Arghh! Bad example. The ideal gas law is okay for low speed, low pressure, low temperature gas that can be passed as incompressible. This law is unacceptable for any application with extreme conditions(usually high Reynolds number for fluid dynamics application), and plasma is so far beyond being an incompressible gas that even mentionning the words "plasma" and "ideal gas law" in the same sentence would probably get you headbutted by a physicist. Even a wimpy one.
EVIL 1 a : morally reprehensible : SINFUL, WICKED (an evil impulse) b : arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct (a man of evil reputation)
2 a archaic : INFERIOR b : causing discomfort or repulsion : OFFENSIVE (an evil odor) c : DISAGREEABLE (woke late and in an evil temper)
3 a : causing harm : PERNICIOUS (the evil institution of slavery) b : marked by misfortune : UNLUCKY
As far as i'm concerned, MS satisfies point 1a,1b,2a,2b,3a. Most innovation were bought/embraced,extended&excluded from opposing companies.
MS's disk defragmenting technology? Speeddisk. Excel? Lotus 123. Word? Wordperfect running in a gui interface with a slew of marketing features. Their file managers? Bleh, XtGold was pretty good and faster under dos. I stopped liking MS when they released win95 and I realized that the little company that made my disk operating system were gonna destroy all the other companies that made the software I liked and used. Is Quarterdeck still alive? Damn that QEMM was good, a hell of a memory manager.
This post is probably gonna cost me 2 karma points but what the hell, it had to be said.
This just stupid. If the judge had any technical or scientifical knowledge, he would know that 0 and 100% are rarely true in the real world, they are almost always approximation. A car moving at 0.1 m/s in 0.0001 m/s wind will have some wind resistance, it's just gonna be so small that you use the number 0 for your calculations, because if you don't ignore some factors no real world problem will be solveable with mathematics.
Napster should have said 100% to the judge, because for his level of knowledge 99%=100%. The exceptions are sometimes only there to prove the rule.
I think ign.com has a very interesting idea in their insider scheme. Their free sites are still great, with lots of content. Currently I mainly hit ps2.ign.com, and they have frequent special features that are only available to registered users, but most of the stuff will be available to the rest of the people after a few days. This is great, much better than pcxl, their free site sucked big time(except for their free half-naked chicks archive, but that's another story).
Ign's subscription is like 20$ per year, which for me means drink 4 beer less next time I go to that special place where they charge beer 5 $ a pop. And no, I am not yet a subscriber but I might subscribe soon. And for the record, if/. where to charge 20$ for a lifetime membership and remove unregistered AC's it would clear up the discussions a lot. I know this is heresy for most of you but what the hell, I think most spammers and trollers would shy away from paying 20$ to show they're idiots(and no, I don't mind paying 20$ to show that i'm an idiot, before a clever AC makes a joke about it).
You didn't ask your employer's permission to use your employer's computer for non-work-related activities.
Through what god-given talent can you say with 100% that he did not have permission, let's look at this scenario:
Admin: Oh by the way Bob, I put a little client on the machines, but it will only work when your computers are not used. Bob (the supervisor at that time): Sure, no problem.
Two years later the guy is looking at 15 years in jail, and Bob is working for a school district in Portland. Let's face it, we do not have all the information at hand to make such harsh judgments as the one you made.
Gee whiz, this is only insightful if you didn't read the actual thread, here's a post from the guy that is accused, I invite skeptics to just confirm it by themselves:
For the guy that thinks it's a hoax simply contact the Georgia State Attorney's Office or the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the lead Agent in charge of the year and half investigation that he said it took him to determine that running this Distributed.net client is a felony offense as outlined by the Computer administrators at the school and the State is Bob Stanley, the GBI office number is 770-987-9168.
The Law Firm of my Lawyer is 770-564-1600. My Attorney is David Joyner
The charges are from the 1999 Georgia Computer Crime code book Volume 14 Title 16-9-91 to 93 Pages 669 to 672.
Check the trademark search engine that the AC provided. I think he linked to the "Adobe Illustrator" trademark but there is also an "Illustrator" trademark that is also owned by Adobe.
