I really really tried to like Netbeans, but had to change back to Eclipse since, when we imported our application, Netbeans would not only crash(while attempting to parse the source), but give false compiler error messages when encountering some of the more advanced usages of generics.
I taught myself x86 assembly and DOS API programming when i was 14, and wrote my own virus just to see if i could. I actually borrowed code from another virus, i think it was called NoFrills, that i had found on my of disks and used parts of it's memory routines. Doing this taught me a great deal about interrupts, routines, and assembly programming. I personally think virus writing should be a pre-requisite in all programming courses, sure viruses can be bad, but the techniques and things you learn (interrupt hooking, allocating memory without using the OS, callbacks, polymorphism, opening and reading files, method vtables(the same thing C++ uses)) can be used in all sorts of other areas. I remember using Thunderbyte Anti-virus to test it, and trying to hide my virus from it's scanners as much as i could:P
The previous announcements were like seeing an iceberg with a telescope from a distance. You're pretty sure it's ice, it looks like ice, the radar says it's ice, it's about where you would expect ice to be, but you can't actually be certain it's ice until you go over to it and get your tongue stuck while licking it.
"You humans are SO ugly, that I get my kids to behave by holding a picture of you behind my back
and I tell the kids that if they aren't good, I'll show it to them!
I am such a bad father (sob!) I must destroy you... for the children!"
Massive damage eh? Will there be real time weapon change and actual historical battles that take place in japan with giant enemy crabs that you flip over?
This would mean that video game graphics would get arbitrarily "better and better" on newer hardware, without any need for someone to change the code. A few games have already applied this idea.
Quake 3(and i assume 4 as well as the quake3 derivatives) use Curved surfaces, Messiah i believe used models that had millions of polygons, and the game engine automatically applied LOD when rendering them to keep a good FPS.
With newer and bigger storage there really is no reason NOT to ship with full resolution images and model definitions/meshes on the DVD, and then scale them down to fit the machine during run-time, it's just a shame more developers don't consider doing this.
I will maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers
I will abstain from all offensive personality
I'd say he didn't follow his own oath very closely, making any criticism of someone else oath hypocritical in the extreme.
I wonder if they read a similar paper from a year ago?
RYAN M. KELLOGG and Hendrik Wolff, "Does Extending Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from an Australian Experiment" (February 14, 2007). Center for the Study of Energy Markets. Paper CSEMWP-163. http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucei/csem/CSEMWP-163
Maybe there should be some kind of central place we could all use to search for papers that have some bearing our subject matter?
so go buy a fucking CD you torrented or something, okay?
I did, it was a Sarah McLachlan song, after that i liked it so much i went and bought every album she made, then i bought the music video DVD and if she ever did a Live concert near my city I'd be the first to buy tickets. Not everyone is an amoral hooligan, some actually do care and want to support artists. Funnily enough she is part of the Canadian music creators coalition so she probably wouldn't mind so much that it was torrented in the first place.
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This software is licensed to you only for the reproduction of music and/or video that you own or have the expressed right to use as the software allows. Any attempt to reproduce copyrighted material that you are not expressly permitted to use is not legal, not good for the economy, and not nice. Furthermore, it is not cool, it is not kosher, nor is it the kind of thing that your parents would be proud of. Put the kibosh on it. Hey, are you reading this thing? I didn't think so. Nobody ever really does, do they? Except the lawyers who write it. Think about it - you're a lawyer, making god-knows-how-much and hour, and this is the best you can come up with? Lame.
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This License allows you to install and use the Virgin Digital Software. The Virgin Digital software, and all other software made available by Virgin Digital on or through the Service, are protected by intellectual property laws and your use of them is governed by this Agreement as well as any applicable end-user license agreements. You may not reverse engineer it. You may not copy it. You can take an occasional screenshot if you want to show family & friends, but that's about it. Please don't hack it. We worked really hard on this thing. Okay, finally, we recently saw the following disclaimer on a competitor's usage agreement: "THE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE." What does that mean? Who would use music software to operate a nuclear facility? Did they put that disclaimer in because at one point someone did in fact navigate an airplane by using their music software? Is that even possible? I can't imagine it is, but hey, if they feel that it's necessary to put that stuff in a software usage agreement, well then so do we. Needless to say, when we think about it, we get pretty creeped out.
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The Virgin Digital Service affords you the unique and thrilling opportunity to experience 30 second samples of music and to stream, download and think about digitized sound recordings and related nifty digital content. To access the Service, you will need to install or activate Virgin Digital's proprietary software application; occasionally, you may also be required to install other software made available through the Service (collectively this is referred to as the "Client" - do you think our lawyer named this for us?). You may also need to install certain third-party software, although we have no idea what that might be. You are responsible for any hardware, systems and/or software program(
The single best thing in most Linux Window Managers i think is the alt-right-click-resize/alt-left-click-move. I so dearly want that in Windows because i find it invaluable, no need to try to position the mouse of a tiny 10pixel wide border, just alt right-click near the edge you want to resize and drag, it's so usefull and obvious.
but click-click... click-click is about as simple as it can possibly get. And no motion sickness! I beg to differ. Some of the window managers in Linux allow you to just roll the middle mouse when your mouse is over the title bar.
