The glide api has come and pass. It was a nice try at cornering the market into using a proprietary api but there is far to much quality competition to think this would ever work today. It now seems to be a burden to gaming companies to provide patches/tweaks/updates or what have you so Joe Gamer can get a few more frames or even decent gameplay on his 3dfx hardware.
Though I seriously doubt 3dfx would completely remove their glide implementation... this is at least a sign that they will focus their efforts more to the slightly greater embraced OpenGL standard.
Over the years I have come to respect this company for their continuing dedicated to their hardware and customer base. Routine driver updates and their support of the GNU/Linux operating system are rather notable points.
Anyhow, this is probably the right thing to do for their customers... so everyone benefits.
I would hardly refer to DC's business model as legitimate.
This is a company who distributes a product that tracks your product purchases. Their product sends out private information while pretending to be a harmless bar code scanner. Does everyone keep forgetting that 95% of the people using the devices are not going to be aware of this.
Mind you, this would not have escalated if they had not struck first. This would have most likely quietly passed by and with only a handful of people using a very cheap product for something other then it was intended. Instead... DC sited weak IP rights and boisterous claims concerning development. They shouted and raved to the community concerning a great infringement... they brought attention to themselves. Maybe they wanted people to see this great company and vision... but eyes have a funny way of straying and peering about. They have offended many of us.
Freedom is a precious commodity... one we have to fight for everyday. The more we give... the more that is taken from us... It may not be clear to some as to why so little is worth fighting for... but we must fight no matter how small the prize.
After visiting a large number of universities I have come to the conclusion that all college students are pure evil. They drink, party, rave, destroy valuable goods and now distribute MP3!!!... all in the name of fun.
They travel in packs... so make sure you take something to deter them in the event you are seen. I recommend either a small amount of illegal substances (mp3 or drugs) and to toss these in the oppossite direction you are fleeing.
In the far distant lands of America, a large passenger plain suddenly makes a devastating landing which none survive. All of the passengers are stripped of their lives and internet connection.
CmdrTaco: I feel a disturbance in the force. It was as if a great many people cried out in unison... and then nothing.
Im sure it could be used to generate revenue by some means. I haven't used AIM or the official ICQ application in a year or so.
I bet there are some advertisements poking somewhere in this whole mess. With such masses of people using the official applications, I wouldn't doubt that these companies couldn't turn a dime for selling a little bit of their markets eyes.
(Eyeballs are money...)
First off, if anyone here has followed my posts (I'm laughing at the thought), then you might know I am big opponent of corporate america. You might think my posts today would be weighted against such entitities...but that would be wrong.
What I fail to understand is the significance of having a dominant share in the IM arena. Exactly what impact on technology or commerce can this little bugger really affect.
It doesn't quite mirror the problems with the browser market...as with IM everyone created their own standard and modified the client and server portions to reflect changes in the protocal. ie. AOL changing their client/server applications didn't play havoc with ICQ client/server applications.
So someone make it clear to me why it is important that someone elses IM client be an open standard. If we need standards...we should make them ourselves.
If this really becomes a problem...people will move away from proprietary applications and move to more open ones. Perhaps even make the switch because of enhancements or advantages of another protocal. (Very familiar feeling of the jump from talkers to irc based chatting software).
One of the great things about having a huge community of zealots is the fear it can inspire. Yeah, we jump the gun, we flame the innocent, sometimes we nuke the wrong target... but in the end we are a huge powerful/. rage machine.
People will think twice about coming after one of us...
The downside is just the same... people may worry about agitating the great rage machine.
It has its pro's and it has its con's... but when joe blow can't afford a high priced lawyer like the competition...its a handy little bastard.
Yeah, I know Creative is doing this for their benefit. Companies just don't do those sorts of things if it isn't in their interests.
Still, I feel a great need to send a big hug and kiss to the people at Creative Labs. Even if your beating on the bully for your own reasons... the little guy who got his milk money taken last week will still be there to laugh and enjoy it.
I'll start taking it like a man when I'm done crying;)
What about he goofy palm character set?
