Apparently, without a valid CD key, users cannot download this crap. Yeah, right, there are people who cannot click on Windows Update and whom get denied access because of an invalid key? Where are the stories of Jack Sparrow's being indicted of stealing software through MS's benevolent Windows Update service? I haven't seen any.
Microsoft lets people with installed versions of their OS freely update exploited code with patches. End of story.
Let's say there's a day when MS can somehow subvert these pirate dudes. Okay, only people who paid them can receive updates. But that really isn't going to happen.
As long as there are thousands and thousands of illegally installed versions of their OS, MS will definitely allow all with access to patches. I mean, if they didn't, that would mean checking for data, sending data, verifying it: spyware. As bad as MS is, they at least let you know when you update your Windows that no information is being sent. Why? Courtesy? They realize it's naughty to do that. For now.
But, anyway, publicity matters. These worms and shit hurt MS. As long as there are illegal copies around, MS will let their patches live free. And even if there exists a small percentage of unpaid installs, MS will provide free patches from the goodness of their hearts. Put quotations around that.
Okay, I had just finished telling my friends that, "Hooray, It's April 1st. Believe nothing. If your mom dies, it's just a prank." And then I see this story on Slashdot, and for at least 30 secs, I believe it is real. I was thinking to myself, QUAKE in Inform? The sites were Slashdotted, and then it hit me--YOU COULDN'T DO THAT WITH INFORM!. So thanks, Slashdot, I've been bamboozled already.
porp
btw, I know Inform and you could, in theory, make some serious programs, but I'm curious, what are the limits of such low level languages?
Real hates MS so they chose to port to Linux. Their Linux ports were even worse than their windows counterparts. Hell, they're worse than any media player listed on sourceforge right now. Screw them being a major company to port a binary junk software to Linux. They were just being greedy not generous. And to say they could gain market share with their playback software is insane--someone has to encode it to that format to begin with. And I know when I see a file to streamed in Real Audio format, I know not to click there because it opens Real's software. Good riddance to them. They sucked in 1996, and they suck now.
Okay, maybe I'm just drunk, but I read the headline "Kids Improve Writing Online" about 100 different ways before reading the blurb and seeing what the poster meant. Now that I understand that kids are improving their writing abilities by communicating in online forums, the headline is still pretty ambiguous. Perhaps the kids should improve writing slashdot. online.
So you're saying that in 1992 you had a 56k modem? You also must've had a time machine and traveled to the future to buy it. But you still wouldn't be able to use it since no ISPs would've supported the damned thing. Hell, v.34 wasn't around until 1993 or so. And I'm not even sure when 16650A UARTs were first adopted.
During the first match they went over 30 minutes and then moved over to ESPNEWS. Though they still cut into the match to show regular ESPNEWS highlight crap, they showed the majority of the match. I expect Tuesday's coverage to be similar. The match today just happened to coincide with NFL Sunday, and there are millions of people that watch ESPNEWS for news conferences and such. I just wish they would have not opted to show Women's College Hoops instead on ESPN2. I guess they were surprised by the large number of viewers the match garnered.
For those who receive ESPN/ESPN2, the sports network has televised all three matches and will televise the fourth on Tuesday at 1:00pm. I've watched all three games on there, and it's actually very entertaining, if only for the humor of seeing history's greatest chess player in action and wearing those stupid X3D goggles. I just hope Garry can pull off Game 4 with a win.
Thanks, whig, you just made my night. I'd say Ayn Rand was the devil if she deserved such a high title. Her writing is trash; her ideas are trash; and to include her in the world of academia and serious discussion is a crime against humanity: Ayn Rand is... shite, 'writing' under the guise of 'equality' and self preservation. She'd be Hitler, except that he did like others like him.
Edison muscled people and companies with all of his patents, created an empire, and utterly failed. His inventions were extraordinary, but his business practices were unethical and illegal. Shit happened and his dreams for a movie empire died--as he tried harder to squeeze his competition, the more 'star systems' slipped through his fingers.
The RIAA is doing all they know how to do: stop people from using their product without paying them. Every stupid corporation does this; Edison is merely an example.
Everything in this article rehashes the same idea over and over. The RIAA is bad. People who try to dominate and extinguish like Edison and the RIAA are bad. Wow. Big deal. We all know this. Some article.
However, the way the author tries to absolve Edison in order to paint the RIAA in a dimmer light really diluted the message the author was trying to convey. Edison was a business man. In fact, he was a very poor business man. He corrupted, controlled, and muscled people around--he was a gangster with inventions and tried to corral his ideas with piles of money and threats. The RIAA act similarly in their actions to control their cash flow, yet they've invented nothing except a product flow of ooper-dooper profit. Edison is a poor analogy.
