Both of them stole Jobs thunder, I wonder if they will join the MacWorld blacklist now?
Then again, if Jobs doesn't throw a wobbler and Apple did let them post this early, then that can only mean that Jobs is still sitting on something else that is very significant.
Not to mention I wrote a chat client in Hypercard way before most anyone had ever heard of AOL. It let me and my friends talk in computer class over the Appletalk network without the teacher knowing. I don't remember what year I did this in but it had to be the early 90's
No there isn't but, really, this is a fools dream. People won't like this, people will complain about this, despite the fact its hardware based, people will find ways to break it or otherwise copy the protected data and release it in unprotected formats. This will cost a lot of money to Intel and other companies and eventually they will see that its a misrible failure and stop including it in their chips and use the space to add more transistors or features that consumers REALLY want.
Silver only because he went around an easy part of the world, basically he mostly just circled Antarctica. Heck, you could go to the south pole and walk in a circle and say you've been around the world;) But still its not a small feat and I congradulate him on it. It would have been a gold star for making it around a lot closer to the equator but then I can understand why he gave up on that, what with countries like China and such refusing to let him cross their airspace...
It could be that someone in Asia is trying to run it on a Chinese or Japanese system and this program can't handle the gibberish it gets when it tries to display one of these languages in english.
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Ah, but can they DOS 100 million people at once? It will sure be fun watching them try. Especially when out of country script kiddies start firing back at them.
Heck, maybe someone should write a program which makes mozilla or explorer refresh the RIAA homepage every 20 seconds. With about 50 million people running that, it would kill the RIAA in bandwidth costs alone.
We can go through the courts but there is no guarantee you will win. In fact, if anything, you may do the opposite, set a precident that EULA's are legally binding.
So instead, you will just have to stop using Microsoft software. People bitch and moan and gripe but at the end of the day they sit down and load up Windows.
Well, if you really want an effective protest, you are going to have to change. There are some options and they are not as bad as they seem once you adjust!
First off, there is Linux. Pros: Keep old hardware, plenty of free software available, WINE may let you play some Windows only games, large community of geeks who will likely help you for free if you get into trouble (a million places to go for "support"). EULA, if any, is not the work of the devil. Cons: Limited number of games, some only available through WINE, need to learn UNIX (big curve for some people), some hardware may not work right or at all, ease of use is not all there yet. No office but there are alternatives which are getting better by the month.
There is also the Macintosh: Pros: Extremely easy to use, rock solid OS which matches or exceeds the windows experience when it comes to user interface, cd burning from the desktop and overall user experience. Plug and play far superior to Windows and Linux. Good and rapidly growing supply of games and other software. OS is based on open source software (NetBSD) and Linux/UNIX software can and is being ported over (you can even replace your UI with Gnome or KDE if you wish!). Microsoft office is available as well as the open source alternatives ported to Mac OS X. Large fanatic user base who will often help out other Mac users in distress for free. Cons: Not as many games/software choices as Windows, though this has improved imensely in the last 4 years. EULA may be the work of the devil, check Steve Job's receding hairline to see if horns are exposed. Mac OS X still a young OS and there will be bumps in the road. Last but not least, you will need a new computer and the hardware is a bit more expensive though this is made up for quality and an average usable lifetime of 4 years compared to 2 for a PC.
So you may have to make some sacrifices and changes, but you can give M$ the finger and still have a usable computing solution in your home or office.
You've just removed my only reason for possibly wanting to buy an X-box in the future. Aside from running cool stuff on it via modchip, I would have bought plenty of games as well. But since you attack legitamate mod chip companies (who are not aiming for piracy at all but to expand the X-Box to do more for the money), you have lost my buisiness.
He was joking, and it was funny. Hitler was mocked in cartoons and other media back during WWII. Today we mock the current state of US affairs on the web. We should not cut off all outlets of humor just because this country is going through a bad spell, if we lose our ability to laugh, then things really will be hopeless.
I bought these games a long time ago for the Macintosh. You *cannot* run them under Mac OS X, even under Classic because Classic requries virtual memory to be on and the games do NOT play well with Classic's virtual memory.
So what this allows is for me to play these games on the same Macintosh I bought them for (A G3/266) without having to reboot my machine and kill my web server and other stuff I have running under Mac OS X.
