There is a retrial because apparently prior art was concealed in a patent case. Seems legit to me. Or is it only bad because it's Microsoft?...oh pardon me, I mean Micro$oft, a.k.a The Devil
And for the record, I'm a 100% Linux user who is not a Microsoft fan, but this retrial is totally justified IMHO.
I'll admit I'm not the biggest MS fan in the world. However, if the situation were reversed, and MS was claiming to own the patent, I think a lot of peoples' tones would be different (i.e. hoping that MS wasn't granted the patent). I hate to say it, but I sort of hope MS wins, but with the outcome being that no one is awarded the patent. That way no browser will be (or potentially be) affected, whether it be IE, Firefox, Opera, or whatever. But that's just MHO...
I work for a company that sells and services ID card and access control software and equipment. My job includes repair and testing this equipment and software, and as such, I'm currently sitting here with all kinds of software and equipment with the capabilities to read and write mag strips, barcodes, smart cards, prox cards, etc. There are lots of legit and "non-academic" uses for these kinds of things other than banking/credit cards so I don't think the DCMA will cause too many problems.
If someone is converting from IE, I would think they'd be a little unfamiliar with things like tabbed browsing, extensions, themes, and pretty much anything FF has that IE doesn't.
Maybe I don't understand your point, but I don't see a lack of development tools for Mac and Linux.
There's Cocoa for Mac and there's Glade, Qt Designer, Kylix, and JBuilder for Linux. And I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones that came to my mind first.
Seriously, if you have ever watched a film or played a video game, you know multinational corporations are always evil!
I second that. Thanks to Hollywood, I know that large corporations are run by uber-l33t CEOs with names like "ThePlague" that steal money by writing computer viruses on uber-l33t Gibson computers.
Okay, so where (ie. what country) can you go to host a web site without fear that the government...
The US apparently. Last I checked there were plenty of highly controversial and anti-government websites hosted in the US.
I don't see the government taking down all the neo-Nazi web sites...
I don't see the government taking down the ISNA website. All I see is The Planet taking down the website, a bunch of accusations, and no details.
If it turns out that the US goverment influenced this decision, then I will agree with you, but until then please loosen the tin-foil hat and don't jump to conclusions.
In his contract it stated he would get 10%. He wasn't paid the 10% and sued. He won and is now getting his 10%. What does that have to do with downloading MP3s and movies?
What I can't understand from this is WHY Blizzard would be opposed to this?
Actually, they explain on the WoW website. They think that it will be damaging to the in-game economy and overall experience of players. If someone with a bunch of money to burn goes out and buys a full-pimp level 60 character, then starts stomping on newbies, it takes away some of the fun. People will complain (they already do) and be turned off by the game. There is already an in-game auction house where people can auction goods to the highest bidder. If no one has an incentive to use it, and instead people auction on eBay for real money, only people with a bunch of extra money to spend will benefit. And people who don't have the cash might complain.
Also, if you sell items for real money, you limit your audience somewhat, seeing as how in WoW characters and items can't be transferred across servers. Basically, if you sell an item on Server X, your only potential buyers will be people who already play on that server.
Basically, Blizzard just wants to limit character interaction to in-game only to keep the playing field level. I love WoW, and I don't understand why you would buy the game and pay the monthly fee, just to spend more money to start off with a high level character. IMHO, the fun of the game comes from building your character, finding items, etc. But that's just my 2 cents...
IMHO, sports organizations like the NFL, MLB, NHL, etc. are probably going to ultimately care about the teams, players, fans, stadiums, and so forth, more than the video game industry. I doubt whether these sports organizations care if 1 or multiple companies make these sports games. They are going to get money from licensing either way. Besides, we are talking about sports with a set number of teams, players, rules, etc. Not an FPS where there are an infinite number of possible story lines, characters, settings, etc. Beyond graphics and some possible UI design things, the game content it probably going to be pretty much the same no matter who makes it so. It's not like one company will add rocket launchers to their MLB game and another will have the next NHL season take place on Mars. As a die-hard football and baseball fan (there goes my geek cred maybe...), as long as the company with the exclusive rights does a decent job of making the game, I don't care who makes it. If EA wants exclusive rights, fine, but if the next NFL game sucks, I won't buy it.
