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Courts here in the US have already affirmed the rights of a user to re-sell software, despite licensing agreements. See Autodesk: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/court-smacks-autodesk-affirms-right-to-sell-used-software.ars I can't find any follow-up, but I like to think that the decision stuck. I understand their *wanting* more money, but yeah: First Sale Doctrine. I think a MUCH 'better' way for them to deal with this is through first-sale exclusives. i.e., "Buy Gears of War 2 and get a multiplayer map pack code." That way, anyone that buys a new copy, gets the code. I would also recommend that they ALSO offer the same map packs online for, say, $10, so that even if a person buys the game secondarily, if they want the "full" multiplayer experience, they can still get it. I guess they could 'force' users towards brand new retail copies by not offering the map pack except as redeemable by a code, but that just seems like lost sales to me. I really think that game publishers need to stop being crybabies about secondhand games and find a way to make their product more valuable to the consumers. Or make the games cheaper: I'd certainly rather spend $40 on a new game than $60. (Although that's being generous: Gamestop's policy seems to be the Wal*Mart approach "New = $60, used = $57.99"). Ideally, though, games (both new and used) would be cheaper.

Oh I don't know He has been doing favors for all his supporters, Like those car Dealerships whom supported him somehow manage to stay open.

But if you want to keep Diluting yourself into "hope and change" then don't mind me, go right ahead.

It's already on Wikileaks.

"[We're] not sure where that rumor came from," RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth told Ars on Saturday. "It's not true."

or just do this

Sorry for the confusion, I was referring more to this.

Rather than running the Android SDK emulator.

It looks to be a much more promising alternative to emulating the entire android OS.

Beneficial to many consumers? Healthy competition? Maybe in the short run, but what about the pending Book Search settlement? If that gets approved in its current form, Google gets exclusive access to scan and digitize millions of orphan works. Even if the settlement eventually gets cut back somewhat, Google has an enormous head start in its catalog from the books it's scanned already. Is there any doubt that the eBook format it chooses to market this huge selection of digital books will easily crush all other competitors? TFA seems to suggest that Google is planning on selling these eBooks only in cooperation with publishers and not from its settlement spoils at the moment, but given the potential to leverage the settlement monopoly to monopolize the market for eBooks and eReaders, I would be pretty surprised if this announcement doesn't pique the interest of the Justice Department.

"Expensive" cables are really just a store markup problem. See this article about the situation and you will see just how crazy it is out there.

the root of the issue is necessity. The point of linux is the definition of what linux is. If you run software on a Linux kernel, its Linux. That's why no one standardizes anything more than that. now if you thought standardizing anything in userspace is necessary, join the LSB, otherwise, stop bellyaching and pick one. If you can't choose, you're thinking about it. My primary example is that somebody has already made chrome for linux.

most consumers are used to.

So in answer to your question, it's been working out very well indeed.

Everyone has great titles for this one. http://arstechnica.com/ offers: "Zune HD: a new hope for Microsoft". To which the only response can be no. It's really just a Phantom Menace.

Microsoft decided to have unified service packs for OSes using the same core.

That is to say, for Vista and Server 2008. This also means that, yes, Windows Server 2008 was SP1 at launch.

So I should get one to go with my new South American phone.

GVIM is not an IDE however. It's an editor, and one that can be integrated in various IDEs.

Or you could integrate the IDE functionality into vim instead. Ars had a nice writeup on how to fairly effortlessly get IDE functionality in vim ( http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/05/vim-made-easy-how-to-get-your-favorite-ide-features-in-vim.ars )

1) CBS has denied this yesterday:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/26/lastfm-denies-data-sharing-accusations-again/

âoeBoth CBS and the RIAA have already stated quite clearly, for the record, that absolutely no individual user or listener information was supplied to the RIAA by Last.fm or any division of CBS Corporation in the past, nor do we plan to do so in the future. The story posted by the Web site was based on an unnamed tipster. No inquiry was made to CBS or Last.fm about the veracity of the anonymous source. Those who consult such blogs should be aware of the standard by which such postings are sourced and published.â

2) The RIAA denied it back when it was originally a story:

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/02/riaa-denies-rumors-that-lastfm-turned-over-data.ars

The RIAA has finally chimed in as well, categorically denying that any such request was ever made. "[We're] not sure where that rumor came from," RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth told Ars on Saturday. "It's not true."

