Or how about a section where people read the article?
This is just saying that if the police get a warrant, and take away some encrypted documents, you have to give them the keys. This is to get around a current loophole, which says while the police can take computers, it's not a crime for you not to tell them how to get files off them.
While I can see someone being against all possible situations where the police can sieze equipment, it seems reasonable that if they can sieze computers, they can force you to tell them how to read the information on it, else there is really no point them getting a warrant to sieze the computer in the first place.
Based on one sample of personal experience, I would say you should allow about 1 year to convert all your code to Java, get it back to the state it is now, and work through the hundreds of minor bugs that are certain to crop up. That is I think one of the most important things to consider. Do not underestimate how long the conversion will take.
By moving to Java, the main things you gain are garbage collection, and generally much better memory protection. Yes I know in theory you can do these things in C++, but it can be easier when your language handles it for you. You also lose all the complex template-foo you can do in C++, which you can either decide is an advantage or disadvantage:)
I often used to wonder just why I got so many spams which seemed identical to ones I've been getting for months. Surely by now everyone who would fall for it had done?
Then one day, I bought something off ebay, and used paypal. About 4 minutes later, I got the ping of something arriving in my mail box. It was from paypal. It said my credit card payment had been refused. I realised I might have changed credit cards since I last used paypal, so off I went to log in and check my details were up to date.
I got about half way through typing in my password before suddenly I had a sinking feeling. Yes, it had been a spam. I'd just clicked on a link in the e-mail while half-asleep.
OK, there are two seperate issues here, with hot coffee and this patch.
First of all, should they be rated M at all, even if the content was available in the game easily? I'm not sure about that, I don't know how the American rating system works.
However, on the other hand, I DO think that these things should be used when deciding rating. The ESRB has to have a blanket "If it is on the CD, it counts" policy. So, at the moment we are fairly sure you can't get the hot coffee mod without external hacking, but how we be 100% sure of that? Often people find cheats and hidden things in games years after they come out. There is no way the ESRB can hunt into every corner, try every way of playing the game. So they have to have this policy.
Out of interest, just how do you get CDs that you actually want for $7 each?
I wouldn't believe you could, unless you were willing to take any old crap.
Because then I could write scripts that don't break horribly when someone has a directory with a space in. Seriously, they should just never have allowed those, it would make life much easier.
I have been using the pre-release versions of this update, and have not been able to get the memory usage to spiral out of control like it used to, except if I open a lot of realplayer streams (before anyone wonders why I ever would, I often listen to bbc news online). However, the memory leak from realplayer is no worse than before, just more visable than before as other bugs have been fixed:)
Probably should also be mentioned that animal crossing supports wi-fi. While the game is great without it, it's really nice to be able to pop and see your friend's towns, and trade items with them. If you have a few friends who play the game, it adds a lot, and makes you keep your town super-tidy:)
It isn't going to be possible to move the kernel from v2 to v3 without the following happening:
1) Find the contributor of every piece of code in the kernel and pursade them to change to v3 2) Get all the code where either the contributor won't accept that, or you can't find them, and re-write it.
Seeing as a large proportion of the kernel has been written by Linus, by the time all code he wrote, and all the code derived from code he wrote was re-written by someone else, there wouldn't be much of the original kernel left.
In the PC world, if Microsoft wasn't kept under some control, don't you think by now there would be Microsoft PCs, which (because they didn't have to pay for a copy of windows) would be much cheaper than other people's PCs, and they'd slowly take over 90% of the PC market?
Really? I was looking at the games, and noticing how still thin wires tend to appear and disappear and go jagged as you move around (in MSR) and the guns in Line of Fire 2 (sorry if I've got the game names wrong) also have nasty jaggies along their edges.
Yes, it's nice the resolution is high, but as far as I'm concerned, if you get evil jaggies, you are worse than the dreamcast was, which while tending to be a little low on polygon count didn't have a jaggie problem.
My current favourite question, when people's monitors don't come on after they've moved the computer, or got a new one, is "Is there more than one monitor port? Have you tried both?".
They always claim there is only one socket the monitor will plug into, and without fail so far there has been an onboard one, which they are using, and one on a card, which is the one they should be using, and have completely missed:)
Seriously, what do you want to replace the current journal / review system with? I hope you aren't seriously suggesting anyone can "vote" on which papers they think are good?
Yes, it has many problems, but no-one has come up with a better idea for a system.
I'm coming a little late to this discussion. I am not an online game developer, but I know a few:)
The single biggest problem with a Metered Pay Model, is that if you have a night where all you do is grind through a few levels and search for an item you couldn't find, and you've paid specifically for those hours, you are likely to get pissed quite quickly. Paying monthly means you only have to feel you got your money's worth at the end of the month.
In a similar vain, if you have a night where you are going through a dungeon and get knocked off when you are half way through it, and have to start again, you might want to have the money back if you explicitally paid for that, instead of it just being in your monthly account.
