Powershell is a massive improvement over the traditional Windows console (which really hasn't changed significantly since the early DOS days); yes, it is in part just a re-implementation of but it is a joy to work with as a Windows admin.
And it's why the government have been trying to get rid of unelected members of the House of Lords for most of the past 10 years; something that I suspect the next government will continue to do.
If you're not part of the solution...then you're probably allowing illegal copying. In fact, right now I'm allowing illegal copying, I'm also allowing illegal drug use, murder, rape, public indecency and numerous other crimes - guess I should turn myself in right now.
Incorrect. Its editors create "reports" from the Usenet feeds that it pulls in from various providers (though you can still browse the feeds directly if you prefer).
That said, Newzbin's content is simply a function of the content of the newsgroups on Usenet; if people only posted non-infringing material to them, then there would only be non-infringing material to report.
I didn't say Steam had everything right, just that it did on those two points (connectivity and settings syncing).
The reason not to just pirate games is because, despite what some people seem to think, if nobody buys games the developers won't be able to afford to make new ones. This is why, even as a cash-strapped student, I always used to buy any games I wanted that were produced by smaller, indie studios (All hail Introversion), rather than pirate them, because I wanted to make sure they kept making games.
It's a shame that it's often easier to pirate than play legit, but Steam is a step in the right direction; it's the gaming iTunes, not perfect by any stretch but at least a sign that some people "get it" and are willing to move with the times instead of trying to force consumers to do it their way.
Then it's defeated by a dongle emulator, just like this will be defeated by either rigging all the phone home calls to return true or even by running a local server that achieves the same result.
As a long term PC gamer and both purchaser and pirater of said games, I have to say that Steam has pretty much single-handedly ended the pirate side of my gaming experience. While I will still occasionally give in and download pirated copies of games where they're available in advance of the official release, I still end up buying them (and usually pre-ordering them).
Over christmas, during Steam's insanely cheap sale, I must have spent close to £100 on all kind of games that I probably would never have played otherwise - frankly, for £3 or £4 even if you only play the game once you haven't really lost anything. I know Steam has its issues (Most notably the first sale ones), but I also think it's the way forward for games distribution in that it's very relaxed about how, when and where you play your games. I can install Steam anywhere at any time, download any of my games and play them without worrying about having discs or activiation limits (with the exception of a few retarded publishers who still insist on SecuRom or Games For Windows Live on their Steam distributed games) and if you plan ahead, you don't need an internet connection either.
I know others will inevitably try and emulate Steam, but if they do it in stupidly restrictive ways, like Ubi appear to be doing, they're only going to succeed in failing and they'll have nobody to blame but themselves (although they'll obviously try and place all the blame on the pirates).
This is either stupidity or an intentionally over the top "announcement" designed to soften people up so that when they release the actual platform people are relieved that it only phones home every hour instead of continuously.
Very few people are going to accept requiring 24/7 connectivity to play their games; given the number of times a day that I lose connection to Steam for a couple of minutes for whatever reason, if it had a system like this I'd never be able to play any of my games without interruption. And God help you if you're playing a multiplayer game and you lose connection to Ubisoft but not to the server you're playing on; forget blaming lag, you can just blame the fact that your game was paused for 30 seconds while it re-established a connection to Ubi.
Oh and we're sorry we deleted all your save games, but these things happen and the agreement you signed means we don't have any responsibility to protect your data while it's sitting on our servers. Again, Steam has it right here with their cloud settings, you *sync* the information with the local machine, you don't store it all remotely.
The most useful part of getting a degree isn't so much the course itself, but the skills and knowledge that you pick up around the course, the interactions with other students and lecturers and, of course, the parties.
While I rarely use any of my degree course material (BEng Computer Systems) in my job (Sysadmin), I do use a lot of the stuff I learned while at Uni.
Steam isn't a problem, it's when you've got 12 Steam clones from different publishers all of which are required for you to be able to play different parts of your games library.
1.4 The BBC's proposed content management approach would require Ofcom to grant an amendment to its multiplex licence, subject to Ofcom's approval of specific proposals, to allow the BBC to restrict the availability of programme listing information for HDTV services only to receivers that implement content management technology.
