It's not saying Open Source is banned. The idea of open source does not make something free to distribute or make derivative works. The clauses copied in other comments are simply license requirements which cannot be used in licenses intended to be used in software distributed on Microsoft's network. Think of it this way, you can open your source; you can't require source distribution in your license, you can't allow derivative works to be created of your software, and you can't allow redistribution at no cost. These are clearly protecting Microsoft's interests as a marketplace. If someone were to purchase your software off their marketplace, and the licenses allowed free redistribution, nothing would prevent that individual from then giving away the 'app' to all his or her friends for free. If it was licensed for derivative works the individual could make a minor change and freely distribute the derivative work. The source code clause has me a bit confounded, but I believe it may be to mitigate risks and liability for Microsoft.
This legalese would not limit an app author from releasing the source, on their own website for example. Lastly, remember open source does not implicitly mean free. See Unix.
Locking your door at night is greedy preventing all those less fortunate homeless people from eating your food, sleeping on your couch, and stealing your TV.
A publicly traded company has an obligation to do what's best for the company. It does not, however, have an obligation to support a mode of play most commonly associated with unauthorized copies of the game.
Communist pig
Now I want to get six of these and experiment with scanning real world objects into 3d objects fully skinned and ready to go. Just seems like this sort of technique could be used for a lot of 3d modeling purposes.
I don't know. I tried watching 1984 once, and only made it about 30 minutes in before I had to stop watching. The movie is just so bland. It's a movie about the message, one of those artsy political movies that doesn't need any semblance of flow. The people who watch it will already be well versed in the mantra it preaches.
However, V for Vendetta and Equilibrium both set out to entertain with an undertone of the 1984 mantra. This lets people take in the meaning without having to put forth any thought. Watch, enjoy, and receive political propaganda (from the good side of the fence albeit) without even knowing it.
It's like separating a movie like An Inconvenient Truth to a movie whose plot revolves around those downtrodden by global change, the animals in the arctic regions for example. Someone seeing An Inconvenient Truth already someone leans in that direction and is already expecting a message, disregarding the fact the movie is a documentary. Someone seeing the later genre of movie will probably be seeing it for entertainment, and take away the important message at a subconscious level. They are more likely to start acting eco-friendly without attributing the shift in habits to the movie or its message.
This is probably the best bit of advice I've seen on./ in a long while. This one is going is going in my jewels of advice binder.
Now the real question, nano or vi.
You know, making cross-cultural references like that doesn't always go as you expect. You can't go comparing working in a sweatshop in, say China, to working in a sweatshop in the USA. In places like China, especially the more rural towns, your options are often work in a sweat shop for next to nothing, or work in the fields doing back breaking labor for far less. While sweatshops aren't glamorous, they are jobs. I'd personally compare working in a sweatshop in China to working at a bigbox store like Walmart in the USA. They aren't desirable jobs, but for some people, they provide income that would otherwise not be there.
This is the new paradigm for gaming. With new connectivity and methods of piracy the method for protecting the games assets has changed. The gaming industry, unlike the recording industries, has seen that the tides are changing and adapted to the new waters. LAN functionality was critical when the internet wasn't as assured. We're beyond that point and the delivery mechanism has changed to follow suit. Why everyone is so surprised an industry is evolving is beyond me. I'd have guessed/. would be some of the most understanding gamers on the web. Hell, we don't even know battle.net 2.0's functionality yet, and we're already burning the game at the stake for not having LAN. When has blizzard ever failed us? And we all act as if this is the first game ever to not have offline content. World of Warcraft, arguable Team Fortress 2 (sorta kinda), and it's too early with too little time to research for more than what's on the top of my head. But neither of those games flopped. LAN is going the way of VHS and dial-up modems. They still exist, but the people who use them aren't the same people who would be buying new blu-rays or games like StarCraft II. Honestly, if you want LAN play so bad just stick with StarCraft classic, nothing is truly wrong with that game aside from its horrendous resolution. Personally I don't give a damn if there is no LAN, I'm more than sure battle.net 2.0 will more than cover that functionality with gusto.
