I work for a low-profile SMALL game company, but we are making an X Box game, and we have NV 20 samples.
In fact, I believe it would be possible for me to buy an NV 20 for about $500 directly from nVidia.
I'm sure Id has a few.
I'll waste a moderation point on your idiotic comment.
How much of this stuff have you actually used, man?
Delphi is an excellent language, it makes programming windows easy, and it's very powerful. The component system is very elegant and intuitive. The only problem is that components execute at runtime. I hate that.
How dim witted and narrow minded to you have to be to realize that people don't want new syntax for every language they use, maybe they want to get away using an extention of a language they already know?
All the best parts of Delphi don't exist in Pascal. I use delphi as an example only because it's the only one of the above that I've used.
By your ridiculous argument, java itself is only a hack of C++, and therefore Sun=microsoft.
OMG, C++ is just a hack of C, therefore it's worthless...
OMFG C is just basically an assembly language with some macros therefore we might as well use assembly language.
HOLY SHIT... Assembly language is just macros on top of machine code..
LET'S WRITE EVERYTHING IN THAT..
I know I'm being extreme here, but I'm merely presenting to you the logical end of your argument.
Try to think your posts through more fully next time.
Bah, that's partly because windows works differently than linux.
Just because the bug isn't in NTKernel.dll, does that mean it's not a bug in WindowsNT?
I'm sure any bugs found in Notepad, Wordpad, or Solitare would count.
Those aren't "technically" "Windows NT" either.
This is as... correct... as it is, bug wise... the problem is that there is no weight given to severity, not that bugs were found in different software.
I want to write a program called "Katzster", wherein, I take every work by Jon Katz, scan it in via OCR, and "share" it with everyone on the 'net. Who's with me?
I'm tired of paying the big buisness, coporatist, publishing companies that publish books, Besides, this is the digital age where all media should be free.
Of course, Jon Katz should have no objection.. he's fine with Musicians losing the right to enforce their copyrights.
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The idea of having napster up would be fine as long as they took proactive action against copyright infringers.... espcially since they have the ability.
Of course, they'll never do that, because their entire business is based on illegal trafficking of pirated music. If there were no pirated music on napster, no one would use it. Simple as that.
The Democrats and Republicans are basically one party, anyway.
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Oh, man.. I'd have moderated this up, if I didn't want to post so badly in this thread...
Excellent comment.
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But quite honestly.. Isn't 100% share the ultimate goal of any business?
I mean, given, Microsoft uses underhanded tactics to get there on occasion, but... If I'm making tires, and I think I'm making the best tires in the world for the cheapest... of course I want everyone to buy my tires, I'll make more money that way. I don't know, it just seems rational to me to want to corner a market when running a capitolist enterprise.
Was this post moderated down (Overrated) because it isn't interesting (It's from a Microsoft employee)? Or is it because you don't agree with his viewpoint?
What the hell, man, this is a post from a Microsoft employee about the Microsoft Breakup....
I agree with you almost completely, except to say that I do like microsoft... at least I like their products, at the 3rd or 4th version they are consistently top of the line. I didn't want to post this myself for fear of mindless flaming and ridiculous moderation (as I've already seen).
I definitely agree with many of the points you made. America certainly does seem to be moving towards a corporate dystopia with a definite lack of individual ownership. As to whether that's actually bad or good, is an excersize I leave to the reader, though I'd lean towards the bad side.
This very theme has been the focus of several movies (sort of), recently... The "single serving life" offered up in Fight Club, for example, and the general boredom with life as shown in American Beauty.
There definitely seems to be a general malaise surrounding the country, a sort of optimistic pessimism (heh), Sort of like, computers are good, but....
The matrix, a prime example of a fairly anti-technology movie, loved by geeks... an optimistic pessimism towards the future.
You're wrong. Napster is, in its purest form, a distributed filesystem that doesn't even know it. Napster is a very useful tool for sharing legal songs as well. Just because 99.44% of its users are shuttling crappy, copyrighted material around doesn't remove the usefulness of the program. Napster is a good tool for the job of shuttling around mp3s, whether crappy or copyrighted or both or neither.
