Except that the Pentium-64 wouldn't have sold any more than the Itanium did (which is to say, for shit). Telling people in the server space that they need entirely new applications is a hard enough sell, it's not going to fly for anything in the consumer market. Intel underestimated the marketing pull of 64bit computing, plain and simple. Or perhaps they were happy to let AMD develop it and flop if it was going to, knowing that they had an automatic no-cost license to the technology and superior market share and brand awareness to flex if they decided to move into the market.
If you've got a working, well tested game that you're ready to put on the shelf, then putting out a demo can't possibly hurt you. The problem with demos is exactly that they are treated as free beta testing. You can put out a demo AFTER your game shipts and it'll still help.
In any case, the only time a demo is any sort of signifigant burden on your team is when you're releasing it off a game thats not ready to ship - the demo should be indicitave of the final game, simple as that. I don't WANT to play your hacked up beta of a demo. I want to play a 20 minute version of your real game with all the polish and performance thats going to be in the final version, and I'm going to base my buying decision off of that.
25.4 mm per inch. 1 inch is 2.54 cm, and it's the only imperial/SI conversion thats not an irrational fraction (at least so my physics teacher told me). If you're off by half a mmm per inch, then your workshop isn't going to be that sturdy:P
As for working with fractions, I can do fractions in my head much easier than deep decimals. Tenths + tenths is easy but as soon as you get the common denominator (and fractions are almost always powers of 2, so it's easy find it), it's just a single didgit addition. 3 11/32nds inches, BTW;)
The platform SDK is installed via an ActiveX control. No, I don't know why. But if the compiler is of any use to you, then you at least have access to IE, so it's a minor bitch at best.
I'm one of the aardwolf players that's been there the whole seven years. Theres not very many. I should point out that the 500 number the OP is the number of concurrent players, not the total playerbase, which is several thousand (not sure exactly how MANY thousands...) and there has been steady, constant growth since the mud opened. While it can't match the sheer numbers the popularity of Everquest, it's doing quite well for itself.
On the otherhand, there's not a whole lot of muds in Aardwolfs range as far as longevity or playerbase goes, so it doesn't disprove the notion that muds are dying as a percentage of online games.
CVS is atomic per-file but not per-changeset. Arch and svn both make multiple-file commits atomic (because they're changeset-oriented rather than file-oriented). It's not a misuse of atomic;)
The work environment you're descriping is more typical of a small project or an in-house effort, not a broad distributed project. Think about needing to maintain released versions, to handle patchs and bug reports against that version, and to backport fixes to the current tree against that version.
Also, I don't know what language you primarly use, but as a C++ developer I don't remember the time I checked in just 1 file, unless I'm chugging through one-liner bugfixes. Changesets make sure that.h/.cpp (as a trivial example) commits are atomic, and have the aditional advantage of being much more efficent to update on the client.
This is not true. Parking is legal unless it's explictly NOT allowed (or you're blocking traffic or otherwise unsafe). If you were referring to sleeping in your car, I believe that thats considered vagrancy or something similiar - but just being parked (as in this case) is fine.
I'm originially from an area with a huge crystal meth problem and I have _never_ had or even heard of a meth dealer seeking you out and actively pushing his drug on you. On the other hand, if you already hang out in that scene and you're at a party with meth dealer, and you say you've never tried it, then odds are he'll hook you up for free. But you aren't a "new market" - you're already involved. Odds are that you already smoke pot, or do some lighter drugs. Drug dealers to NOT seek out people to buy from them.
While I don't condone drunk driving, I think you'll find that the vast majority of drunk driving cases where a whole family is wiped out in a horrific accident are caused by people well above the limit, not by borderline cases (which is what that couple of drinks is). The real problem is people who don't think through thier ideas. For example, a sensor that detected the alcohol level in the air of the car would shut you down when you hadn't been drinking (say you were driving a drunk friend home), and wouldn't if you HAD been drinking (because you didn't drink enough to get spoppy and spill on yourself).
The whole "linking" area is a gray area. The generally accepted delimiter is if you're including header files from the GPLed library - if so, then (at least stubs) of the GPLed code are in yours, making it derived. If not (say you exec a GPLed executable and parse the output, rather than calling a GPLed library), then you're clear.
It's still gray if you load and resolve the entry points dynamically. As far as I know, there has been no court case resolving any of these gray areas.
