This is too weird - I swapped out my trusty old Geforce 2 GTS (which I had used to complete the game in the first place, a couple of years ago!) and replaced it with a Geforce mx 440 I got from a friend, and now the game runs fine again.
I can't imagine why this happens, but thanks anyway. If anyone needs me, I'll be tackling Shodan;-)
The problem I'm having here is that the graphics screw up completely, usually when something fires at you or when you walk into a room with radioactivity. I'm trying to play this on Windows ME, DirectX 9, Detonator 44.03...
Annoying: originally it worked fine on this machine, but I don't know whether it is the driver, DirectX, or something else that screwed it up...
Start collecting newspaper articles about people massacring their coworkers. Leave them carelessly lying around the office, and tell little stories about people who "just snap" after taking too much pressure. Gently suggest that pair programming can be pretty pressurable to programmers (who are usually most comfortable when locked into their own mind with noone around to bother them).
If that doesn't help, "work the system". If pair programming is good, programming with three people must obviously be better. See how many people you can get clustered around a terminal. There is no system that cannot be perverted by ruthlessly following its own rules...
I think what you say is extremely plausible (and if you go back to one of the earliest SCO articles on/., you'll find a response from me saying much the same thing;-) ).
The only _real_ effect the whole SCO business has, so far, is a slow-down in the Linux adoption rate. That slowdown could prove critical to Microsoft, because it might just be enough to grant them the opportunity to make some fundamental changes to the PC market (both legally (DMCA) and technically (NGTCB)) that will lock Linux out.
Microsoft would already be very happy if they could split the PC market into two parts: a low-end, Windows-only part for the desktop, and a high-end, server market (running either Windows or some form of UNIX). What do you think would happen to Linux acceptance outside the server world if you suddenly needed a mega-expensive server motherboard just to run it? The strength of Linux has always been that it could run on cheap, ubiquitous systems. They could very well succeed in taking that away.
I don't think he got the idea that the reason he made it famous was that windows crashed so often that everyone had to use ctrl-alt-delete.
On the contrary, the expression on his face clearly shows he understands full well what is implied - maybe he was not anticipating the comment, but he sure understands what is being said. The next remark by David Bradley makes clear the hidden meaning was intentional, too.
Is there some way I can download this video and save it for posterity? If I click on the link I can just play it, but there does not seem to be a "save" button.
As far as I know there are 3-4 supply runs (Progress vehicles) per year, so (assuming they have some safety margin) maybe 6-9 months before supplies run out. After that it won't take very long (a couple of years maybe) before orbit degrades too severely and it reenters and burns.
Why not? It'd be better...
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Perhaps we would be better off if filesharing was stealing. Think about it: I leave my property (the files) on my server, unprotected by any lock (similar to me leaving my bike in the garden without any lock). Let's say for the sake of argument that you come along and steal it. Here's what happens:
- I cannot be prosecuted for "filesharing" since I am myself a victim of theft. There's no law saying I have to secure my bike, and similarly there is no law saying I have to secure my server.
- There is no way for the record companies to get involved. They are not a victim in any way.
- You can only be prosecuted for stealing that one album, worth maybe 25 euro's or so.
Looks good, doesn't it? Let's campaign for filesharing == theft in the future...
The screenshots are used by many reviewers to do a detailed comparison of image quality. If a screenshot shows a better quality image than you see in-game, they are no longer useful tools for determining image quality and as such may cause reviewers to draw the wrong conclusions. I agree that for the purpose of chronicling your own adventures, the highest-quality screenshots are nice, but for review purposes they should represent exact in-game quality. Moreover, the difference should be clear to everyone.
On the other hand, you know you're really f*cked when not even the Scientologists want you.
Don't knock yourself, it probably just means you are not susceptible to their propaganda. It's just a sign of a strong mind.
Well, that or an empty wallet...
Do not forget that 90% of software development is for highly specific systems running on only one site. There will not be open source solutions for those cases, since the problem will simply be too specific to be solved with open source. As for the other 10%, any company that depends on mass-distribution of a single product (like Microsoft) is doomed. Any product with large enough market share will find itself struggling against one or more open source counterparts, since there is a clear need for such products.
And that's what Microsoft themselves have done all these years, so maybe we should not feel too sad about that.
Is it a bad thing that someone from some 3rd-world country can now compete with you on this? Hell, no: you aren't benefitting from Microsoft anyway. And that's even more true outside the USA.
This is a good idea, and it has the added advantage (since it is aimed not just at SCO, but also any possible successors) to make SCO less valuable as a takeover target. In other words, go for it.
While I feel you are right, I'd like to point out that this will only delay the inevitable. Soon other countries will not care about "access to our market"; moreoever, when economies begin to crumble those in actual possession of IP will find it easy to move wherever the money is.
In other words, strong IP laws are a good short-term strategy but a lousy one for the longer term.
