Here's some more info. Yep it's just a brand name. The WIFi alliance referred to it in slogans as wireless fidelity though, even though it doesn't mean anything, and apparently now they're trying to backtrack on it.
The Fi clearly has been taken from Hi-Fi so means fidelity, which obviously means nothing in this case and they've just made something up that sounds like something peple are used to.
*checks wikipedia* Yep apparently it's meant to be Wireless Fidelity. Which is a load of shite imho.
I think you're missing the point. The reason Quake 4 looks crap raytraced was because it wasn't written to be raytraced, no shaders are being applied (because they were all written for a raster engine) so of course it looks bad. This stuff is just research.
One of the biggest hurdle in game graphics is geometry detail. Normal mapping is just a hack to make things appear more detailed, it breaks down in some situations. Raytracing will allow *much* higher geometry detail than rasterisation. Better reflection, refraction, caustics and so on are just gravy.
Well that's the second post you've made saying basically the same thing and putting down as yet unidentified products. You're the one sounding like a fanboy.
Just to pre-empt your response, I'm typing this on my Vaio. It's a nice laptop, I like Vaios they're slick and shiny, but it's not like they're made out of some magical high quality pixie dust. I had to return this one before the warrantee was up because of screen defects. I had to return it a second time because the screen they replaced it with was worse than the original one.
So just shush please. By all accounts the Asus EeePC is excellent. I have it on authority from a Mac fanboy.
Unfortunately the new EVE client is actually just the Windows client plugged into winelib (hopefully optimised a bit too). Better than just trying to run it on Wine though, which has traditionally been a pain in the arse.
I run Linux almost exclusively on server+desktop and there's no love lost between me and Microsoft, but C# is a good language, the only problem with it is the pressure MS can apply over it, which the GP accepted.
Well it's in the UK for a start so it's not the RIAA doing this. This is a UK specific body that was set up long before the current industry associations. The fact that's it's radio is incidental though, it's the playing of music to an audience, the same fees would be applicable if it were CDs they're playing.
Yes though, there are two sets of payments involved.
More info n mechanical and performance royalties in the UK are available here:
Although I agree that in general the music industry is being massively out of order in its attempts to find new revenue to cover their failing business model, I think this story doesn't really apply.
The summary in this story is a bit misleading to be honest. PRS fees are nothing new in the UK, most big businesses have been paying them for years without incident.
Basically if you play music whether on a PA or an office radio in 'public' then you have to pay performance rights. The cost is a fixed yearly fee. Big chains that play music for their staff or customers pay a fixed yearly fee per place (store, office) that music is played.
The reason this case is going to court is that Quickfit, the firm in question, have a no radios policy for their staff. However they haven't enforced it, so many of their garages have radios in them against company policy. Quickfit argue that because their company policy is to not allow radios, they shouldn't be responsible for PRS fees if their employees break the rules. They haven't really got a leg to stand on though because they're responsible for what happens in their garages and should b enforcing the ban on radios if they don't want to pay the fees.
I'm getting pretty tired of this anti-Novell FUD personally. Just FYI I use Ubuntu and don't like Suse much, before anyone goes accusing me of being a fanboy.
Novell made a bit of a stupid PR gaff with the MS agreement, by giving MS ammo to say to businesses that Linux infringes on MS patents (which TBH it probably does, most software probably infringes on *someone's* patents, that doesn't make it any more unsafe for businesses to use than any other software though).
However that doesn't make Novell the root of all evil.
In your blind hatred of Novell you've clearly missed the point that ooo-build is about doing the direct opposite of what you accuse. It's there because *Sun* refuse to play nice and want to own all the code in OO.o. ooo-build is there to allow for modifications to OO.o to remain owned by their authors (and be released under OSS licenses) rather than the author having to hand over the copyright to Sun (allowing Sun to sell the code as part of a proprietary product).
There are already real games on Linux. Just not so many. All the Quake games and most of the major Quake / Doom3 engine games are on Linux (ET: Quake Wars is coming soon for example). Same for the UT series.
