UT2K3 doesn't require a very beefy machine. I run it fine on my Athlon 1800XP with GeForce2 GTS vid card. Unfortunately the Unreal II demo runs like crap on my machine. Even with everything turned to the lowest settings. Owell. Now if I could just find my UT2K3 CDs I'd be all set to load it up again. I just moved and I think they got packed someplace strange where I probably won't find them for 6 months.:-|
heh.. same here. I bought a PS2 and played halfway through MGS2 and maybe a 1/3 through Onimusha. Haven't touched it since. Console games just don't hold my attention like PC games do.
If this were in the US, then all the state would have to do is make the inmates wear uniforms with a copyrighted work printed on them. Then if you make a program that aids in circumventing access controls to the prisoners...:)
If the brakes failed while under warranty, they would most likely be obligated to provide you with a comparable rental vehicle so that you are not overly inconvenienced while the repairs are being made. You paid for a working vehicle, and they have to provide that for you.
Ahh yes, much more fun to jump on the "I'm the voice of reason" bandwagon. Jar-Jar deserves every bit of his reputation as an annoying sideshow that detracted from the movie. The fact that he did a few mildly amusing things here and there does not redeem him. Face it, Jar-Jar sucks. People aren't jumping on the bandwagon. Star Wars fans were born on this particular bandwagon and there are only a few that fell off of it. They are to be pitied and scorned.
Note that the Copyright Office is accepting comments. They don't promise to read them, consider them, or do anything else in particular with them. For all we know they stick them on a web page somewhere and promptly forget about them. What incentive do they have to listen to us anyway?
Everyone said the same thing about the 1-click patent. Didn't change anything though. They're just patenting obvious uses of existing technology. The problem is that the PTO doesn't have the slightest freaking clue about anything related to programming.
Copyright doesn't prevent something from being introduced into evidence in a court of law.
Exactly. In fact,/. readers were quite happy about that quite a while back when a big chunk of the Scientologists' copyrighted religious text was read into evidence during a lawsuit they had brought against some poor guy. They are pretty clever when it comes to legal machinations, but they didn't catch that one until it was too late. So their wacky religion was laid bare for all to read.
1. You don't need to file for an extension anymore. Congress takes care of that for you, every 20 years.
2. The public domain is effectively dead at this point. Starting in 1998 there will be a 20-year period where no copyrights will expire. If congress decides to extend the term again (and since when have they ever been able to say no to Mickey?), then that drought will continue. The public domain will not grow anymore. The copyright industry is winning the war. The public is losing, badly.
Lay off the rural folk...they have the same rights you do. Broadband internet can make life AND business a lot better.
Whatever. I suppose all us city-dwellers have a right to 10 acres of land to roam around on as well? Maybe we should all have a nice creek running near the house too. Get over yourself. You made a decision that has consequences, so did everyone else. Deal with it.
Would something like this pretty much scour the "nearby" star systems clean of any life they might have supported? Kinda sucks to have a roll of the dice come up snakeyes and have a black hole collapse somewhere close enough to sterilize your planet.
Never said that MS wasn't king, or that other browsers were going to topple IE. I said their browser sucked compared to the competition, which is entirely true. IE sucks. But since most people either don't know that other browsers exist, don't know that the other browsers offer a better experience and nicer features, or are intimidated by the thought of installing a different browser on their computer, Microsoft will continue to dominate the browser market as long as Windows is on top.
Much better in the sense that they offer a more friendly interface (and many are skinable), more useful features (like pop-up blocking, something that IE users complain about endlessly), better controls for privacy, etc. Just ask any Opera, Phoenix, or Mozilla user why they love their browser. Luckily for most IE users, they don't know what they're missing. As for rendering sites incorrectly, well I haven't had much trouble with that. I can only recall a handful of instances when a website wouldn't render correctly, and only in a couple of those cases was it so bad that the site was unuseable. IE may be king, but webmasters out there have been waking up to the fact that there are such things as standards. IE could end up becoming the next Netscape 4.x, the browser that web designers loathe the most due to its horrible support for standards.
I never said they didn't own the market. I simply said that IE is no longer a good, or even competitive browser. It is simply doesn't have to compete anymore, and so it will not improve in any significant way. All the other browsers out there are much better in every way, but they don't have the muscle that Microsoft has to put their browser on every computer out there.
A year or two ago you might have been right about IE, but not anymore. It gets blown away by just about every other browser out there in practically every respect. IE simply sucks now compared to the competition. Of course since it's there by default in all Windows installations, it still has the biggest marketshare. But every time I show one of my co-workers all the nifty things that Mozilla does, they practically beg me to tell them where to get it and teach them all the cool things.
Granted, people get killed with guns relatively often here in the US compared to most other countries. However, you're still many times more likely to be killed on the highway by an SUV, or simply drop dead of a heart attack than be killed by a gun. Then there's also the fact that guns are used for self-defense FAR more often than they are used illegally. I'm not sure about other countries, but here in the US, the police are not required to protect you, or even to respond to a call (and even if they were, it's quite impossible for them to do so within a timeframe that would matter). You have to be prepared to defend yourself and your family. I know of no better tool for that purpose than a gun.
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UT2K3 doesn't require a very beefy machine. I run it fine on my Athlon 1800XP with GeForce2 GTS vid card. Unfortunately the Unreal II demo runs like crap on my machine. Even with everything turned to the lowest settings. Owell. Now if I could just find my UT2K3 CDs I'd be all set to load it up again. I just moved and I think they got packed someplace strange where I probably won't find them for 6 months. :-|
heh.. same here. I bought a PS2 and played halfway through MGS2 and maybe a 1/3 through Onimusha. Haven't touched it since. Console games just don't hold my attention like PC games do.
