This game will sell me a PS3. It's so "innocent" and creative - a game that anyone can play, build upon and share. I have a PS2 but have held off on upgrading. When LittleBigPlanet ships, I'm picking it (and a PS3) up.
Maybe because I was walking out of work to enjoy a nice day off tomorrow and managed to see this story before grabbing the file and doing a quick strings/grep for GPL? Way to ascribe malice there, though. Thanks a ton - hope that attitude works out for you.
how about a version of os x/os x server that is only licensed to (and tied to) run on a virtual machine? they build bits into the xnu kernel that tie it to apple hardware, so why not another, separate "software-only" distribution that runs on vmware or parallels?
this would be easy, and they could charge out the wazzo for it if they wanted. my workplace would buy it to run supported quicktime streaming services under real os x server on vmware, and i'd wager a lot of other sites would do the same thing.
they could use their virtual machine-oriented software sales to subsidize their hardware prices if they really wanted.
Look at the XNU source code - it's in Darwin, and you can see info here. XNU is portable, obviously. An in-house team at Apple could have ported it to ARM. And there's no reason that Apple could "dual-license" the source *to themselves* and use something like a BSD license.
But none of that matters. It's all just speculation until the device ships. No one knows.
Why isn't this article titled "iPhone Not Running OS X ???" It's not fact, and phrasing it as such doesn't make it so.
You can't really just walk away from failures in life.
You can and should. Learn what you can from your failures and take that forward with you. There's no point in dwelling on past mistakes or screw-ups. Everyone fails at something (or many somethings) in their lives.
Fear of failure is what prevents people from taking risks. We'd all be a lot better off if focus wasn't put on specific failures but on the positives we can use in future endeavors.
Trust me, I'm a great failure and I'm happy with it!
Silent Hill was not good by any stretch of the imagination. It was a great game, to be sure. But a bad script will almost always make a bad movie. Silent Hill had an awful script, and, hey hey, it was a bad movie.
Saying it was "good" does a disservice to actual good movies, and it's delusional to boot.
Does ANYONE know where I can find a digital version of that song? I've searched high and low to no avail - I've never been able to find an MP3 of the Nintendo Cereal song, much to the consternation of myself and one of my friends.
The Zelda "mazes" on the cereal boxes were pretty cool too...
However installing the thing on Linux is not fun - I tried to do it and it is really hair-pulling, head-banging experience - undocumented, buggy as hell, basically 1:1 converted IRIX installation to Linux. Forget about some rpms or such. Uses FlexLM from GlobeTrotter for license management, so it is a lot of fun.
This is not true anymore. Alias has been providing RPMs for Maya and the licensing tools since at least Maya 4.5 (may have been seeded beta stuff, but still). Maya 6 is one of the easiest software installs I've ever done. They have hardware and software recommendations as well, and if you abide by these, it's very much a no-brainer "this works on Linux just like it works on Windows" setup. I run an old IRIX FlexLM server for licensing and around 70 Linux clients.
Maya 5 did indeed have some bugs running under unsupported operating systems (anything later than Red Hat 8) but that's to be expected. I got an almost completely usable software package that ran much faster than the old O2s by tweaking my Red Hat 9 system a bit. That's what I get paid to do - making software work for our users.
Maya 6 fixes all of the issues that I (or any of the users) saw with the old version. If you're running Maya 5 on Linux and can afford to upgrade, do so immediately - the stability improvements and the fact that you don't have to tweak your system at all are worth it.
On the PC and XBOX, you have the Elder Scrolls games, which are all FP/RPGs (with the option of changing to third-person in Morrowind, Bloodmoon and Tribunal). They're all sweet games to boot. Arx Fatalis is another FP/RPG, and it's pretty good from what I hear. On the Playstation{,2}, you have games like King's Field, Eternal Ring, etc. Which aren't that good, but they're a start;)
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Some people have peanut allergies so severe that they can't come within six miles of anything that says "styrofoam packing materials" on the box.
This game will sell me a PS3. It's so "innocent" and creative - a game that anyone can play, build upon and share. I have a PS2 but have held off on upgrading. When LittleBigPlanet ships, I'm picking it (and a PS3) up.
We expect better from Apple.
Well there's your problem...
Maybe because I was walking out of work to enjoy a nice day off tomorrow and managed to see this story before grabbing the file and doing a quick strings/grep for GPL? Way to ascribe malice there, though. Thanks a ton - hope that attitude works out for you.
Mea culpa, but no need to be a jerk.
Oh yeah! Apple: please don't sue me. I like you, okay? Thanks!
grab the restore image, append a .zip, unzip it.
