Dr. Davis ran two tests, Comparator and Sim. He didn't find any matches worth the effort of applying the Filtration portion of the test with either tool. Those were the two most sophisticated tools that he could examine the source-code for. He made a point of that and may well have thoroughly analyzed it, and his assistant did in fact dig deeply enough into one of them to optimize it for larger amounts of data.
Go rent Prince of Persia. I had both from Gamefly at the same time and I was struck by similarities. The PoP developers have definitely played Ico. It could be called an homage. If only this team had done Enter the Matrix...
The PoP guys had the advantage of more PS2 experience and a larger art department. They had more animators for one thing.
The graphics in PoP are very good. If Wanda and the Colossus (incidentally, that's an unofficial translation of the Japanese title) can do as well, they'll have a beautiful game. Ico needed only a little antialiasing; they did things with light and shadow that really only PoP and Splinter Cell have approached.
But still, this looks amazing. The screenshots are from a movie made in the Ico engine, so if they just work on the anti-aliasing they already have a beautiful and moody engine in hand.
The story is of a boy (no horns) on a quest to awaken a girl. No details on the relationship are given. The player roams a vast lonely plain with only his trusty horse for companionship. Some of the enemies are huge and need to be climbed on; the gameplay for this will involve some maze-like elements and platforming elements to find a path up to the monster's weak point.
And there's some sort of colossus involved.
I'd say the outlook is for another critically acclaimed game that should sell pretty well based on Ico'sword of mouth.
He says he didn't find any possible matches, so he didn't have to apply the filtration test at all. It sounds like SCO technically "just made shit up" when they submitted the list of allegedly infringing files that Dr. Davis analyzed.
Remember, Dr. Davis compared the 27,000 lines claimed as infringing against 68 million lines of System V code (in various revisions) and found 15 possible matches, which were things like the 3-line endif;return;} example given in the declaration.
IBM has pressed the 'smite' button. They have as expert witnesses the man who testified in both of the 10th Circuit's controlling software copyright cases (Altai and Gates Rubber - from which the Abstraction, Comparison, Filtration test was developed - and they also have Brian Kernighan. These people wrote the books on their subjects.
And Dr. Davis is being used to refute the testimony of a man who initially identified himself only as an "employee". Admittedly, Gupta was later identified as SCO's VP of Software Engineering. It's still overkill. Not that that's a bad thing.
A furious light sabre duel is under way. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER toward the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke
looks round, but realizes there's nowhere to go but straight down.
DARTH VADER: "Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father."
LUKE: "He told me enough! He told me you killed him!"
DARTH VADER: "No! I am your father!"
LUKE: "No, that's not true! That's impossible."
DARTH VADER: "Search your feelings; you know it to be true."
LUKE: "NO!"
DARTH VADER: "Yes, it is true and you know what else? You know that queer brass droid of yours?"
LUKE: "Threepio?"
DARTH VADER: "Yes, Threepio, I built him when I was 7 years old."
LUKE: "No."
DARTH VADER: "Seven years old! And what have you done? Look at yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn't even levitate your own ship
out of the swamp."
LUKE: "I destroyed your precious Death Star!"
DARTH VADER: "When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!"
LUKE: "Well, it's not my fault."
DARTH VADER: "Oh, here we go. 'Poor me, my father never gave me what I
wanted for my birthday, boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark Lord of the Sith...waahhh wahhh!' You make me sick."
LUKE: "Shut up!"
DARTH VADER: "You're a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had exterminated the Jedi Knights!"
LUKE: "I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon!"
DARTH VADER: "Oh, for the love of God, 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open. Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer, right here baby!"
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step toward it.
DARTH VADER: "I was wrong. You're not my kid. I don't know whose you are, but you sure ain't mine. Get out of my sight, you loser!"
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft. Darth Vader looks after him.
Actually, VirtualPC comes with an OEM copy of Windows - hologram and all - so Mac users have been paying MS for licenses. And they were probably charging Connectix more than, say, Dell for those OEM copies. Not a bad deal for Microsoft.
The Connectix purchase was probably for the engineering team.
You're damn right they do this. And some systems (Macs) are *very* finicky about their RAM. An 'underclocked' DIMM may technically meet the electrical specifications for what they're selling it as, but still not meet the system's standards.
I've only found one manufacturer to never sell me an underclocked chip: Kensington. Of course, I suspect they sell their underclocked chips to other vendors as an OEM, but I can still trust the Kingston label. Others may be as good, but I haven't tried 'em all and Kingston has been reliable for 5 years.
As a Mac user I've suspected it for years.
There's a previously uncataloged meme on Slashdot, and it's spreading. It's the $300 PC meme.
New iMac ? $300 PC
Computer for the kids ? $300 PC
No Linux games ? $300 PC
New tablet computer ? You guessed it...
