every time i read the phrase 'market penetration' my brain (pre genetic enhancements) trys to translate it into something i can understand, and i end up with 'consumers getting screwed'.
Well, the Federation is obviously a bunch of Pirates, and The RIAA (Replications Inhibiting Asshole Association?) and the MPAA (Mass Production Assets Association) will sue them and every theif that has stolen from their possible future profits. Manufacturers and farmers deserve to be paid for their hard work, it's not like they are artists.
Dark Forces has Max (of Sam & Max Freelance Police). In the first one, there is an Ice cave that you can crawl in, if you use the map view cheat code, your map will show the shape of Max's head. In DF2, at the start of the city level (5?) there is a ramp in a build that if you run down (using force speed) and whip around a corner quick, you can enter a room before a door closes. An animated Max is in there with a blaster, just hangin.
I think IBM is the dot in dot-com now, not Sun. They primary server was upgraded. and they are referring to the assumed dot that comes after the com.:--)
the dvd of it is a full length movie, has horrid high pitched battlecrys and weak animation, but a quite good story/plot/story-flow. Definitely a classic.
You must notify Apogee prior to any use of the Marks and/or the Materials. Once you have notified Apogee of your intended use, you will be granted a limited license to use the Marks and Materials for personal, informational, and non-commercial purposes to promote Apogee's Trademark I have to notify them before I type the following: "You should play that Duke Nukem, its the best 3D shooter", or prior to notification: 'You should play the 3d Shooter that isnt Doom or Quake or Unreal, you know... the other one?..." Use... 4.You are not allowed to vary the spelling, add or delete hyphens (even for normal hyphenation at the end of a line of text), make one word two, or use a possessive or plural form of the Marks. Hello! what if the rendering program auto adds the dashes. I can't say "Duke Nukem's dominance of the market...," instead "Duke Nukem dominance of the..." There are so many things wrong with this... acurate file names might not allow spaces etc... 5.You may not use the Marks in a derogatory or defamatory manner, or in any negative context. Such use will terminate your license to use the Marks. I'm sure everyone else is breaking the law in this post, but here's my voice to the choir: "Unreal has far better graphics than DukeNukem." 7.You may not use the Marks in a manner that is likely to cause confusion with, dilute or damage the reputation or image of Apogee or any of its products. You mean like, "Pinball Wizard by the Who should not be confused with the later trademarked game from Apogeee." If anyone didn't know about either of these, I just caused a moment of confusion, hee hee, intentionally, diluted the use of "Pinball Wizard" and damaged the reputation of Apogee by mentioning it. Permission Required As well as notifying Apogee of your intended use, you must also receive permission from Apogee for the following uses of the Materials and Marks: 4.Use, excerpts, or copies of any Apogee printed materials, including hint books.excerpts? you mean the fair use definition of excerpt? 6.Linking the Site to any other third party web site through a hypertext, text, banner, logo or contextual link ("Graphical Image") which permits a user to go from one party's web site to another by clicking on the Graphical Image. 7.Framing the Site, Materials and/or Marks within any third party web site.What!? now I can't have a reviews page on a web site with links to anywhere? Duke Nukem is a punk! and so is Apogee!
These MS things are outright lies, neither are they Unix boxen nor do they run X like my gaming machine. Next thing they'll be claiming that they started the internet-- oh wait they do.
I started gaming (not programming hee hee) with an atari 2600. Then I got a PC, an IBM peanut. There was never competition, the atari never stood a chance. It was easier for a kid to learn to use, but DOS didn't have the limitations. I could modify the data files of a goldbox ad&d game with the old norton hexeditor (the same version of norton that could revitalize a damaged floppy before it was dropped).
I never bought a mac because a friend got one. It was pretty. the screen was smaller and b/w, but the graphics were far better than cga on the the 8088 I got after the peanut. But I could never figure out an easy way to manipulate the OS, to hack it (in a subpar 10 yearold pre-script kiddie sort of way). DOS didn't have the limitations.
