Do virus writers really go to virus conventions? I'd think you'd find people like Ms Gordon, undercover FBI, wannabe 133t teenagers, and maybe a couple former virus writers out of jail and trying to find admiration.
Well, they may have attended H2K or H2K2. How about Defcon? I heard plenty of stories about the Fed being there. Lots of poseurs too.
I worked at a company that got about that much money from Microsoft a few years ago. They aren't around anymore. Back to the underwear-gnome drawning board.
But I'll bet that a gnome or two got to drive away with a Lexus. Bet they were the gnomes in charge.
Seems there aren't many to trust in news. In the spirit of the poster above, these are the assets of News Corporation, Fox's parent company from the Columbia Journalism Review:
Television Fox Broadcasting CompanyFox Television Stations
WNYW - New York City , WWOR - New York City , KTTV - Los Angeles , KCOP - Los Angeles , WFLD - Chicago , WPWR - Chicago , KMSP - Minneapolis , WFTC - Minneapolis , WTXF - Philadelphia , WFXT - Boston , WTTG - Washington D.C. , KDFW - Dallas , KDFI - Dallas , WJBK - Detroit , KUTP - Phoenix , KSAZ - Phoenix , WUTB - Baltimore , WRBW - Orlando , WOFL - Orlando , WOGX - Ocala , WAGA - Atlanta , KRIV - Houston , KTXH - Houston , WJW - Cleveland , WTVT - Tampa , KDVR - Denver , KTVI - St. Louis , WITI - Milwaukee , WDAF - Kansas City , KSTU - Salt Lake City , WHBQ - Memphis , WGHP - Greensboro , WBRC - Birmingham , KTBC - Austin BSkyBFOXTEL , SKYPerfecTV , STAR , Stream , Fox News Channel , Fox Movie Channel , FX , National Geographic Channel , SPEED Channel , Fox Sports Net , Fox Sports South , Fox Sports Pittsburgh , Fox Sports Southeast , Fox Sports Midwest , Fox Sports Rocky Mountain , Fox Sports Arizona , Fox Sports Northwest , Fox Sports West , Fox Sports West#2 , Fox Sports Detroit , Fox Sports Bay Area (with Rainbow Media Holdings) , Fox Sports Chicago (with Rainbow Media Holdings) , Fox Sports New England (with Rainbow Media) , Fox Sports New York (with Rainbow Media) , Fox Sports Ohio (with Rainbow Media) , Fox Sports Intermountain West , Fox Sports Southwest , Sunshine Network , Madison Square Garden Network Film 20th Century Fox , Fox Searchlight Pictures , Fox Television Studios Newspapers United StatesNew York Post United KingdomNews International , News of the World , The Sun , The Sunday Times , The Times AustraliaDaily Telegraph , Fiji Times , Gold Coast Bulletin , Herald Sun , Newsphotos , Newspix , Newstext , NT News , Post-Courier , Sunday Herald Sun , Sunday Mail , Sunday Tasmanian , Sunday Territorian , Sunday Times , The Advertiser , The Australian , The Courier-Mail , The Mercury , The Sunday Telegraph , Weekly Times Magazines InsideOut , donna hay , SmartSource , The Weekly Standard , TV Guide (partial) Books HarperCollins PublishersHarperCollins General Book Group , HarperCollins , Perennial , Cliff Street Books , The Ecco Press , Quill , HarperAudio , Regan Books , Amistad Press , Zondervan , Morrow/Avon , William Morrow , Avon , HarperTorch , Eos , HarperEntertainment , HarperSanFrancisco , HarperInformation , HarperBusiness , HarperResource , Access Travel , William Morrow Cookbooks , Branded Books Program HarperCollins Children's Book GroupGreenwillow Books , Joanna Cotler Books , Laura Geringer Books , HarperCollins HarperFestival , HarperTrophy , Tempest Other Los Angeles Dodgers , New York Rangers & New York Knicks (20% - Through partnership with Cablevision) , Los Angeles Kings (NHL, 40% option) , Los Angeles Lakers (NBA, 9.8% option) , Staples Center (40% owned by Fox/Liberty) , News America New Media , Fox Sports Radio Network , Broadsystem , Festival Records , Fox Interactive , Mushroom Records , National Rugby League , NDS , News Interactive , News Outdoor , Nursery World last updated 7/21/03
This is Microsoft. The right hand is in their pocket playing with that big lump of... liquid cash. The left hand is trying to get into your pocket for your... lump of cash. Somehow, an extra hand seems to be holding gullable/unwitting companies by their lumps of cash in some sort of vise and won't let go. With the cloth and distance between them, it's no wonder they don't communicate.