What do you expect from a Microsoft co-owned site?
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Its just more stuff cranked out of the M$ FUD machine and is full of fallacies and innacuracies.
My favorite quote: With some 27 percent of the market, Linux is now the second most popular operating system for servers, supplanting the decades-old operating system UNIX; Microsoft holds the top spot.
Um, HELLO? Linux *IS* UNIX, or a form of it anyway.
So the RIAA complains at how much if costs to get Radio stations to play a song, yet they want to force internet broadcasters to pay THEM to promote their songs?
Before they may have been able to let internet radio provide them with free promotion of a single or even pay them a small tithe to ensure their song got played. Yet instead they attack their last hope against the radio stations and antagonize them. So now even if they stopped trying to push the fees, I doubt any of these stations would be willing to help them out anymore.
The RIAA, by effectively removing themselves from the competition on internet radio, ensure now that non RIAA artists will only be played on the internet now. See my sig for a really cool station which plays only non RIAA music. They are gladly thumbing their noses at the RIAA and the labels they are working with are more than happy to allow them to play for free because they know it promotes their CD sales without them having to go through the RIAA or Clear Channel. That is the future of music. The RIAA dug their own hole here and then made it so deep they can't hope to climb back out of it. I hope they have fun rotting in it.
They can shut down Gnutella and such. All they have to do is have the ISP's (more and more are gobbled up by conglomerates every day) like Time Warner (who is a member of the RIAA IIRC) and such add to their EULA's that you are not allowed to run P2P stuff. Then they add software to detect it and disconnect your service if you do it. You get it back if you sign a form saying you won't do it again. Do it a second time, and you are banned for life from them. With so few ISP's to choose from, unless you go dialup, you will be effectively banned from the net.
The only thing which can stop this are wireless networks springing up in cities, but I wonder how long before someone lobbies to outlaw those.
It's simple, the artists simply need to stop using the RIAA to run their tours. Unless the RIAA actually controls the concert halls, maybe they can strike a deal with the owners directly. If not, then they can try to work out other places to play their music. Someone somewhere likely owns an empty lot and would be willing to help them run a concert in exchange for money. They could even have fan volunteers help build the stage in exchange for getting to meet the band. There is nothing that the RIAA does now that band's and fans can't do themselves anymore. The sooner more bands realize this and quit whining about piracy, the better.
I don't mean to nitpick, but the general public doens't get access to this. Researchers will, but you can't just walk up and start playing Doom on this thing.
'm assuming that 600' means 600' from the ground. I don't know Sydney that well...but I'm making a broad assumption that there are plenty of buildings over 6' in height (roughly 6 stories).
Only 6' in height and 6 stories? Is this the building out of "Being John Malcovich" on crack?
Hopefully by then we will have the techonology to build a space ship which transforms into a giant vacuum cleaner to suck the air of some planet of treehuggers who hasn't managed to destroy their air.
Well, Hydrogen itself can be explosive, but no more so than gasoline. One thing to think about is that in a crash that involves a tank rupture, the hydrogen goes up and away while Gasoline pools on the ground. In the event of fire, gasoline lays in burning pools and coats things or people. If you can get away from the burning hydrogen tank, which hopefully will only have a gout of flame coming out the hole instead of the tank blowing to bits (not likely, no oxygen in tank to combust it all at once) then you are ok. With gas, you have a lot of burning fuel spreading everywhere. I would think hydrogen would be a lot safer in that respect.
Now if the source is methonol, you have to realize that methonol is very toxic and maybe more so than gasoline and suffers the same problems as gasoline in the event of tank rupture and/or fire.
I'm sure they would enjoy harvesting your email for spam purposes. This dotster is run by spammers and nothing more. Who else replaces a legitamite site with a page full of ads?
In short, this was a piece of FUD backed by Symantec to try to sell more copyies of Norton Antivirus for the Mac. I've been using Mac's since the 80's and I've not had a virus since 1993 when I got a floppy infected with Scores and NVIR from an infected High school computer lab.
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Both of them stole Jobs thunder, I wonder if they will join the MacWorld blacklist now?
Then again, if Jobs doesn't throw a wobbler and Apple did let them post this early, then that can only mean that Jobs is still sitting on something else that is very significant.
