What is the relationship between WINE and ReactOS?
Are there efforts underway to share more code between the 2 platforms? (one example is MSVCRT/CRTDLL, is there any reason why both WINE and ReactOS cant combine their implementations of the MS C runtime into one that is aimed to be as bug free as possible and to alievate the need to run msvcrt.dll nativly?)
Thats great but those sites dont seem to cater to those doing C++ work.
What I want is a site that goes alongsige MSDN and: A.documents all the API calls MSDN doesnt B.documents corner cases, extra stuff, "undocumented" functionality, bugs-that-cant-be-fixed-because-apps-rely-on-them and such and C.documents all the other stuff MS doesnt
I wonder if using the "leaked source code" to build such a site is illegal or not?
I believe that work is being done on the UXTHEME library (the same one that XP has that lets you choose between the classic windows look and the crappy new look). Given that, making some kind of theme support that either looks like linux GUI or better yet directly supports linux GUI and linux GUI themes would probobly be possible.
What usually happens in most of the "paypal problems" is this:
Person x puts money into paypal (with credit card usually)
Person x then pays person y.
Person y then (for the sake of this example) takes the money out of Paypal (e.g. to their own credit card/bank account) and sends the goods.
For whatever reasons, person x then decides to do a chargeback for the credit card (for example, if they dont get the goods, the goods are faulty or whatever else). Credit card company asks Paypal to pay back money. Paypal then freezes account of person y so that they can take back the money to pay the credit card company. If person y has transfered the money to someone else on paypal, even more accounts may be frozen until things are sorted out. But if (as in the example above), person y has taken the money out of paypal alltogether, thats when paypal will go to bank accounts, credit cards or whatever they can to get the money back from person y.
What we need is a new service similar to Paypal but: A.backed by an existing bricks and mortar bank (to provide security and confidence that there is real money in a vault somewhere to back up your virtual dollars) B.complying 100% with banking regulations C.provides more ways to put money into your "e-account" (i.e. ways that DONT allow the service to take money from your bank account or your credit card without you specificly making a transaction) D.provides a better way to handle disputes than "freezing the accounts of anyone who might be remotly involved and moving money around without permission" E.operates worldwide so that everyone can use it (like PayCrud) F.would not allow other services to touch the account without permission (so you could have a PayCrud account to pay people who only accept payment that way and have it linked to this account so that if something goes wrong, PayCrud cant touch it). Ideally, you would need to specificly authorized a direct debit (be it once off or recurring) before it was valid.
Course, even if such a service was set up, Ebay would probobly "prohibit" people from using it (to force more people to use PayCrud which they own)
Its likely that pirate "cracked" versions of XP SP2 would appear (if the real thing wasnt able to install on a "pirate" XP version)
Plus (if it wasnt able to install on "pirate" XP versions), the pirate users would probobly just grab one of the many "XP CD key changers" and change their key to somethibng not detected as "pirate" by XPSP2
In the USA (but also some other western countries that are trying to be friendly to USA) a lot of "advanced" science is getting harder to do due to new regulations and due to "unspecified terrorisim risk". For example, things like Aerospace (e.g. the new zealand cruise missile project and also the fact that its almost impossible to get any civillian air vechicle thats different from whats gone before approved by aviation authorities), Rocketry (the ongoing pressue by model rocket groups for the restrictions on model rocket fuel/motors to be lifted), Nanotech, Cryptography (even today most countries advanced enough for such things to be worth considering still have restructions on the importing, use and/or exporting of cryptographic products and after 9/11, some countries actually became more strict under the guise of "preventing terrorisim") and such all seem to face various levels of pressure.
Also, governments dont care about science (unless its something they can use to build a better army to blow up other countries such as IRAQ with)
Plus, industry doesnt care about "new ideas". There are lots of smart people out there and lots of "nifty ideas" for cool things (some of which there is a market for if only someone cared enough to take it from "nifty idea" to "product you can buy") that could make peoples life easier and better.
Unfortunatly, the moment you try to deviate from the "standard" designs of airplanes or helicoptors even slightly, the FAA and other aviation authorities dont wanna touch it:(
Even if you needed a pilots licence to use one, I think a "flying car" would be very popular with rich people (the kind who currently use executive helicoptors combined with chauffer pilots).
Another example of Nintendo censorship is the game Duck Tales.
In a pre-release version of the game, the coffins in the Transylvania level had crosses on them. But in the final released version, that was changed so they had "R.I.P." on them instead.
Think of it as hsving a security passcard to access a building (which you are allowed to have) but copying the security card to another device and then using it to access the building.
