The last video card I had problems with was an ATI 9800. Since then, I've gone through an nVidia 8600 GT (came with a PC I had 4 years ago), 220 Ti (replace the previous card in the same computer), and 570 (in my current PC).
Also, anybody still wondering why the "viral" clauses of the GPL that require changes to be GPLed are important?
No. The GPL is irrelevant in this situation. If they don't distribute the binary they are under no obligation to distribute the source. If Android was BSD instead it would make no difference here.
Yes, because I'm sure that Intel is going to rewrite a bunch of code and then not use it anywhere.
Of course, if it's not a Linux-related component, they wouldn't have to release the source. As Google has already shown us with the Honeycomb debacle, the Apache 2.0 license doesn't actually require you to release the source even with the binaries.
If it did, the Apache foundation could sue Google for licensing violations over Apache Harmoney.
Developing software for a global bank many moons ago, the software recipients preferred/required capitalized menu items and input fields. As English was not their first language, they explained that CAPS were easier for them to read.
So either Microsoft's focus group is global or their developers are
Except that Microsoft already does internationalization on its products. Visual Studio isn't an exception to this.
Yeah man. It reminds me of my Commodore 64 days..... no, even that had lower-case menus. Um. The 70s computers??? RETRO is back baby! Yeah baby, yeah!;-)
BUT AT LEAST IT HAS A MENU. Freaking Office 2010 with the ribbon crap confuses the heck out of me, because I can never find the function I want. Where's the undo function? Find-and-replace? Full justification? I know they're in that mess of Egyptian hieroglyphics, but I have no clue where.
Let me start a stopwatch and see how long it takes me to find each one.
Undo Tab: Title Bar Location: Third icon from the left, between Save icon and Redo icon Time to find: 0.5 seconds. No, seriously, it's one of the first things you see if you start looking from the top of the window and it's showing no matter which tab you're on.
Find and Replace Tab: Home Location: far right Titled: "Find" or "Replace" Time to find: 3 seconds.
Full Justification Tab: Home Location: Paragraph section, bottom row, fourth icon Time to find: 10 seconds
Seriously, all of the things you were looking for are on the screen when a document loads... you don't even need to change tabs.
IÃ(TM)m horrified. Absolutely shocked. I tell you, this is the final nail in Microsoft and Visual StudioÃ(TM)s coffin. Oh, and ÃoeMy eyes, it burns! The goggles do nothing!Ã
Your post burns my eyes.
I assumed the joke was that he typed that text into Word, then copy-pasted it into his web browser and submitted it.
Two of the most popular languages in existence are Visual Basic and PHP. Sure, they're inconsistent, oddly constructed and don't support polymorphism (which describes many programmers too, for that matter).
For classic VB, that's true. However, VB.NET introduced real object-oriented programming to VB.
I saw an article about this already on Ars Technica. However, Ars included one detail that the Slashdot and Security Week stories don't: Microsoft issued an emergency update Sunday that updated the Windows Certificate Revocation List specifically to expire the certificate used by this exploit.
f games are linked to your steam account, will that mean someone who bought a title for windows will automatically be able to run that same title on linux or mac if its available? I would certainly hope so, i hate the idea of having to pay again for a game i already bought...
Any titles marked SteamPlay are purchased just once for all the PC OSes they support. For instance, I own Portal 2 for both Windows and Mac because I purchased it from Steam, but not for Xbox 360 or PS3.
While Steam on Linux isn't a bad thing, a screenshot of someone's gmail window is hardly evidence of anything, due to how easy it is to fake. Hell, even if it is a real GMail window, Firebug makes it trivial to add new output directly to a live page.
Actually, it doesn't store your save games in the cloud, just look in C:/Users/$username/My documents?/, somewhere there. The only thing it saves (source based games atleast) are your key configs.
It depends on the game. Valve-made single-player games, such as Half-Life 2 and Portal 2, do indeed save your games in the Steam Cloud.
Which is why I still sign in to Steam with a long-dead username @ a no-longer-existing domain.
While the domain for my Steam username still exists, the email address is a spam trap and I never check it. It's also not the email address associated with my account.
What mystifies me is that, when Valve switched from using your email address as your account name to a real account name, we didn't get the option to choose new usernames.
What that means is that your database wasn't normalized properly. In a normalized relational database, the username is stored in only one place, and all other references are through the primary key, which is typically a 32-bit integer userid.
Unless, of course, the username was the primary key, in which case the wtf is that you allow something that should be changeable to be a primary key.
Lets not name some other company who made it difficult for others to install certain browsers on their OS, and kind of forced you to use their own browser.
That's kind of the standard for mobile devices.
If you're referring to Microsoft Windows, I've had alternative browsers installed on my PC for the past 19 years, so I'm going to say you're full of shit.
Thank you for this very informative explanation. Sadly, it will be lost on most people as the "Google is teh Evil" meme is so strong on the internet right now. Just a suggestion (you may have done this I haven't checked), but would it be possible to summarize this and put it as a little disclaimer next to the phone number prompt so that people know what's going on and the trolls can't use it as anti-Google fodder?