Still.. how is it, review sites were able to get the full version of SP1 before technet subscribers? As mentioned in the original story, some subscribers pay thousands of dollars to be members of MSDN and TechNet and yet Computerworld reviewers got it first?. Problems with drivers? I thought the whole point of getting it out to the TechNet community was so they could test this and make up workaround for when they decide to deploy it, i also hazard a guess that they are fully capable of working around such issues.
I agree, i never had a huge issue with UAC. But i had played with turning it off and on. Because the Adobe Reader requires it to be on, i had to turn it on, but i had some issues with Steam not installing, so i had to turn it off. As i mentioned, a few times doing this and my registry crapped itself, it's hard to explain, suffice to say that there were entries in the permission on most keys that didn't even have accounts or names associated with them, just the Security ID, really weird. Then programs wouldn't save their settings, and things just got out of hand. Re-install was not really an option, so i just turned it all off and haven't had a program since.
I have the 32bit-x86 version, and my only issue was with UAC and the virtualization. After turning it off and on a couple of times(so apps could install etc), my registry permissions were a total mess, nothing made sense anymore, applications couldn't write or save things, its was horrible(and many others have had this same problem). Then i found a way to turn off UAC AND the virtualization and now it acts just like WinXP.. Much more happy now and the only other issue i have is with my Logitech USB headset which Microsoft decided to remove support for(no, there are no "drivers" for it, it's supposed to be part of usbaudio.sys).
I really hope the service pack doesn't curl up and die because i turned UAC and virtualization off.
Ah, you forgot they give you the right NOT to transfer your account to someone else, they give you the right NOT to re-sell your game, they give you the right NOT to complain if a publisher charges too much (eg, Call of Duty 4 for Aussies ), they give you the right NOT to loan your game, they give you the right NOT to complain when they delete your thread from the forums... Yes.. seems they give you lots of RIGHTS..
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I really really tried to like Netbeans, but had to change back to Eclipse since, when we imported our application, Netbeans would not only crash(while attempting to parse the source), but give false compiler error messages when encountering some of the more advanced usages of generics.
I taught myself x86 assembly and DOS API programming when i was 14, and wrote my own virus just to see if i could. I actually borrowed code from another virus, i think it was called NoFrills, that i had found on my of disks and used parts of it's memory routines. Doing this taught me a great deal about interrupts, routines, and assembly programming. I personally think virus writing should be a pre-requisite in all programming courses, sure viruses can be bad, but the techniques and things you learn (interrupt hooking, allocating memory without using the OS, callbacks, polymorphism, opening and reading files, method vtables(the same thing C++ uses)) can be used in all sorts of other areas. I remember using Thunderbyte Anti-virus to test it, and trying to hide my virus from it's scanners as much as i could :P
The previous announcements were like seeing an iceberg with a telescope from a distance. You're pretty sure it's ice, it looks like ice, the radar says it's ice, it's about where you would expect ice to be, but you can't actually be certain it's ice until you go over to it and get your tongue stuck while licking it.
It does sound like something the Vux would say..
"You humans are SO ugly, that I get my kids to behave by holding a picture of you behind my back and I tell the kids that if they aren't good, I'll show it to them! I am such a bad father (sob!) I must destroy you... for the children!"
But, it is available to be bought outright from one of those 3 unlocked from the network allowing you to use it on any other network you want.
MASSIVE DAMAGE
Massive damage eh? Will there be real time weapon change and actual historical battles that take place in japan with giant enemy crabs that you flip over?
Coz Google is SOOO hard to use.. here you go
Morrowind supports Continuous Tessellation and N-Patch rendering if you have an ATI card, and turn it on using tweaking tools.
With newer and bigger storage there really is no reason NOT to ship with full resolution images and model definitions/meshes on the DVD, and then scale them down to fit the machine during run-time, it's just a shame more developers don't consider doing this.
I will maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers
I will abstain from all offensive personality
I'd say he didn't follow his own oath very closely, making any criticism of someone else oath hypocritical in the extreme.
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I wonder if they read a similar paper from a year ago?
RYAN M. KELLOGG and Hendrik Wolff, "Does Extending Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from an Australian Experiment" (February 14, 2007). Center for the Study of Energy Markets. Paper CSEMWP-163.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucei/csem/CSEMWP-163
Maybe there should be some kind of central place we could all use to search for papers that have some bearing our subject matter?
