No, no. They threaten companies with weak leadership into buying Linux licences. You know, SCO sends a stern letter in legalspeak warning they'll start a long drawn-out legal battle if they don't cough up the money pronto.
SCO don't actually produce anything. They extort money from people. That is Darl's specialty. He's a corporate pirate. A scumbag.
Despite the claims of gloom and doom from the BPI (the UK equivalent of the RIAA) the BBC is reporting that 'UK record companies are celebrating their best ever year for album sales
What the recording industry hates is the fact record sales are so fragmented. Sure, more albums are being sold than ever, but it's from a wildly diverse range of artists. With consumers now able to download and listen/sample the music before buying, these monolithic labels are finding it more difficult to manufacture pop artists that can sell 10 million copies. Now they sell half a mill of one artist and 25,000 of another artist... it's more work. The consumer isn't manipulated and decieved as easy.
Why do you think Britney Spears isn't rushing out with a new album? Because sales will be bitterly disapointing. Calculated successes of mindless garbage ala Ricky Martin is less likely now that the consumer has p2p.
I don't need a 700 page book to prevent malicious code. I would guess 80%+ of all malware could be avoided by following these four words:
Stop visiting porn sites
It's true, the majority of people who have malware infected pc's are those who frequent porn sites. Even more malware can be avoided by using common sence and not rushing software installations. Custom installs and skimming the EULA's can spare alot of headaches (and cpu cycles).
I'm not knocking the book. It sounds like a hardcore read for geeks, but Malware wouldn't be such a huge problem today if morality and common sence weren't in such short supply.
I want something to be even better than Google. But the question I have is: how? Google's results are only as good as the keywords it's given.
Perhaps an auto keyword generator that helps the user be more specific. And make it fast.
Truth is, I don't care who will be the Googlekiller - it could be WalmartSearch for all I care, just make all the knowledge of the cyberspace universe effortlessly retrievable.
I'm a Canuck, and I remember chatting with a guy from the States (I think it was Texas), and during the conversation I said the word "house". He suddenly burst out laughing and told me to say "house" again. I did and he was nearly rolling around on the floor. He said us Canadians pronounce certain words funny. Go figure.
I'm eluding to Eidos' new game ShellShock: Nam '67 for the pc and consoles. It depicts cutscenes with brutal violence and dismemberment, like when "a member of your squad ties a prostitute to an upright mattress, beats her mercilessly with his fists, and then takes a giant Rambo knife to her breasts before finally slitting her throat" (quote lifted from Gamespot review). No doubt there will be children out there inflicted by the horror of this game, either by directly watching it or by watching an adult play it.
Reportedly, there's also interactive prostitution, as well as the bad language, torture and ultra-violent gameplay. GTA: San Andreas may not be the bad kid on the block anymore.
As far as marketing and economic decisions go, mistreating women in a game is a dumbass move. This kind of press won't equate to much positive publicity either.
Alot of women think gaming (beit pc or console) is nerdish and uncool and for lonely guys, and humiliating those females who are giving electronic gaming a chance is not good for the industry as a whole.
Well, for one, alot of people don't know how to change their homepage. And what is the default homepage for IE? It's Microsoft.com or MSN. The other reason would be the browser's toolbar. The various icons and options steer the user to other Microsoft applications. Users become comfotable with using a particular application, and there's a good chance they will continue using the product, even as other/better applications vie for their loyalty and dollar.
Microsoft is very much like Rome of the internet: all roads lead to it.
People should have the right to rot their minds and destroy their families with porn and other morally bankrupt materials. And if inhaling modelling glue floats your boat, give'r.
That's what life is about: making choices and accepting the consequences. Just keep in mind that some consequences can be eternal.
Orkut is another Google project still in beta, and I'm surprised a) how friggin slow the site is and b) how problematic routine tasks like logging in are. Nearly half the time I try to log in I get a runtime error.
Now I realise the server(s) are under stress with the growing population of Orkutites, but come on, the amount of problems makes me wonder how seriously they want to make this social networking scheme work.
Btw, the only way you can join Orkut is by invitation. Ask me and I'll endorse your membership.
God always uses the laws of the Universe to bless and affect change. I believe everything is intimately and seamlessly interconnected; one change affects other changes like a domino affect. It's like a puppet master controlling a marrionette.
The big bang and evolution are very likely the mechanisms God used to create the firmament and all life within it.
Ico had an emotional element to the game that is so completely absent in this medium. It pulled at your heartstrings. I remember actually giving a damn about the boy hero born with horns and the frightened spectre of a girl he was trying to protect. It also had a signature look and mood and it would surprise me if they could somehow upgrade the graphics and still maintain it's intangible qualities.
Yeah, that's right RIAA. But I'll also buy what mp3's I dig. Take for instance Breaking Benjamin. I pulled down a crapload of their songs via Kazaa and, apon realising they rock out, rushed down to Future Shop to gets me a copy just yesterday. The fact that my cd burner isn't working is beside the point.
The point is you greedy bastards at RIAA got your money. You have a great advertising and distribution mechanism working for you and you won't even admit it.