I agree. Every time I've seen some poor slob try to install Windows on their own machine, they've managed to screw it up just as bad as they would have if it were any decent Linux distro. Most base Windows users don't know to go download the new drivers for that sound card or video card. How about setting up that new machine and installing a firewall (software or hardware)? You're average user has problems with that as well. If I hear "my PDA won't hotsync with my new machine" one more time from someone who hasn't even installed the PDA software, I will hurt them badly...
What's that I hear over the cubicle wall? Gotta go. Hurtin' to do.
Whether or not the headline here on slash was misleading doesn't chage what jc42 is trying to say. Downloads are becoming the new CD single without a doubt. He/She's also right that this is something that most of us have complained about a lack of. Sure, the submitter didn't really RTFA, but that doesn't make the article or jc42's point less interesting to me - just misrepresented (not a first here, for sure). Someone with a Mod point please throw jc42's grandparent post an Insightful for me!
Imagine if activists started doing this. I could see some of the nuttier protesters trying to get away with similar antics (black bloc?). Politispam? Anti-e-spamlishment? Anything to disrupt normal business.
...Not that I would condone anything like this. My e-mail box gets full enough as it is and eventually the effectiveness would wear off as spam filters started getting more examples of the stuff. However, this illustrates just how wild the internet still remains - even with all of the legislation and legal action regarding technology. This guy just ran rampant it seems. It's kind of nice to know that people can still do that.
I've bought every game that Blizzard has released for the PC - multiple copies of some, like Warcraft. I've been a long standing fan of them. However, my recent experiences with them have left me bitter. Maybe it's because they've fallen so far in my eyes.
I do admit that Battlenet is their greatest achievement. It has come a long way from the simple meet and greet gaming that it started as. I even thought that Blizzard had a good shot at doing the first massively multiplayer game with immersive graphics, but that didn't happen and we are still waiting.
I also agree that Warcraft 3 has a great editor, but I feel that it was only included because the Warcraft series always had a map editor. It's part of the game's lineage. Without it would be like an id game without moddability. Some of the spark would be gone and a lot of people wouldn't even bother.
By the way, the cracks at megagames are barely legal if at all. Blizzard would love to see them disappear as much as the rest of the publishers that end up cracked. I'm not saying that a no-CD crack is not useful, but you have definitely voided your support.
But to say Diablo 2 doesn't have a whole lot of re-playabliity is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard said about Diablo 2
My main complaint regarding re-playability is the linear nature of the story. I guess I have been a bit spoiled by Baldur's Gate/Neverwinter Nights having quests that branch off of the main story and the ability to become evil if someone really wanted to. After the second time getting through all of D2, the third (hell or nightmare skill if I remember) was really stale and I wanted to skip through the more tedious parts. It's merely opinion, I know - but that was my experience.
How have they had lack of support?
I have been waiting for an answer to my original support e-mails for over a year. The 1.09 patch was purported to fix my issues according to it's change log, but instead broke the whole game (BSOD or hang on run thanks to DirectX issues). By the time the 1.10 beta patch was out, I was already disheartened and had un-installed the game in disgust. Now that the official 1.10 patch is out months later, I have other things I would rather spend my time on. Additionally, they still owen me a replacement play disk, which I'll go into in a moment. Again, only my experience, but there are others out there of like mind.
