To prvent confusion, and complaints from customers who can't run their old games on their new console, MS and Apple is going out together, launching the iBox.
New platform, and from Apple. Yet MS will get their share of money, and Apple will take the risk on the sales of the iBox.
The problem is, that in the USA there is no marketing law protecting consumers.
In Denmark, marketing must be true,and must be verifiable. And you can't refer to named competitors. So Burger King can't say it is better than McDonald.
If SCO is saying that the competing product, Linux, is illegal, and trying to sell licenses, then their first action is to go to court to have this claim proved.
Since they have not done so here in a timely manner (they waited until Linux became big, rather than following their obligation to liit damages), they have no case at all any more against Linux. At least not here. Here you must act, or you are lose your rights. Even if we had GIF patents here, the delay from the patent owner in filing cases would be enough for him to lose his rights.
Laws are different between countries, and I think the basic principles are way better here. The golden rule is that we look at the interest of the community, and at keeping workplaces running. And the truth is over any technicality (i.e. it doesn't matter how the police found the evidence, as long as it is found. If he got it illegally, that is another case against the police).
Respawn really kills the game, people don't act realistic in any way, and uses bazookas all the time to blow themself up, sometimes killing someone else as well.
Games without respawn is way better. A good current example is Rainbow Six. Start playing cooperativew games to learn. Mature gamers, friendly atmosphere. Have yet to meet coop cheaters. This game rocks.
Otherwise go for strategy games, like some of the best out there. Myth II Soulblighter rocks.
Send them a bill for $250000 - You can always donate to a charity if they pay you.
If they want to play hard. there still is the Copyright as per the Berne convention, which they are infringing.
Basicly the GPL waives any payment if the follow the rules. Otherwise they are mean criminals, just like all the other software and music pirates out there.
Going to court here is pretty cheap. I think this will be handled in the "sea- and trade court", which can command Kiss to stop distributing the software, until the copyright infringements has been removed.
You can run the case yourself, and if you win it will cost nothing.
SCO can't sue Tannenbaum. I am pretty sure that most european countries (like Denmark) has a basic legal principle of, that you can not stand on the sideline passive for n years, waiting for the peoduct become popular before you sue.
The case could never be won here, which is why SCO Germany removed all claims from their website. They did not want a parallel case here.
A bug in Windows 3.1 and forward allows a malicious attacker with access to the local network to hijack your machine and run any program he wants on the users machine.
The attack goes like this: He sets up a DHCP server Feeeds computers booting with fake IPs for DNS and WINS servers. Redirects the NETLOGON server shares to a share under his control. Makes sure the login script runs his software.
It is thus recommended that all Windows users, especially coorporate users, disables DHCP in the TCP/IP settings, until Microsoft starts shippign support for DHCPS - which is DHCP over SSL/TLS.
It is important to do this, since if only some users does it, it might be difficult for thew machines to connect to each other.
Seems like the they are trying to go into denial, just like the nazis said the holocaust, and killing jews did not take place. Or the russians in the sixties. If the words disappears it has never happened.
I think it is over the edge. Here in Denmark, the words for the different disabled groups has changed a few times, as it takes less than 10 years before the new word is used in some negative way. So a blind is blind, and most other have returned to the original word as well.
The Garbage collectors had a couple of names as well (sanitizing workers among other), but they are back to garbage collectors. That is what they do, pick up garbage.
I think that is LA is serious, they should scrap all the ATA harddrives the have, and preferable all motherboards with master/slave supprt as well. Would be good for the computer industry.
Are you a developer without a clue ? Or have you been smoking the funny stuff ?
The CPU does mean shit when it comes to porting games. Games can only be written to the API since the hardware box is closed, and as long as the API is frozen, all it takes is a recompile. But there is a chance MS will use the longhorn API by then, and maybe even say C# - so they can be platform independent. Remember, C# is portable bytecode like Java.
There was a time when all it took was a recompile, and your Windows app would run on PowerPC or MIPS, Alpha or even Intel:)
A PowerPC in 2005 should also be able to do pretty well emulating the 733 MHz P3.
I am also waiting for a cheaper feature rich RPN calculator.
Loves my HP11C, and thinks the HP48sx is great too. Need something good in HP11C / HP15C / HP16C quality and not too large. But RPN is necesary. Bought the very cheap HP-9S, and it is a big disappointment.
Steve Jobs said Apple is almost break-even on iTMS, but the lose money and expect to continue that way.
