I'm not sure that was the aim, though. I think that the aim was completely unemcumbered code, usable for whatever intent. Even the LGPL, if it requires them to contribute changes to ODE, isn't unencumbered enough.
* ODE's BSD license allows you to use the source code free of charge in your commercial products.
* ODE gives you more control over your product.
* ODE can be more easily integrated with your own software and tools.
* If you want to create your own physics engine, you can use the pieces of ODE as a reference!
It would appear to me that they're not too hurt people are doing this. In fact, the choice of the BSD license in this case seems pretty well thought out, in line with that one aim of using the software however you so choose.
I can vouch that this does work, but the technical term for this is STEALING. There are filters that can be installed to block certain frequencies on the cable lines, so they can block TV off, yet keep cable Internet running to your house. They just usually refuse to do it, because they can provide set-top boxes that can keep you from getting those channels, rather than having to climb up a pole.
I feel it might take a "special" kind of person to really appreciate a racing game, but that's one genre I can still see a lot of improvement to make, and a lot being made right now in the genre. One cool thing about racing games, especially those like Forza Motorsports, GT4, and others, are that the content will always be there-- year after year, there will be new, exciting cars to include in your racing game.
Not sure where you live. But here Comcast doesn't and in fact can't force you to bundle TV and Internet.
This is true, but they can do you like they did in my market: charge one price for non-cable TV subscribers, and one for those who do subscribe. My connection would have been about $59 US for just cable Internet, now it's $57 for both "limited" cable TV (meaning all local channels, and maybe 3-4 selected cable channels) and a 4Mb/s connection.
I'm still not convinced-- I've never really seen many folks with DVD burner problems. Sure, I've seen them crap out, but only at the same rate I'd seen CDRW drives fail.
About the only way I'd agree with the statement "DVD burners are hell" would be if you applied it universally across computing-- it's all got problems: "computers are hell."
Maybe yours just sucks-- My Optorite 8x +/- (I assume that's not a "real" name brand among name brands) takes anything thta I can throw at it. Like any product, I'm sure it's just a YMMV type of thing.
Wouldn't buying a cheap, used PC defeat the purpose of buying a Mac? You're trying to get away from fooling with that junk, aren't you?
I'm sorry, but buying a Mac, as much as I like them, won't really do anything to help a home user in this situation. The hard drive on a Mac Mini can go out just as easily as on a cheap Dell system.
This is about as accurate (and intelligent) as saying consumers are "forced to pay" for a passenger seat when they buy a car...
Your statement isn't very accurate, either. It would be more akin to being forced to buy a radio when it could and should be an option. There's no reason why your system wouldn't be perfectly usable without Microsoft's media player installed.
Microsoft buries the media player deep inside the OS, purposefully glomming the two together [as Windows Media Center Edition] so that they cannot be extricated.
Media Center Edition isn't Windows with Media Player embedded into it-- it's just a gussied-up version of XP Pro, with a frontend to access the stuff of WMP. You can think of it as taking XP Pro and adding a program designed to make media easier to consume. It's built the exact same way as the other Windows products in all other respects.
how does these INTEL and AMD chips compare to IBM Cell processor (agreed their purpose is different but nevertheless)???
Well, let's see....
They've all got circuitry in them
They all don't work without some type of motherboard to plug them into
The computers designed for each respective processor stop working if you pull the chip out of it.
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I'm not sure that was the aim, though. I think that the aim was completely unemcumbered code, usable for whatever intent. Even the LGPL, if it requires them to contribute changes to ODE, isn't unencumbered enough.
Why is this modded OT? Someone's on crack around here.
http://www.scrollingbuckle.com/
Or, for the homebrewer:
http://engadget.com/entry/6833839062762584/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 9VIEG2/qid=1120829443/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_ur_2/002-3 201513-7268853?v=glance&n=507846
oh... wait... basses are guitars...
goes off to sulk
It would appear to me that they're not too hurt people are doing this. In fact, the choice of the BSD license in this case seems pretty well thought out, in line with that one aim of using the software however you so choose.
Maybe I was cached or something, but now I'm getting that, too. Good thing I downloaded it, already.
Think they'd get irked if somebody seeded a torrent of it?
No they haven't. I just did it now, GoogleEarth.exe is sitting on my Desktop.
WHOOSH! The sound is heard as yet another joke flies over a Slashdotters head!
I can vouch that this does work, but the technical term for this is STEALING. There are filters that can be installed to block certain frequencies on the cable lines, so they can block TV off, yet keep cable Internet running to your house. They just usually refuse to do it, because they can provide set-top boxes that can keep you from getting those channels, rather than having to climb up a pole.
I feel it might take a "special" kind of person to really appreciate a racing game, but that's one genre I can still see a lot of improvement to make, and a lot being made right now in the genre. One cool thing about racing games, especially those like Forza Motorsports, GT4, and others, are that the content will always be there-- year after year, there will be new, exciting cars to include in your racing game.
This is true, but they can do you like they did in my market: charge one price for non-cable TV subscribers, and one for those who do subscribe. My connection would have been about $59 US for just cable Internet, now it's $57 for both "limited" cable TV (meaning all local channels, and maybe 3-4 selected cable channels) and a 4Mb/s connection.
About the only way I'd agree with the statement "DVD burners are hell" would be if you applied it universally across computing-- it's all got problems: "computers are hell."
Maybe yours just sucks-- My Optorite 8x +/- (I assume that's not a "real" name brand among name brands) takes anything thta I can throw at it. Like any product, I'm sure it's just a YMMV type of thing.
I got a cat from a pet store that was neutered... Cost just as much as a non-neutered cat...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/7470/
Not trying to plug ThinkGeek here, but this Crossover adapter turns any straight Ethernet cable into a crossover cable, and it fits on a keychain.
I'm sorry, but buying a Mac, as much as I like them, won't really do anything to help a home user in this situation. The hard drive on a Mac Mini can go out just as easily as on a cheap Dell system.
Some of us 800000'er's smell kind of rare... does that count?
Your statement isn't very accurate, either. It would be more akin to being forced to buy a radio when it could and should be an option. There's no reason why your system wouldn't be perfectly usable without Microsoft's media player installed.
Media Center Edition isn't Windows with Media Player embedded into it-- it's just a gussied-up version of XP Pro, with a frontend to access the stuff of WMP. You can think of it as taking XP Pro and adding a program designed to make media easier to consume. It's built the exact same way as the other Windows products in all other respects.
http://michaelmarco.tripod.com/id17.html
No, you missed the point-- you don't photograph them, you send them your audition photos!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this guy!
IPv8... Isn't that what happens when I drink too much vegetable juice?
Well, let's see....
They've all got circuitry in them
They all don't work without some type of motherboard to plug them into
The computers designed for each respective processor stop working if you pull the chip out of it.
Sounds like they're all pretty similar, yup.