Hmmm here's a thought. How about a fan site devoted to the G.I. Joe character Gung-Ho. Now... if ever there was someone who could be termed an Iron Chef, anyone with his supposed cooking skill who also lugged around a bazooka should qualify:)
In a surprise move RIAA recently anounced that they will be filing a lawsuit against AltaVista later this week, unless the popular web search site ceases its actions to assist in the distribution of copyrighted materials. Additionally RIAA demanded that it remove all links to copyrighted materials from its website, citing such links as found at http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&sc=on& hl=on&act=2006&par=0&q=%2Bmetalica+%2Bmp 3&kl=XX&stype=stext obviously exist for no reason but to help promote the spread of piracy and bad people.
In other news, AltaVista has filed suit for custody of RIAA untill it reaches the age of majority and can be held acountable for its actions. In the words of one nameless C?O, "We think its terrible that such a cute orginazation is able to run around without anyone taking responsibility to make sure it grows up into a respectable member of society. To that end we feel it is our duty to take it under our wing and provide it with a good spanking if needed. We only have its best interests at heart and promiss to divest ourselves of it, once it has reached the age of legal majority."
Several Social Workers contacted commended the action and hoped that some loving but stern orginization would step forward to help guide both the MPAA and DVD-CCA through their formative years and into productive members of society.
I agree that there are some things worth buying (otherwise we would all make our own games and we wouldn't need software publishers), but I also think that a well developed OpenSource game could work, if the right 'personality' with a vision would get behind it.
Most of the successful Open Source projects have had a core group who knew what they wanted to do and made up the inital planning/developement team. This could work for creating a game, it is the process of creating an 'Application' KOffice. I haven't used it so I don't know how omplete it is yet, but once the framework is in place people will help fill it in. THAT is the essential problem with Open Sourcing games. With a game, either its a small enough game that you write it all as one application (like tetris for instance) or else it helps to develope an engine, and then you need people to come up with the plot/graphics and how the engine will govern game dynamics.
Now, there is an effort to create an Open Source 3D Game Engine, and that may work, and people may create games, but since a large part of the effort is the creative side, then there will always be a market for games, just as there will always be a market for books. Both may have some 'Open Source' versions, but people will always be willing to pay for a quality product (like a painting).
Several friends are in the market for a home PC. They don't need it to do much, just some word processing, the ocassional spreadsheet and some web browsing.
Personally what I would love to recomend is PII-266 with 128mg of ram, a 10gig hard drive and a 56K modem. This is what I bought 3 year ago and it would work fine for their needs (in fact I might even argue it would be over kill).
If you start playing games it might even be sufficient for most of them (depending on your graphic card). Why do they need more? What does your 'average' person use their computer for?
Games E-mail Web Browsing Word Processing Spread Sheet Playing CD's
The thing that pushes the resources on the computer more then anything else is the games. If their idea of a game is Minesweeper or Solitare (as boggling as it may be to me who is in the middle of playing FinalFatasy8, Tiberian Sun and is anctiously awaiting the Homeworld expansion pack... and yet addicted to Mille Bourne on my Palm Pilot when I commute on the subway), then they don't really need any more computer power. Barring a major revolution in the way things are done (like the introduction of better Voice Recognition software, or Video Conferencing), the only time they should need to replace a system is when it dies (or they need an additional unit).
If Linux can make a move into the desktop (for the average clueless user) then its ability to push the resources of a machine might make the machine viable over an even longer lifespan for your average user (I was using KDE and Gnome on my p166 with 40mb very happily).
Now I know what the Justice Department can do once it finishes with Microsoft:)
(Hi... I'm from the Better Buisness Buerue and we'd like to talk to you about all these complaints we've been recieve in regard to bait and switch tactics)
IANAL... but... I've had to deal with Trade Secerets a fair amount of time.
My understanding is that in order for a piece of information to maintain the classification then: 1) I need to agree to keep the secret 2) The information needs to be transmitted in writing (I'm assuming electronic form is considered writing) and 3) At the bottom of each page should be a notice that this information is a Trade Secret.
I believe (perhaps an IP Lawyer out there can verify) that unless those conditions are met, the information is not considered a Trade Secret. (ie. if someone gives you some documents and then later comes along and tells you, 'oh, and this is a trade secret' you don't have to follow their wishes) If this weren't the case then you wouldn't have to sign an NDA, they could just give you the document with the license 'printed on page 10 and 11'.
