No, that's not an advantage of webapps, to the degree that you'll do at least as much work to make the fonts and such user-defined in a webapp as you will on a native program, probably even more. If you want user configurable, you probably don't want a webapp in the first place.
Sounds to me like this is a big ol' fat case of you defining 'the person who tries the case' very specifically as being 'the judge' when it's a whole lot more complex than that, just so you can whine about how the judge isn't at fault when that's not what this is even about.
Well yeah, much like there's plenty of evidence that John and James and Abraham and etc existed. Because you see, these are very common names, in fact biblical names have a long history of being common, as do the common jobs the commonly named folk in the bible did. There's no evidence linking a real Jesus being the son of God because the real Carpenter Jesus wasn't the dude in that story book.
Just how much of a problem do you think CPU architecture is?
I've been coding for years. My primary development platform is Linux, which as you know supports dozens of CPU architectures. How many changes do I have to make in order to compile on a differing architecture? Chances are, not a single one. If there is a change that needs to be made it's with the build scripts most of the time, only very rarely does the code itself need to be touched. I can take this same code and compile it on Mac OS X, creating a Universal Binary supporting both PowerPC and x86 at the same time with the same minimal effort. I can install MinGW/MSYS on a Windows box and do the same damn thing there.
It's not a difficult task. You don't even have to give a damn about the differing APIs among them because of the various freely available abstraction libraries. Satisfying the LGPL with regard to a commercial game is as simple as including the tarballs of the LGPL libraries you used on the disc, it's not rocket science. Satisfying many licenses that these libraries fall under is as simple as putting a line in a credits file somewhere. If a game developer chooses not to use cross platform technologies, it's their choice, but that doesn't change the fact of cross platform development being a trivial task.
The first video was a work of art, pure genius. The second video was a lame attempt at reclaiming past fame, it stunk. Both videos have now become so well distributed among the unwashed masses that they are merely annoying when Yet Another Lamer goes crazy and links to them while spewing about how insanely great they are.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarge, you're breaking my heaaaaaaaaaart.
Having googled for "sage", I do indeed see a number of different software programs using the name. None of them are familiar to me, which one is the very well known owner of the name?
If we were talking about zlib, there wouldn't really be a problem - all they would have to do is give visible credit somewhere in the program and documentation. The license for zlib is very permissive like that. However, in the case of libarc, since it's straight GPL that means there is no 'linking' exception. libarc may only be used in software that is also licensed under the GPL.
ICO containing GPL code would lead to everyone who owns a copy of ICO being legally entitled to the full source code. There is a possibility that anyone at all who requests the source code would be legally entitled to it - I've seen many debates on that with no real resolution. Unfortunately, this is likely to settle out of court if it even gets that far at all. I believe the GPL has only came near being tested in court in a case in Germany a while back, with that ending up settled by others means, although I am not sure.
I've wondered about that. We've got telescopes giving us images of things far beyond on our solar system, so why not high resolution imagery of the moon? It would be trivial to solve the debate on whether we actually went to the moon or not if we could look in a telescope and see what we left there. Surely the Hubble occasionally pointed at the moon, are there any images from that? I'd really like to know.
This reminds me of the Great Internet Access Rate Hike.
There was a time when dial-up internet was, fairly consistently, $20 monthly in the USA. After many years of this, one Internet Access Provider (I believe it was AOL, but I may be mistaken) decided that they were going to change the rate from $20 monthly to $21.95 monthly. Less than a year later I received notice from my provider (Prodigy before the SBC buyout) that they were also raising their rate to $21.95 "to stay competitive."
I never did see the logic in that. If all of your competitors are raising their prices, you are not staying competitive by raising your prices as well. It is in fact anti-competitive, rather than offering the market a better value you are gouging them in the same way your competition has decided to. The loser being the consumer, as usual.
What you need to ask is whether World of Warcraft, Quake 4, and Doom 3 use DirectX directly. If you create a game using SDL and OpenGL, it's going to use DirectX on Windows because DirectX is the API for those services on Windows. SDL makes it so you never have to write a line of DirectX code, but internally it's going to use what's available for the platform it's being used on.
To put it simply, those games requiring DirectX has no bearing on whether they are written to use it.
There's a very serious error in your post. You say that Spring took some ideas from Supreme Commander - that is absolutely incorrect. It's the other way around.
