I believe that if you used dumpster dived code to make a diagram, and then used that to make the code you are open for abuse. Because you could have accidentaly infringed.
The coder and the diagramer should be different people for clean reverse engineering.
I actually believe you should have to have working source for your "invention". After all Patant is about publishing the tech and not loosing it. A working implementation can still be very opaque.
Currently any (closed) source is essentially trade secrets. Such as the recipe for Coke is Coca Colas secret. Also as a trade secret, if someoen figures it out you are SOL.
If software is (C) how can it be patented? that would be like me Patenting a new type of chapter in a book, totally absurd.
I think that for software to be copyrighted it should have no built in enforcement (or movie/cds for that matter). Copyright is to protect things that are too easy to copy, not things that require selling your sould to use (your soul is then their protection).
Patants should be for things that are open, and patented, and not for expanding the idea of plugin to a web browser, but for inventing the plugin with a specific method for doing it. If someoen else comes up with their own better or worse method then that is theirs to patant.
Closed source is pretty clearly a trade secret, and should be treated as such. It is not published so it should not have the protections of a patant.
I just installed KDE 3.1 and the first thing I did was switch to KDE classic icons. The Classic (Klassic?) folder icon (at a slight angle top half blue, no glazing or trancperany) is the best icon ever IMHO.
I also use the BII window decoration (for the slidable title bars), with the defaulft style and colors.
I actually prefer Gnome. but Nautilus was way to slow (though it may be better now).
I don't know the numbers, but the opteron should to quite well in floating point (by x86 standards at least) sinc ehtey added those extra SSE thingies. They left floating poit alone and recomend against it in favor of SSE, but it should give them a big boost in stuff written correctly.
Are you sure I pay for kilowatt hours wich is really just a lot of watts.
1000(amp/sec)*3600 seconds
your are messuring it in Jules <spelled all bad>
1000(jules/sec)*3600 seconds
But an amp is a messurment of a quantity of electrons, which would be how much juise. The Jule is a messurement of the total energy, but I would think of the quantity of electrons as the juice, much like the power company seems to do the same.
how many channels does he want for his 7.1 system?
I am assuming 7+ the bass being sucked off all of them. It is at least 4 channels with the others interpalated so that is about half of your USB bandwidth at a minimum 7 * 2.8 and you can't fit it all and yes, I want CD quality sould if I am watching a DVD on my $150.00 sound card.
Also USB may be doing other things. Can you watch a DVD while you print stuff out? How about the line in, for say voice chat in a game.
I don't think that USB 1.1 has the bandwidth to support a full sound system without some crazy stuff happening (for example a driver could be setup that sends three channels (triangulate) and the card could split it up, but sounds very costly to the CPU).
seems to me that it could be a dead gice-away to what you are supposed to do.
But I will hold off judgement.
because it could also be an indication that an option means you are using a power which has risks/costs in which case you need to know about it.
In my opinion though, if one of your options is because someone with special access (friends in the paper RPG) is quitly pulling strings for you, you should not know that is a special thing for you if it is being treated normaly by the NPC. So I think could could very easily spoil the challenge or be annoying (Yes/No in Final Fantasy III US).
So, what you are saying is that if I make Win XP more like Win98 it is more usable?
that kind of makes my point doesn't it?
I do know that these can be configured, but if I spend my time configuring it to get the usability I had in Win98 that doesn't make it much more usable. I guess stability would count as usability, but that is all I find it has on Win98.
I am not a major anti-bloat person, ram and CPU is cheap, but when previews make your system unusably slow, it bothers me. That is the main difference between XP and 98 after those changes.
How many XP machines still crash twice a day? too many for whatever the reason.
I really HATE the new LAN browser with a bitter passion. At work we have machines with so many freaken quick links to shared folders it is frustrating and annoying.
Also entire network is hidden as a small un-obvious link in the sidebar.
Also Network Neighborhood makes more sense the My Network Places.
They took some links off the desktop that should be there (or my family did). And the new Control panel is a pain in the ass (that is mostly a familierity issue).
the miraculously changing menus really seem to hurt and not help usability.
I think WIN98 is a very usable system except for stability.
Also , I don;t think you can drag stuff into the start menu which would be nice.
The default action for dragging out of the start menu should also be copy, not move, but I think it is a very usable system.
If win XP was a complete 98 workalike with stability, and good firewire/usb support I would think it is great, but as it is I will probably never install or reallly even use windows at home again.
I currently use gnome apps in KDE (Nautilus was still to slow as of Mandrake 9.0) so obviously my opinion means nothing if these are things that truly are better, and I am just unfamiliar.
