It instantly broke the will of the Japanese to fight. ..
If by "instantly" you mean that we had to bomb them conventionally again and they were still prepared to go down to the last, man, woman and child if the Emperor called them to, than yeah, I guess.
Your first link shows that WINE does not support DirectX to any large degree at all. While some games may work to one degree or another few work well, and in this particular instance we are specifically addressing games that do not work under WINE.
As for your second link, Transgaming is not WINE, is no longer free enough to be included in the Debian non-free tree, and no longer contributes back into the WINE code base.
On the whole I agree with you, however; I feel the need to add a couple of caveats:
WINE does not, as a general rule, work well with games, since it does not impliment DirectX, so your experience with games cannot be directly translated to non DirectX applications.
In the case of said games it was you trying to get them to run. In this case it is the orginal code author trying to get it to run. That difference may prove significant.
That said, a proper native port would be preferable.
I've never had any particular trouble finding esoteric music. If nothing else there was always college radio. I can't say it effected pop music at all. Maximum sales to the maximum number of people will always tend toward the least common denominator, no matter the distribution channel.
Non-centrialized distribution channels, combined with cheap means of producing good recordings will certainly effect the music industry in a number of ways they aren't going to be happy about, but really, the means they use to print money in the form of artificial bands is by controlling print, TV and radio. They promote. People will download heavily promoted material more than stuff they've never heard of.
Get some future Avril Levigne to sing a song on an episode of some future Friends and it will sell in the millions within days, even if it's pop crap, while the good esoteric stuff sits on the "shelf."
I like to think that artists will be forced to make better music in hopes that the consumers will purchase more of their songs, thereby making them more money.
No. What they will be forced to do is make nothing but "hit singles."
In past eras when the hit single was king it produced the maximum amount of Britney Spears type pop crap in the minimum amount of time.
This time will be different though. Now they have computer programs to analyze hits and pump out more just the same.
My guess is that SCO may claim that revealing this code would reveal a trade secret or something. ..
That issue was addressed last December, when the judge ordered that SCO submit code that it claimed to be a trade secret, but agreed that the record of such would be sealed to prevent the public from seeing it. This is standard procedure in such matters as trade secret claims are not uncommon and dealing with them in the courts was settled nearly centuries ago.
The issue is moot at this point though, since a)SCO have dropped all claims to trade secrets and have changed the complaint to copyright violation, and b)it's the publicly available Linux code that is in question, so any trade secret is widely published, thus no longer a trade secret.
They've already done about all the "fighting back" in discovery that they can. They've hemmed, hawed and claimed the dog ate their data over the holidays.
This ruling amounts to a "put up or shut up" ruling by the judge, who I imagine is about fed up with SCO's wishy-washyness and downright duplicity.
And the primary value of a lunchpail is that it's a simple brick with a keyboard that folds down, and is detachable, and is equally easy to carry from place to place as a laptop of the same weight.
The primary value of the laptop is it's small form factor, low weight and unitary design that allows you to use it, well, on the top of your lap.
A 16 pound desktop replacement is never going to be used on your lap, except, perhaps, under some sort of duress. You're going to put it on a desktop to use. The ergonomics of a desktop machine are superiour to a laptop's ergonomics when used on a desktop. The unitary desktop machine died for good reason.
When I just need to stick something in my bag so I can write a paper or something, say while doing research at the library, I take my notebook, but I don't enjoy using it.
When I need the full power of a desktop in a remote location I take a lunchpail and bless it for not having the laptop form factor.
If all you want is a handle on your laptop, well, that's what the carrying bag is for.
There's a real use for large, heavy, transportable desktop replacements. The problem is, that once you get up to that size and weight the laptop is a very poor format. What you want is an "old fashioned" lunchpail type machine.
The key issue here being that it's only the bombardment of the shielding that produces radioactive waste materials in a fussion reaction.
The fuel itself is not radioactive and the waste products of the fuel itself are not radioactive. When you shut down a fussion reaction it actually stops radiating, just as when you turn off your TV it stops radiating.
It's only radioactive waste materials that are a long term issue with nuclear powerplants, not the radiation they produce while active.
As opposed to robots other countries might make that won't be programed to exhibit their own cultural behaviors? What were they going to program it to do, speak Swedish and raise a black power fist?
