I'm glad that Valve is 'cracking skulls.' Mess with the bull and you get the horns buddy.
In all seriousness, Valve is an intelligent company and has most assuredly been very careful about this. Of course there are going to be mistakes, but out of 20,000 warez a**holes there's probably only a very VERY (to quote Valve) few people who actually purchased the game and then for some reason went out and grabbed a key generator when they didn't need one.
That's very likely 20,000 less cheating bastards at Counter-Strike Source (leaving on a few million to deal with.)
The treaty was not a U.N. Resolution nor treaty, it was a treaty between the US and the Soviet Union (now defunct of course) and the UN simply passed a resolution supporting the signing of this treaty (yes, weird.) The treaty, unless I've misread it, no longer applies.
...is fantastic. Worth the money. VERY VERY comfortable, very cool/geeky (oxymoronic?) lots of room, all the right compartments, side carry handle, et cetera... Excellent piece of luggage. I think they go for around $90 but I assure you, worth the extra dough.
Now that's the kind of crazy I can get onboard with!;)
I know what you mean, if I had 40 billion dollars lying around earning interest and my ass was hanging out in the breeze over Linux, I WOULD have my software running on Linux. (Actually, I'd have openly embraced it a long time ago, but that's probably why I'm inexplicably poor in comparison to Bill...);)
Given Microsoft's already tenuous relationship with the Department of Justice's anti-trust division, sure you don't think they would attempt to lock out Linux and OSX do you? They would get the hell sued out of them.
Second, what's to stop Apple or another hardware company from coming up with a different solution to the problem that works with Windows and therefore does not suffer from diminished market application?
Third, and here's where I get crazy, I believe that at some point in the next five years, Microsoft is going to produce Linux software (for crazy reasons that I'll keep to myself until they begin to sound less crazy.)
...that Microsoft was not slammed, but was warned that the ads were potentially misleading. The reason that the ads were not just deemed misleading is because the ad was made for the purpose of attacking a particular hardware niche in which the most common solution was a Z900 mainframe running Linux.
The ads are no more misleading than every single Apple Computer add since the late 80's. Hey, did you know that Apple had the world's first 64-bit desktop? LOL...
...to find prior art. LOL. How ridiculous that the patent office did not dismiss this out of hand. I'm laughing about how Microsoft's patent attorneys are obviously ****ing them over because even the most modest effort in researching this would have resulted in acknowledgement that this is indeed presupposed by SUDO. Hehe... Money well spent Microsoft!
I understand what you are saying, but we'd only get back the barest of astonomic data. Probes are crap compared to people. As with all things in reality, balance and compromise are the best answers. Some problems, some manned, et cetera. Until remotes can do it all.
For example, it would be so much easier to search for life on Mars with a human there instead of the rovers.
.where the mars explorers are now, how much more could be accomplished in an exponentially shorter period of time by a person? Seriously. They don't often get stuck by a rock in front of their foot. They don't take 11 hours to descend a crater (with fingers crossed), they tend to solve their own problems, et cetera.
Until remotes become much more effective a human will remain the best options for on-site research.
...if they sold their cars for $500 and charged $1000 to remove rev limiters, and their money was all made in after market parts and accessories.
This is the problem, you see. Sony/MS/Nintendo don't make money off the consoles (minimal at best and a big loss at worst), they make their money OFF THE GAMES.
Mod-chipping to use your machine as a PC doesn't irritate Sony because they don't worry about cutting into their other businesses much at all (people who use Vaio's are not going to settle for using a PS2 as a PC.) The same goes for Nintendo, they wouldn't care if you used their box as a PC, but Microsoft would because THAT WOULD CUT INTO THEIR CORE BUSINESS and make Intel much less likely to want to sell chips to use in the XBox...
...at MFC, the source shipped with Visual Studio for years.
Ugly, ugly, ridiculously poor code documentation (if any), odd workarounds left-over from the days of WIN32s, 16-bit thunking days, et cetera...
