The poster has obviously not seen nice flats and non geeky things (otherwise why would anyone describe a few DIY LEDs over a single bed sexy...)
I cam across this flat a few years ago. Now this is proper LED and hi-tech stuff woth talking about! http://www.findaproperty.co.uk/cgi-bin/reg ion.pl?r egionid=104&opt=story&storyid=5682
If you have watched F1 enough, you'll soon realise it has always been a competition between the car manufacturers, drivers are only tools to show how fast these cars can really go. There aren't that many M.Schumacher out there who can drive a crap car and still win. Just look at Jacques Villeneuve, he is crap, without a decent car, he is very crap.
Engine Control, Auto 'box however did not ruin the sport as you claimed. Auto 'box is only taking away unnecessary human control. It lets the driver concentrates on steering the car with the right degree and applying the correct speed. In what way does auto 'box makes the sport less interesting to watch? If it was manual, will the drivers make mistakes with simple gear changes and contribute to the entertainment factor of the sport at all?
Traction/Launch Control, however takes away more of the entertainment factor because drivers are more likely to make mistakes in applying throttle, break and steering, much more so than changing a gear to loose a race.
What about the rest of the warez scene? When you were questioned, did they ask you alot about the other groups who crack a lot more titles in recent years?
Will you recommend the scene to quiet down and think about their chances of getting caught too? Are the feds digging well into different groups and soon will hunt them all down?
thanks
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I was quiet amazed that OpenGL was not discussed while the author was talking the importance of D3D->DirectX and Glide!!!! nVidia has good OpenGL support as well as 3dfx. That was the real API that drove the success of Quake, Q2 and many OpenGL games. And I thought that was the main driving force for programmers to write a game with one API and gammer looking for one API to have.
once everyone is happy to implement say 70-80% functionality of their site using Flash. Flash plug-in itself will no longer be just a 'plug-in'. I then becomes a browser itself. Then all M'media needs to do is to launch a better packaged Flash browser (or the flash player) and flock people to browse swf files instead of HTML.
Hence moving away from W3C standards. Then having the 'standard' themselves and change it as much as they like at anytime and launch new products.
By maintaining compatability with normal browser, they can certainly claim they are not trying to dominate the browser market even the browser itself becomes more of a launch pad for Flash.
Yahoo uses their technologies, so does many companies who can afford one of the best search technology on the planet. I bet Yahoo is one of their biggest customer. So I believe Yahoo makes some cash and keep feeding google so we have google for free.
Doesn't this fit right into the vapourware called HomeStation?
XBox (or call it a cheap PC) has a small harddrive, DVD decoding hw, TV out, remote, dsl/cable, lan. Stuff it with a mpeg2 encoding chip, increase the hd to TiVo size, give it a bit more ram. Don't you get a TiVo+game+browsing+DVD all-in-one box? Plus MS is kind enough to subsidise a couple of hundred dollars for each box. I don't even have to think about getting a small PC case with mini-atx mobo and half-apg size vid card with video out for my living room! Regardless how I don't like MS, that could be one hell of a box that I might just buy it so that MS effectively subsidise me!
>>but switching from vendor is just not an option.
nope, it is always an option. Its not an if the people implementing the middleware were lazy and used all the database specific functions. If the middleware is implemented in such a way that it only requires a generic API (such as JDBC, ODBC, and yes I know not every db implements all optional JDBC/ODBC features), changing the database is not a difficult task and I've seen it in big corps. Its also not an option when a contract is still effective.
I use pure JDBC, I switch db from Oracle to SQLServer2k to DB2 or MySQL back and forth. Stupid middleware implementation is to be blamed. And Larry won't get business for life if a better cheaper db is out there.
Olympic is not as commercial as Football, both American and English (real) style. Commercial factor is always the evil factor! Just imagine clubs like 49ers or Chelsea start sponsoring these things. Then you'll see a huge meathead SF49er running at 50mph or a rugby player sized footballer running faster than Owen, more skillful than Maradona and play better golf than tiger woods in his spare time.
Then what is the point of watching games anymore? amire the result of science?
Why can't I be engineered to be a super star to earn millions in sports instead of someone else?
GNOME is part of GNU project (as he said), its a desktop for the GNU system. First priority would be to have it run on GNU systems and promote free software and its community. As long as he is clear on this goal, why should we flame him?
Its really nazi to say we should not allow gnome or any gnu software to run with proprietary stuff as some ppl are shouting here. GPL says it all really! You use original GPL'ed stuff and add proprietary things and its fine, unless you modify the original code!
Look at.Net regardless of the PassPort scam, a generic.Net service can really talk to anything that talks the same xml. Making a software with an open interface so ANYTHING can talk to it is GOOD. You guys knows what is an 'interface' right? not everybody is a C/Assembler monkey.
Say I have a kernel that does great home networking and adsl sharing, but uses Gnome for GUI. My users may actually get to know Gnome and the rest of GNU like Linux and discover the rest of the free software might do a lot more than my own proprietry kernel!
So what? As long as you can get the oss license version like netbeans. More to the point, Mozilla and Netscape. Aren't you saying those hard working people @ mozilla are that stupid to write code for AOL?
