If you RTFA, you find that MS is charging a colossal 25 cents per unit to a $250K cap. I'd say that's a low margin. A 25 cent cost is not going to force implementation of DRM. With that 25 cent license comes a MS-designed reference implementation. It's just in place to protect MS and consumers from an inaccurate implementation of the spec.
There is no conspiracy. Thank you. Please come again.
Now if only the W3C could charge MS 25 cents for every incomplete implementation of CSS they distributed and all the other web standards snafus they created...
Thus, in other words, Microsoft is protecting themselves from Microsoft-like business tactics. Ah, the joys of the modern capitalistic business society!
As it has undoubtedly been pointed out bazillions of times already, Duke Nukem Forever is more likely the expected wait time than the title of the product.
Why couldn't they take the funding that's going into DNF and use that to resurrect Black Isle? That'd certainly be a better use of that money.
It frustrates me to no end that Black Isle--who was producing many good games--went under, while 3D realms still has the cash to plug away at this hunk of vapourware.
My website's title image supports alpha blended PNGs in both Moz and IE. I haven't tested Opera, but it should work. The hack isn't that hard, although the addition is IE specific and sort of glosses over the fact that IE doesn't support it at all.
The odd thing about this is that it was released by a British company. Underworld's known for being very, very off the wall, so as this comes from Tomato, their design company, I'm not particularly surprised. I'm excited for it, though; I'd be interested in buying it if it meant more Underworld tracks. I wonder what CD of theirs it's most reminiscent of.
But to play a videogame based on their music... wow!
There's all this debate about what the title says. Here's how I parse it:
"Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware"
Spyware was installed at some point. It causes customers problems. The spyware may or may not have been Dell's, but I'd figure that if Dell was installing spyware, the title would say so.
Thus, the customers have installed spyware (ie Gator, Kazaa), and Dell won't help them uninstall it. Wow. That's so incredibly shocking. Go Slashdot.
Remember, if/. didn't have the slant, it'd be |. -- gratuitously ripped off of some comment I read today.
Don't worry, I'm too distracted running an evolutionary computing extraction of Shakespearean style to understand attempts at humour that don't involve several cross-linking elements or get laid.
An overabundance of testosterone has reduced my ability to look at something and be apathetic. Instead I break down into spasms of rage.
Again, not that this has anything to do with emulators, except for the one I'm developing of Shakespeare.
For sure. We need a new classification in the Friend/Foe system. We need an "Entertaining Troll" classification, just so we don't start believing them and instead are able to enjoy the well-thoughtout humour.
Yes, it was a double blind (ABC/HR) test. All the information is available in the links presented. The testers are presented with several groups of two samples, and are asked to subjectively compare the samples and state which one is the original and which is the encoded sample. Furthermore, one group contains two of only the non-compressed sample. Thus, information where one of the non-compressed samples is rated lower than the other can be easily discarded.
And, of course, we'd all be rooting for him to win a big FAT lawsuit. Better hurry, though, before MS stops supporting FAT for NTFS. You're losing your chance at winning that nice FAT purse.
All their latest models seem to have that blasted Windows key. Not like that's superfluous or anything. I suppose the mods will decide whether or not Win keys are superfluous...
Do all spiders respect robots.txt? I'd imagine that'd be hard to enforce, and I'm sure there would be some spiders that would disrespect it just for the hell of it.
The only reason there are fewer viruses for the Mac is because the Mac has a very low marketshare. If the marketshares of MacOS and Windows were reversed, I'm pretty certain so would the number of viruses released.
I'm not saying that Microsoft is as good as Apple in terms of virus-fixing, but if I understand correctly, there *was* a patch fixing the RPC vulnerability released before the worm hit. Apple does seem to care more about security, but this may be because if they don't they stand to lose what tenuous little customer support they have.
Yes! Yes! Scripting support! Something good like that! Mod the parent up!
Seriously, with scripting support, you could automate all the trivial micromanagement away and do what you wanted to. I hate, hate, hate RTS's for not doing this. This single feature would make me buy a game, and I haven't bought a game since Tomb Raider 1.
Then don't touch it. See if the developers care. *boggle* I mean, it isn't as though people using sawfish/aalib that reject Gnome are anywhere near to being a majority.
Bitch all you want, it won't make a single bit of difference.
Q: How many of you does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None, because you won't change anything.
There have been two sequels, and they both sucked. It would be great if there was a game that kept the same simple planet improvement system, and perhaps even went so far as to allow for setting multiple planet's settings at the same time, just to cut down on more micro-management.
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If you RTFA, you find that MS is charging a colossal 25 cents per unit to a $250K cap. I'd say that's a low margin. A 25 cent cost is not going to force implementation of DRM. With that 25 cent license comes a MS-designed reference implementation. It's just in place to protect MS and consumers from an inaccurate implementation of the spec.
There is no conspiracy. Thank you. Please come again.
Now if only the W3C could charge MS 25 cents for every incomplete implementation of CSS they distributed and all the other web standards snafus they created...
Thus, in other words, Microsoft is protecting themselves from Microsoft-like business tactics. Ah, the joys of the modern capitalistic business society!
