Ooooh do I dectect a touch of animosity here Darl , did we foil your evil conspiricy plan? Three times you have posted thesecomments here and each time you showed the ability to string two or more words together. Too bad.
One more time it might actually be funny because of the ineptitude. Darl McAnonymous;)
Several key production workers at IBMs Semiconductor plant have decided to Sue IBM following an investigation Commissioned by SCO. In a dual handed attack on IBM not only have SCO attacked the Blue Chip organisation alleging IP infringment, the second wave of the attack now focusses on the fabrication plant.
The SCO investigation into IBMs chemo-fabrication technologies neglects to state that the chemicals supplied had been tampered with by none other than the Dark Lord Darl McBride, (now a household name amongst techies...);)
Now I can watch movies, I never got round to seeing at the pictures, or movies that interest me but may not have got marvelous ratings.
There are also free, strictly legal movies available to watch from places if you look around. We have a small LAN i've set up at my home (I still live with my parents (Im a sad lonely geek)) so we share the broadband connection. My dad gets his kick from movieflix.com not really my cup of tea, but its there none the less.
Its not just about content either... gone are the days of reconnecting 6 or 7 times before actually being able to browse the web.
Its also handy to be able to administer your box from work, or work from home (when not unemployed).
Besides in the UK, the cheapest Broadband is almost as cheap as the crappy dial up ISP's.
LOL, okay then dude, Ill see if i can find a copy to see what its like, knocking around somewhere.
FYI: Im from the UK and know nothing about the American Top 40 , but I doubt its any better than our Top40 , I rarely listen to the radio because there is so much crap on it !
I think its true, Very little has changed in the games industry over the past few years. Hardware, graphics and sound have improved, but the games dont follow suit, rarely innovate or captivate.
Compare the latest Tomb Raider Game (Angel Of Darkness) to the original Playstation game for example. Wow!! its got nifty particle effects going on and lara now has Breast Inertia. The game itself however is nothing new, it breaks no new boundaries (other than technical ones) and the gameplay is the same (except they screwed up the control system and missed out all the cool things lara could do like light flares and drive vehicles)
But all this aside I beleive this must change. There will come a time when our console hardware reaches such unprecidented levels of realism it can go no further. There is only one thing left to improve when this happens and that is to think harder about the actual game itself.
There are plenty of people out there with fantastic ideas for game's but maybe dont have the skills or manpower to make it happen. I myself am forever dreaming up cool ideas, as I am sure are many other/.ers. Its up to the games companies to root these people out, and do something new instead of churning out the same old FPS games and cutesy 3D plaformers time and time again.
>But the home computing industry, from the earliest days >had shrink wrapped software you paid for.
Sorry, I thought we were talking about the Software Industry... Yeah, the home computing industry, once computers became a consumer product, software followed suit and became that. The two go hand in hand.
My initial point though was back in the humble beginnings the software Industry was a service industry, (going back to the original post!) The home computing industry is something different.
Anyway how come your posts get a score and mine dont ?
>is that there would be no software industry in the first
>place, if not for the corporations that created it.
Again, this is not strictly true either, In the early days software was tied to the hardware, you paid megabucks for the whole deal, The bulk of the money that was made back then was made in much the same way as many commercial open source enterprises today, back then, software was a service industry, you couldt go down dixons and purchase software package X, you needed proffessional geeks in white lab coats to install and maintain your system. Video games were probably one of the first commercial ways that this mold was well and truly broken. Before that, Gates had his vision about every desk having a PC, and every home blah blah. Gates is a great businessman, but his company writes lousy software and because you buy it in a box off the shelf, you cant say to Billy Boy, This software doesnt work how "I" want it to, please make it do it like this; like you could back then.
Anyhow Im, straying from the point... the strictness of these Patents and DMCA bollocks is destroying choice, its not about stupid widget sets or someone's funky tear off menu. If someone somewhere doesnt get a grip on things pretty soon, things are going to get more and more Soylent Green.
You are right thought, Its Capitalism, with a capitol 'C' its the way the world goes. That's why we are here though aint it ? To change the world? Start a revolution or should I say be part of the revolution... Love Tux and what he represents?
Basically the world sucks.
Time to listen to some of my dark tunes.. (see link)
Im not sure that it is the case that producing a rival software package capable of reading/writing these new office documents would be a violation, providing it adhered to the API for this new protection. EG, in laymans terms , you load the aforemention encrypted file into OpenOffice, and OO applies the same security privileges to the document as it would if you opened it in MSOffice. That way , you're not actually bypassing it.
>Imagine spending millions developing the forumla for a
>drug, then having someone knock off a cheap copy?
Wrong analogy dude, surely the point here is not some huge pharmacaeutical company making money off their drugs (which have probably been funded by shareholders or charities), But saving peoples lives. Peoples lives are priceless.
While I agree that there are cases where certain things ought to be protected, Drugs, and in my opinion Software are not neccesarrily good examples of these.
>Shrug... flame away... I just expressed a very anti/. >type opinion.
