightly extreme viewpoint there - just because it's running on Wine (not an emulator, but a reimplementation of the Win32 API in a mostly-portable fashion), doesn't mean it won't render the same, as I'm pretty sure the rendering core is part of what the IE7 installer puts in place. I'm not saying Wine is perfect, but as long as you're testing the important bits, what does it really matter how you run the software?
Actually, Liberty City Stories (at least on the PSP) uses a whole new engine, instead of RenderWare as was used for GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas; I think Vice City Stories uses an enhanced version of the LCS engine. Dunno if the materials were transferred back to RenderWare for the PS2 LCS, or if the new LCS engine was ported back to PS2.
Hah. Device designed for too many purposes implements unacceptable tradeoffs, does its many jobs poorly. Film at 11. Are you really surprised by this?
That guy obviously doesn't use emacs.
You mean to tell me people still use emacs? I was pretty sure those were just stories they told young programmers to keep them up at night...
"4.4BSD" is not the same as "FreeBSD 4.4". "4.4BSD", specifically "4.4BSD-Lite", was the last Berkeley Software Distribution release of the OS, after the ATT v. UC-Berkeley case was decided, where the last of the ATT-copyrighted code was excised and rewritten. FreeBSD and NetBSD (as well as BSDi, I believe) used 4.4BSD-Lite as the starting point for their development. NeXT also used BSD (originally earlier iterations in the 4BSD line - 4.2BSD, I think) as its starting point, and was the codebase which the first versions of MacOS X used, though OS X has used developments (mostly in userspace, to my understanding) from both FreeBSD and NetBSD to incorporate into Darwin, and by proxy, OS X.
Maybe the RAZR phones just suck. That would seem to be the case, anyway - I've not heard a happy word from one RAZR phone owner so far, even with all the advertisements for them. However, my Sanyo flip phone (the MM7500 as provided by Sprint) has been going strong for most of the year - and the hinge has remained solid and normally flexible since I got it. I explicitly avoided flip phones for a long time, as I figured I'd break the hinge right off the bat, but this phone has been surprisingly well built.
My parents got two of the RAZR phones through Verizon - they're not happy with them, but they use them as they'd rather not have to re-buy mobile phones with no good reason. (It's expensive if you're not getting them as part of a contract renewal.) Consider the tiny package that all the SMT chips and PC boards are being crammed into - it's a poor phone jammed into a necessarily flimsy housing. And people are surprised that they quickly break? Here's an idea - make more sensible choices about your technology. Less fashion-driven, more purpose-driven. You need something sturdy? Go for sturdy, not flashy. Don't be mad that the manufacturer sold you something flimsy and you bought it. Be more discriminating about your purchases. Take a little responsibility for your buying choices.
MS' own need for vendor lock-in, with its DRM, shoddy music store
You mean the one where the "PlaysForSure" tracks don't play on the Zune? The brand that Microsoft has supposedly been so interested in building for music sales - and it doesn't even work with their own brand new player? That's my favorite part. Just what we all need - a way to buy music that's incompatible with any other player. (At least with the iPod you have different models - there's only one Zune.)
Well, come now, we Americans didn't really learn the word "terrorism" until a couple years after that incident... of course, now everything's "terrorism" after that. Sheesh. Just when you think we can't look any more stupid and backward, we manage to do ourselves one better.
News flash - SuSE isn't going to be incorporating ReiserFS into future versions of the distribution. Funny that they'd choose just recently to make that call... of course, the recent controversy around Hans Reiser probably is influencing them at least a bit.
why is it always "the media", or "music", or "video games", or something else that's blamed for these kids going out and killing someone? What ever happened to "just plain fucked up"? Huh? This kid was apparently abused for years by his father, and yet of all things, it's *got* to be the video games? The parental abuse couldn't *possibly* have just warped the hell out of this kid? Thank you, Jack Thompson, for showing us that beating your kids is just fine, as long as they're never allowed to play video games. (Not that he should have been playing those games anyway... of course, dear ol' Dad probably bought him the game too.)
