OK soda was awesome! From the avante-garde comic labelling to the tasty, interestingly coloured beverage inside to the wonderful anecdotes (one was of a man who slept with a can of OK soda under his pillow and awoke with psychic powers, continued by saying that drinking OK Soda often makes people "feel OK" and finished off with teh disclaimer that none of this could be necessarily attributed to OK soda;) )
First off, I would have to say that firing key people in a company is no way to embark on a major project, especially one that involves older projects in the company. Second, the.plan is slashdotted, but from what I can tell from this story, it looks like id is definitely not a good company to start working for now. Looks like they'll become just another game corp. It's time for someone elseto do the innovations now.
Funny thing there, Nixon helped nix the mandatory shoulder belt laws (shoulder belts must be put in cars) because the car dealers lobbied that it would be a waste of money.
For similar reasons most safety devices remained out of cars for decades after they had been developed. After Nader started waving his reports around, and Volvo started advertising that they were making safe cars while other people made deathtraps, and it became clear that it was now profitable to make cars that used these devices because people would buy them on that basis, we started seeing more safety devices in cars.
Actually this is a problem Clan Mcdonald is having. They can't use their name, and feel their name is being sullied by a certain purveyor of unsavory products.
Actually only a very few games were ever made by Apogee, if any. The rest have all been made by others and published by Apogee. Apogee and Epic were two of the largest shareware publishers around, before the internet. They were able to ensure that their titles were distributed among a large range of BBS's and shareware CD and disk collections, which lent them power and got the people they published more coverage than they would otherwise have had.
It's hard to name a game apogee made themselves. It is equally hard to say what would have happened to id without them.
I'm glad I live under a system where I won't be shot, killed and squashed simply for gathering to demand freedom to vote
Nah, just beat up a bit and teargassed, maybe. The dogs and axehandles haven't gotten out in awhile, they seem to have gone out with the national guard massacres of college students in the states, but otherwise correct.
The kind of post you were referring to: "This game sucks" is what is commonly referred to as an opinion and therefore completely protected under the first ammendment.
As another replier said, the only unprotected speech in this genre would be libelous or slanderous speech, such as "Commander Keen is a trojan that will eat your hard drive." And even then the burden would be on Apogee to prove that this was (a)meant maliciously (b)false (c)The speaker knew that.
If The speaker heard from his cousin's girlfriend that her hard drive got eaten by a trojan that was supposed to be Commander Keen, no dice. If the speaker was making a bad metaphor and meant that the game was a worthless waste of HD space, and did not mean for the post to be taken as it might be, no dice.
I am not a lawyer. If you need legal advice mine is that you'd better get one.
According to the Feb 2000 issue, pages 80 and 81, in "Ask The Doctor" it is reported that running at 2x was causing system hangs, so the drivers setp the card down.
The presumption is that later boards with the KX133 chipset do not exhibit these issues.
Well, yes you do have a point. However the fact that it does autodetection, can automagically lockdown the directory structure, sets things up pretty decently by default, and will automatically download and install crypto software are all pluses.
RHAT makes a decent text install as a alternative. I think there is one in mandrake as well, but have not checked.
I have set up a couple machines with Mandrake 7 (sweet install, BTW) with no issues at all. Athlon 700 and 550's, Microstar 6167 and Abit KA7 (rockin boards in their respective generations)and have sen no problems.
A friend with the Microstar and a 750 Athlon also seems to be cruising fine. Not sure whast the fuss is about...
It is impossible to start a company from scratch (as MS was) and attain a monopoly (which they are) without making a product that people want (even if it was DOS 1.0 or Windows 1).
And exactly how many alternatives were there to MS-DOS on the original IBM PC?
OK, I will ahve to admit taht perhaps a challenge that no piece of MS software is purchased voluntarily is overbroad, as people choose to buy it. Nevertheless most of their software is chosen because there simply are no viable alternatives.
True, the onus is on other software companies to produce something better, but this is where Microsoft not playing well with others comes in, which is why even if you like Wordperfect more or StarOffice you will end up getting MSOffice 2000 anyway simply so you can read people's files, for instance.
And I am sorry I mistook you for a troll, but it wasn't name calling, just an honest mistake. There is no reason for ad hominem when logic will suffice.
