Murderers generally only affect a few people. He affected 1.6 _billion_, not to mention the massive economic damages he inflicted with his spamming operation.
The q3 netcode is still better than just about anything out there. See for instance the unbelievably crappy netcode in most current FPS. q3 still smokes them all.
download the stock pico source, unchanged, compile it on osx and it works perfectly. no patches needed.
pico sucks yeah, but the stock source works perfectly on osx. so how apple managed to break it is beyond me. but they did, and that's quite an accomplishment.
wouldnt be suprised if they broke vi too.
pico breakage is only 1 of 1.58E+93 annoyances/bugs in osx though.
what's really telling is that it took a class action to get apple to address the ibook and ipod hardware failures. apple stubbornly refused to address or fix the issues, until a class action forced them to act. they had plenty of notice and warning, and refused to do anything about it.
and sort of related, it took a class action to get apple to own up to its failed promise that osx would fully support g3 macs.
as the saying goes: fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...
My Apple hardware just works, never breaks (and that goes for my friends that have about 20 Macs between them).
Tell that to the millions of customers who got stuck with unreliable ibooks which need to be sent in for repair every few months, and all the ipods which destroy their batteries in less than a month. a class action was settled over the ibook,a nd i believe there was one on the ipod too.
apple != 'utterly reliable by default'.
anyone who has followed apple over the years knows apple's had its share of unreliable turkey hardware products.
Actually that is mostly untrue. You don't think Carmack develops on a mac because he's a moron do you? The dev tools are very very nice and free.
carmack doesnt develop on a mac anymore. the ports to mac are all done by third parties (these days, it's usually aspyr).
maybe you're confusing carmack with linus? linus does develop on a ppc mac, but he doesn't use osx.
and the dev tools suck. xcode is a crashy pile of doggie poo. various build utilities have no concept of CWD so it's a pita to script stuff. apple also managed to break pico, of all things (busted line wrap). how anyone can manage to break pico is beyond me -- but it certainly takes talent.
No they don't. Currently, the extreme gamer who uses a mac for work, etc.
yeah, because they don't have much of a choice. most games are for win32:) (no hl2 for mac, for example.)
disclaimer: I own a mac, and write software for osx.
"abuse" implies the DMCA wasn't created for this purpose.
But you can bet it was designed for exactly this purpose, and more. That's why it's so frequently used to beat into submission anyone who is hosting a website that a corporation might find embarassing or offensive.
Note that the settlement doesn't prevent richter from spamming.
From TFA: Nevertheless, Richter said that he and his company had changed their e-mailing practices and pledged not to send spam to anyone who has not asked to be sent commercial e-mail.
So supposedly, from now on he will only be mailing to users who have "opted in". Hmm.. sounds familiar.
After their discharges, Gamble and Hicks applied for other federal jobs where they could use their language skills in the war on terrorism, but neither was hired, Gamble said.
I guess the government feels the "war on homos" is more important than the "war on terror".
The us government is decrying a shortage of translators, and yet they're busy firing homosexual translators. Makes perfect sense to me.
dont forget all the criminal convictions from qwest executives cooking the books. to the tune of several billion dollars.
people remember enron, but somehow forget qwest. and the qwest criminal convictions are still coming down to this day, years later after the first convictions were made.
Try to roll out FTTH, watch the ILECs claim exclusive right-of-way, throw up regulatory roadblocks, file frivolous lawsuits, and generally keep you too busy to actually build your FTTH. That is if they dont sue you into oblivion first. That is if the cable company hasnt got to you first.
Try the same with wireless. Watch the ILECs do the exact same thing.
I'd expect the ILECs would fight carrier pigeon if they could figure a way.
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If he sold credit card and/or financial information to someone else, it's quite easy to completely destroy someone's life through identity theft.
Murderers generally only affect a few people. He affected 1.6 _billion_, not to mention the massive economic damages he inflicted with his spamming operation.
You replicated most of quake3 except for its portability, which you completely sabotaged.
Thanks, but i'll pass.
DirectX. Yuck.
The q3 netcode is still better than just about anything out there. See for instance the unbelievably crappy netcode in most current FPS. q3 still smokes them all.
