It's good for Carmak because he wrote the code and the GPL allows him to restrict what his competitors do with it. It's bad for everyone else who might have used the Quake 3 souce but now has to re-invent the wheel.
The Russian government didn't want to nuke the world, and the Russian people were used to doing whatever their government told them to do. The American people are not.
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So how long until they make one that can change into a giant robot?
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Why not cut the searching part out entirely, and just have www.google.com automatically re-direct to whichever site you were going to click?
Doesn't Intel have significantly more marketing muscle, and thus subsequently more ability to spin an ambiguous result in its favour, than AMD?
It's good for Carmak because he wrote the code and the GPL allows him to restrict what his competitors do with it. It's bad for everyone else who might have used the Quake 3 souce but now has to re-invent the wheel.
No, no, the plane turns into a robot.
"What's that, up there in the sky? It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superm-- No, it's a plane."
* CRASH *
Mod parent up Funny!
And stock up on Windex.
ADDENDUM TO AVOID CONFUSION: The American people are not. Rather, they're used to the government doing what they tell it to do.
The Russian government didn't want to nuke the world, and the Russian people were used to doing whatever their government told them to do. The American people are not.
Right. It's not like fire needs oxygen or anything.
But a desktop suits the needs of many users, and can be made (and sold) more cheaply. End of story.
Well, those carbon-based lifeforms that pose the greatest threat to a clean, sterile environment also tend to spew a lot of hot air...
I'm pretty sure that relativity has already been revised a few times after Einstein's initial work.
c is a constant and therefore cannot be 2. This equation can only work out if m = 2/c.
Many things require two or three tonnes of cash.
That's the forbidden dance!
Every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate.
The area north of the Great Lakes is already quite civilized. Of course, south of them there's nothing but barbarians. And not the cool kind, either.
That would be pronounced "French Sanadian".
More like apples and potatoes.
The manufacturing process for eyes is much more fun...
So, in other words, bait and switch.
You spoony bard!