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I will apologize in advance for not being a palm guru. I have only gotten a few times alone with someone elses palm... mind you it was interesting and I am up for experimentation as much as the next guy...but the experience left me a little uneasy.
Anyhow, I noticed the palm character set was a little odd. Just odd enough to really put me off using it. So people have accepted this and not been completely turned off... they adapted and the palm has sold quite well. So the makers of the palm know this... so I am wonder how strange the phonetics will be when you have to talk to it.
I wonder if they will come out with their own langauge...
This would be highly useful when the armageddon comes... the point at which we forcefully remove all of the marketing people from this earth. They will be easy targets..as they will have their own langauge...called palmish.
These new crystaline nano-ma-jiggers can be used to create cryastaline shields. Perfect for our defense against the oncoming krull invasion force the Slashdot crew have been o so informative about.
Anyhow, I am sure Nate and Hemos have been well into the development of the new shield technology.
Essentially they want to create a high speed and low cost wireless intranet within their area. It would be nice to have something similar to a local free high speed network in your home town. Fast file sharing and quick access to those within your networks limits.
However, I saw no mention of any type of bandwidth provisions... it would seem as if they would be relying on network providers to peer with them... If this is the situation, I would seriously doubt anyone would give away bandwidth for free.
This sounds like a nice idea, but I have a difficult time grasping of how you would get this to work properly. IMHO relying on others to contribute is usually a bad idea.
With a select and dedicated group of individuals who would give a damn if the network runs and maintain their part...this could work... so it would seem this is left to the hobbyist and small organizations to implement for themselves.
As everything today can be blamed on the degradation of society. We will once again do the same by applying that theory to gaming. The crime rate is up, ethical behavior is down, and computer gaming is shifting to evil 1st person shooters... it is quite clear that this is entirely linked with the decreasing social values in society today.
You see, text based or thought driven puzzle games take some time for completion and generally a little more drive then say games like a shoot em up fast paced arena of rockets. Youths require less attention and less thought to complete their goals. As society falls deeper and deeper into ruins we gradually start to see the effects. First, it was visible in the creation of Slashdot (this is pretty much the starting point for all evil in the world today), then it was all to clear when we started to see such things as DVD playing on linux, and the kicker really is the shift to 1st person shooters.
Yep, society is on a downward spiral, of course, I thought we were done for after the introduction of the aibo... but I believe humanity may still have a chance.
Next week I will be linking the degradation of society with the reasoning behind why CmdrTaco no longer replies to my e-mail messages.
The report said accounts often remained open even after employees or contractors wound up their employment access was not promptly cut off nor curtailed to reflect changes in responsibilities. And managers were routinely giving ``overly broad access privileges to very large groups of users
Egad! This is horrible...
They really don't have someone working in the US government who enjoys his job as a systems administrator. On more then one occassion I have taken joy in removing the users account before they have recieved notice of termination. We have a very aggressive policy on privledged users...and in fact I have had employees admit to first believing they had been fired when in reality they had encountered authentication problems due to system failure.
It is a twisted world we live in, and I add a few more turns every day.
As any noble slashdotter, you should be highly worried about protecting our image and yours. Although there may be some legal mumbo-jumbo involved in all of this...do not worry my friend for I have 3 easy steps to relieve you of your woes.
The first step is to get a good trench coat. One which fully covers your body and can protect you from being recognized. This will be useful before and after the exercise (later to avoid the photographs from the reporters).
The second step is to approach your place of business with several containers of some type of combustible fuel. Gasoline will work, but we here loyal slashdotters who feel all patents should be destroyed would recommend something with a little more umph. You should take this fuel source and very carefully douse the walls of your office building with this Cure-All Agent(tm) [patent pending].
Now you have come to the final step. This is where you show your love for the free world. This is the point of no return. A little spark, a little flame, and walla... in just 3 steps you have single handedly saved the world from yet another Fork-&-Spoon Patent(tm).
Honestly, if you sign the papers, or if you burn the place down. No one will blame you for the events that transpired. We know how corporate america works and we have seen this before. Show your disastisfaction if you must, but I don't recommend losing any sleep over this one.
