"Foo is not ready for prime time" has been nominated as one of the most annoying, overused phrases currently used by English writers. Please do your part to save English from the horrors of recycled and unimaginative prose construction, by helping to stamp out this old, tired phrase.
Fascinating. We can only speculate how much the progress of science and useful arts were set back by these blatant acts of copyright infringement. One wonders how many more plays Shakespeare would have been able to write, if only his income wasn't unjustly diverted by these pirates.:)
Your OS can be as compartmentalised as you want, but it still has to make do with whatever crappy hardware it's running on. If a badly written driver wedges the video card, you're going to have to restart, regardless of whether the microkernel restarts the driver or not.:)
"[Microsoft] bloody well enforce patents about twenty-five-years old bloody technologies..." "
If you look the patents up, you can see that they were filed between 1995 and 1997. The technologies are only 9-11 years old. So Americans only have to endure this madness for another 10 years or so.
You are thinking of copyright. Patents protect an 'invention'; anyone else who implements the same 'invention' infringes on the patent, even if they developed their implementation independently.
I actually do have a copy of "Deus Ex 2" waiting for the release of Intel-based Macs. Now I'll be able to dust it off... and play on a soon-to-be-mine iMac.
Don't bother. A more enjoyable way of spending your time would be to drive toothpicks underneath your fingernails and lever them off.
I heard that India brought in software patents shortly after the Indian Ocean tsunami at the end of 2005. China has been issuing software patents for some time.
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That's all well and good, until a terrorist or child pornographer uses your connection to do something that will get you into trouble.
"Foo is not ready for prime time" has been nominated as one of the most annoying, overused phrases currently used by English writers. Please do your part to save English from the horrors of recycled and unimaginative prose construction, by helping to stamp out this old, tired phrase.
And I suppose you'd be happy to use a Mac Portable? :)
According to the OED, it is a verb, not that it's not still a horrible abuse of English.
Fascinating. We can only speculate how much the progress of science and useful arts were set back by these blatant acts of copyright infringement. One wonders how many more plays Shakespeare would have been able to write, if only his income wasn't unjustly diverted by these pirates. :)
What power?
Your OS can be as compartmentalised as you want, but it still has to make do with whatever crappy hardware it's running on. If a badly written driver wedges the video card, you're going to have to restart, regardless of whether the microkernel restarts the driver or not. :)
True, that. Which reminds me... surely Alone in the Dark made use of this camera perspective in 1992--several years before FF7. ;)
Any operating system that allows software running on it to cause it to crash is broken.
Is it possible to mention anything on this forum without having someone else jump in and say 'xxx did it first!'? :)
SLOCCount statistics for Debian 3.1 (sarge): http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/debian-counting /sarge/index.php?menu=Statistics
120e6 lines of C. Perl is in 5th place with 6e6 lines, and Python is in 6th with 4e6 lines.
Don't worry, those of us with NVidia cards have exactly the same problem. :)
"Why the FF and TB creaters aren't working on a common GRE?"
They are, I think it's called xulrunner these days.
apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail kmail
Wasn't that difficult!
You are thinking of copyright. Patents protect an 'invention'; anyone else who implements the same 'invention' infringes on the patent, even if they developed their implementation independently.
Only an idiot *doesn't* worry about IBM's patent warchest.
I think the word to describe this phenomenon is 'blackwhite'.
Didn't you know, you can get a 100% speed boost by putting any CPU inside a case designed by Jonathan Ive.
I heard that India brought in software patents shortly after the Indian Ocean tsunami at the end of 2005. China has been issuing software patents for some time.
Carmack: the last OpenGL programmer (in gaming).
I would be much more interested to read about ten people who had created and actually released genuinely good games.
Isn't a 'critical mass' actually a critical density? Surely it is necessary to look at far more than the amount of fissionable material present.
While the Belt of Orion is over US territory, it must obey US laws, presumably. :)