But are these cards designed for those users? Most users that are going to need that sort of thing aren't going to be buying consumer grade cards...they'll be spending way more for a good professional 3D rendering card. I would rather have the card that I buy for games and the like be fast and not be more expensive or slower to support the few users who would consider this card for that particular app.
and why can't you do something like that with transparency or alpha blending and just repaint the window every time there is a desktop change?
I'm not big on GUI programming so i might be completely off here, but couldn't you just catch any signals of something happening on the desktop and have it redraw the shadowing whenver something on the desktop changes? while it may take CPU horsepower, that may only be an issue when dragging windows around in which case you could do something ala windows where it just drags the border of the window until you set it down... I may be way off on this, but I don't think that the idea should be tossed aside so cavalierly...
Everytime I read a post like this with moderator points I have to remember that I don't mod down for me disagreeing with the opinion or for the poster having no idea what he/she is talking about.
the +5 comment reply to this pretty much nailed it...waht dark film has Lucas ever done? Spielburg nailed Schindler's List (how can you get darker than that?) and Saving Private Ryan (as mentioned in that +5 post).
So remember moderators, don't mod down for uninformed drivel...that's what the internet is all about.
(b) have limited commercial purpose other than to circumvent
You can't tell me that marker pens have limited commercial purpose....they are used for millions of different things. That part is in there to prevent something that is designed mainly to circumvent copy protection, but also has one real use that they try to camoflauge it under, such as if Dmitry would have made his ebook thing also be able to play audio CDs or something with the code, and claimed the program was legal cause it's purpose was to play CDs
THis is oversimplified by me, and I couldn't think of a real good analogy, but part (b) in there pretty much prevents anything being done about marker pens.
Which is good, cause I don't want to pay $20 for my sharpies.
any big titted blondes that happen to be standing too near a low altitude dogfight.
I hope you /. nitwits followed up on your story
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Qt For The Console
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I will assume that the editors of/. realize that this is a joke, as evidenced by the code of main.cpp
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include <config.h> #endif
#include <iostream.h> #include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { cout << "Hello, World! It is April Fools:)" << endl;
return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
If you guys didn't realize this, you're even worse than i thought, heh.
There is a relatively simple solution to this
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Google Juice
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Ok, google isn't completely run by computers. There is at least 1 person running everything as well. THe article claims that there are several hundred people doing this. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out who is doing it, and wouldn't take more than a week at worst for a person working at google to research this, figure out who is making the 'bomb' pages, and block them from google's searching.
Of course, this isn't a permanent solution, but one employee employed full time could pretty much keep track of these sort of things by doing searches all day and seeing if things come up that shouldn't, and figuring out why, and then blocking the site.
I hope this post makes sense...it's damn early in the morning.
Yeah, forgive me. I had it typed out correctly the first time, but typed it too quick (19 seconds) so the lameness filter confused me and I retyped it wrong.
(didn't the saxon king and his men fight two battles on the same day, winning the first and losing the second?)
If I remember correctly from my English HIstory class, Harold (the Saxon king, as you put it) had won a major battle either several days before (4 days comes to mind) or the day before...pretty sure it was more than that. HOwever, the battle that they won was in Northumbria or something like that, far from the part of Wessex or Sussex or wheverever William showed up. They won the first battle, and then Harold thought they had to hurry over to where William had landed, even though they could have and should have taken their time and rested up. So, basically what ended up was a battle between some completely exhausted Saxon troops, and William's relatively well rested Norman army.
Intellectual Property is a fiction, it is not property (as in tangible asset) at all. The act of creation ceases when the work is born, only in the 'intellectual property world" does a producer feel the right to control a work once he has borne it. Does a plumber call you and ask for a fee every time you flush your toilet? No, neither should a musician, actor, author or inventor ask for fees to exercise the purpose of their past creation. Meaning, that by its regular availability, the thing *has been created* and no further compensation is necessary.
This argument is severely flawed. Since when do you have to pay to watch a movie each time after you have already purchased it once? Since when have you had to pay to push play on your CD player with a CD in the drive?
Sure, the plumber doesn't charge you each time you flush the toilet, but he did charge you for his time in fixing the toilet or installing the toilet or whatever, and chances are you (or somebody else) paid for the toilet at one point, so don't give me that crap.
Perhaps you are talking about how the RIAA and/or artists collect royalties on each CD used. If that is the case, you're arguing something completely different that has absolutely nothing to do with it.
You are entitled to your opinion that all intelluctual 'property' should in fact not be property but be free to all, but I believe that most people, even most slashdoters, would disagree with you there. The beef most of us have is with the RIAA and the record/movie production companies who just make the thing, not the artist/director/actor/whatever who puts his heart and soul into his project. Most of us would agree that they are entitled to some compensation for it, if they ask for it.