Well, there are two things I am very
glad about. One, this post is lame, so it
won't get to much attention and the second
is I am replying very late in the game.
These are cool things...normally I would have
to worry about losing karma (but today I have
not those fears).
You see, Sun created java to suck, its slow,
its not really that portable when you do
cool stuff (ie device interaction), and its
way to bulky for my needs. Java compiles o
so nice and small doesn't it....but your fucking
jvm is a pos bloatware bitch. I can see
the Sun gods now pulling jedi mind tricks...
its not the jvm your looking for....
Anyhow, ok, the Tiny is a POS, serve a web page
and hope to god the fucker doesn't crash. For
the price of those bastards you would be better
suited to get a 486 at a trade show. Something
can still be compact and be worthless... I know,
I see it in the toilet every morning. Even worse,
you really don't want to run the java based stuff
on em...;)
iButton. This shit is cool when you use a real
language behind the big bad deamon. Use java,
and your fucked. Need serial support...on anything
but windows.... HAHAHAHAHA. Device interaction,
very cool, very tricky, very much not a java thing.
Lets talk about PALM. A geek toy. That is what it
is... a toy. Its for geeks with to much money
who want to say...oh look at me...im a cool geek
with some green. I am quite sure the java
implementation is whacked. ("Not sure", it means
misinformed and still ranting like a mofo).
Now my big complaint. All the really hyped up
bs Sun tries to feed us. OneWire Network(tm).
ITS A FUCKING SERIAL DEVICE. Java reeks of
this kind of crap. Thats what Sun does... they
market shit. Thats what this bike is... it
is a marketing walking talking frankenstein that
has come to sleep with your daughter and take
your wife to reno.
Run, don't walk to your nearest Sun representative
and demand those fuckers go back to the planet
they came from.
I will gurantee you, at some point, your choice
for standing solid with one operating caused
some individuals to do without. Small businesses
usually can do without one or the other. I am
honestly not aware of one large organization that
doesn't run some Unix and some NT.
Yeah, we have already begged the question
of what is it going to be like in another five
years when these devices are dominate in the
market.
When you have a chance to start from a clean
slate why isn't it done right the first time?
The answer is really simple, when you are rushing
to get something finished in a not so timely
manner... usually tests are done for the output
or operation that you expect to recieve.
You keep hacking until it starts coming out the
way it should. Security is usually an after
thought.
Everything seems to ship broken... and companies
only make repairation if it ends up costing
enough money to make it cheaper to fix.
How many of us get paid any more if their
applications are just a little higher quality
or more secure then the next guy. Management
watches time tables... always have and always
will. Until companies start changing, we are
going to see more of these incidencies.
I don't have the EQ packaging anymore. But I have
read the EULA for EQ. They specifically forbid
using their product for reverse engineering. In
fact...they can change the agreement anytime they
see fit and really don't have to notify you...
just a general post. Of course, where these
things are forbidden by law this does not apply.
Honestly, the EQ EULA reads like a contract with
the devil. If they so wish, they can terminate
the license and inform you that it is now time
crack your cd in half.
To legally create a server for EQ in the US. You
would probably have to watch TCP/UDP packets and
have nothing to do with the client software.
The first being, you cannot run an all NT shop.
The second is similar, you cannot run an all
Unix shop. For whatever reason, a situation will
always present itself that requires you to
run one or the other. Even after the marketing
teams tell you what you need to do, in the end
you do what gets the job done.
Both sides should admit there are some things
that are just done better by the other. The
people working for Microsoft are not stupid...
there is a reason they make alot of money.
In any event, so what... who cares if microsoft
uses solaris for webtv, FreeBSD on hotmail,
BSDi on thier loadbalancers, or run Linux
internally for testing or workstations. If you
have been in the industry you know what works
and you know what doesn't.
It is possible to witness a crime and be helpless
against stopping those actions that took place.
I myself would not step in and interupt a robbery.
Life isn't as simple as this unfortunately. Technology doesn't allow for life to be so
grand and simplistic.