Frank Stallone !
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Actually yes, there are. World of Warcraft has Mac and PC clients as of at least the stress-test beta. I've played the same character from both platforms, so it seems to be true multi-platform - the combined installer was also a good clue.
Those are very good points, however I do need to quibble with the bit about Macs not having in-the-wild viruses. There are no known viruses targeting an Apple OS in the wild. However, the are an awful lot of Word/Excel macro viruses still in the wild, that Mac Office (98, 2001, X, 2004) will execute. Without Outlook, and with a different interprocess scripting architecture, Macs can't do real harm, but every.doc/.xls file you handle on a Mac is a virus vector.
The 'last word' on Vietnam, fo me, is a bumpersticker reading "Vietnam: We were winning when I left". I saw that and decided to just STFU on the topic henceforth.
McCain is telling the press pretty much the same thing: Get Over It, We Have a War On NOW.
France and England both failed to take any steps, even so much as a public statement, against Hitler when he was rearming Germany. England was doing a bad enough job that one could make a case that the Franch weren't expecting any support. But that situation puts the burden on France to develop an effective defence. The Naval Agreement between Britain and Germany in, oh, 1935-ish formalized a breach of the Versailles Treaty. The 1930s saw some crass stupidity in European geopolitics, which goes a long way towards explaining why the was a true Coalition against Hussein in 1991 - agressors must be stopped dead at their first move. Half-measures and appeasement get millions of people killed.
Churchill became 1st Lord of the Admiralty on September 5th, a few days after the start of the war. He didn't become Prime Minister until the 10th of May, after the debacle in Norway. He spent his pre-war Parliamentary career crying for armaments against Germany.
And the French were never ready to fight the Germans on their own. An antiquated force structure with inadequate air support and poorly deployed armor defending a fortress system with its left flank hanging in the air on the Belgian plain is a recipie for disaster.
I'll recommend Churchill's own words on the subject. Volume one of his History of the Second World War: The Gathering Storm is a very good account of 1919-1940 from his point of view - note this last carefully, but the record backs his account. The full 6-volume history is recommended reading on the war as a personal account at the highest levels. It's also an excellent example of rhetorical writing in the classic sense. Churchill made his living as a writer after all.
Is that the optical Intellimouse without the collar around where the cable enters the body of the mouse ? If so, you had the USB cable frayed. Microsoft *will* replace the mosue for free - including shipping - because it's a manufacturing defect. Actually, it's a design defect. Note that every other mouse in the world has some sort of collar around the cable where it enters the mouse. This one doesn't. If memory serves, it's actually HP's mistake, they make the Intellimouse for Microsoft.
If that isn't our mouse, then you have another problem.
Well, you're definitely in the "Other" category of Office users. You use the heck out of one component and ignore the others. And I've long considered that Excel was the best of the package, Word still isn't as well-made as Ami Pro was 12 years ago and Powerpoint is a fucking joke - always has been, always will be.
Keynote 2 needs to happen no later than MacWorld in January. I haven't heard a whisper. It's a damn sham., it's so much cleaner than Powerpoint ever dreamed of being. A lot of it comes from a massive infusion of Cocoa/Quartz/Aqua goodness, but all of those APIs are open to any developer that wants to use them - fairly well documented on the web too (check out Omni Group's stuff). We may yet roll out another half-dozen seats at the agency. And no, PowerPoint '04 is an improvement but it's still not up to snuff.
For a real dream, imagine Visio implemented as a total Cocoa app.
Mmmm.... I think you'll want to leave the Firewire connector on. The potential utility of a tablet-camcorder combo is just too powerful to ignore for the professional market; substitute any media device with a 1394 port for 'camcorder'". And Apple *will* make it so you can connect an iPod to the tablet, and they aren't likely to use USB2.0 for *that*
Agreed. My first reaction to the Matrix MMO was "cool ! can I be the operator ? No ? Awww..." Still, a three-faction setup is a good, basic starting point for an MMO. EVE went with five races and innumerable factions, guaranteeing chaos. I'm going to give MatrixOnline a shot, but I'm also ready to bail at the first sign of general suckage, random nerfing, features on the box being introduced in patches, or factions filled with tools.
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Dr. Davis ran two tests, Comparator and Sim. He didn't find any matches worth the effort of applying the Filtration portion of the test with either tool. Those were the two most sophisticated tools that he could examine the source-code for. He made a point of that and may well have thoroughly analyzed it, and his assistant did in fact dig deeply enough into one of them to optimize it for larger amounts of data.
I'd say he did his due diligence.
Go rent Prince of Persia. I had both from Gamefly at the same time and I was struck by similarities. The PoP developers have definitely played Ico. It could be called an homage. If only this team had done Enter the Matrix...
