gentoo-pc ~ $ LC_ALL="C" appletviewer http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/
Warning: tag requires name attribute.
Warning: tag requires name attribute.
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 288
at d.a(Unknown Source)
at d.a(Unknown Source)
at dust.a(Unknown Source)
at dust.init(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:419)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
A common fear, but it's not like they'd just put you in a jar and forget about you. For instance, it would be trivial to add a simple challenge/response test, and trigger an alarm on failure.
Eh, it's hit and miss. I can play Half-Life 2, the episodes, Max Payne 2, Deus Ex, C&C 3, GTA San Andreas, Psychonauts, Freelancer and Dungeon Keeper 2 without significant problems.
From my point of view, the number of games that work is bigger than the number of games that don't.
Also, just to be pedantic: WINE is not an emulator. It's a reimplementation. Meaning, it doesn't emulate Windows, it is effectively a Windows.
It's a problem with the underlying ragdoll representation.
They're having difficulties realistically modelling penetration. Close contact like that tends to lead to numerical instabilities in physics engines. There's not much Physx can do to help, though.
My personal take on it is that the Earth is a very complex system with interactions that still aren't nearly fully understood, and since it's kinda the only living room we have, it would be wise to keep our interference as low as we can, until we have attained a much more.. certain understanding.
Sidenote: you can build a rotating habitat on a planetary body. It's not exactly as easy as doing it in space, but moon's reduced gravity and lack of atmosphere actually works in your favor with this (less wear, less friction). Only problem is energy consumption.
As everyone knows, taking actions to further your own prospects at the expense of others, i.e. competing, is anti-competitive. Only Special Olympics-style "competition" is allowed in our infantilized society. :sigh:
To regurgitate, again: it's anticompetitive. because they use a monopoly in one market (internet access), which might be state-funded no less, to help their position in a different market, specifically streaming video.
This hampers competition in the streaming video market by making it impossible for online video sites to compete on equal footing.
People need to remember that the free market exists for a purpose - to allow the best product to win. These kinds of tactics completely destroy that mechanism.
Your first reasons don't matter; he addresses this in TFA.
Even if _most_ civilizations stay to their own planet, it only takes one expansionist civilization that makes it into space to colonize the universe.
Two unrelated facts:
1) If you purchase a CD/DVD, precluding any special agreements between you and the seller, you are legally allowed to read all data on it.
2) Most setup files for Windows can be extracted by hand. Often you only have to move files around a bit to make the program work.
What EULA?
I'd argue that while the BSD license gives more freedom to the individual user of the licensed code, the GPL license generates more "overall" freedom:)
As usual, a long-standing debate comes down to semantics.
Granted, with arbitrary reproduction of arbitrary objects (why limit it to cars), the whole commercial system would collapse, as the value of every reproducible product would instantly drop to near-zero.
The thing that you're missing, though, is that since this would make us a true post-scarcity society, this collapse wouldn't matter in the slightest.:)
If there's enough for anybody, why squabble over it?
I highly doubt that an implicit contract between the website and the viewer is legal anyhow, since you can't decline it without reading it, and to do that, you have to view the page. Catch-22 at its finest.
Slashdot Mirror
Except the ones who are dead :(
Well I would have tried but I don't have a Windows computer :)
Thanks for verifying this, anyway.
Actually, Java from Sun on x86. Sorry, hate to break your illusion of "The official Java keeps their promise of platform independence".
gentoo-pc ~ $ java -version
..
java version "1.6.0_03"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode)
Fail, you do.
gentoo-pc ~ $ LC_ALL="C" appletviewer http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/
Warning: tag requires name attribute.
Warning: tag requires name attribute.
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 288
at d.a(Unknown Source)
at d.a(Unknown Source)
at dust.a(Unknown Source)
at dust.init(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:419)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Java.
Write once,
run anywhere.
Yeah. Right.
There's worse.
...
TOLKEIN?!
I mean seriously, that's like some sort of deadly sin of spelling. Geeks have been sentenced to geek card revocation for far lesser crimes.
Speak for yourself :)
No, you can see the effects of this conflict every day in the fluctuations of the price of milk [...]
Beware the cows! Not all milk is enriched!
A common fear, but it's not like they'd just put you in a jar and forget about you. For instance, it would be trivial to add a simple challenge/response test, and trigger an alarm on failure.
Thanks for explaining (and demonstrating) the meaning of the idiom "slippery slope", as well as the story with the frog and the water.
Eh, it's hit and miss. I can play Half-Life 2, the episodes, Max Payne 2, Deus Ex, C&C 3, GTA San Andreas, Psychonauts, Freelancer and Dungeon Keeper 2 without significant problems.
From my point of view, the number of games that work is bigger than the number of games that don't.
Also, just to be pedantic: WINE is not an emulator. It's a reimplementation. Meaning, it doesn't emulate Windows, it is effectively a Windows.
Afaik, it's an abbreviated form of "lick my ass".
("Ihr koennt uns mal am Arsch lecken")
It's a problem with the underlying ragdoll representation.
They're having difficulties realistically modelling penetration. Close contact like that tends to lead to numerical instabilities in physics engines. There's not much Physx can do to help, though.
Well, not just any LEDs.
Red ones.
My personal take on it is that the Earth is a very complex system with interactions that still aren't nearly fully understood, and since it's kinda the only living room we have, it would be wise to keep our interference as low as we can, until we have attained a much more .. certain understanding.
Sidenote: you can build a rotating habitat on a planetary body. It's not exactly as easy as doing it in space, but moon's reduced gravity and lack of atmosphere actually works in your favor with this (less wear, less friction). Only problem is energy consumption.
To regurgitate, again: it's anticompetitive. because they use a monopoly in one market (internet access), which might be state-funded no less, to help their position in a different market, specifically streaming video.
This hampers competition in the streaming video market by making it impossible for online video sites to compete on equal footing.
People need to remember that the free market exists for a purpose - to allow the best product to win. These kinds of tactics completely destroy that mechanism.
Great, now even the jokes are making copies of themselves!
Tol fscking kien. Please. Help this spelling mistake die already.
Your first reasons don't matter; he addresses this in TFA. Even if _most_ civilizations stay to their own planet, it only takes one expansionist civilization that makes it into space to colonize the universe.
Two unrelated facts:
1) If you purchase a CD/DVD, precluding any special agreements between you and the seller, you are legally allowed to read all data on it.
2) Most setup files for Windows can be extracted by hand. Often you only have to move files around a bit to make the program work.
What EULA?
wget http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/exhibition/scc5/final.html -O- -q -U Mozilla |grep \\.mov |sed -e "s@.*href=.@@" -e "s@mov.*@mov@" |while read e; do echo http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/exhibition/scc5/$e; done |xargs wget -U Mozilla --referer="http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/exhibition/scc5/final.html" :)
--feep
I'd argue that while the BSD license gives more freedom to the individual user of the licensed code, the GPL license generates more "overall" freedom :)
As usual, a long-standing debate comes down to semantics.
--feep
Granted, with arbitrary reproduction of arbitrary objects (why limit it to cars), the whole commercial system would collapse, as the value of every reproducible product would instantly drop to near-zero. The thing that you're missing, though, is that since this would make us a true post-scarcity society, this collapse wouldn't matter in the slightest. :)
If there's enough for anybody, why squabble over it?
I highly doubt that an implicit contract between the website and the viewer is legal anyhow, since you can't decline it without reading it, and to do that, you have to view the page. Catch-22 at its finest.