Imagine any search engine attempting to not
index illegal materials. What type of algorithm
do you come up with to do such things. Remember
the anti-pornography image viewer thingie (posted
on slashdot previously). You would run into
problems of this software not being able to
completely distinguish between what you want to
filter and what you want to pass through.
Technically napster has taken steps to stop
piracy. Recall metallica reported a number
of individuals distributing thier content
through the napster medium. Napster responded
by blocking those accounts.
We cannot say they have taken no steps. You
could possibly argue that these steps are not
sufficient, but what is...and how do you
implement those changes effectivly?
Honestly, I don't really support what napster
is doing. Rarely does the medium support
non-copywrited material. However, that is my
opinion and the burden of copywrite protection
does lay upon the shoulders of the distributer.
It is a very weak case to argue intentions.
It is difficult to implement changes that
would filter copywrited material while retaining
the same service they currently offer.
Still yet, is it required that napster police
its users?
For now, the degree to which napster must police
its users is very limited.
Perhaps everyone should be liable for indexing
illegal activities. Perhaps the automation
and scale technology has brought us does not
include a "get out of jail free" pass.
So on this basis... intent reflects whether or not
the index carrier is guilty of copywrite
infringement.
As long as I create a file sharing utility and
make clear that I do not wish this to be used
for illegal activities then my product has a
sound legal defense. I could very well create
something such as napster after it has been
washed out by the courts and make my "good
intentions" known. I wonder how long before the
mp3 community embraces my application and its
"good intentions" and sound legal defense.
I am not dismissing the concept that a ruling
could be made on the intentions of the designers.
These are very weak grounds to make such decisions. We need a very clear cut sense of what
is right and what is wrong to do.
Currently, the weight of copywrite infringement
lies on the shoulders of the individual who
distributes those items.
We are afraid that this may change, and if this
change occurs it will effect far more then
some kid downloading mp3's.
Another processor from intel? Now damn't I just
gave them a bunch of cash for the PIII, just
like I did the PII, and just like the Pentium and
the Pro version.
I didn't really notice a big jump in performance
on the last buy, but what can I do...it is intel.
Of course most of us really don't need this new
processor...but we are going to buy it anyway. We
are going to do what Intel tells us is the right
thing to do...what we are told we need to do.
Where we fall short...Intel will tell the OEM's
about how they need to switch to this new
processor...because all of the older and cheaper
ones are really tough to make now. It is really
tough to make the older processors because they
don't make as much from them as they do the new.
Granted my views are a bit twisted, but
one has to admit there is part of a truth
here.
I was one of the poor fools who purchased Quake3
for Linux on the day of the release. Here are
my gripes from that time...
What are they crazy...an after Christmas release... I was broke for a month after
that O' So Pleasant holiday... not only that...
but I was quite content with the vast assortment
of gifts I recieved from friends and family. Myself and many others didn't really need much more.
If anyone recalls... X4.0 wasn't quite out at
that time. I honestly didn't want to go back
to an older version of X to get the early nvidia
drivers working, and I know a good bit of novices
who would break out into siezures if you mentioned
a non-rpm install.
A good bit of us waited on X4.0 and nvidias promise of good 3d hardware acceleration. This
unfortunately came months after Q3's initial
release.
In my opinion, Q3 isn't that great, maybe I
am just burnt out on this particular genre...
but I am sure there are a good many people
who have feelings similar to myself.
IMHO, Q3A for Linux was released at the wrong
time, novice users were at a bit of a challenge,
and Linux really wasn't ready. Compare these
realities with the target market of young
adults and it looks like ID software hung themself
by the balls.
Slashdot Mirror
So your saying I can take the glide source
and create a nice friendly glide wrapper for my TNT?
Somehow I still think this is going to be a
no no based on the terms and conditions set for by
those at 3dfx.
One word, proprietary.
Finally...maybe.
The glide api has come and pass. It was a nice try at cornering the market into using a proprietary api but there is far to much quality competition to think this would ever work today. It now seems to be a burden to gaming companies to provide patches/tweaks/updates or what have you so Joe Gamer can get a few more frames or even decent gameplay on his 3dfx hardware.
