Is it that hard for a massive community effort to come up with a cross-platform reimplementation of DirectX? E.g., an SDL/DirectX layer would encapsulate DirectX's objects and put wrappers around the SDL calls.
It is a major failing that DirectX is not available cross-platform (even if it may be less capable than OpenGL or SDL). If.NET is available, why not DirectX? There can't be anything in DirectX that specifically requires arcane, non-rewrite-able Microsoft routines, or anything that would be much easier on x86.
Why? I definitely don't run a virus scan or disassembly on the code when I download it: I put it in a temporary directory (often the Desktop), execute it, and delete it. Whis is exactly what "Run from current location" does, except automatically.
Has anyone tried this under WINE (either the ActiveX control under IE, or the separate executable)? Will it just report the legitimacy of the Windows installation?
what would you suggest I use to mean 'begs the question'?
"is begging the question". You wouldn't use the perfect in the popular phrase, but in the logical sense, it becomes a predicate nominative (this argument = begging the question).
Or simply "is a circular argument"/"is circular reasoning". Solves the problem of people not knowing the correct meaning, and since "beg" means "ask"/"request" in normal usage, "beg the question" gives a mental image more like the popular than the logical usage. Even "is a fallacy: it begs the question" is fine, since it clarifies the context.
why on earth would you want to substitute a cool and useful phrase [for] the boring pedestrian one?
Are you being sarcastic? If you're not, then I'll point out that your sentence (in my opinion) makes more sense as sarcasm.
Either way, I see nothing wrong with "beg the question" having its meaning determined from context. Gramatically, the popular usage needs an appositive to clarify what question is being begged; the logical usage simply refers to a general "the question". And the actual meaning of the sentence should make it clear.
Assuming it's the same size as the CTF one, it may not be that bad for mêlée attacks, actually. (Yes, I had to put the accents. We're talking about the French.)
And in French, baguette is also used to mean "magic wand." Expecto Bansheeum! Finite Ammunition! Accio Flag!
For the love of bees, can the lameness filter block posts with very little content other than the phrases "begs the question" and "raises the question"?
While you're at it, posts that have "virii"/"viruses" or "Americans"/"USAians" in close proximity contribute very little to the discussion.w I think we all know the distinction in each pair, and we would prefer to write the popular usage instead of the correct one.
They need to post an official statement saying that they do not support Zelda or Metroid, and anyone who enjoys their website is encouraged to shun these series, also.:-)
More importantly, how will they discriminate this from the leaked copy of Halo 2 - will they just ask the Councilmen not to play online?
Well, they could just ban the French version, but then they'd have to admit that the North American Halo 2 won't be banned, and someone would either filch a copy of that or mod the French one to make it look American.
Scratch that. The legal, purchasing consumer is already going in there.
(Yes, I know about online orders; that aspect is conveniently ignored for this plan.)
A related idea...what about requiring users to have personal certificates, vouched by your friends who can attest you rarely pirate, seeded by the company and its agents? If you're caught, you lose your certificate, and your friends lose vouching powers.
(Yes, I'm throwing random random ideas out there. Hopefully one will vaguely inspire someone.)
Of course, after a while, people will expect a forthcoming patch. Still, this lends itself to an idea: make a game with some moderately-annoying-to-use but very-annoying-to-hack copy protection, like mail-in + online activation. After the value of the game goes down, release it without protection. The drive of a lot of crackers is to get the game cracked very quickly ("0-day exploits" and the like). If it's only reasonable to crack it after a while, there's little motivation to crack it, and there's little loss of profits even if it be cracked (as far as I know, the games sold long after the release date are boxes that have been sold to the store anyway).
Yes, but an Xbox that's running the original BIOS through a modchip, provided there are no other mods (bigger HD, etc), is indistinguishable from an unaltered Xbox. If you run the original BIOS when you play online, there is no software mod, and it is on the default configuration. My point was that if you've got a multiple-bank modchip, make sure one of the banks is the original BIOS, and provided you haven't changed anything else, yours is, to the servers, an unmodded Xbox.
Just use XBMC for media, Cromwell for Linux apps, and/or EvoX for single-player or emulated games. Keep the original BIOS for Live!.
