"I wish there was a way collectively, the linux companies could buy Loki out and gpl their apps"
What rock do you live under?
Loki do not write their own games. They port titles from other companies under contract. They do not own the source code to those games, they only have a limited license to use it. Even if Linux companies bought Loki, the licensing restrictions would still apply.
If the new owners of Loki refused to port titles unless they were released under GPL, they would have just wasted a lot of money, as all the huys and gals at Loki would have nothing to do all day, except maybe finally write some docs for OpenAL.
First of all, MesaGL doesn't exist. It's Mesa3D (and it's not an OpenGL API before anyone accuses it of being one). And that's pretty much dead now venduhs such as nVidea are releasing certified OpenGL drivers for X, but Mesa is still pretty useful for those of use who have to do software rendering (and have a very useful reference on low-level optimizations of 3D math).
And OpenAL offers pretty good quality sound, prolly better than DirectSound. The API itself is piss easy to learn, and as it is so similar to the OpenGL API, integrating it into games is a non-issue.
"Yet another argument for open source software..."
[sarcasm]
Oh yes, and with things like OpenSource, root exploits don't go un-noticed for a couple of months and only get fixed when people start exploiting them
[/sarcasm]
I do like people like you. You're funny. I mean, if you are so sure OpenSource is more secure, then why was there the whole rush for everyone to upgrade their kernels to 2.2.16 after that root bug was discovered to have effected ALL previous kernels?
OpenSourcing adds no extra security, because most people will be thinking "someone else will be checking for security holes" and not bother doing it themselves, or when a hole is discovered, the channels for informing people of the bugs aren't clear, or people just won't bother upgrading, because everyknows knows OpenSource software is more secure...
Actually, that is why CD consoles will die quicker. Manufactuers make money off royalties from software running on the console, if there is greater piracy of the game, companies like Sony and Nintendo (Sega have allready quit the hardware business, they've become an Xbox partner) will pull out of the market.
There is no money in making the consoles themselves, only in licensing games and getting royalties off them,
So something has to be physical to have an owner? That's BS if I've ever heard it.
I consider my property to be something that is mine, be it a PC, a pen, or an idea/opinion. When someone takes something which is mine without my permission I get more than a little pissed off.I expect you do too.
You can form bonds with ideas, nurture them and work with them to develop them.You can love ideas, or hate ideas. they're as real as the girl you might have slept with last night.Just because they don't have physical dimensions doesn't mean thy don't exist.
There is a difference between expanding and giving reference to someone elses work then just expanding it...
AFAIK this is where "fair use" comes into play (I'm no expert on copyright law).
I *could* take a book, say "meme machine" for example, convert it to a web page or 2, and claim that it was my own work... OR... I could make a website on memes, and quote from "Meme Machine" stating that the quotes are from said book.
While the 2 scenerios are similar in practise, they are very different in theory...
A quick definition of theft... taking someone else' PROPERTY without their permission
A quick definition of Copyright infringement.... taking someone else' intellectual PROPERTY without their permission
See any similarities?
Granted, theft maybe is the wrong word to use, as that implies taking of a physical entity. But it's probably the only word anywhere close to describing taking someone elses IP... (maybe we should call it spoofing?)
While you're 100% accurate about the "i got here first" thing, isn't it more childish to see someone elses work, make slight changes to it, then claim it as your own? That is what IP is there to stop, and not to stop people coming out with original ideas.
Intellectial Property is nothing more than an idea. Some people have spent on long time working on those ideas, so they patent/copyright them so they don't get ripped off.
I don't know if you're being sarcastuc on the theft front, but...
copyright infringement is wrong. While you might want freedom to do what you want, so do the people who put copyrights on things. They want the freedom to do what they want with their ideas, and not have every john doe screwing around with it. There's more than one kind of liberty.... freedom to do what you want with other peoples things, and freedom to do what you want with your own. People generally forget about the second one on/.
