That sounds great. Last I heard the US was not Utopia though. US (and other countries companies) will continue to attempt extracting water from stone and pushing the limits of what they can get away with. As my boss said to me once: "Don't worry what's 'right', this is the way it's done.
Despite this I agree with you; I am becoming a cynic as I age. Although, depsite being a cynic, I can still *personally* choose to choose right from wrong.
Well, they have said that if that scenario ever occurred that they'd release patches (for the activation stuff). I guess we just have to trust them at this point.
As for the hardcopy/softcopy, this is what backups are for (and steam makes it easy to burn to DVD for games you've downloaded).
By the way, if I were a cynic, I would absract the API; this way I can replace the underlying implementation from local to "cloud"; it'd sure make distributed applications easier (i.e. suddenly I decide to make my applications decentalised and executed over the internet rather than having a local app.)
Is that what Vista does (abstract the drivers even more and create an extra layer between the OS and kernel?) The OS should do the abstractation between itself and the hardware... any additional layers (your example, not allowing the drivers to access the kernel) doesn't make sense. There is no need for this additional layer; maybe this is why Vista has failed--they tried to make an OS that looks great on paper but in the real world is horrible. Sure, the OS should restrict and monitor kernal calls, but distancing itself from reality helps nobody.
Some of these "drivers" are millions of lines of c/c++. You would have to be insane to rewrite them from scratch. Nobody that I know writes drivers from scratch... it's always "porting".
Counter Strike Source hasn't been a trade secret since they released the game. Since it (CSS) is a game, I am pretty sure they cannot patent it--you can implement your own CSS, but maybe no one will play it. [/joke]
There is also a great book called "The Emerald Planet" by David Beerling which discusses lots of this (and other) stuff. I found it an interesting read.
Well, I'd have to be logged in to do that wouldn't I? What about new people coming here and seeing that crazy stuff? Or what if I just wanna quickly check/. from work without logging in. I can understand your point, and to an extent agree, but forcing Idle on people is a bit odd. The only thing that I can think of is that it's an odd way of enforced beta testing (i.e. idle is a place where the/. people are testing new ideas and they need as many eyes as possible).
I have been pretty tolerant of Idle, and thought that the Hate Mail stuff was mildly amusing (well, so long as I'm bored out of my brains). But, do we have to have this drivel on the front page? This idle CRAP gets more coverage (i.e. it's a fully 'expanded' headline) than many Programming or Games stories (which are often 'collapsed' abbreviated headlines). What is the purpose of diluting the front page of/. with these stupid stories? If I feel like a laugh I will go to The Onion. Thanks.
There is a fix/workaround for this behaviour--make sure that you do not connect to the internet. This way firefox never sees the update and the nag dialog to update never appears.
Yeah, just reading about that now. I found this on the Doom Wiki an interesting read. I think you're right about the "copy and paste" (maybe a *little* more complicated than that, but not much seeing as the ground work has already been done by the Doom porting people).
A bit of additional info is that the source code for both heretic and hexen are missing the sound libray... From the sourceforge page:
The DMX sound library is not included with the source due to license issues, so you won't be able to link until those sound calls are replaced or removed.
Probably -- that makes more sense than my poorly constructed sentence. But I still assert that the OP seems to misunderstand the semantic connotations of a hyphen:-)
that the Call of Duty 4 engine didn't make it onto the list. At first I thought it was because it was proprietary, but most (all?) of the other engines on the list are as well.
For me, the games that have astounded me (in order of my seeing them and being suitably impressed) are HL2, F.E.A.R. and CoD4. HL2 was for me the first semi-realistic fps. F.E.A.R showed me what a game engine can do, and had great "startle-factor". CoD4 showed me what a game engine combined with good gameplay and replay value can do (it's the first game I've _wanted_ to play more than once in single player, although it's a bit short).
I actually find the (gfx depiction of) characters from Call of Duty 4 much better than those in hl2 (even the more "modern" hl2-ep series). But you're right Alyx is a hottie (errr, or so I hear).
It might be related, I dunno (I am not a physicist, nor very good at maths), but as the black hole captures more mass it (intuitively) becomes more massive. As the mass increases shouldn't the "attraction" (i.e. gravity) between the black hole and matter external to the event horizon also increase. The point I am trying to make is that if the mass of the black hole can be infinite (it keeps collecting mass...), wouldn't that also mean that as the mass of the black hole approaches infinity that the speed of stuff being accelerated towards it also increases. And, if the mass of the black hole is approaching infinity, can the speed of the stuff being dragged in approach the speed of light?
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That sounds great. Last I heard the US was not Utopia though. US (and other countries companies) will continue to attempt extracting water from stone and pushing the limits of what they can get away with. As my boss said to me once: "Don't worry what's 'right', this is the way it's done.
Despite this I agree with you; I am becoming a cynic as I age. Although, depsite being a cynic, I can still *personally* choose to choose right from wrong.
And, that will get you into even more trouble. Encrypted things on your computer? Flag terrorist. Really.
