I have been told that external drives can possibly be comprised of a new enclosure for a remanufactured drive. That's one reason I've been told that the prices can be so low. So watch out for that, in addition to the warranty. I guess a person could call the company and ask, but they often don't know what's in the enclosure at all for an exact external drive order -- not even the drive's manufacturer or model.
So in order to be sure that we're getting a high quality deal, we just have to pay a lot more.
Hey there guys. We're recruiting engineering talent for coding, and we're recruiting reasonably technical testers to install and test MacZFS on Mac OS 10.8.
And I'd like to know of any suggestions or experiences or recent articles about the concept of code bounties and of personnel recruiting for free software engineering. I know it's kind of a demure subject which has come and gone, mostly focusing on an already-established project which already has its engineering personnel and who just wants to get them paid, or an already-completed project who put a price on the source code (like Blender 3D). In our case, we want to get our current people paid to do what they already know how to do, but we also want to recruit and incentivize entirely new talent.
So far, the only place I've found is http://www.fossfactory.org/ but I haven't researched it yet. Still looking. Thanks.
Yeah I'd never heard of it outside of the announcement of the source code. I have read a lot of comments from its fans. In all of my intensive research over the history of NLEs, I find it hard to believe that there'd be a whole NLE that I'd never heard of!
The original poster is asking about abandonware, and I guess Lightworks is a sort of epically twisted abandonware.
Well thanks for your feedback. It was most LOLworthy.
Lightworks is an NLE (nonlinear editor, of video) which was recently open sourced due in part to its commercial decline and transfer of ownership.
Oops. I see now that its source code release date has slipped again. Oh well, for the purposes of the conversation, you can see the historical process and you can see the fact that it's probably coming.
FYI, in case it interests anyone, I'd like to state that I finally got Final Fantasy XI working perfectly in Wine. I did it on Mac OS 10.7, having purchased the entire collection for about $20 (including one free month) on Steam. So I'm playing my first MMORPG.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2739
That's the kind of things people cannot understand on/. Here you are always "there" or always "here". You are always black or always white. There cannot be middle tones.
Do you realize that you just stated a polarized viewpoint of a polarized viewpoint? You took a web site full of participants of every background and perspective, and reduced them to a single characteristic -- that of bipolarity.
[ponders carefully with an analytic memory, having been a long time slashdotter]...Seriously, everyone does that.:/
The only thing you just said, in the most eloquent, verbose, and compassionate way possible, was that you're sometimes a terrible, offensive, negative, argumentative, and self-absorbed communicator. Why'd you do that? What is your point?
If you're going to bother writing that much, you should use your experience and insight to give a comparison between Photoshop and Gimp in your workflow. Or maybe just describe your workflow and how Photoshop uniquely suits it. I don't know what could be a secret about it.
It might not reach the Gimp developers, whether because they don't read it or because it doesn't suit their priorities. But it might serve the edification of those Gimp advocates who aren't in your niche. Just a suggestion.:)
Yeah, if you were crazy. Or you could just use em both, or anything else you can think of. You have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about, bro. ^_^ I had only posted for your edification; can't imagine how your ideas are being confabulated. Good luck.
It is possible for a person to be intellectually honest, emotionally sober or neutral, and to speak without implication. In fact that's a required assumption for most rational discourse.
Hey now. I just don't think slashdot is an appropriate place for *any* child of *either* gender. You'll learn about what "man" means once you're old enough. Do your parents know you're on here?
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"As a fitting start to this blog, I'm proud to release a preview of our Alky compatibility libraries for Microsoft DirectX 10 enabled games. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Windows Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn't capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games.
The current preview allows you to run a number of examples from the Microsoft DirectX SDK on Windows XP. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we want to whet your appetite."
Haha! Come on Howard did a great job with E.T. There's nothing particularly wrong with that game, just that any point of chronic frustration whatsoever in a 2600 game seems magnified by the tiny overall scope that's possible on 2600. I'd rather climb out of pits repeatedly sometimes than play a thousand identical levels of most other games. It's just an industry pariah, a fall guy, a scapegoat for poor management and risk assement and for the stock market crash! When I met him at Classic Gaming Expo 2002, I told him not to take any crap at all for it. The guy also did Raiders of the Lost Ark and Yars' Revenge. He's a genius, and a male. ^_^ I read somewhere that the force field in Yars' Revenge is a visualization of the contents of ram. Neato.
Well they did one better... Stephen Spielberg and my buddy John O'Neill worked on "E.T. Phone Home" for Atari home computers!
http://www.mobygames.com/game/et-phone-home
I hear it's alright.
Too bad the E.T. you're talking about was made for Atari 2600 with 128 bytes of RAM and all, rather than a state of the art complete home computer system five or so years later.