In other words, I don't see the harm in exclusive rights, but that's just my 2 cents and feel free to disagree.
Believe me, OSX and Linux have more than their share of stupid users.
I agree.
However, if one of these users click on an attachment, such as myDoom, it really doesn't matter too much since it only affect Windows users. IMO, all OSes have their share of stupid users, but stupid Windows users seem to do the most damage from what I've seen.
True it could be done on any OS. And true there are thousands of Windows boxen out there. However, you still need users that are dumb enough to click on the attachment in the first place, regardless of OS.
during a WindowsXP install/setup, the user is asked to create additional user accounts. all those accounts (correct me if i'm wrong) have admin privledges (or at least enough to do some damage). also, i don't ever remember being prompted to set an admin password, meaning no pw required to log in as admin.
contrast that to a linux install/setup, where you have to set a root password during install (at least as far as i've ever seen) and users don't have much in the way of privledges outside of their own home directory.
so to answer your question #2 with regards to windows and linux repsectively, i'd say pretty low and not too bad.
Disney? New ideas? HAH! We're talking about the company that takes classic stories by Victor Hugo, Hans Christian Anderson, etc., turns them into dumbed-down kiddie versions, and then beats them to death with sequels.
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They are abusing the system
...oh pardon me, I mean Micro$oft, a.k.a The Devil
How is this abusing the system???
There is a retrial because apparently prior art was concealed in a patent case. Seems legit to me. Or is it only bad because it's Microsoft?
And for the record, I'm a 100% Linux user who is not a Microsoft fan, but this retrial is totally justified IMHO.
I'll admit I'm not the biggest MS fan in the world. However, if the situation were reversed, and MS was claiming to own the patent, I think a lot of peoples' tones would be different (i.e. hoping that MS wasn't granted the patent). I hate to say it, but I sort of hope MS wins, but with the outcome being that no one is awarded the patent. That way no browser will be (or potentially be) affected, whether it be IE, Firefox, Opera, or whatever. But that's just MHO...
I work for a company that sells and services ID card and access control software and equipment. My job includes repair and testing this equipment and software, and as such, I'm currently sitting here with all kinds of software and equipment with the capabilities to read and write mag strips, barcodes, smart cards, prox cards, etc. There are lots of legit and "non-academic" uses for these kinds of things other than banking/credit cards so I don't think the DCMA will cause too many problems.
As long as it's not company policy ie. each employee that uses it is installing it for personal use, it's free.
Sorry, I have to disagree seeing as how Grisoft explicitly state on their website "for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only."
Not that one is better than the other, but I use Avast which is also free and has worked well for me on both Windows and Linux.
Not sure if this is what you mean, but it sounds like it might be.
s /users/passface.htm
http://www.realuser.com/cgi-bin/ru.exe/_/homepage
I know that Nintendo is working on a new type of controller...
The heck with a new controller, I want Nintendo to bring back R.O.B.
Mine doesn't work anymore...
No, in the really geek crowd, people are still arguing over which Pong system is the best.
working link:
a sp
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.
If someone is converting from IE, I would think they'd be a little unfamiliar with things like tabbed browsing, extensions, themes, and pretty much anything FF has that IE doesn't.
Maybe I don't understand your point, but I don't see a lack of development tools for Mac and Linux.
There's Cocoa for Mac and there's Glade, Qt Designer, Kylix, and JBuilder for Linux. And I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones that came to my mind first.
Yes, I demand that there be open source native Linux ports of all Windows viruses!
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xine and mplayer both work for me.
Seriously, if you have ever watched a film or played a video game, you know multinational corporations are always evil!
I second that. Thanks to Hollywood, I know that large corporations are run by uber-l33t CEOs with names like "ThePlague" that steal money by writing computer viruses on uber-l33t Gibson computers.
Okay, so where (ie. what country) can you go to host a web site without fear that the government...
The US apparently. Last I checked there were plenty of highly controversial and anti-government websites hosted in the US.
