Thus if Microsoft distributes Linux it licenses the patents contained in the code.
Microsoft said in plain english in the press release that they WILL NOT distribute Linux. They will merely recommend it if a customer must have a linux solution in a Microsoft environment.
Also, enforcing a patent against the GPL revokes the license putting MS in very hot water.
Sigh... have you even read what this is all about? Microsoft and Novell came to a patent agreement whereby they will not litigate each other. No patent enforcement. FUD. Go away!!!
He says he didn't even read the terms of the deal - "depends on precise terms of the agreement that Moglen hasn't seen" -... he has no idea what he is talking about. Patent protection != Royalty.
People have been dissecting it left and right, and the people who **actually** read the agreement have come to the conclusion realize that it doesn't violate the GPL.
Everquest has a handy little in-game egg timer. Set how long you want to play and it will pop up when the time expires, reminding you to log off and tend to real life.
That being said, self-control is what it all comes down to. You can have all the controls in the world but if you choose to ignore them or never use them, what's the point? Like everything in life, self-control.
Wife and I do the same... unfortunately we play seperate games now (I play EQ, she plays WoW... ) but we still have fun sitting next to each other, watching over each others shoulders.
Another aspect which is most excellent and hasn't been brought up - my wife and I are transplants, we currently live 1000 miles from where we grew up. But we have a few friends that play the same games we do. It is nice to see them online and be able to chat/interact with them in real time.
Exploring. I play EQ still, the new expansion has been out for what, a month? and I've only gained 20% of a level (they raised the cap 5 levels). I've been way too busy exploring new content to care. Seriously, EQ expansions are huge. I play WoW from time to time (on my wife's account) with my RL friends, and Azeroth is so freaking tiny...
You can define 2 coordinate systems containing three axes to not coincide, that are correlated by a 3x3 transfer matrix. Six seperate axes in a 3D world. I do it every day. I am a modeling and simulation programmer... you could not do any interesting simulations without this principle.
... so a republican victory automatically dictates tampering with voting machines? The democrats have a long history of being ahead in polls and losing, before e-voting ever hit the scene. Democrats are democrats and have a tendancy to lose it for themselves as the elections approach (see: John Kerry's recent comments, Alan Hevesi, etc)
Kate Bennett plays "World of Wasrcraft" in the bedroom of her apartment near Pottstown. Bennett, a counselor who has dealt with online game addictions, is herself an avid player.
That's, of course "World of Warcraft," unless Wasrcraft is some kinky sex game I haven't been made aware of (playing in the bedroom, after all...)
Funny how every comment was almost exactly like "Thanks, thats great!" with only one guy bringing up any kind of discussion.
Whats to discuss? They announced that they are changing the reinstallation restrictions.
If (hypothetically speaking) the sysadmins had been blocking slashdot at your place of work work, and then unblocked it, would you say thanks or go on a tirade of why they should have done it differently in the first place? Which is more productive?
Not trying to start a flame here, but it was strange seeing people who -like- Microsoft!
I feel more productive in Word than Open Office. I am more productive in Visual Studio than gvim/kdevelop (although I am quite capable in gvim... actually I do most of my development nowadays in linux under the current contract ). It is a matter of preference, that's all it boils down to. When you work in a world that deals in Microsoft and become accustomed to those tools, some of them are actually damn good tools, and you can pry them from my cold, dead, fingers:P
, then set them up to be easily navigated via remote
Try playing a MMO on a remote.
A media center computer is a powerful computer and is capable of playing any modern video games. A lot of games - MMO's in particular - are still bound to a keyboard. A solution like this allows MMO's to venture into the front room with the plasma screen and the comfy couch without having to juggle the keyboard on your knees and the mouse on whatever textbook you aren't using this semester. (Not me though, I like my office chair way more than my crappy futon... and no plasma yet).
It does not matter whether you are moving along the x-axis or rotating around the x-axis, you're still only utilizing one axis of motion, you are simply used 2 different types of motion
Doesn't have to be. As long as they are using three independant axes for rotation and three independant axes for translation they do not have to be the same axes. It is easiest if they are (and if they are orthogonal) but they don't have to be. There are two seperate sensors that detect position and translation. There very well can be six axes.
Because my computer uptime is that long, and longer. I want to come up to my computer and be productive from the moment I sit down.
Have you done similar tests on IE, Konqueror, Opera, etc.? How do they stand up over several days of browsing?
