If you are still interested in Renegade, you should visit http://www.renegadeforums.com/ and look up the Tiberian Technologies scripts 4.4 update (its an unofficial patch for C&C Renegade written by me and some other people that adds new features, fixes bugs and does other good things)
1.ZTree. Its a clone of the old XTree file manager for dos except ZTree is a 32-bit Windows app with support for a bunch of windows things (copying to the clipboard, long file names and more). I use it all the time because it has ways to do things that would require a lot more effort to do using other methods and it would be good to see it updated to modern standards (e.g. make it 64 bit, add more features, stuff like that)
2.C&C Renegade from Westwood Studios. I have been reverse engineering C&C Renegade for more than 15 years and I probably know more about the internals of the game than anyone else on the planet at this point but there are still many holes in my knowledge. Having the original source code to Renegade (and the level editor, 3ds max export plugin and other tools) would allow all the mysteries of the engine to be sorted out once and for all.
3.Other C&C games from Westwood Studios and EA. Having the source code to the older games (C&C1, Red Alert 1, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 and maybe Generals) would allow the people who have been reverse engineering (or trying to reverse engineer) those games to stop doing that and work with the original code instead. Source code to console ports of the games (e.g. the Nintendo 64 port of the first C&C) would also be great to see.
4.LEGO Mindstorms RCX. I own the original yellow LEGO Mindstorms RCX brick. I would love to see the complete source code for everything that runs on the device as well as the complete source code to the drivers and software so it can be made to work on modern operating systems (Windows 7 in my case).
5.WinAmp. I still use it as my audio player of choice and if whoever owns it doesn't plan to continue development, opening it up and letting someone else take over would be nice.
You would be far better off spending money to pay people to add the missing things to Inkscape than paying whoever owns it these days to open source Corel Draw.
I would LOVE to see the source code to more parts of my Nokia N900 Linux phone be released. Don't care that the radio firmware is proprietary, what I want to see open sourced would be the various proprietary audio components, the browser UI, the various binary components that handle WiFi (including the various WiFi encryption bits) and any hardware related items that remain closed source (e.g. the cellular services daemon that sits on the linux side and talks to the cellular modem) So much more could be done if these things were open source (or even if some of these libraries and things had their interfaces/documentation/etc published)
The only time I have ever seen a 3D movie that wasn't shown in 2D was when Doctor Strange hit theaters around the same time as Disney introduced new rules requiring theaters to pay a minimum price per ticket. My usual theater couldn't pay Disney's minimum price out of a 2D ticket at that point and showed only 3D showings. For subsequent Disney/Marvel/Star Wars offerings they increased their ticket price just for those films (but even with the increase they still have the cheapest ticket prices anywhere)
If building a decent Google competitor could be done that fast, how come Bing is still a piece of crap? Or does Microsoft simply not spend the needed money to make Bing not suck?
Wouldn't be the first time someone wore both black and white hats during their career (or even both hats at the same time). Max Butler was responsible for stealing massive amounts of credit card and other personal data but was also at various points doing very much white-hat things.
I do wonder why Microsoft decided to reinvent the wheel in the first place instead of using the same BIOS, firmware and drivers every other vendor shipping Windows 10 on a system with those particular Intel parts has been using...
The last time I upgraded my CPU without replacing the motherboard would have been when I upgraded from a Pentium 166 MMX to a 300MHz Cyrix part and even then I ended up regretting it and wishing I had moved to a Pentium II or something instead.
He directly profited from the piracy of Hollywood content, that alone is enough to make the US government (after some prodding from their masters in the media industry) interested in the guy.
I own a Canon PowerShot SX120 IS with 12.1 Megapixel resolution and a 12x optical zoom. Its quite a few years old now and it wasn't exactly high-end even when it was new and I bet that it will still take better photos in many situations than the iPhone 7. (good luck getting a clear close-up of something that's off in the distance on a smartphone camera, something my Canon and its 12x Optical Zoom can handle with ease)
Anyone who thinks the camera in an iPhone, a Galaxy or any other mobile device is capable of doing all the things that even a fairly inexpensive point-and-shoot is capable of doing.
Oh and the comment about smartphones replacing DSLRs is total BS. I have a family member with a bunch of Canon DSLR gear that they use to take photos at family gatherings (among other things they use it for) and there is no way they would be able to do what they do with any smartphone that exists right now.
This is like all the videos showing Master padlocks opened with hammers and zip ties and things, Let me know when their fancy-pants robot can manipulate open a top-of-the-line Sargent & Greenleaf UL 768 Group 1 rated combination lock in such a short space of time and it might be noteworthy...
All this video does is show that the Sentry Safe safes are just as crappy as any other product Master Lock makes.
Maybe now some of the holdouts that I encounter that still use Flash (ABC Australia iView catch-up TV for one) will finally stop using Flash and start using HTML5.
The point is that in America you can pay $14.99/month to get Game of Thrones but in Australia you have to pay a lot more which means the incentive to pirate GoT here in Oz is much bigger.
