Sure, PC gaming has its place, but price economy is NOT one of its advantages, jeez.
Actually it is, but it may not even out in the end depending on how many games you buy.
Look at how fast the price drops on computer games, or even prices of current games on Console v. PC (Simpson's Hit & Run: Currently $49.99 on PS2, $29.99 on PC)
I'd rather not buy the CD at all. It hurts their sales figures all the same.
No, returning hurts more, since it costs the store money to have things returned. They will be less likely to carry things that are returned frequently.
But NYTimes already handles this. A link redirects to login which then redirects to the article you originally clicked. With SSI, this isn't that hard to implement.
The libraries for MySQL are GPL *NOT* LGPL. Anything linking those in must therefore be GPL compatible. I don't see the point of including MySQL if you can't say, oh, link the libraries to let your code put data in tables.
A few weeks ago, I got a warning from RR saying "you are doing a DDOS attack and are probably infected with a trojan"
Considering a) I'm running Linux and b) I do forensics on trojans at work, I'm not going to be infected.
I checked my wife's box which was Windows at the time, and it was clean. I checked mine and it was clean.
A little more digging and the "attack" comes down to SpamAssassin. Anyone who was running SpamAssassin or MailWasher got these warnings because RR couldn't manage their freaking DNS servers correctly.
I for one do not want to get cut off because of the incompetence of the ISP.
I mean, seriously, what are these so-called analysts basing that on? The article doesn't say.
That's just the status quo. Currently, more PS2's than XBox + GC, so let's assume the same for the next generation. Not too big a leap. Whether it's right or not is another question.
. Between the press demo they did a few months ago for a few select members of the press (which at least had photos of the thing), to fact that they will have an 8,000 square foot booth [gamedaily.com] at E3 I think this might not be vaporware
Duke Nukem Forever has been presented at E3 before. 'nuff said.
So, you don't think those analysis of the header files will hold up in court? If not, why not?
And you didn't answer my other question. Why didn't they present their evidence when the German legal system said put up or shut up? After all, if their doing everything in good faith, they have to have some valid reasoning, don't they?
How is it a good faith claim when every single bit of evidence has been shot down?
Why haven't they presented evidence of their claims to the German court? If they're making the claims in good faith, then they have reason to believe so, and have evidence then, right?
Then feel free to enlighten me as I don't quite see your problem here.
In that article, "almost all attacks are against legacy systems". Define legacy. There's plenty of XP and 2003 attacks out there, so that means either a) Non-Longhorn = legacy or b) They're blowing smoke.
On another note, I categorically deny that Linux is more secure an operating system than Windows. If Linux were as popular as Windows, it would have exactly the same security record as the Microsoft product. Windows, XP and the latest version of it in particular, will get the millions-of-eyes treatment the open source community is so proud of. Only in this case, the millions of eyes will make any security features shallow.
Not true. Developers on Linux are more aware of testing under non-root level accounts. That is sorely lacking under Windows.
Many-eyes does *not* make security features shallow. Many encryption algorithms are publicly, including the ones MS uses to sign their code. Kindly release an executable that is signed using an MS certificate.
Microsoft has actually done an admirable job in creating an operating system that your average user has any chance of connecting to the net and with a reasonable amount of security.
Reasonable amount of security? I've had to clean plenty of systems that have been attached to the net, including one that was infected through the XP firewall. And no, the owner *doesn't* run executables from unknown sources or use Outlook/Outlook Express.
It only made it out because Will Wright pushed it. If it didn't have him behind it, Sims would've died. The "market research" was completely and utterly bogus.
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Sure, PC gaming has its place, but price economy is NOT one of its advantages, jeez.
Actually it is, but it may not even out in the end depending on how many games you buy.
Look at how fast the price drops on computer games, or even prices of current games on Console v. PC (Simpson's Hit & Run: Currently $49.99 on PS2, $29.99 on PC)
I'd rather not buy the CD at all. It hurts their sales figures all the same.
No, returning hurts more, since it costs the store money to have things returned. They will be less likely to carry things that are returned frequently.
But NYTimes already handles this. A link redirects to login which then redirects to the article you originally clicked. With SSI, this isn't that hard to implement.
If you aren't willing to take a risk, why are you in the market in the first place?
Why don't people think in volume?
If you cut the margin in half and triple your sales because of it, where are you with money in hand?
