Why does everyone say 'the end of the last ice age'?
No doubt! Bud Ice, Icehouse, Molson Ice, one only has to go as far as the supermarket to see we are in an ice age.
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I'm starting to wonder if these trolling articles bashing Microsoft are a just a plot to get us to read articles and see those new ads. This comment at the end of Timmothy's summary is what got my attention.
Tanveer1979 writes: though, that "the bright side is that it doesn't send anything to internet, it only downloads files, and compares the files on your computer with the files on server. And I guess a little effort is needed for the malicious to program it to send your data to web."
The last line about a little effort needed for the malicious program is just pure speculation. With a little effort you can send the contents of/etc/passwd to the net and I suppose with a little effort you could send a full inventory of your installed RPM's to the net too. It doesn't mean it is happening though. This is just plain irresponsible journalism here, if you can call cutting and pasting user submitted links journalism.
You all hate the RIAA so much you fail to see that this is theft. If my company has a huge MP3 library why would I ever need to buy a legitimate CD when I can just take the MP3's home or burn them to a CD so I can play them in the car? Doesn't the artist have something to lose here? What if every company did this? Or what if every boradband user published gigabytes of music? The recording industry would suffer. The whole music industry would suffer. Who would be able to finance new bands and promote touring bands? Corporate advertisers maybe? Maybe the next REM tour will have 3 minute Budweiser commercials between songs. That would be fucking cool wouldn't it?
Yeah, the RIAA does some dumb shit with the heavier fees on webcasters, their latest lobbying efforts, and their notion that all listeners are pirates. But after reading this topic, it kind of looks like everyone is a pirate. Fair use is one thing, but with the attitudes expressed here in this public forum fair use will be killed because the RIAA doesn't have to go very far to show lawmakers that there are alot of thieves who will abuse fair use. Thanks guys.
on average, computers on desktops are idle at least 60% of the time
Many of us need that 60% idle time to keep our CPU's running at a reasonable temperature. I have my CPU and case cooling under control but now I think I need to put muliple A/C zones in my house thanks to distributed.net.:)
Recording and producing 1500 CD's complete will full color covers, jewel boxes, and art on the CD for $1000? Yeah right.
It takes some bands months in the studios and then weeks or more engineering before they even know what is going to be on the CD. Cover art isn't just pulled out of their ass either. It all costs money and it all adds up.
So are you saying its the RIAA who keeps calling my local radio station requesting Skynyrd all the time? Those bastards!
I'm sorry but I think the market controls more of what we hear than the RIAA does. I might have a pretty strong opinion of what music I think sucks but there are millions of teenagers who disagree with me and keep buying N'Sync. The RIAA isn't forcing them to buy this crap. The industry might have created these guys but its the kids who are keeping them popular.
As for Linkin Park, there's a reason why you hear that one song all the time. Call your radio station and ask them why. Its not a conspiracy.
According to the article it costs $7 to make a copy.....($5 for the burn and $2 for the blank, I assume you can't bring your own). If the record companies would sell their "music" or other products for that price, instead of $16.95 for a new CD, maybe it would not be an issue.
We all assume we are being screwed when it comes to buying a CD for $16.95. Is this because we can buy a stack of 50 blank CD-R's for about the same price?
Besides the cost of the media there are other costs involved in making CD's. Recording studio time, editing, cover art, packaging costs, marketing costs, distribution costs, and I am sure the list goes on. Considering CD's cost me about $16 at record stores in 1986 and they cost $16 in record stores now just how am I being screwed? I can buy them in discount and department stores like Target for about $2 less than a record store in the mall or online for about $2 less than at the mall. But still, considering the end cost to the consumer hasn't really changed in 16 years how can you complain? In most cases they are even cheaper because there are more outlets and certain stores can take less of a markup.
They don't have to release anything and they can still help this woman. I can repeat myself or you can go back and read the third or fourth paragraph in my post.
There are many clinically depressed people who live on their own. Some even have families and live a somewhat normal life given the proper medication. There's no need for some of the hostility and wise cracks about this guy living on his own.
I've noticed a lot of people disputing the addicting nature of Everquest. Everquest players are the ones who coined the term "Evercrack." Anyone who plays and has tried to quit knows it can be a hard game to leave. However, addiction is not always in the substance. Often you will find reformed drug addicts and alcoholics have replaced their addiction to a substance with something else. Often times it will be sports, fitness, or religion. Addiction is built into them for some reason or another.
