I think that's just about the stupidest thing I've ever read. Which open source candidate would you prefer we support, Mr..Net luser? Linux running KDE? We'll get right on that.
Consider this: 17 candidates, one with position A, two with B, 1 with C, 3 with D... vote FOR something, not against it. Choose an OS based on how much you like it, not whether it's the poster-child for Open Source or not.
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Well, if you had read the article, instead of just looking at the pictures, you would have noticed the paragraph that states:
"Every month during Grace's five-year expected lifetime, we will get a map of the Earth's gravitational field," says Michael Watkins of the American space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
No, then it would be cheaper to ship things FROM there, since you get more than a ton per ton. And you could get on the plane with 70 lbs. of stuff, and when you arrive in (wherever) laugh uproariously at the ticket agent, dancing around and saying "ha HA! I have 71 pounds in my bag!"
I don't think I ever wasted as much time in high school as with ROTT. Every day, we'd install it on the LAN, and every night Mr. Murray would uninstall it. Eventually, he gave up.
Before I'm halfway through? Hah! Not the way I play! Man, you've never seen moves like these- super-backspin-kicking-slash-shoot attacks! Bang ka-POW! Of course, with my luck, the first patch will screw with all the timing settings and my descending laser bullet of CERTAINDEATH will miss horribly, thus deciding my fate before I've even had a chance to say goodbye to my loved ones.
Well I hope these things don't crash at inoppourtune times like their PC games are renowned for doing. I can't even fathom how many times a windows game crashed on me right before or as I was saving it.
Interesting... I hope they DO! Microsoft is entering a new world here, and they'd better have a rock-solid product. People may put up with Windows crashing twice a day, but console owners will not. Doesn't matter how much of a loss they're selling it for, if it's buggy, they're toast.
I can't wait until somebody with SONY brand speakers and a SONY brand DTS professional stadium concert decoder plays a SONY CD-R they made from a SONY album on a SONY burner in their SONY computer and blows out their brand-new $8,000 system, takes it back, and makes SONY EAT THE FUCKING BILL. That'll learn 'em.
Yup. Why, just yesterday, I was talking to a friend about (crappy) songs of times past, and she mentioned Don't Talk Just Kiss, by Right Said Fred. Well I had no recollection of said song, and her rendition left much to be desired, so I felt a download of the original was in order.
Two minutes later, I had my mp3 in hand. You know what that was? Music Piracy!! Yup, I broke the law. I'll probably do it again sometime. I've spent over $30,000 on music in the past few years, so the record labels will get no apologies from me. If I want to download a song I don't remember from a band I never liked that only had one hit anyway, that's a goddamned MISSION, and all the copy protection in the world ain't gonna keep it off my stereo.
The most recent format that's come to light is the Cactus Data
Shield from Midbar. The earlier German tests also came under the name
of Cactus, but it appears that Midbar's protection technology has
developed since then. Like SafeAudio, this new method corrupts the
audio signal on the CD. However, the method used is different. In
this case blocks of audio are replaced with blocks of control data. A
normal CD player ignores the control data and fabricates the sound of
that block using its error recovery circuitry. Once again, the blocks
must have been carefully chosen so that the sound is not disrupted
significantly. Again, reliability of the CD will be affected. When
the CD is copied using a computer or CD-to-CD copier, the control
blocks are interpreted as audio, which means that the manufacturer can insert whatever sounds they wish into a copied recording, even sounds
designed to damage speakers.
your average Joe Blow-next-door neighbour won't be missed if he gets lost in the Arctic and gets eaten by polar bears and never comes home (which is why we'd want to send him to Mars), unlike Larry Ellison, who would be sorely mis... well, maybe not. Ahh, forget it. Do they have national ID cards on Mars?
That's similar to the problem the military had when testing out the F-16, which has electric controls- the stick didn't move at all. Pilots kept complaining about it, so they put a little play into it, even though technologically they didn't need it. People like physical responses to the things they touch.
...and, just to be on the safe side, let's lock up anyone who happens to hum whilst walking down the street, just in case they are humming copy-protected material.
I know that's humour and all, but it's actually illegal to drive down the street with your windows open and your stereo playing if people can here it. Likewise, it's also illegal to bring your ghettoblaster into the back yard and play music loud enough that your neighbours can hear it. Copyright law is pretty messed up.
See, the problem is, since when does a convicted monopolist get to decide their own fate? You don't talk to murderers and say, "Oh, we'd like you to go to jail for life," and they say "Objection! I wouldn't like that!" Microsoft was found guilty. So impose a remedy. Fuck them if they think they can dictate the terms.
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I think that's just about the stupidest thing I've ever read. Which open source candidate would you prefer we support, Mr. .Net luser? Linux running KDE? We'll get right on that.
Consider this: 17 candidates, one with position A, two with B, 1 with C, 3 with D... vote FOR something, not against it. Choose an OS based on how much you like it, not whether it's the poster-child for Open Source or not.
Even for a troll, that was pretty weak.
Hey, gotta make sure it's dead. It's like a frist psot penis joke- if I don't get it, somebody else will. Line 'em up... I'll knock 'em down. :-)
Try Viagra.
