Ok, I've had about as much as the average person never mind computer nerd can handle with these continuous and shameless attempts from the likes of Microsoft and Symantec to try and convince users to adopt DRM or Anti-Priacy software either as a whole or in parts with software updates.
User MUST be completely informed on what is being installed on there computer with a simple and straight-forward notice telling them exactly what the likely effects of DRM technology and anti-priracy software could and will likely be.
Simply "floating" these technologies out there knowing full well most "average" computer users are likely to install this package not knowing what EXACTLY it does or more importantly could do is COMPLETELY IRRESPONSIBLE and once again shows how the software and IT big guns will eventually prey on users as DRM cash cows.
Oh BTW... I thought MS was not allowed to require one software program or package in order to use another (IE + Windows) should then the same apply with an EXTENSION to the Windows Operating System (DRM). Hmmm... Guess the DOJ is too busy chasing those phantom terrorist spooks lurking just past the shadows... really and if you give us $60 billion and unlimited access to every American's personal information we'll eventually be able to prove it too.
And I was worried about that whole Satan and End of Days thing... geezzzshh!(:-
When is the DOJ if not the whole flippin' planet going to realize that the ongoing abuse of the DMCA is really a way to make a monopoly legal by using DRM mechanisms that have nothing to do with anything but protecting that monopoly.
Don't think so... what about "smart chips" in printers... really who the hell do they think their kinding!
Someone really big needs to slap MS's ass back into court and get a new ruling on their so-called monoply and their continued abuses using new technology or techniques that keep them "just" under the radar of the DOJ.
Listen, its been said in other posts and in many other discussions. DOOM, Quake, etc... are all been there done that games. Eye candy yes. New. DEFINITELY NOT.
HalfLife2 did steal the E3 show and I believe with be 10 times more successful then DOOM III or Quake 4. For reasons of game play, market share and overall replayability
Most players who cut their teeth on FPS like DOOM and Quake have moved on, grown up or just plain grown tired of the whole bob and weave experience!
DOOM III will also suffer if it doesn't ship with an online mode...that isn't DEATHMATCH which is getting so old it almost pre-dates the dinos!
Hello? This is Microsoft we're talking about. $500 million dollars is pocket change. If Billy happened to find $500 million dollars lying on the ground, he probably wouldn't bother to pick it up.
To look at it another way. M$ has 49 billion in the bank or roughly 100 - $500 million dollar suit settlements available to them.
So, only 99 law suits to go and M$ is out of cash!
When is the popular media going to wake up and get their collective heads out of SCO's and Microsofts' asses.
I mean who in their right mind would even consider giving anything to someone who stopped you on the street and said "Hey! you! I know you've been using software that contains illegally copied code. My code and while I'm not inclined to share any evidence with you at this time I would advise you that you should pay me $700 to avoid being sued for illegally using our code"
Christ! I would think any smuck that tried that on a regular basis would be bloodied and battered by the second attempt.
Someone should make SCO put up or shut up. With real evidence. Not these SCO SCUDs that even the media seem to think merit repeating as fact.
The media are probably the next biggest problem in this whole unbelievable mess and they just seem more and more willing to report SCOs every stupid move, comment or FUD more so then actually look into the facts of the situation and straight the record straight and perhaps shut SCOs cake hole once and for all.
Copeland and Microsoft should have been more then enough to sink Corel.
Loyal users kept them afloat by paying their outrageous upgrade prices hoping that Corel would eventually give up on their ADD business strategies and focus on their true strength... graphics products
Corel should return to Linux development but only with their flagship products, no Corel Linux or any other distracting product, just their core products on Linux.
Linux is the next NEW thing and the big players including like IBM and MS know it and MS will do everything in their power to stop it and kill it in it's tracks.
Corel and its users and its shareholders have an opportunity to truly lead the charge for change and should.
For now it remains to be seen if they have any innovative gas left in the tank
No matter what medium is used to deliver the fraudulent message.
The internet advertising business today is similar to radio and television advertising in their early beginnings. The fact that law makers are now realizing that there is no really new aspect to business on the web... including taxes, business rules as well as advertising rules will change on the internet to protect all users
Smart or dumb, inexperienced or experienced users alike!
I wonder how long its going to take the Dept. of Just Not Enough of a Pain in Everyone's Asses to figure out how much stolen property is being fenced on eBay... or more appropriately when they and eBay are likely to admit it!