3) Last.fm has denied this:

"Nobody at Last.fm knows anything about such a leak. We didn't when they last wrote an article, and we don't now. Any suggestion that we were complicit in transferring user data to any third party is incorrect."

"...transferring personally identifiable data from the UK to the US is against data protection laws. We wouldn't risk a lawsuit to pander to the RIAA's requests."

http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/535934/8#f9525592

"Last.fm has never given data linking IP addresses and scrobbles to any third party."

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And 4) TechCrunch posts an article with anonymous sources claiming everything they say to be fact.

Every single party involved has denied it, all we have is the babblings of someone who has in the past been proven wrong on his attacks, and for some reason has a personal vendetta against last.fm.

To the people who were stupid enough to believe him, and deleted your accounts, good. You don't belong on the internet much less last.fm for believing everything you read as truth.

I used DevC++ for quite some time until I found out that it was out of date as well. Since then I've used Code::Blocks, and I find it to be quite an improvement. Since it's cross platform, working on different operating systems is pretty easy too.

KDevelop is my alternative choice. For all intents and purposes, KDevelop is my favorite IDE, but since it's only on Linux at the moment, Code::Blocks is my best choice for now. (Still, KDevelop is quite powerful, and I'm eagerly awaiting the cross-platform release.)

Eclipse is also a great choice, though I haven't used it nearly as much. I feel it's a little more focused on Java development, but many /.ers swear by it, so it's probably worth a try.

And on a final note, I've been using Vim a lot more often lately, and with the IDE plugins detailed in the Ars Technica article, I may make that my IDE of choice in the near future. (For others, there's Emacs. Both are great, take your pick.)

The April 2009 version of Ars Technica System Guide covers three systems priced at $700, $1600 and $12,500. The link is http://arstechnica.com/hardware/guides/2009/04/ars-technica-system-guide-april-2009-edition.ars Tweaking the first two systems here and there should cover requirements of most users.

I assume that you're trolling, but I just love the common complaint that WoW is cartoony. I can only assume it is made by the kind of person who masturbates to CG characters, considering it more mature than the hentai to which they previously masturbated, as that is the only way they could possibly be desensitized to the uncanny valley. Age of Conan was made for you, buddy.

Heres a related article:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/05/easter-eggs-may-get-apps-approved-but-could-hurt-app-store.ars

From the article:

Jelle Prins created an iPhone app called Lyrics that allows a user to search for the lyrics to any song--even NWA's "F*ck Tha Police" or Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name." Of course, Apple promptly rejected the app citing the "objectionable content" clause of the iPhone developer's agreement

What. The. Fuck?

So an application which does not specifically prohibit iphone users from searching for 'objectionable content' gets rejected?

This isn't just about apps that *contain* 'objectionable content'.

Its about apps that *permit* the user to *search* for 'objectionable content'.

To me, and I'm sure to most reasonable people, this is in itself objectionable.

Yep. I didn't upvote this in the FireHose because it seemed to be just a collection of "Intel makes something".

Ars Technica has a descriptive hands-on preview. Much more useful.

So you're +5 informative when you regurgitate what the parent said and provide a link that's in the summary? The summary says:

Ars has a look at Moblin's rich new UI as well.

Which is the same damn link you "just found." Do any moderators read the summary even?

Yep. I didn't upvote this in the FireHose because it seemed to be just a collection of "Intel makes something".

Ars Technica has a descriptive hands-on preview. Much more useful.

So you're +5 informative when you regurgitate what the parent said and provide a link that's in the summary? The summary says:

Ars has a look at Moblin's rich new UI as well.

Which is the same damn link you "just found." Do any moderators read the summary even?