You're damn right It was flame bait, and I took it hook line and sinker!
Not for a while anyway, Microsoft have had a hard time persuading people to buy Office 2003. Now try telling people that they will be locked into this new version, from the moment they purchase it onward.
This is the end of the line for Microsoft, they have done a complete U-Turn in terms of compatibility. Heaven knows if they had ditched legacy compatibility years ago they might actually have a better product by now.
I found a site about this ReactOS thing its a review Reactos Review...
While it is nice to see all the work and effort that is obviously going to be put into the system, one really has to wonder why on earth bother?
One look at the monstrous blue screenshots , and the DOS prompt with a BSOD theme going on are enough to make me hurl.
It makes me remember that the original reason I moved to Linux was not because it was free or open source. The reason I moved was because I couldnt stand the windows operating system. Using various flavors of *nix at university and fun at home with my old Amiga taught me that Windows was a backward step, even all those years ago. Linux just has a much nicer architecture than Windows.
On the other hand AROS seems to be coming along very nicely. AmigaOS was loosely based on Unix, but unlike Linux had proper PreEmptive multitasking!
It looks like a toilet seat (for barbie) and you can make phonecalls on it. Bring's new meaning to the phrase "Phoned your mates up while you are on the toilet"
Yes, I have such unfeasibly large testicles, i seem to wear through my boxers in extremely short periods of time. Maybe spider silk boxers would rid me of this problem forever...
Look.. If you are going to mod me down, you could at least have responded to the post. Sure its opinionated, but its a valid point. Now you have that thought in your head can you really trust googles search results in the same way again ?
Slashdot Mirror
Started brainwashing the children about jews when they were in school.
If you dont like it here, then go to some crappy windows biased site like neowin.com , go suck Darl's and Gate's Cock you fucking drone !
Ooooh do I dectect a touch of animosity here Darl , did we foil your evil conspiricy plan? .
;)
Three times you have posted these comments here and each time you showed the ability to string two or more words together. Too bad
One more time it might actually be funny because of the ineptitude. Darl McAnonymous
Twat
Several key production workers at IBMs Semiconductor plant have decided to Sue IBM following an investigation Commissioned by SCO. In a dual handed attack on IBM not only have SCO attacked the Blue Chip organisation alleging IP infringment, the second wave of the attack now focusses on the fabrication plant.
;)
The SCO investigation into IBMs chemo-fabrication technologies neglects to state that the chemicals supplied had been tampered with by none other than the Dark Lord Darl McBride, (now a household name amongst techies...)
Dude its too early in the morning for a stiffy !
You obviously dont enjoy the freedom of hosting your own
... gone are the days of reconnecting 6 or 7 times before actually being able to browse the web.
website/s.
And maybe havent discovered the joys of suprnova and Bit Torrent.
Now I can watch movies, I never got round to seeing at the pictures, or movies that interest me but may not have got marvelous ratings.
There are also free, strictly legal movies available to watch from places if you look around. We have a small LAN i've set up at my home (I still live with my parents (Im a sad lonely geek)) so we share the broadband connection. My dad gets his kick from movieflix.com not really my cup of tea, but its there none the less.
Its not just about content either
Its also handy to be able to administer your box from work, or work from home (when not unemployed).
Besides in the UK, the cheapest Broadband is almost as cheap as the crappy dial up ISP's.
LOL, okay then dude, Ill see if i can find a copy to see what its like, knocking around somewhere.
FYI: Im from the UK and know nothing about the American Top 40 , but I doubt its any better than our Top40 , I rarely listen to the radio because there is so much crap on it !
Woo Hoo,
...
... What a guy , just look at his sexy pose.
:)
I just wondered who this Alain Souchon is, Im always
on the look out for interesting new artists. To download
on my favorite p2p program.
Quick google reveals
http://souchon.old.voila.fr/
OMG he looks like a bizarre combination of Barry Manilow and David Hasselhoff
Ill bet he's so popular that all his CD's need copy protection
I think its true, Very little has changed in the games industry over the past few years. Hardware, graphics and sound have improved, but the games dont follow suit, rarely innovate or captivate.
/.ers. Its up to the games companies to root these people out, and do something new instead of churning out the same old FPS games and cutesy 3D plaformers time and time again.
... when's Elite 4 coming out !
Compare the latest Tomb Raider Game (Angel Of Darkness) to the original Playstation game for example. Wow!! its got nifty particle effects going on and lara now has Breast Inertia. The game itself however is nothing new, it breaks no new boundaries (other than technical ones) and the gameplay is the same (except they screwed up the control system and missed out all the cool things lara could do like light flares and drive vehicles)
But all this aside I beleive this must change. There will come a time when our console hardware reaches such unprecidented levels of realism it can go no further. There is only one thing left to improve when this happens and that is to think harder about the actual game itself.
There are plenty of people out there with fantastic ideas for game's but maybe dont have the skills or manpower to make it happen. I myself am forever dreaming up cool ideas, as I am sure are many other
Talking of which
>But the home computing industry, from the earliest days >had shrink wrapped software you paid for.