IE, yes. I don't think I broke 150MB compared to 500+MB for Mozilla. I tried Opera but never really liked it.
but I'm glad they aren't wasting all their time on a couple tiny memory leaks that get magnified after people use the browser for days on end
Well-designed software works for days on end. Servers don't need a reboot every couple hours. My windows box at home has uptimes in the months (interrupted only by my 16 month old son who likes pushing the power button). Why should I have to restart my web browser? I don't restart Outlook. I don't restart my favorite MMO. None of these other apps give me problems in the day to week timeframe. Firefox is the only one that does.
That's my initial thought as well. It's just a fact of touchscreen LCD's. Only way to compensate is to adjust the location of the input boxes, but that's on a per-machine basis and that's a crappy solution.
A "better box" would be a LCD screen with a seperate button panel along the bottom of the display. That way the input is discrete.
For many technical reasons: the inclusion of many helper classes that need to be written (vector/matrix/quaternion libraries, for example), inclusion of sound libraries, advanced device handling, etc. Read up a few posts for a better description.
But the real reason to develop in DirectX/MDX is that your programs port easily to XBOX - more easily than your OpenGL game will port from Windows to Linux. And your target audience of XBOX users is bigger and focused on games. Your Linux crowd is mostly the non-gamer type. There is a real, good, distinct reason to develop DirectX/MDX.
Fuck, go back 7 years... Everquest. Me and a friend both tried to run it using WINE in Linux. We both work as linux sysadmins, we aren't clueless. The game doesn't run reliably.
More recently? WoW. 7 million users, probably usurps the number of home linux faithful in the number of hours played vs. number of hours spent in front of their respective linux boxes. Also flaky under Linux, my friend tells me (I don't play).
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... where he says "but I haven't read the terms of the agreement."
Thus if Microsoft distributes Linux it licenses the patents contained in the code.
Microsoft said in plain english in the press release that they WILL NOT distribute Linux. They will merely recommend it if a customer must have a linux solution in a Microsoft environment.
Also, enforcing a patent against the GPL revokes the license putting MS in very hot water.
Sigh... have you even read what this is all about? Microsoft and Novell came to a patent agreement whereby they will not litigate each other. No patent enforcement. FUD. Go away!!!
He says he didn't even read the terms of the deal - "depends on precise terms of the agreement that Moglen hasn't seen" - ... he has no idea what he is talking about. Patent protection != Royalty.
People have been dissecting it left and right, and the people who **actually** read the agreement have come to the conclusion realize that it doesn't violate the GPL.
I have a better article at home but hopefully this one will suffice:
... doesn't help their position.
But Democrats instead have turned on one of their own and will now lose both in the House and the Senate. Because of the same old lack of focus on the real issues that get people elected, they have chosen to let Republicans rule the agenda once again, and win.
Just the way the party in general handles things like this
Everquest has a handy little in-game egg timer. Set how long you want to play and it will pop up when the time expires, reminding you to log off and tend to real life.
That being said, self-control is what it all comes down to. You can have all the controls in the world but if you choose to ignore them or never use them, what's the point? Like everything in life, self-control.
Wife and I do the same... unfortunately we play seperate games now (I play EQ, she plays WoW ... ) but we still have fun sitting next to each other, watching over each others shoulders.
Another aspect which is most excellent and hasn't been brought up - my wife and I are transplants, we currently live 1000 miles from where we grew up. But we have a few friends that play the same games we do. It is nice to see them online and be able to chat/interact with them in real time.
No. Not at all. Just asking him to make a logical argument towards his conspiracy theory, which he has yet to do.
Exploring. I play EQ still, the new expansion has been out for what, a month? and I've only gained 20% of a level (they raised the cap 5 levels). I've been way too busy exploring new content to care. Seriously, EQ expansions are huge. I play WoW from time to time (on my wife's account) with my RL friends, and Azeroth is so freaking tiny...
You can define 2 coordinate systems containing three axes to not coincide, that are correlated by a 3x3 transfer matrix. Six seperate axes in a 3D world. I do it every day. I am a modeling and simulation programmer... you could not do any interesting simulations without this principle.
... so a republican victory automatically dictates tampering with voting machines? The democrats have a long history of being ahead in polls and losing, before e-voting ever hit the scene. Democrats are democrats and have a tendancy to lose it for themselves as the elections approach (see: John Kerry's recent comments, Alan Hevesi, etc)
Kate Bennett plays "World of Wasrcraft" in the bedroom of her apartment near Pottstown. Bennett, a counselor who has dealt with online game addictions, is herself an avid player.