1.9 The content management technology required to be implemented in receivers under the BBC's proposals would permit unrestricted recordings of HD content onto digital video recorders (DVRs) but would enable broadcasters to control the copying of this content onto other devices and its distribution over the internet. The HD content would only be accessible on other consumer devices which support the same content management technologies as those used in HD receivers.
In essence, if you use a receiver without support for this DRM tech, the only thing you're going to lose access to is the Programme Listing data - it's the BBC's way of placating the drooling media execs with as little direct impact on consumers as possible. Now that's not to say that someone in the government won't make it impossible to buy receivers that don't support this in the UK, but that's what China is for.
Yes, because the quality of television (And radio, and internet services) provided by ITV is soooooo much better than the BBC.
I can't wait until The Natural World becomes The Real Natural World, in which a series of barely cognizant social rejects are dumped into the middle of the African plains to see how they cope with being hunted by an incredible array of nature's creations. Actually, that would probably be quite entertaining for a while, but not as a *replacement* for decent, intelligent, educational television.
Technically, the European parents aren't legally enforceable as there is currently no provision for patenting software (even though the EPO accepts applications for and issues such patents) within the EU.
Well, 1LY is 9.4605284 × 10^15 metres and carbon nanotubes have, on average, a density of approx 1.4g/cm^-3. Assuming a 1cm radius tube, you're looking at a volume of 2971946650295cm^3 which gives you something like 4,160,725 tonnes.
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It's good, but it's not *as* good and it's not a viable direct replacement for Task Manager (not can it easily become one).
That obviously should have said:
...just a re-implementation of <insert favourite *nix shell here>...
Powershell is a massive improvement over the traditional Windows console (which really hasn't changed significantly since the early DOS days); yes, it is in part just a re-implementation of but it is a joy to work with as a Windows admin.
Don't forget live.sysinternals.com for instant access to any of the tools.
I'm still rather disappointed that Windows 7 didn't ship with Process Explorer as a replacement for Task Manager, it's almost universally better,
It's supposed to be 1e100.net, i.e. 1x10^100 or a Googol.
Obviously Chemists are more nationalistic than Physicists...
And it's why the government have been trying to get rid of unelected members of the House of Lords for most of the past 10 years; something that I suspect the next government will continue to do.
"Allowing illegal copying?"
If you're not part of the solution...then you're probably allowing illegal copying. In fact, right now I'm allowing illegal copying, I'm also allowing illegal drug use, murder, rape, public indecency and numerous other crimes - guess I should turn myself in right now.
The rights-holders obviously didn't file enough takedown requests to satisfy themselves...or something.
Incorrect. Its editors create "reports" from the Usenet feeds that it pulls in from various providers (though you can still browse the feeds directly if you prefer).
That said, Newzbin's content is simply a function of the content of the newsgroups on Usenet; if people only posted non-infringing material to them, then there would only be non-infringing material to report.
I agree entirely on the launch prices of Steam games, they are too high most of the time.
I didn't say Steam had everything right, just that it did on those two points (connectivity and settings syncing).
The reason not to just pirate games is because, despite what some people seem to think, if nobody buys games the developers won't be able to afford to make new ones. This is why, even as a cash-strapped student, I always used to buy any games I wanted that were produced by smaller, indie studios (All hail Introversion), rather than pirate them, because I wanted to make sure they kept making games.
It's a shame that it's often easier to pirate than play legit, but Steam is a step in the right direction; it's the gaming iTunes, not perfect by any stretch but at least a sign that some people "get it" and are willing to move with the times instead of trying to force consumers to do it their way.
Then it's defeated by a dongle emulator, just like this will be defeated by either rigging all the phone home calls to return true or even by running a local server that achieves the same result.
As a long term PC gamer and both purchaser and pirater of said games, I have to say that Steam has pretty much single-handedly ended the pirate side of my gaming experience. While I will still occasionally give in and download pirated copies of games where they're available in advance of the official release, I still end up buying them (and usually pre-ordering them).
