He said it was at the start of his shift. The cash office probably got them in their bank withdrawal and loaded the trays with them that day. It's entirely possible it was uncirculated in the literal sense, although I don't know the numismatic definition.
We don't have to wait for decent graphics drivers any more! Intel has open drivers!
Sure, and they're pretty decent. My wife has a Dell E1505 laptop with integrated Intel and it's not bad. It played City of Heroes acceptably if not fantastically. But don't kid yourself that they're on the same level as ATi/NVidia.
So I'm a little hazy on this one. If proprietary hardware vendors release proprietary drivers, what exactly is the harm?
There isn't any, as long as they're not derivative. When Greg withdrew his patch he said he was driven by the hundreds of other closed source modules that are closed despite being GPL-derived. Forcing all modules open would help put a stop to that. Linus pointed out that it would force open perfectly legal modules as well, and he wasn't going to be put in the position of forcing his ideology on someone else, equating it to a form of DRM. His point was that if they wanted people to respect the GPL they needed to respect license choices of other peoples' non-derived code.
Currently there are only few closed source drivers in Linux, so the system is working pretty well.
If that were the case this patch wouldn't have been submitted. If you read the withdrawal email you'll see that there are "hundreds".
[side diversion, it's not the video drivers that really matter here
everyone, those are just so obvious. It's the hundreds of other
blatantly infringing binary kernel modules out there that really matter.
The ones that control filesystems, cluster interconnects, disk arrays,
media codecs, and a whole host of custom hardware. That's the real
problem that Linux faces now and will only get worse in the future.
It's not two stupid little video drivers, I could honestly care less
about them...]
You as an end user just don't see them because they're all specialized for certain tasks or equipment. Most people just see the video drivers.
Hopefully nvidia will also publish open source drivers.
Not going to happen. NVidia and ATi have stated they couldn't open up the drivers if they wanted to. There's just too much licensed IP they don't have the rights to open.
Writing a 2D game from scratch is not feasible from a business perspective.
Probably not as a boxed retail game, no. But XBox Live Arcade has many popular 2d games. They're priced much lower of course, and I think the fact that every XBLA game has a demo really helps sell them.
The Virtual Console seems to be doing well with classic games and there's no reason original games can't be introduced there. Sony is also doing something very similar to XBLA from what I've seen.
I think the real answer is "No, next gen games don't have to be 3d but the ones that aren't will be developed with an entirely different business model."
The BC list has something like 200-250 games on it now, and while there are still some big-name games missing (the second and third Prince of Persia games, for example), it does cover a fair amount of popular games
That's just not true. I posted this recently, but it deserves a repost. As of the June update the 360 was backwards compatible with 27% of the top 300 games (32% of top 100), and about the same percentage of the entire Xbox catalog. To be fair, 8 of the top 10 are BC and almost half of the top 50, but it drops off rapidly from there. They seem to be trying to hit the megahits and only mostly succeeding at that, with a lot of games along for the ride. It would be interesting to see the stats again with the August and December updates.
I'm wondering what the policy is for having firearms aboard the ISS?
There are firearms aboard the ISS, owned by the Russians. One is a special survival rifle designed to fire flares, shotgun shells or rifle rounds and anyone trained as a Soyuz crewman (including the American iss crew) is trained in its use. I believe the Soyuz also still carries the NAZ-3 survival kit, which includes the Markov pistol. I'm not sure if both kits are carried, or if one is obsolete, but there is definitely some sort of firearm(s) up there.
http://suzymchale.com/kosmonavtka/soyfeature.html
The ps3 will be able to play all of your ps2 games eliminating the need for one.
If the PS3's backwards compatibility is anything like the PS2's it will be quite good, but there's a good chance it won't eliminate the need for the PS2/PS1. There are quite a few games that aren't backwards compatible (even some PS2 games have issues on the slim PS2).
Why do people insist on answering a question that wasn't asked? He asked for the best way to store those consoles. He didn't ask "how can I keep playing these games?"
It's a good thing this isn't a home forum.
