Well, i doubt that you will get the reward for turning in yourself, however, if it was possible, i would gladly spend one year in jail for $5.000.000.. I guess the punishment would be more than one year, but i guess i could stay in jail for about $1m per year.
...that MS would hand out those rewards to those who turned in people that used pirated versions of their software. Not that i care about Microsoft piracy at all, but I know a few assholes, and I could need the money.
1. relationships are formed
2. couples break up
3. people start to hate eachother
4. people start to love eachother
5. someone dies
6. someone are born
contents of the soap-opera i want to see:
1. Operating systems are installed
2. Operating systems are removed
3. Some company sues another company
4. Some company donates money to another company
5. Software is abandoned
6. New software projects are started.
1. (some) realism.
2. Originality
3. It has to be interesting
4. Originality
5. There has to be a reason for it to be there
6. Oh, and did i mention originality?
Way too many good games are turned to trash by a storyline or an intro that sucks goat balls, like:
The evil $boss_name and his men from $evil_faction are about to destroy the universe, and you have to stop him. Go on, $hero_name and kill him. Our fate lies in your hands.
Seems to me like thise is the shortest time every between the release of an original and a sequal. Around half a year if i remember correctly.
Wouldnt it be better of improving the old model (fixing issues related to switching games and such) instead of releasing a new version? I bet there are many out there who starts thinking "Damn, and I who just bought N-Gage 1..."
I take it for granted that they will make it backwardscompatible with the games from the current model, so that those who have bought the first one (and are happy with it) dont have to buy the new one as well.
Yes, ive heard of a mac.. and yes, ive heard of Mac OSX (especially, since its based on FreeBSD which i use and love). I just said that i am not familiar with them, which means i havent used them.
more people use open source software, which means
more people will develop open source software, which means
more and better open source software
The downside would be that not 'everyone' can use a PC, the way they can today, since MS Windows is by far the most newbie-friendly operating system availible for PC.
This was included in ICQ back in 1999. The only problem was that it didnt work too well, so the lag was horrible, and that was back then playing QuakeWorld with 33.6 modem was acceptable
'I want to make sure (a user) can't get through.. an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.'
Atleast he's honest about planning to be the number one cause of popups around the net...
A year ago i went to a christian school. I am not a christian myself, but all of the teachers were. The most fanatic teacher of them all were asked if we could see "Life of Brian" in religion class. Surprisingly enhough he answered "I really love that movie, but I dont dare to show it in class, since I may get reactions from the other teachers".
After one day of browsing the web, you are sure to come by porn, or porn-related contents. If porn had its own tld you could easily filter out if the link you are about to follow contains what you expect, or just another porn-site. However, it will take a loooong time to move all the porn-sites over to.xxx
A good invention makes this invention unnecesary
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U.S. Prepares to Get Nuked
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Wouldnt it be better to design a system that could prevent nuclear detonation in the first place? If you've read "raise the Titanic" written by Clive Cusler, you will get some pretty good ideas about how to prevent nuclear attacks. Of course, the idea described in the book is impossible with the technology know today.
The idea is to send infra-sound (sound with very low frequency) up into the atmosphere at an extremly hih volume, so that the air will build up like some sort of sheild. If you combine this with calculations of when the missile will reach down to the optimal height, you could probably devastate the missile before it reaches its target. Well, of cource, this is highly hypothetical, so I have no idea of wether it works or not. Anyway, there has to be some sort of technology availile today that can be used in developing some kind of missile sheild?
I've had it with mobile-phones... when something new like this comes out, they cost like 2000$, and when the prices are low enhough for the average person to buy something new has been released. Im happy with my Ericson T65, and as long as it survives the daily beating i give it, i will keep it.
OK, lets think of what it takes to look up one person.
First of all the database has to be searched for that one person. Should not take much time. Then load all data, and follow all potential leads. This makes it necesary to repeat these steps for all the clues returned.
