Silly question: WMP over here doesn't lock the screensaver out while playing videos in full screen. If I'm watching a film I have to periodically nudge the mouse to keep it all awake.
* 35mm film is anamorphic - you don't lose print space. * Believe me, I've seen the arguments many, many times and there's a strong body of opinion in favour of slow 35mm (=100ASA) over digital. * The complaint is largely centred around compression, anyway. They're doing a lot to get a full movie down to 5GB.
As I recall, Microsoft tradermarked 'Microsoft Windows' and were explicitly told that 'Windows' would not be trademarkable. Whereas Mr. Robertson sells his product as 'LindowsOS'.
These just aren't 'identical or confusingly similar', as would be required. MS are trying to intimidate to extend their trademark.
Honestly, just play it - superb atmosphere, superb gameplay but never really took off - seems people weren't so hot on first person perspective for these things. Personally, I think it just makes it wonderfully immersive.
Also, I tend to get annoyed with the number of RTS games where you're winning wherever you go, mopping up every last unit of resistance and levelling the battlefield. Battlezone isn't like that - you're constantly battling to get out of the level alive and achieve the objectives before you get overpowered. That crucial difference leads to a very different mindset that I find more enjoyable in the long-term because you don't tend to end up with levels where you're hanging around for ages desperately trying to build up the army for the last final push, knowing you'll make it eventually just by storming the base and killing them all. You have to get it right just to live, and that's a victory in itself.
How close to a legit eBay message can it be, though, while still achieving the objective of driving traffic to the spam customer's website? Surely that's the difference for the filter to exploit, and it's most a case of monitoring the spam folder carefully for a good while. Heck, I never just delete mine, I'll _always_ look through and open anything possibly legit before deleting, and I haven't had a false positive in months.
* With the better bands an album is most definitely a serious form with quite as much shape as classical suites. Best example that springs to mind would be Santana's Supernatural.
* Economies of scale. If they learn for the Britneys and Christinas they have to assemble the band, sort out producers, work out how they want it to sound and then only record 3 songs they can sell, they're each quite expensive. If they can do 10 at a time because they know that they can actually sell all 10 off common promotion, it's cheaper.
Online music seems to me to encourage the plastic pop acts to only do the singles without withdrawing the incentive for the serious bands to do albums. Hopefully this (slightly) lower unit cost will start working in favour of the serious bands and we might see an end to the dreadful era of plastic we've had recently.
If you're talking about cheap, mass-produced top 40 focussed bands then I've no doubt that's very often true.
When you're buying from the _good_ artists, it emphatically isn't. The good tracks are very often the ones that they don't release as singles so many simply don't hear. How would you find them under such a system?
Let's hope that this revolution pushes attention back to the proper album-writing bands. If the record companies can only sell a few songs at $1 each for the chart acts but whole albums at $10 for the serious bands, perhaps we'll start seeing quality again.
Over here, the price on the ticket is what you pay, period. I don't _care_ about some whiny shopkeeper wanting me to know that he's not getting the sales tax - that's utterly irrelevant to me. I _know_ I'm paying the VAT to the government and don't need to be reminded of it - I do want to know, though, that when I go into a shop with 5UKP in my pocket and see something marked as 4.99, I can buy it!
Ahh, you're the original poster aren't you? Hmm, quoting your post:
"Only in michael's bizarre world is it bad for a company to donate free things"
Mine:
" Nestle, anyone? For years they've been donating formula milk to hospitals in the third world. This isn't as good for the kids as their mothers' milk (...) By giving away the product for free, they cause major problems."
(http://www.google.com/search?q=nestle+baby+milk if you want more information, once you've removed Slashcode's spaces.)
I call troll here, or stupidity at best. You can't see how a donation could be harmful to the recipient even though it has clear utility, I provide one. That's not an analogy at all, let alone a wacky one.
To get back on-topic, the reasons this is a problem for MS are vendor lock-in and monopoly status. As a convicted monopoly they're supposed to be restricted from doing some things that could help their market status - which would often include dumping such as this. And as a sole supplier, accepting the donation imposes future costs, payable from recipient to donator. Accepting Linux donations (and I'm not a Linux fan in the slightest) would be fine for the simple reason they could go to any number of future suppliers, or relatively simply produce their own future solutions from existing public documentation about the workings of their components. Same for any open source solution.
