Hrm, I seem recall that when released in 1995, the original Playstation cost about the same as the Playstation 3 did. And that's not taking into effect inflation...
Yeah, me too. Seriously, Fahrenheit was promoted as being "immersive" and then it's all just QTE a la Dragon's lair?! At least in Shen Mue they just showed up once in a blue moon, but talk about being pulled out of the "real" game when for every action sequence there are buttons showing up and pulling your focus. Or those annoying illustrations of how to pull your right stick. They could have just turned the screen completely black and just had those buttons and illustrations, because for sure my attention was all on them and whatever was actually happening with the main character in the background was just a complete distraction...
It's the total opposite of being immersed in a game for goodness sake! If this "realism" they are touting now is anything like the "immersiveness" in Fahrenheit, well...
Trust me, if I were to modify my own legal copy of Windows (I do have one since it came with this laptop...) I wouldn't feel the slightest bit nervous that Microsoft, or their lackey, the mighty US of A would really care one bit, and certainly not that they would try to extradite me (or send in the men in black).
But, frankly, this whole scenario is a bit out there, so let's get back to "closed software", since you brought up source code. I posit that any lack of freedom is because of those mentioned legal entities, and not because of a lack of source code.
I'll bet you that Mr.Stallman wouldn't accept software as "free" even if it didn't invoke any legalities (such as copyright, patents, trademarks or contracts etc.) if it were just handed out as an executable file...
I am not a US citizen. Your EULAs and DMCAs don't impress me much. As far as I know, I am legally allowed to modify my own copy of Windows as I see fit. EULA and DMCA are legal problems of your country, not inherently part of "closed software".
PS.Even in the USA EULAs aren't exactly written in stone as far as I've heard...
He has compared simply using "closed software" as morally being in the same league as punching someone in the face. I've seen a "free software" advocate (although to be fair, no one famous, and could have been just your inevitable nutcase) argue that "closed software" is more harmful to society than murder...
Unless the laws have changed, which is of course a possibility since they seem to be moving that way, I'm very much free to change my copy of Windows if I so desire, but I'm not allowed to make copies and give out to others. That's copyright law. Can I assume Mr.Stallman is as passionate about only watching "free" movies and only listens to "free" music? Only driving "free" cars? Only drinking "free" soft-drinks?
The probability that you will find the key on the third is something like 1 in 9*10^-39. This is many orders of magnitude less likely than that I would win the lottery, every week for the rest of my life...
I said the reason was NOT because cinema is an inferior medium. I love cinema. I don't love seeing some of my favourite books drained of the complexities that made them exciting in the name of adapting them to a medium with different limitations. Perhaps short stories are easier to adapt, but I still prefer if artists can just be inspired by something they like and then create their own work. Their own separate work. Not "Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings"...
There's a pretty big difference between basing a work on an original and simply making a new version of the original. What does V have similar to 1984 except 'totalitarian government'?
Personally I think it's kind of stupid to be making movie versions of books/comics. There is a reason people say "the film wasn't as good as the original", and that reason is not because cinema is an inferior medium. Make an original work suitable to the medium your working in, I say...
Be influenced by works, but make your own. Otherwise you just end up watering down the original.
'V for vendetta - the movie' was pretty crappy I thought...
Finnair also uses Linux entertainment systems, and they are also really flakey. Not all of them start to reboot at once, but every once in a while the screen goes black for some passanger and they have to ask the flight attendent to reboot the system... Well, I've only been on two Finnair flights as of late (fall of 2007) but I think there at least 5-7 crashes during the 9+ hour flights, in my compartment...
On the other hand, obviously the problem is not with Linux itself (count that as kernel or the base operating system) but rather the software that runs the entertainment system.
There was also a Linux-based karaoke machine in Tokyo that just wouldn't work for us... ^_^
It does not have anything to do with atmosphere. A geosynchronous orbit means that the satellite is orbiting around the planet at the same speed as the planet is rotating around it's axis.
Assuming you were programming in C, you should have followed the standard if you wanted portability. The C standard guarantees that int is at least 16 bits. If you need larger values, use long.
Well, of course it matters whether people are reading enough. I'm not a native speaker of English either, and I was very surprised when I first saw the mistake of confusing "they're" and "their" for example. In my brain they were very different. However, these days I've been catching myself making that same mistake! I think the reason is because I'm much more fluent now and "write as I think" which makes it easier to confuse homonyms.
That's because non-native speakers usually learn the language by reading textbooks. To a native speaker, those homonyms are confusing since they learned to speak before learning to read; to a non-native speaker, the spelling is innately associated with each word, making them quite distinct.
Actually, std::map erase() does NOT invalidate all iterators in the map; only the iterator used as argument to erase()
It also does NOT return an iterator; it returns void.
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Hrm, I seem recall that when released in 1995, the original Playstation cost about the same as the Playstation 3 did. And that's not taking into effect inflation...