1.go to DVDCCA and etc 2.licence DVD stuff 3.produce DVD player for linux 4.release DVD player for linux for free (but closed source to keep DVDCCA happy) 5.get loads of good karma from linux fans who can now play their DVDs
Other than the money needed to licence this stuff, would this work?
The Graphics processor (or GPU) is not a microprocessor as such, its just a graphics chip. Essentially you can take commands written to the graphics registers, do something with the data and convert it into whatever the GBA graphics chip expects.
Yeah, I upgraded to XP precicely to get away from the Windcrap 95/98/ME line of OS's (which IMO are the worst x86 PC OS's ever written as far as general bugginess goes)
I suspect that the intended defniition of "VOIP" is to cover things which have interconnects to the PSTN and let you contact people on the PSTN (e.g. vonage)
is to change the limit of how long a patent lasts for to date of filing, not date of grant.
For 99.99% of patents, the time between filing and grant is a small time (and so the time period before the patent expires) could be extended by said small time. But it would put an end to peope who attempt to delay granting by backhand tricks (in an attempt to hide their patent)
Who makes money of these "hot xxx webcams" anyway?
I assume that either: A.you go to the site, see the "free" cam (not that I would visit these sites) then get sucked into paying if you want more. or B.you got to the site, see the "free" cam and then get sucked into clicking on some ads on their site (probobly xxx as well)
Any "standard" which you need a patent licence for is not a good standard.
Any standards body worth dealing with should insist that patent holders licence the patents such as is necessary to implement the standard with no royalties.
I think the best way to satify everyone (including SUN, those who want to develop JAVA itself and those who want to develop on top of JAVA) is to allow anyone to implement the various JAVA standards (including whatever sun may have a patent on etc) for free with no restictions. But, if they want to call whatever it is that they have made "JAVA", it has to go through the compatibility tests.
That way: A.developers developing stuff in the JAVA language and against the JAVA APIs can do so and know that their stuff will run on anything labeled "JAVA". B.developers that want to write JAVA compilers, VMs, class libraries and whatever else (including modified versions of Suns stuff) can do so totally free from any restrictions. But they cant call what they release "JAVA" unless it has gone through the compatibility tests. and C.Sun retains control over the JAVA name and the JAVA system. The fears of sun that JAVA would fragment and you would get incompatible versions of JAVA wouldnt happen because anything that hasnt passed the tests is not JAVA and cant be labeled as such.
Also, those who want to repackage the Sun stuff without modifying it (i.e. repackage in ) can do so and you wouldnt need to do the different, wierd (compared to how things are normally installed) install for JAVA anymore.
Oh and Sun should have told MS they couldnt distribute, modify, fix or support their broken JAVA VM anymore.
I think that Ghostbusters would work if done with the same viewpoint as Resident Evil (forget which one it was, the one where you are inside the police station and u are shooting at all the zombie cops)
If it featured all the classic elements from both movies, it would seriously ROCK.
Wouldnt need to be based on any specific movie (although if it was it might sell better) but it would be a game (how about a MMO game) where the aim is to get different cars and then get parts for them (e.g. get a car and add a turbo or extractors or whatever other high performance part) then you would go drive these cars in burnout comps drag races and whatever else. The aim being to get more money to get a better car etc etc.
More things to add to the "good" list: The release of a nice amount of art assets in GMAX format (buildings, vechicles and some other stuff) The release of some levels in the format the leveleditor can read.
And for the bad: No documentation on any of the formats other than the 3D model format. Not listening to the fans when they wanted the source code for the scripts.dll released (and also, not giving any reasons why it wasnt released)
And not all games are supported as much as they could have been. For example, Command & Conquer Renegade. The good: A leveleditor that is a version of the levleditor that westwood used to make the game. Used to create levels as well as manipulate all the game data. A GMAX plugin to create new 3D models. A viewer for said 3D models. Some nice info on the 3D format. Some decent documentation on the 3D plugin and related items. Very helpfull people from the dev team used to be on the official forums helping out.
The bad: A number of documented bugs (some reasonably serious) in the leveleditor and other tools (a 3D model viewer that crashes every time without fail is not a very good program) Some engine limitations that are a PITA to deal with. No usefull documentation on the leveleditor or on all the many game settings. No release of any code for the gameplay scripting (its some C++ code that goes into a seperate DLL, scripts.dll)
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What is the relationship between WINE and ReactOS?
Are there efforts underway to share more code between the 2 platforms? (one example is MSVCRT/CRTDLL, is there any reason why both WINE and ReactOS cant combine their implementations of the MS C runtime into one that is aimed to be as bug free as possible and to alievate the need to run msvcrt.dll nativly?)
