People invest great amounts of money into the creation of information, which is then infinitely reproduceable, and the only way for them to be compensated is to only allow use of that information by those who can afford to pay. There has to be another way, but I can't imagine one that isn't very problematic in other areas. It's hard to seperate those who can't pay from those tho don't want to, justify your methods of discrimination, prevent exploitation of loopholes, etc.
They make it sound like porting mysql to openserver will require a very significant effort. Why would anyone pay for a supposedly unix-ish system that's so much unlike any other that most popular software can't be built on it without significant planning and reworking? I doubt that porting is really such a big deal as that, but still they deemed it worthy of press releases announcing their efforts and partnership.
The "I Hate Jack Thompson" T-Shirts at ThinkGeek are out of stock, expected to be available again on Octover 26th. For a higher shipping price you should still be able to get one in time for Halloween though.
I tell people to put their random password in their wallet. If it's stolen, they have bigger things to worry about than having to change their password. If I don't suggest putting it in their wallet, I'll later find it on a sticky note on their monitor, or on a sticker beneath their keyboard, mouse, or desk.
Bah. It wouldn't install on Ubuntu Breezy on my first try. It didn't have a compatible module for my kernel, and offered to build one that might be, but my gcc version didn't match the version used to compile my kernel, so it couldn't go any further. It was way too invasive for comfort anyways, wanting to add kernel module and startup scripts without giving a reason why it had to when competing software doesn't.
At least until someone writes a program to build compatible VM's, if they haven't already. The low risk trialware aspect of this is pretty interesting, and you know that none of the free VM's will run Windows, if Microsoft has anything to say about it.
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That makes two of us. It may be a couple more years before I meet the hardware requirements of Quake 4, and find it at Walmart for only $9.95.
It scares the hell out of me. I have nightmares of the A/C wearing out, allowing our 8 servers to heat up the small server room, starting a fire and taking out the building, which doesn't have ceiling sprinklers because of the other damage it'd cause if there was a false alarm. It's better than what the server room had before, nothing at all. Whoever designed the building manage to make the server room be the only room without air conditioning. It was only after months of complaining that they installed any sort of cooling in that room. They're lucky nothing died in the 90+ degree F heat.
If it's a small server room, with a small number of servers, maybe try TWO small household A/C's, not sharing the same power socket.
Macromedia sells to web developers, who might want their creations to run anywhere. They might even want to test/debug their creations on their own 64 bit desktops.
In that case, they don't have enough Linux and Mac users to support them either, and those ports are much harder to maintain than a 64 bit build would be, or would be if they kept them up to date. We still don't have Shockwave for Linux.
Swiftshader is based on the sw-shader project, which produced very good quality output very quickly using SoftWire to compile the rasterizers. A lot of other software 3D implementations only optimize the most common cases and fall back on very slow, general purpose rasterizers to do the rest, often using giant switch statements or function pointers in their innermost loops to handle the countless combinations of blending, lighting, and raster options available. Even precompiling them all with a generator script or clever use of macros is infeasable due to the number of combinations, and just one of those will slow any 3D rendering to a crawl, which is the problem that sw-shader solved, by optimizing all cases.
What's good is that the project is once again under active development, and it's no longer windows-only. The downside is that it's gone commercial. With so few contributors other than the original author, that sort of thing can happen to an OSS project. He put a lot of hard work into it though, writing a substantially complete DirectX 9 replacement based on his library. Transgaming actually had to purchase two projects for this, because sw-shader depends on SoftWire.
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NASA drops the whole "shuttle" idea. Andy releases a new version of Minix. DrDOS steals from FreeDOS. And MySQL becomes a real database server.
It's not a great idea to link to those in a slashdot article either.
In fact, they may classify your patent and "disappear" it from the public record. This happens all the time.
If they rob you, you might be less inclined to make sure that nobody accidentally lets the cat out of the bag.
People invest great amounts of money into the creation of information, which is then infinitely reproduceable, and the only way for them to be compensated is to only allow use of that information by those who can afford to pay. There has to be another way, but I can't imagine one that isn't very problematic in other areas. It's hard to seperate those who can't pay from those tho don't want to, justify your methods of discrimination, prevent exploitation of loopholes, etc.