Yep. I didn't upvote this in the FireHose because it seemed to be just a collection of "Intel makes something".

Ars Technica has a descriptive hands-on preview. Much more useful.

Ars is reporting that the DLC will be available in two retail packs for PC and XBox, as well as a GOTY edition in October with all the DLC. Finally I'll be able to get the DLC without the ass rape of Microsoft Points.

...and so your tv/phone/net bill each go up an extra 10% to cover the costs.

I'm curious how this would have ANY effect on net-neutrality.

Plus, if the costs get too great, the ISPs will either "ask" for more free taxpayer money or stop running wires anywhere but big cities.

The real question is why municipalities aren't running fiber along with power/sewage/etc. That would instantly solve the "last mile" problem.

Then, to serve the town, an ISP would only need to run wires to the town wire closet.

So simple... there must be a reason why everyone isn't doing it.
Oh, that's why

A small town in Minnesota wants to build its own fiber to the home network. The local telco didn't want to do it, but it doesn't want the city competing with it, either. That means one thing: lawsuit.

Of course, this whole discussion has very little to do with net neutrality.

"He, however, is a low-life with nothing to take in a settlement." - by horatio (127595) on Monday May 18, @01:28PM (#27999593)

Which is exactly what Jeremy Reimer of arstechnica is - not worth enough to go after with attorneys, but, instead, I used other means to get him to cease libel of myself, as well as impersonation of myself on his OSY/Pegasus3d forums, in addition to impersonating a Mr. Martin Meszaros as well (ontop of his email harassment of myself, & trolling/stalking me forums to forums alongside his friends Jay Little & Jarrett DeAngelis).

Attorneys ARE part of it, but law enforcement (such as policemen) is part of it also, & it works to "force the hand" of ISP's &/or HOSTING PROVIDERS... ask Jeremy Reimer of arstechnica about that, because that is exactly what happened to he for libelling, email harassing, & threatening my family no less + more (read on):

This is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs - you can take care of morons that bother you online, easily enough, by doing it yourself... how do I know? Been there, done it, MYSELF... & I had Jeremy Reimer and his pal Jay Little get FORCED to do so, in much the same thing as this thread is about (impersonation of myself + others, & LIBEL as well).

How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html

That's where a trolling online scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated myself on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites + a Mr. Martin Meszaros (as well as posting under alternate usernames to "support himself" and was caught in it also - see below).

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

----

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73 [arstechnica.com]

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

----

So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

----

AND, as anyone can see, in jaymcee's case there @ arstechnica? Others r

"He is the one that needs to take it down using his account" - by ukyoCE (106879) on Monday May 18, @01:17PM (#27999381)

That's part of it, but law enforcement (such as policemen) are part of it also, & it works to "force the hand" of ISP's &/or HOSTING PROVIDERS... ask Jeremy Reimer of arstechnica about that, because that is exactly what happened to he for libelling, email harassing, & threatening my family no less + more (read on):

This is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs - you can take care of morons that bother you online, easily enough, by doing it yourself... how do I know? Been there, done it, MYSELF... & I had Jeremy Reimer and his pal Jay Little get FORCED to do so, in much the same thing as this thread is about (impersonation of myself + others, & LIBEL as well).

How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html

That's where a trolling online scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated myself on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites + a Mr. Martin Meszaros (as well as posting under alternate usernames to "support himself" and was caught in it also - see below).

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

----

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73 [arstechnica.com]

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

----

So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

----

AND, as anyone can see, in jaymcee's case there @ arstechnica? Others read the article "The Memory Optimization Hoax", such as jaymcee above, & are putting out the truth about you REIMER, & online, such as the one below from an educational institution who consider you to be nothing more than the unqualified charlatan you are in this science, see below... and just because YOU say someone lost? Big deal, who are you?? Nobody, but a liar and "not man" as this post will prove with your own words & misdeeds, read on:

"Sue him for libel/slander or whatever and take care of it that way. The courts can figure this out " - by Brad Mace (624801) on Monday May 18, @01:06PM (#27999199) Homepage

That's part of it, but law enforcement (such as policemen) are part of it also, & it works to "force the hand" of ISP's &/or HOSTING PROVIDERS... ask Jeremy Reimer of arstechnica about that, because that is exactly what happened to he for libelling, email harassing, & threatening my family no less + more (read on):

This is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs - you can take care of morons that bother you online, easily enough, by doing it yourself... how do I know? Been there, done it, MYSELF... How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html

That's where a trolling online scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated myself on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites + a Mr. Martin Meszaros (as well as posting under alternate usernames to "support himself" and was caught in it also - see below).