Hypothetical variant of a dongle that I'd like to see if people consider it acceptable:
Suppose they made a USB device, something like a memory stick, except with a proprietary, hidden chip on it. The game loader is visible on the stick as if it were any USB mass storage device, but the rest of the game - levels, bitmaps, sounds, etc. - is accessible only through code in the game, and that code communicates with the chip through public-key encryption. Cracking that would be tough - you'd have to rewrite the entire loading part of the game, and also pull all the encrypted content off the chip.
Yes, it might amount to a hardware dongle, but you didn't consider CD-in-drive as bad as a dongle. This contains game data, not just a chip that proclaims its own presence. Besides, it might be able to eliminate installing; run the stub, which tests for compatibility, pulls the DirectX installer or whatnot off the (public area of the) USB stick if necessary, and boots the game.
Please don't copy this game illegally.
I hope you're joking. That phrase is "acceptable" to everyone but the publisher; people who want to copy the game won't give a ham whether they're asked not to copy.
However, a variant of this that socially engineers the purchasers into thinking of themselves as an "elite" group or somesuch might be more acceptable.
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One more random idea: sell game-built computers (good GPUs and stuff) preloaded with n games of your choice. You'll end up getting them cheaper than retail, even if you subtract the raw cost of the computer and labor, since they don't have to deliver boxes.
Another idea: bring your computer to the store, pay the cost of the game, and you'll get a CD (and monitor/keyboard/mouse) to use while in the store to install the game, and a printed license marked with a description of your computer (serial number, photograph, etc.). Something about the setup should be designed to make it hard to lift the game out by itself. If you need to reinstall the game, you can do so free if you bring your computer and license back. If you need to invoke a license transfer option, bring your computer back, and the store people will uninstall it, take your marked license, and give you a blank one.
there's no way to detect the physical presence of a modchip per se; they're looking for a modded BIOS and/or a modded game. If you install a modchip with multiple BIOS banks and switch to the original (MS) BIOS before going to Live, I'm pretty sure that they won't notice. That should save the people who use XBMC, Cromwell (Linux boot only), alternative BIOSes like EvoX solely for the emulators, etc.
Besides, there's no reason to ban non-modded boxes with a third-party BIOS chip (it isn't really a modchip now, is it?).
problems a group of males who really need sex can cause.....
Slashdot?
In all seriousness, it'll cause a considerable drop in population growth, because there will be an imbalance of wombs available to bear the generation after this. And less population is what China and India really need now.
Wait, so you're saying that women, children under 14ish, men over 40ish, businessmen, politicians, craftsmen, lawyers, doctors, field-working slaves, aristocratic plantation owners, etc., were mostly all included in the fighting? That's not the way I learned it.
From a theoretical standpoint, if the entire society is putting itself in danger to defend themselves...well, there's no point in defending anything, is there? We've got soldiers fighting the other soldiers so that the entire society doesn't have to fight. Of course most people kept weaponry for defending themselves if the militia lost, but most of the fighting wasn't there. The reason we had regular battles is that the varied militias of the States intercepted the British armies before they had a chance (as the militias feared) to disrupt the towns themselves. That's why most fighting is near but not in a major town: the offense makes their objective a population center, but the defense tries to stop it from actually getting in. If everyone were fighting, there would be no need for a regular army or militia.
Surely they should all be *GPL* if they are based on the code. Thats the brilliant point of it?
If they are based on the code, and if original AT&T VNC was GPL'ed (I'm not sure if it was).
The protocol was published free; even if it hadn't been, it would have been visible in the source. Anyone who reimplements the protocol can license his implementation however he chooses. That's the brilliant point of it. More freedom than the GPL - and any VNC server and VNC client will be able to connect to each other.
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Is it that hard for a massive community effort to come up with a cross-platform reimplementation of DirectX? E.g., an SDL/DirectX layer would encapsulate DirectX's objects and put wrappers around the SDL calls.
.NET is available, why not DirectX? There can't be anything in DirectX that specifically requires arcane, non-rewrite-able Microsoft routines, or anything that would be much easier on x86.
It is a major failing that DirectX is not available cross-platform (even if it may be less capable than OpenGL or SDL). If
How much physics could a physician physic if a physician were physically a physicist?
There's an option for a downloadable executable (if you can't/won't use ActiveX). Just download it, disconnect, and run.
