>Just because a person doesn't use ActiveX does most definitely not >mean that they are invulnerable to this kind of situation. Any time
Wrong. You don't have to worry about ActiveX pulling this kind of bullshit stunt without your knowlege if it's not on your machine to begin with. Nice try though.
> What HAS impact is that JC released source - now every damn cheater >are running around damaging the game.. seen from the game-side - its >hurting Quake - ALOT - because - ppl whom before maybe would consider >to play it for 1-2 years - now leaves, especially after the guy with >aimbot, hacked QW, and speedcheating messed him up... >Along come slade, and others - wanna preserving the game, and the fun >playing it.. and all u can focus on are - he violates the GPL - well - >ppl - its a easy choose - F*ck the game, or f*ck GPL... >For u NOT playing it - then i understand why u think GPL are more >importent.. but if u ARE playing it - then all u get out of enforcing >GPL - is that QL and others might aswell shut down, u might aswell >admit - u and JC - are RESPONSIBLE for cheaters destryoing the game.. >because U forces him to deliver every manhour, everything he has done >to preserve the game... Maybe JC and ID made the game - but bottomline >- we dont play it - Q is dead..
It's long past time gamer idoits like you realized nobody really gives a damn about you. The Quake code doesn't belong to you. End of story. Go do something useful with your life--like playing in traffic.
>All these distros make FreeBSD look more and more appealing to me. >It's certainly not a bad thing to have more choices, but it may >seriously hurt the ability of admins and helpdesk people out there to >effectively support linux.
Err wrong. This *HELPS INSURE* that admins and helpdesk people out there are *FAMILAR* with Linux. Think about it. If a motherboard company supplies a version of Linux along with the documention for the motherboard whoever buys the motherbord will have the Linux CDROM for reference purposes.
>The problem with shareware was that too many not-so-good programs were >distributed that asked for far too high prices.
Another problem with shareware was the tendacy to screw with people systems by creating hidden files and other such nonsense without informing the owner of the computer of such things.
>Boy, are you a moron or just incredibly dense? There is *plenty* wrong >with the old PS/2 system. Is it hot-swap/PnP? Some systems complain >bitterly if the mouse is swapped in real time.
Yeah right. Like I'm going to be swaping mice or anything else every time I turn on my computer. Get real loser.
>I personally think it would have been much cooler if they had done an >animated movie instead of a live action one. The X-Men cartoon (at >least the earlier episodes) was one of the coolest cartoons ever. >I wonder if Apocalypse will be in the movie...
Agreed. A X-Men movie done the same style as the new Transformers or Starship Troopers series would be worth going to see.
>Can't anyone cut a decent trailer together anymore? Here's a prime >example how to put together a piece of shit excuse for a trailer ladies and gentlemen... I'm only halfway into the download and >stopping the download - Wheee! EFFECTS! One line of cliche dialog! >MORE EFFECTS! To oh so catchy techno soundtrack! AND MORE EFFECTS! Ten >cuts per second and rising! Gee, well it looks like Yet Another >Comicbook-To-Screen Flop a la Spawn et al me.
Techno and X-Men don't mix. Rock/Heavy Metal and X-Men would work (remember Cannonball's ladyfriend Lila Cheney anyone?) The only way Techno would fit into an X-Men movie would be if Dazzler were on the team, which wouldn't be very long since Wolverine would kill her once she started singing....
>In general, I think the Slashdot editors do a damn fine job. They >can't please everybody all the time, but when I see an article I'm not >interested in the I simply ignore it rather than complaining. >People who get stressed about the editorial policy of a light-hearted >geek news site really should get a life.
I've said this before but I hope there's a blacklist that's been created just for people who claim they submitted stories and then bitch about it if they don't get "credit" about it. Maybe then these asses will learn to shut up and clean up their act.
There are some losers you just can't be nice to. You have to step on them like you would a cockroach.
>What IS this?? >I have been SHAFTED royally by/. like 4 times in the last few days, >putting up a good story with a great writeup & link and then NOT >getting it posted. Then a shittier writeup gets put up like a day >after i post my submission. >Is it possible they hate me??
You know I hope there's a blacklist that's been created just for people like you who claim they submitted stories and then bitch about it if they don't get "credit" about it. Maybe then asses like yourself will learn to shut up.
>By spreading this 'new' DeCSS all over the place, you increase the number of false hits people who want the real thing have to deal with, and in fact effectively *decrease* its availability.
Not really. How many movies or novels are there with the same exact title floating around?
>I suppose you wonder why you get fragged so much these morons using >USB mice. A USB mouse is way smoother than a good ole PS/2 mouse. I >hear people whine about cheating because no human can aim that fast >without cheating. If you can't hold your own then you need to get >better and/or get better equipment or deal with it.
Eh? I'm not a gamer you moron. I could care less about playing Quake or the rest of those stupid ass games. You gamer losers really need to get over yourselves. USB keyboards and mice are a fucking stupid idea when nothing's really wrong with ps/2-serial mice and keyboards. A USB mouse or keyboard is nothing but a "solution" in search of a problem....