Not to mention I wrote a chat client in Hypercard way before most anyone had ever heard of AOL. It let me and my friends talk in computer class over the Appletalk network without the teacher knowing. I don't remember what year I did this in but it had to be the early 90's
No there isn't but, really, this is a fools dream. People won't like this, people will complain about this, despite the fact its hardware based, people will find ways to break it or otherwise copy the protected data and release it in unprotected formats. This will cost a lot of money to Intel and other companies and eventually they will see that its a misrible failure and stop including it in their chips and use the space to add more transistors or features that consumers REALLY want.
Silver only because he went around an easy part of the world, basically he mostly just circled Antarctica. Heck, you could go to the south pole and walk in a circle and say you've been around the world ;) But still its not a small feat and I congradulate him on it. It would have been a gold star for making it around a lot closer to the equator but then I can understand why he gave up on that, what with countries like China and such refusing to let him cross their airspace...
It could be that someone in Asia is trying to run it on a Chinese or Japanese system and this program can't handle the gibberish it gets when it tries to display one of these languages in english.
Ah, but can they DOS 100 million people at once? It will sure be fun watching them try. Especially when out of country script kiddies start firing back at them.
Heck, maybe someone should write a program which makes mozilla or explorer refresh the RIAA homepage every 20 seconds. With about 50 million people running that, it would kill the RIAA in bandwidth costs alone.
We can go through the courts but there is no guarantee you will win. In fact, if anything, you may do the opposite, set a precident that EULA's are legally binding.
So instead, you will just have to stop using Microsoft software. People bitch and moan and gripe but at the end of the day they sit down and load up Windows.
Well, if you really want an effective protest, you are going to have to change. There are some options and they are not as bad as they seem once you adjust!
First off, there is Linux.
Pros: Keep old hardware, plenty of free software available, WINE may let you play some Windows only games, large community of geeks who will likely help you for free if you get into trouble (a million places to go for "support"). EULA, if any, is not the work of the devil.
Cons: Limited number of games, some only available through WINE, need to learn UNIX (big curve for some people), some hardware may not work right or at all, ease of use is not all there yet. No office but there are alternatives which are getting better by the month.
There is also the Macintosh:
Pros: Extremely easy to use, rock solid OS which matches or exceeds the windows experience when it comes to user interface, cd burning from the desktop and overall user experience. Plug and play far superior to Windows and Linux. Good and rapidly growing supply of games and other software. OS is based on open source software (NetBSD) and Linux/UNIX software can and is being ported over (you can even replace your UI with Gnome or KDE if you wish!). Microsoft office is available as well as the open source alternatives ported to Mac OS X. Large fanatic user base who will often help out other Mac users in distress for free.
Cons: Not as many games/software choices as Windows, though this has improved imensely in the last 4 years. EULA may be the work of the devil, check Steve Job's receding hairline to see if horns are exposed. Mac OS X still a young OS and there will be bumps in the road. Last but not least, you will need a new computer and the hardware is a bit more expensive though this is made up for quality and an average usable lifetime of 4 years compared to 2 for a PC.
So you may have to make some sacrifices and changes, but you can give M$ the finger and still have a usable computing solution in your home or office.
You've just removed my only reason for possibly wanting to buy an X-box in the future. Aside from running cool stuff on it via modchip, I would have bought plenty of games as well. But since you attack legitamate mod chip companies (who are not aiming for piracy at all but to expand the X-Box to do more for the money), you have lost my buisiness.
He was joking, and it was funny. Hitler was mocked in cartoons and other media back during WWII. Today we mock the current state of US affairs on the web. We should not cut off all outlets of humor just because this country is going through a bad spell, if we lose our ability to laugh, then things really will be hopeless.
I bought these games a long time ago for the Macintosh. You *cannot* run them under Mac OS X, even under Classic because Classic requries virtual memory to be on and the games do NOT play well with Classic's virtual memory.
So what this allows is for me to play these games on the same Macintosh I bought them for (A G3/266) without having to reboot my machine and kill my web server and other stuff I have running under Mac OS X.
Its just more stuff cranked out of the M$ FUD machine and is full of fallacies and innacuracies.
My favorite quote:
With some 27 percent of the market, Linux is now the second most popular operating system for servers, supplanting the decades-old operating system UNIX; Microsoft holds the top spot.
