Not likely. They're in the movie business to make money, anything their customers use for free is a threat, anything they use for free is more money.
yes, this reminds me of companys that enforce licences on software they developed on pirated development software. point being that they don't practice what they preach
And on ebay as well, this one includes the light-gun for Duck Hunt!
heh, did you look at the screen shots? it has a picture of anacroid (i think) with "Tetris" printed over it and a picture of Mappy (I think) with "Pac-Man" printed over it.
I knew alex winter had a stint with modona a while back, I guess its good to see he is still in the business. I love bill and teds... I aspired to BE Ted for about 8 years of my life (and mabye still a little bit). anyway, hopfully the movie doesn't suck
Mod chips, legal issues aside, are one of the "value adds" of the console market.
I agree with you. Although, in most cases these companies (MS,Sony,Nintendo) take a loss on the consoles and make all of their money on game sales. So I doubt they were thinking of X-box Linux hobbyists when they were suing these guys, they were thinking of people playing copied games.
It seems ever since the nonsense with bulkregister none of the bulkregisters domains show up in netsols whois. You just get a page that says "error". Works in any other who is though.
I don't have any employees. Anyway, reading slashdot is very worthwhile in my line of work, and following a link to see what they are talking about it part if it.
I belive many of the benefits of Debian would transition it well to Joe Average level users, once the interface/windowing stumbling blocks are overcome
I agree, but there are allot of zelots in debian (sometimes I could be considered one of them). A graphical install has beed discused many times, and every times it gets flamed. Debian will probably be the last of the main destros to get to a graphical isntall... oh, it already is!! (this depends on what you consider a main distro =) ). I love debian... I use it on all my servers.
Reminds me of the problems 2600 was having with ford. Ford didn't like them linking to thier site so they sued them. 2600 then found out that ford was sueing a bunch of people for stupid reasons, such as Jaguarenthusiastsclub.com, which is an animal site. You can read about it HERE. The case recently got droped BTW.
For some reason this reminds me of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams could take seemingly unrelated components and convince you that this was the only way to make it work.
The FBIs next target should be those thieves at fast food joints that take more that their share of fountain pop. Or, even worse, they should lock up people who order a water, then fill it up with coke.
I can see the quotes now...
"We figure that people who take more that one free refill, which is what out agreement allows for, costs our company more 1.5 million dollars a year."
or
"These kind of people have no regard for others. When they steal pop they degrade the experience for all the other customers, most likely someone will not get the flavor they want and have to settle for the grape drink. And it causes more labor for the restaurant because they have to change the syrup more often. We must prosecute the criminals"
I'm no lawyer... but the point of sale was in iowa, so a company would have to follow state laws also. Just becuase they are based out of stated doesn't mean they are above state law when selling to resedents (of course the internet is the big gray area right now). Its like a fast food joint having to follow local health standards even though they are based out of state. (I know there are allot of holes in this analogy, but take it for what it is worth)
Many Web designers have built sites primarily for IE, and those pages look odd in Mozilla. For example, we struggled with sites that use a technology called positioning to put ads on their pages. In IE, those ads temporarily hide part of the page, then go away. But in our Mozilla tests, the ads sometimes permanently blocked part of the page, and we had to reload the page until we got a different, regular, nonpositioning ad.
Despite these few foibles...
Foibles? just because IE likes to follow its own standard doesn't mean that it IS the standard. I would consider this a "foibles" on IEs part. If a developer is only designing a site for ID (and not for Netscape, for example) they are hurting themselves and their customer. A cross-browser compatibility (otherwise called following a standard) is something that will win you long term costumers who notice your attention to detail.
I can see why a reviewer would compare a new browser to IE, but to consider IE the standard is hardly appropriate.
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No, that was Mel Brooks. The movie was a parody of the Star Tours ride at Disneyworld.
oh yeah, now I remember. How can I forget Disneyworld, with all the characters from the "Peanuts "comics!
George Lucas (of American Graffiti fame!)
George Lucas, yes I think I've heard of him. Didn't he do a movie called SpaceBalls? or am I thinking of someone else?
Not likely. They're in the movie business to make money, anything their customers use for free is a threat, anything they use for free is more money.
yes, this reminds me of companys that enforce licences on software they developed on pirated development software. point being that they don't practice what they preach
And on ebay as well, this one includes the light-gun for Duck Hunt!
heh, did you look at the screen shots? it has a picture of anacroid (i think) with "Tetris" printed over it and a picture of Mappy (I think) with "Pac-Man" printed over it.
why does that picture of the phoenix look like a SWAN FROM HELL.