Yeah, me too. Seriously, Fahrenheit was promoted as being "immersive" and then it's all just QTE a la Dragon's lair?! At least in Shen Mue they just showed up once in a blue moon, but talk about being pulled out of the "real" game when for every action sequence there are buttons showing up and pulling your focus. Or those annoying illustrations of how to pull your right stick. They could have just turned the screen completely black and just had those buttons and illustrations, because for sure my attention was all on them and whatever was actually happening with the main character in the background was just a complete distraction... It's the total opposite of being immersed in a game for goodness sake! If this "realism" they are touting now is anything like the "immersiveness" in Fahrenheit, well...
Good for you, here's your diploma of asceticism ;)
I didn't.
Trust me, if I were to modify my own legal copy of Windows (I do have one since it came with this laptop...) I wouldn't feel the slightest bit nervous that Microsoft, or their lackey, the mighty US of A would really care one bit, and certainly not that they would try to extradite me (or send in the men in black). But, frankly, this whole scenario is a bit out there, so let's get back to "closed software", since you brought up source code. I posit that any lack of freedom is because of those mentioned legal entities, and not because of a lack of source code. I'll bet you that Mr.Stallman wouldn't accept software as "free" even if it didn't invoke any legalities (such as copyright, patents, trademarks or contracts etc.) if it were just handed out as an executable file...
I am not a US citizen. Your EULAs and DMCAs don't impress me much. As far as I know, I am legally allowed to modify my own copy of Windows as I see fit. EULA and DMCA are legal problems of your country, not inherently part of "closed software".
PS.Even in the USA EULAs aren't exactly written in stone as far as I've heard...
He has compared simply using "closed software" as morally being in the same league as punching someone in the face. I've seen a "free software" advocate (although to be fair, no one famous, and could have been just your inevitable nutcase) argue that "closed software" is more harmful to society than murder...
Unless the laws have changed, which is of course a possibility since they seem to be moving that way, I'm very much free to change my copy of Windows if I so desire, but I'm not allowed to make copies and give out to others. That's copyright law. Can I assume Mr.Stallman is as passionate about only watching "free" movies and only listens to "free" music? Only driving "free" cars? Only drinking "free" soft-drinks?
The probability that you will find the key on the third is something like 1 in 9*10^-39. This is many orders of magnitude less likely than that I would win the lottery, every week for the rest of my life...
I said the reason was NOT because cinema is an inferior medium. I love cinema. I don't love seeing some of my favourite books drained of the complexities that made them exciting in the name of adapting them to a medium with different limitations. Perhaps short stories are easier to adapt, but I still prefer if artists can just be inspired by something they like and then create their own work. Their own separate work. Not "Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings"...
There's a pretty big difference between basing a work on an original and simply making a new version of the original. What does V have similar to 1984 except 'totalitarian government'? Personally I think it's kind of stupid to be making movie versions of books/comics. There is a reason people say "the film wasn't as good as the original", and that reason is not because cinema is an inferior medium. Make an original work suitable to the medium your working in, I say... Be influenced by works, but make your own. Otherwise you just end up watering down the original. 'V for vendetta - the movie' was pretty crappy I thought...
The 128-bit address bus, for when you really need access to that udabyte(*) storage device...
(*) 1 udabyte = 1000000000000000000000000 terabytes...
These days flashrom (NAND) are inherently addressed in blocks.
But which one? 1.37? 1.66? 1.85? 2.20? 2.35? ;)
Finnair also uses Linux entertainment systems, and they are also really flakey. Not all of them start to reboot at once, but every once in a while the screen goes black for some passanger and they have to ask the flight attendent to reboot the system...
Well, I've only been on two Finnair flights as of late (fall of 2007) but I think there at least 5-7 crashes during the 9+ hour flights, in my compartment...
On the other hand, obviously the problem is not with Linux itself (count that as kernel or the base operating system) but rather the software that runs the entertainment system.
There was also a Linux-based karaoke machine in Tokyo that just wouldn't work for us... ^_^
Yes, a good thing, but there is of course no guarantee that it wasn't already discovered by someone else also...
Hehe, I'm going to try that approach the next time I'm assigned a bug: "No, it's not the code that's wrong, it's the specification."
Everything might be Maths and Maths might be the only concrete thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_ensemble
Hmmm, what exactly is NOT maths in this world? :)
It does not have anything to do with atmosphere. A geosynchronous orbit means that the satellite is orbiting around the planet at the same speed as the planet is rotating around it's axis.
Assuming you were programming in C, you should have followed the standard if you wanted portability. The C standard guarantees that int is at least 16 bits. If you need larger values, use long.
Well, of course it matters whether people are reading enough. I'm not a native speaker of English either, and I was very surprised when I first saw the mistake of confusing "they're" and "their" for example. In my brain they were very different. However, these days I've been catching myself making that same mistake! I think the reason is because I'm much more fluent now and "write as I think" which makes it easier to confuse homonyms.
A study in Sweden actually showed the opposite: those who played lots of video/computer games were actually tending to be more physically active also!
That's because non-native speakers usually learn the language by reading textbooks. To a native speaker, those homonyms are confusing since they learned to speak before learning to read; to a non-native speaker, the spelling is innately associated with each word, making them quite distinct.
Well, that's my theory anyway! IANAL (L=linguist)
Actually, std::map erase() does NOT invalidate all iterators in the map; only the iterator used as argument to erase()
It also does NOT return an iterator; it returns void.
Fun stuff, isn't it? ^_^