So, what they're saying is basically is that the RIAA's profits don't rank as high as the 1st amendment. Anybody else been waiting a couple years to hear that.
Even legally, if the DVD manufacturer makes a movie DVD, and decides to throw some software on it, then it's their problem if it gets rented out to millions of people and everybody gets the software.
I'm pretty sure the publishers have heard of Blockbuster long before they made the DVDs
How many mom and pops do you know that drop $1000 on a single stereo component and that don't have jobs that require use and understanding of computers, and yet would still have access to MP3 files to begin with?
This is the first article I've ever read about bulding a gaming system where the aesthetics of the case was an important part of the system. I would think most people would rather save the extra $160 and put it into ram or a beefier processor.
Of course, most sites that talk about building a game system don't have a stake in a company that makes pretty cases. Of course, I doubt that could be related;)
Glad to see the moderators don't need to be bothered with the ENTIRE post before passing judgement. Of course I suppose I should have enclosed everything in tags to make it obvious to the idiots.
Hmmm, book reviews give some content and offer some insight into what is for sale. Didn't get that here. I can follow a ThinkGeek ad and find out more about a product before I purchase it.
I rarely see sites that say "pay us first, then we'll show you what you're getting".
What the hell is this? Slashdot linking to PDFs for sale. Anybody check to see whether or not the poster worked for the company selling the PDF?
Kind of hard for us to discuss the actual story here when we'd be required to pay for the content. So instead, I'm betting most posts are going to be similar to mine. Might as well just mark everything as offtopic.
Not sure that I'd want a boot loaded requiring ANY partition. I'd want something that would fit in the first track of the HD, which is where bootloaders should go. Ideally, the bootloader itself should still work even if I decide to remove all my partitions.
Doing any significant development, you're not likely to need a lot of time working on registry modifications procedures, with the exception of a save settings routine in the Setup window. Actually, if you code it right you shouldn't need to create keys in the registry at all if they aren't that important. It should allow the program to continue with default behavior if the key doesn't exist, or cannot be created. Give the user a warning on errors that setting modifications couldn't be saved because you couldn't modify the registry. Chance are that some customers (if this is commercial software) may have the same restrictions. And if you're storing anything more than settings in the registry, then you're most likely storing the data in the wrong place anyways.
The only thing I can think of, is if you are doing some program protection that stores some encrypted values in the registry. I think IT will understand if thats what you're developing. But after you're done developing that, then it should just be a black box and you don't need to test it again.
And most likely you can get the keys for your software's settings to be left open. It's not unreasonable.
Initially, I thought.Net was going to be a bunch of online services, but it seems to just be the marketing buzzword.
They're slapping it onto the end of everything they own though. They have.Net plastered on the Hotmail site. So is Hotmail a part of.Net, or is.Net part of Hotmail? Is.Net a bunch of new APIs, like ADO.NET? What makes them different than the old APIs then? Is it just an ambiguous term right now so it looks like MS is creating something truly new?
In Opera's prefs, you can set it to identify itself as another browser, but you still get the same results when trying to go to msn.com. So they're doing something special to identify the browser besides just the http header info.
If you go to any place within MSN, everything works fine, and you don't get the lockout message.
If you go to msn.com with IE and view the source, you will notice that there is NOTHING in there that is IE specific code.
They're really using their touch. Most of their attempts at deceit are this obvious.
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I thought Int 20h did a terminate as well?
Ha ha, please mod me down.
;)
I got the major evil industry coalitions mixed up
My bad.
Jeez, it's been WAY too long since I've done anything in assembler. That's the DOS terminate command isn't it.
I just gotta know, what does your tagline mean.
So, what they're saying is basically is that the RIAA's profits don't rank as high as the 1st amendment. Anybody else been waiting a couple years to hear that.
Even legally, if the DVD manufacturer makes a movie DVD, and decides to throw some software on it, then it's their problem if it gets rented out to millions of people and everybody gets the software.
I'm pretty sure the publishers have heard of Blockbuster long before they made the DVDs
DVDs are hardware. The content on DVDs can either be software or film. That's up to whoever made the DVD.
