Says who? The article suggests this may end any exclusivity agreement Bungee had with Microsoft, so if anything this may mean having Halo on more consoles is a possibility (and hopefully some PC ports sometime in the next decade, even if they are castrated).
Guitar Hero: Halo would be...interesting, but to be fair it does have some very excellent music and I really wouldn't mind playing along (although we might need new plastic instruments:-).
It's times like these that make me wish for modpoints because I am 100% in agreement with you. Xkcd is one of the few webcomics I read (along with Penny Arcade and Dinosaur Comics) but I'm starting to wish the editors would just post the "obligatory xkcd" along with TFS to get it over with.
No, PhysX is (and was) only ever hardware accelerated on Nvidia/Ageia hardware. Before you could add a second (Nvidia) card to your system and use it for PhysX. All this announcement is saying is that people using AMD as their primary GPU can no longer do this.
I don't think it's really that big of a problem. First of all if you have passwords written down in your wallet and someone steals it, they're still going to have to figure out your username (unless you wrote that) and what password is for what service, what bank you use, etc. In the meantime you could just change all of your passwords to be safe.
Of course this wouldn't work if you didn't know your wallet was stolen (if they copied your passwords and returned it before you knew it was missing), but it seems like that would be a pretty targeted attack...
There's nothing wrong with ATMs running Windows, OS/2 or whatever as long as it's set up right. An ATM should NEVER be hooked up directly to the outside network (no matter what OS it is running), and should always be physically secured (in a very visible location, watched by cameras 24/7, etc).
I've experienced memory leaks in the past, but recently I've been using Firefox 3.5 (on Fedora 11) and Firefox doesn't get over a few hundred megabytes. That's with 7-8 tabs running for several weeks straight.
Last time I checked you only lose 3d acceleration if you want to use multiple unrelated cards to drive multiple monitors (something Windows doesn't even support AFAIK).
Configuring multiple monitors is just a few clicks (or commands) away in Linux as well.
I agree with you that a lot of projects could use better or more descriptive names, but you've gotta realize that 99% of the time these are people's personal projects that they are either working on because it has some utility to them or because they just want to get experience.
Gee, it's almost like they don't want people to learn to how to contribute.
Most projects do have some kind of step-by-step guide to get a build environment setup. If you have trouble, post to the project's mailing list or forum.
You're deliberately missing the point with a straw man argument.
Regardless of what external libraries are available, the Mono Project advertises support for WinForms, ADO.NET, etc, also claiming that it is a cross platform, open source.NET development framework, so you and I should as developers should be free to make use of them.
All the OP said was that right now if you want to play it safe with patents you pretty much have to avoid using most of the features that probably drew you to Mono/.NET in the first place.
Definitely agree. Also if you can't come up with your own ideas (it's hard) there are tons of inactive OSS projects that you could pickup; just search around on SourceForge for something that interests you.
Admittedly I don't know that much about file systems, but I think implementing any kind of journaling file system on a device like that (especially if it uses flash media) would be a bad idea. Going with the example of an mp3 player, 99% of the time the file system will only be used in a read-only way anyways so there really is no point in having anything fancy to keep track of writes in the event of an unexpected loss of power.:-)
The reason that FAT is still around has more to do with compatibility than any kind of technical merit. Pretty much every version of Windows supports FAT, and most other operating systems can use it as well. I think most "smart" vendors have figured out that if they use FAT for their devices (music players, cameras, GPS units) then pretty much anyone will be able to use them. That's why it's important to have FAT support in Linux, no one is saying that you have to use it on your / partition though.:-)
That's generally not true. Off the top of my head the exceptions are LTS releases (Ubuntu) and post-stable releases (Debian). Also it's worth noting that these updates are just meant to give users enough time to migrate to the current release, not enable them to stay where they are indefinitely.
Per your example, I don't even think any of the Fedora mirrors host install disks for Fedora 3 (much less provide update repos).
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Says who? The article suggests this may end any exclusivity agreement Bungee had with Microsoft, so if anything this may mean having Halo on more consoles is a possibility (and hopefully some PC ports sometime in the next decade, even if they are castrated).
Guitar Hero: Halo would be...interesting, but to be fair it does have some very excellent music and I really wouldn't mind playing along (although we might need new plastic instruments :-).
But that negates the whole point of using a livecd for this in the first place.
