Personally I really like AC, but I guess your concerns are valid. And remember, AC had Sid Meir working on it. CTP actually liscensed the name "Civilization" from some other company and made a clone of Sid Meir's work, which seems REALLY low. But, alas, there is no AC for Linux, so I will be getting CTP.
He would, but I doubt he has the legal fees. He's a high school student. And 3dfx has a lot to lose by not going after him, so they probably will, and he'll just give up.
To be fair, this doesn't hinder Linux developers at all. These are OpenGL and Direct3D wrappers, and the only hardware that works with OpenGL (well, Mesa) in Linux is 3dfx hardware working with an Glide->OpenGL wrapper!
Glide is supposedly (don't know, haven't used it) MUCH easier to write to than OpenGL or Direct3D, plus it works better on 3dfx hardware than OpenGL or Direct3d does, to the disadvantage that it doesn't work on other cards (though awhile ago, there effectively weren't any other cards). Plus it works on Linux!
One of the guys who made the things mentioned that he originally downloaded the Glide SDK, read the EULA, and decided that 3dfx would be able to sue him if he made something using that, so he deleted it. Then, instead, he just read all the 3rd-party Glide programming examples on the web, which freed him from the shackles of the EULA. But does 3dfx care? No, they'll still sue him (more likely just scare him into taking it down). What good do cleanroom tactics do if the burden of proof will be on us?
The other person who mentioned reading the Register was onto something. If you look, this is a way for Microsoft to try to subvert Sun's Jini with their own UPnP (I think these are the two saturate-your-appliances-with-the-network projects). Sun released the code to Jini under the Java Public license (not perfect, but better than anything we'll see from Microsoft, I'm sure). They're doing it to gain industry acceptance, sort of like what the Dvvu release was supposed to do, but it seems that in this case there isn't even a pretense of them trying to get feedback about the code from regular developers. This is just PR. But I think that most of us like Sun better than MS anyway, and this isn't going to change that. On the one hand, this might be good because it shows that Microsoft is admitting that people who matter like open source technology. But then there are all those other hands. . .
No, this isn't quite the same thing. It's as if the car maker originally charged $20000 and gave the dealer $1000, but then realized that he was a monopoly and started charging $25000 for the car and giving $5500 to the dealer, but ONLY if the dealer doesn't sell any other cars (entrenching the monopoly), and if not, they don't get the "It's a Ford" sticker, without which no average consumer will buy a car. If they don't sell just Fords, Ford keeps the money. If they do get the money, Ford makes another $500 times what they were selling before (subject to loss in demand) and the car dealer makes more money, and the consumer pays a higher price. This is bad.
I believe he was suggesting that he be able to moderate it down. I'm at 2 default, and I thought it was a good idea, until Taco explained that those high-score comments will draw more attention and will get bumped down if they're not great (if they see a so-so 5, it'll become a 4). This lowers their overall rating, and they may become a lower score by default. Of course, the original author in this thread had a good point: I wouldn't want to post something stupid if it's going to be a 5, but then again, I might still want to post something stupid. I guess this doesn't work well for people who were moderated up in the old system (me included), but for new people, this will create diminishing marginal returns (i.e. my posts start at 2, and I've never had anything moderated above a 3. Under this new system, I would have gotten only 1 point for each of those 3's, as opposed to getting 2 both times; and I doubt the moderators would have thought my petty witicisms were worth 4). So it may not work too well in the short run, and I think the option of self-moderation without penalty would be a good idea, but in the long run I think this will work out.
It's automatic. My post will be worth 2. Watch. I tested it on the QWERTY article to make sure it wasn't instantaneous. I guess the amount that you've been moderated up before affects your initial posting score (though I doubt it should go above 2)
I don't claim to know everything about this, but from this article it looks like it would be equivalent to some attention-starved reporter publishing on the front page of The Times that the guy who stole your wallet actually ripped off your head, as well as the heads of all witnesses, and made a necklace of of it and tried to sell it on Ebay. Sure, graffiti artists should be punished, but we should be abusing rapists and murderers, not them.
There's just not enough information on a DVD to do that. In about 6 years, there will be HD-DVD or something like that, with a shorter wavelength laser and more information on the disc. They'll still play normal DVDs. Who has an HDTV anyway? The highest quality stuff you can see on that is the broadcast HDTV stuff (all six hours a week). Then I guess comes Satellite feed. Then DVD is the highest quality pre-recorded video source availible (I guess actual film might be better). It may not support HDTV yet (but anamorphic discs support at least the widscreen aspect), but it's the best thing out there to date.
It's multiplatform in a way that GGI isn't, though. It runs on DirectX too! Thus, you just have to recompile a game written for ClanLib and it works in Windows or Linux
You should alllook at http://privat.schlund.de/g/grumbel/pingus/index.ht ml . It's a GPL'd Lemmings clone, but with Penguins! It also runs on ClanLib, though it's not finished yet.
How many people who are new to Linux grad the CD and say, "Great, now I can get rid of Windows." I bet that number is TINY. Microsoft can safely assume that no one else wants two operating systems (unless of course it's 98 and NT!), thus we have to use workarounds like LILO and fips. Redhat cannot make that assumption, because how many people who are innocent enough to have to use the defaults are going to want to use just Linux and destroy Windows from their computer? Very few. A great deal of the pain of installing Linux comes from the issues of Windows insisting that it's the only game in town.
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Personally I really like AC, but I guess your concerns are valid. And remember, AC had Sid Meir working on it. CTP actually liscensed the name "Civilization" from some other company and made a clone of Sid Meir's work, which seems REALLY low. But, alas, there is no AC for Linux, so I will be getting CTP.
