"Free" has two meanings. The first is free as in cost. Free beer is an example where free means "costs nothing", so some people use this as a shorthand explanation. The other meaning is free in the sense of freedom. i.e. Unrestricted. Free Speech is free in this way, so some people say free as in speech to illustrate they mean this definition.
Software is free in either of these ways. Internet Explorer is free to download so is free as in cost (Free as in Beer). Linux is free to copy and modify, so it's free in the sense of freedom (Free as in speech).
It also has certain positive connotations that many free software advocates like. Free speech is regarded as a good thing. Associating free software with free speech gives it a positive image.
Yeah, but personally, I think the guys that left were being morons, and the guy responsible for the server responded by being even more of a moron. Sometimes nerds are like this.
Now both sides are trying to play it up and set everyone against the other side to protect their own reputations.
and oddly, both sides are encouraging people not to use the other sides list.
These are just blacklists aren't they? Having both will - at worst - mean that too many IP addresses are blocked. Why no tuse both lists until we can find out what's happening?
This is more or less Lego's public position on the matter. That hacking their products is the whole point. Mindstorms was based on some private modifications that various geeks and hackers had produced.
Presumably, their actual policy is to keep a close watch on what geeks are doing, they do generally seem to stick to theit public statements.
everybody knows that current intel chips, presscot & cia, are the CPUs which more power consume. Their performance per watt numbers are the worst of the whole desktop industry.
Yeah, but they're hardly designed to be low power. They're designed to be high clock rate. And Apple aren't using them because they're high power.
It is a power button for the console. Here there a few possibilities. First of all, as with the previous possibility, I don't think it's that likely to get pressed accidentally, and would probably have to be held down anyways.
Or it just turns the thing on. Or is disabled during gameplay.
Except the revenue per game is nowhere near $50 per unit. Once you take out manufacturing and delivery costs, retail markup, the publisher's cut, the amount of revenue to the developer will probably be closer to $10-$15.
Okay, this hardly matters since it still means the total profit for the $20 million game is higher, but I'm just assuming we're after some sort of realism with these figures. If we could make $50 per sale, we'd be laughing.
A disk format with a maximum of 1.2MB storage is hardly all that useful in this day and age... Perhaps it would be possible to attach the cover to a DVD drive though (the type where you slide the disc into a slot), to get that retro look with modern functionality.
The main problem with renewable energy sources is that they aren't always available (Well, tidal is but that's limited). We need some sort of backup for when the wind is too strong, or not strong enough.
Solar is better, but best suited for hotter countries. Go far enough north, and you get hardly any sunlight in the winter.
I've never really had a problem with RMS. I disagree with him, but I see him more as a fundamentalist than a fanatic. He bases his arguments on certain core principals, and while I disagree with them, I can't prove them wrong and given his assumptions, the rest of his arguments are correct.
ESR seems to be different. He truly is a fanatic. He has his beliefs for whatever reason, and finds a justification for them. He will not pay any attention to opposing views and will insist that his way is the right way regardless of what evidence to the contrary suggests.
I think it was deliberate ambiguity. Headline writers often do this sort of thing. For example, one famous wartime headline was "Monty flies back to front" - about Montgomery (Monty) flying to the front line again.
It happens. Usually it's big companies courting the very successful well known figures. But even I have had an unsolicited approach from a company.
Granted, since it was a fairly spammy email, everyone else in my company and probably in the entire industry sector received the same approach, but companies will, from time to time, approach people on spec.
Well... While VALinux was horribly overvalued at the start, Microsoft's relentless rise did stop at about the same time as ESR was there, and since 03 it's actually been doing fairly well.
what it comes down to is - if you have written your game using directx (anything) then the game is most likely NOT going to be able to ported to anything but windows - unless you use wine or something similar (and this isn't really porting, it's just hacking until your game runs).
Not true. DirectX will typically be a fairly small subset of the game code. As long as the game is modular and the graphics, sound and controls are toptally different systems from the gameplay code, it's just a matter of converting these. If you're sensible enough to create an abstraction layer then this can be even easier.
As for Wine, I believe Winelib allows native applications to use the Windows API.
But TV licencing is a private company, contracted by the BBC. While I don't like being intimidated by the government, I dislike being intimidated by a private company that pretends it's part of the government even more.
NEC made a different chip based on PowerVR. Kyro (not Kryo) was made by STMicroelectronics.
It was not actually different to program for from a GeForce 2. It would handle OpenGL and DirectX in exisiting applications very well. In fact, it had remarkably good standards compliance. To an API level programmer, it was just another graphics card.
The problem was it was very late to market (and therefore missed a lot of the early sales), and nVidia bullied a lot of the graphics card manufacturers into not supporting the chip.
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rather than try to redefine my rights as 'privileges'.
There's something to be said for this line of thought.
50+ year copyrights are a privilege. Not a right.
Long term musician contracts are a privilege. Not a right.
Profits from CD sales are a privilege. Not a right!
But even then you can only play through every 2 hours or so. Renting for long enough to cause detectable wear and tear surely wouldn't be worth it.
Don't rely on snopes 100%. A lot of their claims are based on speculation (To be fair they usually fix these errors over time).
The hotels may not put the information on the cards, but they will buy a generic system. All they know is what the vendors tell them.