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

----

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73 [arstechnica.com]

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

----

So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

----

AND, as anyone can see, in jaymcee's case there @ arstechnica? Others read the article "The Memory Optimization Hoax", such as jaymcee above, & are putting out the truth about you REIMER, & online, such as the one below from an educational institution who consider you to be nothing more than the unqualified charlatan you are in this science, see below... and just because YOU say someone lost? Big deal, who are you?? Nobody, but a liar and "not man" as this post will prove with your own words & misdeeds, read on:

AND? A detective Felton was contacted in British Columbia, where Jeremy Reimer lives as well as local law enforcement in

"people like the submitter who expect that big companies can't have a big enough support staff to cover their complaints are part of the problem" - by Chmcginn (201645) on Monday May 18, @01:39PM (#27999795)

They just don't know how to go about it properly is all (makes sense, because MOST folks are not freaks that impersonate & libel others online... freaks like Jeremy Reimer of arstechnica - I had to take care of he in that manner, for impersonating myself (and others, see below) as well as Jeremy Reimer's libelling of myself).

This is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs - you can take care of morons that bother you online, easily enough, by doing it yourself... how do I know? Been there, done it, MYSELF... How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html

That's where a trolling online scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated myself on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites + a Mr. Martin Meszaros (as well as posting under alternate usernames to "support himself" and was caught in it also - see below).

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

----

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73 [arstechnica.com]

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

----

So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

----

AND, as anyone can see, in jaymcee's case there @ arstechnica? Others read the article "The Memory Optimization Hoax", such as jaymcee above, & are putting out the truth about you REIMER, & online, such as the one below from an educational institution who consider you to be nothing more than the unqualified charlatan you are in this science, see below... and just because YOU say someone lost? Big deal, who are you?? Nobody, but a liar and "not man" as this post will prove with your own words & misdeeds, read on:

AND? A detective Felton was contacted in British Columbia, where Jeremy Reimer live

"Alternatively jsut sue him for plain old libel or wire fraud." - by aepervius (535155) on Monday May 18, @01:35PM (#27999713)

Call local law enforcement first though, especially if you are impersonated and libelled online: That "gets the ball rolling", with professional witnesses to that effect... I know 1st hand, & had to go about it in that manner.

This is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs - you can take care of morons that bother you online, easily enough, by doing it yourself... how do I know? Been there, done it, MYSELF... How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html

That's where a trolling online scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated myself on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites + a Mr. Martin Meszaros (as well as posting under alternate usernames to "support himself" and was caught in it also - see below).

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

----

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73 [arstechnica.com]

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

----

So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

----

Others read the article "The Memory Optimization Hoax", such as jaymcee above, & are putting out the truth about you REIMER, & online, such as the one below from an educational institution who consider you to be nothing more than the unqualified charlatan you are in this science, see below... and just because YOU say someone lost? Big deal, who are you?? Nobody, but a liar and "not man" as this post will prove with your own words & misdeeds, read on:

AND?

