You know anything the MPAA are "applauding" is bad news for everyone. Why doesn't every single person in every single collage in the US start illegal downloading? I have realized over the past few weeks that the legal system is destroyed. It could be repaired, but no one wants to repair it becuse that would mean they cant sue people for millions of dollars for no reason, or flood Congress to get pointless laws passed that punish everyone.
Innocent people being screwed by the legal system because some company or person wants to make money. If someone can sue some one for $50 million for losing my pants at a dry cleaner (all over the news a few months ago), somting needs to change fast. Did they even read the man pages or HOWTOS for the Unreal Engine???
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I just bought a new Gateway computer a few months ago, and immediately installed Linux on it (Fedora 7 Linux). I almost always use Linux now. Why? Because I get tired of all those UAC crap. Every single time I turn the computer on to Vista, it reminds me of how I have Premium and why I should give m$ more money to get Ultimate. I have to scan EVERY file I download through a virus-scanner. I always need to download somting extra to do something not included in Vista, and can never find freeware software because of all the proprietary garbage on the Internet for WIndows. I installed Wolfstine: Enemy Territory on Vista, and got so pissed at it. First I needed to run as admin, then a DLL kept failing, had to download a patch. Then I needed to allow the game to get through on the network. Then when I finally get to play, the graphics are so messed up, and it crashes with c0000005 access violation errors (like every other game I try to play in Windows). Thank God there is a Linux version! Just downloaded it, ran the.run file, and I was playing with NO ERRORS. I have a full web server hooked up, to do the things I can do in Linux would have cost me about $3,000 in software to do on Windows.
Unfortunately, like all court cases against big companies, the lawyers will walk away with the big million doallar checks after they win, leaving the victims $10 to claim (like Microsoft's recent court case). Also, I have been using Comcast for a year for Internet, but I have to say, I have not noticed any significant reduction in speed on BitTorrent. I mostly download TV shows, which are about 350mb each. Anyway, I have not really noticed P2P networks being hurt because of this. Sometimes I notice bizzar speeds, but I just thought it was because everyone was hogging the bandwich.
This is probably why Microsoft wants to patent scanning your brain. Next thing you know, whenever your playing a Microsoft developed game, your brain is scanned and its information stored and used for ads in the game.
Relase it as a GPL'd downlaod for Windows and Linux! The power of free and open-source software is the only way we can fight back against the censorship! Thats what I said since this issue began. That'll teach those "I don't liek this, so I'll go to Washington and force everyone else to think the same" political people!
Microsoft is basically being themselves and holding the entire PC gaming industry back. Its basic business: why would a company spend millions of dollars and months making a game that only about at most 7-10% of consumers would even have access to? Your computer has to be super powerful if it has Windows Vista on it to come close to running DirectX 10 games. I play FlightGear on my computer, and tried it on Windows Vista and Linux. Every time I played it on Windows Vista I would get "Virtual memory low" messages and the system would automaticly increce my pagefile. The Linux version, however, ran with no lag or problems of any kind. I think its time the SEC starts coming back into play. But Microsoft is just digging their own grave, if they destroy PC gaming, I have no more reasons to use Windows or have it on my hard drive. Gaming is the only thing I do not use Linux for.
I was in Iris, and was ripped off. I hapeen to be on my computer when Server 4 opened, got a key, but when I tried logging in with my Windows Live ID to claim my prize, it says "Server Error in/tr89ex application". NOO! This entire artical is a lie, Microsoft, the masterminds of sucking money out of everyone, spent next to nothing on Iris.
Microsoft could program their web pages right! I was in I Love Bees 2 (called Iris), and I was ripped off! I started in early July, and, happened to be on my computer when Server 4's status chaned to pending. Despite sitting there for over 4 hours waiting, when it eventually opened up and allowed people to claim prizes, I got a key! But, after logging in with my Windows Live ID, it says "Server error in/tr89ex application", and showed the ASP.NET 2.0 Red Screen of Death. I WON, BUT COULDN'T CLAIM MY PRIZE! Stupid Microsoft! I'm still buying an Xbox 360 just for Halo 3 though.