Do you actually believe this drivel?
Napster wouldn't have a penny of their funding if no one traded illegal mp3s, and you know it.
You're right about the first part, though, I did have trademark and copyright confused, and I didn't realize that if Napster didn't defend their trademark that they would lose it.
Though I am not a fan of The Offspring's music, I think this is a hilariously ironic look at the true forces hard at work at Napster. Napster isn't "the good guys", they're trying to make money like every other corporation, and they're not afriad to sue, just like every other corporation *cough* RIAA *cough*.
Napster lives and dies on trafficking illegal music. If Napster didn't traffic illegal music, there would be no demand for it at all. The offpsring basically just pointed this out, after "supporting" Napster.
This is altogether too funny, someone needs to moderate the story up (+1, Funny)
I wanted to see if a total and complete troll would get moderated up or down, and I wanted to see if the classic reverse-psychology "go ahead and moderate me down" would work, too.
At first, It seemed I had one, my ridiculously trolly post got moderated up to a 3 (from a two), and I had some hilarious responses.... Sadly, someone noted it was offtopic, and it was therefore moderated back down.
It will take a while for me to lose enough karma to not post at 2, so I might try this again sometime.
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I work for a low-profile SMALL game company, but we are making an X Box game, and we have NV 20 samples. In fact, I believe it would be possible for me to buy an NV 20 for about $500 directly from nVidia. I'm sure Id has a few.
That would be... right around the time of the DreamCast launch.
and I tend to agree with ChuckD.... it doesn't look that good, and I can certainly wait a few months.
But... but... that's ludicrous...
To actually attempt to compete with the INVINCIBLE GIANT?
Obviously they're an invincible giant, or this case never would have been started...
No, I fear if this case is lost, IT WILL BE COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPETE WITH MICROSOFT...
bah.
I'll waste a moderation point on your idiotic comment.
How much of this stuff have you actually used, man?
Delphi is an excellent language, it makes programming windows easy, and it's very powerful. The component system is very elegant and intuitive. The only problem is that components execute at runtime. I hate that.
How dim witted and narrow minded to you have to be to realize that people don't want new syntax for every language they use, maybe they want to get away using an extention of a language they already know?
All the best parts of Delphi don't exist in Pascal. I use delphi as an example only because it's the only one of the above that I've used.
By your ridiculous argument, java itself is only a hack of C++, and therefore Sun=microsoft.
OMG, C++ is just a hack of C, therefore it's worthless...
OMFG C is just basically an assembly language with some macros therefore we might as well use assembly language.
HOLY SHIT... Assembly language is just macros on top of machine code..
LET'S WRITE EVERYTHING IN THAT..
I know I'm being extreme here, but I'm merely presenting to you the logical end of your argument.
Try to think your posts through more fully next time.
Bah, that's partly because windows works differently than linux.
... correct ... as it is, bug wise... the problem is that there is no weight given to severity, not that bugs were found in different software.
Just because the bug isn't in NTKernel.dll, does that mean it's not a bug in WindowsNT?
I'm sure any bugs found in Notepad, Wordpad, or Solitare would count.
Those aren't "technically" "Windows NT" either.
This is as
Actually, M$'s marketing people are smarter than that...they'd say "Wev got fewer bugs than..."
:-)
They're usually pretty good with that grammar stuff.
They would probably say "We've got fewer bugs than..."
Indeed, they are good with the grammar stuff.
: )
But...
I want to write a program called "Katzster", wherein, I take every work by Jon Katz, scan it in via OCR, and "share" it with everyone on the 'net. Who's with me?
I'm tired of paying the big buisness, coporatist, publishing companies that publish books, Besides, this is the digital age where all media should be free.
Of course, Jon Katz should have no objection.. he's fine with Musicians losing the right to enforce their copyrights.
The idea of having napster up would be fine as long as they took proactive action against copyright infringers.... espcially since they have the ability.
Of course, they'll never do that, because their entire business is based on illegal trafficking of pirated music. If there were no pirated music on napster, no one would use it. Simple as that.
Er... the folks behind Gnutella and freenet seem to be doing a pretty good job there, buddy.
