Comment Re:Rust is a specialist language (Score 1) 184
What are the other 4, im genuinely curious.
also mad respect for that 007 >
Comment Re:XBMC - Now! (Score 1) 132
Transmission will allow you to set the upload limit to 0.0.
I have to use that limit on my connection due to a 20 Gb/mo quota and it does exactly what it says. My total uploaded bytes at the end of each download is always 0.
Comment OpenGL Issues (Score 1) 281
I hope they manage to fix the issues currently affecting users running the game in OpenGL mode (most wine users.)
My wife and I are currently trying to beta test WotLK on our systems at home with wine, but many areas, upon entering, completely white out the screen. Running the game in Direct3D mode will fix the issue, but at a severe performance penalty. The parts of the game that do have working graphics seem to be quite buggy as well. I don't really think two months will be enough time to straigten out all the bugs, so it will be interesting to see how things proceed from here.
My wife and I are currently trying to beta test WotLK on our systems at home with wine, but many areas, upon entering, completely white out the screen. Running the game in Direct3D mode will fix the issue, but at a severe performance penalty. The parts of the game that do have working graphics seem to be quite buggy as well. I don't really think two months will be enough time to straigten out all the bugs, so it will be interesting to see how things proceed from here.
Submission + - Software patent debate over in Europe for now?
Anonymous EPA writes: The website of the European Patent Office is running a story about a recent agreement not to revive the debate on software patents in Europe nor to promote new legislation. The article can be found at http://www.epo.org/focus/news/2007/20070706.html .
To quote: "All speakers welcomed unequivocally the opportunity to discuss the issue at a high level and made clear that a new CII (computer-implemented inventions) debate followed by legal modifications was neither necessary nor desirable."
Submission + - Putting Piracy in Perspective
An anonymous reader writes: Over the past year, Slashdot has pointed to many industry claims and
governmental pressure (here,
here,
and here)
arguing that Canada
as a piracy haven. Canadian law prof Michael Geist has produced Putting Canadian
"Piracy" in Perspective, a video that
demonstrates how the claims are hugely exaggerated. For example, it
shows how despite the MPAA's claim of movie piracy, Canada was the
industry's fastest growing market last year. Similarly, while the
recording industry says Canada is the world's top P2P country, the data
shows that the Canadian music industry is experiencing record gains and
that most of the decline from the major labels is due to retail pricing
pressures.
Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 238
Corbet writes "LWN.net did some data mining through the kernel source repository and put together an analysis of where the patches came from. It turns out that most kernel code is contributed by people paid to do the work — but the list of companies sponsoring kernel development has a surprise or two." The article's conclusion: "The end result of all this is that a number of the widely-expressed opinions about kernel development turn out to be true. There really are thousands of developers — at least, almost 2,000 who put in at least one patch over the course of the last year. Linus Torvalds is directly responsible for a very small portion of the code which makes it into the kernel. Contemporary kernel development is spread out among a broad group of people, most of whom are paid for the work they do. Overall, the picture is of a broad-based and well-supported development community."
