This all reminds me of a bunch of drunk people in a bar arguing with the manager. Facebook is a COMMERCIAL SITE. People so put their lives on facebook deserve everything they get.
Actually its a serious problem. That creationist stuff is a good reflection of social progress. f it keeps up, soon you will find the USA in the dark ages.
Hey at least we know one thing. Microsoft putting out code to work in Linux as a survival mechanism. It may not be a good thing to happen - but it does indicate a current strength of linux.
The classic thing to note here is that microsoft have contributed a..a what?...a platform! Yes Microsoft are at their old tricks by trying to push out platforms. Sooner or later Microsoft will pull the plug on Silverlight, or at least get lots of open-source stuff dependant on it, and then kill it. OH noooOOes now I can't use my $1 million dollar application because Microsoft did something legaly & I can't use Silverlight anymore.
-Insert voice of gay guy from Family Guy going 'ohhh Noooowoowowoww'-
Yes, if horrors like that were allowed onto the web, we'd all be doomed.
Oh, wait...
The difference is that with the image formats you mentioned are all manipulatable via HTML, aren't interactive in any way.
They are all explicitly content-only with no interaction.
PDF though, that isn't really for the web. Thats aimed at pixel for pixel, screen for screen uniformity - which HTML battles against. HTML and open web standards is all about the browser showing the content in whatever way the user needs to see the info, and have it all work.
What the previous anonymous coward was getting at was when you put the structure, interactivity, and applications all running encapsulated inside a plugin (where the browser/user can't config it), then you either subvert HTML (redundant) or provide non-accessible content (bad thing). The goal should be to move structure/architecture out of plugins and into the markup where it belongs. That way, in 10 years time when you can't see anymore, your browser will be able to jazz the content together so you can access it with your futuristic hypersensor.
Congratulations. You have a girlfriend and no time for games. Consequently you must have no time to comment on games. Doom 3 was great. It was a survival horror Doom. Just like Doom RPG is a Doom RPG.
I think this is why 'amiga' was one of the keywords. It reminds me of little-endianness. The amiga did stuff with little-endian I think. Little-endian means that when number represented in binary, little endian means the left-most bits represent the big numbers, and the rightmost bit means '1' in decimal.
The computer reads memory from right to left, so when you run little endian, the computer only needs to read in the data it needs..continually reading in data to get more precision.
I think this concept is well-established in software but this is the first Ive heard of precision being used in hardware.
You would be right if it were any company but Microsoft. Microsoft doesnt 'co-exist' with anybody. It's their business model - they sit on the top as a monopoly and eat all the pies. Ya should check out their history regarding pltform wars.
Quick, better file a patent for it, lobby some stuff and win the patent. Then go sue him for violating your intellectual property.
(Hows that for a slashdottish post?)
I be the first to mention Microsoft and anti-competitive practices. Yes people can be damn near forced to buy software when they -need- something which is only available when bundled with something they dont want.
in having all my games ready to be downloaded anywhere, any time. also gamersgate seems to be good in this aspect, while direct2drive is more limited.
now the best would have also the savegames stored online, but that has yet to come.
This just shows that relying on someone else to host your stuff (DRM/licensing) means you have to wait for them to come up with features.
With no DRM, you could simply put the games on a disc, format, and put the games back on your hard drive.
Think about it. Your current obstacles for doing this are all software features designed to make it hard.
In my view, it is content or end-user products that should have the right to be non-free. But if the program serves something else, which THEN provides the content, then that should be open. Eg.... Platform free, end-applications non-free if author wants.
Some examples:
Operating system:free (supports stuff, needs free APIs)
Game, game content: Non-free by choice (its artists work)
A fancy application: Non-free by choice (a unique,valuble product competing on value)
That same applications file formats: free (allows interoperability).
Take the web browser example:
Web browser: Sure theres nothing wrong with selling a program to read web pages, but it needs to support HTML/CSS etc
You can see a trend here. Anything which is a platform of some sort really needs to be free. But end-content, whether that be a game, fancy application, music, whatever - should have the right to be non-free.
This is why it seems so much more realistic to demand web-rendering engines be free, then it does to demand the next commercial game be free.
A tool is someone who spends more, just to overclock hardware. You do realize you're buying faster memory with a slower label on it right?
In effect you're only letting the manufacturer get out of guaranteeing the memory will run at the speed it is designed to go at....pc gaming enthusiast fail!!
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This all reminds me of a bunch of drunk people in a bar arguing with the manager. Facebook is a COMMERCIAL SITE. People so put their lives on facebook deserve everything they get.
Actually its a serious problem. That creationist stuff is a good reflection of social progress. f it keeps up, soon you will find the USA in the dark ages.
Have they found the MPAA's business model yet? ;)
ziiing!
Ya missing some facts there don't ya think?
Haaaaaa! :)
Windows on UK Subs http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/windows_for_submarines_rollout/
Hey at least we know one thing. Microsoft putting out code to work in Linux as a survival mechanism. It may not be a good thing to happen - but it does indicate a current strength of linux.
