What he did was to leak corporate information. No-one else knew that MS had Macs. If the company felt it was to their disadvantage for other competitors to know this information, then it would be grounds for dismissal. It would be like blabbing what you heard at the watercooler to the world.
I wonder what the Macs were to be used for though. It probably wouldn't be new information if it was for the Office dev crew, but perhaps they are considering porting Windows to the G5, or emulating G5 on Windows with their VirtualPC acquisition.
Epic Games owns them and released Unreal Tournament in North America under the Atari name because it is more well known. I wouldn't expect that this would change just because of this deal.
Where this analogy falls through is that in biology, the virus attacks the 'operating system' per se, and the 'operating system' has tools to fight back, sometimes with an innoculation. But you never need a 3rd party piece of equipment (such as a virus scanner) to help you.
So in short, the virus fighting elements should first actually be part of the OS before this analogy would make any sense.
CD-ROM/CD-RW filesystems are multiplatform. If you could figure out a way to trick the PC into thinking a hard drive was a CD-ROM/CD-RW (a giant one obviously), it would solve the problem.
I never said I knew how to do it, I just posed it as an alternative. Do you know if it is possible or not? If you don't, then it would actually be you that doesn't know what they're talking about.
Also, COBOL has been around for 50 odd years or so.. it has outlived other languages, and companies love it because their stuff that's years and years old will still compile and run, so they don't have to pay someone to rebuild from scratch.
My guess is you're an x86 programmer, aren't you? And you think that just because you never logged into a mainframe that nobody else is.
The biggest companies in the world still use them heavily, and as long as those companies still want the machines (they still do as their programs already run on them, and do so quite well), IBM et al will NEVER discontinue them.
This will work. Now if they could find a way to link all the arcade games together and have a high score monitor in the arcade itself, I think that would also be cool.
Nothing helps progress like competition. If people can show off in front of a whole arcade or a whole city or even the whole world, of course they're going to do it.
Other game companies should get in on this action.
I know this kid who has worshipped Nintendo his whole life, and now he is old enough he bought his own game cube.
He bought that rediculous Animal Crossings game, and he told me that it was so great because you can trade items over the Internet. I said oh yeah, how?
turns out you get a code that you write down and you give it to someone else on the net and they and to type it in and then they get that item.
The part that scares me is that he (and I bet millions of other brainwashed Nintendo'ers) think that this is actually a cool way of doing this.
This is 2003. If I have to write something down because a video game told me to, I'm going to stop playing that game. It was cool when Kid Icarus was new. Now that shit should just be automatic. It's a no brainer.
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did copyright violation move from civil law to criminal law?
Sure maybe it should be criminal when someone starts selling said copyrighted materials, however, this guy was caught copying a copyrighted material.
1 year in jail seems ridiculous when you boil it down to what it is.
I wonder why it is that they would put that kind of information into your car?
Personally I think that's a lame excuse for why not to do it.
What he did was to leak corporate information. No-one else knew that MS had Macs. If the company felt it was to their disadvantage for other competitors to know this information, then it would be grounds for dismissal. It would be like blabbing what you heard at the watercooler to the world.
I wonder what the Macs were to be used for though. It probably wouldn't be new information if it was for the Office dev crew, but perhaps they are considering porting Windows to the G5, or emulating G5 on Windows with their VirtualPC acquisition.
will complain about anything.
Perhaps there is a legitimate use for RFID after all..
Maybe I'm not seeing something, but isn't this already obvious to anyone that graduated the 3rd grade?
Next they'll be telling us that game designers are learning that the more powerful the weapon you have, the better your chances of a frag.
Atari IS Epic Games
Epic Games owns them and released Unreal Tournament in North America under the Atari name because it is more well known. I wouldn't expect that this would change just because of this deal.
batteries not included?
Story duplicates you!
So in short, the virus fighting elements should first actually be part of the OS before this analogy would make any sense.
Basically the subject says it all folks.
This is just too interesting to be ignored.
Sure I do.
CD-ROM/CD-RW filesystems are multiplatform. If you could figure out a way to trick the PC into thinking a hard drive was a CD-ROM/CD-RW (a giant one obviously), it would solve the problem.
I never said I knew how to do it, I just posed it as an alternative. Do you know if it is possible or not? If you don't, then it would actually be you that doesn't know what they're talking about.
I bet there is a way to trick it into being formatted like a giant CD-RW or DVD-RW or something.
I suggest looking into that, as all oses should be able to read one of the standard CD formats...
In Soviet Russia, RFID Tag wears you!
Don't you mean DURING a long hard work day?
Also, COBOL has been around for 50 odd years or so.. it has outlived other languages, and companies love it because their stuff that's years and years old will still compile and run, so they don't have to pay someone to rebuild from scratch.
My guess is you're an x86 programmer, aren't you? And you think that just because you never logged into a mainframe that nobody else is.
The biggest companies in the world still use them heavily, and as long as those companies still want the machines (they still do as their programs already run on them, and do so quite well), IBM et al will NEVER discontinue them.
Yes we call it Soccer in Canada as well. And no, I don't live in an igloo.
You know you want to.
Now the lusers that send spam in the first place will be forced to go back to clicking on banners for pennies to make their money.
tell it to reader's digest!
Nothing helps progress like competition. If people can show off in front of a whole arcade or a whole city or even the whole world, of course they're going to do it.
Other game companies should get in on this action.
He bought that rediculous Animal Crossings game, and he told me that it was so great because you can trade items over the Internet. I said oh yeah, how?
turns out you get a code that you write down and you give it to someone else on the net and they and to type it in and then they get that item.
The part that scares me is that he (and I bet millions of other brainwashed Nintendo'ers) think that this is actually a cool way of doing this.
This is 2003. If I have to write something down because a video game told me to, I'm going to stop playing that game. It was cool when Kid Icarus was new. Now that shit should just be automatic. It's a no brainer.
The are terrible even compared to the Gameboy Advance
Plastic is not heavy but after about 20 minutes it will feel like it weights 200 lbs