March 2, 2000 - Got a Software Engineer for the control mechanism (Silent Partner, for now). - The control mechanism will officially be ran under the Linux Operating System. - I hear rumors we got submitted to www.slashdot.org. - Looks like there will be a formal meeting, at Earle's house, at 21:00 hours tonight. - I'll get a digital camera tonight, I swear! Pictures by Friday night.
I cant believe no one mentioned that they've chosen Linux as the official OS of the Mecha. I can picture the adds now:
Is your operating system opressing you? (Tank with MS logo rolls onto screen and point barrel at camera) Switch to the free OS that packs a wallop (Mecha foot comes down on turret and squishes tank flat. Pan up to the meriad of Linux vendor logos on the side of the mech ala a stock car. Pan up to the CGI penguin in a combat helmet who gives the camera a thumbs up.)
New trilogy anounced from Robert Ludlum (co-written by CmdTaco)
book 1: The Halloween Documents Where in the evil corporation makes its plan for world domination, by crushing and subverting those that would stand against them.
book 2: The Mozilla Group The story of one corporations struggle to free itself from the encroaching darkness by freeing that which it holds most dear.
book 3: October GNOME One of a growing number of rogue coding groups strike back against the growing darkness.
book 4: The Easter Revelation Where the evil darkness shoots itself in the foot.
-------------------------------- (Trillogies always run over:)
Why is it that so much of what goes on here seems like a great basis for a story? (right down to the title)
Since most pager companies now allow you to send messages via an e-mail message, and since most companies have 'blocks' of phone numbers that are tied to both the 800 number of the pager, and the e-mail address, it would be relativly trivial to create a bulk e-mail SPAMer that could flood several of the 'major' providers.
(I started to shudder most over this when I was working on a project to make a generic Pager Client for a friend that could send e-mail to any pager via either an E-mail address, a web-site, or a phone (last resort). I actually abandond the project halfway through since if I finished it I would have want to put it on the web as a neat bit of code, but I could see too much potential for abuse in it... and unfortunately I had another project that was way cooler that I decided to work on first )
For the record, RMS has stated that he shares his music - are you going to accuse him of being a virus author?
Actually, considering the effects of the GNU GPL and some people feelings that its 'viral' in nature, accusing him of being a virus author isn't exactly far fetched.
Someone mark this up. This brings up an interesting point. The assumption so far has been that they were selling the boxes as a loss-leader for their ISP service, what if that was only part of their overall strategy of also "profiling" their customers for direct-marketing or directed advertising? (ala DoubleClick, except without having to bother mapping people to profiles, they already have the mappings)
Baldur's Gate II is due out in Q3 or Q4 of 2000 (ie. this year). The game is the sequel to Baldur's Gate (duh:) and is probably the best and most complete (in my mind and others as well) 'port' of the Pen and Paper AD&D 2nd Edition rules to a CRPG.
They started by implimenting a subset of the rules (just basic classes, no specialty classes except mages, only spells through 4th level). They added more to their 'imported' beastiary and to the spells imported (they finshed up 4th and 5th level priest/mage) in the BG expansion pack Tales from the Sword Coast. In BG2 they are completing the spell lists, refining the weapon proficiencies (they had it set up so you would apply a proficiency point to a type of weapon vs. a particular weapon and they hadn't included weapon styles yet),they are also adding 'kits' for other classes besides specialty mages, they are extending the experiance CAP so you can hit i think anywhere from 18th to 20th level, they are including familiars/pets, they are including quests so you can aquire a stronghold once you've hit the apropriate level. I believe they are also adding another race of character you can play (previously Human, Elf, half-elf, halfling, dwarf was available, I think they are adding half-ogre but I can't remember off the top of my head).
Definately a lot of fun, especially for those of us who don't always have the time to get together with a gaming group and go at the pen and paper version.
My understanding (granted from a biased source of the bonus audio track on the dvd of the main editor, the main fx guru, and trnity (forget her name) was that they were running grossly over-budget/time (filming time) and the studio was demanding to know what the story was. The editor put together the first "chunk" of the movie (begining through telephone booth crunch), along with temporary sound effects and music and they sent it back to the studios. The studio execs watched it, and promptly shut up and gave them the extra time/money they needed to finish the film. They may not have had money to shoot over some scenes they would have liked to have done a different way, and they may have made some poor choices for certain effects (the police->MiB morph at the end for instance), but those happen in any movie (with few exceptions).
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At my company I seem to do all of the above. Granted there are others who seem to do some programing or some system admin in addition to their normal functions, but very few who do both, plus can be trusted to open up a machine and install/configure hardware (pick a Unix flavor OR winNT), or do basic database administration, excluding for a moment web-design (html & javascript) which is mostly outside of what we normally do.
