It's a cross between the tricorder and the lightsaber training droid... so... it shoots at me until I'm hit, and then uses that little detachable wand to scan my wound?
Seriously, I play Second Life also, and when I found out you have to trade real money for in-game items, and you have to do this frequently, and sometimes on a recurring basis, I kindof lost interest... I'm all for trading real money for in-game money, at least that's clear-cut. Just don't let me trade real money for in-game money, and then require me to use both in-game money AND real money in game.
Retroactively revoke all of their licenses... and somehow sue Google and get them to shut down Blogger.com... and and... then maybe I'll be able to locate actual information when searching the Internet for stuff.
Now that the word is out on these, Microsoft is going to have to post a big link to all the articles about that new Mac OS X trojan all over their homepage...
Rewriting a hardware controller GUI that is a hacked-up rewrite of a hardware controller GUI that was wrapped around some DLLs that were written and grafted onto by many, many people over the past few years.
Here's a real example I'll make generic:
setTemperature takes a temperature and a byte index of either 0 or 1. The corresponding getTemperature takes an integer index of 0, 1 or 2. Yep, you guessed it, the 0 and 1 of the setter correspond to the 1 and 2 of the getter. Neither function has bounds checking, so you'd better get it right the first time. Oh, and we're not allowed to modify the DLLs containing said functions, just use them.
The "API documentation" is a dumpbin/exports I made when I got tired of pouring through C source code to find the name of a function.
Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will not be visited by people who read Slashdot.
The rest of Internet users will call their ISPs and complain.
Why is it that so many media companies have to start "wars" with consumers? Is biting the hand that feeds you a perfectly acceptable practice now? Instead of investing all this money into fighting the consumer thieves, they should work on new business models that don't "port" the old ones onto new technology.
I'm not sure what intentions Lindows had beyond marketing their software using a court decision, and I'm equally unsure of how they can say that any of the claims filed by Lindows on behalf of the claimant have any merit whatsoever.
When I first read about this program on/., I rushed to MSFreePC and completed all but the last couple steps to file a claim. Of course, I've never even been to any states that BORDER California, let alone purchased a PC there. What's to stop anybody from doing that, and how could they ever verify the legitmacy of the claims?
As bad as it may be, I think Microsoft is well within its' right to not accept MSFreePC claims, or at least to challenge their validity in a court of law. That shouldn't stop them from processing claims submitted under THEIR terms, however.
They need to hurry up and process all the legitimate claims filed with proper proof-of-purchase, so they can get down to what really matters... processing all those phony ones from MSFreePC.com!
Minority Report was wrong... they don't track you by scanning your eyes!
I can't wait to walk into the GAP, so they can read my RFID tag and announce to everybody around that I recently purchased an unusually large amount of womens' underwear.
It will be interesting to see if Apple integrates a little of their Rendevous technology into iTunes for Windows, and allows people who have Mac/Win32 hybrid LANs at home share protected (or, just any) music between their Mac iTunes libraries and their PC iTunes libraries.
Your analogy is flawed. Reading the source code to the program would be like having the sheet music, or the outlines/notes the author used when writing the novel.
Your analogy would only work if the programmer was playing the game/using the application, not looking at the source code.
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If Dashboard is written for Mono, I would assume it runs on Windows as well as any other Mono-supported platform.
It's a cross between the tricorder and the lightsaber training droid... so... it shoots at me until I'm hit, and then uses that little detachable wand to scan my wound?
That's awesome. Put me down for two.
Too late! The sequel, "A Week from Tuesday", is already in production, with a plot revolving around nano-bots constructed by self-aware androids.
Are we all really this stupid?
:)
Only our customers? Just kidding...
Seriously, I play Second Life also, and when I found out you have to trade real money for in-game items, and you have to do this frequently, and sometimes on a recurring basis, I kindof lost interest... I'm all for trading real money for in-game money, at least that's clear-cut. Just don't let me trade real money for in-game money, and then require me to use both in-game money AND real money in game.
Reminds me of Itchy and Scratchy Land...
Retroactively revoke all of their licenses... and somehow sue Google and get them to shut down Blogger.com... and and... then maybe I'll be able to locate actual information when searching the Internet for stuff.