Though I seriously doubt 3dfx would completely remove their glide implementation... this is at least a sign that they will focus their efforts more to the slightly greater embraced OpenGL standard.
Over the years I have come to respect this company for their continuing dedicated to their hardware and customer base. Routine driver updates and their support of the GNU/Linux operating system are rather notable points.
Anyhow, this is probably the right thing to do for their customers... so everyone benefits.
I would hardly refer to DC's business model as legitimate.
This is a company who distributes a product that tracks your product purchases. Their product sends out private information while pretending to be a harmless bar code scanner. Does everyone keep forgetting that 95% of the people using the devices are not going to be aware of this.
Mind you, this would not have escalated if they had not struck first. This would have most likely quietly passed by and with only a handful of people using a very cheap product for something other then it was intended. Instead... DC sited weak IP rights and boisterous claims concerning development. They shouted and raved to the community concerning a great infringement... they brought attention to themselves. Maybe they wanted people to see this great company and vision... but eyes have a funny way of straying and peering about. They have offended many of us.
Freedom is a precious commodity... one we have to fight for everyday. The more we give... the more that is taken from us... It may not be clear to some as to why so little is worth fighting for... but we must fight no matter how small the prize.
Have you been to a large college lately?
After visiting a large number of universities I have come to the conclusion that all college students are pure evil. They drink, party, rave, destroy valuable goods and now distribute MP3!!!... all in the name of fun.
They travel in packs... so make sure you take something to deter them in the event you are seen. I recommend either a small amount of illegal substances (mp3 or drugs) and to toss these in the oppossite direction you are fleeing.
Be safe, Be aware, just dont use Be.
In the far distant lands of America, a large passenger plain suddenly makes a devastating landing which none survive. All of the passengers are stripped of their lives and internet connection.
CmdrTaco: I feel a disturbance in the force. It was as if a great many people cried out in unison... and then nothing.
Hemos: I felt it too.
:P~
Im sure it could be used to generate revenue by some means. I haven't used AIM or the official ICQ application in a year or so.
;)
I bet there are some advertisements poking somewhere in this whole mess. With such masses of people using the official applications, I wouldn't doubt that these companies couldn't turn a dime for selling a little bit of their markets eyes.
(Eyeballs are money...)
Thank goodness gICQ doesn't hassle me
First off, if anyone here has followed my posts (I'm laughing at the thought), then you might know I am big opponent of corporate america. You might think my posts today would be weighted against such entitities...but that would be wrong.
What I fail to understand is the significance of having a dominant share in the IM arena. Exactly what impact on technology or commerce can this little bugger really affect.
It doesn't quite mirror the problems with the browser market...as with IM everyone created their own standard and modified the client and server portions to reflect changes in the protocal. ie. AOL changing their client/server applications didn't play havoc with ICQ client/server applications.
So someone make it clear to me why it is important that someone elses IM client be an open standard. If we need standards...we should make them ourselves.
If this really becomes a problem...people will move away from proprietary applications and move to more open ones. Perhaps even make the switch because of enhancements or advantages of another protocal. (Very familiar feeling of the jump from talkers to irc based chatting software).
Fear is a useful tool.
/. rage machine.
One of the great things about having a huge community of zealots is the fear it can inspire. Yeah, we jump the gun, we flame the innocent, sometimes we nuke the wrong target... but in the end we are a huge powerful
People will think twice about coming after one of us...
The downside is just the same... people may worry about agitating the great rage machine.
It has its pro's and it has its con's... but when joe blow can't afford a high priced lawyer like the competition...its a handy little bastard.
Yeah, I know Creative is doing this for their benefit. Companies just don't do those sorts of things if it isn't in their interests.
;)
Still, I feel a great need to send a big hug and kiss to the people at Creative Labs. Even if your beating on the bully for your own reasons... the little guy who got his milk money taken last week will still be there to laugh and enjoy it.
