Yes, because Apple manages to keep the programs separate from each other and the system while still having them work well together. If you want to use a different browser oe email program, go for it. It is pretty easy to remove the ones you don't want.
On the other hand, removing Outlook Express seems to cripple MSN Messenger, Outlook and who knows what else.
Oh, I don't know, set if off now, when we don't have a hope of evacuating everyone that would be affected. Maybe it won't happen on it's own for a hundred years or more. By that time we would, hopefully, have better means to evacuate people and eal with the damage.
Closed source may not be more secure in general, but with games it does seem to help a little. I seem to remember that the number of hacks for Quake 1 and 2 spiked just after the source code was released. With an open source engine, the cheater has everything laid out in front of them, and they no longer need to reverse engineer anything. Diablo 1 was quite fun for a little while, until you needed to use the same hacks as the cheaters just to survive.
Maybe there is a way to create a secure, hack resistant, open source network game. If there is that would be great.
With regards to your business model, that is pretty much what iD and Epic have been doing for a while. iD only really released one games based on each engine, and then licensed the engine to others.
CounterStrike was still based off of an already built game engine. All they had to was tweak the game play, add some new maps, models and other artwork.
It took 4+ years for Doom3 and Half Life 2 to be developed by teams dedicated to the project. Bungie had to sell itself to Microsoft in order to have the money to bring Halo to market. I'm not sure an open source project could match that, unless you got funding from somewhere for it.
You also have the issues of hacks and cheats being developed much quicker and more easily.
Then again it's nice to be proven wrong once in a while.
No problem. I wasn't trying to attack you personally. It just gets little tiring hearing the same pointless remarks. Not many people out here think Klein is perfect, only that there is no one else even worth looking at.
We definitely need a change in politics in this country. The Liberals seem to be far too good at losing money and not really fixing anything, the Conservatives can't get their act together and we have a separatist party in thee very government they are trying to destroy. And the day the NDP becomes the party in power is the day this country sinks completely.
Most of the Conservatives are close to the centre, but there are a few too many now that are much further to the right. Preston Manning himself is close to the middle, but the Reform Party needed support to get going. That support came from the Christian right and other right-wing groups. In my opinion that was a fatal mistake as far as being accepted elsewhere in the country.
Many of the Reform Party's ideas were pretty good. I just wish they had dumped the more extreme elements. Inded, Paul Martin himself borrowed a few as Finance Minister.
You are right though in that nothing up here is as far right as the US government.
Typical Eastern responses. Attack anything different without actually trying to propose realistic alternatives.
Alberta paid more per person for health care than any other province except Manitoba. And unless something changes, that still won't be enough. At least Alberta is looking at new ideas to fix the problem.
Do I want a two tiered system? Hell no, and I won't support anyone who does. And the Americans can keep their system. Ours can't last without changes though, and something needs to be done.
My problem is that I don't trust the Liberals, and I don't like the influence the far right conservatives have. I like ideas from both sides, but apparently you can only be on one side or the other. Alberta's flat tax for income is great, and so is free health care. Why can't this work across the country?
What's the point of writing software if you can't explain to anyone what it does? The same goes for engineering and every other technical profession. And you had better hope that doctors can clearly write out a prescription too.
Proof reading isn't a waste of time. Only the lazy would argue that.
Don't know about Ontario, but Alberta's income tax is 11% across the board. The federal icome tax is basically whatever is left.
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"what do the RIAA members do in the way of disaster recovery and historical preservation?"
Of course they're backing everything up. Just wait 10-20 years when they re-release it all on whatever media or digital format we're using at that time. Then they'll reap even more profits from us.
What I think the OP was getting at is the idea of using a rail gun to accelerate large chunks of metal to very high velocities. Upon impact they would easily take out something like a ship or tank, and probably most bunkers. Especially if you fire three or four in rapid succession. Aricraft would be mince meat if you could hit one.
I don't know how well this would, but I have read stories about how the Air Force has tested some of the concepts in labs.
