Are you guys implying that Zune is so crappy that people won't want it even for free?
I've never used a Zune and only used iPods on a couple of occasions (don't own either). But if somebody gave me a Zune for christmas, I woudn't turn it down. I mean, it costs me nothing. At worst, it won't be the crappiest gift I've received. Hell, if it plays my MP3s, I will enjoy it.
Or will it somehow report all of my non-DRM music tracks to the RIAA?
Based on the side of the story told in the article, I would guess that they couldn't find anybody "guilty enough" to fire. Maybe the one guy they caught with the illegal data and didn't fire had connections of some sort. Still, they wanted to fire somebody to make an example and their numbers came up. The CD burning incident was probably an excuse after the decision was taken.
Still, it is only one side of the story and I don't know the author of the same so I'm basing my speculation on his word.
After an embarrassing corporate incident, it's easier to look "tough on crime" and fire somebody than actually fixing the problem. "Yes, we had a security incident a while ago. 200 employees were fired as a result. We take this things seriously".
Real books aren't necessarily trivially replaceable either. I've bought plenty of $400 academic works for my research, as university presses sell things at high cost and then it only gets higher when the book falls out of print.
Yes, indeed. But those aren't the books you would use for casual reading. You probably won't take them to the park, the beach, the bathroom, a long flight, etc. Plus, in my case I'd rather have prized books in hardcopy. I like to see the books in my bookshelves.
Of course, academic works and reference books are always convenient in electronic form for indexing/searching purposes.
Your are quite correct. You can get for about $400 a much "suitable" laptop. Still, I will get myself one (and donate one) for the very reasons you stated. Philantropy (even tho I'm not rich nor I'm generous) and it looks like a cool toy and a functional one to boot. Separately, none of those reasons would compel me to participate in the program.
You can play peggle for free at zone.msn.com, I believe. The levels are slightly different than the downloadable version, but other than that, I don't see much difference. I don't get very far in this game, so I don't know if later levels are different.
Did anyone else out there besides me find that part of the game actually fun and that it contributed greatly to the feeling of immersion and non-linearity
Hell, I loved that part of the game. Sometimes I would just go on sailing and see what I found and forget about the rest of the game for a while. You always found something nice. Like the islands shaped like a paw print. It gave the feeling of a world a lot bigger than it actually was. I liked going to the islands and talk to the inhabitants just to see what they were up to and I could easily imagine a backstory for them.
I read some reviews that didn't like the "cartoonish" graphics. I found them kind of charming and stylish.
Can you stick wsus on a dvd/cd and take it to your relative's XP PC that's still on dialup?
Microsoft should release roll-up updates every month or every patch day. That way, new install can simply apply the service pack and then apply the roll-up and be up to date.
While I regret seeing autopatcher go, I understand what I believe are Microsoft's reasons: autopatcher is distributing MS's patches without permission. Besides intellectual properties issues there's the question of integrity. Who vouches for these patches or the autopatcher software?
They may very well just stick with their current kernel. This is actually what I see happening, a lot of the world will be stuck on old GPL v2 modules, while some will choose to make "clean room" implementations of GPL v3 code and release it under v2
Or maybe they will simply port their apps to BSD and use that on the tivo boxes. Or maybe they will license some other OS that will allow them to keep everything closed source.
Or do they have a specific reason for sticking with Linux?
Learning and education should be entertaining. Or at least, you should have the option of having an interesting and educational experience.
But should entertainment be educational? Do you remember a summer blockbuster that was educational? Well, I remember learning a bunch of dinosaur names (which then I promptly forgot) on Jurassic Park. And I didn't know anything about the Titanic other than it sank, so I guess that one could count as historical.
And then there are movies so atrocious that you could become dumber watching them, such as Godzilla.
If the reason why you switch from Windows to Linux is because you resent Microsoft, its practices or closed source in general, then yes, you are pretty much doing nothing in the grand scheme of things. Of course, every journey starts with the first step, so you might "infect" your co-workers and maybe eventually the company.
If, however, you chose oss because you feel more comfortable with it or need to run a particular software that doesn't run on Windows *and* your company doesn't oppose it, go nuts and to hell with the anti-ms agenda.
A clunky copycat of Wordperfect - they even tried to borrow the name.
