Yes, but that's exactly what you'd expect when you release as MIT. You presumably released as GPL to protect against just that kind of shit, but now you're screwed, because FSF in their infinite wisdom and benevolence booby-trapped their license to give themself unlimited power over everyones code. Or something. I'm pretty sure it's evil, anyway. (Seriously, who gives themselves that kind of power? What if the government came out and said "We recommend you use this standard template for all private contracts. See here, it has all kinds of nifty standard provisions, breach of contract fines, *cough*alineallowingthestatetoreplaceanytermsinthe contractwithanupdatedversionatwill*cough*" Yes, yes, not quite the same, but allowing a third party to offer licencees an updated license at any time seems... Well, I'm sure they would condemn such a license coming from anyone but themselves.)
Yes, my god, there's all this BSD and MIT licensed source floating around, and it can't be used for anything because of their evil, restricting licences. Seriously, the GPL is likely to be the most incompatible of your licences, unless you're doing something stupid like using Microsoft code. It practically only goes with licences that allow themselves to be overridden. Now that may be what you desire, but don't go around blaming other licenses when the GPL restrictions cause incompabilities.
It's a perfectly legitimate literary device that has been used to great effect by amongst others William Shakespeare and Edgard Allan Poe. Everyday speech has a lot of such pairs of words with pleasant pronounciation, like 'pet peve'. You were just having a cheap shot at the cheesy headline, and chided lots of historic literature, hopefully to your chagrin. For your penance, look at the headline again and imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
They have a Results page showing some of the problems that Folding@Home have been applied on. Not unbiased, but it seems like they're putting it to use. As to useful results, it's just a distributed supercomputer. Why would its results be more feel-good and less meaningful than those of any other ~500 TFLOP computer? It's not like researchers can ever get enough processing power. Molecular folding is a processor intensive and parallelizable research problem with real applicability, and I'd rather see people spend power on this than on SETI@home.
I'd just as soon just buy the box and download a pirated version, then. I'd hate to see games go the way of movies, where illegal downloads are the better value, since you can backup them, play them on Linux, don't get ads, don't get stupid annoying unskippable 'you filthy pirate' videos, etc.
And their 'You must absolutely not under any circumstances reveal anything about your hardware to open source developers, or the terrorists^Wpirates will have won.' DRM agreements with the big MS?
Pshaw, humbug. The facts shall not be restrained by your severely limited imagination. Let's examine a couple more theories: f. She followed an extremely high-mineral diet. (A real heavy metal fan.) or the most likely, g. She has mastered inedia to it's fullest. Indeed, not only can she herself live for years with no other source of nutrition than fresh air, she can provide food enough for two other people. A pinnacle of human evolution. I speculate that by year 2106, vast farms of these new superhumans will provide cheap and plentiful energy, marking the beginning of large-scale space tourism. Milliards of common federation citizens attend the low-gravity release announcement of Duke Nukem Forever.
So, what cool keyword searches do people like to have? When I set up Opera, in addition to the builtin 'g' for google, I add 'gi' for Google Images, 'w' for Wikipedia, 'wkt' for Wiktionary, 'imdb' for the International Movie Database, 'animenn' for Anime News Network and 'bm' for a Norwegian Bokmål dictionary. It's become almost indispensable. Does IE7 have this yet?
They did. 'CD quality at 64 kbps' my ass. It saved me a blind testing of the format though, since anyone who lies that blatantly obviously can't be trusted with my data. Thing is, though, a lot of my more computer illiterate acquaintances would rip their CDs at that bitrate, with DRM to boot, simply because that was the default setting in Windows Media Player, and it labeled it as 'CD quality'. Why they didn't seem to notice that their music collection sounded like an old and crappy car FM radio, and that anything they downloaded as 128kbps mp3 beat it by a mile, I'll never know.
It's not a "OMG they must have forgotten about that", it's a "I would like to know how they will handle that". It seems most likely they will keep firing up expendable refuelers with most of its payload being fuel. A simple maneuverable fuel tank that could refuel a more long-lived and advanced refueler craft. Short of having a space tube or manufacturing fuel in space, they will need to shoot up a rocket to get the fuel up there anyway. That's all rather far into the future, anyway. These seem to be just preliminary experiments.
