I looked at your linked article. If WT is not allowed it shouldn't be dependant on whether or not the user has installed it specifically or if it was added as part of a different install.
If WT is not allowed then it's not allowed, period. So a bulletin goes out that says, "AOL IM 5.5 installs WT, which is a no no, therefore AOL IM 5.5 is a no no. Don't install it."
Is AOL based IM *required* at your organization? If not then there is no reason to even allow AOL IM. If IM is required then the company should be investing in one of the business oriented IM packages which offer encryption, are free of spyware, don't pass their comms through an ISPs server, and can be monitored. If you're just letting users use AIM to chat then you have bigger problems than spyware to deal with (e.g. confidential information being passed out of the company as plain text and lack of productivity due to IM conversations).
That's not an excuse for the company to have to allow the software--especially if IT can prove it is causing an increase in support calls and/or abuse of network resources.
It doesn't take a streaming web technology for 3D games to play solitaire. If people want to play a game at lunch then can always go to Yahoo! Games, Pogo, or some other web based game site that doesn't require non-session specific software to be installed on the end user's machine.
Your company specifically allows people to play web games on company time?
Make it against the rules to install WildTangent stuff. Why bother with an open alternative (if one even exists). Unless you're an entertainment software developer that needs to look at WildTangent based stuff there is *no* reason for it to be on a business computer.
The LianLi 6070 case is anything but flexible. It's made out of pretty heavy gauge aluminum. The door on the front is easily 1/8" to 1/4" of an inch thick. The side panels are quite beefy also.
I own one (non-veneer) and love it. The thick metal, sound absorbtion material, front door, and rubber gasket (around the door) makes for a very quiet case. It's also pretty stylish to boot.
Imagine being able to use a program like Maya then when everyone goes home at night, use all their workstations to help process a render job.
That's been doable in 3ds Max for almost eight years now. The same for Lightwave, even back to the days when it was Amiga only. The software license for 3ds Max allows you to install it in a render-only mode on an unlimited # of machines. One machine acts as the queue manager and people can submit jobs all day long for submission to the renderfarm. The queue manager can maintain a time/date access list for individual machines and add/remove them from the pool as necessary.
Well, it doesn't set any sort of legal precedent and since businesses are, except in the extremely rare case, demonstrably amoral I wouldn't expect any sort of karmic-rub off on other companies, either.
Businesses are beholden to their shareholders. If shareholder valuation can be increased via protection of patents then the company has a fiduciary duty to pursue that course of action. To not do so would be neglicent and could open the company up to a shareholder lawsuit.
Yes, please, go become a destitute street living alcoholic gambling addict. I so love it when my taxes go up to fund addtional services and welfare costs so that you can feel free to make a total ass of yourself.
Would the percentage of the population who lives in the cold climates and be interested in the technology be sufficient to recoup any R&D costs expended on the technology?
I used to do all of that stuff with Ventura back in the day. I was maintaining 400+ page technical documentation for a laboratory equipment company. At one point we had considered Frame, but decided that the workload in converting all of the existing files from Ventura to Frame, while simultaneously continuing on with new work, was too much for a 2 person publications department.
Frame and Ventura were excellent for that kind of stuff. It's too bad that Corel got Ventura and tried to turn it in to a PageMaker contender, that's not what it was good at.
$3 million is nothing. A 20 person team with an average salary of $60,000.00 will burn through that in 2 years just in salary and benefits alone. Factor in equipment costs, recurring bills (rent, utilities, etc..),middleware and the such and $3 million will maybe get you a year or so into a product. That's maybe a tradeshow quality demo, or possibly a loosely defined alpha (at best)
The chances are better if some off the shelf solutions (e.g. graphics engine) are purchased and not built. Those cost $, though. Sometimes a lot of money. Last time I was involved in an engine evaluation the big hitters (Q3 and Unreal) were upwards of $250,000.00/shipped title. That's almost 10% of the $3 million just for a graphics engine.
$3 million isn't a sufficient amount to get very far into a game these days.
It is important to note that WindowsXP will use the page file whether you've got plenty of RAM or not.
You can instruct XP (and probably 2K) to not page the executive and to use more memory as cache space. This reduces the amount of paging significantly.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management
*Change DisablePagingExecutive to 1
*Change LargeSystemCache to 1
*Reboot
Yeah, and my parents went out and bought the VCR that has 10 interchangeable faceplates. They figure that if they keep changing the layout of the thing they might eventually stumble across the way to make it stop blinking, "12:00".
Only geeks want the choice that multiple desktop systems bring. If Linux is ever going to become a viable desktop alternative it is going to have to make inroads into the mass-market home user crowd. Those people want an appliance. They don't know or care about the underpinnings of a system. They certainly don't want to have to know about multiple desktop managers.
Photoshop was designed for prepress use, and is broken for most other purposes.
The entire computer entertainment industry relies on Photoshop. Not for prepress use--for texture creation. It's alpha channel implimentation works just fine, thank you very much. And it has a *.dds (compressed image with or w/o alpha that is hardware decoded on any 3D card) support, something the GIMP doesn't manage (iirc).
Why not kill it now and save money on the server costs?
I'm guessing that you can buy multi-month (e.g. 6) account blocks. If that's the case they can't shut off the servers until the end of the billing cycle, as they won't want to issue refunds.
Hear hear! I don't listen to music, watch TV or go to the movies or the theater because they all end, too! Heck, I'm not really that enamored of my life because it has a built in termination clause.
I WANT MY LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PURSUIT OF NEVER-ENDING HAPPINESS, DARN IT!