As an aside: when it comes to trying to borrow the name, nothing beats when Lotus changed Ami Pro (formerly from Samna) into "Word Pro". Ami was a pretty good word processor and according to Wikipedia was the first one that came out for windows. I wonder why it didn't become more popular.
Today's openoffice, based in part off of Sun's Star Office works very well, even for advanced documents.
I can't ditch Office at work because I use Outlook, but I find that the only feature I miss in OO Writer when I use it is the Outline view (it does wonders to help me get started on documents of more than a couple of pages).
People have no problem with this and blizzard. Expect the double standard to kick in in 3.. 2.. 1..
Are you kidding? Whenever a patch came out, the chief complaint in the forums was the bittorrent downloader. Blizzard even lists alternative (third party) download sites on their patch page because of this. Besides, they didn't re-invent bittorrent. They stated from the beginning what protocol they were using.
I see nothing wrong with MS doing this just like I see nothing wrong with bittorrent.
The biggest problem with AO is the fact that so many losers think it is cool to create a female toon, strip down to nothing, and gyrate their ass in your character's face if you ever sit down
If *that* is the biggest AO problem, I need to take a new look at it. Last time I played it, the biggest problem was that the lame interface and lag made it an unplayable mess, plus animation that made characters look like marionettes without joints. This on a hardware that ran WoW and Lord of the Rings Online without trouble.
Why do so many distros default to sendmail and bind? There was a time when running sendmail felt like an open invitation for people to break into your system. Debian has exim and Redhat offers postfix as one of it's defaults, why hasn't an alternative to bind come forward (from a distro provider point of view. The end user/admin can always install something else).
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Happy Year 1 A.i.P. everyone!
Wait... shouldn't it be 2 A.i.P.? I mean, since the year formerly known as 2007 is now 1 A.i.P. not 0 A.i.P. right?
I can already hear the discussions 100 years from now as to when does the next century really start...
Indie Rock Pete? Is that you?
I dunno, man. Did you see the Venture Bros. spoof of the Fantastic 4?
Are you guys implying that Zune is so crappy that people won't want it even for free?
I've never used a Zune and only used iPods on a couple of occasions (don't own either). But if somebody gave me a Zune for christmas, I woudn't turn it down. I mean, it costs me nothing. At worst, it won't be the crappiest gift I've received. Hell, if it plays my MP3s, I will enjoy it.
Or will it somehow report all of my non-DRM music tracks to the RIAA?
Based on the side of the story told in the article, I would guess that they couldn't find anybody "guilty enough" to fire. Maybe the one guy they caught with the illegal data and didn't fire had connections of some sort. Still, they wanted to fire somebody to make an example and their numbers came up. The CD burning incident was probably an excuse after the decision was taken.
Still, it is only one side of the story and I don't know the author of the same so I'm basing my speculation on his word.
After an embarrassing corporate incident, it's easier to look "tough on crime" and fire somebody than actually fixing the problem. "Yes, we had a security incident a while ago. 200 employees were fired as a result. We take this things seriously".
Real books aren't necessarily trivially replaceable either. I've bought plenty of $400 academic works for my research, as university presses sell things at high cost and then it only gets higher when the book falls out of print.
Yes, indeed. But those aren't the books you would use for casual reading. You probably won't take them to the park, the beach, the bathroom, a long flight, etc. Plus, in my case I'd rather have prized books in hardcopy. I like to see the books in my bookshelves.
Of course, academic works and reference books are always convenient in electronic form for indexing/searching purposes.
Your are quite correct. You can get for about $400 a much "suitable" laptop. Still, I will get myself one (and donate one) for the very reasons you stated. Philantropy (even tho I'm not rich nor I'm generous) and it looks like a cool toy and a functional one to boot. Separately, none of those reasons would compel me to participate in the program.
You can play peggle for free at zone.msn.com, I believe. The levels are slightly different than the downloadable version, but other than that, I don't see much difference. I don't get very far in this game, so I don't know if later levels are different.
Did anyone else out there besides me find that part of the game actually fun and that it contributed greatly to the feeling of immersion and non-linearity
Hell, I loved that part of the game. Sometimes I would just go on sailing and see what I found and forget about the rest of the game for a while. You always found something nice. Like the islands shaped like a paw print. It gave the feeling of a world a lot bigger than it actually was. I liked going to the islands and talk to the inhabitants just to see what they were up to and I could easily imagine a backstory for them.