Um, HELLO? Linux *IS* UNIX, or a form of it anyway.
So the RIAA complains at how much if costs to get Radio stations to play a song, yet they want to force internet broadcasters to pay THEM to promote their songs?
Before they may have been able to let internet radio provide them with free promotion of a single or even pay them a small tithe to ensure their song got played. Yet instead they attack their last hope against the radio stations and antagonize them. So now even if they stopped trying to push the fees, I doubt any of these stations would be willing to help them out anymore.
The RIAA, by effectively removing themselves from the competition on internet radio, ensure now that non RIAA artists will only be played on the internet now. See my sig for a really cool station which plays only non RIAA music. They are gladly thumbing their noses at the RIAA and the labels they are working with are more than happy to allow them to play for free because they know it promotes their CD sales without them having to go through the RIAA or Clear Channel. That is the future of music. The RIAA dug their own hole here and then made it so deep they can't hope to climb back out of it. I hope they have fun rotting in it.
They can shut down Gnutella and such. All they have to do is have the ISP's (more and more are gobbled up by conglomerates every day) like Time Warner (who is a member of the RIAA IIRC) and such add to their EULA's that you are not allowed to run P2P stuff. Then they add software to detect it and disconnect your service if you do it. You get it back if you sign a form saying you won't do it again. Do it a second time, and you are banned for life from them. With so few ISP's to choose from, unless you go dialup, you will be effectively banned from the net.
The only thing which can stop this are wireless networks springing up in cities, but I wonder how long before someone lobbies to outlaw those.
Maybe they should strike their own deal with the concert hall owners and sell their tickets from their web site?
It's simple, the artists simply need to stop using the RIAA to run their tours. Unless the RIAA actually controls the concert halls, maybe they can strike a deal with the owners directly. If not, then they can try to work out other places to play their music. Someone somewhere likely owns an empty lot and would be willing to help them run a concert in exchange for money. They could even have fan volunteers help build the stage in exchange for getting to meet the band. There is nothing that the RIAA does now that band's and fans can't do themselves anymore. The sooner more bands realize this and quit whining about piracy, the better.
I don't mean to nitpick, but the general public doens't get access to this. Researchers will, but you can't just walk up and start playing Doom on this thing.
It's a SIMULATOR. It won't and probably can't be perfect. But it does get us closer!
I suppose Maxis should be sued for the Sims and Sim City and Sim Earth as well because they aren't perfect? Please.
I lose enough change down the couch and car seats, now I have to dig for my CD's too.
'm assuming that 600' means 600' from the ground. I don't know Sydney that well...but I'm making a broad assumption that there are plenty of buildings over 6' in height (roughly 6 stories).
Only 6' in height and 6 stories? Is this the building out of "Being John Malcovich" on crack?
So you either pay up, or go without. How many here would actually give up the internet in protest? Round about none I'd wager.
Hopefully by then we will have the techonology to build a space ship which transforms into a giant vacuum cleaner to suck the air of some planet of treehuggers who hasn't managed to destroy their air.
Well, Hydrogen itself can be explosive, but no more so than gasoline. One thing to think about is that in a crash that involves a tank rupture, the hydrogen goes up and away while Gasoline pools on the ground. In the event of fire, gasoline lays in burning pools and coats things or people. If you can get away from the burning hydrogen tank, which hopefully will only have a gout of flame coming out the hole instead of the tank blowing to bits (not likely, no oxygen in tank to combust it all at once) then you are ok. With gas, you have a lot of burning fuel spreading everywhere. I would think hydrogen would be a lot safer in that respect.
Now if the source is methonol, you have to realize that methonol is very toxic and maybe more so than gasoline and suffers the same problems as gasoline in the event of tank rupture and/or fire.
I've heard U.S. Customs is seizing things like this siting the DMCA and that it MIGHT be used for piracy.
I'm sure they would enjoy harvesting your email for spam purposes. This dotster is run by spammers and nothing more. Who else replaces a legitamite site with a page full of ads?
This piece of FUD was already picked apart on Maccentral yesterday.
In short, this was a piece of FUD backed by Symantec to try to sell more copyies of Norton Antivirus for the Mac. I've been using Mac's since the 80's and I've not had a virus since 1993 when I got a floppy infected with Scores and NVIR from an infected High school computer lab.