I'm really glad that EA is doing something about this. I was afraid that EA would make some kind of stupid claim about "we don't really support NAT" or something stupid like that. What I don't understand is why EA insisted on running their own servers. How much money are they saving? And is it worth the bad rap they got because of Burnout 3?
Those bootloaders depend on real mode only because that's how the BIOS works today! All that needs to happen is for the BIOS to provide a protected-mode interface that replaces INT 13h, and the bootloaders need to be updated to use it.
The BIOS developers have all the power already. There are only a few companies out there that have BIOS development teams, and if they just got together and spec'd out a new bootloader interface, the problem would go away in a few years.
I haven't read the article, but the reason for 8086 compatibility is for DOS, not BIOS. There's nothing preventing a vendor from producing a PC with a BIOS that doesn't support DOS. That will eliminate the 16-bit interfaces, all the real-mode crap, and tons of PCI code.
Vendors like Dell see the BIOS as a necessary evil. They pay BIOS developers big bucks to keep updating the BIOS for new motherboards. Occasionally, a new feature creeps in like USB keyboard or bootable CD support. To rip out all that legacy code (which no one has touched 15 years) would be a development and testing nightmare.
Of course, switching to Open Firmware would make more sense, but we'll never see that happen.
Which means rather then targeting just the battle ground states they'd have to run the full 50 which will make it virtually impossible for a third party candiate to really compete on a national level.
How can things get worse for third-party candidates? Right now, no third-party candidate has a chance of even getting one electoral college vote. If we had a voting system that more closely mirrored the popular vote (either by eliminating the EC or making each state's EC vote match the popular vote), then third-party candidates would at least get something.
Unless you live in a swing state, your vote probably much doesn't count. Almost every state is a "winner-take-all" state - the state as a whole votes as if everyone voted for the winner.
Take Texas, for example. It's obvious most Texans are going to vote for Bush, so Bush will receive ALL of Texas's electoral votes. So no one who doesn't like Bush has to worry about "wasting" his vote.
In these situations, voting for a third-party is actually the only reasonable course of action, unless you really love Bush or Kerry, or you really believe in the two-party system. The reason is that as third-party candidates get federal support as they get more votes. Breaking the 5% boundary is a huge deal.
I don't believe it. Politicians will do what they're forced to do. If the law requires them to find a judge whom both sides approve, then they WILL find someone like that. Right now, they know they don't need to find someone like that, so they intentionally find people that will conform to their adgenda, but not be so offensive that they can't convince a few of the other side to play along.
Advertising is not money, it is speech. The fact that most people have to pay to have their ad printed or broadcast is irrelevant. If I print my own newspaper and distribute it myself, that still costs me money. A newspaper printing my ad is just a middleman.
Very simple - programming a VCR can be done by anyone who can follow directions. People who are not intelligent cannot follow directions. Therefore, the inabililty to not program a VCR is a sign of low intelligence.
Granted, most people choose not to program their VCR because they don't think it's worth the effort. But we're not talking about those people. We're talking about people who honestly can't figure out how to program a VCR.
This is one of those cases where justifying "abandonware" sites becomes much more difficult.
On the contrary! The reason why these games are still popular is because of the abandonware sites. These sites kept the market alive, and now the companies see that there is still a demand. If these sites had never existed, the games would truly be dead, and the companies would see no reason to bring them back.
So you see, the companies should be thanking the abandonware sites.
I think it's a shame you vote that way, because I belive this mentality is the #1 reason why our political landscape is as messed up as it is. Political parties have too much power, and therefore seriously hamper any hope at a real change in our government. I'd love to vote for a Republican, but I'm waiting for one who really acts like a Republican (e.g. better fiscal responsibility) and isn't a Jesus freak.
What a ridiculous question. My problem is with the current members of the Bush family who are or were running for office. Barbara Bush, Jr. is not running for office, so my earlier statement is not in error. If she were to run for office, and I agreed with her principles (remember, I said I'd vote for McCain, so I'm not a Green party advocate), then I'd vote for her.
You are over-generalizing my statement. You inferred that I had a problem with the Bush family per se. That is not what I implied.
Of course, this whole thing assumes that any Bush family member running for office will ever be anything but a warmongering Jesus freak.
I wish the Republican part were the "party of McCain". It feels more like the party of Jerry Falwell to me. I'd vote for McCain in a heartbeat, but never for anyone in the Bush family.
I admit that I'm no GPL scholar, but I don't see how your post denies what I said. The previous poster said that since you couldn't build the binary, it was in violation of the GPL. I countered by saying that even Linux distros can't be built exactly from the provided source code.
Are you expected to be able to generate a byte-for-byte exact duplicate of the distributed binary directly from the distributed source, without any changes or additional files? If so, then every Linux distribution is in violation. So perhaps you're suggesting a more relax rule? If so, then where do you draw the line?
