Picture a web page that is full screen at any resolution. With a layout that is dynamic and easy to change based on user input without refreshing the page. Text that dynamically increases size for the user. A single web page that looks correct printed, on a web browser, a text mode browser, or even to a blind person. With multiple layouts that a user can choose (low bandiwth, high bandwith, no images, etc)
All that can be done with css, and its very easy to do. And all without any tables.
check out www.csszengarden.com or do some googles.
Sorry, my bad. I took what you said to mean to look at the difference between google cache and my local cache.
So I figured out that my local cache doesn't use sensable names, and is not public. That is really the only difference. I can even "Make the page viewable for offline use". So assuming this is legal (I mean no companys are complaining) I can then assume that making a cache of anything to speed up load times is legal as long as: a) the file name does not make any sense b) its not public
So, this is not a straw man tactic. I am sorry if I assumed that was your point. Can you explain to me your point so I am no longer confused?
news flash, I can use QT based apps in gnome. Hell, you could write for wxwidgits. Its not really different than windows. Some windows apps use gtk, some use wxwidgits, some use their own stuff. Very few apps look the same.
I work for a company that does web development (no I wont plug them here unless asked). I would say the most important thing is to look at previous sites done by them. Call some of their clients and talk to them. We give our clients a list of past clients to call.
You should also check their work in a few browsers (safari, Firefox, IE6, etc). There is no excuse for a professional website not working in all major browsers. Make sure you own the work (A lot of our clients had been screwed in the past by this).
Try to stay away from a company that pushes one language over another. We do whats best for the client, if that means php, asp, perl, java, or even.NET thats what is going to get done. The only thing we really push hard is use of CSS for all layout. It saves bandwidth and makes the site easier to modify in the future.
Finally, if you are also going to host with them, find out who owns their servers, and where they are located. Inquire about their backup system and make sure they have standards for uptime.
2.5. When will Wine integrate an x86 CPU emulator so we can run Windows applications on non-x86 machines?
The short answer is 'probably never'. Remember, Wine Is Not a (CPU) Emulator. The long answer is that we probably don't want or need to integrate one in the traditional sense.
Integrating a CPU emulator in Wine would be extremely hard, due to the large number of Windows APIs and the complex data types they exchange. It is not uncommon for a Windows API to take three or more pointers to structures composed of many fields, including pointers to other complex structures. For each of these we would need a conversion routine to deal with the byte order and alignment issues. Furthermore, Windows also contains many callback mechanisms that constitute as many extra places where we would have to handle these conversion issues. Wine already has to deal with 16 vs. 32 bit APIs and Ansi vs. Unicode APIs which both introduce significant complexity. Adding support for a CPU emulator inside Wine would introduce at least double that complexity and only serve to slow down the development of Wine.
Fortunately another solution exists to run Windows applications on non-x86 platforms: run both Wine and the application inside the CPU emulator. As long as the emulator provides a standard Unix environment, Wine should only need minimal modifications. What performance you lose due to Wine running inside the emulator rather than natively, you gain in complexity inside of Wine. Furthermore, if the emulator is fast enough to run Windows applications, Photoshop for instance, then it should be fast enough to run that same Windows application plus Wine.
Two projects have started along those lines: QEMU, an open-source project, and Dynamite, a commercial CPU emulator environment from Transitives Technologies.
I call bullshit. I have activiated my copy of windows xp over 50 times on different hard ware. I can't do online activation, but I can call a number and be activated in less then 10 minutes.
I went though a lot of installs trying to diagnois a problem that was currupting windows on my machine. I replaced almost every part of the machine before the problem was resolved.
no, they have somebody's IP, I think it's the guy under my appartment's wi-fi. And then of course, there's always tor.
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yea it is grreat, we went to a movie last night and were one of 3 couples in the whole place. But every movie is like that now there after 8pm. I dont see how they are going to make up the cash.
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The theater's here are trying to put themselves out of buisness. New rule in town this month. Theather's will no longer allow anyone under the age of 18 in to see a movie without their parents after 8pm.
I submitted 4 storys today, all of which were rejected but similar stories posted a few hours later. My reason for rejections...I have a feeling it was poor spelling. I forgot to check for typos.
Thats why I hope game studio's start looking into online distrubtion. Bittorrent comes to mind as a perfect way to distrubute software. But yes, it does suck that their is no way to support the little guy without enforcing the horrible business practices of atari. I've taken to buying most of my games second hand, that way if i'm gonna take it in the butt, at least i'll have some vasaline.
actually, my motive was the lazy hope that someone would go "Hey, I/Thisguy already did that check out this website (with a link). Not hey look how cool I am. I dont need an ego boost, I have my mommy for that.
Ha! and their customer support laughed at me when I said my boycott would hurt them. They just didn't realize how many games I buy a quarter!
Seriously though, I really hope good game makers like bioware stop distributing via atari. They use sub standard disks, paper sleeves, and their support sucks. Not to mention their use of very crappy copy protection that doesn't work on a lot of dvd/cd rom drives (like sony drives). Or my favorite "You must uninstall disk emulation software to play this game". Yea right, I'll get right on that.
