I was looking forward to playing another Sam & Max game. I have been gearing up for it by playing the original using scummvm. I loved those point and click games of that era, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Sam & Max, Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, among others. Not everyone wants to play the latest shoot 'em up (just how many WWII FPS can there be?) While I am a fan of the FPS, it is variety that is the spice of life, as well as gaming. How many of us were sick of the FPS until No One Lives Forever came out?
I think my hatred of SCO can be summed up in a nutshell. If people did steal some of their code (which is highly unlikely) TELL US WHICH CODE! It is hard to prove a negative ("did you steal an item similar to the one in this sealed box?") And also, why would you try to alienate, intimidate, and otherwise annoy the people who once paid for your services, back when you did make software, and were not a company whose profit depends on "licensing fees" from decades old technology, which explains the loss of $2,500,000. All a company has to do to indemnify themselves is recompile their kernel.
My take on this is twofold. One, they charged so much because demand was high. Two, prices were high because of short supply. One could also argue both points as being true. Price fixing is an awfully big charge to throw around lightly, let us hope that there is evidence to back up the claims made in this article by the EU and the DOJ.
16 POUNDS? I certainly hope that is a typo. What could possibly be that heavy? The battery, and an optional extra battery? I prefer smaller laptops as opposed to desktop replacements, that is just me. I have a 12" Powerbook, and if I were to ever buy another PC laptop (ie, when hell freezes over), it will be one of those flip open ones seen on/. last week, or a tablet.
Dude, I have a 12" Powerbook G4, I love it. And printing (amongst other things) keeps me from going the Linux route. I like the fact that OS X is built on BSD, but has a GUI that wraps up everything really, really well. I don't want to recompile to use a USB thumbdrive, or a scanner for that matter! The reason printing is so hard on *Nix is two-fold. 1) Drivers. 2) There is no real incentive to make it easy. Apple has that incentive, MONEY. I actually spend less time on my computer since I switched from XP, (with Y'z dock of course!) to OS X last October (the day they announced the Panther Up-To-Date program). This sounds like a problem that like two minor tweaks could eradicate. Turn on auto discovery when you install a printer and share it. Make CUPS see broadcast printer queues. Constructive criticism will help the OSS movement. Two heads are, in fact, better than one.
I don't think we should feel the need to apologise for CUPS? Undertaking a huge project such as print serving without reading any documentation ahead of time is foolhardy. Would you replace your engine without consulting the mechanic's manual for your car? I would think the answer is no. The manual will tell you "dude, this screw is a bitch to put back in". Printing is not going to work if you try to do it "the Windows way". *NIX is not Windows! CUPS has always been a pain in the ass, most of the blame lies with printer manufacturers, for not providing drivers (for the most part). Of course it is going to show up as lp0, because, depending on your OS, a network printer will be treated as a local printer, because you are not really connecting to the printer, you are connecting to the queue. Anyone who has used Novell can attest to this! All of my printers are networked, but they are MAPPED to the LPT ports, so this does not seem to be too far off. You solved the problem. Now, write a HOWTO and post it on every Linux website out there, give back to the community. If the developers see you are helping them and giving them constructive suggestions (not criticism, most don't like blind criticism, the project is their baby, so be gentle). Most of the time, their primary main objective is making their program work well before making it extremely user-friendly. If you want to make it look user-friendly, start a project for a frontend/GUI that incorporates the things you want in there. It is not that difficult, and there are most likely lots of people who want the same things. For the most part, *nix is meant to be secure first, easy to use second. If all else fail, fire off an e-mail to the CUPS project, asking for these things to be turned on by default, or at least easily settable options, like in the scenario you described. We are making progress in the open source community. You have to realize that the open-source community has been writing good software in earnest for less than 10 years. Whereas the competition has had a huge headstart writing bad software.
Who gives a shit? This is what is commonly referred to as "marketing" and "keeping track of your products and your sales and stock levels". This article is tripe. It is not like they are tracking you personally, they are tracking their product. It would be irresponsible of them not to.
I once turned a dead Super Nintendo in to a tissue holder. I have also ripped out the guts of a telephone and put them inside a model car, lift the hood, pick up a call. I put an Afterburner in my GBA before the SP came out. I put a mod-chip in my own Playstation (for playing those imports! Hooray for Rockman 3!), and swapped the boring gray case for a clear one. I soldered a capacitor back on to my GeForce 3 (a week after the manufacturer, Visiontek, went out of business). I know that was PC related, but I felt it warranted a mention. I think it is just in the geek's very nature to hack everything around him (or her). I mean, what problem can not be solved with either duct tape or zip ties?
