This is what happens when religion is mixed with government. Their government is totally different from ours in the sense of a strong religious background that is the foundation of law making.
Plus it's a good way to keep you religion in power. Besides have one Islamic based government (Saudi Arabia) out law cellular phones with cameras?
God I love it! Nothing like a company sueing the shit out of a poor guy. But one question remains, why didn't anyone go after the university? Since THEY allowed the engine to run? I believe this to be a co-op between the University and the RIAA. The university gets a good "warning" for the students and the RIAA get a "Major" victory.
Side bar. I also think it is so neat that this thing explodes again...after the freakin war in Iraq. How screwed up is this mess? We need to re-think our lives here. Out of all the companies in the world, the record industry is screwing up peoples lives here, entertainment based companies folks! This is vanity shoved in everyones face. Hell we don't even here of drug companies screwing people this bad-not yet any way.
I'm sure that 12K they got from the poor kid is going straight into the pocket of the congressperson voting for the RIAA.
Hey.....who took my soap box away?....hey get the tape off of my mo(%#()#@%(*&@^........
I'm truly begining to wonder when it is exactly that the public at large is going to stand up against this horrible abuse of power and perfect example of corruption of democracy and say, ENOUGH.
It will never happen.
Simply because the general public will feel "safe." How many people actually know who the senator for their state is, more less voted for them? The public gets numb-minded about these issues and don't care, because it does not effect them. Kind of like the same way Drunk Drivers think they will never get caught.
If a distro needs anything faster than a 533 Celeron and/or more than 128MB RAM, it's got to be ranked as useless. From a Linux standpoint, though.
Nope. This would not make it useless, with the cheap prices of hardware these days I don't think this complaint is enough. With the latest program offerings from this Distro it seems to offer more "candy" which takes more power. If you just want gnome and no 3D, little sound, and to be able to operate a few programs at once then a less bloated Distro is ideal, BUT just because the distro does not feed off of the lower-end computers does not make it worthless. That's like driving a Fiat 500 on the interstate and complaining that the speed limit is set too high because your car can't go that fast.
The hardest thing to break is the ego barrier. And it is very evident in many aspects in open source. Take for example the kernel source and different programs branching off. It's great, and even arguably beneficial, except for the fact that different versions of the same program are competing against each other where the forces should be united. Again this is the beauty of Open Source, where you don't have to rely on a leader/Dictator how ever you see it. The fact of this multiplied by the ego's in different countries just make this a big number. What also does not help is the fact that many programmers are not being paid such good money for the programs either. I will still use open source software at home and love it. If people want to compare M$ "standards" to Linux just remember one thing, M$ has about a ten year head start.;-)
Welcome to the land of the free, and the freedom to choose anything you want-just as long as it is our choice, and just as long as you buy it from our "preferred" retailers. Oh did I forget to mention that if you do anything remotely related to copying, fixing, or modifying this thing you will be sued until your whole family is bankrupt and your first-born child is in foster care. Now just sing here-here, and here. Leave one drop of blood for DNA logging ehhm verification. So what is that you would like to buy? Oh did I forget that if you take this out of the country the federal marshals have the right to shoot you? Sorry I forgot that little part.
Sounds to me like some people could not find a real job so they decided to make one up! I mean give me a freaking break! I don't think EA would care if people are trading their ROM's from 1985-90! If this Capitalistic Bullshit keeps up I think the DCMA might join up too after they see the potential.
That about says it all; sure we want more games on Linux but I think we want to see quality games. Sorry but with the hardware we have these days we should expect more from a game. The graphics from this game look a bit dated. What worries me is how much do they want to charge for this product? If they even think about $20 they will have one heck a battle in the sales department. Yeah, yeah I know they don't have the big teams like ID, EA, or anyone else. This doesn't excuse one of putting out a crappy game. For those people that want to prove Linux is better than Windows in every aspect-don't show them this game.
As Vonspiracy Brother would say:
"Man, this is just another attempt at the white man trying to cover his butt by moving into the private sector so they don't have to track down everything he does like the government would. Don't be fooled my brother and sisters, the hand of the man will still be out there."
Maybe, but they might mention the name "XWindows" being the problem and most MS people might think it is a bad attempt from the community to get in the windows market.