>Errmm...this page you are likley looking at RIGHT NOW has an Apple >logo on it. Should it be removed from the page and posted again? Is >Apple going to sue Slashdot? Has anyone heard of FAIR USE???
This has nothing to do with "FAIR USE" It really about no-talent "Computer Artists" who lack the imagination to come up with something original on their own....
> Voice recognition? Do you honestly speak faster than you type? I mean, >think about it for a moment. Find a passage,time yourself reading it >in a normal voice that a very sophisticated speech-to-text program >could interpret, and then time yourself typing it.
Even worse. Imagine someone who has a slight stutter trying to use one of these voice-recognition systems. Not a pretty picture is it?
> I don't know about you guys, but I'd much rather skim through a text >version of a presentation... Much faster. Who has time to listen to a >long webcast these days? Oh well...
I agree with you. Especially if you going to try to preseve somthing for long-time storage. How many people really think many of these webcast "formats" are still going to be supported say 2 years from now?
>Every last bit of it. It never gets implemented or used though. USB >sat on Intel motherboards from the 430HX chipsets and beyond. Never >used until MS got off it's ass and put out Win98. And even now, we >still see computers shipping with IRQ wasting PS/2 and serial/parallel >ports.
Let me guess. You're one of the few *MORONS* who actually owns or uses a USB keyboard or mouse....
>If this doesn't show the need for embedding a unique id in every >processor, i don't know what does. E-chat will never be safe until >anonymity becomes a thing of the past.
Umm....Exactly what good will this do when one can easily use a machine that has a processor which doesn't have an embeded id? You don't think these older machines are going to disapear overnight do you?
>That's the 99% of computer users who pay our salaries! That's my >mother, and most of my friends. That's practically everyone who uses > Windows. You still haven't answered the question. Why should we care all that much about them? As Atari and Commodore has demostrated, trying to please everybody often means pleasing *NOBODY*
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>Just because a person doesn't use ActiveX does most definitely not
>mean that they are invulnerable to this kind of situation. Any time
Wrong. You don't have to worry about ActiveX pulling this kind of bullshit stunt without your knowlege if it's not on your machine to begin with. Nice try though.
>There *is* going to be a user friendly unix implementation. It's
>called Mac OS X. And nobody in the non-tech world is going to care
Who cares about Mac OS X? Pretty much the only thing it'll run on is a Mac right? If so, what's the big deal about it?
> What HAS impact is that JC released source - now every damn cheater
>are running around damaging the game.. seen from the game-side - its
>hurting Quake - ALOT - because - ppl whom before maybe would consider
>to play it for 1-2 years - now leaves, especially after the guy with
>aimbot, hacked QW, and speedcheating messed him up...
>Along come slade, and others - wanna preserving the game, and the fun
>playing it.. and all u can focus on are - he violates the GPL - well -
>ppl - its a easy choose - F*ck the game, or f*ck GPL...
>For u NOT playing it - then i understand why u think GPL are more
>importent.. but if u ARE playing it - then all u get out of enforcing
>GPL - is that QL and others might aswell shut down, u might aswell
>admit - u and JC - are RESPONSIBLE for cheaters destryoing the game..
>because U forces him to deliver every manhour, everything he has done
>to preserve the game... Maybe JC and ID made the game - but bottomline
>- we dont play it - Q is dead..
It's long past time gamer idoits like you realized nobody really gives a damn about you. The Quake code doesn't belong to you. End of story. Go do something useful with your life--like playing in traffic.
>HDD platters have abou the same stiffness as a pice of cardboard you
>lamebrained shithead.
Never cut your finger on a sheet of cardboard, I take it?
>does this mean slashdot is working again??
>What the hell happened?
Go away Simon....
>All these distros make FreeBSD look more and more appealing to me.
>It's certainly not a bad thing to have more choices, but it may
>seriously hurt the ability of admins and helpdesk people out there to
>effectively support linux.
Err wrong. This *HELPS INSURE* that admins and helpdesk people out there are *FAMILAR* with Linux. Think about it. If a motherboard company supplies a version of Linux along with the documention for the motherboard whoever buys the motherbord will have the Linux CDROM for reference purposes.
>The problem with shareware was that too many not-so-good programs were
>distributed that asked for far too high prices.
Another problem with shareware was the tendacy to screw with people systems by creating hidden files and other such nonsense without informing the owner of the computer of such things.
>Boy, are you a moron or just incredibly dense? There is *plenty* wrong
>with the old PS/2 system. Is it hot-swap/PnP? Some systems complain
>bitterly if the mouse is swapped in real time.
Yeah right. Like I'm going to be swaping mice or anything else every time I turn on my computer. Get real loser.
>I personally think it would have been much cooler if they had done an
>animated movie instead of a live action one. The X-Men cartoon (at
>least the earlier episodes) was one of the coolest cartoons ever.
>I wonder if Apocalypse will be in the movie...
Agreed. A X-Men movie done the same style as the new Transformers or Starship Troopers series would be worth going to see.
>Can't anyone cut a decent trailer together anymore? Here's a prime
>example how to put together a piece of shit excuse for a trailer ladies and gentlemen... I'm only halfway into the download and
>stopping the download - Wheee! EFFECTS! One line of cliche dialog!