As it has undoubtedly been pointed out bazillions of times already, Duke Nukem Forever is more likely the expected wait time than the title of the product.
Why couldn't they take the funding that's going into DNF and use that to resurrect Black Isle? That'd certainly be a better use of that money.
It frustrates me to no end that Black Isle--who was producing many good games--went under, while 3D realms still has the cash to plug away at this hunk of vapourware.
My website's title image supports alpha blended PNGs in both Moz and IE. I haven't tested Opera, but it should work. The hack isn't that hard, although the addition is IE specific and sort of glosses over the fact that IE doesn't support it at all.
The odd thing about this is that it was released by a British company. Underworld's known for being very, very off the wall, so as this comes from Tomato, their design company, I'm not particularly surprised. I'm excited for it, though; I'd be interested in buying it if it meant more Underworld tracks. I wonder what CD of theirs it's most reminiscent of.
But to play a videogame based on their music... wow!
There's all this debate about what the title says. Here's how I parse it:
/. didn't have the slant, it'd be |. -- gratuitously ripped off of some comment I read today.
"Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware"
Spyware was installed at some point. It causes customers problems. The spyware may or may not have been Dell's, but I'd figure that if Dell was installing spyware, the title would say so.
Thus, the customers have installed spyware (ie Gator, Kazaa), and Dell won't help them uninstall it. Wow. That's so incredibly shocking. Go Slashdot.
Remember, if
Don't worry, I'm too distracted running an evolutionary computing extraction of Shakespearean style to understand attempts at humour that don't involve several cross-linking elements or get laid.
An overabundance of testosterone has reduced my ability to look at something and be apathetic. Instead I break down into spasms of rage.
Again, not that this has anything to do with emulators, except for the one I'm developing of Shakespeare.
In the future, we also have people with no sense of irony. But most of them have locked themselves into the pop-media-coffins.
Gigatera, assuming the concatenation is multiplicative, would be equivalent to Zetta. Get it right, dumbass.
Erm... there's no "Documents" link on that page.
Okay, sir, come through the carbon detector... Oh, no, sorry, wait, you'll have to take off your head first.
Yup. They're gonna ban carbon on international flights. That'll help the airline industry.
For sure. We need a new classification in the Friend/Foe system. We need an "Entertaining Troll" classification, just so we don't start believing them and instead are able to enjoy the well-thoughtout humour.
Not really. It could be any generic laptop. It's a dark gray colour. IIRC, most Apple laptops are much less generic than the picture you posted.
Or you could use Foobar2000, which is both an incredibly well-designed, powerful media player, and uses the standard Win32 GUI.
Yes, it was a double blind (ABC/HR) test. All the information is available in the links presented. The testers are presented with several groups of two samples, and are asked to subjectively compare the samples and state which one is the original and which is the encoded sample. Furthermore, one group contains two of only the non-compressed sample. Thus, information where one of the non-compressed samples is rated lower than the other can be easily discarded.
And, of course, we'd all be rooting for him to win a big FAT lawsuit. Better hurry, though, before MS stops supporting FAT for NTFS. You're losing your chance at winning that nice FAT purse.
All their latest models seem to have that blasted Windows key. Not like that's superfluous or anything. I suppose the mods will decide whether or not Win keys are superfluous...
Do all spiders respect robots.txt? I'd imagine that'd be hard to enforce, and I'm sure there would be some spiders that would disrespect it just for the hell of it.
The only reason there are fewer viruses for the Mac is because the Mac has a very low marketshare. If the marketshares of MacOS and Windows were reversed, I'm pretty certain so would the number of viruses released.
I'm not saying that Microsoft is as good as Apple in terms of virus-fixing, but if I understand correctly, there *was* a patch fixing the RPC vulnerability released before the worm hit. Apple does seem to care more about security, but this may be because if they don't they stand to lose what tenuous little customer support they have.
Yes! Yes! Scripting support! Something good like that! Mod the parent up!
Seriously, with scripting support, you could automate all the trivial micromanagement away and do what you wanted to. I hate, hate, hate RTS's for not doing this. This single feature would make me buy a game, and I haven't bought a game since Tomb Raider 1.
It's fhqwhgads. Get it right.
The line is, precisely:
"Ev'rybody to the limit, the Cheat is to the limit, ev'rybody come on fhqwhgads."
And for reference, it's pronounced fah-hoo-(kwoo|kwha)-gods, more-or-less.
Then don't touch it. See if the developers care. *boggle* I mean, it isn't as though people using sawfish/aalib that reject Gnome are anywhere near to being a majority.
Bitch all you want, it won't make a single bit of difference.
Q: How many of you does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None, because you won't change anything.
Must be an insect or two that does it.
That's because you're whipped, man. Grow a set of balls.
There have been two sequels, and they both sucked. It would be great if there was a game that kept the same simple planet improvement system, and perhaps even went so far as to allow for setting multiple planet's settings at the same time, just to cut down on more micro-management.
Want depth? Try the Virtua Fighter series, the fighting game that cannot be won using button-mashing techniques. Period.
/suck/.
Unless, of course, your opponents