I don't see the government taking down all the neo-Nazi web sites...
I don't see the government taking down the ISNA website. All I see is The Planet taking down the website, a bunch of accusations, and no details.
If it turns out that the US goverment influenced this decision, then I will agree with you, but until then please loosen the tin-foil hat and don't jump to conclusions.
And thus the Slashdork justifies his behavior. "All things are justified so long as it sticks it to the **AA!"
Um, after RTFA, one can see this has nothing to do with the **AA. It's a contract dispute between Stan Lee and Marvel.
In his contract it stated he would get 10%. He wasn't paid the 10% and sued. He won and is now getting his 10%. What does that have to do with downloading MP3s and movies?
My turn...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of low price LCD monitor overlords looking at you in Soviet Russia because only old people in Korea... ah, screw it...
Mod troll in 5...4...3...
What I can't understand from this is WHY Blizzard would be opposed to this?
Actually, they explain on the WoW website. They think that it will be damaging to the in-game economy and overall experience of players. If someone with a bunch of money to burn goes out and buys a full-pimp level 60 character, then starts stomping on newbies, it takes away some of the fun. People will complain (they already do) and be turned off by the game. There is already an in-game auction house where people can auction goods to the highest bidder. If no one has an incentive to use it, and instead people auction on eBay for real money, only people with a bunch of extra money to spend will benefit. And people who don't have the cash might complain.
Also, if you sell items for real money, you limit your audience somewhat, seeing as how in WoW characters and items can't be transferred across servers. Basically, if you sell an item on Server X, your only potential buyers will be people who already play on that server.
Basically, Blizzard just wants to limit character interaction to in-game only to keep the playing field level. I love WoW, and I don't understand why you would buy the game and pay the monthly fee, just to spend more money to start off with a high level character. IMHO, the fun of the game comes from building your character, finding items, etc. But that's just my 2 cents...
Hockey on Mars would be pretty cool.
yeah, that would be kinda cool. i guess i was speaking more along the lines of realistic sports games.
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IMHO, sports organizations like the NFL, MLB, NHL, etc. are probably going to ultimately care about the teams, players, fans, stadiums, and so forth, more than the video game industry. I doubt whether these sports organizations care if 1 or multiple companies make these sports games. They are going to get money from licensing either way. Besides, we are talking about sports with a set number of teams, players, rules, etc. Not an FPS where there are an infinite number of possible story lines, characters, settings, etc. Beyond graphics and some possible UI design things, the game content it probably going to be pretty much the same no matter who makes it so. It's not like one company will add rocket launchers to their MLB game and another will have the next NHL season take place on Mars. As a die-hard football and baseball fan (there goes my geek cred maybe...), as long as the company with the exclusive rights does a decent job of making the game, I don't care who makes it. If EA wants exclusive rights, fine, but if the next NFL game sucks, I won't buy it.
In other words, I don't see the harm in exclusive rights, but that's just my 2 cents and feel free to disagree.
Believe me, OSX and Linux have more than their share of stupid users.
I agree.
However, if one of these users click on an attachment, such as myDoom, it really doesn't matter too much since it only affect Windows users. IMO, all OSes have their share of stupid users, but stupid Windows users seem to do the most damage from what I've seen.
True it could be done on any OS. And true there are thousands of Windows boxen out there. However, you still need users that are dumb enough to click on the attachment in the first place, regardless of OS.
during a WindowsXP install/setup, the user is asked to create additional user accounts. all those accounts (correct me if i'm wrong) have admin privledges (or at least enough to do some damage). also, i don't ever remember being prompted to set an admin password, meaning no pw required to log in as admin.
contrast that to a linux install/setup, where you have to set a root password during install (at least as far as i've ever seen) and users don't have much in the way of privledges outside of their own home directory.
so to answer your question #2 with regards to windows and linux repsectively, i'd say pretty low and not too bad.
Disney? New ideas? HAH! We're talking about the company that takes classic stories by Victor Hugo, Hans Christian Anderson, etc., turns them into dumbed-down kiddie versions, and then beats them to death with sequels.