And can you imagine the dark clouds over the game companies' tech support when they read "Yeah I'm running under Win 98.. i mean.. well, Linux, really..."
I'm pretty sure that anyone who installs/plays games under wine will understand that the gaming companies are not going to support it. I don't know of anyone who's called Blizzard tech support becuase they couldn't get StarCraft to work under wine.
Actually, crappy, complicated installation is one of the reasons I don't buy so many PC games anymore. I just don't have time to futz with video drivers, patches, etc.
And you use Linux? LOL.
have you checked out the README for a Windows game lately?
No, I usually don't need to. I usually don't have any problems at all getting win32 games to run. On the other hand, I almost always have to read the README when installing software on Linux that requires more than a configure;make;make install (or rpm -Uvh).
Regardless, anyone here that would attempt to run win32 games under Linux using wine knows what they are getting into and understand how to install/configure the damn game.
Yes, so like I said, "MS doesn't use DivX" which was the original question.
While DivX is based off of MS Mpeg4 codec, that doesn't mean it's the same thing. I think it's pretty obvious just how different they are when you compare quality. --
You obviously didn't notice that it said "in excess of 21.5Mbs". Besides that, it wasn't made for performance in the first place (you obviously missed that as well). --
Except using warez isn't really a victimless crime. IMO they should take a different approach -- go after the users, but don't use criminal sanctions. Fine them instead. If you're not locking them up or imposing criminal records, you can fine everyone (but you can't lock everyone up). Fines also would be an effecive deterrent, since the users are only motivated by saving money (whereas criminals often have compulsive traits that render deterrents ineffective)
I'm not sure I said that either of them were victimless crimes. I don't believe either of them are victimless. What I do believe is that it's a pointless battle.
As far as going after the users, that's what they do with drugs and it doesn't make any difference. The problem is that it's too big and difficult to track. You could get teams of people monitoring this stuff and only get ~1% of the traffic.
Forbidding someone to create and share whatever software they choose is precisely like forbidding someone to write down their own thoughts on paper and share them.
NO, there IS a difference.
That code just didn't come out of nowhere - someone had to spend time writing it.
Err... Uhhh... So nobody has to write books, movies, tv episodes, and funny bumper stickers?
Hmm... I woulda never thunk it.
I understand your overall point but that's a pretty weak argument.
You're still missing the bigger point. Gnutella has the possibility to distribute warez, etc. but it also has the ability to distribute very useful stuff. It's like trying to ban FTP or HTTP.
Now I don't really believe that was it's main purpose for being. But unlike Napster, there's no proof to that claim. If you shutdown something like gnutella, you're setting an awful precedence. I seriously doubt they can touch gnutella. If they do, it's a sad, sad day.
I think of the "war on warez" the same way I view the "war on drugs". It's not going to go away no matter how much time, energy and money you put into it. Does that mean you should stop trying? I don't know... I guess it depends on how stubborn you are. --
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PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
8746 mikec 10 0 37436 36M 14244 R 0 45.0 28.6 1:47 mozilla-bin
Since there's no <pre> tags, I'll confirm. Yes, that's 45% CPU usage on a p3-700 and 28.6% mem usage (out of 128Meg).
Yes, you could use Opera but screw ad-ware. There is no IE for *nix, and NS4 sucks for CSS and DOM.
Mozilla has some serious problems.
It easts up too much CPU
It's a memory hog
It's buggy
It supports w3c's DOM but busts all NS4 javascript code. Whatever happened to supporting backwards compatibility?
If you really want to have fun, try changing the inner contents of a div tag with JS on a scrollable layer with mozilla. The first time the layer contents overflows, you can no longer write to the layer. Yes, there's been bugs submitted.
Napster founder Shawn Fanning, a former Northeastern University student, invented so-called peer-to-peer software, which allows users to find and copy MP3 files stored on other users' computer hard drives.
It looks like blizzard is trying to play it off like it was a bug. For all we know, it really could have been a bug. Does anyone have proof that this was caused because of a crack?
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A stack of more than 100,000 of the 30-nanometer transistors, which act as switches to control the flow of electricity in a chip, would equal the thickness of a sheet of paper
Ha... they (it.fairfax.com) took down the reference to 3 atoms size. It has been replaced with a much more precise estimate:
A stack of more than 100,000 of the 30-nanometer transistors, which act as switches to control the flow of electricity in a chip, would equal the thickness of a sheet of paper
30 nanometers refers to the width of the transistor gate. not the thickness/height.
