Ya know what, I don't care. I just found my old Sega Genesis behind some stuff when moving furniture, and hooked it up. I am now happily playing Phantasy Star III and enjoying it immensely - it's been long enough that I don't remember enough to spoil it. By today's standards the graphics suck, but it just doesn't matter - I like text adventures, too. I just wish I could figure out a way to reverse-engineer/port the game to Linux, that would be w4y k00l!
My e-mail to their "suggestion" address had a subject line "Your new News format SUCKS SWAMP WATER!" (Yeah, I more or less borrowed the line from a Porky's movie!) I told them the ONLY thing they did right was to use larger type, EVERYTHING else stank. But I didn't see any "ActiveX" (because I'm using Netscape on AIX, ya think?), just one HUMUNGOUS blinking gif.
I suggest that anybody used to the old format take a look and tell them what you think.
Did anyone ever manage to "crack" the (Circuit City) DivX scheme? If so it might be worth picking up those "remaindered" disks as a source of cheap movies.
I don't know about your "javascript writing 0's" example, but I have seen a site set up so that clicking on a link will crash (100% guaranteed) any Windoze machine. Linux and similar systems are not affected, you just get a banner showing Bill Gates getting hit in the face with a pie.
But I seem to remember that the link you have to click to do this says something like "Do not click this link" so maybe it's OK.
I've been fighting the temptation to put one like that on my website (jsoftco.8m.com - shameless plug!).
What's wrong with Microsoft is that they are a monopoly and have far too much tmarket share and influence. Here is an opportunity to get more market penetration for Open Source systems (Linux, *BSD, etc.), and more people trained in using these systems. Saying "employers are more likely to hire people with MS training so we'll just keep training people on MS" WILL NOT HELP!! We need to break this viscious cycle and get more people using the Open Source, non-MS, systems. I personally use RedHat with the Gnome desktop, and StarOffice for any word processing, and I have used various versions of Windows a lot - Windows is not significantly easier! I believe that half the current Windows users could move to Linux/*BSD without any real trouble (not counting installs, but most Windows users don't do installs anyway, and I could tell a few really nasty stories about Win2K installs).
Don't give Microsoft any breaks, they don't deserve them. We should not be open-minded about Microsoft, we need to push for any advantage for OSS, any way to cut Microsoft down a notch. They are not fighting fair, why should we?
While the selection for Linux is limited to an old version of the plugin, there is at least one system with NO Flash plugin at all - AIX. I happened to be checking Slashdot on a quick break at work and found this discussion. If I hit one of these Flash sites I get a popup telling me I need a plugin, but then there ain't one. And at home, at least some of the "Flash" sites require the version 5 plugin (not available for Linux), or the "Shockwave" plugin (also not available for Linux).
I agree with the KISS principle of website design. Maybe we'll be lucky - someone will exploit this bug, and then someone will sue Macromedia and they'll go bankrupt and there won't be any more FlashTrash. (Unfortunately if that happened, Micro$quish would buy them out and integrate Flash into Windoze - they could replace the "Active Desktop" with the "Hyperactive Desktop"!!)
This happens because most of the people who are now managers LIKE being managers, and ASSUME that everyone else should like to be managers.
I ran into something similar, although not as drastic, involving a grad-school education program the company ran. Normally, one took one class per semester, but you could ask permission to take two. One semester they were giving two classes I felt were both critical, so I asked. There was a long argument because my manager simply couldn't believe I would risk a hit to my performance rating by spending so much time and effort on classes instead of doing more work that would lead to raises and/or promotions, but eventually (he was actually a pretty good manager once you got past the pro-management mindset) he realized that my goals were different than his. I got to take the two classes that semester.
I have seen other examples of this management mindset that I personally disagree with - a first line manager of a department doing VERY interesting work (compiler development) leaving that to take a job as SECOND-line manager of a department doing horrible grunt work (testing). To the managers, being a manager is the be-all and end-all, it matters not what you are managing, and anyone who doesn't want to be a manager must have something wrong with them.
In this case, try escalating it a few levels, there's a faint chance you may work you way up to someone with an ounce of brains - if that fails, pack your parachute and get ready to bail out.
