It doesn't help that at some point, Google decided to stop having it require all search terms to be present in the search results, which was one of Google's major features.
It took me only a moment to find this, but when I googled bacon binoculars and jumped to a random page (in my case, page 5), right in the middle of the page is a link to "Astro Bob | Celestial happenings you can see from your own backyard" which doesn't mention bacon on its page. Later down the same page of results, there's a "Tactical Bacon in 9oz can" which doesn't mention binoculars anywhere... nor does its Google cache page mention that binoculars isn't on the page anywhere, but only in the links other sites use to link to it.
Wii's AMD Hollywood GPU is roughly comparable in fillrate to a Radeon 9000, and the Xenos in the Xbox 360 is like a Radeon X1900. Which GPU on Tom's chart comes closest to the specs of a Tegra 3?
nVidia's specs page for the Tegra 3 are a bit on the light side with performance details. "3D Performance Relative to Tegra 2" is the only performance metric they give, which is, needless to say, completely useless when trying to compare them to any real 3D cards.
So, I checked with Wikipedia (which could very well be wrong).
Looking at the list of clock speeds and pixel shaders for the Tegra 3 graphics core and the other GeForce graphics cores, the fastest version of it appears to run at about the same clock speed and pixel shaders as the nVidia GeForce GT 120 (which is 3 graphics card generations old at this point).
Not only that, but both the Wii and Xbox 360 are on their way out. The Wii U is going to retail later this year. While the price is unknown, it's thought to be $299... the same price the Wii debuted at. Video specs are currently unknown, only that AMD is designing it.
The rumor mill has a new Xbox console pegged as coming out sometime in 2013. Rumor also has it that it will ship with dual-video cards (if you can call them that in consoles).
Say you have friends over, and they didn't all happen to bring gaming laptops and copies of the same game. In this case, games that run on something connected to your TV are a better choice for multiplayer than most PC games because most PC games don't support multiple gamepads.
I have a device, made by Microsoft no less, that allows me to connect 4 wireless Xbox 360 controllers to my PC. It sells with 1 controller for $41 from Amazon, which is $2 more than the same controller sells for alone.
I release some Code A under the GPL (which works fine on its own) and some Code B under a proprietary licence, and a third party links A to B and releases it, that in no way compels me to release my proprietary code B! This is an analogy, not an attempt to explain exactly what is happening, but I think it's apt.
Oh no, it's far worse than that, you'd be required to turn over the signing key that you use to cryptographically sign all your proprietary code.
In short: as a programmer you are probably constantly "ripping off" hundreds of patent holders with every program you write. Unless you plan on going into the patent trolling business, it's unlikely that your one hypothetical patent will ever give you more benefit than the liabilities you have due to other people's patents.
On a point closer to home:
If we had granted Software Patents in the 1980s like we do today, there would be no OSX (Apple sued out of existence by Xerox), Windows (Microsoft sued out of existence by Digital Research and/or Xerox), or Linux (sued out of existence by AT&T).
To my knowledge, Congress never passed any laws regarding software being patentable. As such, as a bunch of mathematical algorithms, they shouldn't be... but we never stopped it back in the 80s/90s when companies started filing patents on software, so here they are now.
So, literally, this would be reaffirming something that was already decided (math can't be patented).
Aerosmith decides to play a show in a public park down the street from my house. Since I can hear the entire show from my back porch, I have every right in the world to place a tape recorder on my own property and record the public performance. Granted, it is likely still illegal to profit from said recording, but making it is decidedly not criminal.
If you're in the US, it is illegal. Section 106 of Section 17 (i.e. copyright law) gives them exclusive rights "to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords" unless you have a valid fair use reason for said recording. "Because I wanted to listen to it later" isn't a valid reason.
PHP is well beyond fixing - mysql_escape_string and mysql_real_escape_string prove it, otherwise the first method would have been fixed rather than "replaced".
How would they fix that? The latter requires an active database connection and the former doesn't. Just changing the former would break any apps that relied on its old behavior.
It's a moot point now, you should be using PDO for database connections in PHP... I haven't used PHP on a regular basis since 2006 and even I know that!
When I run around the PvE world, it is really one of the first games where I will help out random people.
So, they got rid of the instanced world in Guild Wars 2? Or by "run around the PvE world" did you actually mean "when I stop back at town for some reason"?