Probably not until the next big American corporation steps forward claiming to be losing billions to those eBay fencers!
The States slaps Middle Eastern and many other countries around for years and finally one group takes a pot shot back at you (9/11).
Government then decides its time to tackle this terrorism thing head on. Builds many bogus cases against very notably weak opponents and... sends in the Marines...while quietly building a case to basically suspend constitutional freedoms in the name of freedom... like that makes fuckin' sense... anyway, back to the war on terrorism?
This after years of funding the very terrorists they now have to hunt down because they've learned how to fight back and NO I'm certainly not saying I agree with their methods or tactics but slap a dog long enough on the nose and it eventually will disappear or take as big of a bite as possible.
Now, the fight is gone underground, the oil is following again but the price remains higher then prior to the war(s) and corporate America continues to rape and pilage their own and the record and movie guys have called in some funding markers to wage their own war on consumers. Huh?
Excuse me for saying so but America seems to be eating its own in a desparate effort to mantain the business models and monopolies that the FREE internet will eventually force to change. That is of course until sending an email that may cause average Americans to fight back is deemed an act of terrorism!
Ripping a file from ANY application to a PRESS-READY PDF/X will immediately tell you if you're going to encounter any problems with an imagesetter or other high-end output device.
I remember being one of the first to work into my local printers with a Windows based file and being told we don't do Windows files. But I persisted and eventually got them to RIP my Windows generated Postscript(TM) file directly from my IBM disk through their MAC to film and it worked.
Not that there weren't any bugs. There were and I eventually worked them out. But remember this was at a time when NO PRINTER on the planet accepted Windows/DOS based files.
My point is that if any application can output a pure Postscript(TM) file or PDF which is basically a postscript file then most if not all imagesetters and highend outpit devices can output them.
As far as errors... turn on Postscript(TM) error handling and you'll get a print out of all Postscript(TM) errors encountered when ripping your file... and you can rip it to an independent Postscript(TM) file so as not to waste film.
Now finally we are starting to see some real progress an area that will get noticed very quickly if Scribus works as well as advertised.
I have tried most of the page-layout programs out there with the exception of Framemaker and InDesign and I can certainly agree with the level of frustration that must users of "most" page-layout programs feel:
Continous and expensive upgrade cycles that yield like or no return Endless issues with portability and compatibility Stability and user friendliness issues just to name a few...
The fact that Scribus uses PDF and XML is something I think is the next killer app part of this program.
Think about it. Send the PRESS-READY PDF to the printers... little or no pre-press fiddling required.
XML should allow for huge portability and extensibility.
Globalization is just one part in a very large movement that looks to increasingly turn human labour, be it sales person ot programmer into "just another commodity".
As with any significant shift in the human condition, technology will evenutally commodify more and more jobs and careers and unfortunately business will always chose the quicker and cheaper path to improving the bottom line...
Its like business HP style...cutting our way to a better bottomline and bigger executive bonuses
This has MS written all over it but "Mr. Bush's" DOJ doesn't seem to have any problems with MS trying to destroy not just an company but an entire movement(Linux-Open Source) using the same tools used to convict MS of monopoly...
This makes sense if from a monopolist's perspective but I fail to see what good hype/vapourware does for innovation, investors and especially consumers. Other then to scare away investors from a small company or to falsely lead consumers away from a possible real alternative only to embed it the next version of your product.
Maybe Intuit backed down but the big monster from Redmond has yet to fully weigh in and you can bet your booty Bill & Steve's Excellent Molopolistic Adventure will eventually include similar -Pinky and The Brain - DRM crap in things like - in my best Chris Farley voice - Media Player and more IE components that users "need" as a "critical" part of their "stable" "operating systems"!
id were the ones yammering on about the awesome requirements of Doom3 and Carmack himself pledged he would not release a low-rez "tv quality" version of his most prized creation.
I am not a hardcore id fan... I stopped buying their shooters after Quake2. Pretty much everything after that has been a been there done that experience with better graphics. Wuppee!!! At the end of the day its just another shooter with a real spiffy paint job.
It would seem that the gaming industry like Hollywood is more comfortable with the remakes then any really new ideas... like the original Wolfenstein and Doom were for "their time".
Eventually the log jam of creativity will break and another id will burst forth with a truly original and compelling idea. Until then I guess the 15 second, two click, masses will be happy with playing shined up reruns!