All software 'tramples over intellectual property'. Half of the most basic interface features and algorithms used by *everyone* in the software industry are patented. It's pretty much impossible to write modern software (in countries that allow software patents) that doesn't infringe on multiple patents.
Here are some examples of patents granted (but not enforceable, it's a strange situation) in Europe. I suspect most of them have also been granted and *are* enforceable in the US.
Yes there is Synaptic which is a (power-user) GUI front-end to APT, and there is 'Add and remove programs' in the 'start menu' menu where you can browse and search thousands of officially supported, community supported, and 3rd party applications, which can then be installed with two clicks. Dependency management is handled automatically avoiding 'RPM hell' and 'DLL hell'. (Yes I know RPM has Yum, it's a reference to the old usage of 'RPM hell').
Far, far, better than what Windows or OSX offers IMHO.
At the risk of being pedantic, the article didn't say anything about human rights. It just said it's a potential boost for EU based file traders. There is the implication that file trading of this (illegal) sort is ok, but there is no mention of human rights.
There is a human rights issue at stake as well though, and that is whether a company should be able to demand access to your data based on a suspicion. Personally, on balance, I think that a strong line on this issue is more important than prosecuting teenagers sharing some MP3s.
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I thought so too, but the OP said it stood for wide.
Here's some more info. Yep it's just a brand name. The WIFi alliance referred to it in slogans as wireless fidelity though, even though it doesn't mean anything, and apparently now they're trying to backtrack on it.
http://www.teleclick.ca/2005/12/what-is-the-true-meaning-of-wi-fi/
The Wi in WiFi is for wireless.
The Fi clearly has been taken from Hi-Fi so means fidelity, which obviously means nothing in this case and they've just made something up that sounds like something peple are used to.
*checks wikipedia* Yep apparently it's meant to be Wireless Fidelity. Which is a load of shite imho.
Several models of the EEE are in Amazon's top 10 best selling notebooks list.
I think you're missing the point. The reason Quake 4 looks crap raytraced was because it wasn't written to be raytraced, no shaders are being applied (because they were all written for a raster engine) so of course it looks bad. This stuff is just research.
One of the biggest hurdle in game graphics is geometry detail. Normal mapping is just a hack to make things appear more detailed, it breaks down in some situations. Raytracing will allow *much* higher geometry detail than rasterisation. Better reflection, refraction, caustics and so on are just gravy.
Actually it's just a Linux distro.
No, because Glibc is licensed under the LGPL not the GPL.
Well that's the second post you've made saying basically the same thing and putting down as yet unidentified products. You're the one sounding like a fanboy.
Just to pre-empt your response, I'm typing this on my Vaio. It's a nice laptop, I like Vaios they're slick and shiny, but it's not like they're made out of some magical high quality pixie dust. I had to return this one before the warrantee was up because of screen defects. I had to return it a second time because the screen they replaced it with was worse than the original one.
So just shush please. By all accounts the Asus EeePC is excellent. I have it on authority from a Mac fanboy.
Unfortunately the new EVE client is actually just the Windows client plugged into winelib (hopefully optimised a bit too). Better than just trying to run it on Wine though, which has traditionally been a pain in the arse.
What dick-head marked this flamebait?
I run Linux almost exclusively on server+desktop and there's no love lost between me and Microsoft, but C# is a good language, the only problem with it is the pressure MS can apply over it, which the GP accepted.
They do exist unfortunately, the UK Patent Office accepts the patents, they aren't valid however.
Well it's in the UK for a start so it's not the RIAA doing this. This is a UK specific body that was set up long before the current industry associations. The fact that's it's radio is incidental though, it's the playing of music to an audience, the same fees would be applicable if it were CDs they're playing.
Yes though, there are two sets of payments involved.
More info n mechanical and performance royalties in the UK are available here:
http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/
Although I agree that in general the music industry is being massively out of order in its attempts to find new revenue to cover their failing business model, I think this story doesn't really apply.