Word Mark ILLUSTRATOR
Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: computer software for use in graphic design, desktop publishing, electronic publishing, printing, artistic and technical drawing, creating fonts and typefaces, and special graphical and textual effects; computer software containing clip art, and typefaces; and users' manuals and instructional books sold as a unit therewith. FIRST USE: 19861215. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19861215
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 74731075
Filing Date September 19, 1995
Published for Opposition February 18, 1997
Registration Number 2060488
Registration Date May 13, 1997
Owner (REGISTRANT) Adobe Systems Incorporated
CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 1585 Charleston Road P.O. Box 7900 Mountain View CALIFORNIA 94039
A lot of people here seem to have stopped watching the X-Files entirely since the film, so whatever happens the x-files is already dead to them.
I am actually not so displeased that she is leaving. Robert Patrick gives a rock-solid performance as Doggett(apparently I'm not the only one since he won an award for best television actor).
The departure of Scully will hopefully allow Carter(if he wants to) to be more creative by letting loose the ties of the past. I for one will be tuning in to watch Patrick's character(Doggett) evolve. Krycek's dead, so there's one block of the whole conspiracy dead, now they just need to kill off the rest once and for all.
Let's mod this up. Clearly Adobe just sold the right to this lawyer firm to enforce their IP in that country. Most of the post are evil-izing Adobe but clearly the greater force of evil here is the independant lawyers. The only thing Adobe could(should?) do is pull on the leash of their hell-hounds to let the poor guy get off easy.
Man, stories like this is the kind of thing that make people hate lawyers.
Wow, you're a contender for my troll of the week award.
I suspect if Sega had the money right now, they would produce a handheld that was 64 bit, played games off CD, played CDs, mp3 CDs, VCDs, and DVDs, and STILL nobody would buy it...
No nobody would buy it, and for good reason. People that think like you do run businesses into the ground on a daily basis. No matter how "kickass" you think your product is, if there is no market for it it will be a failure. There is a market for an inexpensive play system that play tons of games made in the last ten years, that is energy efficient and backed by a company with a history of making quality games. The market for the product you described(at the price point where it would need to be even while being a loss leader) would be limited to a very few people and that market would not be enough to convince third-parties to make game for it, and the game system would go under(and if it was sega, they'd just drop the support in a quick swift move, as they did for every variation of their systems since the genesis).
If there is one company that you can buy a system and know they won't let you down it's Nintendo. When the SNES came out they still made nes game for a good year, year and a half for it. Dido for the SNES when the N64 came out(which IMHO I consider a failure). Sega has always made godly games, especially in the arcades. But I won't miss them in the hardware market, their legacy of ditching their systems too fast shall not live on. Can't wait to see their games on the other consoles though.
It's simple, if you have a PC you can run the program, if you don't you can't. PC != running windows. PC == CAN run windows. So the moment you stop whining you'll be able to dual boot into windoze because your freakin architecture supports the OS that will be needed to run the god damn program.
It's not about "arrogant windows user" forcing you to run what they do, it's about a company releasing a commercial products to the broadest audience, and if you would just stop your pseudo-religious lamentations you will be able to use their products. And for the record yes I am a Linux user, I run two linux boxes at home, I worked on Unix system, AIX system for CAD and finite element modeling, Solaris for programming, etc.
So why the hell don't I have a problem rebooting the computer in windoze to play a game?
Did some work on a preliminary spdm gui at the CSA(canadian space agency). All the computers in the simulation/training room run Unices. Developped on SGI machines running Solaris and I was cimpiling on one of the bigger machines that also ran solaris. The SSRMS (canadarm) gui is pretty cool. Been a while since I saw it. Actually I was a student there and I'm sure if I pull out my paper on the time I spent there I could find a screenshot of the gui. Dunno if that could get me in trouble though, so I'll keep it to myself.
If all devices were optical, there'd be no reason for electrical current other than to light up the fiber strands in the first place. Therefore, power to expansion cards wouldn't be needed at all and your PC would consume 3% of the energy it is using at this instant.
Do you figure the on-card processors and chips will work without any current? You think your sound card will be able to output its signal without any power? You really think all that power is used just to get the data through the bus? I'm no expert, but why do you assume that transforming the data to a light pulse, emitting that light pulse, and then reconverting the pulse down to data consumes less energy than running electrons through 12 inch of copper? Unless I want my devices to be hundreds of feet from my computer, in which case I guess the copper link might be absorbing more power than fiber optics.