>MORE EFFECTS! To oh so catchy techno soundtrack! AND MORE EFFECTS! Ten
>cuts per second and rising! Gee, well it looks like Yet Another
>Comicbook-To-Screen Flop a la Spawn et al me.
Techno and X-Men don't mix. Rock/Heavy Metal and X-Men would work (remember Cannonball's ladyfriend Lila Cheney anyone?) The only way Techno would fit into an X-Men movie would be if Dazzler were on the team, which wouldn't be very long since Wolverine would kill her once she started singing....
>In general, I think the Slashdot editors do a damn fine job. They
>can't please everybody all the time, but when I see an article I'm not
>interested in the I simply ignore it rather than complaining.
>People who get stressed about the editorial policy of a light-hearted
>geek news site really should get a life.
I've said this before but I hope there's a blacklist that's been created just for
people who claim they submitted stories and then bitch about
it if they don't get "credit" about it. Maybe then these asses
will learn to shut up and clean up their act.
There are some losers you just can't be nice to. You have to step on them like you would a cockroach.
>What IS this?? /. like 4 times in the last few days,
>I have been SHAFTED royally by
>putting up a good story with a great writeup & link and then NOT
>getting it posted. Then a shittier writeup gets put up like a day
>after i post my submission.
>Is it possible they hate me??
You know I hope there's a blacklist that's been created just for people like you who claim they submitted stories and then bitch about it if they don't get "credit" about it. Maybe then asses like yourself will learn to shut up.
>No one but Patrick Stewart could play Xavier. I think that's a given
Sure sign this movie is going to be a turkey. Trekkies like it....
>Any particular reason you feel it's a "piece-of-shit" movie?
Because all Marvel movies are "piece-of-shit" movies?
>Oh shit, my first first post! DeCSS is a utility for stripping
>Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). Is this supposed to be funny?
As I understand it, the DeCSS source code is supposed to run on multiple platforms, ie: Amiga,Atari ST,Linux,BSD,ect.
>By spreading this 'new' DeCSS all over the place, you increase the number of false hits people who want the real thing have to deal with, and in fact effectively *decrease* its availability.
Not really. How many movies or novels are there with the same exact title floating around?
>I suppose you wonder why you get fragged so much these morons using
>USB mice. A USB mouse is way smoother than a good ole PS/2 mouse. I
>hear people whine about cheating because no human can aim that fast
>without cheating. If you can't hold your own then you need to get
>better and/or get better equipment or deal with it.
Eh? I'm not a gamer you moron. I could care less about playing Quake or the rest of those stupid ass games. You gamer losers really need to get over yourselves. USB keyboards and mice are a fucking stupid idea when nothing's really wrong with ps/2-serial mice and keyboards. A USB mouse or keyboard is nothing but a "solution" in search of a problem....
>Errmm...this page you are likley looking at RIGHT NOW has an Apple
>logo on it. Should it be removed from the page and posted again? Is
>Apple going to sue Slashdot? Has anyone heard of FAIR USE???
This has nothing to do with "FAIR USE" It really about no-talent "Computer Artists" who lack the imagination to come up with something original on their own....
>Kinda a fluff piece: ;)
>any piece that explains what a compiler is is probably fluff
Not really. Remember you are dealing with people who actually think Visual Basic and Microsoft BOB are great ideas....
> Voice recognition? Do you honestly speak faster than you type? I mean,
>think about it for a moment. Find a passage,time yourself reading it
>in a normal voice that a very sophisticated speech-to-text program
>could interpret, and then time yourself typing it.
Even worse. Imagine someone who has a slight stutter trying to use one of these voice-recognition systems. Not a pretty picture is it?
> I don't know about you guys, but I'd much rather skim through a text
>version of a presentation... Much faster. Who has time to listen to a
>long webcast these days? Oh well...
I agree with you. Especially if you going to try to preseve somthing for long-time storage. How many people really think many of these webcast "formats" are still going to be supported say 2 years from now?
>Every last bit of it. It never gets implemented or used though. USB
>sat on Intel motherboards from the 430HX chipsets and beyond. Never
>used until MS got off it's ass and put out Win98. And even now, we
>still see computers shipping with IRQ wasting PS/2 and serial/parallel
>ports.
Let me guess. You're one of the few *MORONS* who actually owns or uses a USB keyboard or mouse....
>If this doesn't show the need for embedding a unique id in every
>processor, i don't know what does. E-chat will never be safe until
>anonymity becomes a thing of the past.
Umm....Exactly what good will this do when one can easily use a machine that has a processor which doesn't have an embeded id? You don't think these older machines are going to disapear overnight do you?
>That's the 99% of computer users who pay our salaries! That's my
>mother, and most of my friends. That's practically everyone who uses
> Windows.
You still haven't answered the question. Why should we care all that much about them? As Atari and Commodore has demostrated, trying to please everybody often means pleasing *NOBODY*
>All you stupid asses ready to pony up $400 for the Playstation 2
>should have your heads removed from your asses. Suck it, losers.
The only asses here is nitwits like yourself who spend $1000-2000 on a computer to play fucking games on.