Do you not know what long way netbeans has come? Download those modules and see it yourself. Compare that to the enterprise version which is Sun's Forte.
It a fair deal, IBM(or which every company) sponsors the project, ppl get some cash to buy the kit to write things that ends up in both the enterprise and open source community as well as people like you.
this project has been around for a while, I've actually downloaded and compared (briefly) with some other SWING IDE. As an everyday SWING user (JBuilder, netbeans, TogetherJ), Eclipes is FAST! SWING just can't beat the speed!
And Sun has created SWING, and this IDE GUI package is way faster than SWING and I can see SWING die. Hence it Eclipes the Sun. That's the real meaning.
Don't mind if its another netbeans really, I use netbeans, as well as Forte, and maximum respect to those OSS people!
I'm pretty sure HP won't be selling these things in Germany and, oh, have they not forgotten about copy protected CDs as well? Or have they implemented CloneCD in the OS with auto protection scheme detection?
Forgot about the Toshiba e570?
Smaller than the iPaq, yet same power and features (64Mb). Built-in CFII + MMC/SD card slots, no need for bulky add-on ugly black plastic crap for ipaq, thank you very much. Can even run 1G IBM microdrive with 'extra' power saving options specifically aim for it.
Get a WinTV VCR, automate an MPEG4 compression to approatie screen res (320*240>), copy to your 1G microdrive and watch your program on the road. Ok, iPaq can do that, but you have to shell out a hundred bucks for the plack plastic expansion first!
64Mb of 64kbit WMA is good enough while you're travelling, a 32/64Mb MMC card gives you plenty musical enjoyment too!
All in the same tiny shell, now beat that for the same/cheaper price than the iPaq
Sure its a good news. But wouldn't ANY organization migrating to linux (assume they were with M$) need to get rid of those linux incapable support staff and hire new ones. Or need to x-train the old ones? Leading to job cuts.... well their hire some people else....
Ok, even if that is true, they can't enforce it in Europe or Asia. Non-US hackers will have ALL their freedom to develop a quick patch (if not counter attacking) for you poor US people.
Distribute in a virus form and no one can stop you from downloading a patch.
"contract / business / condition rather than technical problems" that seems logical, may be mandrake should turn to those in the far east for (i)legal CD production(duplication), I know they're pretty fast:)
So, 'interactive digital devices'....
ya browser doesn't stop you from right click and save an image (copy righted material) and most likely its not SSL'ed (no encryption), its gonna be illegal!
I like those smart people, love to study their brain.
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The poster has obviously not seen nice flats and non geeky things (otherwise why would anyone describe a few DIY LEDs over a single bed sexy...)
g ion.pl?r egionid=104&opt=story&storyid=5682
I cam across this flat a few years ago. Now this is proper LED and hi-tech stuff woth talking about!
http://www.findaproperty.co.uk/cgi-bin/re
If you have watched F1 enough, you'll soon realise it has always been a competition between the car manufacturers, drivers are only tools to show how fast these cars can really go. There aren't that many M.Schumacher out there who can drive a crap car and still win. Just look at Jacques Villeneuve, he is crap, without a decent car, he is very crap.
Engine Control, Auto 'box however did not ruin the sport as you claimed. Auto 'box is only taking away unnecessary human control. It lets the driver concentrates on steering the car with the right degree and applying the correct speed. In what way does auto 'box makes the sport less interesting to watch? If it was manual, will the drivers make mistakes with simple gear changes and contribute to the entertainment factor of the sport at all?
Traction/Launch Control, however takes away more of the entertainment factor because drivers are more likely to make mistakes in applying throttle, break and steering, much more so than changing a gear to loose a race.
What about the rest of the warez scene? When you were questioned, did they ask you alot about the other groups who crack a lot more titles in recent years?
Will you recommend the scene to quiet down and think about their chances of getting caught too? Are the feds digging well into different groups and soon will hunt them all down?
thanks
I was quiet amazed that OpenGL was not discussed while the author was talking the importance of D3D->DirectX and Glide!!!!
nVidia has good OpenGL support as well as 3dfx. That was the real API that drove the success of Quake, Q2 and many OpenGL games. And I thought that was the main driving force for programmers to write a game with one API and gammer looking for one API to have.
once everyone is happy to implement say 70-80% functionality of their site using Flash. Flash plug-in itself will no longer be just a 'plug-in'. I then becomes a browser itself. Then all M'media needs to do is to launch a better packaged Flash browser (or the flash player) and flock people to browse swf files instead of HTML.
Hence moving away from W3C standards. Then having the 'standard' themselves and change it as much as they like at anytime and launch new products.
By maintaining compatability with normal browser, they can certainly claim they are not trying to dominate the browser market even the browser itself becomes more of a launch pad for Flash.
That's how I see the evil plan anyway.
Yahoo uses their technologies, so does many companies who can afford one of the best search technology on the planet. I bet Yahoo is one of their biggest customer. So I believe Yahoo makes some cash and keep feeding google so we have google for free.
Doesn't this fit right into the vapourware called HomeStation?