If this guy was truly an Everquest addict, the chances are very high that he would have had something else replacing the "addiction". Alcohol, comic books, internet pr0n, drugs, chat rooms, eBaying, "first post"ing on slashdot article, who knows.
The deal here is his mom is just looking for an answer so she'll feel better. Her attorney is probably resposible for the rest of it and just maybe it will make Sony cave and let her ask her questions.
The "kid" was 21 and lived on his own. This isn't a case of a parent neglecting an 8 year old who sees someone rocket jump in Quake and then tries to do the same with his daddy's 12 guage. This is a parent who lost a child and is looking for some closure. Sony won't even give her that much because their policy is set in stone and no one there is empowered to show any compassion. They probably can't tell her who he socialized with in game but they could at least post a contact number for her so interested parties can contact her about her sons death. They did that much for a Sony employee who lost a son at the World Trade Center on 9/11. They had an MOTD up for about a week with a URL so people could post any info.
As for the case... Is Sony responsible for players actions? Heck no. Does this lady have any chance in suing Sony? Probably not. Is she wrong for trying? No. Are you cold and insensitive person? You sure do look like it. Perhaps you should send your resume to George Scotto at SOE. You'd make a good head GM.
the kid was 21 years old, an eppileptic, and clinically depressed, along with a few other psyhological disorders. IANA[insert profession here], but to me it's clear that the game was part of the problem as he was playing 12 hours/day, and once thought the characters were chasing him, but mom and the psychologist continued to let him play it. Sony's lawyers will also be quick to point out the Columbine case.
Well you must have read at least part of the article to get some of these facts. Unfortunatly you got it pretty mixed up and are talking about cases involving several different players instead of the one in question.
The mother wants some information regarding her sons suicide. Had the guy gone to a night club and come home and killed himself then the mother could go to the night club and try to find people he was with to try to find out why he did it. In this case she can't talk to anyone because Sony is being very uncooperative. Her only recourse is to sue Sony which will do several things. Directly it might get them to put some warning labels on the box and it will get some publicity. Indirectly, the news of the lawsuit may reach guildmates or acquaintences of the deceased in game who may choose for themselves to contact the mother and offer her some condolences so she can get the closure she needs.
Sony is more than capable of putting out a message of the day, MOTD, to notify friends of this player to visit a site where they can choose for themselves if they want to talk to this guys mother. Instead Sony always blurts out this boilerplate response about privacy of its players and that is the end of the matter to them. They clearly have a responsibility here, in this case a moral one, to offer some form of condolence to this guys mother. They can at least let people in game know about the death and let the players choose if they want to do the write thing.
When I played I had a guildmate get severly injured in a car accident. He was in a coma and almost died. It was months before we all found out about it and when we did we all sent messages to our fallen friend. Someone in the guild went as far as hand delivering screenshots and get well postings to him in the hospital which he appreciated very much. The point is, there are some people who play the game who do care. If this guy had friends in the game they might know of some of the problems he was having and that could help his mother recover from her loss.
I think in the end the mother will hear what she needs to but not with Sony's help. The publicity and will prompt a few players will come through to help her.
A Shaman named Rathgar once told me, "There's three kinds of people who play this game, elves, non elves, and me." Looking back I think there are only two kinds of people who play. Normal people and abnormal people.
I personally witnessed the self destruction of more than one person while playing the game and I saw many people put trust in people who they didn't know only to lose all of their in game posessions. For those people who would spend 12 hours a day for more than a year in game only to lose it all because they thought they had a friend it is very devistating. No more different than giving someone you meet in real life the key to your apartment only to come home one day and find all your stuff gone, save a few pennies scattered on the rug.
Everquest is addicting and there is a point where you realize, at least there was for me, that you've spent nnn hours in game and have yyyy treasure. You can quit now and lose it which makes you realize that the nnn hours were all pretty much a waste or you can keep playing until you find something better to do with your time that will make you forget about the waste of nnn hours and the loss of yyyy treasure. Some people quit and come back to the game several times before quitting for good. Others will do something to get banned from the game to ensure that they will be quitting for good. I think this is where you see people getting ripped off by so called friends because the people who do this are caught and they do get banned.
I think Everquest can be a very dangerous game for some people. It is only a game but it has people interacting and bad people do play it. I definatly wouldn't let a child play it and would advise against a mentally ill person playing it as there seem to be enough of those playing already. On the other hand, I have heard great things about how some people with physical handicaps have used the game to give them a life they couldn't normally have.
