5. Powering your house by Wind Power is illegal through "sound governance bilaws" even though the noise is quieter than an air conditioner.
I'm not sure where you mean, but it isn't illegal to have a wind generator north of the city. If I remember correctly, the ontario gov't was even offering a subsidy for people wanting to put one up. Now, if you tried putting one up in a subdivision, then I can see a problem as no one wants to have a 40 ft tower casting a shadow over their backyard.
You could argue that Google sponsors Gaim because they employ one of the developers to help with Google Talk I think. I would assume that some of the work on Google Talk would Trickle down into Gaim, especially with the voice/video support that is on it's way (into Gaim).
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The difference is that any manufacturer can make those monitors if they have the licenses and whatever other agreements taken care of.
I got some mod points this afternoon, of course after I posted on the thread. All of the other mods must be on vacation today or they have given up/. for lent?? There is only one post under this article that is modded up(+1), what the heck?
Meh, so I clicked the wrong button on the Google spellchecker. Everyone knows./ is not a haven of spelling & grammar anyway.
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IANAL, but I would guess that that is one of the things that AMD is looking to find out with their Subpoena. I think either Intel or Skype would be hard pressed to provide a valid reason why the limit is put in place. Imagine if the publisher a game certified by nVidia decided to limit the maximum resolution possible on ATI cards.
As multiple people pointed out, there was no way that this was going to slip through.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/13/201523 6/
Intel isn't helping their legal cause when they are waving a red flag waving 'we are anti-competative'.
That's probably true. Airport security probably looks for suspicious electrical equipment in luggage, but it might be easier to sneak it onto a plane than explosives.
If these devices can interfere enough to cause an airline accident, then the avionics probably should be better shielded against this kind of information. After all, if a device could accidently cause interfere, why couldn't someone intentionally cause interference that is tailored to target specfic instruments?
I think that the problem the first post(in the link) was really getting at was that frameworks tend to be overly complex and not granular enough. In a lot of cases it is probably a lot easier to use tools that just do one thing well. In php for example, you could use Smarty that just does templating, Quick Forms for form validation, some kind of custom or gree database layer and any other necessary tools. At least if each single tool doesn't do everything you want, you can build around it. If you are using one tool that does everything, you are probably going to be a lot more constrained in the ways you can do things, or the tool is going to be so abstracted that you're going to have to spend a bunch of time flushing it out anyway.
Well, my comments are mostly based on (in good humour) some of the clan and server meltdowns I've seen happen in ET. I don't disagree with the point of the FA, I have a bunch of friends from the game and the fact that it is team based is great for social interaction.
Gaming communities give you great experience on how to deal with lots of potential aspects of a workplace. Ego driven flame wars, megalomaniacs, juvenile tantrums and control freak superiors are a few that come to mind.
This is how my office works as well, and being able to have a quick discussion without leaving your desk is pretty handy. It is a pain though when you need to get rolling on something and have to fight through distractions.
That is certainly true, MS's slow patch cycle probably applies to other products as well though. Bureaucracy and coupled design probably are the two big problems that they have to deal with.
In fairness, everything that I've read about MS's patch cycle indicates that it is a pretty huge undertaking. Joel from http://joelonsoftware.com/ is always going on about have every single code fix/feature addition has to go through a whole bunch of people (several testers, documentation team, etc) before it can be released. If anything maybe Microsoft is a bit too thorough with their patches, in some ways at least.
The situation with my employer is similar to the parent's. Pretty much everyone from the management to developer uses skype to keep track of things when people are offsite, or to just fire off a quick message to someone in another room.
I think you are splitting hairs with your comment. DNS certainly is not the foundation of the internet, but it sure is the thing that makes it remotely useful to large numbers of users.
A new code base doesn't guarantee a good implementation either. Legacy usually has more testing and fixes behind it (and it already works) than new code. Chances are that if you throw away too much old code, your new design will be missing bug-fixes that exist in the original code.
I'm pretty certain that Microsoft ends up re-factoring old code for most of their projects.
Monumental games take a monumental effort to moderate. If Wardens are whoever is in charge don't see a violation, then they can't do anything about it. I'm only referring to names that I've heard have had accounts suspended.
From what I have read, Blizzard is pretty tight on what sort of character names, etc that they allow. The decision in the article seems to be consistent with their in-game policies.
In addition to the parent's argument, the article on this topic from Groklaw focuses on the point that the source code has to be 'licensed'. If you are an OSS project, or even a small commercial one, you might not have the money to license something. This move would not do much more to make MS tech accessible, other than big corps who can afford the license fees and the army of developers to figure out what the heck the code is doing. If MS made the code freely available, and exempt from IP retaliation then that might be a step towards compliance with the EU ruling.
Actually no, although I suppose not everyone is familair enough with the terminology to through it around.
Basically my post boils down to this, using the GPU to take over some of the processing load on a machine is a great idea, however, it can be difficult to retrieve the results from any processing that you do. Afterall, video cards are meant to output data to a video device, not back into main memory.
Any attempt by anti-gaming groups to use this sad incident as ammunition will be completely bogus. As far as anyone should be concerned, University Students, no matter what their age aught to be held fully accountable for their actions, without any stupid 'outside influence' factors.