I said this often to my kids who spend endless hours playing online games like Dungeon Seige, Tribes 2 and the like, the graphic appeal lasts about 15 minutes if the game is really engaging. Then after that most players turn down the spiff to enhance the gameplay!!!
First Carmack spends months telling the planet that very, very few vid cards currently available are even capable running his precious D3... and now they announce that it will run on the XBox!
Give me a break... if the XBox can run it then any high-end vid card made since the end of 2002 should not have a problem running it.
And the fact that id is launching D3 on the Xbox speaks volumes (IMHO) about just how much id is abandoning the legions of loyal customers who made them so rich that they can go Microsoft on their asses and use their game as a shitty excuse for Microsoft to try and sell more of those pityful Xboxes..
I think Microsoft is insisting that the PC version requirements be so high that they won't impact their haemorrhaging XBox losses!
Either way it sounds like Microsoft is once again quietly using its influence and most likely cash to keep a killer game from the real masses!
Shame on id for truly SELLING OUT!
Maybe John needs a visit from Duke Nukem... who is all out of bubble gum... to make him come to his senses.
Does this mean that my next car could be a Boeing?
Don't laugh... if these cells can power an aircraft surely they could power a commuter car that holds four.
Does this aircraft have internet access? Sorry I couldn't resist...even thought its futile!:-0 Oh know I did it again... oh shit here comes the boss! BYE!
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First high level government agencies and departments suffer "apparent" virus attacks while running MS Windows...
Eventually MS will start pushing their Trusted Computing bullshit as the ultimate solution for blocking attacks on their own flawed products.
Oh and it will keep those nasty terrorist guys out too! Did we (MS) mention terrorists. Oh we did ok...
Ok, I've had about as much as the average person never mind computer nerd can handle with these continuous and shameless attempts from the likes of Microsoft and Symantec to try and convince users to adopt DRM or Anti-Priacy software either as a whole or in parts with software updates.
User MUST be completely informed on what is being installed on there computer with a simple and straight-forward notice telling them exactly what the likely effects of DRM technology and anti-priracy software could and will likely be.
Simply "floating" these technologies out there knowing full well most "average" computer users are likely to install this package not knowing what EXACTLY it does or more importantly could do is COMPLETELY IRRESPONSIBLE and once again shows how the software and IT big guns will eventually prey on users as DRM cash cows.
Oh BTW... I thought MS was not allowed to require one software program or package in order to use another (IE + Windows) should then the same apply with an EXTENSION to the Windows Operating System (DRM). Hmmm... Guess the DOJ is too busy chasing those phantom terrorist spooks lurking just past the shadows... really and if you give us $60 billion and unlimited access to every American's personal information we'll eventually be able to prove it too.
And I was worried about that whole Satan and End of Days thing... geezzzshh!(:-
Come on now...
When is the DOJ if not the whole flippin' planet going to realize that the ongoing abuse of the DMCA is really a way to make a monopoly legal by using DRM mechanisms that have nothing to do with anything but protecting that monopoly.
Don't think so... what about "smart chips" in printers... really who the hell do they think their kinding!
Someone really big needs to slap MS's ass back into court and get a new ruling on their so-called monoply and their continued abuses using new technology or techniques that keep them "just" under the radar of the DOJ.
Listen, its been said in other posts and in many other discussions. DOOM, Quake, etc... are all been there done that games. Eye candy yes. New. DEFINITELY NOT.
HalfLife2 did steal the E3 show and I believe with be 10 times more successful then DOOM III or Quake 4. For reasons of game play, market share and overall replayability
Most players who cut their teeth on FPS like DOOM and Quake have moved on, grown up or just plain grown tired of the whole bob and weave experience!
DOOM III will also suffer if it doesn't ship with an online mode...that isn't DEATHMATCH which is getting so old it almost pre-dates the dinos!
Hello? This is Microsoft we're talking about. $500 million dollars is pocket change. If Billy happened to find $500 million dollars lying on the ground, he probably wouldn't bother to pick it up.
To look at it another way. M$ has 49 billion in the bank or roughly 100 - $500 million dollar suit settlements available to them.
So, only 99 law suits to go and M$ is out of cash!
Come on...
When is the popular media going to wake up and get their collective heads out of SCO's and Microsofts' asses.