And here's another thing, Edison and his TRUST tried to extinguish those who refuse to pay for his equipment and Kodak film. Those people, (a large, ambitious Jewish community), moved far from New York to flee from Edison and his thugs: Hollywood. Eventually Edison's association was exterminated, after trying to decimate those Hollywood "indies" that this article's author likes to reference. These indies moved on and created this thing we like to call the MPAA. And you know.. they're great.
Anyway, blah blah blah.. ooga booga... i could fill up lots of crap and say the the same thing over and over but ive said enough crap all ready.
Why doesn't Apple take a similar approach to, let's say, Debian, and apply an 'unstable branch' to OS X. That way users get to see what Apple is cooking up for their next release, and Apple gets a pool of danger-seeking users to test their code. Maybe Apple already does this--I don't know. But they are a proponent of Free software, and I don't see the harm.
Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux.
I was just wondering what exactly are the differences, excluding price, between these workstation cards and the common desktop cards that you can pick up at Best Buy (radeon/geforce3/4/fx)? More precisely, can these things run games and other desktop tasks like video encoding, and if, say, one had much cash, would buying these cards be a better idea than purchasing a desktop card?
guess you've never seen Risky Business, Born on the Fourth of July, Interview with the Vampire, Eyes Wide Shut, or Magnolia... if movies like Legend, Cocktail, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and of course, the classic All the Right Moves never existed, one might think Tom Cruise is a great actor
Now how in the hell is that flamebait? Is there a timothy Army out there I might offend, or even rarer, a group of people that actually don't make fun of slashdot that i might enflame? Jesus, I wish i could meta-moderate that moderator. Okay, im not mad anymore--I just read that cocaine joke again. Damn it's still funny to me.
Holy crap is that some funny stuff. DanThe1Man, if i was in charge of this Ice Cream stand, the first thing that I would do, besides quitting, is replace timothy with you.
Well, as drunk as I am, I re-read most of the messages (forgive me if I didn't catch every single one), and as I see it, your aforementioned quotes refer to the CNN pages pre-dating the actual press release by the U.S. Engraving Dept. If I am wrong (which I mostly am--that's how you learn), let me know. But as I see it, my links refer to ACTUAL images of the new TWENTIES which, if you have Macromedia's Shockwave installed, you should see som pretty neat countermeasures to counterfeiting--thought it can all be circumvented.
I looked and didn't see a mention of the new U.S. currency. Though CNN has commented on it, CNN should be your last place for breaking news--(Go FOX News).
Anyway, on May 19 or so the US unveiled their new currency. Check it out.. I doubt those printers can reproduce that--at least not 7 years from now when that bill becomes the dominant one, and our printers have increased in detail and specifics ten-fold. Oh well, people break the laws so why keep passing them. Hell, why do we even prosecute them--its our money keeping them in jail during their 'rehabitation.'
If someone has mentioned this or posted these links I'm sorry--I didn't catch them in my drunken stupor. Happy Memorial Day United States!
I have chronic fatigue syndrome and excessive daytime sleepiness. It's hard for me to stay awake, function, and concentrate on basic activities throughout the day. My doctor understands that I am a working college student who needs to lead a "normal" life and has prescribed me several different stimulants over the past year. I've tried them all, and in February he put me on Provigil.
The drug is just plain weird. It doesn't feel like other stimulants, and it was unable to keep me as alert and active as ritalin and adderall are able to do. Although I have found that if I take around 400+mg of it, the stuff works pretty well. But keep in mind that I'm not a normal, functioning person--a smaller dose would probably work extremely well for most people.
However, I do not take the drug very often anymore because of the price. Unless you are diagnosed with Narcolepsy, it's extremely difficult to get your insurance company to co-pay for Provigil. And at $5 a pop, they're way too expensive to pay for otherwise.
Anyway, Provigil is promising. There are just some days when a person cannot get the recommended amount of sleep. The side-effects do exist. (I never felt normal while on the drug.) Do a search on google for yourself and read some message boards. Provigil isn't the greatest drug for everyone, and I'll doubt we'll see the day when every truck driver is popping modafinil pills.
Look everyone, Roger Ebert is an anonymous coward posting on slashdot... oh wait.. just some plaigarist i bet. Here is the link this poster should have cited: Ebert's review of LOTR.
I overlooked the amount of corporate tie-ins and commercial nonsense that Episode I had, but actually cloning humans as an advertising ploy for Episode II Attack of the Clones, now that's just going too far.
I mean, Lucas using KFC and Pepsi is one thing. Cloning embryos is another.
Slashdot Mirror
exactly... either you get shit or you don't... this guy didn't get it--and he got modded up.
porp
Apparently, without a valid CD key, users cannot download this crap. Yeah, right, there are people who cannot click on Windows Update and whom get denied access because of an invalid key? Where are the stories of Jack Sparrow's being indicted of stealing software through MS's benevolent Windows Update service? I haven't seen any.
