No, the fight was lost when people started going online, or even before that; share digital information from and to a device that computes information.
-Next to Steam copy protection, you also get the retail copy protectiong along with it, which means double copy protection. Copy protection means hellware (yes, I just invented that term:-) )
We need a DRM standard, shared amongst all vendors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
It's already inside your computer. It's open hardware. It sucks, too. And what the hell? I don't want working DRM! I know where it is and I don't buy it. Let the public john doe's feel the pain so we can get rid of it, for ever!
Yes, the Windows compile of Firefox works faster in Wine on Linux, than the native one on Linux.
The reason for this is that the Windows compile is compiled with some kind of compiler optimisation. Don't really know what that optimisation was, however it had nothing to do with Windows.
We have a lot of -gates in the netherlands. More and more you see the English language blending in with other languages.
When I hear a Dutch business guy talking on the phone it's 50% English words.
Me and a friend of mine mix Dutch and English grammer and words together without even thinking about it. Sometimes this results in going 100% English for a while and then it comes back to mixing again.
History, which repeats itself, repetitively shows that Microsoft never does something when they are not going to gain extra profit and/or extra lockin.
So yes, they are doing it on purpose. First they let everybody think "ah it's ok. It's cross platform and also available on Linux. Let's develop for it people!". And then when everybody does it KABOOM! No more support for the competition.
No this is not an issue at all! Everything besides Apple and Microsoft are just a band of hippies.
Here comes my shocker: your an asshole that believes fscking with free and open internet, in this digital age, is totally fine! Who cares about closed standards. Who cares about other people than the people that use Mac OS X and Windows. They are not important.
So hello, the rest of the world, Frosty Piss here has spoken. You don't count. You're just a bunch of hippies.
Now if only there was an option to voteban someone from the internet...
Not anymore. Flash specs were released by Adobe some time ago. Flash is no longer a plugin, but a protocol/language/standard/whatever. Look at Gnash while they are implementing it...
Point is: MS is dominant. MS is proprietary. In other words that means that Microsoft uses it's dominant position to release some stuff that nobody is allowed to know how it works, and so competition is doomed. That means anti-trust. That means that the EU needs to start kicking some serious ass along the lines of "Microsoft, open up the specs, release without a license, stick to your specs, otherwise you are no longer allowed to release new software on the EU. No fines. No multi-billion dollar payments. Just do it or lose the right to sell anything untill you comply.
The point being made here is that if you let every moron develop on your tech, then you get all the crap too.
Windows was an example of allowing everybody to program for you ("Developers, developers, developers!") and then getting all the crap too. How that hell thÃt was modded flamebait is beyond my comprehension. I wasn't even bashing Windows (at that current time ofcourse;-))
I was talking about raytracing. coordinates and mathemathical functions -> quadric models. Textures with RGB values -> shading and HDR data for post processing. I wasn't referring to TFA, just to show that you can construct a 2D image without the need of triangles and polygons.
more baseless speculation that is more religious fanboy nonsense.
I don't even own a PS3 X'D. I am a PC gamer. Please tell me how that's fanboyism.
and who cares, in 5 years your probably going to be saddled with children or something more important than playing on your freakin ps3. maybe even be able to afford a new console:P
If you don't care about consoles than why do you reply?
Your argument contradicts itself. First you say that the system will be doing just fine because it has better graphics. Then you compare it to the PS2, which proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that graphics do NOT sell the system -- the overall quality of the game library does.
I wasn't comparing succes based on graphics, I was comparing lifetime based on the growth of graphics. A console is just a boring box with a controller. What sepperated the PS1 from the PS2? Graphics. Graphics determines the lifetime of a console. PS2 graphics kept improving over the years. PS3 graphics will improve over the years. Xbox360 stands still.
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And do you know that current Intel and AMD processors emulate x86? Do you also know that this non-native execution downgrades performance by 5 times?
Probably, since I have seen a person getting some kind of digital eye that enables the person to see in about 8x8 pixels.
Can't cite that though, because it was a couple of years ago on a TV program I can't recall. You're just gonna have to believe me or ignore my post.
Yeah, but then again petrolium is open source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum
If I [you] put a timed bomb [PDF] inside of your car [FireFox] then is the model of your car [Firefox] per definition not safe?
It's even more damaging as microkernel servers are run in userspace too.
