I'm more curious about how they know that the 700Mb file that you created from/dev/urandom and called Transformers-cam-divx.avi is a pirate film?? Actually, I think the software wouldn't consider that pirated because you used dashes instead of full stops. All pirated films follow the same [basic] naming schema (in a simple regex form, disregard/.'s automatic spaces): Movie\.Name\.(Year\.)?Source\.(Encoding\.){1,3}Rel easeGroup\.(\[CRC\]\.)?avi
Uh, they also have to follow their corporate tenants or whatever they're called, and that includes "[making] money without doing evil". If you look around on their investor website, I'm sure you can find that phrase (or another "do no evil" phrase of some sort) in one of their guidelines that they need to follow.
It might help G-Mail's reputation if it were easier to get information about it. Searching for "G-mail" on pretty much any search engine ignores the dash, so you get mostly Gooogle-related results. Wikipedia redirects both "G-Mail" and "G-mail" to "Gmail", so once again...
"Ubuntu Feisty Fawn" is a developer internal name (similar to how Vista used to be called "Longhorn", for instance); the proper release name is "Ubuntu 7.04", and should be referred to as that in any situation not regarding the development of it (or by fans of goofy names). Besides, people only think Microsoft's software names aren't goofy because they've been around for a decade or two. What the hell does a window have to do with an operating system? And what the fuck is an "excel" (yes, the noun, not the verb which has actual meaning)? Why is "Internet Explorer" only limited to the World Wide Web and not the whole internet? Why do I go to the Start menu to shutdown? Why do I "sign in" to my system when everyone else says "log in"? etc.
You do know that Broadcom makes shitty quality, cheap hardware with drivers almost as bad as ATI's, right? I doubt they even know how their own hardware works hence the lack of documentation for it in any other operating system.
I'm speaking of Madden. I play the new versions (usually once every other new version), and they don't seem to improve a lot anymore. Hell, the next-gen graphics they promised still look the same as on Xbox. I like EA Big or whatever it is that makes games like SSX, but they're a lot more "out there" than your typical official game with licensed shit out the wazoo.
One would hope this will stay restricted to EA sports games. There, fixed it for you. EA Sports is quickly gaining the reputation of being the low-risk, high-profit, incremental-updates-that-still-cost-$60, overly-large publisher that really shouldn't even exist anymore if people gave enough of a damn to stop buying their shit.
The fact that they are injecting even more advertising in their games comes as no surprise. Hell, if Microsoft Games started making their published games support ads, that would be surprising. Even more so if Nintendo started doing it. EA is just like that...
I doubt the Democrats will do anything useful either. Sure, if the DoJ is fixed again with lawyers who have experience in the field (e.g., the lawyers Bush fired that were prosecuting Microsoft in the first place), it's possible that Microsoft might get more than a slap on the wrist if antitrust charges are brought against them again. However, the individual people behind the party are far more important than the party itself, especially with Democrats (the neocons that took over the Republican party are all the same, but not all Republicans are neocons; see Ron Paul for example).
It might be more useful to "spam" your congressmen and other representatives (including state ones; a state can sue Microsoft just as easily as the feds can) with letters, phone calls, personal meetings, etc., regarding the abuses of Microsoft.
Microsoft could just fully document their old formats, and those documents could remain in those formats with full compatibility in other applications (other than the original program used to write the document). Hell, they could fully document the new format, but instead they say, "refer to Word version x", where x is an undocumented, proprietary format.
Also, Microsoft could provide conversion programs that convert your old documents into the current standard (whether it be ODF or a version of OOXML without all the cruft).
Another thing they could have done is make OOXML a bit more of a modular standard (especially since they're using XML) and allow full standards compliance with applications that don't implement the backwards-compatibility cruft.
And regarding patents, instead of some unenforceable "covenant not to sue", they could explicitly give up all related patents or even license the OOXML specs under some sort of GPL3-like license where they are giving away their related patents to all uses of said standard.
Instead of all the logical approaches, they've decided it would be better to just pipe their old OLE format to an XML format with little to no changes and document it. Problem is, they left the cruft intact and didn't fully document the format. Hell, there's also the issue with patents, but if all they wanted to do was crush the ODF standard, they didn't really need to release their patents for it.
So, uh, what's the point of this? It even has the obnoxious advertising-clause that makes it incompatible with several widely-used licenses out there (defeating the purpose of making a developers-are-free sort of license).
If your lawyer agrees with their lawyers, you might have found an awful lawyer! He/she could probably be disbarred for not working for their client to the best of their ability (the lawyer oath and whatnot)...
You can't just throw money at a programming project to make it be done faster; videogames will still take just as long (if not longer in some cases) to complete as they always do. No amount of money can make a game be finished faster. I'd rather a game be delayed a few months and end up great than see it be released too early and require patches and still be buggy as hell *coughBattlefield2cough*...
Strigi is a fast and good search program, and it will be part of KDE 4 (it's still desktop-neutral, however). There's also Beagle which supports more file formats and whatnot, but it requires mono (C#) to run and is a bit of a resource hog.
I think that's more because of the fact that each kernel update usually has a slightly different ABI (but the same API), so the driver isn't binary compatible anymore. This is an annoying problem with video drivers when you want to stay up to date with the proprietary ones from NVidia for example.
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Uh, they also have to follow their corporate tenants or whatever they're called, and that includes "[making] money without doing evil". If you look around on their investor website, I'm sure you can find that phrase (or another "do no evil" phrase of some sort) in one of their guidelines that they need to follow.