Microsoft lets people with installed versions of their OS freely update exploited code with patches. End of story.
Let's say there's a day when MS can somehow subvert these pirate dudes. Okay, only people who paid them can receive updates. But that really isn't going to happen.
As long as there are thousands and thousands of illegally installed versions of their OS, MS will definitely allow all with access to patches. I mean, if they didn't, that would mean checking for data, sending data, verifying it: spyware. As bad as MS is, they at least let you know when you update your Windows that no information is being sent. Why? Courtesy? They realize it's naughty to do that. For now.
But, anyway, publicity matters. These worms and shit hurt MS. As long as there are illegal copies around, MS will let their patches live free. And even if there exists a small percentage of unpaid installs, MS will provide free patches from the goodness of their hearts. Put quotations around that.
porp
Okay, I had just finished telling my friends that, "Hooray, It's April 1st. Believe nothing. If your mom dies, it's just a prank." And then I see this story on Slashdot, and for at least 30 secs, I believe it is real. I was thinking to myself, QUAKE in Inform? The sites were Slashdotted, and then it hit me--YOU COULDN'T DO THAT WITH INFORM!. So thanks, Slashdot, I've been bamboozled already.
porp
btw, I know Inform and you could, in theory, make some serious programs, but I'm curious, what are the limits of such low level languages?
Real hates MS so they chose to port to Linux. Their Linux ports were even worse than their windows counterparts. Hell, they're worse than any media player listed on sourceforge right now. Screw them being a major company to port a binary junk software to Linux. They were just being greedy not generous. And to say they could gain market share with their playback software is insane--someone has to encode it to that format to begin with. And I know when I see a file to streamed in Real Audio format, I know not to click there because it opens Real's software. Good riddance to them. They sucked in 1996, and they suck now.
porp
Okay, maybe I'm just drunk, but I read the headline "Kids Improve Writing Online" about 100 different ways before reading the blurb and seeing what the poster meant. Now that I understand that kids are improving their writing abilities by communicating in online forums, the headline is still pretty ambiguous. Perhaps the kids should improve writing slashdot. online.
porp
So you're saying that in 1992 you had a 56k modem? You also must've had a time machine and traveled to the future to buy it. But you still wouldn't be able to use it since no ISPs would've supported the damned thing. Hell, v.34 wasn't around until 1993 or so. And I'm not even sure when 16650A UARTs were first adopted.
porp
David Letterman, eat your heart out.
porp
During the first match they went over 30 minutes and then moved over to ESPNEWS. Though they still cut into the match to show regular ESPNEWS highlight crap, they showed the majority of the match. I expect Tuesday's coverage to be similar. The match today just happened to coincide with NFL Sunday, and there are millions of people that watch ESPNEWS for news conferences and such. I just wish they would have not opted to show Women's College Hoops instead on ESPN2. I guess they were surprised by the large number of viewers the match garnered.
porp
For those who receive ESPN/ESPN2, the sports network has televised all three matches and will televise the fourth on Tuesday at 1:00pm. I've watched all three games on there, and it's actually very entertaining, if only for the humor of seeing history's greatest chess player in action and wearing those stupid X3D goggles. I just hope Garry can pull off Game 4 with a win.
porp
Thank you Ayn Rand.
Thanks, whig, you just made my night. I'd say Ayn Rand was the devil if she deserved such a high title. Her writing is trash; her ideas are trash; and to include her in the world of academia and serious discussion is a crime against humanity: Ayn Rand is... shite, 'writing' under the guise of 'equality' and self preservation. She'd be Hitler, except that he did like others like him.
porp
Edison muscled people and companies with all of his patents, created an empire, and utterly failed. His inventions were extraordinary, but his business practices were unethical and illegal. Shit happened and his dreams for a movie empire died--as he tried harder to squeeze his competition, the more 'star systems' slipped through his fingers.
The RIAA is doing all they know how to do: stop people from using their product without paying them. Every stupid corporation does this; Edison is merely an example.
Everything in this article rehashes the same idea over and over. The RIAA is bad. People who try to dominate and extinguish like Edison and the RIAA are bad. Wow. Big deal. We all know this. Some article.
However, the way the author tries to absolve Edison in order to paint the RIAA in a dimmer light really diluted the message the author was trying to convey. Edison was a business man. In fact, he was a very poor business man. He corrupted, controlled, and muscled people around--he was a gangster with inventions and tried to corral his ideas with piles of money and threats. The RIAA act similarly in their actions to control their cash flow, yet they've invented nothing except a product flow of ooper-dooper profit. Edison is a poor analogy.
