I agree about the lateness, but about your first comment...
'Innovation' doesn't equate with 'better', and it's not some magical panacea that will make up for other failings.
I hate how certain companies fling around 'innovation' without actually bothering to work on making tried-and-true aspects the best they can be.
From X 4.0.2 on X does have support for things like antialiasing and alpha blending.
Apps just need to start supporting them, which is exactly what this article is about.
The point though, and what I tell people, is that if you use and enjoy the benefits of a distro today, one which supports all of your hardware and is stable and secure, you can't expect them to continue development without your support.
And it doesn't even require much support. A simple donation of $5-$20 to Debian by many of its users will ensure it's continued development.
I'd much rather willingly pay $20 for Debian than be forced out of hundreds by certain competitors.
But for many users it IS difficult and time-wasting for them to compile hundreds of different libraries and programs, and to ensure they all work well together.
For example, it's much easier to spend an hour (while I'm doing something else) waiting for Debian's APT to install precompiled packages and configure them itself, and end up with a fully functional workstation, than it is for me to spend hours searching for dependencies, compiling, and installing hundreds of individual programs.
The thing about this is that most companies in ANY field end up going through bad times or going out of business altogether.
It's nothing particular to Linux distrobutions.
They aren't required to give away their product.
They're required to give away the source to their product.
You're paying them for the time/effort it took to organize and ensure compatability between all the different componants and to compile them for your particular architecture as well as support.
One method of bot detection for Q2 is that the server creates a zero dimensional client (just a single point in space, no model, no textures) that is not visible in the stats list, that just wanders around the map.
If a player 'kills' this non-player then they are identified as a bot because the chances of an accidental shot to that one point in space at that exact time is extremely (as in, your computer would be more likely to spontaneously combust as you're reading this) low.
It really only killed public servers where there was no trust.
I still occasionally play on servers of clans and people I know that are passworded, and you trust the other players to not cheat.
I also still do Q1 at lan games, where cheating would get you a quick beatdown (quite literally).
No.
A while back you paid for the hardware and the software came along with it, including upgrades and support.
Later people started charging for using their software to go with other peoples' hardware.
Not only might the real Word do things out of spec on purpose, but there could be numerous formatting bugs that are common to all word versions and unnoticable to the user.
If a document is written and formatted on in Word that has a small bug, and the file is parsed using the specifications, it would display 'incorrectly' (a better phraise would probably be 'in an unwanted way', but to all Word users it *would* be incorrect) *without* the display bug.
No, that's like saying "all you need to copy music is ONE PERSON with and EE degree, an ASIC burner and some semi-illegal software."
It would be the same situation as Playstation (and others?) mod chips.
Well, judging by how I hear people at my school (even teachers!) casually talking about 'modding' their Playstations and other hardware hacks like that. I have no doubt that if it were a simple modification to one element of hardware in a soundcard or whatnot, people would do it without flinching.
Rephraise that to say "as long as it plays reliably and easily under ideal circumstances".
Because once one thing in that huge mess of a content-control chain breaks in the slightest way, then you have no way to listen to that music and no way to fix it.
This will probly lead to yet more forced hardware/software upgrades.
How many >1-year-old soundcards are they going to bother to write/verify drivers for?
It's not the end posistion that this device needs to know about though.
You could ziz-zag all through a city at high speeds while only traveling a total distance of a few miles after a hour, as long as the signal was obscured.
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I agree about the lateness, but about your first comment...
'Innovation' doesn't equate with 'better', and it's not some magical panacea that will make up for other failings.
I hate how certain companies fling around 'innovation' without actually bothering to work on making tried-and-true aspects the best they can be.
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X does not do Anti-Aliased fonts.
From X 4.0.2 on X does have support for things like antialiasing and alpha blending.
Apps just need to start supporting them, which is exactly what this article is about.
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Leads to a fiery death,
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The point though, and what I tell people, is that if you use and enjoy the benefits of a distro today, one which supports all of your hardware and is stable and secure, you can't expect them to continue development without your support.
And it doesn't even require much support. A simple donation of $5-$20 to Debian by many of its users will ensure it's continued development.
I'd much rather willingly pay $20 for Debian than be forced out of hundreds by certain competitors.
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But for many users it IS difficult and time-wasting for them to compile hundreds of different libraries and programs, and to ensure they all work well together.
For example, it's much easier to spend an hour (while I'm doing something else) waiting for Debian's APT to install precompiled packages and configure them itself, and end up with a fully functional workstation, than it is for me to spend hours searching for dependencies, compiling, and installing hundreds of individual programs.
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The american way is to sue or abuse the law whenever possible.
Although, I'm not sure how it applies to this situation.
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The thing about this is that most companies in ANY field end up going through bad times or going out of business altogether.
It's nothing particular to Linux distrobutions.
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They aren't required to give away their product.
They're required to give away the source to their product.
You're paying them for the time/effort it took to organize and ensure compatability between all the different componants and to compile them for your particular architecture as well as support.
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One method of bot detection for Q2 is that the server creates a zero dimensional client (just a single point in space, no model, no textures) that is not visible in the stats list, that just wanders around the map.
If a player 'kills' this non-player then they are identified as a bot because the chances of an accidental shot to that one point in space at that exact time is extremely (as in, your computer would be more likely to spontaneously combust as you're reading this) low.
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It really only killed public servers where there was no trust.
I still occasionally play on servers of clans and people I know that are passworded, and you trust the other players to not cheat.
I also still do Q1 at lan games, where cheating would get you a quick beatdown (quite literally).
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If you didn't have anything to hide, you wouldn't need to chew with your mouth closed!
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Patents now persist for the authors life + 95, so I doubt that they'd be running out anytime soon.
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No.
A while back you paid for the hardware and the software came along with it, including upgrades and support.
Later people started charging for using their software to go with other peoples' hardware.
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Not only might the real Word do things out of spec on purpose, but there could be numerous formatting bugs that are common to all word versions and unnoticable to the user.
If a document is written and formatted on in Word that has a small bug, and the file is parsed using the specifications, it would display 'incorrectly' (a better phraise would probably be 'in an unwanted way', but to all Word users it *would* be incorrect) *without* the display bug.
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No, that's like saying "all you need to copy music is ONE PERSON with and EE degree, an ASIC burner and some semi-illegal software."
It would be the same situation as Playstation (and others?) mod chips.
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I don't run any version of windows, this is a *nix only house.
I was making the joke about my monitor, and how it manages to smudge any contrast-difference areas.
(PS: I agree about the shadows' worthlessness)
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Well, judging by how I hear people at my school (even teachers!) casually talking about 'modding' their Playstations and other hardware hacks like that. I have no doubt that if it were a simple modification to one element of hardware in a soundcard or whatnot, people would do it without flinching.
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Rephraise that to say "as long as it plays reliably and easily under ideal circumstances".
Because once one thing in that huge mess of a content-control chain breaks in the slightest way, then you have no way to listen to that music and no way to fix it.
This will probly lead to yet more forced hardware/software upgrades.
How many >1-year-old soundcards are they going to bother to write/verify drivers for?
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Here's a link to a few kernel hackers talking about it.
Doesn't look good for Linux on a TI-89/92(+).
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It's not so funny if you're trying to do graphic work with it and your cursor has a giant shadow around it.
:)
Maybe it's time for a new monitor...
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My old monitor puts soft shadows around every large-contrast-difference area, does that count? :)
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There's no hex number 10. :)
Otherwise, nice rhyme
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It's not the end posistion that this device needs to know about though.
You could ziz-zag all through a city at high speeds while only traveling a total distance of a few miles after a hour, as long as the signal was obscured.
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