Then we should go forward and hack their web servers and deface their home page.
It must be legal. After all, if they can legally intrude our fax system and put messages on it, we can intrude their computers and put messages on them. Simple.
More evil idea that should be legal in California - maybe we can put an "opt-out" email address on the defaced web page that says "If you want to unsubscribe from the deface list, please email l337@yahoo.com with your full web page address"
Okay. The fact that the size of the sets are equal is actually really trivial. I was just posting my first thought if I were to attack the problem - I wanted to know what you guys think FIRST if you were to try solving this.:)
Apparently if you have a really fast Rage 128 games like Q3 will run fast. But who needs a fast Rage 128...we need drivers that treat an N-generation card as such, not an (N-1) generation card.
So my true questions are: do the _current_ drivers support
Have anyone noticed this buzzword used by every Microsoft lobbying effort after 9/11 just to trying to give the probably fake impression of Microsoft being "patriotic"?
I installed it - the procedure is not standard at all - I have to go thru some minor hurdles to make the source tarball install on my Slackware box, and I only get O.K. speed (it is slower than Proxomitron with its default config file).
I hate the fact the install scripts force people to create a new user "privoxy". I took that off so root owns everything, and everybody can run.
Other than the occasional "cyclic link" error I get from Konqueror, it seems to work just fine. I hope they'll refine that autoconf file a bit.
Last but not least...WHY THE HELL SHOULD I RUN autoheader AND autoconf MYSELF? It should provide a configure file, just like every other source tarball does.
come to think about it...why XML for word processors? It'd be a perfect world if they can just agree on a set of shared TeX scripts and macros, and use TeX as the default format!!
Yeah, it's a bit overrated...but one of the big deal is, you no longer have to write parsers if you don't want to. Generic XML parsers will do the job for you...
Re:Breaking interoperability... again???
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It is exactly his point. Code *compiled* with a new compiler version (say a.so) ->*_SHOULD_*- be interoperable with code *compiled* with older compiler verions.
Things compiled with MSVC 6.0 works with.dll's compiled with MSVC 4.2. Nobody needs to even recompile anything.
There's nothing special or great about source compatibility. It is a _requirement_ plain and simple. You're not supposed to change source code just to make them compile with several versions of the same compiler.
What we're talking about here is BINARY compatibility.
sorry, there are a lot of native Linux proxys, but NONE of them offers the flexibility of Proxomitron, including the one you post (and any derivative of Junkbuster).
i'll only consider a proxy which offers to edit the web pages in real time using regular expression matches (what Proxomitron does) as a replacement.
Two years ago I worked for a company on a project to write an OpenGL 1.2 driver from scratch, for a video card company's chip (I cannot tell you its name, let's just say it has a Voodoo Banshee level performance)
Near the beginning of the development, we wrote VERY simple OpenGL programs to test the driver, rendering at most 10 triangles at a time, triggering features like stencil buffer, texture, etc.
Near the end of the development, we used GLQuake and Quake 2 for testing, as well as the suite from SGI.
Even if your card / driver works with the SGI suite, it might not work with the games - but it DOESN'T mean that the game developers should tailor their games to work with all video cards - yes, even in the real world.
The reason? With standards like OpenGL, the responsibility of keeping things compatible shifts from the game / engine developers to the shoulders of device driver developers.
Did Carmack predict the coming of the almighty Radeon 9700 or the GeForce4 or the crappy SiS video chips or the newest Trident chips when he wrote Quake2? No. Does it work for these chips? Yes, all of them. It's a proof that nowadays, game developers no longer need to ensure compatibility on video cards as long as the game follows a standard. They may still like to study the most popular chips for speed optimizations, but after that the same code base still works for other video cards nonetheless, albeit maybe a little slower.
Someone still have to work hard to ensure compatibility - but these people are no longer the game programmers but driver developers.
Turned out, the flaws exhibited in the games were still bugs in our driver not taking care of multiple states properly - and it was eventually fixed. However, it had absolutely nothing to do with Carmack's code not working with the new chip.
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Please post picture with socks in mouth. Thanks.
I can get a brain transplant from one of these pigs to use it as my math co-processor!
Then...I'll have 3 brains!
Maybe all of us can set our spam filter to forward our spam emails to sales@fax.com...after all, it's protected free speech.
Then we should go forward and hack their web servers and deface their home page.
It must be legal. After all, if they can legally intrude our fax system and put messages on it, we can intrude their computers and put messages on them. Simple.
More evil idea that should be legal in California - maybe we can put an "opt-out" email address on the defaced web page that says "If you want to unsubscribe from the deface list, please email l337@yahoo.com with your full web page address"
ever heard of suing for monetary damage?
It does not matter.
If the law is by my side, I can have all kinds of attitude and the company will still have to comply with the law.
I highly doubt the situation would be the same now if the XVID team had sent a Cease & Desist letter. I think it is a good time to do so.
If (0 != substr(argv[0], "sigma")) { // random crash
}
>if it plays as a regular CD in a regular CD
>player, then what the hell stops me from ripping
>it?
Surprise!! Don't you think they'll deliberately make the CD part sound crappy?
