My experience with one of these "Wheather Ballons" was that the balloon fell to the ground and aliens scaned my network via their wifi connection. They then probed some of my folders, often reaching a level of 12 folders deep. This was considered research, and they thanked me for my cooperation.
This reallly got my hopes up, I was expecting like a spy gadget store. Then I get a disclaimer that says it's owned partly by nazis and the carts are offline because 'heros' blew up their base.
We all know the real reason Minority Report cost so much to make and it took as long as it did in editing was having to CG out Tom Cruise's braces out of every scene.
From the Salon article: Micron is the only DRAM manufacturer based in the United States.
Since when is the US government looking out to protect foreign companies? If the anticompetitive actions were in the DRAM market, then the other companies aren't subject to US trust laws. It sounds anticompetitive to me for Micron to have to play by one set of rules while the rest play by another.
Who would've thought that Wal-Mart of all places, a place that usually deals in cheap plastic crap would turn around and start selling No OS PCs, Lindows and Mandrake?
Hopefully Middle America won't see them as non-viable systems, the Wang Computers and Amigas of our day.
Now "Write once, run anywhere" is actually going to mean it, instead of "Write once, run anywhere that has downloaded the JVM and installed it properly."
Dave Hansen, the IBM Kernel who organized this interview
I keep telling people, it's spelled C-O-L-O-N-E-L. I don't know why there isn't an R in it, but it's just spelled that way. I wouldn't be disrespecting any colonels asking why, either.
"Whining" on/. let's other people hear and think that they would like this feature too. Then we let the companies know we want it. Email them, fill out feedback forms on websites.
If there is a demand for it, and gaming companies want more money, they'll do it.
The PC version will be fully compatible with the PlayStation2 version allowing people on either system to play together.
Wow. This is sure to bring a new level of respect between consoles and PCs. Offically few to none of the computer game makers have accepted consoles like they should, only porting their games to the systems. Now they're taking them and letting consoles and PCs play together. How long before we can Lan PS2s with out machines to play games like Unreal Tournament 2? I know the PS2 has firewire, maybe we can use that for hardware and push manufacturers to bring us cross-compatable games. Together, we can make it happen.
One of the things that stuck with me is that Fred... something.. from MTV networks said this about Napster a few years ago "It doesn't matter if they kill Napster, 10 more networks will pop up and take all of it's users". He was right after napster, how many new "services" are going to pop up now? All of AG's user base is moving on. It's time to capitalize.
I think one of the worst was Jedi Knight, where you could burn it, but as soon as you made it to the final boss the game crashed (His file would be modified during buring I believe)
I encourage the war, the war was the best thing that happened to the internet since '95 (When Congress said we could buy and sell things over the internet) The biggest innovations came from the war and now a larger war, bringing in Opera and other less popular browsers can create incredibly power, incredibly speedy, stable browsers.
It doesn't matter which company wins, ultimately users win in Browser wars.
Maybe we can start another class-action lawsuit to make it so that they can't sell a lot of the crap they're putting out... THAT really offenders me, and it isn't playable anywhere.
But the victory comes only from a win, and with the publicity napster and other file sharing programs had, it may be incredibly hard to get. Let's just hope that the lawyers managing this lawsuit know what they're doing.
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#1 return for "Teoma Sucks" on Teoma is baloney.com
I actually don't mind Teoma, I think friendly competition is good for us all.
My experience with one of these "Wheather Ballons" was that the balloon fell to the ground and aliens scaned my network via their wifi connection. They then probed some of my folders, often reaching a level of 12 folders deep. This was considered research, and they thanked me for my cooperation.
Of course, everyone I tell doesn't believe me.
This reallly got my hopes up, I was expecting like a spy gadget store. Then I get a disclaimer that says it's owned partly by nazis and the carts are offline because 'heros' blew up their base.
Is it April 1 again?