To put things into perspective:
Google is not just the largest advertising company in the world, but thanks to acquisitions, it's the two largest advertising companies in the world.
And you're saying we should all just give our telephone numbers to them?
Since my cell number is unlisted, I'd like to keep it that way, kthx.
So what if Oracle spent 50 Million on this trial - that's peanuts. But is the bigger cost that Oracle bought Sun specifically for this lawsuit?
As James Gosling once said
Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle. Filing patent suits was never in Sun's genetic code. Alas....
When it makes it to the Supreme Court, they'll affirm the law. They've been asleep at the wheel for 10 years, why wake up now? I'm pretty sure that most of them aren't even aware that there *is* a 4th Amendment at this point. And they probably think Habeas Corpus was a Roman emperor.
Don't forget about the sixth amendment, which would apply if people are being held indefinitely:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Incidentally, this amendment implicitly bars the government from bringing people to trial whose crimes were committed outside the US...
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Unless a LOT has changed in the last few expansions, they didn't leak enough. Huge amounts of quests and integral spells did not work on privates last time I tried to play on one (admittedly during vanilla). These were things people definitely wanted to work but couldn't make happen, not your standard mods of xp and gold amounts.
Vanilla being upwards of 5 years ago (BC was released in January 2007)...
WoW is continually being reworked. Heck, I can only think of one non-Raid zone in the WoW old world that is identical to its vanilla version, and that would be Silithus. And by vanilla version, I mean the post-War of the Shifting Sands patch that redid Silithus and added the Ahn'Qiraj dungeons.
Every other overworld and classic (non-raid) dungeon was redone when Cataclysm launched in late 2010.
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Samsung could have put more differentiation in their interface
Er... didn't Google's Android team design the interface? Or are you referring to the actual hardware?
Troll harder. Apple licensed the GUI from Xerox.
Yeah, about that... Xerox sued Apple for "unlawfully using Xerox copyrights in its Macintosh and Lisa computers."
The last video card I had problems with was an ATI 9800. Since then, I've gone through an nVidia 8600 GT (came with a PC I had 4 years ago), 220 Ti (replace the previous card in the same computer), and 570 (in my current PC).
Also, anybody still wondering why the "viral" clauses of the GPL that require changes to be GPLed are important?
No. The GPL is irrelevant in this situation. If they don't distribute the binary they are under no obligation to distribute the source. If Android was BSD instead it would make no difference here.
Yes, because I'm sure that Intel is going to rewrite a bunch of code and then not use it anywhere.
Of course, if it's not a Linux-related component, they wouldn't have to release the source. As Google has already shown us with the Honeycomb debacle, the Apache 2.0 license doesn't actually require you to release the source even with the binaries.
If it did, the Apache foundation could sue Google for licensing violations over Apache Harmoney.
Developing software for a global bank many moons ago, the software recipients preferred/required capitalized menu items and input fields. As English was not their first language, they explained that CAPS were easier for them to read.
So either Microsoft's focus group is global or their developers are
Except that Microsoft already does internationalization on its products. Visual Studio isn't an exception to this.
Yeah man. It reminds me of my Commodore 64 days..... no, even that had lower-case menus. Um. The 70s computers??? RETRO is back baby! Yeah baby, yeah! ;-)
BUT AT LEAST IT HAS A MENU.
Freaking Office 2010 with the ribbon crap confuses the heck out of me, because I can never find the function I want. Where's the undo function? Find-and-replace? Full justification? I know they're in that mess of Egyptian hieroglyphics, but I have no clue where.
Let me start a stopwatch and see how long it takes me to find each one.
Undo
Tab: Title Bar
Location: Third icon from the left, between Save icon and Redo icon
Time to find: 0.5 seconds. No, seriously, it's one of the first things you see if you start looking from the top of the window and it's showing no matter which tab you're on.
Find and Replace
Tab: Home
Location: far right
Titled: "Find" or "Replace"
Time to find: 3 seconds.
Full Justification
Tab: Home
Location: Paragraph section, bottom row, fourth icon
Time to find: 10 seconds
Seriously, all of the things you were looking for are on the screen when a document loads... you don't even need to change tabs.
IÃ(TM)m horrified. Absolutely shocked. I tell you, this is the final nail in Microsoft and Visual StudioÃ(TM)s coffin. Oh, and ÃoeMy eyes, it burns! The goggles do nothing!Ã
Your post burns my eyes.
I assumed the joke was that he typed that text into Word, then copy-pasted it into his web browser and submitted it.
Two of the most popular languages in existence are Visual Basic and PHP. Sure, they're inconsistent, oddly constructed and don't support polymorphism (which describes many programmers too, for that matter).
For classic VB, that's true. However, VB.NET introduced real object-oriented programming to VB.