From the article:
The No. 1 computer-chip maker plans release details in the US on Monday about the transistors, which are just 30 nanometers - three-millionths of a centimtere - thick.
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Why wasn't I ever informed about cygwin! Christ, this is possibly the best day of my life (that's not saying much).
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I'm pretty sure that anyone who installs/plays games under wine will understand that the gaming companies are not going to support it. I don't know of anyone who's called Blizzard tech support becuase they couldn't get StarCraft to work under wine.
Actually, crappy, complicated installation is one of the reasons I don't buy so many PC games anymore. I just don't have time to futz with video drivers, patches, etc.
And you use Linux? LOL.
have you checked out the README for a Windows game lately?
No, I usually don't need to. I usually don't have any problems at all getting win32 games to run. On the other hand, I almost always have to read the README when installing software on Linux that requires more than a configure;make;make install (or rpm -Uvh).
Regardless, anyone here that would attempt to run win32 games under Linux using wine knows what they are getting into and understand how to install/configure the damn game.
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While DivX is based off of MS Mpeg4 codec, that doesn't mean it's the same thing. I think it's pretty obvious just how different they are when you compare quality.
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Oops, I shoulda hit the damn preview button
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You obviously didn't notice that it said "in excess of 21.5Mbs". Besides that, it wasn't made for performance in the first place (you obviously missed that as well).
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I'm not sure I said that either of them were victimless crimes. I don't believe either of them are victimless. What I do believe is that it's a pointless battle.
As far as going after the users, that's what they do with drugs and it doesn't make any difference. The problem is that it's too big and difficult to track. You could get teams of people monitoring this stuff and only get ~1% of the traffic.
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Err... Uhhh... So nobody has to write books, movies, tv episodes, and funny bumper stickers?
Hmm... I woulda never thunk it.
I understand your overall point but that's a pretty weak argument.
You're still missing the bigger point. Gnutella has the possibility to distribute warez, etc. but it also has the ability to distribute very useful stuff. It's like trying to ban FTP or HTTP.
Now I don't really believe that was it's main purpose for being. But unlike Napster, there's no proof to that claim. If you shutdown something like gnutella, you're setting an awful precedence. I seriously doubt they can touch gnutella. If they do, it's a sad, sad day.
I think of the "war on warez" the same way I view the "war on drugs". It's not going to go away no matter how much time, energy and money you put into it. Does that mean you should stop trying? I don't know... I guess it depends on how stubborn you are.
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It's got support for multiple authors, and groups, etc. and I intend to whip comments for each entry soon as well (and put some actual design in the HTML).
It doesn't really have much in it now but I'm slowly starting to fill it up.
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Don't get me wrong... I really want to see mozilla succeed but it's got as long ways to go before people start spouting off:
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8:35am up 10 days, 19:46, 16 users, load average: 0.40, 0.36, 0.37
155 processes: 150 sleeping, 4 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 50.7% user, 2.3% system, 0.0% nice, 46.8% idle
Mem: 130656K av, 127616K used, 3040K free, 0K shrd, 372K buff
Swap: 248936K av, 111732K used, 137204K free 48604K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
8746 mikec 10 0 37436 36M 14244 R 0 45.0 28.6 1:47 mozilla-bin
Since there's no <pre> tags, I'll confirm. Yes, that's 45% CPU usage on a p3-700 and 28.6% mem usage (out of 128Meg).
Yes, you could use Opera but screw ad-ware. There is no IE for *nix, and NS4 sucks for CSS and DOM.
Mozilla has some serious problems.
If you really want to have fun, try changing the inner contents of a div tag with JS on a scrollable layer with mozilla. The first time the layer contents overflows, you can no longer write to the layer. Yes, there's been bugs submitted.
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Napster pioneered 'peer-to-peer'
ROFL
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A stack of more than 100,000 of the 30-nanometer transistors, which act as switches to control the flow of electricity in a chip, would equal the thickness of a sheet of paper
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30 nanometers refers to the width of the transistor gate. not the thickness/height.
From the article:
The No. 1 computer-chip maker plans release details in the US on Monday about the transistors, which are just 30 nanometers - three-millionths of a centimtere - thick.
Where are you getting your information from?
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