And here is the relevant Australian Trade Practices parts(it too took all of 3 seconds to find)
Section 53 - False or misleading representations
Bunch of stuff in here, mostly this bit
A corporation shall not, in trade or commerce, in connexion with the supply or possible supply of goods or services or in connexion with the promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods or services:
(d) represent that the corporation has a sponsorship, approval or affiliation it does not have;
(e) make a false or misleading representation with respect to the price of goods or services; Now there are exemptions specifically for Information providers. Section 65A - Application of provisions of Division to prescribed information providers
(1) Nothing in section 52, 53, 53A, 55, 55A or 59 applies to a prescribed publication of matter by a prescribed information provider, other than: ...
(b) a publication of an advertisement.
"prescribed information provider" means a person who carries on a business of providing information and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes:
(a) the holder of a licence granted under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 ; and
(aa) a person who is the provider of a broadcasting service under a class licence under that Act; and
(ab) the holder of a licence continued in force by subsection 5(1) of the Broadcasting Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1992 ; and
(b) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; and
(c) the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation. IANAL, but I would guess that's the bits they are trying to get Google and the Newspaper on. Funnily enough the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 specifies that Newspapers come under it's jurisdiction. SECT 52A
You'd have to wait if you used Eclipse. I guess the difference is Eclipse will build in the background and interrupt and cancel it if you either build again or attempt to quit. One of the advantages of having the ability built in from the beginning
In the article it mentions Visual Studio doesn't do automatic building. Well, that's kinda true. You can however, create a macro that will execute a build every time you press "ctrl-s" or press the "save" button. Visual Studio will only rebuild and re-link what changed, eg. the file you just edited. I did this for one of my projects and it worked pretty well.
You are free right up until you become "not-free". It's the illusion of freedom that most people have. There have been many many cases where people have thought they had the freedom to do something only to have it taken away when the government(or it's departments) decide they can. Sure you can shout things like that, but i guess those people protesting against George Bush who got herded into protest pens had the "freedom" to shout too.. As long as it was along way away from him. The difference as you said, you weren't suppressed, but in some countries(ie China) the government is honest and proactive about their restrictive policies whereas others are more lax and selective about what they enforce. Never forget though, they can and WILL enforce it if they want, and as Dennis Leary once said.. There ain't a god damn thing anybody can do about it.
I took the first point about "cracking" to mean, buy the game, then crack it. I don't think that's illegal and it's something i do with all my bought games.
Please please do yourself a favour if you can, and get rid of your Pentium-D. I had one and upgraded to a E6600, it's not just a small improvement, it's a HUGE one.
You know its funny. Here you are complaining about Bioshock's DRM/authentication mechanism and copyright, and yet.. you are buying the 360 version. You do realize that the XBOX 360(and every other console) is just one big hardware copyright protection mechanism don't you?
My first naive attempt would be to write a small daemon that watches the load on the CPU and installs/removes an iptables traffic policy that will throttle packets.
Actually, most game companies never touch the native Direct-X code. If you've ever used both OpenGL and Direct3D, you'll know why. D3D is an extremely low level hardware abstraction layer, much more so than OpenGL. Coding directly in D3D takes, on average, about twice as much support code as opposed to OpenGL.
Ummm. I have used and programmed in BOTH OpenGL and Direct3D and i'm sorry to say, that the only time D3D is "extremely low level" is when you are programming in 'retained' mode which doesn't even exist in D3D8 and up. As for the "twice as much support code". This is mainly to do with the fact that D3D is accessed through the COM interface. Some things take less code to do in Direct3D(render to texture) and some things are easier to do in OpenGL(matrix push/pop)
everything gets wrapped up in layers
Like onions!
Anyway, what was your point again? I missed it somewhere in the rambling and the onions. I think you were trying to say it's expensive to develop a cross platform 3D library for Windows and Linux and it's just not worth the effort and cost.
That's not execution. Thats more of using a quantum computer to determine when compiling the best sequence of operations to put out. That COULD indeed be represented as an appropriate quantum algorithm. And in the case of a Hotspot compiler (Java/.NET) it *could* make your programs execute faster at the expense of having to actually recompile every so often to update the performance changing parameters. Of course, since there are only 3 problems(factoring, discrete logarithm, and quantum physics simulations) that have been discovered that have any advantage even compiler output is doubtfull. Having said that though, perhaps Quake4 could use it to run it's physics simulations, but i have a feeling the hardware to do that won't be very cheap.
You wouldn't want a quantum based computer unless you had some type of problem that could be broken down into appropriate search spaces that are compatible with quantum based computing. You won't be seeing massive speedups in Quake 4 with this, you won't see Windows Xp/Vista start up any faster, that's not how they work.
For some non-American releases, references to Taco Bell were changed to Pizza Hut. This includes dubbing, plus changing the logos during post-production. Taco Bell remains in the closing credits. In the Swedish release the subtitles still use Taco Bell while the sound and picture has been altered as above.
What it means now is Lost Planet should support 9, 10 AND 10.1. It's not any of being "busier", it's an issue of money. If they have enough money to support all 3 types then good for them, but if not, they have to choose. There is alot of money needed to develop for all three API's, if your company can afford it, then good for you. If it can't, that's where the fear comes in.
No they arn't wrong. They both specify the worry. As a game developer you now have 3 choices. OpenGL, Direct3D 9, Direct3D 10 or Direct3D 10.1. Which one do you choose? Which one has the largest market? Do you choose Direct3D 9 and not be able to take full advantage of the hardware? Do you choose Direct3D 10.1 and hope everyone upgrades to new video cards? Do you choose Direct3D 10 and hope people have Vista? Do you choose OpenGL? Do you choose all 3 and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars doing something that may not even realize a profit? I would posit that it's a scary time right now for game studios.
