Firefox was supposed to be serious IE rival But Microsoft was never worried. And it turns out they didn't have anything to worry about. According to TFA, most of Firefox's market share came not from IE, but from other Mozilla browsers and Opera.
Firefox was supposed to be more secure than IE. But exploits for both browsers are close in numbers
All we have now is a new Mozilla browser. Nothing else has changed. As soon as the next third-party "IE-killer" browser comes out, Firefox will lose it's market share to the newcomer too.
How is this flamebait?
I know it's not 'love for firefox', but that's hardly flamebait..
Well, that post was trollish, but seriously, Novell's network administration is superior to the way *nix or NT works (until MS created Active Directory - a clone of the way netware worked from verison 4 on).
In the NT world, and *nix, you have an account on a machine, you log in to one machine, then maybe connect to others, maybe having permissions there or not, all controlled by the servers you connect to or the NFS mounted shares, whatever.
In the netware world, you authenticate to the network as a whole, with one account, you have different permissions on various network resources (not servers), and through replication this permission set is passed anywhere its needed. Any workstation on the network can authenticate you to the network, because you have an account on the network. If the local server doesn't know about you, it can query around and find your account, and your envirnment is perfectly identical to what you had at 'home' as it were. Properly integrated with the client OS, moving offices is completely painless - this is not the case in NT or *nix setups.
I've not done a huge *nix installation, perhaps there are ways to make *nix do this, but it appears very very server centric, much like NT 4 was.
At one time the only viable solution for a large wan with thousands of users was Netware, and I'd argue that Active directory is still much inferior to it (and slower).
Dont' get me wrong, in that same vast installation, any critical service should be running on some flavor of *nix, because I don't see Novell competing there in the slightest.
When they finally ditched their silly IPX protocol (well or strongly favored TCP/IP) around version 5ish, Novell/*nix networks should have dominated the planet.
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but I use the right tool for the right job, and don't see *nix as being comparable to Netware in some respects (at least before this sort of project), but then again, neither is Netware as good as Linux in others.
but it requires Windows to be utilized completely. This new functionality now makes it possible to have a massive server-clinet network with a non-Windows client OS
Netware works with clients of any flavor, older versions even supported *nix clients, but no one ever bothered. Works flawlessly with Windows and Macs, however, so this is really not true.
I don't understand anything about C coding or systems programming, can you please let me bury my head back in the sand so that I can just run D:\setup.exe and load my gamez?!
That's pretty unfair, and marginally trollish as well. The question comes from a sysadmin type, that does NOT mean they're a luser.
You don't need to be C guru, or a systems programming mandarin to be forced to compile code, particularly in the open source world.
The question was simply 'Why are there so many changes that break binary compatibility?' That is a very valid question, and you need to know nothing about systems programming to explain it without being a troll.
Applied science like engineering maybe. When you spend your days 'suckholing' grant money from governments or writing papers with your results, you'll be doing what scientists do...
Designing or Building bridges isn't science either, mind you ignorance of science would make it rather dodgy. So, I'd really call it applied science.
Umm, if running a compiler is an 'experiment'.. well that says something about the method of software design you're employing -- hope that was a joke:).
Nope, it was Quake I, there are something on the order of 25 lines of Quake II stuff according to Valve, as well as some QuakeWorld-ish netcode, which was later rewritten, perhaps entirely.
Halflife was in fact Quake I, contrary to the relative time Halflife and Quake II were released, and popular misconception.
(mostly about why halflife doesn't use constructors unfortunately) http://www.mail-archive.com/hlcode rs@list.valvesof tware.com/msg01215.html
Implied by Ken Birdwell of Valve there, and it was answered in long form by a couple Valve guys in IRC, but I have since lost the logs.
Amazing that they added a skeletal animation system to what started out as Quake I, yet neither Quake II nor III have one yet? I always find that perverse.
How else do we reclassify the jobs that were 'created' in the 90's (look a few posts up).
Most of the tech jobs that were 'created' in the 90's were what? HTML design? Hardly requires much in the way of technical ability skills, or anything..
May as well call them engineers, I'm sure that Frontpage is equivalent to AutoCAD;).
