Exactly so - I typically watch tv rips at 350mb for a ~42 minute show. And yet, I see copies a few days later at 120mb or 80mb, with people downloading and watching. Sure, it's kinda butt ugly, but there are people out there who can and presumably do enjoy it.
I'd say tabbed browsing, but I think Opera got that before Mozilla, and Opera isn't OSS.
On the other side of the deal (since we were talking about OSS cloning commercial software), there's many an example of commercial companies cloning other commercial products. Like Microsoft copying Apple's desktop. Which was originally developed elsewhere anyway.
Or pretty much any new piece of software to fill a niche - there are others jumping right in as soon as they can (eg. cd burning software, dvd burning, dvd duplication....)
They do have something like this in Europe, where they have tolls - you get a ticket, drive to next toll, and if it took you less than X minutes, you get a speeding ticket. When my Mom was over in France, she got a hoot out of watching all the cars parked along the side of the road just before the booth:P
Yeah, fox's handling of the whole thing kinda sucked. They decided they wanted a more exciting, action packed episode to start off with (even though it's not a hugely action-oriented show - it does have its moments though) and that caused no end of greif...
In one hour (42 minutes total) they had to introduce 9 characters, give them reasons for being together, _and_ tell a good story? Not a good recipe. Then they kinda jumped around temporally with some of the other eps that make backreferences, and it just got confusing.
As Colazar says, start from the beginning, and enjoy. (If you're evil like me and torrent it, they'll be in the right order. If you do like it, I recommend the dvd version though - support the good shows when they're cheap:)
This patch is both a bugfix (camera updates) and updated content (new moves/weapon).
Now to me, the camera updates are just that - updates. The camera as was originally was nice, cohesive, and mostly all good. Other than a few clipping or perspective issues like running into corners (which damn near every 3rd person game gets) there was nothing really wrong with it. So calling a new method of viewing the gameplay a bug fix is a bit of a strech imo.
Got any other examples of bugs? If not quit griping.
Trust us, download the first episode and give it a go.
I like it because it doesn't take itself _too_ seriously, and uses the sci-fi setting more as a means than an end. Sure, they're on a space ship, but that's just a "home" that moves.
It also focuses more on the characters than the tech (which Trek does a lot)
It's a bait and switch. They go "Here, have some nice tasty service pack 2" but don't put a warning lable on it saying "Side effects may include crashes, lockups, itchy nose, fever, loss of updates..."
And really, SP2 Corp keygens were out on the P2P networks a few weeks back. Just keep changing it until the product ID starts XXXXX-640- and doesn't match one of the ones listed on your "Evil Keys" link, and you should be good to go on windows update v5.
Yeah, I believe the unofficial agreement among the oscar people was to wait for all three movies to come out, treat it as one film, and give any awards it deserves to the last one.
Seriously. First up, the article was on Gamespy, not GameSpot.
Secondly, Banc of America is an inventment advising company, not an actual Bank (though they do seem to be related to the actual Bank of America). It makes sense that _someone_ needs to investigate the trends in gaming so that the investors know when to buy or sell stock for Activision or whoever.
Do it - I went up to a gig from 512, and man UT just screams along now. It used to page out horribly, but now it runs with ~100MB to spare in ram while I'm playing, though it does still put some things in swap.
From what I know, during the premier they get off to Atlantis, and then goof up and get themselves stuck there - it's mostly autonomous from the original show. I do recommend you hunt down the Stargate Atlantis Lowdown on bittorrent or something (it aired last week) that should bring you up to speed on what's happening with the main Stargate storyline and universe. They're spending their time in another galaxy, no Gua'uld, new bad guys, new stuff going down. Should be fun:)
One of the things the writers mention is that for it to work as simultaneous shows, the one thing they _don't_ want to be doing often is invite the crew from show B to save the guys on show A. Regardless which show is A and which is B.
That would be 4000 total, including "48 Nobel laureates, 62 National Medal of Science recipients, and 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences."
For example - Joe Shmo wants to use a slick piece of code that you've GPL'd. For whatever reason, he can't, or doesn't want to GPL his own code. Even if he isn't in competition with your own project and means no ill will, he has no choice but to pass up whatever he could have gained from your offering. Net loss to everyone.
At this point, Joe asks the owner of said code if he can get a license to use the code outside of a GPL license, and talks go from there.
I was actually really impressed with their newfound subtlety.
Went to see The Notebook last night, and at the beginning Studio credit blurb, they had footage of the conductor and musicians doing a few runthroughs before they actually did the blurb and started the movie.
No condescending talking or anything, just a nice little 45-second clip showing some of the other people behind the scenes.
On the other hand, I'm starting to get really bitter with their DVD marketing staff that insist that the DVD should auto-run some previews before you get to the main menu. Hello? I bought the DVD to keep, and I don't want to be seeing adverts for Hidalgo 4 years down the line saying "Coming Soon"
Keep in mind that the blocks are on what are very likely zombied, trojaned, infected machines and that the users/owners of said machines dont even realize it.
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I've been using 'them' as a gender-neutral singular most of my way through college as needed (which was not very often)
Exactly so - I typically watch tv rips at 350mb for a ~42 minute show. And yet, I see copies a few days later at 120mb or 80mb, with people downloading and watching. Sure, it's kinda butt ugly, but there are people out there who can and presumably do enjoy it.