Please, not all Pascal programmers are closed-minded. I happen to like Pascal, I happen to like strong typing. I rarely have to "get around it" (well, once in a great while), and a strongly-typed language is (IMHO) easier to debug because the compiler finds most of your bugs for you. I just find it much easier than C, which with its somewhat weaker typing, and its "an array is a pointer and by the way just about everything else is a pointer too", makes it very easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
I program in C when the occasion demands, and I have programmed in Fortran and PL/I and APL and Basic and even a little Lisp and Prolog, and I am starting to learn Perl. But I strongly believe that for general programming, Pascal is best - especially a highly enhanced Pascal like Delphi. I find it to be the tool that fits best in my hand.
And one other thing - I very much believe that Pascal, precisely because of its strong typing, is by far the best language to use for teaching beginners (and I do have some teaching experience). Enforces discipline and careful thinking about the data. And once you get the data properly designed, the code will just about write itself.
No, it's not legal, it's just who has the deepest pockets. If MAD magazine, or MAD TV, or SNL, or one of those outfits does a parody of some copyrighted characters, they don't get into trouble. It's the little guy who can't afford to defend himself who gets swatted down. Let some guy in the Cayman Islands, or Upper Whateverstan, put the mods on a web-site there, then tell DraggingBallz "Yes, Sir, I tried to withdraw it, but that guy won't listen to me. You'll have to talk to him about it."
Hey, there's how to make a fortune, set up a hosting service in one of these little countries that doesn't give SQUAT about big dumb US corporations, and put all this kind of stuff on the Web there.
I really want to get hold of (a stable) 1.2, the book I bought is at the 1.2 level and I get annoyed when the book has stuff I want but can't use in 1.0.4. I use The Gimp a lot, doing wallpapers for my website (http://jsoftco.8m.com - shameless plug!!), and I like it. I am continually finding new and better tools and gadgets (except for one thing I want, I may have to write my own plug-in, and that sounds like work, darn it!).
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"The real reason for cracking down on abadonware sites is because people who download and play free older games are less motivated to purchase newer games." Hey, has anyone looked at the hardware requirements for most of the new games coming out? 500MHz, 800Mhz Pentiums, 3D accelerator video cards with 32M of video memory, all sorts of stuff like that. My computer won't run this stuff! I have at home a machine with a 180MHz Pentium-I, and a non-accelerated video card with maybe 4M or so of storage sitting in a damn ISA slot. It runs Red Hat 6.1 really nicely, and I am not motivated to shell out the bucks (my wife is even less motivated to shell out the bucks) for a new "state of the art" machine.
I am simply not going to buy those new games, the hardware requirements are too great. So I play the older games which I still have, or any "new" old games I can get hold of. In fact, the delay involved in porting older Windoze games to Linux works to my advantage here. And I am working on getting Dosemu and/or Wine running just for this reason.
The increased load on the Patent Office for your proposal is not a drawback, it's an advantage. It would keep them too busy to issue more of these stupid software paptents that have been going around lately. Anything that would bog down the Patent Office and prevent more of these idiotic "one click shopping" type of patents has to be good!
I have to agree with this one. I have a lot of programming experience, but none of it (to date) is in Linux, and very little has been in Unix of any sort. I do want to get into Linux programming, and I think writing a plugin is a good place to start.
In fact, since this is all open source, I plan to take somebody else's plugin which doesn't quite do what I want, but almost, and modifying it. Since I use The Gimp a lot (I have a web site with original wallpaper), and I know what I want to do and can't quite find, it makes it a good place to start for me.
The best place for you to start is with something you would like to use but can't find.
Even when they have it they don't do a good job of selling it. I spotted a Linux game (actually, 2 of them) in the local Electronic Boutique, and told my wife to get one of them for me for Christmas. I told her what store, even where in the store. Unfortunately it had a long name, and the part of the name I gave her was in smaller print, so she didn't find it.
So she asked the salesman and he couldn't find it. Then he looked on the computer and said it was discontinued and they didn't have it and couldn't get it.
Well, I checked the website (Loki) and it was listed as available but the shipping was horrendous, so I went down to EB - the game was right there on the shelf, right where I had seen it a month earlier - and I bought it (I hate buying my own Christmas presents, but by now I didn't see any choice!). Of course when I got to the register the salesman said something like "You sure you want this? It's for Linux".