It would appear that our parent post has been hidden and mine reparented:-)
Before anyone thinks I'm mad, I was replying to someone saying he couldn't conceive of how donating something could be harmful. Hence my bringing up Nestle as an example. From the look of things, moderators agree with my surprise at the parent poster's belief.
a. Differential pricing. b. Can they afford to change off, though, when the software becomes out-of-date, underfeatured and insecure? If the cost to change is higher than the cost to update and they need to do _something_, the fact that they can't really afford either isn't much consolation.
This still sucks and I think it's appalling that a convicted monopoly (I know, their punishment after conviction is a bit like Al Gore's presidency after victory...) should be allowed to use predatory tactics like this.
Nestle, anyone? For years they've been donating formula milk to hospitals in the third world. This isn't as good for the kids as their mothers' milk, costs them money if they carry on using it later (quite likely, if they stop feeding they'll also stop lactating - and guess what, breastfeeding is why women gain weight during pregnancy! Breastfeed your baby and you'll lose weight) and there isn't always a clean source of water, so causing problems there. By giving away the product for free, they cause major problems.
Windows, Exchange, Office - they all cost money and once you've committed to a solution it's expensive and difficult to change. Giving free software can most definitely be damaging to the recipients.
I've got an original GBA and enjoy a good game of Doom on it. Problem, though: I can easily be stuck in a level for 20-30 minutes (years since I've played the original, OK?) which is just too long to be safely playing while I'm on the move. There's too much chance of me getting disturbed or called away in that time. Yes, I can pause but what if I get called away for more than a few minutes? Problem!
As I recall, it's only got 256KB of memory. 256KB of flash memory would have cost less than the controller to handle it and taken almost no space. So why not put a second power switch in that, when pressed, would write the memory buffer and CPU register status to flash memory and power the thing down? Next time I want to play I just power it back up and pick up where I left off. Quick, simple, pretty cheap and a major feature advantage.
A heck of a lot of UK phones - probably the majority of kids phones - aren't on a contract and bill. They buy (more expensive) airtime as and when it's needed over the counter.
This wouldn't solve the issue of chatrooms either. I have to admit I'd never heard of a WAP chatroom before today and can't imagine many experiences less pleasant than trying to participate in a chatroom with a mobile phone screen and keypad, but if they can lock out unmoderated chatrooms for the kids then great.
I can't be the only web developer who tends to have more than one window open at once, can I?
When you open the debugger, you're in trouble. The second you close it, all other IE windows close. _Very_ annoying and means it gets turned off on all developer boxes here.
(Hmm, must play more with Venkman and the DOM inspector to get more ammo for Moz with colleagues:-)
You are aware that they looked into the relative efficiency of the NHS and private hospitals, aren't you? And found that the government-run healthcare had around a 4% admin overhead, and the private nearer 12%?
Government isn't perfect but it's perfectly capable of doing things well.
How about we take a different perspective on tax. The economy runs best when its components are all running as close to maximum utilisation as possible and there's minimal slack. So how do we account for poor people who would consume vastly more and help stimulate the economy in all sorts of ways if only they had a little more cash floating around?
If you want to learn about all that sort of mechanical stuff, put heavier loads through and that sort of thing, you _definitely_ want to look up Meccano / Erector. Rather than clip together blocks it's strips, plates and girders with 4mm holes every 0.5". You can use proper metal gears, you can build all sorts of interesting things. I've seen fully working cranes with 5ish _metre_ long jibs all supported by the model, or all sorts of strange trucks with more accurately modelled mechanisms in them than you can believe.
As far as I'm concerned Lego has a place but it's a bit limited. Meccano lets me build all sorts of things I couldn't dream of in Lego.
Slashdot Mirror
Silly question: WMP over here doesn't lock the screensaver out while playing videos in full screen. If I'm watching a film I have to periodically nudge the mouse to keep it all awake.
Which twit didn't think of that one?
* 35mm film is anamorphic - you don't lose print space.
* Believe me, I've seen the arguments many, many times and there's a strong body of opinion in favour of slow 35mm (=100ASA) over digital.
* The complaint is largely centred around compression, anyway. They're doing a lot to get a full movie down to 5GB.
As I recall, Microsoft tradermarked 'Microsoft Windows' and were explicitly told that 'Windows' would not be trademarkable. Whereas Mr. Robertson sells his product as 'LindowsOS'.
