You are aware that said code was submitted to Microsoft by someone who works for what is currently Microsoft's biggest competitor, whom they are currently in a 3-front war with (Browser, Search Engine, Netbook OS)?
This is a moot point, though: Google could later claim copyright over said code and sue Microsoft over it. Something that doesn't apply to your fire analogy.
To ask questions about how close we all came to dying, or to ask futile questions about the previously announced E3 ***PORTAL-2-THEMED-FOR-GOD'S SAKE*** surprise or, less futilely, to schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve's delegate to the EU's Valve Time Studies Group, Doug Lombardi.
The rumors were about the "surprise" being Half-Life 3 or Duke Nukem Forever.
* The Orange Box engine was split into two separate engines during an engine update earlier this year. One version is used by HL2: Episode 2 and Portal, the other by Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source, and Counter-Strike: Source Beta.
That's an interesting split - one is optimized for online coherency, and the other for offline experience maybe?
I think it was more along the lines of not updating the single player games, but redoing how parts of the engine works for the online games. I learned that they had split by reading the SourceMod forum.
Who knows, they may have been merged back again when HL2: Ep2 and Portal were updated for their Mac releases.
I think Windows 7 (or maybe Vista...sort of skipped that one) is their first OS that requires an initial password to proceed with installation. Something as basic as requiring a password for your administrator account...and it was left out for over a decade, despite security issues in the news again and again.
As I recall, Windows XP prompts/requires you to set a password for the Administrator account... but then requires you to create 1-7 additional users with the same privileges without passwords in the very next dialog.
If it comes out this year, or in 2011, will people still want it? I'm sure it will hurt them, the engine is getting old, fans are feeling alienated. Way to blow a fantastic franchise Valve.
The Source engine is continuously updated. The most recent version is the one used in Left 4 Dead 2, released in late 2009.
As of right now, there are two major versions of the Source engine that are continuously bugfixed, and sometimes have features backported from the newer to the older: 1. Orange Box Engine*, used by Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source, and Counter-Strike: Source Beta (last updated 2010 May 18) 2. Left 4 Dead 2 Engine, used by Left 4 Dead 2 (last updated 2010 June 09 (yesterday))
Team Fortress 2 is being released for Mac today, so we may see an update for the Orange Box game engine as well.
* The Orange Box engine was split into two separate engines during an engine update earlier this year. One version is used by HL2: Episode 2 and Portal, the other by Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source, and Counter-Strike: Source Beta.
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This was mostly a mistake on my part. As I recall, Extended Support didn't used to include security updates (only Premium did).
Having said that, you can no longer get over the phone tech support in the Extended support phase without an enterprise contract.
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Windows hasn't really changed THAT much,
The whole "User Profile" structure has changed radically between XP and Vista/7. After having been stable for over a decade. Similarly the interface to MS Office was recently radically changed.
The User Profile structure changed completely between 95/98/ME/NT 4.0 (C:\windows\profiles) and 2000 (C:\Documents and Users) (5 years), and again between 2000 (C:\Documents and Users) and Vista (C:\Users) (7 years). This shouldn't be a surprise, as these were each different major versions.
However, if you're hard-coding directories rather than using the environment's %USERPROFILE% or %APPDATA% settings, you're asking for it in the first place, as administrators can manually move the user profile directories anywhere they want.
certainly not as much as moving to another OS and set of applications would.
Windows dosn't include applications. Unlike, for example, a Linux distribution which comes with a huge number of applications. Some of which are quite general purpose, others of which are very special purpose. But all managed through the same mechanism as the core OS.
<sarcasm>Because clearly Windows users have Windows installed just to use Windows itself.</sarcasm>
I was talking about retraining costs until you tried to side-track it.
How did you get through ~8 years of college level education on computers and still have a user interface confuse you??
I'm not sure how 8 years of learning how to create your own computer software systems has anything to do with learning someone else's (possibly crappy) UI.
