I don't think they should be criticized for using DOSBox in the first place.
Well, I think they would have been better off using one of the updated derivatives of the GPL'd Quake source to have a native Windows version instead of relying on DOS emulation at all. But I admit that that's only a minor criticism.
No, a tablet computer is something you write on with a stylus. Poking an on-screen keyboard with a finger doesn't count. A Thinkpad X60 Tablet is a tablet computer; an iPhone is not.
The T1 excels at large scale parallel integer operations. It had up to 8 cores and 32 execution units per chip. The biggest drawback was that there was one shared anemic FPU per chip so if even a relatively small amount of your workload was floating point performance took a serious dive.
Hmm... that makes me want a dual-CPU system with one T1 and one Cell. Imagine if they were both Hypertransport-compatible...
That depends on your standards for "fast." If any new CPU or GPU is "fast enough" (and for a lot of things, they are), then you actually can have all three!
Sun knows that their business isn't in microprocessors, it's in the systems that they build on top of them. By making the chip a commodity, they let other companies spend money increasing the size of Sun's market. It's the same reason they open-sources Solaris, because they aren't in the business of selling operating systems, they're in the business of selling complete systems, and the more people use Solaris, the more people will want a Sun system.
Not being a Sun user, I'm curious: what do they have left to differentiate themselves? I mean, Apple is in the business of selling complete systems too, but it still has a proprietary UI and fancy industrial design. But I have no idea why I should care about Sun.
Yeah, but can I exercise my rights under the GPL by modifying the blueprint, then send it back to Sun and have them manufacture the new version for me? Cause that would be cool!
Yes, but where in Hell are you going to find an FPGA big enough/fast enough to run a full OpenSPARC implementation?
In the bottom of Cracker Jack boxes, 20 years from now?
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You're assuming I purchase ringtones frequently....
I've purchased 2 ring tones in the last year.
No I'm not; twice is enough! (Once is reasonable, because you don't see the bandwidth charges until afterwards. The second time, though, you should have known better!)
In fact, you've gone beyond assumptions and preemptively called me stupid, and a "consumer whore".
Maybe it hurts, but nevertheless it continues to appear to be the truth.
If I do want new ringtones, though, I have no option but to buy them at $2.50 a pop.
False! You have three other options:
Deal with not having the ringtone, even though you want it, because you realize it's a rip-off
Get a different phone, one which can be connected to the computer and have ringtones loaded on it that way. (Or it may be that your carrier has crippled your phone; in that case, get a different carrier.)
Hack your phone to un-cripple it (although from a "punish-the-assholes-responsible" perspective, switching carriers would be better).
Personally, I don't care about ringtones (as I prefer my phone to sound like a phone). But I do care about games. As such, I would like to get some for my RAZR (on Cingular). However, I refuse to do so on principle, because I ought to be able to download free ones to my computer and transfer them to my phone. Sooner or later I'll figure out how to accomplish that; meanwhile, I'll simply not play games on the phone. It's really Not. That. Hard!
Look, if you want to complain about the phone company being a rip-off, that's fine. In fact, I encourage it! If you want to buy ringtones and assorted other crap (e.g. 2kb "wallpapers" for $30, hyperbolically speaking), that's fine too (but I don't encourage it). However, if you try to do both -- that is, complain about how they're ripping you off while continuing to reward their behavior by buying their shit, then you are indeed a consumer whore, whether you like it or not!
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How much shit do you own?
I own a reasonable amount of stuff, if that's what you mean. However, none of it was "shit" when I bought it.
Anyway, back to the point: nobody needs ringtones. My phone, for example, sounds -- gasp -- like a ringing phone when I get a call! If you don't like the phone company's business tactics, then don't support them. Deal with not having a ringtone, or get yourself a phone that you can load them on yourself. But don't reward the assholes for attempting to screw you! You're already bending over for the basic monthly plan; buying extra crap that you, by all rights, should be able to copy from your computer for free is equivalent to saying "thank you sir, may I have another?!"