Where the hell do you buy your hard drives? Black market in Communist China?
Even Best Buy has 100+GB HD's for ~$180-280USD
The one I was at yesterday had a 120GB Western Digital for $180. I asked why it was $75 cheaper than the 100GB one, and nobody knew, and figured Best Buy was trying to get rid of it
So, $300 for a 100GB hard drive is an insane price. Even newegg has some 100GB hd's in the under $250 range. And, as I said, check your local best buy for a good deal.
[i]You can also read about Rob Malda's "Weird Problem while booting..." [google.com], which is also the first time he calls himself 'Commander Taco' on Usenet. (October 1995) [/i]
Hmm, reading this makes me wonder where his spelling went askew. Perhaps somebody feels like doing a search to see if it was a gradual change, or if just one day he was slapped upside the head by the bad spelling fairy or something.
Well, by not getting a bounce back from the email servers, that also confirms a valid address. Most invalid addresses send back a Returned Mail: Service unavailable from the Mail Delivery Subsystem, or somethign of the sort.
And it's more fun to fuck with them, and waste as much of their time as they are wasting yours.
Take for example NHL2001, the best hockey game ever. That game would be even cooler if, instead of having SOLO (should be KOHO) sticks and made up ads on the hockey walls, and other things like that, they had the real products. Many users even make graphic mods for that game and others like it to 'fix' the fake products/ads. So, for a game like NHL2001, I think ads would be great.
It's like Chairface Chippendale all over again! The moon would be cool if it had a big CHA in it.
If you don't know what I'm talking about you need to watch more episodes of The Tick.
Re:Still not enough support for older video cards
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XFree 4.0.3 Released
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Other than the Anti-Aliased fonts, since you don't have a 3D card, and you don't have an extremely fast system, I don't think you really would get that much of a performance gain or really notice any sort of difference with Xfree 4. Xfree 3.X is more stable for some things anyways at times, so I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you.
Of course, it would be slightly faster running Xfree 4.x, so I do see your point.
yeah, I was saying in more general terms the restrictiveness of that license, not for that particular text, which is in the public domain. That is a good point though. And, there is no way in hell they are going to enforce that. I think it's just in the thing so that nobody can show it at a microsoft presentation or something, hehe.
Slashdot Mirror
This is most useful, and everybody should see it.
I've had this happen to me a few times at work, and these programs work pretty well.
Gimme my athena widgets!
But are these cards designed for those users? Most users that are going to need that sort of thing aren't going to be buying consumer grade cards...they'll be spending way more for a good professional 3D rendering card.
I would rather have the card that I buy for games and the like be fast and not be more expensive or slower to support the few users who would consider this card for that particular app.
and why can't you do something like that with transparency or alpha blending and just repaint the window every time there is a desktop change?
I'm not big on GUI programming so i might be completely off here, but couldn't you just catch any signals of something happening on the desktop and have it redraw the shadowing whenver something on the desktop changes?
while it may take CPU horsepower, that may only be an issue when dragging windows around in which case you could do something ala windows where it just drags the border of the window until you set it down...
I may be way off on this, but I don't think that the idea should be tossed aside so cavalierly...
I believe if you were dating Calista Flockhart (Like I believe Ford is...) you wouldn't have any trouble keeping your whip snappy...
Everytime I read a post like this with moderator points I have to remember that I don't mod down for me disagreeing with the opinion or for the poster having no idea what he/she is talking about.
the +5 comment reply to this pretty much nailed it...waht dark film has Lucas ever done?
Spielburg nailed Schindler's List (how can you get darker than that?) and Saving Private Ryan (as mentioned in that +5 post).
So remember moderators, don't mod down for uninformed drivel...that's what the internet is all about.
You can't tell me that marker pens have limited commercial purpose....they are used for millions of different things.
That part is in there to prevent something that is designed mainly to circumvent copy protection, but also has one real use that they try to camoflauge it under, such as if Dmitry would have made his ebook thing also be able to play audio CDs or something with the code, and claimed the program was legal cause it's purpose was to play CDs
THis is oversimplified by me, and I couldn't think of a real good analogy, but part (b) in there pretty much prevents anything being done about marker pens.
Which is good, cause I don't want to pay $20 for my sharpies.
any big titted blondes that happen to be standing too near a low altitude dogfight.
Ok, google isn't completely run by computers. There is at least 1 person running everything as well. THe article claims that there are several hundred people doing this. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out who is doing it, and wouldn't take more than a week at worst for a person working at google to research this, figure out who is making the 'bomb' pages, and block them from google's searching.