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I was thinking the same. What does Windows 7 bring to your business that XP doesn't?
Well, if you don't have an enterprise contract/license, security fixes after April 14, 2009 (already in the past) for XP or XP SP1, after July 13, 2010 (next month) for XP SP2, and April 14, 2011 (next year) for XP SP3. If you have an enterprise contract/license, support for security fixes after April 8, 2014.
Would that same benefit be provided by other operating systems? Is the difference between Windows 7 and FreeBSD (for example) enough to justify the license cost (not just the initial cost, but the requirement to track licenses as well)? If you're going to need retraining anyway, it seems like now would be a good time to consider other alternatives.
Windows hasn't really changed THAT much, certainly not as much as moving to another OS and set of applications would.
Where I live (in Michigan), public roads are owned and operated by the city, county, or state. The federal government funds part of the Interstate system, but the actual Interstates are owned and operated at the state level. This is why the Michigan Department of Transportation (and not a federal agency) is the one doing repairs on I-96 east of where I live right now.
Why is this important? The 10th amendment. The states each have their own laws, and can prohibit or allow speeding cameras as they see fit.
I'm half surprised that Mythic/EA doesn't do this with Warhammer Online.
Warhammer Online currently lets you play for free up to a level 10 character... but you can't get any rare loot items or leave the starting areas or Norsica and Nordland.
I had bought a copy of the game when it first came out, but only subscribed to it for a few months...
I played a trial character for a bit, then found out that I had a free 14 day thing for my normal account. I played that for a bit and found out that as soon as you leave the areas that the trial characters can visit, the place is a gigantic ghost land, with a handful of people in each zone. This also applies to the other two starting zones (trial characters are limited to Empire vs Chaos starting area, the other two are Dwarf vs Greenskin and Elf vs Dark Elf) and the two cities (Altdorf and the Inevitable City).
P.S. Did I mention there are only 4 North American servers for Warhammer Online?
(a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy. -- Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.
From my understanding, Glider makes an additional copy of World of Warcraft in memory. Said copy is not used "for archival purposes only" nor is the copy "an essential copy in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine." In order to legally make an additional copy without a license granting you permission to make it, it has to be one of these two. Glider's copy is neither.
I would break the game CD in half so it can never be used to sucker anyone in again, mail it back to Blizzard, along with a letter saying that you do not do business with companies that sue their customers.
er... you are aware that Blizzard isn't suing their customers, but the makers of a program that is used by "customers" to break the World of Warcraft Terms of Service, which people agreed to when they signed up for a WoW account and have to re-agree to every time Blizzard updates the game?
Side note: This is an entirely separate document from the EULA, and is in fact the contract that Blizzard mentions in their legal documents.
Pichai is addressing the question of won't a new operating system need to have all it's application rewritten. The answer is that unlike something like the iPhone OS or Android, you don't need to write all new software. He is obviously not saying that Windows and Mac OS and Linux can't run web applications.
See, I was extrapolating future trends from past trends. It's a lie to say that future operating systems would not be able to run web applications, be they new versions of Windows, Linux, OSX, or something that's completely new.
'The designers will make the final determination.' LOL bullsh*t.The designers don't mean crap in the equation. It is a balance of content providers and platforms. Those with critical mass will drive the technology. The designers will have to rush to the winning side to stay employed.
Right now, the "critical mass" is on Flash's side. And will remain like that as long as IE has anywhere near the market share it is.
And it will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future if Apple/Microsoft and Firefox/Opera can't agree on a single HTML5 video codec.
Also I think the plaintiff would aim a court decision more between $150,000 or $1.5 million though from what we've seen with prior cases that go to court where the individual is found guilty.
Not so sure about the court decision, but they'll almost certainly sue for the maximum of $150,000/work. Obviously they are going for a min-max strategy here and they want a lawsuit to look as unappealing as possible.
Not if they don't own the rights to the work or represent someone who does.