More libel Jeremy Reimer my way above, in regards to calling myself 'mentally disturbed'? Do you have a phd in psychiatry to dispense that prognosis/diagnosis Jeremy? No, you do not. Continued libel of myself is all they have at this point... See - If anyone here is a liar & mentally disturbed, it is yourself fo

"The obvious thing to do is let a court sort it out. That is, after all, what they are for. Just because it's on the internet doesn't change anything, it's a simple case of libel. - by AmiMoJo (196126) on Monday May 18, @01:23PM (#27999499) Homepage

It doesn't have to even get that far, because most of these libelling online trolls can be controlled easily enough by local law enforcement in their area, after the one in YOUR area contacts them in addition to yourself (provided you can "zero in" on them that is, & I had to do so, but in the end? It worked... read on):

This is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs - you can take care of morons that bother you online, easily enough, by doing it yourself... how do I know? Been there, done it, MYSELF... How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html

That's where a trolling online scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated myself on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites + a Mr. Martin Meszaros (as well as posting under alternate usernames to "support himself" and was caught in it also - see below).

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

----

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73 [arstechnica.com]

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

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So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

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Others read the article "The Memory Optimization Hoax", such as jaymcee above, & are putting out the truth about you REIMER, & online, such as the one below from an educational institution who consider you to be nothing more than the unqualified charlatan you are in this science, see below... and just because YOU say someone lost? Big deal, who are you?? Nobody, but a liar and "not man" as this post will prove with your own words & misdeeds, read on:

AND?

More libel Jeremy Reimer my way above, in regards to calling myself 'mentally disturbed'? Do you

"Even if only one tenth of one percent of internet readers are jerks" - by Geoffrey.landis (926948) on Monday May 18, @01:17PM (#27999391) Homepage

I've run into that "one tenth of one percent" in Jeremy Reimer of arstechnica (who is 1/10th of a man)... but, this is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs - you can take care of morons that bother you online, easily enough, by doing it yourself... how do I know? Been there, done it, MYSELF... How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html

That's where a trolling online scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated myself on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites + a Mr. Martin Meszaros (as well as posting under alternate usernames to "support himself" and was caught in it also - see below).

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73 [arstechnica.com]

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

----

So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

----

Others read the article "The Memory Optimization Hoax", such as jaymcee above, & are putting out the truth about you REIMER, & online, such as the one below from an educational institution who consider you to be nothing more than the unqualified charlatan you are in this science, see below... and just because YOU say someone lost? Big deal, who are you?? Nobody, but a liar and "not man" as this post will prove with your own words & misdeeds, read on:

AND?

More libel Jeremy Reimer my way above, in regards to calling myself 'mentally disturbed'? Do you have a phd in psychiatry to dispense that prognosis/diagnosis Jeremy? No, you do not. Continued libel of myself is all they have at this point... See - If anyone here is a liar & mentally disturbed, it is yourself for impersonating me on your website forums.

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pegasus3d.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?for

"So, Mr. Haselton, how does your proposed solution protect me" - by eldavojohn (898314) * on Monday May 18, @01:02PM (#27999143) Homepage

This is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs - you can take care of morons that bother you online, easily enough, by doing it yourself... how do I know? Been there, done it, MYSELF... How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html

That's where a trolling online scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated myself on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites + a Mr. Martin Meszaros (as well as posting under alternate usernames to "support himself" and was caught in it also - see below).

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

----

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73 [arstechnica.com]

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

----

So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

----

Others read the article "The Memory Optimization Hoax", such as jaymcee above, & are putting out the truth about you REIMER, & online, such as the one below from an educational institution who consider you to be nothing more than the unqualified charlatan you are in this science, see below... and just because YOU say someone lost? Big deal, who are you?? Nobody, but a liar and "not man" as this post will prove with your own words & misdeeds, read on:

AND?

More libel Jeremy Reimer my way above, in regards to calling myself 'mentally disturbed'? Do you have a phd in psychiatry to dispense that prognosis/diagnosis Jeremy? No, you do not. Continued libel of myself is all they have at this point... See - If anyone here is a liar & mentally disturbed, it is yourself for impersonating me on your website forums.

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pegasus3d.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=10

"Anyway the "APK" registered here is just an affectionate clone of the original. In fact I pr

This post has a response to the reported bug issues as well as some further information about how the trade-in process works.