I agree with the "pretty boxes" argument made earlier - I like to go in the store and browse the pretty boxes. I don't know what the solution is, but I do know we need one!
If it costs $7-9 per month to provide the service, why aren't there companies that CHARGE $7-9 to cover COSTS, and run ad banners to provide PROFITS? That way they wouldn't LOSE money (even if they didn't make much). I certainly would prefer to pay $10/month with ads instead of $20/month to a "full service" ISP.
Personally, I think it was released by Bill Gates and Micro$quish just to give Linux a bad name. This is just exactly the sort of stunt I would expect from them.
Most KDE programs run fine on the Gnome desktop, as long as you have the libraries installed. I run Gnome on Red Hat, but I spend^H^H^H^H^Hwaste incredible amounts of time playing Shisen-Sho, a KDE game. And I have found Gminesweeper (or whatever it's called) quite an adequate replacement for the Windoze version.
Solitaire... well, that's another matter, ALL of the Linux versions I have tried seem to have slightly different rules from the Windoze version.
Is it just me, or has anyone else had this problem? I click on the "press Release" link and get a completely blank page. "View source" shows that there is a little something there, but I'm not sure what it is.
I'm using Netscape 4.75 on AIX, is Micro$quish hiding their press release from people not using M$ browsers? (If so, fsck them!!!)
I don't know why I care anyway, I'd much rather use Star Office!
It all depends on your employment contract. Back in the late 80's there was a flap about employee developed programs which had been contributed to an internal BBS, and who owned them. Several of us talked to a company lawyer, and he pointed out that most of their contracts specifically gave the company rights to programs developed on their own time.
But it turned out that I was an exception, as I had been with the company longer, and the older contract I had signed only gave the company rights to "ideas and inventions", and software is neither - it is an "expression" of an idea. So as long as I had put my programs on the company BBS before they came up with a solid contract that you now had to sign before posting, and I had not gone back and signed off retroactively, those programs were still mine.
Of course, there was still a Catch-22. Since the company was in the software business, if I tried to sell my programs (even as shareware) I was competing with the company! Hence it was a conflict of interest, and possible grounds for dismissal. I could give the programs away for free, or I could hang on until I left the company and then sell them. Four or five years later I took an early retirement/buyout, and guess what? Those programs were totally obsolete! I'll give you a great price on a program that lets you mount a 720K 3.5in floppy on your PC-XT. Or one that lets you control the color palette on your EGA display.
I guess the moral is, check out stuff like this before you start work, and if it's that important to you, take a different job.
Duration is only PART of the problem. The other part (well, one other part) is the transient nature of businesses in this industry, and the short lifetimes of some products. Copyright should expire if a product is allowed to go "out of print" for more than a short period (say six months or a year). Look at all the "Abandonware" sites.
If you CAN NOT buy a product (program, game, recording) because the company has folded, or even because the copyright holder simply feels there is not enough profit in continuing to produce it, the copyright should be voided. There are lots of old recordings I would really love to get on CD (or MP3, or whatever) which were published on vinyl or cassette, but the record companies simply felt it was not worth reissuing in the new medium. There are games I used to play on my Intellivision (yes, I had one of those) which I would love to be able to play on my Linux PC.
Copyrights are necessary for new works, but there needs to be much more stringent control to make them expire when they no longer serve a purpose.
So now MICRO$QUISH gets to choose which "legacy" programs Whistler will support, and which ones it WILL NOT support, just by what it includes in this database? I can see it now, the companies that kiss Bill Gates' butt will be "in", and those that try to go it alone, especially those who manage to piss off Micro$squish, will be "out".
Micro$quish has FAR TOO MUCH POWER ALREADY. And I'll bet they don't have any plans to allow users to supplement this database to make their own favorites easier to use, either. Somebody needs to figure out how to hack into that compatibility database SOON!
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A lot of M$NBC pages simply do not work on *ix boxes, including this one. I am on an AIX machine at work, I have had trouble with M$NBC pages at home on Linux too. You get down to the arrow that says "complete story" and a couple of box ads below that, then NOTHING!!!! View page source shows the HTML is there, it just won't display. There is some kind of link to some weird site that hangs it up.
But then, what do we expect, it's **M$**NBC. (Not surprising that M$ would want to hide the story on THIS one.)
