"Abandonware" is a casual form of piracy. It is supported only by the belief that companies should choose not to enforce the copyrights they own on their back catalog.
The "pro-emulation" community exists because people believe that 20-year-old games are still perfectly good -- in some cases, as good as or better than modern games. If a company holds such valuable property, why shouldn't they be allowed to make more money on it?
If you download software to which you don't own a license, you're pirating it. The same rules apply to a 2 KB $30 Atari cart as apply to a 500 MB $400 office suite. Go ahead, pirate it if you'll get away with it. Just don't come whining that what you're doing is morally right.
Your solution is reminiscent of MyPlay, a startup that offered an unheard-of 3 GB of free storage for you to store your MP3s. MyPlay, unable to turn that business model into a profit, went bankrupt years ago.
KDE's "enhanced browsing" has allowed this feature for years. In any Konqueror window or by pressing ALT+F2 for the "Run" dialog box, you can specify a search provider and keywords.
Examples: imdb:Rob Malda (Internet Movie Database) gg:lucky (Google) dict:sphygmomanometer (Merriam-Webster)...and making more is incredibly easy: just go into Control Center and configure enhanced browsing.
Thank you for the clarifications. Beacuse I am nearly blind, I rely on a screen reader to let me experience Slashdot's comments. The screen reader reads bold text in a much louder tone of voice than most other text. Upon hearing your comments read through my screen reader, I laughed until my pancreas exploded.
In conclusion, I found this web browser flamewar to be most enjoyable and look forward to hearing from you again.
Now it's nowhere near the 900,000 some hits for "IE exploit," but Mozilla is far from invulnerable. Although the source is available, you still have to (1) convince the developers that the bug is important and (2) provide a fix that satisfies the Mozilla maintainers.
'Saying "firefox is no better" is wrong, wrong, fucking wrong.'
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Could you repeat your points some more, with more bold and italics?
Firefox's greatest asset right now is that it isn't the #1 browser. There are flaws that have been in Mozilla for five years (see the recent XUL-related issues) that are of great interest to casual users. The Mozilla development team has dismissed these flaws. Once additional previously-ignored flaws come to light and embarrass the Mozilla project devteam, another few hastily-deployed revisions of Mozilla will come up.
IE also has latent flaws that, once exploited, lead to hastily-deployed patches. Firefox is no better. Simply using an unpopular web browser is no way to guarantee your security.
I agree. They should be using a stable browser like Mozilla Phoenix.
Sorry, that's Mozilla Firebird.
Sorry, that's Mozilla Firefox 0.9.
Oh, wait. That version has bugs. Better upgrade to 0.9.1. No, wait, go with 0.9.2. No, use 0.9.3 instead. Each time you upgrade, be sure to back up your settings; the installer will remove them unless you download Extension X 0.1. No, wait, make that 0.2.
Tell me again how other browsers are more stable than IE?
Alice is used by the students of Building Virtual Worlds to create 3D VR environments. The students are CMU undergrads in every department from Computer Science to humanities to fine arts.
I wouldn't consider Alice a "language for children," since 20-something-year-old college students learn it and use it extensively. If you learned C++ in middle school, would you call it a language for children?
You call CNN "Bad Bad journalism," yet you leap to the wrong conclusion about a language you know nothing about. You mustn't be new here.
It's a pyramid scheme. They know that 99% of people will get a few friends to sign up, but not enough to earn an iPod. There are also lots of "mysterious reasons" why people get their order cancelled.
The term "beta" has lost all useful meaning. Should we withhold judgment on ICQ because it's been in "beta" since 1994? Should we avoid trusting Google News because it's been in beta for two years?
"Beta" is just a way for a company to say "if this breaks, we don't care."
Windows XP doesn't have any "built-in photo management." There's a wizard to download photos from your computer and a separate wizard (really just IE embedded in a small dialog box) to upload your photos to Shutterfly for printing.
It looks like Google plans to compete with Longhorn's built-in searching on file metadata. Since we don't even know all the details about that yet, it would be hard to call a winner.
Apple has partnered with Levi's to develop special iPants, required for the PowerBook G5. Without wearing iPants, you may receive third-degree burns and/or become sterile as a result of using the PowerBook G5 in your lap.
Get off your high horse. For all the utilities on VersionTracker that cost $20 to register, there are tons of serial numbers floating around on the web. I know plenty of Mac users who feel entitled to use all their software for free -- including Mac OS X itself.
That only seems to work with QuickTime player. RealPlayer, VLC, Mplayer, and Windows Media Player for Mac OS X all show a snapshot when you minimize a movie, even when playing a QuickTime movie. It seems to me like QuickTime player takes a screen shot while it's minimizing (hold SHIFT and click minimize to see for yourself) and then runs a special version of the player in minimized form.
I'm more curious about the 67 customer reviews. How do people take Amazon's customer reviews seriously when 67 people review a game they haven't played yet in final form?
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"Abandonware" is a casual form of piracy. It is supported only by the belief that companies should choose not to enforce the copyrights they own on their back catalog.
The "pro-emulation" community exists because people believe that 20-year-old games are still perfectly good -- in some cases, as good as or better than modern games. If a company holds such valuable property, why shouldn't they be allowed to make more money on it?
If you download software to which you don't own a license, you're pirating it. The same rules apply to a 2 KB $30 Atari cart as apply to a 500 MB $400 office suite. Go ahead, pirate it if you'll get away with it. Just don't come whining that what you're doing is morally right.
Your solution is reminiscent of MyPlay, a startup that offered an unheard-of 3 GB of free storage for you to store your MP3s. MyPlay, unable to turn that business model into a profit, went bankrupt years ago.
