If you read the article, you'd have noticed the linking page, Everything a developer needs to know, which explains IE8's CSS2.1 compliance (with provisional CSS3 compliance), among other developer-related information. It's hard to be indignant and informed, I know.
yes, emacs is the ultimate tool with directory browsing, spell checking, development tools, plus tens of millions of modules to do whatever else. i concur. but i still use nano for quick and dirty task, it's my equivalent to the windows notepad
Yes, but can emacs tell you what it's like to kiss a girl?
You can do this now, with a PlayStation. Final Fantasy Origins (http://na.square-enix.com/games/FFORIGINS/) contains both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II (never released in North America).
eBay is pretty much a fad. The name is not compelling enough to be stuck with the service.
A fad? eBay, Inc. was incorporated in 1995. Google, Inc. was incorporated in 1998. It's been around much longer than Google, and survived the dotcom bubble. It's not a fad.
And you've never used, or heard anyone say "I'm going to eBay that piece of junk?" I hear it all the time, about as much as someone saying they googled something. That kind of branding is a company's wet-dream.
Whoopse, I hit submit before I realized it. V IIV is technically 53, even though three is usually expressed as III in Roman Numerals.
Actually, you were right the first time Roman numerals, traditionally, were not directionally dependent. That is why on clocks, you see IIII instead of IV: IV is 6 in Roman.
Some jackass decided to ruin that simplicity recently (last couple hundred years, maybe?), and thus IV is 4.
The one that grants authors exclusive rights to their works for limited times, i.e. the bargain by which they were granted copyright. The works must eventually fall to the public domain.
I agree. Too bad this will be 75 years after George Lucas' death. And I heard he's working on perfecting the Darth Vader process for himself. I don't think we'll see anything Lucas in public domain for a very, very long time.
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If Person-A tells Company-B to do something which may or may not be legal to Company-C...
And Company-B goes ahead and does it.
Isn't Company-B the liable party here?
Well yes, but so are you. It's called defamation of character. There can be an argument made that you willfully and knowingly sought to deceive others on the legality or ethical nature of Company C's actions by telling the ISP (Company B) that Company C was spamming you.
Defamation of character is one of those things that is just meant to be spiteful towards Person A. While Company C will probably lose, it's definitely enough to keep the case from getting thrown right out.
For years and years everyone KNEW they had a right to videotape whatever they pleased for their own personal collections. Many fans of shows videotaped every episode, and kept a complete personal archive. In what way is it different to do this with a Tivo and DVD than it is with a videotape? Hell, leave out the middleman - there are plenty of DVD recorder decks now available for consumers, and they work more or less like VCRs.
The difference, according to the studios, is that you can make a one-for-one copy of the original. With VHS recording, you got a copy that was a poor replication of the original, and would inevitably degrade. With Tivo to DVD recording, this degradation does not occur.
Well, the RIAA and the MPAA are American entities whose concerns are American interests. A court order forbidding them from making any further sales in Britain wouldn't do much; I'm not sure a court order forbidding sales of any member entities (the artists and labels who associate themselves with the RIAA and MPAA) would fly in any western civilization, either.
The best the court could do would be to bar the English-equivalents of the RIAA and MPAA from conducting business, but those entities are not the ones who are conducting this.
In conclusion, the only way this will be solved in terms of legal precident is in American Federal courts.
This covers I & II, and 7 onwards are on the PS/PS2. How about 3-6? I see that Amazon once had 3 & 4 as downloadable.exe files, but they are now "out of stock."
There is the Final Fantasy Anthology for PSX, which includes Final Fantasy 5 and 6, as well as the Final Fantasy Chronicles for PSX, which includes Final Fantasy 4 and Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy 3 is only available as an NES rom.
It's free if you happen to be running 10.3. Unless you've bought a computer from them in the last year the price is $129 for the OS upgrade (which I purchased specifically for XCode).
You wasted $129. You can download XCode for free from ADC. Just need to register for an ADC Basic account, which is free as well.
If you look at the list, everyone who is a part of Internet2 is a part of Planet Lab. If you're in a major institution or university, you probably already have access to it.
What is it then? Because if it doesn't game, do graphics or do Motion, then a $299 walmart box can do nearly everything it can do. Plus it runs Linux.
