Contrary to the hysterical claims you read in/., Europe is not free of software patents now.
That refers to patents which _involve_ the use of software or computers but are not limited to them. So for example if i invented CAD/CAM then I could patent it. However if I just invented CAD then I could not.
The aim of the proposed legislation is to change this to allow software only patents.
actually on win95 when you can't work out whether you have no connection or whether the install is screwed it's suprising how often quake would work when no other network software would..
check out quanta, it's basically a homesite clone, and rather tasty. the only thing it was lacking last time i looked was being able to load and save docs over ftp directly (it does do ftp syncing though)
Theres the little fact that it's bundled with Windows (it's actually a real pain to remove, certainly beyond the average user) and as a result it is becoming ubiquitous and meaning that more and more people have to use it to keep in contact with people who would probably have chosen icq or y! before. I don't _want_ to use Messenger, but I have to be able to communicate with people who do use it.
No sorry you're wrong. There's a very good reason that Photoshop is an industry standard, and it has nothing to do with filter whores.
Photoshop has:
-A much larger toolset than GIMP. -Better image processing algorithms (some of which are patented alas, but that doesn't reduce their quality) -CMYK (hello? ever worked with print?)
Don't get me wrong, in no way do I mean to belittle the huge achievment that the GIMP is, I would say it is the second best image processor out there, but it's not the best yet.
photoshop 5 was actually pretty stable, it was from 5.5 onwards that one of the greatest desktop apps ever writen (imho;) started to become buggy bloatware.
you should re-read what he wrote. he was pointing out how you can determine how much water the body loses in a day. it's typically 2-2.5 litres a day for an adult. you need to replace that much water daily, but a lot of the water you need comes from food, including things that you might expect to have very low water content, like bread.
2) Being accused of a felony IS damaging to a persons reputation
surely it's not if the company doesn't tell anyone else who it is accusing? as you can't injusre someone's reputation by telling them something in private..
Sure, but PHP is fine for coding OO, it's not like you have to hack at it. It works well, and it's quick to develop. So I think your analogy is a bit unfair:)
When we use PHP (which we use for projects that we need to get out the door faster, amongst other reasons), we always write in OO. Given the choice we work in J2EE because of it's strong typing and enterprise features such as distribution, transactions, scalability etc..
While PHP4s OO support is far from all it could be (no default pass by reference...), you can still seperate out into nice data abstraction / business logic / presentation layers just as well as most other OO languages. Hell we even use the J2EE enterprise patterns in PHP4.
PHP5 is looking set to fix most of the annoyances with PHP4s object model, adding unified constructors, method argument hinting, interfaces, pass by reference by default and so on.
My point is, although a lot of people see it as such, you shouldn't write off PHP4 as a purely procedural language
xbox-scene is an excellent site for this sort of thing, and have tutorials for pretty much anything you could want to do here but as i said i can't find the one you need. the site is probably still a good place to start looking though, as it has lots of links to other xbox mod sites.
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Contrary to the hysterical claims you read in /., Europe is not free of software patents now.
That refers to patents which _involve_ the use of software or computers but are not limited to them. So for example if i invented CAD/CAM then I could patent it. However if I just invented CAD then I could not.
The aim of the proposed legislation is to change this to allow software only patents.
OK fair enough, i guess it's different over there. I haven't seen a single gps enabled phone marketed in the UK.
ok, so one phone you know of has gps tracking built in? :)
Oh, and pretty much every phone made in the several years is GPS-aware, so if you didn't put on your tin-foil hat yet, it's a bit late... ;)
er.. care to back that up? Or are you confusing triangulation and cell information with GPS?
actually on win95 when you can't work out whether you have no connection or whether the install is screwed it's suprising how often quake would work when no other network software would..
(well, Homesite)
check out quanta, it's basically a homesite clone, and rather tasty. the only thing it was lacking last time i looked was being able to load and save docs over ftp directly (it does do ftp syncing though)
lightwave is weak, use maya ;)
:)
oh, and photoshop 7 runs on linux with wine because Disney and two other shops gave some people to write the support
(wine doesn't require windows)
Theres the little fact that it's bundled with Windows (it's actually a real pain to remove, certainly beyond the average user) and as a result it is becoming ubiquitous and meaning that more and more people have to use it to keep in contact with people who would probably have chosen icq or y! before. I don't _want_ to use Messenger, but I have to be able to communicate with people who do use it.
(especially as it did suck really bad...)
COMMIE!
no wait hang on.. err..
*confused now*
films always make a loss. that's how they get away with paying so little to the talent...
mmmm memory leek and race cauliflower pie...
FYI mys Sinclair Spectrum is immune to blaster too, doesn't make it any use...
No sorry you're wrong. There's a very good reason that Photoshop is an industry standard, and it has nothing to do with filter whores.
Photoshop has:
-A much larger toolset than GIMP.
-Better image processing algorithms (some of which are patented alas, but that doesn't reduce their quality)
-CMYK (hello? ever worked with print?)
Don't get me wrong, in no way do I mean to belittle the huge achievment that the GIMP is, I would say it is the second best image processor out there, but it's not the best yet.
One day...
i know this is a joke but...
;) started to become buggy bloatware.
photoshop 5 was actually pretty stable, it was from 5.5 onwards that one of the greatest desktop apps ever writen (imho
kazaa lite + diet kazaa = hassle free filesharing.
better yet dc++
lol. We have the internet now, even in backward countries like the UK ;)
have no sense of humour!
i was pleased to see the bbc related links included this balancing (if unfortunately titled) article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3022996.s tm
you should re-read what he wrote. he was pointing out how you can determine how much water the body loses in a day. it's typically 2-2.5 litres a day for an adult. you need to replace that much water daily, but a lot of the water you need comes from food, including things that you might expect to have very low water content, like bread.
i'm guessing this isn't Fabio of Fabio and Grooverider fame then? :p
there goes my karma :(
2) Being accused of a felony IS damaging to a persons reputation
surely it's not if the company doesn't tell anyone else who it is accusing? as you can't injusre someone's reputation by telling them something in private..
Sure, but PHP is fine for coding OO, it's not like you have to hack at it. It works well, and it's quick to develop. So I think your analogy is a bit unfair :)
When we use PHP (which we use for projects that we need to get out the door faster, amongst other reasons), we always write in OO. Given the choice we work in J2EE because of it's strong typing and enterprise features such as distribution, transactions, scalability etc..
While PHP4s OO support is far from all it could be (no default pass by reference...), you can still seperate out into nice data abstraction / business logic / presentation layers just as well as most other OO languages. Hell we even use the J2EE enterprise patterns in PHP4.
PHP5 is looking set to fix most of the annoyances with PHP4s object model, adding unified constructors, method argument hinting, interfaces, pass by reference by default and so on.
My point is, although a lot of people see it as such, you shouldn't write off PHP4 as a purely procedural language
you can, but i'm afraid i can't find a tutorial.
xbox-scene is an excellent site for this sort of thing, and have tutorials for pretty much anything you could want to do here but as i said i can't find the one you need. the site is probably still a good place to start looking though, as it has lots of links to other xbox mod sites.