The revenue is in the best MP3 player on the market, the Apple iPod. Its design, size and user interface gives it no competition. iRiver has made a new unit approx the same size, and at the same prize, with more features trying to see if they have chance to even get to the knees of Apple.
The "Alt Gr" key is used for us foreigners to reach seldomly used charatcers like @$ (Alt-Gr 2, 3 and 4 respectively), or {[]} (Alt-Gr 7890) or | (alt-GR `) or \ (alt-GR ). And more important, Alt-Gr e is the Euro character. You know, the european dollar, way stonger than the US dollar.
On the other hand, we get often used charatcers like aeoa as primary keys, and have access "# with Shift + 2, 3 and 4.
This is all based on a danish keyboard. Some people have grown beyond US-ASCII (7-bit crap)
Apple has been publishing books on Human Interface Guidelines for years.
Why not just start following them on other platforms ? The first platform to convince its programmers will get a consistent GUI and win.
Microsoft is trying to destroy Windows by remapping keys between language versions. Find (which is also a legal danish word) become Ctrl-B in all their danish software (Notepad, Office etc), and Ctrl-F becomes the shortcut for FAT-letters (Bold)
I must agree. It is a very good source for all things computer related. But it has shortcommings if you want technical information in most other areas of interests, especially complete texts. A simple area is running. There is lots of tidbits, some contradicting each other. But there are very good books, with much more relevant info, info that has taken research.
No wonder the rest will come, but it will take years.
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To prvent confusion, and complaints from customers who can't run their old games on their new console, MS and Apple is going out together, launching the iBox.
New platform, and from Apple. Yet MS will get their share of money, and Apple will take the risk on the sales of the iBox.
He should pay for getting MTV airtime rather than complain.
The problem is, that in the USA there is no marketing law protecting consumers.
In Denmark, marketing must be true,and must be verifiable. And you can't refer to named competitors. So Burger King can't say it is better than McDonald.
If SCO is saying that the competing product, Linux, is illegal, and trying to sell licenses, then their first action is to go to court to have this claim proved.
Since they have not done so here in a timely manner (they waited until Linux became big, rather than following their obligation to liit damages), they have no case at all any more against Linux. At least not here. Here you must act, or you are lose your rights. Even if we had GIF patents here, the delay from the patent owner in filing cases would be enough for him to lose his rights.
Laws are different between countries, and I think the basic principles are way better here. The golden rule is that we look at the interest of the community, and at keeping workplaces running. And the truth is over any technicality (i.e. it doesn't matter how the police found the evidence, as long as it is found. If he got it illegally, that is another case against the police).
Respawn really kills the game, people don't act realistic in any way, and uses bazookas all the time to blow themself up, sometimes killing someone else as well.
Games without respawn is way better. A good current example is Rainbow Six. Start playing cooperativew games to learn. Mature gamers, friendly atmosphere. Have yet to meet coop cheaters. This game rocks.
Otherwise go for strategy games, like some of the best out there. Myth II Soulblighter rocks.
Send them a bill for $250000 - You can always donate to a charity if they pay you.
If they want to play hard. there still is the Copyright as per the Berne convention, which they are infringing.
Basicly the GPL waives any payment if the follow the rules. Otherwise they are mean criminals, just like all the other software and music pirates out there.
Going to court here is pretty cheap.
I think this will be handled in the "sea- and trade court", which can command Kiss to stop distributing the software, until the copyright infringements has been removed.
You can run the case yourself, and if you win it will cost nothing.
I completely agree, my old iBook was using 10-25W depending on battery state. Have not tested my new iBook G4.
The 10-25W is better than my Via Nehemiah 1GHz board in my server at home. I can only say, if you think about power, abandon the x86 architecture.
SCO can't sue Tannenbaum. I am pretty sure that most european countries (like Denmark) has a basic legal principle of, that you can not stand on the sideline passive for n years, waiting for the peoduct become popular before you sue.
The case could never be won here, which is why SCO Germany removed all claims from their website. They did not want a parallel case here.
Every single copy of Windows also violates the copyright, as they are written using C and C++.
SCO ownz Windooze.
post copyrigthed code here ?
They will soon come and close slashdot down.
Danish newspapers mentions one more important point.
There was no proof that DeCCS has been used to pirate movies, so he was also found not guilty in helping the pirates make movies.
When will the new client be out for this platform ?
:=)
I know my PC eats 20 Watts more of power when in 3D mode, but still, I want the faster agent
Non-unix based ?