Of course, IANAL, yadda yadda.
It might help G-Mail's reputation if it were easier to get information about it. Searching for "G-mail" on pretty much any search engine ignores the dash, so you get mostly Gooogle-related results. Wikipedia redirects both "G-Mail" and "G-mail" to "Gmail", so once again...
I'm sure they're not getting any responses, though!
"Ubuntu Feisty Fawn" is a developer internal name (similar to how Vista used to be called "Longhorn", for instance); the proper release name is "Ubuntu 7.04", and should be referred to as that in any situation not regarding the development of it (or by fans of goofy names). Besides, people only think Microsoft's software names aren't goofy because they've been around for a decade or two. What the hell does a window have to do with an operating system? And what the fuck is an "excel" (yes, the noun, not the verb which has actual meaning)? Why is "Internet Explorer" only limited to the World Wide Web and not the whole internet? Why do I go to the Start menu to shutdown? Why do I "sign in" to my system when everyone else says "log in"? etc.
You do know that Broadcom makes shitty quality, cheap hardware with drivers almost as bad as ATI's, right? I doubt they even know how their own hardware works hence the lack of documentation for it in any other operating system.
Or saved some money and frustration by switching him to a user-friendly operating system like Ubuntu. I think he made a good choice...
Where I come from, we usually called it the ePenis. Also, it was common for the ePenis-wavers to have a .sig of something like "ePenis++".
I'm speaking of Madden. I play the new versions (usually once every other new version), and they don't seem to improve a lot anymore. Hell, the next-gen graphics they promised still look the same as on Xbox. I like EA Big or whatever it is that makes games like SSX, but they're a lot more "out there" than your typical official game with licensed shit out the wazoo.
Pay of your credit card debts with more credit cards perhaps? I used to think this was a killer idea... when I was like 9.
They're all GTK+, but in different programming languages.
The fact that they are injecting even more advertising in their games comes as no surprise. Hell, if Microsoft Games started making their published games support ads, that would be surprising. Even more so if Nintendo started doing it. EA is just like that...
I hear people prefer to be called "people" instead of referred to as some faceless group of fucktards (i.e., consumers).
I doubt the Democrats will do anything useful either. Sure, if the DoJ is fixed again with lawyers who have experience in the field (e.g., the lawyers Bush fired that were prosecuting Microsoft in the first place), it's possible that Microsoft might get more than a slap on the wrist if antitrust charges are brought against them again. However, the individual people behind the party are far more important than the party itself, especially with Democrats (the neocons that took over the Republican party are all the same, but not all Republicans are neocons; see Ron Paul for example).
It might be more useful to "spam" your congressmen and other representatives (including state ones; a state can sue Microsoft just as easily as the feds can) with letters, phone calls, personal meetings, etc., regarding the abuses of Microsoft.
Microsoft could just fully document their old formats, and those documents could remain in those formats with full compatibility in other applications (other than the original program used to write the document). Hell, they could fully document the new format, but instead they say, "refer to Word version x", where x is an undocumented, proprietary format.
Also, Microsoft could provide conversion programs that convert your old documents into the current standard (whether it be ODF or a version of OOXML without all the cruft).
Another thing they could have done is make OOXML a bit more of a modular standard (especially since they're using XML) and allow full standards compliance with applications that don't implement the backwards-compatibility cruft.
And regarding patents, instead of some unenforceable "covenant not to sue", they could explicitly give up all related patents or even license the OOXML specs under some sort of GPL3-like license where they are giving away their related patents to all uses of said standard.
Instead of all the logical approaches, they've decided it would be better to just pipe their old OLE format to an XML format with little to no changes and document it. Problem is, they left the cruft intact and didn't fully document the format. Hell, there's also the issue with patents, but if all they wanted to do was crush the ODF standard, they didn't really need to release their patents for it.
Maybe they should have consulted with their legal department before using LGPL'd code in an infringing manner in the first place? Just a thought...
So, uh, what's the point of this? It even has the obnoxious advertising-clause that makes it incompatible with several widely-used licenses out there (defeating the purpose of making a developers-are-free sort of license).
Their employees? Just a guess...
If your lawyer agrees with their lawyers, you might have found an awful lawyer! He/she could probably be disbarred for not working for their client to the best of their ability (the lawyer oath and whatnot)...
You can't just throw money at a programming project to make it be done faster; videogames will still take just as long (if not longer in some cases) to complete as they always do. No amount of money can make a game be finished faster. I'd rather a game be delayed a few months and end up great than see it be released too early and require patches and still be buggy as hell *coughBattlefield2cough*...
Ugly fonts my ass; get an LCD screen already and get with the times! Subpixel rendering is great.
Strigi is a fast and good search program, and it will be part of KDE 4 (it's still desktop-neutral, however). There's also Beagle which supports more file formats and whatnot, but it requires mono (C#) to run and is a bit of a resource hog.
I think that's more because of the fact that each kernel update usually has a slightly different ABI (but the same API), so the driver isn't binary compatible anymore. This is an annoying problem with video drivers when you want to stay up to date with the proprietary ones from NVidia for example.
I think he means digital as in discrete while analog is continuous. You know, the mathematical definition. :)
They could just use Icecast from Xiph (the same people who develop the standards for Ogg, Vorbis, Theora, FLAC, XSPF, etc.) I believe.