We are also many steps closer to One Must Fall 2097. Martial arts robots duking it out in grueling tournaments, winner take all. It's gonna be awesome.
I hope wherever he goes, Mr. Mizuguchi never forgets the enormous gaming triumph that is Rez (orgasms or no) and upholds the tradition this amazing game established. I'm still holding out hope for a sequel, much like what happened when the Xeno series switched studios. But even if that doesn't happen, there's always Unity, the Rez-like game for the Cube that Jeff Minter and Peter Molyneux have in the works.
DRM this, RIAA that, MPAA my freakin head is spinning. When did DRM become so damn vital to companies like these? Was it napster that freaked everyone?
When the message finally percolated through Jack Valenti's and Hilary Rosen's thick skulls that:
a) Audiovisual media can be digitized and stored in a computer; and
b) If it can be stored in a computer, it can be subsequently copied perfectly, indefinitely many times and at very little cost.
Napster did help, but it was really a confluence of several things: bigger hard disks and RAM, studlier codecs and the CPU juice to run them fast enough to do realtime playback.
... where you can be disconnected indefinitely no matter what you do. It's a Windows network, first of all, and secondly, it's not properly partitioned or firewalled away from the rest of the campus network. Some joker thinks it's cool to break into police files (which are sitting out there on the same subnet as the res network), the network admin simply pulls the plug.
Unless of course, one of your principles is, "Compromising your principles is okay if there's a short-term gain to be had."
Many, probably most, of us, are compromisers, and won't stick to our guns if it means we'll get a big raise or stay out of jail. The best way for evil to do win is for good to do nothing and that sort of thing.
Coupla weeks ago I told one about cold fusion (the nuclear reaction) vs. Cold Fusion (the web application wonkulator from Macromedia). It got modded offtopic.
"Now you may find it inconceivable or at the very least a bit unlikely that the relative positions of the planets and the stars can have a special deep significance or meaning that exclusively applies to only you but let me give you my assurance that these forecasts and predictions are all based on solid scientific documented evidence so you would have to be some kind of moron not to realize that every single one of them is absolutely true!" --Weird Al Yankovic
Infinium Labs basically is to hardware what Veon Prism is to software. Have you gone to their site and seen the video? The thing only exists as a 3D rendering, as apparently does their Test Facility. The company is virtually nonexistent or at least nonviable, and the Phantom is a non-product. It's beyond vaporware... I don't even know what it is.
Of course, given that this study is sponsored by Microsoft, I wouldn't be surprised if biased assumptions are made of the sort that Linux will incur hidden intellectual property infringement costs whereas Windows would be considered free and clear, thus fudging the numbers in favor of Windows.
The author of the featured article admits to being a CS student who dabbles in UI projects in his spare time. Grow up, kid. Real programmers use the right tool for the right job, not the one with the loudest fan base.
Really. Then how did Java and VB get to so widely used?
There is no reason why GCC support should be removed from SCO's operating systems, when support exists and is being maintained for a far more evil platform: Windows.
Free software is everywhere. Just because you are working on an evil platform from an evil company doesn't mean you shouldn't benefit from it. Just the opposite.
Besides, developers who run SCO operating systems (maintainers of old filePro databases and the like, I guess) won't be SOL if they need to write something in C: they'll use the proprietary C compiler. (Does UnixWare still come with its own C compiler?)
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We are also many steps closer to One Must Fall 2097. Martial arts robots duking it out in grueling tournaments, winner take all. It's gonna be awesome.
I hope wherever he goes, Mr. Mizuguchi never forgets the enormous gaming triumph that is Rez (orgasms or no) and upholds the tradition this amazing game established. I'm still holding out hope for a sequel, much like what happened when the Xeno series switched studios. But even if that doesn't happen, there's always Unity, the Rez-like game for the Cube that Jeff Minter and Peter Molyneux have in the works.
"If it isn't in our records, it doesn't exist."
