I second this. At the very least, we want the appropriate documentation for the cards. I can understand if they can't release their current drivers, but I don't understand releasing the info on how to interface with the card. What's it going to reveal? That they have some sort of super-secret magic instruction on the GPU?
consider this a warning as how F/OSS might possibly change in the future.
But F/OSS does not sway at the fancy of one person alone. RMS and Linus may have the biggest individual sways, but in the event that any important figure changes his ideology in a way that others do not like, the project is forked and F/OSS continues at a dampened pace until a suitable driving force is found.
If both RMS and Linus joined the Dark Side as of this moment, they would not be able to stop what they started. Perhaps only a mass defection could cause F/OSS to regress for any significant amount of time. Now, whether that is possible is more wide open to debate that is the possibility of a change considered in general.
I used MADWIFI in my old laptop, with two PC card adapters, which the laptop randomly fried. Thanks, HP/Compaq!
While I absolutely love the job that the devs do on that project, in hindsight I'm not so confident in the Atheros hardware---and that's not because of the two incidents mentioned above. I have seen many reports that the Atheros has the shortest range of all the 802.11g chipsets. And it would be better if the project could be completely GPL, but because the Atheros radio is software-controlled, that part can't be GPL due to FCC standards.
In my new laptop, I have a Ralink 2500-series card. They apparently have had Linux drivers for a while, and in December they released them under the GPL.
Well, it depends on how you want to treat the noun "group." You can treat it as a singular noun, since that is the grammatical construct, or a plural noun, since the idea of a group implies pluralism (e.g., "The enemy are retreating."). The latter is more commonly British, but it is surely valid in all English.
Well, let's look at an example of a title that changed in mid-development. I cite the example of Rare's last big title before turning to the Dark Side, namely Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet. This game was originally a stand-alone, featuring a very similar character to Fox. One thing led to another, and the Star Fox franchise was grafted on top of the game.
What ended up happening is this: the actual game must have received less attention, because gameplay suffered. I've heard it described as Zelda or Banjo-Kazooie with some traditional Star Fox thrown in, each component not done as well as it could have. Meh.
Therefore, I would classify the "game" as more of an "interactive movie." The storyline doesn't suck too much, the voice acting is top-notch as far as games go, and the visuals are absolutely stunning. Have you seen that fur rendered in real-time? It's quite an achievement.
It depends what you're looking for. If you're a gamer, you might want to stay clear of some franchise games. If you're a fan-boy, sequals give you more material and always have a positive element, unless they completely drop the ball. Most people fall somewhere in-between.
Specifically, I would say that the merging of the two has revitalized Star Fox. I hear that the new game, which has been out for rental since Feb. 1, even though the game is officially release on the 15th, is much more deep in the gameplay area, and that Namco didn't screw up as much as we thought they would.
No, you see, you are missing the point. The IDN system is flawed, not any particular browser.
By making browsers an issue in the headline, there could be an immense amount of spin generated from this, where there didn't need to be any. Anybody who reads only the headline will thing an entirely different thing from someone who actually reads the comments and gets a perspective.
To give an example of this that swings the other way, do you remember that announcement of the SP2 vulnerability in the stack overflow checking or something like that, that happened a week-or-so ago? And then Microsoft later said that no exploits have been found for it? That's the kind of thing that this headline can induce, because there is no perspective.
Can we please get that headline changed to read "Shmoo Group Find Exploit in All IDN Implementations" or something like that? The headline really gives the wrong impression, despite there being a note at the end of the write-up.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36351 (no link for obvious reasons) is the bug report, which has been around since April 2000 but has not progressed much due to licensing issues (copyright ones fixed, patent ones not?).
Given the number of different programs for one purpose that we have created, OSS is incredibly interoperable.
I guarantee that if all the Linux and BSD and HURD developers picked one kernel, GNOME and KDE picked one working environment, etc..., we would blow the pants off Microsoft.
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I second this. At the very least, we want the appropriate documentation for the cards. I can understand if they can't release their current drivers, but I don't understand releasing the info on how to interface with the card. What's it going to reveal? That they have some sort of super-secret magic instruction on the GPU?
You are assuming that the country has uniform population density. Obviously, this is not so.
Mare Nostrum refers to the Mediterranean Sea.
consider this a warning as how F/OSS might possibly change in the future.
But F/OSS does not sway at the fancy of one person alone. RMS and Linus may have the biggest individual sways, but in the event that any important figure changes his ideology in a way that others do not like, the project is forked and F/OSS continues at a dampened pace until a suitable driving force is found.