Well, they have said that if that scenario ever occurred that they'd release patches (for the activation stuff). I guess we just have to trust them at this point.
As for the hardcopy/softcopy, this is what backups are for (and steam makes it easy to burn to DVD for games you've downloaded).
By the way, if I were a cynic, I would absract the API; this way I can replace the underlying implementation from local to "cloud"; it'd sure make distributed applications easier (i.e. suddenly I decide to make my applications decentalised and executed over the internet rather than having a local app.)
Is that what Vista does (abstract the drivers even more and create an extra layer between the OS and kernel?) The OS should do the abstractation between itself and the hardware... any additional layers (your example, not allowing the drivers to access the kernel) doesn't make sense. There is no need for this additional layer; maybe this is why Vista has failed--they tried to make an OS that looks great on paper but in the real world is horrible. Sure, the OS should restrict and monitor kernal calls, but distancing itself from reality helps nobody.
Some of these "drivers" are millions of lines of c/c++. You would have to be insane to rewrite them from scratch. Nobody that I know writes drivers from scratch... it's always "porting".
Counter Strike Source hasn't been a trade secret since they released the game. Since it (CSS) is a game, I am pretty sure they cannot patent it--you can implement your own CSS, but maybe no one will play it. [/joke]
Can DVDShrink be legally hosted in the USA? Or are they (the dvdshrink people) just choosing not to because they want to avoid legal problems?
As to your second paragraph, I am pretty sure that the MPAA/RIAA want to outlaw you programming your own tools to rip things... which is wrong.
What? You mean I am supposed to squint and that disgusting, horrid, nasty image will appear? Oh wait... brb.
There is also a great book called "The Emerald Planet" by David Beerling which discusses lots of this (and other) stuff. I found it an interesting read.
Interesting and informative link. Although, see: this ;-)
Well, I'd have to be logged in to do that wouldn't I? What about new people coming here and seeing that crazy stuff? Or what if I just wanna quickly check /. from work without logging in. I can understand your point, and to an extent agree, but forcing Idle on people is a bit odd. The only thing that I can think of is that it's an odd way of enforced beta testing (i.e. idle is a place where the /. people are testing new ideas and they need as many eyes as possible).
I have been pretty tolerant of Idle, and thought that the Hate Mail stuff was mildly amusing (well, so long as I'm bored out of my brains). But, do we have to have this drivel on the front page? This idle CRAP gets more coverage (i.e. it's a fully 'expanded' headline) than many Programming or Games stories (which are often 'collapsed' abbreviated headlines). What is the purpose of diluting the front page of /. with these stupid stories? If I feel like a laugh I will go to The Onion. Thanks.
There is a fix/workaround for this behaviour--make sure that you do not connect to the internet. This way firefox never sees the update and the nag dialog to update never appears.
Yeah, just reading about that now. I found this on the Doom Wiki an interesting read. I think you're right about the "copy and paste" (maybe a *little* more complicated than that, but not much seeing as the ground work has already been done by the Doom porting people).
I think some of us may be interested anyway.
A bit of additional info is that the source code for both heretic and hexen are missing the sound libray... From the sourceforge page:
The DMX sound library is not included with the source due to license issues, so you won't be able to link until those sound calls are replaced or removed.
That might be true. CoD4s engine is not something to laugh at though. Is it? I thought the tech was brilliant. I might be wrong.
Probably -- that makes more sense than my poorly constructed sentence. But I still assert that the OP seems to misunderstand the semantic connotations of a hyphen :-)
Mostly I agree with you. However, do you not understand the meaning of a hyphen between nouns means?
that the Call of Duty 4 engine didn't make it onto the list. At first I thought it was because it was proprietary, but most (all?) of the other engines on the list are as well.
For me, the games that have astounded me (in order of my seeing them and being suitably impressed) are HL2, F.E.A.R. and CoD4. HL2 was for me the first semi-realistic fps. F.E.A.R showed me what a game engine can do, and had great "startle-factor". CoD4 showed me what a game engine combined with good gameplay and replay value can do (it's the first game I've _wanted_ to play more than once in single player, although it's a bit short).
Interesting post. Thanks.
For example, I think the volume as seen from inside the black hole comes out infinite!
Ah huh! So they DO become infinately massive!
Ahh ok, that makes sense. Thanks mapsjanhere.
I actually find the (gfx depiction of) characters from Call of Duty 4 much better than those in hl2 (even the more "modern" hl2-ep series). But you're right Alyx is a hottie (errr, or so I hear).
It might be related, I dunno (I am not a physicist, nor very good at maths), but as the black hole captures more mass it (intuitively) becomes more massive. As the mass increases shouldn't the "attraction" (i.e. gravity) between the black hole and matter external to the event horizon also increase. The point I am trying to make is that if the mass of the black hole can be infinite (it keeps collecting mass...), wouldn't that also mean that as the mass of the black hole approaches infinity that the speed of stuff being accelerated towards it also increases. And, if the mass of the black hole is approaching infinity, can the speed of the stuff being dragged in approach the speed of light?
Well, duh