Now that Microsoft has been "found guilty" of misleading advertising, I wonder what their punishment will be? Life sentence at a hard labour camp? Confinement in a maximum security prison? Did the Gates family weep as the sentence was handed down?
Seriously, the UK Advertising Standards Authority have no authority, and there are likely no repercussions for Microsoft. Many whom have read those false claims and erroneous statements (and especially the poor saps that bought into it) will likely never hear the truth. The lies have been perpetrated and spread. It's like the old man who climbs to the top of a mountain and releases a bag of feathers to a mighty gust of wind. Those feathers are like lies: they spread to the four corners of the earth and are impossible to retract.
100k is a reasonable figure. I see people of all ages at the public library hunched over pc's, playing that game. My daughters love it, their friends at school love it and play it religiously, and I see 40+ year old men playing it (which kinda makes me shudder when I think about it too long).
The movie is called Sing and I am ashamed to say I was part of it. It was only a stupid three second shot of me, but it seemed like a frozen eternity when my girlfriend and I went to see the movie at the cinema. Man it was awful. So bad, we crept out of theatre half way through the movie, sheilding my face all the way.
A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500. 384 megabytes of memory. Two gigabytes of hard drive space. An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.
Just thought I'd clear that up for anyone not in-the-know.
I can't believe a megapowerful corperation like Sony could screw up as bad as this Network Walkman. The critical mistake, in my mind, is the proprietary Sony format ATRAC3 they're trying to pimp off on the consumer. Why are they trying to re-invent the wheel?
Which brings to mind the iPod and it's perfect design. It's clean form-factor looks like it was designed by God. The most brilliant things in life are simple in design and concept. Like the wheel.
Microsoft has argued Linux is insecure and vulnerable to attack because the source code is readily available, yet a significant factor for government agencies not adopting Microsoft is concerns about it being proprietary software! Many governments don't want to rely on Microsoft - go figure!
I hate it when a popular entitiy tries to usurp and/or destroy anything that even remotely resembles it's own branding, but this Froogles.com is just pollution in cyberspace. Flotsam of ecommerce. It's an eyesore and it offers no value or substance. Most/. readers could cough up a site like this in an hour.
Slashdot Mirror
No, no. They threaten companies with weak leadership into buying Linux licences. You know, SCO sends a stern letter in legalspeak warning they'll start a long drawn-out legal battle if they don't cough up the money pronto.
SCO don't actually produce anything. They extort money from people. That is Darl's specialty. He's a corporate pirate. A scumbag.
Despite the claims of gloom and doom from the BPI (the UK equivalent of the RIAA) the BBC is reporting that 'UK record companies are celebrating their best ever year for album sales
What the recording industry hates is the fact record sales are so fragmented. Sure, more albums are being sold than ever, but it's from a wildly diverse range of artists. With consumers now able to download and listen/sample the music before buying, these monolithic labels are finding it more difficult to manufacture pop artists that can sell 10 million copies. Now they sell half a mill of one artist and 25,000 of another artist... it's more work. The consumer isn't manipulated and decieved as easy.
Why do you think Britney Spears isn't rushing out with a new album? Because sales will be bitterly disapointing. Calculated successes of mindless garbage ala Ricky Martin is less likely now that the consumer has p2p.
I don't need a 700 page book to prevent malicious code. I would guess 80%+ of all malware could be avoided by following these four words:
Stop visiting porn sites
It's true, the majority of people who have malware infected pc's are those who frequent porn sites. Even more malware can be avoided by using common sence and not rushing software installations. Custom installs and skimming the EULA's can spare alot of headaches (and cpu cycles).
I'm not knocking the book. It sounds like a hardcore read for geeks, but Malware wouldn't be such a huge problem today if morality and common sence weren't in such short supply.
"Illegal file-sharers steal millions of pounds worth of music through these services."
It's in megabytes... 1's and 0's, not actual weight as in pounds!
What a dumbass!
I want something to be even better than Google. But the question I have is: how? Google's results are only as good as the keywords it's given.
Perhaps an auto keyword generator that helps the user be more specific. And make it fast.
Truth is, I don't care who will be the Googlekiller - it could be Walmart Search for all I care, just make all the knowledge of the cyberspace universe effortlessly retrievable.
I'm a Canuck, and I remember chatting with a guy from the States (I think it was Texas), and during the conversation I said the word "house". He suddenly burst out laughing and told me to say "house" again. I did and he was nearly rolling around on the floor. He said us Canadians pronounce certain words funny. Go figure.
I'm eluding to Eidos' new game ShellShock: Nam '67 for the pc and consoles. It depicts cutscenes with brutal violence and dismemberment, like when "a member of your squad ties a prostitute to an upright mattress, beats her mercilessly with his fists, and then takes a giant Rambo knife to her breasts before finally slitting her throat" (quote lifted from Gamespot review). No doubt there will be children out there inflicted by the horror of this game, either by directly watching it or by watching an adult play it.
Reportedly, there's also interactive prostitution, as well as the bad language, torture and ultra-violent gameplay. GTA: San Andreas may not be the bad kid on the block anymore.