There are some choice quotes in the article's source article over at Reuters.
Here's one of my favorites, from Sundar Pichai:
"Chrome OS is one of the few future operating systems for which there are already millions of applications that work," Pichai said. "You don't need to redesign Gmail for it to work on Chrome. Facebook does not need to write a new app for Chrome."
Wow, lots of revisionist history here. It turns out that Microsoft wasn't/isn't bundling web browsers with Windows since Windows 98. I mean, they must not have been, because they weren't one of the "few... operating systems for which there are already millions of applications that work" such as "Gmail" and "Facebook."
Seriously, did he think no one would notice that he was saying that Chrome OS is one of the few operating systems that can run web applications?
I don't need a B.S. in Lieology to detect the problem with that logic!
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You are aware that said code was submitted to Microsoft by someone who works for what is currently Microsoft's biggest competitor, whom they are currently in a 3-front war with (Browser, Search Engine, Netbook OS)?
This is a moot point, though: Google could later claim copyright over said code and sue Microsoft over it. Something that doesn't apply to your fire analogy.
No, you're asking the wrong question.
Your question should be
"So what new PC games have you purchased in the last 2 years?"
This closes the non-PC loophole and the Good Old Games loophole.
It came from this:
The rumors were about the "surprise" being Half-Life 3 or Duke Nukem Forever.
I think it was more along the lines of not updating the single player games, but redoing how parts of the engine works for the online games. I learned that they had split by reading the SourceMod forum.
Who knows, they may have been merged back again when HL2: Ep2 and Portal were updated for their Mac releases.
Not all drivers in Windows run in kernel mode.
Windows Vista introduced User-Mode Drivers, support for which was back-ported to Windows XP SP2.
As I recall, Windows XP prompts/requires you to set a password for the Administrator account... but then requires you to create 1-7 additional users with the same privileges without passwords in the very next dialog.
Um... have you looked at what kind of games Valve makes?
The Source engine is continuously updated. The most recent version is the one used in Left 4 Dead 2, released in late 2009.
As of right now, there are two major versions of the Source engine that are continuously bugfixed, and sometimes have features backported from the newer to the older:
1. Orange Box Engine*, used by Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source, and Counter-Strike: Source Beta (last updated 2010 May 18)
2. Left 4 Dead 2 Engine, used by Left 4 Dead 2 (last updated 2010 June 09 (yesterday))
Team Fortress 2 is being released for Mac today, so we may see an update for the Orange Box game engine as well.
* The Orange Box engine was split into two separate engines during an engine update earlier this year. One version is used by HL2: Episode 2 and Portal, the other by Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source, and Counter-Strike: Source Beta.
This was mostly a mistake on my part. As I recall, Extended Support didn't used to include security updates (only Premium did).
Having said that, you can no longer get over the phone tech support in the Extended support phase without an enterprise contract.
The User Profile structure changed completely between 95/98/ME/NT 4.0 (C:\windows\profiles) and 2000 (C:\Documents and Users) (5 years), and again between 2000 (C:\Documents and Users) and Vista (C:\Users) (7 years). This shouldn't be a surprise, as these were each different major versions.
However, if you're hard-coding directories rather than using the environment's %USERPROFILE% or %APPDATA% settings, you're asking for it in the first place, as administrators can manually move the user profile directories anywhere they want.
<sarcasm>Because clearly Windows users have Windows installed just to use Windows itself.</sarcasm>
I was talking about retraining costs until you tried to side-track it.
I'm not sure how 8 years of learning how to create your own computer software systems has anything to do with learning someone else's (possibly crappy) UI.
Well, if you don't have an enterprise contract/license, security fixes after April 14, 2009 (already in the past) for XP or XP SP1, after July 13, 2010 (next month) for XP SP2, and April 14, 2011 (next year) for XP SP3. If you have an enterprise contract/license, support for security fixes after April 8, 2014.
Dates taken from the Windows XP Lifecycle page.