We all know the real reason Minority Report cost so much to make and it took as long as it did in editing was having to CG out Tom Cruise's braces out of every scene.
Have you seen those things?
The FAA won't clear them to fly. Why? To protect them from the The Terrible Secret of Space!
Once there, they're meet up with Rocket Guy.
Can we have Widependance day? Freedom from page widening posts?
(Supposed to be funny)
Still.. at least Doom III hasn't won E9, the new, super elite trade show. Very few people got in, I hear.
From the Salon article: Micron is the only DRAM manufacturer based in the United States.
Since when is the US government looking out to protect foreign companies? If the anticompetitive actions were in the DRAM market, then the other companies aren't subject to US trust laws. It sounds anticompetitive to me for Micron to have to play by one set of rules while the rest play by another.
Who would've thought that Wal-Mart of all places, a place that usually deals in cheap plastic crap would turn around and start selling No OS PCs, Lindows and Mandrake?
Hopefully Middle America won't see them as non-viable systems, the Wang Computers and Amigas of our day.
Now "Write once, run anywhere" is actually going to mean it, instead of "Write once, run anywhere that has downloaded the JVM and installed it properly."
Dave Hansen, the IBM Kernel who organized this interview
I keep telling people, it's spelled C-O-L-O-N-E-L. I don't know why there isn't an R in it, but it's just spelled that way. I wouldn't be disrespecting any colonels asking why, either.
In a word: Sorta.
/. let's other people hear and think that they would like this feature too. Then we let the companies know we want it. Email them, fill out feedback forms on websites.
"Whining" on
If there is a demand for it, and gaming companies want more money, they'll do it.
The PC version will be fully compatible with the PlayStation2 version allowing people on either system to play together.
Wow. This is sure to bring a new level of respect between consoles and PCs. Offically few to none of the computer game makers have accepted consoles like they should, only porting their games to the systems. Now they're taking them and letting consoles and PCs play together. How long before we can Lan PS2s with out machines to play games like Unreal Tournament 2? I know the PS2 has firewire, maybe we can use that for hardware and push manufacturers to bring us cross-compatable games. Together, we can make it happen.
Reloading would be just walking out the door and back in again. There would be even less chance of a new story there
You'll know all the first posters when the line up at 5AM for a 3 PM meeting.
10 up?
One of the things that stuck with me is that Fred... something.. from MTV networks said this about Napster a few years ago "It doesn't matter if they kill Napster, 10 more networks will pop up and take all of it's users". He was right after napster, how many new "services" are going to pop up now? All of AG's user base is moving on. It's time to capitalize.
This is going to be a good move for somebody.
I think one of the worst was Jedi Knight, where you could burn it, but as soon as you made it to the final boss the game crashed (His file would be modified during buring I believe)
The article was written without trying to promote illegal duplication. Dang it! I was going to copy my friend's CDs until I read that.
I encourage the war, the war was the best thing that happened to the internet since '95 (When Congress said we could buy and sell things over the internet) The biggest innovations came from the war and now a larger war, bringing in Opera and other less popular browsers can create incredibly power, incredibly speedy, stable browsers.
It doesn't matter which company wins, ultimately users win in Browser wars.
Maybe we can start another class-action lawsuit to make it so that they can't sell a lot of the crap they're putting out... THAT really offenders me, and it isn't playable anywhere.
But the victory comes only from a win, and with the publicity napster and other file sharing programs had, it may be incredibly hard to get. Let's just hope that the lawyers managing this lawsuit know what they're doing.
I'll never figure out why they gave the guy who built that machine his own TV show on MTV.
Older programmers may not want to see the exhibit, Punch Cards, Paper tape, it's about as close to a geek house of horrors you can get...
I can just see a programmer walk up to a dropped pile of punchcards all scattered around... no way to rewrite the program... Now THAT'S a nightmare!
I was thinking more of how many countires adopted the protocol and how many followed it's guidelines.
But you can believe the Republican skin all you want to.