Blizzard also develop a game that is in my top 5 all-time favorite games : Rock&Roll Racing. Dunno if I'd still like it but I spent so much time playing that game, I thought it rocked. They also released 2 Lost Viking games, which were pretty entertaining, and Blackthorn, which I never played.
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The cube will definetely get a spot next to my PS2 when it comes out. The zelda game alone should be a reason to buy it(not to mention mario and metroid). Check out those insane shots of link at ign's preview. Man, can you imagine fighting ganon like this?
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The PS2 is a great system. It just tears my head off on my 55" toshiba television and my 500W pioneer receiver with surround setup. SSX rules. Had a blast last night playing nhl 2001 with my friends while having a beer(we're canadians). Still waiting for GT3, WWF smackdown 3,anything from square(haven't tried the bouncer yet). Me and my roommate had a blast last weekend playing track and field. We thought it wouldn't be fun but once we started competing in the events we really got into it. I don't know what people dissing the graphics are smoking. This system really is meant to play and have fun, and boy is my couch more confortable than my computer chair.
You know, at some point I quit being a snob and bitching the 10 year olds for playing pokemon and I tried the goddamn game. I actually found it pretty entertaining, moreso than most of the vertex pumping games that I tried in the last years. Of course I stopped playing when I realized that my compulsive personnality was kicking in and I was planning which monster was on my team by calcuting the damage done to specific types of monsters. I definately can see why they were successes, and people making fun of Nintendo because of this franchises are way off IMHO.
Oh, and here's one thing I like about the game boy : the success of the system and the games are purely based on fun factor, unlike most technology displays that get packaged into a box with a game concept put in like it was an afterthought.
Cable modems suck. I'm sorry, but that's the truth.
Well i'm sorry, but I must disagree, for 29.95$ canadian i'm getting 10MBps down(more like 2.5-3.2MBps in the real world as far as my download tests are concerned, still faster than Xdsl). Right now the stupid engineering department at the ISP capped the uplink at 128kbps for no technical reason, but the docsis modem could easily be provisionned to 1.5Mbps uplink. Hell the damn thing could do 40Mbps downlink 10.24Mbps uplink. Hey, here's an actual tech spec. Of course, that's not as good an argument as yours, but I'm trying to get up to your level in debating skills(crossing fingers).
I don't give a crap if you take me to negative karma land, but how the hell can an intelligent post like this be labelled as flame-bait? I doubt any slashdotter understands the realisty of the third world countires that are concerened as this guy is. If we give 50k to a guy in vietnam he's gonna live the rest of his life with maids taking care of him and a sizeable piece of land. 50 cents in the Us != 50 cents in vietnam.
Oh, so now i'm a liar? All the problems in my post were 100% real. Ok, so you didn't have any problems, so I must be lying then. What kind of screwed up logic is that? And how the hell did you get modded up as interesting, because you used "lying", "linux" and "zealot" in the same post?
I've been running on microsoft products since DOS 3.0, thank you. And I know my windows god damn fine, I've been fixing everybody's computer I know since I was 12. And I've been doing tech support for 3 years now. Oh, and btw dumbass, we support MACOS as long as it's newer than 7.5.3, and I do give linux support(as long as the person i'm talking to knows what he's doing), altough it isn't officially supported.
YOU my friend, should start using your brain instead of running to the defense of M$. And how the hell was that bashing, all the problems REALLY DID happen in the last week, who the hell are you telling everybody i'm lying. I mean, do I have to tape myself everytime I fix a god damn computer so you can believe me?
The only problems I ever had with linux was my own fault(i.e running out of disk space so X wouldn't start, etc). Actually I appreciate you calling me a linux zealot but the truth of the matter is I'm probably more skilled with windows than you'll ever be.
1- There ARE people working full time on linux.
2- I left myself wide open for that one, but that was a weak burn. Practice makes perfect, so carry on my friend.
I suspect the integrity of the editors, when their words appear a few centimetres below an ad for Red Hat.
I have proof that the editors have been getting Red Hat's distributions for FREE!.
I think the escape pod analogy is right on track. Did you ever stop to think that maybe they planned on releasing the marathon engine later on under the gpl anyways because they believed in the open source movement? And would you think for one second that microsoft would have allowed that?
