What? Sure, game houses can design games to install to hard disk. Then, to release the game, MS just install the game to some HD, burn it to a CD, distribute this CD as the game. The system boots up, mounts the CD, and voila.
This is in the USA or what? I've been looking for this figure for a while, because the annual road-toll in my country of 3.5 million is 500. In other words, one person in 7,000 dies on the roads each year. Translated to the USA, that would be 40,000 deaths per year -- 110 per day -- an horrific amount.
Xbox and PC have similarities in the hardware and the OS. I'd bet my bottom dollar that Microsoft's longterm plan involves Xbox and PC interoperability, so that they can use their share in each market to fuel the other. Who wouldn't want a game that runs on both PC and gameconsole?
You really think this gets your message across?
Microsoft are going to change their attitude because one person chooses N64 over Xbox?
Likewise, the money you spend on an Xbox is nothing to Microsoft. It is not as if you are financing their evil empire -- they will do equally well (or badly) with or without your dollars.
Surely it makes sense to register your objections in a notable way (perhaps gather support, get a discussion going, send email, etc.) and buy whichever console is best for you on that console's individual merits.
What the fuck are you on.
Here we see the new 'geek elite' in action.
No longer is it merely cool to be a Linux fan instead of a Microsoft one. Too many people jumped on that bandwagon already.
Now, you have to be a UNIX fan, and diss the Linux ones as being cheap hacks.
If you think 'fuck' only means 'have sex' then maybe you need to listen to more Monty Python..:)
I managed to follow the fuckgeneralmotors.com link without wanting to fuck general motors and without travelling 5 towns: I saw it on my screen and moved the mouse a little and clicked the mouse button.
I think Microsoft actually handled this situation much better than Ford did. Remember some time back, http://www.losers.com/, http://www.fuckers.com/, etc. all redirected to Microsoft....
who completely ignored it. After some time the joke died away. Everyone had had a good laugh (probably the MS staff too), and that was that.
I've been a fulltime C/Unix coder for 2 years now. Before I got this job, I would often program for a hobby (and give my source to anyone who wanted it -- more to show off, than as promotion of open source, I must admit:)
At my work, I often use open-source code, and even release software that uses it, but I am very careful to read and follow the licence on any software I install.
But my main point is this: Having worked in a commercial environment with a C programmer of 20 years' experience, my coding ability and quality has improved immensely. I say this to any hobbyist programmers: get a fulltime commercial job with experienced co-workers !!
Commercial projects just have a level of commitment, quality and responsibility that most hobbyist work doesn't. I now feel confident I can: work on an arbitrarily large project without getting tangled, write source without buffer overflows, write maintainable source that anybody else can read and understand, and still enjoy myself.
To you, Brian: open-source coders are likely to have the very important mindset that there's more than one way to skin a cat, and the desire to produce a good product is strong. I refuse to write bad code simply because people will see it and associate it with me!
In fact, the guy who had my job before me got fired: he was the sort of guy who would muck around and not do anything unless he was explicitly told, and only hang around for long enough to collect his pay. Unfortunately he now works for a company that I have to deal with...
Not really. The sole purpose of DeCSS is to allow illegal access to DVD data. However, ASUS are merely releasing open drivers. This can have a multitude of applications, such as helping in game development, or increasing rendering time, etc.
Bollocks, doing a blind 180 and firing is a skill. You might do it if you hear noises directly behind you indicating someone is there, or if you know that you are probably being followed. It's just a matter of moving the mouse -exactly- the right distance and direction and speed, and hitting the button.
That won't help, people will just give their hacked driver the same profile as the real driver
(or also modify the polling function).
I presume the 'problem' with these drivers is that people can set it to make walls see-through?
To solve this problem, the server would need to perform visibility calculations for all players, then -not- send data on a player's location who is invisible, but only send side-effects (noises etc); requiring a fairly decent re-design of the game and using a lot more bandwidth and server CPU.
Isn't it interesting how some people are all in favour of Open Source in general, but when it comes to something actually relevant to themself, they prefer security via obscurity.
I suppose these people are also hoping Quake etc. stay closed-source, in case someone modifies the source to cheat? Or even remember the DOOM days where you could load a WAD giving clear blood instead of red blood.
Do they also wish Linux were closed source, so that other people can't cheat and get better performance out of their operating system?
Makes you wonder whether these people actually embrace open source, or just jump on the bandwagon in order to sound cool.
Asus have a poll up on their site asking the general public whether or not they would like to see "SeeThrough technology" available in drivers for Asus graphics cards.
I don't know where you come from, but around here we use: he/she/it has
they have
Presumably Frodo will be shown as 33 (hobbit age) during the party scene, and perhaps will have aging features added for the rest of the movie (movie makers are good at that sort of thing).
If Hanks and Spears were cast then it would not be a success -- the Tolkien fans would boycott, and the average people would feel the movie sucked because those characters did not fit with the rest of the story.