But wait! Theres more! Firewire 400/800. SATA. LCD monitors. superdrives/combodrives. One button mice (jk). USB 2.0. Journaling file system (props to Linux). Voice recognition. iPod.
Having traveled to Ireland frequently (Republic and the North, mostly Derry and Buncrana), the only way you do notice the (practically non-existent) border is when you roam on a mobile. I am sure the reasons for the high roaming charges is twofold. One, they charge such high prices because they can, and people have no choice but to pay them due to there being no competition. Two, it is probably another great opportunity for the UK and the EU to trade jabs with each other, as well as the UK and the ROI.
Rob Enderle is a pretentious fucker. Nobody cares about your Ferrari laptop, and nobody cares that you think Bluetooth is dead. I have expressed my displeasure for the "_____ is dead" rantings of various sensationalists before. Bluetooth is just now taking off, it is a terribly cool medium for wireless headsets, cellular phones, PDAs, etc. I have an 12" Powerbook G4, which, along with every new Apple computer sold, has Bluetooth functionality built in. I apologize if PC vendors fall asleep at the wheel, but that does not mean he should bash a whole standard. That would be like me saying "SATA is dead".
You don't have to have identification papers, and the police officers don't have to let you go about your merry business in a timely fashion if you do not. Extortion it may be, but it is a hassle that can be avoided. There is no law that says you have to carry your ss (heh) card with you at all times. Also, probable cause can be gleaned from identity, say they suspect you of raping someone, and the run your name, and you have been convicted (not just arrested or accused) of rape, seems like probable cause now huh? Think of the other extreme, "he would have been caught if the officers had just run his name through the database".
The subject did not even give the officer a chance to Mirandize him. If the subject in question were under arrest, he would be Mirandized on the spot, but the officer was on a fact-finding mission. Yes you do have your Miranda rights, and I would encourage you to use them, as I would in such a situation. I see no reason to do the officer's job for them. How is "heard you guys have been fighting" corruption? I love my rights and treasure them dearly, but you have to choose your battles carefully, or risk losing credibilty by presenting irrelevant cases. I am not treading on your rights, if an officer has reasonable suspicion to believe that you did something, you should have to identify yourself. I agree this could be abused by some of our more unscrupulous men in blue, but what is the alternative. Also, I do not make the laws, nor do I agree with all of them, and I also prefaced the statement you cited with "IIRC". Which was left out, either on purpose or by accident.
Ok. Convenient that in the synopsis, K5 and/. left out the "we heard you guys were fighting". If a law enforcement officer suspects criminal activity, you should shift into "yes sir, no sir" mode, if you turn into Mr. Asshole, then they will put you on the ground and hogtie you. Would you people have us live in Anarchy? If this were a simple case of "let me see your papers" it would be different. RTFA, make your own conclusions, don't get fed this tripe. IIRC, when you are detained by a peace officer, you are under "custodial arrest", meaning you can't leave, but you are not under arrest either. Bottom line, cop thinks these two were beating each other up, told them so, then asked for ID, cowboy turns into cowboy from hell , cop puts him on ground and hogties him. Why the legal system would put up with this garbage is beyond my comprehension, when there is real corruption, like the Texas officers who made up evidence to put poor Black and Latino innocents in jail, then collected a percentage of the money based on the street value of the "drugs". That completely floored me when that came out. ReadHere
1) Since when is searching for something illegal? This is about as shaky as when undercover cops get people for "Attempted Possesion of a Controlled Substance".
2)A lot of people, myself included, have zero interest in the source code. This stems from both the development standpoint ("tainting" code) and from the general yawn factor. Wow, now you can really tell how patchy and hacked together some of the code is. IIRC, the code does not compile in to anything usable. The source is out there, many people, myself included, will have to mop up after the consequences of this leak. Security through obscurity does not work if you remove the obscurity part.
Because he is using their music as a stepping stone. How many bands do you know that hop right in to writing their own material? Not very many. They start out taking lessons playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and covering other band's songs. Remixing your own stuff gets boring after a while, you get kind of sick of it, you need a fresh ear to take a listen to it. If I were an artist, I would be flattered if someone thought enough of my music to warrant a remix.
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I was looking forward to playing another Sam & Max game. I have been gearing up for it by playing the original using scummvm. I loved those point and click games of that era, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Sam & Max, Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, among others. Not everyone wants to play the latest shoot 'em up (just how many WWII FPS can there be?) While I am a fan of the FPS, it is variety that is the spice of life, as well as gaming. How many of us were sick of the FPS until No One Lives Forever came out?