These just aren't 'identical or confusingly similar', as would be required. MS are trying to intimidate to extend their trademark.
Thank you! I'd forgotten you had that screen and just found why keyword browsing had stopped working here!
I now have a happy browser again. Why they turned that off on the default config for Moz I don't know...
Rendering moved off Amigas when Netter Digital took over from Foundation Imaging. Series 3 IIRC.
Runs on 2k, it's just some of the videos complain. As I recall, dump the AVIs and it's fine.
I know what you mean but I (personally) find it difficult to think of something where you're:
* Gathering resources
* Building bases
* Commanding units
* Attacking enemies
and all in a mission-based structure, in real-time, as anything other than a descendent of Dune 2.
Stuff genres, though - I don't care whether something fits or not and it's very, very good.
Honestly, just play it - superb atmosphere, superb gameplay but never really took off - seems people weren't so hot on first person perspective for these things. Personally, I think it just makes it wonderfully immersive.
Also, I tend to get annoyed with the number of RTS games where you're winning wherever you go, mopping up every last unit of resistance and levelling the battlefield. Battlezone isn't like that - you're constantly battling to get out of the level alive and achieve the objectives before you get overpowered. That crucial difference leads to a very different mindset that I find more enjoyable in the long-term because you don't tend to end up with levels where you're hanging around for ages desperately trying to build up the army for the last final push, knowing you'll make it eventually just by storming the base and killing them all. You have to get it right just to live, and that's a victory in itself.
Superb game - if you can track it down, do.
How close to a legit eBay message can it be, though, while still achieving the objective of driving traffic to the spam customer's website? Surely that's the difference for the filter to exploit, and it's most a case of monitoring the spam folder carefully for a good while. Heck, I never just delete mine, I'll _always_ look through and open anything possibly legit before deleting, and I haven't had a false positive in months.
* With the better bands an album is most definitely a serious form with quite as much shape as classical suites. Best example that springs to mind would be Santana's Supernatural.
* Economies of scale. If they learn for the Britneys and Christinas they have to assemble the band, sort out producers, work out how they want it to sound and then only record 3 songs they can sell, they're each quite expensive. If they can do 10 at a time because they know that they can actually sell all 10 off common promotion, it's cheaper.
Online music seems to me to encourage the plastic pop acts to only do the singles without withdrawing the incentive for the serious bands to do albums. Hopefully this (slightly) lower unit cost will start working in favour of the serious bands and we might see an end to the dreadful era of plastic we've had recently.
If you're talking about cheap, mass-produced top 40 focussed bands then I've no doubt that's very often true.
When you're buying from the _good_ artists, it emphatically isn't. The good tracks are very often the ones that they don't release as singles so many simply don't hear. How would you find them under such a system?
Let's hope that this revolution pushes attention back to the proper album-writing bands. If the record companies can only sell a few songs at $1 each for the chart acts but whole albums at $10 for the serious bands, perhaps we'll start seeing quality again.
No, it doesn't. Just verified that here under Moz1.5 and Win2K with the mail client simply not installed. Brought up Outlook 2002 just fine.
(I'm at the office, OK? Much rather use something else...)
a hand-compiled list of porn sites .....
That drove me _mad_ when I was in Canada!
Over here, the price on the ticket is what you pay, period. I don't _care_ about some whiny shopkeeper wanting me to know that he's not getting the sales tax - that's utterly irrelevant to me. I _know_ I'm paying the VAT to the government and don't need to be reminded of it - I do want to know, though, that when I go into a shop with 5UKP in my pocket and see something marked as 4.99, I can buy it!
Really...
Ahh, you're the original poster aren't you? Hmm, quoting your post:
k
"Only in michael's bizarre world is it bad for a company to donate free things"
Mine:
" Nestle, anyone? For years they've been donating formula milk to hospitals in the third world. This isn't as good for the kids as their mothers' milk (...) By giving away the product for free, they cause major problems."
(http://www.google.com/search?q=nestle+baby+mil
if you want more information, once you've removed Slashcode's spaces.)
I call troll here, or stupidity at best. You can't see how a donation could be harmful to the recipient even though it has clear utility, I provide one. That's not an analogy at all, let alone a wacky one.