"One is the fact that the ISP has to have a way to figure out who is telling the truth" - FROM THE ARTICLE above

This is NEVER a problem, assuming you're dealing with decent people that actually do their jobs... how do I know?

Been there, done it, MYSELF...

How/when/why/where/how, you ask?

Here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html where a scumbag coward arstechnica "not man" (what I call cowards online that act more like women than men do) named Jeremy Reimer impersonated me on his forums @ OSY/pegasus3d, & had to ADMIT he had done so, no less, right in the URL above AND on his own websites.

Proofs, you ask? Ok, quotes of his own words (& those of his pals Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis as well):

----

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48409524/m/573009083931/p/73

There, jayemcee said:

"Jeremy Reimer has no degree or certifications in computers and no professional hands on years to decades of experience in them either. Jeremy Reimer was caught email harassing, impersonating, & bother others online which ended up having his website have portions removed and his friends that helped him in it (a Mr. Jay Little of Atlanta Ga. USA) had their websites removed in their entirety. Posting as others (i.e. same person posting under multiple names/guises/nicks/handles) along with his friend Jay Little above to "support one another" when they were found SO technically inacurrate, they were laughed off that site and both of them outright left & that was after law enforcement were called on them both. Windows IT Pro is a widely read publication in the field of computers".

----

So Jeremy Reimer replied this set of lies:

"Bringing up APK quotes means you lose by default. APK is a mentally disturbed individual. He has repeatedly threatened Ars forum members with physical and legal violence. That's all he does. Almost everything he says is a lie: I was never accused of email harassment, my web site was never taken down, law enforcement was never contacted by anyone, and it was APK who was found to be using multiple identities to support his position. The fact that you would use APK quotes as an attempt to attack me personally without even bothering to check their veracity says a lot about you. I would never have done such a thing. Didn't you say that you were leaving Ars, and that you had me on Ignore? I guess that means you're a liar."

----

Others read the article "The Memory Optimization Hoax", such as jaymcee above, & are putting out the truth about you REIMER, & online, such as the one below from an educational institution who consider you to be nothing more than the unqualified charlatan you are in this science, see below... and just because YOU say someone lost? Big deal, who are you?? Nobody, but a liar and "not man" as this post will prove with your own words & misdeeds, read on:

AND?

More libel Jeremy Reimer my way above, in regards to calling myself 'mentally disturbed'? Do you have a phd in psychiatry to dispense that prognosis/diagnosis Jeremy? No, you do not.

See - If anyone here is a liar (as well as a blatant incompetent in this science because not once at Windows IT Pro in "The Memory Optimization Hoax" article was Jeremy Reimer on topic and he libelled and lied (all below) also had to bring others to help he, such as Jay Little (he blew it on exchange server, more on that below) and the Doctoral Candidate Jarett DeAngelis (who was caught lying on who he was by myself and he ended up agreeing with myself on most of what I stated (how could he not? I had backing from the likes of documentation from Microsoft and far more to support MY points)))?

Reimer, face it

The near future of gaming is easy to predict... More and more publishers will go bankrupt and/or get consolidated with the big ones. In the past 20 years development costs have been increasing exponentially, while revenue hasn't been increasing as fast. It's easy to tell where that leads to.

The cause is mainly that graphics are getting better and better, which means more and more artists are required to make a game. Polyphony Digital, makers of the Gran Turismo series have said a single artist takes 6 months to make a car model for GT5 (for PS3), whereas the same artist took a month doing so for GT3 and GT4 (for PS2), and just a day in GT and GT2 (for PS1).

This has lead to a lot of bankruptcies and consolidation in the gaming industry, with publishers like EA growing a lot. However, we're now at the point that even these big fish are losing money, with EA full of red ink ever since the current generation of consoles started. Take 2 has been posting losses even with its GTA4 multi-million-units cash cow (which has allegedly cost around $100 million to develop. Just open up google finance and check out these companies earnings, they're consistently dismal in the last few quarters/years.

In recent times, Midway has gone bankrupt, troubled Eidos got bought out by Square-Enix and 3D Realms has gone bankrupt. More will follow, THQ being one of the most troubled in the short term.

