Actually, it would seem that the primary thing you'd have to worry about is if the unshielded computer were to affect television or radio reception of your neighbours -- if that happened (and it's *not* hard), then the FCC regulations about "not generating excess interference" would apply, because of the pecking order mentioned in the linked article.
Because I can run CS just fine on an ATI Rage Pro.
The HL engine is old and easy to deal with -- it really wouldn't put any strain on the video cards nowadays, so there's no reason at all to worry about optimizing for it.
"Outdated" is quite subjective. I'm capable of reading my mail over ssh behind a screen session from any one of 40 computers in the office -- all they need is an SSH client. I'd like to see outlook give me that functionality.
And if viruses and trojans became commonplace on Linux, then what -- would we would see programmers whining about how viruses are industrial terrorism, and attempting to get them made even more illegal than they are now?
Did you just type this up randomly, expecting to get moderated up just for rebellously bashing slashdot, with a bit of "get real" attitude added to it?
The article wasn't brilliant, but it brought up one point, and then took an acid-induced trip out into left field at the end.
It was basically saying that OSS products will gradually eclipse propriatery solutions, because there are too many problems and costs associated with properiatary software nowadays. Not just monetary costs, but also costs for downtime, costs for cleaning up after a worm takes out your office network for 2 days, and (potentially) reduced hardware costs.
OSS doesn't have licencing costs (which are a huge factor and headache for smaller companies), and are (generally) more reliable with respect to issues such as viruses, worms and trojans.
It's actually fairly ironic -- just as OSS software is trying to figure out how to make themselves profitable, MS is right alongside them scrambling to find new revenue streams for thier flagship products, because they're not as relatively profitable as they used to be.
The problem with the article (which any english teacher would tell you -- wait, these are web writers, they probably failed english class) is that it suddenly decided to go off into left field at the end talking about how companies that provide OSS can be profitable, which has really nothing to do with it's first point -- in that the gradual increase in the use of OSS is inevitable.
You don't get it. This isn't a stupid pager thing. This is for developers who want to integrate access to those sorts of things in thier apps - that's who is going to pay for it, not the user (directly).
Well, your neighbours might give a shit, and pissed off neighbours with a lawyer aren't something you want to fuck with.
The FCC regulations are there for a reason -- imagine trying to listen to use a cordless phone, listen to something on cordless headphones, or even have a decent audiophilic setup if a neighbouring apartment has a guy with 3 P900's lying in cardboard boxes. The interference generated by unshielded computer equipment is immense, and they are forbidden by regulations to generate excess interference.
And you realize that if you don't have some kind of metallic enclosure for you computer, you are very likely violating FCC regulations by generating electromagnetic interference (the metal case normally shields the noise that the processor and motors in the case create)?
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You could always look at the image support that xemacs has had for, oh, eons.
It allows pixmaps on toolbars and such, which is a good thing.
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Open Source software and Free Software are not "Publically Owned".
That term applies to Public Domain software, which has almost no overlap with software that we would know as OSS or Free Software.
There are numerous ISP's in my area (London, ON) that will let me put a box at thier office, hooked directly into thier connection (i.e. no DSL between me and the n number of T1's they have), and then I'm responsible for adminning the box.
I've become fairly interested lately in using Scheme (probably mzscheme) and the SXML package as a way to do arbitrary XML translations in my free time (if I had any).
From the looks of it, the ability to create a reflexive mapping between an arbitrary XML document and an interpretable programming language is too powerful to be ignored.
Do you think that in the future one of the primary roles of Scheme/Lisp is going to be in manipulation of XML documents, or is this going to be relegated as an academic curiostiy while the world struggles through parsing XML in Java?
Yes, but it doesn't use Unicode *internally*, hence the term 'Extension'. I'd like something that can read, write, and most importantly, have all of the internal elisp functions, written to think in variable-width unicode characters.
Depends. The basics like movement and firing would work, but you'd be missing some commands, and have some that didn't work - use the ingame menu to set those.
It wouldn't be fatal, so give it a go. Replace the wolfconfig.cfg file with yours, and see what happens.
BTW, don't expect to be strafe jumping or anything...
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Quake 1 engine, not Quake 2.
How many times does this have to come up?
Actually, it would seem that the primary thing you'd have to worry about is if the unshielded computer were to affect television or radio reception of your neighbours -- if that happened (and it's *not* hard), then the FCC regulations about "not generating excess interference" would apply, because of the pecking order mentioned in the linked article.
Bzzzt. Wrong person. I'm not this guy.
Are you sure you responded to the right comment?
Sense making you are not.
At least the end users aren't all arrogant pricks.
Because I can run CS just fine on an ATI Rage Pro.
