I really don't see the point of a bunch of people having the Quake 3 source code. Unless your going to make something so mind boggling different from Quake 3 you don't need to have the source code, the mod community has shown this. Reaction Quake 3 or Quake 3 Urban Terror are great mods, they have very little in common with the 'standard' Quake III game. If you are gunning to make money, making a really cool mod is probably the best way to go, it worked for Counter-Strike didn't it? and unless you plan on porting Quake 3 to your toaster the source code is probably more than you'd need, afterall the sourcecode to Quake / Quake 2 has been available for a while now and i've yet to see any groundbreaking improvements.
Is this what you mean? It's a UK site though, or here but they only have the black one, you'd need to get a red one to duel. They don't fire anything though. They are all made by Nikko. It appears Nikko is working on a online store, it's not working yet.
When you run a website you have a variety of optiosn available, most reputable search engines will follow a robots.txt, and if your still paranoid after that you can deny access to the ip range of popular search engines. If you aren't willing to do these rather simple things to protect your 'privacy' you shouldn't post things on a website. Who knows what the teaming hordes of 'internet crazy folk' could do when they find my short story, surely they are all deviants and sexual miscreants. I know, i'll get INTERNATIONAL PRESS COVERAGE to make sure that my Privacy remains safe.
The BSA is exactly that, a Business Software Alliance. It doesn't serve the end user, it serves the corporations, the difference between this and other 'agencies' is that it makes no attempt to hide this. The BSA supports draconian measures like the DMCA, they'd probably like even stricter legislation. They represent corporate greed, they 'blackmail' companies into paying for huge site licenses to cover all the workstations and then some, or face a 'software audit' in which they'll no doubt find some violations. Have a 100 machine site license and a hundred machines, but just bought that new desktop for the boss? Lost the paperwork for the server in the corner?
Tobacco companies fund studies that find that Ciggarette smoking is less dangerous than playing golf in a thunderstorm, the BSA fudges facts to make Pirates seem like the scum of the Earth. The music industry and the 'software' industry have yet to realize that inflated prices lead to inflated piracy. Personally, i'm of the mind that if you make money with software, you should purchase that software. Some companies are alright with this as well, think of the thousands of script kiddies with their pirated versions of photoshop, they were never going to buy it in the first place.. Adobe cares about that printshop, or the graphics design place.. and most of these places wouldn't touch a pirated version of Photoshop with a ten-foot pole. They don't need the BSA to police them, at best the BSA makes a huge hassle, people decide that paying thousands of dollars a year to Microsoft for a site license is insane and switch to something free, many times open-source. Their draconian policies and scare tactics have probably won more converts than a slick red hat ad.
Great.... one of the selling points of Jaguar is that silly iChat program, which will now only be availabe to the lunkheads who buy into this.Mac crap.
"Instant Messaging with iChat
Apple's iChat integrates seamlessly with AOL Instant Messager. Your Mac.com Email address is your iChat (and AIM) screen name. With iChat, you'll enjoy a terrific graphic interface that includes photos, dialog balloons, and more."
One of the major reasons i'm a 'mac zealot' is in part due to the coolness of getting thinks like free iDisk storage and e-mail access. I don't use anything close to the 20mb limit, I think I have like maybe ~100k of stuff on there, but it's nice to have a place to store stuff i'd like to keep for later.. ditto for my mac.com email, i've got maybe ~300k of the 5mb limit. Sure, these features are nice, but they are sure as hell not worth 100USD to me, and I doubt i'm the only one who feels this way.
I bought a five thousand dollar powerbook, partly because of Apple's good relationship with their customers, but now they're stamping out the so-called 'grassroots' sites, charging their users for iDisk and e-mail use, what used to be nice perks is turning bitter. The thing I don't understand is why they think these services are worth 100USD, i'd pay 20 to keep my nifty e-mail address around, but i'm not paying 80 just so that my 100k/10mb of idisk usages turns to 100k/100mb.. that's asinine.