I have wanted an Xbox 360 since Halo 3 was announced, and, now that I have enough money to get it, I do not think I am getting it just to be denied my First Ammandment rights. Maby Linux wouldn't be so popular if Microsoft didn't horde everything to themselves (DirectX 10 being Vista only, no Linux support for Silverlight, just to name a few). People say the PS3 is not as good as the 360, but guess what: Sony directly supports the open source community, providing an option right in the settings menu to install Linux on the PS3 (I did that on mine). Microsoft seems to be the only people who have a problem with Linux, because they know it will put them out of business, so they want to destroy it like they do everything else that gets in the way of their money.
CBS was just trying to make the show appealing to all types of audencies. I highly doubt you can find any successful dramas that has never had at least one love triangle. It is a way of expanding the target audience to people who like action, drama, and love triangles. Although there could have been more problems and hardships, many of the things in the show are realistic. The last few episodes focused on a war with a neighboring town, New Born, who were prepairing to take Jericho. Seneriaos like this are what would probably happen if a nuclear attack on the US happens and theres no working government or law enforcement. And besides, if this is how people feel, then bringing the show for another season would present CBS with a shot to listen.
I dont see any problom here. A kid, who odvoulsly likes computers, decides to learn how to develop video game levels, so he does one on his high school. Is there any harm there? Unless the goal is to actulally do anything threatning, I see no harm. Even more upsetting: this isnt the first time Houston, has severly punished a student for a harmless act. In this mounths issue of Readers Digest, there is an artical called "Zero Tollerance in high schools," which talks about how some schools are expelling, calling the cops, and flipping out over innocent acts. To read the article, see http://www.rd.com/content/thats-outrageous-no-merc y-kid/ Now I can see why the school would be suspicious of the kids map (it was an urban legend that the people who committed the Colombine shooting created a multiplayer map of their school for the game Doom), and would be OK if they examined the map to ensure theres nothing wrong. But searching his house, sending him to an alternitive school... the kid odvously wants to be in a computer carrere, but this will problaly stay with him for the rest of his life.
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You know anything the MPAA are "applauding" is bad news for everyone. Why doesn't every single person in every single collage in the US start illegal downloading? I have realized over the past few weeks that the legal system is destroyed. It could be repaired, but no one wants to repair it becuse that would mean they cant sue people for millions of dollars for no reason, or flood Congress to get pointless laws passed that punish everyone.
Innocent people being screwed by the legal system because some company or person wants to make money. If someone can sue some one for $50 million for losing my pants at a dry cleaner (all over the news a few months ago), somting needs to change fast. Did they even read the man pages or HOWTOS for the Unreal Engine???
I just bought a new Gateway computer a few months ago, and immediately installed Linux on it (Fedora 7 Linux). I almost always use Linux now. Why? Because I get tired of all those UAC crap. Every single time I turn the computer on to Vista, it reminds me of how I have Premium and why I should give m$ more money to get Ultimate. I have to scan EVERY file I download through a virus-scanner. I always need to download somting extra to do something not included in Vista, and can never find freeware software because of all the proprietary garbage on the Internet for WIndows. I installed Wolfstine: Enemy Territory on Vista, and got so pissed at it. First I needed to run as admin, then a DLL kept failing, had to download a patch. Then I needed to allow the game to get through on the network. Then when I finally get to play, the graphics are so messed up, and it crashes with c0000005 access violation errors (like every other game I try to play in Windows). Thank God there is a Linux version! Just downloaded it, ran the .run file, and I was playing with NO ERRORS. I have a full web server hooked up, to do the things I can do in Linux would have cost me about $3,000 in software to do on Windows.
Unfortunately, like all court cases against big companies, the lawyers will walk away with the big million doallar checks after they win, leaving the victims $10 to claim (like Microsoft's recent court case). Also, I have been using Comcast for a year for Internet, but I have to say, I have not noticed any significant reduction in speed on BitTorrent. I mostly download TV shows, which are about 350mb each. Anyway, I have not really noticed P2P networks being hurt because of this. Sometimes I notice bizzar speeds, but I just thought it was because everyone was hogging the bandwich.