Outrageous, but nonetheless true. (Well, strictly speaking, the journalists didn't record the event, but tried to take pictures of the scene afterwards. And only between 8 and 16 people died.) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_re_as/af ghan_violence
Kind of OT, but they have something like that in Legoland in Denmark, at least. You select a series of moves from a machine and get a smartcard that you use when you strap yourself in a chair on a giant arm, and then it swings you around a bit according to the instructions you selected. Decent ride. Doubt it would be improved by adding a wiimote, though.
Yes, because although high-precision accelerometres and 3d mice have been on the market for years now, such new tech won't see usage in the army until they can buy the controllers cheap in their local gaming store.
Why are you Americans getting fucked so badly, though? I don't recall seeing a mobile phone that didn't implement standard IrDA or bluetooth for several years now, and I know that at least Nokias and Ericssons allow for trivial downloading and uploading of pictures, ringtones, midlets, etc., since I have dabbled in creating my own ringtones and java games. A trivial download of Nokia PC suite and the J2ME Wireless toolkit, and you're all set (on windows, at least).
Is this just a GSM thing, with only crippled mobs available for obsolete protocols? Are there no competitors offering real mobiles? I've seen subsidized phones being locked in with one carrier for X years, but the only feature crippling I've noticed is the official software not letting the phone send games and protected ringtones.
The phone I've got now is several years old, though. Is this something new? Maybe any other Europeans have noticed restrictions in sending mp3s and such like over bluetooth?
though. You're probably aware, I'm just annoyed by the number of people that seem to think of the punishment as a goal in itself.
I question the existance of people who abuse children and are not sick, though. How are you defining sick, here? Or maybe I'm thinking of stronger forms of abuse than you are? Or wait. I thought about it, and I no longer question it, but I'm leaving it in, because I'm interested in people's thoughts on that.
Yes, the first thing to do in a disaster situation is to deprive the victims of electric light and heat, and radio and television. Darkness is so conductive to disaster recovery. You know, a lot of houses are already equipped with these neat things called fuses. (Yes, yes. No need to be sarcastic. But I was anyway.)
Black&White was an awesome game, though... for a while. If those 6 'mini games' could each be fun for half as long as B&W, I'd have gotten my money's worth.
I have yet to see any evidence that Spore is *cough* fun to play. Seriously beautiful technology. Top-notch designer, has done a lot for the industry. Intriguing as an intellectual proposition. All of these things were true of Black&White, which I plunked $55 down for and got burned, burned, burned for an unfinished tech demo which sort of forgot to ship the game with the box. Well, have you seen any evidence that it's *not* fun to play? (or rather, will be fun to play. It's likely not quite tuned yet.) While good technology, top-notch designers and intriguing concepts may not absolutely guarantee a good game, it's not quite a surefire indicator of a flop either. Many of the stages are 'proven fun', like the pac-man stage, the city-planning stage, the civilication stage, etc., and Will Wright has first-hand experience making excellent games of several of them. I doubt he'll settle for worse than his previous. I'm open for the possibility that the game might turn up crap regardless, of course, but I wouldn't bet money on it. Would you?
You could combine this with a stylus. Make a bluetooth pen with buttons and stuff, and then the pen could sense the pressure and the acoustic sensors could determine the position. Should still be a lot cheaper than current drawing tables, you could make them as large as you wanted without increasing the price.
And since there's spy satelites that can read a newspapers headline, any old 2-page ad can claim to be 'visible from space'. I want clear milestones defined on this. Say, 'first logo visible with naked eye with the plain eye from the moon', 'first ad visible from mars', 'first logo visible with naked eye from another solar system', etc.
I can't wait for time travel to arrive. 'First logo seen on moon in medieval england.', etc. The mars face was a nice try, but really, you can hardly see it. Better luck next time, FaceCorp Inc.!