Now, I really wish I would have been able to start with a Unix instead of DOS. The Linux/bash shell isn't all that different from dos really. cp=copy, ls=dir,/=\, but it's dos command line without limits. I learned bash by doing things this way: 'if this were dos, and dos allowed me to describe what I wanted to do in the simplest/shorest way, i'd type...' instead of 'xcopy c:\windoze\personal\desktop\mp3\*.mp3 c:\mp3\*.* --- cp ~\mp3\* \music. If I could have started young with a unix, I might be good at something now other than 'wine eq':--)
I don't read traditional print media anymore, that is, specifically I don't read the local newspaper... the journalism was just to yellow-- only the news that they get good coverage of, Front page full page of Di's death with Mother Theresa's death on page 2, -- it's all glamour and fashion, or yellow journalism. And there is one thing that I find more 'yellow' than everything else... the corrections are in small type, bottom corner, of page 2, 4, 5 or 6 depending on day, of section D. If they were journalists in the sense that I understand the word, I would expect that corrections would make the front page and keep their community informed and not operating under a misconseption because they didnt catch the correction. My 2 cents. ie,/., for me, whenever you print corrections, please keep them obvious (like the Hellmouth book, the Update: that you add, etc)
  .3333 1/ 3     10............ =.33333333 to infinity always ending in 1/3 a non decimal value that can only be expressed as.3333 to infinity. and therefore.3333... +1/3 x 3 ==.9999... +3/3 or==.9999...+1 turning the final 9 in a non final series to 0 and adding 1 to the previous nine all the way back from infinity to arrive at ==1
division is a translation from fractions to decimal and limits reverse translation
actually didnt you just prove something new... that fractions != dot decimals, that they are very close, infinitely close, but that the actual decimal representation of.9999... is understood to equate to 3/3... but only becuase the answer to 1/3 times 3 is.99999 and actually depends on where you do the alegebretic (i cant spell) solution at (3x1)/3 or (1/3)x3... that alegebra says that the two are equal but that you just proved that they are only extremely close? Just wondering.
he argued that the status bar is used to give more informative text. well for the reason above (eye follows mouse pointer) I disagree with him. That is i think the proper place for alt text that pops up if i hover the cursor for too long. and 2) I much prefer to have the status bar give real info. that way if the link doesn't work because the site uses bad javascript etc, I still have a chance to get to the info i want
Officer: did you see the sign Me: no its not visible from the superhighway, I think it must only apply to private propriatary roads like that one over there... 'One Microsoft Way.'
given your arguements here,./ shouldn't do anything. You argue that well, they probably have to remove the copywrited documents which were reproduced in their entirety... But they don't have to unless microsoft specifically asks them too. What MS asked was for them to remove was that & the other three types of posts in a letter which specifically states that the swear under penalty of perjury that everything being asked for in the letter is true. But as everything is clearly not true, and therefore the entire letter as a legal document is not valid. I.e. if./ contests one of the listed issues, the letter is contested not just the issue. If I am caught in a lie, all truth that I say must be viewed as suspect.
Actually slashdot.org is meerly mirroring content. You need to go after the original poster of the alleged 'trade secret.' The original poster posted the 'trade secret' to the Internet as a whole (which if this person had the right to do would immediately invalidate the 'trade secret' as you just can't have a secret with everyone, that's just plain silly), and had no EULA that I saw (as it was a pdf file in a compression wrapper). The original poster's parent company is currently having a severe problem with the government over monopolistic practices. Perhaps you should contact the feds and have them go after this multi-billion dollar company (www.microsoft.com).
Why delete anything, it has already been posted. If it was incorrect, print a retraction. That's how print media would work-- print media would never do a recall on an issue for a 'bad' article in an editorial.
Dang, I need a new video card for a new motherboard. I had heard that the nvidia ones were the best cards. But closed source will basically religate them to fast now, but their competitor's current cards will be faster later when they have optimally written drivers. And they will make new cards building on their current cards, but with so few developers for their propritary architecture, their technology will quickly get left behind like a music industry whose whole business model just went the way of the dinosaur (metaphore-- not to be taken literally). Matrox looks pretty good, or maybe 3dfx, my voodoo 1 is still kicking and running most things quite well. But never Diamond, never never again...
hey! the burglar said he was sorry, it was never his intention to steal your TV, and besides, he's going to get his own TV in a couple weeks and then you can have yours back.