They Might Be Giants sells unprotected 256 kbit MP3s of their catalog for 99 cents per song or $9.99 per album.
Epitonic sells a much more diverse catalog and offers songs in MP3 format.
KDE's "enhanced browsing" has allowed this feature for years. In any Konqueror window or by pressing ALT+F2 for the "Run" dialog box, you can specify a search provider and keywords.
...and making more is incredibly easy: just go into Control Center and configure enhanced browsing.
Examples:
imdb:Rob Malda (Internet Movie Database)
gg:lucky (Google)
dict:sphygmomanometer (Merriam-Webster)
American:
1 : an American Indian of No. America or So. America
2 : a native or inhabitant of No. America or So. America
3 : a citizen of the U.S.
USan:
1 : a derogatory term used on message boards to lump all Americans (3) into one large ignorant mass.
Thank you for the clarifications. Beacuse I am nearly blind, I rely on a screen reader to let me experience Slashdot's comments. The screen reader reads bold text in a much louder tone of voice than most other text. Upon hearing your comments read through my screen reader, I laughed until my pancreas exploded.
In conclusion, I found this web browser flamewar to be most enjoyable and look forward to hearing from you again.
Results 1 - 10 of about 107,000 for mozilla exploit. (0.27 seconds)
Now it's nowhere near the 900,000 some hits for "IE exploit," but Mozilla is far from invulnerable. Although the source is available, you still have to (1) convince the developers that the bug is important and (2) provide a fix that satisfies the Mozilla maintainers.
'Saying "firefox is no better" is wrong, wrong, fucking wrong.'
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Could you repeat your points some more, with more bold and italics?
Firefox's greatest asset right now is that it isn't the #1 browser. There are flaws that have been in Mozilla for five years (see the recent XUL-related issues) that are of great interest to casual users. The Mozilla development team has dismissed these flaws. Once additional previously-ignored flaws come to light and embarrass the Mozilla project devteam, another few hastily-deployed revisions of Mozilla will come up.
IE also has latent flaws that, once exploited, lead to hastily-deployed patches. Firefox is no better. Simply using an unpopular web browser is no way to guarantee your security.
I agree. They should be using a stable browser like Mozilla Phoenix.
Sorry, that's Mozilla Firebird.
Sorry, that's Mozilla Firefox 0.9.
Oh, wait. That version has bugs. Better upgrade to 0.9.1. No, wait, go with 0.9.2. No, use 0.9.3 instead. Each time you upgrade, be sure to back up your settings; the installer will remove them unless you download Extension X 0.1. No, wait, make that 0.2.
Tell me again how other browsers are more stable than IE?
That was Acme Rent-A-Car in 2001. Slashdot covered the story.
If you hire Bill Parcells to name your open source projects, than you should expect to hear such names.
There have been rumors in the Palm user community of a Bluetooth Treo for a while, but PalmOne has been quiet about an official release.
If you're into hacking, there's a bounty posted for the first working Bluetooth SDIO driver on an existing Treo 600.
Alice is used by the students of Building Virtual Worlds to create 3D VR environments. The students are CMU undergrads in every department from Computer Science to humanities to fine arts.
I wouldn't consider Alice a "language for children," since 20-something-year-old college students learn it and use it extensively. If you learned C++ in middle school, would you call it a language for children?
You call CNN "Bad Bad journalism," yet you leap to the wrong conclusion about a language you know nothing about. You mustn't be new here.
It's a pyramid scheme. They know that 99% of people will get a few friends to sign up, but not enough to earn an iPod. There are also lots of "mysterious reasons" why people get their order cancelled.
Engadget did a little investigative reporting about freeipod.com.
No, I think a more appropriate term is "obsolete."
The term "beta" has lost all useful meaning. Should we withhold judgment on ICQ because it's been in "beta" since 1994? Should we avoid trusting Google News because it's been in beta for two years?
"Beta" is just a way for a company to say "if this breaks, we don't care."
Windows XP doesn't have any "built-in photo management." There's a wizard to download photos from your computer and a separate wizard (really just IE embedded in a small dialog box) to upload your photos to Shutterfly for printing.
It looks like Google plans to compete with Longhorn's built-in searching on file metadata. Since we don't even know all the details about that yet, it would be hard to call a winner.
Apple has partnered with Levi's to develop special iPants, required for the PowerBook G5. Without wearing iPants, you may receive third-degree burns and/or become sterile as a result of using the PowerBook G5 in your lap.
Get off your high horse. For all the utilities on VersionTracker that cost $20 to register, there are tons of serial numbers floating around on the web. I know plenty of Mac users who feel entitled to use all their software for free -- including Mac OS X itself.
A French humorist already made the game "Clinton Fucker." (Warning: link not safe for work.)
That only seems to work with QuickTime player. RealPlayer, VLC, Mplayer, and Windows Media Player for Mac OS X all show a snapshot when you minimize a movie, even when playing a QuickTime movie. It seems to me like QuickTime player takes a screen shot while it's minimizing (hold SHIFT and click minimize to see for yourself) and then runs a special version of the player in minimized form.
I think they were.
From the linked site: "Widgets are mini-applications written in JavaScript that are designed for fun as well as function."
Sub500 is the Canadian store, so they sell computers for under C$500. Sub300 is the American store, so they sell computers for under US$300.
Coming soon: their Turkish subsidiary Sub550000000.com.
It is. Their American counterpart is sub300.com, with systems starting at $222.
Amazon also claims August 1 as the release date.
I'm more curious about the 67 customer reviews. How do people take Amazon's customer reviews seriously when 67 people review a game they haven't played yet in final form?