The first thought that popped into my head was "that sucks". The second one was "why the hell would you sue?". Do you have any idea how much of a crackpot/greedy bastard you will look like if you sue a video game company for making false claims? In that case I am looking for a lawyer to take my pro bono case, I am suing EVERY COMPANY THAT HAS SOLD ANYTHING, EVER! They lied to you, plain and simple. Chalk it up to experience, and don't add to our litigation obsessed society, wherein even the slightest infractions is seen as a payday. Rapid erosion of our end-user rights? We have never really had any. You are not buying the software, you buy a license to use the software. It is not your's. This has not stopped people from buying and playing games happily. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly (in this case, purchasing video games) and expecting a different result (every claim delivered, being given more rights, etc).
The only company in recent memory to beat MS in direct competition? Your memory is betraying you. Off the top of my head:
Sony in the video game console realm.
Linksys, Netgear et al in the networking realm.
EA, et al in the PC game market.
A Canadian kid in the domain name realm. (j/k)
*Nix in the highest rate of growth on corporate servers market.
Apache in the web page serving market.
Not viable? We Macintosh users are fiercely loyal. Do us right and we tell all our friends to buy your wares. We buy all sorts of gadgets. Do us right, or kind of right, and we will repay you in spades. We will be like %1 of your tech support calls. A simple "hey were not gonna make this software, but isync will be updated soon, making our software obsolete anyway" would have sufficed for us. This throws my PDA purchasing decision in limbo. No way I would get a Pocket PC (I switched for a reason), the Zaurus doesn't quite play nice with Mac yet, and now Palm is pussyfooting around.
Software architecture issues, have you been living under a rock? They give you coding tools on the disc!! Hell, you could code it in Perl or Python for crying out loud!
First of all, how is this profiteering? They are trading in their G5s to upgrade their cluster, Virginia Tech is not selling the "old" ones, MACMALL IS! Virginia Tech is simply trading them in. So you would rather have Virginia Tech eat all the money that they spent to purchase the original lot of 1,100 instead of making them look much better to potential customers who want to purchase the use of their cluster, by leveraging the money they have already spent? It is in business to make a profit, like it or not, it is not their primary main objective (Chinpokomon!) but it can not be ignored, either. I respect your opinion that some of the G5s should have been kept around for use in labs, by students, etc. Then again, we don't know if VT traded ALL of their G5s, they just might have kept some for the uses that you and I laid out. I suppose this just shows, on a grand scale, the high resale value of Apples!
The only site I have needed to use IE for on either my Windows 95 box at work (ugh), or my seldom powered on XP box at home (ugh) is for windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and that is it's homepage. I am using Phoen...FireBi...Firefox on the 95 box, works like a charm, no complaints here. Now on my OS X box I only use Safari, but even then there is one site that does not work correctly, which causes me to use FireFox. This oh-so-important site?
San Diego Zoo's Pandacam!
IIRC, some of Aspyr's games are merely "wine-ized" versions of their Windows games. This is probably a licensed version of Wine. It has the potential to make the porting process easier, since there is no real porting of the code, if it is stable I can't blame them, but customizing it to the OS instead of emulating it would have been a nice touch. NOLF 2 and Simcity 3000 being the first that pop into my mind. Also, they get kinda funky if you try to save on a different partition than the game is located.
No he doesn't. This means one of two things. 1) He pulled the page because it was getting/.ed. 2) His site got hit really bad, and Apache crapped out. Either scenario is entirely possible.
I suppose SCO has just shown their hand. They are not going to make code anymore, they are going to just claim that everyone stole it from them, and sue people for it. What the fuck kind of business model is that?
Oh yeah, I am sitting in my private air-conditioned server room pulling out thousands of feet of tape that got eaten by my DLT drive, typing this on a Celeron 400 with 128 MB RAM, WINDOWS 95 (not even OSR2) on my 6 year old monitor. And yakking on my cordless VOIP phone.
I have a cell phone, unfortunately. It is understood that it is nothing personal if I do not answer, I will get back to you. I leave it on vibrate in any potentially sensitive situation (movie, dinner, etc). I also use it in case *extreme* emergency situations at work, only when I can not be reached by land line phone, or e-mail, this is understood by the brass. It is my personal phone so I am not on a ball and chain. If it rings while I am in traffic, I do not answer. I call back when I come to a permanent stop. Yeah it is the worst invention, if used irresponsibly, as are guns and knives.
The only problem with hashing is that it is not unique. You and I could rip the same song, on the same platform, with the same settings, and get the same hash.
Is anyone honestly surprised by this? We already get treated like cattle/children/morons when we go through security at the airport, now we are going to get color codes and numbers, and put on "do not fly" lists. I, for one, have not flown domestically, though I have internationally, since these new "security enhancements" were put in place. Let me get this straight, 20 people who are not American citizens blow shit up, and I have to take off my smelly shoes for you to look through? Sure, look through my underwear, tear away the last fucking shred of dignity the American public has left.
Get one of these, it is only $99. The article cites overkill. It reads like one of those fluff CNN articles "Own this new robot dog, only $1,000,000!".
Here is the deal. It was a picture of a male stretching his sphincter. You wrote (or pasted) an eight paragraph essay defending a man stretching his asshole. The CIIA did the world a favor, IMHO.
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The first thought that popped into my head was "that sucks". The second one was "why the hell would you sue?". Do you have any idea how much of a crackpot/greedy bastard you will look like if you sue a video game company for making false claims? In that case I am looking for a lawyer to take my pro bono case, I am suing EVERY COMPANY THAT HAS SOLD ANYTHING, EVER! They lied to you, plain and simple. Chalk it up to experience, and don't add to our litigation obsessed society, wherein even the slightest infractions is seen as a payday. Rapid erosion of our end-user rights? We have never really had any. You are not buying the software, you buy a license to use the software. It is not your's. This has not stopped people from buying and playing games happily. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly (in this case, purchasing video games) and expecting a different result (every claim delivered, being given more rights, etc).
