The vast majority of Windows desktops are still running the 32-bit version of Windows XP, and that's not going to change until businesses decide they have a compelling reason to upgrade.
Ah, you mean in a year or two when the machine is upgraded.
Huh - I've never heard of a retail outlet that failed because of women stealing bras from the packages, but it's still illegal and wrong.
So you'd think it's appropriate to rig the bras to be uncomfortable when worn to make them harder to steal, and to punish store thieves by making them pay 2000x the cost of the bra in restitution?
I write music for a living...I should only get paid for the first copy sold?
The whole fucking point of this article is to find out if that is a fear with any basis in reality. If you really do write music you're only hurting yourself by not understanding what really goes on.
You gotta be kidding. There have been Flash animations like this available for years. I guess this is an example of a patent process gone wrong.
What eBook reader were you playing Flash animations on?
One or more pages are displayed on a touch display. A page-turning gesture directed to a displayed page is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page turn is displayed on the touch display. The virtual page turn actively follows the page-turning gesture. The virtual page turn curls a lifted portion of the page to progressively reveal a back side of the page while progressively revealing a front side of a subsequent page. A lifted portion of the page is given an increased transparency that allows the back side of the page to be viewed through the front side of the page. A page-flipping gesture quickly flips two or more pages.
Returning the materials to Earth's surface just seems to be a waste of energy as we already have most of what we need here. Building a viable space station or moon base is worth way more.
Only if building it in orbit is cheaper than building it on the surface and launching it. No gravity and no atmosphere are huge hindrances to construction.
I know I'm not the only one expecting a device that would allow me to enjoy some backyard astronomy anytime, anywhere. I am very disappointed.
I found a portable device that'll let you do this here. Side effects include soreness of hands and shoulders and an occupation of physical space, but if you have an attractive neighbor it evens out.
Todays games are larger, yes. But today we have different tooling. Yes, it's not that hard to build a platform game like super mario 1. Unless you only have an assembler, 40K of ROM, 2K of RAM, a CPU at slightly less then 2Mhz and a GPU with some strict timing requirements.
Even with those limitations, you still had far far fewer goals to reach to create a game back then. I think we all respect that the work was difficult and lots of skill was involved, but putting games into a 3-d environment didn't make anything simpler. Go back and look at the evolution of the camera in 3d games, that might give you a better perspective on the difficulty of building a game like that.
Hang on, this is not a troll. It's an answer to his question! The reason noisy Opera fanboys like me get noisy is because noisy FireFox fanboys would crow about how FireFox was being innovative when IE wasn't. They were completely unaware that most of the features they were tauting were inspired by Opera. They'd make these grandiose statements about how they were all about 'choice', but stories about Opera were met with questions about why Slashdot'd even bring it up.
The only silver lining here is that it's nowhere near as bad today as it was a few years ago. But us Opera zealots, we remember, and we're noisy for it. Sorry.
After 40 years of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that drawing alpha-numeric challenges on a ray-tube was challenging. Different ball-of-wax with vector displays, too.
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Is there a reason they can't go above the artificial limit of 192 GB?
Is there a realistic way of testing it past that amount?
The vast majority of Windows desktops are still running the 32-bit version of Windows XP, and that's not going to change until businesses decide they have a compelling reason to upgrade.
Ah, you mean in a year or two when the machine is upgraded.
What price range were you expecting for 'fastest video card'?
Huh - I've never heard of a retail outlet that failed because of women stealing bras from the packages, but it's still illegal and wrong.
So you'd think it's appropriate to rig the bras to be uncomfortable when worn to make them harder to steal, and to punish store thieves by making them pay 2000x the cost of the bra in restitution?
I write music for a living...I should only get paid for the first copy sold?
The whole fucking point of this article is to find out if that is a fear with any basis in reality. If you really do write music you're only hurting yourself by not understanding what really goes on.
If you put it on a device that doesn't use a touch screen, but a mouse instead, you've (theoretically) circumvented the patent.
As a side effect, you've also explored a new avenue of input devices that you wouldn't have before.
You gotta be kidding. There have been Flash animations like this available for years. I guess this is an example of a patent process gone wrong.
What eBook reader were you playing Flash animations on?
