I mean, think about what would happen if every piece of review hardware for the computer mags and sites came with a TOS agreement that dictated that you couldn't write a unfavorable review of the piece of hardware. A good review wouldn't mean anything.
No... A good review would mean that it was good. Something that would get a bad review, as determined by the lawyers, no doubt, would get no review at all.
Think about it... Your favorite PC mag would have as one of their cover lines -
"The top 5 video cards whose reviews we could print!"
You'd look inside, find out that the card you were looking at wasn't listed, and not buy it, as obviously there were 'issues' with it, and the review couldn't be printed.
Personnally, I think that any company that has to resort to those kind of tactics to keep away bad press has larger issues to worry about.
I don't know if it rightly counts as a standard, but how about RTF? If I save a document in RTF format at work (Word) and take it home, and try to open in in WordPerfect, it fails to open because MS has done something to the RTF to make it unreadable by anything* other than Word/Office.
And what is it about Word that turns a 20K WP file into a 37K Word file?
*Ok, I'm not certain about that. I do know that WP won't read it, nor will whatever my roommate uses...
Remember 10-15 years ago (or whenever it was), when Bill Gates made his infamous comment that "640k should be enough for anybody"? Just as computer technology keeps evolving faster than we could imagine, I think there's a good chance that graphics technology will follow suit.
But where will it go?
Once graphics cards get to the point where they are doing 16 million colors (or more) with every possible effect known to nature and Photoshop, what's left?
I mean, after a certain point frame rate will cease to matter, and even the Quake 'twichers' will be able to frag people with all the effects turned on.
As far as I know there is nothing stopping someone from making a mod based on someones elses movie/TV show/cartoon/whatever, however, they can't sell said mod without getting the permission of the original creator (or liscencee thereof).
I.e., I could make a Animaniacs or Freakazoid mod for Q3, and pass it around to a few friends without getting in trouble. It could even (probably) be hosted somewhere for download. But the minute I start asking for money, Warner Bros. can just in with the lawyers...
The Supreme Court has jurisdiction even over speeding tickets, if called upon to act as an appellate court.
And that's actually something similar to what they are also looking at today... That is, whether or not local police may arrest people for traffic violations that normally only carry a fine.
When you do your PhD properly you really get inside your subject.
A PhD is a union card to tenure. It does not indicate that the holder is wise or learned. Quite often is it awarded for bean-counting by young, humorless fools who are being supervised by old, humorless fools.
Good point. In an audit like this, M$ should come forward with how many registered copies, site liscences, and whatnot it has for whoever is being audited.
Of course, it would help if the auditing agency wasn't an M$ puppet...
You're right, but saying "Don't bother with Linux because it might fragment one day" is like saying, "Don't elect Al Gore, he might die in office!" -- it's possible, but unforseeable.
Actually, if you look at the 'Zero Curse' numbers, whoever is elected has a good chance of dying if office.
For those who don't know, the 'Zero Curse' is that every U.S. President, starting with Lincoln, elected in a year ending with a zero has died in office. The only exception was Reagan, and not for a lack of trying.
There has been talk of forking the kernel for ages. This hasn't happened yet, and I can't see it happening anytime soon.
Part of that depends on how badly 'big iron' support is wanted, doesn't it? I don't see how they could avoid forking the kernel over that particular issue...
2. The dimpled ballots may have been a result of faulty equipment. This means that they should unquestionably be counted. This is what Gore is contesting, which he should. Hopefully this is enough to keep the shrub, or rather the weed, from infesting the White House.
Unquestionably? They could also have been caused by a voter tapping on that particular chad before deciding that they couldn't vote for that particular schmuck...
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I mean, think about what would happen if every piece of review hardware for the computer mags and sites came with a TOS agreement that dictated that you couldn't write a unfavorable review of the piece of hardware. A good review wouldn't mean anything.
No... A good review would mean that it was good. Something that would get a bad review, as determined by the lawyers, no doubt, would get no review at all.
Think about it... Your favorite PC mag would have as one of their cover lines -
"The top 5 video cards whose reviews we could print!"
You'd look inside, find out that the card you were looking at wasn't listed, and not buy it, as obviously there were 'issues' with it, and the review couldn't be printed.
Personnally, I think that any company that has to resort to those kind of tactics to keep away bad press has larger issues to worry about.
Okay, so what standards have they subverted?
I don't know if it rightly counts as a standard, but how about RTF? If I save a document in RTF format at work (Word) and take it home, and try to open in in WordPerfect, it fails to open because MS has done something to the RTF to make it unreadable by anything* other than Word/Office.
And what is it about Word that turns a 20K WP file into a 37K Word file?
*Ok, I'm not certain about that. I do know that WP won't read it, nor will whatever my roommate uses...
i mean, come on, obfuscating c just ain't that hard. ;)
:)
Heck, I want to see the unobfuscated APL contest...