Not trolling at all, that's a very valid explanation of why pay to play games are hardly indicative of online gamers in general.
Change the game to diablo, or counter-strike or something, and look at the numbers there. There's some of us 30 somethings still doing it, but just as well there are 12-18 year old players in droves.
I know a lot of these type of gamers, and most say repeatedly, they'd never pay to play a game (subscription, etc). To some of them, money is VERY hard to come by, they have no appreciation for what it's worth, or how little 10 bucks a month really is.
Most of them haven't turned 21 and spent 100's on booze in bars for a few semesters, almost dropped out of college, or even gone on a date to a theatre.
To all you nay-sayers out there: I want you to name one application out there that does not have a full-featured alternative in Linux
SAP, The Agency Manager, or any one of a million _information management_ packages written for only windows.
I've been saying for a while now, what OSS needs to become utilized isn't Exchange/Outlook as much (they're important too) as the actual systems people run their business on, which is the primary reason to even have computers in the work place in the first place.
Maybe when we start porting MFC/VB/PowerBuilder apps to Delphi or wxWindows (well or lesser things like QT or GTK), then people will have choices - because the GUI isn't tied to the OS, people will be able to have an upgrade path to Linux.
At the moment, the upgrade path is - throw away existing software, replace things like Office easily, then pay millions of dollars for the corporate information management system.
Unless you're lucky enough to live in the world of thin client/web based stuff, in which case ignore me, and rip off Exchange again;).
A bit elitist? Maybe. But think about this: a good democracy depends on literate, educated citizens. Many developing nations have less than a 50% literacy rate. For them to move towards democracy, they need to adapt their culture first. It is that step that takes time.
All humans desire the right to self determination.
I'd go more with a good standard of living or something, Cuba still has higher literacy rates than the US or Canada or just about anywhere for that matter.
In the US and here in Canada, education is still unattainable by the poor. This is not the case in many other countries (such as Cuba or much of Europe). In Canada our tuition is about 25% of the average US going rate, but we still have something like only about 70% of our population attaining at least one degree.
It was easy to get a student loan with easy to meet repayment terms, even if your first job out of college was McDonald's, but thanks to our government getting too hands off with it, the banks have made many young people declare bankrupcy (sp?) pretty much straight out of school when things got bad.
Sorry, I strayed there, but even in North America, our adult illiteracy or functional literacy rates are somewhat sad. We may not be prevented by an oppressive government, just an in some ways oppressive system (capitalism), which puts education beyond the reach of every citizen.
Mind you, I'm a snob that way, I believe no one should be denied access to education for financial reasons, of at least some kind. If we want an educated truly free population that is...
The freedom to be self employed and many other benefits make me appreciate capitalism or democracy (or whatever we have in Canada these days), but attainable education is not a benefit of such a system.
Let's say 80% of the computers used in business run Windows.
They all have not only and Office solution (that can readily be replaced), but an information management system(s) of some sort. It was developed for Windows, the companies that made the system have no Linux expertise (even though as in our case, many of the engineers use it on our own, most haven't built a multi-million dollar information system on it).
How easy is it for these people to switch?
The information system cost 20 million dollars to acquire. Windows license replacements cost say 1 million dollars per year. How long do you think the same management types that didn't believe us in the 70's when we said that the time to deal with Y2K was soon, will try to keep running Windows based systems to avoid spending another 20 million to develop a new information system in a depressed economy? Over 18 years, they're still ahead..;).
Open source isn't going to help here, someone making a living a big someone like IBM is now doing developing competing solutions is. That and convincing people to pay millions of dollars for software that has the source code freely downloadable on the Internet..
Really, there is still no alternative to Windows in these folks minds. Now if all us Linux savvy developers can get together and start marketing REAL business software (not browsers or office suites important though they are) that competes with and is superior in price and the obvious stability benefits.. maybe then will we see corporations be in a position to switch.
Personally, I believe the way to go is to develop competing solutions that use platform independent GUIs or thin clients and allow us to compete firstly on Windows, then on any other useful platform. Sadly I still think the GPL will keep this from being financially viable for many years to come (with people opting not to heavily invest in things that can be had for free).