I hope the big guys do so bad that more small studios start showing up, with online distribution models. These mega companys are going to kill pc gaming.
Why doesn't anyone mention antivir as a good free antivirus. It boasts a smaller memory footprint then avg or avast. Personally I use clamav, but I always thought antivir would be a good choice.
I love clamWin. My only complaint is a lack of a memory resident scanner. So I have to remember to scan files I download. I've thought about taking up the project of writting one, I'm just not sure if I have time time. I guess I could just write a download manager that invokes a scan when the download is complete, it might be less hassle.
If you are using it for a buisness I hope you paid for it. But stealing their free personal product you are preventing them from maintaining a smooth cash flow needed to keep producing software. Companys like lavasoft and grisoft placed their good faith in you and wished to help the community, and you are breaking that good faith.
"various modifications to the source code for Tecmo games"
That should get them off right there. They didn't modify any source code. To do that would require them to recompile the game. Releasing a few image files you drop in a directory to change what the engine pulls should not be against the law. Opening a file with a hex editor should not be against the law. I dont see how telling a user to modify bits on their own pc's (for free no less, not selling or giving away the actual product) can hurt tecmo's buisness. But, this is why I only buy video games with active supported mod communities.
I'd gladly give it back if asked. I have no problem with that, the game sucked (demo was ok, but the finished product was buggy, and boring). But thats the reason I have my credit card. It protects me from fraud. No where on their box did it say that their game does not work with some dvd rom drives. And atari support told me my only solution was to buy a new dvd drive. The store told me to get bent (although to their credit, they did offer to exchange my copy for a new copy of the same game). So I did my only course of action.
Now as for my credit report, if they were dumb enough to give that a try they would be in for a surprise. My job provides me with a legal insurance plan. It basically allows me free access to lawyers for most everything except speeding tickets and criminal cases against me. I've used it to settle a bill from at&t (a company who's service I never had who put a 800.00 bill on my credit report and refused to remove it.) and the local gas company who put a huge gas bill on my credit that dated to a year in which I would of been 12. So I say let em play, and I'll have fun.
Do what I did when i couldn't get an atari game to work with my DVD drive because of secureROM. I called my CC company and disputed the charges. Worked fine for me.
Then I noCD cracked the game.
But But, buying a 50.00 router wouldn't make all my friends think i'm leet. Instead I have to build a custom linux box for 250.00 that I configure to be a firewall/router and then use that to block my windows 98 machine that I download windows patches with to slipstream a copy of win2000 that I install to download xp via a wares site that I then patch up and install. Now thats l337 baby! Although 250.00 per install is getting expensive.
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Picture a web page that is full screen at any resolution. With a layout that is dynamic and easy to change based on user input without refreshing the page. Text that dynamically increases size for the user. A single web page that looks correct printed, on a web browser, a text mode browser, or even to a blind person. With multiple layouts that a user can choose (low bandiwth, high bandwith, no images, etc)
All that can be done with css, and its very easy to do. And all without any tables.
check out www.csszengarden.com or do some googles.
Sorry, my bad. I took what you said to mean to look at the difference between google cache and my local cache.
So I figured out that my local cache doesn't use sensable names, and is not public. That is really the only difference. I can even "Make the page viewable for offline use". So assuming this is legal (I mean no companys are complaining) I can then assume that making a cache of anything to speed up load times is legal as long as:
a) the file name does not make any sense
b) its not public
So, this is not a straw man tactic. I am sorry if I assumed that was your point. Can you explain to me your point so I am no longer confused?
Ok, so your saying its ok to copy cd's I rent from the library?
Cause i'm not distributing. I'm making a local cache so they can be accessed faster next time I rent them.
Damn it! I need to call microsoft RIGHT NOW! Every website i've gone to today I've made a copy of in my cache!!!!!!
Shit, I gotta hurry before somebody sues me!
news flash, I can use QT based apps in gnome. Hell, you could write for wxwidgits. Its not really different than windows. Some windows apps use gtk, some use wxwidgits, some use their own stuff. Very few apps look the same.
you know what your problem was? you were trying to distribute legal content. next time try a movie. it will go faster
I have offically lost faith in humanity.
You should also check their work in a few browsers (safari, Firefox, IE6, etc). There is no excuse for a professional website not working in all major browsers. Make sure you own the work (A lot of our clients had been screwed in the past by this). .NET thats what is going to get done. The only thing we really push hard is use of CSS for all layout. It saves bandwidth and makes the site easier to modify in the future.
Try to stay away from a company that pushes one language over another. We do whats best for the client, if that means php, asp, perl, java, or even
Finally, if you are also going to host with them, find out who owns their servers, and where they are located. Inquire about their backup system and make sure they have standards for uptime.
2.5. When will Wine integrate an x86 CPU emulator so we can run Windows applications on non-x86 machines?
The short answer is 'probably never'. Remember, Wine Is Not a (CPU) Emulator. The long answer is that we probably don't want or need to integrate one in the traditional sense.