Of course, this isn't a permanent solution, but one employee employed full time could pretty much keep track of these sort of things by doing searches all day and seeing if things come up that shouldn't, and figuring out why, and then blocking the site.
I hope this post makes sense...it's damn early in the morning.
Yeah, forgive me. I had it typed out correctly the first time, but typed it too quick (19 seconds) so the lameness filter confused me and I retyped it wrong.
I meant England, my bad.
(didn't the saxon king and his men fight two battles on the same day, winning the first and losing the second?)
If I remember correctly from my English HIstory class, Harold (the Saxon king, as you put it) had won a major battle either several days before (4 days comes to mind) or the day before...pretty sure it was more than that. HOwever, the battle that they won was in Northumbria or something like that, far from the part of Wessex or Sussex or wheverever William showed up. They won the first battle, and then Harold thought they had to hurry over to where William had landed, even though they could have and should have taken their time and rested up. So, basically what ended up was a battle between some completely exhausted Saxon troops, and William's relatively well rested Norman army.
THat is, if I recall correctly.
BBC/Domesday Book == London
DMCA == United States of America.
Of course, you need to run lilo before you reboot.
Intellectual Property is a fiction, it is not property (as in tangible asset) at all. The act of creation ceases when the work is born, only in the 'intellectual property world" does a producer feel the right to control a work once he has borne it. Does a plumber call you and ask for a fee every time you flush your toilet? No, neither should a musician, actor, author or inventor ask for fees to exercise the purpose of their past creation. Meaning, that by its regular availability, the thing *has been created* and no further compensation is necessary.
This argument is severely flawed. Since when do you have to pay to watch a movie each time after you have already purchased it once? Since when have you had to pay to push play on your CD player with a CD in the drive?
Sure, the plumber doesn't charge you each time you flush the toilet, but he did charge you for his time in fixing the toilet or installing the toilet or whatever, and chances are you (or somebody else) paid for the toilet at one point, so don't give me that crap.
Perhaps you are talking about how the RIAA and/or artists collect royalties on each CD used. If that is the case, you're arguing something completely different that has absolutely nothing to do with it.
You are entitled to your opinion that all intelluctual 'property' should in fact not be property but be free to all, but I believe that most people, even most slashdoters, would disagree with you there. The beef most of us have is with the RIAA and the record/movie production companies who just make the thing, not the artist/director/actor/whatever who puts his heart and soul into his project. Most of us would agree that they are entitled to some compensation for it, if they ask for it.
Actually, he was telling the dude to not try to buy pot on that newsgroup, so I dunno exactly what your point is.
Where the hell do you buy your hard drives? Black market in Communist China?
Even Best Buy has 100+GB HD's for ~$180-280USD
The one I was at yesterday had a 120GB Western Digital for $180. I asked why it was $75 cheaper than the 100GB one, and nobody knew, and figured Best Buy was trying to get rid of it
So, $300 for a 100GB hard drive is an insane price. Even newegg has some 100GB hd's in the under $250 range. And, as I said, check your local best buy for a good deal.
[i]You can also read about Rob Malda's "Weird Problem while booting..." [google.com], which is also the first time he calls himself 'Commander Taco' on Usenet. (October 1995) [/i]
Hmm, reading this makes me wonder where his spelling went askew. Perhaps somebody feels like doing a search to see if it was a gradual change, or if just one day he was slapped upside the head by the bad spelling fairy or something.
Well, by not getting a bounce back from the email servers, that also confirms a valid address. Most invalid addresses send back a Returned Mail: Service unavailable from the Mail Delivery Subsystem, or somethign of the sort.
And it's more fun to fuck with them, and waste as much of their time as they are wasting yours.
Take for example NHL2001, the best hockey game ever. That game would be even cooler if, instead of having SOLO (should be KOHO) sticks and made up ads on the hockey walls, and other things like that, they had the real products. Many users even make graphic mods for that game and others like it to 'fix' the fake products/ads. So, for a game like NHL2001, I think ads would be great.
no
You know, you're gonna have a visit from the secret service now. They don't like that sort of joking around
It's like Chairface Chippendale all over again! The moon would be cool if it had a big CHA in it. If you don't know what I'm talking about you need to watch more episodes of The Tick.
Other than the Anti-Aliased fonts, since you don't have a 3D card, and you don't have an extremely fast system, I don't think you really would get that much of a performance gain or really notice any sort of difference with Xfree 4. Xfree 3.X is more stable for some things anyways at times, so I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you. Of course, it would be slightly faster running Xfree 4.x, so I do see your point.
yeah, I was saying in more general terms the restrictiveness of that license, not for that particular text, which is in the public domain. That is a good point though. And, there is no way in hell they are going to enforce that. I think it's just in the thing so that nobody can show it at a microsoft presentation or something, hehe.