Your straw man is on fire.
Right, maybe MacMall got the rights to resell some of them, Apple probably would not touch it themselves.
The only company in recent memory to beat MS in direct competition? Your memory is betraying you.
Off the top of my head:
Sony in the video game console realm.
Linksys, Netgear et al in the networking realm.
EA, et al in the PC game market.
A Canadian kid in the domain name realm. (j/k)
*Nix in the highest rate of growth on corporate servers market.
Apache in the web page serving market.
Not viable? We Macintosh users are fiercely loyal. Do us right and we tell all our friends to buy your wares. We buy all sorts of gadgets. Do us right, or kind of right, and we will repay you in spades. We will be like %1 of your tech support calls. A simple "hey were not gonna make this software, but isync will be updated soon, making our software obsolete anyway" would have sufficed for us. This throws my PDA purchasing decision in limbo. No way I would get a Pocket PC (I switched for a reason), the Zaurus doesn't quite play nice with Mac yet, and now Palm is pussyfooting around. Software architecture issues, have you been living under a rock? They give you coding tools on the disc!! Hell, you could code it in Perl or Python for crying out loud!
First of all, how is this profiteering? They are trading in their G5s to upgrade their cluster, Virginia Tech is not selling the "old" ones, MACMALL IS! Virginia Tech is simply trading them in. So you would rather have Virginia Tech eat all the money that they spent to purchase the original lot of 1,100 instead of making them look much better to potential customers who want to purchase the use of their cluster, by leveraging the money they have already spent? It is in business to make a profit, like it or not, it is not their primary main objective (Chinpokomon!) but it can not be ignored, either. I respect your opinion that some of the G5s should have been kept around for use in labs, by students, etc. Then again, we don't know if VT traded ALL of their G5s, they just might have kept some for the uses that you and I laid out. I suppose this just shows, on a grand scale, the high resale value of Apples!
The only site I have needed to use IE for on either my Windows 95 box at work (ugh), or my seldom powered on XP box at home (ugh) is for windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and that is it's homepage. I am using Phoen...FireBi...Firefox on the 95 box, works like a charm, no complaints here. Now on my OS X box I only use Safari, but even then there is one site that does not work correctly, which causes me to use FireFox. This oh-so-important site? San Diego Zoo's Pandacam!
Or perhaps ThunderBall, wait, damn, that one is taken too!
su -c "apt-get install crash helmet"
Well it is half life 2, as in squared, so would that mean quarter-life? By next week should we expect another delay?
IIRC, some of Aspyr's games are merely "wine-ized" versions of their Windows games. This is probably a licensed version of Wine. It has the potential to make the porting process easier, since there is no real porting of the code, if it is stable I can't blame them, but customizing it to the OS instead of emulating it would have been a nice touch. NOLF 2 and Simcity 3000 being the first that pop into my mind. Also, they get kinda funky if you try to save on a different partition than the game is located.
That is 110% there buddy.
No he doesn't. This means one of two things. /.ed.
1) He pulled the page because it was getting
2) His site got hit really bad, and Apache crapped out.
Either scenario is entirely possible.
I suppose SCO has just shown their hand. They are not going to make code anymore, they are going to just claim that everyone stole it from them, and sue people for it. What the fuck kind of business model is that?
If it gets worse you can just command-q!
Oh yeah, I am sitting in my private air-conditioned server room pulling out thousands of feet of tape that got eaten by my DLT drive, typing this on a Celeron 400 with 128 MB RAM, WINDOWS 95 (not even OSR2) on my 6 year old monitor. And yakking on my cordless VOIP phone.
That is what I get for not previewing. Let this be a lesson children, if you are going to post to /., preview first!
Maybe Nintendo can open up a .DS_STORE. Thing is, once they open it, they will never be able to get rid of it.
I have a cell phone, unfortunately. It is understood that it is nothing personal if I do not answer, I will get back to you. I leave it on vibrate in any potentially sensitive situation (movie, dinner, etc). I also use it in case *extreme* emergency situations at work, only when I can not be reached by land line phone, or e-mail, this is understood by the brass. It is my personal phone so I am not on a ball and chain. If it rings while I am in traffic, I do not answer. I call back when I come to a permanent stop. Yeah it is the worst invention, if used irresponsibly, as are guns and knives.
The only problem with hashing is that it is not unique. You and I could rip the same song, on the same platform, with the same settings, and get the same hash.
Is anyone honestly surprised by this? We already get treated like cattle/children/morons when we go through security at the airport, now we are going to get color codes and numbers, and put on "do not fly" lists. I, for one, have not flown domestically, though I have internationally, since these new "security enhancements" were put in place. Let me get this straight, 20 people who are not American citizens blow shit up, and I have to take off my smelly shoes for you to look through? Sure, look through my underwear, tear away the last fucking shred of dignity the American public has left.
Get one of these, it is only $99. The article cites overkill. It reads like one of those fluff CNN articles "Own this new robot dog, only $1,000,000!".
Here is the deal. It was a picture of a male stretching his sphincter. You wrote (or pasted) an eight paragraph essay defending a man stretching his asshole. The CIIA did the world a favor, IMHO.
This sounds like the bullshit rhetoric that was coming out of the tech industry in the late 90's.
I had to span a .zip across 3 floppys to store it.
I suppose it isn't "lost" anymore now is it? How about "Doctor Who episode, presumed lost, has been found".