Problem being that it is far more complex of a task to upgrade a flash-based iPod. In the hdd-based iPods, the hard drive is a distinct component which is attached by a connector of sorts to the rest of the device. In the flash-based iPods, the flash memory is an integral part of the motherboard.
the natives that Europeans met in America were basically living in the Stone Age
When I think stone age, I think of a rather hairy predecessor of modern man that enjoys complaining about being featured in Geico advertisements. The Native Americans may not have been advanced in a technological sense, but they were far more advanced culturally and far closer to having a symbiotic relationship with nature than any 'modernized' civilization has come anywhere near. To look upon them as being far less advanced than the European settlers simply shows a complete disregard for the world in which we live.
One other thing is that Windows XP Media Center Edition replaced Windows XP Home Edition as the default edition of Windows XP on most OEM PCs, regardless of whether the media center functionality is actually being utilized.
Trackballs were a godsend in comparison to trackpads.
Trackpoints, like the ThinkPad nipples, are also much better.
I just can't understand how trackpads got so popular - they weren't even usable when they started showing up on laptops. I tried using one of the first trackpads for the pre-USB Mac desktops a number of years ago and the damage to my soul still hasn't healed. The trackpad on my recent Dell laptop isn't terrible, but I still plug in a mouse whenever possible.
Released this week you say?
The article I'm referring to was posted a few months ago.
That means this isn't a dupe of that article, since this information didn't exist at that point!
It's worse than just having been possible all along - that's exactly what the QuadCore Power Macintosh G5 did, which was released forever ago by now. I was really hoping this was going to be about a four quad-core CPUs in one rig, now that would truly deserve the title Quad Father.
Dell DOES do this. Although I haven't used a Dell-branded Windows XP CD, their Windows 2000 Pro SP4 CD would only boot on Dell hardware. If you tried it in another machine, it would just say "This CD only works on Dell blah blah" and stop.
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No, that's not an advantage of webapps, to the degree that you'll do at least as much work to make the fonts and such user-defined in a webapp as you will on a native program, probably even more. If you want user configurable, you probably don't want a webapp in the first place.
I've seen an awful lot of 'resisting arrest' as the sole charge in police booking records.
How can you be resisting arrest when you weren't doing anything to be arrested?
Sounds to me like this is a big ol' fat case of you defining 'the person who tries the case' very specifically as being 'the judge' when it's a whole lot more complex than that, just so you can whine about how the judge isn't at fault when that's not what this is even about.
Well yeah, much like there's plenty of evidence that John and James and Abraham and etc existed. Because you see, these are very common names, in fact biblical names have a long history of being common, as do the common jobs the commonly named folk in the bible did. There's no evidence linking a real Jesus being the son of God because the real Carpenter Jesus wasn't the dude in that story book.
If you really want to see the stars get yourself to some place over 5,000 ft in elevation away from light pollution. It can be breathtaking!
And the higher you go, the more breathtaking it is!
Just how much of a problem do you think CPU architecture is?
I've been coding for years. My primary development platform is Linux, which as you know supports dozens of CPU architectures. How many changes do I have to make in order to compile on a differing architecture? Chances are, not a single one. If there is a change that needs to be made it's with the build scripts most of the time, only very rarely does the code itself need to be touched. I can take this same code and compile it on Mac OS X, creating a Universal Binary supporting both PowerPC and x86 at the same time with the same minimal effort. I can install MinGW/MSYS on a Windows box and do the same damn thing there.
It's not a difficult task. You don't even have to give a damn about the differing APIs among them because of the various freely available abstraction libraries. Satisfying the LGPL with regard to a commercial game is as simple as including the tarballs of the LGPL libraries you used on the disc, it's not rocket science. Satisfying many licenses that these libraries fall under is as simple as putting a line in a credits file somewhere. If a game developer chooses not to use cross platform technologies, it's their choice, but that doesn't change the fact of cross platform development being a trivial task.
You are completely off base.
Not real sure, but you might want to ask the users of ISO9660 and UDF on optical media.
You are not correct.
The first video was a work of art, pure genius. The second video was a lame attempt at reclaiming past fame, it stunk. Both videos have now become so well distributed among the unwashed masses that they are merely annoying when Yet Another Lamer goes crazy and links to them while spewing about how insanely great they are.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarge, you're breaking my heaaaaaaaaaart.
Having googled for "sage", I do indeed see a number of different software programs using the name. None of them are familiar to me, which one is the very well known owner of the name?