Also, your highlighted passages talk only about the source code. Well, I don't consider the makefiles and build scripts to be part of the source code.
Not relevant. I have never been able to recreate a Linux kernel exactly from the supplied source code. The file sizes aren't even the same. When I build my own kernel using the configuration file supplied by the vendor, the result is close but not exactly what was installed from the CD.
Can't you modify your console to remap the keys. There's probably a key that's easier to press than ~ on your blueberry, but the console will remap that to ~. Am I making any sense?
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Well, sure. He forgot to eat plain yogurt while listening to it.
Everything Lucas does makes a lot more sense once you accept the fact that he's an asshole.
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I'm really glad that EA is doing something about this. I was afraid that EA would make some kind of stupid claim about "we don't really support NAT" or something stupid like that. What I don't understand is why EA insisted on running their own servers. How much money are they saving? And is it worth the bad rap they got because of Burnout 3?
The BIOS developers have all the power already. There are only a few companies out there that have BIOS development teams, and if they just got together and spec'd out a new bootloader interface, the problem would go away in a few years.
Vendors like Dell see the BIOS as a necessary evil. They pay BIOS developers big bucks to keep updating the BIOS for new motherboards. Occasionally, a new feature creeps in like USB keyboard or bootable CD support. To rip out all that legacy code (which no one has touched 15 years) would be a development and testing nightmare.
Of course, switching to Open Firmware would make more sense, but we'll never see that happen.
Wow, you're smart!
How can things get worse for third-party candidates? Right now, no third-party candidate has a chance of even getting one electoral college vote. If we had a voting system that more closely mirrored the popular vote (either by eliminating the EC or making each state's EC vote match the popular vote), then third-party candidates would at least get something.
I'd like to know the answer to that also. In some cases, the only reason why entire towns haven't died from cancer is because of the EPA.
Take Texas, for example. It's obvious most Texans are going to vote for Bush, so Bush will receive ALL of Texas's electoral votes. So no one who doesn't like Bush has to worry about "wasting" his vote.
In these situations, voting for a third-party is actually the only reasonable course of action, unless you really love Bush or Kerry, or you really believe in the two-party system. The reason is that as third-party candidates get federal support as they get more votes. Breaking the 5% boundary is a huge deal.
I don't believe it. Politicians will do what they're forced to do. If the law requires them to find a judge whom both sides approve, then they WILL find someone like that. Right now, they know they don't need to find someone like that, so they intentionally find people that will conform to their adgenda, but not be so offensive that they can't convince a few of the other side to play along.
Advertising is not money, it is speech. The fact that most people have to pay to have their ad printed or broadcast is irrelevant. If I print my own newspaper and distribute it myself, that still costs me money. A newspaper printing my ad is just a middleman.
Granted, most people choose not to program their VCR because they don't think it's worth the effort. But we're not talking about those people. We're talking about people who honestly can't figure out how to program a VCR.
On the contrary! The reason why these games are still popular is because of the abandonware sites. These sites kept the market alive, and now the companies see that there is still a demand. If these sites had never existed, the games would truly be dead, and the companies would see no reason to bring them back.
So you see, the companies should be thanking the abandonware sites.
I think it's a shame you vote that way, because I belive this mentality is the #1 reason why our political landscape is as messed up as it is. Political parties have too much power, and therefore seriously hamper any hope at a real change in our government. I'd love to vote for a Republican, but I'm waiting for one who really acts like a Republican (e.g. better fiscal responsibility) and isn't a Jesus freak.
You are over-generalizing my statement. You inferred that I had a problem with the Bush family per se. That is not what I implied.
Of course, this whole thing assumes that any Bush family member running for office will ever be anything but a warmongering Jesus freak.
I wish the Republican part were the "party of McCain". It feels more like the party of Jerry Falwell to me. I'd vote for McCain in a heartbeat, but never for anyone in the Bush family.
Are you expected to be able to generate a byte-for-byte exact duplicate of the distributed binary directly from the distributed source, without any changes or additional files? If so, then every Linux distribution is in violation. So perhaps you're suggesting a more relax rule? If so, then where do you draw the line?
Also, your highlighted passages talk only about the source code. Well, I don't consider the makefiles and build scripts to be part of the source code.
Not relevant. I have never been able to recreate a Linux kernel exactly from the supplied source code. The file sizes aren't even the same. When I build my own kernel using the configuration file supplied by the vendor, the result is close but not exactly what was installed from the CD.
Can't you modify your console to remap the keys. There's probably a key that's easier to press than ~ on your blueberry, but the console will remap that to ~. Am I making any sense?
That's what I was thinking. I wasn't intending to be funny. I was very serious. Oh well.
So be it.
Are you talking about this?
Last time I checked, the religious right didn't have any feelings for anyone else, only for themselves.
I need to remember that one.