Good god, are you even in middle school yet? Even 10 years ago, realtime-3D was mostly sleight of hand and programming hat tricks (think: Battle Arena Toshinden, probably the best example of a game that did a spectacularly good job of pretending to be 3D).
Perhaps you meant 15 years ago? Or are you seriously suggesting that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (released 10 years ago in 2002) couldn't do real-time 3D?
I left (after faking my profile), but I have a second equally fake profile for the express reason that Steam periodically requires Facebook for Summer promotions. Speaking of which, this should happen again soon.
I do wonder if they'll get suspicious about a Facebook account with 0 friends who never visits their actual site or posts things on it.
Also, pray tell, which FPS developer makes the innovative breaths of fresh air that you occupy your time with, eh?
Valve.
Then again, I've been playing the same online FPS for 5 years, but it's still getting new updates including one scheduled for later this week with the Pyromaniac update and the associated Meet the Pyro video.
Since ESA already has a meaning in the software world, it would be prudent to expand the acronym in the subject. After all, they wouldn't want to be mistaken for the other ESA.
They did developer VBs 7-10 and 11 is due out later this year....did you think that just because they adopted the.NET name, the version numbers just vanished?
VB versions are directly tied to Visual Studio versions these days. VB 7 was.NET 1.0/1.1, VB 8 was.NET 2.0/3.0, VB 9 was.NET 3.5, VB 10 was.NET 4.0, and VB 11 will be.NET 4.5.
So those people who intentionally put off migrating forward for over a decade are going to be surprised that things aren't exactly the same as they were before. Cry me a river.
Half a decade. Windows Vista came out in January 2007.
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Minecraft sells itself - it doesn't use any "stores", because given how frequently they used to update, no store in their right mind would take them.
How often is that? Team Fortress 2 (not just a Steam game, but a Valve game) in general updates 1 or more times a week, every week.
It doesn't help that at some point, Google decided to stop having it require all search terms to be present in the search results, which was one of Google's major features.
It took me only a moment to find this, but when I googled bacon binoculars and jumped to a random page (in my case, page 5), right in the middle of the page is a link to "Astro Bob | Celestial happenings you can see from your own backyard" which doesn't mention bacon on its page. Later down the same page of results, there's a "Tactical Bacon in 9oz can" which doesn't mention binoculars anywhere... nor does its Google cache page mention that binoculars isn't on the page anywhere, but only in the links other sites use to link to it.
Wii's AMD Hollywood GPU is roughly comparable in fillrate to a Radeon 9000, and the Xenos in the Xbox 360 is like a Radeon X1900. Which GPU on Tom's chart comes closest to the specs of a Tegra 3?
nVidia's specs page for the Tegra 3 are a bit on the light side with performance details. "3D Performance Relative to Tegra 2" is the only performance metric they give, which is, needless to say, completely useless when trying to compare them to any real 3D cards.
So, I checked with Wikipedia (which could very well be wrong).
Looking at the list of clock speeds and pixel shaders for the Tegra 3 graphics core and the other GeForce graphics cores, the fastest version of it appears to run at about the same clock speed and pixel shaders as the nVidia GeForce GT 120 (which is 3 graphics card generations old at this point).
Not only that, but both the Wii and Xbox 360 are on their way out. The Wii U is going to retail later this year. While the price is unknown, it's thought to be $299... the same price the Wii debuted at. Video specs are currently unknown, only that AMD is designing it.
The rumor mill has a new Xbox console pegged as coming out sometime in 2013. Rumor also has it that it will ship with dual-video cards (if you can call them that in consoles).
Say you have friends over, and they didn't all happen to bring gaming laptops and copies of the same game. In this case, games that run on something connected to your TV are a better choice for multiplayer than most PC games because most PC games don't support multiple gamepads.
I have a device, made by Microsoft no less, that allows me to connect 4 wireless Xbox 360 controllers to my PC. It sells with 1 controller for $41 from Amazon, which is $2 more than the same controller sells for alone.
I'm honestly surprised that Steam hasn't done anything yet in mobile gaming.
Valve would rather sell the games normally on PCs for $50-60 for $20, rather than sell apps that normally sell for $0.99.
In other words, Valve already has their market and apparently it's doing very, VERY well.
I pick Episode 3.
The developer has to submit it first...
(besides, Valve can't count to 3)
I release some Code A under the GPL (which works fine on its own) and some Code B under a proprietary licence, and a third party links A to B and releases it, that in no way compels me to release my proprietary code B! This is an analogy, not an attempt to explain exactly what is happening, but I think it's apt.