Have you been following the movie development closely? Here are a couple of reports on a 25 minute unfinished segment of Fellowship of the Ring shown at the Cannes film festival, one from a LOTR fan, and one from a guy who had never read the books and comments from a traditional viewpoint.
I own every book Donaldson has ever published (AFAIK),so if you haven't read them all the go and get them cos they all rock.
I didn't find it hard to like Covenant, since I understood him. There is really no character you can hate except for Foul. I disliked Trell for a long time, until I understood him.
LOTR was popular but never on the scale of the mass market.
Well, it's the best book ever (voted by readers many times). So unless you're saying books are not a mass market..
He'll be great for the Long Expected Party, but he's almost 50 (can't remember exactly) when he leaves on the quest.
In fact he's 33 (and Bilbo was eleventy-one on the same day). It was Frodo's coming-of-age party, perhaps equivalent to 18 years old in humans. Check out some of the photos of Frodo's eyes (eg. at Weathertop).
It's this attitude of "ahh fuckit, who cares?" that will doom a movie version of a book to fail.
I can assure you that Jackson has gone over everything in the minutest detail, revising the script hundreds (thousands?) of times to stay as faithful to the book as possible while still retaining the book's themes. Don't forget that a theme may not carry as well to a screen if the text is strictly translated into pictures. The movies in fact include some new dialogue to this effect.
You seem to be losing sight of the fact that these are movies and not books. A "movie of the book" does NOT mean reproducing every shallow obvious point, and ignoring things which can only work on paper. It means translating the plot, themes, characters, etc. to a new medium in the most effective way that can be found.
My work's document control is very simple and effective. Store all the documents in one Windows directory (perhaps with subdirs for various types of document).
Other machines on the network can read and write via SMB, but Windows makes sure that only one person can have it open for write access at a time (so there is no problem with multiple saves).
Now, the important bit: Label each document with its version in the filename, and whenever you make *any* change, give it a new version number and save it. In the file (near the top) , set aside a section for change history. Anyone who edits the document puts an entry in this section saying their name, the date, the version #, and what change they made.
Needless to say, this directory should be backed up reguarly and safely.
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Isn't it interesting how the/. crowd hates patents, but gets all up in arms whenever somebody mentions GPL violation, a much weaker 'licence'...
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Richmond (led by Raymond) declaring war on Redmond?
What? Sure, game houses can design games to install to hard disk. Then, to release the game, MS just install the game to some HD, burn it to a CD, distribute this CD as the game. The system boots up, mounts the CD, and voila.
DOS *is* stable as a rock. The only way you'll crash it is to run a program which writes over DOS memory or files, or that program itself crashes.
This is in the USA or what? I've been looking for this figure for a while, because the annual road-toll in my country of 3.5 million is 500. In other words, one person in 7,000 dies on the roads each year. Translated to the USA, that would be 40,000 deaths per year -- 110 per day -- an horrific amount.
Unfortunately, what (realistically) can we do?
Xbox and PC have similarities in the hardware and the OS. I'd bet my bottom dollar that Microsoft's longterm plan involves Xbox and PC interoperability, so that they can use their share in each market to fuel the other. Who wouldn't want a game that runs on both PC and gameconsole?
You really think this gets your message across?
Microsoft are going to change their attitude because one person chooses N64 over Xbox?
Likewise, the money you spend on an Xbox is nothing to Microsoft. It is not as if you are financing their evil empire -- they will do equally well (or badly) with or without your dollars.
Surely it makes sense to register your objections in a notable way (perhaps gather support, get a discussion going, send email, etc.) and buy whichever console is best for you on that console's individual merits.
The link in the story seems to be a link to a pesticide discussion?
Has anyone got a relevant URL?
what planet are you on?
nslookup ford.com ; nslookup fuckgeneralmotors.com
whois ford.com ; whois fuckgeneralmotors.com
What the fuck are you on.
Here we see the new 'geek elite' in action.
No longer is it merely cool to be a Linux fan instead of a Microsoft one. Too many people jumped on that bandwagon already.
Now, you have to be a UNIX fan, and diss the Linux ones as being cheap hacks.
What next? VAX?
If you think 'fuck' only means 'have sex' then maybe you need to listen to more Monty Python..:)
I managed to follow the fuckgeneralmotors.com link without wanting to fuck general motors and without travelling 5 towns: I saw it on my screen and moved the mouse a little and clicked the mouse button.
I think Microsoft actually handled this situation much better than Ford did. Remember some time back, http://www.losers.com/, http://www.fuckers.com/, etc. all redirected to Microsoft....
who completely ignored it. After some time the joke died away. Everyone had had a good laugh (probably the MS staff too), and that was that.
I've been a fulltime C/Unix coder for 2 years now. Before I got this job, I would often program for a hobby (and give my source to anyone who wanted it -- more to show off, than as promotion of open source, I must admit :)
At my work, I often use open-source code, and even release software that uses it, but I am very careful to read and follow the licence on any software I install.
