A known troll no less. Looks like he finally blew his karma into oblivion and is now trying to rebuild it again so his trolls can again be heard loud and clear.
Even at a score of 1, this is _way_ overrated. You appear to be talking out of your arse, please stop.
If you want to argue the merits of the technology, go right ahead, but to turn this into the standard "Microsoft sucks and is trying to take over the world"...dude, you've lost all credibility.
Oh, wait...forgot where I am. Mod that +5 insightful then will ya?
Do I really have to explain why I'd reply to yours and not all the rest as well?
Visibility my friend. Kill many birds with 1 stone. Your comment happened to have been, totally wrongly, modded to 5 and thus appears at the top. Thus the hope is that more readers than not would see the problem.
I'm to assume then that you are a mature adult because mature adults take at least 3 obvious contradictions to admit that they are wrong? Then complain about the other being a child? You are a very funny person, sure hope I, um, grow up to be like you? Yes, I used some bad words (ooh), but maybe it's because you have been so dense and I needed a tool that would actually get your attention. (Only took 3 tries right). And here you are still complaining.
OK, out come the guns. Fuck are you ever a dense idiot.
No wait, the correct term I believe is fuckwit.
Two of your three quotes were written by the editor, simoniker, and do NOT exist in the question submitted by sknja.
Your other quote, "gaming companies", you are using totally out of context. Do these so called "gaming companies" only program? No possibility of any "gaming companies" that deal with hardware as well?
Dude, you have royally stuck your foot in your mouth, give up already.
(He's trolling isn't he? I really have to stop feeding the trolls, but it is monday morning and I'm not quite as alert as usual. At least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
You read the headline, but not the actual posted question. If you had you'd realize the headline was wrong. (Listen up/. editors, this applies to you too)
This guy doesn't wan't to be a game programmer. He's an engineer and he wants to work on game consoles. Big difference people!
Gif and png are NOT lossless. They CAN be, in certain situations depending on the source and the options used, but they are deffinately not lossless by deffinition.
Are they going to storm your house and confiscate your hardware that you purchased not from microsoft but from some totally different company?
Nah, a bit much I guess.
Are they going to tell you you can't do that even though you know you have every right to?
Boo Hoo, sucks to be you.
And you're going to listen to them? Hint: It's called extortion my friend.
Btw, I've decided that it shall cost $100 dollars for the right to reply to any of my postings on this website. Please forward your check at your earliest convenience.
So you had a boxed copy of XP, and it's license, which came in the box, stated that XP could be used on any compatible hardware and transfered to other hardware at any time, as long as there is only 1 copy installed at any one time.
And you think that their changing the EULA with a service pack update can force your original license to suddenly be bound to a single piece of fictitious hardware that the software wasn't purchased with in the first place?
<quote character="Martin" show="The Simpsons"> Ha Ha. </quote>
Consumerism 101: CompanyX has productY for sale for $Z dollars. I buy productY for $Z dollars. End of transaction.
Now I take MY productY home and do whatever the fuck I want with it.
So, if CompanyX assumed that I would do [q] with productY which would generate more revenue for CompanyX, and even worse, takes a loss on productY based on this assumption, but then I don't do [q] and thus do not give CompanyX more money because I bought productY ONLY, and NEVER intended to do [q], we should force legislation making this illegal and create a false market to hold up CompanyX?
Fuck that man! If MS crashes and burns because they sell the XBox hardware without enough markup, am I supposed to cry? Fuck that man!
Oh, I get it. Cars should be $500 new, and we should be forced to buy $1000 worth of gas, from the company we bought the car from, ad infinum. What a wonderful world that would be!
Just remember, you thought of it, not me so you can gladly have all the credit!
He wasn't selling copies of software to people that don't own that software, he was selling the MS XBox BIOS to people that already owned a license for said BIOS, thus not selling them a bios at all.
He was really just selling mod chips that contained software they had already purchased.
Now, MAYBE, you'd have a point if they caught the guy selling his mod chips to someone that had never bought an XBox in the first place, thus didn't already own the BIOS, but they didn't because who the fuck would buy a mod chip if they didn't have an XBox to use it in?