Throw it in an extra machine if you have an "oh shit" moment, like a dead box.
I think my hatred of SCO can be summed up in a nutshell. If people did steal some of their code (which is highly unlikely) TELL US WHICH CODE! It is hard to prove a negative ("did you steal an item similar to the one in this sealed box?") And also, why would you try to alienate, intimidate, and otherwise annoy the people who once paid for your services, back when you did make software, and were not a company whose profit depends on "licensing fees" from decades old technology, which explains the loss of $2,500,000. All a company has to do to indemnify themselves is recompile their kernel.
My take on this is twofold. One, they charged so much because demand was high. Two, prices were high because of short supply. One could also argue both points as being true. Price fixing is an awfully big charge to throw around lightly, let us hope that there is evidence to back up the claims made in this article by the EU and the DOJ.
16 POUNDS? I certainly hope that is a typo. What could possibly be that heavy? The battery, and an optional extra battery? I prefer smaller laptops as opposed to desktop replacements, that is just me. I have a 12" Powerbook, and if I were to ever buy another PC laptop (ie, when hell freezes over), it will be one of those flip open ones seen on /. last week, or a tablet.
"play-grr-ists" maybe? Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Nair, air, hair, snare, care, or bear.
Dude, I have a 12" Powerbook G4, I love it. And printing (amongst other things) keeps me from going the Linux route. I like the fact that OS X is built on BSD, but has a GUI that wraps up everything really, really well. I don't want to recompile to use a USB thumbdrive, or a scanner for that matter! The reason printing is so hard on *Nix is two-fold.
1) Drivers. 2) There is no real incentive to make it easy. Apple has that incentive, MONEY. I actually spend less time on my computer since I switched from XP, (with Y'z dock of course!) to OS X last October (the day they announced the Panther Up-To-Date program). This sounds like a problem that like two minor tweaks could eradicate. Turn on auto discovery when you install a printer and share it. Make CUPS see broadcast printer queues. Constructive criticism will help the OSS movement. Two heads are, in fact, better than one.
I don't think we should feel the need to apologise for CUPS? Undertaking a huge project such as print serving without reading any documentation ahead of time is foolhardy. Would you replace your engine without consulting the mechanic's manual for your car? I would think the answer is no. The manual will tell you "dude, this screw is a bitch to put back in". Printing is not going to work if you try to do it "the Windows way". *NIX is not Windows! CUPS has always been a pain in the ass, most of the blame lies with printer manufacturers, for not providing drivers (for the most part). Of course it is going to show up as lp0, because, depending on your OS, a network printer will be treated as a local printer, because you are not really connecting to the printer, you are connecting to the queue. Anyone who has used Novell can attest to this! All of my printers are networked, but they are MAPPED to the LPT ports, so this does not seem to be too far off. You solved the problem. Now, write a HOWTO and post it on every Linux website out there, give back to the community. If the developers see you are helping them and giving them constructive suggestions (not criticism, most don't like blind criticism, the project is their baby, so be gentle). Most of the time, their primary main objective is making their program work well before making it extremely user-friendly. If you want to make it look user-friendly, start a project for a frontend/GUI that incorporates the things you want in there. It is not that difficult, and there are most likely lots of people who want the same things. For the most part, *nix is meant to be secure first, easy to use second. If all else fail, fire off an e-mail to the CUPS project, asking for these things to be turned on by default, or at least easily settable options, like in the scenario you described. We are making progress in the open source community. You have to realize that the open-source community has been writing good software in earnest for less than 10 years. Whereas the competition has had a huge headstart writing bad software.
Yeah, vivisection, that is the word I was looking for. If I am not mistaken "vivi" = "life, or living"
That is what I always thought. Dissecting someone whilst alive would be murder, or perhaps torture, no?
Who gives a shit? This is what is commonly referred to as "marketing" and "keeping track of your products and your sales and stock levels". This article is tripe. It is not like they are tracking you personally, they are tracking their product. It would be irresponsible of them not to.
I once turned a dead Super Nintendo in to a tissue holder. I have also ripped out the guts of a telephone and put them inside a model car, lift the hood, pick up a call. I put an Afterburner in my GBA before the SP came out. I put a mod-chip in my own Playstation (for playing those imports! Hooray for Rockman 3!), and swapped the boring gray case for a clear one. I soldered a capacitor back on to my GeForce 3 (a week after the manufacturer, Visiontek, went out of business). I know that was PC related, but I felt it warranted a mention. I think it is just in the geek's very nature to hack everything around him (or her). I mean, what problem can not be solved with either duct tape or zip ties?