Isn't it nice that the altercation was settled politely instead of with legal action?
I think what you really mean is that ALL CRIMINALS ARE FOREVER BAD AND I COMMAND GOD TO ETERNALLY DAMN THEM, AND WE SHOULD HELP GOD OUT BY KILLING ALL CRIMINALS. THEN ONLY THE GOOD PEOPLE WILL BE LEFT. BECAUSE NO ONE CAN EVER BE REDEAMED, FORGIVNESS IS THE MANTRA OF SATAN.
which part of the bill of rights offends you. the part about no cruel and unusual punishement, the part about due process, the part about double-jeopardy, or just that so many obviously criminal people hide behind it in order to offend you with their lives?
It amazes me that the same people who were so pissed off about Katz "appropriating" the comments on Slashdot without explict permission are the first to slam Metallica
they're not, you are assuming that the two groups: supporters, and detractors, of Katz's 'comments' book are the same two groups towing the same party line (two different issues here).
for going after people who are violating the copyright on the music.
they're not, they are going after the distribution media like suing gun makers and car dealers for armed robbery, because their tools allowed the robbery and getaway to explicitly happen.
Anyone see the parallels? What a bunch of hypocrites.
no i don't see the parallels. No one denighned metallica the credit for the song by distributing it anonymously without asking metallica for permission.
as the medieval guilds were destroyed by the industrial revolution, and forced to starve or find a new way to make money, so to were the information hoarding corporations destroyed by community, teamwork, and cooperation. Distribution markups of 1500% had no value once the cost to duplicate dropped to zero. (the future is here, so the tense is correct, the dinosaurs are just still twitching and trashing about, but the mammals smell the blood and are closing in for the feast)
Ps. I loved Limp Biskit on MTV talking about how they would have never bought their first Metallica CD if a friend hadn't given (without charge) them a bootlegged tape.
Pps. Pirates make profit from their sinking bloated and slow treasure laden galleys. Privateers sink them out of patriotism. Someone who discovers something and shares it freely with the world is a philanthropist?
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every time i read the phrase 'market penetration' my brain (pre genetic enhancements) trys to translate it into something i can understand, and i end up with 'consumers getting screwed'.
Well, the Federation is obviously a bunch of Pirates, and The RIAA (Replications Inhibiting Asshole Association?) and the MPAA (Mass Production Assets Association) will sue them and every theif that has stolen from their possible future profits. Manufacturers and farmers deserve to be paid for their hard work, it's not like they are artists.
Dark Forces has Max (of Sam & Max Freelance Police). In the first one, there is an Ice cave that you can crawl in, if you use the map view cheat code, your map will show the shape of Max's head. In DF2, at the start of the city level (5?) there is a ramp in a build that if you run down (using force speed) and whip around a corner quick, you can enter a room before a door closes. An animated Max is in there with a blaster, just hangin.
I think IBM is the dot in dot-com now, not Sun. They primary server was upgraded. and they are referring to the assumed dot that comes after the com. :--)
the dvd of it is a full length movie, has horrid high pitched battlecrys and weak animation, but a quite good story/plot/story-flow. Definitely a classic.
You must notify Apogee prior to any use of the Marks and/or the Materials. Once you have notified Apogee of your intended use, you will be granted a limited license to use the Marks and Materials for personal, informational, and non-commercial purposes to promote Apogee's Trademark I have to notify them before I type the following: "You should play that Duke Nukem, its the best 3D shooter", or prior to notification: 'You should play the 3d Shooter that isnt Doom or Quake or Unreal, you know... the other one?..."
