That's not immoral, that's unpatriotic. A very different thing. . . Assuming for a moment that all men are created equal with the same inalienable rights
More talk like that, and you'll have bought yourself a one-way ticket to Guantanamo Bay.
"Arte"... They like doing documentaries, seek out truth and present things as they are.
This is the same station that did the documentary about how Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landings for the Americans... screened here on April 1 a couple of years back, and from that link looks like they'll be playing it again very soon.:)
S, UT2003, UT2004, BF1942 and BF:Vietnam are all full of abusive, team killing, selfish morons who don't know how the play the game and appear to have a collective IQ lower than a squirrel's.
... and this is different from Slashdot how, exactly?:)
Yes, supporting revolution against dictatorships is good, while it is not good against non-dictatorships. Do you really not understand that?
The name-calling was regarding the use of the word 'communism' -- it didn't address the post you were replying to at all, just slagged off the Nicaraguan people.
There are legal and illegal ways of combatting dictatorships. Governments are supposed to use legal ways (sanctions or wars, for example) while terrorists use illegal ways (funding local opponents to sponsor uprisings).
Besides, 'dictatorship' is a slippery concept. Allende (in Chile) and the Sandanistas in Nicaragua both won much more credible elections than, say, Suharto, Marcos, or even Pinochet ever did. It seems that one of the preconditions for the American government to consider a leader a dictator is a left-wing leaning...
Indonesia is pretty close to slipping back into an Army-run dictatorship, though, China's still in that state, and India... India could be great if their economy keeps going well and things remain stable enough that the paranoid nutcases don't keep getting into Government. Could be scary if it gets messy, though.
Nicaragua was a communist puppet state. Nicaragua's "head of state" was a brutal communist dictator. And contrary to little slashdot kiddie beliefs, communism is not just an epithet.
No, communism is an economic system, quite distinct from those who have misused the term since its definition.
I don't understand how your name-calling was meant to invalidate the post you were replying to? I thought funding and supporting revolutionary soldiers in other countries would be considered supporting terrorism, but apparently it was alright for Reagan and his buddies, even though they had to break international and American law to be able to do it, and then perjure themselves afterwards to cover it up.
Latham's too much like Jeff Kennett for me to vote for him. Besides, he hasn't learnt from Beazley -- he won't win enough votes to get him over the lone by emulating Howard's policies, people would rather vote for the real thing.
I'll be voting for the only opposition voice we have left in this country; it's a shame that they (the Greens) are all a pack of ratbag lefties.
there could be more specific context that I'm not aware of
Given that the product they worked on after DirectX was Chrome, which was essentially Direct3D Mk II for browsers in the form of a plugin with a lot of pre-generated effects, this does sound like the same guy. (Actually, checking the book now, WildTangent is mentioned as a startup in the last 20 pages or so.)
Use of spyware generally indicates a bad business model; if you're exploiting your customers like that, you'd better have a pretty compelling reason to keep their loyalty, and it seems like WildTangent don't really have anything to act as a counterpoint to their bad behaviour.
Not that this was really my point; maybe he could have taken some of the blame for the DirectX situation, instead of casting aspersions on his former minions, that's all.:)
DirectX drivers, which we depend on, are frequently broken or unstable. Support problems associated with DirectX drivers are typically 3-7% for most video game developers. . . In order to make it practical to enable web developers to author leading edge multimedia content and deliver it online WildTangent must try to cope with the support problems associated with DirectX.
Guess who was one of the three people who designed and managed the first few versions of DirectX (which were even buggier than the current one)? Alex St. John, according to Renegades of the Empire.
If this is what really goes on, I'd gain a whole lot of respect for them. After all, the baby-soap isn't all that bad compared to what they've done to competition.
Yeah, but the soap doesn't actually get you clean. Pity Microsoft: even when they're being evil, they still can't make a good product.
Possibly for Mac OS X, due to the (relative) binary homogeneity of the installed user base (all PPC, a number of guaranteed librarues & services installed and running, etc.). However, "Linux" is a very broad term, and it's a lot easier for people to run differently configured distributions, etc., making life harder for the virus writers.
What's worse, is that (if the linked forum posts are to believed) the RTl8181 driver is not actually a kernel module. It is linked directly into the kernel, and relies on some modified core kernel files (mm.o kernel.o mm.o fpu_emulator.o).
The source for the modified files, and the driver itself, have not been released. This looks like a violation of the GPL to me, as these files are linked directly into the kernel.
I'm not sure what the actual circumstances are, but I think the separate binary driver does not violate the GPL *if it is compiled into the kernel by the end user*. Distributing the resulting kernel binary without source to the driver (and, of course, the rest of the kernel:) is a violation, however.