How about a real Digital Tuntable?
on
Digital DJ Turntable
·
· Score: 5, Informative
Final Scratch, uses a hybrid of actual turntables and digital audio. You use a pair of special vinyl records, connect the audio out of the turntables into this strange USB device which controls the software that allows you to cue/scratch mp3s...
It was only available for systems running BeOS, but they are branching out with Mac OS/Win32 and Linux versions.. You only need a 'standard' DJ setup, two turntables and a two line mixer.. it's insanely cool.. the only downside is the price, $500USD, but thats relatively cheap to a stack of vinyl, or your Technics 1200's.
They employed something similar, or this device during a football game somewheres. Now, heres a good question, what happens when you take something thats happening live, and start cutting out frames? It gets desynched very very quickly, people were freaking out, plays were happening on the radio before they saw it on 'live' TV. The NFL spasmed on the station that did this, and any other station even attempting to do something like this is fearful of the NFL and a army of Lawyers.
Perhaps you're thinking of the "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death"
the Pirhanha women part was the initial working title, but the final film is called Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.
It's a strange movie to say the least, and it features Bill Maher, which i'm sure he regrets to this day. It was also filmed mostly in the University of California at Riverside's Avocado Groves, strange, no?
Minidisc is proprietary and requires you use a Sony licensed player.
It's not as if Sony is forcing you to use a Sony Player/Recorder.. far from it... there Panasonic/JVC/Awia/Sharp minidisc players/recorders.. if Sony was really evil, they'd start saying that you couldn't play minidiscs correctly because you don't have Sony MiniDisc Explorer 6.. err..:)
I might be not understanding this.. but when you think about it, in order to hack an Aibo you need to have one first.. so thats one sale, and when you think of all the things that can go wrong when you start messing around with software/hardware sony either gets another sale, or service charges. While the software may be the real problem here, its not like Sony's competitors don't already have it
. Think of how many people bought the I-Opener when they found it could run linux (the fact that the company went bankrupt is of no concern to us:) but when people find out they can use their expensive toys in ways not imagined by the company that made them, it makes a better and happier fan/customer base.
A hellfire missile on what is basically an expensive radio controlled toy. Anyone seeing a problem with giving something that is controlled by radio/infrared/laser/string something as lethal as a anti-tank missile? Sure, it probably has encryption and secure communications, but these things are never perfect.
Say one of these things are launched from a ship, and shortly afterwards its taken over by the enemy, and wham, the ship has a big gaping hole in it.
I'm sure the likelihood of this happening are slim, but why give these things the power to do that in the first place? Assuming they are launched from a ship, they could simply launch a missile to that target, no?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but the cockpit has a door that locks. Ideally, this door probably is designed to withstand a lot of force, so trying to force your way into the cockpit would be a bad idea mmmkaaay?
I'd personally like to see the cockpit isolated from the rest of the plane, a big metal shield. If you can't get to the cockpit, hijacking the plane becomes hard, forcing the pilot to do this becomes impossible.
This sounds incredibly cool, but with all these new OS'es popping up like QNX, AtheOS, and my alltime favorite BeOS. The only problem is, that theres too many showing up, and too little support for them. Sure, this is a great example of what you can do with Assembly, but are you gonna make a full fledged OS out of it? Is anyone working on a brand new OS that they think will actually go someplace? Personally, i'm still holding out that BeOS doesn't sink like the Titanic..
Slashdot Mirror
Worthless branding because no one in their right fucking mind would pay a premium for Acer's brand. They look terrible in person as well.
I personally want to bash everyone who agrees with you with a frying pan. Fuck Flash.
Flash should only be used for cheezy animations, and even then it shouldn't be used.
Akamai hosted the images you fucking mouth breathing retard. Apple.com hosts everything else, including WebObjects that powers the whole shebang.
Holy Shit!
Learn how to use 'you' and spell things correctly, you sack of shit.