Unfortunately, that sounds good and idealistic and all, but if the company is incorporated in CA, and legally has no assets somewhere else, what possible benefit do you expect to receive suing them elsewhere?
You can't sue someone where the money isn't.. they just show the court how much they earned in your state $0, and you can divvy that up from there;).
At least that's how it works if you try to sue internationally anyway.. follow the money;).
I didn't think the nvidia drivers were open source, but they're at least freely available (which is good). I'd think with the competition being so close by ATI and NVidia, that there would be concerns. If you write drivers for a living, you have to know hardware pretty well. Kinda hard not to peek at what the other driver does, and work out capabilities from there.
ATI and Nvidia are working very much together on getting new features in OpenGL that were formerly proprietary extensions offered by either driver.
I'd hate to see blind insistence on an Open source driver from either tear apart that cooperation. All it takes is one non-technical type fearing the other is reverse engineering capabilities from the driver's source to cause distrust again.
From their talk at the GDC, this cooperation will serve to simplify support of both cards by game developers, and significantly reduce costs (and maybe even encourage OpenGL vs. DirectX potentially being used more commonly by even windows only game developers, making Linux or Mac ports cheaper and simpler).
Actually, it's just misperception. If you don't think your fortune 500 companies get government money, or never ever did, you're on crack.
Tax breaks anyone? Interest free loans? That's exactly what has gone on in the US for years. Someone's been actually believing Bush's BS campaign about 'cheap government subsidized lumber from Canada ruining the economy' if they honestly believe that Canada or the UK does things differently with regards to 'help' from government.
Maybe the disclosure laws are different, but it happens in the USA every day;). Or at least it did.
There's no 'poking' of the nose as the above poster said implicit in getting government assistance in the form of low/no interest loans, which is what Molyneux seems to be on about.
The point is, if all the conglomerations continue, pretty soon the industry will be one publisher and one developer, and no benefit can be had for the consumer in that case (see any parallels in business software here?).
Also, you can't always just license an engine (although in many cases you can). An FPS engine is designed to render at insane speeds smaller environments - at least the quake derivatives do, black and white's engine had to support rapid camera changes from many different heights, so much of the traditional 3D backend was useless.
Games are getting more expensive to produce, you can't break in as an indie if your game LOOKS like it was done on a shoestring. Art costs more and more money, and with things like Dolby 5.1, the sound engineers need to be ever more sophisiticated and expensive. Our governments helping us indies out isn't paving the way for any more than keeping monopilies out before it happens to the games industry, because we've all seen how impossible it is to break up software monopolies.
I've received plenty, the trick is to just not open attachments from people I don't know.
No it's not, outlook used to execute JavaScript when you PREVIEWED documents.
I got my first virus by attempting to delete message that looked like a virus, and when i previewed it, the JavaScript ran the executable. No stupidty on my part, I couldn't stop it. Nor could you have.
You've just been lucky, not clever, that basic advice anyone knows, that's why recent viruses don't give a damn if you bother opening them. Previewing is sufficient.
I'd argue you don't get it at all though. You're right, if all ISP's played fair and played by the rules, then you'd have a point.
Sprint knowingly null routes spam complaints, and the various services that re-sell bandwidth from them don't even give you a bot reply. If we broadended the black list to every single sprint network subcriber (including susidiaries) immediately it may solve the problem domestically. Fact of the matter is sprint's poor management and greed -- spammers pay lots of money for their connections and typically in the past some isp's have played the 'we don't like spammers' lip service game, while raking in the cash.
Destroys the usefulness of email? That's a little melodramatic. Means as consumers we have to choose wisely perhaps, but caveat emptor is no different with computers than it is with any consumer good. Worse than spam? Never not in a million years. Wasting wads of your bandwidth getting joe jobbed is far far worse than losing one message from a contact on said network.
If it's that important, then it's foolish to trust it to anything but a courier, with a delivery receipt. There's never been any guarantees with email delivery, nor should there be. Blacklisting hasn't affected that basic design decision made long ago when email was first envisioned.
