I'm pretty sure you can use QT with all your GPL stuff all you want. If you want to do commercial work, on the other hand, yeah.
But I am *not* a license expert. This is pure hearsay.
It could really happen, in Steamband
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Funny... but in one of the Angband variants, namely Steamband (the Steampunk variant, still under heavy development) there is an actual monster type called the Buckyball.
N:302:Buckyball G:E:D I:115:92:3:10:192 W:6:8:0:18 B:CRUSH:HURT:8d5 F:STUPID | EMPTY_MIND | RAND_50 D: A truncated icosahedron several meters high, it has 32 faces, of D:which 20 are regular hexagons and 12 are regular pentagons. These D:faces come together at 60 points, or vertices. A grossly oversized D:carbon atom sits at each of the vertices. The entire assembly rolls D:and bounces happily about the room. D:Brought to you complements of Mr. Buckminster Fuller, Professor D:Robert F. Curl, Jr. (Rice University), Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto D:(University of Sussex), and Professor Richard E. Smalley, (Rice D:University).
Deeper versions include the Burning Buckyball and Flaming Buckyball... see the monster.txt file.
Really... That complaint is about the only one I've seen that holds much merit to it. I don't think it's as bad as people claim (having no trouble with it myself- maybe you have really fancy documents that I don't) but they could at least include it. The insensitive clods...
Performance matters in games. Memory usage matters in games.
While that is somewhat true, remember: we're not necessarily talking about Half-Life 2 or anything here. I'm thinking of games more along the line of, say, Scorched Earth or something like that. After all, if you could play a spiffy-fun game written in assembler or C back in the days of the 486, then *surely* we can run a spiffy-fun game written in Java on your 2Ghz+ system, even if you burn a few cycles in the process. And there were some fun games. The one which immediately comes to mind for me is Inner Space- that game ROCKED, and it was incredibly smooth: even on my 486SX (33Mhz).
And some games, like Angband, never needed zippy-fast rendering performance.
Do you search for music you really enjoy? Quality music? original music?
I favor old whaling songs, a few spiffy movie soundtracks, and stuff like the Carmina Burana. Hmm... Do the likes of John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Howard Shore pony up to the RIAA?
Re:What about simple drawing functionality ?
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The photos of those kids are ugly. Not because the kids are ugly... but whoever ran their pictures through whatever JPEG compressor they used obviously knows as much about photo manipulation as I do about brain surgery.
That said, looks like some rather spiffy stuff there.
There's a wonderful little bot I know of by the same guy who made the PieSpy Shakespeare diagrams. It's fairly impressive in its formulation of phrases, and even punctuates fairly well.
<Monty> Thunderbird's data? I am. <Monty> if (thermostat == snot) { colouring magnifies isometric NBDuckBot;} <Monty> s/got/go/ <Monty> mobibot currency 549.99 GBP sounds harder than I suspect it'll work server for lesbian bitch porn empire or what Amy likes the uk <Monty> royal post man quacks at under-valued cucumber?
Pretty good... apparently he uses Markov chaining or something to learn from. He also hangs out on a lot of code-oriented channels.
Now imagine letting one of these loose on several servers for Counterstrike or something and seeing how well they can impersonate a real (l)user after a while.:)
Re:I don't think this is any new.
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The local wastewater treatment plant has generators to produce electricity from the gas they collect. But, as I was informed while on a tour of the facility, they don't use them. It is actually cheaper for them to buy electricity from the power company than to use these generators which they already have in place.
This says something about the cost-effectiveness of current electricity solutions.
It becomes so bad that I need occasionally to leave the room with computer and sit or lie down to relax for 5 to 10 minutes.
I've seen a number of solutions posited. But the simple one is this: Occasionally leave the room with the computer, and just sit down and relax- for around five to ten minutes or so. Perhaps in conjunction with these other fine ideas.:)
I've got another mirror... and I've always wondered how well my box would do under a mild Slashdotting =) http://fennec.homedns.org/PieSpy-0.2.2.zip.
This mirror will go down sometime around 5pm EST or when my machine fails due to Slashdotting, so grab it while it's hot.:)
I generally run about five PieSpy bots at a time, but they're temporarily offline due to intermittent connectivity. The last versions of the graphs are still available, however.
Slashdot Mirror
Dude....
Dude. Seriously.
*ahemahemahem*
Hello. You must be new here...
... that much you should already be taking for granted.
But I am *not* a license expert. This is pure hearsay.
Hi. You must be new here. :)
Good lord. Does this mean I'll be spammed with Get your "free" terrorism assment report now!!! to complement the Credit Report ones? =b
Really... That complaint is about the only one I've seen that holds much merit to it. I don't think it's as bad as people claim (having no trouble with it myself- maybe you have really fancy documents that I don't) but they could at least include it. The insensitive clods...
While that is somewhat true, remember: we're not necessarily talking about Half-Life 2 or anything here. I'm thinking of games more along the line of, say, Scorched Earth or something like that. After all, if you could play a spiffy-fun game written in assembler or C back in the days of the 486, then *surely* we can run a spiffy-fun game written in Java on your 2Ghz+ system, even if you burn a few cycles in the process. And there were some fun games. The one which immediately comes to mind for me is Inner Space- that game ROCKED, and it was incredibly smooth: even on my 486SX (33Mhz).
And some games, like Angband, never needed zippy-fast rendering performance.
Nice trick. Correct yourself from an earlier post and grab double the karma! :D
I favor old whaling songs, a few spiffy movie soundtracks, and stuff like the Carmina Burana. Hmm... Do the likes of John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Howard Shore pony up to the RIAA?
You could always draw straight lines with a minimum of trouble.
No, if the KDE folks are behind it, as some have jokingly speculated, Kompromised would work. :)
(rolling eyes) How many Philadelphias is that?
Last I checked HotBits was still in the random number business, using some radioactive sources.
7.Give free copies to all hardware manufactures.
Dude... can't they already download their free copy at will? :)
In a business environment, your local tech guru administers the users' Linux machines for them. Unlike in Windows, this makes sense... :)
That said, looks like some rather spiffy stuff there.
It's about the suitcase bomb or car-carried bomb or something to that effect. A terrorist attack, not an ICBM.
And say hello to Jabber.
Yet I can still find Windows freeware around sometimes. (It's mostly older stuff.)
In all seriousness, how many mothers buy the games for their kids, then?
Dear lord, this has to be a prank.
Please let it be a prank.
Please please let it be a prank.
Some people will apparently have rather strong feelings about this, I suppose.
There's a wonderful little bot I know of by the same guy who made the PieSpy Shakespeare diagrams. It's fairly impressive in its formulation of phrases, and even punctuates fairly well.
:)
<Monty> Thunderbird's data? I am.
<Monty> if (thermostat == snot) { colouring magnifies isometric NBDuckBot;}
<Monty> s/got/go/
<Monty> mobibot currency 549.99 GBP sounds harder than I suspect it'll work server for lesbian bitch porn empire or what Amy likes the uk
<Monty> royal post man quacks at under-valued cucumber?
Pretty good... apparently he uses Markov chaining or something to learn from. He also hangs out on a lot of code-oriented channels.
Now imagine letting one of these loose on several servers for Counterstrike or something and seeing how well they can impersonate a real (l)user after a while.
This says something about the cost-effectiveness of current electricity solutions.
I've seen a number of solutions posited. But the simple one is this: Occasionally leave the room with the computer, and just sit down and relax- for around five to ten minutes or so. Perhaps in conjunction with these other fine ideas. :)
I generally run about five PieSpy bots at a time, but they're temporarily offline due to intermittent connectivity. The last versions of the graphs are still available, however.