> can't you get all that shit for free on warez sites?
Well yes, but I meant legitimately. The serial numbers are real licenses owned by me.
Its the first time in 10 years I've run an MS OS on a legitimate license.:)
I was able to get Windows XP pro,.net 2003 (the week it was released), and 3 microsoft publishing books on.net and C#, all for free through a MS rep at my grad school (CS). Pretty sweet.
No way! A computer club?! We're breaking new ground here...:P
I think its a great idea. I'd start with getting together a strong core group of people who would be dedicated to the endeavor before you present the idea to the administration. Come up with a clear plan on what you want to do. Will you be a LUG? Come up with specific activities your group would carry out. Its especially appealing if you can provide a service to the general school, like provide after school tutorials on html/linux/programming/etc... Then, I'd try and get as many signatures as possible from people who would be interested in these kinds of activities.
With a core group of members, a clear outline of what you want, and signatures making it clear the school population wants this, you shouldn't have any trouble.
when the shuttle launched, a piece of debris broke off and hit the wing. Back then they said it didn't matter, then the shuttle exploded on re-entry. Now, months and months of 'careful study' they find that the wing had been damaged. No sh*t... what a useless exercise. And the recommendation: study the shuttle more carefully! Ummm. yeah, how much are they being paid for this?
The problem with waiting for the November release is that it will not have the original edit of the movie. There won't be an option to turn off and on the extra 30 minutes of footage. So if you want a copy of the original movie version the August DVD is the way to go.
Also, the extended version DVD has 3 DVDs worth of special features mostly detailing how they did most of the special effects, which makes the Nov box set worth it even if you aren't interested in the extra 30mins of footage. I thought The 'Matrix Revisited' DVD was well worth the buy, even though all it was was a 2 hour behind the scenes of production video.
The only problem, apart from how utterly annoying it would be, is that online advertising is yet to prove a good method of income. Especially non-intrusive methods of advertising.
Will this have any impact on ticket sales? Obviously not! I would dare anyone who would trade a grainy 320x200 shot of the movie for the real thing in the movie theaters.
LOTRs was out on Morpheus before the movie came it, and it still had amazing revenues.
I sincerely doubt that window's current closed and 'un-modular' structure was an engineering decision. No self respecting programmer would build anything this complicated without segmenting off varios functionalities, at the very least for simplicity and stability. Object Oriented design anyone? You'd think the creators of C# would follow their own dogma?? And it is especially sad coming from microsoft, who (lets face it) buys up some of the brightest programmers there are.
To be a stereotipical slashdotter: Linux does everything MS Windows does and is fully modular.
Its not a engineering decision, but a business decision. Make it seem like the lack of IE would cripple the system (hey, you won't be able to browse the internet from Windows Explorer!), non-techies would accept it, world domination assured.
Now, though, it is getting ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason why, for example, MSN Messenger needed to be integrated into XP.
I've been a follower of Harry for many years. When he was an unknown, he was a fantastic source for Episode I rumors. Now that he is 'famous' his connections have increased exponentially, and I find their reviews and rumors to be pretty reliable. I don't doubt he got to see it. A months ago they had a full script review and, surprise, the newest trailer confirms what they wrote.
As to whether its any good, I have to agree with a previous poster that many reviews are more fanboy slobbering than reviews, but I'm a fanboy so I usually aggree with what they say!
Google chaches pages. Why not have the staff of slashdot (or the person submitting) try a quick google search and if the page is cached, also provide a link to the google chached page?
Also, on the 'needing to wait for permission' as a reason for/. to stay away from mirroring pages, how does Goggle get around this? They have chached all my pages and never asked me if they could...
If microsoft actually releases their code to independent auditors (not likely), will the government appointed overseers really be able to make any sense of it al all, let alone to figure out if IE needs to be there?
Even the win95 codebase must be millions of lines of code, it would take 10 years for anyone to actually go through and map out what everything does. (Heck, rumor is that microsoft left mysterious code in win2k because even they weren't sure what it did, so as not to accidentally break anything)
Additionally, is it a question of 'can they do it with the current code base without breaking anything', or 'can it be done with modifications to the OS code'? If its the latter, then the obvious answer is YES! Source code isn't set in stone, and in the end anything can be done. Its like someone asking "Can Linux run without RAM?", currently no, but the kernel could surely be changed to run off the HD completely (why one would want to do that is another story).
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> can't you get all that shit for free on warez sites? Well yes, but I meant legitimately. The serial numbers are real licenses owned by me. Its the first time in 10 years I've run an MS OS on a legitimate license. :)
I was able to get Windows XP pro, .net 2003 (the week it was released), and 3 microsoft publishing books on .net and C#, all for free through a MS rep at my grad school (CS). Pretty sweet.
as a company? Do they have any products?
