It's completely illegal to install software too (The UK court has ruled the act of installing or running software involves making a copy, which is illegal), but you do it anyway.
Good point. After all, the Poll Tax was abolished after people obeyed the law, paid their taxes fully and on time, but whilst peacefully protesting via mumbling into their pint. Oh, wait...
You're just as guilty of what you're accusing him of. You seemed to be advocating that everybody adhere to "the rules" yet you flamed him for pointing out that the rules aren't the same everywhere.
Besides, FWIW, I don't agree with the UK's copyright laws and have often told both my MP and my MEP so.
Care to point me to "the rule" that states I *must* have an XBox to play a game? Just because it says it on the box doesn't make it so. After all, UT2003 never said you could play it on Linux on the box.
Funny you should say that, since there was an Internet Explorer before Microsoft released theirs. Their argument in court was that Internet Explorer is a generic name and thus couldn't be trademarked.
Farscape was SciFi's second highest rated show. The only thing ahead of Farscape was Stargate SG1.
Re:Who uses IE for the mac anyway?
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Actually, it doesn't. Hell, just check out www.winsper.org.uk. It renders fine in Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror (For the most part), yet IE screws it up something royal, even after trying to work around the bugs with an IE-specific stylesheet.
My team actually did that last year for a presentation. The front-end for our system was web-based, so we decided to use our own system for our presentation. I knocked up a slide template in HTML and used that for the slides. That way, we could easily jump from slides to product demo and back without switching applications. The judges thought our approach was far better than everyone else's approach of using bog-standard, generic Powerpoint slides and awarded us the prize for the best presentation.
Linus actually encourages forks and the typically used (and probably sanctioned) way of differentiating your version is to append an identifier to the version number. For example, I've disctributed Linux 2.4.21-jdg1-dw1. If I'd have called my version Linux 3.0, then there would have probably been complaints.
Mozilla has the preloader, which can easily do that, but it's considered a crude hack by the developers. I leave Firefox running pretty much all the time my computer's on, so I don't see any load time, except at login. I've just done the run->google task you mentioned and it took Firefox around 1 second to do it on my mother's laptop.
You start off OK, then you just seem to lose it towards the end of your post. OpenGL doesn't include cross-platform audio because it's a Graphics Library. Want cross-platform audio? Use OpenAL. SDL is good at input handling, I'm not sure if it does networking too, but I've never heard good things about DirectPlay.
As for 3dfx's miniGL, it was widely scorned because 3dfx had to keep on updating it due to the next version of Quake needing to use more OpenGL functions (Not to mention other Quake-based games). If you don't want to use the more non-gaming aspects of OpenGL, just don't use them.
BTW, EA's policy is to write all new titles with cross-platform in mind, even if it's only going to be released on one platform.
The "preferred applications" options are not per-user. Therefore, if I want Firefox whereas my mother wants IE, we have a problem. It's a half-arsed solution at best. As for the load time problem, Firefox does indeed take a little while on first load. This is because it's not loaded when the OS loads. On subsequent loads, Firefox is plenty fast enough that the user cannot tell the difference.
So, what would you have mozilla.org do? Would you have them preload Firefox just like MS do?
Because HURD memory maps partitions when it mounts them, you get a 2GB limit on 32-bit architectures. On a 64-bit system, however, you're not limited to 2GB, but to some stupidly large size we won't hit for a while.
Seeing as there are system files that are always in use and you can't overwrite them while they're in use, how do you propose overwriting them without a reboot?
I used to use RISC OS "back in the day," which, IIRC, was the first OS to use the drag-to-file-browser-window method of saving. It had the strong point that it was obvious where you were saving, but it had the problem that you had to bring the directory's window into view to save there. That was less of a problem in RISC OS because it doesn't have click-brings-to-front behaviour (Which I far prefer over the current GNOME, KDE and Windows default behaviour), but it's far more of an issue with GNOME, since opening a save dialog may have the effect of obscuring your view of the directory.
Actually, it would be more a case of the OEM bundling the software they saw fit with the PC. What happened back in the days before IE3? The ISPs bundled Netscape.
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AMD Back in the Black
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Err...AMD were destroying Intel back when the Athlon first came out. They beat Intel to 1GHz and Intel never really recovered until Northwood came out.
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I think it's quite a stretch to imply Angel never shook up the status quo. After all, they did just that at the end of Season 4.
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It's completely illegal to install software too (The UK court has ruled the act of installing or running software involves making a copy, which is illegal), but you do it anyway.
Good point. After all, the Poll Tax was abolished after people obeyed the law, paid their taxes fully and on time, but whilst peacefully protesting via mumbling into their pint. Oh, wait...