Games under OSS will never rival the commercial offerings
Does the word DUH mean anything to you? <SARCASM>I thought for sure I'd be better than Carmack at programming a 3D engine, but you just broke all of my hopes.</SARCASM>
It is evident that people that are paid to do something and have all the time they need to do it will be better than others that do it on their spare time for free. That doesn't mean that the games can't be good. And why do you assume that artists and designers are ignorant of the whole open source movement? Is it so improbable that someone with artistic talent would contribute to a project just because they're interested?
Let's see, problems I've had with windoze over the past week. Okay the computer in my comitee at school would go from normal use to the "you can now safely turn off your computer" screen at random. You could be typing a text in word and BOOM, you need to reboot. I fixed the problem by turning off the "plug and play os" option the bios. I think there was a problem with the sound card drivers. Then my roommates computer went AWAL, I had to run a scandisk, then a scanreg/restore, then another scandisk in windows(which wouldn't even boot in failsafe mode) to fix a truckload of long filename problems. Then I uninstalled a couple of programs that I thought were the cause. Windows froze when uninstalling an anti-virus, but thankfully a scandisk later my rommmate could use his computer again. My computer generated about 15 blue screens yesterday, outlook express crashes like clockwork citing problems with mshtml.dll, IE is even worse, and explorer will crash by itself for no reason. Sometimes I am just litterally looking at the screen and the computer is doing nothing and then a screen pops up saying explorer crashed. I have no problem when I'm booted in linux. And that's just the computers that I have/had to fix in the past week(oh yeah, almost forgot I have to go fix one of my friend's computer, windoze screwed up and she needs to have it reinstalled). I work tech support for an ISP, having hundreds of people call you because their windows is screwed up is a real eye opener on the quality of the product. YOU need to open your eyes, nobody is making up rumors of blue screens popping up.
This is just a detail, the whole discussion is about outlawing anonymity. It doesn't matter if bluelight is free or cost 2 million a month, this is not what the discussion is about. You can't just dismiss the whole discussion because of an insignificant detail. I guess you must be smarter than everybody on/. because you knew they weren't free anymore. Bravo.
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Arghh! Bad example. The ideal gas law is okay for low speed, low pressure, low temperature gas that can be passed as incompressible. This law is unacceptable for any application with extreme conditions(usually high Reynolds number for fluid dynamics application), and plasma is so far beyond being an incompressible gas that even mentionning the words "plasma" and "ideal gas law" in the same sentence would probably get you headbutted by a physicist. Even a wimpy one.
EVIL
1 a : morally reprehensible : SINFUL, WICKED (an evil impulse)
b : arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct (a man of evil reputation)
2 a archaic : INFERIOR
b : causing discomfort or repulsion : OFFENSIVE (an evil odor)
c : DISAGREEABLE (woke late and in an evil temper)
3 a : causing harm : PERNICIOUS (the evil institution of slavery)
b : marked by misfortune : UNLUCKY
As far as i'm concerned, MS satisfies point 1a,1b,2a,2b,3a. Most innovation were bought/embraced,extended&excluded from opposing companies.
MS's disk defragmenting technology? Speeddisk. Excel? Lotus 123. Word? Wordperfect running in a gui interface with a slew of marketing features. Their file managers? Bleh, XtGold was pretty good and faster under dos. I stopped liking MS when they released win95 and I realized that the little company that made my disk operating system were gonna destroy all the other companies that made the software I liked and used. Is Quarterdeck still alive? Damn that QEMM was good, a hell of a memory manager.
This post is probably gonna cost me 2 karma points but what the hell, it had to be said.
This just stupid. If the judge had any technical or scientifical knowledge, he would know that 0 and 100% are rarely true in the real world, they are almost always approximation. A car moving at 0.1 m/s in 0.0001 m/s wind will have some wind resistance, it's just gonna be so small that you use the number 0 for your calculations, because if you don't ignore some factors no real world problem will be solveable with mathematics.
Napster should have said 100% to the judge, because for his level of knowledge 99%=100%. The exceptions are sometimes only there to prove the rule.
...if it's actually worth it.
/. where to charge 20$ for a lifetime membership and remove unregistered AC's it would clear up the discussions a lot. I know this is heresy for most of you but what the hell, I think most spammers and trollers would shy away from paying 20$ to show they're idiots(and no, I don't mind paying 20$ to show that i'm an idiot, before a clever AC makes a joke about it).