Including binary-only drivers in products is a bad idea, of course, as Minitar and Realtek are surely finding out.
You haven't been keeping up with here astrology has been going the last twenty-fove years. I know astrologers who use twenty planets, most of which are imaginary.
As far as I am concerned, astrology using twenty planets is no less scientific than astrology using nine (or ten) planets.
Of course, it's no *more* scientific either.
Zero equals zero, after all (except to astrologers, I guess).
non-dangerous NTFS support (including writing, which is huge when migrating from Windows)
All the info I could find indicates that you can only overwrite existing files, and only then with files the same length -- any other writes would mess up the filesystem.
But Carmack's games haven't advanced much beyond Doom and Quake. Good fun, yes, but he isn't delivering the must-have, genre-breaking titles like Half-Life and that makes OGL a tougher sell.
Gameplay/level design and 3D engine technology aren't that closely linked. In fact, I played Half-Life in OpenGL as the DirectX version seemed to trigger a bug in NVidia's drivers... and it didn't seem any different, apart from not crashing around 20 minutes into gameplay.
Isn't the natural response, then, a Star Wars graphic adventure? This would seem to be right up their ally, and they would have a host of charaters and situations to put them in. Possibility?
Isn't Indy 4 supposed to be shooting soon as well? Maybe they could do an official graphic adventure to go along with it?
Now, when was the last time Latin grammar changed? About 1900 years ago?
I'm pretty sure the Vatican updates its official dictionary each year, adding in the words for things like "microwave oven" and "Viagra". Grammatical structure... well, Medieval Latin was quite different to the Latin of 2000 years ago, and I think the vulgar (spoken) variety would have been changing pretty quickly during the first 500 years or so AD, given the number of conquests, conversions, invasions by barbarians, etc.
(I understand and agree with your point, but of course I'm being pedantic... something you're probably used to seeing with scholars of dead languages:)
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That's not immoral, that's unpatriotic. A very different thing. . . Assuming for a moment that all men are created equal with the same inalienable rights
More talk like that, and you'll have bought yourself a one-way ticket to Guantanamo Bay.
His game flopped, his company collapsed and word-of-mouth has made him an industry pariah. Hurrah!
Ah, so it is Daikatana!
"Arte" ... They like doing documentaries, seek out truth and present things as they are.
:)
This is the same station that did the documentary about how Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landings for the Americans... screened here on April 1 a couple of years back, and from that link looks like they'll be playing it again very soon.
S, UT2003, UT2004, BF1942 and BF:Vietnam are all full of abusive, team killing, selfish morons who don't know how the play the game and appear to have a collective IQ lower than a squirrel's.
... and this is different from Slashdot how, exactly? :)
Yes, supporting revolution against dictatorships is good, while it is not good against non-dictatorships. Do you really not understand that?
The name-calling was regarding the use of the word 'communism' -- it didn't address the post you were replying to at all, just slagged off the Nicaraguan people.
There are legal and illegal ways of combatting dictatorships. Governments are supposed to use legal ways (sanctions or wars, for example) while terrorists use illegal ways (funding local opponents to sponsor uprisings).
Besides, 'dictatorship' is a slippery concept. Allende (in Chile) and the Sandanistas in Nicaragua both won much more credible elections than, say, Suharto, Marcos, or even Pinochet ever did. It seems that one of the preconditions for the American government to consider a leader a dictator is a left-wing leaning...
Indonesia is pretty close to slipping back into an Army-run dictatorship, though, China's still in that state, and India... India could be great if their economy keeps going well and things remain stable enough that the paranoid nutcases don't keep getting into Government. Could be scary if it gets messy, though.
As an Australian, I didn't vote for (or against) George W. Bush, but his government seems to think its laws apply to our citizens.
Nicaragua was a communist puppet state. Nicaragua's "head of state" was a brutal communist dictator. And contrary to little slashdot kiddie beliefs, communism is not just an epithet.
No, communism is an economic system, quite distinct from those who have misused the term since its definition.
I don't understand how your name-calling was meant to invalidate the post you were replying to? I thought funding and supporting revolutionary soldiers in other countries would be considered supporting terrorism, but apparently it was alright for Reagan and his buddies, even though they had to break international and American law to be able to do it, and then perjure themselves afterwards to cover it up.
Latham's too much like Jeff Kennett for me to vote for him. Besides, he hasn't learnt from Beazley -- he won't win enough votes to get him over the lone by emulating Howard's policies, people would rather vote for the real thing.
I'll be voting for the only opposition voice we have left in this country; it's a shame that they (the Greens) are all a pack of ratbag lefties.