If you think the "open apple" key is called "command"; if you think ADB was made for Macs; if you think the Mac prototype could bootstrap itself; if you think a Mac's floppy drive is a unique design; if you think the Mac was the first easy-to-use personal computer; if you don't think monochrome can be green; if the names Burrell, Atkinson, and Raskin mean nothing to you, then.... whatever.
Well since you asked, no it's not. The most important thing is that it serves objective requirements in a sustainable and self-managing way. That's what makes a person happy, not just complacent. Your setup is obviously irrationally complex just for the sake of complexity. I can hardly believe anyone would agree to implement it or to accept critical dependency upon this rube goldbergian machination, and upon having to have their own personal sysadmin living who-knows-where for its continued operation, for a degree program. Everyone else pointed out how it makes no sense whatsoever and defeats its own purpose, and you had it all sewn up in the first place with MacOS and possibly VirtualPC. These are just some utterly bizarre criteria that allegedly are and are not options, and it's inconceivable how a person could both know how to do all this *and* actually decide to do it. You laboriously admitted to this madness, and then debated against common sense, in public, so there's no way you're getting out of those facts.
So I'll just point out, since you asked, that it also defeats your own objections to common sense. "speed cost" makes no sense, as the entire purpose of Windows in that scenario is as a black sheep or last resort in the first place, and both your user and your usage case are in no way whatsoever speed sensitive. By that illogic, then if you spent less than $5000 on the Windows machine, there was a so-called "speed cost". Since you asked.
Kindly please stop pretending to rebut objective common sense. It doesn't like that.
You're right. According to the reasons that are immediately intuitively obvious to the average citizen, it makes no sense. However, according to the President's openly published plan for strategic defense, which is just a contemporary revision of the PNAC's (see below) manifesto, it's to take over the world.
Iraq is one of a series of strategically necessary American outposts in the imperialistic quest to turn the world into an American-controlled nanny state. That's just the officially stated position, and only the plan yet to date. The American government's increasingly imperialistic tendencies interpret the fall of competing superpowers as a power vacuum which needs to be immediately filled. In other words, they deny the need for there to be *no* superpowers and for the world to steadily continue to disarm and demilitarize, at least to a point. The military/industrial complex warned about by General Eisenhower absolutely must fill the only purpose it's designed to do. It no longer sees a clear and present enemy, so it must redefine the enemy as being the very unknown, it must redefine 'war' to be 'peace', it must redefine 'imperialism' as 'patriotism', and it must escalate militarization indefinitely at absolutely all costs.
When all you have is a hammer -- and the abject, narcissistic, paranoid, tautological corruption inherent in power -- then the whole world looks like a nail -- a very big and scary nail just waiting to stab you from the unknown, and must be struck before it strikes you.
Also see the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the prevailing Republican think tank, for the contemporary origins of the American imperialistic mentality. PNAC's ideology has taken hold since at least 1992 and its chief demagogues now comprise virtually all positions of American power. They have no personal experience in war; they are merely in love with the *idea* of war as a means to all ends. They are tautology, personified -- they believe that what they do is right, and it's right because they do it. GWB is not in charge of all this; he's just the chief executive demagogue and possibly the fall guy. Why do they do all of this? Ultimately, it is because they can.
Many Americans voted for the PNAC explicitly in the voting booths to the point where the PNAC was handily able to coopt the rest of the election process, and almost all Americans vote implicitly for it every day with their insatiable consumption and disposal of natural resources. See the various articles in site in the above url for PNAC citations. They're not copmrised of conspiracy theories or anti-government propaganda -- their citations come from the organization's own publications, and from the nightly news.
Let's see how far the empire can be bankrolled and tolerated. Let's see how long the economy based squarely upon unlimited cheap oil and skyrocketing housing speculation will last. Let's see how many countries' resources amd strategic positions can be invaded and indefinitely occupied and how long the American public will tolerate being the next Rome. Let's see who can defend the public against the American government after its compulsory public education system, mass media propaganda, and devious credit industry have already euthenized, lobotomized, and indebted the public itself. Let's see how many citizens can be unconstitutionally detained for the crime of hypermilitarized, paranoid suspicion. All of these institutions are too corrupt to be patched, and must be overhauled by We, The People in a hopefully bloodless revolution -- the hopefully final chapter in the American Revolution, the revolution against domestic threat.
In my opinion, American patriots need to be either loaded for bear, or ready to expatriate. *Please* correct me if there is a *clear* and *present* alternative.
Well said. The only thing I'd improve on is to eliminate the implication that an alternative didn't exist and that competition was only a potential factor. Competition has always been flawed or wrongheaded and often equally proprietary, but has always been highly prolific and murdered in its sleep. Until the advent of the GPL.