No, the fight was lost when people started going online, or even before that; share digital information from and to a device that computes information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
Furthermore:
-Bugfixes are mostly only for the retail version
-Next to Steam copy protection, you also get the retail copy protectiong along with it, which means double copy protection. Copy protection means hellware (yes, I just invented that term :-) )
We need a DRM standard, shared amongst all vendors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module It's already inside your computer. It's open hardware. It sucks, too. And what the hell? I don't want working DRM! I know where it is and I don't buy it. Let the public john doe's feel the pain so we can get rid of it, for ever!
Yes, the Windows compile of Firefox works faster in Wine on Linux, than the native one on Linux.
The reason for this is that the Windows compile is compiled with some kind of compiler optimisation. Don't really know what that optimisation was, however it had nothing to do with Windows.
Citation? Search the Wine mailing list.
Ah, nice, another Ecma standards. Is it also totally open and totally different from Microsofts implementation just like OOXML?
HAHAHA! X'D For the people that do not know what Colgate is, it's a toothpaste brand.
We have a lot of -gates in the netherlands. More and more you see the English language blending in with other languages.
When I hear a Dutch business guy talking on the phone it's 50% English words.
Me and a friend of mine mix Dutch and English grammer and words together without even thinking about it. Sometimes this results in going 100% English for a while and then it comes back to mixing again.
History, which repeats itself, repetitively shows that Microsoft never does something when they are not going to gain extra profit and/or extra lockin.
So yes, they are doing it on purpose. First they let everybody think "ah it's ok. It's cross platform and also available on Linux. Let's develop for it people!". And then when everybody does it KABOOM! No more support for the competition.
No this is not an issue at all! Everything besides Apple and Microsoft are just a band of hippies.
Here comes my shocker: your an asshole that believes fscking with free and open internet, in this digital age, is totally fine! Who cares about closed standards. Who cares about other people than the people that use Mac OS X and Windows. They are not important.
So hello, the rest of the world, Frosty Piss here has spoken. You don't count. You're just a bunch of hippies.
Now if only there was an option to voteban someone from the internet...
Oh for god sake stop trolling! The point is reliance. The 'American company' refers to Microsoft and not 'from America'.
Not anymore. Flash specs were released by Adobe some time ago. Flash is no longer a plugin, but a protocol/language/standard/whatever. Look at Gnash while they are implementing it...
Of course, if it doesn't, you have the source so fix it yourself.
And the specs to see what needs to be complied to? Oh wait...
Point is: MS is dominant. MS is proprietary. In other words that means that Microsoft uses it's dominant position to release some stuff that nobody is allowed to know how it works, and so competition is doomed. That means anti-trust. That means that the EU needs to start kicking some serious ass along the lines of "Microsoft, open up the specs, release without a license, stick to your specs, otherwise you are no longer allowed to release new software on the EU. No fines. No multi-billion dollar payments. Just do it or lose the right to sell anything untill you comply.
It. Must. Be. Like. That. And. No. Other. Way.
The point being made here is that if you let every moron develop on your tech, then you get all the crap too.
Windows was an example of allowing everybody to program for you ("Developers, developers, developers!") and then getting all the crap too. How that hell thÃt was modded flamebait is beyond my comprehension. I wasn't even bashing Windows (at that current time ofcourse ;-))
I was talking about raytracing. coordinates and mathemathical functions -> quadric models. Textures with RGB values -> shading and HDR data for post processing. I wasn't referring to TFA, just to show that you can construct a 2D image without the need of triangles and polygons.
And Windows doesn't outsell Linux and Apple?
Can it still be translated into OGL/DX expressions, or must it all be done in software
Well since we are not talking about polygons and triangles, OpenGL and Direct3D can't render it, duh. You of all people should know that.
And seriously, what makes you think you need polygons to create a two dimensional image of a three dimensional world?
more baseless speculation that is more religious fanboy nonsense.
I don't even own a PS3 X'D. I am a PC gamer. Please tell me how that's fanboyism.
and who cares, in 5 years your probably going to be saddled with children or something more important than playing on your freakin ps3. maybe even be able to afford a new console:P
If you don't care about consoles than why do you reply?
Killzone 2, 'nuff said.
Your argument contradicts itself. First you say that the system will be doing just fine because it has better graphics. Then you compare it to the PS2, which proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that graphics do NOT sell the system -- the overall quality of the game library does.
I wasn't comparing succes based on graphics, I was comparing lifetime based on the growth of graphics. A console is just a boring box with a controller. What sepperated the PS1 from the PS2? Graphics. Graphics determines the lifetime of a console. PS2 graphics kept improving over the years. PS3 graphics will improve over the years. Xbox360 stands still.