Be GLAD that you don't have access to the Windows source, god forbid anyone should code that way (of course, there's plenty of Open Source Software that is just as ugly or worse;).) Sometimes end user features bury the desire for elegant (or even functional sometimes) architecture...
...to ascribe ailments that are routinely associated with aging to nuclear tests from AT LEAST 47 years ago with personnel who must be AT LEAST 64 (a 17 year old who caught the end of the Castle tests), is a little bit "I hate the government."
While I have no doubt that these men/women/animals suffered some unexpected exposure damage surely sufficient enough to cause terminal problems, it doesn't seem so heartbreaking when the letters are a few years old and sound like regular older persons' problems.
Hmmm, weird, I was using ATI's linux driver in October of 2003. That's a little bit more than "a few months ago" isn't it? BTW, they'd been out longer than that;).
Keyboard hook to trap 'switching' and ctrl-escape (amongst other key combinations), mouse hook to prevent double clicks on icons or the desktop, calling disable on the toolbar window and the start button which is on the toolbar window. Setting a couple of registry keys which will disable ctrl-alt-delete because irregardless of what you read somewhere else you CANNOT trap ctrl-alt-delete. You can detect it, but you can't trap it.
I tried to post the class in the comment for you but Slashdot prevented the submission because it had to many special (code) characters in it. Hmmm?
...XP Pro often (sadly) on new machines. Did it on a new FTP machine the other day which was connected straight to our unprotected T1. I didn't have the problems this guy is reporting, lol.
In any case, you simply install XP while not connected to your broadband service, you install a software or hardware firewall (zonealarm for example) and then connect and update, how hard is that?
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I'm glad that Valve is 'cracking skulls.' Mess with the bull and you get the horns buddy.
In all seriousness, Valve is an intelligent company and has most assuredly been very careful about this. Of course there are going to be mistakes, but out of 20,000 warez a**holes there's probably only a very VERY (to quote Valve) few people who actually purchased the game and then for some reason went out and grabbed a key generator when they didn't need one.
That's very likely 20,000 less cheating bastards at Counter-Strike Source (leaving on a few million to deal with.)
Now it's $19.99/year. I wonder where Google is heading...? ;)
The treaty was not a U.N. Resolution nor treaty, it was a treaty between the US and the Soviet Union (now defunct of course) and the UN simply passed a resolution supporting the signing of this treaty (yes, weird.) The treaty, unless I've misread it, no longer applies.
...is fantastic. Worth the money. VERY VERY comfortable, very cool/geeky (oxymoronic?) lots of room, all the right compartments, side carry handle, et cetera... Excellent piece of luggage. I think they go for around $90 but I assure you, worth the extra dough.
...verify that your e-mail is valid.
Never reply to an opt-out even if running a secure e-mail application.
Now that's the kind of crazy I can get onboard with! ;)
;)
I know what you mean, if I had 40 billion dollars lying around earning interest and my ass was hanging out in the breeze over Linux, I WOULD have my software running on Linux. (Actually, I'd have openly embraced it a long time ago, but that's probably why I'm inexplicably poor in comparison to Bill...)
...he's the one actually spreading FUD.
Given Microsoft's already tenuous relationship with the Department of Justice's anti-trust division, sure you don't think they would attempt to lock out Linux and OSX do you? They would get the hell sued out of them.
Second, what's to stop Apple or another hardware company from coming up with a different solution to the problem that works with Windows and therefore does not suffer from diminished market application?
Third, and here's where I get crazy, I believe that at some point in the next five years, Microsoft is going to produce Linux software (for crazy reasons that I'll keep to myself until they begin to sound less crazy.)
...nobody would embrace a semi-private offering like U3D. X3D truly is a mess.
...that Microsoft was not slammed, but was warned that the ads were potentially misleading. The reason that the ads were not just deemed misleading is because the ad was made for the purpose of attacking a particular hardware niche in which the most common solution was a Z900 mainframe running Linux.
