Q: What can I do with the music that I buy on Peer Impact?
A: You can store your music in your Peer Impact(TM) Library, burn the music to a CD, or transfer it to a portable device. Peer Impact enables all of the same flexibility as the popular pay services with a very unique twist; you can now share that music with other members to earn Peer Cash(TM)
the concept sounds pretty reasonable to me too.. except that instead of credits I'd go a ratios. Buy your initial song(s) and then share them. The number of bytes you share equals the number of bytes you can download for free.
WTF, stupid mods.. parent has no data to back up his claims and you mod him interesting.. sheesh.
Even worse, the last line saying "I don't need any hard stats and figures to know that Firefox has made a more profound impact on people and the internet than many other things in a long time."
Well without hard stats and figures, WTF do you have??
No he's saying that any 'clued' user will open the SFX Archive with his/her preferred compression program (WinRar or WinZip). Blindly double-clicking the SFX is something stupid users do. And frankly, its probably not a bad thing.
Stupid users are the ones who tend to be leechers anyway, getting them off of the Net would be beneficial to all.
I just feel sorry for whoever ends up supporting them.
With open-source anybody is free to provide this service. If the author only has the time/motivation to do barely-tested releases, why reject his code? Someone else with the desire can do testing and make releases to a wider audience that are more stable, and users can choose between the two options (or more). These can even form without any direct arrangement between the various parties.
Here's a question. What's stopping a malicious hacker from taking half-ass tested patch and inserting a payload into it and then publishing it as "stable & tested"?? How do you know its good when you can get patches from untrusted/unknown sources or someone's personal page?
How many of you actually check that the patch is good before blindly applying it?
PC gaming isn't going to go away. And the biggest advantage it has over console gaming is upgrading one component at a time.
e.g.
5 years ago I bought an 1Ghz Athlon with 1GB of PC133 SDRAM along with a GF2MX 32MB vid card. It played every game I card to play back then.
Today the GF2MX is no longer sufficient so I bought a second hand 9800pro and overclocked my Athlon to 1.33Ghz. Even with the outdated SDRAM, I can play EVERY game out there now with decent frame rates (~25-30fps) at a decent resolution (1024x768). And how much did I pay for this card? $115.
So over, the course of 5 years, I only had to pay $115 to keep current and be able to play every game to date. Sounds like a hell of a better deal than shelling out $400+ for a console every few yeras.
During basic and my earlier training course they woke us up at 5am sharp and did PT (physical training) for about an hour. Breakfast was not until 6:30.
umm dude.. you don't go to star wars and look for the "grey shades and multiple conflicting motivations of complex human behavior".... watch Schindler's List or Requiem for a Dream of you want something that has depth.
Watch Star Wars to see Natalie Portman in a nice skin tight outfit:) oh, and the special effects!
I agree with this actually. I myself have sat in front of linux install screens pouring over the individual packages and unselecting those I don't want or need. And this is after I've already chosen a profile!
I'm liking my ibook more and more.. now if only Yahoo and MS would make their messengers feature equivalent on the mac!!!! grrr..
you know, you almost made me reassemble my windows box and re-install MOO3 just because I couldn't figure out what the heck you were talking about (since obviously I didn't have the problem).
to quote: " the amount of damage to distroy a hull with a listed space of 200 is 200 points"
Now.. what weapons didn't work again? missiles were ok, but didn't do enough damage.. if you really wanted to bust out the firepower, carriers were the way to go.. they took apart enemy ships opening a can of tuna with a shotgun.:) Guard those carriers with enough PD ships and you were good to go:)
I do agree with the colony management though.. it did get tedious and was lacking the "big picture" capability of MOO2, but I didn't stop me.. eventually I did let the AI take over after I had built the colony enough to be of use to me.
Yeah Star Control 2 was great.. I remember playing that game for a while.. same with MOO2 - I would still be playing that game if I could figure out who I lent it too!:) but MOO3 can't be ignored either.. people complain that its too hard? bah.. not true.. the learning curve wasn't steep at all.. the only thing I hated about it was that the armada's had to have a pre-defined number of ships from different types...
I think you missed his point... you have to ask yourself, for what audience was FireFox intended?
Granted, the parent of this thread reads/., so at the very least you can assume he's somewhat technically inclined. However, for the mass market audience that FireFox targeted, I can almost guarantee that none of them are interested in hunting for documentation for a problem that they probably can't even articulate.
Last but not least, intolerant attitudes don't help anybody.
"Where stealing technologies from big commercial company is good(tm), and company that protect their assets are bad(tm). Company stealing from open source is Bad(tm) and open source that protect their asset(!!!???) is good(tm)."
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geez.. at least check out the website first:
Q: What can I do with the music that I buy on Peer Impact?
A: You can store your music in your Peer Impact(TM) Library, burn the music to a CD, or transfer it to a portable device. Peer Impact enables all of the same flexibility as the popular pay services with a very unique twist; you can now share that music with other members to earn Peer Cash(TM)
the concept sounds pretty reasonable to me too.. except that instead of credits I'd go a ratios. Buy your initial song(s) and then share them. The number of bytes you share equals the number of bytes you can download for free.
