you should do both - the corporation is owned by it's shareholders - why should they benefit from code illegally ripped off from a competitor? surely that money/value/equity/whathaveyou belongs to the shareholders of the competitor. In this case there is a parallel civil case trying to right exactly this wrong.
(disclaimer - I've been in the past a happy customer of both companies in this dispute)
if the legal fiction that a corporation is a 'person' holds any weight then they must have the responsibilities of people as well as the rights - why shouldn't the courts be allowed to (even required to) 'lock up' a corporation?
While I'm sure the bugs mentioned are real I've seen none of these problems (IBM thinkpad A29 with ATI video) - I did load the entire game onto my HD to save having to carry all thoses disks around.
I probably have 2 complaints with the game - the puzzles are a bit easier than Riven - and it doesn't run under Linux - I hate having to keep this bozo dual-boot partition around just for games
Yeah and the NT in Windows NT stands for "New Technology"
My point exactly - of course it should have been called OTROFVMS - "Old technology ripped off from VMS":-) but when you get too close to Redmond the reality distortion field kicks in....
The data CD - apple announced they'd only ship developer support on CDs and all future machines would come with an integral CD - at the time I think we figured out they were basicly stuffing them in with 0 margin in order to get enough machines with CDs out there to make CDs be a viable distribution medium
CRTs have shadowm masks and little phosphor dots arrayed on a grid (somewhat different for trinitrons... but the same basic idea) - my point is that a CRT DOES have a 'native' resolution - in DPI basicly - a physical thing on the screen that the electron beam sweeps - if the beams light up more than one pixel, or bits of pixels the results are analog mixing of the light intensities - sort of a low-tech version of the hardware filters that the LCDs use - the result works well because the phosphors are slow enough to provide the low pass filter - and work in a way that your eye responds well to (though one can see aliassing artifacts if you know what too look for)
He sure gets around - here's a completely unrelated bunch of pics from a recent anti-scientology picket by net-people in Amsterdam:
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In this country we have a freedom of belief, and expression of that belief (that's what the 1st ammendment is all about) - that includes the right to decide for ourselves which religion(s) we believe in and which we don't - and the right to express to others our beliefs - if you choose to label simple freedom of speech as a bad thing and call it 'bigotry' that's your right - but you are WRONG - completely full of crap (see I have that 1st amendment right too).
If Keith were blocking access to a Scientology place of worship, or discriminating against members by refusing to hire them I think that would be bigotry - but he was posting in a public forum and walking on a public highway carrying a picket sign - I think that that sort of exercise of free speech is what the US is all about - the alternative starts to look more like the Spanish Inquisition and other sorts of state organized anti-religious organizations that caused people to move to the US in the first place.
Everyone has a right to beleive in any religion they like - even the loony haunted-by-space-aliens Scientology stuff - but equally everyone has a right to question religion too
Read the posts; the missle 'threat' was an obvious joke
of course - he also said that eagles would come down and take away the cult's leader.... but they didn't try and convict him on that rather more obviously sillyness
actually most modern video cards will happily do HDTV resolutions - you just don't have a monitor big enough.... chances are your TV isn't that big either.
BTW 1600x1200 is about the same number of pixels as 1900x1000 - it's just a different aspect ratio - this is a red herring
MS has been the primary driving force behind the rapid acceleration in video technology
Nah - the driving force is $$$ - if anything M$ was pretty late to the table with a useable API, and it hasn't been universeably adopted. If M$ was designing the 3D hardware we would only see one bloated, slow, expensive 3d platform - instead the cut-throat competition of the past few years in the 3d hardware biz has pushed 3d to a low-margin comodity product and has left all of us customers the winners (and really hurt people who sold high-marging 3d stuff like SGI).
What worries me at the moment is that there are really only 2 viable 3D companies and the barrier-to-entry for new ones is getting higher and higher every year (imagine you have to build 3d silicon to compete against nvda/ati - it's going to take 2 years minimum to get b ards to markett - what will you build? remember the compeition already have most of the hard stuff done already and most of their product-to-product changes are incremental - the chances of you shipping a world-beater chip are sadly pretty low). Anyway my main point should one of ati/nvdia stumble and drop out we're screwed performance increase will slow/stop and prices will go up.
it will just be dual bootable like the dual-bootable boxes we use today - remember the same people who will probably be doing the port(s) are probably heavy duty games..... as I see it the only hope M$ has to keep the box penguin-free is to release such wonderfull games that no one will want to stop playing in order to do the porting.... but to be fair I'd lay even odds that at least one port is already done:-)
And a surprising number of pedantic imbeciles use crappy invented words like "USians."
I stopped using 'americans' after some columbians took offense to my use of it (to exclude them) at a programmers conference once - they were of course right - they are 'americans' - and apparently regularly refer to themselves as such.