Over christmas, during Steam's insanely cheap sale, I must have spent close to £100 on all kind of games that I probably would never have played otherwise - frankly, for £3 or £4 even if you only play the game once you haven't really lost anything. I know Steam has its issues (Most notably the first sale ones), but I also think it's the way forward for games distribution in that it's very relaxed about how, when and where you play your games. I can install Steam anywhere at any time, download any of my games and play them without worrying about having discs or activiation limits (with the exception of a few retarded publishers who still insist on SecuRom or Games For Windows Live on their Steam distributed games) and if you plan ahead, you don't need an internet connection either.
I know others will inevitably try and emulate Steam, but if they do it in stupidly restrictive ways, like Ubi appear to be doing, they're only going to succeed in failing and they'll have nobody to blame but themselves (although they'll obviously try and place all the blame on the pirates).
This is either stupidity or an intentionally over the top "announcement" designed to soften people up so that when they release the actual platform people are relieved that it only phones home every hour instead of continuously.
Very few people are going to accept requiring 24/7 connectivity to play their games; given the number of times a day that I lose connection to Steam for a couple of minutes for whatever reason, if it had a system like this I'd never be able to play any of my games without interruption. And God help you if you're playing a multiplayer game and you lose connection to Ubisoft but not to the server you're playing on; forget blaming lag, you can just blame the fact that your game was paused for 30 seconds while it re-established a connection to Ubi.
Oh and we're sorry we deleted all your save games, but these things happen and the agreement you signed means we don't have any responsibility to protect your data while it's sitting on our servers. Again, Steam has it right here with their cloud settings, you *sync* the information with the local machine, you don't store it all remotely.
The most useful part of getting a degree isn't so much the course itself, but the skills and knowledge that you pick up around the course, the interactions with other students and lecturers and, of course, the parties.
While I rarely use any of my degree course material (BEng Computer Systems) in my job (Sysadmin), I do use a lot of the stuff I learned while at Uni.
I can think of only one place NT 4.0 skills might be valuable today
Come work in the NHS, where many trusts still run NT4 domains and Exchange 5.5...I really, really wish I was joking.
Steam isn't a problem, it's when you've got 12 Steam clones from different publishers all of which are required for you to be able to play different parts of your games library.
If you Read The Fine Article That Wasn't Linked on the Ofcom website you'll find interesting tidbits such as:
1.4 The BBC's proposed content management approach would require Ofcom to grant an amendment to its multiplex licence, subject to Ofcom's approval of specific proposals, to allow the BBC to restrict the availability of programme listing information for HDTV services only to receivers that implement content management technology.
1.9 The content management technology required to be implemented in receivers under the BBC's proposals would permit unrestricted recordings of HD content onto digital video recorders (DVRs) but would enable broadcasters to control the copying of this content onto other devices and its distribution over the internet. The HD content would only be accessible on other consumer devices which support the same content management technologies as those used in HD receivers.
In essence, if you use a receiver without support for this DRM tech, the only thing you're going to lose access to is the Programme Listing data - it's the BBC's way of placating the drooling media execs with as little direct impact on consumers as possible. Now that's not to say that someone in the government won't make it impossible to buy receivers that don't support this in the UK, but that's what China is for.
Full PDF is here
Yes, because the quality of television (And radio, and internet services) provided by ITV is soooooo much better than the BBC.
I can't wait until The Natural World becomes The Real Natural World, in which a series of barely cognizant social rejects are dumped into the middle of the African plains to see how they cope with being hunted by an incredible array of nature's creations. Actually, that would probably be quite entertaining for a while, but not as a *replacement* for decent, intelligent, educational television.
Not just backscatter, also spam "from" you - I used to get a lot of.
...the ruling means Redmond has managed to avoid hundreds of millions in potential damages
All of which would have gone to the lawyers.
Technically, the European parents aren't legally enforceable as there is currently no provision for patenting software (even though the EPO accepts applications for and issues such patents) within the EU.
Well, 1LY is 9.4605284 × 10^15 metres and carbon nanotubes have, on average, a density of approx 1.4g/cm^-3. Assuming a 1cm radius tube, you're looking at a volume of 2971946650295cm^3 which gives you something like 4,160,725 tonnes.