I really enjoyed the Diablo universe - especially the first time through - but these things and the bnetd open server debacle severly tarnished my opinion of Blizzard. I honestly don't know if I would plop down the cash for any new product of theirs.
And, without installing the movie files, the game is well under 1 GB. It still has a large system footprint, around 700 MB, if I remember correctly, but don't exagerate. Makes you look like an inflamatory whiner.)
I ran an install without the video and got sick of having a second CD handy just to play the videos. Further, I managed to wear out my original play disk (my friends still wanted to play it enough at LAN parties quite a while back). Though it pains me to do so, I ended up doing the full install and no CD crack thing to save both my drive and my backup play disk (which requires another crack just to use). I know that piracy is a problem, but here I am - a paying customer - and I have to resort to cracker methods just to run something I paid for. I sent my original play disk in to be replaced back in April in accordance to the procedures that don't seem to be on Blizzard's site anymore and I still haven't received a replacement. I'm not trying to whine, I'm just a very disappointed former fan.
Once selected, the inspector gets a few days of training using an olfactometer, a device that resembles a radar gun held to the nose, and then receives a certificate and Nasal Ranger patch.
Too many possible jokes... Head going to explode...
Is the nasal ranger patch a scratch and sniff?
Do nasal rangers get a specially shaped vehicle?
Do nasal rangers have to brown nose?
Can a nasal ranger certify potent bodily functions?
This is why nobody is playing it anymore and has lost devoutr fans, such as myself. Blizzard takes forever to patch it and the 1.09 patch borked on a lot of machines (mine included). When the patch that was supposed to fix things specific to me broke more than it fixed, I was done. Since the game follows a direct story line, there isn't a whole lot of re-playability as well. I've always though that Blizzard should open Diablo up to modding to avoid it getting stale, but they seem to be paranoid of letting anyone else use/see code or assets - to their own downfall, IMO.
Will I even download the new patch? No. I've long since removed that 2GB piece of garbage from my machine and refuse to go throught the CD shuffle of re-installing it, only to bore myself with it again. Diablo and Diablo II are great games that broke a lot of new ground, but Blizzard's support and lack of modding have ruined them for me at least.
Forgot to post the rates Omsoft charges. Sorry. I pay $52.95 per month for the whole shebang - known to them as "Static IP Address Pricing". Repeat after me (and smile): "No blocked ports"...
You're probably going to get a lot of this particular answer (or at least I hope), but if you live in California Omsoft is incredible. Not only do they allow you to run your own server, they encourage it. They are responsive to user requests and very knowledgable. Sure it's only a DSL connection, but my site's been happy about. Good luck!
"Why not just put a couple developers on your payroll and have them work on stuff that's important to you and release it for all the distributions?"
Novell isn't only trying to build technology, they need to re-build their brand. SuSE is a very popular distro with lots of foreign/EU supporters and users. If Novell could get these markets to take them seriously - or even better: like them - they would gain substantial market clout. Novell is also quickly falling behind in relevance to today's tech market. Their previous attempts at adopting new tech (the Win32/NT clients) weren't the big hits that they had hoped for. I believe that they don't think they have the time to build something from scratch. They need to get deeper into these markets and do it in some sort of turn-key fasion.
You're neglecting the Wow Factor. Wow Factor is street cred among most geeks. As an avid case modder (I re-use old parts though, I usually don't buy new), half the fun is having someone say "that's a computer?". (Please be gentle to my very low bandwidth - personal DSL - server) You can see two basic examples of my own work making odd firewalls here. They're nothing special, but I get the "that's a computer" stuff all the time about these two and they aren't even the good ones, they just happen to be the two I made for my own use.
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In a Rage, the Voodoo was blown away by TNT.
Does BSD count?
