What's going on is that the driver is applying the wrong optimizations to the graphics command stream. Since these hidden tweaks were designed to work on known code, they are very dependent on it. Whatever is used to render the leaves is completely broken by whatever changes are performed to boost Q3 scores, and the leaves and wings both break when it thinks it's running 3DM2K3.
Well... Isn't it their God-given right? Why shouldn't they own the fibre? They put up the cost of laying it in the first place, and unless they did it under contract no one else has any claim of ownership. US law requires them to fairly compensate Verizon if they want its property, it can't just be nationalized on command.
Courts? Why are there courts involved? Is easyCinema trying to force the MPAA to sign a contract? Is the MPAA trying to get easyCinema shut down even though they aren't doing business with each other?
Why do you consider violence against police officers a sacred right of free expression? If you attack anyone, police officer or not, you're guilty of various forms of assault, whether or not it was inspired by a video game.
If the court rules for the farmer, it will destroy the biotech industry. Where is the incentive to genetically engineer anything useful if you can only ever sell one of them? Without the major companies, who's going to make the breakthroughs that require millions of dollars of equipment and research support?
It's the fact that A) The PS2 installed base is 10 times the size of the GCs B) Nobody really gives that much of a crap about the fact that it's proprietary.
Those are the source for the game logic module and the SDK for developing mods to replace it. The core engine (graphics, physics, networking) is closed-source.
I agree completely. Except that everyone got the message within 15 seconds, then just got bored (the sequence is also quite repetitive). By the end of the scene, lots of people in my theater (including me) were groaning and laughing, and that's not good at 10 minutes into the most anticipated action movie of the year.
So the big rental players (blockbuster et al) ignore this new technology, and it gets launched as an impulse buy next to the cashier. Customers confuse them with the other CDs/DVDs that you can buy and play forever, buy them and watch them unexpectedly self-destruct. Backlash, bad word-of-mouth, technology dead in the water. Just like Divx, and we were all panicking over that too.
Quartz is vector-based. It has a built-in path rasterizer and support for floating-point coordinates (among other things). It can also do nonrectangular windows (and change their shape on the fly), but no one really takes advantage of this outside Apple's sample code.
How many times here has this situation come up here in the reverse direction? We're all quite happy to tell corporations to fuck off when they point out how we might abuse our new toys. "You damn corporations can't stop technological progress", remember? Well, neither can us geeks. These devices WILL arrive and they WILL gradually enter more and more of our lives. The ability to find the location of any unique object on demand has applications we can't even dream of. And *everything* can be used for ill if you put your mind to it.
Indeed... It's not like the virus writer was ethical either. I'd file this under the computer equivalent of hot pursuit; emergency response teams sometimes do need to break some laws to enforce others.
The Federal Reserve is constantly collecting "old" currency and shredding it, and constantly publishing new. The money supply is unchanged, but the life of individual bills is not that long. The old 20s will still be accepted, but there will be gradually less and less of them (unless, as you say, someone starts stashing them).
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What's going on is that the driver is applying the wrong optimizations to the graphics command stream. Since these hidden tweaks were designed to work on known code, they are very dependent on it. Whatever is used to render the leaves is completely broken by whatever changes are performed to boost Q3 scores, and the leaves and wings both break when it thinks it's running 3DM2K3.
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Like I said, unless they did it under contract. No, I didn't read the article either :)
I was just responding to what appeared to be a knee-jerk post raging against a corporation trying to excersize its rights in any way, shape, or form.
Well... Isn't it their God-given right? Why shouldn't they own the fibre? They put up the cost of laying it in the first place, and unless they did it under contract no one else has any claim of ownership. US law requires them to fairly compensate Verizon if they want its property, it can't just be nationalized on command.
Courts? Why are there courts involved? Is easyCinema trying to force the MPAA to sign a contract? Is the MPAA trying to get easyCinema shut down even though they aren't doing business with each other?
The cult of Cthulhu.
Managing Enterprise content is simple. Just set the Tivo to record UPN at the right time, then rip the episodes and use a good naming scheme...
Wake me up when someone makes a movie of The Killer Japanese Seizure Robots.
Why do you consider violence against police officers a sacred right of free expression? If you attack anyone, police officer or not, you're guilty of various forms of assault, whether or not it was inspired by a video game.
Spiderman barely scrapes by as a photographer, and Batman owns a huge multinational corporation. Who do you think's gonna win?
*Everyone* uses the dirty disc as a general error. I suspect it's the only media-related error the Xbox can throw.
If the court rules for the farmer, it will destroy the biotech industry. Where is the incentive to genetically engineer anything useful if you can only ever sell one of them? Without the major companies, who's going to make the breakthroughs that require millions of dollars of equipment and research support?
It's the fact that A) The PS2 installed base is 10 times the size of the GCs B) Nobody really gives that much of a crap about the fact that it's proprietary.
Those are the source for the game logic module and the SDK for developing mods to replace it. The core engine (graphics, physics, networking) is closed-source.
I agree completely. Except that everyone got the message within 15 seconds, then just got bored (the sequence is also quite repetitive). By the end of the scene, lots of people in my theater (including me) were groaning and laughing, and that's not good at 10 minutes into the most anticipated action movie of the year.
So could OS 9 with a bit of work.
So the big rental players (blockbuster et al) ignore this new technology, and it gets launched as an impulse buy next to the cashier. Customers confuse them with the other CDs/DVDs that you can buy and play forever, buy them and watch them unexpectedly self-destruct. Backlash, bad word-of-mouth, technology dead in the water. Just like Divx, and we were all panicking over that too.
Quartz is vector-based. It has a built-in path rasterizer and support for floating-point coordinates (among other things). It can also do nonrectangular windows (and change their shape on the fly), but no one really takes advantage of this outside Apple's sample code.
How many times here has this situation come up here in the reverse direction? We're all quite happy to tell corporations to fuck off when they point out how we might abuse our new toys. "You damn corporations can't stop technological progress", remember? Well, neither can us geeks. These devices WILL arrive and they WILL gradually enter more and more of our lives. The ability to find the location of any unique object on demand has applications we can't even dream of. And *everything* can be used for ill if you put your mind to it.
Indeed... It's not like the virus writer was ethical either. I'd file this under the computer equivalent of hot pursuit; emergency response teams sometimes do need to break some laws to enforce others.
So why not run it a few dozen times and average the result? That could be completely automated.
No, Epic (at the time, Epic Megagames) made the Unreal engine themselves.
The Federal Reserve is constantly collecting "old" currency and shredding it, and constantly publishing new. The money supply is unchanged, but the life of individual bills is not that long. The old 20s will still be accepted, but there will be gradually less and less of them (unless, as you say, someone starts stashing them).
I will expect apologies from everyone who insisted over the past three years that there would never be a PC version on my desk in the morning.
so if your sitting in traffic for example...you can be talking on GAIM.
And you thought cell phones caused accidents...