Well, if you had read the article, instead of just looking at the pictures, you would have noticed the paragraph that states:
"Every month during Grace's five-year expected lifetime, we will get a map of the Earth's gravitational field," says Michael Watkins of the American space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
5 lbs, but man, you should really get some exercise. Lay off the Quake for a while. Maybe 1-800-20JENNY can help.
No, then it would be cheaper to ship things FROM there, since you get more than a ton per ton. And you could get on the plane with 70 lbs. of stuff, and when you arrive in (wherever) laugh uproariously at the ticket agent, dancing around and saying "ha HA! I have 71 pounds in my bag!"
I don't think I ever wasted as much time in high school as with ROTT. Every day, we'd install it on the LAN, and every night Mr. Murray would uninstall it. Eventually, he gave up.
Before I'm halfway through? Hah! Not the way I play! Man, you've never seen moves like these- super-backspin-kicking-slash-shoot attacks! Bang ka-POW! Of course, with my luck, the first patch will screw with all the timing settings and my descending laser bullet of CERTAINDEATH will miss horribly, thus deciding my fate before I've even had a chance to say goodbye to my loved ones.
Damn, I love FPS.
I'm moving to Sealand, last bastion of the real free world. Nice knowing y'all.
This guy?
http://www.seas.upenn.edu:8080/%7Ezakharin/Softwar e/Dawn.html
Works up to 0.9.3, so it should work...
Anything with "goatman Torgo" and Satanic rituals can't be all bad. And for only 20 bucks!
Reviews here and here.
Well I hope these things don't crash at inoppourtune times like their PC games are renowned for doing. I can't even fathom how many times a windows game crashed on me right before or as I was saving it.
Interesting... I hope they DO! Microsoft is entering a new world here, and they'd better have a rock-solid product. People may put up with Windows crashing twice a day, but console owners will not. Doesn't matter how much of a loss they're selling it for, if it's buggy, they're toast.
I can't wait until somebody with SONY brand speakers and a SONY brand DTS professional stadium concert decoder plays a SONY CD-R they made from a SONY album on a SONY burner in their SONY computer and blows out their brand-new $8,000 system, takes it back, and makes SONY EAT THE FUCKING BILL.
That'll learn 'em.
Yup. Why, just yesterday, I was talking to a friend about (crappy) songs of times past, and she mentioned Don't Talk Just Kiss, by Right Said Fred. Well I had no recollection of said song, and her rendition left much to be desired, so I felt a download of the original was in order.
Two minutes later, I had my mp3 in hand. You know what that was? Music Piracy!! Yup, I broke the law. I'll probably do it again sometime. I've spent over $30,000 on music in the past few years, so the record labels will get no apologies from me. If I want to download a song I don't remember from a band I never liked that only had one hit anyway, that's a goddamned MISSION, and all the copy protection in the world ain't gonna keep it off my stereo.
Stolen from http://www.uk.eurorights.org/issues/cd/overview.sh tml:
The most recent format that's come to light is the Cactus Data Shield from Midbar. The earlier German tests also came under the name of Cactus, but it appears that Midbar's protection technology has developed since then. Like SafeAudio, this new method corrupts the audio signal on the CD. However, the method used is different. In this case blocks of audio are replaced with blocks of control data. A normal CD player ignores the control data and fabricates the sound of that block using its error recovery circuitry. Once again, the blocks must have been carefully chosen so that the sound is not disrupted significantly. Again, reliability of the CD will be affected. When the CD is copied using a computer or CD-to-CD copier, the control blocks are interpreted as audio, which means that the manufacturer can insert whatever sounds they wish into a copied recording, even sounds designed to damage speakers.
How about barbecue? He could wear a "Kiss the Chef" apron and stuff...
your average Joe Blow-next-door neighbour won't be missed if he gets lost in the Arctic and gets eaten by polar bears and never comes home (which is why we'd want to send him to Mars), unlike Larry Ellison, who would be sorely mis... well, maybe not. Ahh, forget it. Do they have national ID cards on Mars?
I've wanted to go to Mars ever since I read The Case for Mars, by the aforementioned Robert Zubrin. Check it out- a little dated, but still exciting.
is here, email forms are here.
That's similar to the problem the military had when testing out the F-16, which has electric controls- the stick didn't move at all. Pilots kept complaining about it, so they put a little play into it, even though technologically they didn't need it. People like physical responses to the things they touch.
Nope. Public Broadcasting, they call it.
...and, just to be on the safe side, let's lock up anyone who happens to hum whilst walking down the street, just in case they are humming copy-protected material.
I know that's humour and all, but it's actually illegal to drive down the street with your windows open and your stereo playing if people can here it. Likewise, it's also illegal to bring your ghettoblaster into the back yard and play music loud enough that your neighbours can hear it. Copyright law is pretty messed up.
See, the problem is, since when does a convicted monopolist get to decide their own fate? You don't talk to murderers and say, "Oh, we'd like you to go to jail for life," and they say "Objection! I wouldn't like that!" Microsoft was found guilty. So impose a remedy. Fuck them if they think they can dictate the terms.
I think you can read that as IIS exploits will still be published on the list, not that the list is just IIS exploits.