I doubt very much we'll only every have the One Big Gaming company - games would suck so much people would eventually stop buying them.
Just like people have stopped watching these awful reality TV shows?
Hello World, make me a sandwich. Ha! Sudo make me a sandwich!
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As funny as your comment is I can't help but disagree with you. Until GTK+ has native, no extra effort required, support for screen reader accessibility on Windows I can't help but think of it as a second rate solution at best.
how do they expect to fight a war on 10 different fronts...
... I hear Darl McBride will be available on the job market very soon...
That's a great idea! We should send him to negotiate with the terrorists. I'm sure they will give him the welcome that a man of his station deserves.
Diebold is the dictator's choice for subverting democracy.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Robert J. Hanlon
Diabolds problem is incompetent management that is more concerned with minimizing the bottom line by being cheap with their programmers and trying to make up for their crappy software with marketing, lobbyists, and lawyers instead of fixing the problems.
Intel's gonna do what Intel always does - they're gonna turn that stuff into silicon. Expect a physics engine chip from Intel. In other words Intel is going to reek HAVOK on AGEIA.
Perfect! Now all we need to do is convince Bush that MS might be using H1-Bs to bring potential terrorists into the country.
1. Find less then credible source to plant evidence and notify CIA.
2. Ensure that private US contractors get to take over what's left of Microsoft.
3....
4. No more H1-B
5. Bye bye Microsoft!
ATI, NVIDIA: fuck you. Open source graphic drivers are possible, period.
It seems to me that ATI/Nvidia have very different markets than Intel. Intel benefits from open source drivers because they produce low performance integrated video chips. People who choose Intel do so because they are cheap and/or because they need low power consumption (think servers, cheep computers, and laptops). On the other hand, people choose ATI/Nvidia because they want better 3D performance. This means that good drivers that work better than their competition are more important for ATI/Nvidia. Furthermore, while I know that there are good games for Linux, they are a LOT more of them for Windows. So windows divers are far more important to ATI/Nvidia than *nix drivers. Intel only has to worry about stability and not having truly crappy drivers; open source works well for this.
Secondly, if ATI/Nvidia were to open up their drivers it could expose them to litigation from each other or from patent trolls that happen to have a patent on some miniscule technique used in their drivers.
As far as IP goes, I think that the biggest risk for ATI/Nvidia is not from them copying each other but from some other small company copying them and releasing only binary drivers so that they will never know that they were stolen from.
Protection against double click isn't that bad... squid proxy and a block list is always a good start. I have a custom adblock list in all my Firefox browsers that blocks (among others) doubleclick and the Google analytics.
This brings up an important question: At what point is ad blocking too much?
The reality of the internet is that most of it is commercial. Many of the best sites have to be this way because they require a full time staff, and who are we to deny them the right to make a living providing us with content to view? These sites really have only two options: ads or subscription. So, at what point does ad blocking become too much?
Personally, I do use Adblock but I don't go out of my way to block ads so I still get most of them. That's fine with me. It takes the edge off the really annoying ones. Of course you'll have to pry Flashblock out of my cold dead fingers. Damn flash ads.
Imagine, the call to 911 comes in "Shots fired at so and so intersection", the airship gets the call and points their cameras in that area, scanning for a gun battle, fleeing cars/suspects, etc. Not a bad usage.
I would have to agree with the above post. This has a lot of potential benefits. Sure there are ways that it could be abused, but from a fundamental perspective it's not any different than having patrol cars driving around. It does, however, have the potential to be cheaper and it can respond to calls faster.
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I have an eerie feeling that NASA has already accounted for this...
Just like people have stopped watching these awful reality TV shows?
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As funny as your comment is I can't help but disagree with you. Until GTK+ has native, no extra effort required, support for screen reader accessibility on Windows I can't help but think of it as a second rate solution at best.
That's a great idea! We should send him to negotiate with the terrorists. I'm sure they will give him the welcome that a man of his station deserves.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Robert J. Hanlon
Diabolds problem is incompetent management that is more concerned with minimizing the bottom line by being cheap with their programmers and trying to make up for their crappy software with marketing, lobbyists, and lawyers instead of fixing the problems.
So if an astronaut committed a crime in one countries module and then flees to another module, would he have to be extradited?
Some of us don't use bittorrent for downloading just OSS IOS's, you insensitive clod!
Arrrrr.... I be a pirate you insensitive clod!
Give visa to Bill Gates? Cancel or Allow?
...that all of the Office macro viruses will work in my web browser now too?
by his standing up to the record labels that I want to buy one of his CDs but that would be wrong now.
I don't see any. O:-)
I for one welcome our new ASS overlords!
So does this mean that if Google jumps off a cliff Microsoft would do it too?
Perfect! Now all we need to do is convince Bush that MS might be using H1-Bs to bring potential terrorists into the country.
...
1. Find less then credible source to plant evidence and notify CIA.
2. Ensure that private US contractors get to take over what's left of Microsoft.
3.
4. No more H1-B
5. Bye bye Microsoft!
Praise be to His Noodelyness! May His Noodly Appendage touch all!
Where is the unibomber when you need him?
Eh. They'd probably break parole and just not show up. Slackers.
Nah, they just put them to work in congress.
ATI, NVIDIA: fuck you. Open source graphic drivers are possible, period.
It seems to me that ATI/Nvidia have very different markets than Intel. Intel benefits from open source drivers because they produce low performance integrated video chips. People who choose Intel do so because they are cheap and/or because they need low power consumption (think servers, cheep computers, and laptops). On the other hand, people choose ATI/Nvidia because they want better 3D performance. This means that good drivers that work better than their competition are more important for ATI/Nvidia. Furthermore, while I know that there are good games for Linux, they are a LOT more of them for Windows. So windows divers are far more important to ATI/Nvidia than *nix drivers. Intel only has to worry about stability and not having truly crappy drivers; open source works well for this.
Secondly, if ATI/Nvidia were to open up their drivers it could expose them to litigation from each other or from patent trolls that happen to have a patent on some miniscule technique used in their drivers.
As far as IP goes, I think that the biggest risk for ATI/Nvidia is not from them copying each other but from some other small company copying them and releasing only binary drivers so that they will never know that they were stolen from.
...in which case you should hit them with a chair until they crumple to the ground.So this is where Ballmer gets his management style.
You just did.
This brings up an important question: At what point is ad blocking too much?
The reality of the internet is that most of it is commercial. Many of the best sites have to be this way because they require a full time staff, and who are we to deny them the right to make a living providing us with content to view? These sites really have only two options: ads or subscription. So, at what point does ad blocking become too much?
Personally, I do use Adblock but I don't go out of my way to block ads so I still get most of them. That's fine with me. It takes the edge off the really annoying ones. Of course you'll have to pry Flashblock out of my cold dead fingers. Damn flash ads.
I would have to agree with the above post. This has a lot of potential benefits. Sure there are ways that it could be abused, but from a fundamental perspective it's not any different than having patrol cars driving around. It does, however, have the potential to be cheaper and it can respond to calls faster.