Sorry, I thought we were talking about the Software Industry...
Yeah, the home computing industry, once computers became a consumer product, software followed suit and became that. The two go hand in hand.
My initial point though was back in the humble beginnings the software Industry was a service industry, (going back to the original post!) The home computing industry is something different.
Anyway how come your posts get a score and mine dont ?
LOL
>is that there would be no software industry in the first
.. (see link)
>place, if not for the corporations that created it.
Again, this is not strictly true either, In the early days software was tied to the hardware, you paid megabucks for the whole deal, The bulk of the money that was made back then was made in much the same way as many commercial open source enterprises today, back then, software was a service industry, you couldt go down dixons and purchase software package X, you needed proffessional geeks in white lab coats to install and maintain your system. Video games were probably one of the first commercial ways that this mold was well and truly broken. Before that, Gates had his vision about every desk having a PC, and every home blah blah. Gates is a great businessman, but his company writes lousy software and because you buy it in a box off the shelf, you cant say to Billy Boy, This software doesnt work how "I" want it to, please make it do it like this; like you could back then.
Anyhow Im, straying from the point... the strictness of these Patents and DMCA bollocks is destroying choice, its not about stupid widget sets or someone's funky tear off menu. If someone somewhere doesnt get a grip on things pretty soon, things are going to get more and more Soylent Green.
You are right thought, Its Capitalism, with a capitol 'C' its the way the world goes. That's why we are here though aint it ? To change the world? Start a revolution or should I say be part of the revolution... Love Tux and what he represents?
Basically the world sucks.
Time to listen to some of my dark tunes
Im not sure that it is the case that producing a rival software package capable of reading/writing these new office documents would be a violation, providing it adhered to the API for this new protection. EG,
in laymans terms , you load the aforemention encrypted file into OpenOffice, and OO applies the same security privileges to the document as it would if you opened it in MSOffice. That way , you're not actually bypassing it.
>Imagine spending millions developing the forumla for a
/. >type opinion.
>drug, then having someone knock off a cheap copy?
Wrong analogy dude, surely the point here is not some huge pharmacaeutical company making money off their drugs (which have probably been funded by shareholders or charities), But saving peoples lives. Peoples lives are priceless.
While I agree that there are cases where certain things ought to be protected, Drugs, and in my opinion Software are not neccesarrily good examples of these.
>Shrug... flame away... I just expressed a very anti
You're damn right It was flame bait, and I took it hook line and sinker!
Not for a while anyway, Microsoft have had a hard time persuading people to buy Office 2003. Now try telling people that they will be locked into this new version, from the moment they purchase it onward.
This is the end of the line for Microsoft, they have done a complete U-Turn in terms of compatibility. Heaven knows if they had ditched legacy compatibility years ago they might actually have a better product by now.
You've have a girlfriend that plays Playstation,.. and you've had her for years ... amazing...
I found a site about this ReactOS thing its a review
Reactos Review...
While it is nice to see all the work and effort that is obviously going to be put into the system, one really has to wonder why on earth bother?
One look at the monstrous blue screenshots , and the DOS prompt with a BSOD theme going on are enough to make me hurl.
It makes me remember that the original reason I moved to Linux was not because it was free or open source. The reason I moved was because I couldnt stand the windows operating system. Using various flavors of *nix at university and fun at home with my old Amiga taught me that Windows was a backward step, even all those years ago. Linux just has a much nicer architecture than Windows.
On the other hand AROS seems to be coming along very nicely. AmigaOS was loosely based on Unix, but unlike Linux had proper PreEmptive multitasking!
Anyone else notice that there are only 2 different characters that set Billy Goat and Bill Gates apart.
...
Me thinks there is more to this name than meets the eye
They have gotta sort the design out
Motorolla a760
It looks like a toilet seat (for barbie) and you can make phonecalls on it. Bring's new meaning to the phrase "Phoned your mates up while you are on the toilet"
Same school of designers as the Atari Jaguar
and the infamous iMac which was designed by a bloke that used to design toilets
What is it with technology design and toilets? I mean, is it a sign of the disposable nature of things?
Mmmm Hmmm ,
...
Yes, I have such unfeasibly large testicles, i seem to wear through my boxers in extremely short periods of time. Maybe spider silk boxers would rid me of this problem forever
Ooooh Yeaaah Baby! ... ... in an arachnid kind of way.
There is something quite erotic about the concept of Spider Silk Panty Hose
Im terrified of spiders, Arachnophobes surely would find this some kid of sexual perversity...
You could always try MSN
,
MSN
but MSN sucks.
Look .. If you are going to mod me down, you could at least have responded to the post. Sure its opinionated, but its a valid point. Now you have that thought in your head can you really trust googles search results in the same way again ?
>USAian site which happens to have a pointer to it that ends in co.uk.
.. yet in the UK
doing same search on UK only site, does not seem to filter out the results, I guess this is because the law does not apply