You don't need a fast GPU to do desktop publishing or graphic design (using programs like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, or Quark XPress). In addition, the $299 walmart box [sic] doesn't run Mac OS X. (Sorry linux fanboy, not everyone wants to run linux)
Manufacturers are just weighing what's the penalty and the profit for bringing out a driver (binary or source), no driver or support somenone who writes a driver (binary or source).
Do you have any evidence that this is the case, or is this just pure speculation?
Now, if the use of binary drivers is discouraged, there will be more source drivers becoming available (but less drivers, some manufacturers are not willing to open their source).
This is wholly fallacious. There is nothing to suggest that by blocking binary-only development, more source will become available. This is a pipe-dream of the F/OSS utopia.
However in the long run (and linux marketshare will help) manufacturers have to support linux.
Again, fallacious; again, a pipe-dream of the F/OSS community.
The more other manufacturers have open source drivers, the less trouble they have doing the same.
Do you have any evidence that this is the case?
Nvidia has no advantage of opening their secrets (yes, their competitors will take advantage of this) and therefore they are not doing it (they lose perhaps a handfull of users). A perfect business decision in the light of most linux users using a binary driver. However if ATI IS providing (this is an example) the source, Nvidia has to look different to the situation, especially if, say 20% of the users uses ATI because of this and if ATI is also 'giving up' their secrets.
You ought to have stopped after the first sentence. There is no monetary advantage to opening source or revealing trade secrets: the software industry isn't high school. If Janie (i.e. ATI) is smoking the marijuana (opens the source to its drivers), it doesn't mean it's okay for Bobby (nVidia) to do the same; it just means Janie (ATI) is foolish.
As several people have said, the consumer cares about what "just works". They don't care about software ideals, as evidenced by Microsoft's 95% market share. The software industry is inherently capitalistic, and will follow the money. If the consumer wants something that just works, and the F/OSS community isn't going to give it to them, they are going to pay money for it. This is where you will find the software industry: not out trying to "play by the F/OSS rules".
Your freedoms are more important than my happiness.
So, just wait one moment while I exercise my right to kill your wife and kids... after all my freedom to do so is more important to you than your happiness...
Pet peeve here: while both are based on OpenStep and both use Objective-C, GNUStep and Cocoa are not identical. They use two different formats for Interface files, the frameworks have gone two different directions after over ten years of being forked, and GNUStep, in my humble opinion, is a much shoddier version of Cocoa (due to lack of proper development I gather)
I believe the idea was to give the sense to the audience that they have just been thrown into the middle of a really big story, like someone who has just started watching a soap opera (hence the colloquialism, "Space Opera", for Star Wars).
I don't think he's ever gone on record prior to the original trilogy making huge wads of cash saying that this is just the middle three of a series he planned to finish: it was more of a plot device in A New Hope to confuse the audience.
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If you read the article, you'd have noticed the linking page, Everything a developer needs to know, which explains IE8's CSS2.1 compliance (with provisional CSS3 compliance), among other developer-related information. It's hard to be indignant and informed, I know.
Yes, but can emacs tell you what it's like to kiss a girl?
No wireless. Less space than an iPod. Lame.
You can do this now, with a PlayStation. Final Fantasy Origins (http://na.square-enix.com/games/FFORIGINS/) contains both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II (never released in North America).
A fad? eBay, Inc. was incorporated in 1995. Google, Inc. was incorporated in 1998. It's been around much longer than Google, and survived the dotcom bubble. It's not a fad.
And you've never used, or heard anyone say "I'm going to eBay that piece of junk?" I hear it all the time, about as much as someone saying they googled something. That kind of branding is a company's wet-dream.
Actually, you were right the first time Roman numerals, traditionally, were not directionally dependent. That is why on clocks, you see IIII instead of IV: IV is 6 in Roman.
Some jackass decided to ruin that simplicity recently (last couple hundred years, maybe?), and thus IV is 4.
No. Federalist 10 was penned by James Madison, not Alexander Hamilton. Nice try, though.
I agree. Too bad this will be 75 years after George Lucas' death. And I heard he's working on perfecting the Darth Vader process for himself. I don't think we'll see anything Lucas in public domain for a very, very long time.
