No, I haven't. The novel was never assigned to me in high school, and the movie was released before I was old enough to see R-rated films. Besides, I couldn't find any ads for the book or movie within DN3D's textures, just a bunch of issues of Guns & Ammo lying around.
Theres a wall in one of the cells that has a poster on the wall with a hole and a tunnel behind it
How is the player supposed to know that the poster covers a hole? I had to go looking for that information (and in the days before the ubiquity of the WWW, that involved calling a 1-900 number), but then I figured out the pipe bomb myself.
This way we can still play all of our favorite Duke3D-based games on Linux or Windows XXX or whatever without having to totally recreate the engine from scratch.
As a game, rather than just eye-candy, I'll pit Duke against any of the more modern full 3D shooters.
I got stuck for hours on the "prison" level of single player DN3D. It turned out that I had to walk through a wall to beat it. Now how was a player supposed to have figured that out?
The use of VBA becomes a necessity for the business
What about viruses? VBA applications have had macro viruses and e-mail worms. Is VBA sandboxed now? If not, then I'm not going to let my business rely on it.
So where's your copy of a signed license agreement from Sun and Microsoft?
Open the installer to see it. And if EULAs aren't binding, the big proprietary software publishers are screwed in other ways.
If you do not have a signed document stating you may use the patent royalty free, then either one of them at a later date can tell you to pay up.
Not always. If a patent holder delays an infringement lawsuit by over six years or otherwise harm me by delaying legal action, the doctrine of laches states that the patent holder may not be able to recover damages for infringements that occurred prior to filing the lawsuit.
but really how can you call something standard if it's patented?
Licenses for essential patents on all ECMA and ISO standards must be available under so-called "reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms, which may or may not involve a royalty. Both common forms of JPEG still image compression (DCT-based JPEG and wavelet-based JPEG2000) are patented, but holders of essential patents have agreed to license the patents under royalty-free terms. According to a few other comments in this thread, it appears Microsoft has agreed to license ECMA C# royalty-free as well, but I could be wrong.
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So now, somebody who can RTFM is considered a guru?
No, somebody who can UTFM (understand the fine manual) is a guru. Commercial distributors of free software would make more money if they would contribute some good tutorials for setting up server packages in a secure-by-default-but-reasonably-operational manner.
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Yes, your brain does need to be told this. Millions of years of evolution (or, if you Believe Different, millions of lines of God's code) compiled into human DNA have adapted the eyes to tracking things that move slowly without a lot of jerk (kinematics defines "jerk" as the rate of change of acceleration) rather than things that just pop into place. Though I find IE's smooth scrolling too slow, I did find it a useful visual cue.
graal: "Some are glad, Some are sad, And some are very, very bad. Why are they sad, and glad and bad?"
pin0cchio: "I'll tell you why they are so sad: The Congress passed a law that's bad. The public domain has been sacked by what they called the 'Bono Act'. And this made Eric Eldred shout: 'Let's get the courts to throw it out!' But in their ruling, the Supremes Told Larry Lessig, 'In your dreams.' The public seemed to've lost the fight For limits on the copyright. But all is not lost, to be sure, And you can help put reason back: Just ask your rep and senator To pass The Eric Eldred Act."
A grade of "AAA" means "full combo, all perfects". That is, no bugs. The only way to guarantee bug-free software is to prove its correctness against the specification. At the current maturity level of software architecture, proving the correctness of a system as complex as a web browser is not feasible.
Not sure which would happen first: riots because of all the unemployment this would create, or the creation of a software blackmarket.
You forget the third choice: defining "sell" in such a way as to include only proprietary software. It'd make RMS mad, but it'd let free software continue.
I understand that the term "author" is more accurate than "creator" because copyright law uses "author", but what word better describes the concept of "works of authorship other than computer programs" than "content"? RMS fails to give positive examples for some of the buzzwords in his "words to avoid" page.
but seeing as I already have those features on Tivo
Not if your digital cable box outputs Macrovision encoding (it already does so for some programs) and your PVR is required to stop recording when it sees Macrovision (not USA law yet, but very soon).
On the other hand, because it's licensed by the owner of copyright in the programming, it's legal in Australia, whose laws consider time-shifting with a VCR or PVR as copyright infringement because of the lack of a Betamax doctrine.
What you forgot is that AOL is really AOL-Time Warner, and they own most of the content providers!
Time Warner owns The WB, CNN, CNN Headline News, TBS, TNT, TCM, Cartoon Network, but not much else that I surf past on basic cable. Time Warner does not own CBS, UPN, MTV, Nickelodeon (all Viacom), or ABC, ABC Family, ESPN, Disney, Toon Disney (all Disney). None of them owns NBC, MSNBC (Gen Elec Co), A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel (A&E TV Nets), Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet (Discovery Comms), BET (BET Nets), E!, style. (E! Ent Nets), Fox, Fox News (News Corp),
Make it small enough to power a gameboy sized device and run GLQuake and then get back to me.
A proof of concept (2 fps) port of Quake has been ported to Game Park's GP32 handheld. The author claims that integerization of the arithmetic would bring it up to full frame rate.
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Never seen (or read) The Shawshank Redemption
No, I haven't. The novel was never assigned to me in high school, and the movie was released before I was old enough to see R-rated films. Besides, I couldn't find any ads for the book or movie within DN3D's textures, just a bunch of issues of Guns & Ammo lying around.
Theres a wall in one of the cells that has a poster on the wall with a hole and a tunnel behind it
How is the player supposed to know that the poster covers a hole? I had to go looking for that information (and in the days before the ubiquity of the WWW, that involved calling a 1-900 number), but then I figured out the pipe bomb myself.