Actually if you read the spreadsheet, the only thing Watch guard picked up was the EICAR test pattern.
Which is fairly easy to test since it's just a string of characters that make a fully workable DOS program..
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIR US-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
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And yet still puts Securom on their games...
(d) represent that the corporation has a sponsorship, approval or affiliation it does not have;
(e) make a false or misleading representation with respect to the price of goods or services;
Now there are exemptions specifically for Information providers. Section 65A - Application of provisions of Division to prescribed information providers
(1) Nothing in section 52, 53, 53A, 55, 55A or 59 applies to a prescribed publication of matter by a prescribed information provider, other than:
(b) a publication of an advertisement.
"prescribed information provider" means a person who carries on a business of providing information and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes:
(a) the holder of a licence granted under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 ; and
(aa) a person who is the provider of a broadcasting service under a class licence under that Act; and
(ab) the holder of a licence continued in force by subsection 5(1) of the Broadcasting Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1992 ; and
(b) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; and
(c) the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation.
IANAL, but I would guess that's the bits they are trying to get Google and the Newspaper on. Funnily enough the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 specifies that Newspapers come under it's jurisdiction. SECT 52A
Maybe if we can get Linux on it, and we can get a device to allow voice recording it can use Skype or some other VOIP system.
You'd have to wait if you used Eclipse. I guess the difference is Eclipse will build in the background and interrupt and cancel it if you either build again or attempt to quit. One of the advantages of having the ability built in from the beginning
In the article it mentions Visual Studio doesn't do automatic building. Well, that's kinda true. You can however, create a macro that will execute a build every time you press "ctrl-s" or press the "save" button. Visual Studio will only rebuild and re-link what changed, eg. the file you just edited. I did this for one of my projects and it worked pretty well.
You are free right up until you become "not-free". It's the illusion of freedom that most people have. There have been many many cases where people have thought they had the freedom to do something only to have it taken away when the government(or it's departments) decide they can. Sure you can shout things like that, but i guess those people protesting against George Bush who got herded into protest pens had the "freedom" to shout too.. As long as it was along way away from him. The difference as you said, you weren't suppressed, but in some countries(ie China) the government is honest and proactive about their restrictive policies whereas others are more lax and selective about what they enforce. Never forget though, they can and WILL enforce it if they want, and as Dennis Leary once said.. There ain't a god damn thing anybody can do about it.
The biggest trick the government ever pulled was convincing the citizen that he was free
I took the first point about "cracking" to mean, buy the game, then crack it. I don't think that's illegal and it's something i do with all my bought games.
You forget they are releasing a tool that will RESET all your activations if you forget to un-install it.
Please please do yourself a favour if you can, and get rid of your Pentium-D. I had one and upgraded to a E6600, it's not just a small improvement, it's a HUGE one.
You know its funny. Here you are complaining about Bioshock's DRM/authentication mechanism and copyright, and yet.. you are buying the 360 version. You do realize that the XBOX 360(and every other console) is just one big hardware copyright protection mechanism don't you?
Ahahah. Go watch the movie again, and this time pay attention.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
My first naive attempt would be to write a small daemon that watches the load on the CPU and installs/removes an iptables traffic policy that will throttle packets.
Like onions!
Anyway, what was your point again? I missed it somewhere in the rambling and the onions. I think you were trying to say it's expensive to develop a cross platform 3D library for Windows and Linux and it's just not worth the effort and cost.
Isn't Hans going to stand trial for murder or something? Because then that quote is even funnier.
That's not execution. Thats more of using a quantum computer to determine when compiling the best sequence of operations to put out. That COULD indeed be represented as an appropriate quantum algorithm. And in the case of a Hotspot compiler (Java/.NET) it *could* make your programs execute faster at the expense of having to actually recompile every so often to update the performance changing parameters. Of course, since there are only 3 problems(factoring, discrete logarithm, and quantum physics simulations) that have been discovered that have any advantage even compiler output is doubtfull. Having said that though, perhaps Quake4 could use it to run it's physics simulations, but i have a feeling the hardware to do that won't be very cheap.
You wouldn't want a quantum based computer unless you had some type of problem that could be broken down into appropriate search spaces that are compatible with quantum based computing. You won't be seeing massive speedups in Quake 4 with this, you won't see Windows Xp/Vista start up any faster, that's not how they work.
Would have been nice if you actually included links to your source material.
What it means now is Lost Planet should support 9, 10 AND 10.1. It's not any of being "busier", it's an issue of money. If they have enough money to support all 3 types then good for them, but if not, they have to choose. There is alot of money needed to develop for all three API's, if your company can afford it, then good for you. If it can't, that's where the fear comes in.
No they arn't wrong. They both specify the worry. As a game developer you now have 3 choices. OpenGL, Direct3D 9, Direct3D 10 or Direct3D 10.1. Which one do you choose? Which one has the largest market? Do you choose Direct3D 9 and not be able to take full advantage of the hardware? Do you choose Direct3D 10.1 and hope everyone upgrades to new video cards? Do you choose Direct3D 10 and hope people have Vista? Do you choose OpenGL? Do you choose all 3 and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars doing something that may not even realize a profit? I would posit that it's a scary time right now for game studios.
Actually if you read the spreadsheet, the only thing Watch guard picked up was the EICAR test pattern.
R US-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
Which is fairly easy to test since it's just a string of characters that make a fully workable DOS program..
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVI
A single piece of blank A4 white paper works for me, plus you can write on it if you need to jot down a quick note