I'll give you that, it's not the worst Geocities page i've ever seen :)
Did you see his webpage? Woah, take about shitty webdesign right there. Plus the added bonus of all those shitty referrals.
Yeah, not only iPod sales, they want you to buy Macs as well.
I really don't see the point of a bunch of people having the Quake 3 source code. Unless your going to make something so mind boggling different from Quake 3 you don't need to have the source code, the mod community has shown this. Reaction Quake 3 or Quake 3 Urban Terror are great mods, they have very little in common with the 'standard' Quake III game. If you are gunning to make money, making a really cool mod is probably the best way to go, it worked for Counter-Strike didn't it? and unless you plan on porting Quake 3 to your toaster the source code is probably more than you'd need, afterall the sourcecode to Quake / Quake 2 has been available for a while now and i've yet to see any groundbreaking improvements.
Holy crap, that is mindbogglingly cool. I was wondering if that was possible, wow. I have to get a DVCam now :)
Is this what you mean? It's a UK site though, or here but they only have the black one, you'd need to get a red one to duel. They don't fire anything though. They are all made by Nikko. It appears Nikko is working on a online store, it's not working yet.
When you run a website you have a variety of optiosn available, most reputable search engines will follow a robots.txt, and if your still paranoid after that you can deny access to the ip range of popular search engines. If you aren't willing to do these rather simple things to protect your 'privacy' you shouldn't post things on a website. Who knows what the teaming hordes of 'internet crazy folk' could do when they find my short story, surely they are all deviants and sexual miscreants. I know, i'll get INTERNATIONAL PRESS COVERAGE to make sure that my Privacy remains safe.
The BSA is exactly that, a Business Software Alliance. It doesn't serve the end user, it serves the corporations, the difference between this and other 'agencies' is that it makes no attempt to hide this. The BSA supports draconian measures like the DMCA, they'd probably like even stricter legislation. They represent corporate greed, they 'blackmail' companies into paying for huge site licenses to cover all the workstations and then some, or face a 'software audit' in which they'll no doubt find some violations. Have a 100 machine site license and a hundred machines, but just bought that new desktop for the boss? Lost the paperwork for the server in the corner?
Tobacco companies fund studies that find that Ciggarette smoking is less dangerous than playing golf in a thunderstorm, the BSA fudges facts to make Pirates seem like the scum of the Earth. The music industry and the 'software' industry have yet to realize that inflated prices lead to inflated piracy. Personally, i'm of the mind that if you make money with software, you should purchase that software. Some companies are alright with this as well, think of the thousands of script kiddies with their pirated versions of photoshop, they were never going to buy it in the first place.. Adobe cares about that printshop, or the graphics design place.. and most of these places wouldn't touch a pirated version of Photoshop with a ten-foot pole. They don't need the BSA to police them, at best the BSA makes a huge hassle, people decide that paying thousands of dollars a year to Microsoft for a site license is insane and switch to something free, many times open-source. Their draconian policies and scare tactics have probably won more converts than a slick red hat ad.
According to this which states that it's not signifigantly better than a placebo operation...
Apple stated that only computers bought on this date or later would be able to upgrade for $20, the rest of us suckers pay full price.
I should have clarified earlier, thats $3000USD which worked out to roughly $5000CAD.
Great.... one of the selling points of Jaguar is that silly iChat program, which will now only be availabe to the lunkheads who buy into this .Mac crap.
"Instant Messaging with iChat Apple's iChat integrates seamlessly with AOL Instant Messager. Your Mac.com Email address is your iChat (and AIM) screen name. With iChat, you'll enjoy a terrific graphic interface that includes photos, dialog balloons, and more."
One of the major reasons i'm a 'mac zealot' is in part due to the coolness of getting thinks like free iDisk storage and e-mail access. I don't use anything close to the 20mb limit, I think I have like maybe ~100k of stuff on there, but it's nice to have a place to store stuff i'd like to keep for later.. ditto for my mac.com email, i've got maybe ~300k of the 5mb limit. Sure, these features are nice, but they are sure as hell not worth 100USD to me, and I doubt i'm the only one who feels this way.