This link over at CNet talks about the Mandrake Club members feeling jilted.
Basically Mandrake is offering the download to the Silver members of the club. Those who joined under a lower level because "members would receive the same benefits" feel this is unfair, as they should.
I use GNOME and the first thing I did was ditch Nautilus. My beef with Nautilus is it just has too much in it. Its a desktop manager, file manager, web browser, and theme manager. The problem with GNOME is there are other parts of GNOME that do the same thing. If you have a slow enough machine, mine is a K6-2 550, and use Nautilus you'll see GNOME start up and set your background color, pixmap, etc. Then the screen flashes a few times while Nautilus does the same thing. You can not turn off that feature of Nautilus but I you want Nautilus to do themes you're stuck first waiting for whatever other part of GNOME also does themes.
Nice look but I think I liked it better the first time around when it was called Windows XP, or was that Mac OS X? Sometimes I think Apple was the only one paying attention to their "Think Different" ads.
I was able to use the plugin to run a few applications that I just couldn't get to run well under WINE. Trillian being one of them.
You might not agree the plugin is best for Linux in that it lets folks continue with proprietary formats (WMA) and prorietary codecs (Quicktime) but it sure is nice to see WINE come this far. Using this plugin I can honestly say I can surf the web and use the net with all the features I want without needing Windows at all. Codeweavers did a good job here.
Yeah but for an extra $600 bucks you can get an LCD screen on a pedastal, a cool OS, and software that works with your hardware. And the chicks think it looks cool.
But if you're going to build your own box why not go dual Athlon or single Athlon? What is the new Amiga OS going to offer people today that is not already there in either Windows or Linux. (And personally I don't think anyone is going to top OS X for elegance in this decade. That thing is just pure art. Go Steve!)
I just don't understand what Amiga is trying to accomplish. For one, they look too fragmented with all the consumer electronic stuff that they have going on. Personally I think they had their chance in the 90's and blew it. I don't think the market will support another OS. Look at BeOS. They claim Microsoft killed them. Linux isn't really taking over the desktop world by storm but on the other hand is probably going to kick Sun's butt sooner than later in the server world. How is Amiga going to be any different than lets say Be or Apple as far as competing with Windows? By filling a niche market so people can run their 10 year old software on modern hardware? Speedball wasn't that much fun.
Let's face it, Amiga's strong point was multimedia. If I am a multemedia professional today then I either have a G4 and Adobe's suite of software or a P4 with Adobe's suite of software. If I am into video then I have a Newtek Video Toaster on an Intel box and my A4000 is propping the window open so I can smell the dogwoods bloom.
Mod me flamebait, a troll, or call me a bigot if you want. But I just don't see the point. Hell, even using this board as a Linux platform doesn't make that much sense to me. A cheap Mac clone, yeah maybe. But I see Apple busting those who try. (Boo Steve! Betcha you and Woz would have tried to hack it in your college days.)
And, also at the same time, there is some other, unknown force causing the entire planet to heat. It truly is possible. But I wouldn't personally bet the world on that.
I blame it on the popularity of the AMD Athlon, new nVidia chipsets, and all these 300-400w power supplies that we're using to power our ATA/100 and SCSI RAID configurations.
The first 3D modeler I ever used was Blender so I approach other programs from the vantage point of only knowing how to use Blender. I sat down at a fiends computer with Lightwave and thought, oh my, this thing is a pain in the ass. I guess it all comes down to personal preference and what you are used to doing.
Don't these airport security people watch TV? There are only but a few doctors in Starfleet who could successfully re-assimilate a Borg back into society yet these yahoos try to do it on their own, and without the aid of at least an EMH Mark I.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. CowboyNeal should be held responsible for these vulnerabilities. *grin* Anyway, here's a very similar slashdot discussion and the related article at eWeek which I don't believe is referenced in this new incarnation.
Oh please, I'm trying to figure out what kind of social, cultural, environmental, or long-term economic implications would be involved with Mandrake laying off a few people to stay in business versus ending up like Loki owing employees and creditors a couple million dollars (or euros in this case). I don't think it will cause any kernel hackers to start crashing commercial airliners into American buildings (unless Flight Simulator 2002 runs under WINE).
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Why does everyone say 'the end of the last ice age'?
No doubt! Bud Ice, Icehouse, Molson Ice, one only has to go as far as the supermarket to see we are in an ice age.