By exclusively adopting NVIDIA hardware for their worldwide studios, EA is escalating the creative palette of its 3D artists and programmers
I thought a palette was a piece of wood or something that had a range of colors, so how can a creative palette be obtained from using only one gfx card?
No one is forcing you, the grade will reflect your effort.
Its [basically] training everyone to be [o.k.] with bring work home for the rest of their lives and thats not cool and most people don't get paid enough for that.
Again, during the "school years" your are working on learning to better yourself. You cannot learn enough with just having someone lecture to you, you need to do the hands-on stuff yourself. Doing homework at home will help you prepare for college and even wor; unless you still want to do the bare minimum and get paid the minimum. As far as not getting paid enough, maybe you are learning the fruits of your efforts.
But with all of this, don't do you homework, just do the bare minimum, it will make my job easier. It's easier to just mark down an "X" next to homework completed than trying to answer the students question about the homework!
So now some people will do hardware hacks on their PC's again. On a better note though here is a silly question: I take it that this "protection Circuit" will be out side of said CPU right? If that's the case can't you just rig up a way to ground the signal being produced and inject you own constant frequency? I mean this whole thing is dependant of a return freq, so if you give it what it wants there should not be a problem, except with the thermal protection also used to "deter" the overclocking.
Granted they are a big company but what does the change log say? How much has changed? Do they want to keep up with the top dogs, Mandrake, Suse, and Slack? Any how a bigger number doesn't mean it's a better product, if that was the case then MS would be the best (Server 2003). Any how I don't see what has changed to make it a major improvement; I guess I'll just have to wait it out.
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This is what happens when religion is mixed with government. Their government is totally different from ours in the sense of a strong religious background that is the foundation of law making.
Plus it's a good way to keep you religion in power. Besides have one Islamic based government (Saudi Arabia) out law cellular phones with cameras?
SCO IS the Black Knight!
I'm not dead yet....really I'm not dead.
You can't kill me...I'm invincible...
(Youâ(TM)re a loony)
Hack-Hack-Thump...
Alright we'll call it a draw.
I think the government should tax dee's nutts! Wait a minute they already do. Never mind.
God I love it! Nothing like a company sueing the shit out of a poor guy. But one question remains, why didn't anyone go after the university? Since THEY allowed the engine to run? I believe this to be a co-op between the University and the RIAA. The university gets a good "warning" for the students and the RIAA get a "Major" victory.
Side bar. I also think it is so neat that this thing explodes again...after the freakin war in Iraq. How screwed up is this mess? We need to re-think our lives here. Out of all the companies in the world, the record industry is screwing up peoples lives here, entertainment based companies folks! This is vanity shoved in everyones face. Hell we don't even here of drug companies screwing people this bad-not yet any way.
I'm sure that 12K they got from the poor kid is going straight into the pocket of the congressperson voting for the RIAA.
Hey.....who took my soap box away?....hey get the tape off of my mo(%#()#@%(*&@^........
I'm truly begining to wonder when it is exactly that the public at large is going to stand up against this horrible abuse of power and perfect example of corruption of democracy and say, ENOUGH.
It will never happen.
Simply because the general public will feel "safe." How many people actually know who the senator for their state is, more less voted for them? The public gets numb-minded about these issues and don't care, because it does not effect them. Kind of like the same way Drunk Drivers think they will never get caught.
Buy two of them and you will be half-way there!
Actually this was in itself a security leak, the matter is being looked into.
Hell why don't they just run one of their tactics against the SCO and do something productive instead of killing innocent people?
provide justification whenever a proprietary software product is acquired instead of open source software;
Don't forget that ignorance is a justification for purchasing proprietary software too. This is the government after all.
If a distro needs anything faster than a 533 Celeron and/or more than 128MB RAM, it's got to be ranked as useless. From a Linux standpoint, though.
Nope. This would not make it useless, with the cheap prices of hardware these days I don't think this complaint is enough. With the latest program offerings from this Distro it seems to offer more "candy" which takes more power. If you just want gnome and no 3D, little sound, and to be able to operate a few programs at once then a less bloated Distro is ideal, BUT just because the distro does not feed off of the lower-end computers does not make it worthless. That's like driving a Fiat 500 on the interstate and complaining that the speed limit is set too high because your car can't go that fast.