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Yes, but that's exactly what you'd expect when you release as MIT.e contractwithanupdatedversionatwill*cough*" Yes, yes, not quite the same, but allowing a third party to offer licencees an updated license at any time seems... Well, I'm sure they would condemn such a license coming from anyone but themselves.)
You presumably released as GPL to protect against just that kind of shit, but now you're screwed, because FSF in their infinite wisdom and benevolence booby-trapped their license to give themself unlimited power over everyones code. Or something. I'm pretty sure it's evil, anyway.
(Seriously, who gives themselves that kind of power? What if the government came out and said "We recommend you use this standard template for all private contracts. See here, it has all kinds of nifty standard provisions, breach of contract fines, *cough*alineallowingthestatetoreplaceanytermsinth
Yes, my god, there's all this BSD and MIT licensed source floating around, and it can't be used for anything because of their evil, restricting licences.
Seriously, the GPL is likely to be the most incompatible of your licences, unless you're doing something stupid like using Microsoft code. It practically only goes with licences that allow themselves to be overridden. Now that may be what you desire, but don't go around blaming other licenses when the GPL restrictions cause incompabilities.
It's a perfectly legitimate literary device that has been used to great effect by amongst others William Shakespeare and Edgard Allan Poe. Everyday speech has a lot of such pairs of words with pleasant pronounciation, like 'pet peve'.
You were just having a cheap shot at the cheesy headline, and chided lots of historic literature, hopefully to your chagrin.
For your penance, look at the headline again and imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
They have a Results page showing some of the problems that Folding@Home have been applied on. Not unbiased, but it seems like they're putting it to use.
As to useful results, it's just a distributed supercomputer. Why would its results be more feel-good and less meaningful than those of any other ~500 TFLOP computer? It's not like researchers can ever get enough processing power. Molecular folding is a processor intensive and parallelizable research problem with real applicability, and I'd rather see people spend power on this than on SETI@home.
Nonsense, it means you are dating a nerd chick.
"Oh, I just love your MythTV setup! What theme are you using?"
By analyzing several /.'ers DNA samples, I determined that several GATTACA references would be made within an hour of this thread being posted.
And if he was close enough to hear the howler monkeys, why were they communicating by e-mail?
I'd just as soon just buy the box and download a pirated version, then. I'd hate to see games go the way of movies, where illegal downloads are the better value, since you can backup them, play them on Linux, don't get ads, don't get stupid annoying unskippable 'you filthy pirate' videos, etc.
And their 'You must absolutely not under any circumstances reveal anything about your hardware to open source developers, or the terrorists^Wpirates will have won.' DRM agreements with the big MS?
Pshaw, humbug. The facts shall not be restrained by your severely limited imagination. Let's examine a couple more theories:
f. She followed an extremely high-mineral diet. (A real heavy metal fan.)
or the most likely,
g. She has mastered inedia to it's fullest. Indeed, not only can she herself live for years with no other source of nutrition than fresh air, she can provide food enough for two other people. A pinnacle of human evolution.
I speculate that by year 2106, vast farms of these new superhumans will provide cheap and plentiful energy, marking the beginning of large-scale space tourism. Milliards of common federation citizens attend the low-gravity release announcement of Duke Nukem Forever.
So, what cool keyword searches do people like to have?
When I set up Opera, in addition to the builtin 'g' for google, I add
'gi' for Google Images,
'w' for Wikipedia,
'wkt' for Wiktionary,
'imdb' for the International Movie Database,
'animenn' for Anime News Network and
'bm' for a Norwegian Bokmål dictionary.
It's become almost indispensable. Does IE7 have this yet?
We should totally trade them some.
Now, just to seal the deal with a firm handshake...
They did. 'CD quality at 64 kbps' my ass. It saved me a blind testing of the format though, since anyone who lies that blatantly obviously can't be trusted with my data.
Thing is, though, a lot of my more computer illiterate acquaintances would rip their CDs at that bitrate, with DRM to boot, simply because that was the default setting in Windows Media Player, and it labeled it as 'CD quality'.