If this were in the US, then all the state would have to do is make the inmates wear uniforms with a copyrighted work printed on them. Then if you make a program that aids in circumventing access controls to the prisoners... :)
If the brakes failed while under warranty, they would most likely be obligated to provide you with a comparable rental vehicle so that you are not overly inconvenienced while the repairs are being made. You paid for a working vehicle, and they have to provide that for you.
Good point. This country really needs to get over its sexual hangups.
Ahh yes, much more fun to jump on the "I'm the voice of reason" bandwagon. Jar-Jar deserves every bit of his reputation as an annoying sideshow that detracted from the movie. The fact that he did a few mildly amusing things here and there does not redeem him. Face it, Jar-Jar sucks. People aren't jumping on the bandwagon. Star Wars fans were born on this particular bandwagon and there are only a few that fell off of it. They are to be pitied and scorned.
Note that the Copyright Office is accepting comments. They don't promise to read them, consider them, or do anything else in particular with them. For all we know they stick them on a web page somewhere and promptly forget about them. What incentive do they have to listen to us anyway?
Well, I say 1998, because there were still copyrights expiring before then. There haven't been any expiring since then.
I believe they tried that argument in Eldred v Ashcroft, but it didn't fly with the court.
Everyone said the same thing about the 1-click patent. Didn't change anything though. They're just patenting obvious uses of existing technology. The problem is that the PTO doesn't have the slightest freaking clue about anything related to programming.
Sure you can. Just gotta whip out one of your spare accounts to post with after you moderate :)
Copyright doesn't prevent something from being introduced into evidence in a court of law.
/. readers were quite happy about that quite a while back when a big chunk of the Scientologists' copyrighted religious text was read into evidence during a lawsuit they had brought against some poor guy. They are pretty clever when it comes to legal machinations, but they didn't catch that one until it was too late. So their wacky religion was laid bare for all to read.
Exactly. In fact,
1. You don't need to file for an extension anymore. Congress takes care of that for you, every 20 years.
2. The public domain is effectively dead at this point. Starting in 1998 there will be a 20-year period where no copyrights will expire. If congress decides to extend the term again (and since when have they ever been able to say no to Mickey?), then that drought will continue. The public domain will not grow anymore. The copyright industry is winning the war. The public is losing, badly.
Unless you give it a really stupid name, in which case people will fall back on whatever cooler name someone else came up with.
No, but "it'll cost a helluvalot more than you want to pay" is a pretty good reason.
Lay off the rural folk...they have the same rights you do. Broadband internet can make life AND business a lot better.
Whatever. I suppose all us city-dwellers have a right to 10 acres of land to roam around on as well? Maybe we should all have a nice creek running near the house too. Get over yourself. You made a decision that has consequences, so did everyone else. Deal with it.
It only looks like a flowchart to the untrained and horribly ignorant eye. :)
Would something like this pretty much scour the "nearby" star systems clean of any life they might have supported? Kinda sucks to have a roll of the dice come up snakeyes and have a black hole collapse somewhere close enough to sterilize your planet.
Although as mentioned the US gov. can shut down kiddie porn sites
Although, like he said, if they can shut them down, why do they need a list?
Never said that MS wasn't king, or that other browsers were going to topple IE. I said their browser sucked compared to the competition, which is entirely true. IE sucks. But since most people either don't know that other browsers exist, don't know that the other browsers offer a better experience and nicer features, or are intimidated by the thought of installing a different browser on their computer, Microsoft will continue to dominate the browser market as long as Windows is on top.
Much better in the sense that they offer a more friendly interface (and many are skinable), more useful features (like pop-up blocking, something that IE users complain about endlessly), better controls for privacy, etc. Just ask any Opera, Phoenix, or Mozilla user why they love their browser. Luckily for most IE users, they don't know what they're missing. As for rendering sites incorrectly, well I haven't had much trouble with that. I can only recall a handful of instances when a website wouldn't render correctly, and only in a couple of those cases was it so bad that the site was unuseable. IE may be king, but webmasters out there have been waking up to the fact that there are such things as standards. IE could end up becoming the next Netscape 4.x, the browser that web designers loathe the most due to its horrible support for standards.
I never said they didn't own the market. I simply said that IE is no longer a good, or even competitive browser. It is simply doesn't have to compete anymore, and so it will not improve in any significant way. All the other browsers out there are much better in every way, but they don't have the muscle that Microsoft has to put their browser on every computer out there.
A year or two ago you might have been right about IE, but not anymore. It gets blown away by just about every other browser out there in practically every respect. IE simply sucks now compared to the competition. Of course since it's there by default in all Windows installations, it still has the biggest marketshare. But every time I show one of my co-workers all the nifty things that Mozilla does, they practically beg me to tell them where to get it and teach them all the cool things.
Yeah, and the popups get real irritating after a while if you leave your browser on MSN.
Not if you're using Mozilla....
Granted, people get killed with guns relatively often here in the US compared to most other countries. However, you're still many times more likely to be killed on the highway by an SUV, or simply drop dead of a heart attack than be killed by a gun. Then there's also the fact that guns are used for self-defense FAR more often than they are used illegally. I'm not sure about other countries, but here in the US, the police are not required to protect you, or even to respond to a call (and even if they were, it's quite impossible for them to do so within a timeframe that would matter). You have to be prepared to defend yourself and your family. I know of no better tool for that purpose than a gun.