It seems fairly obvious to me that the only real reason for two legged robots is to mimic humans to one degree or another and that even individual owners will program their robots to exhibit what they consider to be culturally acceptable behavior and to perform the tasks that they themselves perform.
Yes, this pretty much seems to be their overall legal strategy. Witness the IBM case where about all they've been able to do so far is to tell the judge that they'd be happy to produce evidence as soon as IBM would be so kind as to give it to them.
IBM: How do you know there is SCO IP in AIX? SCO: Ummmmmmmm. ..we need the money?
When the court, in its sheer perversity, orders SCO to produce evidence, well, they completely change their story and start over.
IBM:What,you're back again? SCO:Well, we need even more money now, seeing as how our claim is going badly. Think about that, bub, the more we lose the more we'll have to increase our damages claim. If you defeat us we only grow stronger. Mwuuuuuahahahaha! IBM:You guys are whacked out of your gourds, you know that? SCO:Must be the crack. Anyway, we have to uphold the character assasin's code. We took a contract to monitize Linux, and we have to do our best no matter how doofey we ourselves end up looking in the meantime.
The reason is very simple. WP went after the legal market, hard. They made sure that virtually every peice of boilerplate ever written was available as WP file.
Do you have any idea the savings in cost, labor and convienience this is?
The fact that no one else recognized the importance of this resulted in entrenchment for WP.
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Seriously, though, at those rates, he could retire on just that one site.
Seems to have been his plan, yeah.
KFG
It instantly broke the will of the Japanese to fight. . .
If by "instantly" you mean that we had to bomb them conventionally again and they were still prepared to go down to the last, man, woman and child if the Emperor called them to, than yeah, I guess.
KFG
Oops. Better get back to work. Else no disposable income.
.
Because, of course, to your employer you are. .
KFG
Your first link shows that WINE does not support DirectX to any large degree at all. While some games may work to one degree or another few work well, and in this particular instance we are specifically addressing games that do not work under WINE.
As for your second link, Transgaming is not WINE, is no longer free enough to be included in the Debian non-free tree, and no longer contributes back into the WINE code base.
Debian and WineX
KFG
On the whole I agree with you, however; I feel the need to add a couple of caveats:
WINE does not, as a general rule, work well with games, since it does not impliment DirectX, so your experience with games cannot be directly translated to non DirectX applications.
In the case of said games it was you trying to get them to run. In this case it is the orginal code author trying to get it to run. That difference may prove significant.
That said, a proper native port would be preferable.
KFG
I take it you got, ummmmm, "stuck" playing Debbie?
KFG
I've never had any particular trouble finding esoteric music. If nothing else there was always college radio. I can't say it effected pop music at all. Maximum sales to the maximum number of people will always tend toward the least common denominator, no matter the distribution channel.
Non-centrialized distribution channels, combined with cheap means of producing good recordings will certainly effect the music industry in a number of ways they aren't going to be happy about, but really, the means they use to print money in the form of artificial bands is by controlling print, TV and radio. They promote. People will download heavily promoted material more than stuff they've never heard of.
Get some future Avril Levigne to sing a song on an episode of some future Friends and it will sell in the millions within days, even if it's pop crap, while the good esoteric stuff sits on the "shelf."
KFG
Oh Christ. I thought we'd given up that nonsense back in the sixties.
"What does it say?"
"I don't know. I think it was 'The Devil is eating a cheese sandwhich,' but I could be wrong."
"Ooooooookay. Does that mean Paul is or isn't dead?"
KFG
For those who describe their systems as 'boxen', do you order multiple 'boxen' of corn flakes also?
No. I don't eat silly, faddish health foods.
KFG
I like to think that artists will be forced to make better music in hopes that the consumers will purchase more of their songs, thereby making them more money.
No. What they will be forced to do is make nothing but "hit singles."
In past eras when the hit single was king it produced the maximum amount of Britney Spears type pop crap in the minimum amount of time.
This time will be different though. Now they have computer programs to analyze hits and pump out more just the same.
So things are looking up, eh?
KFG
Over? Hardly. Discovery is finally getting started. The case hasn't gotten bigger, it hasn't even begun yet.
KFG
My guess is that SCO may claim that revealing this code would reveal a trade secret or something. . .
That issue was addressed last December, when the judge ordered that SCO submit code that it claimed to be a trade secret, but agreed that the record of such would be sealed to prevent the public from seeing it. This is standard procedure in such matters as trade secret claims are not uncommon and dealing with them in the courts was settled nearly centuries ago.
