"Windows has detected that you have installed a new mouse. Please reboot this machine for changes to take effect and relicensing charges to be applied to your Passport account."
If the launch is successful and you return back, will you try to commercialize the success in any way? For example writing a book on home made rocketry or selling rocket kits of some sort?
I have an original 2600, but it seems to have degraded or something over time. I can't get it to work anymore. Is there a place that can fix an old Atari?
If they had used another 300 megs of bandwidth, they would have had to call in an F-16 and bomb all the houses. Bandwidth is serious stuff people, that's why the FBI is spending time going after bandwidth abusers instead of terrorists.
It says Palladium will only run "authorized" applications. How hard is it going to be to hack the authorization code into any Open Source program? Maybe someone can make an authorization library anyone can include in their project.
Well if MSNBC says linux is dead I guess I'll have to go back to Windows. I guess this also means the millions of companies that have invested 0's of dollars in Linux are going to have to spend millions switching over to Windows because, you know, MSNBC said so.
In other news MS has decided to get into the meat packing business. Their first products will be Gnu and Penguin burgers. Rumor has Bill Gates himself helps butchers the animals and is under investigation by the ASPCA.
So you're saying that after all the years of backstabbing coworkers, financial threatening, lying, politics, selling off grandma, etc to get to the top, CEO's don't suddenly become honest?
If morals meant profits, capitalism would be the garden of Eden.
Let's place bets on how many people have to die from an asteriod impact before NASA gets funding to look out for and do something about them. I say 5,000 people or one Hollywood celebrity.
Free Software doesn't have this problem.
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The reason why interfaces keep changing is so that software publishers can sell the same software twice. Users won't "upgrade" to a new version if it doesn't look any different than the old version.
Free software though doesn't need to sell itself. Free software is made to solve a problem, not make money. Big difference. Changing an interface between versions only makes a problem worse, since it's harder for the user to use the software. Instead free software is changed each version to help better solve the problem it was designed for. Just another reason to trust Free and OSS more.
What happens when you mix Disney's promotion of the CBDTPA with their use of Linux? Is Disney going to implode and disappear, like when mixing matter and anti-matter?
To their own amazement, these people have found themselves wondering if the real problem with software is that not enough lawyers are involved.
The reason most buggy software is put out the door is because it's cheaper to release buggy software and deal with angery users than to spend more time fixing it. I bet if these users started suing and hitting software developers where it hurt, in the pocket, then software companies would start shaping up and putting some more effort into their software.
Designers should write in the ability for users to vote off other people they think are cheating. Usually it's obvious that certain people are cheating and so some mod writers for games like Counter Strike have already written this in. If enough people vote that someone is cheating, they will get booted.
This should be taken a step further though. If a cheater has been booted off a server a certain number of times, their cd key should be revoked or temporarily disabled from the master database. Then they won't be able to play online anywhere instead of simply moving to another one of the 1000's of servers.
The problem is this could be abused. People could vote against a player that just happens to be really good, but from all the games I have played the really good players almost never get booted off. It's always the real obvious cheaters that get voted off.
We play Age of Empires II, Starcraft/Broodwar, and MechWarrior IV.
These are clearly bad games for high school students to be playing, here's why.
Age of Empires II:
This causes kids to think they can become a King and run a monarchy. Eventually they will build farms, trade pottery with other local towns and gather up hoards of archers and sailing vessles to take over the world.
Starcraft/Broodwar:
This will make high school students think that breeding hoards of zerglings or refining their psionic attack powers will be a solution to all their problems.
MechWarrior IV:
I shouldn't even have to talk about this one. The last thing we need is 15 year old johnny thinking that jumping in the 10-story-tall 2 legged family war machine is a good way to vent daily frustrations.
Instead you should be teaching kids to play things like football. Kids need to be taught that they will never be able to accomplish anything in life if they can't physically tackle someone to the ground or body slam another student. Also, kicking an oblong sack between two vertical posts is the only way a kid will know that he will be someone important someday...
I heard GPS sattelites use atomic clocks to keep in synch with earth. They use the Theory of Relativity to adjust their times so that they stay in synch with earth because they move at a different speeds and in a different field of gravity.
Finally, the Washington Post reports that banks will be creating a massive financial database/blacklist of terrorists, wife-beaters, anti-globalization protesters, etc.
I searched the article and didn't even find the word wife or global. Where did this summary come from? Wife beaters? Why would you even make up a lie that a bank is profiling wife beaters? Is that suppose to add sensationalism to the article? Because I don't think many computer geeks are wife beaters...
It's not too early to come up with laws that will preserve the moon. Better too early than too late. Hell, we already had one large fast food corporation that wanted to have a pair of golden arches orbiting space so that everyone on earth could see them. If someone seriously proposed that idea, what do you think they would do to the moon if no one stopped them??
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Looks like codesta.com just used up all it's downtime by getting it's servers slashdotted.
"Windows has detected that you have installed a new mouse. Please reboot this machine for changes to take effect and relicensing charges to be applied to your Passport account."
A politician that works for morals and ethics rather than dollars? Could it really be?