I'd say you're being paranoid, email works just fine null routing or not. If someone I need to correspond with is on a spam infested network, there are alternatives.
In fact, I lose no important traffic, just maybe the odd useless email from spam infested domains. Or a mass forwarded joke, but who cares? I'm better off without that.
You're truly naive if you believe you're that intelligent that you can somehow magically know who people are.
I don't think you're that conceited, but social engineering works anywhere you want it to, if you're sufficiently skilled at it.
Photo ID can be faked, so can letterheads and 'signatures'. Easily, its done every day. Spies don't look both ways incessently, or shifty eyed or 'like something is up' to common people. And unless you received your PhD studying the 'micro signals' or whatever that people give off when they're lying, you can be fooled as easily as any of us.
Those laws that protect the bearer expose the person who's information it is, because you can just say 'oops', they fooled me and keep your life.
I have no problem with cooperation with law enforcement, I have a problem when someone does it as BLATANTLY STUPIDLY as eBay proposes to do it. Warrants and such are not difficult to get, they don't 'slow down' investigations. You can get one 24/7 if you are who you say you are. And with one, there's a paper trail. Not some mysterious civil servant or employee who's protected from liability for unlawful disclosure.
It's not because you guys are incompetent, and sure you try to work out the veracity of requests, but sorry, we made laws to require warrants, etc for a reason. And they should remain as they are for a reason also.
It has since blossomed into an excellent overall gaming news site with probably the most intelligent gaming discussions you'll find on the Internet.
Sometimes;). If it's about anything that's based off Halflife, it's generally about as intelligent as the post five or so up making fun of 'gamerspeak';P
obTopic: I am not familiar with the anti-trust/monopoly laws of the UK. I understood the US suing MS because that is where the company is headquartered. How can a foreign country sue a corporation that does not reside within its borders?
Simple. You come to my country and conduct business, you do so according to my country's laws, not US laws. And suing has nothing to do with criminal laws anyway.
You open a store in uganda(sp?) and someone slips and falls on the steps, they sue you there. It doesn't matter a damn if you're American, British or whatever. Your being in another country subjects you to their laws.
That being said, if a company has no presense other than as an imported commodity, you've got to take a plane trip and sue them where their assets live.
Isn't this how all those gambling websites get away with it?
They are getting away with avoiding taxes or other laws, or doing what they do because it is legal in the jurisdictions they're doing what they do.
I'd look into whether that qualifies for an insurance claim against inventory shrinkage.
Actually, that's pretty commonly not covered by insurance.. if your records are a mess, the insurance company doesn't have to deal with your poor book keeping.
If you had 2000 of them when you first did inventory, and sold 20 of them, there's very often no coverage if you do an inventory and discover you suddenly have 1000 left.
Unless of course there's a massive hole in the back of the building and tire tracks where the truck came in and loaded up with the missing goods, or some other evidence of theft (alarm went off, video surveilance tapes of employees stealing, etc).
Also, some liabilities you assume by contract (such as the distributor not accepting the goods after they've been opened) are often not covered by insurance.
That's true in Canada in a general sense, and quite likely in the US as well (a lot of our insurance/contract law is very similar to US law as I understand it anyway).
IANAL, but was an insurance dude for a few years:).
That's how it used to work. The license was printed on the sealed media envelope. Actually, I might have some old Windows 3.1 envelopes somewhere that were packaged in just this way.
Mind you, the envelopes would be a LOT bigger now, because the licenses have become more complex.
but a choice between the volume of development that has gone in to Linux compared to the volume in Solaris9-x86 just cannot equate to superiority IMB.
I don't follow, from what I can see, Sun's had a team working full time on Solaris since 1983, Linux was a pet project started in 1991, released in December of that year (and bearing little resemblance to what we have today).
Or did the (almost) 10 year jump cause Sun's engineers to rest on their laurels, waiting for Linux to catch up?
I'm not sure anyone can say for sure, but what number of people are working _full-time_ on Linux? More than Sun employs? Or maybe the same number?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'd say that Sun's had longer to get things going, which doesn't mean it's better, but it certainly doesn't mean it's had less development.
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How is this flamebait?