On that picture is a shot of the two. The moissanite to me seems to be overly prismatic in it's affect. Of course they seem to be calling that a virtue, but the pure white light from the diomond seems far more mystical then the 5 dollor glass window hangy loking lines produced by the moissanite.
Why don't you do what normal software distributers do?
Include GTK 1.2 and then have your instal check if it is needed, if it is install it.
Like when I buy a game I get DirectX with it. I guess installing that library is gonna kill me.
There is no reason you can't include GTK 1.2 since it is Open source.
Of course the bugginess is another issue, and obviously if that is the case you cannot use it, but I see no reason you can't make it easy to install by modifying your make script.
Even the Gimp was an easy install in Windows once I found all the packages, but someone could have bundled them together easy enough.
God, I posted an obvious tired troll. But anyway, I agree that no serious gamer would be using only Linux.
But there are plently of people like me who are casual gamers that do (at least 2 dozen by my count). And we have suffered a loss.
That was the way I interpretted the original post. That Linux users have lost a game programmer. It doesn't matter where he goes, since ID is about the only big company really supporting Linux.
Obviously you use some Windows, or you would consider it a loss when someone to leaves a company that supports Linux to go to someone who doesn't.
Even before that, playing pen and paper games, when I had to talk to the people it made it absolutly no fun at all. I was thrilled when MMORGs came out, because when I had to type everything it really added a whole new dimmension to my role playing.
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I believe that if you used dumpster dived code to make a diagram, and then used that to make the code you are open for abuse. Because you could have accidentaly infringed.
The coder and the diagramer should be different people for clean reverse engineering.
I actually believe you should have to have working source for your "invention". After all Patant is about publishing the tech and not loosing it. A working implementation can still be very opaque.
Currently any (closed) source is essentially trade secrets. Such as the recipe for Coke is Coca Colas secret. Also as a trade secret, if someoen figures it out you are SOL.
If software is (C) how can it be patented? that would be like me Patenting a new type of chapter in a book, totally absurd.
I think that for software to be copyrighted it should have no built in enforcement (or movie/cds for that matter). Copyright is to protect things that are too easy to copy, not things that require selling your sould to use (your soul is then their protection).
Patants should be for things that are open, and patented, and not for expanding the idea of plugin to a web browser, but for inventing the plugin with a specific method for doing it. If someoen else comes up with their own better or worse method then that is theirs to patant.
Closed source is pretty clearly a trade secret, and should be treated as such. It is not published so it should not have the protections of a patant.
SCO stock is non marginable.
you can;t sell it short.
I saw your link and was so hopeful for a comedy sketch from MTV's The State.
I am so let down.
What kind of a name is Xouvert?
"It's Xouvert sir"
I agree.
I just installed KDE 3.1 and the first thing I did was switch to KDE classic icons. The Classic (Klassic?) folder icon (at a slight angle top half blue, no glazing or trancperany) is the best icon ever IMHO.
I also use the BII window decoration (for the slidable title bars), with the defaulft style and colors.
I actually prefer Gnome. but Nautilus was way to slow (though it may be better now).
I don't know the numbers, but the opteron should to quite well in floating point (by x86 standards at least) sinc ehtey added those extra SSE thingies. They left floating poit alone and recomend against it in favor of SSE, but it should give them a big boost in stuff written correctly.
I don't know how the IA64 compares to x86 though.
damn, I have been so wrong for the last 4 years (since I graduated) shame on me for spreading mis-information.
Are you sure I pay for kilowatt hours wich is really just a lot of watts.
1000(amp/sec)*3600 seconds
your are messuring it in Jules <spelled all bad>
1000(jules/sec)*3600 seconds
But an amp is a messurment of a quantity of electrons, which would be how much juise. The Jule is a messurement of the total energy, but I would think of the quantity of electrons as the juice, much like the power company seems to do the same.
What about Unreal vs Quake II?
:(
Didn't ID lose that one and release late?
Just what I read somewhere, I still had a 486
how many channels does he want for his 7.1 system?
I am assuming 7+ the bass being sucked off all of them. It is at least 4 channels with the others interpalated so that is about half of your USB bandwidth at a minimum 7 * 2.8 and you can't fit it all and yes, I want CD quality sould if I am watching a DVD on my $150.00 sound card.
Also USB may be doing other things. Can you watch a DVD while you print stuff out? How about the line in, for say voice chat in a game.
I don't think that USB 1.1 has the bandwidth to support a full sound system without some crazy stuff happening (for example a driver could be setup that sends three channels (triangulate) and the card could split it up, but sounds very costly to the CPU).