They should've just redacted it using Adobe Acrobat. :-)
Maybe RDRAM wasn't the success it should've been, because it was more expensive, and noone ever really adopted it?
No... no, that can't be it. We should sue!
If AOL keeps this up, they might actually be taken seriously.
This seems to go hand-in-hand with the release of their AOL Communicator application... anything to save a sinking ship, I suppose.
I wonder what the new direction for Netscape is... how many people still trust the Netscape brand enough for them to get any legs out of it?
Oh, there's why.
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her office
A guy wouldn't have cared! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go get admonished by HR for "sexual discrimination."
Now that the word is out on these, Microsoft is going to have to post a big link to all the articles about that new Mac OS X trojan all over their homepage...
Rewriting a hardware controller GUI that is a hacked-up rewrite of a hardware controller GUI that was wrapped around some DLLs that were written and grafted onto by many, many people over the past few years.
/exports I made when I got tired of pouring through C source code to find the name of a function.
Here's a real example I'll make generic:
setTemperature takes a temperature and a byte index of either 0 or 1. The corresponding getTemperature takes an integer index of 0, 1 or 2. Yep, you guessed it, the 0 and 1 of the setter correspond to the 1 and 2 of the getter. Neither function has bounds checking, so you'd better get it right the first time. Oh, and we're not allowed to modify the DLLs containing said functions, just use them.
The "API documentation" is a dumpbin
Ugh.
Microsoft reminds me of that kid who always has to be "reminded" of the rules whenever he plays a game with the other kids...
"No Billy, that's not your toy. That's FVWM's toy. Say you're sorry!"
Have the people who OK'd this movie actually SEEN and COMPARED newer episodes of Simpsons to ones that aired back in its' glory days?
Jumped the shark a few seasons ago at least, as much as I hate to say it. This is one of those shows I wish they'd take off the air for its' own good.
Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will not be visited by people who read Slashdot.
The rest of Internet users will call their ISPs and complain.
Why is it that so many media companies have to start "wars" with consumers? Is biting the hand that feeds you a perfectly acceptable practice now? Instead of investing all this money into fighting the consumer thieves, they should work on new business models that don't "port" the old ones onto new technology.
Now my computer's going to get laid more then me.
I'm not sure what intentions Lindows had beyond marketing their software using a court decision, and I'm equally unsure of how they can say that any of the claims filed by Lindows on behalf of the claimant have any merit whatsoever.
/., I rushed to MSFreePC and completed all but the last couple steps to file a claim. Of course, I've never even been to any states that BORDER California, let alone purchased a PC there. What's to stop anybody from doing that, and how could they ever verify the legitmacy of the claims?
When I first read about this program on
As bad as it may be, I think Microsoft is well within its' right to not accept MSFreePC claims, or at least to challenge their validity in a court of law. That shouldn't stop them from processing claims submitted under THEIR terms, however.
They need to hurry up and process all the legitimate claims filed with proper proof-of-purchase, so they can get down to what really matters... processing all those phony ones from MSFreePC.com!
*eagerly awaiting his ill-gotten gains*
Minority Report was wrong... they don't track you by scanning your eyes!
I can't wait to walk into the GAP, so they can read my RFID tag and announce to everybody around that I recently purchased an unusually large amount of womens' underwear.
It will be interesting to see if Apple integrates a little of their Rendevous technology into iTunes for Windows, and allows people who have Mac/Win32 hybrid LANs at home share protected (or, just any) music between their Mac iTunes libraries and their PC iTunes libraries.
Anybody know?
I guess this guy stands to make a lot of money then.
Your analogy is flawed. Reading the source code to the program would be like having the sheet music, or the outlines/notes the author used when writing the novel.
Your analogy would only work if the programmer was playing the game/using the application, not looking at the source code.
Well, I have 4 computers powering 8 CD-RWs... oh, wait, that's just one computer with a 32X burner... the RIAA has me all confused with their math!
We're that much closer to those creepy animated singing cereal boxes from Minority Report...
This is still true, for the time being.
Unfortunately, Microsoft and the music industry are already taking steps to prevent this from happening in the future.
Finally, the RIAA finds some real justice!
All hail the RIAA, champions of the U.S. legal system!