That game was a classic... perhaps the best console FPS ever, especially in multiplayer. Redoing it for the X-Box, with improved graphics and more detailed level designs would kick some serious ass!
Still, if the next version of Office requires Palladium, so what? It won't hurt Linux. It may even help Linux.
The movie industry can't even kill DVD (there's too many players out there), so it's not even like you won't be able to watch Hollywood movies in Linux without Palladium.
Sites with high end content are able to charge a lot for it to a small group but don't have wide penetration (high quality porn sites, article archives).
It seems to me that many porn sites claim to have wide penetrations.
This is an interesting development for Google. Ruling out the possibility of paid placement (for now), it seems as though PageRank doesn't apply to the news aggregator. (And how would it? Stories are updated continuously.) It's not likely to be completely random, either, although such an approach could lead to some very interesting story angles.
First of all, I think they only spider a select list of news sites. What they probably do is assign each site a weight based on page rank. If more highly-ranked sources run a story on a given topic, it gets to the top. They probably had to hack together an aging aspect, as well.
As long as you get that it's the radio equivalent of a site like adequacy.org, in that the hosts are basically just trolling for callers and they end up getting a surprising number of bites. Listening to sports talk is like reading slashdot comments at -1, without the goatse links or page wideners, in other words.
1. There are numerous studies showing that a high fat diet is bad for you. Here's the part most people are skipping over: THIS IS NOT RELATED TO OBESITY. Fat has negative effects on other parts of your body than your waistline. So you can be skinny on Atkins, but that doesn't mean you will be healthy in the long term. Studies on the effect of eating a diet high in animal protein and fat are well-established.
The only studies I've seen on this issue have been inconclusive.
The GPL is enforced through private enforcement. Basically, someone who holds the copyright on GPL software sues for violation of the license. So Linus could sue in this case. The FSF could sue because, presumably, UL will be shipping gcc, glibc, and/or bash.
Now, if we can get BusinessWeek or the Wall Street Journal to start saying things like "...businesses should begin investigating Linux to remain cost competitive", the C*O's in America would start herding over to Linux (regardless of its merits and/or limitations, but that's another story).
Forbes actually has more of a reputation for being read by executives and major stockholders, and they recently did a special section on Linux, with a few positive business cases and a pronouncement that gaim is the best IM client out there.
Could someone moderate down this idiot just on that statement alone.
Nah... then he'd rant and rave about how Slashdot is the den of the godless and everyone should have been homeschooled as the Bible orders and all that shit.
etcha any money ol' Billy Boy has some strange, Egyptian-like architecture in his big cityhouse. Stuff that looks surprisingly like a big floating eye over a pyramid.
I coulda sworn I saw BillG at my last Lodge meeting.
as to more moral licensing, I have always believed that the GPL can be modified to include clauses for corporate, educational, and governmental customers (all different pricing structures of course). this way the customers that can afford it must pay some small fee.
Considering that that modification would place the GPL into the category of "Non-Free Licenses", I highly doubt it.
It depends on the network you're emailing to. University IT departments, being knowledgeable, will tend to just immediately disable that computer's MAC address.
For instance, UMass apparently tells the DHCP server to assign an IP address on one of the netblocks reserved for NAT and has the routers redirect any HTTP requests to a page saying that that computer's rights to access the network have been suspended and how to restore those rights (apply the patches, and inform the IT people, who presumably run a scan on your computer to determine whether you've patched).
Good god! Mandrake, anybody? What they really mean is "the big players who may actually give us money to review their products are Lycoris, Lindows, ELX, and Xandros".
Mandrake, Red Hat, and (to a lesser extent) SuSE all provide some emphasis as a server. I'm pretty sure that Xandros et al don't ship with any server software.
"Bobby Joe from Timbucktoo is going backstage with Megadeath at the concert in Ourtown. The backstage pass was won from a purchase of a CD at Spinners."