Use... 4.You are not allowed to vary the spelling, add or delete hyphens (even for normal hyphenation at the end of a line of text), make one word two, or use a possessive or plural form of the Marks. Hello! what if the rendering program auto adds the dashes. I can't say "Duke Nukem's dominance of the market...," instead "Duke Nukem dominance of the..." There are so many things wrong with this... acurate file names might not allow spaces etc...
5.You may not use the Marks in a derogatory or defamatory manner, or in any negative context. Such use will terminate your license to use the Marks. I'm sure everyone else is breaking the law in this post, but here's my voice to the choir: "Unreal has far better graphics than DukeNukem."
7.You may not use the Marks in a manner that is likely to cause confusion with, dilute or damage the reputation or image of Apogee or any of its products. You mean like, "Pinball Wizard by the Who should not be confused with the later trademarked game from Apogeee." If anyone didn't know about either of these, I just caused a moment of confusion, hee hee, intentionally, diluted the use of "Pinball Wizard" and damaged the reputation of Apogee by mentioning it.
Permission Required
As well as notifying Apogee of your intended use, you must also receive permission from Apogee for the following uses of the Materials and Marks: 4.Use, excerpts, or copies of any Apogee printed materials, including hint books.excerpts? you mean the fair use definition of excerpt? 6.Linking the Site to any other third party web site through a hypertext, text, banner, logo or contextual link ("Graphical Image") which permits a user to go from one party's web site to another by clicking on the Graphical Image. 7.Framing the Site, Materials and/or Marks within any third party web site.What!? now I can't have a reviews page on a web site with links to anywhere? Duke Nukem is a punk! and so is Apogee!
These MS things are outright lies, neither are they Unix boxen nor do they run X like my gaming machine. Next thing they'll be claiming that they started the internet-- oh wait they do.
I never bought a mac because a friend got one. It was pretty. the screen was smaller and b/w, but the graphics were far better than cga on the the 8088 I got after the peanut. But I could never figure out an easy way to manipulate the OS, to hack it (in a subpar 10 yearold pre-script kiddie sort of way). DOS didn't have the limitations.
Now, I really wish I would have been able to start with a Unix instead of DOS. The Linux/bash shell isn't all that different from dos really. cp=copy, ls=dir, /=\, but it's dos command line without limits. I learned bash by doing things this way: 'if this were dos, and dos allowed me to describe what I wanted to do in the simplest/shorest way, i'd type...' instead of 'xcopy c:\windoze\personal\desktop\mp3\*.mp3 c:\mp3\*.* --- cp ~\mp3\* \music. If I could have started young with a unix, I might be good at something now other than 'wine eq':--)
I don't read traditional print media anymore, that is, specifically I don't read the local newspaper... the journalism was just to yellow-- only the news that they get good coverage of, Front page full page of Di's death with Mother Theresa's death on page 2, -- it's all glamour and fashion, or yellow journalism. And there is one thing that I find more 'yellow' than everything else... the corrections are in small type, bottom corner, of page 2, 4, 5 or 6 depending on day, of section D. If they were journalists in the sense that I understand the word, I would expect that corrections would make the front page and keep their community informed and not operating under a misconseption because they didnt catch the correction. My 2 cents. ie, /., for me, whenever you print corrections, please keep them obvious (like the Hellmouth book, the Update: that you add, etc)
  .3333 ............ .3333 to infinity. and therefore .3333... +1/3 x 3 == .9999... +3/3 or== .9999...+1 turning the final 9 in a non final series to 0 and adding 1 to the previous nine all the way back from infinity to arrive at ==1
1/ 3
    10
=.33333333 to infinity always ending in 1/3 a non decimal value that can only be expressed as
division is a translation from fractions to decimal and limits reverse translation
isnt something always lost in translation?
actually didnt you just prove something new... that fractions != dot decimals, that they are very close, infinitely close, but that the actual decimal representation of .9999... is understood to equate to 3/3 ... but only becuase the answer to 1/3 times 3 is .99999 and actually depends on where you do the alegebretic (i cant spell) solution at (3x1)/3 or (1/3)x3... that alegebra says that the two are equal but that you just proved that they are only extremely close? Just wondering.
he argued that the status bar is used to give more informative text. well for the reason above (eye follows mouse pointer) I disagree with him. That is i think the proper place for alt text that pops up if i hover the cursor for too long. and 2) I much prefer to have the status bar give real info. that way if the link doesn't work because the site uses bad javascript etc, I still have a chance to get to the info i want
the middle mouse button is 'browse in new process' (and make cut and paste almost fun too)
the obvious question: does it run Beowulf? (I'm posting this with my debian X-Box 18 months before MS releases their UNIX/X-Free Game box... weeee!)