In a database such as this, there will be a shitload of Gbs that has to be checked, and if every airport is going to do this, it will be a heck of a load average on the server that has this database. Or, if the database is distributed, there will be alot of bandwidth needed, since all these databases has to be updated with the latest info. And most of all: the CPU-usage would be outrageous. This leads to another question:
I agree. Open source communities such as sourceforge and freshmeat would save a lot of bandwidth if the software was downloaded directly from the author, instead of through one of these sites. There should be a p2p search application dedicated for open source software, where you could search for category, author, OS, and other things. Well, for all i know, something like this allready exists, but if it doesn't, i hope someone starts a p2p network like this. If not, perhaps a Direct Connect Hub dedicated to Open Source Software?
If I remember correctly, the first form of software piracy was broadcasting the source with a HAM Radio. HAM radios are still permitted (duh), and so are both Usernet and FTP. If the creaters of P2P apps are to be sued, then the creators of other technologies that makes one certain type of crime availible should be sued.
Its good to see that someone sees the legal side of file-sharing comunities. Im getting fed up by people who say things like "Direct Connect/Kazaa/many other things is illegal!". No... it depends on what you use it for. This may open people's eyes, and make them see the posibilities of filesharing networks. In my opinion, using it for distributing demos and such is a great way to take advantages of such technologies.
Well, first of all, game developers will have to focus more on other platforms than windows, since many games still rely on windows internals (anarchy online for one). There are many who code their games to fit with both Linux and Windows, but i wish there would be more, since games such as Anarchy Online are some of the few reasons why I dont remove my windows installation completly.
If you look closely on EBay, 19 people have voted him up. 19 people are satisfied with his previous auction, which leads to this conclution: The person selling it may not be faking it, but how the hell did he get it in the first place?
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Well, i doubt that you will get the reward for turning in yourself, however, if it was possible, i would gladly spend one year in jail for $5.000.000.. I guess the punishment would be more than one year, but i guess i could stay in jail for about $1m per year.
...that MS would hand out those rewards to those who turned in people that used pirated versions of their software. Not that i care about Microsoft piracy at all, but I know a few assholes, and I could need the money.
Well, i wouldnt mind if Sarah Michelle Gellar was in my somewhat geeky soap-opera...
Contents of a normal soap-opera:
1. relationships are formed
2. couples break up
3. people start to hate eachother
4. people start to love eachother
5. someone dies
6. someone are born
contents of the soap-opera i want to see:
1. Operating systems are installed
2. Operating systems are removed
3. Some company sues another company
4. Some company donates money to another company
5. Software is abandoned
6. New software projects are started.
Why cant anyone make something like this?
1. (some) realism. 2. Originality 3. It has to be interesting 4. Originality 5. There has to be a reason for it to be there 6. Oh, and did i mention originality? Way too many good games are turned to trash by a storyline or an intro that sucks goat balls, like: The evil $boss_name and his men from $evil_faction are about to destroy the universe, and you have to stop him. Go on, $hero_name and kill him. Our fate lies in your hands.
Well, too bad perl was invented rougly 20 years later. Even i can use it, and i have dificulties managing HTML.
Apart from lack of good hardware support, i've heard lot of positive speech about BeOS, so dead or alive.. i will try it out some day.
Seems to me like thise is the shortest time every between the release of an original and a sequal. Around half a year if i remember correctly.
Wouldnt it be better of improving the old model (fixing issues related to switching games and such) instead of releasing a new version? I bet there are many out there who starts thinking "Damn, and I who just bought N-Gage 1..."
I take it for granted that they will make it backwardscompatible with the games from the current model, so that those who have bought the first one (and are happy with it) dont have to buy the new one as well.
Yes, ive heard of a mac.. and yes, ive heard of Mac OSX (especially, since its based on FreeBSD which i use and love). I just said that i am not familiar with them, which means i havent used them.
ok, i am not familiar with those OSes, but...