To get back on-topic, the reasons this is a problem for MS are vendor lock-in and monopoly status. As a convicted monopoly they're supposed to be restricted from doing some things that could help their market status - which would often include dumping such as this. And as a sole supplier, accepting the donation imposes future costs, payable from recipient to donator. Accepting Linux donations (and I'm not a Linux fan in the slightest) would be fine for the simple reason they could go to any number of future suppliers, or relatively simply produce their own future solutions from existing public documentation about the workings of their components. Same for any open source solution.
It would appear that our parent post has been hidden and mine reparented :-)
Before anyone thinks I'm mad, I was replying to someone saying he couldn't conceive of how donating something could be harmful. Hence my bringing up Nestle as an example. From the look of things, moderators agree with my surprise at the parent poster's belief.
a. Differential pricing.
b. Can they afford to change off, though, when the software becomes out-of-date, underfeatured and insecure? If the cost to change is higher than the cost to update and they need to do _something_, the fact that they can't really afford either isn't much consolation.
This still sucks and I think it's appalling that a convicted monopoly (I know, their punishment after conviction is a bit like Al Gore's presidency after victory...) should be allowed to use predatory tactics like this.
Nestle, anyone? For years they've been donating formula milk to hospitals in the third world. This isn't as good for the kids as their mothers' milk, costs them money if they carry on using it later (quite likely, if they stop feeding they'll also stop lactating - and guess what, breastfeeding is why women gain weight during pregnancy! Breastfeed your baby and you'll lose weight) and there isn't always a clean source of water, so causing problems there. By giving away the product for free, they cause major problems.
Windows, Exchange, Office - they all cost money and once you've committed to a solution it's expensive and difficult to change. Giving free software can most definitely be damaging to the recipients.
You're digging charcoal underground? Roasted wood?
I've got an original GBA and enjoy a good game of Doom on it. Problem, though: I can easily be stuck in a level for 20-30 minutes (years since I've played the original, OK?) which is just too long to be safely playing while I'm on the move. There's too much chance of me getting disturbed or called away in that time. Yes, I can pause but what if I get called away for more than a few minutes? Problem!
As I recall, it's only got 256KB of memory. 256KB of flash memory would have cost less than the controller to handle it and taken almost no space. So why not put a second power switch in that, when pressed, would write the memory buffer and CPU register status to flash memory and power the thing down? Next time I want to play I just power it back up and pick up where I left off. Quick, simple, pretty cheap and a major feature advantage.
I always wondered whether 3D Realms have any motor racing anoraks on staff.
:-)
When you're looking down a results sheet, you will find some drivers will have 'DNF' printed against their names.
This stands for 'Did Not Finish'
A heck of a lot of UK phones - probably the majority of kids phones - aren't on a contract and bill. They buy (more expensive) airtime as and when it's needed over the counter.
This wouldn't solve the issue of chatrooms either. I have to admit I'd never heard of a WAP chatroom before today and can't imagine many experiences less pleasant than trying to participate in a chatroom with a mobile phone screen and keypad, but if they can lock out unmoderated chatrooms for the kids then great.
I can't be the only web developer who tends to have more than one window open at once, can I?
:-)
When you open the debugger, you're in trouble. The second you close it, all other IE windows close. _Very_ annoying and means it gets turned off on all developer boxes here.
(Hmm, must play more with Venkman and the DOM inspector to get more ammo for Moz with colleagues
You are aware that they looked into the relative efficiency of the NHS and private hospitals, aren't you? And found that the government-run healthcare had around a 4% admin overhead, and the private nearer 12%?
Government isn't perfect but it's perfectly capable of doing things well.
How about we take a different perspective on tax. The economy runs best when its components are all running as close to maximum utilisation as possible and there's minimal slack. So how do we account for poor people who would consume vastly more and help stimulate the economy in all sorts of ways if only they had a little more cash floating around?
If you want to learn about all that sort of mechanical stuff, put heavier loads through and that sort of thing, you _definitely_ want to look up Meccano / Erector. Rather than clip together blocks it's strips, plates and girders with 4mm holes every 0.5". You can use proper metal gears, you can build all sorts of interesting things. I've seen fully working cranes with 5ish _metre_ long jibs all supported by the model, or all sorts of strange trucks with more accurately modelled mechanisms in them than you can believe.
As far as I'm concerned Lego has a place but it's a bit limited. Meccano lets me build all sorts of things I couldn't dream of in Lego.