..a what? ...a platform! Yes Microsoft are at their old tricks by trying to push out platforms. Sooner or later Microsoft will pull the plug on Silverlight, or at least get lots of open-source stuff dependant on it, and then kill it. OH noooOOes now I can't use my $1 million dollar application because Microsoft did something legaly & I can't use Silverlight anymore.
The classic thing to note here is that microsoft have contributed a
-Insert voice of gay guy from Family Guy going 'ohhh Noooowoowowoww'-
Binary formats? Like JPG, PNG, GIF or PDF?
Yes, if horrors like that were allowed onto the web, we'd all be doomed.
Oh, wait...
The difference is that with the image formats you mentioned are all manipulatable via HTML, aren't interactive in any way.
They are all explicitly content-only with no interaction.
PDF though, that isn't really for the web. Thats aimed at pixel for pixel, screen for screen uniformity - which HTML battles against. HTML and open web standards is all about the browser showing the content in whatever way the user needs to see the info, and have it all work.
What the previous anonymous coward was getting at was when you put the structure, interactivity, and applications all running encapsulated inside a plugin (where the browser/user can't config it), then you either subvert HTML (redundant) or provide non-accessible content (bad thing). The goal should be to move structure/architecture out of plugins and into the markup where it belongs. That way, in 10 years time when you can't see anymore, your browser will be able to jazz the content together so you can access it with your futuristic hypersensor.
Congratulations. You have a girlfriend and no time for games. Consequently you must have no time to comment on games.
Doom 3 was great. It was a survival horror Doom. Just like Doom RPG is a Doom RPG.
I think this is why 'amiga' was one of the keywords. It reminds me of little-endianness. The amiga did stuff with little-endian I think.
Little-endian means that when number represented in binary, little endian means the left-most bits represent the big numbers, and the rightmost bit means '1' in decimal.
The computer reads memory from right to left, so when you run little endian, the computer only needs to read in the data it needs..continually reading in data to get more precision.
I think this concept is well-established in software but this is the first Ive heard of precision being used in hardware.
But n00bs might not be considered human.
It's because the n00bs are the ones with the bots :P
Wow. Good-guy spam. Don't see that every day.
C'mon boss levels are one of the true original elements of video games that are still alive & kicking today :)
You would be right if it were any company but Microsoft. Microsoft doesnt 'co-exist' with anybody. It's their business model - they sit on the top as a monopoly and eat all the pies. Ya should check out their history regarding pltform wars.
Quick, better file a patent for it, lobby some stuff and win the patent. Then go sue him for violating your intellectual property.
(Hows that for a slashdottish post?)
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I be the first to mention Microsoft and anti-competitive practices. Yes people can be damn near forced to buy software when they -need- something which is only available when bundled with something they dont want.
in having all my games ready to be downloaded anywhere, any time. also gamersgate seems to be good in this aspect, while direct2drive is more limited. now the best would have also the savegames stored online, but that has yet to come.
This just shows that relying on someone else to host your stuff (DRM/licensing) means you have to wait for them to come up with features.
With no DRM, you could simply put the games on a disc, format, and put the games back on your hard drive.
Think about it. Your current obstacles for doing this are all software features designed to make it hard.
In my view, it is content or end-user products that should have the right to be non-free. But if the program serves something else, which THEN provides the content, then that should be open.
Eg.... Platform free, end-applications non-free if author wants.
Some examples:
Operating system:free (supports stuff, needs free APIs)
Game, game content: Non-free by choice (its artists work)
A fancy application: Non-free by choice (a unique,valuble product competing on value)
That same applications file formats: free (allows interoperability).
Take the web browser example: Web browser: Sure theres nothing wrong with selling a program to read web pages, but it needs to support HTML/CSS etc
You can see a trend here. Anything which is a platform of some sort really needs to be free. But end-content, whether that be a game, fancy application, music, whatever - should have the right to be non-free.
This is why it seems so much more realistic to demand web-rendering engines be free, then it does to demand the next commercial game be free.
Brilliant post!!
Okay you just typed more text than he did, but tried to be apathetic. Grumpy-forum-poster-fail.
Some gamers still think that Windows 7 is MinWin. Maybe misinformation had something to do with Microsoft's next OS sounding good.
Yea on planet Microsoft this is unheard-of. Nobody has hardware for more than 3 years because the only safe software is big & bloated.
..meanwhile, on planet linux...
I save them money by only using their bandwidth to download the text content.
Good point. Never thought of that one.
My guess is when they show fancy pants flash adds, bandwidth costs would go up for whoever hosts the adds.
So for same-site hosted adds this is true, but maybe not for off-site hosted adds where bandwidth-to-revenue ratio might be different.
A tool is someone who spends more, just to overclock hardware. You do realize you're buying faster memory with a slower label on it right? In effect you're only letting the manufacturer get out of guaranteeing the memory will run at the speed it is designed to go at. ...pc gaming enthusiast fail!!