Given that you need a license to use Nintendo's API, would the GPL allow the source code to be compliant, even if there was no way to compile it without the missing API? I know there is the NDA which compounds the issue, but I am thinking of a scenario where there is no NDA.
That's not really the point. The point is SCUMM must have been ported to the Wii platform. This process will have included adding a step to its build process that signs it with a key authorised to run on the Wii. Under the GPL terms, this _must_ be released along with the rest of the source code.
I believe this requirement is only present in GPL v3.
If you look at Apple's stock price around the times health issues were declared, then you will see that it mirrors more the general tech market than knee jerk reactions to his health.
Actually proper English indicates that you double consonant when adding 'ing' if it ends with one, or drop the 'e' if it ends with one:
hop -> hopping
hope -> hoping
Copyright law needs a review across the board. By which I mean on an international level.
Yup. When I see cases like the one posted above I start thinking that the middle ages were quite liberal when compared to what some copyright holders are asking for.
Unfortunately, it is not quite that perfect. It seems that their offer to upgrade DRMed tracks for $0.30 has a hitch. If the label decides to alter the title of the album slightly, you can't upgrade. For example, if they change the album title from "Groovy tunes" to "Groovey Tunes (remastered)" you are SOL. This stranded nearly 100 of my songs in iTunes hell. ("My songs" might be an inappropriate phrase.) The net result of this:
Bye bye, iTunes. Hello, Amazon.
Fair point, but this only happens if you are upgrading from DRM hell to non-DRM heaven, doing anything with DRM labelled files is asking for trouble. Anyone buying music from iTunes now only has to put up with having their name engraved into the text of the binary file. At this point buying files from iTunes or Amazon works out to be the same.
BTW Have you contacted Apple about this. Phone them up if you have to.
Here I thought we were supposed to encourage people to move back into cities so high population densities would make mass transit more viable. Silly me.
In many ways this project allows people to start afresh. Would you want to build a house in area that is surrounded by boarded up houses? With this project you either find yourself in the countryside, as the other houses around you are demolished, or find yourself with plenty of land to start from scratch with.
If you decide you do accept to move, then there is possibility of being moved to the new centre.
"Having recently travelled around Europe, I get the feeling this is a very old idea. The only difference is nobody gave residents any compensation. People just left the houses to collapse and moved on to where the jobs were. Nature and time took care of the demolition. Population centres move, either because of politics, economics or practicality, but it happens.
In the case of the USA, these areas could be left to collapse, but if you can do something useful with the land, why not? I don't get why there is so much opposition of demolishing abandoned property. When the economics allow for it real estate developers will come in and redevelop."
Unfortunately, it'll never happen. It'd be nice if it did but, so long as ISPs have lobbying power, which they do, it'll never come to pass.
Well, if you support the bill, then you should contact your senator and push to have this supported. We talk about lobby groups, but often fail to contact our politicos ourselves.
OpenCL is like CUDA, but supposed to be more open along the lines of OpenGL, hence the name. The same guys who manage OpenGL (Khronos) manage OpenCL as well. You could probably use it to do graphics, but that would be stupid.
The relationship is: OpenCL is like CUDA, as it achieves the same goals. OpenCL is like OpenGL in that it is an open standard managed by the Khronos group. OpenCL is not a graphics processing language, but it could be used to implement graphics processing languages.
OpenCL is a new technology, only having been announced at the end of 2008. So far, apart from Apple, only Nvidia is close to releasing OpenCL drivers.
So what does this mean for domains in the.org realm? Should people be adding DNSSEC to their own domains, and if so what sort of cost should we expect? Also, how does software on a PC validate that a domain is signed?
... but with the employees who are doing the reviews. It really seems that some of these reviewers are your "average Joe" user, and may not actually be the most computer-literate users out there.