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I'm not sure where you mean, but it isn't illegal to have a wind generator north of the city. If I remember correctly, the ontario gov't was even offering a subsidy for people wanting to put one up. Now, if you tried putting one up in a subdivision, then I can see a problem as no one wants to have a 40 ft tower casting a shadow over their backyard.
You could argue that Google sponsors Gaim because they employ one of the developers to help with Google Talk I think. I would assume that some of the work on Google Talk would Trickle down into Gaim, especially with the voice/video support that is on it's way (into Gaim).
The difference is that any manufacturer can make those monitors if they have the licenses and whatever other agreements taken care of.
I got some mod points this afternoon, of course after I posted on the thread. All of the other mods must be on vacation today or they have given up /. for lent?? There is only one post under this article that is modded up(+1), what the heck?
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Well, at least you could sayMeh, so I clicked the wrong button on the Google spellchecker. Everyone knows ./ is not a haven of spelling & grammar anyway.
IANAL, but I would guess that that is one of the things that AMD is looking to find out with their Subpoena. I think either Intel or Skype would be hard pressed to provide a valid reason why the limit is put in place. Imagine if the publisher a game certified by nVidia decided to limit the maximum resolution possible on ATI cards.
As multiple people pointed out, there was no way that this was going to slip through. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/13/201523 6/
Intel isn't helping their legal cause when they are waving a red flag waving 'we are anti-competative'.
That's probably true. Airport security probably looks for suspicious electrical equipment in luggage, but it might be easier to sneak it onto a plane than explosives.
If these devices can interfere enough to cause an airline accident, then the avionics probably should be better shielded against this kind of information. After all, if a device could accidently cause interfere, why couldn't someone intentionally cause interference that is tailored to target specfic instruments?
I think that the problem the first post(in the link) was really getting at was that frameworks tend to be overly complex and not granular enough. In a lot of cases it is probably a lot easier to use tools that just do one thing well. In php for example, you could use Smarty that just does templating, Quick Forms for form validation, some kind of custom or gree database layer and any other necessary tools. At least if each single tool doesn't do everything you want, you can build around it. If you are using one tool that does everything, you are probably going to be a lot more constrained in the ways you can do things, or the tool is going to be so abstracted that you're going to have to spend a bunch of time flushing it out anyway.
Well, my comments are mostly based on (in good humour) some of the clan and server meltdowns I've seen happen in ET. I don't disagree with the point of the FA, I have a bunch of friends from the game and the fact that it is team based is great for social interaction.
Gaming communities give you great experience on how to deal with lots of potential aspects of a workplace. Ego driven flame wars, megalomaniacs, juvenile tantrums and control freak superiors are a few that come to mind.
This is how my office works as well, and being able to have a quick discussion without leaving your desk is pretty handy. It is a pain though when you need to get rolling on something and have to fight through distractions.
That is certainly true, MS's slow patch cycle probably applies to other products as well though. Bureaucracy and coupled design probably are the two big problems that they have to deal with.
In fairness, everything that I've read about MS's patch cycle indicates that it is a pretty huge undertaking. Joel from http://joelonsoftware.com/ is always going on about have every single code fix/feature addition has to go through a whole bunch of people (several testers, documentation team, etc) before it can be released. If anything maybe Microsoft is a bit too thorough with their patches, in some ways at least.
The situation with my employer is similar to the parent's. Pretty much everyone from the management to developer uses skype to keep track of things when people are offsite, or to just fire off a quick message to someone in another room.
I think you are splitting hairs with your comment. DNS certainly is not the foundation of the internet, but it sure is the thing that makes it remotely useful to large numbers of users.
A new code base doesn't guarantee a good implementation either. Legacy usually has more testing and fixes behind it (and it already works) than new code. Chances are that if you throw away too much old code, your new design will be missing bug-fixes that exist in the original code.
I'm pretty certain that Microsoft ends up re-factoring old code for most of their projects.
Monumental games take a monumental effort to moderate. If Wardens are whoever is in charge don't see a violation, then they can't do anything about it.
I'm only referring to names that I've heard have had accounts suspended.
I suppose so. If people are staying away from overtly racey content, then I imagine that everyone will be happy.
From what I have read, Blizzard is pretty tight on what sort of character names, etc that they allow. The decision in the article seems to be consistent with their in-game policies.
In addition to the parent's argument, the article on this topic from Groklaw focuses on the point that the source code has to be 'licensed'. If you are an OSS project, or even a small commercial one, you might not have the money to license something. This move would not do much more to make MS tech accessible, other than big corps who can afford the license fees and the army of developers to figure out what the heck the code is doing. If MS made the code freely available, and exempt from IP retaliation then that might be a step towards compliance with the EU ruling.
Actually no, although I suppose not everyone is familair enough with the terminology to through it around. Basically my post boils down to this, using the GPU to take over some of the processing load on a machine is a great idea, however, it can be difficult to retrieve the results from any processing that you do. Afterall, video cards are meant to output data to a video device, not back into main memory.
Any attempt by anti-gaming groups to use this sad incident as ammunition will be completely bogus. As far as anyone should be concerned, University Students, no matter what their age aught to be held fully accountable for their actions, without any stupid 'outside influence' factors.