Who cares. If I were to make my own contents, I'd put them in Ogg Vorbis. Or MP3. Or CD. Heck, I might even record it to casettes.
Most people who have access to SACD players probably have what it needs to play almost all of the above formats anyways.
If your contents are good, they won't care.
Okay. The fact that the size of the sets are equal is actually really trivial. I was just posting my first thought if I were to attack the problem - I wanted to know what you guys think FIRST if you were to try solving this. :)
It was the last time I saw Linux Radeon drivers.
Apparently if you have a really fast Rage 128 games like Q3 will run fast. But who needs a fast Rage 128...we need drivers that treat an N-generation card as such, not an (N-1) generation card.
So my true questions are: do the _current_ drivers support
1. hardware T&L?
2. vertex shaders?
3. pixel shaders?
4. FSAA / SmoothVision?
and last but not least,
5. TV-out / Multiple monitor / Video-in?
Have anyone noticed this buzzword used by every Microsoft lobbying effort after 9/11 just to trying to give the probably fake impression of Microsoft being "patriotic"?
Somebody has to wake up.
Is the set of all palindromic numbers of the same 'size' as all natural numbers?
[Tk]Assassin: WHERE ARE YOU!! STOP CAMPING and COME OUT
|AMG|n00b-killa: Hold on, almost done...washroom near bomb site B...
Cool and thanks for the pointer.
:)
I installed it - the procedure is not standard at all - I have to go thru some minor hurdles to make the source tarball install on my Slackware box, and I only get O.K. speed (it is slower than Proxomitron with its default config file).
I hate the fact the install scripts force people to create a new user "privoxy". I took that off so root owns everything, and everybody can run.
Other than the occasional "cyclic link" error I get from Konqueror, it seems to work just fine. I hope they'll refine that autoconf file a bit.
Last but not least...WHY THE HELL SHOULD I RUN autoheader AND autoconf MYSELF? It should provide a configure file, just like every other source tarball does.
End or rant.
come to think about it...why XML for word processors? It'd be a perfect world if they can just agree on a set of shared TeX scripts and macros, and use TeX as the default format!!
Yeah, it's a bit overrated...but one of the big deal is, you no longer have to write parsers if you don't want to. Generic XML parsers will do the job for you...
It is exactly his point. Code *compiled* with a new compiler version (say a .so) ->*_SHOULD_*- be interoperable with code *compiled* with older compiler verions.
.dll's compiled with MSVC 4.2. Nobody needs to even recompile anything.
Things compiled with MSVC 6.0 works with
There's nothing special or great about source compatibility. It is a _requirement_ plain and simple. You're not supposed to change source code just to make them compile with several versions of the same compiler.
What we're talking about here is BINARY compatibility.
>I am still waiting for EULA in general to be
>challenged in court.
Do it yourself. Write a simple program with a very stupid EULA and I'm sure somebody will sue you for a damage of $1 and set a precedence.
sorry, there are a lot of native Linux proxys, but NONE of them offers the flexibility of Proxomitron, including the one you post (and any derivative of Junkbuster).
i'll only consider a proxy which offers to edit the web pages in real time using regular expression matches (what Proxomitron does) as a replacement.
Great program, and it even runs under WINE. (I use it everyday on my Slackware box!)
Sidenote:
You do realize that Bill Gates is not the CEO of Microsoft and he is exactly what you said an Engineer....oh well
I'm with jtdubs on this issue.
:)
Two years ago I worked for a company on a project to write an OpenGL 1.2 driver from scratch, for a video card company's chip (I cannot tell you its name, let's just say it has a Voodoo Banshee level performance)
Near the beginning of the development, we wrote VERY simple OpenGL programs to test the driver, rendering at most 10 triangles at a time, triggering features like stencil buffer, texture, etc.
Near the end of the development, we used GLQuake and Quake 2 for testing, as well as the suite from SGI.
Even if your card / driver works with the SGI suite, it might not work with the games - but it DOESN'T mean that the game developers should tailor their games to work with all video cards - yes, even in the real world.
The reason? With standards like OpenGL, the responsibility of keeping things compatible shifts from the game / engine developers to the shoulders of device driver developers.
Did Carmack predict the coming of the almighty Radeon 9700 or the GeForce4 or the crappy SiS video chips or the newest Trident chips when he wrote Quake2? No. Does it work for these chips? Yes, all of them. It's a proof that nowadays, game developers no longer need to ensure compatibility on video cards as long as the game follows a standard. They may still like to study the most popular chips for speed optimizations, but after that the same code base still works for other video cards nonetheless, albeit maybe a little slower.
Someone still have to work hard to ensure compatibility - but these people are no longer the game programmers but driver developers.
Turned out, the flaws exhibited in the games were still bugs in our driver not taking care of multiple states properly - and it was eventually fixed. However, it had absolutely nothing to do with Carmack's code not working with the new chip.
You get the idea
d00d,
you've got DAWZ!
What do pigeons like?
Put a META tag containing the follow words:
grain, rice, corn, worms, wheat - worked like a charm. You get the idea.