About the only big companies making money on gaming these days are Nintendo (which took a cautious approach to graphical capabilites in order to keep development costs manageable), Ubisoft, Epic (which makes a lot of its money from engine licensing), Valve (which has Steam) and of course Activision-Blizzard with the WoW cash cow.

Graphical improvements must be toned down for the gaming industry to be viable. Expect the next generation of consoles to take a Wii-like approach towards hardware power, increasing little over the previous generation. Instead the gaming industry will have to generate real innovation, instead of just more polygons and pixels on the screen.

did YOU even look at the installing screenshot? that is not visio, is a "visio viewer"

http://static.arstechnica.com/2010tp_setup_4.jpg/

I haven't used Vista, so I can't tell: Is this really the normal icon size for Vista?
http://static.arstechnica.com/2010tp_icons.jpg

I mean, W.T.F.??
Why not require one display per icon? ^^
Why not just put a preview of the file or thing itself an that place?
I just don't get it. ^^

I liked the Ribbon.

But if what Ars says is true, that clicking on the office button will result in this needlessly modal screen, that means that to do a simple operation like "save as", you'll need to go to that huge screen.

For the lack of a better word (sorry for the pun), that's pretty screwed up.

Plus Office 2010 just looks like Office 2007 with a facelift.

I thought Windows 7 was everybody's pet name for Vista SP1.

no its Vista SP2

Vista SP2 was finished more than a week ago and Windows 7 will be finished in October at the earliest.

So this lame joke should be updated to "Windows 7 is Vista SP3" (minus all those features that are being added to Windows 7 but not added to Vista).

"When 90% of the cost of an item has nothing to do with the so-called 'artist,' piracy barely impacts the artist at all."

Artists aren't forced at gunpoint to go with a recording label. Many times, they are also advanced money from the label before the album even is made.

"Especially when, in the case of movies, they are all paid upfront and thanks to Hollywood accounting (read: Sony CEO ripping them off further) never see a share in profits even if their contracts say they should"

Now you are just making shit up. The screen actors guild was created for this very reason. Look it up.

"I defend piracy because the MAFIAA deserve to starve. If 'artists' (most of this so-called group are anything but, consisting more of Uwe Boll types) want a fair deal from me, they need to offer me one."

You sound like a thief that has many excuses as to why you like to steal. Good job.

"See also NIN."

i'm glad you brought this up. Did you know he tried this with another artist and it completely failed:

see: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/01/gettin-niggy-with-it-reznor-releases-numbers-for-online-experiment.ars

My favorite part:

"But it won't make much money. The 28,000 people who have purchased the album so far are less than the number that paid for the CD four years ago, and despite the money going right to Reznor and Williams, it's not pure profit. They had to pay for studio time, engineers, the creation of the download site, and bandwidth (including for those who paid nothing). The result is that "nobody's getting rich off this project."

so you have one experiment by one artist that worked reasonably well. I'm still not convinced that this is a viable model.

So what about the French Police ?:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars

"The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and incrementally migrate to Ubuntu."

March 11, 2009:

"At the current stage of the migration, it has adopted Ubuntu on 5,000 workstations. Based on the success of this pilot migration, it plans to move forward and switch a total of 15,000 workstations to Ubuntu by the end of the year. It aims to have the entire organization, and all 90,000 of its workstations, running the Linux distribution by 2015."

"A report published by the European Commission's Open Source Observatory provides some details from a recent presentation given by Gendarmerie Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard, who says that the Gendarmerie has been able to reduced its annual IT budget by 70 percent without having to reduce its capabilities."

Maybe they should talk to the "European Commission's Open Source Observatory", when they want information about deployments. DUH !

A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars

Does this count, Gartner?

Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/04/evidence-suggests-first-zombie-mac-botnet-is-active.ars

Well, considering that the kindle is already powered by linux, it's completely idiotic to assert that he's "shoving your pet OS down your throat" because you're already running linux on the Kindle.