Television
Fox Broadcasting Company Fox Television Stations
WNYW - New York City , WWOR - New York City , KTTV - Los Angeles , KCOP - Los Angeles , WFLD - Chicago , WPWR - Chicago , KMSP - Minneapolis , WFTC - Minneapolis , WTXF - Philadelphia , WFXT - Boston , WTTG - Washington D.C. , KDFW - Dallas , KDFI - Dallas , WJBK - Detroit , KUTP - Phoenix , KSAZ - Phoenix , WUTB - Baltimore , WRBW - Orlando , WOFL - Orlando , WOGX - Ocala , WAGA - Atlanta , KRIV - Houston , KTXH - Houston , WJW - Cleveland , WTVT - Tampa , KDVR - Denver , KTVI - St. Louis , WITI - Milwaukee , WDAF - Kansas City , KSTU - Salt Lake City , WHBQ - Memphis , WGHP - Greensboro , WBRC - Birmingham , KTBC - Austin
BSkyBFOXTEL , SKYPerfecTV , STAR , Stream , Fox News Channel , Fox Movie Channel , FX , National Geographic Channel , SPEED Channel , Fox Sports Net , Fox Sports South , Fox Sports Pittsburgh , Fox Sports Southeast , Fox Sports Midwest , Fox Sports Rocky Mountain , Fox Sports Arizona , Fox Sports Northwest , Fox Sports West , Fox Sports West#2 , Fox Sports Detroit , Fox Sports Bay Area (with Rainbow Media Holdings) , Fox Sports Chicago (with Rainbow Media Holdings) , Fox Sports New England (with Rainbow Media) , Fox Sports New York (with Rainbow Media) , Fox Sports Ohio (with Rainbow Media) , Fox Sports Intermountain West , Fox Sports Southwest , Sunshine Network , Madison Square Garden Network
Film
20th Century Fox , Fox Searchlight Pictures , Fox Television Studios
Newspapers
United StatesNew York Post
United KingdomNews International , News of the World , The Sun , The Sunday Times , The Times
AustraliaDaily Telegraph , Fiji Times , Gold Coast Bulletin , Herald Sun , Newsphotos , Newspix , Newstext , NT News , Post-Courier , Sunday Herald Sun , Sunday Mail , Sunday Tasmanian , Sunday Territorian , Sunday Times , The Advertiser , The Australian , The Courier-Mail , The Mercury , The Sunday Telegraph , Weekly Times
Magazines
InsideOut , donna hay , SmartSource , The Weekly Standard , TV Guide (partial)
Books
HarperCollins PublishersHarperCollins General Book Group , HarperCollins , Perennial , Cliff Street Books , The Ecco Press , Quill , HarperAudio , Regan Books , Amistad Press , Zondervan , Morrow/Avon , William Morrow , Avon , HarperTorch , Eos , HarperEntertainment , HarperSanFrancisco , HarperInformation , HarperBusiness , HarperResource , Access Travel , William Morrow Cookbooks , Branded Books Program
HarperCollins Children's Book GroupGreenwillow Books , Joanna Cotler Books , Laura Geringer Books , HarperCollins HarperFestival , HarperTrophy , Tempest
Other
Los Angeles Dodgers , New York Rangers & New York Knicks (20% - Through partnership with Cablevision) , Los Angeles Kings (NHL, 40% option) , Los Angeles Lakers (NBA, 9.8% option) , Staples Center (40% owned by Fox/Liberty) , News America New Media , Fox Sports Radio Network , Broadsystem , Festival Records , Fox Interactive , Mushroom Records , National Rugby League , NDS , News Interactive , News Outdoor , Nursery World
last updated 7/21/03
Trust me - as an American - some forms of democratic control just don't work.
Can anyone confirm whether it blocks ads from Symantec? I bet it doesn't.
What's that I hear over the cubicle wall? Gotta go. Hurtin' to do.