Works fine on my Powerbook 12" 1ghz 768MB RAM.
What if it burned the toast, would you give them a shot then?
But wait! Theres more! Firewire 400/800. SATA. LCD monitors. superdrives/combodrives. One button mice (jk). USB 2.0. Journaling file system (props to Linux). Voice recognition. iPod.
But there is nowhere in his rotary phone, 8 track player, or betamax player to insert those.
Having traveled to Ireland frequently (Republic and the North, mostly Derry and Buncrana), the only way you do notice the (practically non-existent) border is when you roam on a mobile. I am sure the reasons for the high roaming charges is twofold. One, they charge such high prices because they can, and people have no choice but to pay them due to there being no competition. Two, it is probably another great opportunity for the UK and the EU to trade jabs with each other, as well as the UK and the ROI.
Rob Enderle is a pretentious fucker. Nobody cares about your Ferrari laptop, and nobody cares that you think Bluetooth is dead. I have expressed my displeasure for the "_____ is dead" rantings of various sensationalists before. Bluetooth is just now taking off, it is a terribly cool medium for wireless headsets, cellular phones, PDAs, etc. I have an 12" Powerbook G4, which, along with every new Apple computer sold, has Bluetooth functionality built in. I apologize if PC vendors fall asleep at the wheel, but that does not mean he should bash a whole standard. That would be like me saying "SATA is dead".
You don't have to have identification papers, and the police officers don't have to let you go about your merry business in a timely fashion if you do not. Extortion it may be, but it is a hassle that can be avoided. There is no law that says you have to carry your ss (heh) card with you at all times. Also, probable cause can be gleaned from identity, say they suspect you of raping someone, and the run your name, and you have been convicted (not just arrested or accused) of rape, seems like probable cause now huh? Think of the other extreme, "he would have been caught if the officers had just run his name through the database".
The subject did not even give the officer a chance to Mirandize him. If the subject in question were under arrest, he would be Mirandized on the spot, but the officer was on a fact-finding mission. Yes you do have your Miranda rights, and I would encourage you to use them, as I would in such a situation. I see no reason to do the officer's job for them. How is "heard you guys have been fighting" corruption? I love my rights and treasure them dearly, but you have to choose your battles carefully, or risk losing credibilty by presenting irrelevant cases. I am not treading on your rights, if an officer has reasonable suspicion to believe that you did something, you should have to identify yourself. I agree this could be abused by some of our more unscrupulous men in blue, but what is the alternative. Also, I do not make the laws, nor do I agree with all of them, and I also prefaced the statement you cited with "IIRC". Which was left out, either on purpose or by accident.
Ok. Convenient that in the synopsis, K5 and /. left out the "we heard you guys were fighting". If a law enforcement officer suspects criminal activity, you should shift into "yes sir, no sir" mode, if you turn into Mr. Asshole, then they will put you on the ground and hogtie you. Would you people have us live in Anarchy? If this were a simple case of "let me see your papers" it would be different. RTFA, make your own conclusions, don't get fed this tripe. IIRC, when you are detained by a peace officer, you are under "custodial arrest", meaning you can't leave, but you are not under arrest either. Bottom line, cop thinks these two were beating each other up, told them so, then asked for ID, cowboy turns into cowboy from hell , cop puts him on ground and hogties him. Why the legal system would put up with this garbage is beyond my comprehension, when there is real corruption, like the Texas officers who made up evidence to put poor Black and Latino innocents in jail, then collected a percentage of the money based on the street value of the "drugs". That completely floored me when that came out. Read Here
1) Since when is searching for something illegal? This is about as shaky as when undercover cops get people for "Attempted Possesion of a Controlled Substance".
2)A lot of people, myself included, have zero interest in the source code. This stems from both the development standpoint ("tainting" code) and from the general yawn factor. Wow, now you can really tell how patchy and hacked together some of the code is. IIRC, the code does not compile in to anything usable. The source is out there, many people, myself included, will have to mop up after the consequences of this leak. Security through obscurity does not work if you remove the obscurity part.
There is no such thing as gravity, THE EARTH SUCKS!
Idea for a package name:
FISH
France is surrender happy.
Because he is using their music as a stepping stone. How many bands do you know that hop right in to writing their own material? Not very many. They start out taking lessons playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and covering other band's songs. Remixing your own stuff gets boring after a while, you get kind of sick of it, you need a fresh ear to take a listen to it. If I were an artist, I would be flattered if someone thought enough of my music to warrant a remix.