And you know what? Like xENoLocO, I don't like paying for my phone to access the Internet. So, what I did is call up the phone company and told them to turn off the functionality. Now, even if I hit the little globe icon button on my phone by mistake, it tells me "connection unsuccessful" and doesn't charge me. Amazing!
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This situation is bullshit, but what can I do?
What, are you kidding? Quit buying ringtones, stupid!
Consumer whores like you are what enable the industry to be as screwed up as it is!
Yeah, I recognize those terms from the link. It's also pretty cool how the packing of buds on the flower, etc. turn out to be based on the golden ratio.
but it works pretty well (although Ubuntu's NetworkManager always had trouble with the driver and non-broadcast networks).
Ah-ha! Maybe that's why I can't get KNetworkManager to connect to my school's network. Did you ever find a fix for it that would allow it to remain automatic (i.e., something other than quitting KNetworkManager and using iwconfig manually)?
My x60t's wireless Just Works with Kubuntu Feisty. (Note: the x60s can come with either Atheros or Intel wireless; mine has Atheros but I think the Intel ought to Just Work as well.)
Driver support for Free Software operating systems on laptops is traditionally somewhat hit and miss.
On the other hand, it's traditionally been pretty good on Thinkpad laptops. As the owner of an x60 tablet (which runs Ubuntu just fine), I don't see a whole lot of benefit from this.
I've been curious about how stuff like SpeedTree works for years now, and that "Practical Procedural Modeling of Plants" article you linked appears to be the perfect reference!
And BSD-style licenses are pretty damn close to public domain, wouldn't you say?
Public domain is public domain. Open source is open source. They are not equivalent. BSD-style licenses just happen to fall close to the intersection of open source and public domain.
Think of it this way: imagine you have some public domain software. If you have the source code, then it's also open source. But if you only have the binary, it's not open source even though it's public domain. Or, imagine you have some "open source" software. It could be public domain, it could be GPL, or it could even be Microsoft "shared source" (which is about as far from public domain as you could get!).
So unless you meant e.g. rather than i.e. I'm going to have to disagree with categorization of open source.
Hey, don't blame me; I prefer to avoid that term (in favor of "Free Software") anyway. Take it up with OSI.
No kidding. To use a meme from another site, the real WTF here is that Valve apparently used the old commercial id binaries along with DOSBox instead of just grabbing updated native Windows versions of the games made from the GPL'd source. Valve could still "sell" the games; it's just that the value would be in the (still proprietary) data files.
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He should have removed one syllable from the last line; then he would have gotten "+1 haiku!"
Well, I think they would have been better off using one of the updated derivatives of the GPL'd Quake source to have a native Windows version instead of relying on DOS emulation at all. But I admit that that's only a minor criticism.
No, a tablet computer is something you write on with a stylus. Poking an on-screen keyboard with a finger doesn't count. A Thinkpad X60 Tablet is a tablet computer; an iPhone is not.
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Damnit, couldn't you have just yelled "Snape kills Dumbledore" or something instead?!
Hmm... that makes me want a dual-CPU system with one T1 and one Cell. Imagine if they were both Hypertransport-compatible...
That depends on your standards for "fast." If any new CPU or GPU is "fast enough" (and for a lot of things, they are), then you actually can have all three!
Not being a Sun user, I'm curious: what do they have left to differentiate themselves? I mean, Apple is in the business of selling complete systems too, but it still has a proprietary UI and fancy industrial design. But I have no idea why I should care about Sun.
Yeah, but can I exercise my rights under the GPL by modifying the blueprint, then send it back to Sun and have them manufacture the new version for me? Cause that would be cool!
(By the way: yes, that question was rhetorical.)
Shouldn't that answer always be "yes," because otherwise there wasn't any point in making the composite instruction in the first place?
In the bottom of Cracker Jack boxes, 20 years from now?
