Disney isn't going with Linux because they agree with the GNU or Linux worldview. They are going with Linux because they can use it for free, as in beer. When you consider the cost over hundreds or thousands of workstations, it adds up. Especially when Microsoft's starting to get all crazy with their forced subscription model. Something like that could cost Disney millions of dollars per year in their animation department alone, not including IT & Legal costs associated with making sure everything is "in compliance".
Disney doesn't give a fuck about OSS ideals, they just want free-beer.
Could you be a little more specific, Mr. Blister dick? Are you refering to an RFC, or some kind of M$ flavor of the day "standard"? It's kind of hard to imagine that kind of waste of bandwith being automatic. I'm not sure anyone but the designers of NetBIOS would think that way, but you never know user agent might be part of a real standard. Denying service, like you do with all those great first post loser drools of yours, is more a MicroShit kind of thing.
Hahah. I hope you're trolling and not really that dumb, because if you are you just gave a black eye to Linux users everywhere. Ever try learning about something before you make baseless anti-MS claims? Oh wait this is Slashdot.
Sorry ass-munch but Http-User-Agent is part of the fucking W3 standard. It was first implemented not by Microsoft, but by Netscape. In fact, due to the fact that people used to code pages for Netscape only and disallow other browsers, MSIE *still* identifies itself as a Mozilla offshoot. So you can't really blame the stupidity of writing pages for one browser only soley on Microsoft. Lazy web designers have been doing it since the dawn of the web. In fact, Netscape used to encourage it...Until, that is, they got bitch-smacked by Microsoft's superior browser.
95% of surfers use IE because 95% of surfers are AOLers.
Bullshit. If you're going to spout percentages, back them up with some facts/data/links. There's a large number of AOL users online, but nowhere near 95% of all web surfers.
Ha! They could just get the browser to pop up a little message, "This site uses non standard methods and may not display properly," for every site that does so much as ask what browser you are using.
Sites don't "ask" what browser you're using, the browsers automatically tell the server the browser type as part of the initial HTTP request, as per the HTTP STANDARD. Ass-face.
Sadly this goes unnoticed in metamod because metamod displays the messages out of context.
Its nearly impossible to accurately meta-mod the "redundant" tag without a lot of time & effort wasted into research for each post.
Not entirely true. There's still a fair bit of assembly lurking in modern high-end games, but its generally NOT standard (x86/PPC/whatever) code, its vector processor code eg. AltiVec, MMX/SSE/SSE2, PS2 VU...
Because Cg is here now and OpenGL 2.0, if the past is any indication, won't even be fully standardized (let alone implemented) for another couple of years.
I'm fairly sure NVidia recognizes this as a stop-gap measure since both DX9 and OpenGL 2.0 will have their own high-level shader compilers..But since neither is shipping (outside of the DX9 beta, anyway)...Well, this does the job for now.
Star Wars movies in general totally ignore almost every known law of physics, and who cares? They aren't even really sci-fi movies, they are fantasy movies in space.
The end-user doesn't give a rats ass about specs. If the browser works (and IE works on virtually every site, since the content providers are virtually forced to support IE due to overwhelming marketshare), they don't care that the web designer had to hack around IE's bugs in HTML rendering. Really, they just don't care.
I think you're living in the idealistic world where the winner is the product that does the basic job better. I (and most people) don't live in that world.
Well, MS does not really have a way of combating Mozilla. How are they going to undermine a free product.
Uh..Duh? How about undermining it by making their browser also free and also bundling it with the OS 95% of the world is using? How does MOZILLA combat THAT? Note: A download is NOT FREE. It costs time, and in many places of the world bandwidth is not flat-rate, so its not even "free" in that sense.
I won't even bother getting into the discussion of which is a better product from a Windows end-user perspective, since its an opinion. Suffice it to say, Mozilla is not demonstrably a better browser for everyone, even if it might render HTML more correctly according to the standard.
Lastly you seem to forget that Netscape was one the guy with 90%+ of the browser market, and it was, for all intents, free. Yes, they charged business customers but that's fairly insignificant as the vast majority of people (maybe 90% of the original 90%) were using it for free. So obviously Microsoft found away to combat that (see not-so-secret-strategy above).
The funny part is that Mark didn't seem to realize Opera wasn't OSS either, unless the interview was edited way past the point of journalistic integrity.
Which means he's pretty out of touch with the technology he helped create and also that people in general (even Mark) equate OSS with "fringe stuff". The fact that the browser is closed source doesn't matter, we'll call it "Open Source" anyway because the same lunatic fringe that supports OSS seems to kind of like it.