Are there any instances where developers have added code to specificly block WINE or to make their apps not run as well on it?
Thats great but those sites dont seem to cater to those doing C++ work.
What I want is a site that goes alongsige MSDN and:
A.documents all the API calls MSDN doesnt
B.documents corner cases, extra stuff, "undocumented" functionality, bugs-that-cant-be-fixed-because-apps-rely-on-them and such
and C.documents all the other stuff MS doesnt
I wonder if using the "leaked source code" to build such a site is illegal or not?
I believe that work is being done on the UXTHEME library (the same one that XP has that lets you choose between the classic windows look and the crappy new look). Given that, making some kind of theme support that either looks like linux GUI or better yet directly supports linux GUI and linux GUI themes would probobly be possible.
Are they going to block or restrict anything (any specific ports?)
What usually happens in most of the "paypal problems" is this:
Person x puts money into paypal (with credit card usually)
Person x then pays person y.
Person y then (for the sake of this example) takes the money out of Paypal (e.g. to their own credit card/bank account) and sends the goods.
For whatever reasons, person x then decides to do a chargeback for the credit card (for example, if they dont get the goods, the goods are faulty or whatever else). Credit card company asks Paypal to pay back money. Paypal then freezes account of person y so that they can take back the money to pay the credit card company. If person y has transfered the money to someone else on paypal, even more accounts may be frozen until things are sorted out. But if (as in the example above), person y has taken the money out of paypal alltogether, thats when paypal will go to bank accounts, credit cards or whatever they can to get the money back from person y.
What we need is a new service similar to Paypal but:
A.backed by an existing bricks and mortar bank (to provide security and confidence that there is real money in a vault somewhere to back up your virtual dollars)
B.complying 100% with banking regulations
C.provides more ways to put money into your "e-account" (i.e. ways that DONT allow the service to take money from your bank account or your credit card without you specificly making a transaction)
D.provides a better way to handle disputes than "freezing the accounts of anyone who might be remotly involved and moving money around without permission"
E.operates worldwide so that everyone can use it (like PayCrud)
F.would not allow other services to touch the account without permission (so you could have a PayCrud account to pay people who only accept payment that way and have it linked to this account so that if something goes wrong, PayCrud cant touch it). Ideally, you would need to specificly authorized a direct debit (be it once off or recurring) before it was valid.
Course, even if such a service was set up, Ebay would probobly "prohibit" people from using it (to force more people to use PayCrud which they own)
Its likely that pirate "cracked" versions of XP SP2 would appear (if the real thing wasnt able to install on a "pirate" XP version)
Plus (if it wasnt able to install on "pirate" XP versions), the pirate users would probobly just grab one of the many "XP CD key changers" and change their key to somethibng not detected as "pirate" by XPSP2
In the USA (but also some other western countries that are trying to be friendly to USA) a lot of "advanced" science is getting harder to do due to new regulations and due to "unspecified terrorisim risk". For example, things like Aerospace (e.g. the new zealand cruise missile project and also the fact that its almost impossible to get any civillian air vechicle thats different from whats gone before approved by aviation authorities), Rocketry (the ongoing pressue by model rocket groups for the restrictions on model rocket fuel/motors to be lifted), Nanotech, Cryptography (even today most countries advanced enough for such things to be worth considering still have restructions on the importing, use and/or exporting of cryptographic products and after 9/11, some countries actually became more strict under the guise of "preventing terrorisim") and such all seem to face various levels of pressure.
Also, governments dont care about science (unless its something they can use to build a better army to blow up other countries such as IRAQ with)
Plus, industry doesnt care about "new ideas". There are lots of smart people out there and lots of "nifty ideas" for cool things (some of which there is a market for if only someone cared enough to take it from "nifty idea" to "product you can buy") that could make peoples life easier and better.
Or better yet, a car+helicoptor.
:(
Unfortunatly, the moment you try to deviate from the "standard" designs of airplanes or helicoptors even slightly, the FAA and other aviation authorities dont wanna touch it
Even if you needed a pilots licence to use one, I think a "flying car" would be very popular with rich people (the kind who currently use executive helicoptors combined with chauffer pilots).
Another example of Nintendo censorship is the game Duck Tales.
In a pre-release version of the game, the coffins in the Transylvania level had crosses on them. But in the final released version, that was changed so they had "R.I.P." on them instead.
Think of it as hsving a security passcard to access a building (which you are allowed to have) but copying the security card to another device and then using it to access the building.