No I'm not; twice is enough! (Once is reasonable, because you don't see the bandwidth charges until afterwards. The second time, though, you should have known better!)
Maybe it hurts, but nevertheless it continues to appear to be the truth.
False! You have three other options:
Personally, I don't care about ringtones (as I prefer my phone to sound like a phone). But I do care about games. As such, I would like to get some for my RAZR (on Cingular). However, I refuse to do so on principle, because I ought to be able to download free ones to my computer and transfer them to my phone. Sooner or later I'll figure out how to accomplish that; meanwhile, I'll simply not play games on the phone. It's really Not. That. Hard!
Look, if you want to complain about the phone company being a rip-off, that's fine. In fact, I encourage it! If you want to buy ringtones and assorted other crap (e.g. 2kb "wallpapers" for $30, hyperbolically speaking), that's fine too (but I don't encourage it). However, if you try to do both -- that is, complain about how they're ripping you off while continuing to reward their behavior by buying their shit, then you are indeed a consumer whore, whether you like it or not!
I own a reasonable amount of stuff, if that's what you mean. However, none of it was "shit" when I bought it.
Anyway, back to the point: nobody needs ringtones. My phone, for example, sounds -- gasp -- like a ringing phone when I get a call! If you don't like the phone company's business tactics, then don't support them. Deal with not having a ringtone, or get yourself a phone that you can load them on yourself. But don't reward the assholes for attempting to screw you! You're already bending over for the basic monthly plan; buying extra crap that you, by all rights, should be able to copy from your computer for free is equivalent to saying "thank you sir, may I have another?!"
And you know what? Like xENoLocO, I don't like paying for my phone to access the Internet. So, what I did is call up the phone company and told them to turn off the functionality. Now, even if I hit the little globe icon button on my phone by mistake, it tells me "connection unsuccessful" and doesn't charge me. Amazing!
What, are you kidding? Quit buying ringtones, stupid!
Consumer whores like you are what enable the industry to be as screwed up as it is!
Hey, it could still be a threat to one of those geosynchronous satellites!
Yeah, I recognize those terms from the link. It's also pretty cool how the packing of buds on the flower, etc. turn out to be based on the golden ratio.
Ah-ha! Maybe that's why I can't get KNetworkManager to connect to my school's network. Did you ever find a fix for it that would allow it to remain automatic (i.e., something other than quitting KNetworkManager and using iwconfig manually)?
My x60t's wireless Just Works with Kubuntu Feisty. (Note: the x60s can come with either Atheros or Intel wireless; mine has Atheros but I think the Intel ought to Just Work as well.)
On the other hand, it's traditionally been pretty good on Thinkpad laptops. As the owner of an x60 tablet (which runs Ubuntu just fine), I don't see a whole lot of benefit from this.
Imagine you have some software that is public domain, but only the binary exists. Is it still open source? No!
Open source is orthogonal to public domain. QED.
No, he's in right field!
I've been curious about how stuff like SpeedTree works for years now, and that "Practical Procedural Modeling of Plants" article you linked appears to be the perfect reference!
Public domain is public domain. Open source is open source. They are not equivalent. BSD-style licenses just happen to fall close to the intersection of open source and public domain.
Think of it this way: imagine you have some public domain software. If you have the source code, then it's also open source. But if you only have the binary, it's not open source even though it's public domain. Or, imagine you have some "open source" software. It could be public domain, it could be GPL, or it could even be Microsoft "shared source" (which is about as far from public domain as you could get!).
Hey, don't blame me; I prefer to avoid that term (in favor of "Free Software") anyway. Take it up with OSI.
What part of "except it may or may not be copyleft" did you not understand?
No kidding. To use a meme from another site, the real WTF here is that Valve apparently used the old commercial id binaries along with DOSBox instead of just grabbing updated native Windows versions of the games made from the GPL'd source. Valve could still "sell" the games; it's just that the value would be in the (still proprietary) data files.