I'm starting to wonder if these trolling articles bashing Microsoft are a just a plot to get us to read articles and see those new ads. This comment at the end of Timmothy's summary is what got my attention.
/etc/passwd to the net and I suppose with a little effort you could send a full inventory of your installed RPM's to the net too. It doesn't mean it is happening though. This is just plain irresponsible journalism here, if you can call cutting and pasting user submitted links journalism.
Tanveer1979 writes: though, that "the bright side is that it doesn't send anything to internet, it only downloads files, and compares the files on your computer with the files on server. And I guess a little effort is needed for the malicious to program it to send your data to web."
The last line about a little effort needed for the malicious program is just pure speculation. With a little effort you can send the contents of
You all hate the RIAA so much you fail to see that this is theft. If my company has a huge MP3 library why would I ever need to buy a legitimate CD when I can just take the MP3's home or burn them to a CD so I can play them in the car? Doesn't the artist have something to lose here? What if every company did this? Or what if every boradband user published gigabytes of music? The recording industry would suffer. The whole music industry would suffer. Who would be able to finance new bands and promote touring bands? Corporate advertisers maybe? Maybe the next REM tour will have 3 minute Budweiser commercials between songs. That would be fucking cool wouldn't it?
Yeah, the RIAA does some dumb shit with the heavier fees on webcasters, their latest lobbying efforts, and their notion that all listeners are pirates. But after reading this topic, it kind of looks like everyone is a pirate. Fair use is one thing, but with the attitudes expressed here in this public forum fair use will be killed because the RIAA doesn't have to go very far to show lawmakers that there are alot of thieves who will abuse fair use. Thanks guys.
on average, computers on desktops are idle at least 60% of the time
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Many of us need that 60% idle time to keep our CPU's running at a reasonable temperature. I have my CPU and case cooling under control but now I think I need to put muliple A/C zones in my house thanks to distributed.net.
Recording and producing 1500 CD's complete will full color covers, jewel boxes, and art on the CD for $1000? Yeah right.
It takes some bands months in the studios and then weeks or more engineering before they even know what is going to be on the CD. Cover art isn't just pulled out of their ass either. It all costs money and it all adds up.
The RIAA controls virtually everything we hear.
So are you saying its the RIAA who keeps calling my local radio station requesting Skynyrd all the time? Those bastards!
I'm sorry but I think the market controls more of what we hear than the RIAA does. I might have a pretty strong opinion of what music I think sucks but there are millions of teenagers who disagree with me and keep buying N'Sync. The RIAA isn't forcing them to buy this crap. The industry might have created these guys but its the kids who are keeping them popular.
As for Linkin Park, there's a reason why you hear that one song all the time. Call your radio station and ask them why. Its not a conspiracy.
According to the article it costs $7 to make a copy.....($5 for the burn and $2 for the blank, I assume you can't bring your own). If the record companies would sell their "music" or other products for that price, instead of $16.95 for a new CD, maybe it would not be an issue.
We all assume we are being screwed when it comes to buying a CD for $16.95. Is this because we can buy a stack of 50 blank CD-R's for about the same price?
Besides the cost of the media there are other costs involved in making CD's. Recording studio time, editing, cover art, packaging costs, marketing costs, distribution costs, and I am sure the list goes on. Considering CD's cost me about $16 at record stores in 1986 and they cost $16 in record stores now just how am I being screwed? I can buy them in discount and department stores like Target for about $2 less than a record store in the mall or online for about $2 less than at the mall. But still, considering the end cost to the consumer hasn't really changed in 16 years how can you complain? In most cases they are even cheaper because there are more outlets and certain stores can take less of a markup.
They don't have to release anything and they can still help this woman. I can repeat myself or you can go back and read the third or fourth paragraph in my post.
There are many clinically depressed people who live on their own. Some even have families and live a somewhat normal life given the proper medication. There's no need for some of the hostility and wise cracks about this guy living on his own.
I've noticed a lot of people disputing the addicting nature of Everquest. Everquest players are the ones who coined the term "Evercrack." Anyone who plays and has tried to quit knows it can be a hard game to leave. However, addiction is not always in the substance. Often you will find reformed drug addicts and alcoholics have replaced their addiction to a substance with something else. Often times it will be sports, fitness, or religion. Addiction is built into them for some reason or another.
