I hope this doesn't sound like a troll, but I would be of the opinion that the only reason you might choose DirectX over OpenGL would be if you only wanted your programs to run on one computing platform, and wanted to make porting especially difficult should you change your mind later.
It was obvious right from the beginning that the only reason Microsoft sat on the board was to keep an eye on the competition to their own Direct3D API, and hinder OGL development in any way possible.
Now perhaps the board can move forward without entities like Microsoft bogging them down.
You can bet your boots that Sony, having a big investment in media, will put in a heap of DRM into this product. I wouldn't be too surprised if the firmware wouldn't allow you to burn a DVD without first 'registering' it with some member of the RIAA.
Now when one of the real hardware manufacturers comes up with something like this, then I will be interested.
While I'm at it, has anyone tried writing DVD's with cdrecord-ProDVD? They've locked it up so tight, you need a reg key to do anything with it now.
I love it when groups like this threaten to audit our software licenses and I can calmly tell them "sorry, we don't permit Microsoft software on these premises. Would you like a copy of OpenOffice?".
iptables: "Httpd, we've lost our port 80 packet deflectors" httpd: "Intensify the firewall, I don't want anything to get through." iptables: "Httpd, look!" httpd: "INTENSIFY THE FIREWALL!" iptables: "Too late!"
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... about the future of the PC, it's that it won't include Microsoft.
Perhaps they'll still be around for the next 5 years or so, while the last few people still gulp down their proprietary wares.
Honestly, there's no longer any reason to take these jokers seriously.
Point taken.
If Corel doesn't recover from this downhill slide, perhaps we should consider a "Free CorelDraw" campaian to buy the source code a la "Free Blender".
I for one would consider developing it further, if it was under an open license.
...corel Draw for Linux?
The win32 version is one of the few truly excellent drawing packages I've come across.
It'd be a pity to see it go to waste.
... but take it 1 step further:
Where did Minix come from?
I suspect:
Minimal Unix
Oops, there's that 'U' word again.
So all you've done is provided two additional layers of removal:
Unix->Linux
Unix->Minix->Linix->Linux
Silly!
You're always welcome in church!
The US really is a hole.
You must remember that PNGs can store images with different colour-depths.
Try converting your picture to indexed (256 colour) and save it. I'd be surprised if it still turned out bigger than your GIFs.
Test it with this.
Unfortunately there is no support in PNG (well, with the exception of some hacks that haven't made it into browsers) for animation.
People like stuff that moves. Web designers play on this.
I recommend people considering a position such as this watch the movie Antitrust.
ah, so the game isn't actually coming at all, then?
It's been (OS/2), and isn't coming (no linux version).
Their computers would literally sigh from boredom.
Literally? I'd pay to see that.
You assume too much
I hope this doesn't sound like a troll, but I would be of the opinion that the only reason you might choose DirectX over OpenGL would be if you only wanted your programs to run on one computing platform, and wanted to make porting especially difficult should you change your mind later.
It was obvious right from the beginning that the only reason Microsoft sat on the board was to keep an eye on the competition to their own Direct3D API, and hinder OGL development in any way possible.
Now perhaps the board can move forward without entities like Microsoft bogging them down.
You can bet your boots that Sony, having a big investment in media, will put in a heap of DRM into this product. I wouldn't be too surprised if the firmware wouldn't allow you to burn a DVD without first 'registering' it with some member of the RIAA.
Now when one of the real hardware manufacturers comes up with something like this, then I will be interested.
While I'm at it, has anyone tried writing DVD's with cdrecord-ProDVD? They've locked it up so tight, you need a reg key to do anything with it now.
I love it when groups like this threaten to audit our software licenses and I can calmly tell them "sorry, we don't permit Microsoft software on these premises. Would you like a copy of OpenOffice?".
Too bad the US couldn't learn a little from Taiwan...
Too bad Taiwan couldn't learn a little from Peru.
Honestly, I see no good reason anyone should have to endure Microsoft software any more.
Isn't this just like a multi-session CDR?
You can write the first session, mass-produce them, and consumers can write their own subsequent sessions.
No no no!
This one goes here, that one goes there!
iptables: "Httpd, we've lost our port 80 packet deflectors"
httpd: "Intensify the firewall, I don't want anything to get through."
iptables: "Httpd, look!"
httpd: "INTENSIFY THE FIREWALL!"
iptables: "Too late!"
My apologies, I had been led to believe that the w2k recovery CD could be run without needing to reboot the machine.
... to say nothing of their twenty odd years of dodgy and, for the most part, illegal business practices.
No, sorry, Microsoft doesn't collect lists of softare
How do you know this?
I hope you don't mean "because ZoneAlarm hasn't picked up anything weird"
Have you run an external packet sniffer on your net connection?
Please do not think any utility run on Windows cannot be bypassed by a few lines of code in kernelspace.