I know it's not 'love for firefox', but that's hardly flamebait..
Well, that post was trollish, but seriously, Novell's network administration is superior to the way *nix or NT works (until MS created Active Directory - a clone of the way netware worked from verison 4 on).
In the NT world, and *nix, you have an account on a machine, you log in to one machine, then maybe connect to others, maybe having permissions there or not, all controlled by the servers you connect to or the NFS mounted shares, whatever.
In the netware world, you authenticate to the network as a whole, with one account, you have different permissions on various network resources (not servers), and through replication this permission set is passed anywhere its needed. Any workstation on the network can authenticate you to the network, because you have an account on the network. If the local server doesn't know about you, it can query around and find your account, and your envirnment is perfectly identical to what you had at 'home' as it were. Properly integrated with the client OS, moving offices is completely painless - this is not the case in NT or *nix setups.
I've not done a huge *nix installation, perhaps there are ways to make *nix do this, but it appears very very server centric, much like NT 4 was.
At one time the only viable solution for a large wan with thousands of users was Netware, and I'd argue that Active directory is still much inferior to it (and slower).
Dont' get me wrong, in that same vast installation, any critical service should be running on some flavor of *nix, because I don't see Novell competing there in the slightest.
When they finally ditched their silly IPX protocol (well or strongly favored TCP/IP) around version 5ish, Novell/*nix networks should have dominated the planet.
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but I use the right tool for the right job, and don't see *nix as being comparable to Netware in some respects (at least before this sort of project), but then again, neither is Netware as good as Linux in others.
but it requires Windows to be utilized completely. This new functionality now makes it possible to have a massive server-clinet network with a non-Windows client OS
;)
Netware works with clients of any flavor, older versions even supported *nix clients, but no one ever bothered. Works flawlessly with Windows and Macs, however, so this is really not true.
Non-Windows != Linux
Read the parent post as:
I don't understand anything about C coding or systems programming, can you please let me bury my head back in the sand so that I can just run D:\setup.exe and load my gamez?!
That's pretty unfair, and marginally trollish as well. The question comes from a sysadmin type, that does NOT mean they're a luser.
You don't need to be C guru, or a systems programming mandarin to be forced to compile code, particularly in the open source world.
The question was simply 'Why are there so many changes that break binary compatibility?' That is a very valid question, and you need to know nothing about systems programming to explain it without being a troll.
Applied science like engineering maybe. When you spend your days 'suckholing' grant money from governments or writing papers with your results, you'll be doing what scientists do...
:).
Designing or Building bridges isn't science either, mind you ignorance of science would make it rather dodgy. So, I'd really call it applied science.
Umm, if running a compiler is an 'experiment'.. well that says something about the method of software design you're employing -- hope that was a joke
Nope, it was Quake I, there are something on the order of 25 lines of Quake II stuff according to Valve, as well as some QuakeWorld-ish netcode, which was later rewritten, perhaps entirely.
e rs@list.valvesof tware.com/msg01215.html
Halflife was in fact Quake I, contrary to the relative time Halflife and Quake II were released, and popular misconception.
(mostly about why halflife doesn't use constructors unfortunately)
http://www.mail-archive.com/hlcod
Implied by Ken Birdwell of Valve there, and it was answered in long form by a couple Valve guys in IRC, but I have since lost the logs.
Amazing that they added a skeletal animation system to what started out as Quake I, yet neither Quake II nor III have one yet? I always find that perverse.
How else do we reclassify the jobs that were 'created' in the 90's (look a few posts up).
;).
Most of the tech jobs that were 'created' in the 90's were what? HTML design? Hardly requires much in the way of technical ability skills, or anything..
May as well call them engineers, I'm sure that Frontpage is equivalent to AutoCAD
Not trolling at all, that's a very valid explanation of why pay to play games are hardly indicative of online gamers in general.
Change the game to diablo, or counter-strike or something, and look at the numbers there. There's some of us 30 somethings still doing it, but just as well there are 12-18 year old players in droves.
I know a lot of these type of gamers, and most say repeatedly, they'd never pay to play a game (subscription, etc). To some of them, money is VERY hard to come by, they have no appreciation for what it's worth, or how little 10 bucks a month really is.