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Ya know what, I don't care. I just found my old Sega Genesis behind some stuff when moving furniture, and hooked it up. I am now happily playing Phantasy Star III and enjoying it immensely - it's been long enough that I don't remember enough to spoil it. By today's standards the graphics suck, but it just doesn't matter - I like text adventures, too. I just wish I could figure out a way to reverse-engineer/port the game to Linux, that would be w4y k00l!
My e-mail to their "suggestion" address had a subject line "Your new News format SUCKS SWAMP WATER!" (Yeah, I more or less borrowed the line from a Porky's movie!) I told them the ONLY thing they did right was to use larger type, EVERYTHING else stank. But I didn't see any "ActiveX" (because I'm using Netscape on AIX, ya think?), just one HUMUNGOUS blinking gif.
I suggest that anybody used to the old format take a look and tell them what you think.
Did anyone ever manage to "crack" the (Circuit City) DivX scheme? If so it might be worth picking up those "remaindered" disks as a source of cheap movies.
I don't know about your "javascript writing 0's" example, but I have seen a site set up so that clicking on a link will crash (100% guaranteed) any Windoze machine. Linux and similar systems are not affected, you just get a banner showing Bill Gates getting hit in the face with a pie.
But I seem to remember that the link you have to click to do this says something like "Do not click this link" so maybe it's OK.
I've been fighting the temptation to put one like that on my website (jsoftco.8m.com - shameless plug!).
What's wrong with Microsoft is that they are a monopoly and have far too much tmarket share and influence. Here is an opportunity to get more market penetration for Open Source systems (Linux, *BSD, etc.), and more people trained in using these systems. Saying "employers are more likely to hire people with MS training so we'll just keep training people on MS" WILL NOT HELP!! We need to break this viscious cycle and get more people using the Open Source, non-MS, systems. I personally use RedHat with the Gnome desktop, and StarOffice for any word processing, and I have used various versions of Windows a lot - Windows is not significantly easier! I believe that half the current Windows users could move to Linux/*BSD without any real trouble (not counting installs, but most Windows users don't do installs anyway, and I could tell a few really nasty stories about Win2K installs).
Don't give Microsoft any breaks, they don't deserve them. We should not be open-minded about Microsoft, we need to push for any advantage for OSS, any way to cut Microsoft down a notch. They are not fighting fair, why should we?
While the selection for Linux is limited to an old version of the plugin, there is at least one system with NO Flash plugin at all - AIX. I happened to be checking Slashdot on a quick break at work and found this discussion. If I hit one of these Flash sites I get a popup telling me I need a plugin, but then there ain't one. And at home, at least some of the "Flash" sites require the version 5 plugin (not available for Linux), or the "Shockwave" plugin (also not available for Linux).
I agree with the KISS principle of website design. Maybe we'll be lucky - someone will exploit this bug, and then someone will sue Macromedia and they'll go bankrupt and there won't be any more FlashTrash. (Unfortunately if that happened, Micro$quish would buy them out and integrate Flash into Windoze - they could replace the "Active Desktop" with the "Hyperactive Desktop"!!)
This happens because most of the people who are now managers LIKE being managers, and ASSUME that everyone else should like to be managers.
I ran into something similar, although not as drastic, involving a grad-school education program the company ran. Normally, one took one class per semester, but you could ask permission to take two. One semester they were giving two classes I felt were both critical, so I asked. There was a long argument because my manager simply couldn't believe I would risk a hit to my performance rating by spending so much time and effort on classes instead of doing more work that would lead to raises and/or promotions, but eventually (he was actually a pretty good manager once you got past the pro-management mindset) he realized that my goals were different than his. I got to take the two classes that semester.
I have seen other examples of this management mindset that I personally disagree with - a first line manager of a department doing VERY interesting work (compiler development) leaving that to take a job as SECOND-line manager of a department doing horrible grunt work (testing). To the managers, being a manager is the be-all and end-all, it matters not what you are managing, and anyone who doesn't want to be a manager must have something wrong with them.
In this case, try escalating it a few levels, there's a faint chance you may work you way up to someone with an ounce of brains - if that fails, pack your parachute and get ready to bail out.
What was that about an F'in professor? Had lots of those back when I was in school!