While vaguely related, this isn't really for GUI, more for graphics in general...
If you're doing multimedia development, I'd recommend SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), a wrapper for X, DGA, OPenGL, DirectX and various other lower level APIs. It's available somewhere on www.devolution.com.
If you doing 3D stuff, try GLUT. This one acts as a simple windowing toolkit for various operating systems, including Windoze, X, Mac OS et al.
When was the last time you used a floppy disk, let alone left one in the drive at boot up (if you reboot)?
"Legacy" virus' are out of date. The replication systems used wouldn't be as efficient in todays connection world. Maybe a file virus could work, but, that would involve sending other people your executables, and that doesn't happen much.
Virus' authors are like marketing people. They aim their products at the masses. And today, the masses use the 'Net for distribution.
Looking at my keyboard, the p isn't anywhere near the b... can't be a typo...
Maybe Katz wrote the article, with another lame attempt at inventing a new word.
Or maybe it's a big/. conspiracy trying to make us all illiterate so they can turn us into a slave race of geeks, being unable to communicate with anyone outside of slashdot...
What if the corporations weren't the giants they are today? Would we even be here? Probably not.
The Internet was built by corporate institutions, not induhviduals,so why not let them control what they created?
And on another note, why is "corporatism" bad? People think that capitalists want to squeeze every last penny out of the general population. WRONG. If that was the case, it wouldn't work. Capitalism is symbiotic (sp?). Masses of poor do not help capitalism, but masses of rich do (they can actually feed money to the corporations, where as the poor can't). Capitalism would die a very quick death if it lowered the general wealth of the populus.
Before you free software fanatics out there start bitching about freedom (as in liberty), think how you would react to someone violating the GPL when it comes to distribution of the software?
When a band such as Metallica spend months/year son an album, they don't want it just thrown all over the 'net without getting some kind of benefits (they're allready famous, so they wouldn't benefit from the publicity). Napster and the like take away the artists rights to do with thir music what they want. If they want to sell THEIR music, then let them. If you like it, go out and buy a CD. Don't leech of over people and complain when the artists get stroppy about people stealing their music.
If ppl know about the backdoor, it's all the more reason to go and find it. However, if they don't publicize it, fewer people will search for it.
IMNSHO remote backdoors are usually (not always) bad, but backdoors that require physical access are more often than not useful in the event of a major systm failure...
When I was at school, all the sys admins went (both of them) on holiday at the same time, leaving me in control of the network (boy, did we play alot of Quake that week). But, Murphy struck, and the system died. Being the clever ppl the system admins were, they decided not to give me passwords to the server (I did, however, have keys to every room in the school... including the girls changing rooms, shame I didn't have a webcam) so when the server started going wrong (it decided to stop ppl logging in) I had to cause the Netware Monitor program to die (they had a passworded screensaver) so I could fix the problem. I used a backdoor to fix the problem. Then I got suspended for hacking. The bastards.
IMHO alot of designed backdoors are possibly left from debugging during development, kinda like cheat modes in games...
DO you really think that game developers want to spend hours getting to level 12 to check that the dragon you have to kill with the ion sword of famine coughs when you hit it 12 times with a haddock? Maybe some designed backdoors are there to allow developers to check features that would take a reletively long time to access using normal authentication procedures?
Slashdot Mirror
right at the bottom of the article, with this key generation system that I came up with last year, and no one is ever going to see it. Oh well.
I'm prolly even going to get modded down where no one can see it. All because I like to stay in bed till 2PM...
If you know how to use OPenGL lighting that is, otherwise you're screwed... SOMEONE RIGHT SOME DAMNED DOCUMENTATION FOR OPENAL! PLEASE!
*cough*
Here is a link to my upcoming book on LInux game programming. Bye bye karma...
"I wish there was a way collectively, the linux companies could buy Loki out and gpl their apps"
What rock do you live under?