I think ign.com has a very interesting idea in their insider scheme. Their free sites are still great, with lots of content. Currently I mainly hit ps2.ign.com, and they have frequent special features that are only available to registered users, but most of the stuff will be available to the rest of the people after a few days. This is great, much better than pcxl, their free site sucked big time(except for their free half-naked chicks archive, but that's another story).
Ign's subscription is like 20$ per year, which for me means drink 4 beer less next time I go to that special place where they charge beer 5 $ a pop. And no, I am not yet a subscriber but I might subscribe soon. And for the record, if
Just one thing though :
You didn't ask your employer's permission to use your employer's computer for non-work-related activities.
Through what god-given talent can you say with 100% that he did not have permission, let's look at this scenario:
Admin: Oh by the way Bob, I put a little client on the machines, but it will only work when your computers are not used.
Bob (the supervisor at that time): Sure, no problem.
Two years later the guy is looking at 15 years in jail, and Bob is working for a school district in Portland. Let's face it, we do not have all the information at hand to make such harsh judgments as the one you made.
Gee whiz, this is only insightful if you didn't read the actual thread, here's a post from the guy that is accused, I invite skeptics to just confirm it by themselves:
For the guy that thinks it's a hoax simply contact the Georgia State Attorney's Office or the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the lead Agent in charge of the year and half investigation that he said it took him to determine that running this Distributed.net client is a felony offense as outlined by the Computer administrators at the school and the State is Bob Stanley, the GBI office number is 770-987-9168.
The Law Firm of my Lawyer is 770-564-1600. My Attorney is David Joyner
The charges are from the 1999 Georgia Computer Crime code book Volume 14 Title 16-9-91 to 93 Pages 669 to 672.
David
Now that wasn't too hard, wasn't it?
Check the trademark search engine that the AC provided. I think he linked to the "Adobe Illustrator" trademark but there is also an "Illustrator" trademark that is also owned by Adobe.
Word Mark ILLUSTRATOR
Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: computer software for use in graphic design, desktop publishing, electronic publishing, printing, artistic and technical drawing, creating fonts and typefaces, and special graphical and textual effects; computer software containing clip art, and typefaces; and users' manuals and instructional books sold as a unit therewith.
FIRST USE: 19861215.
FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19861215
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 74731075
Filing Date September 19, 1995
Published for Opposition February 18, 1997
Registration Number 2060488
Registration Date May 13, 1997
Owner (REGISTRANT) Adobe Systems Incorporated
CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 1585 Charleston Road
P.O. Box 7900 Mountain View CALIFORNIA 94039
A lot of people here seem to have stopped watching the X-Files entirely since the film, so whatever happens the x-files is already dead to them.
I am actually not so displeased that she is leaving. Robert Patrick gives a rock-solid performance as Doggett(apparently I'm not the only one since he won an award for best television actor).
The departure of Scully will hopefully allow Carter(if he wants to) to be more creative by letting loose the ties of the past. I for one will be tuning in to watch Patrick's character(Doggett) evolve. Krycek's dead, so there's one block of the whole conspiracy dead, now they just need to kill off the rest once and for all.
Let's mod this up. Clearly Adobe just sold the right to this lawyer firm to enforce their IP in that country. Most of the post are evil-izing Adobe but clearly the greater force of evil here is the independant lawyers. The only thing Adobe could(should?) do is pull on the leash of their hell-hounds to let the poor guy get off easy.
Man, stories like this is the kind of thing that make people hate lawyers.
Wow, you're a contender for my troll of the week award.
I suspect if Sega had the money right now, they would produce a handheld that was 64 bit, played games off CD, played CDs, mp3 CDs, VCDs, and DVDs, and STILL nobody would buy it...
No nobody would buy it, and for good reason. People that think like you do run businesses into the ground on a daily basis. No matter how "kickass" you think your product is, if there is no market for it it will be a failure. There is a market for an inexpensive play system that play tons of games made in the last ten years, that is energy efficient and backed by a company with a history of making quality games. The market for the product you described(at the price point where it would need to be even while being a loss leader) would be limited to a very few people and that market would not be enough to convince third-parties to make game for it, and the game system would go under(and if it was sega, they'd just drop the support in a quick swift move, as they did for every variation of their systems since the genesis).