Certainly, but their actions can and do effect Apple's reputation. For this reason it is important for their employees to to be trained to do the job right. If their are any doubts about the system, then they should be having two separate people verifying the same application and if differences in opinion come up, then a flag should be raised.
The problem here is we have one vendor being the gateway yo everything on the platform. We are seeing this big time with Apple, but we also forget that this is not a new business model, especially when you consider how games consoles have the same process in place. It does not make it right, but it isn't new. There is a catch in being the only vendor, since you might want to sell just about anything, but when the wares that are sold through you can impact your reputation you have to pay attention.
The only way to avoid this issue is to either chooses a smart phone which doesn't suffer from this or jail break you iPhone. There are other possibilities, but these are the ones I want to mention.
I imagine the only way to do this is with some sort of hashed-timestamped-checksum... but even then... MS can just look at the source code and mimic it. Okay- I give up. There is no way to do this.
Well, at least it would let us know whether Microsoft was trying to be malicious. If they aren't trying to be then they won't hack this file and if they are we have confirmation.
When you have access to the filesystem, and I assume Windows Update runs with full privileges, you can do whatever the hell you want. If MS really wanted to, they could be replacing libraries in the Firefox folder. In many ways this is similar to the argument that if a hacker has physical access to the machine, you're toast.
Well, a solution would allow people to tell the difference between what was subvertedly installed, and intended to be kept that way, and what was installed without the standard process, but wasn't intended to be hidden.
Filtering IPs from the CoS prevents them from contributing or skewing an already established work: it doesn't attach an indelible mark with which others can identify them with (and use against them) and it doesn't promote wide-spread "We hate you" feelings - it's just saying "We don't want your 'contributions'"
Then again the CoS is probably worse than the Nazis since their attitude is closer to pinning the yellow star on everyone else.
Choice, many times becomes really fast synonym of fragmentation and lack of standard. And this is just a bright example. The situation described is 100% conforming to reality, as far as UI kits and sound infrastructure.
Sounds like the strength is also its weakness.
The criticism made is a fair one, and it is only when there are vocal and influential enough developers do people actually stop to pay attention. I am sure there will be many Linux developers who will go on the defensive, but until you are the number one choice for the desktop it is worth listening to what the critics say. Even when you are number on the desktop you should still listen to the critics if you want to stay there. Just look at Windows as an example.
The ban is designed to stop residents of said countries, not citizens. You can still have non-Iranians in Iran, for example, being effected by this and also still have citizens of the counties living elsewhere not being effected by the ban.
With solutions such as Jabber, there is nothing for residents in question to put place their own solution.
No, it means they have to use other IP addresses. It's stupid of Wikipedia to think this stops anything.
Like security, this is less about stopping and more about inconvenience. If the abuser has to spend time looking for other points of access, then this is a minor victory.
Thinking about this, I wonder what sort of coordinate system you would use in your spacecraft? Would you use a polar coordinate system, with certain celestial bodies providing the center of the coordinate system? For example if you are in close proximity of a planet you use that, then outside of those bounds the star and then the galactic center, and so on? Or do you a grid (cube?) system with certain reference points to keep the grid in the right position?
Because reference points in space have this horrible tendency to move, I can see the mapping system being more dynamic that the surface maps we use for planets, so will probably need a planetary simulator to keep it precise.
Nintendo fans will be bashing Sony for "once again copying" Nintendo soon enough. Also it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo is secretly working on a better motion sensing technology themselves.
I just hope Nintendo is working to keep a step ahead in general. Adding more games to the selection would be good for both Sony and Nintendo, since Microsoft has a clear lead at the moment when it comes to selection.
On this subject, what algorithms are out there for establishing a user's password strength? I see some sites do this, but I am not sure what mechanism they use.
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Given that you need a license to use Nintendo's API, would the GPL allow the source code to be compliant, even if there was no way to compile it without the missing API? I know there is the NDA which compounds the issue, but I am thinking of a scenario where there is no NDA.