Since the primary reason to go to Delphi was to get advice from the Oracle, what do you do if you consider the Oracle unreliable?
I saw an article about this already on Ars Technica. However, Ars included one detail that the Slashdot and Security Week stories don't:
Microsoft issued an emergency update Sunday that updated the Windows Certificate Revocation List specifically to expire the certificate used by this exploit.
And how is that stupid? That's how you avoid the dll hell.
You avoid static linking by... including a specific version of a shared library that only your app uses.
f games are linked to your steam account, will that mean someone who bought a title for windows will automatically be able to run that same title on linux or mac if its available?
I would certainly hope so, i hate the idea of having to pay again for a game i already bought...
Any titles marked SteamPlay are purchased just once for all the PC OSes they support. For instance, I own Portal 2 for both Windows and Mac because I purchased it from Steam, but not for Xbox 360 or PS3.
As long as developers are willing to statically link in libraries - that's not the Linux way, but it's done all the time on Windows anyway
No, actually what's done all the time on Windows is far stupider than that.
Developers dynamically link, then include a private copy of the DLLs they linked against with their program that no other program on the system uses.
While Steam on Linux isn't a bad thing, a screenshot of someone's gmail window is hardly evidence of anything, due to how easy it is to fake. Hell, even if it is a real GMail window, Firebug makes it trivial to add new output directly to a live page.
Actually, it doesn't store your save games in the cloud, just look in C:/Users/$username/My documents?/, somewhere there. The only thing it saves (source based games atleast) are your key configs.
It depends on the game. Valve-made single-player games, such as Half-Life 2 and Portal 2, do indeed save your games in the Steam Cloud.
Which is why I still sign in to Steam with a long-dead username @ a no-longer-existing domain.
While the domain for my Steam username still exists, the email address is a spam trap and I never check it. It's also not the email address associated with my account.
What mystifies me is that, when Valve switched from using your email address as your account name to a real account name, we didn't get the option to choose new usernames.
What that means is that your database wasn't normalized properly. In a normalized relational database, the username is stored in only one place, and all other references are through the primary key, which is typically a 32-bit integer userid.
Unless, of course, the username was the primary key, in which case the wtf is that you allow something that should be changeable to be a primary key.
Which reminds me... hi Valve!
Lets not name some other company who made it difficult for others to install certain browsers on their OS, and kind of forced you to use their own browser.
That's kind of the standard for mobile devices.
If you're referring to Microsoft Windows, I've had alternative browsers installed on my PC for the past 19 years, so I'm going to say you're full of shit.
Or to condense the salient points into a list:
IE was
For Windows Phone, at most one of those will be true.
Also, thank you Slashdot for not putting numbers next to items in ordered lists.
Thank you for this very informative explanation. Sadly, it will be lost on most people as the "Google is teh Evil" meme is so strong on the internet right now. Just a suggestion (you may have done this I haven't checked), but would it be possible to summarize this and put it as a little disclaimer next to the phone number prompt so that people know what's going on and the trolls can't use it as anti-Google fodder?
To put things into perspective:
Google is not just the largest advertising company in the world, but thanks to acquisitions, it's the two largest advertising companies in the world.
And you're saying we should all just give our telephone numbers to them?
Since my cell number is unlisted, I'd like to keep it that way, kthx.
So what if Oracle spent 50 Million on this trial - that's peanuts. But is the bigger cost that Oracle bought Sun specifically for this lawsuit?
As James Gosling once said
Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle. Filing patent suits was never in Sun's genetic code. Alas....
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So, it certainly sounds like that's the main reason Oracle purchased Sun.
Agreed. I don't want software which can be pirated.
An executive for a software company would see what you said and conclude "Users want DRM" rather than "Users want FOSS software."
You should really be careful about how you phrase things.
Don't we already have hardware-accelerated "inexact" math?
It's referred to as "Floating Point."
When it makes it to the Supreme Court, they'll affirm the law. They've been asleep at the wheel for 10 years, why wake up now? I'm pretty sure that most of them aren't even aware that there *is* a 4th Amendment at this point. And they probably think Habeas Corpus was a Roman emperor.
Don't forget about the sixth amendment, which would apply if people are being held indefinitely:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Incidentally, this amendment implicitly bars the government from bringing people to trial whose crimes were committed outside the US...
Unless a LOT has changed in the last few expansions, they didn't leak enough. Huge amounts of quests and integral spells did not work on privates last time I tried to play on one (admittedly during vanilla). These were things people definitely wanted to work but couldn't make happen, not your standard mods of xp and gold amounts.
Vanilla being upwards of 5 years ago (BC was released in January 2007)...
WoW is continually being reworked. Heck, I can only think of one non-Raid zone in the WoW old world that is identical to its vanilla version, and that would be Silithus. And by vanilla version, I mean the post-War of the Shifting Sands patch that redid Silithus and added the Ahn'Qiraj dungeons.
Every other overworld and classic (non-raid) dungeon was redone when Cataclysm launched in late 2010.