Doesn't this mean that Valve has been caught lying? They claimed that the Half-Life 2 engine was written from scratch. Id Software should be upset if Vavle is releasing an engine that uses Id Software code, without paying. If Vavle's Half-Life 2 code has GPL or unlicensed Id Software code in it, then I don't feel sorry for them. If such is the case, then they are criminals too.
Can you give some evidence that Vavle's code includes GPL code? If they truely were trying to sneak some GPL code into their closed-source app, then I do not feel sorry for them whatsoever. What is the saying? "No honor amongst thieves."
Exactly, demoncracy is mobocracy. Just watch an episode of Jerry Springer. Mobs are easy to manipulate, and they are often extremely stupid. It is better to have a heirarchical structure that is democratic at the bottom, and relatively small at the top.
I thought allot of these terrorists get their money (directly/indirectly) from the oil trade. Does that mean you support terrorism when you buy an SUV?
One last thing, I almost forgot to mention. If you really like BitTorrent, and you want to see it get even better, then donate $10 to Bram. The guy makes a living off of his BitTorrent donations. Since I noticed big improvements in this weeks new version of BitTorrent, I donated $20. No more long initialization times when starting/restarting a torrent download, no more download window lockup bug, faster downloads, no longer hogs CPU, etc...
Make sure you guys upgrade to the latest version of BitTorrent as a new official version came out this past week! It has tons of bug fixes and network/filesystem/CPU/memory optimizations. Also, the rule-of-thumb is that you don't close the BitTorrent download window until you have uploaded as much as you have downloaded. The new official client lists your total upload and your total download.
You could test upgrades on a test box, and if everything worked, then you could trigger the apt-get upgrade for the other boxes.
Why would end users upgrade a server? Why would casual users need to test a new package that has already been tested against the distro? I have never had an apt-get upgrade break my Redhat system.
All upgrades require from the end user is an "apt-get update && apt-get" upgrade on Redhat and Debian. Yup, apt is also for RPM, but Debian still has a much larger standard package repository. You can basically apt-get anything with Debian, while with Redhat you are a little more restricted.
Actually, almost every Linux distro can be made to use apt now that apt-rpm is available. I am using apt for rpm on Redhat 9 right now. I installed an out-of-the-box working mplayer by a click of a button.
If you are so easily turned-off to a free and open alternative, then you will most likely always be too petty to make the switch to Linux and its suite of OSS software. People like you create an impossible standard that could be stated something like:
"If its interfaces deviates from Windows, then I won't switch!"
By the way, I can use CTRL-C in every program I use on Redhat 9. There are some terminal things that CTRL-C doesn't work... but last time I was used Windows the same applied.
Thing is, I don't really have to use the terminal with Redhat 9, as there are always GUI alternatives in which CTRL-C works.
My point is that, yeah sometimes Linux is a wild frontier, and if you are so locked-in to Microsoft that small deviations in the interface get your panties in a bind... then tuff. No one said freedom didn't require change.
I was joking, but after seeing the latest polls in the USA where roughly 60% of Americans think what I said was true... well... I guess it would be hard to tell I was joking.
Because most suicide bombers in Palestine/Israel fit the profile you mentioned, in order to bypass Israeli security, terrorists groups started recruiting women. It worked like a charm.
Furthermore, the terrorists in said area also started to use disguises, so that they look like a Jew or a member of the Israeli military.
Again, more real world examples of profiles failing. Profiles hurt the innocent and open up security holes for the bad people to get through.
The real solution is to improve our foreign policy so that people around the world aren't so eager to attack us. It doesn't take much effort to study up a bit on USA foreign policy in the Middle East for the past 100 years. The USA has done bad stuff in Iran, Iraq, Afganistan, Palestine, etc... many years before 911.
The USA continues to do bad stuff in said places... hence people want to attack the USA. Racial and ethnic profiling will only worsen the problem. The solution is found in a better foreign policy.
Not only that, but what is to stop a terrorist group from recruiting sympathetic people from other races? There are people who are not Arab that would love to kill a few Americans.
I hate the Apple keyboards. They are all fruity and flemsy. I prefer the IBM Model M series of keyboards, which almost last forever, have perfect tactile feedback, and the Model M has no weird windows or internet keys. Funny that keyboards peeked in the mid 1980s.
The Elmber's Glue recipes don't make actual silly putty. They make some cheap nasty knock-off that creates a silly putty-like compound that is slimey, leaves a greasy mess on anything it touches. Not only that, but this putty goes bad over time, unlike the real silly putty, which never dries out or gets moldy.
There is a recipe for making the real silly putty compound, but it is far more difficult and requires ingrediants and tools not found in a grocery store.
You can buy 5 lbs of silly putty for $60. Many people have done this before, and you can do some very interesting stuff with it. Like make a potato gun that shoots baseball sized balls of putty at brick walls. There are videos of this, and the putty ball shatters like a piece of glass because of its "silly" properties.
Its fun to do other experiments like bake it, freeze it, etc...
I didn't pull out Quake 3. I pulled out a completely different game known as Quakeworld, which is the original Quake with better netcode. Considering that many people still like to play deathmatch and the original Team Fortress... high FPS do matter. Quake 3 is yet another example of why high FPS matter. So if a higher FPS matters with multiple games that you like to play... then IT MATTERS!
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Doesn't this mean that Valve has been caught lying? They claimed that the Half-Life 2 engine was written from scratch. Id Software should be upset if Vavle is releasing an engine that uses Id Software code, without paying. If Vavle's Half-Life 2 code has GPL or unlicensed Id Software code in it, then I don't feel sorry for them. If such is the case, then they are criminals too.
