"... Expired Trademark" + "...now is enforcing copyright law as well" + "The patent for Rubik's cube..." = WHAT THE FUCK
This is the most illinformed shit I've seen on Slashdot in a while. A Slashdot while that is, which is not very long. Sometimes people make a little mistake and think say for instance a trademark is covered under the same laws as copyright. Pisses me off, but it's never the end of the world. But this? The End of the World.
It actually is fast enough to feed data hungry processors in a back and forth, parrallel, computation, allowing some of the advantages of clustering to be had over great distances (the disadvantages are still there, there is still huge latency in compared to say the two processors communicating in an SMP system, but its insanely better than what we have available via the standard internet).
The point of the lambda rail system is not necessarily the bandwidth. Its that there is no "routing" involved on the base network in the traditional sense. High bandwidth combined with low latency is the goal.
"Isn't it time for a truely revolutionary game?" It was called Ultima Online. Granted, after EQ came out Ultima Online was slowly turned into a shitty 2D EQ but believe me, for its first couple of years, it truly was a revolutionary game.
The threat is completely meritless indeed. Its illegal to post nazi propaganda in Germany yet as an American citizen I can post it with no worries from Germany.
"Anyone know of a comparison between GNUstep, WindowMaker, and AfterStep?" You asked for a comparison he gave you one: GNUStep and WindowMaker are totally different things.
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Its even easier to just physically steal one from the store. And its the same thing.
An upgrade? It includes the broadband connections, yet it isn't compatible with the harddrive. The number 1 online game in japan for PS2? Final Fantasy XI, which incidentally requires the harddrive. So, "to be fair", what the fuck was Sony thinking?
"According to their statement, all of the albums released by their label outside of.us and.uk (IIRC) have the copy protection on it. I'm not saying that the copy protection was a good thing, but it's not as if the group sat down and decided to use it, it was forced on them."
That last little bit "it was forced on them." They had to willingly sign the contract which allowed it to be "forced" on them. If the actual contract was "forced" on them by threat of violence it's considered void anyway. I think what you may have meant to say is that it slipped past their defenses and made it into their contract and now they are bound by it. But it was not "forced on them."
Being vastly overplayed? Is this a joke? In 1994 your average new system had 8MB of ram. Today we are nearing the point where the average system has 1gig of ram. This is ten years later, and we are at a 128x increase in the average amount of ram on a new system. Now apparently you think that we'll just progressively get slower and slower and not hit the 4GB requirement any time soon? Games like Doom 3 are already putting 1GB to good use, whereas Doom 2 (also back ~1994) used that 4 to 8MB. You think that everything will just stop advancing and we will all be content with already aren't content with this.
64 bit long registers is gonna really help in the not so distant future though when the 4gig memory limit starts seriously coming in to play on desktop machines (it has already come into play on server machines..).
"Bowing to politicial views of a country is not evil." Putting aside questions as to whether the civil war was indeed about slavery, I think the people who fought for the north might disagree with you.
World of Warcraft is not revolutionary but I have to ask: whats so revolutionary about EQ2? The fact is UO came out 7 years ago and no game has even come close to it since. None of them have been revolutionary when you look back at what UO did. Now, you are probably going to point to how awful UO is today and I agree, OSI took the game to shit almost right when everquest came out. They marginalized it and took away the freedoms which made UO so revolutionary.
Now if Kerry would admit to his awful grammar mistake in the first sentence out of his mouth: "We are a can-do country, I am filled with optimism and hope by our nation's young people." Comma instead of a semi-colon.. tisk tisk.
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"... Expired Trademark" + "...now is enforcing copyright law as well" + "The patent for Rubik's cube..." = WHAT THE FUCK
This is the most illinformed shit I've seen on Slashdot in a while. A Slashdot while that is, which is not very long. Sometimes people make a little mistake and think say for instance a trademark is covered under the same laws as copyright. Pisses me off, but it's never the end of the world. But this? The End of the World .
It actually is fast enough to feed data hungry processors in a back and forth, parrallel, computation, allowing some of the advantages of clustering to be had over great distances (the disadvantages are still there, there is still huge latency in compared to say the two processors communicating in an SMP system, but its insanely better than what we have available via the standard internet).
