Is the Doom3 test been released about a month or maybe two weeks before the windows test.
In previous releases idsoftware has released test versions of their games before the full release, in order to do some beta testing.
If they decide to release a linux version of Doom3, and given Carmack's good attitude towards open source and OpenGL, I really really would love if they go and piss off Mr Gates by releasing the test for Linux first.
I bet that a zillion gamers would install Linux just to be able to test Doom3. They have been waiting for years!!
You can use a crappy one just for this sort of stuff. It will have much more real state that an LCD and colors. And it's much simpler! just a second video card or a multihead one.
It looks like VHS is indeed dead. That means that DVD will go huge in the next couple of years, and this also means that the RIAA won't stand a chance to introduce a new video format with working copyright protection.
And the number of broadband users keeps growing...
What I most like of this theory is that hardware is a commodity today. If open source can turn software into a commodity, the real value will be in the people putting systems together (as the IBM example shows).
Most of the slashdot crowd are technical heads so I would say that it is in the best interest of most of us to get GPL'd stuff working, with the possible exception of packaged closed software developers, about 5% of all developers.
This way the money will go to us, instead of CEOs or marketing departments.
I see it more like co-developing stuff with other people. Lets say I want something and can't find finished GPLd software. I search for projects in sourceforge and try to get the stuff working. That benefits all the developers of the project, and me.
Lets put it in a different way. I needed a java project manager for my company. I found one, but it didn't work very well. I helped to iron out the bugs. My company got a __free__ project manager, except that they __paid__ me for my time. I got a great deal, the other developers of the project got help.
One advantage of this device (if it ever works) is that it can remove heat from the chip's hot spots and make the chips surface temperature even.
But this is not the main one. This is a heat _pump_, not only a dissipation unit, so it will make one side of itself cooler while making the other side hotter. The end result would be that the hot side of the device would be hotter than the chip would be without the device. And we all know that this would radiate/exchange heat with the enviroment quicker than the chip would. If you add a dissipation unit on top of the device, you can move more heat quicker.
If one of those warez people downloads one illegal aplication then M$ has the right to audit your institution in order to find it and charge them for the audit.
On their last release, Suse made a point about being LSB compliant.
Apparently Red Hat is not, but I don't see any comment about it. It seems to me that the linux people should follow their own standards. Is Red Hat planning to be LSB compliant any time soon?
"As part of Microsoft's campaign against the GPL, Bill Gates is personally coming to the front line to launch attacks."
I don't think the headline got the important bit about Gates' speech. He was there to push Microsoft's egoverment (passport) thingy into the U.S.A. goverment, and the open source question came from the delegates. He had to answer.
All his speech was about M$ having sold his egoverment stuff to UK and trying to use that as a selling point.
When asked about open source he tried to downplay the question with this "I dunno..." and jokes, like implying that the question wasn't sane, or something...
Also, he appelated to Capitalism (upercase intended) and Patriotism. Quite funny from a monopolistic multinational.
Anyways, I think the important bit is that they found a breach in the UK and they are using it to become the f*****g egoverment of the whole planet.
It calls for improvements in the ability to "exploit" enemy computer networks, and the integration of cyber-warfare into the overall nuclear war database "to enable more effective targeting, weaponeering, and combat assessment essential to the New Triad."
No wonder why the germans are looking at open source from a national security perspective!
I know that U.S.A. is not an enemy of EU, but looking at the fascist direction things are taking in the U.S.A. (Bush said: you are with me or against me) and the fact that computer software comes from U.S.A., Europe should be careful.
Could they stop MS shipping C# on the grounds that it is a java rip off, and it is bundled with windows , and only run on windows (as of yet).
Basically it is the same strategy they followed against Netscape, with impressive results. Create a clone of the competitor's product, bundle and integrate it into windows.
If MS weren't a monopoly it wouldn't be a problem to me. but...
Also, I am not taking tha position that they shouldn't be allowed to ship C#. I just say that Sun could take it in that direction.
Sorry, but Spain is in the European Comunity and we get imposed the same laws as the rest of Europe which are imposed to Europe by the U.S.A. and their corporations money.
Our politicians can be bought the same as yours, so you better move your ass, because you can vote on this things, but we can not (we have unelected bureaucrats making the calls, see the EU patent office).
" an enterprising company decides to make their own US-based USB ID controllers that match a local controller that isn't USian "
That will destroy what the USB ID is meant to achieve: A way to discriminate between devices. And if this happens a lot, people writing device drivers will have to care about incompatabilities between different physical devices with the same ID.
This has the potential to hit linux, if some of this devices are used on regular PCs.
"their more obfusticated rules seem to imply that with enough effort you can patent software by describing an invention of some kind that just happens to be implemented in software."
As a matter of fact, a friend of mine is patenting his application in the UK using exactly this method.
He was adviced to do so by lawyers, so they are quite certain that the software is patentable.
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I think the reason why all this discussion about kde is taking place is because most of us use it and that makes us feel strongly about it.
For the critics of kde I would ask them to think if they would take the time to talk about an unsuccessful project.
Why do they allways use the word "exciting". Do they copy and paste from each other?
Is the Doom3 test been released about a month or maybe two weeks before the windows test.
In previous releases idsoftware has released test versions of their games before the full release, in order to do some beta testing.
If they decide to release a linux version of Doom3, and given Carmack's good attitude towards open source and OpenGL, I really really would love if they go and piss off Mr Gates by releasing the test for Linux first.