I read some reviews that didn't like the "cartoonish" graphics. I found them kind of charming and stylish.
Whose near nudity? Martin Sheen's?
But if you know the terrorist's email address why not just go pick him up?
Sure. Have a SWAT team waiting by the server, and the moment he shows up to pick up his email, jump him and take him down.
Can you stick wsus on a dvd/cd and take it to your relative's XP PC that's still on dialup?
Microsoft should release roll-up updates every month or every patch day. That way, new install can simply apply the service pack and then apply the roll-up and be up to date.
While I regret seeing autopatcher go, I understand what I believe are Microsoft's reasons: autopatcher is distributing MS's patches without permission. Besides intellectual properties issues there's the question of integrity. Who vouches for these patches or the autopatcher software?
They may very well just stick with their current kernel. This is actually what I see happening, a lot of the world will be stuck on old GPL v2 modules, while some will choose to make "clean room" implementations of GPL v3 code and release it under v2
Or maybe they will simply port their apps to BSD and use that on the tivo boxes. Or maybe they will license some other OS that will allow them to keep everything closed source.
Or do they have a specific reason for sticking with Linux?
"Do you really want to do this?"
"Carefully saving this file"
Learning and education should be entertaining. Or at least, you should have the option of having an interesting and educational experience.
But should entertainment be educational? Do you remember a summer blockbuster that was educational? Well, I remember learning a bunch of dinosaur names (which then I promptly forgot) on Jurassic Park. And I didn't know anything about the Titanic other than it sank, so I guess that one could count as historical.
And then there are movies so atrocious that you could become dumber watching them, such as Godzilla.
Darl will be given a tin cup with which to entice the residents of Salt Lake City to charity.
Hardly. He might not be employable anymore, but he most likely has a golden parachute of some sort for such an occasion.
Usually a company bankruptcy affects employees and shareholders but not so much the top tier execs.
Or did you forget the part about Pearl Harbor being ALLOWED to happen so the US could get into the war.
Can you provide a reference regarding this?
If the reason why you switch from Windows to Linux is because you resent Microsoft, its practices or closed source in general, then yes, you are pretty much doing nothing in the grand scheme of things. Of course, every journey starts with the first step, so you might "infect" your co-workers and maybe eventually the company.
If, however, you chose oss because you feel more comfortable with it or need to run a particular software that doesn't run on Windows *and* your company doesn't oppose it, go nuts and to hell with the anti-ms agenda.
And "gullible" isn't on the dictionary, either.
Not a bad idea.
Instead of asking for donations for ads in the Times, you could all pool your money and buy a legislator.
Buy enough of those and you could form the "Geek Caucus".
A clunky copycat of Wordperfect - they even tried to borrow the name.
As an aside: when it comes to trying to borrow the name, nothing beats when Lotus changed Ami Pro (formerly from Samna) into "Word Pro". Ami was a pretty good word processor and according to Wikipedia was the first one that came out for windows. I wonder why it didn't become more popular.
Today's openoffice, based in part off of Sun's Star Office works very well, even for advanced documents.
I can't ditch Office at work because I use Outlook, but I find that the only feature I miss in OO Writer when I use it is the Outline view (it does wonders to help me get started on documents of more than a couple of pages).
People have no problem with this and blizzard. Expect the double standard to kick in in 3.. 2.. 1..
Are you kidding? Whenever a patch came out, the chief complaint in the forums was the bittorrent downloader. Blizzard even lists alternative (third party) download sites on their patch page because of this. Besides, they didn't re-invent bittorrent. They stated from the beginning what protocol they were using.
I see nothing wrong with MS doing this just like I see nothing wrong with bittorrent.
The biggest problem with AO is the fact that so many losers think it is cool to create a female toon, strip down to nothing, and gyrate their ass in your character's face if you ever sit down
If *that* is the biggest AO problem, I need to take a new look at it. Last time I played it, the biggest problem was that the lame interface and lag made it an unplayable mess, plus animation that made characters look like marionettes without joints. This on a hardware that ran WoW and Lord of the Rings Online without trouble.
Why do so many distros default to sendmail and bind? There was a time when running sendmail felt like an open invitation for people to break into your system. Debian has exim and Redhat offers postfix as one of it's defaults, why hasn't an alternative to bind come forward (from a distro provider point of view. The end user/admin can always install something else).
According to ISC vulnerability matrix, you are affected.