Do you know what Mac OS X is ? It is a Window manager running on top of an open source OpenBSD dialect called Darwin. See www.opendarwin.org.
If Mac OS X is not unix, neither are OpenBSD and Linux.
A bug in Windows 3.1 and forward allows a malicious attacker with access to the local network to hijack your machine and run any program he wants on the users machine.
The attack goes like this:
He sets up a DHCP server
Feeeds computers booting with fake IPs for DNS and WINS servers.
Redirects the NETLOGON server shares to a share under his control. Makes sure the login script runs his software.
It is thus recommended that all Windows users, especially coorporate users, disables DHCP in the TCP/IP settings, until Microsoft starts shippign support for DHCPS - which is DHCP over SSL/TLS.
It is important to do this, since if only some users does it, it might be difficult for thew machines to connect to each other.
The next step they are planning is to sue the phone companies for allowing people to talk about copying music.
Both ISPs and phone companies only provide infrastructure.
If one is guilty, so is the other.
What is the problem with master/slave ?
Seems like the they are trying to go into denial, just like the nazis said the holocaust, and killing jews did not take place. Or the russians in the sixties. If the words disappears it has never happened.
I think it is over the edge. Here in Denmark, the words for the different disabled groups has changed a few times, as it takes less than 10 years before the new word is used in some negative way. So a blind is blind, and most other have returned to the original word as well.
The Garbage collectors had a couple of names as well (sanitizing workers among other), but they are back to garbage collectors. That is what they do, pick up garbage.
I think that is LA is serious, they should scrap all the ATA harddrives the have, and preferable all motherboards with master/slave supprt as well. Would be good for the computer industry.
Beyond -O3 we have -OS and -O2. Both generates better codes on workstations. And -OS might be the best on Celerons and VIA C3 CPUs.
How will the synthetic algorithm determine if the app is for a server or a workstation ? And how to handle dual purpose machines ?
Are you a developer without a clue ? Or have you been smoking the funny stuff ?
:)
The CPU does mean shit when it comes to porting games. Games can only be written to the API since the hardware box is closed, and as long as the API is frozen, all it takes is a recompile. But there is a chance MS will use the longhorn API by then, and maybe even say C# - so they can be platform independent. Remember, C# is portable bytecode like Java.
There was a time when all it took was a recompile, and your Windows app would run on PowerPC or MIPS, Alpha or even Intel
A PowerPC in 2005 should also be able to do pretty well emulating the 733 MHz P3.
I am also waiting for a cheaper feature rich RPN calculator.
Loves my HP11C, and thinks the HP48sx is great too. Need something good in HP11C / HP15C / HP16C quality and not too large. But RPN is necesary. Bought the very cheap HP-9S, and it is a big disappointment.
Steve Jobs said Apple is almost break-even on iTMS, but the lose money and expect to continue that way.
The revenue is in the best MP3 player on the market, the Apple iPod. Its design, size and user interface gives it no competition. iRiver has made a new unit approx the same size, and at the same prize, with more features trying to see if they have chance to even get to the knees of Apple.
But the public knows about pop-up killers. And that is probably the single most needed feature in IE.
The "Alt Gr" key is used for us foreigners to reach seldomly used charatcers like @$ (Alt-Gr 2, 3 and 4 respectively), or {[]} (Alt-Gr 7890) or | (alt-GR `) or \ (alt-GR ). And more important, Alt-Gr e is the Euro character. You know, the european dollar, way stonger than the US dollar.
On the other hand, we get often used charatcers like aeoa as primary keys, and have access "# with Shift + 2, 3 and 4.
This is all based on a danish keyboard. Some people have grown beyond US-ASCII (7-bit crap)
SO where do I get a WLAN card with V.35 connector ?
Apple has been publishing books on Human Interface Guidelines for years.
Why not just start following them on other platforms ? The first platform to convince its programmers will get a consistent GUI and win.
Microsoft is trying to destroy Windows by remapping keys between language versions. Find (which is also a legal danish word) become Ctrl-B in all their danish software (Notepad, Office etc), and Ctrl-F becomes the shortcut for FAT-letters (Bold)
I must agree. It is a very good source for all things computer related. But it has shortcommings if you want technical information in most other areas of interests, especially complete texts. A simple area is running. There is lots of tidbits, some contradicting each other. But there are very good books, with much more relevant info, info that has taken research.
No wonder the rest will come, but it will take years.