Core Win32 APIs should never have been implemented in a user-space app - or anything that requires a user-space app. The libraries comprising the basic components for an operable system should not ever have been provided by a browser.
It's like Corba. Corba doesn't come with the Linux kernel. However, it comes with the windowing system, just like COM or OLE should come with the windowing system.
OLE and the common controls library (comctl32.dll) come with the browser, too. This is like including gtk+ ONLY with grip, or Motif with only netscape. It's a retarded design decision.
This tizzy isn't about M$ including extra APIs with IE, it's about requiring the installation of a non-essential app in order to get essential system functionality. I hate IE, but I have to use OLE at work. Well, that means I have to use IE 4.0sp1 or higher... and if I didn't browse the net, that would be quite a bit of wasted HDD space.
How does a company get on the OGL ARB, and how can they be removed?
M$ has destroyed other standards before. I don't want to see them claim so much of OGL that I can no longer use it. They also have a platform-dependant competitor they are pushing, i.e. DirectX. So, I'll ask again - WHY were they allowed on the board in the first place, and HOW can they be removed?
Technical info is great but I'd like to see a sample implementation. That alternate frame rendering thing sounded great even when the rage fury maxx came out, but the XF86 drivers didn't do it. That's why I didn't buy the card. Why doesn't ATI just go ahead and release their Windows driver under the X license and let the XF86 people tweak it? They might get something that works just as well on both windows and X, and maybe better than they had originally released.
I've had a dual celeron 433 for two years now. It sucks when doing software OGL. However, I *can* run a decent GPU and both of these processors in a sufficiently multi-threaded app and get performance that blows away all sorts of new-fangled 60ghz machines. The big issue isn't how much faster it can do what it does, but that it can do it twice in nearly the same time.
I'll never go back to uniprocessors.
Oh come on - don't go to slashdot to extoll Windows' Greatness (tm). There are plenty of other places. This is New for Nerds... nerds don't use M$ products, and they will tell you good reasons why. But that's not what I wanted to post. I posted intelligently elsewhere!
Why didn't they just re-release the old PC version with a *complete* and *updatable* card catalog this time instead of jacking around and removing some of the best cards in the game (moat comes to mind), with a dedicated server version for running internet & LAN games? Shit, I *hate* windows but I'd let go of a partition for that in a second. This Online thing is too damned expensive to even consider - the cash alone is why I'm not a player of the RL game anymore.
That tourney idea you've got - it's a good one. I'd play, and I left a post earlier about never wanting to ever go back to the days of Black Tar *ahem* Lotus.
If I had any mod points, I'd give a little up just because of this idea.
I didn't throw out a single card: I sold them all. If I'd kept them, I'd be pretty well off now. That's what Weissman called it - Magic:The Addiction. And I still can't play that damn blue/white well enough.
Now, I've still got some Tempest and Weatherlight cards, but it's just like methadone: always tempting, but I know that I can never go back to Black Tar *cough* Lotus.
Someone, somewhere, please wake me up when this evolves into a replicator that can make food. This will at least keep my grocery bill down.
Here's my real question: should this advance to the point where transporting a person is possible, who would want it? If you think about it, you are destroyed, transported, and recreated - while this all sound like great fun, why would I want to destroy myself? The person made on the other end may have all my memories, but they're not *me*, because *I* was destroyed to make the other person. They'll think they're me, but what good is that if I'm not there? I'll never live through it, so it's not *me* who's going to the impossibly far away place, so I guess it's kinda pointless, isn't it...
I've been a Star Wars fan since '77. I've seen every single one first-run. I've seen the trilogy a good 100 times, and can recite most of the dialog from memory. Episode 2 was a huge jump in quality over 1. Simply put. The acting was nowhere near as bad as Taco said (don't ask for a link - do you own research), and the movie opened up much earlier than he said as well.
In case you've forgotten, not every geek can speak for every geek. I loved 2, especially compared to 1, and I think it makes a worthy successor (or predecessor) to episodes 4-6.