Q: Help, my heating bill is enormous! How can I best winterize and save energy?
A: You should sell your house and move into a one bedroom apartment.
I have a collection of old consoles as well. If I just wanted to play the games I'd have an emulator set up (although I do as well). The point is that people who collect old consoles like the old consoles. People aren't keeping old consoles in their living room because they think there's no other way to play Mario. We're not idiots, we're all very familar with emulators.
What they have to prove yet is that the person they're accusing was the person at the keyboard at the time or that they were otherwise legally responsible for the actions of whoever was
I don't think they do though. As far as I know this is a pretty established issue in civil law already. As the owner of the account, and the sole control of access to it, she can be held liable for anything done with it. If you loan someone your car and they are involved in an accident you can be sued for damages even if you weren't within 100 miles of the car at the time.
This proposal isn't for launching. It's for support facilities and landing.
State and local officials in Ohio are considering an incentive package that would lead the Canadian-American rocket venture PlanetSpace to put the manufacturing and landing facilities for its suborbital spacecraft at a former military air base near Columbus
The article does discuss that it's conceivable that at some point in the future this site could be used for suborbital launches, but that's even further off than this "very preliminary" plan.
Everything that you write, even a shopping list, automatically has your copyright
No, it doesn't. Just as a list of ingredients is not protected neither are facts. The manner of expression of those facts may be protected, but it certainly is not in the simple statement of "Album X by Band Y contains songs A, B, C and D" which is what the cddb is.
If you have the E1505 you might have an upgradeable video card. If you got the basic integrated Intel video you're out of luck. That one really is integrated and there's no upgrading. If you've got any of the ATI video options you can upgrade the card. I found this out the hard way when I heard the E1505 had upgradeable video so I only got the Intel. On the plus side it's quite good at 3d for a non-gaming card and the drivers are open source.
I don't think it's still in production but the Archos GMini 120 works this way. It's just removable storage when connected via USB. The other Archos players probably do too. It's 20gig by default but you can add a larger 2.5" hard drive if you're comfortable opening it up.
Oh I realized that you were talking specifically about WoD rather than WW as a whole. Yeah, down 61%. Odd, doesn't seem like there's a shortage of emo kids. I think that world reset they had turned off a lot of people.
That link is to a blog that in turn links to an opinion piece that takes issue with (as overly pessimistic) the methods and data in the "study" (more like a survey). Not to mention that the study itself still puts White Wolf in an overwhelming second place, leaving everyone aside from WotC and WW as statistical noise too small to be accurately counted.
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Oh there's nothing secret about it.
He said it was at the start of his shift. The cash office probably got them in their bank withdrawal and loaded the trays with them that day. It's entirely possible it was uncirculated in the literal sense, although I don't know the numismatic definition.
Only if it's done fraudulently.
they make them out of an electroplated nickel alloy now..
No to both of those, as it says in the article. They stopped making pennies out of copper in 1981 and they're now made of copper coated zinc.
Sure, and they're pretty decent. My wife has a Dell E1505 laptop with integrated Intel and it's not bad. It played City of Heroes acceptably if not fantastically. But don't kid yourself that they're on the same level as ATi/NVidia.
There isn't any, as long as they're not derivative. When Greg withdrew his patch he said he was driven by the hundreds of other closed source modules that are closed despite being GPL-derived. Forcing all modules open would help put a stop to that. Linus pointed out that it would force open perfectly legal modules as well, and he wasn't going to be put in the position of forcing his ideology on someone else, equating it to a form of DRM. His point was that if they wanted people to respect the GPL they needed to respect license choices of other peoples' non-derived code.
If that were the case this patch wouldn't have been submitted. If you read the withdrawal email you'll see that there are "hundreds".
[side diversion, it's not the video drivers that really matter here everyone, those are just so obvious. It's the hundreds of other blatantly infringing binary kernel modules out there that really matter. The ones that control filesystems, cluster interconnects, disk arrays, media codecs, and a whole host of custom hardware. That's the real problem that Linux faces now and will only get worse in the future. It's not two stupid little video drivers, I could honestly care less about them...]You as an end user just don't see them because they're all specialized for certain tasks or equipment. Most people just see the video drivers.