1.go to DVDCCA and etc
2.licence DVD stuff
3.produce DVD player for linux
4.release DVD player for linux for free (but closed source to keep DVDCCA happy)
5.get loads of good karma from linux fans who can now play their DVDs
Other than the money needed to licence this stuff, would this work?
The Graphics processor (or GPU) is not a microprocessor as such, its just a graphics chip.
Essentially you can take commands written to the graphics registers, do something with the data and convert it into whatever the GBA graphics chip expects.
Yeah, I upgraded to XP precicely to get away from the Windcrap 95/98/ME line of OS's (which IMO are the worst x86 PC OS's ever written as far as general bugginess goes)
I suspect that the intended defniition of "VOIP" is to cover things which have interconnects to the PSTN and let you contact people on the PSTN (e.g. vonage)
is to change the limit of how long a patent lasts for to date of filing, not date of grant.
For 99.99% of patents, the time between filing and grant is a small time (and so the time period before the patent expires) could be extended by said small time.
But it would put an end to peope who attempt to delay granting by backhand tricks (in an attempt to hide their patent)
Who makes money of these "hot xxx webcams" anyway?
I assume that either:
A.you go to the site, see the "free" cam (not that I would visit these sites) then get sucked into paying if you want more.
or B.you got to the site, see the "free" cam and then get sucked into clicking on some ads on their site (probobly xxx as well)
Any "standard" which you need a patent licence for is not a good standard.
Any standards body worth dealing with should insist that patent holders licence the patents such as is necessary to implement the standard with no royalties.
I think the best way to satify everyone (including SUN, those who want to develop JAVA itself and those who want to develop on top of JAVA) is to allow anyone to implement the various JAVA standards (including whatever sun may have a patent on etc) for free with no restictions. But, if they want to call whatever it is that they have made "JAVA", it has to go through the compatibility tests.
That way:
A.developers developing stuff in the JAVA language and against the JAVA APIs can do so and know that their stuff will run on anything labeled "JAVA".
B.developers that want to write JAVA compilers, VMs, class libraries and whatever else (including modified versions of Suns stuff) can do so totally free from any restrictions. But they cant call what they release "JAVA" unless it has gone through the compatibility tests.
and C.Sun retains control over the JAVA name and the JAVA system. The fears of sun that JAVA would fragment and you would get incompatible versions of JAVA wouldnt happen because anything that hasnt passed the tests is not JAVA and cant be labeled as such.
Also, those who want to repackage the Sun stuff without modifying it (i.e. repackage in ) can do so and you wouldnt need to do the different, wierd (compared to how things are normally installed) install for JAVA anymore.
Oh and Sun should have told MS they couldnt distribute, modify, fix or support their broken JAVA VM anymore.
Sun should have forced MS to completly cease distributing the MSJVM (which is horibly broken) and to either distribute the SUN VM or none at all.
But MS is still distributing its broken VM in some cases (specificly, various XP packs will install the JVM in some cases)
I think that Ghostbusters would work if done with the same viewpoint as Resident Evil (forget which one it was, the one where you are inside the police station and u are shooting at all the zombie cops)
If it featured all the classic elements from both movies, it would seriously ROCK.
Wouldnt need to be based on any specific movie (although if it was it might sell better) but it would be a game (how about a MMO game) where the aim is to get different cars and then get parts for them (e.g. get a car and add a turbo or extractors or whatever other high performance part) then you would go drive these cars in burnout comps drag races and whatever else. The aim being to get more money to get a better car etc etc.
More things to add to the "good" list:
The release of a nice amount of art assets in GMAX format (buildings, vechicles and some other stuff)
The release of some levels in the format the leveleditor can read.
And for the bad:
No documentation on any of the formats other than the 3D model format.
Not listening to the fans when they wanted the source code for the scripts.dll released (and also, not giving any reasons why it wasnt released)
And not all games are supported as much as they could have been.
For example, Command & Conquer Renegade.
The good:
A leveleditor that is a version of the levleditor that westwood used to make the game. Used to create levels as well as manipulate all the game data.
A GMAX plugin to create new 3D models.
A viewer for said 3D models.
Some nice info on the 3D format.
Some decent documentation on the 3D plugin and related items.
Very helpfull people from the dev team used to be on the official forums helping out.
The bad:
A number of documented bugs (some reasonably serious) in the leveleditor and other tools (a 3D model viewer that crashes every time without fail is not a very good program)
Some engine limitations that are a PITA to deal with.
No usefull documentation on the leveleditor or on all the many game settings.
No release of any code for the gameplay scripting (its some C++ code that goes into a seperate DLL, scripts.dll)
Anyone who would actually WANT spyware, crapware and malware installed on their box needs to have their head examined.