So you really think the fraction of the market who use Linux wouldn't bitch to the manufacturers if a certain sound card didn't work on their system? And if the manufacturers didn't clean up their act, those users would just buy a different card, from a company who hasn't been corrupted.
If you want to save some of the hassle with bits of CSS missing from IE, you might want to check out this "IE7" thing. You put it in a stylesheet and it makes various things work which didn't already work.
The difference in that case is that 0 is always 0, and 1 is always 1, but you might at some point want to change whether GRAVITY is (float)9.8 or (double)9.8, and if you think it's acceptable to go through all your code and change every reference to it, you suck.
This bill would set forth legislative findings and declarations regarding the harmful effects of violent video games on minors. It would prohibit a person from knowingly distributing or exhibiting to a minor any video game that appeals to minors' morbid interest in violence, that enables the player to virtually inflict serious injury upon human beings or characters with substantially human characteristics in a manner that is especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, as defined, and that lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors. The bill would exclude from this prohibition any game in which the visual depiction of violence occurs as the result of simultaneous competition between 2 or more players, as specified.
So basically, it's uncool to beat up people in GTA3, but it's perfectly acceptable to kill your friends in UT2004.
No shit, coop mode was the only reason to buy the Xbox version. Taking it out of the PC version has hopefully just cost them sales. It would serve the arseholes right, anyway.
Actually I think you're safe on that. I read a news story which said that Nintendo were intending to sit out the next round of consoles. Maybe they're getting paranoid about the fabled "two failed consoles" rule.
That hits the nail on the head. SNES Zelda is still one of the most fun games, ever. EVER! And then there are all the old Final Fantasy series before they discovered 3D and used it as an excuse to make the games worse.
What stops me registering my imaginary band with the same name as another band, and then using that tag to stamp ripped MP3s? Do you really think that ordinary users know how to read certificates?
Well presumably when you receive the MP3 you need to decode the watermark, add your name to the list, and re-stamp the watermark. If that's the case I guess you could just replace the last step with nothing. Alternatively it might just tack crap on the end of the file for each user, which is easy too. Or it might just watermark the entire file multiple times, which would probably be really hard to implement.
Stop wasting money developing 5GB of 3D artwork and FMV, and start writing games which are actually FUN. Maybe then you can charge less even, and hey, maybe more people will buy the things when they don't cost $100. People don't give a fuck how much money you pour in making the game competitive with the latest UT clone. People want to HAVE FUN.
If I understand their strategy correctly, the idea is to keep a 'stable' CVS tag in the manner of FreeBSD, and to distribute that to the enterprise portage tree. The same CVS repository would still be used for all the files, it would just be pointing at a different tag. And as long as it's using Portage, it's Gentoo.:-)
Setting up for an installation is trivial, you just need to create a snapshot of your filesystem after following the install process. Then put that on a CD, and make an installer whose only job is to copy the files back to the hard drive. A new install just means uncompressing the file, syncing and updating the system.:-)
KPortage was around for quite a while but I heard it got stale. I wouldn't know because I eventually got bored of it, but it was actually quite good in its time. Porthole is the latest offering but I've heard it's GTK-based.
Given up? Yahoo only tried to stop people using their network a few months ago. What makes you think they've given up when the last public statement was something along the lines of "we will do whatever we need to do to ensure people use our client."
Some time in the 1980s I built an electronics kit which had this functionality... it's not exactly rocket science, if it was old enough tech back then for a kid to be able to build it.
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Well I guess the upside of that is that we would get Linux drivers for that hardware pretty damn quickly.
So you really think the fraction of the market who use Linux wouldn't bitch to the manufacturers if a certain sound card didn't work on their system? And if the manufacturers didn't clean up their act, those users would just buy a different card, from a company who hasn't been corrupted.
If you want to save some of the hassle with bits of CSS missing from IE, you might want to check out this "IE7" thing. You put it in a stylesheet and it makes various things work which didn't already work.
The difference in that case is that 0 is always 0, and 1 is always 1, but you might at some point want to change whether GRAVITY is (float)9.8 or (double)9.8, and if you think it's acceptable to go through all your code and change every reference to it, you suck.
Even if all the graphics were positioned based on the font size, you would still be in trouble wherever there are images which can't scale.
Heh... I can't believe this is Insightful when it really should be Funny since it's a joke partially stolen from Coupling.
This bill would set forth legislative findings and declarations regarding the harmful effects of violent video games on minors. It would prohibit a person from knowingly distributing or exhibiting to a minor any video game that appeals to minors' morbid interest in violence, that enables the player to virtually inflict serious injury upon human beings or characters with substantially human characteristics in a manner that is especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, as defined, and that lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors. The bill would exclude from this prohibition any game in which the visual depiction of violence occurs as the result of simultaneous competition between 2 or more players, as specified.
So basically, it's uncool to beat up people in GTA3, but it's perfectly acceptable to kill your friends in UT2004.
No shit, coop mode was the only reason to buy the Xbox version. Taking it out of the PC version has hopefully just cost them sales. It would serve the arseholes right, anyway.
Actually I think you're safe on that. I read a news story which said that Nintendo were intending to sit out the next round of consoles. Maybe they're getting paranoid about the fabled "two failed consoles" rule.
That hits the nail on the head. SNES Zelda is still one of the most fun games, ever. EVER! And then there are all the old Final Fantasy series before they discovered 3D and used it as an excuse to make the games worse.
"Give me full impulse power, I wish to catch up to this .. 'nerd disser outter'."
I guess nobody has four, which is why there is a word for it.
What stops me registering my imaginary band with the same name as another band, and then using that tag to stamp ripped MP3s? Do you really think that ordinary users know how to read certificates?
Well presumably when you receive the MP3 you need to decode the watermark, add your name to the list, and re-stamp the watermark. If that's the case I guess you could just replace the last step with nothing. Alternatively it might just tack crap on the end of the file for each user, which is easy too. Or it might just watermark the entire file multiple times, which would probably be really hard to implement.
No way, all those people with four-ear headphones will love this stuff.
Nothing stops a garage band from recording 5.1 stuff anyway. They just need more money and/or a Linux sound geek. ;-)
I guess that's twice as many as the goatse man, so it must be good.
Stop wasting money developing 5GB of 3D artwork and FMV, and start writing games which are actually FUN. Maybe then you can charge less even, and hey, maybe more people will buy the things when they don't cost $100. People don't give a fuck how much money you pour in making the game competitive with the latest UT clone. People want to HAVE FUN.
If I understand their strategy correctly, the idea is to keep a 'stable' CVS tag in the manner of FreeBSD, and to distribute that to the enterprise portage tree. The same CVS repository would still be used for all the files, it would just be pointing at a different tag. And as long as it's using Portage, it's Gentoo. :-)
Setting up for an installation is trivial, you just need to create a snapshot of your filesystem after following the install process. Then put that on a CD, and make an installer whose only job is to copy the files back to the hard drive. A new install just means uncompressing the file, syncing and updating the system. :-)
KPortage was around for quite a while but I heard it got stale. I wouldn't know because I eventually got bored of it, but it was actually quite good in its time. Porthole is the latest offering but I've heard it's GTK-based.
Please don't give them any ideas.
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Given up? Yahoo only tried to stop people using their network a few months ago. What makes you think they've given up when the last public statement was something along the lines of "we will do whatever we need to do to ensure people use our client."
Some time in the 1980s I built an electronics kit which had this functionality... it's not exactly rocket science, if it was old enough tech back then for a kid to be able to build it.