Rubbish. The MS fan boys have been hand waving away legitimate concerns about patent and licensing liability in Mono since day one. Now Novell has made it absolutely clear that Mono has patent and/or licensing liabilities and they still want to dismiss very real issues as FUD.
Please direct me to where they make it absolutely clear.
Not all parts of the.Net environment are covered under ISO/ECMA standards. Even if it were completely covered, the notion that Microsoft won't violate it's own standards or ignore a toothless standards organization if it pleases is just foolish.
Why would we care if they violate their own standards? They exist nevertheless, and we can benefit from them.
You can't "fix" a patent violation. Once it's done, it's done and you're liable. Assuming that there's some work-around you might be able to remove future liability but depending on the nature of the patent there's no guarantee that's practical or even possible.
There is a risk, yes. Hopefully, the Mono developers and contributors can stay away from this.
Technology from an "evil" company does not need to be inherently evil tself. C#/.NET is a great platform, the Mono 1.2 milestone is nothing but great.
Once a version of C# and related technologies are accepted as ISO/ECMA standards, there is no way for Microsoft to later on change them. The specs will always be there, and we will have another great language available to us.
The only thing we need to make sure of is to stay away of accidentally infringing on Microsoft patents in the Mono implementation. However, even if we accidentally do, I see no problems making our solution. In programming, there are often dozens of solutions to a given problem.
As a contributor to both GEGL and GIMP, I am sorry to say that the integration of GEGL as the main processing core into GIMP will take quite a while.
However, the new stable version of GIMP, 2.4, which is a significant improvement both usabilitywise and featurewise, will be released in a not-too-distant feature. If you have some time to spare, these are the bugs that are blocking a GIMP 2.4 release.
Hopefully this invitation is simply a consequence of that Microsoft has (finally) realized that there is no way they will be able to keep up with OSS in the long run. Maybe they have finally realized that sooner or later, given enough time, every commercial application will have a free counterpart.
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Much better than Doom 3, [...]
Off course. Carmacks' strength lies in designing game engines and renderers, not games. Most of ID's profits are made up of licencing engine technology to companies that know how to make games rather than the engines.
A 2D projection from 4D is not overly more computionally expensive than a 2D projection from 3D. The calculations will simply require slightly larger matrices; the increase in needed calculations is somewhere betwee 20% to 40%.
According to the Swedish government sponsored tv channel SVT...
This statement is misleading. SVT is funded by the people, more specifically every household with a TV reciever, which must pay 5 SEK each day (~70 cent) to SVT. There is no money flow from the swedish government to SVT.
I saw the whole thing, and it is obvious that this movie was made by technology geeks, and not cultural geeks. The graphics is easily in par with commercial movies, but the script sounds as if it was authored by a chatbot.
Camera phones are fast replacing a number of regular phones
Are they? The "article" quotes no source and no statistics for this claim. How can anyone be sure?
People want digital cameras.
People want phones.
When cameraphones are good enough, there is no reason not to buy these two in a combo.
Since these kinds of studies requires a very long test period, the study obviously must have included very old cell phones.
Old cell phones was not manufactured with especially sophisticated radiation protection and power adapting features, so I think we should not take too seriously on the outcome of this study.
The first valueble results of a how hazardous cell phone radiation is will come several years after the mobile market has stabalized, which probably won't happend in a while.
Maybe their 30th anniversity will involve something with their giant ipod which can be seen in Google Earth? Check it out: lat -30.514888 and long 121.337539.
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Please direct me to where they make it absolutely clear.
Why would we care if they violate their own standards? They exist nevertheless, and we can benefit from them.
There is a risk, yes. Hopefully, the Mono developers and contributors can stay away from this.
Technology from an "evil" company does not need to be inherently evil tself. C#/.NET is a great platform, the Mono 1.2 milestone is nothing but great.
Once a version of C# and related technologies are accepted as ISO/ECMA standards, there is no way for Microsoft to later on change them. The specs will always be there, and we will have another great language available to us.
The only thing we need to make sure of is to stay away of accidentally infringing on Microsoft patents in the Mono implementation. However, even if we accidentally do, I see no problems making our solution. In programming, there are often dozens of solutions to a given problem.
Please stop FUD:ing.
In Swedish, Krita makes total sense, it means chalk.
Well, she never claimed she was good at writing code.
Maybe you should stop using a 500 MB hard drive ;-)
As a contributor to both GEGL and GIMP, I am sorry to say that the integration of GEGL as the main processing core into GIMP will take quite a while.
However, the new stable version of GIMP, 2.4, which is a significant improvement both usabilitywise and featurewise, will be released in a not-too-distant feature. If you have some time to spare, these are the bugs that are blocking a GIMP 2.4 release.Hopefully this invitation is simply a consequence of that Microsoft has (finally) realized that there is no way they will be able to keep up with OSS in the long run. Maybe they have finally realized that sooner or later, given enough time, every commercial application will have a free counterpart.
Great, misformatted and I forgot to check 'Post Anonymously'. Great.
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"Ok, I have this original video with the first man on the moon, should I make some backups? Nah... Is it important that I remember where I put it? Nah..."
Much better than Doom 3, [...]
Off course. Carmacks' strength lies in designing game engines and renderers, not games. Most of ID's profits are made up of licencing engine technology to companies that know how to make games rather than the engines.
Accoring the software map, .Net and Mono is in a war. The truth is Microsoft is supporting the Mono project as can be read in the Mono Project FAQ.
The cubies will have the same dimension as the larger cube. Just as in the 3D version.
A 2D projection from 4D is not overly more computionally expensive than a 2D projection from 3D. The calculations will simply require slightly larger matrices; the increase in needed calculations is somewhere betwee 20% to 40%.
According to the Swedish government sponsored tv channel SVT...
This statement is misleading. SVT is funded by the people, more specifically every household with a TV reciever, which must pay 5 SEK each day (~70 cent) to SVT. There is no money flow from the swedish government to SVT.
I saw the whole thing, and it is obvious that this movie was made by technology geeks, and not cultural geeks. The graphics is easily in par with commercial movies, but the script sounds as if it was authored by a chatbot.
People want digital cameras. People want phones.
When cameraphones are good enough, there is no reason not to buy these two in a combo.
Since these kinds of studies requires a very long test period, the study obviously must have included very old cell phones.
Old cell phones was not manufactured with especially sophisticated radiation protection and power adapting features, so I think we should not take too seriously on the outcome of this study.
The first valueble results of a how hazardous cell phone radiation is will come several years after the mobile market has stabalized, which probably won't happend in a while.
Maybe their 30th anniversity will involve something with their giant ipod which can be seen in Google Earth? Check it out: lat -30.514888 and long 121.337539.
I doubt they will be able to create an iPod killer because that would mean they had to change the behaviour of hundreds of thousands of people.
A behaviour is exceptionally hard to change, especially if it is based on an already well working service.
I remember hackers speaking of how easy hacking the Xbox 360 will be, that it will only take hours once it is released.
Now, 4 months after the release, they manage to hack a disc. Microsoft sure has given them a challenge this time.