...
strings 694-5259-38.dmg | grep -i gpl
(www.memtest86.com). At the time of writing it is free (GPLd).
yes, it's just memtest, yes we can get it on our own... but apple, where's the modified source?
there are many more interesting(?) things you can glean from running strings on the non-encrypted but non-functioning (for me) disk image.
you're just an anti-dentite...
how about a version of os x/os x server that is only licensed to (and tied to) run on a virtual machine? they build bits into the xnu kernel that tie it to apple hardware, so why not another, separate "software-only" distribution that runs on vmware or parallels?
this would be easy, and they could charge out the wazzo for it if they wanted. my workplace would buy it to run supported quicktime streaming services under real os x server on vmware, and i'd wager a lot of other sites would do the same thing.
they could use their virtual machine-oriented software sales to subsidize their hardware prices if they really wanted.
but oh yeah, they're a hardware company.
Look at the XNU source code - it's in Darwin, and you can see info here. XNU is portable, obviously. An in-house team at Apple could have ported it to ARM. And there's no reason that Apple could "dual-license" the source *to themselves* and use something like a BSD license.
But none of that matters. It's all just speculation until the device ships. No one knows.
Why isn't this article titled "iPhone Not Running OS X ???" It's not fact, and phrasing it as such doesn't make it so.
You can't really just walk away from failures in life.
You can and should. Learn what you can from your failures and take that forward with you. There's no point in dwelling on past mistakes or screw-ups. Everyone fails at something (or many somethings) in their lives.
Fear of failure is what prevents people from taking risks. We'd all be a lot better off if focus wasn't put on specific failures but on the positives we can use in future endeavors.
Trust me, I'm a great failure and I'm happy with it!
Which Obj-C book did you pick up?
Silent Hill was not good by any stretch of the imagination. It was a great game, to be sure. But a bad script will almost always make a bad movie. Silent Hill had an awful script, and, hey hey, it was a bad movie.
Saying it was "good" does a disservice to actual good movies, and it's delusional to boot.
Oh, please. Don't play the persecution card... It's not fooling anyone.
why, why, why back in my day....
Does ANYONE know where I can find a digital version of that song? I've searched high and low to no avail - I've never been able to find an MP3 of the Nintendo Cereal song, much to the consternation of myself and one of my friends.
The Zelda "mazes" on the cereal boxes were pretty cool too...
No, but you will have to watch a torturous platform-jumping sequence near the end when Cruise is teleported to Xen.
IT'S BURNING MY BRAIN!
You left? Really? I distinctly remember you getting kicked out. Twice.
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that you broke up with India. "No, we totally dumped her, seriously."
Sure you did...
I don't know, Joe. You want to go to the show? Or maybe suck on my little toe? Hey, look! Edgar Allan Poe! WHOA!
My apologies... When you make that face, it's only a joke!
That's because you probably have principles. Remember, these are politicians we're talking about...
And you're killing bee !
Get it?! I said "bee" instead of "me" and put some emphasis on it! That is hilarious! Don't you think?
However installing the thing on Linux is not fun - I tried to do it and it is really hair-pulling, head-banging experience - undocumented, buggy as hell, basically 1:1 converted IRIX installation to Linux. Forget about some rpms or such. Uses FlexLM from GlobeTrotter for license management, so it is a lot of fun.
This is not true anymore. Alias has been providing RPMs for Maya and the licensing tools since at least Maya 4.5 (may have been seeded beta stuff, but still). Maya 6 is one of the easiest software installs I've ever done. They have hardware and software recommendations as well, and if you abide by these, it's very much a no-brainer "this works on Linux just like it works on Windows" setup. I run an old IRIX FlexLM server for licensing and around 70 Linux clients.
Maya 5 did indeed have some bugs running under unsupported operating systems (anything later than Red Hat 8) but that's to be expected. I got an almost completely usable software package that ran much faster than the old O2s by tweaking my Red Hat 9 system a bit. That's what I get paid to do - making software work for our users.
Maya 6 fixes all of the issues that I (or any of the users) saw with the old version. If you're running Maya 5 on Linux and can afford to upgrade, do so immediately - the stability improvements and the fact that you don't have to tweak your system at all are worth it.
On the PC and XBOX, you have the Elder Scrolls games, which are all FP/RPGs (with the option of changing to third-person in Morrowind, Bloodmoon and Tribunal). They're all sweet games to boot. Arx Fatalis is another FP/RPG, and it's pretty good from what I hear. On the Playstation{,2}, you have games like King's Field, Eternal Ring, etc. Which aren't that good, but they're a start ;)
Gore did win Florida. Just not officially.
Because EVERY piece of memory he's EVER TESTED has come back BAD.
Call me Zippy. I couldn't resist.