If we were talking about zlib, there wouldn't really be a problem - all they would have to do is give visible credit somewhere in the program and documentation. The license for zlib is very permissive like that. However, in the case of libarc, since it's straight GPL that means there is no 'linking' exception. libarc may only be used in software that is also licensed under the GPL.
ICO containing GPL code would lead to everyone who owns a copy of ICO being legally entitled to the full source code. There is a possibility that anyone at all who requests the source code would be legally entitled to it - I've seen many debates on that with no real resolution. Unfortunately, this is likely to settle out of court if it even gets that far at all. I believe the GPL has only came near being tested in court in a case in Germany a while back, with that ending up settled by others means, although I am not sure.
I've wondered about that. We've got telescopes giving us images of things far beyond on our solar system, so why not high resolution imagery of the moon? It would be trivial to solve the debate on whether we actually went to the moon or not if we could look in a telescope and see what we left there. Surely the Hubble occasionally pointed at the moon, are there any images from that? I'd really like to know.
This reminds me of the Great Internet Access Rate Hike.
There was a time when dial-up internet was, fairly consistently, $20 monthly in the USA. After many years of this, one Internet Access Provider (I believe it was AOL, but I may be mistaken) decided that they were going to change the rate from $20 monthly to $21.95 monthly. Less than a year later I received notice from my provider (Prodigy before the SBC buyout) that they were also raising their rate to $21.95 "to stay competitive."
I never did see the logic in that. If all of your competitors are raising their prices, you are not staying competitive by raising your prices as well. It is in fact anti-competitive, rather than offering the market a better value you are gouging them in the same way your competition has decided to. The loser being the consumer, as usual.
What you need to ask is whether World of Warcraft, Quake 4, and Doom 3 use DirectX directly. If you create a game using SDL and OpenGL, it's going to use DirectX on Windows because DirectX is the API for those services on Windows. SDL makes it so you never have to write a line of DirectX code, but internally it's going to use what's available for the platform it's being used on.
To put it simply, those games requiring DirectX has no bearing on whether they are written to use it.
There's a very serious error in your post. You say that Spring took some ideas from Supreme Commander - that is absolutely incorrect. It's the other way around.
Problem being that it is far more complex of a task to upgrade a flash-based iPod. In the hdd-based iPods, the hard drive is a distinct component which is attached by a connector of sorts to the rest of the device. In the flash-based iPods, the flash memory is an integral part of the motherboard.
the natives that Europeans met in America were basically living in the Stone Age
When I think stone age, I think of a rather hairy predecessor of modern man that enjoys complaining about being featured in Geico advertisements. The Native Americans may not have been advanced in a technological sense, but they were far more advanced culturally and far closer to having a symbiotic relationship with nature than any 'modernized' civilization has come anywhere near. To look upon them as being far less advanced than the European settlers simply shows a complete disregard for the world in which we live.
Well that explains why those labs take so damn long to get results.
One other thing is that Windows XP Media Center Edition replaced Windows XP Home Edition as the default edition of Windows XP on most OEM PCs, regardless of whether the media center functionality is actually being utilized.
Does this mean I'm old for knowing what a modem is?
...14,400 bits per second out to be enough for anybody.
Trackballs were a godsend in comparison to trackpads.
Trackpoints, like the ThinkPad nipples, are also much better.
I just can't understand how trackpads got so popular - they weren't even usable when they started showing up on laptops. I tried using one of the first trackpads for the pre-USB Mac desktops a number of years ago and the damage to my soul still hasn't healed. The trackpad on my recent Dell laptop isn't terrible, but I still plug in a mouse whenever possible.
Does anyone make laptops with trackballs anymore?
Released this week you say?
The article I'm referring to was posted a few months ago.
That means this isn't a dupe of that article, since this information didn't exist at that point!
The initial discovery was posted before. This article, however, is about how it works. They didn't know what it was meant to do before.
Probably for the same reason that they sold pre-recorded titles on audio cassettes.
It's worse than just having been possible all along - that's exactly what the QuadCore Power Macintosh G5 did, which was released forever ago by now. I was really hoping this was going to be about a four quad-core CPUs in one rig, now that would truly deserve the title Quad Father.
Dell DOES do this. Although I haven't used a Dell-branded Windows XP CD, their Windows 2000 Pro SP4 CD would only boot on Dell hardware. If you tried it in another machine, it would just say "This CD only works on Dell blah blah" and stop.