I can see it now... Quake IV will be designed to handle huge maps with amazing detail... I can just imagine fragging someone as they jump off of the Empire state building... or being a sniper from the torch of the Statue of Liberty:)
Ok, let me get this straight. If I want to help Lindows become a success, all I have to do is give them $99.00 and sign a NDA stating that my input cannot be shared with my peers. Yeah that is GPL material;)
So, since they would not "donate" the money if they did not display only their product, is Intel donating or buying the support of Harvard? Should they be able to make that a tax write off since it is really becoming a form of advertisement?
Even though the response to this simple concept has been scorned by the readers, I would have to agree with the decision for the most part simply because of "business sense"... I agree that the account should be disabled to prevent the attacks, but I do not believe that the user who's account (in this case) was disabled should be denied service. What about creating an alternate account that the user can use INSTEAD OF the one that is being attacked... if it is a DSL IP based attack this could be a costly venture since IP blocks unless NATed are hard to come by... so... let me open up this question a little further. For those of you who opt to disable that individial's account / and or give them a different account; what would you have the ISP do?
I have been hearing a lot of flack from the media (no, I am not the only one;) about how we techies blew the whole Y2K thing out of proportion... I will not add to a defense of either side other than to give those end-users who put their faith in the techies every time the load Windows a little insight... Y2K could have been a huge problem... luckily we who could do something about it did... do not patronize us for warning you that everything we did may not be enough... we were just being cautious... would you sooner have us tell you that we were right? That we did not do all that we could to ensure you can still send email or use Excel? And that now you would actually have to spend time with your family instead of being glued to your tube and browsing the web? ENOUGH is ENOUGH... we have all done what we had to do... let's move on...
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I can see it now... Quake IV will be designed to handle huge maps with amazing detail... I can just imagine fragging someone as they jump off of the Empire state building... or being a sniper from the torch of the Statue of Liberty :)
Our electric company in Denmark, WI USA is moving to this type of scheme
Ok, let me get this straight. If I want to help Lindows become a success, all I have to do is give them $99.00 and sign a NDA stating that my input cannot be shared with my peers. Yeah that is GPL material ;)
So, since they would not "donate" the money if they did not display only their product, is Intel donating or buying the support of Harvard? Should they be able to make that a tax write off since it is really becoming a form of advertisement?
Even though the response to this simple concept has been scorned by the readers, I would have to agree with the decision for the most part simply because of "business sense"... I agree that the account should be disabled to prevent the attacks, but I do not believe that the user who's account (in this case) was disabled should be denied service. What about creating an alternate account that the user can use INSTEAD OF the one that is being attacked... if it is a DSL IP based attack this could be a costly venture since IP blocks unless NATed are hard to come by... so... let me open up this question a little further. For those of you who opt to disable that individial's account / and or give them a different account; what would you have the ISP do?
Been running Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 beta for a while now with no problems... go figure =)
I have been hearing a lot of flack from the media (no, I am not the only one ;) about how we techies blew the whole Y2K thing out of proportion... I will not add to a defense of either side other than to give those end-users who put their faith in the techies every time the load Windows a little insight... Y2K could have been a huge problem... luckily we who could do something about it did... do not patronize us for warning you that everything we did may not be enough... we were just being cautious... would you sooner have us tell you that we were right? That we did not do all that we could to ensure you can still send email or use Excel? And that now you would actually have to spend time with your family instead of being glued to your tube and browsing the web? ENOUGH is ENOUGH... we have all done what we had to do... let's move on...