Well, your rights-to-use are already curtailed when it comes to so-called 'intellectual property' like CDs. For example, even if you own a legitimately purchased CD, you can't go and play this in a public place without a proper license and royalty payments. Ditto for movies etc.
So its really not that far off to image a world in which selling a used CD would force royalty payments...
Thus far the government (in past cases) has poo-pooed the idea of royalties on selling used copies, ala "the right of first sale", but these days with laws like the DMCA in effect and the ever growing pace of "are they nuts" corporation-friendly laws, who knows what will happen?
I certainly wouldn't bet my life or even a moderate amount of money on these ideas NOT becoming laws in the next couple years. For all the MS-attacking you see here on Slashdot, its important to remember that the giant media conglomerate has been playing the political game a LOT longer and in the process has become far more evil & scary than Bill Gates ever could.
Microsoft just wants to rob you blind on software. The media industry wants to rob you blind on everything you see and hear, all day every day.
In many (if not most) cases the loser is the guy with less money to spend on lawyers, not the person who is actually in the right. So if loser pays, a lot of cases will end with the little guy getting fucked over even more than they do now. Not only will they eat their own lawyer costs, plus damages, plus lost business, but now they are going to be in debt for the rest of their lives paying off the legal fees of the giant corporation with 20 lawyers on the case who just ass-raped him to begin with.
All of this Slashdot rah rah Linux rulz Microsoft sux stuff reminds me of the (C64|Apple II) rulz, (C64|Apple II) sux arguments that 12 year olds used to have back in the day. Are you guys the same people, older but not any more grown up?
I think they would post it, but instead of slamming them in the little editorial comment they would try to put some spin on it and defend Red Hat...ESPECIALLY in a case like this where the virus won't really infect anyone anyway.
He isn't putting very much effort at all into pushing polygons..Its going into handling the multipass texture effects.
HW T&L (or, rather HW T, since the L part is of dubious usage because who does simple vertex lighting anyway?) *IS* a huge boon to gaming. Programmers don't need to sweat the details of polygon culling as they did before, with elaborate PVS/BSP setups.. Once GF3 and above are the norm, in almost all cases you can get away with just a very loose frustum cull as long as you render most objects front to back (to take advantage of built in z occluding, guard band clipping..)
Yes, there's always going to be more work to fill up the savings in work from other areas but as that happens the visual quality of the games is rapidly improving because more and more stuff is being properly solved for general cases.
In a couple more iterations, good enough global illumination and shadowing will be 'solved' as well, and then the programmers will move on to something else as the primary focus.
Of course none of this particularly revolutionizes GAMING, as the game industry is free to keep making the same games with better graphics (and this seems to be their general game plan), but you can't hold NVidia, ATI, etc responsible for that.
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Disney isn't going with Linux because they agree with the GNU or Linux worldview. They are going with Linux because they can use it for free, as in beer. When you consider the cost over hundreds or thousands of workstations, it adds up. Especially when Microsoft's starting to get all crazy with their forced subscription model. Something like that could cost Disney millions of dollars per year in their animation department alone, not including IT & Legal costs associated with making sure everything is "in compliance".
Disney doesn't give a fuck about OSS ideals, they just want free-beer.
Not only that but the bug was found in a closed-source server FIRST! So much for many eyes.
Hahah. I hope you're trolling and not really that dumb, because if you are you just gave a black eye to Linux users everywhere. Ever try learning about something before you make baseless anti-MS claims? Oh wait this is Slashdot.
Sorry ass-munch but Http-User-Agent is part of the fucking W3 standard. It was first implemented not by Microsoft, but by Netscape. In fact, due to the fact that people used to code pages for Netscape only and disallow other browsers, MSIE *still* identifies itself as a Mozilla offshoot. So you can't really blame the stupidity of writing pages for one browser only soley on Microsoft. Lazy web designers have been doing it since the dawn of the web. In fact, Netscape used to encourage it...Until, that is, they got bitch-smacked by Microsoft's superior browser.
Bullshit. If you're going to spout percentages, back them up with some facts/data/links. There's a large number of AOL users online, but nowhere near 95% of all web surfers.
Sites don't "ask" what browser you're using, the browsers automatically tell the server the browser type as part of the initial HTTP request, as per the HTTP STANDARD. Ass-face.
I agree with you. But also wanted to add that, uh, IIS already IS a free download!
Sadly this goes unnoticed in metamod because metamod displays the messages out of context. Its nearly impossible to accurately meta-mod the "redundant" tag without a lot of time & effort wasted into research for each post.
