...unless you count game servers, for which Linux is a significant factor. The truth is, until an OpenGL package significantly better than MesaGL gets released, there's gonna be no future for playing games on Linux. Also, remember that Linux desktops usually exist as workstations - where you actually hunker down to Emacs or a Java compiler or whatnot and get some work done. There still isn't much of a market for standalone Linux machines; Linux isn't even that fun to operate without a >20K/sec connection to the Internet or a 10/100 LAN. Where do you submit core dumps? How do you start a game server? What's the use of ftpd or httpd without a connection?
That's why I feel that Linux gaming will go nowhere; because it goes against the de facto nature of Linux.
"Digital Island said it believes it isn't infringing on the patent. The company has "patent pending claims for the same inventions claimed by MIT" that predate MIT's patent claim, according to Digital Island's press release."
Under the U.S. patent offices law, you are given a specific time to challenge a patent. Since DI's application predates Akamai's, they might be given a chance.
Okay, so we won't be having orbital transit soon.
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This sure is a blow to the air transit field, seeing that they haven't had any advances in technology for over 35 years. But, if a first you don't succeed, try try again. (no, not "if at first you don't succeed, sue the pants off your competitors!")
This is just incredibly lame. It's reminiscent of 3dfx suing NVidia over multitexturing, and then NVidia filing 5 lawsuits against 3dfx for standard video controller technology. By the definitions of the patents, even ATI, Matrox, or Trident could've infringed on them. It's absolutely deplorable that lawsuits are becoming acceptable within the bounds of business ethics.
""UPS Aviation Technologies, a subsidiary of UPS..."
Waaaaait a minute, you mean that UPS is doing this? THE UPS? The "We run the tightest [l]ip in the s[l]ipping business" UPS? This is too funny. And they can't even track the location of a simple package!
Personally, I used USPS Priority Mail with the $0.35 tracking tag and insurance to ship my Western Digital drive for RMA.
yes, but the handheld ones don't do it too accurately. I'd fire up my father's GPS, but I don't know where it is. I've seen the altitude reading off by 100 feet (I was out on the ocean, and it said -100 feet! I thought I was at sea level by definition!)
Remember, GPS can be off by as much as 500 meters (at least the handheld type; I hope what they're using is more accurate). If I were in charge of this, I'd keep the radar going, as a failsafe. I wouldn't want to see a midair plane crash over an airport involving 2 jumbo jets; that'd be absolutely tragic (I think it's happened once before, but maybe it was a jumbo jet and a smaller plane).
I don't want to re-enact Airport '76 over my head!
...because Winamp has been great from the start. There's always MacAmp, the winamp port for the mac. And with XMMS, I feel right at home. Sorry, but I do like the oscilloscope/spectral analyzer output that Winamp gives to plugins. Also, Winamp fits into a nice 274x114 space. Sonique looks as if it takes up over 400x400. When all I care about is the sound, I want something nice and compact.
P.S.: Ever notice how NONE of the new programs for X can ever be executed properly in 640x480, yet ALL of the programs in Windows can? (or at the very least they tell you if they can't.)
There's a simple alternative when it's closed source: talk to the developers. I always give feedback to Paul Jaquays when I think something in Q3 could be improved upon. However, I hate the Unreal engine, and Tim Sweeney is too damn arrogant to change anything in it.
I say you should try the program first. If something seems very wrong with it, contact whoever the company lists as a developer. If they list no one, then get that binary scum the hell off your hard drive!
...the physics engine. Unless they make it clear to the programmers that this is off limits, all hell will break loose. We will have zero-g airplanes hovering around because of some L337 H4X0R fiddling around with the source for cheating purposes. Ethics is always something that seems to suffer with the advent of open source.
The following is satire, but is not far from the truth.
The story selection process is fairly simple: the perl scripts scan the contents and go to the hyperlinks. The article must contain one of the following words or phrases (more than one gives a story a better chance): Linux, AMD, SuSE, RedHat, They Might Be Giants, BSD, Apache, DeCSS, MP3, Kevin Mitnick, Apple, CueCat, Dreamcast, ISO, RIAA, MPAA, Quake, Java, Sun Microsystems,
or the following portrayed in the negative:
Microsoft, Windows, Intel.
All stories not meeting this criterion are thrown out.
The stories which pass the perl script are then whisked away to one of the editors, which do the hard task of actually reading the page while sipping a Samuel Adams in the "include beer,h" beer glass (frosted only on the outside, damnit!). References to any major GNU figures boost the stories chances; bribery from the submitters also helps.
How else do you think that damn Linux in Africa story could've passed through?
Gee, I guess you've never heard of the +1 bonus. You get it as a default option in your reply window once your karma level breaks 25. Of course, if you're so negative in your posts, you may never get there.
"You can thump on your copy of Linux Kernel Hacking all you want..."
More like "your gilded hardcover copy of Linux Kernel Hacking." Some people just never learn. Linux is not the answer to world famine. Would you give a sepulcrally famished Ethiopian a stinking computer with Linux? He'd die of starvation while trying to get it to boot!
'"[t]his microrobotic arm can pick up, lift, move, and place micrometer-size objects within an area of about 250 micrometers by 100 micrometers."'
Cool. Maybe an even smaller version can cheat lithography and fix the many circuitry bugs within the AMD Athlon Processor. Sure, people will say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Reality check: all of AMD's processors are broken. The proof is in their 92.816% x86 compatibility.
Geeze, my Ask Slashdot submission on the upcoming soundcard monopoly is about ten thousand times more relevant than this. Good thing it hasn't been rejected yet; it seems as though CmdrTaco is scraping off the bottom of the news barrel right now.