BTW just so you don't think I'm offtopic at a glance, those verses are not just about how to get eternal salvation. Those few short verses are the Dummies Guide on how to live. They're how to handle everything in life. Especially when bad things happen, like people getting convicted of mass murder. They are philosophical, logical, and spiritual tenets and social contract on how to live with yourself and others. They just also happen to describe God's social contract with us, His children.
As with any parent/child relationship, whether we like it or want to accept it is another thing.
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So you're basically saying that Apple worked to block *ill-behaved* software, most or all of which happened to be competitors, right?
I have been told that external drives can possibly be comprised of a new enclosure for a remanufactured drive. That's one reason I've been told that the prices can be so low. So watch out for that, in addition to the warranty. I guess a person could call the company and ask, but they often don't know what's in the enclosure at all for an exact external drive order -- not even the drive's manufacturer or model.
So in order to be sure that we're getting a high quality deal, we just have to pay a lot more.
http://maczfs.org/
And I'd like to know of any suggestions or experiences or recent articles about the concept of code bounties and of personnel recruiting for free software engineering. I know it's kind of a demure subject which has come and gone, mostly focusing on an already-established project which already has its engineering personnel and who just wants to get them paid, or an already-completed project who put a price on the source code (like Blender 3D). In our case, we want to get our current people paid to do what they already know how to do, but we also want to recruit and incentivize entirely new talent.
So far, the only place I've found is http://www.fossfactory.org/ but I haven't researched it yet. Still looking. Thanks.
The original poster is asking about abandonware, and I guess Lightworks is a sort of epically twisted abandonware.
Well thanks for your feedback. It was most LOLworthy.
AVI? Worse than Cinelerra? o m g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks
Lightworks is an NLE (nonlinear editor, of video) which was recently open sourced due in part to its commercial decline and transfer of ownership.
Oops. I see now that its source code release date has slipped again. Oh well, for the purposes of the conversation, you can see the historical process and you can see the fact that it's probably coming.
Lightworks is an NLE (nonlinear editor, of video) which was recently open sourced due in part to its commercial decline and transfer of ownership.
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No Earth Slime has destroyed Mukor...
FYI, in case it interests anyone, I'd like to state that I finally got Final Fantasy XI working perfectly in Wine. I did it on Mac OS 10.7, having purchased the entire collection for about $20 (including one free month) on Steam. So I'm playing my first MMORPG. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2739
Do you realize that you just stated a polarized viewpoint of a polarized viewpoint? You took a web site full of participants of every background and perspective, and reduced them to a single characteristic -- that of bipolarity.
[ponders carefully with an analytic memory, having been a long time slashdotter] ...Seriously, everyone does that. :/
If you're going to bother writing that much, you should use your experience and insight to give a comparison between Photoshop and Gimp in your workflow. Or maybe just describe your workflow and how Photoshop uniquely suits it. I don't know what could be a secret about it.
It might not reach the Gimp developers, whether because they don't read it or because it doesn't suit their priorities. But it might serve the edification of those Gimp advocates who aren't in your niche. Just a suggestion.
Yeah, if you were crazy. Or you could just use em both, or anything else you can think of. You have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about, bro. ^_^ I had only posted for your edification; can't imagine how your ideas are being confabulated. Good luck.
It is possible for a person to be intellectually honest, emotionally sober or neutral, and to speak without implication. In fact that's a required assumption for most rational discourse.
Hey now. I just don't think slashdot is an appropriate place for *any* child of *either* gender. You'll learn about what "man" means once you're old enough. Do your parents know you're on here?
From that site...
"As a fitting start to this blog, I'm proud to release a preview of our Alky compatibility libraries for Microsoft DirectX 10 enabled games. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Windows Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn't capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games.
The current preview allows you to run a number of examples from the Microsoft DirectX SDK on Windows XP. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we want to whet your appetite."
Haha! Come on Howard did a great job with E.T. There's nothing particularly wrong with that game, just that any point of chronic frustration whatsoever in a 2600 game seems magnified by the tiny overall scope that's possible on 2600. I'd rather climb out of pits repeatedly sometimes than play a thousand identical levels of most other games. It's just an industry pariah, a fall guy, a scapegoat for poor management and risk assement and for the stock market crash! When I met him at Classic Gaming Expo 2002, I told him not to take any crap at all for it. The guy also did Raiders of the Lost Ark and Yars' Revenge. He's a genius, and a male. ^_^ I read somewhere that the force field in Yars' Revenge is a visualization of the contents of ram. Neato.
Well they did one better... Stephen Spielberg and my buddy John O'Neill worked on "E.T. Phone Home" for Atari home computers!
http://www.mobygames.com/game/et-phone-home
I hear it's alright.
Too bad the E.T. you're talking about was made for Atari 2600 with 128 bytes of RAM and all, rather than a state of the art complete home computer system five or so years later.
