How do you explain how TrollTech makes money with a GPL'd program (Qt and its official frameworks)? Or how CodeWeavers makes money off of CrossOver Office when WINE is Free in both ways? Or how RedHat makes money off of providing a Linux distro + support when there is Fedora Core, their fully Free distro of RedHat?
Old business models die hard, and the new methods are proving to be a success. Even Novell, IBM, Apple, Sun, and others are benefitting financially from Free software.
Upon closer inspection, I'd have to say that at least 75% of ZSNES is in Assembly while the rest is in C. The opposite for SNES9x, but with C++ instead of C.
ZSNES is mainly in x86 Assembly so that it runs fast. SNES9x is written primarily in C++ with a few parts in Assembly that has been ported to a few different architectures.
No free (gratis) software should be proprietary; that's just a general rule! If you're giving your software away free of charge, people generally would like to contribute back whether it be in donations, patches, QA, etc. With a closed-source model, you're blocking off the useful traffic of free bugfixes! If your software is useful in the corporate world, it's also likely that some companies will contribute back if they tinker around with it enough.
I'm also going to go out on a limb here and point out that many DVDs with horribly messed up DRM aren't even worth copying or watching more than once. Many movie rentals are just that because the consumer only wants to view it once. If the consumer enjoys the movie, then he or she will buy the movie. We're not criminals, yet the **AA assumes so.
Go to "about:config", search for "dom.", and you can adjust the settings for the "dom.allow_*" and "dom.disable_*" entries to fully customise a bunch of annoying JavaScript "features".
Good corporate environments usually deploy a private Jabber server or Novell's Groupwise IM thinger. There is no way in hell I'd allow shit like AIM or MSN become our "official" method of private chatting. Services like AIM and MSN are created to be public, and any attempt at making a private version of such is likely flawed and already bested by the offerings of Jabber, Groupwise, etc.
I'd also allow external Jabber conversations, but only because I know that anyone who knew how to do that wouldn't be your typical AOLer...
Yeah; GNOME 2.12 is already far ahead at the "shaving off bloat" to the point where Linus said "fuck it" and switched to KDE. As long as the bloat is optional and configurable, everyone can be happy.
Funny as that might be, we're already talking about how the current mandatory support for MSN custom smilies is both an annoyance and a security hazard (either 2.0.0beta1 or CVS, I forget which version). If the infected WMFs are even cached anywhere and a program like Picasa sniffs it out and uses the win32 GDI library, you still get fucked. Lovely!
We hold these truths to be self-evident – that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Self Pleasure...
Proxies aren't going to help you get porn from Chinese distributors. The native China porn servers are the ones that are getting shut down.
And calling China "communistic" is quite an overstatement; they're radical socialists. If they were based on communism, I'm sure that the market (i.e. people) would not allow for porn to be shut down...
Especially since you guys are finally going to be legally allowed to time shift and transcode media. Now is the time to allow your DVDs to be copied (or transcoded) to your PC for convenient viewing.
Those with updated (don't know from when) libc or equivalent automatically encountered the leap second at midnight. Even if you didn't, you'll still sync back up with an NTP server eventually (I'd hope).
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How do you explain how TrollTech makes money with a GPL'd program (Qt and its official frameworks)? Or how CodeWeavers makes money off of CrossOver Office when WINE is Free in both ways? Or how RedHat makes money off of providing a Linux distro + support when there is Fedora Core, their fully Free distro of RedHat?
Old business models die hard, and the new methods are proving to be a success. Even Novell, IBM, Apple, Sun, and others are benefitting financially from Free software.
Upon closer inspection, I'd have to say that at least 75% of ZSNES is in Assembly while the rest is in C. The opposite for SNES9x, but with C++ instead of C.
ZSNES is mainly in x86 Assembly so that it runs fast. SNES9x is written primarily in C++ with a few parts in Assembly that has been ported to a few different architectures.
No free (gratis) software should be proprietary; that's just a general rule! If you're giving your software away free of charge, people generally would like to contribute back whether it be in donations, patches, QA, etc. With a closed-source model, you're blocking off the useful traffic of free bugfixes! If your software is useful in the corporate world, it's also likely that some companies will contribute back if they tinker around with it enough.
I looked that up, and now I really don't want to see that happen...
I like how Linux comes with built-in support for nearly all hardware you'll ever use. Then how distros of it include other support and ease of use.
The EULA in the back of the manual is generally a "respect our copyright on this work" message that is as unnecessary to include as the "© $year" message on anything.
I'm also going to go out on a limb here and point out that many DVDs with horribly messed up DRM aren't even worth copying or watching more than once. Many movie rentals are just that because the consumer only wants to view it once. If the consumer enjoys the movie, then he or she will buy the movie. We're not criminals, yet the **AA assumes so.
Go to "about:config", search for "dom.", and you can adjust the settings for the "dom.allow_*" and "dom.disable_*" entries to fully customise a bunch of annoying JavaScript "features".
Good corporate environments usually deploy a private Jabber server or Novell's Groupwise IM thinger. There is no way in hell I'd allow shit like AIM or MSN become our "official" method of private chatting. Services like AIM and MSN are created to be public, and any attempt at making a private version of such is likely flawed and already bested by the offerings of Jabber, Groupwise, etc.
I'd also allow external Jabber conversations, but only because I know that anyone who knew how to do that wouldn't be your typical AOLer...
You mean like SELinux? The NSA did primarily develop it after all...
Yeah; GNOME 2.12 is already far ahead at the "shaving off bloat" to the point where Linus said "fuck it" and switched to KDE. As long as the bloat is optional and configurable, everyone can be happy.
Yeah, who would have known that HTML and JavaScript/ECMAScript would have been more portable? Hmm...
It was either libc or perhaps even "Clock", whoever that all-powerful being is.
Funny as that might be, we're already talking about how the current mandatory support for MSN custom smilies is both an annoyance and a security hazard (either 2.0.0beta1 or CVS, I forget which version). If the infected WMFs are even cached anywhere and a program like Picasa sniffs it out and uses the win32 GDI library, you still get fucked. Lovely!
Proxies aren't going to help you get porn from Chinese distributors. The native China porn servers are the ones that are getting shut down.
And calling China "communistic" is quite an overstatement; they're radical socialists. If they were based on communism, I'm sure that the market (i.e. people) would not allow for porn to be shut down...
It'll probably be stored in some random location in the registry or a .ini file. :P
Especially since you guys are finally going to be legally allowed to time shift and transcode media. Now is the time to allow your DVDs to be copied (or transcoded) to your PC for convenient viewing.
But Vista will lock out DVD drives that have a region of 0, and that's the bigger issue at hand...
Those with updated (don't know from when) libc or equivalent automatically encountered the leap second at midnight. Even if you didn't, you'll still sync back up with an NTP server eventually (I'd hope).
Now now, don't confuse budgie pee with American beer; you'll insult the budgies.
I doubt you found out about this year having a leap second the way I did: by seeing it in the libc source code for timezones. :)
Hah, it must run Windows! That explains it.