Think of it this way: How much does a legitimate copy of WindowsXP cost? Wrong. About $10. Yes, the _license_ is much more, but anyone can purchase and own a copy for dirt cheap...just not allowed to use it until you purchase the license. So, what's wrong with him selling these chips with the bios on them when there is absolutely NO way to use it without actually purchasing an XBox, which includes a valid license for said BIOS.
Manufacturers have the right to dicated how there products get used if they want to.
This is total horseshit man. It has been proven in court time and time again that once you buy something, it's yours to do with as you please. Please notice that I said buy and not license. Licensing is the current gray area, but has absolutely NO bearing on the outright purchase of a physical thing.
Look at it this way, regardless of whether it's legal or not to make copies of CDs, once you purchase one, you can do whatever the fuck you want with the physical media. Make a coaster, make a frisbee whatever, it's yours.
Can you not see how this lawsuit sets a horrible and totally unprecedented example? Come now, open your eyes and realize when your rights are being pissed on.
Get with the times would you? Sheesh, you'd be right if it was still 1998 and we were all running IIS3.0, but come on, quit it with the FUD. IIS6.0 is deffinately an HTTP server, and it is NOT just a mess or a piece of crap.
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A known troll no less.
Looks like he finally blew his karma into oblivion and is now trying to rebuild it again so his trolls can again be heard loud and clear.
Don't feed the troll!
Even at a score of 1, this is _way_ overrated.
You appear to be talking out of your arse, please stop.
If you want to argue the merits of the technology, go right ahead, but to turn this into the standard "Microsoft sucks and is trying to take over the world"...dude, you've lost all credibility.
Oh, wait...forgot where I am.
Mod that +5 insightful then will ya?
It looks like a large brass coin? Very interesting... ;)
Do I really have to explain why I'd reply to yours and not all the rest as well?
Visibility my friend. Kill many birds with 1 stone.
Your comment happened to have been, totally wrongly, modded to 5 and thus appears at the top. Thus the hope is that more readers than not would see the problem.
I'm to assume then that you are a mature adult because mature adults take at least 3 obvious contradictions to admit that they are wrong? Then complain about the other being a child? You are a very funny person, sure hope I, um, grow up to be like you? Yes, I used some bad words (ooh), but maybe it's because you have been so dense and I needed a tool that would actually get your attention. (Only took 3 tries right). And here you are still complaining.
Whatever.
OK, out come the guns. Fuck are you ever a dense idiot.
No wait, the correct term I believe is fuckwit.
Two of your three quotes were written by the editor, simoniker, and do NOT exist in the question submitted by sknja.
Your other quote, "gaming companies", you are using totally out of context. Do these so called "gaming companies" only program? No possibility of any "gaming companies" that deal with hardware as well?
Dude, you have royally stuck your foot in your mouth, give up already.
(He's trolling isn't he? I really have to stop feeding the trolls, but it is monday morning and I'm not quite as alert as usual. At least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
Quote: ...of a 5-year electrical engineering program.
Good to know that electrical is synonymous with software, learn something new every day don't we?
You read the headline, but not the actual posted question. If you had you'd realize the headline was wrong. (Listen up /. editors, this applies to you too)
This guy doesn't wan't to be a game programmer. He's an engineer and he wants to work on game consoles. Big difference people!
Gif and png are NOT lossless.
They CAN be, in certain situations depending on the source and the options used, but they are deffinately not lossless by deffinition.
You mean the infamous step 3 do you not: ...
3) ?
4) Profit!
No, the correct answer of course is 42.
This isn't a troll, it's the truth.
Just because you don't like the truth doesn't mean it's not a valid point.
And how are they going to press the issue?
Are they going to storm your house and confiscate your hardware that you purchased not from microsoft but from some totally different company?
Nah, a bit much I guess.
Are they going to tell you you can't do that even though you know you have every right to?
Boo Hoo, sucks to be you.
And you're going to listen to them?
Hint: It's called extortion my friend.