Please, not all Pascal programmers are closed-minded. I happen to like Pascal, I happen to like strong typing. I rarely have to "get around it" (well, once in a great while), and a strongly-typed language is (IMHO) easier to debug because the compiler finds most of your bugs for you. I just find it much easier than C, which with its somewhat weaker typing, and its "an array is a pointer and by the way just about everything else is a pointer too", makes it very easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
I program in C when the occasion demands, and I have programmed in Fortran and PL/I and APL and Basic and even a little Lisp and Prolog, and I am starting to learn Perl. But I strongly believe that for general programming, Pascal is best - especially a highly enhanced Pascal like Delphi. I find it to be the tool that fits best in my hand.
And one other thing - I very much believe that Pascal, precisely because of its strong typing, is by far the best language to use for teaching beginners (and I do have some teaching experience). Enforces discipline and careful thinking about the data. And once you get the data properly designed, the code will just about write itself.
No, it's not legal, it's just who has the deepest pockets. If MAD magazine, or MAD TV, or SNL, or one of those outfits does a parody of some copyrighted characters, they don't get into trouble. It's the little guy who can't afford to defend himself who gets swatted down. Let some guy in the Cayman Islands, or Upper Whateverstan, put the mods on a web-site there, then tell DraggingBallz "Yes, Sir, I tried to withdraw it, but that guy won't listen to me. You'll have to talk to him about it."
Hey, there's how to make a fortune, set up a hosting service in one of these little countries that doesn't give SQUAT about big dumb US corporations, and put all this kind of stuff on the Web there.
I really want to get hold of (a stable) 1.2, the book I bought is at the 1.2 level and I get annoyed when the book has stuff I want but can't use in 1.0.4. I use The Gimp a lot, doing wallpapers for my website (http://jsoftco.8m.com - shameless plug!!), and I like it. I am continually finding new and better tools and gadgets (except for one thing I want, I may have to write my own plug-in, and that sounds like work , darn it!).
"The real reason for cracking down on abadonware sites is because people who download and play free older games are less motivated to purchase newer games." Hey, has anyone looked at the hardware requirements for most of the new games coming out? 500MHz, 800Mhz Pentiums, 3D accelerator video cards with 32M of video memory, all sorts of stuff like that. My computer won't run this stuff! I have at home a machine with a 180MHz Pentium-I, and a non-accelerated video card with maybe 4M or so of storage sitting in a damn ISA slot. It runs Red Hat 6.1 really nicely, and I am not motivated to shell out the bucks (my wife is even less motivated to shell out the bucks) for a new "state of the art" machine.
I am simply not going to buy those new games, the hardware requirements are too great. So I play the older games which I still have, or any "new" old games I can get hold of. In fact, the delay involved in porting older Windoze games to Linux works to my advantage here. And I am working on getting Dosemu and/or Wine running just for this reason.
I say hooray for the abandonware sites.
The increased load on the Patent Office for your proposal is not a drawback, it's an advantage. It would keep them too busy to issue more of these stupid software paptents that have been going around lately. Anything that would bog down the Patent Office and prevent more of these idiotic "one click shopping" type of patents has to be good!
I have to agree with this one. I have a lot of programming experience, but none of it (to date) is in Linux, and very little has been in Unix of any sort. I do want to get into Linux programming, and I think writing a plugin is a good place to start.
In fact, since this is all open source, I plan to take somebody else's plugin which doesn't quite do what I want, but almost, and modifying it. Since I use The Gimp a lot (I have a web site with original wallpaper), and I know what I want to do and can't quite find, it makes it a good place to start for me.
The best place for you to start is with something you would like to use but can't find.
Even when they have it they don't do a good job of selling it. I spotted a Linux game (actually, 2 of them) in the local Electronic Boutique, and told my wife to get one of them for me for Christmas. I told her what store, even where in the store. Unfortunately it had a long name, and the part of the name I gave her was in smaller print, so she didn't find it.
So she asked the salesman and he couldn't find it. Then he looked on the computer and said it was discontinued and they didn't have it and couldn't get it.
Well, I checked the website (Loki) and it was listed as available but the shipping was horrendous, so I went down to EB - the game was right there on the shelf, right where I had seen it a month earlier - and I bought it (I hate buying my own Christmas presents, but by now I didn't see any choice!). Of course when I got to the register the salesman said something like "You sure you want this? It's for Linux".
