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Comment Re:I don't hate Windows Terminal (Score 1) 113

People never got the thing about Notepad. Notepad is MEANT to be barebones. It's not even a program: its a wrap for the native edit control, that it's meant to work even when the system is f**** up. There are other editors available from everywhere for bells and whistles. Even WordPad is included with all its overblow. Notepad is NOT meant to have anything else than what it has. People trying to use Notepad as the next WordStar are just...stupid.

Comment Re:Whiney Consumerism (Score 1) 238

by El Lobo (#52841377) Attached to: Sony Wins Battle Over Preinstalled Windows in Europe's Top Court

But wait a minute. I don't want a computer with freaking Linux. I just want Sony to sell me a computer with BeOS pre-installed. Why in the world nobody has this option? (See the stupidity of this discussion?) Sony just sells whatever they want. You want a to buy a computer with FreeBSD? Good luck.
Firefox

Emscripten and New Javascript Engine Bring Unreal Engine To Firefox 124

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the cycle-is-nearly-complete dept.
MojoKid writes "There's no doubt that gaming on the Web has improved dramatically in recent years, but Mozilla believes it has developed new technology that will deliver a big leap in what browser-based gaming can become. The company developed a highly-optimized version of Javascript that's designed to 'supercharge' a game's code to deliver near-native performance. And now that innovation has enabled Mozilla to bring Epic's Unreal Engine 3 to the browser. As a sort of proof of concept, Mozilla debuted this BananaBread game demo that was built using WebGL, Emscripten, and the new JavaScript version called 'asm.js.' Mozilla says that it's working with the likes of EA, Disney, and ZeptoLab to optimize games for the mobile Web, as well." Emscripten was previously used to port Doom to the browser.
Google

Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents 153

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the now-and-forever dept.
sfcrazy writes "Google has announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. In the pledge Google says that they will not sue any user, distributor, or developer of Open Source software on specified patents, unless first attacked. Under this pledge, Google is starting off with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for processing large data sets first developed at Google. Google says that over time they intend to expand the set of Google's patents covered by the pledge to other technologies." This is in addition to the Open Invention Network, and their general work toward reforming the patent system. The patents covered in the OPN will be free to use in Free/Open Source software for the life of the patent, even if Google should transfer ownership to another party. Read the text of the pledge. It appears that interaction with non-copyleft licenses (MIT/BSD/Apache) is a bit weird: if you create a non-free fork it appears you are no longer covered under the pledge.

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