I'll start taking it like a man when I'm done crying
I will apologize in advance for not being a palm guru. I have only gotten a few times alone with someone elses palm... mind you it was interesting and I am up for experimentation as much as the next guy...but the experience left me a little uneasy.
Anyhow, I noticed the palm character set was a little odd. Just odd enough to really put me off using it. So people have accepted this and not been completely turned off... they adapted and the palm has sold quite well. So the makers of the palm know this... so I am wonder how strange the phonetics will be when you have to talk to it.
I wonder if they will come out with their own langauge...
This would be highly useful when the armageddon comes... the point at which we forcefully remove all of the marketing people from this earth. They will be easy targets..as they will have their own langauge...called palmish.
Damn you man, don't you see the potential.
These new crystaline nano-ma-jiggers can be used to create cryastaline shields. Perfect for our defense against the oncoming krull invasion force the Slashdot crew have been o so informative about.
Anyhow, I am sure Nate and Hemos have been well into the development of the new shield technology.
Interesting model...
Essentially they want to create a high speed and low cost wireless intranet within their area. It would be nice to have something similar to a local free high speed network in your home town. Fast file sharing and quick access to those within your networks limits.
However, I saw no mention of any type of bandwidth provisions... it would seem as if they would be relying on network providers to peer with them... If this is the situation, I would seriously doubt anyone would give away bandwidth for free.
This sounds like a nice idea, but I have a difficult time grasping of how you would get this to work properly. IMHO relying on others to contribute is usually a bad idea.
With a select and dedicated group of individuals who would give a damn if the network runs and maintain their part...this could work... so it would seem this is left to the hobbyist and small organizations to implement for themselves.
Which is worse...
;)
Buying items of a counterfeit nature that probably have a significantly reduced cost to them.
Or...
Buying items that have been sprayed with strange chemicals containg particles of DNA from some sweaty australian athlete.
I will leave the decision in your capable hands
Yes, it is quite clear...
As everything today can be blamed on the degradation of society. We will once again do the same by applying that theory to gaming. The crime rate is up, ethical behavior is down, and computer gaming is shifting to evil 1st person shooters... it is quite clear that this is entirely linked with the decreasing social values in society today.
You see, text based or thought driven puzzle games take some time for completion and generally a little more drive then say games like a shoot em up fast paced arena of rockets. Youths require less attention and less thought to complete their goals. As society falls deeper and deeper into ruins we gradually start to see the effects. First, it was visible in the creation of Slashdot (this is pretty much the starting point for all evil in the world today), then it was all to clear when we started to see such things as DVD playing on linux, and the kicker really is the shift to 1st person shooters.
Yep, society is on a downward spiral, of course, I thought we were done for after the introduction of the aibo... but I believe humanity may still have a chance.
Next week I will be linking the degradation of society with the reasoning behind why CmdrTaco no longer replies to my e-mail messages.
The report said accounts often remained open even after employees or contractors wound up their employment access was not promptly cut off nor curtailed to reflect changes in responsibilities. And managers were routinely giving ``overly broad access privileges to very large groups of users
Egad! This is horrible...
They really don't have someone working in the US government who enjoys his job as a systems administrator. On more then one occassion I have taken joy in removing the users account before they have recieved notice of termination. We have a very aggressive policy on privledged users...and in fact I have had employees admit to first believing they had been fired when in reality they had encountered authentication problems due to system failure.
It is a twisted world we live in, and I add a few more turns every day.
As any noble slashdotter, you should be highly worried about protecting our image and yours. Although there may be some legal mumbo-jumbo involved in all of this...do not worry my friend for I have 3 easy steps to relieve you of your woes.
The first step is to get a good trench coat. One which fully covers your body and can protect you from being recognized. This will be useful before and after the exercise (later to avoid the photographs from the reporters).
The second step is to approach your place of business with several containers of some type of combustible fuel. Gasoline will work, but we here loyal slashdotters who feel all patents should be destroyed would recommend something with a little more umph. You should take this fuel source and very carefully douse the walls of your office building with this Cure-All Agent(tm) [patent pending].