If there is one company that you can buy a system and know they won't let you down it's Nintendo. When the SNES came out they still made nes game for a good year, year and a half for it. Dido for the SNES when the N64 came out(which IMHO I consider a failure). Sega has always made godly games, especially in the arcades. But I won't miss them in the hardware market, their legacy of ditching their systems too fast shall not live on. Can't wait to see their games on the other consoles though.
God damn whining *sigh*
It's simple, if you have a PC you can run the program, if you don't you can't. PC != running windows. PC == CAN run windows. So the moment you stop whining you'll be able to dual boot into windoze because your freakin architecture supports the OS that will be needed to run the god damn program.
It's not about "arrogant windows user" forcing you to run what they do, it's about a company releasing a commercial products to the broadest audience, and if you would just stop your pseudo-religious lamentations you will be able to use their products. And for the record yes I am a Linux user, I run two linux boxes at home, I worked on Unix system, AIX system for CAD and finite element modeling, Solaris for programming, etc.
So why the hell don't I have a problem rebooting the computer in windoze to play a game?
Did some work on a preliminary spdm gui at the CSA(canadian space agency). All the computers in the simulation/training room run Unices. Developped on SGI machines running Solaris and I was cimpiling on one of the bigger machines that also ran solaris. The SSRMS (canadarm) gui is pretty cool. Been a while since I saw it. Actually I was a student there and I'm sure if I pull out my paper on the time I spent there I could find a screenshot of the gui. Dunno if that could get me in trouble though, so I'll keep it to myself.
If all devices were optical, there'd be no reason for electrical current other than to light up the fiber strands in the first place. Therefore, power to expansion cards wouldn't be needed at all and your PC would consume 3% of the energy it is using at this instant.
Do you figure the on-card processors and chips will work without any current? You think your sound card will be able to output its signal without any power? You really think all that power is used just to get the data through the bus? I'm no expert, but why do you assume that transforming the data to a light pulse, emitting that light pulse, and then reconverting the pulse down to data consumes less energy than running electrons through 12 inch of copper? Unless I want my devices to be hundreds of feet from my computer, in which case I guess the copper link might be absorbing more power than fiber optics.
Blizzard also develop a game that is in my top 5 all-time favorite games : Rock&Roll Racing. Dunno if I'd still like it but I spent so much time playing that game, I thought it rocked. They also released 2 Lost Viking games, which were pretty entertaining, and Blackthorn, which I never played.
The cube will definetely get a spot next to my PS2 when it comes out. The zelda game alone should be a reason to buy it(not to mention mario and metroid). Check out those insane shots of link at ign's preview. Man, can you imagine fighting ganon like this?
http://ps2.ign.com/news/32701.html
The PS2 is a great system. It just tears my head off on my 55" toshiba television and my 500W pioneer receiver with surround setup. SSX rules. Had a blast last night playing nhl 2001 with my friends while having a beer(we're canadians). Still waiting for GT3, WWF smackdown 3,anything from square(haven't tried the bouncer yet). Me and my roommate had a blast last weekend playing track and field. We thought it wouldn't be fun but once we started competing in the events we really got into it. I don't know what people dissing the graphics are smoking. This system really is meant to play and have fun, and boy is my couch more confortable than my computer chair.
You know, at some point I quit being a snob and bitching the 10 year olds for playing pokemon and I tried the goddamn game. I actually found it pretty entertaining, moreso than most of the vertex pumping games that I tried in the last years. Of course I stopped playing when I realized that my compulsive personnality was kicking in and I was planning which monster was on my team by calcuting the damage done to specific types of monsters. I definately can see why they were successes, and people making fun of Nintendo because of this franchises are way off IMHO.
Oh, and here's one thing I like about the game boy : the success of the system and the games are purely based on fun factor, unlike most technology displays that get packaged into a box with a game concept put in like it was an afterthought.
Cable modems suck. I'm sorry, but that's the truth.
Well i'm sorry, but I must disagree, for 29.95$ canadian i'm getting 10MBps down(more like 2.5-3.2MBps in the real world as far as my download tests are concerned, still faster than Xdsl). Right now the stupid engineering department at the ISP capped the uplink at 128kbps for no technical reason, but the docsis modem could easily be provisionned to 1.5Mbps uplink. Hell the damn thing could do 40Mbps downlink 10.24Mbps uplink. Hey, here's an actual tech spec. Of course, that's not as good an argument as yours, but I'm trying to get up to your level in debating skills(crossing fingers).