I bet that a zillion gamers would install Linux just to be able to test Doom3. They have been waiting for years!!
Personally, I would use two monitors.
You can use a crappy one just for this sort of stuff. It will have much more real state that an LCD and colors. And it's much simpler! just a second video card or a multihead one.
As long as traffic is encripted (a la freenet) they won't be able to tell what is what.
So no, this won't work.
It looks like VHS is indeed dead. That means that DVD will go huge in the next couple of years, and this also means that the RIAA won't stand a chance to introduce a new video format with working copyright protection.
...
And the number of broadband users keeps growing
Oh well!
What I most like of this theory is that hardware is a commodity today. If open source can turn software into a commodity, the real value will be in the people putting systems together (as the IBM example shows).
Most of the slashdot crowd are technical heads so I would say that it is in the best interest of most of us to get GPL'd stuff working, with the possible exception of packaged closed software developers, about 5% of all developers.
This way the money will go to us, instead of CEOs or marketing departments.
I see it more like co-developing stuff with other people. Lets say I want something and can't find finished GPLd software. I search for projects in sourceforge and try to get the stuff working. That benefits all the developers of the project, and me.
Lets put it in a different way. I needed a java project manager for my company. I found one, but it didn't work very well. I helped to iron out the bugs. My company got a __free__ project manager, except that they __paid__ me for my time. I got a great deal, the other developers of the project got help.
One advantage of this device (if it ever works) is that it can remove heat from the chip's hot spots and make the chips surface temperature even.
But this is not the main one. This is a heat _pump_, not only a dissipation unit, so it will make one side of itself cooler while making the other side hotter. The end result would be that the hot side of the device would be hotter than the chip would be without the device. And we all know that this would radiate/exchange heat with the enviroment quicker than the chip would. If you add a dissipation unit on top of the device, you can move more heat quicker.
It looks like all the rats are getting together... Only senator Hollings is missing.
If one of those warez people downloads one illegal aplication then M$ has the right to audit your institution in order to find it and charge them for the audit.
You signed it on the EULA.
Have a good day.
On their last release, Suse made a point about being LSB compliant.
Apparently Red Hat is not, but I don't see any comment about it.
It seems to me that the linux people should follow their own standards.
Is Red Hat planning to be LSB compliant any time soon?
"As part of Microsoft's campaign against the GPL, Bill Gates is personally coming to the front line to launch attacks."
I don't think the headline got the important bit about Gates' speech. He was there to push Microsoft's egoverment (passport) thingy into the U.S.A. goverment, and the open source question came from the delegates. He had to answer.
All his speech was about M$ having sold his egoverment stuff to UK and trying to use that as a selling point.
When asked about open source he tried to downplay the question with this "I dunno..." and jokes, like implying that the question wasn't sane, or something...
Also, he appelated to Capitalism (upercase intended) and Patriotism. Quite funny from a monopolistic multinational.
Anyways, I think the important bit is that they found a breach in the UK and they are using it to become the f*****g egoverment of the whole planet.
... And no Linux! At least in the system requiremets page.
I guess I'll have to wait.
Does anyone know if this siemens cards have smart card conditional access capabilities?
I am thinking about chanel plus(Spain, France, etc...) access cards.
The problem with one of those is that you can't reboot :-)
" They're simply time-shifted identical twins!"
Well, then maybe the RIAA has something to say about it!
What games do you guys think are the best/most interesting in terms of AI?
From the article:
It calls for improvements in the ability to "exploit" enemy computer networks, and the integration of cyber-warfare into the overall nuclear war database "to enable more effective targeting, weaponeering, and combat assessment essential to the New Triad."
No wonder why the germans are looking at open source from a national security perspective!
I know that U.S.A. is not an enemy of EU, but looking at the fascist direction things are taking in the U.S.A. (Bush said: you are with me or against me) and the fact that computer software comes from U.S.A., Europe should be careful.
Sorry, I'll reformulate the question:
Could they stop MS shipping C# on the grounds that it is a java rip off, and it is bundled with windows , and only run on windows (as of yet).
Basically it is the same strategy they followed against Netscape, with impressive results. Create a clone of the competitor's product, bundle and integrate it into windows.
If MS weren't a monopoly it wouldn't be a problem to me. but...
Also, I am not taking tha position that they shouldn't be allowed to ship C#. I just say that Sun could take it in that direction.
Could they stop MS shipping C# on the grounds that it is a java rip off?
Sorry, but Spain is in the European Comunity and we get imposed the same laws as the rest of Europe which are imposed to Europe by the U.S.A. and their corporations money.
Our politicians can be bought the same as yours, so you better move your ass, because you can vote on this things, but we can not (we have unelected bureaucrats making the calls, see the EU patent office).
As long as IDSoftware uses OpenGL, there will be life left for it on the games industry.
" an enterprising company decides to make their own US-based USB ID controllers that match a local controller that isn't USian "
That will destroy what the USB ID is meant to achieve: A way to discriminate between devices. And if this happens a lot, people writing device drivers will have to care about incompatabilities between different physical devices with the same ID.
This has the potential to hit linux, if some of this devices are used on regular PCs.
Thanx Micro$oft.
"their more obfusticated rules seem to imply that with enough effort you can patent software by describing an invention of some kind that just happens to be implemented in software."
As a matter of fact, a friend of mine is patenting his application in the UK using exactly this method.
He was adviced to do so by lawyers, so they are quite certain that the software is patentable.