The GPL is not the only open source license out there and each license type offers particular limitations and freedoms. One of the best know alternatives is the BSD license which allows people to publish source code, but from what I can tell the main requirement is to keep the license and have attribution.
If we are talking the Linux Kernel then we are indeed talking GPL, but Microsoft is free to license their code as they see fit. As long as looking at the source code does not prevent you from writing a clone with independent code, this it is a good first step.
One other thing to note is that open source is not necessarily the same thing as a no cost solution.
I work at a nuclear power plant. We have a limit for the temperature of the river downstream of our returned cooling water for environmental reasons, not reasons related to the power generation process. I suspect the TVA has a similar requirement.
Are there any good cooling systems available for the water, so it the temperature is reduced before returning to the river? I am thinking of maybe something based on partial evaporation or something?
...whatever MS comes up with. We are happily running our apps and games on 2003 server or XP. I support and use Linux in the server room, but in the real world with the apps and games all running on Windows, desktops will stay where they are.
This all said and done, I am really curious as to what Vista has brought people other than a new look, Direct X and an annoying security model? Can anyone who has used both XP and Vista elaborate?
If its anything like regular weather forecasts, then expect yesterday's forecast to be better than tomorrow's, and long term forecasts to be totally random;)
Google Video failed to appeal to most users. Google eventually gave up and bought their competitor: YouTube. Which sent the message that Google Video was as much of a failure as everyone thought it was.
Well, the other issue was how they screwed people who had purchased content off Google video. I don't whether is just goes against their 'do no evil' mandate or whether its shear incompetence, either way it just highlights what can end up happening with DRMed content. At least with a DVD you are free from this.
Someone deep inside the National Security Agency helpfully adds a line to the disambiguation page for "NSA." The addition: "National Softball Association".
It may be, but then again I doubt these guys actually do any spying: http://www.playnsa.com/ unless of course its a cover.
At what support tier do I stop being nice and and understanding to the temp, and start to bitch out the manager for having an incompetent business process?
Don't bitch, since they are just as caught in the system as you are. If they won't get the job done, then talk to their manager and if they can't get the job done because of the process ask them whether there is anyone with the authority to solve the problem. Patience and understanding are what is needed, since you can't fight the system, but you can get the system to play against itself (anyone reading the 12 tasks of Asterix will know what I mean:) )
Later on, if you care enough, write a letter to the company outlining the issues. Believe me a letter is still worth something.
Not to be picky back, but if you were to take a smooth thing and slam it on the ground realy hard, there is a reasonable change of getting sharp bits...
If you look at the Google image cache you will see that a fair few are rounded, thought admittedly there some that are slightly jagged:
Not to be picky, but its probably fairly smooth, due to the melting going through the atmosphere. Admittedly I haven't seen a picture of the thing, since the site is not responding.
From talking with games developers DX and OGL aren't quite the same beast, in terms of functionality. OGL provides the raw basics of graphics, be it 2D or 3D, while Direct-X can be thought of as OGL bundled with APIs that help reduce doing some of the common stuff. OpenGL does not provide what is needed to create spheres and other 'complex' objects, so you are left doing this on your own.
I would love to see more PC games developers target OpenGL, but for that to happen the little things that make DirectX attractive need to either be brought to OpenGL or to an open support API that accompanies OpenGL.
BTW There are companies that have attempted to port DX to other platforms, but they never seem to go anywhere and games companies who developer for DX don't usually seem to care about other platforms anyhow.
This is what you get when schools do what it takes to look good. While they are too blame, the blame also lies on governments and parents who are looking for schools which turn out the most graduates.
Ideally a rating system should be based on the "quality" of those grades. What I mean by this is that the maths levels would be broken down into categories from easy to advanced. A school should be given higher marks if they manage to turn out a few good maths students as opposed to many low level maths students. I am not sure how this could be made to work in reality though.
Is having a full screen window in java any different from having a full screen window in Flash? If so, wouldn't it just be as easy to use Flah, since it is likely installed on more systems than Java is.
Aside from the possibility that they all became so intelligent that they failed to find mating partners and died off (this is based on observation of IT folk), there are other possibilities:
- they visited and didn't leave a trace
- one or two of the abduction theories are true
- they look like us
- Men In Black is non-fiction
- they followed the Star Trek approach of not interfering with other civilisations
- too busy watching satellite TV
- stuck in virtual reality
- etc.
BTW I assume we are talking about extra terrestrials, as opposed the US definition of alien, which is anyone who is not American?
I don't believe the Congress is granted the authority to write laws regulating state treatment of municipal ISPs (I don't see how you could possibly try to shoe-horn this into "regulating inter-state commerce").