The issue is moot at this point though, since a)SCO have dropped all claims to trade secrets and have changed the complaint to copyright violation, and b)it's the publicly available Linux code that is in question, so any trade secret is widely published, thus no longer a trade secret.
They've already done about all the "fighting back" in discovery that they can. They've hemmed, hawed and claimed the dog ate their data over the holidays.
This ruling amounts to a "put up or shut up" ruling by the judge, who I imagine is about fed up with SCO's wishy-washyness and downright duplicity.
KFG
Are you coding what you love at work?
If not, you have not yet found a job you love.
KFG
And the primary value of a lunchpail is that it's a simple brick with a keyboard that folds down, and is detachable, and is equally easy to carry from place to place as a laptop of the same weight.
KFG
Well, obviously I disagree. :)
The primary value of the laptop is it's small form factor, low weight and unitary design that allows you to use it, well, on the top of your lap.
A 16 pound desktop replacement is never going to be used on your lap, except, perhaps, under some sort of duress. You're going to put it on a desktop to use. The ergonomics of a desktop machine are superiour to a laptop's ergonomics when used on a desktop. The unitary desktop machine died for good reason.
When I just need to stick something in my bag so I can write a paper or something, say while doing research at the library, I take my notebook, but I don't enjoy using it.
When I need the full power of a desktop in a remote location I take a lunchpail and bless it for not having the laptop form factor.
If all you want is a handle on your laptop, well, that's what the carrying bag is for.
KFG
There's a real use for large, heavy, transportable desktop replacements. The problem is, that once you get up to that size and weight the laptop is a very poor format. What you want is an "old fashioned" lunchpail type machine.
KFG
The key issue here being that it's only the bombardment of the shielding that produces radioactive waste materials in a fussion reaction.
The fuel itself is not radioactive and the waste products of the fuel itself are not radioactive. When you shut down a fussion reaction it actually stops radiating, just as when you turn off your TV it stops radiating.
It's only radioactive waste materials that are a long term issue with nuclear powerplants, not the radiation they produce while active.
KFG
Who would've thought it possible?Who would've thought it possible?"
Anyone who remembers Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
How do you think we acquired Russian Tokamak technology? During the Cold War itself, no less.
KFG
As opposed to robots other countries might make that won't be programed to exhibit their own cultural behaviors? What were they going to program it to do, speak Swedish and raise a black power fist?
It seems fairly obvious to me that the only real reason for two legged robots is to mimic humans to one degree or another and that even individual owners will program their robots to exhibit what they consider to be culturally acceptable behavior and to perform the tasks that they themselves perform.
KFG
Yes, this pretty much seems to be their overall legal strategy. Witness the IBM case where about all they've been able to do so far is to tell the judge that they'd be happy to produce evidence as soon as IBM would be so kind as to give it to them.
.we need the money?
IBM: How do you know there is SCO IP in AIX?
SCO: Ummmmmmmm. .
When the court, in its sheer perversity, orders SCO to produce evidence, well, they completely change their story and start over.
IBM:What,you're back again?
SCO:Well, we need even more money now, seeing as how our claim is going badly. Think about that, bub, the more we lose the more we'll have to increase our damages claim. If you defeat us we only grow stronger. Mwuuuuuahahahaha!
IBM:You guys are whacked out of your gourds, you know that?
SCO:Must be the crack. Anyway, we have to uphold the character assasin's code. We took a contract to monitize Linux, and we have to do our best no matter how doofey we ourselves end up looking in the meantime.
KFG
. . .15,000% gain over the last year.
Holy Bejeezus! I want in on that sort of action.
Maw? We gotta go get us second mortgage on the trailer plot.
KFG
The reason is very simple. WP went after the legal market, hard. They made sure that virtually every peice of boilerplate ever written was available as WP file.
Do you have any idea the savings in cost, labor and convienience this is?
The fact that no one else recognized the importance of this resulted in entrenchment for WP.
KFG
Post corrected to 10 years
:)
Ah, well, welcome back to our universe then, if not necessarily our reality.
KFG
For 20 years the Desktop Linux user experience. . .
I don't mean to be snide, really, this time I don't, but I do feel a bit compelled to ask which particular alternate universe you're living in?
KFG
What if that 10 tons of rock was composed of calcium carbonate?
KFG