While I use Windows on the desktop to manage my linux servers like most admins, I find it hard to believe that 90% of all break-ins were caused by an administrator's Windows box getting owned first, to capture their password/login info. That means only 10% of the boxes were directly attacked and owned, yet my logs show overwhelming amount of tries to do just that. This would mean that 90% of the pwned Linux servers are really the fault of Microsoft Windows, and just smacks of bogus accounting.
Some people just don't understand that. I can honestly say that I have paid for every game I have on my computer, even the ones I had to download cracks for. It isn't like I spend that much or play that many games, maybe $200 a year or so. While I may be the exception, I would never have downloaded a game crack if not for DRM. It is easier to learn to apply the crack once than have to change out CD's each time you play a game, particularly if you play on more than one computer (office/home/laptop). This is another reason I like Steam. If you *must* have DRM, at least I can install on multiple computers without a CD or crack.
Too much Windows open, too much currents = low battery:-P
Welcome to America. I'm pretty sure that what drains a battery is less related to the number of windows than it is related to what the windows are doing. One game will drain a battery faster than 10 internet browser tabs on static sites.
So you are saying that De Beers is only as big as everyone else combined? Crack a history book. Until the last decade, their business practices have been deplorable, and they are still huge.
If you bothered to read, he *buys* the games and then plays the pirated version because it doesn't have the limitation. It is pig arses like YOU that clog up slashdot with useless fucking trolls after not even reading the post you are replying to. Many of us *buy* the game but play a pirated version for convenience. The main bitch isn't paying $50, it is paying $50 for something you can't play the way you want to, or at all.
True, but I'm still playing the copy of Half-Life that I bought in 1998 on Steam (yes, I really play it from time to time) and haven't had any issues playing games I have bought. Yet. One of the actual *advantages* of Steam is the install. Most of the stuff is one click and self installing, and most games allow you to install on multiple computers such as work/home/laptop, although you can only play on one at a time. I never have to find a CD, I never have to go to a crappy commercial "gamers" website to get updates (and wait in cue.....). For me, it just "works", and has over a dozen different computers.
At least Steam gives a little sugar with the medicine and makes the DRM (on most) completely seemless and CD free.
The actual hardness may actually be a 10.5 or 10.7 or 12. My guess is that they won't arbitrarily call this new structure 11 simply because it is harder than a 10. There may yet be even harder structures, or structures harder than diamond but softer than this.
Wouldn't that just bring up a menu to "Lock" / "Switch User" / "Log Off" / "Change Password" / "Start Task Manager", plus options to Change Ease of Access, Cancel, Restart, Sleep or Shutdown?
Does on my computer. That's too confusing. I just push the button on the front of the case that says power and it shuts down proper.
What is worse is some of the flash based games. Cafe World uses about 350mb to 450mb of ram, with Chrome, IE or Firefox. Leave that open and it is leak city. On my new system, it is unplayable using IE (8GB ram, quad processor, q9550, etc.) It seems to me that much of the features and games are just sloppily written, rushed to market, and prone to simply not work at all sometimes. Yes, that is Zynga, not Facebook, but they both suffer from the same problem: everything requires checking in with the server for even a single click. The bandwidth it uses is also ridiculous.
In America at least, because they are a "sin". We have "sin taxes" on alcohol and tobacco, consensual sex between two men was illegal (until recently) in many states. In some places, you still can't buy certain items for work on Sundays (blue laws), gays can't marry, and much much more, simply because some people's ideas about "god" say that it is wrong, although no one is injured doing these things. It isn't enough to simply not do those things themselves, they must push their beliefs onto the rest of us. Not every Christian is a control freak/nut, but enough of them are in power to screw up the freedoms for the rest of us.
Religion can easily be substituted for Alcohol in one of the wisest things Homer Simpson ever said... "Alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
There are a few games that qualify, that don't require a "key" or require you to install the CD to play. It allows me to put the software on my desktop and my laptop. Since I can't play both at the same time, it is plenty fair to them (the proverbial "book" license). Some of the slot machine games by IGT are this way, and I think the Prison Tycoon games are this way as well, although I haven't played them in a while. Ironic that these are the games that I BUY. I also use Steam for games, mainly due to the quality of their Half Life series, but also because Steam is a more reasonable DRM mechanism. I don't like the DRM, but it is manageable. Other games I buy, I am forced to go find a crack for it so I don't have to put the CD in the machine.