I think the shortage may not be so much people with a few skills, so much as people who: 1) have a variety of skills and experiance and can be thrown into various 'ad-hock' situations. 2) can actually learn and expand their skill set relatively painlessly (for their employer) as needed. and 3) can actually interact with other people (PHB, other programmers, clients).
But what about the effort to incorporate a scripting language into KDE as well as the interoperability of the the KOffice and Konqueror. I'm not sure that there is a mail client included (which might limit the distribution mechanism), but it does seem like the desktop may soon get quite a few of the 'pieces' needed for a mellisa-alike.
This isn't ment as a flame against KDE. I keep switching off between KDE and GNOME and like a lot of the aspects of both (although it seems like KDE will have more 'killer apps' sooner, I like the 'feel' of Gnome better). Please, someone explain what about the nature of the apps will keep something like this from happening?
Cool... as a former Amiga owner (till I accidentally fried my A1000 motherboard) I always wondered what happened to Psygnosis.
On to the topic though... don't forget that Microsoft already had a Game Developer in its pocket... itself. They've been producing games for close to three years now (everything from Age of Empires to Hellstorm to Mechwarrior III). Looking at their track record they seem to be developing titles that will apeal to the Console gamer, so I have a feeling they were planning on this for a while. If the console supports the DirectX API (no reason not to) then you could very well see them putting out their own games "Only available on MSX"... and maybe the PC.
I saw Diablo in the store and it seemed fun, a nice 'entry' level CRPG, and most importantly it was available at a time when there really weren't many CRPGs out there. I picked it up and it was nice (although it still has one of my favorite "Murphy's Rules": You cant wear a piece of armor because your not strong enough, but you can lug it around in your backpack:). I picked up Hellfire soon after it came out and it was good (heavenly choir sounds).
Then Baldurs Gate apeared on the scene and Diablo was quickly forgotten. Baldur's Gate had a few problems, and only supported the AD&D system through about 6th level. Then they released Tales of the Sword Coast as an expansion pack. This included all 3rd and 4th level spells, still not complete but nicely implimented. Now they are getting ready to relase Baldur's Gate 2 which includes even more features, should be mindblowing graphically (the original came on 5 CDs and the Expansion was a 6th, mostly packed with hand painted backgrounds and beautifully animated monsters), and is projected to hit the stores in the later half of this year (not counting the other projects underway from Interplay's RPG division Black Isle). I think Diablo II might have been phenominal if it had come out when intended. Now I have a feeling it might seem lackluster next to its 'competition'. Does this mean I won't buy it? Probably not, there are still too few serious CRPGs out there:)
Sounds like fun. I've been walking around looking at all the "Windows 2000: Comming Feb 17. As stable on the internet as off" posters, and now I think I'm going to sticker over "the internet" part of the poster. Then it will read more gramatically correct... of course who'd want a computer that acted like it was off when it was on anyway is beyond my comprehension.
You could actually be opening Slashdot up to liability by posting illegally. Just because there's a disclaimer at the bottom of the page, doesn't mean it's true -- Slashdot is not a common-carrier.
True, On the other hand, I remember hearing that a board had only a limited amount of liability regarding the contents of the posts, provided that they were not excersizing editorial control, by removing even one post.
Since 'slashdot' itself never really removes any posts (even those moderated all the way down), I'm not sure how much liability they really have.
Really? I'm surprised. I went with the FIC Mobo (only problem I hit was its size... it takes up the FULL tray which can be a problem if your case isn't deep enough) and haven't had a problem (FYI I'm running Win98).
It was the first one that AMD listed as being certified for their 800mhz chip (although by now so is everyone else). When I check AMD's site they no longer listed the K7M from ASUS _anywhere_ on the motherboard page. Could they have dropped it due to ASUS's lack of acknoledging the product existed?
And in a related story Tesla LLC filed suit against Marconi Corp for improper use of Patented materials. Tesla LLC claims that Marconi Corp. used their patented algorythms in the creation of the "Morse Code" protocol stack and will appear in Court on Friday seeking a priliminary injunction. Both Tesla LLC and Marconi Corp. were unavailable for comment.
Guys... forget the RIAA and MPAA lawsuits we all have to come out in force for this one. Can you imagine what would happen if we lost? The precedent that gets set? Please... buy the t-shirts that copyleft is producing showing the "Morse Code" translation algorythm! Support the EFF and lets get our voices heard.
