This may slow down innovation a bit in the short run (I think it won't), but the long-term benefits are obvious: a perpetually growing code repository that people can use to improve upon.
Who are these "people" you speak of? I find it rather funny that a lot of "Open Source" proponents, who obviously aren't really programmers, assume that just because the source code is available just about anyone with a little tech background can just go make some changes to have it function the way they want!! Hah hah. That might work fine for a 5 line Perl script (ie. 95% of everything on Sourceforge and Freshmeat) but it doesn't work for real-world software!
Most useful Open Source software is written by programmers who can afford to do it because they have day jobs writing closed-source software. I don't understand why so many Slashdotters don't see that and call for silly shit such as having EVERYTHING be Open Source. It won't work!
Don't you understand the reason this can happen in Peru is that it's a povery stricken wasteland of a third world country? Here in the US, corporations have politicians in the backpockets with payoffs and bribes. That system doesn't work when everyone is poor you stupid balllicker.
So go fuck your dad again.
What's with the "big brother" Sourceforge ads that keep appearing on Slashdot? The ads are fucking creepy and totally turn me off from using anything associated with Sourceforge.
Actually, while Quake1/2 were written in C, the code was fairly object oriented, just using logical objects based on structs and segmented file-based modules as opposed to C++ interface/classes.
In any case, I've seen it mentioned in quite a few places the Doom III is using C++. Not all of the language, I'm sure, but at the very least its using C++ classes.
Quite a lot of games (including Doom III -- look I'm on topic!) use some amount of C++ these days. Even console games (discounting the GBA, of course).
The days of C++ being a performance killer on your average system, with your average compiler, are long since over. I won't make the silly claim that C++ is faster than hand-written assembly, but I will make the claim that well written C++ code can be just as fast as well written C code, as long as the programmer knows what he's doing and makes proper use of inline functions, watches out for over-expansion of templates, etc.
And lastly, C++'s job isn't to make things easier to write (ala Java with its GC or Visual Basic)...and C++ is actually much harder to use well than C is, since its a helluva lot more complex.
You are correct in your last statement. They are going for the atmosphere of Doom, but not the original gameplay. Sorry, you can't have 50 medium to high polygon models onscreen while also worrying about all the cool lighting and shadow effects on current 3D hardware.
If you want that sort of gameplay in 3D (but without the Doom atmosphere), play Serious Sam I & II.
I know that was just a joke, but no amount of overclocking will give the GF2 pixel shaders, and without pixel shaders your experience with Doom 3 will be very disappointing.
Toolbars, at least as we understand them today, were largely the product of the first versions of -- get ready for it -- Excel. Yes, the Microsoft product.
Non-competes are almost unenforcable in California except under certain circumstances (ie. for very high level people with extremely in-depth knowledge of business practices of a company).
For tech-workers such as those they are talking about that are leaving Verant, a non-compete in California (where Verant is HQed) are virtually worthless...
Actually he's right. It makes no difference when he wrote the embed program, because writing it was not illegal, distributing it is illegal. While he can't be held accountable for distributing it before the DMCA (ex post facto), he CAN be held accountable for his continued distribution of it.
Of course I think the DMCA sucks in general, and this is an especially frivolous litigation using it, but ex post facto law doesn't protect him one bit in this case.
Saying that Apple and Microsoft don't release for Linux due to wanting an OS monopoly is ridiculous as Apple and Microsoft do release software for each other's operating systems.
Also, it doesn't answer the question as to why 99.99% of all other desktop software makers (Macromedia being a slightly on-topic example) don't release for Linux, since they have no OS monopoly to protect.
The sad fact is there's no money to be made in the Linux desktop market. Linux user's don't buy desktop apps, they don't buy games... They might buy highend workstation software like 3D modellers, but this has less to do with the "Linux community" than it does with animation houses trying to cut costs by going with a free (as in beer, they could care less about the other supposed benefits) operating system.
For most software, any money a developer spends creating and supporting a Linux version of their software is money that is pissed away, never to be recouped. That's no way to run a business.
I think the most informative thing about this interview is that Sun is Trademark-happy! That's one of the most annoying transcripts I've ever read -- unless the guy says TM after every fucking word, leave them out of the main text and acknowledge their trademark status at the end in fine print!
Believing in ESP is really no more weird than beliving in Quantum Physics. Neither makes a whole lot of fucking sense, Quantum Physics is just easier to quantify with numbers that produce repeatable results. Maybe ESP is in fact related to quantum physics (after all, these days you can find real science texts talking about the strong possibility of 'multiple universes' -- a completely sci-fi schlock of an idea straight out of the 50s! or is it?). Just because it can't be quantified in tests doesn't mean it doesn't occur -- rarely. We never see particles quantum tunnel, yet we believe it could happen... So why discount this other stuff? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make a case for ESP, alien abductions or whatever else, and I think, for example, that your local 'psychic' is just a scam artist, but such a quickness to discount the 'strange' is unhealthy for science...
The fact that the parent is modded flamebait is proof that this survey is just, pardon my language, fucking stupid. Why should someone who believes in God be less ridiculed than someone who believes in UFO abductions? They are at exactly the same level of scientific proof... which is to say none.
You don't need to be infected by Klez to be spoofed. If you're simply in the contact lists of anyone who gets infected, people might get some odd spam that's 'from you'. So not only can you not run outlook but you have to make sure nobody that emails you or might add you to their email contact lists runs outlook...Good luck.
Unfortunately Microsoft can't take ALL the blame for the problems of Klez... The SMTP itself is inherently insecure to begin with and anyone can send mail that looks like it is from anyone else. Of course you can deduce that the mail is probably not from the source it says it is by tracing the SMTP headers back, but that's esoteric geek knowledge that not many people have relative to the total number of people who use email.