Could someone who has never used a PC before sit down and understand the basics of how it works, without reading the manual first?
more people use open source software, which means
more people will develop open source software, which means
more and better open source software
The downside would be that not 'everyone' can use a PC, the way they can today, since MS Windows is by far the most newbie-friendly operating system availible for PC.
This was included in ICQ back in 1999. The only problem was that it didnt work too well, so the lag was horrible, and that was back then playing QuakeWorld with 33.6 modem was acceptable
'I want to make sure (a user) can't get through .. an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.'
Atleast he's honest about planning to be the number one cause of popups around the net...
A year ago i went to a christian school. I am not a christian myself, but all of the teachers were. The most fanatic teacher of them all were asked if we could see "Life of Brian" in religion class. Surprisingly enhough he answered "I really love that movie, but I dont dare to show it in class, since I may get reactions from the other teachers".
Aw, crap.. remind me to use the br-tag next time...
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After one day of browsing the web, you are sure to come by porn, or porn-related contents. If porn had its own tld you could easily filter out if the link you are about to follow contains what you expect, or just another porn-site. However, it will take a loooong time to move all the porn-sites over to .xxx
Wouldnt it be better to design a system that could prevent nuclear detonation in the first place? If you've read "raise the Titanic" written by Clive Cusler, you will get some pretty good ideas about how to prevent nuclear attacks. Of course, the idea described in the book is impossible with the technology know today.
The idea is to send infra-sound (sound with very low frequency) up into the atmosphere at an extremly hih volume, so that the air will build up like some sort of sheild. If you combine this with calculations of when the missile will reach down to the optimal height, you could probably devastate the missile before it reaches its target. Well, of cource, this is highly hypothetical, so I have no idea of wether it works or not. Anyway, there has to be some sort of technology availile today that can be used in developing some kind of missile sheild?
I've had it with mobile-phones... when something new like this comes out, they cost like 2000$, and when the prices are low enhough for the average person to buy something new has been released. Im happy with my Ericson T65, and as long as it survives the daily beating i give it, i will keep it.
OK, lets think of what it takes to look up one person.
First of all the database has to be searched for that one person. Should not take much time. Then load all data, and follow all potential leads. This makes it necesary to repeat these steps for all the clues returned.
In a database such as this, there will be a shitload of Gbs that has to be checked, and if every airport is going to do this, it will be a heck of a load average on the server that has this database. Or, if the database is distributed, there will be alot of bandwidth needed, since all these databases has to be updated with the latest info. And most of all: the CPU-usage would be outrageous. This leads to another question:
Is it possible to start a system like SETI@Home?
I agree. Open source communities such as sourceforge and freshmeat would save a lot of bandwidth if the software was downloaded directly from the author, instead of through one of these sites. There should be a p2p search application dedicated for open source software, where you could search for category, author, OS, and other things. Well, for all i know, something like this allready exists, but if it doesn't, i hope someone starts a p2p network like this. If not, perhaps a Direct Connect Hub dedicated to Open Source Software?
If I remember correctly, the first form of software piracy was broadcasting the source with a HAM Radio. HAM radios are still permitted (duh), and so are both Usernet and FTP. If the creaters of P2P apps are to be sued, then the creators of other technologies that makes one certain type of crime availible should be sued.
Its good to see that someone sees the legal side of file-sharing comunities. Im getting fed up by people who say things like "Direct Connect/Kazaa/many other things is illegal!". No... it depends on what you use it for. This may open people's eyes, and make them see the posibilities of filesharing networks. In my opinion, using it for distributing demos and such is a great way to take advantages of such technologies.
Well, first of all, game developers will have to focus more on other platforms than windows, since many games still rely on windows internals (anarchy online for one). There are many who code their games to fit with both Linux and Windows, but i wish there would be more, since games such as Anarchy Online are some of the few reasons why I dont remove my windows installation completly.
If you look closely on EBay, 19 people have voted him up. 19 people are satisfied with his previous auction, which leads to this conclution: The person selling it may not be faking it, but how the hell did he get it in the first place?