There are a lot that of laws being written by congress that actually step on the agreement of separation between the responsibilities of state and country.
There should be some equivalent to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law [wikipedia.org] for arguing that the US is a less densely populated country when faced with the fact that such and such service or infrastructure in the US is inferior to its counterparts in other industrialized countries.
Of course the real truth would be that the American citizen are held to ransom by corporations, that are more interested in looking good to their share-holders than to their customers. I am of the opinion that the local population should be allowed to come together to build whatever infrastructure they want, especially if the private sector wasn't giving them a chance. If the local community is providing a better solution that the telcos then maybe the corporations should have done a better job.
There are other solutions to pure city provided internet and that is working in partnership with the private companies, for example the town can provide the infrastructure and the companies run the service. The companies in this situation would be pure service providers running the service, even in competition with other companies, but using the city provided network. They would of course pay a small line rental fee, in much the same way that road users pay for the road on which they drive.
Unless your DSL router happens to be the latest Apple Airport Extreme, chances are your DSL router is a huge bottle neck in your IPv6 experience. Most 4to6 tunneling solutions only work if you don't have any NAT going on. Microsoft came up with Teredo as one solution to dealing with IPv6 tunneling in the presence of a NAT. Naturally Microsoft only offers an implementation for their MS-Windows platform. If you want it for any other platform then there is the open source implementation known as Miredo. I would rather have more routers supporting IPv6, but in the meantime this does the job.
In other news, family of 4 dies as their Japanese car careens off of a cliff after experiencing a BSOD in their Microsoft Windows Vista Auto Edition software.
Then again there was the other news piece where the driver was asked to authorize or deny the deployment of the air-bag, when he crashed into the lamp-post.
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Many carriers think they are a monopoly and don't want to have their low end rob the profit from the high end.
There is indeed competition in some places and in others they just scare you from leaving with their high service termination fees.
Abide by the GPL and anyone can play.
The GPL is not the only open source license out there and each license type offers particular limitations and freedoms. One of the best know alternatives is the BSD license which allows people to publish source code, but from what I can tell the main requirement is to keep the license and have attribution.
If we are talking the Linux Kernel then we are indeed talking GPL, but Microsoft is free to license their code as they see fit. As long as looking at the source code does not prevent you from writing a clone with independent code, this it is a good first step.
One other thing to note is that open source is not necessarily the same thing as a no cost solution.
Take it easy and download OpenOffice.
If you have a google mail account you could send the slide to yourself and then view it with Google's online PowerPoint converter.
I work at a nuclear power plant. We have a limit for the temperature of the river downstream of our returned cooling water for environmental reasons, not reasons related to the power generation process. I suspect the TVA has a similar requirement.
Are there any good cooling systems available for the water, so it the temperature is reduced before returning to the river? I am thinking of maybe something based on partial evaporation or something?
...whatever MS comes up with. We are happily running our apps and games on 2003 server or XP. I support and use Linux in the server room, but in the real world with the apps and games all running on Windows, desktops will stay where they are.
This all said and done, I am really curious as to what Vista has brought people other than a new look, Direct X and an annoying security model? Can anyone who has used both XP and Vista elaborate?
You can send me the ad; I don't understand why I'm under an obligation to look at it or why you have the right to demand that my computer display it.
Or tell me which sites are joining this coalition and I will quite happily stay away from them, even if I don't have an ad blocker.
If its anything like regular weather forecasts, then expect yesterday's forecast to be better than tomorrow's, and long term forecasts to be totally random ;)
Unfortunately no. While we can still order the Dell desktops we use with XP, that's no longer an option with the Lenovo laptops.
That's ironic given the subject of this topic. They can do it for their own systems, but not for systems that customers order?
Google Video failed to appeal to most users. Google eventually gave up and bought their competitor: YouTube. Which sent the message that Google Video was as much of a failure as everyone thought it was.
Well, the other issue was how they screwed people who had purchased content off Google video. I don't whether is just goes against their 'do no evil' mandate or whether its shear incompetence, either way it just highlights what can end up happening with DRMed content. At least with a DVD you are free from this.
It may be, but then again I doubt these guys actually do any spying: http://www.playnsa.com/ unless of course its a cover.
At what support tier do I stop being nice and and understanding to the temp, and start to bitch out the manager for having an incompetent business process?
:) )
Don't bitch, since they are just as caught in the system as you are. If they won't get the job done, then talk to their manager and if they can't get the job done because of the process ask them whether there is anyone with the authority to solve the problem. Patience and understanding are what is needed, since you can't fight the system, but you can get the system to play against itself (anyone reading the 12 tasks of Asterix will know what I mean
Later on, if you care enough, write a letter to the company outlining the issues. Believe me a letter is still worth something.
