Product: Oracle database
User: SYSTEM
Password: MANAGER
Yes - however the default install for Oracle doesn't enable remote-access. As you specifically have to enable remote-access afterwards, you would probably change the password as well. (It even tells you with the SYS password...)
No - the Interplay-XBox deal really only means that Interplay can't create an on-line Matrix related game.
However, I don't see any reason why another games company couldn't negotiate a deal with Warner Bros. directly, and make a game that way? Or does Interplay have worldwide exclusive rights to the Matrix game?
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Andrew
I do remember that ext2 was not the only fs that Linux uses (hence the '2' bit:-) ) -- in fact I'm very glad that it supports multiple fs's (the sooner it supports writing to W2K NTFS, the better...(I forgot to make a communal vfat storage area last time I did a re-install)...
What I was concerned over was that by fragmenting the filesystem development, there is some obvious duplication of work involved (although much less given the common licence among them).
However, from reading the other posts here I see that in this case, perhaps continuing development on the other filesystems might be a good plan.
While ordinarily, I think that the freedom-of-choice with Open Source Software is a good idea, in cases so close to the "core" OS (e.g. filesystems or GUI's) it might be better to have a "standard" one.
We've lived for so long with primarily ext2 - but now we have the choice of XFS, reiserfs, and ext3...which could result in confusion.
We are already seeing this happen with the Gnome/KDE flame-wars - lets hope it doesn't happen with filesystems. Hopefully there'll be a merge of the different filesystems to take the best from each (at least this time they are all issued under the same licence!)
The reason why you need a licence agreement in order to make games for consoles is that this is how the manufacturers make their money. The consoles themselves are sold at a loss, and the manufacturer (e.g. Sony, Microsoft, etc.) recoups this loss through licence fees. That's one of the reasons why console games are more expensive than PC games (or at least they are here - IEP 54.99 for a new PS2 game, vs. ~IEP 40 for a new PC game...
If you tried to release a game for a console without a licence, chances are an army of lawyers would be at your throat in no time at all.
No it isn't. Rambus were trying to apply their patent to SDRAM and DDR RAM. This article shows that the patent is effectively invalid against these technologies.
Rambus were a little irritated that their technology wasn't being used (cos it sucked but that's not the point), so they decided hmm, let's try and hit everyone who makes memory. So hopefully this case will show that SDRAM and DDR RAM manufacturers don't need to pay royalties to Rambus (which is almost exclusively their form of income these days unless people decide to go and buy the P4...)
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Andrew
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User: SYSTEM
Password: MANAGER
Yes - however the default install for Oracle doesn't enable remote-access. As you specifically have to enable remote-access afterwards, you would probably change the password as well. (It even tells you with the SYS password...)
Andrew
No - the Interplay-XBox deal really only means that Interplay can't create an on-line Matrix related game.
However, I don't see any reason why another games company couldn't negotiate a deal with Warner Bros. directly, and make a game that way? Or does Interplay have worldwide exclusive rights to the Matrix game?
--
Andrew
I do remember that ext2 was not the only fs that Linux uses (hence the '2' bit :-) ) -- in fact I'm very glad that it supports multiple fs's (the sooner it supports writing to W2K NTFS, the better...(I forgot to make a communal vfat storage area last time I did a re-install)...
What I was concerned over was that by fragmenting the filesystem development, there is some obvious duplication of work involved (although much less given the common licence among them).
However, from reading the other posts here I see that in this case, perhaps continuing development on the other filesystems might be a good plan.
--
Andrew
While ordinarily, I think that the freedom-of-choice with Open Source Software is a good idea, in cases so close to the "core" OS (e.g. filesystems or GUI's) it might be better to have a "standard" one.
We've lived for so long with primarily ext2 - but now we have the choice of XFS, reiserfs, and ext3...which could result in confusion.
We are already seeing this happen with the Gnome/KDE flame-wars - lets hope it doesn't happen with filesystems. Hopefully there'll be a merge of the different filesystems to take the best from each (at least this time they are all issued under the same licence!)
--
Andrew
The reason why you need a licence agreement in order to make games for consoles is that this is how the manufacturers make their money. The consoles themselves are sold at a loss, and the manufacturer (e.g. Sony, Microsoft, etc.) recoups this loss through licence fees. That's one of the reasons why console games are more expensive than PC games (or at least they are here - IEP 54.99 for a new PS2 game, vs. ~IEP 40 for a new PC game... If you tried to release a game for a console without a licence, chances are an army of lawyers would be at your throat in no time at all.
No it isn't. Rambus were trying to apply their patent to SDRAM and DDR RAM. This article shows that the patent is effectively invalid against these technologies.
Rambus were a little irritated that their technology wasn't being used (cos it sucked but that's not the point), so they decided hmm, let's try and hit everyone who makes memory. So hopefully this case will show that SDRAM and DDR RAM manufacturers don't need to pay royalties to Rambus (which is almost exclusively their form of income these days unless people decide to go and buy the P4...)
--
Andrew