Logitech have also had a gamepad with it. The Logitech Wingman Gamepad Extreme. I've had it for years and its a nice little toy. Like one of the first USB devices I ever bought.
It's a known fact that video games "journalists" are intellectual wankers. Sometimes just plain old wankers but most of the time they're huge intellectual wankers.
Here's a brief rundown of how each video game house reviews games:
IGN - Is the company advertising the game on IGN? Yes? Then add 5 to the score.
Gamespot - Is this game popular? If yes, demolish the score by at least 20% and make sure to have completely unrealistic expectations of the game.
Gamespy - THIS GAME IS SO COOL! GET THE DOWNLOAD NOW FROM FILEPLANET FOR ONLY $9.95/MONTH!!!!! MAKE SURE TO LOOK AT ONE OF OUR KEWL FEATURES DUDE!
He had 5 computers in his business with unlicensed software and he's the one that cried unfair.
I got news for you. It's your responsibility to keep track of your software licenses. There are inexpensive tools, hell, even just a standard policy on what to do with machines would go a long way.
Blockquoting the article:
"The guys in engineering need a new PC, so they get one and we pass theirs on to somebody doing clerical work. Well, if you don't wipe the hard drive on that PC, that's a violation. Even if they can tell a piece of software isn't being used."
He got caught because of his sheer laziness and possibly his own ignorance. Making him into a martyr for open source only legitimises the belief that linux is free software (free as in beer) and, to some point, that only software "pirates" (sic) use it.
Oh, it will remain open I think. For anyone willing to cough up an appropriate license fee and willing to sign a pretty little NDA, which basically states your first born will belong to Microsoft.
Care to cite your source?
Oh wait. My mistake. Speculative bullshit shouldn't be questioned when it's about Microsoft.
$50/hour? Forget that. I've got a $120,000 student loan hanging over my head. For you I'll make it $150/hour! Don't like it? Well screw you bucko because I'm one of two maybe three doctors in town. Maybe if you had free health care you might be able to see me. But you don't.
It's all very nice to say that something supports Java but its no good when each device requires you to program in some bastardised dialect of Java.
I've done a bit of coding for Nokia phones and it amazes me the amount of stuff that is purely Nokia brand Java. Most of the screen stuff is Nokia dialect.
Frankly I'd just like to see mobile phone standards converge for once. As if the marketplace wasn't fragmented enough already making a developer's life hell.
Sure its great having.NET tools to develop for mobile phones but its also another thing developers have to learn to code for just so they can get their product out to a market.
Also, Microsoft are getting in on the act. The new Desktop Composition Engine for Longhorn is based on the same type of compositing but using DirectX instead of OpenGL.
It's great for using 3D effects on 2D windows for what has normally been wasted horsepower. Finally, eye candy that won't slow down your system!
Even just TURNING ON THE FIREWALL BUILT INTO XP would prevent 90% of the machines out there being infected. I know my g/f and her roommate haven't been infected yet even though her roommate's system (which is unpatched) is the ICS "server".
Apparently Microsoft does and hence Outlook 2003 filters images out by default to protect privacy. That being said, its merely a one click effort to put the images back in.
Imagine that, a sensible idea to get the best of both worlds that doesn't involve putting a blanket ban on HTML mail.
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And with bill gates confession that five percent of windows systems crash more than twice a day the chances of him knowing all two well the habit that MS systems have of failing
5% of systems is nothing in the scheme of things. It's easy to put that down to the morons out there that simply run the spyware that comes down to Kazaa.
Why would a survey device with the job of simply recording data use KDE, or for that matter GNOME, or even X? Somehow I seriously doubt that KDE's crashing effects this thing in the slightest.
Then why are you using data submitted by computers loaded up with crap by ordinary joes to justify your position on windows stability. If I ran nothing more than a video capture application I'm sure I could get more uptime than 12 hours. Hell, even with all the gaming I do on my Windows XP box I still get uptimes of 1 week and upwards. My roommate runs a whole load of services on his XP box and he gets uptimes of 2 weeks and upwards.
But I'm not a mean guy. I'll make you a deal. If you bring your mindset into the 21st century I'll treat you like a human being instead of some mindless zealot.
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I'm not heavily involved with Linux firewire, but I've been tracking it vaguely, and I understand that they've actually got a proper solution for the hotplug thing that works against 2.5
Backport it to 2.4 and I'll be impressed. Until then, for most users, the firewire support is about as useful as tits on a bull.
So Microsoft should have to open up the word format as a public domain "tax"? You can't give something to the public domain and then try and use your donation as a "guilt trip" to someone else to get them to put something you want into the public domain.
A lot of the stuff is already cross compatible. Nokia for instance sells the same games worldwide via its Club Nokia service.
Most other things would need to be localised or at least need local partners to provide the data that these apps need to function.
As for video calls (3G's supposed killer app), I haven't seen any problems yet communicating internationally between 3G networks. For instance, you can make a video call between Australia and the UK and it works just fine (or at least Hutchinson/Orange says it does).
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Actually ethanol is the one that makes you blind. Methanol poisoning results in something that looks like MS.
Logitech have also had a gamepad with it. The Logitech Wingman Gamepad Extreme. I've had it for years and its a nice little toy. Like one of the first USB devices I ever bought.
His nickname? Ray?
It's a known fact that video games "journalists" are intellectual wankers. Sometimes just plain old wankers but most of the time they're huge intellectual wankers.
Here's a brief rundown of how each video game house reviews games:
IGN - Is the company advertising the game on IGN? Yes? Then add 5 to the score.
Gamespot - Is this game popular? If yes, demolish the score by at least 20% and make sure to have completely unrealistic expectations of the game.