Plus, cutting the prices would allow you to market with "cheaper than iTunes/Napster"
Opera is why I started using Mozilla in the 0.96 era or so.
I used it, didn't mind the ad bit in the corner, actually clicked through every once in a while.
Then there was this "text" ad that shook every once in a while. Way too distracting, and I switched to Mozilla.
Yes, read the fucking gpl.
The libraries for MySQL are GPL *NOT* LGPL. Anything linking those in must therefore be GPL compatible. I don't see the point of including MySQL if you can't say, oh, link the libraries to let your code put data in tables.
It has the same issues as QT.
Works when there's actually competent high speed ones around. There isn't.
A few weeks ago, I got a warning from RR saying "you are doing a DDOS attack and are probably infected with a trojan"
Considering a) I'm running Linux and b) I do forensics on trojans at work, I'm not going to be infected.
I checked my wife's box which was Windows at the time, and it was clean. I checked mine and it was clean.
A little more digging and the "attack" comes down to SpamAssassin. Anyone who was running SpamAssassin or MailWasher got these warnings because RR couldn't manage their freaking DNS servers correctly.
I for one do not want to get cut off because of the incompetence of the ISP.
I mean, seriously, what are these so-called analysts basing that on? The article doesn't say.
That's just the status quo. Currently, more PS2's than XBox + GC, so let's assume the same for the next generation. Not too big a leap. Whether it's right or not is another question.
Why on earth don't they include the option to "Never Trust content from this manufacturer"
IIRC, XP SP2 will have that. Assuming of course MS doesn't change their mind.
I doubt it's getting ported to anything earlier.
So, MS is actually going to release Longhorn on schedule?
. Between the press demo they did a few months ago for a few select members of the press (which at least had photos of the thing), to fact that they will have an 8,000 square foot booth [gamedaily.com] at E3 I think this might not be vaporware
Duke Nukem Forever has been presented at E3 before. 'nuff said.
So, you don't think those analysis of the header files will hold up in court? If not, why not?
And you didn't answer my other question. Why didn't they present their evidence when the German legal system said put up or shut up? After all, if their doing everything in good faith, they have to have some valid reasoning, don't they?
Thanks. I've been thinking about switching from slack to debian because of package management. apt-get is more flexible than I thought.
How is it a good faith claim when every single bit of evidence has been shot down?
Why haven't they presented evidence of their claims to the German court? If they're making the claims in good faith, then they have reason to believe so, and have evidence then, right?
You missed the point.
How do you merge your fixes into apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ?
Then feel free to enlighten me as I don't quite see your problem here.
In that article, "almost all attacks are against legacy systems". Define legacy. There's plenty of XP and 2003 attacks out there, so that means either a) Non-Longhorn = legacy or b) They're blowing smoke.
On another note, I categorically deny that Linux is more secure an operating system than Windows. If Linux were as popular as Windows, it would have exactly the same security record as the Microsoft product. Windows, XP and the latest version of it in particular, will get the millions-of-eyes treatment the open source community is so proud of. Only in this case, the millions of eyes will make any security features shallow.
Not true. Developers on Linux are more aware of testing under non-root level accounts. That is sorely lacking under Windows.
Many-eyes does *not* make security features shallow. Many encryption algorithms are publicly, including the ones MS uses to sign their code. Kindly release an executable that is signed using an MS certificate.
Microsoft has actually done an admirable job in creating an operating system that your average user has any chance of connecting to the net and with a reasonable amount of security.
Reasonable amount of security? I've had to clean plenty of systems that have been attached to the net, including one that was infected through the XP firewall. And no, the owner *doesn't* run executables from unknown sources or use Outlook/Outlook Express.
IIRC, It was patched about a week after they said it couldn't be patched.
Almost all attacks are against Win 95? Something doesn't ring quite right there...
It only made it out because Will Wright pushed it. If it didn't have him behind it, Sims would've died. The "market research" was completely and utterly bogus.
And don't forget that Sims almost didn't make it out because "there's no market". It's been in the top 10 how long?
As I look back on it, I can't help but feel that there was a lot of untapped potential and some glaring mistakes that could have been avoided.
This is a good summation of how I felt about DaVinci Code. Great premise, middling implementation.
Copyrights might have been extended by Congress, but they can still lapse if they aren't defended comensurate to their value.
That's trademarks, not copyrights.
Doesn't matter for 1-800. They get the number *period*