He would, but I doubt he has the legal fees. He's a high school student. And 3dfx has a lot to lose by not going after him, so they probably will, and he'll just give up.
To be fair, this doesn't hinder Linux developers at all. These are OpenGL and Direct3D wrappers, and the only hardware that works with OpenGL (well, Mesa) in Linux is 3dfx hardware working with an Glide->OpenGL wrapper!
Glide is supposedly (don't know, haven't used it) MUCH easier to write to than OpenGL or Direct3D, plus it works better on 3dfx hardware than OpenGL or Direct3d does, to the disadvantage that it doesn't work on other cards (though awhile ago, there effectively weren't any other cards). Plus it works on Linux!
One of the guys who made the things mentioned that he originally downloaded the Glide SDK, read the EULA, and decided that 3dfx would be able to sue him if he made something using that, so he deleted it. Then, instead, he just read all the 3rd-party Glide programming examples on the web, which freed him from the shackles of the EULA. But does 3dfx care? No, they'll still sue him (more likely just scare him into taking it down). What good do cleanroom tactics do if the burden of proof will be on us?
The other person who mentioned reading the Register was onto something. If you look, this is a way for Microsoft to try to subvert Sun's Jini with their own UPnP (I think these are the two saturate-your-appliances-with-the-network projects). Sun released the code to Jini under the Java Public license (not perfect, but better than anything we'll see from Microsoft, I'm sure). They're doing it to gain industry acceptance, sort of like what the Dvvu release was supposed to do, but it seems that in this case there isn't even a pretense of them trying to get feedback about the code from regular developers. This is just PR. But I think that most of us like Sun better than MS anyway, and this isn't going to change that. On the one hand, this might be good because it shows that Microsoft is admitting that people who matter like open source technology. But then there are all those other hands. . .
I think you underestimate Boies and the team of computer scientists he has behind him.
But now they can try to sue the Wine guys.
No, this isn't quite the same thing. It's as if the car maker originally charged $20000 and gave the dealer $1000, but then realized that he was a monopoly and started charging $25000 for the car and giving $5500 to the dealer, but ONLY if the dealer doesn't sell any other cars (entrenching the monopoly), and if not, they don't get the "It's a Ford" sticker, without which no average consumer will buy a car. If they don't sell just Fords, Ford keeps the money. If they do get the money, Ford makes another $500 times what they were selling before (subject to loss in demand) and the car dealer makes more money, and the consumer pays a higher price. This is bad.
No one can release Specs to a DVD decoder card, since each individual company is under an NDA from the DVD consortium.
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I believe he was suggesting that he be able to moderate it down. I'm at 2 default, and I thought it was a good idea, until Taco explained that those high-score comments will draw more attention and will get bumped down if they're not great (if they see a so-so 5, it'll become a 4). This lowers their overall rating, and they may become a lower score by default. Of course, the original author in this thread had a good point: I wouldn't want to post something stupid if it's going to be a 5, but then again, I might still want to post something stupid. I guess this doesn't work well for people who were moderated up in the old system (me included), but for new people, this will create diminishing marginal returns (i.e. my posts start at 2, and I've never had anything moderated above a 3. Under this new system, I would have gotten only 1 point for each of those 3's, as opposed to getting 2 both times; and I doubt the moderators would have thought my petty witicisms were worth 4). So it may not work too well in the short run, and I think the option of self-moderation without penalty would be a good idea, but in the long run I think this will work out.
It's automatic. My post will be worth 2. Watch. I tested it on the QWERTY article to make sure it wasn't instantaneous. I guess the amount that you've been moderated up before affects your initial posting score (though I doubt it should go above 2)
I don't claim to know everything about this, but from this article it looks like it would be equivalent to some attention-starved reporter publishing on the front page of The Times that the guy who stole your wallet actually ripped off your head, as well as the heads of all witnesses, and made a necklace of of it and tried to sell it on Ebay. Sure, graffiti artists should be punished, but we should be abusing rapists and murderers, not them.
There's just not enough information on a DVD to do that. In about 6 years, there will be HD-DVD or something like that, with a shorter wavelength laser and more information on the disc. They'll still play normal DVDs. Who has an HDTV anyway? The highest quality stuff you can see on that is the broadcast HDTV stuff (all six hours a week). Then I guess comes Satellite feed. Then DVD is the highest quality pre-recorded video source availible (I guess actual film might be better). It may not support HDTV yet (but anamorphic discs support at least the widscreen aspect), but it's the best thing out there to date.
I've noticed that today whatever I post has a score of 2 automatically(watch this prove me wrong). You seem to have several 3s. What's going on?
Not the word multiplatform means supporting more than one platform. I didn't say it was omniplatform.
Ouch. Then I guess there's no point.
Well, Linus has said that he doesn't plan on making Linux scale above 16 processors, because after that you're hurting people who only have one.
It's multiplatform in a way that GGI isn't, though. It runs on DirectX too! Thus, you just have to recompile a game written for ClanLib and it works in Windows or Linux
You should alllook at http://privat.schlund.de/g/grumbel/pingus/index.ht ml . It's a GPL'd Lemmings clone, but with Penguins! It also runs on ClanLib, though it's not finished yet.
Hmm, maybe it just hates non-MS OSes.
How many people who are new to Linux grad the CD and say, "Great, now I can get rid of Windows." I bet that number is TINY. Microsoft can safely assume that no one else wants two operating systems (unless of course it's 98 and NT!), thus we have to use workarounds like LILO and fips. Redhat cannot make that assumption, because how many people who are innocent enough to have to use the defaults are going to want to use just Linux and destroy Windows from their computer? Very few. A great deal of the pain of installing Linux comes from the issues of Windows insisting that it's the only game in town.
I think what he mean was that if it was only on Linux, and not on Windows.