If this guy was truly an Everquest addict, the chances are very high that he would have had something else replacing the "addiction". Alcohol, comic books, internet pr0n, drugs, chat rooms, eBaying, "first post"ing on slashdot article, who knows.
The deal here is his mom is just looking for an answer so she'll feel better. Her attorney is probably resposible for the rest of it and just maybe it will make Sony cave and let her ask her questions.
The "kid" was 21 and lived on his own. This isn't a case of a parent neglecting an 8 year old who sees someone rocket jump in Quake and then tries to do the same with his daddy's 12 guage. This is a parent who lost a child and is looking for some closure. Sony won't even give her that much because their policy is set in stone and no one there is empowered to show any compassion. They probably can't tell her who he socialized with in game but they could at least post a contact number for her so interested parties can contact her about her sons death. They did that much for a Sony employee who lost a son at the World Trade Center on 9/11. They had an MOTD up for about a week with a URL so people could post any info.
As for the case... Is Sony responsible for players actions? Heck no. Does this lady have any chance in suing Sony? Probably not. Is she wrong for trying? No. Are you cold and insensitive person? You sure do look like it. Perhaps you should send your resume to George Scotto at SOE. You'd make a good head GM.
the kid was 21 years old, an eppileptic, and clinically depressed, along with a few other psyhological disorders. IANA[insert profession here], but to me it's clear that the game was part of the problem as he was playing 12 hours/day, and once thought the characters were chasing him, but mom and the psychologist continued to let him play it. Sony's lawyers will also be quick to point out the Columbine case.
Well you must have read at least part of the article to get some of these facts. Unfortunatly you got it pretty mixed up and are talking about cases involving several different players instead of the one in question.
The mother wants some information regarding her sons suicide. Had the guy gone to a night club and come home and killed himself then the mother could go to the night club and try to find people he was with to try to find out why he did it. In this case she can't talk to anyone because Sony is being very uncooperative. Her only recourse is to sue Sony which will do several things. Directly it might get them to put some warning labels on the box and it will get some publicity. Indirectly, the news of the lawsuit may reach guildmates or acquaintences of the deceased in game who may choose for themselves to contact the mother and offer her some condolences so she can get the closure she needs.
Sony is more than capable of putting out a message of the day, MOTD, to notify friends of this player to visit a site where they can choose for themselves if they want to talk to this guys mother. Instead Sony always blurts out this boilerplate response about privacy of its players and that is the end of the matter to them. They clearly have a responsibility here, in this case a moral one, to offer some form of condolence to this guys mother. They can at least let people in game know about the death and let the players choose if they want to do the write thing.
When I played I had a guildmate get severly injured in a car accident. He was in a coma and almost died. It was months before we all found out about it and when we did we all sent messages to our fallen friend. Someone in the guild went as far as hand delivering screenshots and get well postings to him in the hospital which he appreciated very much. The point is, there are some people who play the game who do care. If this guy had friends in the game they might know of some of the problems he was having and that could help his mother recover from her loss.
I think in the end the mother will hear what she needs to but not with Sony's help. The publicity and will prompt a few players will come through to help her.
A Shaman named Rathgar once told me, "There's three kinds of people who play this game, elves, non elves, and me." Looking back I think there are only two kinds of people who play. Normal people and abnormal people.
I personally witnessed the self destruction of more than one person while playing the game and I saw many people put trust in people who they didn't know only to lose all of their in game posessions. For those people who would spend 12 hours a day for more than a year in game only to lose it all because they thought they had a friend it is very devistating. No more different than giving someone you meet in real life the key to your apartment only to come home one day and find all your stuff gone, save a few pennies scattered on the rug.
Everquest is addicting and there is a point where you realize, at least there was for me, that you've spent nnn hours in game and have yyyy treasure. You can quit now and lose it which makes you realize that the nnn hours were all pretty much a waste or you can keep playing until you find something better to do with your time that will make you forget about the waste of nnn hours and the loss of yyyy treasure. Some people quit and come back to the game several times before quitting for good. Others will do something to get banned from the game to ensure that they will be quitting for good. I think this is where you see people getting ripped off by so called friends because the people who do this are caught and they do get banned.
I think Everquest can be a very dangerous game for some people. It is only a game but it has people interacting and bad people do play it. I definatly wouldn't let a child play it and would advise against a mentally ill person playing it as there seem to be enough of those playing already. On the other hand, I have heard great things about how some people with physical handicaps have used the game to give them a life they couldn't normally have.