Remember 10-15 years ago (or whenever it was), when Bill Gates made his infamous comment that "640k should be enough for anybody"? Just as computer technology keeps evolving faster than we could imagine, I think there's a good chance that graphics technology will follow suit.
But where will it go?
Once graphics cards get to the point where they are doing 16 million colors (or more) with every possible effect known to nature and Photoshop, what's left?
I mean, after a certain point frame rate will cease to matter, and even the Quake 'twichers' will be able to frag people with all the effects turned on.
The order goes:
Engr --> CSc --> Poli Sci --> Physc
Yikes...
I have an engineering degree with a Poli Sci minor, and I did grad work in Comp. Sci...
I'm not ever sure where on that chart I am...
That's a buffer overflow somewhere...
The number listed is (2^31) - 1.
...the Indrema...
Ok, they did, but only in passing.
But, that's understandable. As much as we may want it to succeed, it is still vapor at this time.
As far as I know there is nothing stopping someone from making a mod based on someones elses movie/TV show/cartoon/whatever, however, they can't sell said mod without getting the permission of the original creator (or liscencee thereof).
I.e., I could make a Animaniacs or Freakazoid mod for Q3, and pass it around to a few friends without getting in trouble. It could even (probably) be hosted somewhere for download. But the minute I start asking for money, Warner Bros. can just in with the lawyers...
Apparently, they also wish to prevent fair-use excerpts of any book (even one where the entire text is fair game).
Hmmm... Sounds like they took a page from the MPAA workbook...
Next they will ban bad reviews, I suppose.
And that sounds like a page from the Microsoft workbook.
It's easy to obfuscate any language
Of course. But most languages doesn't come with _auto_obfuscation_...
Two words for you...
LISP
APL
First you talk about clarity, then you mention LISP...
:)
Which is it?
and who the hell was harkonnen talking to at the end after leto screwed up with the poison tooth?
He was talking to himself... At that point, the floating fat man had gone completely around the bend...
The Supreme Court has jurisdiction even over speeding tickets, if called upon to act as an appellate court.
And that's actually something similar to what they are also looking at today... That is, whether or not local police may arrest people for traffic violations that normally only carry a fine.
Yeah, I miss the good old days of,
"The scores are 9.6, 9.5, 9.6, and a 4.3 from the Russian judge."
When you do your PhD properly you really get inside your subject.
A PhD is a union card to tenure. It does not indicate that the holder is wise or learned. Quite often is it awarded for bean-counting by young, humorless fools who are being supervised by old, humorless fools.
Now, what we need is for someone to figure out a way to write "Perl Invaders".
Now that's a scary thought...
What's next? LISP Invaders? Shoot down all the annoying parenthesis and curly braces...
How about APL Invaders? Shoot down the symbols you can't even type on your computer...
Or Microsoft Invaders? Oh, wait... That's Windows ME...
Good point. In an audit like this, M$ should come forward with how many registered copies, site liscences, and whatnot it has for whoever is being audited.
Of course, it would help if the auditing agency wasn't an M$ puppet...
You're right, but saying "Don't bother with Linux because it might fragment one day" is like saying, "Don't elect Al Gore, he might die in office!" -- it's possible, but unforseeable.
Actually, if you look at the 'Zero Curse' numbers, whoever is elected has a good chance of dying if office.
For those who don't know, the 'Zero Curse' is that every U.S. President, starting with Lincoln, elected in a year ending with a zero has died in office. The only exception was Reagan, and not for a lack of trying.
There has been talk of forking the kernel for ages. This hasn't happened yet, and I can't see it happening anytime soon.
Part of that depends on how badly 'big iron' support is wanted, doesn't it? I don't see how they could avoid forking the kernel over that particular issue...
Then there will be some who will say that it has already fragmented... And point to KDE and Gnome as their proof...
Shouldn't the industry have kicked their ass around a bit now for all their strong-arm tactics?
Yeah, but most companies don't just die overnight. They restructure and downsize, downsize and restructure, and eventually get bought out.
Besides, they are probably still looking for someone dumb enough to pay them...
I think that what he's trying to say is that Bush hasn't threatened physical intimidation, but that people who support Bush may have...
2. The dimpled ballots may have been a result of faulty equipment. This means that they should unquestionably be counted. This is what Gore is contesting, which he should. Hopefully this is enough to keep the shrub, or rather the weed, from infesting the White House.
Unquestionably? They could also have been caused by a voter tapping on that particular chad before deciding that they couldn't vote for that particular schmuck...
Yeah...I know the SDK is free. I was talking about paying for Indrema games.
My bad. Blame Monday... That and the turkey withdrawn...
The first couple games I produce will be freeware, in fact, I plan on having an Indrema freeware links page.
But, as far as paying for a game, yes I will, as I'm only going to be buying games that interest me.
Will you actually pay for Indrema software or just steal that as well?
The Indrema Developers Kit is free. All you have to do is download it. Tho, at over 100Meg, I recommend a high speed connection.