Please refrain from using the dollar sign in the Microsoft name. If you don't, you'll risk looking like a totally bigoted bible thumper. Sure, Microsoft never seems to listen to popular demand when it "innovates", but you're being just as idiotic and slanted when you flame them.
Remember the printf() bug scattered about ALL the libraries in Linux, Unix, and BSD! That was Linux's back orifice, and it could've been solved by the engineers actually checking their syntax! Gee! Ever notice how the bible-thumping software engineers never seem to check their syntax?
If there was a model of the most vague story...
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That's why I feel that Linux gaming will go nowhere; because it goes against the de facto nature of Linux.
Under the U.S. patent offices law, you are given a specific time to challenge a patent. Since DI's application predates Akamai's, they might be given a chance.
This sure is a blow to the air transit field, seeing that they haven't had any advances in technology for over 35 years. But, if a first you don't succeed, try try again. (no, not "if at first you don't succeed, sue the pants off your competitors!")
This is just incredibly lame. It's reminiscent of 3dfx suing NVidia over multitexturing, and then NVidia filing 5 lawsuits against 3dfx for standard video controller technology. By the definitions of the patents, even ATI, Matrox, or Trident could've infringed on them. It's absolutely deplorable that lawsuits are becoming acceptable within the bounds of business ethics.
I should've said "...or are they going to compare to the Microsoft Flight Simulator series the same way that Linux compares to Windows?"
This is a serious question, don't be tempted by your gilded titanium-cover edition of "Evil Geniuses."
Waaaaait a minute, you mean that UPS is doing this? THE UPS? The "We run the tightest [l]ip in the s[l]ipping business" UPS? This is too funny. And they can't even track the location of a simple package!
Personally, I used USPS Priority Mail with the $0.35 tracking tag and insurance to ship my Western Digital drive for RMA.
yes, but the handheld ones don't do it too accurately. I'd fire up my father's GPS, but I don't know where it is. I've seen the altitude reading off by 100 feet (I was out on the ocean, and it said -100 feet! I thought I was at sea level by definition!)
Remember, GPS can be off by as much as 500 meters (at least the handheld type; I hope what they're using is more accurate). If I were in charge of this, I'd keep the radar going, as a failsafe. I wouldn't want to see a midair plane crash over an airport involving 2 jumbo jets; that'd be absolutely tragic (I think it's happened once before, but maybe it was a jumbo jet and a smaller plane). I don't want to re-enact Airport '76 over my head!
It just rolled out of my mind and off my tongue once I read that.
P.S.: Ever notice how NONE of the new programs for X can ever be executed properly in 640x480, yet ALL of the programs in Windows can? (or at the very least they tell you if they can't.)
I say you should try the program first. If something seems very wrong with it, contact whoever the company lists as a developer. If they list no one, then get that binary scum the hell off your hard drive!
...the physics engine. Unless they make it clear to the programmers that this is off limits, all hell will break loose. We will have zero-g airplanes hovering around because of some L337 H4X0R fiddling around with the source for cheating purposes. Ethics is always something that seems to suffer with the advent of open source.
The story selection process is fairly simple: the perl scripts scan the contents and go to the hyperlinks. The article must contain one of the following words or phrases (more than one gives a story a better chance): Linux, AMD, SuSE, RedHat, They Might Be Giants, BSD, Apache, DeCSS, MP3, Kevin Mitnick, Apple, CueCat, Dreamcast, ISO, RIAA, MPAA, Quake, Java, Sun Microsystems,
or the following portrayed in the negative: Microsoft, Windows, Intel.All stories not meeting this criterion are thrown out.
The stories which pass the perl script are then whisked away to one of the editors, which do the hard task of actually reading the page while sipping a Samuel Adams in the "include beer,h" beer glass (frosted only on the outside, damnit!). References to any major GNU figures boost the stories chances; bribery from the submitters also helps.How else do you think that damn Linux in Africa story could've passed through?
Actually, all bible thumpers and AMD-loving Nazis seem to be immune to logic, coffee, and sunlight, so go ahead, knock yourself out (literally!).
Gee, I guess you've never heard of the +1 bonus. You get it as a default option in your reply window once your karma level breaks 25. Of course, if you're so negative in your posts, you may never get there.
More like "your gilded hardcover copy of Linux Kernel Hacking." Some people just never learn. Linux is not the answer to world famine. Would you give a sepulcrally famished Ethiopian a stinking computer with Linux? He'd die of starvation while trying to get it to boot!
geeze, you're condoning apartheid? Remember, 90% of the South African residents are black, so don't be saying this out in the Transvaal.
Cool. Maybe an even smaller version can cheat lithography and fix the many circuitry bugs within the AMD Athlon Processor. Sure, people will say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Reality check: all of AMD's processors are broken. The proof is in their 92.816% x86 compatibility.
I was about to tell him that they also hate the Finnish, Czech, and other eurogeeks out there, but vulgarly put, he's right.
Geeze, my Ask Slashdot submission on the upcoming soundcard monopoly is about ten thousand times more relevant than this. Good thing it hasn't been rejected yet; it seems as though CmdrTaco is scraping off the bottom of the news barrel right now.
Hm. I never knew there was a town named Arrogance, Mississippi. Maybe it's kinda like Mars, Pennsylvania.
Please refrain from using the dollar sign in the Microsoft name. If you don't, you'll risk looking like a totally bigoted bible thumper. Sure, Microsoft never seems to listen to popular demand when it "innovates", but you're being just as idiotic and slanted when you flame them.
Remember the printf() bug scattered about ALL the libraries in Linux, Unix, and BSD! That was Linux's back orifice, and it could've been solved by the engineers actually checking their syntax! Gee! Ever notice how the bible-thumping software engineers never seem to check their syntax?
What's he referring to, sites like Slashgrits?