I actually don't download games I haven't payed for, but I have learned to be pretty good at finding them and getting the cracks simply to let myself use the games I HAVE paid for. Kind of like how jail makes you a better criminal, DRM has made me a better pirate.
And you are mixing patent law with trademark law. You don't have to make a claim on owning a patent until after they make a fortune "infringing" upon it. Technically, you can sue someone for patent infringement after a patent expires, if the infringement happened while it was in effect. With trademarks, you MUST enforce it or you lose the exclusive right to it.
You can't just move the server to another country, as they would still be an American company. The law holds true to any American company, regardless of where they host their servers from. Technically, they could host their servers in Syria, but they would still be expected to block any Syrian users from accessing it.
It isn't taxed for Social Security after $110k (i think, it goes up each year), but it is taxed for Medicare. Medicare doesn't have a cap, you pay a percentage of everything that is "salary".
Actually, being delicious may make them go from being extict->recreated->common. Look at the mighty buffalo of the midwest. They were on the edge of extiction until they were commercially marketed, which made it viable to raise them as livestock, which made their numbers swell. In many parts of central USA you can buy buffalo meat, which many say is very lean and good tasting.
Yea, after reading the article (some of us do) I found that this summary is a piss poor one, more aimed at bashing MS than giving the real facts. We don't need to make up imaginary reasons to hate MS, they already provide plenty of real reasons.
Wow, you must be new....to computers. I particularly liked you comment "A site could have quality links to non ignore sites." as justification for a bot to ignore robots.txt. Can I have your AOL email address so I can write you personally?
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While I use Windows on the desktop to manage my linux servers like most admins, I find it hard to believe that 90% of all break-ins were caused by an administrator's Windows box getting owned first, to capture their password/login info. That means only 10% of the boxes were directly attacked and owned, yet my logs show overwhelming amount of tries to do just that. This would mean that 90% of the pwned Linux servers are really the fault of Microsoft Windows, and just smacks of bogus accounting.
?It should be a selling point to students that they'll be okay if they just need a little help by proving they did nothing wrong.
The fact that the burden of proof is on the students to begin with shows how fucked up the system is.
Some people just don't understand that. I can honestly say that I have paid for every game I have on my computer, even the ones I had to download cracks for. It isn't like I spend that much or play that many games, maybe $200 a year or so. While I may be the exception, I would never have downloaded a game crack if not for DRM. It is easier to learn to apply the crack once than have to change out CD's each time you play a game, particularly if you play on more than one computer (office/home/laptop). This is another reason I like Steam. If you *must* have DRM, at least I can install on multiple computers without a CD or crack.
Too much Windows open, too much currents = low battery :-P
Welcome to America. I'm pretty sure that what drains a battery is less related to the number of windows than it is related to what the windows are doing. One game will drain a battery faster than 10 internet browser tabs on static sites.
So you are saying that De Beers is only as big as everyone else combined? Crack a history book. Until the last decade, their business practices have been deplorable, and they are still huge.
If you bothered to read, he *buys* the games and then plays the pirated version because it doesn't have the limitation. It is pig arses like YOU that clog up slashdot with useless fucking trolls after not even reading the post you are replying to. Many of us *buy* the game but play a pirated version for convenience. The main bitch isn't paying $50, it is paying $50 for something you can't play the way you want to, or at all.
True, but I'm still playing the copy of Half-Life that I bought in 1998 on Steam (yes, I really play it from time to time) and haven't had any issues playing games I have bought. Yet. One of the actual *advantages* of Steam is the install. Most of the stuff is one click and self installing, and most games allow you to install on multiple computers such as work/home/laptop, although you can only play on one at a time. I never have to find a CD, I never have to go to a crappy commercial "gamers" website to get updates (and wait in cue.....). For me, it just "works", and has over a dozen different computers.
At least Steam gives a little sugar with the medicine and makes the DRM (on most) completely seemless and CD free.
Does this mean De Beers will try to monopolize space as well?
The actual hardness may actually be a 10.5 or 10.7 or 12. My guess is that they won't arbitrarily call this new structure 11 simply because it is harder than a 10. There may yet be even harder structures, or structures harder than diamond but softer than this.