I mean who in their right mind would even consider giving anything to someone who stopped you on the street and said "Hey! you! I know you've been using software that contains illegally copied code. My code and while I'm not inclined to share any evidence with you at this time I would advise you that you should pay me $700 to avoid being sued for illegally using our code"
Christ! I would think any smuck that tried that on a regular basis would be bloodied and battered by the second attempt.
Someone should make SCO put up or shut up. With real evidence. Not these SCO SCUDs that even the media seem to think merit repeating as fact.
The media are probably the next biggest problem in this whole unbelievable mess and they just seem more and more willing to report SCOs every stupid move, comment or FUD more so then actually look into the facts of the situation and straight the record straight and perhaps shut SCOs cake hole once and for all.
Copeland and Microsoft should have been more then enough to sink Corel.
Loyal users kept them afloat by paying their outrageous upgrade prices hoping that Corel would eventually give up on their ADD business strategies and focus on their true strength... graphics products
Corel should return to Linux development but only with their flagship products, no Corel Linux or any other distracting product, just their core products on Linux.
Linux is the next NEW thing and the big players including like IBM and MS know it and MS will do everything in their power to stop it and kill it in it's tracks.
Corel and its users and its shareholders have an opportunity to truly lead the charge for change and should.
For now it remains to be seen if they have any innovative gas left in the tank
No matter what medium is used to deliver the fraudulent message.
The internet advertising business today is similar to radio and television advertising in their early beginnings. The fact that law makers are now realizing that there is no really new aspect to business on the web... including taxes, business rules as well as advertising rules will change on the internet to protect all users
Smart or dumb, inexperienced or experienced users alike!
I wonder how long its going to take the Dept. of Just Not Enough of a Pain in Everyone's Asses to figure out how much stolen property is being fenced on eBay... or more appropriately when they and eBay are likely to admit it!
Probably not until the next big American corporation steps forward claiming to be losing billions to those eBay fencers!
Send in the Marines!
Oh and maybe those "missing" weapons of mass distruction will suddenly appear in the deserts of Iraq! :-)
So, like me get this straight.
The States slaps Middle Eastern and many other countries around for years and finally one group takes a pot shot back at you (9/11).
Government then decides its time to tackle this terrorism thing head on. Builds many bogus cases against very notably weak opponents and... sends in the Marines...while quietly building a case to basically suspend constitutional freedoms in the name of freedom... like that makes fuckin' sense... anyway, back to the war on terrorism?
This after years of funding the very terrorists they now have to hunt down because they've learned how to fight back and NO I'm certainly not saying I agree with their methods or tactics but slap a dog long enough on the nose and it eventually will disappear or take as big of a bite as possible.
Now, the fight is gone underground, the oil is following again but the price remains higher then prior to the war(s) and corporate America continues to rape and pilage their own and the record and movie guys have called in some funding markers to wage their own war on consumers. Huh?
Excuse me for saying so but America seems to be eating its own in a desparate effort to mantain the business models and monopolies that the FREE internet will eventually force to change. That is of course until sending an email that may cause average Americans to fight back is deemed an act of terrorism!
Send in the Marines!
Rubbish...
Ripping a file from ANY application to a PRESS-READY PDF/X will immediately tell you if you're going to encounter any problems with an imagesetter or other high-end output device.
I remember being one of the first to work into my local printers with a Windows based file and being told we don't do Windows files. But I persisted and eventually got them to RIP my Windows generated Postscript(TM) file directly from my IBM disk through their MAC to film and it worked.
Not that there weren't any bugs. There were and I eventually worked them out. But remember this was at a time when NO PRINTER on the planet accepted Windows/DOS based files.
My point is that if any application can output a pure Postscript(TM) file or PDF which is basically a postscript file then most if not all imagesetters and highend outpit devices can output them.
As far as errors... turn on Postscript(TM) error handling and you'll get a print out of all Postscript(TM) errors encountered when ripping your file... and you can rip it to an independent Postscript(TM) file so as not to waste film.
Now finally we are starting to see some real progress an area that will get noticed very quickly if Scribus works as well as advertised.
I have tried most of the page-layout programs out there with the exception of Framemaker and InDesign and I can certainly agree with the level of frustration that must users of "most" page-layout programs feel:
Continous and expensive upgrade cycles that yield like or no return
Endless issues with portability and compatibility
Stability and user friendliness issues
just to name a few...
The fact that Scribus uses PDF and XML is something I think is the next killer app part of this program.