One or more pages are displayed on a touch display. A page-turning gesture directed to a displayed page is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page turn is displayed on the touch display. The virtual page turn actively follows the page-turning gesture. The virtual page turn curls a lifted portion of the page to progressively reveal a back side of the page while progressively revealing a front side of a subsequent page. A lifted portion of the page is given an increased transparency that allows the back side of the page to be viewed through the front side of the page. A page-flipping gesture quickly flips two or more pages.
Returning the materials to Earth's surface just seems to be a waste of energy as we already have most of what we need here. Building a viable space station or moon base is worth way more.
Only if building it in orbit is cheaper than building it on the surface and launching it. No gravity and no atmosphere are huge hindrances to construction.
you spend an oddly large amount of time planning to break into sewers. Personally I put most of my effort into avoiding rivers of shit.
You think it's easy disguising this half-shell on my back?
How better to sell a product, than to know what the customer is currently buying?
Umm just about any way would be better. "Hi! Want to buy our cheaper stuff?" "Shoulda asked me last week before I bought this stuff."
Could you point out what is wrong in this scenario.
You said 15 years. Thanks to DRM that wish is improbable. You won't even be starting the games, let alone playing them on-line.
Oh, that's right, nothing. It just doesn't fit in with your bias.
Wow. Getting a bit defensive, aren't we? Your cockiness backfired and your accusation of bias has yielded comical results.
So do you want to discuss now or do you just want to argue?
I thought 'really really useful' would have a more interesting meaning than "SPAM PEOPLE WHO'VE ALREADY PURCHASED THE PRODUCTS THEY NEED". My bad.
Okay, that's kinda useful. What about 'really really useful'?
"How much Cisco equipment have you bought in the last year" then it could be VERY VERY useful to their competitors.
How would that data be VERY VERY useful?
(I'm not asking to argue, I'm asking to understand.)
Assuming they weren't arm-twisted into it, I'd say it's cool that they notified everybody.
Shouldn't the /. Bill Gates Borg icon appear on this story?
Why would they start using that icon correctly now?
I know I'm not the only one expecting a device that would allow me to enjoy some backyard astronomy anytime, anywhere. I am very disappointed.
I found a portable device that'll let you do this here. Side effects include soreness of hands and shoulders and an occupation of physical space, but if you have an attractive neighbor it evens out.
IMHO there's been way too many leaks lately. I smell covered-up, underground marketing techniques.
IMHO there's been way too many accusations of underground marketing. I smell cover-up, karma whoring techniques.
6. Get free content from the distributor (thanks valve and stardock).
7. Play the game 15 years later on your modern gaming PC.
Heh. I'm guessing the dips that modded this up didn't read to the end.
Todays games are larger, yes. But today we have different tooling.
Yes, it's not that hard to build a platform game like super mario 1. Unless you only have an assembler, 40K of ROM, 2K of RAM, a CPU at slightly less then 2Mhz and a GPU with some strict timing requirements.
Even with those limitations, you still had far far fewer goals to reach to create a game back then. I think we all respect that the work was difficult and lots of skill was involved, but putting games into a 3-d environment didn't make anything simpler. Go back and look at the evolution of the camera in 3d games, that might give you a better perspective on the difficulty of building a game like that.
Hang on, this is not a troll. It's an answer to his question! The reason noisy Opera fanboys like me get noisy is because noisy FireFox fanboys would crow about how FireFox was being innovative when IE wasn't. They were completely unaware that most of the features they were tauting were inspired by Opera. They'd make these grandiose statements about how they were all about 'choice', but stories about Opera were met with questions about why Slashdot'd even bring it up.
The only silver lining here is that it's nowhere near as bad today as it was a few years ago. But us Opera zealots, we remember, and we're noisy for it. Sorry.
It floors me to see people who are supposedly intelligent talking like this.
Boy, I know how you feel.
Woosh.
Heh well I suppose you have a point... wouldn't it be nice if we could do a swap? Have Bush handle this disaster and have Obama handle 9-11?
After 40 years of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that drawing alpha-numeric challenges on a ray-tube was challenging. Different ball-of-wax with vector displays, too.
Why would it matter who came up with any given feature first?
Mainly because Opera is unfairly pooped on here.
Are you complaining that the copyright is too long or saying his family shouldn't be collecting after death?