Loki do not write their own games. They port titles from other companies under contract. They do not own the source code to those games, they only have a limited license to use it. Even if Linux companies bought Loki, the licensing restrictions would still apply.
If the new owners of Loki refused to port titles unless they were released under GPL, they would have just wasted a lot of money, as all the huys and gals at Loki would have nothing to do all day, except maybe finally write some docs for OpenAL.
First of all, MesaGL doesn't exist. It's Mesa3D (and it's not an OpenGL API before anyone accuses it of being one). And that's pretty much dead now venduhs such as nVidea are releasing certified OpenGL drivers for X, but Mesa is still pretty useful for those of use who have to do software rendering (and have a very useful reference on low-level optimizations of 3D math).
And OpenAL offers pretty good quality sound, prolly better than DirectSound. The API itself is piss easy to learn, and as it is so similar to the OpenGL API, integrating it into games is a non-issue.
"Yet another argument for open source software..."
[sarcasm]
Oh yes, and with things like OpenSource, root exploits don't go un-noticed for a couple of months and only get fixed when people start exploiting them
[/sarcasm]
I do like people like you. You're funny. I mean, if you are so sure OpenSource is more secure, then why was there the whole rush for everyone to upgrade their kernels to 2.2.16 after that root bug was discovered to have effected ALL previous kernels?
OpenSourcing adds no extra security, because most people will be thinking "someone else will be checking for security holes" and not bother doing it themselves, or when a hole is discovered, the channels for informing people of the bugs aren't clear, or people just won't bother upgrading, because everyknows knows OpenSource software is more secure...
Actually, that is why CD consoles will die quicker. Manufactuers make money off royalties from software running on the console, if there is greater piracy of the game, companies like Sony and Nintendo (Sega have allready quit the hardware business, they've become an Xbox partner) will pull out of the market. There is no money in making the consoles themselves, only in licensing games and getting royalties off them,
*cough*
Landfish kicks ass...
AS long as it comes with decent anti virus.
So something has to be physical to have an owner? That's BS if I've ever heard it.
I consider my property to be something that is mine, be it a PC, a pen, or an idea/opinion. When someone takes something which is mine without my permission I get more than a little pissed off.I expect you do too.
You can form bonds with ideas, nurture them and work with them to develop them.You can love ideas, or hate ideas. they're as real as the girl you might have slept with last night.Just because they don't have physical dimensions doesn't mean thy don't exist.
There is a difference between expanding and giving reference to someone elses work then just expanding it...
AFAIK this is where "fair use" comes into play (I'm no expert on copyright law).
I *could* take a book, say "meme machine" for example, convert it to a web page or 2, and claim that it was my own work... OR... I could make a website on memes, and quote from "Meme Machine" stating that the quotes are from said book.
While the 2 scenerios are similar in practise, they are very different in theory...
A quick definition of theft...
taking someone else' PROPERTY without their permission
A quick definition of Copyright infringement....
taking someone else' intellectual PROPERTY without their permission
See any similarities?
Granted, theft maybe is the wrong word to use, as that implies taking of a physical entity. But it's probably the only word anywhere close to describing taking someone elses IP... (maybe we should call it spoofing?)
While you're 100% accurate about the "i got here first" thing, isn't it more childish to see someone elses work, make slight changes to it, then claim it as your own? That is what IP is there to stop, and not to stop people coming out with original ideas.
How about...
"An idea"
Intellectial Property is nothing more than an idea. Some people have spent on long time working on those ideas, so they patent/copyright them so they don't get ripped off.
I don't know if you're being sarcastuc on the theft front, but...
/.
copyright infringement is wrong. While you might want freedom to do what you want, so do the people who put copyrights on things. They want the freedom to do what they want with their ideas, and not have every john doe screwing around with it. There's more than one kind of liberty.... freedom to do what you want with other peoples things, and freedom to do what you want with your own. People generally forget about the second one on
While vaguely related, this isn't really for GUI, more for graphics in general...