Now, I agree with those people who think Google is basically a good company. However I also think one of the major reasons they are doing this is because Google want to make sure that Firefox's taking over from IE continues, as based on past experience, if Microsoft can keep IE in a monopoly position, it's only a matter of time until various bits of Google start getting "accidentially broken" during IE service packs. Also spreading firefox stops an increase in IE-only websites.
So in conclusion, Firefox gets some more installs, Google gets some more google toolbar installs, lots of websites gain "install firefox" links, IE loses a bit more market share and Google loses a bit of spare change. Everyone wins, except those people we don't like:)
Believe me, the quality of the programming help was never good. I've never met such a bunch of bastards in my whole life, all they ever did was flame anyone who came into the channel. I'm not really sure why they now seem to have got so famous all of a sudden.
Yes, because everyone loves the complex hoops you have to jump through to handle directories and filename with spaces in, and how many scripts die horribly when they come across one. If nothing else, I like the idea of filenames, or a filename with parameters, being a single object which is passed around.
I hate "me too" posts, but I'm going to make an exception here.
VLC is great. Mplayer can play slightly more bizarre video formats, but it can be very hard to get to work, espically for a beginner. VLC is complete self-contained (no downloading of lots of weird conflicting subtitle / codec packages), plays every video file I've ever wanted to play. On windows in parcticular, it is much easier to use it to watch things like fansubs, as it doesn't require downloading codec packages.
Also, very usefully, on both windows and mac it doesn't do DVD region encoding. On my ibook I haven't been able to find a region-coding hack, but VLC just ignores it anyway, allowing me to easily watch all my DVDs. The same thing happens on windows. It's one of the two programs I always carry around on my USB key (the other being firefox).
No, their license is giving you more than the GPL. One of the GPL's biggest problems is it doesn't play friendly with many other OSS licences, so they are putting in a special exception to allow you to link to more things (such as things under the PHP licence). Of course, as you say, you can always have the GPL if you don't like their licence.
Actually, he's responsible for Glibc, the standard linux implementation of the C standard library (and various extensions), not GCC. Still an important job however.
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Or how about a section where people read the article?
This is just saying that if the police get a warrant, and take away some encrypted documents, you have to give them the keys. This is to get around a current loophole, which says while the police can take computers, it's not a crime for you not to tell them how to get files off them.
While I can see someone being against all possible situations where the police can sieze equipment, it seems reasonable that if they can sieze computers, they can force you to tell them how to read the information on it, else there is really no point them getting a warrant to sieze the computer in the first place.
Based on one sample of personal experience, I would say you should allow about 1 year to convert all your code to Java, get it back to the state it is now, and work through the hundreds of minor bugs that are certain to crop up. That is I think one of the most important things to consider. Do not underestimate how long the conversion will take.
:)
By moving to Java, the main things you gain are garbage collection, and generally much better memory protection. Yes I know in theory you can do these things in C++, but it can be easier when your language handles it for you. You also lose all the complex template-foo you can do in C++, which you can either decide is an advantage or disadvantage
I often used to wonder just why I got so many spams which seemed identical to ones I've been getting for months. Surely by now everyone who would fall for it had done?
Then one day, I bought something off ebay, and used paypal. About 4 minutes later, I got the ping of something arriving in my mail box. It was from paypal. It said my credit card payment had been refused. I realised I might have changed credit cards since I last used paypal, so off I went to log in and check my details were up to date.
I got about half way through typing in my password before suddenly I had a sinking feeling. Yes, it had been a spam. I'd just clicked on a link in the e-mail while half-asleep.
No-one could confuse them?
If I said to most people I'd bought something from "Apple music" don't you think they would assume I meant iTunes?
If it was an important part of your job, would you want "rudimentary support"?
OK, there are two seperate issues here, with hot coffee and this patch.
First of all, should they be rated M at all, even if the content was available in the game easily? I'm not sure about that, I don't know how the American rating system works.
However, on the other hand, I DO think that these things should be used when deciding rating. The ESRB has to have a blanket "If it is on the CD, it counts" policy. So, at the moment we are fairly sure you can't get the hot coffee mod without external hacking, but how we be 100% sure of that? Often people find cheats and hidden things in games years after they come out. There is no way the ESRB can hunt into every corner, try every way of playing the game. So they have to have this policy.
Out of interest, just how do you get CDs that you actually want for $7 each? I wouldn't believe you could, unless you were willing to take any old crap.
Because then I could write scripts that don't break horribly when someone has a directory with a space in. Seriously, they should just never have allowed those, it would make life much easier.
This can't be right.. the website is still up. Perhaps that is because no-one can find the link To the actual moodviews website.
I can't decide if I should feel guilty for posting this..
