Putting aside politics/beliefs/religions for just a minute. This from the/. artical:
Does wide availability of high quality, low cost software harm or help the world's economy?
I don't know how free/open sourced software affects the world's economy but it helps my own quality of life, and in the end isn't that what everyone is really after, a higher quality of life ?
How many people really spend $5,000 on a gaming machine? Mine cost less than $2,000, and I can play UT2k4 and others on it just fine.
Some of those machines hardly ever get used to the limits of their capabilities, and for those people it's all about *bling-bling*. I have been asked on several occasions by friends and co-workers to build them a machine that would rival my own in performance and at their request I would install windowing kits and neon lights so they can have nothing more than a pretty screen saver as a conversation piece on their living room desktop. Within a year these same machines are typically returned back into my hands clogged with spam and riddled with spyware. The owners complain of the machine getting too old and slow and then they begin the process all over again, upgrade, show off, rebuild.
I'm not complaining, these people help me keep enough money in my pocket to make my gaming habits virtually free.
Which is simply a broken system. It's one of the things that definitely needs to be fixed before you can tryly say that Linux is ready for prime time.
That depends on who you ask. I personally like and use both ways. Each can do things the other can not. For example X Windows method of copy/paste can work across different terminal sessions whereas KDE/GNOME's can not. On the other hand, KDE/GNOME's clipboard keeps a history whereas X or even bash does not. So depending on the environment you are in and the work you're doing. Both can be very useful at different times and for different needs. To think of both methods as one system is incorrect, they are most definitely two seperate systems. Being aware of that and making a decision on which to use will save you the frustration usually accompanied by confusing the two as a single system.
X Windows, like bash, has it's own way of copy/paste (ie: highlight/middle-click) and KDE/GNOME have their own way of copy/paste (ie: ctrl+c/ctrl+v). What that means is while you're running X with a popular desktop suite like KDE or GNOME, you have more than one clipboard. As you propbably wouldn't use multiple text editors to simultaneously edit the same file, you shouldn't try to use multiple clipboard copy&paste functions for the same task.
The latest patch for Tribes 2 removed the CD check on Windows back when the Dynamix closure was just announced. Perhaps that was Dynamix's last and final gift to the community ?
The Linux version never had a CD check. Neither did Tribes 1 on Windows which incidently ran rather well for me with Wine on Linux.
Watch out! Spyware usually comes bundled with freeware.
I did NOT say freeware usualy brings spyware. I'm only saying that most (if not all) spyware usually rides in on the coat-tails of some freeware product.
Download/Install with caution. READ THE EULA's !
Help keep the internet clean. This has been a public service announcment.
Apparently, the simple act of selecting the message activates the code. Given that you have to select an E-mail to delete it, how are users supposed to protect themselves from this one?
This has ALWAYS been the case when it comes to Outlook and Outlook Express. The Preview will execute the code contained within the mail message in exactly the same way as if you had opened it. It has been this way for a few years. This is what Valve's Half-Life 2 Lead programmer claims happened that lead to the leaked source code for HL2.
It was an unelected paralegal doing the research who fell for the DHMO joke. Did you consider that along the way, someone (quite possibly an elected official) spotted the bad research and stopped the monkey business?
Did you consider that the paralegal could've been the patsy to save face for the elected official ?
I submit that expecting perfect decision-making 100% of the time from leaders is akin to expecting coders to write non-trivial code that works perfectly on first execution.
I'm not worried about honest mistakes, but unhonest exploitation of the gullible does worry me. Legal professionals (the wealthy ones) understand all too well how to exaggerate the truth and worse, how to sugar-coat a lie.
Honest mistakes are forgivable. But, exaggeration on the other hand, well I'm not so sure about that.
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I don't know how free/open sourced software affects the world's economy but it helps my own quality of life, and in the end isn't that what everyone is really after, a higher quality of life ?
From the artical: phoner ?
Doesn't Outlook Express use IE to render HTML e-mails ?
I've seen 1,000 words download faster than some oversized images.
