The CD Became obsolete after the 'man' (RIAA, IPFI, Et.al) became dicks and started suing music lovers who embraced MP3 as a way to sample music before purchasing loads of CDs based on such sampling.
I'm all for more browsers eroding the IE market, but Apple really did a piss poor job with their first beta version of Safari for Windows. Even "Gran Paradisio" Firefox 3.0 Alpha 5 is more stable and feature complete than Safari.
Hopefully they'll get to work ASAP to improve their software, otherwise I doubt many people except die hard Apple fanboys will use it on Windows (Why would they use Windows?)
1. This affected a minuscule amount of the total LJ user population. and 2. The unnaffected parties will most likely i.) ignore it ii.) get annoyed and move on iii.) do nothing (see i.)
The result is thus:
a) Nothing except the affected parties will stop using LJ and b) It will not have any major negative impact
Because people usually dont care what happens to others unless it also affects them, and if it affects them at a later stage -- hey, they are alone in their fight as well. --
"Great Ports". You named 2 linux versions and 1 emulated one... (Oh Yea, Americas Army also has a Linux version)
Sure, Linux is great and all that, but dont try to advertise it as a gaming OS, since it is not, and usually requires a bunch of extra modules and trying to find a driver that works, as well as getting it to work in X11 and whatnot.
If they are going to compete with the illegal sources, at LEAST they can provide the data in the same quality if you are going to pay for it.
And if they are going to charge as much as the physical media for something only stored on a computer that costs nothing extra to reproduce and takes up no shelf space, it should be cheaper, or of a much higher quality.
Give us HD-DVDs to download and they'll get their money.
Anything that gets CREATIVE to release and IMPROVE their f'ing drivers is a good thing. Unfortunately, they'll probably still be very very late out the door with anything, just like in the past.
This Driver Rating system must be great -- now you can add it to your signature, with your 3DMark, RenderMark and Aquamark3 score.. "My drivers have a rating of 94%, Biiaaaatch".
I'd agree to Driver Ratings being a good thing IF I could install unsigned kernel mode drivers in Vista x64.
To the original poster; Crash Reports do serve a function, although you as the user is not told about its effect. (And I wont either..)
So customers with valid need and use of port 25, 110 or whatever should get it blocked and 'hand over control' to the ISP because the ISP is unable to act on abuse reports?
nice.. close down the good guys.. AND the bad guys [who will still find a way around it]..
Because they are not patenting a product, they are patenting a common method such as waking up and putting the right leg on the floor before the left.
How about someone patenting that.... they just need to create a vague description for it, and give it a name such as "autonomous interaction with horizontal surface to attain stability and lift for bipods" and describe how 1) a person 2) waking up 3) using their legs 4) to attain lift 5) by assuming that 1 6) has 2 pair of lift mechanisms 7) interacts with surface 8) capable of... etc.
*wham* suddenly everyone pays you money for waking up and using the right leg before the left one... or you can only wake up and roll to the left side, until somebody patents that as well. Just like One-two-three click shopping.
How about visiting your local bookstore and having to click 41 times before you can make the purchase, because the other 40 clicks were 'patented'. Not including a Soft-click, a Hard-click and a Right-left-click drag..
The "food" your can "make" from "reading" this "book " may not in fact be "food", but something else, "we" dont "know" yet, but "rest" asured that as we "speak" millions of "dollars" and unfathomable "knowledge" is being put to the "test" of "discovering" what "you" are "reading". Ps: Try the taco on pg. 34
I remember this as well. It was great. You had a plugin to get it support in internet explorer (4 at the time?).
Did take some extra horsepower though, but it was'nt too bad. Sad to improvements in technology not being used... Smaller and Better "looking" Images.. and nobody used them.:\
Sad to see that they have so many lag issues. I experienced lag on the euro pvp server yesterday at prime-time because of soo many people logged in.
What is worse is that games such as Wish had no issues with lag even with a _lot_ of players involved in battling hundreds of goblins in a close proximity area... [and they canned it].
Have Blizzard even adressed the issue with lag in the game? We reported it, and reported it again and again during the US Beta.. and it still made it to launch.. and the European Final Beta running now also has the problems. WHat is the point of running a beta test if they are not going to fix the issues that appear..
I am interested to see how the Erotic Literature industry is viewing Blu-Ray/HD-DVD then. I am sure they could fit a lot more books onto one Blu-Ray than a HD-DVD... And it does'nt matter if the quality is soo good... Hey, perhaps even blind people can read it.
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The CD Became obsolete after the 'man' (RIAA, IPFI, Et.al) became dicks and started suing music lovers who embraced MP3 as a way to sample music before purchasing loads of CDs based on such sampling.
Seen many military charges since WW1 where soldiers walk on a long line holding hands to 'get yourself connected'?
A Beowulf Cluster of Zombies!
Sign me up!
I'm all for more browsers eroding the IE market, but Apple really did a piss poor job with their first beta version of Safari for Windows. Even "Gran Paradisio" Firefox 3.0 Alpha 5 is more stable and feature complete than Safari.
