This puzzles me. I see and understand both sides of this argument and in odd ways, support both sides. I am surprized Ford didn't go the trademark route, it seems that they would get more traction using a trademark infringement (working with GM)suit rather than the "wah wah wah, repointing" argument. Trademark laws although flawed in many ways are relatively clear. And all the freedom of speech stuff holds up only so far when it comes to trademark usage and ownership. Remember back a few years ago here on/. there was that guy who had the "sore Hands" sig, which was his link to his "I hate you" page for his former employer? Part of his downfall was his employer made use of his website against him and used the trademarked references as a slander argument. Couldn't the same apply here?
Does anyone know what GM;s stance on this was? The article doesn't mention it at all.
Thisnk of it this way. M$ looks at it as 2 seperate concurrencies, and two seperate processors using one license. They simply want you to purchase a second license. Then now if you have two, you wouldn't need VNC anyway to run whatever app you were trying to VNC to. you could just run it direct.
. This is no different then your usual CAL (Client Access License) for using a Windows network.
Not quite accurate. I agree with the premise, but M$ is working hard to get away from CAL based licensing and go with a more Ent. Agreement scheme and build on maintenance style agreements. This way they can much more accurately track usage.
Which brings us back to VNC. The M$ CAL scheme such as with SQL licensing, is being changed to processor and connection based, and is easilly fooled by VNC or one of the other mimick apps.
For M$ this is just the beginning, the new.NET suite of apps will be much more "utility unfriendly".
I worked in Norad for years and it is not how you describe. First off not 50 SGi's, try 20 and secondy, "A few floors down"? BZZZT Wrong answer, but thanks for playing. There isn't a 3 story anything inside the mountain.
Sure he has a choice. But that isn't really his motivation. He simply does not want it to appear that he or his company endorse the product. That's all. It's simpler to just say "Please don't use my brand" than to fumble through all the moutains of legal disclamer documentation they would have to do. It really isn't all that big a deal.
Heh, I'm into auto racing sims in a very big way. I've been playing them and supporting them as my primary hobby for years.
As for any sim, specifically auto racing making me a better driver, I would have to disagree. As with any PC or console game/simulator you quickly realize that you are in fact constantly compensating for and taking advandage of the AI of the simulation. This goes for the big time simulators as well, such as airline pilot training sims. They are still computers and graphics when you boil it all down.
That being said, I tend to think that it may help condition a little more hand/eye coordination, but at the same time, planting your butt in front of a gaming console or PC for endless hours also makes you lazy, and in some opinions sort of an intravert. Is this bad? Dunno, depends on what each persons likes/dislikes are.
I do disagree with Jon on this one though. I think trying to fabricate justification for gaming, other than it simply being a fun and entertaining way to spend some time, is just stretching it to much.
Oh, and not to disagree with the above posters comment about it enhancing driving ability., Here's an interview from
NASCAR.Com that has a driver saying basically they don't use them.
I can understand your point givig that any press is good press. I read through the other posts so far and got to thinking... Would I want to be a martyr for this cause?, would I risk the pain of eing seperated from my family? Would I rick my job,resulting in lack of vehicle to support my family, pay the mortgage etc.
I don't think so. Not in my case.
I do think that I would go to a high degree of pain for the cause, but in this case there may be better avenues. Eating this much crap to just hopefully get a little press is a little much. I personally would bow out and focus my time and energy on a more controlled campaign.
That being said, just to add my little opinion to the thread, I think what the authorities are doing here is just plain horrible. They're ignoring the constitution on one hand, while referencing and hiding behind it on the other.
Could it be they think of Linux as still a `hobbyish' operating system not worthy of creating games for?
I really don't think so. I for one am not a Linux zealot. I think it's a cool OS that has lots of advantages. I think what they are exploring is that it is becoming quite a player in the global arena, mainly China and the east. If they can niche out a gaming market in any one of these verticles, then porting to others will be easy because all the DBCS or double byte enablement will be done already, trhis make global prting reguardless of OS easier. I think it's much more a P&L delvelopment effort, rather than technical choice.
Wine is not the way to go. Wine hasn't successfully ported crap. Please no flames, I'm serious. This is somewhat out of my areana, but isn't there a better way to go thatn WINE?
Re:This could be bad news for manned space travel.
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Terra-formed? Are you insane? WTF have you been soking. Here the post is speaking to not fucking up the environment and you're speaking of terra-forming it>? Now that's the way to leave it un blemished. Screw it up like we are own planet. LOL Dude, you need to turn off the TV, go outside and see real life for a little while.
LOL, This is funny and actually quite correct. Perdida get's a gold star for seeing what most would miss.
Re:This could be bad news for manned space travel.
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Earthly microrganisms could leak into the Martian environment and cause havoc.
Puhleeze.
The ecosphere on Mars will be completely unchanged by mans presence. Look at antarctica, save for a few hundred oil drums and some old buldozers it's just like we found it.
Why do you make the assumption that only universities can get high bandwidth? I have cable and I'm not in school. I understand about profit yadda yadda yadda, but I beleive that if the SW sophistication is there, the pipes will follow. Hell, there is already more fiber in the ground in the US than we could ever use. The problem is in the last mile. Telecoms will cave if they feel the heat from the consumer. If games are made to run over slower archaic connections, they will never upgrade.
I dunno, I've got cable service in a rather remote area and we've never been down in the 6 months I've had it. No real degredation either, save for a little around 3:00 or so in the afternoon when all the school kids get home and start the daily porn surfing before mom or dad get's home.
This is the sign of a desperate enterprise trying to stay afloat. IMO this sucks. Napster is selling out. No more are they the pirates of old, they are now just another corporate socialist republic out to keep their footing.