I think it's also affected by the operating system and/or windowing system. Macs have supported multiple monitors pretty much ever since you could put a second video card into one. I don't think Windows could before Win98 (don't know about WinNT, but that wasn't for home use), and even then it was still pretty limited.
When I first tried Linux in University a few years ago, XFree86 seemed to have trouble with multiple video cards. At least it did with the ones I had in my computer at the time. It looks like XFree86 does support multiple video cards and monitors now though. I'm sure someone else can correct me on this part though.
Look at what has happened to everyone else who competed on the x86 platform. You also lose the tight integration between the OS and hardware, effectively turning it into another Windows system with the associated driver hell from crappy third party companies.
Death didn't scare away or stop many of the early aviators or test pilot's after WWII. Almost all of the streets in Edwards Air Force Base are named after test pilots killed in accidents.
People dying may put off a few more people in this day and age, but it won't scare away the ones who believe in pushing manned space flight forward or those who want the adrenaline rush.
Now, if one of the rockets or space craft fall onto a city, that will affect private space flight programs (Maybe they'll just outsource it to India...).
Maybe they were saying that is legal in Russia? The parent didn't include the exact quote from the RIAA. There have been sites from lawyers who say it is still dubious at best. I'll have to go look for them again though.
"How is HP's "platform" going to help them sell more?"
Maybe they'll include them in bundles with their computers that "Joe Six PAck" will buy. Maybe they'll be on the shelf next to the HP computers and not over in the Apple section, which as everyone knows, is where the overpriced, incompatible computers are. It may not help that much, but I really doubt this will hurt Apple's iPod sales the way the Mac clones cannibalized Apple's Mac sales.
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I guess all that ice on Greenland and Canada's northern islands doesn't count?
Here's a hint, don't go getting your news from Fox. They're just as bad as the "pinko-commie-we-hate-america network."
Yes, because Apple manages to keep the programs separate from each other and the system while still having them work well together. If you want to use a different browser oe email program, go for it. It is pretty easy to remove the ones you don't want.
On the other hand, removing Outlook Express seems to cripple MSN Messenger, Outlook and who knows what else.
Oh, I don't know, set if off now, when we don't have a hope of evacuating everyone that would be affected. Maybe it won't happen on it's own for a hundred years or more. By that time we would, hopefully, have better means to evacuate people and eal with the damage.
Closed source may not be more secure in general, but with games it does seem to help a little. I seem to remember that the number of hacks for Quake 1 and 2 spiked just after the source code was released. With an open source engine, the cheater has everything laid out in front of them, and they no longer need to reverse engineer anything. Diablo 1 was quite fun for a little while, until you needed to use the same hacks as the cheaters just to survive.
Maybe there is a way to create a secure, hack resistant, open source network game. If there is that would be great.
With regards to your business model, that is pretty much what iD and Epic have been doing for a while. iD only really released one games based on each engine, and then licensed the engine to others.
CounterStrike was still based off of an already built game engine. All they had to was tweak the game play, add some new maps, models and other artwork.
It took 4+ years for Doom3 and Half Life 2 to be developed by teams dedicated to the project. Bungie had to sell itself to Microsoft in order to have the money to bring Halo to market. I'm not sure an open source project could match that, unless you got funding from somewhere for it.
You also have the issues of hacks and cheats being developed much quicker and more easily.
Then again it's nice to be proven wrong once in a while.
No problem. I wasn't trying to attack you personally. It just gets little tiring hearing the same pointless remarks. Not many people out here think Klein is perfect, only that there is no one else even worth looking at.
We definitely need a change in politics in this country. The Liberals seem to be far too good at losing money and not really fixing anything, the Conservatives can't get their act together and we have a separatist party in thee very government they are trying to destroy. And the day the NDP becomes the party in power is the day this country sinks completely.
Most of the Conservatives are close to the centre, but there are a few too many now that are much further to the right. Preston Manning himself is close to the middle, but the Reform Party needed support to get going. That support came from the Christian right and other right-wing groups. In my opinion that was a fatal mistake as far as being accepted elsewhere in the country.
Many of the Reform Party's ideas were pretty good. I just wish they had dumped the more extreme elements. Inded, Paul Martin himself borrowed a few as Finance Minister.
