Well, if you think about it, it would be good for everyone. If your company bought Novell's new 'XMPP Solution', it interestingly enough can communicate just fine with RedHat's, and Google's, and... Microsoft's? That's how email pretty much works these days (even though I get the impression that it is MS' fault we have HTML email...).
GPL code doesn't need to be included in the same medium as the binary machine code.
GPL Section 3: 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
(all formatting mine)
As you can see, even for a commercial distribution, you only need to provide a means for interested parties to contact you so they may obtain the source from you, for a fee that covers only media and shipping. You don't need to put the code on the CD, especially if it were a console game, where that would just be a waste of space and inaccessable in any meaningful way.
There's no networking, remember?
Hence, there is no need for a Firewall, very little need for Antivirus, and Instant Messaging is impossible. Personally, I think that the lack of networking is more of a castration of windows than the limit to 3 programs is.
No. You can't just air drop these things in the field and expect people to know how to set them up, troubleshoot them, and most importantly, learn from them. They are a teaching aide that can be sent deep into the field where technology isn't at the highest but still have access to a host of important teaching material.
I'm taking a CISCO course where the course material is hosted on the internet, and you either need a teacher or a third party source for some stuff because some stuff just isn't covered/is poorly covered/I have questions about/etc. And this is me already being able to read. Literacy isn't something that you can just learn from a repatative voice and pictures on the screen. It can most certainly help though.
Amen. We all get such bad reputations from all the stupid gentoo ricers. Someone actually tried to convince me that -O9 was real, and -ffast-math was a good idea since he could notice the speed difference.:( **sigh**
While I'm not going to bother touching any of the other stuff you said with a 10-foot pole, how can you possibly be against public schools?
Without public schools, where will the poor kids even stand a chance at getting something close to an education? While the public schools in Bad Neighborhoods(tm) in the US may suck, it is at least an attempt, or at the very least pretending to teach some kids. Without public schools you would just have a bunch of poverty-stricken poor families whom could never have a hope of getting out of the rut they were born into unless some generous benefactor donated money (Africa comes to mind here). Closing the public schools will be the final nail in the United States' coffin, in my opinion. I also doubt it would ever happen, which can be taken as both a positive and a negative.
Did you go to public school? If not, I guess you were lucky enough to have rich parents...
I have an IT job and I'm still in High School. I would't exactly say that I rule, but if you think I do, than more power to you. If you don't... why should I care? Just pointing it out.
Microsoft is never, ever, ever, going to write software for linux. They've said so on several accounts, and if they were to, that would pretty much be admitting defeat (or at least viable competition) in the OS sector right there anyway.
Ideally, you could just have a config file (XML?) that could be modified by anything... be it a web client, or a CLI, or a GUI, or right on the device itself, etc. etc.
I think the most suitable solution would be for the installer to be both GUI and text, which wouldn't be too difficult to program via frontend/backend paradigm; many installers have already done this (I think loki based installers can do it). Having both means that user friendly distros with X out of the box can have their pretty GUI installer, and do-it-yourselfers can run the CLI before they've set up their X. The CLI also provides a fallback if something goes wrong (and we all know it will).
It is true that you would almost never have a CLI fallback for a windows installer, and the reason for that is because X isn't mature enough yet; it needs some sort of failsafe backup that can almost always be run (just like windows) if the vendor's drivers aren't working. For a truely user friendly distro, X wouldn't crash out to command line, it would reliably load up the generic drivers for further visual configuration.
That's not a good score... I have the same card and I get almost double your FPS (~3000). However, I'm using the old 3.2.8-r2 drivers - 3.2.8-r2 is the best version I've found yet. Unless I see 'major proformance enhancements' on the forums, I don't even bother touching ATI's new drivers. Similarily priced nvidias will do even better on glxgears.
Hell, those were very informative ads! I didn't even know cars with miniguns on the back were on the market! Get one of those babies and I won't need to worry about rush hour ever again!
It might be more fair to compare a multiplayer based mod based upon the DoomIII engine to CS:Source, which is just a multiplayer based mod for the Source engine.
If you're interested in other stuff, try getting together with some friends(gasp!) and playing with them, or getting Halo for PC, which has a vaster selection of servers. I wouldn't really reccomend Halo for PC though... I made the mistake of actually buying it. It is M$ abandonware, they kept none of their promises and hence makes a terrible online game (no vote kicking, muting, etc., no spectating or replay recording, no real mods, if there are new maps they're a pain to play on... need I go on?). And with all that said, I'm not going to deny that CTF on Blood Gulch is by far the most popular setup.
Heck, while I'm at it, not only is the engine flawed the gameplay is too. The game does not require skill the same way that most other games do. Generally you start with the best multipurpose weapon in the game (the pistol) but in clanmatches the outcome of the game is determined by who can get to the heavy weapons and basecamp better.
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Well, if you think about it, it would be good for everyone. If your company bought Novell's new 'XMPP Solution', it interestingly enough can communicate just fine with RedHat's, and Google's, and... Microsoft's? That's how email pretty much works these days (even though I get the impression that it is MS' fault we have HTML email...).
GPL code doesn't need to be included in the same medium as the binary machine code.