--Jocasta Nu, Jedi Librarian
Back in the day, the SPA's piracy whistleblowing hotline was 1-800-388-PIR8.
When the message finally percolated through Jack Valenti's and Hilary Rosen's thick skulls that:
a) Audiovisual media can be digitized and stored in a computer; and
b) If it can be stored in a computer, it can be subsequently copied perfectly, indefinitely many times and at very little cost.
Napster did help, but it was really a confluence of several things: bigger hard disks and RAM, studlier codecs and the CPU juice to run them fast enough to do realtime playback.
... where you can be disconnected indefinitely no matter what you do. It's a Windows network, first of all, and secondly, it's not properly partitioned or firewalled away from the rest of the campus network. Some joker thinks it's cool to break into police files (which are sitting out there on the same subnet as the res network), the network admin simply pulls the plug.
That group should have known that in Soviet Russia, open source mandates the use of YOU!
This is why land lines are a MUST when you want to get back out of the Matrix.
Unless of course, one of your principles is, "Compromising your principles is okay if there's a short-term gain to be had."
Many, probably most, of us, are compromisers, and won't stick to our guns if it means we'll get a big raise or stay out of jail. The best way for evil to do win is for good to do nothing and that sort of thing.
Coupla weeks ago I told one about cold fusion (the nuclear reaction) vs. Cold Fusion (the web application wonkulator from Macromedia). It got modded offtopic.
"Now you may find it inconceivable or at the very least a bit unlikely that the relative positions of the planets and the stars can have a special deep significance or meaning that exclusively applies to only you but let me give you my assurance that these forecasts and predictions are all based on solid scientific documented evidence so you would have to be some kind of moron not to realize that every single one of them is absolutely true!" --Weird Al Yankovic
Veon Prism link is here. That other link takes you to uncharted wild territory of banner-ad-riddled link farms.
Infinium Labs basically is to hardware what Veon Prism is to software. Have you gone to their site and seen the video? The thing only exists as a 3D rendering, as apparently does their Test Facility. The company is virtually nonexistent or at least nonviable, and the Phantom is a non-product. It's beyond vaporware... I don't even know what it is.
The X Window System was so named because it is the successor to a previous windowing system called W.
That, if anything, should absolve it of any accusations that the name is an annoying marketing gimmick.
Visual Basic professionals were the largest group of developers?
Of course, given that this study is sponsored by Microsoft, I wouldn't be surprised if biased assumptions are made of the sort that Linux will incur hidden intellectual property infringement costs whereas Windows would be considered free and clear, thus fudging the numbers in favor of Windows.
As someone who has learned both Win32 and Xlib from the documentation supplied for each, I can assure you that they are both equally horrid.
The Xlib side is ameliorated somewhat by toolkits like Gtk which tend to be easier and better documented.
I mean, even PHP is better than that Cold Fusion stuff. And the world's moved to Java servlets anyway. Where you been?
Wait till you try Smalltalk.
Go ahead, download Squeak and see for yourself.
We can still use the laser pointer and cat example of a ludicrous patent, right?
Especially since I got prior art on that. (Ashley and a Mag-Lite flashlight, 1991!)
Does this mean that protocol droids (a la C-3PO) are now a reality?
I'll be more impressed when these things come with upgrades like "Ice Beam" and "Morph Ball".
You are only required to submit the first 25 and last 25 pages of a copyrighted work in order to register it.
Large companies register their copyrighted programs by submitting 50 pages' worth of comments.
Really. Then how did Java and VB get to so widely used?
At the risk of sounding like Dr. Stupid...
There is no reason why GCC support should be removed from SCO's operating systems, when support exists and is being maintained for a far more evil platform: Windows.
Free software is everywhere. Just because you are working on an evil platform from an evil company doesn't mean you shouldn't benefit from it. Just the opposite.
Besides, developers who run SCO operating systems (maintainers of old filePro databases and the like, I guess) won't be SOL if they need to write something in C: they'll use the proprietary C compiler. (Does UnixWare still come with its own C compiler?)