What will he do when the hard drive crashes or his sound stops working? What about his car? The portable mp3 players I have seen are way more expensive than a cd player. That's why MP3 CAN NEVER KILL CD'S.
Napster does not break copyright laws, neither does downloading or distributing MP3's. It is my right to have a backup copy of CD's which can be scratched, broken, stolen, or lost, which I have bought, ACCORDING TO COPYRIGHT LAW.
If I do not have the know-how or proper set-up to rip the MP3's myself, and wish to download them from the internet instead because someone else has already done it for me, THAT IS MY RIGHT UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW. It would be up to teh person providing this service to decide whether they need to charge for it, in this case it is gratis.
It is only illegal to copy CD's that you do not own. However, this has been going on for a long time and never hurt CD sales. It is only because there is an easy target that the RIAA is even doing anything about it.
Personally I think they are wrong, after all I personally have bought and will continue to buy CD's that contain songs I have heard through MP3, though not from any of the artists who are denegrating a new way of distributing music.
You missed that part of his post. Sure there's great software for Linux for just about every need. But what if you have software your company or worse, a consultant) wrote specifically for his need. Let's further suppose that this software is in the form of Foxpro or Filemaker database apps or Visual Basic, for instance.
It is a very common scenario, even for big companies. Those types of apps do not port well and are absolutely essential in the businesses that run them. And like he said, they don't have the time or manpower, in many cases the know-how to get it done even if in cases where it *is* possible. (Rewriting something based on a program that does not exist in Linux for Linux would be quite an interesting project.)
What he is pointing out is that Wine might enable companies like that make the switch, whereas they would otherwise be stuck with what they have.
Name a single piece of microsoft software that is used voluntarily. You can't because there isn't any. People use MS office because they have to be compatable with MS Office, and microsoft makes sure no one else can be 100% compatable. People use Windows because they still are forced to buy Windows on their computers.
In the server market, Microsoft provides the grease in the direction of using all microsoft products, and the walls come up as soon as any other product is used. Sure Samba makes a good file/print server, but if you want PDC compatability with NT clients and servers, you gotta pay Mr. Bill.
Once anyone in the company decides they want groupware someone points out there's always Exchange, which works with Outlook, but if you try using anything else, on either side, it's just a shoddy mail server and a creepy mail client. So you get roped into buying Outlook for everyone and using Exchange for at least the in-house mail (though only a free product will work properly for internet mail, interestingly enough.)
Microsoft's products do not play well with others, and that has been the cornerstone fo their existence, making sure that if you want to work with other companies who use microsoft, you have to buy microsoft too. They got away with it because they had no competition initially and were able to break other people's products at the OS level later.
Of course either you are a troll or have not paid attention to the Microsoft business model.. in either case you can be excused for making a simple mistake.
What part of "You don't have to be guilty" are you failing to understand?
Within 48 hours title to all properties can be transferred. A month after that it is sold at auction. You might have months before you get to go to a trial where the fact that no evidence other than paperclips, zip-lock bags, and a postal scale being found in your home finally comes to light.
What does that have to do with anything? Dell laptops have been running NT forever. And NT bluescreens quite a bit. Win2k is better than NT as far as features go because they inserted third-party add-ons and code from win98. It bluescreens less, but it can still die just like anything. What part of his post do you think is a lie?
I dunno, a lot of the fans of Metallica I knew could not afford so many CD's. they bought as many as they could, but often had to subsist on swapped tapes from radio, and, yes, CD's.
I guess that's piracy, but not everybody is a trust fund baby and can afford a giant cd collection.
What people keep missing is that in order for these mp3's to be made someone buys the CD, just like the tapes no one seemed to have a probelm with. Maybe it's because you don't have to say "hey I wanna tape some metallica" to the whole world when you do it.
The other thing everyone misses is that a CD in your hand is better than MP3 or tape, and desired by many fans. And when they can afford one they will definately buy one. Sure you can burn cd's yourself if you want to and have the eq and knowhow. However that does not give you the posters, liner notes, stories, etc that come with the typical cd.
MP3 has the power to help struggling musicians and napster and things like it could help distribution of mp3. Artists who can't get signed by a major label or get airtime on teh radio can promote with mp3. It's a great technology.