If I am totally wrong here speakup.
seems to me that it could be a dead gice-away to what you are supposed to do.
But I will hold off judgement.
because it could also be an indication that an option means you are using a power which has risks/costs in which case you need to know about it.
In my opinion though, if one of your options is because someone with special access (friends in the paper RPG) is quitly pulling strings for you, you should not know that is a special thing for you if it is being treated normaly by the NPC. So I think could could very easily spoil the challenge or be annoying (Yes/No in Final Fantasy III US).
So, what you are saying is that if I make Win XP more like Win98 it is more usable?
that kind of makes my point doesn't it?
I do know that these can be configured, but if I spend my time configuring it to get the usability I had in Win98 that doesn't make it much more usable. I guess stability would count as usability, but that is all I find it has on Win98.
I am not a major anti-bloat person, ram and CPU is cheap, but when previews make your system unusably slow, it bothers me. That is the main difference between XP and 98 after those changes.
How many XP machines still crash twice a day? too many for whatever the reason.
I honestly think Win 98 is more usable then XP.
Of course 90% of that is familiarity.
I really HATE the new LAN browser with a bitter passion. At work we have machines with so many freaken quick links to shared folders it is frustrating and annoying.
Also entire network is hidden as a small un-obvious link in the sidebar.
Also Network Neighborhood makes more sense the My Network Places.
They took some links off the desktop that should be there (or my family did). And the new Control panel is a pain in the ass (that is mostly a familierity issue).
the miraculously changing menus really seem to hurt and not help usability.
I think WIN98 is a very usable system except for stability.
Also , I don;t think you can drag stuff into the start menu which would be nice.
The default action for dragging out of the start menu should also be copy, not move, but I think it is a very usable system.
If win XP was a complete 98 workalike with stability, and good firewire/usb support I would think it is great, but as it is I will probably never install or reallly even use windows at home again.
I currently use gnome apps in KDE (Nautilus was still to slow as of Mandrake 9.0) so obviously my opinion means nothing if these are things that truly are better, and I am just unfamiliar.
WOW!
I didnt realize things were so bad.
I really have a better picture of why half the apps I use look like ass (they do work well though).
Thank you for putting it to me so clearly.
I probably shouldn't have been so rud in my initial post and appologize.
http://www.moissaniteonthenet.com/
On that picture is a shot of the two. The moissanite to me seems to be overly prismatic in it's affect. Of course they seem to be calling that a virtue, but the pure white light from the diomond seems far more mystical then the 5 dollor glass window hangy loking lines produced by the moissanite.
Just MHO
Why don't you do what normal software distributers do?
Include GTK 1.2 and then have your instal check if it is needed, if it is install it.
Like when I buy a game I get DirectX with it. I guess installing that library is gonna kill me.
There is no reason you can't include GTK 1.2 since it is Open source.
Of course the bugginess is another issue, and obviously if that is the case you cannot use it, but I see no reason you can't make it easy to install by modifying your make script.
Even the Gimp was an easy install in Windows once I found all the packages, but someone could have bundled them together easy enough.
Last I checked VMware did not work for gaming.
That may have changed, but it was no directX before.
Of course you might be able to hack togeather soemthing using all Linux (save money) and WineX.
I think Linux has a Linux insife Linux though now too.
The EULA is before the action (installing software).
The confidentiality blurb is read after the action (reading the letter).
They could put it at the start have lots of black lines and say scrolling down is accepting the agreement, but even that is weak.
Didn't the Aibo cost over $1000 dollors?
Thats a hude chunk of change for a toy, no matter how cool it is.
Actually they did,
But the judge was deamed unclean to rule due to comments he made on the record during the trial, that came out aftwards.
It gives me joy like when I figured out I could drag applications out of their windows in BeOS.
God, I posted an obvious tired troll. But anyway, I agree that no serious gamer would be using only Linux.
But there are plently of people like me who are casual gamers that do (at least 2 dozen by my count). And we have suffered a loss.
That was the way I interpretted the original post. That Linux users have lost a game programmer. It doesn't matter where he goes, since ID is about the only big company really supporting Linux.
Obviously you use some Windows, or you would consider it a loss when someone to leaves a company that supports Linux to go to someone who doesn't.
I agree entirly.
When we play LAROS it is totally ruined.
Even before that, playing pen and paper games, when I had to talk to the people it made it absolutly no fun at all. I was thrilled when MMORGs came out, because when I had to type everything it really added a whole new dimmension to my role playing.
CPU argument stands though
I bet that will be non-biased research.
I hope they get MS to do it too, and then intelegently go over the pros and cons each give.