Well, the "Linus" can be a unit of credibility (was thinking about this because Raymond Chen was complaining that if Linus makes a change that break apps people shrug, recompile and move on while if MS does it everyone screams antitrust - it's because Linus has credibility and MS doesn't)
Please try to maintain internal consistency in your trolling. You say that the contract case will rely on people remember what they meant when the signed things, but then claim that a clear statement of intent has no legal value?
My understanding is that, at best, SCO can only claim damages from the time that they specify what actually infringes, if that - copyright holders have an obligation to reduce damages by working with the infringer (if possible), and SCO has avoided that at all costs until now.
a T1 probably isn't, but 100 megabits should be plenty. We'd need to light a bunch more fiber in the big backbones if we were looking at universal 100megabit connectivity, though.
On the other hand, if we rolled that out we'd have alot more decentralized fast networks and the internet could be about connected peers again instead of the consumer/producer model we've got now.
The "assimilation" you're speaking of didn't happen with european immigrants, either - they formed the same sort of cultural ghettos on the east coast that you see in Texas and CA today. It took 3 or 4 generations to assimilate, and it was hardly a total thing - large parts of "American" culture come from those immigrants. Exactly the same thing is happening with Latinos - maybe in a couple generations Cinco De Mayo will be as popular nation-wide as St. Patricks Day is today.
And to me it just makes them even more annoying - people yelling into thier phones and saying "can you hear me?" over and over again are far more obnoxious than people carrying on a normal conversation in a low tone of voice.
If you advertise a product (any product, not just a game), your advertisements must be fundamentally factually correct. Fun is subjective so you'd never make a case based on that (and you knew that, you're just acting dumb), but if advertising literature for a game promotes, say, multiplayer funtionality and it's not present in the product then that is false advertising and the publisher is liable (doesn't matter if it's on the actual retail box or not).
You should be aware that NewEgg only permits positive reviews - check the policy sometime.
In addition, no story about Amazon reviews is complete without a mention of
this review, on the book Ping. Quite possibly the most-rated review on the entire site!
Union/guild infighting a big deal on Broadway - this probably REALLY rubs them the wrong way because a long musicians strike was just resolved last year. You can, of course, replace the entire orchestra with a sound tech and a technician. This is the norm in theatres that don't have an orchestra. The whole point of a major Broadway musical is the production, including a live orchestra. Otherwise you way as well just watch it on TV.
This _already happens_ in the world of closed source software. This is basically what mal/spyware is. It's totally true that open source doesn't prevent this, but neither does anything else. It's a straw man argument.
On a side note, it's happened with OSS, too - some enterprising asshole packaged the open source CDex ripper into an installer loaded with spyware.
ECMA requires that patents covering specifications that it accepts be licensed under a RAND policy. They could still be used to pressure other implementations, and patents on parts of.NET not covered by the spec are up for grabs, of course.
As an aside, despite plenty of other nasty buisness behaviors, MS has not to my knowledge abused it's patent portfolio against pretty much anyone, not even OSS projects they have a real hard on for (like Linux).
I've never worked with J2ME, but as a CF.NET developer I have to say that it's just awful. It's only saving grace is that it's better (marginally) than your existing framework options for PocketPC.
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Except that the Pentium-64 wouldn't have sold any more than the Itanium did (which is to say, for shit). Telling people in the server space that they need entirely new applications is a hard enough sell, it's not going to fly for anything in the consumer market. Intel underestimated the marketing pull of 64bit computing, plain and simple. Or perhaps they were happy to let AMD develop it and flop if it was going to, knowing that they had an automatic no-cost license to the technology and superior market share and brand awareness to flex if they decided to move into the market.
As a general rule, if both sides think you favor the opposition then you're doing a pretty good job of being evenhanded.
In any case, the only time a demo is any sort of signifigant burden on your team is when you're releasing it off a game thats not ready to ship - the demo should be indicitave of the final game, simple as that. I don't WANT to play your hacked up beta of a demo. I want to play a 20 minute version of your real game with all the polish and performance thats going to be in the final version, and I'm going to base my buying decision off of that.
25.4 mm per inch. 1 inch is 2.54 cm, and it's the only imperial/SI conversion thats not an irrational fraction (at least so my physics teacher told me). If you're off by half a mmm per inch, then your workshop isn't going to be that sturdy :P
As for working with fractions, I can do fractions in my head much easier than deep decimals. Tenths + tenths is easy but as soon as you get the common denominator (and fractions are almost always powers of 2, so it's easy find it), it's just a single didgit addition. 3 11/32nds inches, BTW ;)
The platform SDK is installed via an ActiveX control. No, I don't know why. But if the compiler is of any use to you, then you at least have access to IE, so it's a minor bitch at best.
