I agree with you and the marketing people. One thing I found very confusing when I first started to learn JAVA was actually figuring out...what the hell JAVA actually was because everything was named "Java Something".
In 1984, didn't they like kill people or take them away to prison camps for even 'thinking' the wrong thing. How is this '1984 comes to Boston'.? The only similarity is that there are video cameras.
I don't agree with surveilance everywhere but the title of the article its stupid.
Isn't there already like 3 precedents that have been set that basically shot down using the DMCA to protect your business model? We have the garage door opener thing, the ink cartridge thing, and....I think there was one other.
I mean, if all that is required for locking people into buying service from you is adding some brain dead authentication scheme, thats just lame.
Now, that I have my transparent kicker and I can be l33t in front of all my friends, I could care less about any more KDE 3.3 releases....well, unless they have transparent everything. Thats what I need.
How is the 'Extreme' tech guy just nnow installing his first mobo? I mean, that shit should be a prerequisite to having a writing gig at a site called 'Extreme Tech'. I guess they are so extreme that their people have never built their own machine before.
I mean, what do Orin's constituents think about him introducing not one gawd damn single useful piece of legislation? Talk about being someone's bitch, is Orin giving blow jobs at the RIIA HQ or something? Christ almightly.
What about demon retailers who only have the mail in rebates because they know less than 1/2 the people send them in. If a few buy get the rebate then return, more power to them.
How hard can it be to write voting software that increments a number by 1. I mean, a damn computer can increment a number pretty fucking well, don't you think? I'm a programmer and it boggles my mind the Linux kernel could be written in a distributed manner by developers around the world but DieBold can write a program to increment a fucking number by 1.
I've seen it 1000 times. Its because Windows folks use ping to look up hostnames and IP addresses. I don't think their machines come with the proper utilities and they are usually not clued in enough to know anything about DNS, otherwise I would hold it against them.
Until purpose is put back into our community, the situation will continue to worsen.
Purpose? The Counter-Strike community has or had purpose? Thats a laugh. Maybe their purpose was to l337 q0wnz0r h4x0r people but I can't think of a real actual purpose the community had.
Lets assume here that both games are 100% equal in quality. Is is better to be on the shelves first or, very soon after, or some time after?
Do you guys think publishers strategize like movie producers on when to release a game?
Seeing that Doom III and HL2 are basically the two most anticipated PC games of the Windows XP era and most likely will be competing for our cash, is there an advantage to being first on the shelves for either developer?
When people stop buying CDs from RIAA artists. Which, after close to three years of this nonsense, they haven't. In fact, according to SoundScan, OTC sales are actually up.
People will never stand up for their rights because a. people are friggin idiots and b. the sales increases are driven by P2P. The RIAA is having their cake and eating it too per say. Not only do they enjoy the benefits of P2P, they sue for damages on top of that.
but they're such ass clowns that I'd rather just buy a second computer for running Windows software than use their product, least of all buy it.
They can go fuck themselves and the muddy horse they came in on.
And your calling me a zealot?! Thats funny.
Most people copied the.ebuild into their
overlay directory or simply checked out the CVS tree on their own. For the majoritity of Gentoo users it was a non-issue. The gentoo maintainers didn't even care, just a few hot heads in the forums who like to stir things up.
When I said no games work, I meant games with copy protection....basically, newer titles that required the CD in the drive for checks would not work with CVS Wine version because it didn't have the copy protection modules. You know, BF1942 and the like.
Ironic, really, since WineX makes Ports less likely...
Yeah, To bad 2003 had more linux game ports than any other year in history, and 2004 is on pace to beat that at the same time that Wine/WineX are more popular then ever.
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I agree with you and the marketing people. One thing I found very confusing when I first started to learn JAVA was actually figuring out...what the hell JAVA actually was because everything was named "Java Something".
In 1984, didn't they like kill people or take them away to prison camps for even 'thinking' the wrong thing. How is this '1984 comes to Boston'.? The only similarity is that there are video cameras.