That's, of course "World of Warcraft," unless Wasrcraft is some kinky sex game I haven't been made aware of (playing in the bedroom, after all...)
There is already a web gateway, so in theory there is probably a way to check your Exchange email without downloading it.
Because I'm lazy and that is way too much typing. C++ FTW.
Funny how every comment was almost exactly like "Thanks, thats great!" with only one guy bringing up any kind of discussion.
... actually I do most of my development nowadays in linux under the current contract ). It is a matter of preference, that's all it boils down to. When you work in a world that deals in Microsoft and become accustomed to those tools, some of them are actually damn good tools, and you can pry them from my cold, dead, fingers :P
Whats to discuss? They announced that they are changing the reinstallation restrictions.
If (hypothetically speaking) the sysadmins had been blocking slashdot at your place of work work, and then unblocked it, would you say thanks or go on a tirade of why they should have done it differently in the first place? Which is more productive?
Not trying to start a flame here, but it was strange seeing people who -like- Microsoft!
I feel more productive in Word than Open Office. I am more productive in Visual Studio than gvim/kdevelop (although I am quite capable in gvim
Purchase any version besides home, and your wish is their command! link
, then set them up to be easily navigated via remote
Try playing a MMO on a remote.
A media center computer is a powerful computer and is capable of playing any modern video games. A lot of games - MMO's in particular - are still bound to a keyboard. A solution like this allows MMO's to venture into the front room with the plasma screen and the comfy couch without having to juggle the keyboard on your knees and the mouse on whatever textbook you aren't using this semester. (Not me though, I like my office chair way more than my crappy futon... and no plasma yet).
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The Honda ads where the people looked like their cars
(YouTube 'em. I don't have access at work)
It does not matter whether you are moving along the x-axis or rotating around the x-axis, you're still only utilizing one axis of motion, you are simply used 2 different types of motion
Doesn't have to be. As long as they are using three independant axes for rotation and three independant axes for translation they do not have to be the same axes. It is easiest if they are (and if they are orthogonal) but they don't have to be. There are two seperate sensors that detect position and translation. There very well can be six axes.
Can I ask why you leave it run for so long?
Because my computer uptime is that long, and longer. I want to come up to my computer and be productive from the moment I sit down.
Have you done similar tests on IE, Konqueror, Opera, etc.? How do they stand up over several days of browsing?
IE, yes. I don't think I broke 150MB compared to 500+MB for Mozilla. I tried Opera but never really liked it.
but I'm glad they aren't wasting all their time on a couple tiny memory leaks that get magnified after people use the browser for days on end
Well-designed software works for days on end. Servers don't need a reboot every couple hours. My windows box at home has uptimes in the months (interrupted only by my 16 month old son who likes pushing the power button). Why should I have to restart my web browser? I don't restart Outlook. I don't restart my favorite MMO. None of these other apps give me problems in the day to week timeframe. Firefox is the only one that does.
That's my initial thought as well. It's just a fact of touchscreen LCD's. Only way to compensate is to adjust the location of the input boxes, but that's on a per-machine basis and that's a crappy solution.
A "better box" would be a LCD screen with a seperate button panel along the bottom of the display. That way the input is discrete.
They develop to make a better product because that was the intent all along.
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Slower load times isn't better now, is it?
And last I checked Mozilla, Inc didn't have a funding problem thanks to Google
No, but a corporations' reason for existance is to make money. Think about it. They aren't just sitting on their asses all day
For many technical reasons: the inclusion of many helper classes that need to be written (vector/matrix/quaternion libraries, for example), inclusion of sound libraries, advanced device handling, etc. Read up a few posts for a better description.
But the real reason to develop in DirectX/MDX is that your programs port easily to XBOX - more easily than your OpenGL game will port from Windows to Linux. And your target audience of XBOX users is bigger and focused on games. Your Linux crowd is mostly the non-gamer type. There is a real, good, distinct reason to develop DirectX/MDX.
Fuck, go back 7 years... Everquest. Me and a friend both tried to run it using WINE in Linux. We both work as linux sysadmins, we aren't clueless. The game doesn't run reliably.
More recently? WoW. 7 million users, probably usurps the number of home linux faithful in the number of hours played vs. number of hours spent in front of their respective linux boxes. Also flaky under Linux, my friend tells me (I don't play).
It takes more than six years to develop a nuclear bomb. I don't care who says what. This has been in the works for quite some time.