Once upon a time metallica was not played on major radio stations and few people heard their cd's. But people saw and taped their concerts and swapped copies of the tapes. The same has been true of many bands before they became famous. Had they come down on people for it then they would not enjoy the fame they have now.
It's easy to say "nah these people just want a free lunch." But in reality they are just trying to listen to music on their computer, in a format that allows them to make their own playlist among other things.
Owning CD's and grabbing MP3's are far from mutually exclusive. They are both by definition the act of a music fan, who will have many reasons to want both.
I'm not sure what you are getting at. A lot of the developers of free software have been poor college students, now they have a chance they would not otherwise have. Red Hat was started from Bob Young's credit card, now it's a giant dev house bumping noses with micro$oft.
Participating in free software helps newbie programmers learn programming and cut their teeth, proving themselves in a practical way. It landed Linus a big job at Transmeta.
Hmmm looks to me like free software is helping little guys succeed more than ever before...
Actually you only get a lawyer in a criminal case, and then not even in all criminal cases. Misdemeanors come to mind. I seem to remember Texas won a supreme court case in which they did not want to pay for lawyers, but wanted to prosecute lots fo people...
In any event in civil cases you put your money where your mouth is.
Attachments in and of themselves were not the problem. The problem was that Outlook ran certain types of attachments automatically. You don't even have to open the email, because when a mail shows up in the preview window, the VBScript gets run automatically.
The only way to stop this behaviour is to set scripts to disabled or prompt in explorer. If you set them to disabled, you can't search the net from altavista, read slashdot, etc.
I think the real solution would be to change the security level of VBscript. There is no reason a web script should have access to all the shares on your network, and all the files on your hard drive. That is bad design. They should also not have scripts running automatically in email. On the web it is usually safe to run scripts, but on email there is not a purpose in it. (Though some web sites do have windows-killer scripts, they are generally linked with an "I hate windows" or "this is why windows sucks" kind of tagline and in any event a web site is a kind of real estate and owners can be tracked much easier than those of email.)
Still it is a good thing to see microsoft, even belatedly, actually addressing security in their products.
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Nuff said
OK soda was awesome! From the avante-garde comic labelling to the tasty, interestingly coloured beverage inside to the wonderful anecdotes (one was of a man who slept with a can of OK soda under his pillow and awoke with psychic powers, continued by saying that drinking OK Soda often makes people "feel OK" and finished off with teh disclaimer that none of this could be necessarily attributed to OK soda ;) )
OK soda was more than just OK, it was Grreat!
First off, I would have to say that firing key people in a company is no way to embark on a major project, especially one that involves older projects in the company. Second, the .plan is slashdotted, but from what I can tell from this story, it looks like id is definitely not a good company to start working for now. Looks like they'll become just another game corp. It's time for someone elseto do the innovations now.
"Who wants some."
Duke says it too.
Funny thing there, Nixon helped nix the mandatory shoulder belt laws (shoulder belts must be put in cars) because the car dealers lobbied that it would be a waste of money.
For similar reasons most safety devices remained out of cars for decades after they had been developed. After Nader started waving his reports around, and Volvo started advertising that they were making safe cars while other people made deathtraps, and it became clear that it was now profitable to make cars that used these devices because people would buy them on that basis, we started seeing more safety devices in cars.
Actually this is a problem Clan Mcdonald is having. They can't use their name, and feel their name is being sullied by a certain purveyor of unsavory products.
Actually only a very few games were ever made by Apogee, if any. The rest have all been made by others and published by Apogee. Apogee and Epic were two of the largest shareware publishers around, before the internet. They were able to ensure that their titles were distributed among a large range of BBS's and shareware CD and disk collections, which lent them power and got the people they published more coverage than they would otherwise have had.
It's hard to name a game apogee made themselves. It is equally hard to say what would have happened to id without them.
I'm glad I live under a system where I won't be shot, killed and squashed simply for gathering to demand freedom to vote
Nah, just beat up a bit and teargassed, maybe. The dogs and axehandles haven't gotten out in awhile, they seem to have gone out with the national guard massacres of college students in the states, but otherwise correct.
The kind of post you were referring to: "This game sucks" is what is commonly referred to as an opinion and therefore completely protected under the first ammendment.
As another replier said, the only unprotected speech in this genre would be libelous or slanderous speech, such as "Commander Keen is a trojan that will eat your hard drive." And even then the burden would be on Apogee to prove that this was (a)meant maliciously (b)false (c)The speaker knew that.