Why? I definitely don't run a virus scan or disassembly on the code when I download it: I put it in a temporary directory (often the Desktop), execute it, and delete it. Whis is exactly what "Run from current location" does, except automatically.
Has anyone tried this under WINE (either the ActiveX control under IE, or the separate executable)? Will it just report the legitimacy of the Windows installation?
What about under ReactOS or something?
Who signs a letter "Letter"...oh. Your name is Letter? That's got to get confusing.
what would you suggest I use to mean 'begs the question'?
"is begging the question". You wouldn't use the perfect in the popular phrase, but in the logical sense, it becomes a predicate nominative (this argument = begging the question).
Or simply "is a circular argument"/"is circular reasoning". Solves the problem of people not knowing the correct meaning, and since "beg" means "ask"/"request" in normal usage, "beg the question" gives a mental image more like the popular than the logical usage. Even "is a fallacy: it begs the question" is fine, since it clarifies the context.
why on earth would you want to substitute a cool and useful phrase [for] the boring pedestrian one?
Are you being sarcastic? If you're not, then I'll point out that your sentence (in my opinion) makes more sense as sarcasm.
Either way, I see nothing wrong with "beg the question" having its meaning determined from context. Gramatically, the popular usage needs an appositive to clarify what question is being begged; the logical usage simply refers to a general "the question". And the actual meaning of the sentence should make it clear.
a very hard baguette and a big white flag.
Assuming it's the same size as the CTF one, it may not be that bad for mêlée attacks, actually. (Yes, I had to put the accents. We're talking about the French.)
And in French, baguette is also used to mean "magic wand." Expecto Bansheeum! Finite Ammunition! Accio Flag!
pr0n
How do you do that over the telephone without it sounding like "pron"? Do you say "pruh", dial 0, and say "nn" or something?
For the love of bees, can the lameness filter block posts with very little content other than the phrases "begs the question" and "raises the question"?
While you're at it, posts that have "virii"/"viruses" or "Americans"/"USAians" in close proximity contribute very little to the discussion.w I think we all know the distinction in each pair, and we would prefer to write the popular usage instead of the correct one.
They need to post an official statement saying that they do not support Zelda or Metroid, and anyone who enjoys their website is encouraged to shun these series, also. :-)
Yup, those are the speeds measured on Verizon's side.
swiftboatveteransfortruth dot com.
Hey, close enough. People with connections to Kerry yet who oppose him.
(Not that I support the actions of said group.)
More importantly, how will they discriminate this from the leaked copy of Halo 2 - will they just ask the Councilmen not to play online?
Well, they could just ban the French version, but then they'd have to admit that the North American Halo 2 won't be banned, and someone would either filch a copy of that or mod the French one to make it look American.
That got me to wondering...is there a mod where a picture one of the DoA characters appears in the place of the Master Chief?
But the consumer is already going in there...
Scratch that. The legal, purchasing consumer is already going in there.
(Yes, I know about online orders; that aspect is conveniently ignored for this plan.)
A related idea...what about requiring users to have personal certificates, vouched by your friends who can attest you rarely pirate, seeded by the company and its agents? If you're caught, you lose your certificate, and your friends lose vouching powers.
(Yes, I'm throwing random random ideas out there. Hopefully one will vaguely inspire someone.)
Of course, after a while, people will expect a forthcoming patch. Still, this lends itself to an idea: make a game with some moderately-annoying-to-use but very-annoying-to-hack copy protection, like mail-in + online activation. After the value of the game goes down, release it without protection. The drive of a lot of crackers is to get the game cracked very quickly ("0-day exploits" and the like). If it's only reasonable to crack it after a while, there's little motivation to crack it, and there's little loss of profits even if it be cracked (as far as I know, the games sold long after the release date are boxes that have been sold to the store anyway).
Yes, but an Xbox that's running the original BIOS through a modchip, provided there are no other mods (bigger HD, etc), is indistinguishable from an unaltered Xbox. If you run the original BIOS when you play online, there is no software mod, and it is on the default configuration. My point was that if you've got a multiple-bank modchip, make sure one of the banks is the original BIOS, and provided you haven't changed anything else, yours is, to the servers, an unmodded Xbox.
Just use XBMC for media, Cromwell for Linux apps, and/or EvoX for single-player or emulated games. Keep the original BIOS for Live!.