This is the very same government that let Microsoft off the hook. They may have a completely different vision of the future, one in which the dangerous "free" and "open" Linux is suppressed and everyone can start using the official Microsoft operating systems again (with its undoubted espionage backdoors). In fact, *now* would be a good time for that, before everybody else escapes their control...
It will be real soon enough. Right now they are attempting to establish that you must pay them money in order to run Linux. Once that's been established, running Linux without paying them money will be illegal and the attacks on download servers, students, individual developers, etc. will start.
One very likely consequence is that kernel developers may soon be sued simply for contributing to "SCO's property" or violating "SCO copyright". Hell, they might even be able to turn it into a DMCA violation somehow.
AmigaOS manages to multitask, preemptively, using very few system resources, and still have excellent real-time characteristics. So does QNX. The secret is that both AmigaOS and QNX use a microkernel instead of a monolithic kernel.
I don't see how you can reasonably do real-time computing without preemption. It would mean timeslicing each process by hand, which (especially for large tasks or tasks that scale to large datasets) is nearly impossible to get right. RiscOS, I believe, moved to a preemptive model later in its life (correct me if I'm wrong) for precisely this reason.
You think that's bad? Here in the Netherlands they had a little commercial urging the visitors of the theatre not to litter. Fair enough, people should get rid of their trash and stuff in the trashcans and not just throw it on the floor.
However, they did this by depicting their customers as a bunch of dirty, littering pigs. Excuuuuse me? Did I just pay a lot of money to be insulted?
As a result, I have visited precisely two movies in the last two years (the two Lord of the Rings movies, which I wanted to see on the big screen). For the rest, I honestly don't care about movies anymore. If I want to see them I can always rent or download. Usually it is not worth the hassle either way, and I read a book instead.
Moral: if you insult your customers don't expect them to come back. I know it worked for me.
For us programmers it is easy: we have gcc, we can do whatever we want. The same is not true for most artistic types, they need powerful tools, with good user interfaces, before they can work. Those tools are either expensive, hard to use, unavailable for Linux, or any combination thereof.
Look at the Amiga: the original Sound Tracker sparked a flood of clones, an incredible number of crappy songs, and a few absolute gems. The point was that everyone could write music using that program, and everyone did. I'm not aware of any *simple* music-production tool similar to Sound Tracker on Linux (but I haven't looked for one either).
Similarly, Deluxe Paint unleashed a flood of crappy drawings and a few great works of art. Again, I'm not aware of a counterpart on Linux (Gimp is too complex) or Windows (mspaint is too basic).
Both of these programs fit in a specific niche. They are not professional tools, but they have sufficient power to do some pretty good work anyway. Anyone could play with them and get interesting results; some of those people went on to make a carreer out of music or digital painting. And those are the people you are looking for: just starting in the field, having something to prove, and willing to do work for free in return for name recognition (which is the most valuable thing you can offer at this point).
Meanwhile in the Linux camp, we need to make those tools for Linux. We also need to provide a distribution specific for creative types, one in which the start menu contains a Sound Tracker clone, a DPaint clone, a *simple* 3D modelling tool, a sample editor, and anything else that is artistic, accessible and powerful.
They are obviously the future of geeks. Think about it: now we are the social underdogs, but in the future gadgets (such as enhanced strength, instant communication, and integrated computer hardware) will finally allow us to strike back AND get close to seven of nine at the same time;-)
Today's geeks are already into sharing in many ways: source, ideas, music, etc. Becoming Borg will just take things to a much higher level.
The one thing I am not so sure about is how Linus fits in as "the queen"...
The scrollwheel allows you to scroll without having to exercise precision control (it will work anywhere on the screen as long as the control you want to scroll has focus). As such it is an invaluable addition to the available input methods.
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I can't imagine why this happens, but thanks anyway. If anyone needs me, I'll be tackling Shodan ;-)
I must have missed it when that meme was introduced here on /. Would some kind person care to explain?
Annoying: originally it worked fine on this machine, but I don't know whether it is the driver, DirectX, or something else that screwed it up...
If that doesn't help, "work the system". If pair programming is good, programming with three people must obviously be better. See how many people you can get clustered around a terminal. There is no system that cannot be perverted by ruthlessly following its own rules...
I agree Canons are nice, but mine has clogged ink in the printhead. It is no longer under guarantee, so that's not so nice...
The only _real_ effect the whole SCO business has, so far, is a slow-down in the Linux adoption rate. That slowdown could prove critical to Microsoft, because it might just be enough to grant them the opportunity to make some fundamental changes to the PC market (both legally (DMCA) and technically (NGTCB)) that will lock Linux out.
Microsoft would already be very happy if they could split the PC market into two parts: a low-end, Windows-only part for the desktop, and a high-end, server market (running either Windows or some form of UNIX). What do you think would happen to Linux acceptance outside the server world if you suddenly needed a mega-expensive server motherboard just to run it? The strength of Linux has always been that it could run on cheap, ubiquitous systems. They could very well succeed in taking that away.