If The speaker heard from his cousin's girlfriend that her hard drive got eaten by a trojan that was supposed to be Commander Keen, no dice. If the speaker was making a bad metaphor and meant that the game was a worthless waste of HD space, and did not mean for the post to be taken as it might be, no dice.
I am not a lawyer. If you need legal advice mine is that you'd better get one.
That was not the problem. As reported in MaximumPC and elsewhere, there was a hardware issue with GeForce, a 4X AGP card, and the IronGate chipset, which uses 2X AGP. The problem was solved by having the GeForce automatically step down to 1X rather than 2X, which was considered a problem by users.
According to the Feb 2000 issue, pages 80 and 81, in "Ask The Doctor" it is reported that running at 2x was causing system hangs, so the drivers setp the card down.
The presumption is that later boards with the KX133 chipset do not exhibit these issues.
Well, yes you do have a point. However the fact that it does autodetection, can automagically lockdown the directory structure, sets things up pretty decently by default, and will automatically download and install crypto software are all pluses.
RHAT makes a decent text install as a alternative. I think there is one in mandrake as well, but have not checked.
I have set up a couple machines with Mandrake 7 (sweet install, BTW) with no issues at all. Athlon 700 and 550's, Microstar 6167 and Abit KA7 (rockin boards in their respective generations)and have sen no problems.
A friend with the Microstar and a 750 Athlon also seems to be cruising fine. Not sure whast the fuss is about...
And exactly how many alternatives were there to MS-DOS on the original IBM PC?
OK, I will ahve to admit taht perhaps a challenge that no piece of MS software is purchased voluntarily is overbroad, as people choose to buy it. Nevertheless most of their software is chosen because there simply are no viable alternatives.
True, the onus is on other software companies to produce something better, but this is where Microsoft not playing well with others comes in, which is why even if you like Wordperfect more or StarOffice you will end up getting MSOffice 2000 anyway simply so you can read people's files, for instance.
And I am sorry I mistook you for a troll, but it wasn't name calling, just an honest mistake. There is no reason for ad hominem when logic will suffice.
What will he do when the hard drive crashes or his sound stops working? What about his car? The portable mp3 players I have seen are way more expensive than a cd player. That's why MP3 CAN NEVER KILL CD'S.
Napster does not break copyright laws, neither does downloading or distributing MP3's. It is my right to have a backup copy of CD's which can be scratched, broken, stolen, or lost, which I have bought, ACCORDING TO COPYRIGHT LAW.
If I do not have the know-how or proper set-up to rip the MP3's myself, and wish to download them from the internet instead because someone else has already done it for me, THAT IS MY RIGHT UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW. It would be up to teh person providing this service to decide whether they need to charge for it, in this case it is gratis.
It is only illegal to copy CD's that you do not own. However, this has been going on for a long time and never hurt CD sales. It is only because there is an easy target that the RIAA is even doing anything about it.
Personally I think they are wrong, after all I personally have bought and will continue to buy CD's that contain songs I have heard through MP3, though not from any of the artists who are denegrating a new way of distributing music.
There was a lil typo.. the correct link is here.
yes they did. That is what made gnome, rpm, and a lot of other good technologies possible.
You missed that part of his post. Sure there's great software for Linux for just about every need. But what if you have software your company or worse, a consultant) wrote specifically for his need. Let's further suppose that this software is in the form of Foxpro or Filemaker database apps or Visual Basic, for instance.
It is a very common scenario, even for big companies. Those types of apps do not port well and are absolutely essential in the businesses that run them. And like he said, they don't have the time or manpower, in many cases the know-how to get it done even if in cases where it *is* possible. (Rewriting something based on a program that does not exist in Linux for Linux would be quite an interesting project.)
What he is pointing out is that Wine might enable companies like that make the switch, whereas they would otherwise be stuck with what they have.
Name a single piece of microsoft software that is used voluntarily. You can't because there isn't any. People use MS office because they have to be compatable with MS Office, and microsoft makes sure no one else can be 100% compatable. People use Windows because they still are forced to buy Windows on their computers.
In the server market, Microsoft provides the grease in the direction of using all microsoft products, and the walls come up as soon as any other product is used. Sure Samba makes a good file/print server, but if you want PDC compatability with NT clients and servers, you gotta pay Mr. Bill.