Sony wants developers who will sign all their NDAs and follow all their rules. Sony doesn't want their SDK in the hands of people who will use it to break open their system (either to run software not approved by Sony or to pirate stuff). They also dont want it in the hands of people who will do things like crack open their proprietary file formats.
In the case of these specific CPUs, "Put Linux on it" probably wont help as the issue with these CPUs is the PowerVR GPU Intel was stupid enough to use (instead of its own Intel integrated GPU) and the Linux drivers for the PowerVR cores on these CPUs are even worse than the Windows drivers.
What this country needs is another Bob Hawke. He wasn't a career politician (although I believe he did have a law degree alongside his economics qualifications). He came to politics via the union movement but he wasn't a died-in-the-wool unionist either (in the sense that he didn't blindly support everything the unions wanted).
Bob Hawke was able to convince the electorate that all sorts of major reforms were a good idea even when the vested interests were arguing against them, something people like Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard were never really able to do.
Considering all the other idiots in his party that could potentially replace him are worse, I think the best hope is that we get a change of government at the next election.
What about all the people who are citizens of western countries and were brainwashed by online videos and radical clerics into committing acts of terror?
All of the big ISPs in America also sell pay TV in various forms (AT&T has U-Verse TV and now DirecTV, Verizon has FiOS TV and all the cable companies sell Cable TV). They are seeing their highly profitable pay TV business disappear as people get their content from the Internet (legally or otherwise) and drop their pay TV plan (or drop expensive extra packages from their plan).
That's why they are spending the big bucks to shut down any competition as well (since the competition like Google or local government isn't going to be stopping people getting to all that nice online content and bypassing pay TV completly)
A.How is it not illegal to profit from the sale of vulnerabilities in software? (other than by reporting it to the vendor and collecting a bounty) and B.How come the software vendors (who presumably dont want vulnerabilities to be bought and sold on the open market) haven't been lobbying for laws to make these vulnerability marketplaces illegal?
Are the software companies worried that if its illegal it will just disappear into the deep web and become even harder to track and deal with? Do the software companies know that such laws will never happen because the government needs these vulnerability marketplaces as a way to get bugs to use in the spying efforts? Do the software companies know that such laws would be pointless since the action happens outside jurisdictions that might actually implement such laws?
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Got any links that have more information? (e.g. about just what bits are missing)
You are more than welcome to read the source code to the .NET compilers right here https://github.com/dotnet/rosl...
Both the C# and VB.NET compilers are there and fully open. (and this is where RedHat is going to get the compilers used alongside .NET core from)
If you are still interested in Renegade, you should visit http://www.renegadeforums.com/ and look up the Tiberian Technologies scripts 4.4 update (its an unofficial patch for C&C Renegade written by me and some other people that adds new features, fixes bugs and does other good things)
1.ZTree. Its a clone of the old XTree file manager for dos except ZTree is a 32-bit Windows app with support for a bunch of windows things (copying to the clipboard, long file names and more). I use it all the time because it has ways to do things that would require a lot more effort to do using other methods and it would be good to see it updated to modern standards (e.g. make it 64 bit, add more features, stuff like that)
2.C&C Renegade from Westwood Studios. I have been reverse engineering C&C Renegade for more than 15 years and I probably know more about the internals of the game than anyone else on the planet at this point but there are still many holes in my knowledge. Having the original source code to Renegade (and the level editor, 3ds max export plugin and other tools) would allow all the mysteries of the engine to be sorted out once and for all.
3.Other C&C games from Westwood Studios and EA. Having the source code to the older games (C&C1, Red Alert 1, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 and maybe Generals) would allow the people who have been reverse engineering (or trying to reverse engineer) those games to stop doing that and work with the original code instead. Source code to console ports of the games (e.g. the Nintendo 64 port of the first C&C) would also be great to see.
4.LEGO Mindstorms RCX. I own the original yellow LEGO Mindstorms RCX brick. I would love to see the complete source code for everything that runs on the device as well as the complete source code to the drivers and software so it can be made to work on modern operating systems (Windows 7 in my case).
5.WinAmp. I still use it as my audio player of choice and if whoever owns it doesn't plan to continue development, opening it up and letting someone else take over would be nice.
You would be far better off spending money to pay people to add the missing things to Inkscape than paying whoever owns it these days to open source Corel Draw.
I would LOVE to see the source code to more parts of my Nokia N900 Linux phone be released. Don't care that the radio firmware is proprietary, what I want to see open sourced would be the various proprietary audio components, the browser UI, the various binary components that handle WiFi (including the various WiFi encryption bits) and any hardware related items that remain closed source (e.g. the cellular services daemon that sits on the linux side and talks to the cellular modem)
So much more could be done if these things were open source (or even if some of these libraries and things had their interfaces/documentation/etc published)
The only time I have ever seen a 3D movie that wasn't shown in 2D was when Doctor Strange hit theaters around the same time as Disney introduced new rules requiring theaters to pay a minimum price per ticket. My usual theater couldn't pay Disney's minimum price out of a 2D ticket at that point and showed only 3D showings.