Now you have come to the final step. This is where you show your love for the free world. This is the point of no return. A little spark, a little flame, and walla... in just 3 steps you have single handedly saved the world from yet another Fork-&-Spoon Patent(tm).
Honestly, if you sign the papers, or if you burn the place down. No one will blame you for the events that transpired. We know how corporate america works and we have seen this before. Show your disastisfaction if you must, but I don't recommend losing any sleep over this one.
Well, there are two things I am very
;)
glad about. One, this post is lame, so it
won't get to much attention and the second
is I am replying very late in the game.
These are cool things...normally I would have
to worry about losing karma (but today I have
not those fears).
You see, Sun created java to suck, its slow,
its not really that portable when you do
cool stuff (ie device interaction), and its
way to bulky for my needs. Java compiles o
so nice and small doesn't it....but your fucking
jvm is a pos bloatware bitch. I can see
the Sun gods now pulling jedi mind tricks...
its not the jvm your looking for....
Anyhow, ok, the Tiny is a POS, serve a web page
and hope to god the fucker doesn't crash. For
the price of those bastards you would be better
suited to get a 486 at a trade show. Something
can still be compact and be worthless... I know,
I see it in the toilet every morning. Even worse,
you really don't want to run the java based stuff
on em...
iButton. This shit is cool when you use a real
language behind the big bad deamon. Use java,
and your fucked. Need serial support...on anything
but windows.... HAHAHAHAHA. Device interaction,
very cool, very tricky, very much not a java thing.
Lets talk about PALM. A geek toy. That is what it
is... a toy. Its for geeks with to much money
who want to say...oh look at me...im a cool geek
with some green. I am quite sure the java
implementation is whacked. ("Not sure", it means
misinformed and still ranting like a mofo).
Now my big complaint. All the really hyped up
bs Sun tries to feed us. OneWire Network(tm).
ITS A FUCKING SERIAL DEVICE. Java reeks of
this kind of crap. Thats what Sun does... they
market shit. Thats what this bike is... it
is a marketing walking talking frankenstein that
has come to sleep with your daughter and take
your wife to reno.
Run, don't walk to your nearest Sun representative
and demand those fuckers go back to the planet
they came from.
Technically IOS counts.
I will gurantee you, at some point, your choice
for standing solid with one operating caused
some individuals to do without. Small businesses
usually can do without one or the other. I am
honestly not aware of one large organization that
doesn't run some Unix and some NT.
Yeah, we have already begged the question
of what is it going to be like in another five
years when these devices are dominate in the
market.
When you have a chance to start from a clean
slate why isn't it done right the first time?
The answer is really simple, when you are rushing
to get something finished in a not so timely
manner... usually tests are done for the output
or operation that you expect to recieve.
You keep hacking until it starts coming out the
way it should. Security is usually an after
thought.
Everything seems to ship broken... and companies
only make repairation if it ends up costing
enough money to make it cheaper to fix.
How many of us get paid any more if their
applications are just a little higher quality
or more secure then the next guy. Management
watches time tables... always have and always
will. Until companies start changing, we are
going to see more of these incidencies.
This EverQuest we are talking about.
I don't have the EQ packaging anymore. But I have
read the EULA for EQ. They specifically forbid
using their product for reverse engineering. In
fact...they can change the agreement anytime they
see fit and really don't have to notify you...
just a general post. Of course, where these
things are forbidden by law this does not apply.
Honestly, the EQ EULA reads like a contract with
the devil. If they so wish, they can terminate
the license and inform you that it is now time
crack your cd in half.
To legally create a server for EQ in the US. You
would probably have to watch TCP/UDP packets and
have nothing to do with the client software.
Someone post some juicey nuggets from the EULA...
There are two truths in this world.
The first being, you cannot run an all NT shop.
The second is similar, you cannot run an all
Unix shop. For whatever reason, a situation will
always present itself that requires you to
run one or the other. Even after the marketing
teams tell you what you need to do, in the end
you do what gets the job done.
Both sides should admit there are some things
that are just done better by the other. The
people working for Microsoft are not stupid...
there is a reason they make alot of money.