Take the Virgin Digital one for example:
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NOTICE
This software is licensed to you only for the reproduction of music and/or video that you own or have the expressed right to use as the software allows. Any attempt to reproduce copyrighted material that you are not expressly permitted to use is not legal, not good for the economy, and not nice. Furthermore, it is not cool, it is not kosher, nor is it the kind of thing that your parents would be proud of. Put the kibosh on it. Hey, are you reading this thing? I didn't think so. Nobody ever really does, do they? Except the lawyers who write it. Think about it - you're a lawyer, making god-knows-how-much and hour, and this is the best you can come up with? Lame.
WARRANTY
The usage of the Virgin Digital software is at your sole risk, and all risk as to all aspects of the service including quality, accuracy, and performance is on you. Yes, we worked hard to make this thing great. But, regardless, it is provided "as is" and without any warranty at all. Should the software not work correctly (or affect the performance of your toaster or other small appliances in your home), you assume the entire cost of any servicing or correction. Sorry if this sounds harsh. If it helps, think of this past paragraph being read aloud by a chorus of small leprechauns. With lisps. And gas. There, that's better.
PERMITTED USES
This License allows you to install and use the Virgin Digital Software. The Virgin Digital software, and all other software made available by Virgin Digital on or through the Service, are protected by intellectual property laws and your use of them is governed by this Agreement as well as any applicable end-user license agreements. You may not reverse engineer it. You may not copy it. You can take an occasional screenshot if you want to show family & friends, but that's about it. Please don't hack it. We worked really hard on this thing. Okay, finally, we recently saw the following disclaimer on a competitor's usage agreement: "THE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE." What does that mean? Who would use music software to operate a nuclear facility? Did they put that disclaimer in because at one point someone did in fact navigate an airplane by using their music software? Is that even possible? I can't imagine it is, but hey, if they feel that it's necessary to put that stuff in a software usage agreement, well then so do we. Needless to say, when we think about it, we get pretty creeped out.
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
The Virgin Digital Service affords you the unique and thrilling opportunity to experience 30 second samples of music and to stream, download and think about digitized sound recordings and related nifty digital content. To access the Service, you will need to install or activate Virgin Digital's proprietary software application; occasionally, you may also be required to install other software made available through the Service (collectively this is referred to as the "Client" - do you think our lawyer named this for us?). You may also need to install certain third-party software, although we have no idea what that might be. You are responsible for any hardware, systems and/or software program(
The single best thing in most Linux Window Managers i think is the alt-right-click-resize/alt-left-click-move. I so dearly want that in Windows because i find it invaluable, no need to try to position the mouse of a tiny 10pixel wide border, just alt right-click near the edge you want to resize and drag, it's so usefull and obvious.
Still.. how is it, review sites were able to get the full version of SP1 before technet subscribers? As mentioned in the original story, some subscribers pay thousands of dollars to be members of MSDN and TechNet and yet Computerworld reviewers got it first?. Problems with drivers? I thought the whole point of getting it out to the TechNet community was so they could test this and make up workaround for when they decide to deploy it, i also hazard a guess that they are fully capable of working around such issues.
Yeah there is a really good post here by the developers of Sins explaining their take on Copy Protection.
I agree, i never had a huge issue with UAC. But i had played with turning it off and on. Because the Adobe Reader requires it to be on, i had to turn it on, but i had some issues with Steam not installing, so i had to turn it off. As i mentioned, a few times doing this and my registry crapped itself, it's hard to explain, suffice to say that there were entries in the permission on most keys that didn't even have accounts or names associated with them, just the Security ID, really weird. Then programs wouldn't save their settings, and things just got out of hand. Re-install was not really an option, so i just turned it all off and haven't had a program since.
I have the 32bit-x86 version, and my only issue was with UAC and the virtualization. After turning it off and on a couple of times(so apps could install etc), my registry permissions were a total mess, nothing made sense anymore, applications couldn't write or save things, its was horrible(and many others have had this same problem). Then i found a way to turn off UAC AND the virtualization and now it acts just like WinXP.. Much more happy now and the only other issue i have is with my Logitech USB headset which Microsoft decided to remove support for(no, there are no "drivers" for it, it's supposed to be part of usbaudio.sys). I really hope the service pack doesn't curl up and die because i turned UAC and virtualization off.
Guess you havn't read Valve's EULA for Steam recently.
Ah, you forgot they give you the right NOT to transfer your account to someone else, they give you the right NOT to re-sell your game, they give you the right NOT to complain if a publisher charges too much (eg, Call of Duty 4 for Aussies ), they give you the right NOT to loan your game, they give you the right NOT to complain when they delete your thread from the forums... Yes.. seems they give you lots of RIGHTS..