Officer: did you see the sign Me: no its not visible from the superhighway, I think it must only apply to private propriatary roads like that one over there... 'One Microsoft Way.'
I thought only unix's were boxes, and why is MS shipping X on it instead of using 2000?
given your arguements here, ./ shouldn't do anything. You argue that well, they probably have to remove the copywrited documents which were reproduced in their entirety... But they don't have to unless microsoft specifically asks them too. What MS asked was for them to remove was that & the other three types of posts in a letter which specifically states that the swear under penalty of perjury that everything being asked for in the letter is true. But as everything is clearly not true, and therefore the entire letter as a legal document is not valid. I.e. if ./ contests one of the listed issues, the letter is contested not just the issue. If I am caught in a lie, all truth that I say must be viewed as suspect.
Actually slashdot.org is meerly mirroring content. You need to go after the original poster of the alleged 'trade secret.' The original poster posted the 'trade secret' to the Internet as a whole (which if this person had the right to do would immediately invalidate the 'trade secret' as you just can't have a secret with everyone, that's just plain silly), and had no EULA that I saw (as it was a pdf file in a compression wrapper). The original poster's parent company is currently having a severe problem with the government over monopolistic practices. Perhaps you should contact the feds and have them go after this multi-billion dollar company (www.microsoft.com).
Why delete anything, it has already been posted. If it was incorrect, print a retraction. That's how print media would work-- print media would never do a recall on an issue for a 'bad' article in an editorial.
or rather, tell them to go back to hell.
Dang, I need a new video card for a new motherboard. I had heard that the nvidia ones were the best cards. But closed source will basically religate them to fast now, but their competitor's current cards will be faster later when they have optimally written drivers. And they will make new cards building on their current cards, but with so few developers for their propritary architecture, their technology will quickly get left behind like a music industry whose whole business model just went the way of the dinosaur (metaphore-- not to be taken literally). Matrox looks pretty good, or maybe 3dfx, my voodoo 1 is still kicking and running most things quite well. But never Diamond, never never again...
Isn't it nice that the altercation was settled politely instead of with legal action?
which part of the bill of rights offends you. the part about no cruel and unusual punishement, the part about due process, the part about double-jeopardy, or just that so many obviously criminal people hide behind it in order to offend you with their lives?
they're not, you are assuming that the two groups: supporters, and detractors, of Katz's 'comments' book are the same two groups towing the same party line (two different issues here).
for going after people who are violating the copyright on the music.
they're not, they are going after the distribution media like suing gun makers and car dealers for armed robbery, because their tools allowed the robbery and getaway to explicitly happen.
Anyone see the parallels? What a bunch of hypocrites.
no i don't see the parallels. No one denighned metallica the credit for the song by distributing it anonymously without asking metallica for permission.
as the medieval guilds were destroyed by the industrial revolution, and forced to starve or find a new way to make money, so to were the information hoarding corporations destroyed by community, teamwork, and cooperation. Distribution markups of 1500% had no value once the cost to duplicate dropped to zero. (the future is here, so the tense is correct, the dinosaurs are just still twitching and trashing about, but the mammals smell the blood and are closing in for the feast)
Ps. I loved Limp Biskit on MTV talking about how they would have never bought their first Metallica CD if a friend hadn't given (without charge) them a bootlegged tape.
Pps. Pirates make profit from their sinking bloated and slow treasure laden galleys. Privateers sink them out of patriotism. Someone who discovers something and shares it freely with the world is a philanthropist?