On the other side of the deal (since we were talking about OSS cloning commercial software), there's many an example of commercial companies cloning other commercial products. Like Microsoft copying Apple's desktop. Which was originally developed elsewhere anyway.
Or pretty much any new piece of software to fill a niche - there are others jumping right in as soon as they can (eg. cd burning software, dvd burning, dvd duplication....)
No, actually it was as a free replacement for a unix-like system. The "replacement for windows" talk didn't start up for a fair while.
They do have something like this in Europe, where they have tolls - you get a ticket, drive to next toll, and if it took you less than X minutes, you get a speeding ticket. When my Mom was over in France, she got a hoot out of watching all the cars parked along the side of the road just before the booth :P
In one hour (42 minutes total) they had to introduce 9 characters, give them reasons for being together, _and_ tell a good story? Not a good recipe. Then they kinda jumped around temporally with some of the other eps that make backreferences, and it just got confusing.
As Colazar says, start from the beginning, and enjoy. (If you're evil like me and torrent it, they'll be in the right order. If you do like it, I recommend the dvd version though - support the good shows when they're cheap :)
Now to me, the camera updates are just that - updates. The camera as was originally was nice, cohesive, and mostly all good. Other than a few clipping or perspective issues like running into corners (which damn near every 3rd person game gets) there was nothing really wrong with it. So calling a new method of viewing the gameplay a bug fix is a bit of a strech imo.
Got any other examples of bugs? If not quit griping.
I like it because it doesn't take itself _too_ seriously, and uses the sci-fi setting more as a means than an end. Sure, they're on a space ship, but that's just a "home" that moves.
It also focuses more on the characters than the tech (which Trek does a lot)
And really, SP2 Corp keygens were out on the P2P networks a few weeks back. Just keep changing it until the product ID starts XXXXX-640- and doesn't match one of the ones listed on your "Evil Keys" link, and you should be good to go on windows update v5.
die("The meat of the statement is at the front of the line") if Language.supports("post-conditionals");
3. Pocket the leftover $499.5K
I wouldn't worry about it then. When you start typing faster than you think all sorts of bad things can happen :P
If the author had read the entire article, perhaps they did it before the update went on...
I'm not complaining with his opinion, I'm complaining with his (incorrect) facts.
Yeah, I believe the unofficial agreement among the oscar people was to wait for all three movies to come out, treat it as one film, and give any awards it deserves to the last one.
Seriously. First up, the article was on Gamespy, not GameSpot.
Secondly, Banc of America is an inventment advising company, not an actual Bank (though they do seem to be related to the actual Bank of America). It makes sense that _someone_ needs to investigate the trends in gaming so that the investors know when to buy or sell stock for Activision or whoever.
Do it - I went up to a gig from 512, and man UT just screams along now. It used to page out horribly, but now it runs with ~100MB to spare in ram while I'm playing, though it does still put some things in swap.
From what I know, during the premier they get off to Atlantis, and then goof up and get themselves stuck there - it's mostly autonomous from the original show. I do recommend you hunt down the Stargate Atlantis Lowdown on bittorrent or something (it aired last week) that should bring you up to speed on what's happening with the main Stargate storyline and universe. They're spending their time in another galaxy, no Gua'uld, new bad guys, new stuff going down. Should be fun :)
One of the things the writers mention is that for it to work as simultaneous shows, the one thing they _don't_ want to be doing often is invite the crew from show B to save the guys on show A. Regardless which show is A and which is B.
That would be 4000 total, including "48 Nobel laureates, 62 National Medal of Science recipients, and 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences."
At this point, Joe asks the owner of said code if he can get a license to use the code outside of a GPL license, and talks go from there.
Went to see The Notebook last night, and at the beginning Studio credit blurb, they had footage of the conductor and musicians doing a few runthroughs before they actually did the blurb and started the movie.
No condescending talking or anything, just a nice little 45-second clip showing some of the other people behind the scenes.
On the other hand, I'm starting to get really bitter with their DVD marketing staff that insist that the DVD should auto-run some previews before you get to the main menu. Hello? I bought the DVD to keep, and I don't want to be seeing adverts for Hidalgo 4 years down the line saying "Coming Soon"
The sunglasses were so they could hack a HUD in :P
Actually no, he's right. Check out link number 3 (the actual benchmark) and go to one of the tests.
For example, on the "Level Analysis: research" page, at 1600x1200 no AA/AF:
Card SM2 SM3 Increase
GF6800 Ultra Extreme 76.4 87.9 17.4%
GF6800 Ultra 67.9 77.6 14.3%
GF6800 GT 60.9 70.0 14.9%
GF6800 39.0 47.9 22.8%
Radeon x800 XT Plat 69.6 69.6 0%
Radeon X800 XT 64.9 64.9 0%
Radeon X800 Pro 49.8 49.8 0%
I'd say that looks like a 15% or more increase for nvidia cards...
Keep in mind that the blocks are on what are very likely zombied, trojaned, infected machines and that the users/owners of said machines dont even realize it.
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