Oh no, it's far worse than that, you'd be required to turn over the signing key that you use to cryptographically sign all your proprietary code.
In short: as a programmer you are probably constantly "ripping off" hundreds of patent holders with every program you write. Unless you plan on going into the patent trolling business, it's unlikely that your one hypothetical patent will ever give you more benefit than the liabilities you have due to other people's patents.
On a point closer to home:
If we had granted Software Patents in the 1980s like we do today, there would be no OSX (Apple sued out of existence by Xerox), Windows (Microsoft sued out of existence by Digital Research and/or Xerox), or Linux (sued out of existence by AT&T).
To my knowledge, Congress never passed any laws regarding software being patentable. As such, as a bunch of mathematical algorithms, they shouldn't be... but we never stopped it back in the 80s/90s when companies started filing patents on software, so here they are now.
So, literally, this would be reaffirming something that was already decided (math can't be patented).
"speachless"? Like, there's a fruit called a speach, and you have none?
Clearly it was a typo.
He meant he's peachless.
Aerosmith decides to play a show in a public park down the street from my house. Since I can hear the entire show from my back porch, I have every right in the world to place a tape recorder on my own property and record the public performance. Granted, it is likely still illegal to profit from said recording, but making it is decidedly not criminal.
If you're in the US, it is illegal. Section 106 of Section 17 (i.e. copyright law) gives them exclusive rights "to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords" unless you have a valid fair use reason for said recording. "Because I wanted to listen to it later" isn't a valid reason.
Sorry, but those quotes do not support your claim that AC was lying.
Pretty sure he meant the article when he said "This /. post"
Deos this mean EULAs are now illegal in the EU?
if php is broken what is javascript?
If you've ever played Secret of Monkey Island, look at the poster of the woman near the bar.
"When there's only one candidate, there's only one choice."
PHP is well beyond fixing - mysql_escape_string and mysql_real_escape_string prove it, otherwise the first method would have been fixed rather than "replaced".
How would they fix that? The latter requires an active database connection and the former doesn't. Just changing the former would break any apps that relied on its old behavior.
It's a moot point now, you should be using PDO for database connections in PHP... I haven't used PHP on a regular basis since 2006 and even I know that!
When I run around the PvE world, it is really one of the first games where I will help out random people.
So, they got rid of the instanced world in Guild Wars 2? Or by "run around the PvE world" did you actually mean "when I stop back at town for some reason"?
Good god, are you even in middle school yet? Even 10 years ago, realtime-3D was mostly sleight of hand and programming hat tricks (think: Battle Arena Toshinden, probably the best example of a game that did a spectacularly good job of pretending to be 3D).
Perhaps you meant 15 years ago? Or are you seriously suggesting that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (released 10 years ago in 2002) couldn't do real-time 3D?
There was a pretty cool Goonies game on the NES...
That was actually the second Goonies game, which was a sequel to the first.
Even though the first didn't come out on the NES outside of Japan...
I left (after faking my profile), but I have a second equally fake profile for the express reason that Steam periodically requires Facebook for Summer promotions. Speaking of which, this should happen again soon.
I do wonder if they'll get suspicious about a Facebook account with 0 friends who never visits their actual site or posts things on it.
Valve.
Then again, I've been playing the same online FPS for 5 years, but it's still getting new updates including one scheduled for later this week with the Pyromaniac update and the associated Meet the Pyro video.
I'm only wearing 4 pieces of Flair!
In Team Fortress 2, that is.
How am I supposed to start new programs?
Does Alt+F2 work on Windows?
No, but Win+R does. Or so I assume.
Since ESA already has a meaning in the software world, it would be prudent to expand the acronym in the subject. After all, they wouldn't want to be mistaken for the other ESA.
They did developer VBs 7-10 and 11 is due out later this year. ...did you think that just because they adopted the .NET name, the version numbers just vanished?
VB versions are directly tied to Visual Studio versions these days. VB 7 was .NET 1.0/1.1, VB 8 was .NET 2.0/3.0, VB 9 was .NET 3.5, VB 10 was .NET 4.0, and VB 11 will be .NET 4.5.
So those people who intentionally put off migrating forward for over a decade are going to be surprised that things aren't exactly the same as they were before. Cry me a river.
Half a decade. Windows Vista came out in January 2007.