If you think the "open apple" key is called "command"; if you think ADB was made for Macs; if you think the Mac prototype could bootstrap itself; if you think a Mac's floppy drive is a unique design; if you think the Mac was the first easy-to-use personal computer; if you don't think monochrome can be green; if the names Burrell, Atkinson, and Raskin mean nothing to you, then .... whatever.
// forever!!!
Apple
Get FreeBasic.
Well since you asked, no it's not. The most important thing is that it serves objective requirements in a sustainable and self-managing way. That's what makes a person happy, not just complacent. Your setup is obviously irrationally complex just for the sake of complexity. I can hardly believe anyone would agree to implement it or to accept critical dependency upon this rube goldbergian machination, and upon having to have their own personal sysadmin living who-knows-where for its continued operation, for a degree program. Everyone else pointed out how it makes no sense whatsoever and defeats its own purpose, and you had it all sewn up in the first place with MacOS and possibly VirtualPC. These are just some utterly bizarre criteria that allegedly are and are not options, and it's inconceivable how a person could both know how to do all this *and* actually decide to do it. You laboriously admitted to this madness, and then debated against common sense, in public, so there's no way you're getting out of those facts.
So I'll just point out, since you asked, that it also defeats your own objections to common sense. "speed cost" makes no sense, as the entire purpose of Windows in that scenario is as a black sheep or last resort in the first place, and both your user and your usage case are in no way whatsoever speed sensitive. By that illogic, then if you spent less than $5000 on the Windows machine, there was a so-called "speed cost". Since you asked.
Kindly please stop pretending to rebut objective common sense. It doesn't like that.
You're right. According to the reasons that are immediately intuitively obvious to the average citizen, it makes no sense. However, according to the President's openly published plan for strategic defense, which is just a contemporary revision of the PNAC's (see below) manifesto, it's to take over the world.
Iraq is one of a series of strategically necessary American outposts in the imperialistic quest to turn the world into an American-controlled nanny state. That's just the officially stated position, and only the plan yet to date. The American government's increasingly imperialistic tendencies interpret the fall of competing superpowers as a power vacuum which needs to be immediately filled. In other words, they deny the need for there to be *no* superpowers and for the world to steadily continue to disarm and demilitarize, at least to a point. The military/industrial complex warned about by General Eisenhower absolutely must fill the only purpose it's designed to do. It no longer sees a clear and present enemy, so it must redefine the enemy as being the very unknown, it must redefine 'war' to be 'peace', it must redefine 'imperialism' as 'patriotism', and it must escalate militarization indefinitely at absolutely all costs.
When all you have is a hammer -- and the abject, narcissistic, paranoid, tautological corruption inherent in power -- then the whole world looks like a nail -- a very big and scary nail just waiting to stab you from the unknown, and must be struck before it strikes you.
Also see the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the prevailing Republican think tank, for the contemporary origins of the American imperialistic mentality. PNAC's ideology has taken hold since at least 1992 and its chief demagogues now comprise virtually all positions of American power. They have no personal experience in war; they are merely in love with the *idea* of war as a means to all ends. They are tautology, personified -- they believe that what they do is right, and it's right because they do it. GWB is not in charge of all this; he's just the chief executive demagogue and possibly the fall guy. Why do they do all of this? Ultimately, it is because they can.
Many Americans voted for the PNAC explicitly in the voting booths to the point where the PNAC was handily able to coopt the rest of the election process, and almost all Americans vote implicitly for it every day with their insatiable consumption and disposal of natural resources. See the various articles in site in the above url for PNAC citations. They're not copmrised of conspiracy theories or anti-government propaganda -- their citations come from the organization's own publications, and from the nightly news.
Let's see how far the empire can be bankrolled and tolerated. Let's see how long the economy based squarely upon unlimited cheap oil and skyrocketing housing speculation will last. Let's see how many countries' resources amd strategic positions can be invaded and indefinitely occupied and how long the American public will tolerate being the next Rome. Let's see who can defend the public against the American government after its compulsory public education system, mass media propaganda, and devious credit industry have already euthenized, lobotomized, and indebted the public itself. Let's see how many citizens can be unconstitutionally detained for the crime of hypermilitarized, paranoid suspicion. All of these institutions are too corrupt to be patched, and must be overhauled by We, The People in a hopefully bloodless revolution -- the hopefully final chapter in the American Revolution, the revolution against domestic threat.
In my opinion, American patriots need to be either loaded for bear, or ready to expatriate. *Please* correct me if there is a *clear* and *present* alternative.
You're a kneejerking fool who doesn't know what a racist comment is, but at least you're honest.
Well said. The only thing I'd improve on is to eliminate the implication that an alternative didn't exist and that competition was only a potential factor. Competition has always been flawed or wrongheaded and often equally proprietary, but has always been highly prolific and murdered in its sleep. Until the advent of the GPL.
As with any parent/child relationship, whether we like it or want to accept it is another thing.