"Free" has two meanings. The first is free as in cost. Free beer is an example where free means "costs nothing", so some people use this as a shorthand explanation. The other meaning is free in the sense of freedom. i.e. Unrestricted. Free Speech is free in this way, so some people say free as in speech to illustrate they mean this definition.
Software is free in either of these ways. Internet Explorer is free to download so is free as in cost (Free as in Beer). Linux is free to copy and modify, so it's free in the sense of freedom (Free as in speech).
It also has certain positive connotations that many free software advocates like. Free speech is regarded as a good thing. Associating free software with free speech gives it a positive image.
Hope this helps.
But as a naked hippie, I want to know where I can go to sit around and smoke pot with other likeminded hippies?
Yeah, but personally, I think the guys that left were being morons, and the guy responsible for the server responded by being even more of a moron. Sometimes nerds are like this.
Now both sides are trying to play it up and set everyone against the other side to protect their own reputations.
Will Sony sue them under the DMCA?
and oddly, both sides are encouraging people not to use the other sides list.
These are just blacklists aren't they? Having both will - at worst - mean that too many IP addresses are blocked. Why no tuse both lists until we can find out what's happening?
But it lists most of the third party companies that snoop as well. If there is a whole, people are encouraged to report it.
And besides - Isn't poor secuirity at least a little better than no security?
This is more or less Lego's public position on the matter. That hacking their products is the whole point. Mindstorms was based on some private modifications that various geeks and hackers had produced.
Presumably, their actual policy is to keep a close watch on what geeks are doing, they do generally seem to stick to theit public statements.
everybody knows that current intel chips, presscot & cia, are the CPUs which more power consume. Their performance per watt numbers are the worst of the whole desktop industry.
Yeah, but they're hardly designed to be low power. They're designed to be high clock rate. And Apple aren't using them because they're high power.
It is a power button for the console. Here there a few possibilities. First of all, as with the previous possibility, I don't think it's that likely to get pressed accidentally, and would probably have to be held down anyways.
Or it just turns the thing on. Or is disabled during gameplay.
Except the revenue per game is nowhere near $50 per unit. Once you take out manufacturing and delivery costs, retail markup, the publisher's cut, the amount of revenue to the developer will probably be closer to $10-$15.
Okay, this hardly matters since it still means the total profit for the $20 million game is higher, but I'm just assuming we're after some sort of realism with these figures. If we could make $50 per sale, we'd be laughing.
A disk format with a maximum of 1.2MB storage is hardly all that useful in this day and age... Perhaps it would be possible to attach the cover to a DVD drive though (the type where you slide the disc into a slot), to get that retro look with modern functionality.
Then again, would a legislative body ever pass a law that restricted themselves from calling?
True, but I'd have thought it would be in a political parties interests to skip names on a do not call list.
If you really hated junk calls, and a political party called you, would you really be more inclined to vote for that party?
The main problem with renewable energy sources is that they aren't always available (Well, tidal is but that's limited). We need some sort of backup for when the wind is too strong, or not strong enough.
Solar is better, but best suited for hotter countries. Go far enough north, and you get hardly any sunlight in the winter.
I've never really had a problem with RMS. I disagree with him, but I see him more as a fundamentalist than a fanatic. He bases his arguments on certain core principals, and while I disagree with them, I can't prove them wrong and given his assumptions, the rest of his arguments are correct.
ESR seems to be different. He truly is a fanatic. He has his beliefs for whatever reason, and finds a justification for them. He will not pay any attention to opposing views and will insist that his way is the right way regardless of what evidence to the contrary suggests.
I think it was deliberate ambiguity. Headline writers often do this sort of thing. For example, one famous wartime headline was "Monty flies back to front" - about Montgomery (Monty) flying to the front line again.
It happens. Usually it's big companies courting the very successful well known figures. But even I have had an unsolicited approach from a company.
Granted, since it was a fairly spammy email, everyone else in my company and probably in the entire industry sector received the same approach, but companies will, from time to time, approach people on spec.
Well... While VALinux was horribly overvalued at the start, Microsoft's relentless rise did stop at about the same time as ESR was there, and since 03 it's actually been doing fairly well.
what it comes down to is - if you have written your game using directx (anything) then the game is most likely NOT going to be able to ported to anything but windows - unless you use wine or something similar (and this isn't really porting, it's just hacking until your game runs).
Not true. DirectX will typically be a fairly small subset of the game code. As long as the game is modular and the graphics, sound and controls are toptally different systems from the gameplay code, it's just a matter of converting these. If you're sensible enough to create an abstraction layer then this can be even easier.
As for Wine, I believe Winelib allows native applications to use the Windows API.
But TV licencing is a private company, contracted by the BBC. While I don't like being intimidated by the government, I dislike being intimidated by a private company that pretends it's part of the government even more.
Now my kids (age 9 and 12) can finally play a wholesome game of crime and villainy without the risk of all this SMUT!
NEC made a different chip based on PowerVR. Kyro (not Kryo) was made by STMicroelectronics.
It was not actually different to program for from a GeForce 2. It would handle OpenGL and DirectX in exisiting applications very well. In fact, it had remarkably good standards compliance. To an API level programmer, it was just another graphics card.
The problem was it was very late to market (and therefore missed a lot of the early sales), and nVidia bullied a lot of the graphics card manufacturers into not supporting the chip.
Where is common sense anymore?
Disappeared the day the company standardised on outlook.