Well yes, but so are you. It's called defamation of character. There can be an argument made that you willfully and knowingly sought to deceive others on the legality or ethical nature of Company C's actions by telling the ISP (Company B) that Company C was spamming you.
Defamation of character is one of those things that is just meant to be spiteful towards Person A. While Company C will probably lose, it's definitely enough to keep the case from getting thrown right out.
The difference, according to the studios, is that you can make a one-for-one copy of the original. With VHS recording, you got a copy that was a poor replication of the original, and would inevitably degrade. With Tivo to DVD recording, this degradation does not occur.
Well, the RIAA and the MPAA are American entities whose concerns are American interests. A court order forbidding them from making any further sales in Britain wouldn't do much; I'm not sure a court order forbidding sales of any member entities (the artists and labels who associate themselves with the RIAA and MPAA) would fly in any western civilization, either. The best the court could do would be to bar the English-equivalents of the RIAA and MPAA from conducting business, but those entities are not the ones who are conducting this. In conclusion, the only way this will be solved in terms of legal precident is in American Federal courts.
Holy crap! There's a 100% probability of impact! Run for the hills!
There is the Final Fantasy Anthology for PSX, which includes Final Fantasy 5 and 6, as well as the Final Fantasy Chronicles for PSX, which includes Final Fantasy 4 and Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy 3 is only available as an NES rom.
Sorry.
You wasted $129. You can download XCode for free from ADC. Just need to register for an ADC Basic account, which is free as well.
At the university at which I work, we have a record board for number of spyware/malware found. The record, as of this morning, is 3441.
Undergrads suck at computers (and life).
Hi, I'm your friendly neighborhood grammar-nazi correcting jerk.
Effect is also a verb (scroll down towards the bottom). Where's your overly clichéd rules of thumb now?
If you look at the list, everyone who is a part of Internet2 is a part of Planet Lab. If you're in a major institution or university, you probably already have access to it.
You don't need a fast GPU to do desktop publishing or graphic design (using programs like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, or Quark XPress). In addition, the $299 walmart box [sic] doesn't run Mac OS X. (Sorry linux fanboy, not everyone wants to run linux)
Mac OS X, although disabled by default in the clients, uses Kerberos4 for authentication. Supposedly in OS X.4 it will be more prevalent.
Quartz Extreme good, Avalon baaaaah, er, I mean, bad.
That is so 1980s. They've been there, and done that. The Apple Is and Apple IIs were built in Wozniak's garage.
Do you have any evidence that this is the case, or is this just pure speculation?
This is wholly fallacious. There is nothing to suggest that by blocking binary-only development, more source will become available. This is a pipe-dream of the F/OSS utopia.
Again, fallacious; again, a pipe-dream of the F/OSS community.
Do you have any evidence that this is the case?
You ought to have stopped after the first sentence. There is no monetary advantage to opening source or revealing trade secrets: the software industry isn't high school. If Janie (i.e. ATI) is smoking the marijuana (opens the source to its drivers), it doesn't mean it's okay for Bobby (nVidia) to do the same; it just means Janie (ATI) is foolish.
As several people have said, the consumer cares about what "just works". They don't care about software ideals, as evidenced by Microsoft's 95% market share. The software industry is inherently capitalistic, and will follow the money. If the consumer wants something that just works, and the F/OSS community isn't going to give it to them, they are going to pay money for it. This is where you will find the software industry: not out trying to "play by the F/OSS rules".
So, just wait one moment while I exercise my right to kill your wife and kids... after all my freedom to do so is more important to you than your happiness...
Pet peeve here: while both are based on OpenStep and both use Objective-C, GNUStep and Cocoa are not identical. They use two different formats for Interface files, the frameworks have gone two different directions after over ten years of being forked, and GNUStep, in my humble opinion, is a much shoddier version of Cocoa (due to lack of proper development I gather)
I believe the idea was to give the sense to the audience that they have just been thrown into the middle of a really big story, like someone who has just started watching a soap opera (hence the colloquialism, "Space Opera", for Star Wars).
I don't think he's ever gone on record prior to the original trilogy making huge wads of cash saying that this is just the middle three of a series he planned to finish: it was more of a plot device in A New Hope to confuse the audience.