Uh, somehow I doubt Bobby Joe will be getting Megadeth backstage passes, as Megadeth is no more, thanks to Dave Mustaine's little "injury". We'll see three new Metallica studio albums before Megadeth plays another show.
That said, have you heard the snippets of the new Metallica album in the video clips from the studio they've released? I've got a good feeling about the new stuff...
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That game was a classic... perhaps the best console FPS ever, especially in multiplayer. Redoing it for the X-Box, with improved graphics and more detailed level designs would kick some serious ass!
I can finally get all that change out from under my cushions!
Still, if the next version of Office requires Palladium, so what? It won't hurt Linux. It may even help Linux.
The movie industry can't even kill DVD (there's too many players out there), so it's not even like you won't be able to watch Hollywood movies in Linux without Palladium.
Considering that the Palladium standard requires that the BIOS allow Palladium to be deactivated, I would say that it's more than possible.
It seems to me that many porn sites claim to have wide penetrations.
First of all, I think they only spider a select list of news sites. What they probably do is assign each site a weight based on page rank. If more highly-ranked sources run a story on a given topic, it gets to the top. They probably had to hack together an aging aspect, as well.
I've actually seen proposals to the effect that California ought to be separate from the US in some things (such as international sporting events).
As long as you get that it's the radio equivalent of a site like adequacy.org, in that the hosts are basically just trolling for callers and they end up getting a surprising number of bites. Listening to sports talk is like reading slashdot comments at -1, without the goatse links or page wideners, in other words.
OS X is not a Unix.
Darwin is a Unix. But that doesn't make OS X a Unix.
Now, if OS X has X11 installed on it (or no GUI at all...) then it can be called a Unix. How many OS X installs can you say that about?
The only studies I've seen on this issue have been inconclusive.
Do you have links?
The GPL is enforced through private enforcement. Basically, someone who holds the copyright on GPL software sues for violation of the license. So Linus could sue in this case. The FSF could sue because, presumably, UL will be shipping gcc, glibc, and/or bash.
...It's not that surprising.
SuSE are not exactly huge supporters of the GPL, what with a non-Free installer and configuration tools.
Wasn't Ransom Love bashing the GPL a few years ago, while at Caldera and saying that the BSD license is better?
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Forbes actually has more of a reputation for being read by executives and major stockholders, and they recently did a special section on Linux, with a few positive business cases and a pronouncement that gaim is the best IM client out there.
Alison, what has happened to your Kuro5hin diary. You've only posted once in the last six weeks!
Nah... then he'd rant and rave about how Slashdot is the den of the godless and everyone should have been homeschooled as the Bible orders and all that shit.
I coulda sworn I saw BillG at my last Lodge meeting.
Considering that that modification would place the GPL into the category of "Non-Free Licenses", I highly doubt it.
Relevant quote from the Free Software Definition:
It depends on the network you're emailing to. University IT departments, being knowledgeable, will tend to just immediately disable that computer's MAC address.
For instance, UMass apparently tells the DHCP server to assign an IP address on one of the netblocks reserved for NAT and has the routers redirect any HTTP requests to a page saying that that computer's rights to access the network have been suspended and how to restore those rights (apply the patches, and inform the IT people, who presumably run a scan on your computer to determine whether you've patched).
Mandrake, Red Hat, and (to a lesser extent) SuSE all provide some emphasis as a server. I'm pretty sure that Xandros et al don't ship with any server software.
Uh, somehow I doubt Bobby Joe will be getting Megadeth backstage passes, as Megadeth is no more, thanks to Dave Mustaine's little "injury". We'll see three new Metallica studio albums before Megadeth plays another show.
That said, have you heard the snippets of the new Metallica album in the video clips from the studio they've released? I've got a good feeling about the new stuff...
By most standards, C++ is quite strongly typed, perhaps the most strongly typed language in wide use today.
Three Words
Michael. Sims. Bitchslap.
More likely, he'll hack bitchslap.pl to mod up his comment.
That's assuming Mr. Sims has the intelligence to hack Perl...
D'oh!
How could I have forgotten that?