GPL Section 3:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
(all formatting mine)
As you can see, even for a commercial distribution, you only need to provide a means for interested parties to contact you so they may obtain the source from you, for a fee that covers only media and shipping. You don't need to put the code on the CD, especially if it were a console game, where that would just be a waste of space and inaccessable in any meaningful way.
Your (ahem) lack of humor scares me. You really have to go see a shrink. But I don't care if you stay at slashdot or not.
There's no networking, remember? Hence, there is no need for a Firewall, very little need for Antivirus, and Instant Messaging is impossible. Personally, I think that the lack of networking is more of a castration of windows than the limit to 3 programs is.
Yeah man, we totally need +1 Stupidity so everyone can point and laugh.
No, the Japanese were willing to surrender... just not unconditionally. The United States wanted a live test of their new toy.
If I hadn't wasted all my mod points, I actually would have used them modding up this AC.
No. You can't just air drop these things in the field and expect people to know how to set them up, troubleshoot them, and most importantly, learn from them. They are a teaching aide that can be sent deep into the field where technology isn't at the highest but still have access to a host of important teaching material.
I'm taking a CISCO course where the course material is hosted on the internet, and you either need a teacher or a third party source for some stuff because some stuff just isn't covered/is poorly covered/I have questions about/etc. And this is me already being able to read. Literacy isn't something that you can just learn from a repatative voice and pictures on the screen. It can most certainly help though.
Does it run Linux?
Amen. We all get such bad reputations from all the stupid gentoo ricers. Someone actually tried to convince me that -O9 was real, and -ffast-math was a good idea since he could notice the speed difference. :( **sigh**
There's also These Fucktards too.
While I'm not going to bother touching any of the other stuff you said with a 10-foot pole, how can you possibly be against public schools?
Without public schools, where will the poor kids even stand a chance at getting something close to an education? While the public schools in Bad Neighborhoods(tm) in the US may suck, it is at least an attempt, or at the very least pretending to teach some kids. Without public schools you would just have a bunch of poverty-stricken poor families whom could never have a hope of getting out of the rut they were born into unless some generous benefactor donated money (Africa comes to mind here). Closing the public schools will be the final nail in the United States' coffin, in my opinion. I also doubt it would ever happen, which can be taken as both a positive and a negative.
Did you go to public school? If not, I guess you were lucky enough to have rich parents...
I have an IT job and I'm still in High School. I would't exactly say that I rule, but if you think I do, than more power to you. If you don't... why should I care? Just pointing it out.
Do you also happen to be a newbie?
You do realize that's almost exactly selling your soul to AOL right?
Microsoft is never, ever, ever, going to write software for linux. They've said so on several accounts, and if they were to, that would pretty much be admitting defeat (or at least viable competition) in the OS sector right there anyway.
Their graphics are provided by ATI
Wired magazine's ratings just went up in my books.
Ideally, you could just have a config file (XML?) that could be modified by anything... be it a web client, or a CLI, or a GUI, or right on the device itself, etc. etc.
I think the most suitable solution would be for the installer to be both GUI and text, which wouldn't be too difficult to program via frontend/backend paradigm; many installers have already done this (I think loki based installers can do it). Having both means that user friendly distros with X out of the box can have their pretty GUI installer, and do-it-yourselfers can run the CLI before they've set up their X. The CLI also provides a fallback if something goes wrong (and we all know it will).
It is true that you would almost never have a CLI fallback for a windows installer, and the reason for that is because X isn't mature enough yet; it needs some sort of failsafe backup that can almost always be run (just like windows) if the vendor's drivers aren't working. For a truely user friendly distro, X wouldn't crash out to command line, it would reliably load up the generic drivers for further visual configuration.
That's not a good score... I have the same card and I get almost double your FPS (~3000). However, I'm using the old 3.2.8-r2 drivers - 3.2.8-r2 is the best version I've found yet. Unless I see 'major proformance enhancements' on the forums, I don't even bother touching ATI's new drivers. Similarily priced nvidias will do even better on glxgears.
Hell, those were very informative ads! I didn't even know cars with miniguns on the back were on the market! Get one of those babies and I won't need to worry about rush hour ever again!
It might be more fair to compare a multiplayer based mod based upon the DoomIII engine to CS:Source, which is just a multiplayer based mod for the Source engine.
Yeah man, this is CS remember?
If you're interested in other stuff, try getting together with some friends(gasp!) and playing with them, or getting Halo for PC, which has a vaster selection of servers. I wouldn't really reccomend Halo for PC though... I made the mistake of actually buying it. It is M$ abandonware, they kept none of their promises and hence makes a terrible online game (no vote kicking, muting, etc., no spectating or replay recording, no real mods, if there are new maps they're a pain to play on... need I go on?). And with all that said, I'm not going to deny that CTF on Blood Gulch is by far the most popular setup.
Heck, while I'm at it, not only is the engine flawed the gameplay is too. The game does not require skill the same way that most other games do. Generally you start with the best multipurpose weapon in the game (the pistol) but in clanmatches the outcome of the game is determined by who can get to the heavy weapons and basecamp better.
Give up on Halo. Get a better game.