I knew alex winter had a stint with modona a while back, I guess its good to see he is still in the business. I love bill and teds... I aspired to BE Ted for about 8 years of my life (and mabye still a little bit). anyway, hopfully the movie doesn't suck
Mod chips, legal issues aside, are one of the "value adds" of the console market.
I agree with you. Although, in most cases these companies (MS,Sony,Nintendo) take a loss on the consoles and make all of their money on game sales. So I doubt they were thinking of X-box Linux hobbyists when they were suing these guys, they were thinking of people playing copied games.
I just wanted to get in on this... please sue me too. jack ass!
It seems ever since the nonsense with bulkregister none of the bulkregisters domains show up in netsols whois. You just get a page that says "error". Works in any other who is though.
Is your employee aware of this?
I don't have any employees. Anyway, reading slashdot is very worthwhile in my line of work, and following a link to see what they are talking about it part if it.
thanks for the porno link. I'm at work and I clicked on the war on terrorism link and got a couple porno popups. Thanks slashdot.
I don't know mutch about either, but what about posgress?
This would be nice as I often tend to put my laptop in its insulated carying case before I turn it off. DOH!!
I already installed that patch...
yeah yeah yeah... slackware was exacly who I was thinking of when I said that it depends what yo uconsider a main distro. slackware is cool too...
I belive many of the benefits of Debian would transition it well to Joe Average level users, once the interface/windowing stumbling blocks are overcome
I agree, but there are allot of zelots in debian (sometimes I could be considered one of them). A graphical install has beed discused many times, and every times it gets flamed. Debian will probably be the last of the main destros to get to a graphical isntall... oh, it already is!! (this depends on what you consider a main distro =) ).
I love debian... I use it on all my servers.
And any admin with skillz at Ford could block it. I'm not sure why they didn't do this in the first place.
Reminds me of the problems 2600 was having with ford. Ford didn't like them linking to thier site so they sued them. 2600 then found out that ford was sueing a bunch of people for stupid reasons, such as Jaguarenthusiastsclub.com, which is an animal site. You can read about it HERE. The case recently got droped BTW.
I already emailed my bank and told them I was against it. Although I probably did more damage than good... They probably didn't know about it before.
It couldn't be a bad thing to let your bank know you are against it.
For some reason this reminds me of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams could take seemingly unrelated components and convince you that this was the only way to make it work.
The FBIs next target should be those thieves at fast food joints that take more that their share of fountain pop. Or, even worse, they should lock up people who order a water, then fill it up with coke.
I can see the quotes now...
"We figure that people who take more that one free refill, which is what out agreement allows for, costs our company more 1.5 million dollars a year."
or
"These kind of people have no regard for others. When they steal pop they degrade the experience for all the other customers, most likely someone will not get the flavor they want and have to settle for the grape drink. And it causes more labor for the restaurant because they have to change the syrup more often. We must prosecute the criminals"
you get the picture.
I'm no lawyer... but the point of sale was in iowa, so a company would have to follow state laws also. Just becuase they are based out of stated doesn't mean they are above state law when selling to resedents (of course the internet is the big gray area right now). Its like a fast food joint having to follow local health standards even though they are based out of state. (I know there are allot of holes in this analogy, but take it for what it is worth)
Many Web designers have built sites primarily for IE, and those pages look odd in Mozilla. For example, we struggled with sites that use a technology called positioning to put ads on their pages. In IE, those ads temporarily hide part of the page, then go away. But in our Mozilla tests, the ads sometimes permanently blocked part of the page, and we had to reload the page until we got a different, regular, nonpositioning ad.
Despite these few foibles...
Foibles? just because IE likes to follow its own standard doesn't mean that it IS the standard. I would consider this a "foibles" on IEs part. If a developer is only designing a site for ID (and not for Netscape, for example) they are hurting themselves and their customer. A cross-browser compatibility (otherwise called following a standard) is something that will win you long term costumers who notice your attention to detail.
I can see why a reviewer would compare a new browser to IE, but to consider IE the standard is hardly appropriate.
>that should give you plenty of links to play with.
Actually, no
if you follow those links you will get a bunch of info. I guess that is what I ment by "that should give you plenty of links. but whatever.
This sort of stuff has been around for a while.
here is one dev kit
here is some more stuff
that should give you plenty of links to play with.