That said, even with the bad dialog, over-reliance on FX, and bad acting, it's the *world* and the *story* that people love, even the geeks.
Agghg. The US doesn't need that damned oil. We can get plenty of energy between & including the two oceans we border, it's just that we happen to have disproportionally large number of disproportionally greedy people. That's all, and until that changes, we'll never be cooler than anybody else.
For reference, see the US oil companies and our large reserves under Texas. Next, look up all of the alternative energy sources available. Then, if you tell me we still need that oil, I'll smack you with a fish.
So... why is it that no one on sourceforge EVER lists the valid module names for CVS checkout???? All I could get here is modulename 'wine', which, as I'm sure everyone here knoes, is not 'WineX'.
Please, if you have a sourceforge project with CVS access, please list the valid modules available for checkout.
Ok, so what happens when you *want* to reboot? Like, say, for installing certain Free OSs? Would it then be a case of 'you bought it, you live with it hahaha'?
I like either Linux or FreeBSD, and I don't see a reason to change... how much ya wanna bet devices with this will have CE on them?
There are few anime movies with the same kind of power - a few have already been mentioned in some replies, but I'd personally recommend 'Grave of the Fireflies'. Serious, powerful - it's kind of leaves you with the same feel as Bjork's 'Dancer in the Dark', if you can sit through that one more than once.
It doesn't have the same animation, but the story is absolutely beautiful, which, to me, makes up for it.
Personally, I also liked Vampire Princess Miyu (all 4 episodes that I have - there are more under a different name but mine are subtitled), Mononoke Hime (The Princess Mononoke), and, of course, the original Macross stuff even though I don't lump it or Miyu in the same ballpark as Akira.
I do have to say that if an Americanized version of Akira comes out I won't see it. It's not that I'm a purist, I just have a feeling that 'the first cut is always deepest'.
What's the deal? Why does Hollywood have to take every worthwhile piece of art and ruin it?
Akira wasn't my first introduction to anime, but it was my first experience with anime of its calibre. The music, the story, the animation... it's art.
I wonder how hard it would be to have teams of programmers working in a sort of 'mercenary' game production...
It seems that many of the best games were originally created by a lone couple of guys in their parents' basements. Someone makes a great game with a good idea, and that idea gets copied by everyone else after the commercial succes of the first of its kind.
I think what we need is more of these rogue 'do it yourselfers' that a company could license distribution rights from... that way, the best ideas keep coming and everyone can get paid.
There would have to be some sort of clearing house for these guys that would also serve as a broker for companies looking for the Next Big Thing (tm).
I realize why the BSD license offends some people, but what I don't see is a way to prove that nothing in the samba code is derived from knowledge gained by reading M$ documents. The BSD just looks like nearly the only way to get it done barring penning an 'SPL' (Samba Public License). Just my thoughts - one day I'll have to use Samba and I'd like to be able to get code without having to break a law (UCITA in this case, I believe, could be wrong...) to do it.
So, what makes anyone think that the Samba team won't just re-license under the BSD license instead? It doesn't seem to me like it'd be all that different a change for the end-user, as long as the original tarball is available from the samba team directly to keep it clean of tampering by outside parties interested in breaking it. So, so what? If M$ wants free code, let 'em have it. If they break something, it can always be fixed.
Well, it's nice they're taking up a little slack, but have they fixed all that proprietary hardware crap they used to use? If they haven't, then maybe it's Linux that's improved.
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Core Win32 APIs should never have been implemented in a user-space app - or anything that requires a user-space app. The libraries comprising the basic components for an operable system should not ever have been provided by a browser.
It's like Corba. Corba doesn't come with the Linux kernel. However, it comes with the windowing system, just like COM or OLE should come with the windowing system.
OLE and the common controls library (comctl32.dll) come with the browser, too. This is like including gtk+ ONLY with grip, or Motif with only netscape. It's a retarded design decision.