Btw, I've decided that it shall cost $100 dollars for the right to reply to any of my postings on this website. Please forward your check at your earliest convenience.
I AM an ignoramus aren't I?
So you had a boxed copy of XP, and it's license, which came in the box, stated that XP could be used on any compatible hardware and transfered to other hardware at any time, as long as there is only 1 copy installed at any one time.
And you think that their changing the EULA with a service pack update can force your original license to suddenly be bound to a single piece of fictitious hardware that the software wasn't purchased with in the first place?
<quote character="Martin" show="The Simpsons">
Ha Ha.
</quote>
That would be a false market.
Consumerism 101:
CompanyX has productY for sale for $Z dollars. I buy productY for $Z dollars. End of transaction.
Now I take MY productY home and do whatever the fuck I want with it.
So, if CompanyX assumed that I would do [q] with productY which would generate more revenue for CompanyX, and even worse, takes a loss on productY based on this assumption, but then I don't do [q] and thus do not give CompanyX more money because I bought productY ONLY, and NEVER intended to do [q], we should force legislation making this illegal and create a false market to hold up CompanyX?
Fuck that man!
If MS crashes and burns because they sell the XBox hardware without enough markup, am I supposed to cry? Fuck that man!
Oh, I get it. Cars should be $500 new, and we should be forced to buy $1000 worth of gas, from the company we bought the car from, ad infinum. What a wonderful world that would be!
Just remember, you thought of it, not me so you can gladly have all the credit!
Ah, you figured it out all on your own ;)
Multi-use...go figure!
You sir, are a fuckwit.
You don't eat your cheerios in the living room do you? Because we say you aren't allowed to.
You won't play Brittney Spears on this CD Player will you? Because we say you aren't allowed to.
You won't tint the windows on this car will you? Because we say you aren't allowed to.
You won't wear that shirt without tucking it in will you? Because we say you aren't allowed to.
You won't use that microwave to blow up eggs? Because we say you aren't allowed to.
You won't drink that whole case of beer tonight will you? Because we say you aren't allowed to.
Really dude, quit watering down my rights as a consumer.
The baseball bat analogy is just fine.
Guns are meant to kill, yet killing is illegal, yet we sell them anyways knowing that they may be used to kill.
See my point?
He wasn't selling copies of software to people that don't own that software, he was selling the MS XBox BIOS to people that already owned a license for said BIOS, thus not selling them a bios at all.
He was really just selling mod chips that contained software they had already purchased.
Now, MAYBE, you'd have a point if they caught the guy selling his mod chips to someone that had never bought an XBox in the first place, thus didn't already own the BIOS, but they didn't because who the fuck would buy a mod chip if they didn't have an XBox to use it in?
Think of it this way: How much does a legitimate copy of WindowsXP cost? Wrong. About $10. Yes, the _license_ is much more, but anyone can purchase and own a copy for dirt cheap...just not allowed to use it until you purchase the license. So, what's wrong with him selling these chips with the bios on them when there is absolutely NO way to use it without actually purchasing an XBox, which includes a valid license for said BIOS.
This is total horseshit man. It has been proven in court time and time again that once you buy something, it's yours to do with as you please. Please notice that I said buy and not license. Licensing is the current gray area, but has absolutely NO bearing on the outright purchase of a physical thing.
Look at it this way, regardless of whether it's legal or not to make copies of CDs, once you purchase one, you can do whatever the fuck you want with the physical media. Make a coaster, make a frisbee whatever, it's yours.
Can you not see how this lawsuit sets a horrible and totally unprecedented example? Come now, open your eyes and realize when your rights are being pissed on.
Get with the times would you?
Sheesh, you'd be right if it was still 1998 and we were all running IIS3.0, but come on, quit it with the FUD.
IIS6.0 is deffinately an HTTP server, and it is NOT just a mess or a piece of crap.
Oh my god! Run for your lives!
Do you notice a dull glow radiating from your body when all the lights are off?
That's too fsking funny! ;)
Good one Taco.
Yeah, go on, admit it...you fell for that one
Whoa, strike a nerve did I?