An MPEG file isn't software. An EXE isn't film (although it could contain a film). I don't see the problem in making the determination.
How many mom and pops do you know that drop $1000 on a single stereo component and that don't have jobs that require use and understanding of computers, and yet would still have access to MP3 files to begin with?
Hey, you think you could mail me my mug?
Now that's spooky. Are you psychic?
Naw, I guess not, that event is rather predictable.
:) No, he posted it here because the manufacturers are paying him to do so.
Hmm, who is ThinkGeek affiliated with again? I don't think the actual price of HIS windowed case was all that much.
This is the first article I've ever read about bulding a gaming system where the aesthetics of the case was an important part of the system. I would think most people would rather save the extra $160 and put it into ram or a beefier processor.
;)
Of course, most sites that talk about building a game system don't have a stake in a company that makes pretty cases. Of course, I doubt that could be related
Glad to see the moderators don't need to be bothered with the ENTIRE post before passing judgement. Of course I suppose I should have enclosed everything in tags to make it obvious to the idiots.
Taco did recently announce that Slashdot was moving towards more advertisement. Maybe this is just a test of what we'll tolerate.
Oh yes, that's my whole fucking argument. Everything should be free or else boycotted.
/.ers are just so fucking stupid.
I can't believe that you're the only one that realized it. These
Ya know what, you should just retire from posting while you're at your highest point. Go ahead, you're too smart to be hanging around here.
Hmmm, book reviews give some content and offer some insight into what is for sale. Didn't get that here. I can follow a ThinkGeek ad and find out more about a product before I purchase it.
I rarely see sites that say "pay us first, then we'll show you what you're getting".
What the hell is this? Slashdot linking to PDFs for sale. Anybody check to see whether or not the poster worked for the company selling the PDF?
Kind of hard for us to discuss the actual story here when we'd be required to pay for the content. So instead, I'm betting most posts are going to be similar to mine. Might as well just mark everything as offtopic.
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Not sure that I'd want a boot loaded requiring ANY partition. I'd want something that would fit in the first track of the HD, which is where bootloaders should go.
Ideally, the bootloader itself should still work even if I decide to remove all my partitions.
As long as it doesn't REQUIRE a Linux partition, I'd be happy to use it.
Doing any significant development, you're not likely to need a lot of time working on registry modifications procedures, with the exception of a save settings routine in the Setup window. Actually, if you code it right you shouldn't need to create keys in the registry at all if they aren't that important. It should allow the program to continue with default behavior if the key doesn't exist, or cannot be created. Give the user a warning on errors that setting modifications couldn't be saved because you couldn't modify the registry. Chance are that some customers (if this is commercial software) may have the same restrictions. And if you're storing anything more than settings in the registry, then you're most likely storing the data in the wrong place anyways.
The only thing I can think of, is if you are doing some program protection that stores some encrypted values in the registry. I think IT will understand if thats what you're developing. But after you're done developing that, then it should just be a black box and you don't need to test it again.
And most likely you can get the keys for your software's settings to be left open. It's not unreasonable.
Initially, I thought .Net was going to be a bunch of online services, but it seems to just be the marketing buzzword.
.Net plastered on the Hotmail site. So is Hotmail a part of .Net, or is .Net part of Hotmail? Is .Net a bunch of new APIs, like ADO.NET? What makes them different than the old APIs then? Is it just an ambiguous term right now so it looks like MS is creating something truly new?
They're slapping it onto the end of everything they own though. They have
Opera 5.11 on Windows 98:
In Opera's prefs, you can set it to identify itself as another browser, but you still get the same results when trying to go to msn.com. So they're doing something special to identify the browser besides just the http header info.
If you go to any place within MSN, everything works fine, and you don't get the lockout message.
If you go to msn.com with IE and view the source, you will notice that there is NOTHING in there that is IE specific code.
They're really using their touch. Most of their attempts at deceit are this obvious.
They're already used to working with tags :)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Redid website on 7/9/2001, Excite hasn't picked up the changes yet.