I've done both depending how visible or `phony' the website I was setting up was. But that didn't make much difference: got spammed equally every time:(
Never gave a real telephone number, though.
This is possibly the most important thing that alternative OSes needed for a long, long time, in order to provide games developers tools to allow them to easilly port their work
to non-MS platforms.
Frankly I don't care if the future is OpenGL or if it DirectX. All I care for is that some day, everyone will be able to develop applications using a set of unified standards
(ANSI, DirectX here) and have code-source compatibility between platforms.
In that case, a simple recompilation to the target platforms means a wider audience, more sales and more happy gamers. Kudos to the team bringing us DirectX on Linux!!!
This always makes me think of BSIAMS and to whatever may have happened to him lately, after his spamming activities (and threats to sue!!) were originally reported on slashdot.
Anyone has had some news, or has received a resume from him ?
This is possibly the most important thing that alternative OSes needed for a long, long time, in order to provide games developers tools to allow them to easilly port their work to non-MS platforms.
Frankly I don't care if the future is OpenGL or if it DirectX. All I care for is that some day, everyone will be able to develop applications using a set of unified standards (ANSI, DirectX here) and have code-source compatibility between platforms.
In that case, a simple recompilation to the target platforms means a wider audience, more sales and more happy gamers. Kudos to the team bringing us DirectX on Linux!!!
Companies such as Cisco and the likes with a huge intranet, have been using Google for some time. Use the search engine on their main page to get the idea.
To me, it was only a matter of time until they port their technology to simpler environments (home users & smaller corporations) for a fraction of the cost.
(incidentally I searched for porn and still got 4 results back:)
The purpose of region encoding is to ensure that a movie leaving US markets can be "staged" into foriegn markets
You're forgetting that other countries produce film material, too. The region coding in this case is to ensure EU marget gets served first before anyone else can get it.
Region encoding [...] serves no purpose other than to simultaneously reduce sales and annoy customers.
I couldn't agree more with this statement.
Now imagine that this would be the case for you almost every time a movie comes out on DVD. Annoying, eh?
Why would the BBC want to stop sales of this DVD to the US? The math is simple...more sales means more money...
Your point is also valid viewed in the other perspective. Why would the US firms possibly want EU and other zones to wait sometimes 6 months or 1 year, to get the material on DVD ? See all the points above.. Makes no sense to me.
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You don't have many fans/freaks yet. But I'm certain that fame is on the way, and that you'll eventually be loved by all or just invisible ;)
I've done both depending how visible or `phony' the website I was setting up was. But that didn't make much difference: got spammed equally every time :(
Never gave a real telephone number, though.
are you impressed yet?
Yes, that's a fairly good description of what I think of you, neal n bob. Made friends with you too! ;)
btw i hope you have subscribed yet. if not, you should.
Hmmm, more spam :)
Same experience here, entirely. No mod points in a long while. If only we were told why ??
Come on guys, let's keep posting under here. With enough time/hate/ we may just push this story in the hof list.
Thank you.
EULA Virus.. this is ridiculous. Who would think that !
Yes, that's a good idea actually. I'm in favor of it !
[. ..] people felt they were lucky, lucky I tell you, to have ones and zeros.
Well, read this piece and think about it for a moment!
Okay it's a bit old.. couldn't resist though :)
Make friend with me !
His site has loads of other goodies such as this (stupid mods) or again this (really cheap mods)
Now that the wedding was announced using the ubergeek way, will the show also be broadcast on the Internet with webcams ? :)
This is possibly the most important thing that alternative OSes needed for a long, long time, in order to provide games developers tools to allow them to easilly port their work to non-MS platforms.
Frankly I don't care if the future is OpenGL or if it DirectX. All I care for is that some day, everyone will be able to develop applications using a set of unified standards (ANSI, DirectX here) and have code-source compatibility between platforms.
In that case, a simple recompilation to the target platforms means a wider audience, more sales and more happy gamers. Kudos to the team bringing us DirectX on Linux!!!
This always makes me think of BSIAMS and to whatever may have happened to him lately, after his spamming activities (and threats to sue!!) were originally reported on slashdot.
Anyone has had some news, or has received a resume from him ?
This is possibly the most important thing that alternative OSes needed for a long, long time, in order to provide games developers tools to allow them to easilly port their work to non-MS platforms.
Frankly I don't care if the future is OpenGL or if it DirectX. All I care for is that some day, everyone will be able to develop applications using a set of unified standards (ANSI, DirectX here) and have code-source compatibility between platforms.
In that case, a simple recompilation to the target platforms means a wider audience, more sales and more happy gamers. Kudos to the team bringing us DirectX on Linux!!!
And you will of course let other people freely benefit from your bandwidth / CPU power / etc., will you ? No, I didn't think so either.
The phone company [...] sure as hell have a database of which line called which number, when, and for how long.
This is called billing in case you ask..
You owe me $10 for every advice your mom's ever given you. Oh, that's $50 if it was good advice.
Ludicrous :)
Companies such as Cisco and the likes with a huge intranet, have been using Google for some time. Use the search engine on their main page to get the idea.
To me, it was only a matter of time until they port their technology to simpler environments (home users & smaller corporations) for a fraction of the cost.
(incidentally I searched for porn and still got 4 results back :)
I just cannot see Sun replacing Solaris on their high-end multi-processor machines... Or at least not until Linux scales equally well :-)
No hard feelings were meant either... Everybody can rip DVDs and make DivX, but that defeats the purpose of having DVDs (collector items), right..? :)
The purpose of region encoding is to ensure that a movie leaving US markets can be "staged" into foriegn markets
You're forgetting that other countries produce film material, too. The region coding in this case is to ensure EU marget gets served first before anyone else can get it.
Region encoding [...] serves no purpose other than to simultaneously reduce sales and annoy customers.
I couldn't agree more with this statement.
Now imagine that this would be the case for you almost every time a movie comes out on DVD. Annoying, eh?
Why would the BBC want to stop sales of this DVD to the US? The math is simple...more sales means more money ...
Your point is also valid viewed in the other perspective. Why would the US firms possibly want EU and other zones to wait sometimes 6 months or 1 year, to get the material on DVD ? See all the points above.. Makes no sense to me.