They make it sound like porting mysql to openserver will require a very significant effort. Why would anyone pay for a supposedly unix-ish system that's so much unlike any other that most popular software can't be built on it without significant planning and reworking? I doubt that porting is really such a big deal as that, but still they deemed it worthy of press releases announcing their efforts and partnership.
The "I Hate Jack Thompson" T-Shirts at ThinkGeek are out of stock, expected to be available again on Octover 26th. For a higher shipping price you should still be able to get one in time for Halloween though.
Maybe the scientists didn't like being outsmarted by a rat.
That way it has leverage to disembowel the prey with its hind legs.
Does your PDA have a 60gb hard drive? If so, did it cost the same as an iPod?
"Google cures cancer"
XML is basically a subset of SGML, which has been around since the 60's and was standardized in 1986. I haven't RTFP though.
I tell people to put their random password in their wallet. If it's stolen, they have bigger things to worry about than having to change their password. If I don't suggest putting it in their wallet, I'll later find it on a sticky note on their monitor, or on a sticker beneath their keyboard, mouse, or desk.
Bah. It wouldn't install on Ubuntu Breezy on my first try. It didn't have a compatible module for my kernel, and offered to build one that might be, but my gcc version didn't match the version used to compile my kernel, so it couldn't go any further. It was way too invasive for comfort anyways, wanting to add kernel module and startup scripts without giving a reason why it had to when competing software doesn't.
At least until someone writes a program to build compatible VM's, if they haven't already. The low risk trialware aspect of this is pretty interesting, and you know that none of the free VM's will run Windows, if Microsoft has anything to say about it.
That makes two of us. It may be a couple more years before I meet the hardware requirements of Quake 4, and find it at Walmart for only $9.95.
It's not quite the "Jack Thompson committed" headline I was hoping for, but this made my day.
Microsoft will see less profit if Africa uses competing software.
It scares the hell out of me. I have nightmares of the A/C wearing out, allowing our 8 servers to heat up the small server room, starting a fire and taking out the building, which doesn't have ceiling sprinklers because of the other damage it'd cause if there was a false alarm. It's better than what the server room had before, nothing at all. Whoever designed the building manage to make the server room be the only room without air conditioning. It was only after months of complaining that they installed any sort of cooling in that room. They're lucky nothing died in the 90+ degree F heat.
If it's a small server room, with a small number of servers, maybe try TWO small household A/C's, not sharing the same power socket.
DVD Jon will be arrested on sight.
Macromedia sells to web developers, who might want their creations to run anywhere. They might even want to test/debug their creations on their own 64 bit desktops.
In that case, they don't have enough Linux and Mac users to support them either, and those ports are much harder to maintain than a 64 bit build would be, or would be if they kept them up to date. We still don't have Shockwave for Linux.
The site is /.'d, so I can't rtfa.
Swiftshader is based on the sw-shader project, which produced very good quality output very quickly using SoftWire to compile the rasterizers. A lot of other software 3D implementations only optimize the most common cases and fall back on very slow, general purpose rasterizers to do the rest, often using giant switch statements or function pointers in their innermost loops to handle the countless combinations of blending, lighting, and raster options available. Even precompiling them all with a generator script or clever use of macros is infeasable due to the number of combinations, and just one of those will slow any 3D rendering to a crawl, which is the problem that sw-shader solved, by optimizing all cases.
What's good is that the project is once again under active development, and it's no longer windows-only. The downside is that it's gone commercial. With so few contributors other than the original author, that sort of thing can happen to an OSS project. He put a lot of hard work into it though, writing a substantially complete DirectX 9 replacement based on his library. Transgaming actually had to purchase two projects for this, because sw-shader depends on SoftWire.
Somehow I missed the first half the the first sentence.
In other words, you want them to break a few laws to give you a Windows clone with some actual Windows parts.
A good way to deal with conflicting bosses is to make them agree.
Or maybe it's just your job to write correct software with lots of good features in a fixed amount of time. Get it done or you're fired.