Integrating a CPU emulator in Wine would be extremely hard, due to the large number of Windows APIs and the complex data types they exchange. It is not uncommon for a Windows API to take three or more pointers to structures composed of many fields, including pointers to other complex structures. For each of these we would need a conversion routine to deal with the byte order and alignment issues. Furthermore, Windows also contains many callback mechanisms that constitute as many extra places where we would have to handle these conversion issues. Wine already has to deal with 16 vs. 32 bit APIs and Ansi vs. Unicode APIs which both introduce significant complexity. Adding support for a CPU emulator inside Wine would introduce at least double that complexity and only serve to slow down the development of Wine.
Fortunately another solution exists to run Windows applications on non-x86 platforms: run both Wine and the application inside the CPU emulator. As long as the emulator provides a standard Unix environment, Wine should only need minimal modifications. What performance you lose due to Wine running inside the emulator rather than natively, you gain in complexity inside of Wine. Furthermore, if the emulator is fast enough to run Windows applications, Photoshop for instance, then it should be fast enough to run that same Windows application plus Wine.
Two projects have started along those lines: QEMU, an open-source project, and Dynamite, a commercial CPU emulator environment from Transitives Technologies.
I went though a lot of installs trying to diagnois a problem that was currupting windows on my machine. I replaced almost every part of the machine before the problem was resolved.
no, they have somebody's IP, I think it's the guy under my appartment's wi-fi. And then of course, there's always tor.
yea it is grreat, we went to a movie last night and were one of 3 couples in the whole place. But every movie is like that now there after 8pm. I dont see how they are going to make up the cash.
The theater's here are trying to put themselves out of buisness. New rule in town this month. Theather's will no longer allow anyone under the age of 18 in to see a movie without their parents after 8pm.
But its piracy that hurts their profits?
I submitted 4 storys today, all of which were rejected but similar stories posted a few hours later. My reason for rejections...I have a feeling it was poor spelling. I forgot to check for typos.
Thats why I hope game studio's start looking into online distrubtion. Bittorrent comes to mind as a perfect way to distrubute software. But yes, it does suck that their is no way to support the little guy without enforcing the horrible business practices of atari. I've taken to buying most of my games second hand, that way if i'm gonna take it in the butt, at least i'll have some vasaline.
actually, my motive was the lazy hope that someone would go "Hey, I/Thisguy already did that check out this website (with a link). Not hey look how cool I am. I dont need an ego boost, I have my mommy for that.
Ha! and their customer support laughed at me when I said my boycott would hurt them. They just didn't realize how many games I buy a quarter!
Seriously though, I really hope good game makers like bioware stop distributing via atari. They use sub standard disks, paper sleeves, and their support sucks. Not to mention their use of very crappy copy protection that doesn't work on a lot of dvd/cd rom drives (like sony drives). Or my favorite "You must uninstall disk emulation software to play this game". Yea right, I'll get right on that.
I hope the big guys do so bad that more small studios start showing up, with online distribution models. These mega companys are going to kill pc gaming.
Why doesn't anyone mention antivir as a good free antivirus. It boasts a smaller memory footprint then avg or avast. Personally I use clamav, but I always thought antivir would be a good choice.
I love clamWin. My only complaint is a lack of a memory resident scanner. So I have to remember to scan files I download. I've thought about taking up the project of writting one, I'm just not sure if I have time time. I guess I could just write a download manager that invokes a scan when the download is complete, it might be less hassle.
If you are using it for a buisness I hope you paid for it. But stealing their free personal product you are preventing them from maintaining a smooth cash flow needed to keep producing software. Companys like lavasoft and grisoft placed their good faith in you and wished to help the community, and you are breaking that good faith.
That should get them off right there. They didn't modify any source code. To do that would require them to recompile the game. Releasing a few image files you drop in a directory to change what the engine pulls should not be against the law. Opening a file with a hex editor should not be against the law. I dont see how telling a user to modify bits on their own pc's (for free no less, not selling or giving away the actual product) can hurt tecmo's buisness. But, this is why I only buy video games with active supported mod communities.
Now as for my credit report, if they were dumb enough to give that a try they would be in for a surprise. My job provides me with a legal insurance plan. It basically allows me free access to lawyers for most everything except speeding tickets and criminal cases against me. I've used it to settle a bill from at&t (a company who's service I never had who put a 800.00 bill on my credit report and refused to remove it.) and the local gas company who put a huge gas bill on my credit that dated to a year in which I would of been 12. So I say let em play, and I'll have fun.
Do what I did when i couldn't get an atari game to work with my DVD drive because of secureROM. I called my CC company and disputed the charges. Worked fine for me. Then I noCD cracked the game.
I actually use the same router as well. I just havn't changed the firmware/OS on it. I"m lazy :-)
But But, buying a 50.00 router wouldn't make all my friends think i'm leet. Instead I have to build a custom linux box for 250.00 that I configure to be a firewall/router and then use that to block my windows 98 machine that I download windows patches with to slipstream a copy of win2000 that I install to download xp via a wares site that I then patch up and install. Now thats l337 baby! Although 250.00 per install is getting expensive.