That left me in a problem - it seeme that the citizens of the US don't actually have a simple word that uniquely defines themselves ('yanks' used elsewhere is not universally accepted here in the US) - online I've often use the term " 'merkins " with a nod and a wink - but that's a bit salacious (it's funny on a number of levels, both the double meaning and the poke at 'merkin pronounciation) - I think "USians" points out the naming problem to any US citizens (who tend to be relatively unaware that a large chunk of their neighbors consider them arrogant for claiming the name as their own) without the 'merkin in joke.
yup you're right - if you're allowed to claim you believe you're haunted by prehistoric murdered space aliens and that exorcizing them will give you powers over matter and energy surely you must be able to claim you belive little latex guys with an hand stuck up their butt can teach you to do the same thing (and at $7.50 a pop it's way cheaper than the Co$ alternative)
What I find shocking/funny is that someone pointing out that New Zealand and Australia are two different countries is considered +5 insightful!
don't be shocked - a suprising number of USians have no idea where NZ is - I've seen it put off the coast of Africa (Madagascar), Brazil, etc - one of my co-workers (an intelligent engineer) thought I came from the east coast of Canada (New Foundland)
He did a series of essays on disapearing animals....
Just after that I had the pleasure of listening to him speak at an Apple WWDC (developer's conference) - he gleefully skewered the Apple people who had brought him:-).... He also spoke about some of the animals he'd been studying... one has stuck in my memory - it goes something like this:
There are only about 1000 Komodo Dragons left.... but as far as anyone can tell there have always been only about 1000.... they have an interesting way of feeding.... basicly they don't brush their teeth... they eat rotting meat and it sticks in their teeth where all sorts of nasty bacteria breed.... when anything comes near a KD they bite it.... and let it wander away.... where the wound festers and eventually the aanumal dies.... days later the KD (or another) comes along and finds some dead meat to eat. This is all very wonderfull but it has come to my attention that european visitors are upsetting the balance of nature.... basicly they are getting bitten.... and then going off the island to die.
Thanks Douglas - I still snicker whenever I recall that passage
Methinks you've never done much teaching. Someday maybe you will, but until then trust those of us who do it for a living. How do I know this? Simple: I see it in myself, and in the strong students in my class. (And if you think I was being lazy, it took far more effort for me to create the projects than a simple lecture would have taken me.)
yes! - I taught a nighttime beginning CS/IS course at community college a couple of years out of University - it was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done - I learned so much about the 'easy' stuff I thought I knew inside out - I'm still convinced I learned far more than any of my students did those 2 years.
Anyone who sais that having to teach (or even explain) something to someone else doesn't help you know your subject better obviously hasn't actually done it
In the Mars trilogy the 'stalk was cut away from its upper anchor and gravity took over... as it starts to move closer to the planet it starts to spin up (moving to a lower orbit and all that) . with the bottom still attached the result is that it starts to wrap around the planet coming down faster and faster as more and more of it comes in
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(disclaimer - I've been in the past a happy customer of both companies in this dispute)
if the legal fiction that a corporation is a 'person' holds any weight then they must have the responsibilities of people as well as the rights - why shouldn't the courts be allowed to (even required to) 'lock up' a corporation?
I probably have 2 complaints with the game - the puzzles are a bit easier than Riven - and it doesn't run under Linux - I hate having to keep this bozo dual-boot partition around just for games
My point exactly - of course it should have been called OTROFVMS - "Old technology ripped off from VMS" :-) but when you get too close to Redmond the reality distortion field kicks in ....
if it takes off 10 years from now you'll be sorry ....
The data CD - apple announced they'd only ship developer support on CDs and all future machines would come with an integral CD - at the time I think we figured out they were basicly stuffing them in with 0 margin in order to get enough machines with CDs out there to make CDs be a viable distribution medium
CRTs have shadowm masks and little phosphor dots arrayed on a grid (somewhat different for trinitrons ... but the same basic idea) - my point is that a CRT DOES have a 'native' resolution - in DPI basicly - a physical thing on the screen that the electron beam sweeps - if the beams light up more than one pixel, or bits of pixels the results are analog mixing of the light intensities - sort of a low-tech version of the hardware filters that the LCDs use - the result works well because the phosphors are slow enough to provide the low pass filter - and work in a way that your eye responds well to (though one can see aliassing artifacts if you know what too look for)
it's just not so obvious when you get it wrong - the analog effects in the phosphors tend to smear out the nasty artifacts
Of course we dual booted our vaxen - VMS and Unix .... plus we ran Unix and RSX virtually under VMS (sort of a per-process dual booting :-)
He sure gets around - here's a completely unrelated bunch of pics from a recent anti-scientology picket by net-people in Amsterdam: pics 1 pics 2 pics 3 pics 4
he's already spent ALL his money fighting scientology - beleive it or not Keith Henson and his wife have litterally been bankrupted by scientolofy
If Keith were blocking access to a Scientology place of worship, or discriminating against members by refusing to hire them I think that would be bigotry - but he was posting in a public forum and walking on a public highway carrying a picket sign - I think that that sort of exercise of free speech is what the US is all about - the alternative starts to look more like the Spanish Inquisition and other sorts of state organized anti-religious organizations that caused people to move to the US in the first place.