Think about it. Send the PRESS-READY PDF to the printers... little or no pre-press fiddling required.
XML should allow for huge portability and extensibility.
Can't wait to try it!
Bravo!
Wow...
I think you've just explained current US foreign policy.
Problem is the poor bastards only need jobs to buy more fucking shit that they never needed in the first place.
What a typically stupid fuckin' American attitude.
Lets face it...
Globalization is just one part in a very large movement that looks to increasingly turn human labour, be it sales person ot programmer into "just another commodity".
As with any significant shift in the human condition, technology will evenutally commodify more and more jobs and careers and unfortunately business will always chose the quicker and cheaper path to improving the bottom line...
Its like business HP style...cutting our way to a better bottomline and bigger executive bonuses
Hey just because we didn't help out in Iraq is no reason to bar us Canadians from your /. t-shirt contest.
Hell can you imagine a nice Canadian beauty modelling you new "T" in the cool Canadian air (:-
Ok, if the Xbox gets to $100 I'll buy it.
:-)
But just for DOOM III
Cheaper then those honkin' ATI and GEForce cards Carmack on Crack keeps yappin' about!
No shit...
This has MS written all over it but "Mr. Bush's" DOJ doesn't seem to have any problems with MS trying to destroy not just an company but an entire movement(Linux-Open Source) using the same tools used to convict MS of monopoly...
Boy isn't that ironic!
What a fuckin' troll!
This makes sense if from a monopolist's perspective but I fail to see what good hype/vapourware does for innovation, investors and especially consumers. Other then to scare away investors from a small company or to falsely lead consumers away from a possible real alternative only to embed it the next version of your product.
Fuck... wake up!
Hail to the king baby!
Who cares about Rare anymore...
Their best games are behind them and no one really expects them to be as cutting edge as they were 10 years ago!!!
Just something else for MS to swallow and absorb into oblivion!
It seems that the internet will survive just fine.
Unfortunately it may become a "pay per view" experience instead of a free roaming soapbox of the common folk!
Web Zombie
Maybe Intuit backed down but the big monster from Redmond has yet to fully weigh in and you can bet your booty Bill & Steve's Excellent Molopolistic Adventure will eventually include similar -Pinky and The Brain - DRM crap in things like - in my best Chris Farley voice - Media Player and more IE components that users "need" as a "critical" part of their "stable" "operating systems"!
id were the ones yammering on about the awesome requirements of Doom3 and Carmack himself pledged he would not release a low-rez "tv quality" version of his most prized creation.
I am not a hardcore id fan... I stopped buying their shooters after Quake2. Pretty much everything after that has been a been there done that experience with better graphics. Wuppee!!! At the end of the day its just another shooter with a real spiffy paint job.
It would seem that the gaming industry like Hollywood is more comfortable with the remakes then any really new ideas... like the original Wolfenstein and Doom were for "their time".
Eventually the log jam of creativity will break and another id will burst forth with a truly original and compelling idea. Until then I guess the 15 second, two click, masses will be happy with playing shined up reruns!
I said this often to my kids who spend endless hours playing online games like Dungeon Seige, Tribes 2 and the like, the graphic appeal lasts about 15 minutes if the game is really engaging. Then after that most players turn down the spiff to enhance the gameplay!!!
Please tell me this is a joke...
... to make him come to his senses.
First Carmack spends months telling the planet that very, very few vid cards currently available are even capable running his precious D3... and now they announce that it will run on the XBox!
Give me a break... if the XBox can run it then any high-end vid card made since the end of 2002 should not have a problem running it.
And the fact that id is launching D3 on the Xbox speaks volumes (IMHO) about just how much id is abandoning the legions of loyal customers who made them so rich that they can go Microsoft on their asses and use their game as a shitty excuse for Microsoft to try and sell more of those pityful Xboxes..
I think Microsoft is insisting that the PC version requirements be so high that they won't impact their haemorrhaging XBox losses!
Either way it sounds like Microsoft is once again quietly using its influence and most likely cash to keep a killer game from the real masses!
Shame on id for truly SELLING OUT!
Maybe John needs a visit from Duke Nukem... who is all out of bubble gum
Does this mean that my next car could be a Boeing?
:-0 Oh know I did it again... oh shit here comes the boss! BYE!
Don't laugh... if these cells can power an aircraft surely they could power a commuter car that holds four.
Does this aircraft have internet access? Sorry I couldn't resist...even thought its futile!