No, the GPL is viral. They would have to supply the source code to people that bought the game. They don't have to supply it everybody, but they do have to supply it to people who bought the game and ask for the source. They can charge for the source, but no more then they charged for the game itself.
Now, the above holds true ONLY if the libarc is true GPL. If it's LGPL then it's non-issue. The below quote is straight from the GNU site:
Q: You have a GPL'ed program that I'd like to link with my code to build a proprietary program. Does the fact that I link with your program mean I have to GPL my program? A: Yes.
So, yes..if they linked to libarc then they would have to GPL ICO as well.
The LGPL is a good license. BSD is a good license. GPLv2 is a maybe license, the GPLv3 is shit.
Taking somebodies code and making is disappear sucks, but taking someones code and giving credit while using it in a closed app..I don't get why this is such a big deal? Some companies make money selling support for open apps while others make money selling closed apps. Let the market decide vs. forcing the GPL and it's uber linkage pawnage down everyones throat. Software should stand on it's merits, not on it's license.
So, how is this different then Symantec, Ad-Aware, Spybot or any other type of scanner that is setup to automatically run, check for online updates, etc...which could also easily be sending information in found about your system, etc... back to home base? They all scan your registry, files, zipfiles, etc... yet you trust them? Personally, I trust Blizzard a lot more then I trust Symantec or Mcafee.
Farmers, hackers, cheaters are annoying as fuck. If Blizz has to run a "virus" scan on my comp now and again to check for them I don't have an issue with it.
I have a OpenBSD box (486 old HP box) with 2 NICs in it. It runs PF and filters everything. That's all it does. It's far better, far more flexible and far more secure then any $40 Linksys "device" you can buy. Plunk a $2000 PIX down next to it and we'll talk.
Also, who do you think programs the Linksys devices. It's all humans and I would venture to state one who cares less about his work then does a OpenBSD developer.
PF is "software" firewall. Once you know it you can rival any dedicated hardware device for security. Throw in a proxy service "filter" on your local box and you've suddenly got a better setup then the 95%+ of the dedicated hardware firewalls out there.
I don't remember some of those, but I'm a young one. I must say that that compared to some of the British magazines (Linux Format, Linux Sys Admin and User, etc..) that the American magazines have pretty piss poor content. If it didn't cost over $100 for 13 issues I would have a subscription to them in a heart beat. They are SOOOO much better. Same goes for the gaming magazines. They aren't as afraid to call a lemon a lemon or a dud a dud. Linux Journal isn't bad, but often times it just misses the boat on topics.
Are there any drawbacks to using ZFS as a replacement for HFS+? Yeap. It's new. It hasn't been fully tested and may or may not cause instability. In addition, for most people it isn't going to help them or offer them anything new.
The large movie houses, animation studios and ad agencies might want this, but that's about it.
The one problem here is that, barring allergies, I can eat in any of those restaurants and still digest the food. The airlines all interface about the same with the user and most of the planes are made by either Boeing or Airbus these days. The cars all work the same and interface the same and just have different skins.
The same can't be said about Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Be, etc.... Windows has the market share and it doesn't play nice even with it's own versions. It's impossible to purchase X software for Windows and then have it work across the other platforms. They are not interchangeable and as much as Wine wants to pretend it's Windows it doesn't cut it for the majority of apps. In addition, now you're pretending to be Windows and what incentive does that give for a developer to release native versions?
Personally, I think custom apps are fine and they stay platform specific that's great, but documents (think Word, PST and Flash) should be made more open. However, it's difficult to justify for a corp that they should do this.
Seriously. You can. CTRL-C and CTRL-V works just fine. Plus, you can normally just highlight and then middle-mouse click which is faster and *gasp* Windows doesn't do this. Think outside of the box?
The article states that Leopard is for small to medium size businesses. Okay. Apple, where is the small to medium size business hardware? Unless you're doing heavy duty image editing you do NOT need an xserve for a server in the small business environment. It is total overkill and a waste of money. Get a mac mini you say? Umm, no. There is no redundancy in the disks and the disk IO is slow. Where is the headless "Mac" tower that allows for SATA and SATA RAID? You've got mini's, iMac's, Mac Pros, so how about just a Mac? OS X Server is a kick-ass OS that would do wonders in many an office, but the cost of entry is far, far to high for the print / central word doc storage server crowd.
I play EVE. My char is about 6 months old and although I like the chatting with corp members, etc... the game really does just boil down to a IRC chat sessoion with pretty graphics while making money via mining, making ships, etc... the actual combat portion of the game is pointless and honestly, pretty boring. Any person with half a brain can select a load out, set their optimum distance for damage and hit their F1-F6 keys to fire their weapons. How I would improve EVE?
1) combat should be more like the old Wing Commander games where skill actually matters, not just the amount of training points. For those of the younger generation perhaps something more like Battlefront II's space combat, just with more weapons / defences / ship types. I should be able to execute a looping maneuver, outwit the ship following me and come up on his rear. Combat is far, far to automated.