Windows hasn't really changed THAT much, certainly not as much as moving to another OS and set of applications would.
Says who?
Where I live (in Michigan), public roads are owned and operated by the city, county, or state. The federal government funds part of the Interstate system, but the actual Interstates are owned and operated at the state level. This is why the Michigan Department of Transportation (and not a federal agency) is the one doing repairs on I-96 east of where I live right now.
Why is this important? The 10th amendment. The states each have their own laws, and can prohibit or allow speeding cameras as they see fit.
That reminds me of a clip I've seen from a 1980s (I think) movie or TV show, where as alien disguised as a human learns to drive by observing humans.
His conclusions, which he tells to the lady who knows he is an alien, are:
Green means go.
Red means stop.
Yellow means go really fast.
Besides HTML5 not being standardized yet, it also uses vendor extensions rather than the proposed extensions in the HTML5/CSS3 documents.
I'm half surprised that Mythic/EA doesn't do this with Warhammer Online.
Warhammer Online currently lets you play for free up to a level 10 character... but you can't get any rare loot items or leave the starting areas or Norsica and Nordland.
I had bought a copy of the game when it first came out, but only subscribed to it for a few months...
I played a trial character for a bit, then found out that I had a free 14 day thing for my normal account. I played that for a bit and found out that as soon as you leave the areas that the trial characters can visit, the place is a gigantic ghost land, with a handful of people in each zone. This also applies to the other two starting zones (trial characters are limited to Empire vs Chaos starting area, the other two are Dwarf vs Greenskin and Elf vs Dark Elf) and the two cities (Altdorf and the Inevitable City).
P.S. Did I mention there are only 4 North American servers for Warhammer Online?
Whoops, chapter 13 is unrelated. My bad. I just assumed all the recent chapters were DMCA.
The DMCA is not a separate document. Is it a law that added new sections to existing copyright law. Specifically, it added chapters 12 and 13 as well as amending a number of existing clauses in Title 17 U.S. Copyright Law.
IANAL, but this is how I understand it.
What the EFF article seems to overlook is how 117 is worded and how Glider actually works.
The relevant part of 117 states
From my understanding, Glider makes an additional copy of World of Warcraft in memory. Said copy is not used "for archival purposes only" nor is the copy "an essential copy in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine." In order to legally make an additional copy without a license granting you permission to make it, it has to be one of these two. Glider's copy is neither.
er... you are aware that Blizzard isn't suing their customers, but the makers of a program that is used by "customers" to break the World of Warcraft Terms of Service, which people agreed to when they signed up for a WoW account and have to re-agree to every time Blizzard updates the game?
Side note: This is an entirely separate document from the EULA, and is in fact the contract that Blizzard mentions in their legal documents.
See, I was extrapolating future trends from past trends. It's a lie to say that future operating systems would not be able to run web applications, be they new versions of Windows, Linux, OSX, or something that's completely new.
Right now, the "critical mass" is on Flash's side. And will remain like that as long as IE has anywhere near the market share it is.
And it will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future if Apple/Microsoft and Firefox/Opera can't agree on a single HTML5 video codec.
Not if they don't own the rights to the work or represent someone who does.
There are some choice quotes in the article's source article over at Reuters.
Here's one of my favorites, from Sundar Pichai:
Wow, lots of revisionist history here. It turns out that Microsoft wasn't/isn't bundling web browsers with Windows since Windows 98. I mean, they must not have been, because they weren't one of the "few... operating systems for which there are already millions of applications that work" such as "Gmail" and "Facebook."
Seriously, did he think no one would notice that he was saying that Chrome OS is one of the few operating systems that can run web applications?
I don't need a B.S. in Lieology to detect the problem with that logic!
SlashGear mentions Netbooks, but their source (Reuters) does not; there is one mention of Laptops and none of Netbooks.
Is this just an assumption on SlashGear's part, or are they quoting some other, unnamed source?