That's because/. editors have a quota of Microsoft stories. They must fill the holes with whatever they can to be able to add what they live for: Redmond stories.
And then, when us Europeans try to protect our workers against such odd behavior, you call us f*cking communists or other charming names ?
Whatever, just continue this way and let's talk about it again in one or two decades,
Are you blind ?
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Look better, it's written from the america's-army dept. just under the title...
Re:I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing...
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Well, do you think you pay less when you go to the cinema and there are ads all over your crap action movie ?
My favorite game has already big advertisements all over it. I won't tell you what game it is, just that it's *very* addictive and I have quite a good score (Karma: excellent).
These days everything is subject to a patent, copyright or some other IP monopoly grant. Genetically modified organisms are just aimed at *NOT* being able to breed normally. All other "enhancements" are marketing tricks, exactely like the push for new versions of office software. Then you have to buy seeds/babies year after year if you want to grow them.
I know for one Bruce Perens eagerly awaits for Secure Trusted Computing: that's the only way he'll be able to get back the laptop lots of people have stolen him during LinuxWorld !
The most obvious use is to authorize my connection to a remote server. If the private key is safely locked away on the chip then I can be assured that only my machine can connect to the remote server with that identity.
And if the chip burns (electronics, you know) or the mobo burns and no replacement is available (consumer market economics, you know), your identity is lost, as well as all your encrypted files.
Maybe that's just a marketing stunt: they made a game reconfigurable one way or another (you can change landscapes, heroes, sceneries, whatever) and by combining every possibility your reach 32K games. That would explain the power-of-two number and the otherwise unbelievable announcement.
However, the efficiency and lifespan of both small molecule and polymer type OLEDs, to date, has been poor for small wavelength emitting compounds
Apparently these displays would have a short lifespan. We would then have disposable screens. That seems a perfect consumer target: cheap, glowing, quickly obsolete.
Under Unix, you can't put root.root files in a user's $HOME and chmod 644 them and hope the user can't modify them. As they are in the user directory, in which the user can do whatever she wants, the can be unlinked/moved elsewhere. So the user can reconfigure mozilla as she sees fit.
Same thing for directories.
Well, then you always have the P2P solution, i.e. fire mlDonkey or your favorite P2P app and download the video you want. But if the content provider opts for a "good" format, just go ahead and buy it.
I've only have DVDs since I can easily watch it under Linux.
I found this essay not very convincing nor really exciting. If you look for strange animals look at a good book about coral reef species. You'll see really stranger animals than what's in this website.
I didn't look at the source myself, but here is a quote from Al Viro who did (and I find he has good taste):
Damn you. That thread got me to download subversion source and read it -
mistake I won't repeat any time soon. I've spent several months wading
through fairly disgusting code - block device drivers are not pretty,
ditto for devfs. I had more than once found myself grabbing Lovecraft
to read something that would be less nightmare-inducing. But _THAT_ takes
the fscking cake - I don't _care_ what Larry (or anybody else for that
matter) does to people who had excreted that code. No, wait - I _do_ care.
I want video of the... event.
I don't use BK, but you can be damn sure that I won't touch SVN. Ever.
If items can be bought and sold, if money can freely travel between your virtual wallet and your real-life bank account, if you can trade things in-game, does it mean that traditionnal taxes apply ?
If you can really buy items, even if these are virtual items, that means under most countries'law that there is a kind of warranty if the item proves to be defective.
"Hey, you just sold me a so-called magic armor which in fact didn't save my ass at all ! I want my money back, NOW !'
Imagine that: you have an in-game wallet with money, you can exchange/trade that money with other players, and with your real-life bank account. That'll be a good substitue for PayPal, and the company could even become a sort of Web-Bank !
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That's because /. editors have a quota of Microsoft stories. They must fill the holes with whatever they can to be able to add what they live for: Redmond stories.
IIRC esound does just that
And then, when us Europeans try to protect our workers against such odd behavior, you call us f*cking communists or other charming names ?
Whatever, just continue this way and let's talk about it again in one or two decades,
Look better, it's written from the america's-army dept. just under the title ...
Well, do you think you pay less when you go to the cinema and there are ads all over your crap action movie ?
My favorite game has already big advertisements all over it. I won't tell you what game it is, just that it's *very* addictive and I have quite a good score (Karma: excellent).
Welcome to a customer-locked world.
I hope he didn't mixed Macromedia and Macrovision once again ... coz a Macrovision CD would be rather useless IMHO
Well, you should be interested in DVBackup, this project does what you need: backup data on your camcorder. You can stick gigs on a mini-DV !
Do you mean that each time you can find dupes, that's spam ? Oh my god, poor /. ...
I know for one Bruce Perens eagerly awaits for Secure Trusted Computing: that's the only way he'll be able to get back the laptop lots of people have stolen him during LinuxWorld !
And if the chip burns (electronics, you know) or the mobo burns and no replacement is available (consumer market economics, you know), your identity is lost, as well as all your encrypted files.
Maybe that's just a marketing stunt: they made a game reconfigurable one way or another (you can change landscapes, heroes, sceneries, whatever) and by combining every possibility your reach 32K games. That would explain the power-of-two number and the otherwise unbelievable announcement.
Apparently these displays would have a short lifespan. We would then have disposable screens. That seems a perfect consumer target: cheap, glowing, quickly obsolete.
Under Unix, you can't put root.root files in a user's $HOME and chmod 644 them and hope the user can't modify them. As they are in the user directory, in which the user can do whatever she wants, the can be unlinked/moved elsewhere. So the user can reconfigure mozilla as she sees fit.
Same thing for directories.
In related news, Procter & Gamble still wonder why RFID embedded in Springle cans can be read from 100 meters instead of the regular 3 to 5 meters ...
Well, then you always have the P2P solution, i.e. fire mlDonkey or your favorite P2P app and download the video you want. But if the content provider opts for a "good" format, just go ahead and buy it.
I've only have DVDs since I can easily watch it under Linux.
I found this essay not very convincing nor really exciting. If you look for strange animals look at a good book about coral reef species. You'll see really stranger animals than what's in this website.
Damn you. That thread got me to download subversion source and read it - mistake I won't repeat any time soon. I've spent several months wading through fairly disgusting code - block device drivers are not pretty, ditto for devfs. I had more than once found myself grabbing Lovecraft to read something that would be less nightmare-inducing. But _THAT_ takes the fscking cake - I don't _care_ what Larry (or anybody else for that matter) does to people who had excreted that code. No, wait - I _do_ care. I want video of the... event. I don't use BK, but you can be damn sure that I won't touch SVN. Ever.
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You mean right here, in Slashdot ? There will be Visual.NET pop-up ads ?
Excuse me, I'm french. What does "looking up" mean ? Is that a neologism for "googling" ?
VAT on "bodyguard services" anyone ?
"Hey, you just sold me a so-called magic armor which in fact didn't save my ass at all ! I want my money back, NOW !'
Imagine that: you have an in-game wallet with money, you can exchange/trade that money with other players, and with your real-life bank account. That'll be a good substitue for PayPal, and the company could even become a sort of Web-Bank !
And then, a bit of competition directly on our platform can't do harm.