2) A broader depth of content. I know their working on this and that it's hard.
3) Drop the fact that blowing the shit out of a CONCORD ship is considered a "hack" and against the rules of the game. If I want to park a Titan outside of a station in Hek and blow the crap out of everyone it should be up to the players and NPC game mechanics (calling up more troops, having the NPC corps place bounties on players, etc...) to fight against this. Simply having a distinct rule that says you can't do this is silly.
4) The ability to damage everything and anything. Want to blow up that stargate? Sure, go ahead. That space station in your way? See ya. Of course, do this too many times and the bounty on your head would be very, very large.
5) OS X, Linux and FreeBSD clients:)
EVE is so close to the perfect PvP AND PvE game that caters so well to both hard-core PvP'ers and carebears that you just want to scream. I believe more actual player toon interaction (walking around a space statoin, etc..) is being planned. It would be nice as well to able to land on some planets and possible starting doing some mining or something on planets.
Not a mature desktop platform yet? Ummm, Solaris was mature with CDE long before Gnome and KDE even had their diapers on. Solaris switching to Gnome took a step back as they tried to make all the whiz bang features work, but it still a good product as a workstation.
Step 1 would fail after reaching a specific library.
No, it doesn't. I've done it on old BSD servers. The shell is loaded in memory and the rm command is part of the shell. It does exactly what you tell it to:) Of course, as soon as you try and do anything after it's done running you're toast.
Not to mention, the next time you travel to say, Germany, and they won't let you in the country without a full fingerprint and retinal scan then what will you say? Of course, they will provide this info back to the FBI, etc.... due to government agreements. It's a 2 way street. In addition, I'm sorry to say you aren't any better or worse, worth more or less then any other person on this planet.
Ugh, no you haven't. The storage engine is how MySQL stores the actual data on disk. There are different formats, each have their own benefits, issues and work arounds. Think of MySQL as a SQL interpreter talking to different storage engines on the back. The default is MyISAM, but InnoDB and ISAM are others.
P.S. I would like to try installing Linux on this laptop. Do any of you linux users out there have the HP nc6320, and if so, what distro are you using? I'm just beginning to experiment with linux, so distro advice would be appreciated for this model.
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No, the GPL is viral. They would have to supply the source code to people that bought the game. They don't have to supply it everybody, but they do have to supply it to people who bought the game and ask for the source. They can charge for the source, but no more then they charged for the game itself.
Now, the above holds true ONLY if the libarc is true GPL. If it's LGPL then it's non-issue. The below quote is straight from the GNU site:
Q: You have a GPL'ed program that I'd like to link with my code to build a proprietary program. Does the fact that I link with your program mean I have to GPL my program?
A: Yes.
So, yes..if they linked to libarc then they would have to GPL ICO as well.
The LGPL is a good license. BSD is a good license. GPLv2 is a maybe license, the GPLv3 is shit.
Taking somebodies code and making is disappear sucks, but taking someones code and giving credit while using it in a closed app..I don't get why this is such a big deal? Some companies make money selling support for open apps while others make money selling closed apps. Let the market decide vs. forcing the GPL and it's uber linkage pawnage down everyones throat. Software should stand on it's merits, not on it's license.
Sounds to me like it basically just eats the MBR? Isn't there some OS X boot disk / utility to rebuild the MBR?
So, how is this different then Symantec, Ad-Aware, Spybot or any other type of scanner that is setup to automatically run, check for online updates, etc...which could also easily be sending information in found about your system, etc... back to home base? They all scan your registry, files, zipfiles, etc... yet you trust them? Personally, I trust Blizzard a lot more then I trust Symantec or Mcafee.
Farmers, hackers, cheaters are annoying as fuck. If Blizz has to run a "virus" scan on my comp now and again to check for them I don't have an issue with it.
I have a OpenBSD box (486 old HP box) with 2 NICs in it. It runs PF and filters everything. That's all it does. It's far better, far more flexible and far more secure then any $40 Linksys "device" you can buy. Plunk a $2000 PIX down next to it and we'll talk.
Also, who do you think programs the Linksys devices. It's all humans and I would venture to state one who cares less about his work then does a OpenBSD developer.
PF is "software" firewall. Once you know it you can rival any dedicated hardware device for security. Throw in a proxy service "filter" on your local box and you've suddenly got a better setup then the 95%+ of the dedicated hardware firewalls out there.
Wow. Troll +1. BMW is one of the top 10 best made cars in the world. Replace BMW with any American made vehicle and I might believe you.
I don't remember some of those, but I'm a young one. I must say that that compared to some of the British magazines (Linux Format, Linux Sys Admin and User, etc..) that the American magazines have pretty piss poor content. If it didn't cost over $100 for 13 issues I would have a subscription to them in a heart beat. They are SOOOO much better. Same goes for the gaming magazines. They aren't as afraid to call a lemon a lemon or a dud a dud. Linux Journal isn't bad, but often times it just misses the boat on topics.
Just my thoughts.
