It's time the people looking at these patents realized that there have been limited resource gaming platforms for a while. And, yes, I do have different results on a GameBoy depending on how I click the button.
Try mldonkey and Azureus. Either fulfills your needs, both are open source. As of the last version of Azureus, both are stable and fairly fast. (Azureus is in Java, so it will eat a bit more memory that the competition.)
Azureus is kickass for BitTorrent, while MLDonkey allows you to combine every network out there (no, really, it supports DirectConnect, FastTrack, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Soulseek, AudioGalaxy, Open Napster, BitTorrent, eDonkey, and a couple others I cannot recall). MLDonkey also allows itself to be run remotely, and if you set it up right it is ran as a daemon on your own machine, so it keeps going even if you kill the GUI.
"Notice how almost all his "Fedora sucks" items are acually cribs about the component software! Like OO.o, gnome, evolution, and Gimp. If this idiot doesn't like these software how the f*** is it fedora's fault?!"
The only job of a distributor is to put together a useful and usable set of programs. Fedora Core failed for him, so it sucks for him.
Um, in several cases supermarkets were brought to court many times for product placement tactics. So far, they've settled or won. And, no, this isn't different.
It is an anti-trust issue, but it generally stays under the radar because they always have the explanation that they have to place things according to some pattern, due to the reality of, well, shelving, and just putting things in at random is unnacceptable. However, ISPs can make no such claim; it is easier for an ISP to not be biased, so they would likely lose such a case.
The article related to the concept that money matters, which is largely the basis of capitalism. That is, capitalism is designed as a way to monetarize everything, to make the playing field level for all competitors and to make the entire system very competitive. This would not contrast with socialism, which is about everyone working together, but would contrast with humanitarianism, which is about putting human life above monetary value.
If that ever happens, I am starting a violent revolution. If anyone ever decides that a person deserves a harsher punishment for monetary harm than murder, our capitalist society has taken things too far.
In all seriousness, money doesn't matter. It isn't real. It isn't what we're here for.
Haven't seen any of T3 or Van Helsing. The shots I saw of The Hulk were all skin-tight (or close to it). Pirates was pretty good, but I had been under the impression that the CG was merged in, editing what was there, but the clothing was not completely recreated.
Again, flowing robes are very complex. Most of those things are not. If Pirates had fully CG clothing, that was impressive. However, Shrek was not, nor was anything Pixar did so far.
I know that clothing is extemely complex. It moves irregularly according to a lot of factors, has complex texturing on occasion or is at least not smooth, and has a multitude of other issues. That is one reason I like to look at it as an example of quality CG.
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I haven't seen Shrek 2 yet, but the previews seemed lacking all-the-same. They just don't have fluid motion of clothing done yet!
The best clothing motion I have seen to date is in the cut-scenes for WarcraftIII. Unlike other things, it not only had complex folding, it had complex clothing and robes as well.
The clothing was the most dissapointing graphical aspect of Spirits Within.
"But if the US cut off the GPS, then they couldn't use it either, right?"
As best I know, wrong. The US can selectively cut off GPS. I was under the impression they could do it on a very fine-grained level, but they can at least do it by region (turn off satellites over the area, but leave on ones elsewhere).
You see, you said yourself that you boot up every morning. There's your problem. I boot up every month. Or thereabouts. Windows still won't give me that uptime, I've tried.
As long as GPS is the only game in town, the US has a stranglehold on the superpower market. The US can regulate the GPS satellites and could cut off anyone else at any time. Seeing as GPS has revolutionized warfare, this means the US gets an automatic bonus in any war.
Until the EU has an alternative, it's military (should it form one) will be at a severe disadvantage in a theoretical conflict, and potential power in a theoretical conflict is a major bargaining chip. (It's a chip that's not talked about, but people pay attention to it on their own.)
"some experts warn that China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world."
Ummm...shouldn't that read, "China may successfully isolate itself through these measures"? Isn't that what they seem to perpetually want, with their policies in most other areas?
I don't know the whole situation with ringtones in the US, even though I live here, as I hate cellphones quite a bit, but I can definitely say that I've been hearing irritating pop music ringtones for at least a year.
The point of the article isn't that you can get a pop-music ringtone, it's that you can get a pop-music ringtone without paying the RIAA, which pisses the greedy bastards off.
"and hence they will work together to avoid such problems"
I think you meant to say, and hence they will hire armies of lawyers and litigate each other out of existence (unless they decide to hire armies of soldiers, as seems to be the American way at the moment).
Lots of Java stuff sucks at being cross-platform. However, tax software is completely algorithmic. It's extremely simple math, it just needs a large rule set.
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It's time the people looking at these patents realized that there have been limited resource gaming platforms for a while. And, yes, I do have different results on a GameBoy depending on how I click the button.
Try mldonkey and Azureus. Either fulfills your needs, both are open source. As of the last version of Azureus, both are stable and fairly fast. (Azureus is in Java, so it will eat a bit more memory that the competition.)