Just set your address and phone number to their address and phone number and let them receive all your bulk mailings and telemarketing calls.
This link over at CNet talks about the Mandrake Club members feeling jilted.
Basically Mandrake is offering the download to the Silver members of the club. Those who joined under a lower level because "members would receive the same benefits" feel this is unfair, as they should.
I use GNOME and the first thing I did was ditch Nautilus. My beef with Nautilus is it just has too much in it. Its a desktop manager, file manager, web browser, and theme manager. The problem with GNOME is there are other parts of GNOME that do the same thing. If you have a slow enough machine, mine is a K6-2 550, and use Nautilus you'll see GNOME start up and set your background color, pixmap, etc. Then the screen flashes a few times while Nautilus does the same thing. You can not turn off that feature of Nautilus but I you want Nautilus to do themes you're stuck first waiting for whatever other part of GNOME also does themes.
Nice look but I think I liked it better the first time around when it was called Windows XP, or was that Mac OS X? Sometimes I think Apple was the only one paying attention to their "Think Different" ads.
I was able to use the plugin to run a few applications that I just couldn't get to run well under WINE. Trillian being one of them.
You might not agree the plugin is best for Linux in that it lets folks continue with proprietary formats (WMA) and prorietary codecs (Quicktime) but it sure is nice to see WINE come this far. Using this plugin I can honestly say I can surf the web and use the net with all the features I want without needing Windows at all. Codeweavers did a good job here.
Yeah but for an extra $600 bucks you can get an LCD screen on a pedastal, a cool OS, and software that works with your hardware. And the chicks think it looks cool.
But if you're going to build your own box why not go dual Athlon or single Athlon? What is the new Amiga OS going to offer people today that is not already there in either Windows or Linux. (And personally I don't think anyone is going to top OS X for elegance in this decade. That thing is just pure art. Go Steve!)
I just don't understand what Amiga is trying to accomplish. For one, they look too fragmented with all the consumer electronic stuff that they have going on. Personally I think they had their chance in the 90's and blew it. I don't think the market will support another OS. Look at BeOS. They claim Microsoft killed them. Linux isn't really taking over the desktop world by storm but on the other hand is probably going to kick Sun's butt sooner than later in the server world. How is Amiga going to be any different than lets say Be or Apple as far as competing with Windows? By filling a niche market so people can run their 10 year old software on modern hardware? Speedball wasn't that much fun.
Let's face it, Amiga's strong point was multimedia. If I am a multemedia professional today then I either have a G4 and Adobe's suite of software or a P4 with Adobe's suite of software. If I am into video then I have a Newtek Video Toaster on an Intel box and my A4000 is propping the window open so I can smell the dogwoods bloom.
Mod me flamebait, a troll, or call me a bigot if you want. But I just don't see the point. Hell, even using this board as a Linux platform doesn't make that much sense to me. A cheap Mac clone, yeah maybe. But I see Apple busting those who try. (Boo Steve! Betcha you and Woz would have tried to hack it in your college days.)
And, also at the same time, there is some other, unknown force causing the entire planet to heat. It truly is possible. But I wouldn't personally bet the world on that.
I blame it on the popularity of the AMD Athlon, new nVidia chipsets, and all these 300-400w power supplies that we're using to power our ATA/100 and SCSI RAID configurations.
Information on the free Boehm collector can be found here.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
Mofo gonna sue CmdrTaco next for spam-slashdotting their website.
The first 3D modeler I ever used was Blender so I approach other programs from the vantage point of only knowing how to use Blender. I sat down at a fiends computer with Lightwave and thought, oh my, this thing is a pain in the ass. I guess it all comes down to personal preference and what you are used to doing.
Don't these airport security people watch TV? There are only but a few doctors in Starfleet who could successfully re-assimilate a Borg back into society yet these yahoos try to do it on their own, and without the aid of at least an EMH Mark I.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. CowboyNeal should be held responsible for these vulnerabilities. *grin* Anyway, here's a very similar slashdot discussion and the related article at eWeek which I don't believe is referenced in this new incarnation.
Oh please, I'm trying to figure out what kind of social, cultural, environmental, or long-term economic implications would be involved with Mandrake laying off a few people to stay in business versus ending up like Loki owing employees and creditors a couple million dollars (or euros in this case). I don't think it will cause any kernel hackers to start crashing commercial airliners into American buildings (unless Flight Simulator 2002 runs under WINE).