Whether or not the headline here on slash was misleading doesn't chage what jc42 is trying to say. Downloads are becoming the new CD single without a doubt. He/She's also right that this is something that most of us have complained about a lack of. Sure, the submitter didn't really RTFA, but that doesn't make the article or jc42's point less interesting to me - just misrepresented (not a first here, for sure). Someone with a Mod point please throw jc42's grandparent post an Insightful for me!
Don't forget that Google also sells technology. In fact, that business is growing for them.
...Not that I would condone anything like this. My e-mail box gets full enough as it is and eventually the effectiveness would wear off as spam filters started getting more examples of the stuff. However, this illustrates just how wild the internet still remains - even with all of the legislation and legal action regarding technology. This guy just ran rampant it seems. It's kind of nice to know that people can still do that.
The proper term is assimilated.
Don't give them any ideas. I don't want to want one of these.
They did. They sent him a free 700:1 LCD. It may not be cash, but it has definite value. Bribery only depends on the currency accepted.
I do admit that Battlenet is their greatest achievement. It has come a long way from the simple meet and greet gaming that it started as. I even thought that Blizzard had a good shot at doing the first massively multiplayer game with immersive graphics, but that didn't happen and we are still waiting.
I also agree that Warcraft 3 has a great editor, but I feel that it was only included because the Warcraft series always had a map editor. It's part of the game's lineage. Without it would be like an id game without moddability. Some of the spark would be gone and a lot of people wouldn't even bother.
By the way, the cracks at megagames are barely legal if at all. Blizzard would love to see them disappear as much as the rest of the publishers that end up cracked. I'm not saying that a no-CD crack is not useful, but you have definitely voided your support.
I really enjoyed the Diablo universe - especially the first time through - but these things and the bnetd open server debacle severly tarnished my opinion of Blizzard. I honestly don't know if I would plop down the cash for any new product of theirs.
I ran an install without the video and got sick of having a second CD handy just to play the videos. Further, I managed to wear out my original play disk (my friends still wanted to play it enough at LAN parties quite a while back). Though it pains me to do so, I ended up doing the full install and no CD crack thing to save both my drive and my backup play disk (which requires another crack just to use). I know that piracy is a problem, but here I am - a paying customer - and I have to resort to cracker methods just to run something I paid for. I sent my original play disk in to be replaced back in April in accordance to the procedures that don't seem to be on Blizzard's site anymore and I still haven't received a replacement. I'm not trying to whine, I'm just a very disappointed former fan.- Is the nasal ranger patch a scratch and sniff?
- Do nasal rangers get a specially shaped vehicle?
- Do nasal rangers have to brown nose?
- Can a nasal ranger certify potent bodily functions?
- Do nasal rangers get to write stink tickets?
It hurts...Will I even download the new patch? No. I've long since removed that 2GB piece of garbage from my machine and refuse to go throught the CD shuffle of re-installing it, only to bore myself with it again. Diablo and Diablo II are great games that broke a lot of new ground, but Blizzard's support and lack of modding have ruined them for me at least.
Not trying to troll, just being honest.
Forgot to post the rates Omsoft charges. Sorry. I pay $52.95 per month for the whole shebang - known to them as "Static IP Address Pricing". Repeat after me (and smile): "No blocked ports"...
You're probably going to get a lot of this particular answer (or at least I hope), but if you live in California Omsoft is incredible. Not only do they allow you to run your own server, they encourage it. They are responsive to user requests and very knowledgable. Sure it's only a DSL connection, but my site's been happy about. Good luck!
:) Spankmonkey is the firewall for my network. It gets spanked all the time.
You're neglecting the Wow Factor. Wow Factor is street cred among most geeks. As an avid case modder (I re-use old parts though, I usually don't buy new), half the fun is having someone say "that's a computer?". (Please be gentle to my very low bandwidth - personal DSL - server) You can see two basic examples of my own work making odd firewalls here. They're nothing special, but I get the "that's a computer" stuff all the time about these two and they aren't even the good ones, they just happen to be the two I made for my own use.