Platinum Applications that install and run out of the box 1169 Gold Applications that work flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other settings, crack etc. 1502 Silver Applications that work excellently for 'normal use' 1066 Bronze Applications that work but have some issues, even for 'normal use' 966 Garbage Applications that don't work as intended, there should be at least one bug report if an app gets this rating 2270
maybe not 99% of windows applications but near 50, that's not bad and you have a good chance that your application will work. and those stats are getting better every day.
a mechanical device is made of matter you can use maths to describe it but then you can't patent the maths only the device.
in a similar way software is only maths, you shouldn't be able to patent the software but maybe you should be able to patent it running on a specific device. If you allow a general patent (this algorithm running on any matter) then your not really patenting a device you patenting the algorithm.
a piece of software should be a mathematical proof for a given problem or set of problems.
Lets take the problem of sending an email with a name and address in it.
The proof may be concatenating a few strings and sending them to an SMTP server, this may not look like maths to you, but it is nothing more than maths and you could write it using 'classical' mathematical language if you wanted to.
you can't patent novels but you can copyright them, the same is true for maths you can't patent an algorithm but you can copyright you particular written version of that algorithm
patent on devices ok, patent on the maths not ok. most of the software patents I've seen are on the maths not on the actual specific device. If you start putting patents on a general class of devices using the maths then your probably just patenting the maths.
a mechanical device isn't maths, maybe it's ok to patent a mechanical or solid state device that uses mathematical principals so long as it's only one device and your not actually patenting the maths itself.
what really annoys me is that you have to leave the DVD in the drive, but the game insists on installing everything to the hard drive and doesn't actually pull any content of the DVD for no reason what so ever.
I don't care if it take 15% of the load time I don't want my disk space wasted and have been able to setup games under Linux+wine with links so that the games pull the data of the CD instead and they work perfectly fine.
I know this is/. and people round here don't interact that many women apart from the pictures you mention, but if they did they would also find that women like them too.
I'd either finger Israel or some fundamentalist Islamic group that doesn't want western views on the internet corrupting their women and bringing some of the countries out of the middle ages.
The internet is good for western propaganda so I doubt the the US has anything to do with it.
So tell them either you put it on the wiki or you get fired.
Doesn't that insentivise the staff a little more if they really are so worried about their job (presumable because they have few skills to offer their employee other than this sacred knowledge)
In reality you will get some cooperation (I'm currently pushing things like this through at work) and those that don't go along with it need to be dealt with once everyone else is up to speed. (they also look like idiots when everyone else is doing it and they still have their jobs)
mods need to be given a sarcasm 101, the parent is either a troll or funny not informative. Vista and DX10 are slower than XP and DX9 and it has been well published.
Could someone provide a quick summary of the wireless drivers that are now in the kernel as I don't know the chipset names for them and one of the sites appears to be/.ed.
under US law (can't remember the exact case otherwise I would have put a link in).
If's the only thing that means you can't use a GPL library in propritory software if your only using late binding, i.e. your not actually copying the GPL code only the interfaces to it.
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is that if you can imatate the p2p software then you can create an underground p2p system that looks exactly like ligitimate p2p activity.
http://appdb.winehq.org/browse_by_rating.php
Platinum Applications that install and run out of the box 1169
Gold Applications that work flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other settings, crack etc. 1502
Silver Applications that work excellently for 'normal use' 1066
Bronze Applications that work but have some issues, even for 'normal use' 966
Garbage Applications that don't work as intended, there should be at least one bug report if an app gets this rating 2270
maybe not 99% of windows applications but near 50, that's not bad and you have a good chance that your application will work. and those stats are getting better every day.
I stoped working on it because mdbtools has more support, i contributed my work to the projecst and let them continue.
All you have to do is play your crippled songs and use the record what you hear feature on windows to reencode them as mp3s
Still missing the binary format for access, still never mind it's not that hard to work out
a mechanical device is made of matter you can use maths to describe it but then you can't patent the maths only the device.
in a similar way software is only maths, you shouldn't be able to patent the software but maybe you should be able to patent it running on a specific device. If you allow a general patent (this algorithm running on any matter) then your not really patenting a device you patenting the algorithm.
a piece of software should be a mathematical proof for a given problem or set of problems.
Lets take the problem of sending an email with a name and address in it.
The proof may be concatenating a few strings and sending them to an SMTP server, this may not look like maths to you, but it is nothing more than maths and you could write it using 'classical' mathematical language if you wanted to.
in some places you can't patent drugs you can only patent the process of making them which makes much more sense.
you can't patent novels but you can copyright them, the same is true for maths you can't patent an algorithm but you can copyright you particular written version of that algorithm
patent on devices ok, patent on the maths not ok. most of the software patents I've seen are on the maths not on the actual specific device. If you start putting patents on a general class of devices using the maths then your probably just patenting the maths.
a mechanical device isn't maths, maybe it's ok to patent a mechanical or solid state device that uses mathematical principals so long as it's only one device and your not actually patenting the maths itself.
if you can't patent maths then why should you be able to patent software as it's nothing more than maths.
that's jebus to you.
what really annoys me is that you have to leave the DVD in the drive, but the game insists on installing everything to the hard drive and doesn't actually pull any content of the DVD for no reason what so ever.
I don't care if it take 15% of the load time I don't want my disk space wasted and have been able to setup games under Linux+wine with links so that the games pull the data of the CD instead and they work perfectly fine.
I know this is /. and people round here don't interact that many women apart from the pictures you mention, but if they did they would also find that women like them too.
I'd either finger Israel or some fundamentalist Islamic group that doesn't want western views on the internet corrupting their women and bringing some of the countries out of the middle ages.
The internet is good for western propaganda so I doubt the the US has anything to do with it.
mod parent up, there are too many people on the streets because they have mental health problems.
Your not allowed anything that can be smoked and is lit.
by not defining smoked or lit this law bans things like cheese and fish in a shop that has lights since they can be smoked and are lit.
So tell them either you put it on the wiki or you get fired.
Doesn't that insentivise the staff a little more if they really are so worried about their job (presumable because they have few skills to offer their employee other than this sacred knowledge)
In reality you will get some cooperation (I'm currently pushing things like this through at work) and those that don't go along with it need to be dealt with once everyone else is up to speed. (they also look like idiots when everyone else is doing it and they still have their jobs)
mods need to be given a sarcasm 101, the parent is either a troll or funny not informative. Vista and DX10 are slower than XP and DX9 and it has been well published.
Lego now has far too many custom parts, it's a bit more like building some flat pack furniture that a chance to be creative.
IP addresses have just been made private data under EU law too, don't know how that affects civil law cases though
Could someone provide a quick summary of the wireless drivers that are now in the kernel as I don't know the chipset names for them and one of the sites appears to be /.ed.
and what causes that?
well if your like me you can't remember 90% of what was said over the phone, but it's real easy to look it up if someones sent you an email.
under US law (can't remember the exact case otherwise I would have put a link in).
If's the only thing that means you can't use a GPL library in propritory software if your only using late binding, i.e. your not actually copying the GPL code only the interfaces to it.