Comment Re:There goes the space-time continuum... (Score 1) 255
Only if you're reading this from 2007.
Comment Re:Suit violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? (Score 2, Interesting) 200
What the hell, this isn't interesting, it's funny. Moderators these days...
Comment Re:Move to CA (Score 1) 353
'Company-specific knowledge' is covered by NDAs, which are universally (in the US and most other countries) recognized. If you don't want them to leave at all, compete.
Comment Re:'One-way' functions (Score 3, Insightful) 125
The fact that people still think hashes are reversible makes it pretty clear that they need more than "no, you can't do that".
Comment Re:'One-way' functions (Score 5, Informative) 125
No hash, even the very worst, is reversible. The reason for this is that an infinite number of input strings will produce the same, finite, output string. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/330207/how-come-md5-hash-values-are-not-reversible for more information.
Comment Re:Not worth it... (Score 1) 194
Comment Re:Solaris to beat Linux (Score 1) 226
OpenSolaris is primarily CDDL.
Comment Re:frosty (Score 1) 1117
Lately? I think you're new here...
Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 165
"VM = interpreter. No matter how much marketing people may want to convince you otherwise. If it's not native code, it's not run by native CPU, but by a virtual machine, it means it's interpreted."
Nonsense. A just-in-time compiler compiles the bytecode to native code at runtime. Claiming this is "not native code" is BS.
UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia 668
Concerned Wikipedian writes "Starting December 4th, Wikipedia administrators noticed a surge of edits from certain IP addresses. These IPs turned out to be the proxies for the content filters of at least 6 major UK ISPs. After some research by Wikipedians, it appears that the image of the 1970s LP cover art of the Scorpions' 'Virgin Killer' album has been blocked because it was judged to be 'child pornography,' and all other attempts to access Wikimedia foundation sites from these ISPs are being proxied to only a few IP addresses. This is causing many problems for Wikipedia administrators, because much of the UK vandalism now comes from a single IP, which, when blocked, affects potentially hundreds of thousands of anonymous users who intend no harm and are utterly confused as to why they are no longer able to edit. The image was flagged by the the Internet Watch Foundation, which is funded by the EU and the UK government, and has the support of many ISPs and online institutions in the UK. The filter is fairly easy to circumvent simply by viewing the article in some other languages, or by logging in on the secure version of Wikipedia."
Comment Re:It's recycled (Score 1) 225
This is not true whatsoever of game code, which is the primary matter at hand. Rarely does a game company write a new engine from scratch, even when they want a very different version. E.g. Quake III is based on Quake II is based on Quake I, UT3 is based on UT2k4 is based on UT2k3 (can't remember the UTE version numbers).
Comment Re:Recycled Code (Score 2, Insightful) 225
When you're talking about game engines, however, recycling code isn't just an option, it's a necessity. You're not going to rewrite half a million lines of code if you don't have to -- it makes no sense. You update the engine, add new logic, and package it with new assets to release a new game. It's the only way that makes sense.
Comment Re:It's recycled (Score 1) 225
Many application vendors have released their code GPL'd or otherwise open source, but it's very rare in the gaming world.
Comment It's recycled (Score 3, Informative) 225
The code is used for other projects by the same company. Few companies release their old/failed code -- id being the only game company I know of that does so (GPLing their old code).
Comment Re:I'm slightly astonished (Score 1) 384
Where in either of these documents did it say that the routine was written in assembly? I believe you were confused by the PDF's use of a disassembler.