If both RMS and Linus joined the Dark Side as of this moment, they would not be able to stop what they started. Perhaps only a mass defection could cause F/OSS to regress for any significant amount of time. Now, whether that is possible is more wide open to debate that is the possibility of a change considered in general.
You are awesome.
There are plenty of other ones out there.
None that I've found that offer binary access, until this one.
Just private school newsgroups and select "informative" ones. No alt, and especially no alt.binar*.
Does anybody know of a good news server offering relatively full USENET access for free?
BIZARRO I love you!
The key to having portable games is OpenGL.
Since you can't use the "Well, Direct3D is better than OpenGL" argument, they've started using the "Oh, well Direct3D is more high-level than OpenGL."
Get them to write in a cross-platform API, and porting games becomes economically advantageous.
And let there be no pressure from Microsoft about what alternative to choose...
I used MADWIFI in my old laptop, with two PC card adapters, which the laptop randomly fried. Thanks, HP/Compaq!
While I absolutely love the job that the devs do on that project, in hindsight I'm not so confident in the Atheros hardware---and that's not because of the two incidents mentioned above. I have seen many reports that the Atheros has the shortest range of all the 802.11g chipsets. And it would be better if the project could be completely GPL, but because the Atheros radio is software-controlled, that part can't be GPL due to FCC standards.
In my new laptop, I have a Ralink 2500-series card. They apparently have had Linux drivers for a while, and in December they released them under the GPL.
One's perceived level of intelligence is proportional to one's distance from the black/whiteboard.
I can probably predict his answer: as a replacement for commercial Unixes.
Are you sure you aren't infected with something yourself?
Well, it depends on how you want to treat the noun "group." You can treat it as a singular noun, since that is the grammatical construct, or a plural noun, since the idea of a group implies pluralism (e.g., "The enemy are retreating."). The latter is more commonly British, but it is surely valid in all English.
pwned
Well, let's look at an example of a title that changed in mid-development. I cite the example of Rare's last big title before turning to the Dark Side, namely Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet. This game was originally a stand-alone, featuring a very similar character to Fox. One thing led to another, and the Star Fox franchise was grafted on top of the game.
What ended up happening is this: the actual game must have received less attention, because gameplay suffered. I've heard it described as Zelda or Banjo-Kazooie with some traditional Star Fox thrown in, each component not done as well as it could have. Meh.
Therefore, I would classify the "game" as more of an "interactive movie." The storyline doesn't suck too much, the voice acting is top-notch as far as games go, and the visuals are absolutely stunning. Have you seen that fur rendered in real-time? It's quite an achievement.
It depends what you're looking for. If you're a gamer, you might want to stay clear of some franchise games. If you're a fan-boy, sequals give you more material and always have a positive element, unless they completely drop the ball. Most people fall somewhere in-between.
Specifically, I would say that the merging of the two has revitalized Star Fox. I hear that the new game, which has been out for rental since Feb. 1, even though the game is officially release on the 15th, is much more deep in the gameplay area, and that Namco didn't screw up as much as we thought they would.
No, you see, you are missing the point. The IDN system is flawed, not any particular browser.
By making browsers an issue in the headline, there could be an immense amount of spin generated from this, where there didn't need to be any. Anybody who reads only the headline will thing an entirely different thing from someone who actually reads the comments and gets a perspective.
To give an example of this that swings the other way, do you remember that announcement of the SP2 vulnerability in the stack overflow checking or something like that, that happened a week-or-so ago? And then Microsoft later said that no exploits have been found for it? That's the kind of thing that this headline can induce, because there is no perspective.
Hemos, please change it now before the wrong impression is given. If IE were to have implemented this, they surely would be vulnerable too.
Can we please get that headline changed to read "Shmoo Group Find Exploit in All IDN Implementations" or something like that? The headline really gives the wrong impression, despite there being a note at the end of the write-up.
the program being Mozilla's image library
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36351 (no link for obvious reasons) is the bug report, which has been around since April 2000 but has not progressed much due to licensing issues (copyright ones fixed, patent ones not?).
Ugh. I'd rather look at goatse than this.
Quick, someone steal the "T".
I know I've seen, at the very least, the old Gamespy program do this (i.e., keep a list of user names and whether they are playing on a server).
Anybody got a link to the text of the patent?
Given the number of different programs for one purpose that we have created, OSS is incredibly interoperable.
I guarantee that if all the Linux and BSD and HURD developers picked one kernel, GNOME and KDE picked one working environment, etc..., we would blow the pants off Microsoft.
However, that doesn't coincide with OSS ideals.