Napster was and should stay a voice that shouts, we need to break the corporate mold, screw the DMCA and all the legislators, the hell with the copyright laws that were written in the 1700's. This is a new age, the myths of old, like the railroad track sizings are outdated and stale.
Napster should steer away from this direction and loop back to it's roots. LOOP LOOP LOOP!
They really need to not do this. If they do all their base inch fan and support are belonging to corporate america and not us!
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I wish I had a few mod points in rotation, I'd bump this up.
WW2 OL is an awesome MMOLRPG. If you haven't tried it you should. It is currently running a two week free trial as well.
Does anyone know what GM;s stance on this was? The article doesn't mention it at all.
LOL, Very observant. Is this actually considered journalism? Didn't think it was such a slow news week.
Thisnk of it this way. M$ looks at it as 2 seperate concurrencies, and two seperate processors using one license. They simply want you to purchase a second license. Then now if you have two, you wouldn't need VNC anyway to run whatever app you were trying to VNC to. you could just run it direct.
Not quite accurate. I agree with the premise, but M$ is working hard to get away from CAL based licensing and go with a more Ent. Agreement scheme and build on maintenance style agreements. This way they can much more accurately track usage.
Which brings us back to VNC. The M$ CAL scheme such as with SQL licensing, is being changed to processor and connection based, and is easilly fooled by VNC or one of the other mimick apps.
For M$ this is just the beginning, the new
You are full of crap.
I worked in Norad for years and it is not how you describe. First off not 50 SGi's, try 20 and secondy, "A few floors down"? BZZZT Wrong answer, but thanks for playing. There isn't a 3 story anything inside the mountain.
Nice try.
It will take months to fully brake to the right speed, I'm sure the dust storm will have settled by then.
LOL, actually it was Taco himself. When he wrote the infamous First Post Script. But that aside, it would have to be Signal 11.
More race stuff in one place,
As for any sim, specifically auto racing making me a better driver, I would have to disagree. As with any PC or console game/simulator you quickly realize that you are in fact constantly compensating for and taking advandage of the AI of the simulation. This goes for the big time simulators as well, such as airline pilot training sims. They are still computers and graphics when you boil it all down.
That being said, I tend to think that it may help condition a little more hand/eye coordination, but at the same time, planting your butt in front of a gaming console or PC for endless hours also makes you lazy, and in some opinions sort of an intravert. Is this bad? Dunno, depends on what each persons likes/dislikes are.
I do disagree with Jon on this one though. I think trying to fabricate justification for gaming, other than it simply being a fun and entertaining way to spend some time, is just stretching it to much.
Oh, and not to disagree with the above posters comment about it enhancing driving ability., Here's an interview from NASCAR.Com that has a driver saying basically they don't use them.
More race stuff in one place,
I don't think so. Not in my case.
I do think that I would go to a high degree of pain for the cause, but in this case there may be better avenues. Eating this much crap to just hopefully get a little press is a little much. I personally would bow out and focus my time and energy on a more controlled campaign.
That being said, just to add my little opinion to the thread, I think what the authorities are doing here is just plain horrible. They're ignoring the constitution on one hand, while referencing and hiding behind it on the other.
More race stuff in one place,
Regards.
More race stuff in one place,
Nice job.
I really don't think so. I for one am not a Linux zealot. I think it's a cool OS that has lots of advantages. I think what they are exploring is that it is becoming quite a player in the global arena, mainly China and the east. If they can niche out a gaming market in any one of these verticles, then porting to others will be easy because all the DBCS or double byte enablement will be done already, trhis make global prting reguardless of OS easier. I think it's much more a P&L delvelopment effort, rather than technical choice.
Wine is not the way to go. Wine hasn't successfully ported crap. Please no flames, I'm serious. This is somewhat out of my areana, but isn't there a better way to go thatn WINE?
I genrally just don't send anything I wouldn't want the gov't to read. It's simpler to be safe rather than sorry.
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Terra-formed? Are you insane? WTF have you been soking. Here the post is speaking to not fucking up the environment and you're speaking of terra-forming it>? Now that's the way to leave it un blemished. Screw it up like we are own planet. LOL Dude, you need to turn off the TV, go outside and see real life for a little while.
LOL, This is funny and actually quite correct. Perdida get's a gold star for seeing what most would miss.
Puhleeze.
The ecosphere on Mars will be completely unchanged by mans presence. Look at antarctica, save for a few hundred oil drums and some old buldozers it's just like we found it.
WAP will be the future. Look at Hang Kong, Dailin China and the like. They aren't even bothering with putting cable in the ground. It's all wireless.
Why do you make the assumption that only universities can get high bandwidth? I have cable and I'm not in school. I understand about profit yadda yadda yadda, but I beleive that if the SW sophistication is there, the pipes will follow. Hell, there is already more fiber in the ground in the US than we could ever use. The problem is in the last mile. Telecoms will cave if they feel the heat from the consumer. If games are made to run over slower archaic connections, they will never upgrade.
I dunno, I've got cable service in a rather remote area and we've never been down in the 6 months I've had it. No real degredation either, save for a little around 3:00 or so in the afternoon when all the school kids get home and start the daily porn surfing before mom or dad get's home.
Napster was and should stay a voice that shouts, we need to break the corporate mold, screw the DMCA and all the legislators, the hell with the copyright laws that were written in the 1700's. This is a new age, the myths of old, like the railroad track sizings are outdated and stale.
Napster should steer away from this direction and loop back to it's roots. LOOP LOOP LOOP!
They really need to not do this. If they do all their base inch fan and support are belonging to corporate america and not us!
Suck up. LOL