The PoP guys had the advantage of more PS2 experience and a larger art department. They had more animators for one thing.
The graphics in PoP are very good. If Wanda and the Colossus (incidentally, that's an unofficial translation of the Japanese title) can do as well, they'll have a beautiful game. Ico needed only a little antialiasing; they did things with light and shadow that really only PoP and Splinter Cell have approached.
OMFG !!! This teh R0KZ !!!
Wait...
Ok, I feel better now.
But still, this looks amazing. The screenshots are from a movie made in the Ico engine, so if they just work on the anti-aliasing they already have a beautiful and moody engine in hand.
The story is of a boy (no horns) on a quest to awaken a girl. No details on the relationship are given. The player roams a vast lonely plain with only his trusty horse for companionship. Some of the enemies are huge and need to be climbed on; the gameplay for this will involve some maze-like elements and platforming elements to find a path up to the monster's weak point.
And there's some sort of colossus involved.
I'd say the outlook is for another critically acclaimed game that should sell pretty well based on Ico's word of mouth.
He says he didn't find any possible matches, so he didn't have to apply the filtration test at all. It sounds like SCO technically "just made shit up" when they submitted the list of allegedly infringing files that Dr. Davis analyzed.
Remember, Dr. Davis compared the 27,000 lines claimed as infringing against 68 million lines of System V code (in various revisions) and found 15 possible matches, which were things like the 3-line endif;return;} example given in the declaration.
IBM has pressed the 'smite' button. They have as expert witnesses the man who testified in both of the 10th Circuit's controlling software copyright cases (Altai and Gates Rubber - from which the Abstraction, Comparison, Filtration test was developed - and they also have Brian Kernighan. These people wrote the books on their subjects.
And Dr. Davis is being used to refute the testimony of a man who initially identified himself only as an "employee". Admittedly, Gupta was later identified as SCO's VP of Software Engineering. It's still overkill. Not that that's a bad thing.
Ok, if we're going to go there...
A furious light sabre duel is under way. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER toward the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke
looks round, but realizes there's nowhere to go but straight down.
DARTH VADER: "Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father."
LUKE: "He told me enough! He told me you killed him!"
DARTH VADER: "No! I am your father!"
LUKE: "No, that's not true! That's impossible."
DARTH VADER: "Search your feelings; you know it to be true."
LUKE: "NO!"
DARTH VADER: "Yes, it is true and you know what else? You know that queer brass droid of yours?"
LUKE: "Threepio?"
DARTH VADER: "Yes, Threepio, I built him when I was 7 years old."
LUKE: "No."
DARTH VADER: "Seven years old! And what have you done? Look at yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn't even levitate your own ship
out of the swamp."
LUKE: "I destroyed your precious Death Star!"
DARTH VADER: "When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!"
LUKE: "Well, it's not my fault."
DARTH VADER: "Oh, here we go. 'Poor me, my father never gave me what I
wanted for my birthday, boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark Lord of the Sith...waahhh wahhh!' You make me sick."
LUKE: "Shut up!"
DARTH VADER: "You're a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had exterminated the Jedi Knights!"
LUKE: "I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon!"
DARTH VADER: "Oh, for the love of God, 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open. Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer, right here baby!"
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step toward it.
DARTH VADER: "I was wrong. You're not my kid. I don't know whose you are, but you sure ain't mine. Get out of my sight, you loser!"
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft. Darth Vader looks after him.
DARTH VADER: "AND GET A HAIRCUT!"
It's certainly grounds for divorce...
Actually, VirtualPC comes with an OEM copy of Windows - hologram and all - so Mac users have been paying MS for licenses. And they were probably charging Connectix more than, say, Dell for those OEM copies. Not a bad deal for Microsoft.
The Connectix purchase was probably for the engineering team.
You're damn right they do this. And some systems (Macs) are *very* finicky about their RAM. An 'underclocked' DIMM may technically meet the electrical specifications for what they're selling it as, but still not meet the system's standards.
I've only found one manufacturer to never sell me an underclocked chip: Kensington. Of course, I suspect they sell their underclocked chips to other vendors as an OEM, but I can still trust the Kingston label. Others may be as good, but I haven't tried 'em all and Kingston has been reliable for 5 years.
yeah, but then you also miss posts by such dedicated anonymous posters as Quatermass. His analyses make GL worth reading with anonymous = 1.
As a Mac user I've suspected it for years. There's a previously uncataloged meme on Slashdot, and it's spreading. It's the $300 PC meme. New iMac ? $300 PC Computer for the kids ? $300 PC No Linux games ? $300 PC New tablet computer ? You guessed it... Frank Stallone !
Actually yes, there are. World of Warcraft has Mac and PC clients as of at least the stress-test beta. I've played the same character from both platforms, so it seems to be true multi-platform - the combined installer was also a good clue.