On the contrary, the expression on his face clearly shows he understands full well what is implied - maybe he was not anticipating the comment, but he sure understands what is being said. The next remark by David Bradley makes clear the hidden meaning was intentional, too.
Is there some way I can download this video and save it for posterity? If I click on the link I can just play it, but there does not seem to be a "save" button.
The site is itself obviously also using bongo-drums to communicate with us...
Indeed. How about this?
As far as I know there are 3-4 supply runs (Progress vehicles) per year, so (assuming they have some safety margin) maybe 6-9 months before supplies run out. After that it won't take very long (a couple of years maybe) before orbit degrades too severely and it reenters and burns.
- I cannot be prosecuted for "filesharing" since I am myself a victim of theft. There's no law saying I have to secure my bike, and similarly there is no law saying I have to secure my server.
- There is no way for the record companies to get involved. They are not a victim in any way.
- You can only be prosecuted for stealing that one album, worth maybe 25 euro's or so.
Looks good, doesn't it? Let's campaign for filesharing == theft in the future...
The screenshots are used by many reviewers to do a detailed comparison of image quality. If a screenshot shows a better quality image than you see in-game, they are no longer useful tools for determining image quality and as such may cause reviewers to draw the wrong conclusions. I agree that for the purpose of chronicling your own adventures, the highest-quality screenshots are nice, but for review purposes they should represent exact in-game quality. Moreover, the difference should be clear to everyone.
On the other hand, you know you're really f*cked when not even the Scientologists want you.
Don't knock yourself, it probably just means you are not susceptible to their propaganda. It's just a sign of a strong mind.
Well, that or an empty wallet...
And that's what Microsoft themselves have done all these years, so maybe we should not feel too sad about that.
Is it a bad thing that someone from some 3rd-world country can now compete with you on this? Hell, no: you aren't benefitting from Microsoft anyway. And that's even more true outside the USA.
This is a good idea, and it has the added advantage (since it is aimed not just at SCO, but also any possible successors) to make SCO less valuable as a takeover target. In other words, go for it.
In other words, strong IP laws are a good short-term strategy but a lousy one for the longer term.
This is the very same government that let Microsoft off the hook. They may have a completely different vision of the future, one in which the dangerous "free" and "open" Linux is suppressed and everyone can start using the official Microsoft operating systems again (with its undoubted espionage backdoors). In fact, *now* would be a good time for that, before everybody else escapes their control...
One very likely consequence is that kernel developers may soon be sued simply for contributing to "SCO's property" or violating "SCO copyright". Hell, they might even be able to turn it into a DMCA violation somehow.
I don't see how you can reasonably do real-time computing without preemption. It would mean timeslicing each process by hand, which (especially for large tasks or tasks that scale to large datasets) is nearly impossible to get right. RiscOS, I believe, moved to a preemptive model later in its life (correct me if I'm wrong) for precisely this reason.
So how do you feel about all this? Is your job on the line because of Kazaa?
However, they did this by depicting their customers as a bunch of dirty, littering pigs. Excuuuuse me? Did I just pay a lot of money to be insulted?
As a result, I have visited precisely two movies in the last two years (the two Lord of the Rings movies, which I wanted to see on the big screen). For the rest, I honestly don't care about movies anymore. If I want to see them I can always rent or download. Usually it is not worth the hassle either way, and I read a book instead.
Moral: if you insult your customers don't expect them to come back. I know it worked for me.
Look at the Amiga: the original Sound Tracker sparked a flood of clones, an incredible number of crappy songs, and a few absolute gems. The point was that everyone could write music using that program, and everyone did. I'm not aware of any *simple* music-production tool similar to Sound Tracker on Linux (but I haven't looked for one either).
Similarly, Deluxe Paint unleashed a flood of crappy drawings and a few great works of art. Again, I'm not aware of a counterpart on Linux (Gimp is too complex) or Windows (mspaint is too basic).
Both of these programs fit in a specific niche. They are not professional tools, but they have sufficient power to do some pretty good work anyway. Anyone could play with them and get interesting results; some of those people went on to make a carreer out of music or digital painting. And those are the people you are looking for: just starting in the field, having something to prove, and willing to do work for free in return for name recognition (which is the most valuable thing you can offer at this point).
Meanwhile in the Linux camp, we need to make those tools for Linux. We also need to provide a distribution specific for creative types, one in which the start menu contains a Sound Tracker clone, a DPaint clone, a *simple* 3D modelling tool, a sample editor, and anything else that is artistic, accessible and powerful.
Today's geeks are already into sharing in many ways: source, ideas, music, etc. Becoming Borg will just take things to a much higher level.
The one thing I am not so sure about is how Linus fits in as "the queen"...
The scrollwheel allows you to scroll without having to exercise precision control (it will work anywhere on the screen as long as the control you want to scroll has focus). As such it is an invaluable addition to the available input methods.