XBox (or call it a cheap PC) has a small harddrive, DVD decoding hw, TV out, remote, dsl/cable, lan. Stuff it with a mpeg2 encoding chip, increase the hd to TiVo size, give it a bit more ram. Don't you get a TiVo+game+browsing+DVD all-in-one box? Plus MS is kind enough to subsidise a couple of hundred dollars for each box. I don't even have to think about getting a small PC case with mini-atx mobo and half-apg size vid card with video out for my living room! Regardless how I don't like MS, that could be one hell of a box that I might just buy it so that MS effectively subsidise me!
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>>but switching from vendor is just not an option.
nope, it is always an option. Its not an if the people implementing the middleware were lazy and used all the database specific functions. If the middleware is implemented in such a way that it only requires a generic API (such as JDBC, ODBC, and yes I know not every db implements all optional JDBC/ODBC features), changing the database is not a difficult task and I've seen it in big corps. Its also not an option when a contract is still effective.
I use pure JDBC, I switch db from Oracle to SQLServer2k to DB2 or MySQL back and forth. Stupid middleware implementation is to be blamed. And Larry won't get business for life if a better cheaper db is out there.
Olympic is not as commercial as Football, both American and English (real) style. Commercial factor is always the evil factor! Just imagine clubs like 49ers or Chelsea start sponsoring these things. Then you'll see a huge meathead SF49er running at 50mph or a rugby player sized footballer running faster than Owen, more skillful than Maradona and play better golf than tiger woods in his spare time.
Then what is the point of watching games anymore? amire the result of science?
Why can't I be engineered to be a super star to earn millions in sports instead of someone else?
GNOME is part of GNU project (as he said), its a desktop for the GNU system. First priority would be to have it run on GNU systems and promote free software and its community. As long as he is clear on this goal, why should we flame him?
.Net regardless of the PassPort scam, a generic .Net service can really talk to anything that talks the same xml. Making a software with an open interface so ANYTHING can talk to it is GOOD. You guys knows what is an 'interface' right? not everybody is a C/Assembler monkey.
Its really nazi to say we should not allow gnome or any gnu software to run with proprietary stuff as some ppl are shouting here. GPL says it all really! You use original GPL'ed stuff and add proprietary things and its fine, unless you modify the original code!
Look at
Say I have a kernel that does great home networking and adsl sharing, but uses Gnome for GUI. My users may actually get to know Gnome and the rest of GNU like Linux and discover the rest of the free software might do a lot more than my own proprietry kernel!
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So what? As long as you can get the oss license version like netbeans. More to the point, Mozilla and Netscape. Aren't you saying those hard working people @ mozilla are that stupid to write code for AOL?
Do you not know what long way netbeans has come? Download those modules and see it yourself. Compare that to the enterprise version which is Sun's Forte.
It a fair deal, IBM(or which every company) sponsors the project, ppl get some cash to buy the kit to write things that ends up in both the enterprise and open source community as well as people like you.
this project has been around for a while, I've actually downloaded and compared (briefly) with some other SWING IDE. As an everyday SWING user (JBuilder, netbeans, TogetherJ), Eclipes is FAST! SWING just can't beat the speed!
And Sun has created SWING, and this IDE GUI package is way faster than SWING and I can see SWING die. Hence it Eclipes the Sun. That's the real meaning.
Don't mind if its another netbeans really, I use netbeans, as well as Forte, and maximum respect to those OSS people!
humps
I'm pretty sure HP won't be selling these things in Germany and, oh, have they not forgotten about copy protected CDs as well? Or have they implemented CloneCD in the OS with auto protection scheme detection?
humps
Forgot about the Toshiba e570?
Smaller than the iPaq, yet same power and features (64Mb). Built-in CFII + MMC/SD card slots, no need for bulky add-on ugly black plastic crap for ipaq, thank you very much. Can even run 1G IBM microdrive with 'extra' power saving options specifically aim for it.
Get a WinTV VCR, automate an MPEG4 compression to approatie screen res (320*240>), copy to your 1G microdrive and watch your program on the road. Ok, iPaq can do that, but you have to shell out a hundred bucks for the plack plastic expansion first!
64Mb of 64kbit WMA is good enough while you're travelling, a 32/64Mb MMC card gives you plenty musical enjoyment too!
All in the same tiny shell, now beat that for the same/cheaper price than the iPaq
humps
Sure its a good news. But wouldn't ANY organization migrating to linux (assume they were with M$) need to get rid of those linux incapable support staff and hire new ones. Or need to x-train the old ones? Leading to job cuts.... well their hire some people else....
Ok, even if that is true, they can't enforce it in Europe or Asia. Non-US hackers will have ALL their freedom to develop a quick patch (if not counter attacking) for you poor US people.
Distribute in a virus form and no one can stop you from downloading a patch.
peace!
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"contract / business / condition rather than technical problems" :)
that seems logical, may be mandrake should turn to those in the far east for (i)legal CD production(duplication), I know they're pretty fast
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So, 'interactive digital devices'....
ya browser doesn't stop you from right click and save an image (copy righted material) and most likely its not SSL'ed (no encryption), its gonna be illegal!
I like those smart people, love to study their brain.
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