I don't give a crap if you take me to negative karma land, but how the hell can an intelligent post like this be labelled as flame-bait? I doubt any slashdotter understands the realisty of the third world countires that are concerened as this guy is. If we give 50k to a guy in vietnam he's gonna live the rest of his life with maids taking care of him and a sizeable piece of land. 50 cents in the Us != 50 cents in vietnam.
Oh, so now i'm a liar? All the problems in my post were 100% real. Ok, so you didn't have any problems, so I must be lying then. What kind of screwed up logic is that? And how the hell did you get modded up as interesting, because you used "lying", "linux" and "zealot" in the same post?
I've been running on microsoft products since DOS 3.0, thank you. And I know my windows god damn fine, I've been fixing everybody's computer I know since I was 12. And I've been doing tech support for 3 years now. Oh, and btw dumbass, we support MACOS as long as it's newer than 7.5.3, and I do give linux support(as long as the person i'm talking to knows what he's doing), altough it isn't officially supported.
YOU my friend, should start using your brain instead of running to the defense of M$. And how the hell was that bashing, all the problems REALLY DID happen in the last week, who the hell are you telling everybody i'm lying. I mean, do I have to tape myself everytime I fix a god damn computer so you can believe me?
The only problems I ever had with linux was my own fault(i.e running out of disk space so X wouldn't start, etc). Actually I appreciate you calling me a linux zealot but the truth of the matter is I'm probably more skilled with windows than you'll ever be.
1- There ARE people working full time on linux. 2- I left myself wide open for that one, but that was a weak burn. Practice makes perfect, so carry on my friend.
I suspect the integrity of the editors, when their words appear a few centimetres below an ad for Red Hat.
I have proof that the editors have been getting Red Hat's distributions for FREE!.
I think the escape pod analogy is right on track. Did you ever stop to think that maybe they planned on releasing the marathon engine later on under the gpl anyways because they believed in the open source movement? And would you think for one second that microsoft would have allowed that?
Games under OSS will never rival the commercial offerings
Does the word DUH mean anything to you? <SARCASM>I thought for sure I'd be better than Carmack at programming a 3D engine, but you just broke all of my hopes.</SARCASM>
It is evident that people that are paid to do something and have all the time they need to do it will be better than others that do it on their spare time for free. That doesn't mean that the games can't be good. And why do you assume that artists and designers are ignorant of the whole open source movement? Is it so improbable that someone with artistic talent would contribute to a project just because they're interested?
Let's see, problems I've had with windoze over the past week. Okay the computer in my comitee at school would go from normal use to the "you can now safely turn off your computer" screen at random. You could be typing a text in word and BOOM, you need to reboot. I fixed the problem by turning off the "plug and play os" option the bios. I think there was a problem with the sound card drivers. Then my roommates computer went AWAL, I had to run a scandisk, then a scanreg /restore, then another scandisk in windows(which wouldn't even boot in failsafe mode) to fix a truckload of long filename problems. Then I uninstalled a couple of programs that I thought were the cause. Windows froze when uninstalling an anti-virus, but thankfully a scandisk later my rommmate could use his computer again. My computer generated about 15 blue screens yesterday, outlook express crashes like clockwork citing problems with mshtml.dll, IE is even worse, and explorer will crash by itself for no reason. Sometimes I am just litterally looking at the screen and the computer is doing nothing and then a screen pops up saying explorer crashed. I have no problem when I'm booted in linux. And that's just the computers that I have/had to fix in the past week(oh yeah, almost forgot I have to go fix one of my friend's computer, windoze screwed up and she needs to have it reinstalled). I work tech support for an ISP, having hundreds of people call you because their windows is screwed up is a real eye opener on the quality of the product. YOU need to open your eyes, nobody is making up rumors of blue screens popping up.
This is just a detail, the whole discussion is about outlawing anonymity. It doesn't matter if bluelight is free or cost 2 million a month, this is not what the discussion is about. You can't just dismiss the whole discussion because of an insignificant detail. I guess you must be smarter than everybody on /. because you knew they weren't free anymore. Bravo.
My bad, vomiting blood was not a happy experience. It hit me that I wrote this about half an hour after the post.