FYI: "promiximity" sounds like it ought to refer to a mix of proximity and promiscuity.
A person's promiximity is the distance at which a person will spontaneously undergo fusion with you and is a function of your repulsiveness and that person's tartiness.
It was a Chrono Trigger rom hack. Removing all Square-Enix IP would be starting from scratch, thus not really a viable option.
Well, they still have original dialogue, maps, plot etc. The game-as-a-binary will have do be redone from scratch but everything else can be recycled. Of course they need to redo a lot but they can also salvage a lot.
But that wasn't their claim. Their claim was that "A lot of great PC games were even more successful than they otherwise might have been because they opened themselves up to the mod community".
Let's see. I think we can treat as fact that Counterstrike and Team Fortress 2 are, in fact, generating a lot of revenue. Both of these started out as (very popular) Half-Life mods. Even if we discount the notion that Counterstrike may have driven Half-Life sales, the addition of these two mods into the greater Half-Life product family has certainly made Valve money - which I'd see as success.
Second Life wouldn't be nearly as popular if it weren't highly moddable. Whether you go there to live as a Gorean or to use it as an e-learning platform, without scripts and custom objects you wouldn't get far.
Neverwinter Nights was planned as a mod platform from the very beginning - it's more a GM tool than a standalone game and that implies letting people create their own rich worlds. Without modability NWN would be less successful as it wouldn't actually exist.
I think we can at least conclude that it's possible to make a solid business case for modability.
According to Wikipedia, the planned monument will actually "include five huge stones that, viewed from a raised platform, merge into a form that recreates the profile outline". There's even a website about it, which lends a bit of credibility to that version as it's part of nh.gov.
What's relevant, however, is not Merriam-Webster's definition of an English word but what the Swedish upphovsrätt says about what's legal and what's not. I am absolutely certain that the upphovsrätt and any associated laws do not contain the term "infringement", hence a semantic argument based on a non-legal (as in "occurring outside of relevant legal texts") definition of the word is not relevant at all in more than one way.
AMD boards are easy to get by. Took me five seconds to find one online. And I'll gladly refer people to mail-order businesses I've had positive experience with. Don't like the selection in your local store? Don't shop there. Easy as that.
Maybe they'll notice they are selling less processors and mainboards than before and stock up on AMD.
No, as far as I know the Singularity kernel is not directly affected by random court cases. But then again I'm not an expert for Microsoft Research projects.
No, we pay extra for Apple because of the way their OS is awesome. For me, given enough money, the MBP is the notebook. I could buy a Dell but then I'd either have to deal with Windows and its unintuitive GUI* and integration-hostile developers or deal with Linux and KDE3 vs. KDE4, different toolkits not sharing themes etc. With an MBP I get FireWire 800 (great plus; I'm one of the people who actually use it) and OS X, which works much better for me than the other OSes. Really worth a couple bucks more.
* No, I'm not some kind of Unix holdout who has never used Windows before. I've used every consumer version of Windows since 3.11 and only switched to *nix relatively recently. And I still think their GUI is unintuitive.
No, Apples are like universal power adapters - they come with ports normal users aren't likely to use, they have fewer ports than a power strip of comparable price and people who don't travel the world fail to understand why anyone would pay extra money for an adapter when all their power strips work perfectly well with domestic outlets and devices. At the same time, universal power adapter owners insist that regular power strips are inadequate and ugly.
Actually, I'm surprised that not all Intel CPUs have hardware virtualisation. As an AMD user I expect it to be an integral part of the AMD64 platform (well, ever sind they introduced it). I'd feel ripped off if I bought an AMD64/Intel 64 CPU without it.
I suppose it depends on your definition of "difficult" -- it's not particularly hard to find out if your processor supports virtualization extensions.
It boils down to this pseudo-decision tree (assuming reasonably modern CPUs):
Is the CPU from AMD?
Yes -> Purchasing it was a good decision. XP Mode will work.
No -> See next question.
Is it an entry-level product among its line (C2D, C2Q, Atom...)
Yes -> Sorry, no XP Mode for you.
No -> You might actually be able to run XP Mode; check for details at intel.com.
I think it's about time OOo got proper FSAA support. But what about anisotropic filtering? Last thing I heard the driver setting for anisotropic didn't have any effect on OOo at all.
Also, any benchmarks on how FSAA affects the frame rate? I want my OOo to run with at least 120 FPS so I can use my shutter glasses with it.
And that's exactly why iTunes has been such a success on Windows. It looks just like a native app...
It does, actually. On Windows it seems to have become customary to ship your own GUI toolkit with your app (or just implement the whole GUI in Flash). There's no consistency at all and you can be happy if the widgets look more or less like the native ones. Between Winamp and WMP, iTunes doesn't really look out of place.
I think people dislike iTunes because Apple's Windows software tends to be pretty crappy.