Most of them haven't turned 21 and spent 100's on booze in bars for a few semesters, almost dropped out of college, or even gone on a date to a theatre.
To all you nay-sayers out there: I want you to name one application out there that does not have a full-featured alternative in Linux
;).
SAP, The Agency Manager, or any one of a million _information management_ packages written for only windows.
I've been saying for a while now, what OSS needs to become utilized isn't Exchange/Outlook as much (they're important too) as the actual systems people run their business on, which is the primary reason to even have computers in the work place in the first place.
Maybe when we start porting MFC/VB/PowerBuilder apps to Delphi or wxWindows (well or lesser things like QT or GTK), then people will have choices - because the GUI isn't tied to the OS, people will be able to have an upgrade path to Linux.
At the moment, the upgrade path is - throw away existing software, replace things like Office easily, then pay millions of dollars for the corporate information management system.
Unless you're lucky enough to live in the world of thin client/web based stuff, in which case ignore me, and rip off Exchange again
A bit elitist? Maybe. But think about this: a good democracy depends on literate, educated citizens. Many developing nations have less than a 50% literacy rate. For them to move towards democracy, they need to adapt their culture first. It is that step that takes time.
All humans desire the right to self determination.
I'd go more with a good standard of living or something, Cuba still has higher literacy rates than the US or Canada or just about anywhere for that matter.
In the US and here in Canada, education is still unattainable by the poor. This is not the case in many other countries (such as Cuba or much of Europe). In Canada our tuition is about 25% of the average US going rate, but we still have something like only about 70% of our population attaining at least one degree.
It was easy to get a student loan with easy to meet repayment terms, even if your first job out of college was McDonald's, but thanks to our government getting too hands off with it, the banks have made many young people declare bankrupcy (sp?) pretty much straight out of school when things got bad.
Sorry, I strayed there, but even in North America, our adult illiteracy or functional literacy rates are somewhat sad. We may not be prevented by an oppressive government, just an in some ways oppressive system (capitalism), which puts education beyond the reach of every citizen.
Mind you, I'm a snob that way, I believe no one should be denied access to education for financial reasons, of at least some kind. If we want an educated truly free population that is...
The freedom to be self employed and many other benefits make me appreciate capitalism or democracy (or whatever we have in Canada these days), but attainable education is not a benefit of such a system.
Maybe, look at it like this:
;).
Let's say 80% of the computers used in business run Windows.
They all have not only and Office solution (that can readily be replaced), but an information management system(s) of some sort. It was developed for Windows, the companies that made the system have no Linux expertise (even though as in our case, many of the engineers use it on our own, most haven't built a multi-million dollar information system on it).
How easy is it for these people to switch?
The information system cost 20 million dollars to acquire. Windows license replacements cost say 1 million dollars per year. How long do you think the same management types that didn't believe us in the 70's when we said that the time to deal with Y2K was soon, will try to keep running Windows based systems to avoid spending another 20 million to develop a new information system in a depressed economy? Over 18 years, they're still ahead..
Open source isn't going to help here, someone making a living a big someone like IBM is now doing developing competing solutions is. That and convincing people to pay millions of dollars for software that has the source code freely downloadable on the Internet..
Really, there is still no alternative to Windows in these folks minds. Now if all us Linux savvy developers can get together and start marketing REAL business software (not browsers or office suites important though they are) that competes with and is superior in price and the obvious stability benefits.. maybe then will we see corporations be in a position to switch.
Personally, I believe the way to go is to develop competing solutions that use platform independent GUIs or thin clients and allow us to compete firstly on Windows, then on any other useful platform. Sadly I still think the GPL will keep this from being financially viable for many years to come (with people opting not to heavily invest in things that can be had for free).
Sigh.
Unfortunately, that sounds good and idealistic and all, but if the company is incorporated in CA, and legally has no assets somewhere else, what possible benefit do you expect to receive suing them elsewhere?
;).
;).