This is probably why Microsoft wants to patent scanning your brain. Next thing you know, whenever your playing a Microsoft developed game, your brain is scanned and its information stored and used for ads in the game.
Relase it as a GPL'd downlaod for Windows and Linux! The power of free and open-source software is the only way we can fight back against the censorship! Thats what I said since this issue began. That'll teach those "I don't liek this, so I'll go to Washington and force everyone else to think the same" political people!
Microsoft is basically being themselves and holding the entire PC gaming industry back. Its basic business: why would a company spend millions of dollars and months making a game that only about at most 7-10% of consumers would even have access to? Your computer has to be super powerful if it has Windows Vista on it to come close to running DirectX 10 games. I play FlightGear on my computer, and tried it on Windows Vista and Linux. Every time I played it on Windows Vista I would get "Virtual memory low" messages and the system would automaticly increce my pagefile. The Linux version, however, ran with no lag or problems of any kind. I think its time the SEC starts coming back into play. But Microsoft is just digging their own grave, if they destroy PC gaming, I have no more reasons to use Windows or have it on my hard drive. Gaming is the only thing I do not use Linux for.
I was in Iris, and was ripped off. I hapeen to be on my computer when Server 4 opened, got a key, but when I tried logging in with my Windows Live ID to claim my prize, it says "Server Error in /tr89ex application". NOO! This entire artical is a lie, Microsoft, the masterminds of sucking money out of everyone, spent next to nothing on Iris.
Microsoft could program their web pages right! I was in I Love Bees 2 (called Iris), and I was ripped off! I started in early July, and, happened to be on my computer when Server 4's status chaned to pending. Despite sitting there for over 4 hours waiting, when it eventually opened up and allowed people to claim prizes, I got a key! But, after logging in with my Windows Live ID, it says "Server error in /tr89ex application", and showed the ASP.NET 2.0 Red Screen of Death. I WON, BUT COULDN'T CLAIM MY PRIZE! Stupid Microsoft! I'm still buying an Xbox 360 just for Halo 3 though.
I have wanted an Xbox 360 since Halo 3 was announced, and, now that I have enough money to get it, I do not think I am getting it just to be denied my First Ammandment rights. Maby Linux wouldn't be so popular if Microsoft didn't horde everything to themselves (DirectX 10 being Vista only, no Linux support for Silverlight, just to name a few). People say the PS3 is not as good as the 360, but guess what: Sony directly supports the open source community, providing an option right in the settings menu to install Linux on the PS3 (I did that on mine). Microsoft seems to be the only people who have a problem with Linux, because they know it will put them out of business, so they want to destroy it like they do everything else that gets in the way of their money.
CBS was just trying to make the show appealing to all types of audencies. I highly doubt you can find any successful dramas that has never had at least one love triangle. It is a way of expanding the target audience to people who like action, drama, and love triangles. Although there could have been more problems and hardships, many of the things in the show are realistic. The last few episodes focused on a war with a neighboring town, New Born, who were prepairing to take Jericho. Seneriaos like this are what would probably happen if a nuclear attack on the US happens and theres no working government or law enforcement. And besides, if this is how people feel, then bringing the show for another season would present CBS with a shot to listen.
I dont see any problom here. A kid, who odvoulsly likes computers, decides to learn how to develop video game levels, so he does one on his high school. Is there any harm there? Unless the goal is to actulally do anything threatning, I see no harm. Even more upsetting: this isnt the first time Houston, has severly punished a student for a harmless act. In this mounths issue of Readers Digest, there is an artical called "Zero Tollerance in high schools," which talks about how some schools are expelling, calling the cops, and flipping out over innocent acts. To read the article, see http://www.rd.com/content/thats-outrageous-no-merc y-kid/ Now I can see why the school would be suspicious of the kids map (it was an urban legend that the people who committed the Colombine shooting created a multiplayer map of their school for the game Doom), and would be OK if they examined the map to ensure theres nothing wrong. But searching his house, sending him to an alternitive school... the kid odvously wants to be in a computer carrere, but this will problaly stay with him for the rest of his life.