The large movie houses, animation studios and ad agencies might want this, but that's about it.
The one problem here is that, barring allergies, I can eat in any of those restaurants and still digest the food. The airlines all interface about the same with the user and most of the planes are made by either Boeing or Airbus these days. The cars all work the same and interface the same and just have different skins.
The same can't be said about Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Be, etc.... Windows has the market share and it doesn't play nice even with it's own versions. It's impossible to purchase X software for Windows and then have it work across the other platforms. They are not interchangeable and as much as Wine wants to pretend it's Windows it doesn't cut it for the majority of apps. In addition, now you're pretending to be Windows and what incentive does that give for a developer to release native versions?
Personally, I think custom apps are fine and they stay platform specific that's great, but documents (think Word, PST and Flash) should be made more open. However, it's difficult to justify for a corp that they should do this.
QT seems to work as well.
Seriously. You can. CTRL-C and CTRL-V works just fine. Plus, you can normally just highlight and then middle-mouse click which is faster and *gasp* Windows doesn't do this. Think outside of the box?
Okay. Well, at least get rid of the dual-proc and allow for a single processor.
The article states that Leopard is for small to medium size businesses. Okay. Apple, where is the small to medium size business hardware? Unless you're doing heavy duty image editing you do NOT need an xserve for a server in the small business environment. It is total overkill and a waste of money. Get a mac mini you say? Umm, no. There is no redundancy in the disks and the disk IO is slow. Where is the headless "Mac" tower that allows for SATA and SATA RAID? You've got mini's, iMac's, Mac Pros, so how about just a Mac? OS X Server is a kick-ass OS that would do wonders in many an office, but the cost of entry is far, far to high for the print / central word doc storage server crowd.
I play EVE. My char is about 6 months old and although I like the chatting with corp members, etc... the game really does just boil down to a IRC chat sessoion with pretty graphics while making money via mining, making ships, etc... the actual combat portion of the game is pointless and honestly, pretty boring. Any person with half a brain can select a load out, set their optimum distance for damage and hit their F1-F6 keys to fire their weapons. How I would improve EVE?
:)
1) combat should be more like the old Wing Commander games where skill actually matters, not just the amount of training points. For those of the younger generation perhaps something more like Battlefront II's space combat, just with more weapons / defences / ship types. I should be able to execute a looping maneuver, outwit the ship following me and come up on his rear. Combat is far, far to automated.
2) A broader depth of content. I know their working on this and that it's hard.
3) Drop the fact that blowing the shit out of a CONCORD ship is considered a "hack" and against the rules of the game. If I want to park a Titan outside of a station in Hek and blow the crap out of everyone it should be up to the players and NPC game mechanics (calling up more troops, having the NPC corps place bounties on players, etc...) to fight against this. Simply having a distinct rule that says you can't do this is silly.
4) The ability to damage everything and anything. Want to blow up that stargate? Sure, go ahead. That space station in your way? See ya. Of course, do this too many times and the bounty on your head would be very, very large.
5) OS X, Linux and FreeBSD clients
EVE is so close to the perfect PvP AND PvE game that caters so well to both hard-core PvP'ers and carebears that you just want to scream. I believe more actual player toon interaction (walking around a space statoin, etc..) is being planned. It would be nice as well to able to land on some planets and possible starting doing some mining or something on planets.
Not a mature desktop platform yet? Ummm, Solaris was mature with CDE long before Gnome and KDE even had their diapers on. Solaris switching to Gnome took a step back as they tried to make all the whiz bang features work, but it still a good product as a workstation.
Kinda like corn and ethanol?
GKG.net rocks!
An absolute waste of money. The only thing it's good for is making defense contractors richer.
Step 1 would fail after reaching a specific library.
:) Of course, as soon as you try and do anything after it's done running you're toast.
No, it doesn't. I've done it on old BSD servers. The shell is loaded in memory and the rm command is part of the shell. It does exactly what you tell it to
step 1: rm -Rf / step 2: install windows
step 3: Realize your productivity went out the window with Windows. step 4: Install FreeBSD.
Yeap. It's call Space Rangers 2 :)
I dunno, I always thought the best Trek game was Netrek :) It definitely made time in the computer lab go by much faster.
Not to mention, the next time you travel to say, Germany, and they won't let you in the country without a full fingerprint and retinal scan then what will you say? Of course, they will provide this info back to the FBI, etc.... due to government agreements. It's a 2 way street. In addition, I'm sorry to say you aren't any better or worse, worth more or less then any other person on this planet.
Ugh, no you haven't. The storage engine is how MySQL stores the actual data on disk. There are different formats, each have their own benefits, issues and work arounds. Think of MySQL as a SQL interpreter talking to different storage engines on the back. The default is MyISAM, but InnoDB and ISAM are others.
P.S. I would like to try installing Linux on this laptop. Do any of you linux users out there have the HP nc6320, and if so, what distro are you using? I'm just beginning to experiment with linux, so distro advice would be appreciated for this model.
Ubuntu and FreeBSD work fine on it.