You are right though in that nothing up here is as far right as the US government.
Typical Eastern responses. Attack anything different without actually trying to propose realistic alternatives.
Alberta paid more per person for health care than any other province except Manitoba. And unless something changes, that still won't be enough. At least Alberta is looking at new ideas to fix the problem.
Do I want a two tiered system? Hell no, and I won't support anyone who does. And the Americans can keep their system. Ours can't last without changes though, and something needs to be done.
My problem is that I don't trust the Liberals, and I don't like the influence the far right conservatives have. I like ideas from both sides, but apparently you can only be on one side or the other. Alberta's flat tax for income is great, and so is free health care. Why can't this work across the country?
What's the point of writing software if you can't explain to anyone what it does? The same goes for engineering and every other technical profession. And you had better hope that doctors can clearly write out a prescription too.
Proof reading isn't a waste of time. Only the lazy would argue that.
Don't know about Ontario, but Alberta's income tax is 11% across the board. The federal icome tax is basically whatever is left.
"what do the RIAA members do in the way of disaster recovery and historical preservation?"
Of course they're backing everything up. Just wait 10-20 years when they re-release it all on whatever media or digital format we're using at that time. Then they'll reap even more profits from us.
"didn't you ever see Star Trek ?"
Yes, but none of it ever works at the slightest sign of trouble.
If you dropped it, no it wouldn't do much.
What I think the OP was getting at is the idea of using a rail gun to accelerate large chunks of metal to very high velocities. Upon impact they would easily take out something like a ship or tank, and probably most bunkers. Especially if you fire three or four in rapid succession. Aricraft would be mince meat if you could hit one.
I don't know how well this would, but I have read stories about how the Air Force has tested some of the concepts in labs.
Far Cry does I believe.
"Their on-air personalities are awesome too."
That must be why I can't remember the last time I watched the CBC other than for a hockey game.
I like this quote:
"If it isn't, it will ruin my reputation," he said. "I will end up as a bartender. I do not want to be a bartender."
Can I get mine shaken, not stirred?
I think it's also affected by the operating system and/or windowing system. Macs have supported multiple monitors pretty much ever since you could put a second video card into one. I don't think Windows could before Win98 (don't know about WinNT, but that wasn't for home use), and even then it was still pretty limited.
When I first tried Linux in University a few years ago, XFree86 seemed to have trouble with multiple video cards. At least it did with the ones I had in my computer at the time. It looks like XFree86 does support multiple video cards and monitors now though. I'm sure someone else can correct me on this part though.
Look at what has happened to everyone else who competed on the x86 platform. You also lose the tight integration between the OS and hardware, effectively turning it into another Windows system with the associated driver hell from crappy third party companies.
It ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
Not to mention the fact that they didn't have the deep pockets necessary these days to develope a cutting edge game.
I still have the floppies lying around. Hmmm, maybe I'll go load it up and have a go at it again.
Death didn't scare away or stop many of the early aviators or test pilot's after WWII. Almost all of the streets in Edwards Air Force Base are named after test pilots killed in accidents.
People dying may put off a few more people in this day and age, but it won't scare away the ones who believe in pushing manned space flight forward or those who want the adrenaline rush.
Now, if one of the rockets or space craft fall onto a city, that will affect private space flight programs (Maybe they'll just outsource it to India...).
Maybe they were saying that is legal in Russia? The parent didn't include the exact quote from the RIAA. There have been sites from lawyers who say it is still dubious at best. I'll have to go look for them again though.
This is /., how dare you try to encourage reason and fact in a discussion you insensitive clod!
It can't convert DRM'd songs, but is more than happy to convert other WMA songs.
"How is HP's "platform" going to help them sell more?"
Maybe they'll include them in bundles with their computers that "Joe Six PAck" will buy. Maybe they'll be on the shelf next to the HP computers and not over in the Apple section, which as everyone knows, is where the overpriced, incompatible computers are. It may not help that much, but I really doubt this will hurt Apple's iPod sales the way the Mac clones cannibalized Apple's Mac sales.