It'S BAD when the cache sites are /.'ed!!!
The hardest thing to break is the ego barrier. And it is very evident in many aspects in open source. Take for example the kernel source and different programs branching off. It's great, and even arguably beneficial, except for the fact that different versions of the same program are competing against each other where the forces should be united. Again this is the beauty of Open Source, where you don't have to rely on a leader/Dictator how ever you see it. The fact of this multiplied by the ego's in different countries just make this a big number. What also does not help is the fact that many programmers are not being paid such good money for the programs either. I will still use open source software at home and love it. If people want to compare M$ "standards" to Linux just remember one thing, M$ has about a ten year head start. ;-)
Welcome to the land of the free, and the freedom to choose anything you want-just as long as it is our choice, and just as long as you buy it from our "preferred" retailers. Oh did I forget to mention that if you do anything remotely related to copying, fixing, or modifying this thing you will be sued until your whole family is bankrupt and your first-born child is in foster care. Now just sing here-here, and here. Leave one drop of blood for DNA logging ehhm verification. So what is that you would like to buy? Oh did I forget that if you take this out of the country the federal marshals have the right to shoot you? Sorry I forgot that little part.
Sounds to me like some people could not find a real job so they decided to make one up! I mean give me a freaking break! I don't think EA would care if people are trading their ROM's from 1985-90! If this Capitalistic Bullshit keeps up I think the DCMA might join up too after they see the potential.
You can get the whose story here
I thought you would go to a HomeDepot for the whose story!
Open source doesn't create terrorists, terrorist create themselves!
That about says it all; sure we want more games on Linux but I think we want to see quality games. Sorry but with the hardware we have these days we should expect more from a game. The graphics from this game look a bit dated. What worries me is how much do they want to charge for this product? If they even think about $20 they will have one heck a battle in the sales department. Yeah, yeah I know they don't have the big teams like ID, EA, or anyone else. This doesn't excuse one of putting out a crappy game. For those people that want to prove Linux is better than Windows in every aspect-don't show them this game.
As Vonspiracy Brother would say:
"Man, this is just another attempt at the white man trying to cover his butt by moving into the private sector so they don't have to track down everything he does like the government would. Don't be fooled my brother and sisters, the hand of the man will still be out there."
to knock up the FUD factor another notch
Maybe, but they might mention the name "XWindows" being the problem and most MS people might think it is a bad attempt from the community to get in the windows market.
There is a level of activity below which the IRS will classify your attempt at a business as a "hobby".
Sorry but I thought that it doesn't matter on the profit, but it does matter on how much money you turn.
By exclusively adopting NVIDIA hardware for their worldwide studios, EA is escalating the creative palette of its 3D artists and programmers
I thought a palette was a piece of wood or something that had a range of colors, so how can a creative palette be obtained from using only one gfx card?
being forced home with it
No one is forcing you, the grade will reflect your effort.
Its [basically] training everyone to be [o.k.] with bring work home for the rest of their lives and thats not cool and most people don't get paid enough for that.
Again, during the "school years" your are working on learning to better yourself. You cannot learn enough with just having someone lecture to you, you need to do the hands-on stuff yourself. Doing homework at home will help you prepare for college and even wor; unless you still want to do the bare minimum and get paid the minimum. As far as not getting paid enough, maybe you are learning the fruits of your efforts.
But with all of this, don't do you homework, just do the bare minimum, it will make my job easier. It's easier to just mark down an "X" next to homework completed than trying to answer the students question about the homework!
I'm sorry but 1.5-2 years of data is not enough to forcast five years in the future. Kind like those Funds that promise a 10% growth in two years.
So now some people will do hardware hacks on their PC's again. On a better note though here is a silly question: I take it that this "protection Circuit" will be out side of said CPU right? If that's the case can't you just rig up a way to ground the signal being produced and inject you own constant frequency? I mean this whole thing is dependant of a return freq, so if you give it what it wants there should not be a problem, except with the thermal protection also used to "deter" the overclocking.
Granted they are a big company but what does the change log say? How much has changed? Do they want to keep up with the top dogs, Mandrake, Suse, and Slack? Any how a bigger number doesn't mean it's a better product, if that was the case then MS would be the best (Server 2003). Any how I don't see what has changed to make it a major improvement; I guess I'll just have to wait it out.