This tizzy isn't about M$ including extra APIs with IE, it's about requiring the installation of a non-essential app in order to get essential system functionality. I hate IE, but I have to use OLE at work. Well, that means I have to use IE 4.0sp1 or higher... and if I didn't browse the net, that would be quite a bit of wasted HDD space.
How does a company get on the OGL ARB, and how can they be removed?
M$ has destroyed other standards before. I don't want to see them claim so much of OGL that I can no longer use it. They also have a platform-dependant competitor they are pushing, i.e. DirectX. So, I'll ask again - WHY were they allowed on the board in the first place, and HOW can they be removed?
Technical info is great but I'd like to see a sample implementation. That alternate frame rendering thing sounded great even when the rage fury maxx came out, but the XF86 drivers didn't do it. That's why I didn't buy the card. Why doesn't ATI just go ahead and release their Windows driver under the X license and let the XF86 people tweak it? They might get something that works just as well on both windows and X, and maybe better than they had originally released.
I've had a dual celeron 433 for two years now. It sucks when doing software OGL. However, I *can* run a decent GPU and both of these processors in a sufficiently multi-threaded app and get performance that blows away all sorts of new-fangled 60ghz machines. The big issue isn't how much faster it can do what it does, but that it can do it twice in nearly the same time.
I'll never go back to uniprocessors.
Oh come on - don't go to slashdot to extoll Windows' Greatness (tm). There are plenty of other places. This is New for Nerds... nerds don't use M$ products, and they will tell you good reasons why. But that's not what I wanted to post. I posted intelligently elsewhere!
Why didn't they just re-release the old PC version with a *complete* and *updatable* card catalog this time instead of jacking around and removing some of the best cards in the game (moat comes to mind), with a dedicated server version for running internet & LAN games? Shit, I *hate* windows but I'd let go of a partition for that in a second. This Online thing is too damned expensive to even consider - the cash alone is why I'm not a player of the RL game anymore.
That tourney idea you've got - it's a good one. I'd play, and I left a post earlier about never wanting to ever go back to the days of Black Tar *ahem* Lotus.
If I had any mod points, I'd give a little up just because of this idea.
Amen, Brother!!!
I didn't throw out a single card: I sold them all. If I'd kept them, I'd be pretty well off now. That's what Weissman called it - Magic:The Addiction. And I still can't play that damn blue/white well enough.
Now, I've still got some Tempest and Weatherlight cards, but it's just like methadone: always tempting, but I know that I can never go back to Black Tar *cough* Lotus.
Someone, somewhere, please wake me up when this evolves into a replicator that can make food. This will at least keep my grocery bill down.
Here's my real question: should this advance to the point where transporting a person is possible, who would want it? If you think about it, you are destroyed, transported, and recreated - while this all sound like great fun, why would I want to destroy myself? The person made on the other end may have all my memories, but they're not *me*, because *I* was destroyed to make the other person. They'll think they're me, but what good is that if I'm not there? I'll never live through it, so it's not *me* who's going to the impossibly far away place, so I guess it's kinda pointless, isn't it...
I've been a Star Wars fan since '77. I've seen every single one first-run. I've seen the trilogy a good 100 times, and can recite most of the dialog from memory. Episode 2 was a huge jump in quality over 1. Simply put. The acting was nowhere near as bad as Taco said (don't ask for a link - do you own research), and the movie opened up much earlier than he said as well.
In case you've forgotten, not every geek can speak for every geek. I loved 2, especially compared to 1, and I think it makes a worthy successor (or predecessor) to episodes 4-6.
That said, even with the bad dialog, over-reliance on FX, and bad acting, it's the *world* and the *story* that people love, even the geeks.
We also don't really elect our governors. The vast bulk of us don't like those who do. At least my friends, anyway.
No sex manual was ever written by a Muslim.
Agghg. The US doesn't need that damned oil. We can get plenty of energy between & including the two oceans we border, it's just that we happen to have disproportionally large number of disproportionally greedy people. That's all, and until that changes, we'll never be cooler than anybody else.