The HL engine is old and easy to deal with -- it really wouldn't put any strain on the video cards nowadays, so there's no reason at all to worry about optimizing for it.
"Outdated" is quite subjective. I'm capable of reading my mail over ssh behind a screen session from any one of 40 computers in the office -- all they need is an SSH client. I'd like to see outlook give me that functionality.
And if viruses and trojans became commonplace on Linux, then what -- would we would see programmers whining about how viruses are industrial terrorism, and attempting to get them made even more illegal than they are now?
Heh, I was right -- he did type it up randomly then. Cool.
Did you just type this up randomly, expecting to get moderated up just for rebellously bashing slashdot, with a bit of "get real" attitude added to it?
The article wasn't brilliant, but it brought up one point, and then took an acid-induced trip out into left field at the end.
It was basically saying that OSS products will gradually eclipse propriatery solutions, because there are too many problems and costs associated with properiatary software nowadays. Not just monetary costs, but also costs for downtime, costs for cleaning up after a worm takes out your office network for 2 days, and (potentially) reduced hardware costs.
OSS doesn't have licencing costs (which are a huge factor and headache for smaller companies), and are (generally) more reliable with respect to issues such as viruses, worms and trojans.
It's actually fairly ironic -- just as OSS software is trying to figure out how to make themselves profitable, MS is right alongside them scrambling to find new revenue streams for thier flagship products, because they're not as relatively profitable as they used to be.
The problem with the article (which any english teacher would tell you -- wait, these are web writers, they probably failed english class) is that it suddenly decided to go off into left field at the end talking about how companies that provide OSS can be profitable, which has really nothing to do with it's first point -- in that the gradual increase in the use of OSS is inevitable.
You don't get it. This isn't a stupid pager thing. This is for developers who want to integrate access to those sorts of things in thier apps - that's who is going to pay for it, not the user (directly).
Well, your neighbours might give a shit, and pissed off neighbours with a lawyer aren't something you want to fuck with.
The FCC regulations are there for a reason -- imagine trying to listen to use a cordless phone, listen to something on cordless headphones, or even have a decent audiophilic setup if a neighbouring apartment has a guy with 3 P900's lying in cardboard boxes. The interference generated by unshielded computer equipment is immense, and they are forbidden by regulations to generate excess interference.
Slashdot had a story about this a while ago.
Bahahahahahaha - you tried to fake out the lameness filter using fake tags, eh?
You suck.
Although you do have a valid point - the original poster should go fuck himself.
Heh.
And you realize that if you don't have some kind of metallic enclosure for you computer, you are very likely violating FCC regulations by generating electromagnetic interference (the metal case normally shields the noise that the processor and motors in the case create)?
You could always look at the image support that xemacs has had for, oh, eons.
It allows pixmaps on toolbars and such, which is a good thing.
Open Source software and Free Software are not "Publically Owned".
That term applies to Public Domain software, which has almost no overlap with software that we would know as OSS or Free Software.
What's wrong with voluntary collective solutions?
They're generally referred to as "mob justice".
Apparently, "[My] comment has too few words per line (currently 6.7037037037037)."
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The ISP opts-in, the user doesn't.
Furthermore, a user on an ISP that got listed on MAPS certainly doesn't.
What you're describing is basically co-location.
There are numerous ISP's in my area (London, ON) that will let me put a box at thier office, hooked directly into thier connection (i.e. no DSL between me and the n number of T1's they have), and then I'm responsible for adminning the box.
I've become fairly interested lately in using Scheme (probably mzscheme) and the SXML package as a way to do arbitrary XML translations in my free time (if I had any).
From the looks of it, the ability to create a reflexive mapping between an arbitrary XML document and an interpretable programming language is too powerful to be ignored.
Do you think that in the future one of the primary roles of Scheme/Lisp is going to be in manipulation of XML documents, or is this going to be relegated as an academic curiostiy while the world struggles through parsing XML in Java?
You're forgetting that you're allowed to specify the compile time flags. So passing -Dvoid=int to cpp would fix that, and make it a legal entry.
Yes, but it doesn't use Unicode *internally*, hence the term 'Extension'. I'd like something that can read, write, and most importantly, have all of the internal elisp functions, written to think in variable-width unicode characters.
A version of emacs that used Unicode internally would be nice...
It's been 14 seconds since you hit reply blah blah blah typing useless crap to waste slashdot's apparently precious time blah blah blah...
I don't 'trust' the postal network, they're bound by law not to open and read my mail.
Depends. The basics like movement and firing would work, but you'd be missing some commands, and have some that didn't work - use the ingame menu to set those.
It wouldn't be fatal, so give it a go. Replace the wolfconfig.cfg file with yours, and see what happens.
BTW, don't expect to be strafe jumping or anything...