But some people are more equal than others.
I think you meant "Neo-son", if we are going to stereotype, after all.
Likely you mean Lindt. On the other hand, the Teflon mafiaa "dons" get away scotch free.
Likely you meant scot free ;)
Its a FLASH game. It isn't downloading 350mb of data, it's using 350 mb of ram to run a few megs worth of program.
Wouldn't that just bring up a menu to "Lock" / "Switch User" / "Log Off" / "Change Password" / "Start Task Manager", plus options to Change Ease of Access, Cancel, Restart, Sleep or Shutdown?
Does on my computer. That's too confusing. I just push the button on the front of the case that says power and it shuts down proper.
What is worse is some of the flash based games. Cafe World uses about 350mb to 450mb of ram, with Chrome, IE or Firefox. Leave that open and it is leak city. On my new system, it is unplayable using IE (8GB ram, quad processor, q9550, etc.) It seems to me that much of the features and games are just sloppily written, rushed to market, and prone to simply not work at all sometimes. Yes, that is Zynga, not Facebook, but they both suffer from the same problem: everything requires checking in with the server for even a single click. The bandwidth it uses is also ridiculous.
Why are victimless "crimes" crimes at all?
In America at least, because they are a "sin". We have "sin taxes" on alcohol and tobacco, consensual sex between two men was illegal (until recently) in many states. In some places, you still can't buy certain items for work on Sundays (blue laws), gays can't marry, and much much more, simply because some people's ideas about "god" say that it is wrong, although no one is injured doing these things. It isn't enough to simply not do those things themselves, they must push their beliefs onto the rest of us. Not every Christian is a control freak/nut, but enough of them are in power to screw up the freedoms for the rest of us.
Religion can easily be substituted for Alcohol in one of the wisest things Homer Simpson ever said... "Alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
There are a few games that qualify, that don't require a "key" or require you to install the CD to play. It allows me to put the software on my desktop and my laptop. Since I can't play both at the same time, it is plenty fair to them (the proverbial "book" license). Some of the slot machine games by IGT are this way, and I think the Prison Tycoon games are this way as well, although I haven't played them in a while. Ironic that these are the games that I BUY. I also use Steam for games, mainly due to the quality of their Half Life series, but also because Steam is a more reasonable DRM mechanism. I don't like the DRM, but it is manageable. Other games I buy, I am forced to go find a crack for it so I don't have to put the CD in the machine.
I actually don't download games I haven't payed for, but I have learned to be pretty good at finding them and getting the cracks simply to let myself use the games I HAVE paid for. Kind of like how jail makes you a better criminal, DRM has made me a better pirate.
And you are mixing patent law with trademark law. You don't have to make a claim on owning a patent until after they make a fortune "infringing" upon it. Technically, you can sue someone for patent infringement after a patent expires, if the infringement happened while it was in effect. With trademarks, you MUST enforce it or you lose the exclusive right to it.
You can't just move the server to another country, as they would still be an American company. The law holds true to any American company, regardless of where they host their servers from. Technically, they could host their servers in Syria, but they would still be expected to block any Syrian users from accessing it.
It isn't taxed for Social Security after $110k (i think, it goes up each year), but it is taxed for Medicare. Medicare doesn't have a cap, you pay a percentage of everything that is "salary".
Actually, being delicious may make them go from being extict->recreated->common. Look at the mighty buffalo of the midwest. They were on the edge of extiction until they were commercially marketed, which made it viable to raise them as livestock, which made their numbers swell. In many parts of central USA you can buy buffalo meat, which many say is very lean and good tasting.
Yea, after reading the article (some of us do) I found that this summary is a piss poor one, more aimed at bashing MS than giving the real facts. We don't need to make up imaginary reasons to hate MS, they already provide plenty of real reasons.
Wow, you must be new....to computers. I particularly liked you comment "A site could have quality links to non ignore sites." as justification for a bot to ignore robots.txt. Can I have your AOL email address so I can write you personally?
eah... but this kid downloaded something from Google, not creating his own OS from zero.
And of course Linus has never accepted code from other programmers...
The kid is adding other kernel code to make it actually work on more systems that Google is releasing for.
robots.rtf?