In any event, so what... who cares if microsoft
uses solaris for webtv, FreeBSD on hotmail,
BSDi on thier loadbalancers, or run Linux
internally for testing or workstations. If you
have been in the industry you know what works
and you know what doesn't.
Not necessarily.
It is possible to witness a crime and be helpless
against stopping those actions that took place.
I myself would not step in and interupt a robbery.
Life isn't as simple as this unfortunately. Technology doesn't allow for life to be so
grand and simplistic.
Imagine any search engine attempting to not
index illegal materials. What type of algorithm
do you come up with to do such things. Remember
the anti-pornography image viewer thingie (posted
on slashdot previously). You would run into
problems of this software not being able to
completely distinguish between what you want to
filter and what you want to pass through.
Technically napster has taken steps to stop
piracy. Recall metallica reported a number
of individuals distributing thier content
through the napster medium. Napster responded
by blocking those accounts.
We cannot say they have taken no steps. You
could possibly argue that these steps are not
sufficient, but what is...and how do you
implement those changes effectivly?
Honestly, I don't really support what napster
is doing. Rarely does the medium support
non-copywrited material. However, that is my
opinion and the burden of copywrite protection
does lay upon the shoulders of the distributer.
It is a very weak case to argue intentions.
It is difficult to implement changes that
would filter copywrited material while retaining
the same service they currently offer.
Still yet, is it required that napster police
its users?
For now, the degree to which napster must police
its users is very limited.
Perhaps everyone should be liable for indexing
illegal activities. Perhaps the automation
and scale technology has brought us does not
include a "get out of jail free" pass.
So on this basis... intent reflects whether or not
the index carrier is guilty of copywrite
infringement.
As long as I create a file sharing utility and
make clear that I do not wish this to be used
for illegal activities then my product has a
sound legal defense. I could very well create
something such as napster after it has been
washed out by the courts and make my "good
intentions" known. I wonder how long before the
mp3 community embraces my application and its
"good intentions" and sound legal defense.
I am not dismissing the concept that a ruling
could be made on the intentions of the designers.
These are very weak grounds to make such decisions. We need a very clear cut sense of what
is right and what is wrong to do.
Currently, the weight of copywrite infringement
lies on the shoulders of the individual who
distributes those items.
We are afraid that this may change, and if this
change occurs it will effect far more then
some kid downloading mp3's.
Another processor from intel? Now damn't I just
gave them a bunch of cash for the PIII, just
like I did the PII, and just like the Pentium and
the Pro version.
I didn't really notice a big jump in performance
on the last buy, but what can I do...it is intel.
Of course most of us really don't need this new
processor...but we are going to buy it anyway. We
are going to do what Intel tells us is the right
thing to do...what we are told we need to do.
Where we fall short...Intel will tell the OEM's
about how they need to switch to this new
processor...because all of the older and cheaper
ones are really tough to make now. It is really
tough to make the older processors because they
don't make as much from them as they do the new.
Granted my views are a bit twisted, but
one has to admit there is part of a truth
here.
I was one of the poor fools who purchased Quake3
for Linux on the day of the release. Here are
my gripes from that time...
What are they crazy...an after Christmas release... I was broke for a month after
that O' So Pleasant holiday... not only that...
but I was quite content with the vast assortment
of gifts I recieved from friends and family. Myself and many others didn't really need much more.
If anyone recalls... X4.0 wasn't quite out at
that time. I honestly didn't want to go back
to an older version of X to get the early nvidia
drivers working, and I know a good bit of novices
who would break out into siezures if you mentioned
a non-rpm install.
A good bit of us waited on X4.0 and nvidias promise of good 3d hardware acceleration. This
unfortunately came months after Q3's initial
release.
In my opinion, Q3 isn't that great, maybe I
am just burnt out on this particular genre...
but I am sure there are a good many people
who have feelings similar to myself.
IMHO, Q3A for Linux was released at the wrong
time, novice users were at a bit of a challenge,
and Linux really wasn't ready. Compare these
realities with the target market of young
adults and it looks like ID software hung themself
by the balls.