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Hmmm here's a thought. How about a fan site devoted to the G.I. Joe character Gung-Ho. Now... if ever there was someone who could be termed an Iron Chef, anyone with his supposed cooking skill who also lugged around a bazooka should qualify :)
In other news, AltaVista has filed suit for custody of RIAA untill it reaches the age of majority and can be held acountable for its actions. In the words of one nameless C?O, "We think its terrible that such a cute orginazation is able to run around without anyone taking responsibility to make sure it grows up into a respectable member of society. To that end we feel it is our duty to take it under our wing and provide it with a good spanking if needed. We only have its best interests at heart and promiss to divest ourselves of it, once it has reached the age of legal majority."
Several Social Workers contacted commended the action and hoped that some loving but stern orginization would step forward to help guide both the MPAA and DVD-CCA through their formative years and into productive members of society.
I agree that there are some things worth buying (otherwise we would all make our own games and we wouldn't need software publishers), but I also think that a well developed OpenSource game could work, if the right 'personality' with a vision would get behind it.
Most of the successful Open Source projects have had a core group who knew what they wanted to do and made up the inital planning/developement team. This could work for creating a game, it is the process of creating an 'Application' KOffice. I haven't used it so I don't know how omplete it is yet, but once the framework is in place people will help fill it in. THAT is the essential problem with Open Sourcing games. With a game, either its a small enough game that you write it all as one application (like tetris for instance) or else it helps to develope an engine, and then you need people to come up with the plot/graphics and how the engine will govern game dynamics.
Now, there is an effort to create an Open Source 3D Game Engine, and that may work, and people may create games, but since a large part of the effort is the creative side, then there will always be a market for games, just as there will always be a market for books. Both may have some 'Open Source' versions, but people will always be willing to pay for a quality product (like a painting).
(sorry for the rambling I'm a bit tired)
7.Managers will have to surrender the oft-held belief that Open Source == Carp.
I always thought the old adage "If you see someone hungry, don't give him fish, teach him to fish".
If Open Source == Carp, then by fostering an atmosphere of Open Source developement, are you in effect 'teaching how to fish'?
You mean technology hasn't already leveled out?
Several friends are in the market for a home PC. They don't need it to do much, just some word processing, the ocassional spreadsheet and some web browsing.
Personally what I would love to recomend is PII-266 with 128mg of ram, a 10gig hard drive
and a 56K modem. This is what I bought 3 year ago and it would work fine for their needs (in fact I might even argue it would be over kill).
If you start playing games it might even be sufficient for most of them (depending on your graphic card).
Why do they need more?
What does your 'average' person use their computer for?
Games
E-mail
Web Browsing
Word Processing
Spread Sheet
Playing CD's
The thing that pushes the resources on the computer more then anything else is the games. If their idea of a game is Minesweeper or Solitare (as boggling as it may be to me who is in the middle of playing FinalFatasy8, Tiberian Sun and is anctiously awaiting the Homeworld expansion pack... and yet addicted to Mille Bourne on my Palm Pilot when I commute on the subway), then they don't really need any more computer power. Barring a major revolution in the way things are done (like the introduction of better Voice Recognition software, or Video Conferencing), the only time they should need to replace a system is when it dies (or they need an additional unit).
If Linux can make a move into the desktop (for the average clueless user) then its ability to push the resources of a machine might make the machine viable over an even longer lifespan for your average user (I was using KDE and Gnome on my p166 with 40mb very happily).
Ooooo.... what a wonderful idea.
:)
Now I know what the Justice Department can do once it finishes with Microsoft
(Hi... I'm from the Better Buisness Buerue and we'd like to talk to you about all these complaints we've been recieve in regard to bait and switch tactics)
IANAL... but...
I've had to deal with Trade Secerets a fair amount of time.
My understanding is that in order for a piece of information to maintain the classification then:
1) I need to agree to keep the secret
2) The information needs to be transmitted in writing (I'm assuming electronic form is considered writing) and
3) At the bottom of each page should be a notice that this information is a Trade Secret.
I believe (perhaps an IP Lawyer out there can verify) that unless those conditions are met, the information is not considered a Trade Secret.
(ie. if someone gives you some documents and then later comes along and tells you, 'oh, and this is a trade secret' you don't have to follow their wishes)
If this weren't the case then you wouldn't have to sign an NDA, they could just give you the document with the license 'printed on page 10 and 11'.
- Got a Software Engineer for the control mechanism (Silent Partner, for now).