You know, homework kind of is a near epidemic in America, but for different reasons than your comment invokes. It's sad when sports and physical ability are the standards for social normalcy in a country. I really wish America could grow up and start treating academics with such respect. Right now it's "better" to be strong and agile than smart or creative. America really needs to both get over the ugly act of making school scores a private non-embarrassing number and make school into a sort of game. Honestly, if there was more shame involved with getting low scores maybe academics would become more apart of regular social activity. It's sad when doing poor in school is considered popular.
For one, the government usually doesn't ask for permission first. Not to mention that the information used to determine your geolocation is also derived from something already passed to the web host, your IP, assuming you're not using the WiFi option. Generally speaking web pages can achieve a similar result already with a little effort. As it stands this new feature isn't making new information available to the public, it's just making old information a bit more friendly.
They're crunching 13-million-digit numbers with a desktop processor? Do they realize that they can put eight quad-core xeons in a machine and finish the calculation in a single shift instead of waiting a month?
I don't know about you, but the last 13 or so mersenne primes have been found using prime95 as a conduit for a mass distributed effort. I'm not sure where you live, but in most other places people can't just go out and put 8 quad-core xeons in a home machine.
I for one wait to see the lawsuit the RIAA is drawing up to bring down upon Amazon for squelching their draconian business practices by violating their 'copyright' on 'distribution of artistic works of an audio based nature'
Free Speech is not anonymous speech. Just because you have the right to say whatever you want, with some caveats, doesn't mean you, at any point, are granted the protected right of being anonymous. You are currently at liberty to say what you want anonymously, but as with all liberties, it is not guaranteed by the Constitution.
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It's not saying Open Source is banned. The idea of open source does not make something free to distribute or make derivative works. The clauses copied in other comments are simply license requirements which cannot be used in licenses intended to be used in software distributed on Microsoft's network. Think of it this way, you can open your source; you can't require source distribution in your license, you can't allow derivative works to be created of your software, and you can't allow redistribution at no cost. These are clearly protecting Microsoft's interests as a marketplace. If someone were to purchase your software off their marketplace, and the licenses allowed free redistribution, nothing would prevent that individual from then giving away the 'app' to all his or her friends for free. If it was licensed for derivative works the individual could make a minor change and freely distribute the derivative work. The source code clause has me a bit confounded, but I believe it may be to mitigate risks and liability for Microsoft.
This legalese would not limit an app author from releasing the source, on their own website for example. Lastly, remember open source does not implicitly mean free. See Unix.
Locking your door at night is greedy preventing all those less fortunate homeless people from eating your food, sleeping on your couch, and stealing your TV. A publicly traded company has an obligation to do what's best for the company. It does not, however, have an obligation to support a mode of play most commonly associated with unauthorized copies of the game. Communist pig
If one waited until Microsoft fixed a vulnerability we'd be waiting until Hell is ordering winter parkas
Now I want to get six of these and experiment with scanning real world objects into 3d objects fully skinned and ready to go. Just seems like this sort of technique could be used for a lot of 3d modeling purposes.
I don't know. I tried watching 1984 once, and only made it about 30 minutes in before I had to stop watching. The movie is just so bland. It's a movie about the message, one of those artsy political movies that doesn't need any semblance of flow. The people who watch it will already be well versed in the mantra it preaches. However, V for Vendetta and Equilibrium both set out to entertain with an undertone of the 1984 mantra. This lets people take in the meaning without having to put forth any thought. Watch, enjoy, and receive political propaganda (from the good side of the fence albeit) without even knowing it. It's like separating a movie like An Inconvenient Truth to a movie whose plot revolves around those downtrodden by global change, the animals in the arctic regions for example. Someone seeing An Inconvenient Truth already someone leans in that direction and is already expecting a message, disregarding the fact the movie is a documentary. Someone seeing the later genre of movie will probably be seeing it for entertainment, and take away the important message at a subconscious level. They are more likely to start acting eco-friendly without attributing the shift in habits to the movie or its message.
This is probably the best bit of advice I've seen on ./ in a long while. This one is going is going in my jewels of advice binder.