That's not really the point. The point is SCUMM must have been ported to the Wii platform. This process will have included adding a step to its build process that signs it with a key authorised to run on the Wii. Under the GPL terms, this _must_ be released along with the rest of the source code.
I believe this requirement is only present in GPL v3.
If you look at Apple's stock price around the times health issues were declared, then you will see that it mirrors more the general tech market than knee jerk reactions to his health.
Actually proper English indicates that you double consonant when adding 'ing' if it ends with one, or drop the 'e' if it ends with one:
hop -> hopping
hope -> hoping
so:
munge -> munging
mung -> mungging
Copyright law needs a review across the board. By which I mean on an international level.
Yup. When I see cases like the one posted above I start thinking that the middle ages were quite liberal when compared to what some copyright holders are asking for.
Unfortunately, it is not quite that perfect. It seems that their offer to upgrade DRMed tracks for $0.30 has a hitch. If the label decides to alter the title of the album slightly, you can't upgrade. For example, if they change the album title from "Groovy tunes" to "Groovey Tunes (remastered)" you are SOL. This stranded nearly 100 of my songs in iTunes hell. ("My songs" might be an inappropriate phrase.) The net result of this:
Bye bye, iTunes. Hello, Amazon.
Fair point, but this only happens if you are upgrading from DRM hell to non-DRM heaven, doing anything with DRM labelled files is asking for trouble. Anyone buying music from iTunes now only has to put up with having their name engraved into the text of the binary file. At this point buying files from iTunes or Amazon works out to be the same.
BTW Have you contacted Apple about this. Phone them up if you have to.
Here I thought we were supposed to encourage people to move back into cities so high population densities would make mass transit more viable. Silly me.
In many ways this project allows people to start afresh. Would you want to build a house in area that is surrounded by boarded up houses? With this project you either find yourself in the countryside, as the other houses around you are demolished, or find yourself with plenty of land to start from scratch with.
If you decide you do accept to move, then there is possibility of being moved to the new centre.
I liked this post in the article's comments:
"Having recently travelled around Europe, I get the feeling this is a very old idea. The only difference is nobody gave residents any compensation. People just left the houses to collapse and moved on to where the jobs were. Nature and time took care of the demolition. Population centres move, either because of politics, economics or practicality, but it happens.
In the case of the USA, these areas could be left to collapse, but if you can do something useful with the land, why not? I don't get why there is so much opposition of demolishing abandoned property. When the economics allow for it real estate developers will come in and redevelop."
Unfortunately, it'll never happen. It'd be nice if it did but, so long as ISPs have lobbying power, which they do, it'll never come to pass.
Well, if you support the bill, then you should contact your senator and push to have this supported. We talk about lobby groups, but often fail to contact our politicos ourselves.
Pffft. We all know the real money is in mythril. Heck, with gold you barely get armour to protect yourself against a level 2 orc.
This is a trick question? So, do you have air conditioning?
OpenCL is like CUDA, but supposed to be more open along the lines of OpenGL, hence the name. The same guys who manage OpenGL (Khronos) manage OpenCL as well. You could probably use it to do graphics, but that would be stupid.
The relationship is: OpenCL is like CUDA, as it achieves the same goals. OpenCL is like OpenGL in that it is an open standard managed by the Khronos group. OpenCL is not a graphics processing language, but it could be used to implement graphics processing languages.
OpenCL is a new technology, only having been announced at the end of 2008. So far, apart from Apple, only Nvidia is close to releasing OpenCL drivers.
So what does this mean for domains in the .org realm? Should people be adding DNSSEC to their own domains, and if so what sort of cost should we expect? Also, how does software on a PC validate that a domain is signed?
... but with the employees who are doing the reviews. It really seems that some of these reviewers are your "average Joe" user, and may not actually be the most computer-literate users out there.
Certainly, but their actions can and do effect Apple's reputation. For this reason it is important for their employees to to be trained to do the job right. If their are any doubts about the system, then they should be having two separate people verifying the same application and if differences in opinion come up, then a flag should be raised.