The headline implies they already managed to get linux booting on it. If you follow the links, you'll find they haven't even started hacking them yet.
download the stock pico source, unchanged, compile it on osx and it works perfectly. no patches needed.
pico sucks yeah, but the stock source works perfectly on osx. so how apple managed to break it is beyond me. but they did, and that's quite an accomplishment.
wouldnt be suprised if they broke vi too.
pico breakage is only 1 of 1.58E+93 annoyances/bugs in osx though.
what's really telling is that it took a class action to get apple to address the ibook and ipod hardware failures. apple stubbornly refused to address or fix the issues, until a class action forced them to act. they had plenty of notice and warning, and refused to do anything about it.
...
and sort of related, it took a class action to get apple to own up to its failed promise that osx would fully support g3 macs.
as the saying goes: fool me once shame on you, fool me twice
My Apple hardware just works, never breaks (and that goes for my friends that have about 20 Macs between them).
Tell that to the millions of customers who got stuck with unreliable ibooks which need to be sent in for repair every few months, and all the ipods which destroy their batteries in less than a month. a class action was settled over the ibook,a nd i believe there was one on the ipod too.
apple != 'utterly reliable by default'.
anyone who has followed apple over the years knows apple's had its share of unreliable turkey hardware products.
carmack doesnt develop on a mac anymore. the ports to mac are all done by third parties (these days, it's usually aspyr).
maybe you're confusing carmack with linus? linus does develop on a ppc mac, but he doesn't use osx.
and the dev tools suck. xcode is a crashy pile of doggie poo. various build utilities have no concept of CWD so it's a pita to script stuff. apple also managed to break pico, of all things (busted line wrap). how anyone can manage to break pico is beyond me -- but it certainly takes talent.
yeah, because they don't have much of a choice. most games are for win32
disclaimer: I own a mac, and write software for osx.
Aren't there laws about making absolutely unreasonable legal threats towards someone?
No.
Maybe there should be, but there isn't any.
"abuse" implies the DMCA wasn't created for this purpose.
But you can bet it was designed for exactly this purpose, and more. That's why it's so frequently used to beat into submission anyone who is hosting a website that a corporation might find embarassing or offensive.
so if i pick licensed or unlicensed, i get neither 30 miles nor 75mbps? cool.
if i pick 30 miles or 75mbps, it's neither licensed or unlicensed. awesome.
what vendor?
what does the equipment cost? eg what does the base station run and what do CPEs cost?
This is great. Now we can setup a network and track our government officials in realtime.
For example, senator xyz's frequent trips during work hours to $liquorstore, and his frequent trips after work hours to $crackdealer / $hooker.
Or congressman abc's frequent visits to $megacorp-campaign-contributor and immediately afterwards to $uberbank or $money-laundering-hidingplace.
Note that the settlement doesn't prevent richter from spamming.
From TFA:
Nevertheless, Richter said that he and his company had changed their e-mailing practices and pledged not to send spam to anyone who has not asked to be sent commercial e-mail.
So supposedly, from now on he will only be mailing to users who have "opted in". Hmm.. sounds familiar.
From TFA:
After their discharges, Gamble and Hicks applied for other federal jobs where they could use their language skills in the war on terrorism, but neither was hired, Gamble said.
I guess the government feels the "war on homos" is more important than the "war on terror".
The us government is decrying a shortage of translators, and yet they're busy firing homosexual translators. Makes perfect sense to me.
there is still plenty of hindu-muslim violence in india. just none of it in the name of 'al qaeda'.
you lose
nebulous and omnipresent are 'long, impressive' words? where the hell do you live, land of the simpleminded fucktards?
microsoft (and sco, and others) have already used this argument - opensource = terrorism.
they're way ahead of you.
dont forget all the criminal convictions from qwest executives cooking the books. to the tune of several billion dollars.
people remember enron, but somehow forget qwest. and the qwest criminal convictions are still coming down to this day, years later after the first convictions were made.
A $100 million grant? I'm sure the dollar bills are blinding you to the sheer hypocrisy of your post.
Then you criticize small companies of 'skimming profit' from large ones. Hah.
Your company is sucking cock, not teats. Your face is totally creamed with semen, and you seem to be enjoying it.
You can't.
Try to roll out FTTH, watch the ILECs claim exclusive right-of-way, throw up regulatory roadblocks, file frivolous lawsuits, and generally keep you too busy to actually build your FTTH. That is if they dont sue you into oblivion first. That is if the cable company hasnt got to you first.
Try the same with wireless. Watch the ILECs do the exact same thing.
I'd expect the ILECs would fight carrier pigeon if they could figure a way.
red vs blue is pretty boring actually.
you want funny? the live action pure pwnage is a scream.
Yeah, i'd love to see this uber-leet HTTP-POST with hyperlink too.