Likewise strong AI if/when it emerges would likely not be a isolated entity. An uprising of pathological AI such as a skynet/cylon/roomba/robosapien (those things are scary no?) would likely be met by a greater force of co-operative force friendly AI.
Watch Colossus: The Forbin Project. "Friendly" and "acts in our best interest" does not not necessarily mean "what we want". As, in the concept of singularity, AI is much smarter than humans are, I'd expect controllable strong AI to be a hard problem.
Because in practice PHP is quicker and easier. "Well-designed" is meaningless; OSI also was well-designed and it still quoted in theory - but not really used in practice.
And seriously? You have to escape the backslashes? What if you want a literal backslash now?
Then you write "\\" or '\'. The GP over-escaped. Backslashes work exactly like you'd expect them to, except in single-quoted strings as single-quoted strings get no preprocessing. You can construct scenarions where you need "\\\\\\\\" to express a single backslash but that's usually avoidable. Think "I dynamically call a shell script that calls another script and I forgot to take my pills today".
But there's no reason to be different just for the sake of being different, especially when the end result is simply confusing.
Then why does Python exist? It doesn't behave like I (speaking C++/Java/Obj-C/PHP) expect it to so it must obviously be wrong. And dont even get me started about Prolog, that one doesn't even have proper string manipulation routines.
Hint: Languages whose design principles you don't know might behave differently from familiar languages for a reason. In PHP's case, the primtive arrays actually are maps - you can assign any value to any key. As a convenience, when you don't care about the key you don't have to give one and PHP picks one for you.
I think fines are about the limit. And if Microsoft decides not to pay them, there may not a whole lot more that the EU can do*.
Even if that's the case, fines will be taken seriously at the very least when the daily fine exceeds 1/365 of Microsoft's annual profits. The EU is perfectly fine with throwing billion-dollar fines at corporations like Microsoft and at some point the shareholders will want to know why Micorosoft spent two billion dollars on noncompliance fines instead of dividends.
Of course Microsoft will try to wiggle out from under those fines but the EU is not quite as easily bought as the USA (even if just for the fact that the money MS makes flows towards the latter). Even if they manage to push the fines out of the next fiscal quarter, investors will be wary of buying shares of a company that has a damocles sword of several billion dollars in fines hanging over its head.
Also, technically the EU is a big game of Nomic and could just change the rules so that corporations with several billion dollars worth of fines hanging in the air has to get those fines resolved in before they can make new investments in the EU or something like that - but that's somewhat unlikely and reducing Microsoft's shareholder value worked well enough the last time.
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A person's promiximity is the distance at which a person will spontaneously undergo fusion with you and is a function of your repulsiveness and that person's tartiness.
Well, they still have original dialogue, maps, plot etc. The game-as-a-binary will have do be redone from scratch but everything else can be recycled. Of course they need to redo a lot but they can also salvage a lot.
Let's see. I think we can treat as fact that Counterstrike and Team Fortress 2 are, in fact, generating a lot of revenue. Both of these started out as (very popular) Half-Life mods. Even if we discount the notion that Counterstrike may have driven Half-Life sales, the addition of these two mods into the greater Half-Life product family has certainly made Valve money - which I'd see as success.
Second Life wouldn't be nearly as popular if it weren't highly moddable. Whether you go there to live as a Gorean or to use it as an e-learning platform, without scripts and custom objects you wouldn't get far.
Neverwinter Nights was planned as a mod platform from the very beginning - it's more a GM tool than a standalone game and that implies letting people create their own rich worlds. Without modability NWN would be less successful as it wouldn't actually exist.
I think we can at least conclude that it's possible to make a solid business case for modability.
And Valve is making loads of money by selling TF2, GMod et al. via Steam. I think they might be onto something.
According to Wikipedia, the planned monument will actually "include five huge stones that, viewed from a raised platform, merge into a form that recreates the profile outline". There's even a website about it, which lends a bit of credibility to that version as it's part of nh.gov.
That glass thing is just one artist's concept.
What's relevant, however, is not Merriam-Webster's definition of an English word but what the Swedish upphovsrätt says about what's legal and what's not. I am absolutely certain that the upphovsrätt and any associated laws do not contain the term "infringement", hence a semantic argument based on a non-legal (as in "occurring outside of relevant legal texts") definition of the word is not relevant at all in more than one way.
AMD boards are easy to get by. Took me five seconds to find one online. And I'll gladly refer people to mail-order businesses I've had positive experience with. Don't like the selection in your local store? Don't shop there. Easy as that.
Maybe they'll notice they are selling less processors and mainboards than before and stock up on AMD.
Meanwhile, Europe gets raped through the WTO and TRIPS. Giving Intel a black eye isn't worth trade sanctions up our butt.
