If so, they benefit from having open-source software (because it gets updated long after the company stops supporting it) as opposed to software companies who lose revenue if their code is opened.
Are all open source zealots as dumb as you? Long-term support for hardware is NOT in a hardware company's best interest because if you buy a printer today and don't need one a year from now because the one you have already runs fine, Epson has no chance of getting more money from you for another printer that IS supported.
I want to hire someone to modify the driver and make the printer do what I want or use it with a system Epson never heard of (if they're still in business, they'd probably want me to have to buy another printer instead).
Yeah because hiring a programmer for 1-2 weeks of work would be so much cheaper than just buying a new printer... NO IT WOULDN'T YOU DUMB FUCK!
i wonder if the original film was converted using the newly developed technology by RedHat called IMAX DMRTM using Dell PowerEdge servers.
Huh? Just because IMAX uses Red Hat Linux on the servers that do the processing doesn't make it "newly developed technology by RedHat". Are you on crack, son?
Right now the media industry (mostly) isn't offering their content in digital format at all. After Pallidum, they will offer their content, but in locked-down DRM format. So we haven't *lost* anything.
The same applies to this Egyptian ISP. It is not free, its just shifting the charges from direct ISP charges to phone bill charges. Yet the headline calls it 'free Internet'.
I agree. Ever notice how virtually every free software supporter is a complete social outcasts with all manner of tics, weird speech, fat, unwashed, etc?
If developers use the "uDevGame License", which is one of the license options for this then their game isn't really Open Source as defined by the OSI (and it certainly isn't Free Software)..
most profit in the PC market comes from businesses. they dont want fruity "extras" driving up their workstation prices, and plain beige cases go well with the grey cubical space...
Although Apple does have a foothold in some niche business markets, they tend to be 'CREATIVE' businesses like graphic design houses...These businesses are more likely to buy such things and appreciate the industrial design.
if you're a nickleback fan dont you kinda deserve whatever bad treatment you get?
Hahah nickleback...what a bunch of fags!
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RoShamBo is fundamentally different because there is the chance element of "what is the other guy going to choose". And that chance element is reset every time you throw..The past doesn't matter. You can't force someone into a 'positon' because each 'move' is completely independent of any others.
In this instance, no matter what move you make the computer knows what every possible board combination from now to the end of the game can look like.. You can't throw him for a loop with imperfect play because he will have already 'predicted' (by way of a simple scoring algorithm) the possibility that one of your moves could result in weakining his position and he would have avoided making the move that allows you to make that move.
Your observation makes a bit more sense in chess, since chess isn't really "solved" yet (far more possible move combinations than in this game). But once a game is "solved" in this manner, you'll never beat the computer, ever, no matter how clever you are unless the game is flawed (one player has an inherent advantage) or the computer has a programmer error.
Another way to look at it is Tic-Tac-Toe. Tic-tac-toe is simple enough that it can be 'solved' in the human mind by any reasonably intelligent person. If you play against such a person, you'll never win no matter how 'tricky' your moves..
Um, I might be willing to believe your tin-hat conspiracy theory if Palladium was ready to go now. Its not. Its about 2 years off, at best, and probably even more because it requires the collaboration of lots of hardware makers in addition to Microsoft actually finishing the thing.
2 years is a long time for Microsoft to admit its products suck, just to sell some future product at a much later date when it finally comes out. So your theory really makes no sense.
I love the part where he draws out all these superficially fancy-looking diagrams modelling 3d space but he doesn't bother to even use a compass for his angle drawing/measurements so his record looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old...
The application of software and process patents will bring the very concept of innovation to a stand-still.
Funny. I guess its just okay for him to idle the industry....
For all of Microsoft's many faults, abuse of the patent system has never been one of them. Yes, they have many patents filed, but when is the last time you've heard of them using those patents in a negative way?
You may consider his death a loss, but really what kind of a life could he have if he was a Windows user anyway? Its probably best for everyone involved that he was put out of his misery.
I ask because I'm a fairly casual reader. I load up Slashdot every couple of days and scan the headlines. My total time spent 'Slashdotting' is maybe 20-25 minutes a week. Despite all of this, I am quite aware of the INSANE amount of story repeats that go on here. Say all you want about the fact that there are multiple editors and each might post without knowing what the other one did (even if it was the same day or the day before!!??), but if they spent only the limited amount of time I do actually reading (just the headlines even, not even user comments!) Slashdot, they'd see these obvious repeats... Wouldn't they? And if they can't be bothered to spend 20-25 minutes per week actually reading the site, then why the hell are they editors here?
Just askin'. I mean, I slashdot for free so I don't feel the editors "owe" me anything, but I don't understand why they'd be so willing to make asses of themselves on such a widely known public site by not doing simple duplicate checking.
The AGP interface is much faster than the memory interface on most recent intel based machines.
This might be true in theory but its not even close to true in practice. Memory access via AGP only hits about 10% of its theoretical maximum with current video cards. And read speeds are attrocious because the videocard designers assume there's going to be lots of data going from the CPU to VRAM but not much coming back.