Also, there is a text-to-speech is a standard package in one of the most common desktop managers for linux. I use the text-to-speech sometimes while I'm doing the dishes, etc. It does about as well as most text-to-speech programs do. You don't have to use kde to do it, ktts is just the front-end, it uses the festival synthesis system, so a front end might be out there can use a less full-featured OS than kde, which might be faster and hence more suitable for an e-book reader device. I wonder if it's possible to get the festival speech synthesis system running on it and bypass amazon's DRMed solution all together.

If anything, MS keeps things far too long. Ars wrote up an excellent article on it. Here's a snip:

For example, there's a function called OpenFile. OpenFile was a Win16 function. It opens files, obviously enough. In Win32 it was deprecated--kept in, to allow 16-bit apps to be ported to Win32 more easily, but deprecated all the same. In Win32 it has always been deprecated. The documentation for OpenFile says, "Note: Only use this function with 16-bit versions of Windows. For newer applications, use the CreateFile function." But in spite of that, Win64 still has OpenFile. No one should be using it, but it's still there.

from: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/05/microsoft-learn-from-apple-II.ars/3

The good thing about java is that when the api changes you still have the option of running older JREs. I'm not sure if that's the case with the net framework.

The story about IT moving faster than other sectors is just bullshit.

A couple of graphs for browser share generally, and browser share at a technical website:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/april-2009-browser-stats-firefox-and-chrome-gain.ars

Firefox usage is at almost 50% share for people visting technical sites (such as Ars Technica) on the web. That is over twice the rate of the general population. Usage rate for IE (amongst a technical readership) is down to just 20% or so.

Strangely enough, it is ordinarily technical people who generate the web pages in the first place ...

Because using the cloud has never screwed anyone

But, in the face of some of the specific allegations made by the EU, some of Otellini's statements seem almost besides the point. For example, Otellini states that, "Intel never sells products below cost," and "there has been absolutely zero harm to consumers." Both of those may be true, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Intel wasn't abusing its dominant market position.

What's more:

Intel has already said that they are going to appeal the fine, and that it âoeignores the reality of a highly competitive microprocessor market.â Notably, they arenâ(TM)t appealing the facts, but rather the conclusion (that it was harmful to consumers) and the fine. Itâ(TM)s likely that any appeal will take just as long as the initial examination, so itâ(TM)s unlikely that this will be over before 2011, if not later.

(AnandTech)

Supposedly it will take up less hard drive space and memory, but I'll believe that when I see it.

I think it's safe to believe the part about less hard drive space, because Apple will save a lot of space with a very simple method. According to AppleInsider, Snow Leopard will trim the standard install size by "several gigabytes" (4GB according to Ars Technica) by only installing printer drivers for currently connected printers. Drivers for newly attached printers will install over the network and Software Update, so this works best with an always-on connection.

Personally, I'm blown away by the fact that printer drivers alone take up anything close a one gigabyte, let alone 4GB.

Even if they fail, I'm glad they attempted this cleanup, even if it just inspires Microsoft to do some similar scrubbing with Windows 8.

I think netbooks have done enough to "inspire" MS (I prefer the word "panic") to scrub their OS.

Apple's solution was to enable Remote DVD sharing, so that the "BIOS" (EFI) of the disc-less MacBook Air can install its OS from scratch via the DVD drive of another computer on the local network.

Note that installing OS X takes about five and a half hours using Remote Install and 802.11n. I don't want to imagine how long it would take if your base station is only 802.11b/g.

This would be simpler over ethernet or FireWire, but the MacBook Air has neither. Apple sells a USB ethernet dongle for $29 and a 7-foot ethernet cable for $15.

But yes, a generic PC would have a problem installing Windows without a local DVD drive, because generic PCs have a completely retarded, ancient BIOS firmware that rarely offers any functional network boot support

Name a single Windows PC released after the MacBook Air that does not support network boot and Windows network installation.

and Windows makes 70's-era assumptions about what CPM drive letters it is installing on.

You're an Apple-worshipping douchebag that hasn't installed Windows in at least 10 years.