I don't agree with surveilance everywhere but the title of the article its stupid.
This is freaken sad. SCO has not been investigated by the SEC by Redhat was? My tax dollars at work.
I just put a delta chrome spoiler on my Neon.
Good post. You hit the nail on the head.
You understood what I wrote right? Then why comment? Leave me and my bad spelling alone damn you!
Isn't there already like 3 precedents that have been set that basically shot down using the DMCA to protect your business model? We have the garage door opener thing, the ink cartridge thing, and....I think there was one other.
I mean, if all that is required for locking people into buying service from you is adding some brain dead authentication scheme, thats just lame.
I think StorageTek will loose.
I guess he is so extreme tech he has been unable to update his PC by himself for like 5 years or so which is why he still plays Tribes.
Now, that I have my transparent kicker and I can be l33t in front of all my friends, I could care less about any more KDE 3.3 releases....well, unless they have transparent everything. Thats what I need.
How is the 'Extreme' tech guy just nnow installing his first mobo? I mean, that shit should be a prerequisite to having a writing gig at a site called 'Extreme Tech'. I guess they are so extreme that their people have never built their own machine before.
I mean, what do Orin's constituents think about him introducing not one gawd damn single useful piece of legislation? Talk about being someone's bitch, is Orin giving blow jobs at the RIIA HQ or something? Christ almightly.
What about demon retailers who only have the mail in rebates because they know less than 1/2 the people send them in. If a few buy get the rebate then return, more power to them.
How hard can it be to write voting software that increments a number by 1. I mean, a damn computer can increment a number pretty fucking well, don't you think? I'm a programmer and it boggles my mind the Linux kernel could be written in a distributed manner by developers around the world but DieBold can write a program to increment a fucking number by 1.
Thats funny considering I can't use my bank's Internet system it says it requires IE for security purposes.
I've seen it 1000 times. Its because Windows folks use ping to look up hostnames and IP addresses. I don't think their machines come with the proper utilities and they are usually not clued in enough to know anything about DNS, otherwise I would hold it against them.
They should put a spoiler on it at the top. Carbon fiber, and some rimmmzzzzz zz zz.
They tend to get like that after having to reinstall their OS every 30 days.
Hell no, I use Linux. I don't have MS Office or tons of games but god damn it, I haven't had a virus, spyware, or trojan since I switch.
Purpose? The Counter-Strike community has or had purpose? Thats a laugh. Maybe their purpose was to l337 q0wnz0r h4x0r people but I can't think of a real actual purpose the community had.
I don't think the people doing the Linux thing are electricians. Maybe, people should do what they do best first?
Lets assume here that both games are 100% equal in quality. Is is better to be on the shelves first or, very soon after, or some time after? Do you guys think publishers strategize like movie producers on when to release a game?
Seeing that Doom III and HL2 are basically the two most anticipated PC games of the Windows XP era and most likely will be competing for our cash, is there an advantage to being first on the shelves for either developer?
People will never stand up for their rights because a. people are friggin idiots and b. the sales increases are driven by P2P. The RIAA is having their cake and eating it too per say. Not only do they enjoy the benefits of P2P, they sue for damages on top of that.
but they're such ass clowns that I'd rather just buy a second computer for running Windows software than use their product, least of all buy it.
They can go fuck themselves and the muddy horse they came in on.
And your calling me a zealot?! Thats funny.
Most people copied the .ebuild into their
overlay directory or simply checked out the CVS tree on their own. For the majoritity of Gentoo users it was a non-issue. The gentoo maintainers didn't even care, just a few hot heads in the forums who like to stir things up.
When I said no games work, I meant games with copy protection....basically, newer titles that required the CD in the drive for checks would not work with CVS Wine version because it didn't have the copy protection modules. You know, BF1942 and the like.
Yeah, To bad 2003 had more linux game ports than any other year in history, and 2004 is on pace to beat that at the same time that Wine/WineX are more popular then ever.