Gamespy - THIS GAME IS SO COOL! GET THE DOWNLOAD NOW FROM FILEPLANET FOR ONLY $9.95/MONTH!!!!! MAKE SURE TO LOOK AT ONE OF OUR KEWL FEATURES DUDE!
HTH. HAND.
He had 5 computers in his business with unlicensed software and he's the one that cried unfair.
I got news for you. It's your responsibility to keep track of your software licenses. There are inexpensive tools, hell, even just a standard policy on what to do with machines would go a long way.
Blockquoting the article:
"The guys in engineering need a new PC, so they get one and we pass theirs on to somebody doing clerical work. Well, if you don't wipe the hard drive on that PC, that's a violation. Even if they can tell a piece of software isn't being used."
He got caught because of his sheer laziness and possibly his own ignorance. Making him into a martyr for open source only legitimises the belief that linux is free software (free as in beer) and, to some point, that only software "pirates" (sic) use it.
Must we glorify this man by giving him frontpage?
Oh. Thank you so much for pointing that out to me!
That even told me how ginourmous my license fee was going to be so I could close my source and start selling my IM app!
Thank you Tenebrious1! If it weren't for your hyperbole I might still be reverse engineering Microsoft's protocols!
Twit.
Oh, it will remain open I think. For anyone willing to cough up an appropriate license fee and willing to sign a pretty little NDA, which basically states your first born will belong to Microsoft.
Care to cite your source?
Oh wait. My mistake. Speculative bullshit shouldn't be questioned when it's about Microsoft.
Carry on.
Hello. I'm your new doctor!
$50/hour? Forget that. I've got a $120,000 student loan hanging over my head. For you I'll make it $150/hour! Don't like it? Well screw you bucko because I'm one of two maybe three doctors in town. Maybe if you had free health care you might be able to see me. But you don't.
Now get the hell out of my office.
If that's all they did, what's the big deal?
Because every company provides their own platform specific implementation of classes instead of using a mobile standard.
It's all very nice to say that something supports Java but its no good when each device requires you to program in some bastardised dialect of Java.
I've done a bit of coding for Nokia phones and it amazes me the amount of stuff that is purely Nokia brand Java. Most of the screen stuff is Nokia dialect.
Frankly I'd just like to see mobile phone standards converge for once. As if the marketplace wasn't fragmented enough already making a developer's life hell.
.NET tools to develop for mobile phones but its also another thing developers have to learn to code for just so they can get their product out to a market.
Sure its great having
Also, Microsoft are getting in on the act. The new Desktop Composition Engine for Longhorn is based on the same type of compositing but using DirectX instead of OpenGL.
It's great for using 3D effects on 2D windows for what has normally been wasted horsepower. Finally, eye candy that won't slow down your system!
Even just TURNING ON THE FIREWALL BUILT INTO XP would prevent 90% of the machines out there being infected. I know my g/f and her roommate haven't been infected yet even though her roommate's system (which is unpatched) is the ICS "server".
Do you know about 'one pixel images?'
Apparently Microsoft does and hence Outlook 2003 filters images out by default to protect privacy. That being said, its merely a one click effort to put the images back in.
Imagine that, a sensible idea to get the best of both worlds that doesn't involve putting a blanket ban on HTML mail.
And with bill gates confession that five percent of windows systems crash more than twice a day the chances of him knowing all two well the habit that MS systems have of failing
5% of systems is nothing in the scheme of things. It's easy to put that down to the morons out there that simply run the spyware that comes down to Kazaa.
Why would a survey device with the job of simply recording data use KDE, or for that matter GNOME, or even X? Somehow I seriously doubt that KDE's crashing effects this thing in the slightest.
Then why are you using data submitted by computers loaded up with crap by ordinary joes to justify your position on windows stability. If I ran nothing more than a video capture application I'm sure I could get more uptime than 12 hours. Hell, even with all the gaming I do on my Windows XP box I still get uptimes of 1 week and upwards. My roommate runs a whole load of services on his XP box and he gets uptimes of 2 weeks and upwards.
But I'm not a mean guy. I'll make you a deal. If you bring your mindset into the 21st century I'll treat you like a human being instead of some mindless zealot.
I'm not heavily involved with Linux firewire, but I've been tracking it vaguely, and I understand that they've actually got a proper solution for the hotplug thing that works against 2.5
Backport it to 2.4 and I'll be impressed. Until then, for most users, the firewire support is about as useful as tits on a bull.
Wasn't that in response to calling "french fries" "freedom fries"?
If only I had a nickel or even a dime for every silly thing the US has made up in the name of being indepedent.
Hold shift, select text using keypad, Ctrl-C, put cursor where you want text, Ctrl-V.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS! FANCY THAT!
My XP has tab completion in CMD, a Microsoft virtual desktop manager in the task bar and the ability to set shortcut launches with key combinations.
Was there anything I forgot?
Can't P4s still operate in V86 mode? :P
Why am I foreseeing the creation of 1,024 virtual Contikis on afore mentioned 3GHz P4?
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So Microsoft should have to open up the word format as a public domain "tax"? You can't give something to the public domain and then try and use your donation as a "guilt trip" to someone else to get them to put something you want into the public domain.
Thats just bullshit.
So, where is the library to handle word documents?
Funny... I must have missed the chapter in "Business for Dummies" labelled "Interoperability: Helping your competition".
No doubt Microsoft had to reverse engineer every format for its import and export filters. What the hell makes you so special?
A lot of the stuff is already cross compatible. Nokia for instance sells the same games worldwide via its Club Nokia service.
Most other things would need to be localised or at least need local partners to provide the data that these apps need to function.
As for video calls (3G's supposed killer app), I haven't seen any problems yet communicating internationally between 3G networks. For instance, you can make a video call between Australia and the UK and it works just fine (or at least Hutchinson/Orange says it does).