The ads are no more misleading than every single Apple Computer add since the late 80's. Hey, did you know that Apple had the world's first 64-bit desktop? LOL...
...to find prior art. LOL. How ridiculous that the patent office did not dismiss this out of hand. I'm laughing about how Microsoft's patent attorneys are obviously ****ing them over because even the most modest effort in researching this would have resulted in acknowledgement that this is indeed presupposed by SUDO. Hehe... Money well spent Microsoft!
Check out their UK English accents, quality...
...regression testing.
I understand what you are saying, but we'd only get back the barest of astonomic data. Probes are crap compared to people. As with all things in reality, balance and compromise are the best answers. Some problems, some manned, et cetera. Until remotes can do it all.
For example, it would be so much easier to search for life on Mars with a human there instead of the rovers.
.where the mars explorers are now, how much more could be accomplished in an exponentially shorter period of time by a person? Seriously. They don't often get stuck by a rock in front of their foot. They don't take 11 hours to descend a crater (with fingers crossed), they tend to solve their own problems, et cetera.
Until remotes become much more effective a human will remain the best options for on-site research.
...if they sold their cars for $500 and charged $1000 to remove rev limiters, and their money was all made in after market parts and accessories.
This is the problem, you see. Sony/MS/Nintendo don't make money off the consoles (minimal at best and a big loss at worst), they make their money OFF THE GAMES.
Mod-chipping to use your machine as a PC doesn't irritate Sony because they don't worry about cutting into their other businesses much at all (people who use Vaio's are not going to settle for using a PS2 as a PC.) The same goes for Nintendo, they wouldn't care if you used their box as a PC, but Microsoft would because THAT WOULD CUT INTO THEIR CORE BUSINESS and make Intel much less likely to want to sell chips to use in the XBox...
...at MFC, the source shipped with Visual Studio for years.
;).) Sometimes end user features bury the desire for elegant (or even functional sometimes) architecture...
Ugly, ugly, ridiculously poor code documentation (if any), odd workarounds left-over from the days of WIN32s, 16-bit thunking days, et cetera...
Be GLAD that you don't have access to the Windows source, god forbid anyone should code that way (of course, there's plenty of Open Source Software that is just as ugly or worse
I agree, they certainly don't appear to support "Free Thinking"...
I don't... Thanks but no thanks, and oh, by the way, taxes up there are MURDER mate, MURDER...
...time.
Oh, man that's cheering me up (bad day.)
...to ascribe ailments that are routinely associated with aging to nuclear tests from AT LEAST 47 years ago with personnel who must be AT LEAST 64 (a 17 year old who caught the end of the Castle tests), is a little bit "I hate the government."
While I have no doubt that these men/women/animals suffered some unexpected exposure damage surely sufficient enough to cause terminal problems, it doesn't seem so heartbreaking when the letters are a few years old and sound like regular older persons' problems.
Hmmm, weird, I was using ATI's linux driver in October of 2003. That's a little bit more than "a few months ago" isn't it? BTW, they'd been out longer than that ;).
Keyboard hook to trap 'switching' and ctrl-escape (amongst other key combinations), mouse hook to prevent double clicks on icons or the desktop, calling disable on the toolbar window and the start button which is on the toolbar window. Setting a couple of registry keys which will disable ctrl-alt-delete because irregardless of what you read somewhere else you CANNOT trap ctrl-alt-delete. You can detect it, but you can't trap it.
I tried to post the class in the comment for you but Slashdot prevented the submission because it had to many special (code) characters in it. Hmmm?
I usually don't just post something so simple, but Mono is so cool I just felt I had too.
...XP Pro often (sadly) on new machines. Did it on a new FTP machine the other day which was connected straight to our unprotected T1. I didn't have the problems this guy is reporting, lol.
In any case, you simply install XP while not connected to your broadband service, you install a software or hardware firewall (zonealarm for example) and then connect and update, how hard is that?
...solution currently requires head trackers. You don't want to go there, trust me.