- The control mechanism will officially be ran under the Linux Operating System.
- I hear rumors we got submitted to www.slashdot.org.
- Looks like there will be a formal meeting, at Earle's house, at 21:00 hours tonight.
- I'll get a digital camera tonight, I swear! Pictures by Friday night.
I cant believe no one mentioned that they've chosen Linux as the official OS of the Mecha. I can picture the adds now:
Is your operating system opressing you? (Tank with MS logo rolls onto screen and point barrel at camera)
Switch to the free OS that packs a wallop (Mecha foot comes down on turret and squishes tank flat. Pan up to the meriad of Linux vendor logos on the side of the mech ala a stock car. Pan up to the CGI penguin in a combat helmet who gives the camera a thumbs up.)
New trilogy anounced from Robert Ludlum
:)
(co-written by CmdTaco)
book 1: The Halloween Documents
Where in the evil corporation makes its plan for world domination, by crushing and subverting those that would stand against them.
book 2: The Mozilla Group
The story of one corporations struggle to free itself from the encroaching darkness by freeing that which it holds most dear.
book 3: October GNOME
One of a growing number of rogue coding groups strike back against the growing darkness.
book 4: The Easter Revelation
Where the evil darkness shoots itself in the foot.
--------------------------------
(Trillogies always run over
Why is it that so much of what goes on here seems like a great basis for a story? (right down to the title)
:)
Think of it as one big pyrimid scheme.
This has always been one of my minor fears:
Since most pager companies now allow you to send messages via an e-mail message, and since most companies have 'blocks' of phone numbers that are tied to both the 800 number of the pager, and the e-mail address, it would be relativly trivial to create a bulk e-mail SPAMer that could flood several of the 'major' providers.
(I started to shudder most over this when I was working on a project to make a generic Pager Client for a friend that could send e-mail to any pager via either an E-mail address, a web-site, or a phone (last resort). I actually abandond the project halfway through since if I finished it I would have want to put it on the web as a neat bit of code, but I could see too much potential for abuse in it... and unfortunately I had another project that was way cooler that I decided to work on first )
Actually, considering the effects of the GNU GPL and some people feelings that its 'viral' in nature, accusing him of being a virus author isn't exactly far fetched.
Someone mark this up.
This brings up an interesting point. The assumption so far has been that they were selling the boxes as a loss-leader for their ISP service, what if that was only part of their overall strategy of also "profiling" their customers for direct-marketing or directed advertising? (ala DoubleClick, except without having to bother mapping people to profiles, they already have the mappings)
And on a slightly different note, if the offspring were a Boy, what are the chances that he will be a clone of you? :)
Baldur's Gate II is due out in Q3 or Q4 of 2000 (ie. this year). The game is the sequel to Baldur's Gate (duh :) and is probably the best and most complete (in my mind and others as well) 'port' of the Pen and Paper AD&D 2nd Edition rules to a CRPG.
They started by implimenting a subset of the rules (just basic classes, no specialty classes except mages, only spells through 4th level). They added more to their 'imported' beastiary and to the spells imported (they finshed up 4th and 5th level priest/mage) in the BG expansion pack Tales from the Sword Coast. In BG2 they are completing the spell lists, refining the weapon proficiencies (they had it set up so you would apply a proficiency point to a type of weapon vs. a particular weapon and they hadn't included weapon styles yet),they are also adding 'kits' for other classes besides specialty mages, they are extending the experiance CAP so you can hit i think anywhere from 18th to 20th level, they are including familiars/pets, they are including quests so you can aquire a stronghold once you've hit the apropriate level. I believe they are also adding another race of character you can play (previously Human, Elf, half-elf, halfling, dwarf was available, I think they are adding half-ogre but I can't remember off the top of my head).
Definately a lot of fun, especially for those of us who don't always have the time to get together with a gaming group and go at the pen and paper version.
My understanding (granted from a biased source of the bonus audio track on the dvd of the main editor, the main fx guru, and trnity (forget her name) was that they were running grossly over-budget/time (filming time) and the studio was demanding to know what the story was. The editor put together the first "chunk" of the movie (begining through telephone booth crunch), along with temporary sound effects and music and they sent it back to the studios. The studio execs watched it, and promptly shut up and gave them the extra time/money they needed to finish the film. They may not have had money to shoot over some scenes they would have liked to have done a different way, and they may have made some poor choices for certain effects (the police->MiB morph at the end for instance), but those happen in any movie (with few exceptions).