It's also officially awesome.
Those are very good points, however I do need to quibble with the bit about Macs not having in-the-wild viruses. There are no known viruses targeting an Apple OS in the wild. However, the are an awful lot of Word/Excel macro viruses still in the wild, that Mac Office (98, 2001, X, 2004) will execute. Without Outlook, and with a different interprocess scripting architecture, Macs can't do real harm, but every .doc/.xls file you handle on a Mac is a virus vector.
I don't think I'll ever get the image of a pink G5 iMac out of my head.
It would make pr0n much too disturbing.
Yeah, but those same people would also have killed for a double latte before first period, so don't draw too many conclusions.
The 'last word' on Vietnam, fo me, is a bumpersticker reading "Vietnam: We were winning when I left". I saw that and decided to just STFU on the topic henceforth.
McCain is telling the press pretty much the same thing: Get Over It, We Have a War On NOW.
Ummm. No.
France and England both failed to take any steps, even so much as a public statement, against Hitler when he was rearming Germany. England was doing a bad enough job that one could make a case that the Franch weren't expecting any support. But that situation puts the burden on France to develop an effective defence. The Naval Agreement between Britain and Germany in, oh, 1935-ish formalized a breach of the Versailles Treaty. The 1930s saw some crass stupidity in European geopolitics, which goes a long way towards explaining why the was a true Coalition against Hussein in 1991 - agressors must be stopped dead at their first move. Half-measures and appeasement get millions of people killed.
Churchill became 1st Lord of the Admiralty on September 5th, a few days after the start of the war. He didn't become Prime Minister until the 10th of May, after the debacle in Norway. He spent his pre-war Parliamentary career crying for armaments against Germany.
And the French were never ready to fight the Germans on their own. An antiquated force structure with inadequate air support and poorly deployed armor defending a fortress system with its left flank hanging in the air on the Belgian plain is a recipie for disaster.
I'll recommend Churchill's own words on the subject. Volume one of his History of the Second World War: The Gathering Storm is a very good account of 1919-1940 from his point of view - note this last carefully, but the record backs his account. The full 6-volume history is recommended reading on the war as a personal account at the highest levels. It's also an excellent example of rhetorical writing in the classic sense. Churchill made his living as a writer after all.
That was France 1.0, the Monarchy Edition. We're up to 5.0 now (4th Republic) and QA has really been laying down on the job of late.
Too late for that. The message would have had to leave before the supernova, so it would have already passed us.
We'd have to go FTL a loooong way to look for any signal.
For a cut, I'll tell you which junior high school he goes to :-)
Checking that link, all I see is a wireless mouse. Of course, it doesn't have a cable collar.
Is that the optical Intellimouse without the collar around where the cable enters the body of the mouse ? If so, you had the USB cable frayed. Microsoft *will* replace the mosue for free - including shipping - because it's a manufacturing defect. Actually, it's a design defect. Note that every other mouse in the world has some sort of collar around the cable where it enters the mouse. This one doesn't. If memory serves, it's actually HP's mistake, they make the Intellimouse for Microsoft.
If that isn't our mouse, then you have another problem.
Well, you're definitely in the "Other" category of Office users. You use the heck out of one component and ignore the others. And I've long considered that Excel was the best of the package, Word still isn't as well-made as Ami Pro was 12 years ago and Powerpoint is a fucking joke - always has been, always will be.
Keynote 2 needs to happen no later than MacWorld in January. I haven't heard a whisper. It's a damn sham., it's so much cleaner than Powerpoint ever dreamed of being. A lot of it comes from a massive infusion of Cocoa/Quartz/Aqua goodness, but all of those APIs are open to any developer that wants to use them - fairly well documented on the web too (check out Omni Group's stuff). We may yet roll out another half-dozen seats at the agency. And no, PowerPoint '04 is an improvement but it's still not up to snuff.
For a real dream, imagine Visio implemented as a total Cocoa app.
Mmmm.... I think you'll want to leave the Firewire connector on. The potential utility of a tablet-camcorder combo is just too powerful to ignore for the professional market; substitute any media device with a 1394 port for 'camcorder'". And Apple *will* make it so you can connect an iPod to the tablet, and they aren't likely to use USB2.0 for *that*
Otherwise, nice product summary.
s/summary/wishlist.
Close. You're thinking of "Where in Blazes in Carmen San Diego". But you're spot on with the Dante volume included. In Latin.
Agreed. My first reaction to the Matrix MMO was "cool ! can I be the operator ? No ? Awww..." Still, a three-faction setup is a good, basic starting point for an MMO. EVE went with five races and innumerable factions, guaranteeing chaos. I'm going to give MatrixOnline a shot, but I'm also ready to bail at the first sign of general suckage, random nerfing, features on the box being introduced in patches, or factions filled with tools.