In my opinion, the sound effects and clever level design were what made Nukem 3d
Then how did you figure out that you needed to walk through the wall in the Prison level?
This way we can still play all of our favorite Duke3D-based games on Linux or Windows XXX or whatever without having to totally recreate the engine from scratch.
Yeah, but it comes without map files, which still cost $20 per seat.
As a game, rather than just eye-candy, I'll pit Duke against any of the more modern full 3D shooters.
I got stuck for hours on the "prison" level of single player DN3D. It turned out that I had to walk through a wall to beat it. Now how was a player supposed to have figured that out?
The use of VBA becomes a necessity for the business
What about viruses? VBA applications have had macro viruses and e-mail worms. Is VBA sandboxed now? If not, then I'm not going to let my business rely on it.
So where's your copy of a signed license agreement from Sun and Microsoft?
Open the installer to see it. And if EULAs aren't binding, the big proprietary software publishers are screwed in other ways.
If you do not have a signed document stating you may use the patent royalty free, then either one of them at a later date can tell you to pay up.
Not always. If a patent holder delays an infringement lawsuit by over six years or otherwise harm me by delaying legal action, the doctrine of laches states that the patent holder may not be able to recover damages for infringements that occurred prior to filing the lawsuit.
but really how can you call something standard if it's patented?
Licenses for essential patents on all ECMA and ISO standards must be available under so-called "reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms, which may or may not involve a royalty. Both common forms of JPEG still image compression (DCT-based JPEG and wavelet-based JPEG2000) are patented, but holders of essential patents have agreed to license the patents under royalty-free terms. According to a few other comments in this thread, it appears Microsoft has agreed to license ECMA C# royalty-free as well, but I could be wrong.
So now, somebody who can RTFM is considered a guru?
No, somebody who can UTFM (understand the fine manual) is a guru. Commercial distributors of free software would make more money if they would contribute some good tutorials for setting up server packages in a secure-by-default-but-reasonably-operational manner.
BSA is not Boy Scouts. The joke is no longer funny.
Meanwhile, Linux isn't "officially" UNIX or even POSIX-certified
The Unifix Linux distribution is certified as POSIX.1 conforming.
OS X has (IMHO) the quickest, simplest, and most elegant 'finder' [aka GUI] available today.
The point of the article is that your statement is true only because Mac OS 9 is no longer available.
Did you happen to get permission to host that article from Ars?
Yes, from the U.S. government. A rider to the DMCA permits caching online content without the permission of the copyright owner in some cases.
With smooth scrolling I find that by the time my eye has located the next thing to look at, it's still *moving* because the scroll is so slow.
So in other words, a smooth-scrolling web page is not exactly wrong, but its implementation in IE is just set too slow for your taste. Right?
"You are now scrolling." Gee, thanks.
Yes, your brain does need to be told this. Millions of years of evolution (or, if you Believe Different, millions of lines of God's code) compiled into human DNA have adapted the eyes to tracking things that move slowly without a lot of jerk (kinematics defines "jerk" as the rate of change of acceleration) rather than things that just pop into place. Though I find IE's smooth scrolling too slow, I did find it a useful visual cue.
Got a screenshot of the smooth scrolling? :)
Yeah, but IE 6 can't display MNG images out of the box.
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I dunno, but I prefer tits to either of them.
But aren't mammaries binary too? A woman has a left boob (1) and a right boob (0). It's a naughty bit, but it's still just a bit.
I boycott Dr. Seuss Enterprises because it submitted an amicus brief supporting the Bono Act. A K5 user once pretended to channel Dr. Seuss:
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It was necessary. Linux needed a AAA browser.
A grade of "AAA" means "full combo, all perfects". That is, no bugs. The only way to guarantee bug-free software is to prove its correctness against the specification. At the current maturity level of software architecture, proving the correctness of a system as complex as a web browser is not feasible.
Not sure which would happen first: riots because of all the unemployment this would create, or the creation of a software blackmarket.
You forget the third choice: defining "sell" in such a way as to include only proprietary software. It'd make RMS mad, but it'd let free software continue.
I understand that the term "author" is more accurate than "creator" because copyright law uses "author", but what word better describes the concept of "works of authorship other than computer programs" than "content"? RMS fails to give positive examples for some of the buzzwords in his "words to avoid" page.
but seeing as I already have those features on Tivo
Not if your digital cable box outputs Macrovision encoding (it already does so for some programs) and your PVR is required to stop recording when it sees Macrovision (not USA law yet, but very soon).
On the other hand, because it's licensed by the owner of copyright in the programming, it's legal in Australia, whose laws consider time-shifting with a VCR or PVR as copyright infringement because of the lack of a Betamax doctrine.
What you forgot is that AOL is really AOL-Time Warner, and they own most of the content providers!
Time Warner owns The WB, CNN, CNN Headline News, TBS, TNT, TCM, Cartoon Network, but not much else that I surf past on basic cable. Time Warner does not own CBS, UPN, MTV, Nickelodeon (all Viacom), or ABC, ABC Family, ESPN, Disney, Toon Disney (all Disney). None of them owns NBC, MSNBC (Gen Elec Co), A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel (A&E TV Nets), Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet (Discovery Comms), BET (BET Nets), E!, style. (E! Ent Nets), Fox, Fox News (News Corp),
Make it small enough to power a gameboy sized device and run GLQuake and then get back to me.
A proof of concept (2 fps) port of Quake has been ported to Game Park's GP32 handheld. The author claims that integerization of the arithmetic would bring it up to full frame rate.