Hopefully nvidia will also publish open source drivers.Not going to happen. NVidia and ATi have stated they couldn't open up the drivers if they wanted to. There's just too much licensed IP they don't have the rights to open.
Probably not as a boxed retail game, no. But XBox Live Arcade has many popular 2d games. They're priced much lower of course, and I think the fact that every XBLA game has a demo really helps sell them.
The Virtual Console seems to be doing well with classic games and there's no reason original games can't be introduced there. Sony is also doing something very similar to XBLA from what I've seen.
I think the real answer is "No, next gen games don't have to be 3d but the ones that aren't will be developed with an entirely different business model."
Which ones weren't?
That's just not true. I posted this recently, but it deserves a repost. As of the June update the 360 was backwards compatible with 27% of the top 300 games (32% of top 100), and about the same percentage of the entire Xbox catalog. To be fair, 8 of the top 10 are BC and almost half of the top 50, but it drops off rapidly from there. They seem to be trying to hit the megahits and only mostly succeeding at that, with a lot of games along for the ride. It would be interesting to see the stats again with the August and December updates.
Yes, a version of StarBASIC. There is also a scripting framework that supports other languages and provides an API for developers to add more.
There are firearms aboard the ISS, owned by the Russians. One is a special survival rifle designed to fire flares, shotgun shells or rifle rounds and anyone trained as a Soyuz crewman (including the American iss crew) is trained in its use. I believe the Soyuz also still carries the NAZ-3 survival kit, which includes the Markov pistol. I'm not sure if both kits are carried, or if one is obsolete, but there is definitely some sort of firearm(s) up there. http://suzymchale.com/kosmonavtka/soyfeature.html
If the PS3's backwards compatibility is anything like the PS2's it will be quite good, but there's a good chance it won't eliminate the need for the PS2/PS1. There are quite a few games that aren't backwards compatible (even some PS2 games have issues on the slim PS2).
the Xbox360 can play most Xbox games
If by "most" you mean 27% of the top 300 games, then sure.
It's a good thing this isn't a home forum.
Q: Help, my heating bill is enormous! How can I best winterize and save energy?
A: You should sell your house and move into a one bedroom apartment.
I have a collection of old consoles as well. If I just wanted to play the games I'd have an emulator set up (although I do as well). The point is that people who collect old consoles like the old consoles. People aren't keeping old consoles in their living room because they think there's no other way to play Mario. We're not idiots, we're all very familar with emulators.
No, they covered that aspect and denied it.
I don't think they do though. As far as I know this is a pretty established issue in civil law already. As the owner of the account, and the sole control of access to it, she can be held liable for anything done with it. If you loan someone your car and they are involved in an accident you can be sued for damages even if you weren't within 100 miles of the car at the time.
No, it doesn't. Just as a list of ingredients is not protected neither are facts. The manner of expression of those facts may be protected, but it certainly is not in the simple statement of "Album X by Band Y contains songs A, B, C and D" which is what the cddb is.
If you have the E1505 you might have an upgradeable video card. If you got the basic integrated Intel video you're out of luck. That one really is integrated and there's no upgrading. If you've got any of the ATI video options you can upgrade the card. I found this out the hard way when I heard the E1505 had upgradeable video so I only got the Intel. On the plus side it's quite good at 3d for a non-gaming card and the drivers are open source.
No, it's not. At least not unless you're doing something fraudulent.
I don't think it's still in production but the Archos GMini 120 works this way. It's just removable storage when connected via USB. The other Archos players probably do too. It's 20gig by default but you can add a larger 2.5" hard drive if you're comfortable opening it up.
http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal- tender.shtml
Oh I realized that you were talking specifically about WoD rather than WW as a whole. Yeah, down 61%. Odd, doesn't seem like there's a shortage of emo kids. I think that world reset they had turned off a lot of people.
Good thing they've been publishing a lot of d20 material then.