No. cPanel in particular gets its tentacles into many aspects of the system, and each major control panel (cPanel, Plesk, Ensim, Interworx, DirectAdmin, ...) has its own different way of running the show. They will *not* play nice together on the same system. cPanel is certainly one of the poorer ones from a perspective of security and administration; sadly, customers synonymize control panels with cPanel, so unfortunately any of them *expect* it, regardless of its (lack of) quality. (Oh, and it's more expensive than the competition...)
I can only say two things to this.
First, Microsoft will never make a "perfect" product, even if they could. Microsoft has to compete with its own already-sold products every time it releases The Next Iteration. If they released a perfect product, and all their customers bought it, what then? They'd go out of business, because nobody would want The Next Iteration. Note the staunch people continuing to use Windows 2000, even after XP came out. Note the staunch people who are saying they won't buy Vista, because XP is just fine. This is what they have to compete with.
Second, Microsoft knows that bug fixes don't sell product - shiny happy screenshots, long lists of new features, and other such things do sell product. That's what the general public wants, and that's what they get.
Apple co-developed PostScript with Adobe, so they have an open-ended license to technologies that derive from it (hence their sweeping use of PDF - even right down to the guts of their display model).
And Adobe's complaints really surprise me. OS X has been able to export anything to PDF - a relatively open format - for years, and I can do the same thing on KDE.
Apple can get away with it because they are a co-creator of PostScript; therefore they have an open-ended license to both PostScript itself, and derived technologies (read: PDF). Adobe isn't suing OSS developers because they're not a threat from their perspective. They know, however, that Microsoft would love nothing more than to eat their lunch. This is what one might call enlightened self-interest.
I really, *really* wish someone would get the original voice actors back from Sam & Max Hit the Road; to me, they're still the canonical (and therefore best) voices for Sam and Max. I seem to recall one of them was Denny Delk; the other I can't recall. Maybe we'll get lucky and the Telltale folks have the necessary contacts with the old LucasArts voice acting crew to get them back?
The MIPS core that is used in the TiVo Series2 systems is a Broadcom design, licensed by Broadcom from MIPS Technologies. I see no reason that that would jeopardize Broadcom's licensing arrangement... though I could be wrong.
I've seen one of the ads - unfortunately they are very real. I thought it was pretty stupid, but I imagine it's going to carry a lot of weight with those who aren't familiar with the issue. It would sure be nice if some major company would put forth an ad campaign to smack the telcos back on this issue.
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I've never seen a Linux distribution that wouldn't boot if you installed the vanilla kernel on it.
It won't stop it from *booting*, but try booting FC4 with a vanilla kernel and then log in on the console - watch how it DOES NOT WORK. Seriously, try it. They have some PAM module that uses a procfs feature added by one of their kernel packages. It can be disabled, but it's definitely an example of a fairly normal operation that should work fine with a stock kernel, but manages to fail miserably.
Apple doesn't really care about the gamer market; gamers are far too fickle. There are games available, don't get me wrong; however they're intended as a *diversion*, not as the primary focus.
It seems kinda silly for them to hold onto it, given their obvious lack of interest in it, and the interest of others in it... unless they're hoping to stir up enough interest in it to get more money for it. Maybe that's it. Maybe not.
You can certainly pop out of a song play to scroll around; press the HOME button, and the current song will continue playing. If you go out to the top level menu and go into VIDEO, GAME, SYSTEM or something like that, however, or attempt to delete a song or something, the music will stop, though.
The XMB (cross media bar) did not originate with the PSP, contrary to what some people seem to think; the PSX (not the original PlayStation, but the Japan-only Playstation 2/DVR crossover device) was the first device to actually feature it, and it's also been used in some of Sony's higher end TV sets as their menu system.
You can kill someone with a hammer; are they gonna make those illegal too now?
Dude, shut up. You're giving them ideas. Without a hammer, how can one build a house? Or enter a spirited hammer-fighting competition? These are *both* very necessary activities.