My god, this is absurd.
If you're going to be a conspiracy theorist...
BE A CONSPIRACY THEORIST
The Democrats and Republicans are basically one party, anyway.
Oh, man.. I'd have moderated this up, if I didn't want to post so badly in this thread...
Excellent comment.
But quite honestly.. Isn't 100% share the ultimate goal of any business?
I mean, given, Microsoft uses underhanded tactics to get there on occasion, but... If I'm making tires, and I think I'm making the best tires in the world for the cheapest... of course I want everyone to buy my tires, I'll make more money that way. I don't know, it just seems rational to me to want to corner a market when running a capitolist enterprise.
And who says making Copywrited music available to others is legal?
LOL.. the moderators certainly didn't read this post very carefully...
Funny, yes.. informative, no.
Was this post moderated down (Overrated) because it isn't interesting (It's from a Microsoft employee)? Or is it because you don't agree with his viewpoint?
What the hell, man, this is a post from a Microsoft employee about the Microsoft Breakup....
MODERATE THIS TO A 5 AND LEAVE IT THERE
I'll burn my free point in effigy.
Sold your stock?
pshaw...
It'll be worth more than ever, my good man...
I agree completely.
Be careful what you wish for, people, you just might get it.
I agree with you almost completely, except to say that I do like microsoft... at least I like their products, at the 3rd or 4th version they are consistently top of the line. I didn't want to post this myself for fear of mindless flaming and ridiculous moderation (as I've already seen).
I definitely agree with many of the points you made. America certainly does seem to be moving towards a corporate dystopia with a definite lack of individual ownership. As to whether that's actually bad or good, is an excersize I leave to the reader, though I'd lean towards the bad side.
This very theme has been the focus of several movies (sort of), recently... The "single serving life" offered up in Fight Club, for example, and the general boredom with life as shown in American Beauty.
There definitely seems to be a general malaise surrounding the country, a sort of optimistic pessimism (heh), Sort of like, computers are good, but....
The matrix, a prime example of a fairly anti-technology movie, loved by geeks... an optimistic pessimism towards the future.
Hm.. I've begun to ramble, please forgive me.
You're wrong. Napster is, in its purest form, a distributed filesystem that doesn't even know it. Napster is a very useful tool for sharing legal songs as well. Just because 99.44% of its users are shuttling crappy, copyrighted material around doesn't remove the usefulness of the program. Napster is a good tool for the job of shuttling around mp3s, whether crappy or copyrighted or both or neither.
Do you actually believe this drivel?
Napster wouldn't have a penny of their funding if no one traded illegal mp3s, and you know it.
You're right about the first part, though, I did have trademark and copyright confused, and I didn't realize that if Napster didn't defend their trademark that they would lose it.
Though I am not a fan of The Offspring's music, I think this is a hilariously ironic look at the true forces hard at work at Napster. Napster isn't "the good guys", they're trying to make money like every other corporation, and they're not afriad to sue, just like every other corporation *cough* RIAA *cough*.
Napster lives and dies on trafficking illegal music. If Napster didn't traffic illegal music, there would be no demand for it at all. The offpsring basically just pointed this out, after "supporting" Napster.
This is altogether too funny, someone needs to moderate the story up (+1, Funny)
It's sort of an experiment.
I wanted to see if a total and complete troll would get moderated up or down, and I wanted to see if the classic reverse-psychology "go ahead and moderate me down" would work, too.
At first, It seemed I had one, my ridiculously trolly post got moderated up to a 3 (from a two), and I had some hilarious responses.... Sadly, someone noted it was offtopic, and it was therefore moderated back down.
It will take a while for me to lose enough karma to not post at 2, so I might try this again sometime.
Buddy, I was just trying to burn some karma....
Somehow this monster got moderated up..
It's funny to see you people outraged, though.
I'll answer you with your own post.
The Question:
I don't mind if you have some masochistic urge to read news you hate on a site you don't like, but do you have to complain about it too?
Hey, they are free to do it [Write horrible irresponsible stories], but we are also free to talk or complain about it.
Thank You, Drive through.
Actually, I say it deserves +1 insightful.
Excellent points.