But my main point is this: Having worked in a commercial environment with a C programmer of 20 years' experience, my coding ability and quality has improved immensely. I say this to any hobbyist programmers: get a fulltime commercial job with experienced co-workers !!
Commercial projects just have a level of commitment, quality and responsibility that most hobbyist work doesn't. I now feel confident I can: work on an arbitrarily large project without getting tangled, write source without buffer overflows, write maintainable source that anybody else can read and understand, and still enjoy myself.
To you, Brian: open-source coders are likely to have the very important mindset that there's more than one way to skin a cat, and the desire to produce a good product is strong. I refuse to write bad code simply because people will see it and associate it with me!
In fact, the guy who had my job before me got fired: he was the sort of guy who would muck around and not do anything unless he was explicitly told, and only hang around for long enough to collect his pay. Unfortunately he now works for a company that I have to deal with...
If you didn't detect the sarcasm in the original comment, maybe you shouldn't be reading message boards..
Not really. The sole purpose of DeCSS is to allow illegal access to DVD data. However, ASUS are merely releasing open drivers. This can have a multitude of applications, such as helping in game development, or increasing rendering time, etc.
Bollocks, doing a blind 180 and firing is a skill. You might do it if you hear noises directly behind you indicating someone is there, or if you know that you are probably being followed. It's just a matter of moving the mouse -exactly- the right distance and direction and speed, and hitting the button.
That won't help, people will just give their hacked driver the same profile as the real driver
(or also modify the polling function).
I presume the 'problem' with these drivers is that people can set it to make walls see-through?
To solve this problem, the server would need to perform visibility calculations for all players, then -not- send data on a player's location who is invisible, but only send side-effects (noises etc); requiring a fairly decent re-design of the game and using a lot more bandwidth and server CPU.
Isn't it interesting how some people are all in favour of Open Source in general, but when it comes to something actually relevant to themself, they prefer security via obscurity.
I suppose these people are also hoping Quake etc. stay closed-source, in case someone modifies the source to cheat? Or even remember the DOOM days where you could load a WAD giving clear blood instead of red blood.
Do they also wish Linux were closed source, so that other people can't cheat and get better performance out of their operating system?
Makes you wonder whether these people actually embrace open source, or just jump on the bandwagon in order to sound cool.
One day, you're actually going to have a girlfriend.
I don't know where you come from, but around here we use:
he/she/it has
they have
If Hanks and Spears were cast then it would not be a success -- the Tolkien fans would boycott, and the average people would feel the movie sucked because those characters did not fit with the rest of the story.
Have you been following the movie development closely? Here are a couple of reports on a 25 minute unfinished segment of Fellowship of the Ring shown at the Cannes film festival, one from a LOTR fan, and one from a guy who had never read the books and comments from a traditional viewpoint.
I own every book Donaldson has ever published (AFAIK),so if you haven't read them all the go and get them cos they all rock.
I didn't find it hard to like Covenant, since I understood him. There is really no character you can hate except for Foul. I disliked Trell for a long time, until I understood him.
Well, it's the best book ever (voted by readers many times). So unless you're saying books are not a mass market..
He'll be great for the Long Expected Party, but he's almost 50 (can't remember exactly) when he leaves on the quest.
In fact he's 33 (and Bilbo was eleventy-one on the same day). It was Frodo's coming-of-age party, perhaps equivalent to 18 years old in humans. Check out some of the photos of Frodo's eyes (eg. at Weathertop).
It's this attitude of "ahh fuckit, who cares?" that will doom a movie version of a book to fail.
I can assure you that Jackson has gone over everything in the minutest detail, revising the script hundreds (thousands?) of times to stay as faithful to the book as possible while still retaining the book's themes. Don't forget that a theme may not carry as well to a screen if the text is strictly translated into pictures. The movies in fact include some new dialogue to this effect.
You seem to be losing sight of the fact that these are movies and not books. A "movie of the book" does NOT mean reproducing every shallow obvious point, and ignoring things which can only work on paper. It means translating the plot, themes, characters, etc. to a new medium in the most effective way that can be found.
My work's document control is very simple and effective. Store all the documents in one Windows directory (perhaps with subdirs for various types of document).
Other machines on the network can read and write via SMB, but Windows makes sure that only one person can have it open for write access at a time (so there is no problem with multiple saves).
Now, the important bit: Label each document with its version in the filename, and whenever you make *any* change, give it a new version number and save it. In the file (near the top) , set aside a section for change history. Anyone who edits the document puts an entry in this section saying their name, the date, the version #, and what change they made.
Needless to say, this directory should be backed up reguarly and safely.
Isn't it interesting how the /. crowd hates patents, but gets all up in arms whenever somebody mentions GPL violation, a much weaker 'licence'...
Surely then the question was,
Who the heck modded him up in the past so that he got all that karma.