You can't sue someone where the money isn't.. they just show the court how much they earned in your state $0, and you can divvy that up from there
At least that's how it works if you try to sue internationally anyway.. follow the money
I didn't think the nvidia drivers were open source, but they're at least freely available (which is good). I'd think with the competition being so close by ATI and NVidia, that there would be concerns. If you write drivers for a living, you have to know hardware pretty well. Kinda hard not to peek at what the other driver does, and work out capabilities from there.
ATI and Nvidia are working very much together on getting new features in OpenGL that were formerly proprietary extensions offered by either driver.
I'd hate to see blind insistence on an Open source driver from either tear apart that cooperation. All it takes is one non-technical type fearing the other is reverse engineering capabilities from the driver's source to cause distrust again.
From their talk at the GDC, this cooperation will serve to simplify support of both cards by game developers, and significantly reduce costs (and maybe even encourage OpenGL vs. DirectX potentially being used more commonly by even windows only game developers, making Linux or Mac ports cheaper and simpler).
"Not to mention they will also likely be bland pap"
Yes, I see all the innovation that's coming out of the free market.. unreal 2k23, bf 1942, yes I see the lack of 'bland pap' there...
Actually, it's just misperception. If you don't think your fortune 500 companies get government money, or never ever did, you're on crack.
;). Or at least it did.
Tax breaks anyone? Interest free loans? That's exactly what has gone on in the US for years. Someone's been actually believing Bush's BS campaign about 'cheap government subsidized lumber from Canada ruining the economy' if they honestly believe that Canada or the UK does things differently with regards to 'help' from government.
Maybe the disclosure laws are different, but it happens in the USA every day
There's no 'poking' of the nose as the above poster said implicit in getting government assistance in the form of low/no interest loans, which is what Molyneux seems to be on about.
The point is, if all the conglomerations continue, pretty soon the industry will be one publisher and one developer, and no benefit can be had for the consumer in that case (see any parallels in business software here?).
Also, you can't always just license an engine (although in many cases you can). An FPS engine is designed to render at insane speeds smaller environments - at least the quake derivatives do, black and white's engine had to support rapid camera changes from many different heights, so much of the traditional 3D backend was useless.
Games are getting more expensive to produce, you can't break in as an indie if your game LOOKS like it was done on a shoestring. Art costs more and more money, and with things like Dolby 5.1, the sound engineers need to be ever more sophisiticated and expensive. Our governments helping us indies out isn't paving the way for any more than keeping monopilies out before it happens to the games industry, because we've all seen how impossible it is to break up software monopolies.
Quote from a Swedish friend of mine to an American one:
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Bork! Bork! Bork! is Swedish for OMFG! We make the best food!
I've received plenty, the trick is to just not open attachments from people I don't know.
No it's not, outlook used to execute JavaScript when you PREVIEWED documents.
I got my first virus by attempting to delete message that looked like a virus, and when i previewed it, the JavaScript ran the executable. No stupidty on my part, I couldn't stop it. Nor could you have.
You've just been lucky, not clever, that basic advice anyone knows, that's why recent viruses don't give a damn if you bother opening them. Previewing is sufficient.
I'd argue you don't get it at all though. You're right, if all ISP's played fair and played by the rules, then you'd have a point.
Sprint knowingly null routes spam complaints, and the various services that re-sell bandwidth from them don't even give you a bot reply. If we broadended the black list to every single sprint network subcriber (including susidiaries) immediately it may solve the problem domestically. Fact of the matter is sprint's poor management and greed -- spammers pay lots of money for their connections and typically in the past some isp's have played the 'we don't like spammers' lip service game, while raking in the cash.
Destroys the usefulness of email? That's a little melodramatic. Means as consumers we have to choose wisely perhaps, but caveat emptor is no different with computers than it is with any consumer good. Worse than spam? Never not in a million years. Wasting wads of your bandwidth getting joe jobbed is far far worse than losing one message from a contact on said network.
If it's that important, then it's foolish to trust it to anything but a courier, with a delivery receipt. There's never been any guarantees with email delivery, nor should there be. Blacklisting hasn't affected that basic design decision made long ago when email was first envisioned.
I'd say you're being paranoid, email works just fine null routing or not. If someone I need to correspond with is on a spam infested network, there are alternatives.