So, to parrot all the other posts saying this, this hack is completely useless, regardless of any cool factor you might find in it. There's absolutely no way I can imagine anyone finding a REAL use for this in practice.
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Are all open source zealots as dumb as you? Long-term support for hardware is NOT in a hardware company's best interest because if you buy a printer today and don't need one a year from now because the one you have already runs fine, Epson has no chance of getting more money from you for another printer that IS supported.
Yeah because hiring a programmer for 1-2 weeks of work would be so much cheaper than just buying a new printer... NO IT WOULDN'T YOU DUMB FUCK!
Huh? Just because IMAX uses Red Hat Linux on the servers that do the processing doesn't make it "newly developed technology by RedHat". Are you on crack, son?
I'd be much happier to suppose Mozilla as a dev platform if it were capable of using native widgets underneath, like wxWindows does.
Right now the media industry (mostly) isn't offering their content in digital format at all. After Pallidum, they will offer their content, but in locked-down DRM format. So we haven't *lost* anything.
FUCK YOU HOOKER!
So Linux supports sweatshop conditions in the third world and that's a GOOD thing? Fuck LINUX, and FUCK YOU!
Don't you think for the average person the computer/phone use would be primarily in addition to the voice/phone use, and not instead of it?
Are you on crack?
The same applies to this Egyptian ISP. It is not free, its just shifting the charges from direct ISP charges to phone bill charges. Yet the headline calls it 'free Internet'.
I agree. Ever notice how virtually every free software supporter is a complete social outcasts with all manner of tics, weird speech, fat, unwashed, etc?
If developers use the "uDevGame License", which is one of the license options for this then their game isn't really Open Source as defined by the OSI (and it certainly isn't Free Software)..
Considering the number of same day reposts that occur here these days we might have to start letting the month old reposts slide...
Although Apple does have a foothold in some niche business markets, they tend to be 'CREATIVE' businesses like graphic design houses...These businesses are more likely to buy such things and appreciate the industrial design.
Dont get me wrong, I'm sure they have every intention of releasing the source...but cmon..Maybe consider nominating them next year!
Hahah nickleback...what a bunch of fags!
In this instance, no matter what move you make the computer knows what every possible board combination from now to the end of the game can look like.. You can't throw him for a loop with imperfect play because he will have already 'predicted' (by way of a simple scoring algorithm) the possibility that one of your moves could result in weakining his position and he would have avoided making the move that allows you to make that move.
Your observation makes a bit more sense in chess, since chess isn't really "solved" yet (far more possible move combinations than in this game). But once a game is "solved" in this manner, you'll never beat the computer, ever, no matter how clever you are unless the game is flawed (one player has an inherent advantage) or the computer has a programmer error.
Another way to look at it is Tic-Tac-Toe. Tic-tac-toe is simple enough that it can be 'solved' in the human mind by any reasonably intelligent person. If you play against such a person, you'll never win no matter how 'tricky' your moves..
2 years is a long time for Microsoft to admit its products suck, just to sell some future product at a much later date when it finally comes out. So your theory really makes no sense.
I love the part where he draws out all these superficially fancy-looking diagrams modelling 3d space but he doesn't bother to even use a compass for his angle drawing/measurements so his record looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old...
For all of Microsoft's many faults, abuse of the patent system has never been one of them. Yes, they have many patents filed, but when is the last time you've heard of them using those patents in a negative way?
You may consider his death a loss, but really what kind of a life could he have if he was a Windows user anyway? Its probably best for everyone involved that he was put out of his misery.
David used Windows, so fuck him! He was probably ASKING for it!
I ask because I'm a fairly casual reader. I load up Slashdot every couple of days and scan the headlines. My total time spent 'Slashdotting' is maybe 20-25 minutes a week. Despite all of this, I am quite aware of the INSANE amount of story repeats that go on here. Say all you want about the fact that there are multiple editors and each might post without knowing what the other one did (even if it was the same day or the day before!!??), but if they spent only the limited amount of time I do actually reading (just the headlines even, not even user comments!) Slashdot, they'd see these obvious repeats... Wouldn't they? And if they can't be bothered to spend 20-25 minutes per week actually reading the site, then why the hell are they editors here?
Just askin'. I mean, I slashdot for free so I don't feel the editors "owe" me anything, but I don't understand why they'd be so willing to make asses of themselves on such a widely known public site by not doing simple duplicate checking.
Shut up you stupid commie fag!
This might be true in theory but its not even close to true in practice. Memory access via AGP only hits about 10% of its theoretical maximum with current video cards. And read speeds are attrocious because the videocard designers assume there's going to be lots of data going from the CPU to VRAM but not much coming back.
So, to parrot all the other posts saying this, this hack is completely useless, regardless of any cool factor you might find in it. There's absolutely no way I can imagine anyone finding a REAL use for this in practice.