You're just as guilty of what you're accusing him of. You seemed to be advocating that everybody adhere to "the rules" yet you flamed him for pointing out that the rules aren't the same everywhere.
Besides, FWIW, I don't agree with the UK's copyright laws and have often told both my MP and my MEP so.
Care to point me to "the rule" that states I *must* have an XBox to play a game? Just because it says it on the box doesn't make it so. After all, UT2003 never said you could play it on Linux on the box.
A quick Google for "Internet Explorer trademark" would have done you wonders, but here's just one URL from that search:
http://www.geek.com/techupdate/msynetst.htm
Funny you should say that, since there was an Internet Explorer before Microsoft released theirs. Their argument in court was that Internet Explorer is a generic name and thus couldn't be trademarked.
Farscape was SciFi's second highest rated show. The only thing ahead of Farscape was Stargate SG1.
Actually, it doesn't. Hell, just check out www.winsper.org.uk. It renders fine in Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror (For the most part), yet IE screws it up something royal, even after trying to work around the bugs with an IE-specific stylesheet.
My team actually did that last year for a presentation. The front-end for our system was web-based, so we decided to use our own system for our presentation. I knocked up a slide template in HTML and used that for the slides. That way, we could easily jump from slides to product demo and back without switching applications. The judges thought our approach was far better than everyone else's approach of using bog-standard, generic Powerpoint slides and awarded us the prize for the best presentation.
Linus actually encourages forks and the typically used (and probably sanctioned) way of differentiating your version is to append an identifier to the version number. For example, I've disctributed Linux 2.4.21-jdg1-dw1. If I'd have called my version Linux 3.0, then there would have probably been complaints.
Mozilla has the preloader, which can easily do that, but it's considered a crude hack by the developers. I leave Firefox running pretty much all the time my computer's on, so I don't see any load time, except at login. I've just done the run->google task you mentioned and it took Firefox around 1 second to do it on my mother's laptop.
AFAIK, USB keyboards and mice all use the standard USB HID specification, so once you have one keyboard working, you likely have them all.
You start off OK, then you just seem to lose it towards the end of your post. OpenGL doesn't include cross-platform audio because it's a Graphics Library. Want cross-platform audio? Use OpenAL. SDL is good at input handling, I'm not sure if it does networking too, but I've never heard good things about DirectPlay.
As for 3dfx's miniGL, it was widely scorned because 3dfx had to keep on updating it due to the next version of Quake needing to use more OpenGL functions (Not to mention other Quake-based games). If you don't want to use the more non-gaming aspects of OpenGL, just don't use them.
BTW, EA's policy is to write all new titles with cross-platform in mind, even if it's only going to be released on one platform.
The "preferred applications" options are not per-user. Therefore, if I want Firefox whereas my mother wants IE, we have a problem. It's a half-arsed solution at best. As for the load time problem, Firefox does indeed take a little while on first load. This is because it's not loaded when the OS loads. On subsequent loads, Firefox is plenty fast enough that the user cannot tell the difference.
So, what would you have mozilla.org do? Would you have them preload Firefox just like MS do?
Because HURD memory maps partitions when it mounts them, you get a 2GB limit on 32-bit architectures. On a 64-bit system, however, you're not limited to 2GB, but to some stupidly large size we won't hit for a while.
Microsoft does it by forcing a reboot. IIRC, the files are named like foobar.dll.1 and upon reboot foobar.dll.1 is renamed foobar.dll.
Seeing as there are system files that are always in use and you can't overwrite them while they're in use, how do you propose overwriting them without a reboot?
Two major issues:
1) How do you issue a patch?
2) How do you support future hardware?
Considering the very first sentence in your post was misinformed, I don't see why you're complaining.
I used to use RISC OS "back in the day," which, IIRC, was the first OS to use the drag-to-file-browser-window method of saving. It had the strong point that it was obvious where you were saving, but it had the problem that you had to bring the directory's window into view to save there. That was less of a problem in RISC OS because it doesn't have click-brings-to-front behaviour (Which I far prefer over the current GNOME, KDE and Windows default behaviour), but it's far more of an issue with GNOME, since opening a save dialog may have the effect of obscuring your view of the directory.
AMD came out with 3DNow! before Intel came along with SSE. How is that AMD playing catch-up?
Actually, it would be more a case of the OEM bundling the software they saw fit with the PC. What happened back in the days before IE3? The ISPs bundled Netscape.
Err...AMD were destroying Intel back when the Athlon first came out. They beat Intel to 1GHz and Intel never really recovered until Northwood came out.
I think it's quite a stretch to imply Angel never shook up the status quo. After all, they did just that at the end of Season 4.
Seeing as I've taken code compiled with VS.Net and run it on Linux using Mono, I call bullshit on that statement.