Why they didn't seem to notice that their music collection sounded like an old and crappy car FM radio, and that anything they downloaded as 128kbps mp3 beat it by a mile, I'll never know.
It's not a "OMG they must have forgotten about that", it's a "I would like to know how they will handle that".
It seems most likely they will keep firing up expendable refuelers with most of its payload being fuel. A simple maneuverable fuel tank that could refuel a more long-lived and advanced refueler craft. Short of having a space tube or manufacturing fuel in space, they will need to shoot up a rocket to get the fuel up there anyway.
That's all rather far into the future, anyway. These seem to be just preliminary experiments.
... following the posting of controversial and highly speciest Thanksgiving clips.
Outrageous, but nonetheless true. (Well, strictly speaking, the journalists didn't record the event, but tried to take pictures of the scene afterwards. And only between 8 and 16 people died.)f ghan_violence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_re_as/a
Kind of OT, but they have something like that in Legoland in Denmark, at least. You select a series of moves from a machine and get a smartcard that you use when you strap yourself in a chair on a giant arm, and then it swings you around a bit according to the instructions you selected. Decent ride. Doubt it would be improved by adding a wiimote, though.
Yes, because although high-precision accelerometres and 3d mice have been on the market for years now, such new tech won't see usage in the army until they can buy the controllers cheap in their local gaming store.
The 360 is popular, but not that much of a success, assuming Microsoft would also like to actually make money on this console business of theirs.
Why are you Americans getting fucked so badly, though? I don't recall seeing a mobile phone that didn't implement standard IrDA or bluetooth for several years now, and I know that at least Nokias and Ericssons allow for trivial downloading and uploading of pictures, ringtones, midlets, etc., since I have dabbled in creating my own ringtones and java games. A trivial download of Nokia PC suite and the J2ME Wireless toolkit, and you're all set (on windows, at least).
Is this just a GSM thing, with only crippled mobs available for obsolete protocols? Are there no competitors offering real mobiles?
I've seen subsidized phones being locked in with one carrier for X years, but the only feature crippling I've noticed is the official software not letting the phone send games and protected ringtones.
The phone I've got now is several years old, though. Is this something new? Maybe any other Europeans have noticed restrictions in sending mp3s and such like over bluetooth?
Those are really just possible subgoals of
1. minimize abuse of children,
though. You're probably aware, I'm just annoyed by the number of people that seem to think of the punishment as a goal in itself.
I question the existance of people who abuse children and are not sick, though. How are you defining sick, here? Or maybe I'm thinking of stronger forms of abuse than you are?
Or wait. I thought about it, and I no longer question it, but I'm leaving it in, because I'm interested in people's thoughts on that.
Yes, the first thing to do in a disaster situation is to deprive the victims of electric light and heat, and radio and television. Darkness is so conductive to disaster recovery.
You know, a lot of houses are already equipped with these neat things called fuses.
(Yes, yes. No need to be sarcastic. But I was anyway.)
While good technology, top-notch designers and intriguing concepts may not absolutely guarantee a good game, it's not quite a surefire indicator of a flop either.
Many of the stages are 'proven fun', like the pac-man stage, the city-planning stage, the civilication stage, etc., and Will Wright has first-hand experience making excellent games of several of them. I doubt he'll settle for worse than his previous.
I'm open for the possibility that the game might turn up crap regardless, of course, but I wouldn't bet money on it. Would you?
You could combine this with a stylus. Make a bluetooth pen with buttons and stuff, and then the pen could sense the pressure and the acoustic sensors could determine the position. Should still be a lot cheaper than current drawing tables, you could make them as large as you wanted without increasing the price.
And since there's spy satelites that can read a newspapers headline, any old 2-page ad can claim to be 'visible from space'. I want clear milestones defined on this. Say, 'first logo visible with naked eye with the plain eye from the moon', 'first ad visible from mars', 'first logo visible with naked eye from another solar system', etc.
I can't wait for time travel to arrive. 'First logo seen on moon in medieval england.', etc.
The mars face was a nice try, but really, you can hardly see it. Better luck next time, FaceCorp Inc.!