In fact, I lose no important traffic, just maybe the odd useless email from spam infested domains. Or a mass forwarded joke, but who cares? I'm better off without that.
You're truly naive if you believe you're that intelligent that you can somehow magically know who people are.
I don't think you're that conceited, but social engineering works anywhere you want it to, if you're sufficiently skilled at it.
Photo ID can be faked, so can letterheads and 'signatures'. Easily, its done every day. Spies don't look both ways incessently, or shifty eyed or 'like something is up' to common people. And unless you received your PhD studying the 'micro signals' or whatever that people give off when they're lying, you can be fooled as easily as any of us.
Those laws that protect the bearer expose the person who's information it is, because you can just say 'oops', they fooled me and keep your life.
I have no problem with cooperation with law enforcement, I have a problem when someone does it as BLATANTLY STUPIDLY as eBay proposes to do it. Warrants and such are not difficult to get, they don't 'slow down' investigations. You can get one 24/7 if you are who you say you are. And with one, there's a paper trail. Not some mysterious civil servant or employee who's protected from liability for unlawful disclosure.
It's not because you guys are incompetent, and sure you try to work out the veracity of requests, but sorry, we made laws to require warrants, etc for a reason. And they should remain as they are for a reason also.
It has since blossomed into an excellent overall gaming news site with probably the most intelligent gaming discussions you'll find on the Internet.
;). If it's about anything that's based off Halflife, it's generally about as intelligent as the post five or so up making fun of 'gamerspeak' ;P
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obTopic: I am not familiar with the anti-trust/monopoly laws of the UK. I understood the US suing MS because that is where the company is headquartered. How can a foreign country sue a corporation that does not reside within its borders?
Simple. You come to my country and conduct business, you do so according to my country's laws, not US laws. And suing has nothing to do with criminal laws anyway.
You open a store in uganda(sp?) and someone slips and falls on the steps, they sue you there. It doesn't matter a damn if you're American, British or whatever. Your being in another country subjects you to their laws.
That being said, if a company has no presense other than as an imported commodity, you've got to take a plane trip and sue them where their assets live.
Isn't this how all those gambling websites get away with it?
They are getting away with avoiding taxes or other laws, or doing what they do because it is legal in the jurisdictions they're doing what they do.
I'd look into whether that qualifies for an insurance claim against inventory shrinkage.
:).
Actually, that's pretty commonly not covered by insurance.. if your records are a mess, the insurance company doesn't have to deal with your poor book keeping.
If you had 2000 of them when you first did inventory, and sold 20 of them, there's very often no coverage if you do an inventory and discover you suddenly have 1000 left.
Unless of course there's a massive hole in the back of the building and tire tracks where the truck came in and loaded up with the missing goods, or some other evidence of theft (alarm went off, video surveilance tapes of employees stealing, etc).
Also, some liabilities you assume by contract (such as the distributor not accepting the goods after they've been opened) are often not covered by insurance.
That's true in Canada in a general sense, and quite likely in the US as well (a lot of our insurance/contract law is very similar to US law as I understand it anyway).
IANAL, but was an insurance dude for a few years
That's how it used to work. The license was printed on the sealed media envelope. Actually, I might have some old Windows 3.1 envelopes somewhere that were packaged in just this way.
Mind you, the envelopes would be a LOT bigger now, because the licenses have become more complex.
but a choice between the volume of development that has gone in to Linux compared to the volume in Solaris9-x86 just cannot equate to superiority IMB.
I don't follow, from what I can see, Sun's had a team working full time on Solaris since 1983, Linux was a pet project started in 1991, released in December of that year (and bearing little resemblance to what we have today).
Or did the (almost) 10 year jump cause Sun's engineers to rest on their laurels, waiting for Linux to catch up?
I'm not sure anyone can say for sure, but what number of people are working _full-time_ on Linux? More than Sun employs? Or maybe the same number?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'd say that Sun's had longer to get things going, which doesn't mean it's better, but it certainly doesn't mean it's had less development.
Apparently, she's also an oven 'newb' too. You can dry things out at temperatures MUCH lower than 400 degrees .. ;)