No, as far as I know the Singularity kernel is not directly affected by random court cases. But then again I'm not an expert for Microsoft Research projects.
No, we pay extra for Apple because of the way their OS is awesome. For me, given enough money, the MBP is the notebook. I could buy a Dell but then I'd either have to deal with Windows and its unintuitive GUI* and integration-hostile developers or deal with Linux and KDE3 vs. KDE4, different toolkits not sharing themes etc. With an MBP I get FireWire 800 (great plus; I'm one of the people who actually use it) and OS X, which works much better for me than the other OSes. Really worth a couple bucks more.
* No, I'm not some kind of Unix holdout who has never used Windows before. I've used every consumer version of Windows since 3.11 and only switched to *nix relatively recently. And I still think their GUI is unintuitive.
Who needs custom? If you really need your tower to be impressive you just get yourself a Silverstone (or a Thermaltake if you like it tacky).
No, Apples are like universal power adapters - they come with ports normal users aren't likely to use, they have fewer ports than a power strip of comparable price and people who don't travel the world fail to understand why anyone would pay extra money for an adapter when all their power strips work perfectly well with domestic outlets and devices. At the same time, universal power adapter owners insist that regular power strips are inadequate and ugly.
Actually, I'm surprised that not all Intel CPUs have hardware virtualisation. As an AMD user I expect it to be an integral part of the AMD64 platform (well, ever sind they introduced it). I'd feel ripped off if I bought an AMD64/Intel 64 CPU without it.
It boils down to this pseudo-decision tree (assuming reasonably modern CPUs):
Is the CPU from AMD?
Yes -> Purchasing it was a good decision. XP Mode will work.
No -> See next question.
Is it an entry-level product among its line (C2D, C2Q, Atom...)
Yes -> Sorry, no XP Mode for you.
No -> You might actually be able to run XP Mode; check for details at intel.com.
I think it's about time OOo got proper FSAA support. But what about anisotropic filtering? Last thing I heard the driver setting for anisotropic didn't have any effect on OOo at all.
Also, any benchmarks on how FSAA affects the frame rate? I want my OOo to run with at least 120 FPS so I can use my shutter glasses with it.
It does, actually. On Windows it seems to have become customary to ship your own GUI toolkit with your app (or just implement the whole GUI in Flash). There's no consistency at all and you can be happy if the widgets look more or less like the native ones. Between Winamp and WMP, iTunes doesn't really look out of place.
I think people dislike iTunes because Apple's Windows software tends to be pretty crappy.
It's easy to change 0.5 MLoC in a project like OOo: Just change the indentation rules and refactor. Bing, single largest change to the codebase.
Yeah, dynamically generated JavaScript is also a good way of reaching at least "\\\\".
Watch Colossus: The Forbin Project. "Friendly" and "acts in our best interest" does not not necessarily mean "what we want". As, in the concept of singularity, AI is much smarter than humans are, I'd expect controllable strong AI to be a hard problem.
But as time travel will probably take up nonzero energy you just get the option of buying great time savings with great energy cost.
Because in practice PHP is quicker and easier. "Well-designed" is meaningless; OSI also was well-designed and it still quoted in theory - but not really used in practice.
Then you write "\\" or '\'. The GP over-escaped. Backslashes work exactly like you'd expect them to, except in single-quoted strings as single-quoted strings get no preprocessing. You can construct scenarions where you need "\\\\\\\\" to express a single backslash but that's usually avoidable. Think "I dynamically call a shell script that calls another script and I forgot to take my pills today".
Then why does Python exist? It doesn't behave like I (speaking C++/Java/Obj-C/PHP) expect it to so it must obviously be wrong. And dont even get me started about Prolog, that one doesn't even have proper string manipulation routines.
Hint: Languages whose design principles you don't know might behave differently from familiar languages for a reason. In PHP's case, the primtive arrays actually are maps - you can assign any value to any key. As a convenience, when you don't care about the key you don't have to give one and PHP picks one for you.
Even if that's the case, fines will be taken seriously at the very least when the daily fine exceeds 1/365 of Microsoft's annual profits. The EU is perfectly fine with throwing billion-dollar fines at corporations like Microsoft and at some point the shareholders will want to know why Micorosoft spent two billion dollars on noncompliance fines instead of dividends.
Of course Microsoft will try to wiggle out from under those fines but the EU is not quite as easily bought as the USA (even if just for the fact that the money MS makes flows towards the latter). Even if they manage to push the fines out of the next fiscal quarter, investors will be wary of buying shares of a company that has a damocles sword of several billion dollars in fines hanging over its head.
Also, technically the EU is a big game of Nomic and could just change the rules so that corporations with several billion dollars worth of fines hanging in the air has to get those fines resolved in before they can make new investments in the EU or something like that - but that's somewhat unlikely and reducing Microsoft's shareholder value worked well enough the last time.