I have been using the pre-release versions of this update, and have not been able to get the memory usage to spiral out of control like it used to, except if I open a lot of realplayer streams (before anyone wonders why I ever would, I often listen to bbc news online). However, the memory leak from realplayer is no worse than before, just more visable than before as other bugs have been fixed :)
Slightly annoying, no safari support yet, only internet explorer and firefox (couldn't check opera).
Probably should also be mentioned that animal crossing supports wi-fi. While the game is great without it, it's really nice to be able to pop and see your friend's towns, and trade items with them. If you have a few friends who play the game, it adds a lot, and makes you keep your town super-tidy :)
It isn't going to be possible to move the kernel from v2 to v3 without the following happening:
1) Find the contributor of every piece of code in the kernel and pursade them to change to v3
2) Get all the code where either the contributor won't accept that, or you can't find them, and re-write it.
Seeing as a large proportion of the kernel has been written by Linus, by the time all code he wrote, and all the code derived from code he wrote was re-written by someone else, there wouldn't be much of the original kernel left.
In the PC world, if Microsoft wasn't kept under some control, don't you think by now there would be Microsoft PCs, which (because they didn't have to pay for a copy of windows) would be much cheaper than other people's PCs, and they'd slowly take over 90% of the PC market?
Really? I was looking at the games, and noticing how still thin wires tend to appear and disappear and go jagged as you move around (in MSR) and the guns in Line of Fire 2 (sorry if I've got the game names wrong) also have nasty jaggies along their edges.
Yes, it's nice the resolution is high, but as far as I'm concerned, if you get evil jaggies, you are worse than the dreamcast was, which while tending to be a little low on polygon count didn't have a jaggie problem.
My current favourite question, when people's monitors don't come on after they've moved the computer, or got a new one, is "Is there more than one monitor port? Have you tried both?".
:)
They always claim there is only one socket the monitor will plug into, and without fail so far there has been an onboard one, which they are using, and one on a card, which is the one they should be using, and have completely missed
Seriously, what do you want to replace the current journal / review system with? I hope you aren't seriously suggesting anyone can "vote" on which papers they think are good? Yes, it has many problems, but no-one has come up with a better idea for a system.
I'm coming a little late to this discussion. I am not an online game developer, but I know a few :)
The single biggest problem with a Metered Pay Model, is that if you have a night where all you do is grind through a few levels and search for an item you couldn't find, and you've paid specifically for those hours, you are likely to get pissed quite quickly. Paying monthly means you only have to feel you got your money's worth at the end of the month.
In a similar vain, if you have a night where you are going through a dungeon and get knocked off when you are half way through it, and have to start again, you might want to have the money back if you explicitally paid for that, instead of it just being in your monthly account.
While this sounds cool to me.. what games has EA done that I'd care about the music from?
Now, I agree with those people who think Google is basically a good company. However I also think one of the major reasons they are doing this is because Google want to make sure that Firefox's taking over from IE continues, as based on past experience, if Microsoft can keep IE in a monopoly position, it's only a matter of time until various bits of Google start getting "accidentially broken" during IE service packs. Also spreading firefox stops an increase in IE-only websites.
:)
So in conclusion, Firefox gets some more installs, Google gets some more google toolbar installs, lots of websites gain "install firefox" links, IE loses a bit more market share and Google loses a bit of spare change. Everyone wins, except those people we don't like
Believe me, the quality of the programming help was never good. I've never met such a bunch of bastards in my whole life, all they ever did was flame anyone who came into the channel. I'm not really sure why they now seem to have got so famous all of a sudden.
Yes, because everyone loves the complex hoops you have to jump through to handle directories and filename with spaces in, and how many scripts die horribly when they come across one. If nothing else, I like the idea of filenames, or a filename with parameters, being a single object which is passed around.
I hate "me too" posts, but I'm going to make an exception here.
VLC is great. Mplayer can play slightly more bizarre video formats, but it can be very hard to get to work, espically for a beginner. VLC is complete self-contained (no downloading of lots of weird conflicting subtitle / codec packages), plays every video file I've ever wanted to play. On windows in parcticular, it is much easier to use it to watch things like fansubs, as it doesn't require downloading codec packages.
Also, very usefully, on both windows and mac it doesn't do DVD region encoding. On my ibook I haven't been able to find a region-coding hack, but VLC just ignores it anyway, allowing me to easily watch all my DVDs. The same thing happens on windows. It's one of the two programs I always carry around on my USB key (the other being firefox).
No, their license is giving you more than the GPL. One of the GPL's biggest problems is it doesn't play friendly with many other OSS licences, so they are putting in a special exception to allow you to link to more things (such as things under the PHP licence). Of course, as you say, you can always have the GPL if you don't like their licence.
Actually, he's responsible for Glibc, the standard linux implementation of the C standard library (and various extensions), not GCC. Still an important job however.