Azureus is kickass for BitTorrent, while MLDonkey allows you to combine every network out there (no, really, it supports DirectConnect, FastTrack, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Soulseek, AudioGalaxy, Open Napster, BitTorrent, eDonkey, and a couple others I cannot recall). MLDonkey also allows itself to be run remotely, and if you set it up right it is ran as a daemon on your own machine, so it keeps going even if you kill the GUI.
"it is a significant driving force being large-scale badly-needed changes in the Linux distro world"
Really? What changes is it driving?
"Notice how almost all his "Fedora sucks" items are acually cribs about the component software! Like OO.o, gnome, evolution, and Gimp. If this idiot doesn't like these software how the f*** is it fedora's fault?!"
The only job of a distributor is to put together a useful and usable set of programs. Fedora Core failed for him, so it sucks for him.
And many other distos had the sense to not ship Grub/2.6 until it was bug-free.
I wouldn't know, I just know that it was illegal to bring into the country.
Nice to see they are keeping up on their censorship of games. They're in good company, what with Wolfenstein still being illegal in Germany.
Um, in several cases supermarkets were brought to court many times for product placement tactics. So far, they've settled or won. And, no, this isn't different.
It is an anti-trust issue, but it generally stays under the radar because they always have the explanation that they have to place things according to some pattern, due to the reality of, well, shelving, and just putting things in at random is unnacceptable. However, ISPs can make no such claim; it is easier for an ISP to not be biased, so they would likely lose such a case.
The article related to the concept that money matters, which is largely the basis of capitalism. That is, capitalism is designed as a way to monetarize everything, to make the playing field level for all competitors and to make the entire system very competitive. This would not contrast with socialism, which is about everyone working together, but would contrast with humanitarianism, which is about putting human life above monetary value.
If that ever happens, I am starting a violent revolution. If anyone ever decides that a person deserves a harsher punishment for monetary harm than murder, our capitalist society has taken things too far.
In all seriousness, money doesn't matter. It isn't real. It isn't what we're here for.
Haven't seen any of T3 or Van Helsing. The shots I saw of The Hulk were all skin-tight (or close to it). Pirates was pretty good, but I had been under the impression that the CG was merged in, editing what was there, but the clothing was not completely recreated.
Again, flowing robes are very complex. Most of those things are not. If Pirates had fully CG clothing, that was impressive. However, Shrek was not, nor was anything Pixar did so far.
I know that clothing is extemely complex. It moves irregularly according to a lot of factors, has complex texturing on occasion or is at least not smooth, and has a multitude of other issues. That is one reason I like to look at it as an example of quality CG.
I haven't seen Shrek 2 yet, but the previews seemed lacking all-the-same. They just don't have fluid motion of clothing done yet!
The best clothing motion I have seen to date is in the cut-scenes for WarcraftIII. Unlike other things, it not only had complex folding, it had complex clothing and robes as well.
The clothing was the most dissapointing graphical aspect of Spirits Within.
We've had two world wars so far, both started by European countries. Neither of those seemed especially likely beforehand.
And, Russia may be weaker than it has been for a while, but it still has the largest military in the world, besides the obvious USA.
"But if the US cut off the GPS, then they couldn't use it either, right?"
As best I know, wrong. The US can selectively cut off GPS. I was under the impression they could do it on a very fine-grained level, but they can at least do it by region (turn off satellites over the area, but leave on ones elsewhere).
You see, you said yourself that you boot up every morning. There's your problem. I boot up every month. Or thereabouts. Windows still won't give me that uptime, I've tried.
As long as GPS is the only game in town, the US has a stranglehold on the superpower market. The US can regulate the GPS satellites and could cut off anyone else at any time. Seeing as GPS has revolutionized warfare, this means the US gets an automatic bonus in any war.
Until the EU has an alternative, it's military (should it form one) will be at a severe disadvantage in a theoretical conflict, and potential power in a theoretical conflict is a major bargaining chip. (It's a chip that's not talked about, but people pay attention to it on their own.)
"some experts warn that China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world."
Ummm...shouldn't that read, "China may successfully isolate itself through these measures"? Isn't that what they seem to perpetually want, with their policies in most other areas?
I don't know the whole situation with ringtones in the US, even though I live here, as I hate cellphones quite a bit, but I can definitely say that I've been hearing irritating pop music ringtones for at least a year.
The point of the article isn't that you can get a pop-music ringtone, it's that you can get a pop-music ringtone without paying the RIAA, which pisses the greedy bastards off.
Yes, but the article actually wrote out fear, uncertainty, and doubt. FUD is just the abbreviated Slashdot headline.
"and hence they will work together to avoid such problems"
I think you meant to say, and hence they will hire armies of lawyers and litigate each other out of existence (unless they decide to hire armies of soldiers, as seems to be the American way at the moment).
It is illegal to cause such interference. Bring it to the attention of the authorities and your problems will be solved fairly soon.
Lots of Java stuff sucks at being cross-platform. However, tax software is completely algorithmic. It's extremely simple math, it just needs a large rule set.
If written properly, it would run anywhere.
The US has NEVER had an educated public.
"The best way to do this is to convince one of the vendors to try and make it work with wine."
I'd say the best way to do this is to convince a vendor to do it in Java. Then, it could be really, reliably cross-platform.