Everyone has a right to beleive in any religion they like - even the loony haunted-by-space-aliens Scientology stuff - but equally everyone has a right to question religion too
of course - he also said that eagles would come down and take away the cult's leader .... but they didn't try and convict him on that rather more obviously sillyness
a long time protestor against Scientology's on-line spamming
BTW 1600x1200 is about the same number of pixels as 1900x1000 - it's just a different aspect ratio - this is a red herring
Nah - the driving force is $$$ - if anything M$ was pretty late to the table with a useable API, and it hasn't been universeably adopted. If M$ was designing the 3D hardware we would only see one bloated, slow, expensive 3d platform - instead the cut-throat competition of the past few years in the 3d hardware biz has pushed 3d to a low-margin comodity product and has left all of us customers the winners (and really hurt people who sold high-marging 3d stuff like SGI).
What worries me at the moment is that there are really only 2 viable 3D companies and the barrier-to-entry for new ones is getting higher and higher every year (imagine you have to build 3d silicon to compete against nvda/ati - it's going to take 2 years minimum to get b ards to markett - what will you build? remember the compeition already have most of the hard stuff done already and most of their product-to-product changes are incremental - the chances of you shipping a world-beater chip are sadly pretty low). Anyway my main point should one of ati/nvdia stumble and drop out we're screwed performance increase will slow/stop and prices will go up.
it will just be dual bootable like the dual-bootable boxes we use today - remember the same people who will probably be doing the port(s) are probably heavy duty games ..... as I see it the only hope M$ has to keep the box penguin-free is to release such wonderfull games that no one will want to stop playing in order to do the porting .... but to be fair I'd lay even odds that at least one port is already done :-)
You'd think people would have learned - loss-leader platforms that run Linux with minor hacking 'sell' well :-)
I stopped using 'americans' after some columbians took offense to my use of it (to exclude them) at a programmers conference once - they were of course right - they are 'americans' - and apparently regularly refer to themselves as such.
That left me in a problem - it seeme that the citizens of the US don't actually have a simple word that uniquely defines themselves ('yanks' used elsewhere is not universally accepted here in the US) - online I've often use the term " 'merkins " with a nod and a wink - but that's a bit salacious (it's funny on a number of levels, both the double meaning and the poke at 'merkin pronounciation) - I think "USians" points out the naming problem to any US citizens (who tend to be relatively unaware that a large chunk of their neighbors consider them arrogant for claiming the name as their own) without the 'merkin in joke.
yup you're right - if you're allowed to claim you believe you're haunted by prehistoric murdered space aliens and that exorcizing them will give you powers over matter and energy surely you must be able to claim you belive little latex guys with an hand stuck up their butt can teach you to do the same thing (and at $7.50 a pop it's way cheaper than the Co$ alternative)
don't be shocked - a suprising number of USians have no idea where NZ is - I've seen it put off the coast of Africa (Madagascar), Brazil, etc - one of my co-workers (an intelligent engineer) thought I came from the east coast of Canada (New Foundland)
Just after that I had the pleasure of listening to him speak at an Apple WWDC (developer's conference) - he gleefully skewered the Apple people who had brought him :-) .... He also spoke about some of the animals he'd been studying ... one has stuck in my memory - it goes something like this:
There are only about 1000 Komodo Dragons left .... but as far as anyone can tell there have always been only about 1000 .... they have an interesting way of feeding .... basicly they don't brush their teeth ... they eat rotting meat and it sticks in their teeth where all sorts of nasty bacteria breed .... when anything comes near a KD they bite it .... and let it wander away .... where the wound festers and eventually the aanumal dies .... days later the KD (or another) comes along and finds some dead meat to eat. This is all very wonderfull but it has come to my attention that european visitors are upsetting the balance of nature .... basicly they are getting bitten .... and then going off the island to die.
Thanks Douglas - I still snicker whenever I recall that passage
Anyone who sais that having to teach (or even explain) something to someone else doesn't help you know your subject better obviously hasn't actually done it
Down hill only of course .... wheee!
In the Mars trilogy the 'stalk was cut away from its upper anchor and gravity took over ... as it starts to move closer to the planet it starts to spin up (moving to a lower orbit and all that) . with the bottom still attached the result is that it starts to wrap around the planet coming down faster and faster as more and more of it comes in