Not to be picky back, but if you were to take a smooth thing and slam it on the ground realy hard, there is a reasonable change of getting sharp bits...
- 8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=f irefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
If you look at the Google image cache you will see that a fair few are rounded, thought admittedly there some that are slightly jagged:
http://images.google.ca/images?q=meteorite&ie=UTF
and sharp too.
Not to be picky, but its probably fairly smooth, due to the melting going through the atmosphere. Admittedly I haven't seen a picture of the thing, since the site is not responding.
From talking with games developers DX and OGL aren't quite the same beast, in terms of functionality. OGL provides the raw basics of graphics, be it 2D or 3D, while Direct-X can be thought of as OGL bundled with APIs that help reduce doing some of the common stuff. OpenGL does not provide what is needed to create spheres and other 'complex' objects, so you are left doing this on your own.
I would love to see more PC games developers target OpenGL, but for that to happen the little things that make DirectX attractive need to either be brought to OpenGL or to an open support API that accompanies OpenGL.
BTW There are companies that have attempted to port DX to other platforms, but they never seem to go anywhere and games companies who developer for DX don't usually seem to care about other platforms anyhow.
This is what you get when schools do what it takes to look good. While they are too blame, the blame also lies on governments and parents who are looking for schools which turn out the most graduates.
Ideally a rating system should be based on the "quality" of those grades. What I mean by this is that the maths levels would be broken down into categories from easy to advanced. A school should be given higher marks if they manage to turn out a few good maths students as opposed to many low level maths students. I am not sure how this could be made to work in reality though.
Is having a full screen window in java any different from having a full screen window in Flash? If so, wouldn't it just be as easy to use Flah, since it is likely installed on more systems than Java is.
Emulation is no big deal. Why are the numerous PSP emulator releases never posted? /.'s Apple nuthuggery gets more visible by the day.
:)
Simple:
- Sony = bad
- Apple = good
- */Linux = extra good
How long till you can get this in a Java applet?
;)
No need to wait, its already in standard HTML: blink.
Aside from the possibility that they all became so intelligent that they failed to find mating partners and died off (this is based on observation of IT folk), there are other possibilities:
- they visited and didn't leave a trace
- one or two of the abduction theories are true
- they look like us
- Men In Black is non-fiction
- they followed the Star Trek approach of not interfering with other civilisations
- too busy watching satellite TV
- stuck in virtual reality
- etc.
BTW I assume we are talking about extra terrestrials, as opposed the US definition of alien, which is anyone who is not American?
I don't believe the Congress is granted the authority to write laws regulating state treatment of municipal ISPs (I don't see how you could possibly try to shoe-horn this into "regulating inter-state commerce").
There are a lot that of laws being written by congress that actually step on the agreement of separation between the responsibilities of state and country.
There should be some equivalent to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law [wikipedia.org] for arguing that the US is a less densely populated country when faced with the fact that such and such service or infrastructure in the US is inferior to its counterparts in other industrialized countries.
Of course the real truth would be that the American citizen are held to ransom by corporations, that are more interested in looking good to their share-holders than to their customers. I am of the opinion that the local population should be allowed to come together to build whatever infrastructure they want, especially if the private sector wasn't giving them a chance. If the local community is providing a better solution that the telcos then maybe the corporations should have done a better job.
There are other solutions to pure city provided internet and that is working in partnership with the private companies, for example the town can provide the infrastructure and the companies run the service. The companies in this situation would be pure service providers running the service, even in competition with other companies, but using the city provided network. They would of course pay a small line rental fee, in much the same way that road users pay for the road on which they drive.
I'm guessing the "Goatse Wingding super font pack" is not on that list.
:-/
Man, just when I get out of therapy someone has to bring Goatse up again
So, what you're saying is, 512k is enough for anyone?
Nah, nothing is enough for anyone.
Unless your DSL router happens to be the latest Apple Airport Extreme, chances are your DSL router is a huge bottle neck in your IPv6 experience. Most 4to6 tunneling solutions only work if you don't have any NAT going on. Microsoft came up with Teredo as one solution to dealing with IPv6 tunneling in the presence of a NAT. Naturally Microsoft only offers an implementation for their MS-Windows platform. If you want it for any other platform then there is the open source implementation known as Miredo. I would rather have more routers supporting IPv6, but in the meantime this does the job.
In other news, family of 4 dies as their Japanese car careens off of a cliff after experiencing a BSOD in their Microsoft Windows Vista Auto Edition software.
Then again there was the other news piece where the driver was asked to authorize or deny the deployment of the air-bag, when he crashed into the lamp-post.