The problem here is we have one vendor being the gateway yo everything on the platform. We are seeing this big time with Apple, but we also forget that this is not a new business model, especially when you consider how games consoles have the same process in place. It does not make it right, but it isn't new. There is a catch in being the only vendor, since you might want to sell just about anything, but when the wares that are sold through you can impact your reputation you have to pay attention.
The only way to avoid this issue is to either chooses a smart phone which doesn't suffer from this or jail break you iPhone. There are other possibilities, but these are the ones I want to mention.
I imagine the only way to do this is with some sort of hashed-timestamped-checksum... but even then... MS can just look at the source code and mimic it.
Okay- I give up. There is no way to do this.
Well, at least it would let us know whether Microsoft was trying to be malicious. If they aren't trying to be then they won't hack this file and if they are we have confirmation.
When you have access to the filesystem, and I assume Windows Update runs with full privileges, you can do whatever the hell you want. If MS really wanted to, they could be replacing libraries in the Firefox folder. In many ways this is similar to the argument that if a hacker has physical access to the machine, you're toast.
Well, a solution would allow people to tell the difference between what was subvertedly installed, and intended to be kept that way, and what was installed without the standard process, but wasn't intended to be hidden.
Filtering IPs from the CoS prevents them from contributing or skewing an already established work: it doesn't attach an indelible mark with which others can identify them with (and use against them) and it doesn't promote wide-spread "We hate you" feelings - it's just saying "We don't want your 'contributions'"
Then again the CoS is probably worse than the Nazis since their attitude is closer to pinning the yellow star on everyone else.
Choice, many times becomes really fast synonym of fragmentation and lack of standard. And this is just a bright example. The situation described is 100% conforming to reality, as far as UI kits and sound infrastructure.
Sounds like the strength is also its weakness.
The criticism made is a fair one, and it is only when there are vocal and influential enough developers do people actually stop to pay attention. I am sure there will be many Linux developers who will go on the defensive, but until you are the number one choice for the desktop it is worth listening to what the critics say. Even when you are number on the desktop you should still listen to the critics if you want to stay there. Just look at Windows as an example.
The ban is designed to stop residents of said countries, not citizens. You can still have non-Iranians in Iran, for example, being effected by this and also still have citizens of the counties living elsewhere not being effected by the ban.
With solutions such as Jabber, there is nothing for residents in question to put place their own solution.
No, it means they have to use other IP addresses. It's stupid of Wikipedia to think this stops anything.
Like security, this is less about stopping and more about inconvenience. If the abuser has to spend time looking for other points of access, then this is a minor victory.
Thinking about this, I wonder what sort of coordinate system you would use in your spacecraft? Would you use a polar coordinate system, with certain celestial bodies providing the center of the coordinate system? For example if you are in close proximity of a planet you use that, then outside of those bounds the star and then the galactic center, and so on? Or do you a grid (cube?) system with certain reference points to keep the grid in the right position?
Because reference points in space have this horrible tendency to move, I can see the mapping system being more dynamic that the surface maps we use for planets, so will probably need a planetary simulator to keep it precise.
Nintendo fans will be bashing Sony for "once again copying" Nintendo soon enough. Also it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo is secretly working on a better motion sensing technology themselves.
I just hope Nintendo is working to keep a step ahead in general. Adding more games to the selection would be good for both Sony and Nintendo, since Microsoft has a clear lead at the moment when it comes to selection.
On this subject, what algorithms are out there for establishing a user's password strength? I see some sites do this, but I am not sure what mechanism they use.
Are you new here? Either you are with us or against us when it comes to MS terrorist business.
Who is this Microsoft you speak of?
Simple. You threaten someone who's spineless, and they cave. More people need to read:
Said spineless person may not have the time or money to fight a team of well paid lawyers with all the time in the world.