By doing this, you'll make SCO's shitty management, all of whom are big owners of the stock, rich. None of them will care about SCO's previous IP being GPLed, they'll just be busy swimming in all their new money.
Personally I can still watch The Matrix and be entertained, but at the same time I'm absolutely convinced it won't hold up like Star Wars and the LOTR movies, if only for two reasons...the clothing fashions and the music. Both will seem seriously dated in 10 years because they were very "hip" at the time. Star Wars and LOTR, on the other hand, used more timeless, classical designs for both costumes and music. They will "last" much, much longer.
Your evaluation of the matter is entirely too simplistic. As the article mentions, we are progressing to the point in our scientific evolution where an accident during an experiment MIGHT potentially destroy the Earth, if not the entire Universe.
I'm all for the Search for Truth, but wouldn't it be wise to temper that search with some patience and forethought to avoid destroying our entire civilization (at which point our search for truth would end far, far from the goal)?
There's some truth to what you've written, but you're looking at it from someone who is already a programmer. A total newbie who first encounters programming through an error-riddled introductory book could be put off from coding forever due to frustration. If you know nothing of programming and the hello world in your coding 101 book is fucked up, you just don't have the tools to figure out why at that point, and won't for a long while yet.
Most of the flaws in the article don't sound like REAL flaws to me, but rather misinterpretation of what the system is supposed to do.
This is a remote desktop for home users, not an Ellison-like "Network Computer" for the business enviornment. Sadly, the reviewer reviewed it as if that were what it was trying to be.
Umm... id Software games have always been OpenGL based. Seeing how the XBox only supports Direct3D, and I don't seen why John Carmack would waste the time porting the entire codebase to Direct3D.
The XBOX supports whatever software is on the DVD. It would be trivial for Microsoft and NVidia to port NVidia's OpenGL drivers from Win2000 to the XBOX and stick them on the DVD.
DirectX *isn't* built into the XBOX. It is just software libs on the DVD of each game. The OpenGL driver would work exactly the same.
This isn't an issue that Microsoft couldn't fix (with NVidia's help) in the span of a week.
id has to sit on the PC version of Doom III for a while yet anyway. If it were released today it would suffer from the fact that a lot of people don't have a videocard that can play the game with a reasonable framerate. Doom III won't be out for PC until this holiday season no matter what, simply because id has to wait for the graphic card market to catch up to the engine, unless it wants a poor selling game.
Not only is this for consoles only, but from everything I've heard, Carmack has always said that the XBOX would likely be the only console that had Doom III anyway, since the others just didn't have the graphic oomph to do it.
All in all this sounds great -- Microsoft pays id a truckload of money to maintain a console exclusive that would have been exclusive anyway, just due to technical hurdles instead of a contract.
Well, XML is, at the end of the day, JUST a file markup language. No company in the world (be they Microsoft, Sun, or IBM) is going to write an XML document that can just instantly be loaded in any application -- there always has to be code to parse that XML file and do something with it (like display it on-screen).
I'm not sure where these people who thought Office being XML would instantly make it compatible with other word processors are coming from -- if the other word processors don't implement support for Microsoft's XML format, it won't happen. For compatibility, the only thing XML gives over the.doc format is it is harder for Microsoft to hide undocumented features in it since it is primarily text based. That's it!
Blackjack card counters are fools. So are any "professional" gamblers. With a similar investment of effort, a person could instead succeed at investments, or real estate, or any other enterprise. Cheating casinos is way too much effort for too little return.
Um, try reading his book, or his older Wired article. I'm sure the people he covered in his book are crying about you calling them fools -- all the way to the bank, since many of them made millions of dollars.
Ok well Linux users have been hammering on the "Windows is insecure" thing for what -- 6 years now? And Windows' market share is as good as it ever was, perhaps even a bit better. Time to try a new strategy? This one is getting boring!
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Good idea, snapperhead.
Good plan... Oh wait, who would you talk to? Bad plan.
Yeah, but neither will any other card company...Because "they" won't send you any more cards because they think you're a pretentious DICK.
Linux is still around? I thought those guys went out of business.
Oh no!
Things don't sound so good for those poor guys at Microsoft! I better sell my stock!
This is also a very old idea. I (like many others) used to do the same thing with a RAM Disk on my Amiga.
So you were sitting around for 8 years waiting for a date from this broad?
Pathetic, man!
Personally I can still watch The Matrix and be entertained, but at the same time I'm absolutely convinced it won't hold up like Star Wars and the LOTR movies, if only for two reasons...the clothing fashions and the music. Both will seem seriously dated in 10 years because they were very "hip" at the time. Star Wars and LOTR, on the other hand, used more timeless, classical designs for both costumes and music. They will "last" much, much longer.
If they did that they might get sued by Lindows.
Hahaha!
Loser!
I'm all for the Search for Truth, but wouldn't it be wise to temper that search with some patience and forethought to avoid destroying our entire civilization (at which point our search for truth would end far, far from the goal)?
There's some truth to what you've written, but you're looking at it from someone who is already a programmer. A total newbie who first encounters programming through an error-riddled introductory book could be put off from coding forever due to frustration. If you know nothing of programming and the hello world in your coding 101 book is fucked up, you just don't have the tools to figure out why at that point, and won't for a long while yet.
This is a remote desktop for home users, not an Ellison-like "Network Computer" for the business enviornment. Sadly, the reviewer reviewed it as if that were what it was trying to be.
But the PS2 hardware is very aged, and porting Doom III to it would remove much of what makes it the Doom III we are all looking forward to.
The XBOX supports whatever software is on the DVD. It would be trivial for Microsoft and NVidia to port NVidia's OpenGL drivers from Win2000 to the XBOX and stick them on the DVD.
DirectX *isn't* built into the XBOX. It is just software libs on the DVD of each game. The OpenGL driver would work exactly the same.
This isn't an issue that Microsoft couldn't fix (with NVidia's help) in the span of a week.
id has to sit on the PC version of Doom III for a while yet anyway. If it were released today it would suffer from the fact that a lot of people don't have a videocard that can play the game with a reasonable framerate. Doom III won't be out for PC until this holiday season no matter what, simply because id has to wait for the graphic card market to catch up to the engine, unless it wants a poor selling game.
All in all this sounds great -- Microsoft pays id a truckload of money to maintain a console exclusive that would have been exclusive anyway, just due to technical hurdles instead of a contract.
I'm not sure where these people who thought Office being XML would instantly make it compatible with other word processors are coming from -- if the other word processors don't implement support for Microsoft's XML format, it won't happen. For compatibility, the only thing XML gives over the .doc format is it is harder for Microsoft to hide undocumented features in it since it is primarily text based. That's it!
Um, try reading his book, or his older Wired article. I'm sure the people he covered in his book are crying about you calling them fools -- all the way to the bank, since many of them made millions of dollars.
Ok well Linux users have been hammering on the "Windows is insecure" thing for what -- 6 years now? And Windows' market share is as good as it ever was, perhaps even a bit better. Time to try a new strategy? This one is getting boring!
What is elected representative?
What a bummer.
Best way to performance tune Java is to rewrite the code in C#.
This just in..The GP32 is still a worthless piece of junk.