Not entirely true. There's still a fair bit of assembly lurking in modern high-end games, but its generally NOT standard (x86/PPC/whatever) code, its vector processor code eg. AltiVec, MMX/SSE/SSE2, PS2 VU...
I'm fairly sure NVidia recognizes this as a stop-gap measure since both DX9 and OpenGL 2.0 will have their own high-level shader compilers..But since neither is shipping (outside of the DX9 beta, anyway)...Well, this does the job for now.
I may lay before thee now a broken man, with karma in the cellar, BUT the threepeat WILL BE MINE...SOMEDAY!
Indeed all first three posts are mine. Talk about ruling the root. Can nobody stop me?
I am truly the master.
And even if it isn't, I'm still better than you.
Star Wars movies in general totally ignore almost every known law of physics, and who cares? They aren't even really sci-fi movies, they are fantasy movies in space.
Always deny!
Life's too short to worry about 'ethics' and 'morals'.
I think you're living in the idealistic world where the winner is the product that does the basic job better. I (and most people) don't live in that world.
Why would a large company (other than AOL) make Netscape/Mozilla its default browser? Too much money to spend, so thus wants to increase IT costs?
Uh..Duh? How about undermining it by making their browser also free and also bundling it with the OS 95% of the world is using? How does MOZILLA combat THAT? Note: A download is NOT FREE. It costs time, and in many places of the world bandwidth is not flat-rate, so its not even "free" in that sense.
I won't even bother getting into the discussion of which is a better product from a Windows end-user perspective, since its an opinion. Suffice it to say, Mozilla is not demonstrably a better browser for everyone, even if it might render HTML more correctly according to the standard.
Lastly you seem to forget that Netscape was one the guy with 90%+ of the browser market, and it was, for all intents, free. Yes, they charged business customers but that's fairly insignificant as the vast majority of people (maybe 90% of the original 90%) were using it for free. So obviously Microsoft found away to combat that (see not-so-secret-strategy above).
Which means he's pretty out of touch with the technology he helped create and also that people in general (even Mark) equate OSS with "fringe stuff". The fact that the browser is closed source doesn't matter, we'll call it "Open Source" anyway because the same lunatic fringe that supports OSS seems to kind of like it.
So its really not that far off to image a world in which selling a used CD would force royalty payments...
Thus far the government (in past cases) has poo-pooed the idea of royalties on selling used copies, ala "the right of first sale", but these days with laws like the DMCA in effect and the ever growing pace of "are they nuts" corporation-friendly laws, who knows what will happen?
I certainly wouldn't bet my life or even a moderate amount of money on these ideas NOT becoming laws in the next couple years. For all the MS-attacking you see here on Slashdot, its important to remember that the giant media conglomerate has been playing the political game a LOT longer and in the process has become far more evil & scary than Bill Gates ever could.
Microsoft just wants to rob you blind on software. The media industry wants to rob you blind on everything you see and hear, all day every day.
In many (if not most) cases the loser is the guy with less money to spend on lawyers, not the person who is actually in the right. So if loser pays, a lot of cases will end with the little guy getting fucked over even more than they do now. Not only will they eat their own lawyer costs, plus damages, plus lost business, but now they are going to be in debt for the rest of their lives paying off the legal fees of the giant corporation with 20 lawyers on the case who just ass-raped him to begin with.
All of this Slashdot rah rah Linux rulz Microsoft sux stuff reminds me of the (C64|Apple II) rulz, (C64|Apple II) sux arguments that 12 year olds used to have back in the day. Are you guys the same people, older but not any more grown up?
I think they would post it, but instead of slamming them in the little editorial comment they would try to put some spin on it and defend Red Hat...ESPECIALLY in a case like this where the virus won't really infect anyone anyway.
They are both for newbie simpletons who can't manage to do Real Programming.
HW T&L (or, rather HW T, since the L part is of dubious usage because who does simple vertex lighting anyway?) *IS* a huge boon to gaming. Programmers don't need to sweat the details of polygon culling as they did before, with elaborate PVS/BSP setups.. Once GF3 and above are the norm, in almost all cases you can get away with just a very loose frustum cull as long as you render most objects front to back (to take advantage of built in z occluding, guard band clipping..)
Yes, there's always going to be more work to fill up the savings in work from other areas but as that happens the visual quality of the games is rapidly improving because more and more stuff is being properly solved for general cases.
In a couple more iterations, good enough global illumination and shadowing will be 'solved' as well, and then the programmers will move on to something else as the primary focus.
Of course none of this particularly revolutionizes GAMING, as the game industry is free to keep making the same games with better graphics (and this seems to be their general game plan), but you can't hold NVidia, ATI, etc responsible for that.