And there is the flaw. Distributed means Con Edd can't be the sole provider of the east coast. Will our power then come with pop-up ads?
Can the code really be called BASIC? It looks more like tons of in-line assembly code, wrapped in a few ifs and loops.
how patriotic. barf
I hate you! so much for going in without knowing whats coming... :/
No way! A computer club?! We're breaking new ground here... :P
I think its a great idea. I'd start with getting together a strong core group of people who would be dedicated to the endeavor before you present the idea to the administration. Come up with a clear plan on what you want to do. Will you be a LUG? Come up with specific activities your group would carry out. Its especially appealing if you can provide a service to the general school, like provide after school tutorials on html/linux/programming/etc... Then, I'd try and get as many signatures as possible from people who would be interested in these kinds of activities.
With a core group of members, a clear outline of what you want, and signatures making it clear the school population wants this, you shouldn't have any trouble.
Once again, something even CNN knew BEFORE RE-ENTRY! I want to be a NASA expert and get paid to twiddle my thumbs.
when the shuttle launched, a piece of debris broke off and hit the wing. Back then they said it didn't matter, then the shuttle exploded on re-entry. Now, months and months of 'careful study' they find that the wing had been damaged. No sh*t... what a useless exercise. And the recommendation: study the shuttle more carefully! Ummm. yeah, how much are they being paid for this?
The problem with waiting for the November release is that it will not have the original edit of the movie. There won't be an option to turn off and on the extra 30 minutes of footage. So if you want a copy of the original movie version the August DVD is the way to go.
Also, the extended version DVD has 3 DVDs worth of special features mostly detailing how they did most of the special effects, which makes the Nov box set worth it even if you aren't interested in the extra 30mins of footage. I thought The 'Matrix Revisited' DVD was well worth the buy, even though all it was was a 2 hour behind the scenes of production video.
The only problem, apart from how utterly annoying it would be, is that online advertising is yet to prove a good method of income. Especially non-intrusive methods of advertising.
Will this have any impact on ticket sales? Obviously not! I would dare anyone who would trade a grainy 320x200 shot of the movie for the real thing in the movie theaters.
LOTRs was out on Morpheus before the movie came it, and it still had amazing revenues.
When did X-Box become the console to beat? PS2 and Gamecube have outsold the X-Box & have much better games.
PS3 looks to be awesome. Didn't we read earlier that the PS3 prototype was something like 50 PS2s running in parallel??
I sincerely doubt that window's current closed and 'un-modular' structure was an engineering decision. No self respecting programmer would build anything this complicated without segmenting off varios functionalities, at the very least for simplicity and stability. Object Oriented design anyone? You'd think the creators of C# would follow their own dogma?? And it is especially sad coming from microsoft, who (lets face it) buys up some of the brightest programmers there are.
To be a stereotipical slashdotter: Linux does everything MS Windows does and is fully modular.
Its not a engineering decision, but a business decision. Make it seem like the lack of IE would cripple the system (hey, you won't be able to browse the internet from Windows Explorer!), non-techies would accept it, world domination assured.
Now, though, it is getting ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason why, for example, MSN Messenger needed to be integrated into XP.
I've been a follower of Harry for many years. When he was an unknown, he was a fantastic source for Episode I rumors. Now that he is 'famous' his connections have increased exponentially, and I find their reviews and rumors to be pretty reliable. I don't doubt he got to see it. A months ago they had a full script review and, surprise, the newest trailer confirms what they wrote. As to whether its any good, I have to agree with a previous poster that many reviews are more fanboy slobbering than reviews, but I'm a fanboy so I usually aggree with what they say!
Google chaches pages. Why not have the staff of slashdot (or the person submitting) try a quick google search and if the page is cached, also provide a link to the google chached page?
/. to stay away from mirroring pages, how does Goggle get around this? They have chached all my pages and never asked me if they could...
Also, on the 'needing to wait for permission' as a reason for
If microsoft actually releases their code to independent auditors (not likely), will the government appointed overseers really be able to make any sense of it al all, let alone to figure out if IE needs to be there?
Even the win95 codebase must be millions of lines of code, it would take 10 years for anyone to actually go through and map out what everything does. (Heck, rumor is that microsoft left mysterious code in win2k because even they weren't sure what it did, so as not to accidentally break anything)
Additionally, is it a question of 'can they do it with the current code base without breaking anything', or 'can it be done with modifications to the OS code'? If its the latter, then the obvious answer is YES! Source code isn't set in stone, and in the end anything can be done. Its like someone asking "Can Linux run without RAM?", currently no, but the kernel could surely be changed to run off the HD completely (why one would want to do that is another story).