On the otherhand, there's not a whole lot of muds in Aardwolfs range as far as longevity or playerbase goes, so it doesn't disprove the notion that muds are dying as a percentage of online games.
The work environment you're descriping is more typical of a small project or an in-house effort, not a broad distributed project. Think about needing to maintain released versions, to handle patchs and bug reports against that version, and to backport fixes to the current tree against that version.
Also, I don't know what language you primarly use, but as a C++ developer I don't remember the time I checked in just 1 file, unless I'm chugging through one-liner bugfixes. Changesets make sure that .h/.cpp (as a trivial example) commits are atomic, and have the aditional advantage of being much more efficent to update on the client.
Polymorphic viruses have been around for decades. This is not a new technique or concept, simply a specific implementation.
This is not true. Parking is legal unless it's explictly NOT allowed (or you're blocking traffic or otherwise unsafe). If you were referring to sleeping in your car, I believe that thats considered vagrancy or something similiar - but just being parked (as in this case) is fine.
Basically, you're making shit up.
While I don't condone drunk driving, I think you'll find that the vast majority of drunk driving cases where a whole family is wiped out in a horrific accident are caused by people well above the limit, not by borderline cases (which is what that couple of drinks is). The real problem is people who don't think through thier ideas. For example, a sensor that detected the alcohol level in the air of the car would shut you down when you hadn't been drinking (say you were driving a drunk friend home), and wouldn't if you HAD been drinking (because you didn't drink enough to get spoppy and spill on yourself).
The whole "linking" area is a gray area. The generally accepted delimiter is if you're including header files from the GPLed library - if so, then (at least stubs) of the GPLed code are in yours, making it derived. If not (say you exec a GPLed executable and parse the output, rather than calling a GPLed library), then you're clear.
It's still gray if you load and resolve the entry points dynamically. As far as I know, there has been no court case resolving any of these gray areas.
The Ballmer, of course, is a unit of monkeys.
Please try to maintain internal consistency in your trolling. You say that the contract case will rely on people remember what they meant when the signed things, but then claim that a clear statement of intent has no legal value?
My understanding is that, at best, SCO can only claim damages from the time that they specify what actually infringes, if that - copyright holders have an obligation to reduce damages by working with the infringer (if possible), and SCO has avoided that at all costs until now.
On the other hand, if we rolled that out we'd have alot more decentralized fast networks and the internet could be about connected peers again instead of the consumer/producer model we've got now.
The "assimilation" you're speaking of didn't happen with european immigrants, either - they formed the same sort of cultural ghettos on the east coast that you see in Texas and CA today. It took 3 or 4 generations to assimilate, and it was hardly a total thing - large parts of "American" culture come from those immigrants. Exactly the same thing is happening with Latinos - maybe in a couple generations Cinco De Mayo will be as popular nation-wide as St. Patricks Day is today.
You're correct. The proper way of phrasing this would be "As this proves, it's irresponsible to assume that the source will always be secret".
And to me it just makes them even more annoying - people yelling into thier phones and saying "can you hear me?" over and over again are far more obnoxious than people carrying on a normal conversation in a low tone of voice.
If you advertise a product (any product, not just a game), your advertisements must be fundamentally factually correct. Fun is subjective so you'd never make a case based on that (and you knew that, you're just acting dumb), but if advertising literature for a game promotes, say, multiplayer funtionality and it's not present in the product then that is false advertising and the publisher is liable (doesn't matter if it's on the actual retail box or not).
In addition, no story about Amazon reviews is complete without a mention of this review, on the book Ping. Quite possibly the most-rated review on the entire site!
Union/guild infighting a big deal on Broadway - this probably REALLY rubs them the wrong way because a long musicians strike was just resolved last year. You can, of course, replace the entire orchestra with a sound tech and a technician. This is the norm in theatres that don't have an orchestra. The whole point of a major Broadway musical is the production, including a live orchestra. Otherwise you way as well just watch it on TV.
On a side note, it's happened with OSS, too - some enterprising asshole packaged the open source CDex ripper into an installer loaded with spyware.
Details here
As an aside, despite plenty of other nasty buisness behaviors, MS has not to my knowledge abused it's patent portfolio against pretty much anyone, not even OSS projects they have a real hard on for (like Linux).
I've never worked with J2ME, but as a CF.NET developer I have to say that it's just awful. It's only saving grace is that it's better (marginally) than your existing framework options for PocketPC.