This article claims $6.3 billion dollars of revenue for the video game industry in 1998. That include software and hardware. In 1997, the movie industry had total box office revenue of $6.2 billion according to this web page. I don't think that includes popcorn and soda. It definitely doesn't include video rentals and sales. The numbers show that even if the gaming industry isn't as large as the movie industry, it definitely deserves more respect from the press, as the original poster pointed out.
A file in no directory sits outside of the hierarchy of a file system. This, however, does not mean it has to be unavailable. For example, if searching files is built into an OS, it could be retrieved. I find myself using google.com like this more and more. I find a web page with a particular search string. I remember how I found it. The next day I find it again in the same manner. Imagine that on my local machine, and you have a file without a parent directory.
Multiple TCP connections don't have to be bad. Look at http://wind.lcs.mit.edu/projects/cm/. A nifty research project that mitigates the negative effects of multiple tcp connections.
However, open source and aggressively open source licenses are not the same thing. Certainly as the legal issues surrounding open source become less vague, I hope source licenses will exists that allow me to open source my software and still protect my rights to it.
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This article claims $6.3 billion dollars of revenue for the video game industry in 1998. That include software and hardware. In 1997, the movie industry had total box office revenue of $6.2 billion according to this web page. I don't think that includes popcorn and soda. It definitely doesn't include video rentals and sales. The numbers show that even if the gaming industry isn't as large as the movie industry, it definitely deserves more respect from the press, as the original poster pointed out.
A file in no directory sits outside of the hierarchy of a file system. This, however, does not mean it has to be unavailable. For example, if searching files is built into an OS, it could be retrieved. I find myself using google.com like this more and more. I find a web page with a particular search string. I remember how I found it. The next day I find it again in the same manner. Imagine that on my local machine, and you have a file without a parent directory.
Might want to check out www.mirrorworlds.com. He is in the real world. And they have a shipping product.
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Ultra II 360MHz SPECint95: 16.1 SPECfp95: 23.5
Athlon 700MHz SPECint95: 31.7 SPECfp95: 24.0
PIII 700MHz SPECint95: 33.0 SPECfp95: 30.4
My numbers are from this doc at the CPU Info Center
Multiple TCP connections don't have to be bad. Look at http://wind.lcs.mit.edu/projects/cm/. A nifty research project that mitigates the negative effects of multiple tcp connections.
However, open source and aggressively open source licenses are not the same thing. Certainly as the legal issues surrounding open source become less vague, I hope source licenses will exists that allow me to open source my software and still protect my rights to it.