Now the real question, nano or vi.
You know, making cross-cultural references like that doesn't always go as you expect. You can't go comparing working in a sweatshop in, say China, to working in a sweatshop in the USA. In places like China, especially the more rural towns, your options are often work in a sweat shop for next to nothing, or work in the fields doing back breaking labor for far less. While sweatshops aren't glamorous, they are jobs. I'd personally compare working in a sweatshop in China to working at a bigbox store like Walmart in the USA. They aren't desirable jobs, but for some people, they provide income that would otherwise not be there.
This is the new paradigm for gaming. With new connectivity and methods of piracy the method for protecting the games assets has changed. The gaming industry, unlike the recording industries, has seen that the tides are changing and adapted to the new waters. LAN functionality was critical when the internet wasn't as assured. We're beyond that point and the delivery mechanism has changed to follow suit. Why everyone is so surprised an industry is evolving is beyond me. I'd have guessed /. would be some of the most understanding gamers on the web. Hell, we don't even know battle.net 2.0's functionality yet, and we're already burning the game at the stake for not having LAN. When has blizzard ever failed us? And we all act as if this is the first game ever to not have offline content. World of Warcraft, arguable Team Fortress 2 (sorta kinda), and it's too early with too little time to research for more than what's on the top of my head. But neither of those games flopped. LAN is going the way of VHS and dial-up modems. They still exist, but the people who use them aren't the same people who would be buying new blu-rays or games like StarCraft II. Honestly, if you want LAN play so bad just stick with StarCraft classic, nothing is truly wrong with that game aside from its horrendous resolution. Personally I don't give a damn if there is no LAN, I'm more than sure battle.net 2.0 will more than cover that functionality with gusto.
You know, homework kind of is a near epidemic in America, but for different reasons than your comment invokes. It's sad when sports and physical ability are the standards for social normalcy in a country. I really wish America could grow up and start treating academics with such respect. Right now it's "better" to be strong and agile than smart or creative. America really needs to both get over the ugly act of making school scores a private non-embarrassing number and make school into a sort of game. Honestly, if there was more shame involved with getting low scores maybe academics would become more apart of regular social activity. It's sad when doing poor in school is considered popular.
What is this? Spend a dozen years creating possibly the second most sophisticated piece of scientific equipment only to blow it up on a predefined time table? Why not make that date something to the tune of, "Upon becoming too cumbersome to maintain." Or, "Becomes scientifically unecessary." Why is it you have to state ahead of time that it will only last 5 or so years? It's not like you have to state how long something is going to last, we all know how well that went with the Mars rovers. >> Okay guys, we've worked 12 years on her and she's finally done. 'aint she a beauté? Okay boys, take her down.
Netflix uses silverlight for their movie streaming client.
I'd imagine introducing the HIV virus to a test subject requires far lest effort than sleeping with multiple prostitutes.
For one, the government usually doesn't ask for permission first. Not to mention that the information used to determine your geolocation is also derived from something already passed to the web host, your IP, assuming you're not using the WiFi option. Generally speaking web pages can achieve a similar result already with a little effort. As it stands this new feature isn't making new information available to the public, it's just making old information a bit more friendly.
So in that regard anything that uses the TraceMonkey javascript engine is also Firefox, even if it isn't.
They're crunching 13-million-digit numbers with a desktop processor? Do they realize that they can put eight quad-core xeons in a machine and finish the calculation in a single shift instead of waiting a month?
I don't know about you, but the last 13 or so mersenne primes have been found using prime95 as a conduit for a mass distributed effort. I'm not sure where you live, but in most other places people can't just go out and put 8 quad-core xeons in a home machine.
I for one wait to see the lawsuit the RIAA is drawing up to bring down upon Amazon for squelching their draconian business practices by violating their 'copyright' on 'distribution of artistic works of an audio based nature'
Free Speech is not anonymous speech. Just because you have the right to say whatever you want, with some caveats, doesn't mean you, at any point, are granted the protected right of being anonymous. You are currently at liberty to say what you want anonymously, but as with all liberties, it is not guaranteed by the Constitution.