Can you give some evidence that Vavle's code includes GPL code? If they truely were trying to sneak some GPL code into their closed-source app, then I do not feel sorry for them whatsoever. What is the saying? "No honor amongst thieves."
Exactly, demoncracy is mobocracy. Just watch an episode of Jerry Springer. Mobs are easy to manipulate, and they are often extremely stupid. It is better to have a heirarchical structure that is democratic at the bottom, and relatively small at the top.
I thought allot of these terrorists get their money (directly/indirectly) from the oil trade. Does that mean you support terrorism when you buy an SUV?
My Cingular service has been crap for years! Nothing new here.
One last thing, I almost forgot to mention. If you really like BitTorrent, and you want to see it get even better, then donate $10 to Bram. The guy makes a living off of his BitTorrent donations. Since I noticed big improvements in this weeks new version of BitTorrent, I donated $20. No more long initialization times when starting/restarting a torrent download, no more download window lockup bug, faster downloads, no longer hogs CPU, etc...
Make sure you guys upgrade to the latest version of BitTorrent as a new official version came out this past week! It has tons of bug fixes and network/filesystem/CPU/memory optimizations. Also, the rule-of-thumb is that you don't close the BitTorrent download window until you have uploaded as much as you have downloaded. The new official client lists your total upload and your total download.
You could test upgrades on a test box, and if everything worked, then you could trigger the apt-get upgrade for the other boxes.
Why would end users upgrade a server? Why would casual users need to test a new package that has already been tested against the distro? I have never had an apt-get upgrade break my Redhat system.
Just use a IDE-to-CF adapter and plug a compact flash drive in. Can't get much smaller than that.
All upgrades require from the end user is an "apt-get update && apt-get" upgrade on Redhat and Debian. Yup, apt is also for RPM, but Debian still has a much larger standard package repository. You can basically apt-get anything with Debian, while with Redhat you are a little more restricted.
He is a Weapons of Mass Destruction Denier!
Actually, almost every Linux distro can be made to use apt now that apt-rpm is available. I am using apt for rpm on Redhat 9 right now. I installed an out-of-the-box working mplayer by a click of a button.
If you are so easily turned-off to a free and open alternative, then you will most likely always be too petty to make the switch to Linux and its suite of OSS software. People like you create an impossible standard that could be stated something like:
"If its interfaces deviates from Windows, then I won't switch!"
By the way, I can use CTRL-C in every program I use on Redhat 9. There are some terminal things that CTRL-C doesn't work... but last time I was used Windows the same applied.
Thing is, I don't really have to use the terminal with Redhat 9, as there are always GUI alternatives in which CTRL-C works.
My point is that, yeah sometimes Linux is a wild frontier, and if you are so locked-in to Microsoft that small deviations in the interface get your panties in a bind... then tuff. No one said freedom didn't require change.
"Dia" is a great Visio replacement that is free and open source. It also runs on both Windows and Linux.
I was joking, but after seeing the latest polls in the USA where roughly 60% of Americans think what I said was true... well... I guess it would be hard to tell I was joking.
If it won't run on my computer, then I won't buy it.
Because most suicide bombers in Palestine/Israel fit the profile you mentioned, in order to bypass Israeli security, terrorists groups started recruiting women. It worked like a charm.
Furthermore, the terrorists in said area also started to use disguises, so that they look like a Jew or a member of the Israeli military.
Again, more real world examples of profiles failing. Profiles hurt the innocent and open up security holes for the bad people to get through.
The real solution is to improve our foreign policy so that people around the world aren't so eager to attack us. It doesn't take much effort to study up a bit on USA foreign policy in the Middle East for the past 100 years. The USA has done bad stuff in Iran, Iraq, Afganistan, Palestine, etc... many years before 911.
The USA continues to do bad stuff in said places... hence people want to attack the USA. Racial and ethnic profiling will only worsen the problem. The solution is found in a better foreign policy.
I never forgot the nationalities of the 911 hijackers! They were all Iraqis, and that is why we took over Iraq!
Not only that, but what is to stop a terrorist group from recruiting sympathetic people from other races? There are people who are not Arab that would love to kill a few Americans.
Lets make them all wear little patches are their sleeves too, so we know they are Muslim.
I hate the Apple keyboards. They are all fruity and flemsy. I prefer the IBM Model M series of keyboards, which almost last forever, have perfect tactile feedback, and the Model M has no weird windows or internet keys. Funny that keyboards peeked in the mid 1980s.
The Elmber's Glue recipes don't make actual silly putty. They make some cheap nasty knock-off that creates a silly putty-like compound that is slimey, leaves a greasy mess on anything it touches. Not only that, but this putty goes bad over time, unlike the real silly putty, which never dries out or gets moldy.
There is a recipe for making the real silly putty compound, but it is far more difficult and requires ingrediants and tools not found in a grocery store.
You can buy 5 lbs of silly putty for $60. Many people have done this before, and you can do some very interesting stuff with it. Like make a potato gun that shoots baseball sized balls of putty at brick walls. There are videos of this, and the putty ball shatters like a piece of glass because of its "silly" properties.
Its fun to do other experiments like bake it, freeze it, etc...
I didn't pull out Quake 3. I pulled out a completely different game known as Quakeworld, which is the original Quake with better netcode. Considering that many people still like to play deathmatch and the original Team Fortress... high FPS do matter. Quake 3 is yet another example of why high FPS matter. So if a higher FPS matters with multiple games that you like to play... then IT MATTERS!
Since Walt is dead, why are all of his creations still copyrighted to Disney?