Last time I checked, Google is not a player in the broadcasting business.
Not yet anyways. ;)
It's times like these that make me wish for modpoints because I am 100% in agreement with you. Xkcd is one of the few webcomics I read (along with Penny Arcade and Dinosaur Comics) but I'm starting to wish the editors would just post the "obligatory xkcd" along with TFS to get it over with.
Stargate Universe is still being produced, and they can always make new props if they need to.
He probably got something more like a Staples gift card.
No, PhysX is (and was) only ever hardware accelerated on Nvidia/Ageia hardware. Before you could add a second (Nvidia) card to your system and use it for PhysX. All this announcement is saying is that people using AMD as their primary GPU can no longer do this.
It's been awhile but IIRC the Endor troopers were wearing different armor.
http://www.google.com/search?q=strongly+typed+language
Crashes usually turn into remote exploits.
I don't think it's really that big of a problem. First of all if you have passwords written down in your wallet and someone steals it, they're still going to have to figure out your username (unless you wrote that) and what password is for what service, what bank you use, etc. In the meantime you could just change all of your passwords to be safe.
Of course this wouldn't work if you didn't know your wallet was stolen (if they copied your passwords and returned it before you knew it was missing), but it seems like that would be a pretty targeted attack...
There's nothing wrong with ATMs running Windows, OS/2 or whatever as long as it's set up right. An ATM should NEVER be hooked up directly to the outside network (no matter what OS it is running), and should always be physically secured (in a very visible location, watched by cameras 24/7, etc).
I honestly read the summary title as "Microsoft Hardware Demos Pleasure Sensitive Keyboard".
Needless to say I was very disturbed...
What version of Firefox are you using?
I've experienced memory leaks in the past, but recently I've been using Firefox 3.5 (on Fedora 11) and Firefox doesn't get over a few hundred megabytes. That's with 7-8 tabs running for several weeks straight.
Was just about to recommend this. It's a fun game, it's free, and it runs on just about anything.
Last time I checked you only lose 3d acceleration if you want to use multiple unrelated cards to drive multiple monitors (something Windows doesn't even support AFAIK).
Configuring multiple monitors is just a few clicks (or commands) away in Linux as well.
Read the last page. 500$.
I agree with you that a lot of projects could use better or more descriptive names, but you've gotta realize that 99% of the time these are people's personal projects that they are either working on because it has some utility to them or because they just want to get experience.
Gee, it's almost like they don't want people to learn to how to contribute.
Most projects do have some kind of step-by-step guide to get a build environment setup. If you have trouble, post to the project's mailing list or forum.
You're deliberately missing the point with a straw man argument.
Regardless of what external libraries are available, the Mono Project advertises support for WinForms, ADO.NET, etc, also claiming that it is a cross platform, open source .NET development framework, so you and I should as developers should be free to make use of them.
All the OP said was that right now if you want to play it safe with patents you pretty much have to avoid using most of the features that probably drew you to Mono/.NET in the first place.
Definitely agree. Also if you can't come up with your own ideas (it's hard) there are tons of inactive OSS projects that you could pickup; just search around on SourceForge for something that interests you.
It's not FUD. One of the goals of the Mono project is compatibility with .NET applications and that means supporting things like Windows Forms.
Admittedly I don't know that much about file systems, but I think implementing any kind of journaling file system on a device like that (especially if it uses flash media) would be a bad idea. Going with the example of an mp3 player, 99% of the time the file system will only be used in a read-only way anyways so there really is no point in having anything fancy to keep track of writes in the event of an unexpected loss of power. :-)
The reason that FAT is still around has more to do with compatibility than any kind of technical merit. Pretty much every version of Windows supports FAT, and most other operating systems can use it as well. I think most "smart" vendors have figured out that if they use FAT for their devices (music players, cameras, GPS units) then pretty much anyone will be able to use them. That's why it's important to have FAT support in Linux, no one is saying that you have to use it on your / partition though. :-)
That's generally not true. Off the top of my head the exceptions are LTS releases (Ubuntu) and post-stable releases (Debian). Also it's worth noting that these updates are just meant to give users enough time to migrate to the current release, not enable them to stay where they are indefinitely.
Per your example, I don't even think any of the Fedora mirrors host install disks for Fedora 3 (much less provide update repos).