And here's another thing, Edison and his TRUST tried to extinguish those who refuse to pay for his equipment and Kodak film. Those people, (a large, ambitious Jewish community), moved far from New York to flee from Edison and his thugs: Hollywood. Eventually Edison's association was exterminated, after trying to decimate those Hollywood "indies" that this article's author likes to reference. These indies moved on and created this thing we like to call the MPAA. And you know.. they're great.
Anyway, blah blah blah.. ooga booga... i could fill up lots of crap and say the the same thing over and over but ive said enough crap all ready.
porp
Why doesn't Apple take a similar approach to, let's say, Debian, and apply an 'unstable branch' to OS X. That way users get to see what Apple is cooking up for their next release, and Apple gets a pool of danger-seeking users to test their code. Maybe Apple already does this--I don't know. But they are a proponent of Free software, and I don't see the harm.
Please enlighten me.
porp
From the article:
Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux.
Uh, I think I'm gonna format and then go pray.
porp
I was just wondering what exactly are the differences, excluding price, between these workstation cards and the common desktop cards that you can pick up at Best Buy (radeon/geforce3/4/fx)? More precisely, can these things run games and other desktop tasks like video encoding, and if, say, one had much cash, would buying these cards be a better idea than purchasing a desktop card?
porp
Oh yeah, here's the requirements for homemade lasagna, courtesy of Emeril Legasse:
2 cups fresh ricotta cheese
8 ounces grated Provolone cheese
8 ounces grated Mozzarella cheese
8 ounces grated Romano cheese
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon chiffonade of fresh basil
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 recipe of Emeril's Meat Sauce, recipe follows
1/2 pound grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1 package of dried lasagna noodles
By comparison, here's the requirements for frozen lasagna
porp
guess you've never seen Risky Business, Born on the Fourth of July, Interview with the Vampire, Eyes Wide Shut, or Magnolia... if movies like Legend, Cocktail, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and of course, the classic All the Right Moves never existed, one might think Tom Cruise is a great actor
porp
Once again,
I think I can speak for everyone and say
HUH?
porp
Now how in the hell is that flamebait? Is there a timothy Army out there I might offend, or even rarer, a group of people that actually don't make fun of slashdot that i might enflame? Jesus, I wish i could meta-moderate that moderator. Okay, im not mad anymore--I just read that cocaine joke again. Damn it's still funny to me.
porp
Holy crap is that some funny stuff. DanThe1Man, if i was in charge of this Ice Cream stand, the first thing that I would do, besides quitting, is replace timothy with you.
Shit man, thanks for making me laugh so hard.
porp
I think I can speak for everyone and say
HUH?
porp
Happy Memorial Day
porp
Anyway, on May 19 or so the US unveiled their new currency. Check it out.. I doubt those printers can reproduce that--at least not 7 years from now when that bill becomes the dominant one, and our printers have increased in detail and specifics ten-fold. Oh well, people break the laws so why keep passing them. Hell, why do we even prosecute them--its our money keeping them in jail during their 'rehabitation.'
If someone has mentioned this or posted these links I'm sorry--I didn't catch them in my drunken stupor. Happy Memorial Day United States!
porp
I have chronic fatigue syndrome and excessive daytime sleepiness. It's hard for me to stay awake, function, and concentrate on basic activities throughout the day. My doctor understands that I am a working college student who needs to lead a "normal" life and has prescribed me several different stimulants over the past year. I've tried them all, and in February he put me on Provigil.
The drug is just plain weird. It doesn't feel like other stimulants, and it was unable to keep me as alert and active as ritalin and adderall are able to do. Although I have found that if I take around 400+mg of it, the stuff works pretty well. But keep in mind that I'm not a normal, functioning person--a smaller dose would probably work extremely well for most people.
However, I do not take the drug very often anymore because of the price. Unless you are diagnosed with Narcolepsy, it's extremely difficult to get your insurance company to co-pay for Provigil. And at $5 a pop, they're way too expensive to pay for otherwise.
Anyway, Provigil is promising. There are just some days when a person cannot get the recommended amount of sleep. The side-effects do exist. (I never felt normal while on the drug.) Do a search on google for yourself and read some message boards. Provigil isn't the greatest drug for everyone, and I'll doubt we'll see the day when every truck driver is popping modafinil pills.
porp
BTW, no drug can beat a good night's sleep.
Look everyone, Roger Ebert is an anonymous coward posting on slashdot... oh wait.. just some plaigarist i bet. Here is the link this poster should have cited: Ebert's review of LOTR.
porp
I overlooked the amount of corporate tie-ins and commercial nonsense that Episode I had, but actually cloning humans as an advertising ploy for Episode II Attack of the Clones, now that's just going too far.
I mean, Lucas using KFC and Pepsi is one thing. Cloning embryos is another.
J. Morgan