I bought a five thousand dollar powerbook, partly because of Apple's good relationship with their customers, but now they're stamping out the so-called 'grassroots' sites, charging their users for iDisk and e-mail use, what used to be nice perks is turning bitter. The thing I don't understand is why they think these services are worth 100USD, i'd pay 20 to keep my nifty e-mail address around, but i'm not paying 80 just so that my 100k/10mb of idisk usages turns to 100k/100mb.. that's asinine.
Final Scratch
Final Scratch, uses a hybrid of actual turntables and digital audio. You use a pair of special vinyl records, connect the audio out of the turntables into this strange USB device which controls the software that allows you to cue/scratch mp3s...
It was only available for systems running BeOS, but they are branching out with Mac OS/Win32 and Linux versions.. You only need a 'standard' DJ setup, two turntables and a two line mixer.. it's insanely cool.. the only downside is the price, $500USD, but thats relatively cheap to a stack of vinyl, or your Technics 1200's.
They employed something similar, or this device during a football game somewheres. Now, heres a good question, what happens when you take something thats happening live, and start cutting out frames? It gets desynched very very quickly, people were freaking out, plays were happening on the radio before they saw it on 'live' TV. The NFL spasmed on the station that did this, and any other station even attempting to do something like this is fearful of the NFL and a army of Lawyers.
Piranha Women?
Perhaps you're thinking of the "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" the Pirhanha women part was the initial working title, but the final film is called Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.
It's a strange movie to say the least, and it features Bill Maher, which i'm sure he regrets to this day. It was also filmed mostly in the University of California at Riverside's Avocado Groves, strange, no?
Minidisc is proprietary and requires you use a Sony licensed player. :)
It's not as if Sony is forcing you to use a Sony Player/Recorder.. far from it... there Panasonic/JVC/Awia/Sharp minidisc players/recorders.. if Sony was really evil, they'd start saying that you couldn't play minidiscs correctly because you don't have Sony MiniDisc Explorer 6.. err..
I might be not understanding this.. but when you think about it, in order to hack an Aibo you need to have one first.. so thats one sale, and when you think of all the things that can go wrong when you start messing around with software/hardware sony either gets another sale, or service charges. While the software may be the real problem here, its not like Sony's competitors don't already have it
:) but when people find out they can use their expensive toys in ways not imagined by the company that made them, it makes a better and happier fan/customer base.
. Think of how many people bought the I-Opener when they found it could run linux (the fact that the company went bankrupt is of no concern to us
A hellfire missile on what is basically an expensive radio controlled toy. Anyone seeing a problem with giving something that is controlled by radio/infrared/laser/string something as lethal as a anti-tank missile? Sure, it probably has encryption and secure communications, but these things are never perfect.
Say one of these things are launched from a ship, and shortly afterwards its taken over by the enemy, and wham, the ship has a big gaping hole in it.
I'm sure the likelihood of this happening are slim, but why give these things the power to do that in the first place? Assuming they are launched from a ship, they could simply launch a missile to that target, no?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but the cockpit has a door that locks. Ideally, this door probably is designed to withstand a lot of force, so trying to force your way into the cockpit would be a bad idea mmmkaaay?
I'd personally like to see the cockpit isolated from the rest of the plane, a big metal shield. If you can't get to the cockpit, hijacking the plane becomes hard, forcing the pilot to do this becomes impossible.
This sounds incredibly cool, but with all these new OS'es popping up like QNX, AtheOS, and my alltime favorite BeOS. The only problem is, that theres too many showing up, and too little support for them. Sure, this is a great example of what you can do with Assembly, but are you gonna make a full fledged OS out of it? Is anyone working on a brand new OS that they think will actually go someplace? Personally, i'm still holding out that BeOS doesn't sink like the Titanic..