If you're doing multimedia development, I'd recommend SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), a wrapper for X, DGA, OPenGL, DirectX and various other lower level APIs. It's available somewhere on www.devolution.com.
If you doing 3D stuff, try GLUT. This one acts as a simple windowing toolkit for various operating systems, including Windoze, X, Mac OS et al.
THe SGI ice penguin
IMNSHO, the show wasn;t that interesting, but I did go for the freebies (which you had to pay for.... grrr)....
But I did notice that Computer Manuals were selling MCSE training guides.... hmmmm....
When was the last time you used a floppy disk, let alone left one in the drive at boot up (if you reboot)?
"Legacy" virus' are out of date. The replication systems used wouldn't be as efficient in todays connection world. Maybe a file virus could work, but, that would involve sending other people your executables, and that doesn't happen much.
Virus' authors are like marketing people. They aim their products at the masses. And today, the masses use the 'Net for distribution.
Looking at my keyboard, the p isn't anywhere near the b... can't be a typo...
/. conspiracy trying to make us all illiterate so they can turn us into a slave race of geeks, being unable to communicate with anyone outside of slashdot...
Maybe Katz wrote the article, with another lame attempt at inventing a new word.
Or maybe it's a big
Or maybe I'm just baranoid
I said BUILT, not invent.
What if the corporations weren't the giants they are today? Would we even be here? Probably not.
The Internet was built by corporate institutions, not induhviduals,so why not let them control what they created?
And on another note, why is "corporatism" bad? People think that capitalists want to squeeze every last penny out of the general population. WRONG. If that was the case, it wouldn't work. Capitalism is symbiotic (sp?). Masses of poor do not help capitalism, but masses of rich do (they can actually feed money to the corporations, where as the poor can't). Capitalism would die a very quick death if it lowered the general wealth of the populus.
Before you free software fanatics out there start bitching about freedom (as in liberty), think how you would react to someone violating the GPL when it comes to distribution of the software?
When a band such as Metallica spend months/year son an album, they don't want it just thrown all over the 'net without getting some kind of benefits (they're allready famous, so they wouldn't benefit from the publicity). Napster and the like take away the artists rights to do with thir music what they want. If they want to sell THEIR music, then let them. If you like it, go out and buy a CD. Don't leech of over people and complain when the artists get stroppy about people stealing their music.
I'm going to listen to S&M now....
The AI Jury (written in good ole fashioned BASIC, with line numbers)
10 PRINT "Virtual Jury"
20 INPUT "Enter evidence: ",evidence$
30 a = INT(RND*2)
40 IF a = 1 THEN PRINT "Guilty"
50 IF a = 2 THEN PRINT "Not guilty"
If ppl know about the backdoor, it's all the more reason to go and find it. However, if they don't publicize it, fewer people will search for it.
IMNSHO remote backdoors are usually (not always) bad, but backdoors that require physical access are more often than not useful in the event of a major systm failure...
When I was at school, all the sys admins went (both of them) on holiday at the same time, leaving me in control of the network (boy, did we play alot of Quake that week). But, Murphy struck, and the system died. Being the clever ppl the system admins were, they decided not to give me passwords to the server (I did, however, have keys to every room in the school... including the girls changing rooms, shame I didn't have a webcam) so when the server started going wrong (it decided to stop ppl logging in) I had to cause the Netware Monitor program to die (they had a passworded screensaver) so I could fix the problem. I used a backdoor to fix the problem. Then I got suspended for hacking. The bastards.
IMHO alot of designed backdoors are possibly left from debugging during development, kinda like cheat modes in games...
DO you really think that game developers want to spend hours getting to level 12 to check that the dragon you have to kill with the ion sword of famine coughs when you hit it 12 times with a haddock? Maybe some designed backdoors are there to allow developers to check features that would take a reletively long time to access using normal authentication procedures?