I agree with the "pretty boxes" argument made earlier - I like to go in the store and browse the pretty boxes. I don't know what the solution is, but I do know we need one!
If it costs $7-9 per month to provide the service, why aren't there companies that CHARGE $7-9 to cover COSTS, and run ad banners to provide PROFITS? That way they wouldn't LOSE money (even if they didn't make much). I certainly would prefer to pay $10/month with ads instead of $20/month to a "full service" ISP.
Personally, I think it was released by Bill Gates and Micro$quish just to give Linux a bad name. This is just exactly the sort of stunt I would expect from them.
Most KDE programs run fine on the Gnome desktop, as long as you have the libraries installed. I run Gnome on Red Hat, but I spend^H^H^H^H^Hwaste incredible amounts of time playing Shisen-Sho, a KDE game. And I have found Gminesweeper (or whatever it's called) quite an adequate replacement for the Windoze version.
... well, that's another matter, ALL of the Linux versions I have tried seem to have slightly different rules from the Windoze version.
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Is it just me, or has anyone else had this problem? I click on the "press Release" link and get a completely blank page. "View source" shows that there is a little something there, but I'm not sure what it is.
I'm using Netscape 4.75 on AIX, is Micro$quish hiding their press release from people not using M$ browsers? (If so, fsck them!!!)
I don't know why I care anyway, I'd much rather use Star Office!
It all depends on your employment contract. Back in the late 80's there was a flap about employee developed programs which had been contributed to an internal BBS, and who owned them. Several of us talked to a company lawyer, and he pointed out that most of their contracts specifically gave the company rights to programs developed on their own time.
But it turned out that I was an exception, as I had been with the company longer, and the older contract I had signed only gave the company rights to "ideas and inventions", and software is neither - it is an "expression" of an idea. So as long as I had put my programs on the company BBS before they came up with a solid contract that you now had to sign before posting, and I had not gone back and signed off retroactively, those programs were still mine.
Of course, there was still a Catch-22. Since the company was in the software business, if I tried to sell my programs (even as shareware) I was competing with the company! Hence it was a conflict of interest, and possible grounds for dismissal. I could give the programs away for free, or I could hang on until I left the company and then sell them. Four or five years later I took an early retirement/buyout, and guess what? Those programs were totally obsolete! I'll give you a great price on a program that lets you mount a 720K 3.5in floppy on your PC-XT. Or one that lets you control the color palette on your EGA display.
I guess the moral is, check out stuff like this before you start work, and if it's that important to you, take a different job.
Duration is only PART of the problem. The other part (well, one other part) is the transient nature of businesses in this industry, and the short lifetimes of some products. Copyright should expire if a product is allowed to go "out of print" for more than a short period (say six months or a year). Look at all the "Abandonware" sites.
If you CAN NOT buy a product (program, game, recording) because the company has folded, or even because the copyright holder simply feels there is not enough profit in continuing to produce it, the copyright should be voided. There are lots of old recordings I would really love to get on CD (or MP3, or whatever) which were published on vinyl or cassette, but the record companies simply felt it was not worth reissuing in the new medium. There are games I used to play on my Intellivision (yes, I had one of those) which I would love to be able to play on my Linux PC.
Copyrights are necessary for new works, but there needs to be much more stringent control to make them expire when they no longer serve a purpose.
So now MICRO$QUISH gets to choose which "legacy" programs Whistler will support, and which ones it WILL NOT support, just by what it includes in this database? I can see it now, the companies that kiss Bill Gates' butt will be "in", and those that try to go it alone, especially those who manage to piss off Micro$squish, will be "out".
Micro$quish has FAR TOO MUCH POWER ALREADY. And I'll bet they don't have any plans to allow users to supplement this database to make their own favorites easier to use, either. Somebody needs to figure out how to hack into that compatibility database SOON!
A lot of M$NBC pages simply do not work on *ix boxes, including this one. I am on an AIX machine at work, I have had trouble with M$NBC pages at home on Linux too. You get down to the arrow that says "complete story" and a couple of box ads below that, then NOTHING!!!! View page source shows the HTML is there, it just won't display. There is some kind of link to some weird site that hangs it up.
But then, what do we expect, it's **M$**NBC. (Not surprising that M$ would want to hide the story on THIS one.)