Has yet to establish itself anywhere? ... Did you know the next version of Windows is using .NET entirely, replacing Win32?
You get back to me when that gets released, son.
there could be more specific context that I'm not aware of
:)
Given that the product they worked on after DirectX was Chrome, which was essentially Direct3D Mk II for browsers in the form of a plugin with a lot of pre-generated effects, this does sound like the same guy. (Actually, checking the book now, WildTangent is mentioned as a startup in the last 20 pages or so.)
Use of spyware generally indicates a bad business model; if you're exploiting your customers like that, you'd better have a pretty compelling reason to keep their loyalty, and it seems like WildTangent don't really have anything to act as a counterpoint to their bad behaviour.
Not that this was really my point; maybe he could have taken some of the blame for the DirectX situation, instead of casting aspersions on his former minions, that's all.
DirectX drivers, which we depend on, are frequently broken or unstable. Support problems associated with DirectX drivers are typically 3-7% for most video game developers. . . In order to make it practical to enable web developers to author leading edge multimedia content and deliver it online WildTangent must try to cope with the support problems associated with DirectX.
Guess who was one of the three people who designed and managed the first few versions of DirectX (which were even buggier than the current one)? Alex St. John, according to Renegades of the Empire.
Biggus Dickus has the lisp; Pilate pronounces his Rs as Ws ("Welease Wodewick!"); Naughtius Maximus is (supposedly) the name of Brian's father.
Starting a sentence with 'and'? :)
If this is what really goes on, I'd gain a whole lot of respect for them. After all, the baby-soap isn't all that bad compared to what they've done to competition.
Yeah, but the soap doesn't actually get you clean. Pity Microsoft: even when they're being evil, they still can't make a good product.
Doctors have a pretty strong union too.
Possibly for Mac OS X, due to the (relative) binary homogeneity of the installed user base (all PPC, a number of guaranteed librarues & services installed and running, etc.). However, "Linux" is a very broad term, and it's a lot easier for people to run differently configured distributions, etc., making life harder for the virus writers.
Mozillla?
Wouldn't that be the Super Cup? :)
What's worse, is that (if the linked forum posts are to believed) the RTl8181 driver is not actually a kernel module. It is linked directly into the kernel, and relies on some modified core kernel files (mm.o kernel.o mm.o fpu_emulator.o).
:) is a violation, however.
The source for the modified files, and the driver itself, have not been released. This looks like a violation of the GPL to me, as these files are linked directly into the kernel.
I'm not sure what the actual circumstances are, but I think the separate binary driver does not violate the GPL *if it is compiled into the kernel by the end user*. Distributing the resulting kernel binary without source to the driver (and, of course, the rest of the kernel
Including binary-only drivers in products is a bad idea, of course, as Minitar and Realtek are surely finding out.
You haven't been keeping up with here astrology has been going the last twenty-fove years. I know astrologers who use twenty planets, most of which are imaginary.
As far as I am concerned, astrology using twenty planets is no less scientific than astrology using nine (or ten) planets.
Of course, it's no *more* scientific either.
Zero equals zero, after all (except to astrologers, I guess).
non-dangerous NTFS support (including writing, which is huge when migrating from Windows)
All the info I could find indicates that you can only overwrite existing files, and only then with files the same length -- any other writes would mess up the filesystem.
Have you tested this?
But Carmack's games haven't advanced much beyond Doom and Quake. Good fun, yes, but he isn't delivering the must-have, genre-breaking titles like Half-Life and that makes OGL a tougher sell.
Gameplay/level design and 3D engine technology aren't that closely linked. In fact, I played Half-Life in OpenGL as the DirectX version seemed to trigger a bug in NVidia's drivers... and it didn't seem any different, apart from not crashing around 20 minutes into gameplay.
Isn't the natural response, then, a Star Wars graphic adventure? This would seem to be right up their ally, and they would have a host of charaters and situations to put them in. Possibility?
Isn't Indy 4 supposed to be shooting soon as well? Maybe they could do an official graphic adventure to go along with it?
Now, when was the last time Latin grammar changed? About 1900 years ago?
:)
I'm pretty sure the Vatican updates its official dictionary each year, adding in the words for things like "microwave oven" and "Viagra". Grammatical structure... well, Medieval Latin was quite different to the Latin of 2000 years ago, and I think the vulgar (spoken) variety would have been changing pretty quickly during the first 500 years or so AD, given the number of conquests, conversions, invasions by barbarians, etc.
(I understand and agree with your point, but of course I'm being pedantic... something you're probably used to seeing with scholars of dead languages