Oh good Lord. Somebody get me a shovel. Yes, Microsoft maliciously put a gaping hole in the software, which 99.9% of the people using it attribute as a failure on MS's part, and another security strike against them, just to say Java is bad.
I've seen a lot of whining on Slashdot about the FUD MS spews, but this kind of garbage, and the people that mod it as interesting, do a good bit worse.
Next up, the person who says the linux kernel has a hole in its FAT support to make MS look bad...oh wait. That'll get modded down because it's ludicrous.
These kinds of comments are beyond silly. Do you honestly believe that because News Corp. owns DTV that they could stop broadcasting the likes of CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC America networks?
Let's see. Joe Blow watches CNN. He doesn't like Fox News. Joe Blow subscribes to DirecTV. Now, Murdoch removes CNN.
Joe has two options:
1). Say "oh well" and watch Fox. 2). Say "screw DTV" and switch to cable.
Bottom line. The customers drive the content. You don't win more customers or keep them by reducing their choices, quite the opposite. As long as cable is an option, DTV can't afford to pull these kinds of tricks.
Oh, and last I checked, EchoStar was still on the air too.
"(Cr|H)ackers" by definition are people skilled at breaching the security of systems to gain unauthorized access. With the kind of security MS's products provide, all you need is a script kiddie level of skill. No more need for that skill set.:)
Honestly, does it really matter? The US has an unstoppable military force, especially against Iraq. I think it would be more demoralizing to tell them we're going to do it and how, just to show them how powerless they are to stop it. That would cause some serious "shock and awe".
This looks to be another good source of revenue for the phone companies. They'll make a killing off of people who enjoy their privacy and pay for their minutes, which is for the most part everyone.
It stands to reason that a benchmark should fairly and accurately depict the widest range of common capabilities possible to determine a clear winner. Of course, this can be very hard to do. It does seem in this case though that 3DMark got caught up in the whiz-bang marketing side of things by supporting the latest and greatest(?) features and ignoring the very compatibility that would give it any real meaning.
As I see it, its no different than someone setting fire to your cash. If that person really wants to destroy your funds, they will.
Of course, since this is a cash replacement, the same rules apply. Don't carry too much on you...i.e. more than you're willing to lose if you get robbed or lose it somewhere. Keep it in the bank. You wouldn't carry around a wad of hundreds in your pocket unless you were in a safe place, now would you?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
This game is fun for about 10 minutes. With the orignal (offline) Sims, the novelty aspect of the game was great. It was new, it was unseen before.
With The Sims Online, you basically end up with a graphical chat room. The tasks you perform are repetitive and dull. Each involves clicking on something and staring at the screen until that task finishes or your happiness levels go down far enough to finish it for you. Fix that up, rinse and repeat. All in all, the game ends up being a glorified IRC chat room that you pay for.
The only partly redeemed quality is that you can build your own houses and have people come over, but that is severely hampered by a silly limit on the number of objects you can put in your house, so in the end you end up with lots of money you can't spend after doing all those boring tasks.
Finally, the biggest pet peeve I have with Maxis over this one is the fact that instead of fixing the bugs and finding ways to increase the limits and make things more interesting, they take a sack full o' money from McDonald's to advertise their products and waste development time throwing it in.
That being said, all MMORPG's have problems at startup, and hopefully they can get their act together and make it a decent product. As it is now, I'll stick to IRC.
Not that I like talking to myself, but another thought occured. This doesn't end up being just a simple violation of Apple's license agreement, but a potential liability for them. Allowing someone to share music over a network (sound familiar?) with their blessing - i.e. NOT revoking the person's rights - could land them in trouble with a certain influential and evil organization who shall remain na(RIAA)meless, and leave them wide open to be sued.
Ok, a company with a proprietary product creates a license agreement that governs its interfaces with other products. Some guy comes along and uses that interface in a way that violates what he agreed upon, and said company says to take his toys and go home. Yep, sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
In my job, I've long since given over server monitoring alerts to SMS. Not by choice, but simply because getting phone lines run and attached to various data centers owned by different companies around the world ceased to be practical. In my case, a single lost message would add up to 15 more minutes of downtime that I didn't know about (and potentially a PHB getting a notice and thinking I'm slacking off!)
Its unfortunate, but a lot of reliability these days is being traded for convenience. I love being able to carry a cell phone in case of emergencies, but the number of dropped and uncompleted calls is way out of proportion with land based systems. Text paging via a landline is gone in favor of SMS over the internet. Again, another point of failure.
At what point are we going to say easy isn't worth the price of poor service?
Sorry buddy, but the Sally Struthers approach didn't help your cause.