At my company I seem to do all of the above. Granted there are others who seem to do some programing or some system admin in addition to their normal functions, but very few who do both, plus can be trusted to open up a machine and install/configure hardware (pick a Unix flavor OR winNT), or do basic database administration, excluding for a moment web-design (html & javascript) which is mostly outside of what we normally do.
I think the shortage may not be so much people with a few skills, so much as people who:
1) have a variety of skills and experiance and can be thrown into various 'ad-hock' situations.
2) can actually learn and expand their skill set relatively painlessly (for their employer) as needed.
and 3) can actually interact with other people (PHB, other programmers, clients).
But what about the effort to incorporate a scripting language into KDE as well as the interoperability of the the KOffice and Konqueror. I'm not sure that there is a mail client included (which might limit the distribution mechanism), but it does seem like the desktop may soon get quite a few of the 'pieces' needed for a mellisa-alike.
This isn't ment as a flame against KDE. I keep switching off between KDE and GNOME and like a lot of the aspects of both (although it seems like KDE will have more 'killer apps' sooner, I like the 'feel' of Gnome better). Please, someone explain what about the nature of the apps will keep something like this from happening?
This is actually based on a story I remember reading in High School lit (unfortunately I don't remember the story :(
Cool... as a former Amiga owner (till I accidentally fried my A1000 motherboard) I always wondered what happened to Psygnosis.
... and maybe the PC.
On to the topic though... don't forget that Microsoft already had a Game Developer in its pocket... itself. They've been producing games for close to three years now (everything from Age of Empires to Hellstorm to Mechwarrior III). Looking at their track record they seem to be developing titles that will apeal to the Console gamer, so I have a feeling they were planning on this for a while. If the console supports the DirectX API (no reason not to) then you could very well see them putting out their own games "Only available on MSX"
I saw Diablo in the store and it seemed fun, a nice 'entry' level CRPG, and most importantly it was available at a time when there really weren't many CRPGs out there. I picked it up and it was nice (although it still has one of my favorite "Murphy's Rules": You cant wear a piece of armor because your not strong enough, but you can lug it around in your backpack
Then Baldurs Gate apeared on the scene and Diablo was quickly forgotten. Baldur's Gate had a few problems, and only supported the AD&D system through about 6th level. Then they released Tales of the Sword Coast as an expansion pack. This included all 3rd and 4th level spells, still not complete but nicely implimented. Now they are getting ready to relase Baldur's Gate 2 which includes even more features, should be mindblowing graphically (the original came on 5 CDs and the Expansion was a 6th, mostly packed with hand painted backgrounds and beautifully animated monsters), and is projected to hit the stores in the later half of this year (not counting the other projects underway from Interplay's RPG division Black Isle). I think Diablo II might have been phenominal if it had come out when intended. Now I have a feeling it might seem lackluster next to its 'competition'.
Does this mean I won't buy it? Probably not, there are still too few serious CRPGs out there
Sounds like fun.
I've been walking around looking at all the "Windows 2000: Comming Feb 17. As stable on the internet as off" posters, and now I think I'm going to sticker over "the internet" part of the poster. Then it will read more gramatically correct... of course who'd want a computer that acted like it was off when it was on anyway is beyond my comprehension.
True,
On the other hand, I remember hearing that a board had only a limited amount of liability regarding the contents of the posts, provided that they were not excersizing editorial control, by removing even one post.
Since 'slashdot' itself never really removes any posts (even those moderated all the way down), I'm not sure how much liability they really have.
Really? I'm surprised. I went with the FIC Mobo (only problem I hit was its size... it takes up the FULL tray which can be a problem if your case isn't deep enough) and haven't had a problem (FYI I'm running Win98).
It was the first one that AMD listed as being certified for their 800mhz chip (although by now so is everyone else). When I check AMD's site they no longer listed the K7M from ASUS _anywhere_ on the motherboard page. Could they have dropped it due to ASUS's lack of acknoledging the product existed?
And in a related story Tesla LLC filed suit against Marconi Corp for improper use of Patented materials. Tesla LLC claims that Marconi Corp. used their patented algorythms in the creation of the "Morse Code" protocol stack and will appear in Court on Friday seeking a priliminary injunction.
Both Tesla LLC and Marconi Corp. were unavailable for comment.
Guys... forget the RIAA and MPAA lawsuits we all have to come out in force for this one. Can you imagine what would happen if we lost? The precedent that gets set? Please... buy the t-shirts that copyleft is producing showing the "Morse Code" translation algorythm! Support the EFF and lets get our voices heard.
:)