Heck, Safari is annoying people who USE Microsoft software, like me, because it is a piece of shit.
y -safari-30-for-windows-sucks.html
Shameless plug since I cba to repost it here:
My Experiences with Safari 3.0 for Windows.
http://yesthatsit.blogspot.com/2007/06/comment-wh
Hopefully they'll get to work ASAP to improve their software, otherwise I doubt many
people except die hard Apple fanboys will use it on Windows (Why would they use Windows?)
Real = Spyware / Nagware / Crapware / WTFWare
Be Aware about RealPlayer.
I am thinking Sim City when I see this
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http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Digi
Looks like the industry areas are quite big, wonder how the pollution in that city is.
No fires though, so that is a good thing.
Well.
1. This affected a minuscule amount of the total LJ user population.
and
2. The unnaffected parties will most likely
i.) ignore it
ii.) get annoyed and move on
iii.) do nothing (see i.)
The result is thus:
a) Nothing except the affected parties will stop using LJ
and
b) It will not have any major negative impact
Because people usually dont care what happens to others unless it also affects them, and if it affects them at a later stage -- hey, they are alone in their fight as well. --
So to summarize:
Nothing to see here, move along.
And when those wronged are the company themselves?
2 years in jail for TRANSLATING the text/speech in a movie??
Good to see we are hitting the terrorists where it hurts.
Uhm.
Did I wake up one day and find out SCO had assimilated Microsoft?
Is this me?
Hello?
AMiGA Forever!
I'm quite sure Slashdot wrote about this 1 or 2 years ago. /have/ you been.
Where
"Great Ports".
You named 2 linux versions and 1 emulated one...
(Oh Yea, Americas Army also has a Linux version)
Sure, Linux is great and all that, but dont try to advertise it as a gaming OS, since it is not, and usually requires a bunch of extra modules and trying to find a driver that works, as well as getting it to work in X11 and whatnot.
Aint it great.
"You will get money for your copyrighted works being copied legally.."
if: You're a member of our group
and if: You're famous enough
and if: You've paid your membership fee for the year
Agree.
If they are going to compete with the illegal sources, at LEAST they can provide the data in the same quality if you are going to pay for it.
And if they are going to charge as much as the physical media for something only stored on a computer that costs nothing extra to reproduce and takes up no shelf space, it should be cheaper, or of a much higher quality.
Give us HD-DVDs to download and they'll get their money.
Anything that gets CREATIVE to release and IMPROVE their f'ing drivers is a good thing.
Unfortunately, they'll probably still be very very late out the door with anything, just like in the past.
This Driver Rating system must be great -- now you can add it to your signature, with your 3DMark, RenderMark and Aquamark3 score.. "My drivers have a rating of 94%, Biiaaaatch".
I'd agree to Driver Ratings being a good thing IF I could install unsigned kernel mode drivers in Vista x64.
To the original poster; Crash Reports do serve a function, although you as the user is not told about its effect.
(And I wont either..)
Well, maybe the cops arrest you because you are a fucking moron, or because you were breaking & entering another persons home.
So customers with valid need and use of port 25, 110 or whatever should get it blocked and 'hand over control' to the ISP because the ISP is unable to act on abuse reports?
nice.. close down the good guys.. AND the bad guys [who will still find a way around it]..
Because they are not patenting a product, they are patenting a common method such as waking up and putting the right leg on the floor before the left.
... etc.
How about someone patenting that.... they just need to create a vague description for it, and give it a name such as "autonomous interaction with horizontal surface to attain stability and lift for bipods" and describe how 1) a person 2) waking up 3) using their legs 4) to attain lift 5) by assuming that 1 6) has 2 pair of lift mechanisms 7) interacts with surface 8) capable of
*wham* suddenly everyone pays you money for waking up and using the right leg before the left one... or you can only wake up and roll to the left side, until somebody patents that as well. Just like One-two-three click shopping.
How about visiting your local bookstore and having to click 41 times before you can make the purchase, because the other 40 clicks were 'patented'. Not including a Soft-click, a Hard-click and a Right-left-click drag..
For a cooking book.
The "food" your can "make" from "reading" this "book " may not in fact be "food", but something else, "we" dont "know" yet, but "rest" asured that as we "speak" millions of "dollars" and unfathomable "knowledge" is being put to the "test" of "discovering" what "you" are "reading". Ps: Try the taco on pg. 34
Because one should never be satisfied with anything but instead continuously seek to improve on it.
50% is a lot huge increase in performance.
I remember this as well. It was great. You had a plugin to get it support in internet explorer (4 at the time?).
:\
Did take some extra horsepower though, but it was'nt too bad. Sad to improvements in technology not being used... Smaller and Better "looking" Images.. and nobody used them.
Sad to see that they have so many lag issues. I experienced lag on the euro pvp server yesterday at prime-time because of soo many people logged in.
What is worse is that games such as Wish had no issues with lag even with a _lot_ of players involved in battling hundreds of goblins in a close proximity area... [and they canned it].
Have Blizzard even adressed the issue with lag in the game? We reported it, and reported it again and again during the US Beta.. and it still made it to launch.. and the European Final Beta running now also has the problems. WHat is the point of running a beta test if they are not going to fix the issues that appear..
I am interested to see how the Erotic Literature industry is viewing Blu-Ray/HD-DVD then. I am sure they could fit a lot more books onto one Blu-Ray than a HD-DVD... And it does'nt matter if the quality is soo good... Hey, perhaps even blind people can read it.