As far as marketing and economic decisions go, mistreating women in a game is a dumbass move. This kind of press won't equate to much positive publicity either.
Alot of women think gaming (beit pc or console) is nerdish and uncool and for lonely guys, and humiliating those females who are giving electronic gaming a chance is not good for the industry as a whole.
Well, for one, alot of people don't know how to change their homepage. And what is the default homepage for IE? It's Microsoft.com or MSN. The other reason would be the browser's toolbar. The various icons and options steer the user to other Microsoft applications. Users become comfotable with using a particular application, and there's a good chance they will continue using the product, even as other/better applications vie for their loyalty and dollar.
Microsoft is very much like Rome of the internet: all roads lead to it.
People should have the right to rot their minds and destroy their families with porn and other morally bankrupt materials. And if inhaling modelling glue floats your boat, give'r.
That's what life is about: making choices and accepting the consequences. Just keep in mind that some consequences can be eternal.
Orkut is another Google project still in beta, and I'm surprised a) how friggin slow the site is and b) how problematic routine tasks like logging in are. Nearly half the time I try to log in I get a runtime error.
Now I realise the server(s) are under stress with the growing population of Orkutites, but come on, the amount of problems makes me wonder how seriously they want to make this social networking scheme work.
Btw, the only way you can join Orkut is by invitation. Ask me and I'll endorse your membership.
God always uses the laws of the Universe to bless and affect change. I believe everything is intimately and seamlessly interconnected; one change affects other changes like a domino affect. It's like a puppet master controlling a marrionette.
The big bang and evolution are very likely the mechanisms God used to create the firmament and all life within it.
He's a big science major, I'm sure!
Ico had an emotional element to the game that is so completely absent in this medium. It pulled at your heartstrings. I remember actually giving a damn about the boy hero born with horns and the frightened spectre of a girl he was trying to protect. It also had a signature look and mood and it would surprise me if they could somehow upgrade the graphics and still maintain it's intangible qualities.
Yeah, that's right RIAA. But I'll also buy what mp3's I dig. Take for instance Breaking Benjamin. I pulled down a crapload of their songs via Kazaa and, apon realising they rock out, rushed down to Future Shop to gets me a copy just yesterday. The fact that my cd burner isn't working is beside the point.
The point is you greedy bastards at RIAA got your money. You have a great advertising and distribution mechanism working for you and you won't even admit it.
Do you also want the fact that it might be a criminal offense if you loose your suit?
A criminal suit?! I'd punch 'em in the mouth and knock a tooth lose!
(Get the subtle hint brother?)
Now that Microsoft has been "found guilty" of misleading advertising, I wonder what their punishment will be? Life sentence at a hard labour camp? Confinement in a maximum security prison? Did the Gates family weep as the sentence was handed down?
Seriously, the UK Advertising Standards Authority have no authority, and there are likely no repercussions for Microsoft. Many whom have read those false claims and erroneous statements (and especially the poor saps that bought into it) will likely never hear the truth. The lies have been perpetrated and spread. It's like the old man who climbs to the top of a mountain and releases a bag of feathers to a mighty gust of wind. Those feathers are like lies: they spread to the four corners of the earth and are impossible to retract.
it's called Discipline. Try it. Or you can try Getting Off Your Fat Ass which is also free for non-commercial useage.
100k is a reasonable figure. I see people of all ages at the public library hunched over pc's, playing that game. My daughters love it, their friends at school love it and play it religiously, and I see 40+ year old men playing it (which kinda makes me shudder when I think about it too long).
It's gotta be the most popular MMOG out there.
The movie is called Sing and I am ashamed to say I was part of it. It was only a stupid three second shot of me, but it seemed like a frozen eternity when my girlfriend and I went to see the movie at the cinema. Man it was awful. So bad, we crept out of theatre half way through the movie, sheilding my face all the way.
When will someone pass Sony the cluestick?
I think they've been passing around the gluestick (if you know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500.
384 megabytes of memory.
Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.
Just thought I'd clear that up for anyone not in-the-know.
I can't believe a megapowerful corperation like Sony could screw up as bad as this Network Walkman. The critical mistake, in my mind, is the proprietary Sony format ATRAC3 they're trying to pimp off on the consumer. Why are they trying to re-invent the wheel?
Which brings to mind the iPod and it's perfect design. It's clean form-factor looks like it was designed by God. The most brilliant things in life are simple in design and concept. Like the wheel.
If Sony can't beat the iPod, maybe nobody can.
I've been engrossed in Memigo for some time now... very cool. I'm not a news junky but this is great :)
Microsoft has argued Linux is insecure and vulnerable to attack because the source code is readily available, yet a significant factor for government agencies not adopting Microsoft is concerns about it being proprietary software! Many governments don't want to rely on Microsoft - go figure!
Windows 95 or Me anyone?
I hate it when a popular entitiy tries to usurp and/or destroy anything that even remotely resembles it's own branding, but this Froogles.com is just pollution in cyberspace. Flotsam of ecommerce. It's an eyesore and it offers no value or substance. Most /. readers could cough up a site like this in an hour.
It's saving is of legal significance only.