For subsequent Disney/Marvel/Star Wars offerings they increased their ticket price just for those films (but even with the increase they still have the cheapest ticket prices anywhere)
If building a decent Google competitor could be done that fast, how come Bing is still a piece of crap? Or does Microsoft simply not spend the needed money to make Bing not suck?
Wouldn't be the first time someone wore both black and white hats during their career (or even both hats at the same time). Max Butler was responsible for stealing massive amounts of credit card and other personal data but was also at various points doing very much white-hat things.
I do wonder why Microsoft decided to reinvent the wheel in the first place instead of using the same BIOS, firmware and drivers every other vendor shipping Windows 10 on a system with those particular Intel parts has been using...
The last time I upgraded my CPU without replacing the motherboard would have been when I upgraded from a Pentium 166 MMX to a 300MHz Cyrix part and even then I ended up regretting it and wishing I had moved to a Pentium II or something instead.
Mozilla lost the fight when they stopped caring what their users wanted and decided instead to try and become a Google Chrome clone.
He directly profited from the piracy of Hollywood content, that alone is enough to make the US government (after some prodding from their masters in the media industry) interested in the guy.
I own a Canon PowerShot SX120 IS with 12.1 Megapixel resolution and a 12x optical zoom. Its quite a few years old now and it wasn't exactly high-end even when it was new and I bet that it will still take better photos in many situations than the iPhone 7. (good luck getting a clear close-up of something that's off in the distance on a smartphone camera, something my Canon and its 12x Optical Zoom can handle with ease)
Anyone who thinks the camera in an iPhone, a Galaxy or any other mobile device is capable of doing all the things that even a fairly inexpensive point-and-shoot is capable of doing.
Oh and the comment about smartphones replacing DSLRs is total BS. I have a family member with a bunch of Canon DSLR gear that they use to take photos at family gatherings (among other things they use it for) and there is no way they would be able to do what they do with any smartphone that exists right now.
This is like all the videos showing Master padlocks opened with hammers and zip ties and things, Let me know when their fancy-pants robot can manipulate open a top-of-the-line Sargent & Greenleaf UL 768 Group 1 rated combination lock in such a short space of time and it might be noteworthy...
All this video does is show that the Sentry Safe safes are just as crappy as any other product Master Lock makes.
Maybe now some of the holdouts that I encounter that still use Flash (ABC Australia iView catch-up TV for one) will finally stop using Flash and start using HTML5.
The point is that in America you can pay $14.99/month to get Game of Thrones but in Australia you have to pay a lot more which means the incentive to pirate GoT here in Oz is much bigger.
Sony wants developers who will sign all their NDAs and follow all their rules. Sony doesn't want their SDK in the hands of people who will use it to break open their system (either to run software not approved by Sony or to pirate stuff). They also dont want it in the hands of people who will do things like crack open their proprietary file formats.
In the case of these specific CPUs, "Put Linux on it" probably wont help as the issue with these CPUs is the PowerVR GPU Intel was stupid enough to use (instead of its own Intel integrated GPU) and the Linux drivers for the PowerVR cores on these CPUs are even worse than the Windows drivers.
Good luck getting Game of Thrones in Australia legally without paying $46/month to Foxtel for the privileged (and another $10/month if you want HD)
What this country needs is another Bob Hawke. He wasn't a career politician (although I believe he did have a law degree alongside his economics qualifications). He came to politics via the union movement but he wasn't a died-in-the-wool unionist either (in the sense that he didn't blindly support everything the unions wanted).
Bob Hawke was able to convince the electorate that all sorts of major reforms were a good idea even when the vested interests were arguing against them, something people like Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard were never really able to do.
Considering all the other idiots in his party that could potentially replace him are worse, I think the best hope is that we get a change of government at the next election.
What about all the people who are citizens of western countries and were brainwashed by online videos and radical clerics into committing acts of terror?
All of the big ISPs in America also sell pay TV in various forms (AT&T has U-Verse TV and now DirecTV, Verizon has FiOS TV and all the cable companies sell Cable TV). They are seeing their highly profitable pay TV business disappear as people get their content from the Internet (legally or otherwise) and drop their pay TV plan (or drop expensive extra packages from their plan).
That's why they are spending the big bucks to shut down any competition as well (since the competition like Google or local government isn't going to be stopping people getting to all that nice online content and bypassing pay TV completly)
A.How is it not illegal to profit from the sale of vulnerabilities in software? (other than by reporting it to the vendor and collecting a bounty) and B.How come the software vendors (who presumably dont want vulnerabilities to be bought and sold on the open market) haven't been lobbying for laws to make these vulnerability marketplaces illegal?
Are the software companies worried that if its illegal it will just disappear into the deep web and become even harder to track and deal with? Do the software companies know that such laws will never happen because the government needs these vulnerability marketplaces as a way to get bugs to use in the spying efforts? Do the software companies know that such laws would be pointless since the action happens outside jurisdictions that might actually implement such laws?