If the launch is successful and you return back, will you try to commercialize the success in any way? For example writing a book on home made rocketry or selling rocket kits of some sort?
I have an original 2600, but it seems to have degraded or something over time. I can't get it to work anymore. Is there a place that can fix an old Atari?
If they had used another 300 megs of bandwidth, they would have had to call in an F-16 and bomb all the houses. Bandwidth is serious stuff people, that's why the FBI is spending time going after bandwidth abusers instead of terrorists.
Did he use a Nikon or Canon pinhole to take the picture?
It says Palladium will only run "authorized" applications. How hard is it going to be to hack the authorization code into any Open Source program? Maybe someone can make an authorization library anyone can include in their project.
I'm sure some hacker will figure it out.
Well if MSNBC says linux is dead I guess I'll have to go back to Windows. I guess this also means the millions of companies that have invested 0's of dollars in Linux are going to have to spend millions switching over to Windows because, you know, MSNBC said so.
In other news MS has decided to get into the meat packing business. Their first products will be Gnu and Penguin burgers. Rumor has Bill Gates himself helps butchers the animals and is under investigation by the ASPCA.
So you're saying that after all the years of backstabbing coworkers, financial threatening, lying, politics, selling off grandma, etc to get to the top, CEO's don't suddenly become honest?
If morals meant profits, capitalism would be the garden of Eden.
Sen. Hollings wins the "Inane Bill Of The Year" award!!!!!
Applause from audience...
Sen. Hollings gets to drink from the Firehose!!!
Insane cheering from audience...
Let's place bets on how many people have to die from an asteriod impact before NASA gets funding to look out for and do something about them. I say 5,000 people or one Hollywood celebrity.
The reason why interfaces keep changing is so that software publishers can sell the same software twice. Users won't "upgrade" to a new version if it doesn't look any different than the old version.
Free software though doesn't need to sell itself. Free software is made to solve a problem, not make money. Big difference. Changing an interface between versions only makes a problem worse, since it's harder for the user to use the software. Instead free software is changed each version to help better solve the problem it was designed for. Just another reason to trust Free and OSS more.
The movie Dick exposed this years ago.
What happens when you mix Disney's promotion of the CBDTPA with their use of Linux? Is Disney going to implode and disappear, like when mixing matter and anti-matter?
To their own amazement, these people have found themselves wondering if the real problem with software is that not enough lawyers are involved.
The reason most buggy software is put out the door is because it's cheaper to release buggy software and deal with angery users than to spend more time fixing it. I bet if these users started suing and hitting software developers where it hurt, in the pocket, then software companies would start shaping up and putting some more effort into their software.
OGRE is a well designed, flexible and easy to use 3D engine...
I hope this doesn't compete with my badly designed, rigid and difficult to use 3D engine I have been working on.
Designers should write in the ability for users to vote off other people they think are cheating. Usually it's obvious that certain people are cheating and so some mod writers for games like Counter Strike have already written this in. If enough people vote that someone is cheating, they will get booted.
This should be taken a step further though. If a cheater has been booted off a server a certain number of times, their cd key should be revoked or temporarily disabled from the master database. Then they won't be able to play online anywhere instead of simply moving to another one of the 1000's of servers.
The problem is this could be abused. People could vote against a player that just happens to be really good, but from all the games I have played the really good players almost never get booted off. It's always the real obvious cheaters that get voted off.
We play Age of Empires II, Starcraft/Broodwar, and MechWarrior IV.
These are clearly bad games for high school students to be playing, here's why.
Age of Empires II:
This causes kids to think they can become a King and run a monarchy. Eventually they will build farms, trade pottery with other local towns and gather up hoards of archers and sailing vessles to take over the world.
Starcraft/Broodwar:
This will make high school students think that breeding hoards of zerglings or refining their psionic attack powers will be a solution to all their problems.
MechWarrior IV:
I shouldn't even have to talk about this one. The last thing we need is 15 year old johnny thinking that jumping in the 10-story-tall 2 legged family war machine is a good way to vent daily frustrations.
Instead you should be teaching kids to play things like football. Kids need to be taught that they will never be able to accomplish anything in life if they can't physically tackle someone to the ground or body slam another student. Also, kicking an oblong sack between two vertical posts is the only way a kid will know that he will be someone important someday...
I heard GPS sattelites use atomic clocks to keep in synch with earth. They use the Theory of Relativity to adjust their times so that they stay in synch with earth because they move at a different speeds and in a different field of gravity.
Finally, the Washington Post reports that banks will be creating a massive financial database/blacklist of terrorists, wife-beaters, anti-globalization protesters, etc.
I searched the article and didn't even find the word wife or global. Where did this summary come from? Wife beaters? Why would you even make up a lie that a bank is profiling wife beaters? Is that suppose to add sensationalism to the article? Because I don't think many computer geeks are wife beaters...
It's safer to juggle chainsaws than patent politics and the open source community.
It's not too early to come up with laws that will preserve the moon. Better too early than too late. Hell, we already had one large fast food corporation that wanted to have a pair of golden arches orbiting space so that everyone on earth could see them. If someone seriously proposed that idea, what do you think they would do to the moon if no one stopped them??