Some of those machines hardly ever get used to the limits of their capabilities, and for those people it's all about *bling-bling*. I have been asked on several occasions by friends and co-workers to build them a machine that would rival my own in performance and at their request I would install windowing kits and neon lights so they can have nothing more than a pretty screen saver as a conversation piece on their living room desktop. Within a year these same machines are typically returned back into my hands clogged with spam and riddled with spyware. The owners complain of the machine getting too old and slow and then they begin the process all over again, upgrade, show off, rebuild.
I'm not complaining, these people help me keep enough money in my pocket to make my gaming habits virtually free.
Excuse me. Everyone is bound to make a mistake at some point. Like you failed to provide an answer.
"True Fantasy Live" as a term has got to be atleast close to some of the other greats, such as "Government Intelligence".
That depends on who you ask. I personally like and use both ways. Each can do things the other can not. For example X Windows method of copy/paste can work across different terminal sessions whereas KDE/GNOME's can not. On the other hand, KDE/GNOME's clipboard keeps a history whereas X or even bash does not. So depending on the environment you are in and the work you're doing. Both can be very useful at different times and for different needs. To think of both methods as one system is incorrect, they are most definitely two seperate systems. Being aware of that and making a decision on which to use will save you the frustration usually accompanied by confusing the two as a single system.
X Windows, like bash, has it's own way of copy/paste (ie: highlight/middle-click) and KDE/GNOME have their own way of copy/paste (ie: ctrl+c/ctrl+v). What that means is while you're running X with a popular desktop suite like KDE or GNOME, you have more than one clipboard. As you propbably wouldn't use multiple text editors to simultaneously edit the same file, you shouldn't try to use multiple clipboard copy&paste functions for the same task.
You might be dragged into the mess if you loaned your neighbor your car to break the law. Why not your 'Net connection?
You say that as if it's possible that a glitch won't happen. You were refering to Windows NT, right ?
The latest patch for Tribes 2 removed the CD check on Windows back when the Dynamix closure was just announced. Perhaps that was Dynamix's last and final gift to the community ?
The Linux version never had a CD check. Neither did Tribes 1 on Windows which incidently ran rather well for me with Wine on Linux.
Can anyone verify if the download includes the Linux binaries for Tribes 2, or does some other entity control those ?
FAT CHANCE !
MS been combatting things like this for over a decade now and it's not likely to change much during the next decade.
Being from the US it shouldn't be much surprise that I'm divorced. Knowing what I know now and given the same choice, I would have chose the PS2 also.
Isn't there already 4 single-player Myst games out there ?
Myst
Riven
Myst III
Uru (Single/Multi player)
Or am I counting one of these wrong ?
Watch out! Spyware usually comes bundled with freeware.
I did NOT say freeware usualy brings spyware. I'm only saying that most (if not all) spyware usually rides in on the coat-tails of some freeware product.
Download/Install with caution. READ THE EULA's !
Help keep the internet clean.
This has been a public service announcment.
This has ALWAYS been the case when it comes to Outlook and Outlook Express. The Preview will execute the code contained within the mail message in exactly the same way as if you had opened it. It has been this way for a few years. This is what Valve's Half-Life 2 Lead programmer claims happened that lead to the leaked source code for HL2.
Did you consider that the paralegal could've been the patsy to save face for the elected official ?
I'm not worried about honest mistakes, but unhonest exploitation of the gullible does worry me. Legal professionals (the wealthy ones) understand all too well how to exaggerate the truth and worse, how to sugar-coat a lie.
Honest mistakes are forgivable. But, exaggeration on the other hand, well I'm not so sure about that.
A revolving door is the result of someone saying it was impossible to make a door that couldn't be slammed shut, silly.
An "Offtopic" and a "Troll" on the same artical, and a dupe no less.
I'm batting a 1000.
Some of the 'boys' must have Mod points today.
What would the CIA have done if the Soviets sought out OSS software instead of the typical closed-source software to run those pipelines ?
There _used_ to be, till someone came and said, "HEY! THAT'S MINE AND YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY!"
Not too much longer after that moment, trade was invented.