Once anyone in the company decides they want groupware someone points out there's always Exchange, which works with Outlook, but if you try using anything else, on either side, it's just a shoddy mail server and a creepy mail client. So you get roped into buying Outlook for everyone and using Exchange for at least the in-house mail (though only a free product will work properly for internet mail, interestingly enough.)
Microsoft's products do not play well with others, and that has been the cornerstone fo their existence, making sure that if you want to work with other companies who use microsoft, you have to buy microsoft too. They got away with it because they had no competition initially and were able to break other people's products at the OS level later.
Of course either you are a troll or have not paid attention to the Microsoft business model.. in either case you can be excused for making a simple mistake.
What part of "You don't have to be guilty" are you failing to understand?
Within 48 hours title to all properties can be transferred. A month after that it is sold at auction. You might have months before you get to go to a trial where the fact that no evidence other than paperclips, zip-lock bags, and a postal scale being found in your home finally comes to light.
What does that have to do with anything? Dell laptops have been running NT forever. And NT bluescreens quite a bit. Win2k is better than NT as far as features go because they inserted third-party add-ons and code from win98. It bluescreens less, but it can still die just like anything. What part of his post do you think is a lie?
I dunno, a lot of the fans of Metallica I knew could not afford so many CD's. they bought as many as they could, but often had to subsist on swapped tapes from radio, and, yes, CD's.
I guess that's piracy, but not everybody is a trust fund baby and can afford a giant cd collection.
What people keep missing is that in order for these mp3's to be made someone buys the CD, just like the tapes no one seemed to have a probelm with. Maybe it's because you don't have to say "hey I wanna tape some metallica" to the whole world when you do it.
The other thing everyone misses is that a CD in your hand is better than MP3 or tape, and desired by many fans. And when they can afford one they will definately buy one. Sure you can burn cd's yourself if you want to and have the eq and knowhow. However that does not give you the posters, liner notes, stories, etc that come with the typical cd.
MP3 has the power to help struggling musicians and napster and things like it could help distribution of mp3. Artists who can't get signed by a major label or get airtime on teh radio can promote with mp3. It's a great technology.
Once upon a time metallica was not played on major radio stations and few people heard their cd's. But people saw and taped their concerts and swapped copies of the tapes. The same has been true of many bands before they became famous. Had they come down on people for it then they would not enjoy the fame they have now.
It's easy to say "nah these people just want a free lunch." But in reality they are just trying to listen to music on their computer, in a format that allows them to make their own playlist among other things.
Owning CD's and grabbing MP3's are far from mutually exclusive. They are both by definition the act of a music fan, who will have many reasons to want both.
I'm not sure what you are getting at. A lot of the developers of free software have been poor college students, now they have a chance they would not otherwise have. Red Hat was started from Bob Young's credit card, now it's a giant dev house bumping noses with micro$oft.
Participating in free software helps newbie programmers learn programming and cut their teeth, proving themselves in a practical way. It landed Linus a big job at Transmeta.
Hmmm looks to me like free software is helping little guys succeed more than ever before...
Actually you only get a lawyer in a criminal case, and then not even in all criminal cases. Misdemeanors come to mind. I seem to remember Texas won a supreme court case in which they did not want to pay for lawyers, but wanted to prosecute lots fo people...
In any event in civil cases you put your money where your mouth is.
Attachments in and of themselves were not the problem. The problem was that Outlook ran certain types of attachments automatically. You don't even have to open the email, because when a mail shows up in the preview window, the VBScript gets run automatically.
The only way to stop this behaviour is to set scripts to disabled or prompt in explorer. If you set them to disabled, you can't search the net from altavista, read slashdot, etc.
I think the real solution would be to change the security level of VBscript. There is no reason a web script should have access to all the shares on your network, and all the files on your hard drive. That is bad design. They should also not have scripts running automatically in email. On the web it is usually safe to run scripts, but on email there is not a purpose in it. (Though some web sites do have windows-killer scripts, they are generally linked with an "I hate windows" or "this is why windows sucks" kind of tagline and in any event a web site is a kind of real estate and owners can be tracked much easier than those of email.)
Still it is a good thing to see microsoft, even belatedly, actually addressing security in their products.