At my bar in Texas Bush is the predicted winner.
The point of the lambda rail system is not necessarily the bandwidth. Its that there is no "routing" involved on the base network in the traditional sense. High bandwidth combined with low latency is the goal.
"All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president."
I hate bush too but are you seriously expecting empathy when you haven't found a job IN FOUR YEARS? Jesus Christ.
"Isn't it time for a truely revolutionary game?" It was called Ultima Online. Granted, after EQ came out Ultima Online was slowly turned into a shitty 2D EQ but believe me, for its first couple of years, it truly was a revolutionary game.
The threat is completely meritless indeed. Its illegal to post nazi propaganda in Germany yet as an American citizen I can post it with no worries from Germany.
$49.95 for 15MB/2MB, and $199.95 for 30MB/5MB
Why pay 4x as much for around 2x as much bandwidth? Shouldn't buying in bulk actually give you a lower price?
Kerry's record in this regard is awful. But so is Bush's. So, I guess that leaves us with Badnarik who has all rhetoric and no record.
"Anyone know of a comparison between GNUstep, WindowMaker, and AfterStep?" You asked for a comparison he gave you one: GNUStep and WindowMaker are totally different things.
Its even easier to just physically steal one from the store. And its the same thing.
An upgrade? It includes the broadband connections, yet it isn't compatible with the harddrive. The number 1 online game in japan for PS2? Final Fantasy XI, which incidentally requires the harddrive. So, "to be fair", what the fuck was Sony thinking?
"According to their statement, all of the albums released by their label outside of .us and .uk (IIRC) have the copy protection on it. I'm not saying that the copy protection was a good thing, but it's not as if the group sat down and decided to use it, it was forced on them."
That last little bit "it was forced on them." They had to willingly sign the contract which allowed it to be "forced" on them. If the actual contract was "forced" on them by threat of violence it's considered void anyway. I think what you may have meant to say is that it slipped past their defenses and made it into their contract and now they are bound by it. But it was not "forced on them."
A new release of Window Maker is not exactly linux news. Window Maker can run on pretty much any platform which runs X.
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Being vastly overplayed? Is this a joke? In 1994 your average new system had 8MB of ram. Today we are nearing the point where the average system has 1gig of ram. This is ten years later, and we are at a 128x increase in the average amount of ram on a new system. Now apparently you think that we'll just progressively get slower and slower and not hit the 4GB requirement any time soon? Games like Doom 3 are already putting 1GB to good use, whereas Doom 2 (also back ~1994) used that 4 to 8MB. You think that everything will just stop advancing and we will all be content with already aren't content with this.
I love how you throw in Billy Graham with Falwell and the Bakers. Why didn't your list just have one item, "Christians."
64 bit long registers is gonna really help in the not so distant future though when the 4gig memory limit starts seriously coming in to play on desktop machines (it has already come into play on server machines..).
They were COMPLETELY aware of your point. That's why, if you even bothered to read the SUMMARY you would have seen their 90% figure. RTFS.
Incorrect. My statistics professor is about 26 years old and from mainland china. He pronouces all 'L's as 'R's.
"Bowing to politicial views of a country is not evil." Putting aside questions as to whether the civil war was indeed about slavery, I think the people who fought for the north might disagree with you.
World of Warcraft is not revolutionary but I have to ask: whats so revolutionary about EQ2? The fact is UO came out 7 years ago and no game has even come close to it since. None of them have been revolutionary when you look back at what UO did. Now, you are probably going to point to how awful UO is today and I agree, OSI took the game to shit almost right when everquest came out. They marginalized it and took away the freedoms which made UO so revolutionary.
So that people like you don't catch on to them.
Most people don't keep their cellphone in their ass pocket. I was talking about a front pocket.
Now if Kerry would admit to his awful grammar mistake in the first sentence out of his mouth: "We are a can-do country, I am filled with optimism and hope by our nation's young people." Comma instead of a semi-colon.. tisk tisk.