Ah, the good old BBS days...
WTF, stupid mods.. parent has no data to back up his claims and you mod him interesting.. sheesh.
Even worse, the last line saying "I don't need any hard stats and figures to know that Firefox has made a more profound impact on people and the internet than many other things in a long time."
Well without hard stats and figures, WTF do you have??
WTF? How come I have ever heard of this lawsuit before today??
Nothing on Groklaw...
No he's saying that any 'clued' user will open the SFX Archive with his/her preferred compression program (WinRar or WinZip). Blindly double-clicking the SFX is something stupid users do. And frankly, its probably not a bad thing.
Stupid users are the ones who tend to be leechers anyway, getting them off of the Net would be beneficial to all.
I just feel sorry for whoever ends up supporting them.
Here's a question. What's stopping a malicious hacker from taking half-ass tested patch and inserting a payload into it and then publishing it as "stable & tested"?? How do you know its good when you can get patches from untrusted/unknown sources or someone's personal page?
How many of you actually check that the patch is good before blindly applying it?
This is actually insightful, and unlike the rest of /., isn't bashing MS like its going out of style.
PC gaming isn't going to go away. And the biggest advantage it has over console gaming is upgrading one component at a time.
e.g.
5 years ago I bought an 1Ghz Athlon with 1GB of PC133 SDRAM along with a GF2MX 32MB vid card. It played every game I card to play back then.
Today the GF2MX is no longer sufficient so I bought a second hand 9800pro and overclocked my Athlon to 1.33Ghz. Even with the outdated SDRAM, I can play EVERY game out there now with decent frame rates (~25-30fps) at a decent resolution (1024x768). And how much did I pay for this card? $115.
So over, the course of 5 years, I only had to pay $115 to keep current and be able to play every game to date. Sounds like a hell of a better deal than shelling out $400+ for a console every few yeras.
define young :) lol..I think I'm still young! But alas, being an officer means that I've gotten lazy...
Therefore works for me.
During basic and my earlier training course they woke us up at 5am sharp and did PT (physical training) for about an hour. Breakfast was not until 6:30.
I was in the best shape of my life.
umm dude.. you don't go to star wars and look for the "grey shades and multiple conflicting motivations of complex human behavior".... watch Schindler's List or Requiem for a Dream of you want something that has depth.
:) oh, and the special effects!
Watch Star Wars to see Natalie Portman in a nice skin tight outfit
Yup, actually RH7.2 is what is running on my former router box right now. The installation of that particular distro was somewhat painful..
ah yes.. I've never used Debian unfortunately.. my experience is all from Red Hat's products... not even Fedora
I suspect that its due to being able to hold someone liable in case something went wrong.. that and the perception of lower quality.
I agree with this actually. I myself have sat in front of linux install screens pouring over the individual packages and unselecting those I don't want or need. And this is after I've already chosen a profile!
I'm liking my ibook more and more.. now if only Yahoo and MS would make their messengers feature equivalent on the mac!!!! grrr..
let the wars begin! ... :)
Re: Hull hit points..
0 Combat%20Mechanics%20Guide.php
:) Guard those carriers with enough PD ships and you were good to go :)
you know, you almost made me reassemble my windows box and re-install MOO3 just because I couldn't figure out what the heck you were talking about (since obviously I didn't have the problem).
but anyway, regarding hull hit points.. here you go!
http://www.moo3.at/strategies/ship_design/Space%2
to quote: " the amount of damage to distroy a hull with a listed space of 200 is 200 points"
Now.. what weapons didn't work again? missiles were ok, but didn't do enough damage.. if you really wanted to bust out the firepower, carriers were the way to go.. they took apart enemy ships opening a can of tuna with a shotgun.
I do agree with the colony management though.. it did get tedious and was lacking the "big picture" capability of MOO2, but I didn't stop me.. eventually I did let the AI take over after I had built the colony enough to be of use to me.
Yeah Star Control 2 was great.. I remember playing that game for a while.. same with MOO2 - I would still be playing that game if I could figure out who I lent it too! :) but MOO3 can't be ignored either.. people complain that its too hard? bah.. not true.. the learning curve wasn't steep at all.. the only thing I hated about it was that the armada's had to have a pre-defined number of ships from different types...
I think you missed his point... you have to ask yourself, for what audience was FireFox intended?
/., so at the very least you can assume he's somewhat technically inclined. However, for the mass market audience that FireFox targeted, I can almost guarantee that none of them are interested in hunting for documentation for a problem that they probably can't even articulate.
Granted, the parent of this thread reads
Last but not least, intolerant attitudes don't help anybody.
well that was informative....
thanks for putting it so politely.. I wasn't going to be as nice :)
lol.. I'd mod you up (+1 funny or insightful) if I could!
How the f*ck is the parent labeled interesting? Just because it's an anti-MS rant that does not contribute in any meaningful way to the topic?
Sheesh.. I hope I see this in meta-mod.
"Where stealing technologies from big commercial company is good(tm), and company that protect their assets are bad(tm). Company stealing from open source is Bad(tm) and open source that protect their asset(!!!???) is good(tm)."
man how I wish I had mod points right now..
you're one to talk about conspiracy badges..