Dongles (and other hardware keys.)
Hypothetical variant of a dongle that I'd like to see if people consider it acceptable:
Suppose they made a USB device, something like a memory stick, except with a proprietary, hidden chip on it. The game loader is visible on the stick as if it were any USB mass storage device, but the rest of the game - levels, bitmaps, sounds, etc. - is accessible only through code in the game, and that code communicates with the chip through public-key encryption. Cracking that would be tough - you'd have to rewrite the entire loading part of the game, and also pull all the encrypted content off the chip.
Yes, it might amount to a hardware dongle, but you didn't consider CD-in-drive as bad as a dongle. This contains game data, not just a chip that proclaims its own presence. Besides, it might be able to eliminate installing; run the stub, which tests for compatibility, pulls the DirectX installer or whatnot off the (public area of the) USB stick if necessary, and boots the game.
Please don't copy this game illegally.
I hope you're joking. That phrase is "acceptable" to everyone but the publisher; people who want to copy the game won't give a ham whether they're asked not to copy.
However, a variant of this that socially engineers the purchasers into thinking of themselves as an "elite" group or somesuch might be more acceptable.
-
One more random idea: sell game-built computers (good GPUs and stuff) preloaded with n games of your choice. You'll end up getting them cheaper than retail, even if you subtract the raw cost of the computer and labor, since they don't have to deliver boxes.
Another idea: bring your computer to the store, pay the cost of the game, and you'll get a CD (and monitor/keyboard/mouse) to use while in the store to install the game, and a printed license marked with a description of your computer (serial number, photograph, etc.). Something about the setup should be designed to make it hard to lift the game out by itself. If you need to reinstall the game, you can do so free if you bring your computer and license back. If you need to invoke a license transfer option, bring your computer back, and the store people will uninstall it, take your marked license, and give you a blank one.
there's no way to detect the physical presence of a modchip per se; they're looking for a modded BIOS and/or a modded game. If you install a modchip with multiple BIOS banks and switch to the original (MS) BIOS before going to Live, I'm pretty sure that they won't notice. That should save the people who use XBMC, Cromwell (Linux boot only), alternative BIOSes like EvoX solely for the emulators, etc.
Besides, there's no reason to ban non-modded boxes with a third-party BIOS chip (it isn't really a modchip now, is it?).
problems a group of males who really need sex can cause.....
Slashdot?
In all seriousness, it'll cause a considerable drop in population growth, because there will be an imbalance of wombs available to bear the generation after this. And less population is what China and India really need now.
Wait, so you're saying that women, children under 14ish, men over 40ish, businessmen, politicians, craftsmen, lawyers, doctors, field-working slaves, aristocratic plantation owners, etc., were mostly all included in the fighting? That's not the way I learned it.
From a theoretical standpoint, if the entire society is putting itself in danger to defend themselves...well, there's no point in defending anything, is there? We've got soldiers fighting the other soldiers so that the entire society doesn't have to fight. Of course most people kept weaponry for defending themselves if the militia lost, but most of the fighting wasn't there. The reason we had regular battles is that the varied militias of the States intercepted the British armies before they had a chance (as the militias feared) to disrupt the towns themselves. That's why most fighting is near but not in a major town: the offense makes their objective a population center, but the defense tries to stop it from actually getting in. If everyone were fighting, there would be no need for a regular army or militia.
Yes, I agree, but you didn't catch what I was trying to say (maybe I wasn't clear enough).
Everybody ought to educate themselves.
Not everybody ought to defend themselves: that's why we have an army, to defend everybody else.
IMO, it's not missing a clothing parenthesis. It has an extra opening parenthesis, and that adds a fourth level of nesting that messes up your brain.
The tight one is (( (th) (i) (s) )). The loose one is (( (th) ((i)(s)) ): (i)(s) has an extra set of parentheses surrounding it.
Surely they should all be *GPL* if they are based on the code. Thats the brilliant point of it?
If they are based on the code, and if original AT&T VNC was GPL'ed (I'm not sure if it was).
The protocol was published free; even if it hadn't been, it would have been visible in the source. Anyone who reimplements the protocol can license his implementation however he chooses. That's the brilliant point of it. More freedom than the GPL - and any VNC server and VNC client will be able to connect to each other.