I'm a capitalist, and I firmly believe that any business must make money through the sale of goods and services to turn a profit and survive. Look at RedHat. They took the same product, spent large amounts of capital developing a product, and sold not only that product, built on freely available technology, but support services and add-ons that people want to buy.
The difference between them and Mandrake? They created a business model that works. Mandrake was built on top of RedHat, with most of the work already done for them. If Mandrake has been unable to attract investors in a Linux-crazy world, something must seriously be wrong with their fundamentals.
So sorry, Sally. I won't be giving a failed company a handout. I'll continue to purchase products that warrant it. This is Darwin's theory of Capitalism at its finest....the strong survive.
IANAL, but based on Section 3b, I would say there does exist a loophole in code distribution time. The license does not state the amount of time allowed to actually provide the code to the party requesting it, or even provide the common vague "reasonable amount of time" clause. If I were to receive that request, and didn't want the code to be re-released, it would be a simple matter for me to say "Ok, you will receive it in 10 years. Sorry for the delay".
Based on what I see here, there would be no violation of the license caused by such a delay.
A project is now underway to build a far more powerful observatory to detect Microsoft's social conscience, Richard Stallman's humility, and Larry Ellison's ability to share the spotlight.
Something being overlooked here is the time between filing a patent and the actual approval. This patent was filed November 7, 1998 and just received approval. While some of the patent may be down right silly, some of things they claim to have invented may well have been come up with for the ReplayTV. I remember the RTV and TiVo hit the market at about the same time.
A secure IRC system has been around for a while from Webmaster, Inc. Its proprietary sure, but it runs on just about everything. The clients and the servers can both communicate through an SSL connection.
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Oh good Lord. Somebody get me a shovel. Yes, Microsoft maliciously put a gaping hole in the software, which 99.9% of the people using it attribute as a failure on MS's part, and another security strike against them, just to say Java is bad.
I've seen a lot of whining on Slashdot about the FUD MS spews, but this kind of garbage, and the people that mod it as interesting, do a good bit worse.
Next up, the person who says the linux kernel has a hole in its FAT support to make MS look bad...oh wait. That'll get modded down because it's ludicrous.
So the next time I shock myself, I might get some pr0n too?
With my luck, my hair will probably just stand up in the form of an x10 popup ad....sigh.
These kinds of comments are beyond silly. Do you honestly believe that because News Corp. owns DTV that they could stop broadcasting the likes of CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC America networks?
Let's see. Joe Blow watches CNN. He doesn't like Fox News. Joe Blow subscribes to DirecTV. Now, Murdoch removes CNN.
Joe has two options:
1). Say "oh well" and watch Fox.
2). Say "screw DTV" and switch to cable.
Bottom line. The customers drive the content. You don't win more customers or keep them by reducing their choices, quite the opposite. As long as cable is an option, DTV can't afford to pull these kinds of tricks.
Oh, and last I checked, EchoStar was still on the air too.
Anger leads to hatred...hatred leads to suffering, and suffering is the way to Micr...err, the dark side!
I'm not sure what's worse. That I came up with this, or that I thought it was funny.
Due to DRM restrictions, your eyes must be gouged out after the showing for reprocessing. That is all.
-Staff
"(Cr|H)ackers" by definition are people skilled at breaching the security of systems to gain unauthorized access. With the kind of security MS's products provide, all you need is a script kiddie level of skill. No more need for that skill set. :)
Honestly, does it really matter? The US has an unstoppable military force, especially against Iraq. I think it would be more demoralizing to tell them we're going to do it and how, just to show them how powerless they are to stop it. That would cause some serious "shock and awe".
I think I've heard enough of the words "shock and awe". How about "big bombs and stuff blowing up?"
Or maybe "puttin' the smack down on Saddam" for the WWE fans.
Now only the evil TiVo will have a product, and its a monopoly! Monopolies are evil!
Oh, wait. We like TiVo, don't we?
Yay TiVo!
This looks to be another good source of revenue for the phone companies. They'll make a killing off of people who enjoy their privacy and pay for their minutes, which is for the most part everyone.
CNN is reporting that the strike was at a command bunker believed to have Iraq's leadership in it. Take with as much salt as you like.
According to the MySQL site (manual) Gamma status was granted in December with version 4.0.6.
It stands to reason that a benchmark should fairly and accurately depict the widest range of common capabilities possible to determine a clear winner. Of course, this can be very hard to do. It does seem in this case though that 3DMark got caught up in the whiz-bang marketing side of things by supporting the latest and greatest(?) features and ignoring the very compatibility that would give it any real meaning.