The summary in this story is a bit misleading to be honest. PRS fees are nothing new in the UK, most big businesses have been paying them for years without incident.
Basically if you play music whether on a PA or an office radio in 'public' then you have to pay performance rights. The cost is a fixed yearly fee. Big chains that play music for their staff or customers pay a fixed yearly fee per place (store, office) that music is played.
The reason this case is going to court is that Quickfit, the firm in question, have a no radios policy for their staff. However they haven't enforced it, so many of their garages have radios in them against company policy. Quickfit argue that because their company policy is to not allow radios, they shouldn't be responsible for PRS fees if their employees break the rules. They haven't really got a leg to stand on though because they're responsible for what happens in their garages and should b enforcing the ban on radios if they don't want to pay the fees.
I'm getting pretty tired of this anti-Novell FUD personally. Just FYI I use Ubuntu and don't like Suse much, before anyone goes accusing me of being a fanboy.
Novell made a bit of a stupid PR gaff with the MS agreement, by giving MS ammo to say to businesses that Linux infringes on MS patents (which TBH it probably does, most software probably infringes on *someone's* patents, that doesn't make it any more unsafe for businesses to use than any other software though).
However that doesn't make Novell the root of all evil.
In your blind hatred of Novell you've clearly missed the point that ooo-build is about doing the direct opposite of what you accuse. It's there because *Sun* refuse to play nice and want to own all the code in OO.o. ooo-build is there to allow for modifications to OO.o to remain owned by their authors (and be released under OSS licenses) rather than the author having to hand over the copyright to Sun (allowing Sun to sell the code as part of a proprietary product).
Also.. This isn't really a fork as such. They're still contributing upstream to the core project.
1) OpenOffice.org is the name of the program. It's not called 'OpenOffice'.
2) You may well be right, although many open source applications provide some licensing provision for use of the trademark for derivatives.
3) I don't see why. It's referring to the application, and it is strictly speaking just a superset of the original application.
Are you saying that Pam Jones is an IBM employee? Wasn't that what SCO tried to push?
> but isn't that Windows mentality?
No it's pre-release software...
Software patents aren't valid in Europe. Any idea where most Samba devs are based? I have no idea, just wondering.
There are already real games on Linux. Just not so many. All the Quake games and most of the major Quake / Doom3 engine games are on Linux (ET: Quake Wars is coming soon for example). Same for the UT series.
All software 'tramples over intellectual property'. Half of the most basic interface features and algorithms used by *everyone* in the software industry are patented. It's pretty much impossible to write modern software (in countries that allow software patents) that doesn't infringe on multiple patents.
Here are some examples of patents granted (but not enforceable, it's a strange situation) in Europe. I suspect most of them have also been granted and *are* enforceable in the US.
http://eupat.ffii.org/patents/samples/index.en.html
Completely agree with the above. Would just like to add that *if* you were to choose Gnome on whatever platform, there's a handy tool for locking it down called Pessulus : http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/lock down.html
Yes there is Synaptic which is a (power-user) GUI front-end to APT, and there is 'Add and remove programs' in the 'start menu' menu where you can browse and search thousands of officially supported, community supported, and 3rd party applications, which can then be installed with two clicks. Dependency management is handled automatically avoiding 'RPM hell' and 'DLL hell'. (Yes I know RPM has Yum, it's a reference to the old usage of 'RPM hell').
Far, far, better than what Windows or OSX offers IMHO.
No this involves encryption.
It's (the system not the encryption) been broken on HD-DVD though.
At the risk of being pedantic, the article didn't say anything about human rights. It just said it's a potential boost for EU based file traders. There is the implication that file trading of this (illegal) sort is ok, but there is no mention of human rights.
There is a human rights issue at stake as well though, and that is whether a company should be able to demand access to your data based on a suspicion. Personally, on balance, I think that a strong line on this issue is more important than prosecuting teenagers sharing some MP3s.