For reference, see the US oil companies and our large reserves under Texas. Next, look up all of the alternative energy sources available. Then, if you tell me we still need that oil, I'll smack you with a fish.
... it looks like the developers of all the Wine and Wine copies are duking it out with licenses rather than M$ style:
/.'s front page makes it sound.
'I'll take your invention, E&E it, then I'll beat you over the head with it'
'You do that and I'll sue!'
'Then I'll settle, but I'll keep beating you over the head with it.'
It's really not like this in the Wine world, but that's how
So... why is it that no one on sourceforge EVER lists the valid module names for CVS checkout???? All I could get here is modulename 'wine', which, as I'm sure everyone here knoes, is not 'WineX'.
Please, if you have a sourceforge project with CVS access, please list the valid modules available for checkout.
Ok, so what happens when you *want* to reboot? Like, say, for installing certain Free OSs? Would it then be a case of 'you bought it, you live with it hahaha'?
I like either Linux or FreeBSD, and I don't see a reason to change... how much ya wanna bet devices with this will have CE on them?
Sorry. Every once in a while I forget to browse at +1 and I end up slumming a little.
There are few anime movies with the same kind of power - a few have already been mentioned in some replies, but I'd personally recommend 'Grave of the Fireflies'. Serious, powerful - it's kind of leaves you with the same feel as Bjork's 'Dancer in the Dark', if you can sit through that one more than once.
It doesn't have the same animation, but the story is absolutely beautiful, which, to me, makes up for it.
Personally, I also liked Vampire Princess Miyu (all 4 episodes that I have - there are more under a different name but mine are subtitled), Mononoke Hime (The Princess Mononoke), and, of course, the original Macross stuff even though I don't lump it or Miyu in the same ballpark as Akira.
I do have to say that if an Americanized version of Akira comes out I won't see it. It's not that I'm a purist, I just have a feeling that 'the first cut is always deepest'.
What's the deal? Why does Hollywood have to take every worthwhile piece of art and ruin it?
Akira wasn't my first introduction to anime, but it was my first experience with anime of its calibre. The music, the story, the animation... it's art.
Anonymous Coward, huh? You've never even seen it. That much is evident from your comments about big eyes and a loose plot.
Akira *was* a hit in the US, because of its subject matter, the quality of the animation and the dialogue. DragonballZ/Pokemon this is *not*.
I wonder how hard it would be to have teams of programmers working in a sort of 'mercenary' game production...
It seems that many of the best games were originally created by a lone couple of guys in their parents' basements. Someone makes a great game with a good idea, and that idea gets copied by everyone else after the commercial succes of the first of its kind.
I think what we need is more of these rogue 'do it yourselfers' that a company could license distribution rights from... that way, the best ideas keep coming and everyone can get paid.
There would have to be some sort of clearing house for these guys that would also serve as a broker for companies looking for the Next Big Thing (tm).
I dunno, jes a thought.
I realize why the BSD license offends some people, but what I don't see is a way to prove that nothing in the samba code is derived from knowledge gained by reading M$ documents. The BSD just looks like nearly the only way to get it done barring penning an 'SPL' (Samba Public License). Just my thoughts - one day I'll have to use Samba and I'd like to be able to get code without having to break a law (UCITA in this case, I believe, could be wrong...) to do it.
So, what makes anyone think that the Samba team won't just re-license under the BSD license instead? It doesn't seem to me like it'd be all that different a change for the end-user, as long as the original tarball is available from the samba team directly to keep it clean of tampering by outside parties interested in breaking it. So, so what? If M$ wants free code, let 'em have it. If they break something, it can always be fixed.
Jeez.. what's with the trolls on this??
So, the point of the whole article is that they're petitioning for cash to get the cert, right?
Well, it's nice they're taking up a little slack, but have they fixed all that proprietary hardware crap they used to use? If they haven't, then maybe it's Linux that's improved.
If they disclaim the privacy policy, why do they bother having one at all?