Sorry guys, you goofed.
As I see it, its no different than someone setting fire to your cash. If that person really wants to destroy your funds, they will.
Of course, since this is a cash replacement, the same rules apply. Don't carry too much on you...i.e. more than you're willing to lose if you get robbed or lose it somewhere. Keep it in the bank. You wouldn't carry around a wad of hundreds in your pocket unless you were in a safe place, now would you?
This game is fun for about 10 minutes. With the orignal (offline) Sims, the novelty aspect of the game was great. It was new, it was unseen before.
With The Sims Online, you basically end up with a graphical chat room. The tasks you perform are repetitive and dull. Each involves clicking on something and staring at the screen until that task finishes or your happiness levels go down far enough to finish it for you. Fix that up, rinse and repeat. All in all, the game ends up being a glorified IRC chat room that you pay for.
The only partly redeemed quality is that you can build your own houses and have people come over, but that is severely hampered by a silly limit on the number of objects you can put in your house, so in the end you end up with lots of money you can't spend after doing all those boring tasks.
Finally, the biggest pet peeve I have with Maxis over this one is the fact that instead of fixing the bugs and finding ways to increase the limits and make things more interesting, they take a sack full o' money from McDonald's to advertise their products and waste development time throwing it in.
That being said, all MMORPG's have problems at startup, and hopefully they can get their act together and make it a decent product. As it is now, I'll stick to IRC.
Not that I like talking to myself, but another thought occured. This doesn't end up being just a simple violation of Apple's license agreement, but a potential liability for them. Allowing someone to share music over a network (sound familiar?) with their blessing - i.e. NOT revoking the person's rights - could land them in trouble with a certain influential and evil organization who shall remain na(RIAA)meless, and leave them wide open to be sued.
Double Plus Ungood.
Ok, a company with a proprietary product creates a license agreement that governs its interfaces with other products. Some guy comes along and uses that interface in a way that violates what he agreed upon, and said company says to take his toys and go home. Yep, sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Thank you, drive through.
In my job, I've long since given over server monitoring alerts to SMS. Not by choice, but simply because getting phone lines run and attached to various data centers owned by different companies around the world ceased to be practical. In my case, a single lost message would add up to 15 more minutes of downtime that I didn't know about (and potentially a PHB getting a notice and thinking I'm slacking off!)
Its unfortunate, but a lot of reliability these days is being traded for convenience. I love being able to carry a cell phone in case of emergencies, but the number of dropped and uncompleted calls is way out of proportion with land based systems. Text paging via a landline is gone in favor of SMS over the internet. Again, another point of failure.
At what point are we going to say easy isn't worth the price of poor service?
Whoops, I need to go reboot windows now.
Sorry buddy, but the Sally Struthers approach didn't help your cause.
I'm a capitalist, and I firmly believe that any business must make money through the sale of goods and services to turn a profit and survive. Look at RedHat. They took the same product, spent large amounts of capital developing a product, and sold not only that product, built on freely available technology, but support services and add-ons that people want to buy.
The difference between them and Mandrake? They created a business model that works. Mandrake was built on top of RedHat, with most of the work already done for them. If Mandrake has been unable to attract investors in a Linux-crazy world, something must seriously be wrong with their fundamentals.
So sorry, Sally. I won't be giving a failed company a handout. I'll continue to purchase products that warrant it. This is Darwin's theory of Capitalism at its finest....the strong survive.
Who needs to walk? Sit ont he ground and have a couple of your friends give you a good push.
Welcome to the new sport of Marine bowling!
IANAL, but based on Section 3b, I would say there does exist a loophole in code distribution time. The license does not state the amount of time allowed to actually provide the code to the party requesting it, or even provide the common vague "reasonable amount of time" clause. If I were to receive that request, and didn't want the code to be re-released, it would be a simple matter for me to say "Ok, you will receive it in 10 years. Sorry for the delay".
Based on what I see here, there would be no violation of the license caused by such a delay.
A project is now underway to build a far more powerful observatory to detect Microsoft's social conscience, Richard Stallman's humility, and Larry Ellison's ability to share the spotlight.
Something being overlooked here is the time between filing a patent and the actual approval. This patent was filed November 7, 1998 and just received approval. While some of the patent may be down right silly, some of things they claim to have invented may well have been come up with for the ReplayTV. I remember the RTV and TiVo hit the market at about the same time.
I'd submit an essay, but thats my IP and I don't want it getting around. :)
A secure IRC system has been around for a while from Webmaster, Inc. Its proprietary sure, but it runs on just about everything. The clients and the servers can both communicate through an SSL connection.