Though obviously one case can't be turned into a scientific study, I think the general agony being felt by AOL/TimeWarner is a sign that huge corporations can only get so big before crumbling under their own weight due to natural market forces. This is a comforting thought since it doesn't seem like the government is going to do anything about stopping these mega-mergers.
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Maybe I didn't read the article, but I said a lot of good swears and my post got moderated up (as of this reply anyway), so who cares?
Who are these "people" you speak of? I find it rather funny that a lot of "Open Source" proponents, who obviously aren't really programmers, assume that just because the source code is available just about anyone with a little tech background can just go make some changes to have it function the way they want!! Hah hah. That might work fine for a 5 line Perl script (ie. 95% of everything on Sourceforge and Freshmeat) but it doesn't work for real-world software!
Most useful Open Source software is written by programmers who can afford to do it because they have day jobs writing closed-source software. I don't understand why so many Slashdotters don't see that and call for silly shit such as having EVERYTHING be Open Source. It won't work!
Don't you understand the reason this can happen in Peru is that it's a povery stricken wasteland of a third world country? Here in the US, corporations have politicians in the backpockets with payoffs and bribes. That system doesn't work when everyone is poor you stupid balllicker. So go fuck your dad again.
What's with the "big brother" Sourceforge ads that keep appearing on Slashdot? The ads are fucking creepy and totally turn me off from using anything associated with Sourceforge.
Anyone who says "service model" is still living in 1998/1999.
In any case, I've seen it mentioned in quite a few places the Doom III is using C++. Not all of the language, I'm sure, but at the very least its using C++ classes.
Quite a lot of games (including Doom III -- look I'm on topic!) use some amount of C++ these days. Even console games (discounting the GBA, of course).
The days of C++ being a performance killer on your average system, with your average compiler, are long since over. I won't make the silly claim that C++ is faster than hand-written assembly, but I will make the claim that well written C++ code can be just as fast as well written C code, as long as the programmer knows what he's doing and makes proper use of inline functions, watches out for over-expansion of templates, etc.
And lastly, C++'s job isn't to make things easier to write (ala Java with its GC or Visual Basic)...and C++ is actually much harder to use well than C is, since its a helluva lot more complex.
If you want that sort of gameplay in 3D (but without the Doom atmosphere), play Serious Sam I & II.
I know that was just a joke, but no amount of overclocking will give the GF2 pixel shaders, and without pixel shaders your experience with Doom 3 will be very disappointing.
Doom III? What is that?
The sad part is that's probably a significant percentage of overall sales.
Toolbars, at least as we understand them today, were largely the product of the first versions of -- get ready for it -- Excel. Yes, the Microsoft product.
For tech-workers such as those they are talking about that are leaving Verant, a non-compete in California (where Verant is HQed) are virtually worthless...
Stop sucking Opera's dick, you dirty monkey ass.
I don't give a flying fuck about any of the topics in this Slashback.
Yes. All the data on Linux sales (as one example, see how poorly Quake3 for Linux sold) show quite plainly that you are.
Of course I think the DMCA sucks in general, and this is an especially frivolous litigation using it, but ex post facto law doesn't protect him one bit in this case.
Also, it doesn't answer the question as to why 99.99% of all other desktop software makers (Macromedia being a slightly on-topic example) don't release for Linux, since they have no OS monopoly to protect.
The sad fact is there's no money to be made in the Linux desktop market. Linux user's don't buy desktop apps, they don't buy games... They might buy highend workstation software like 3D modellers, but this has less to do with the "Linux community" than it does with animation houses trying to cut costs by going with a free (as in beer, they could care less about the other supposed benefits) operating system.
For most software, any money a developer spends creating and supporting a Linux version of their software is money that is pissed away, never to be recouped. That's no way to run a business.
Whoever modded me down in the parent post is a beeeyotch! If I find out who you are I'm gonna bust my foot up your ass.
I think the most informative thing about this interview is that Sun is Trademark-happy! That's one of the most annoying transcripts I've ever read -- unless the guy says TM after every fucking word, leave them out of the main text and acknowledge their trademark status at the end in fine print!
Believing in ESP is really no more weird than beliving in Quantum Physics. Neither makes a whole lot of fucking sense, Quantum Physics is just easier to quantify with numbers that produce repeatable results. Maybe ESP is in fact related to quantum physics (after all, these days you can find real science texts talking about the strong possibility of 'multiple universes' -- a completely sci-fi schlock of an idea straight out of the 50s! or is it?). Just because it can't be quantified in tests doesn't mean it doesn't occur -- rarely. We never see particles quantum tunnel, yet we believe it could happen... So why discount this other stuff? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make a case for ESP, alien abductions or whatever else, and I think, for example, that your local 'psychic' is just a scam artist, but such a quickness to discount the 'strange' is unhealthy for science...
Unfortunately Microsoft can't take ALL the blame for the problems of Klez... The SMTP itself is inherently insecure to begin with and anyone can send mail that looks like it is from anyone else. Of course you can deduce that the mail is probably not from the source it says it is by tracing the SMTP headers back, but that's esoteric geek knowledge that not many people have relative to the total number of people who use email.
Stop lying, dick.
Though obviously one case can't be turned into a scientific study, I think the general agony being felt by AOL/TimeWarner is a sign that huge corporations can only get so big before crumbling under their own weight due to natural market forces. This is a comforting thought since it doesn't seem like the government is going to do anything about stopping these mega-mergers.