You're right and you're wrong. You're right in that the XBox does not run Linux as its core OS. Geeks have hacked it on there, but the box does not natively boot into Linux.
You're wrong in that the XBox runs a highly modified version of the Windows2000, not CE kernel. Just enough of the OS for booting, hardware configuration (aka Live! config), and DVD autoloading is kept internal. The rest of the libraries required to run a game are loaded off of the game DVD.
If you read, "Inside the XBox" you'll know that the original spec was for a custom version of WinCE to be used, but that was scrapped since it would've required making a fork of DirectX that worked with CE.
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Heck, it's probably 2 more than "DirectX 7.0 game titles that can be played via WineX".
Adoption is predicated on the availability of applications more than anything else.
If WT is not allowed then it's not allowed, period. So a bulletin goes out that says, "AOL IM 5.5 installs WT, which is a no no, therefore AOL IM 5.5 is a no no. Don't install it."
Is AOL based IM *required* at your organization? If not then there is no reason to even allow AOL IM. If IM is required then the company should be investing in one of the business oriented IM packages which offer encryption, are free of spyware, don't pass their comms through an ISPs server, and can be monitored. If you're just letting users use AIM to chat then you have bigger problems than spyware to deal with (e.g. confidential information being passed out of the company as plain text and lack of productivity due to IM conversations).
It doesn't take a streaming web technology for 3D games to play solitaire. If people want to play a game at lunch then can always go to Yahoo! Games, Pogo, or some other web based game site that doesn't require non-session specific software to be installed on the end user's machine.
Your company specifically allows people to play web games on company time? Make it against the rules to install WildTangent stuff. Why bother with an open alternative (if one even exists). Unless you're an entertainment software developer that needs to look at WildTangent based stuff there is *no* reason for it to be on a business computer.
I own one (non-veneer) and love it. The thick metal, sound absorbtion material, front door, and rubber gasket (around the door) makes for a very quiet case. It's also pretty stylish to boot.
Yeah, Lucas invented falling.
That's been doable in 3ds Max for almost eight years now. The same for Lightwave, even back to the days when it was Amiga only. The software license for 3ds Max allows you to install it in a render-only mode on an unlimited # of machines. One machine acts as the queue manager and people can submit jobs all day long for submission to the renderfarm. The queue manager can maintain a time/date access list for individual machines and add/remove them from the pool as necessary.
The Smithsonian ticket system is about to be Slashdotted.
Well, it doesn't set any sort of legal precedent and since businesses are, except in the extremely rare case, demonstrably amoral I wouldn't expect any sort of karmic-rub off on other companies, either.
Businesses are beholden to their shareholders. If shareholder valuation can be increased via protection of patents then the company has a fiduciary duty to pursue that course of action. To not do so would be neglicent and could open the company up to a shareholder lawsuit.
Yes, please, go become a destitute street living alcoholic gambling addict. I so love it when my taxes go up to fund addtional services and welfare costs so that you can feel free to make a total ass of yourself.
Would the percentage of the population who lives in the cold climates and be interested in the technology be sufficient to recoup any R&D costs expended on the technology?
Frame and Ventura were excellent for that kind of stuff. It's too bad that Corel got Ventura and tried to turn it in to a PageMaker contender, that's not what it was good at.
Ah well...
The chances are better if some off the shelf solutions (e.g. graphics engine) are purchased and not built. Those cost $, though. Sometimes a lot of money. Last time I was involved in an engine evaluation the big hitters (Q3 and Unreal) were upwards of $250,000.00/shipped title. That's almost 10% of the $3 million just for a graphics engine.
$3 million isn't a sufficient amount to get very far into a game these days.
You can instruct XP (and probably 2K) to not page the executive and to use more memory as cache space. This reduces the amount of paging significantly.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management
*Change DisablePagingExecutive to 1
*Change LargeSystemCache to 1
*Reboot
Only geeks want the choice that multiple desktop systems bring. If Linux is ever going to become a viable desktop alternative it is going to have to make inroads into the mass-market home user crowd. Those people want an appliance. They don't know or care about the underpinnings of a system. They certainly don't want to have to know about multiple desktop managers.
The entire computer entertainment industry relies on Photoshop. Not for prepress use--for texture creation. It's alpha channel implimentation works just fine, thank you very much. And it has a *.dds (compressed image with or w/o alpha that is hardware decoded on any 3D card) support, something the GIMP doesn't manage (iirc).
They're not shivering. They're just trying valiantly to stiffle their laughter.
They're not controlled devices. Go search on eBay for "swipe card reader" and you'll get pages of hits.
I'm guessing that you can buy multi-month (e.g. 6) account blocks. If that's the case they can't shut off the servers until the end of the billing cycle, as they won't want to issue refunds.
I WANT MY LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PURSUIT OF NEVER-ENDING HAPPINESS, DARN IT!
Like getting dates?
While most PC based sims aren't certified as trainers there is still inherent value in things, like:
*Just shooting landings for a few hours to get the timing and visual cues of things down.
*Planning your cross country and then flying it virtually to make sure you've gotten everthing correct.
*Practicng stalls in a controlled environment
etc... Yes, PC games can give you skills that transfer to real life.
You're wrong in that the XBox runs a highly modified version of the Windows2000, not CE kernel. Just enough of the OS for booting, hardware configuration (aka Live! config), and DVD autoloading is kept internal. The rest of the libraries required to run a game are loaded off of the game DVD.
If you read, "Inside the XBox" you'll know that the original spec was for a custom version of WinCE to be used, but that was scrapped since it would've required making a fork of DirectX that worked with CE.
It's the level of equipment that, say, most wedding video producers use.