Oh I wasn't disagreeing with that side of the debate. I understand that and it's pretty much where I stand as well. My point was more that the ads are pretty much pointless for their intended audience, and rather annoying for everyone else.
Occasionally being the key word. The people really causing a dent are the ones dl'ing dozens of movies and going to see 2 or 3 here and there. It's not like the ad will have any real effect on most of them anyway, while it annoys the rest of us plenty every time we're forced to sit through it.
So basically, be a "large" corporation, or pirate it? Your average home/office user isn't going to be able to get the version which doesn't require activation.
I'd have to concur about Stephen Donaldson's Gap series. I recently picked up all five books at once on a whim since I'd previously read and liked The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. That was a mistake. I had a great deal of trouble putting them down. Reading five books in a week really cuts into your sleep (and everything else!)
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Well, a bit of googling and the following appears (it helps that I've run into it before though:):
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
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Their own personal damning press release and stock options, in that order?
Actually, I think this concept, or one like it, has been around for a while.
I seem to recall a game called "Midi maze" back in the days of the Atari STs and Amigas. It was some type of multiplayer PacMan clone played through their linked midi ports.
It probably isn't, but the point is that SCO is arguing that IBM illegally included/exported some of their advanced SMP code. In keeping with the audacity of the rest of their claims, its somewhat amusing if SCO has widely exported their own SMP code there.
While that's true to some extent, you should pick up a copy of Time Splitters 2 for PS2 and give that a try if you haven't already. It's not exactly the same as Halo, but it's a blast. I played the whole way through with a friend and just found it fun/hilarious. I wish they made more decent multiplayer games like that....
Every now and then our gameplay would degrade into setting each other on fire and screwing around killing each other. I guess most co-op fps games sort of invite that, but it was extra hard to resist with this one.:)
I've been unable to use Mozilla since I upgraded to version 1.3.
Ever since then, I get a "The connection was refused when attempting to contact [insert host here]." dialog. This happens even though I've tried going back to older versions, installing/uninstalling it, wiping the application
data directory and any related registry keys I can find.
Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? I don't want to post a bug because I suspect it's an installation/kruft issue, but I can't think of anywhere else to look for help. It would be kind of nice to have working again since I use Mozilla Mail (and that has the exact same problem!)
Thanks in advance, Tri
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Well, it's actually not really a bug. "con" *is* a reserved device name. It's the device name for console, in the same vein that "prn" is the device name for the parallel port printer. (Or whatever it's been redirected to?)
Integrated electronics like that are great for their simplicity, but if something in it fails then it's not so great.
I worked in a dept. store a long time ago, and the combo tv/vcrs used to come back all the time. Usually, if they came back once, they ended up coming back for repairs multiple following times as well. Of course, this was for Wards before they went under and the DFW repair center didn't seem to ever bother doing a very exceptional job, so YMMV.
At least with a homebuilt PVR you could just swap out a part if it decides to die on you.
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Oh I wasn't disagreeing with that side of the debate. I understand that and it's pretty much where I stand as well. My point was more that the ads are pretty much pointless for their intended audience, and rather annoying for everyone else.
Occasionally being the key word. The people really causing a dent are the ones dl'ing dozens of movies and going to see 2 or 3 here and there. It's not like the ad will have any real effect on most of them anyway, while it annoys the rest of us plenty every time we're forced to sit through it.
So basically, be a "large" corporation, or pirate it? Your average home/office user isn't going to be able to get the version which doesn't require activation.
In addition to the radio ads which I haven't actually heard yet, I've already seen a flyer for the same from a Sunday paper in Calgary.
Neat, ING? So Royal Bank's mutual funds/whatever have their hands in the cookie jar too....
But for slightly different reasons. It's not like 98 was terribly stable or anything. :-)
I'd have to concur about Stephen Donaldson's Gap series. I recently picked up all five books at once on a whim since I'd previously read and liked The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. That was a mistake. I had a great deal of trouble putting them down. Reading five books in a week really cuts into your sleep (and everything else!)
Well, a bit of googling and the following appears (it helps that I've run into it before though :):
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
Their own personal damning press release and stock options, in that order?
But of course, with BSODs under XP, it really means business.
None of this wimpy press any key to try to continue junk.
Just straight *boom*, let's dump to disk. Oh you had unsaved work? So sorry, you're sol...
Actually, I think this concept, or one like it, has been around for a while.
I seem to recall a game called "Midi maze" back in the days of the Atari STs and Amigas. It was some type of multiplayer PacMan clone played through their linked midi ports.
It probably isn't, but the point is that SCO is arguing that IBM illegally included/exported some of their advanced SMP code. In keeping with the audacity of the rest of their claims, its somewhat amusing if SCO has widely exported their own SMP code there.
While that's true to some extent, you should pick up a copy of Time Splitters 2 for PS2 and give that a try if you haven't already. It's not exactly the same as Halo, but it's a blast. I played the whole way through with a friend and just found it fun/hilarious. I wish they made more decent multiplayer games like that....
:)
Every now and then our gameplay would degrade into setting each other on fire and screwing around killing each other. I guess most co-op fps games sort of invite that, but it was extra hard to resist with this one.
Er, ignore this post. I finally solved my problem after I made it worse first and I actually got a usable error message.
:)
For anyone who cares (read "no-one"), don't take zone alarm out of startup without disabling/removing its stupid truevector service.
I didn't find this out until I reinstalled over xp and suddenly ping/IE/etc wouldn't work at all.
I've been unable to use Mozilla since I upgraded to version 1.3.
Ever since then, I get a "The connection was refused when attempting to contact [insert host here]." dialog.
This happens even though I've tried going back to older versions, installing/uninstalling it, wiping the application
data directory and any related registry keys I can find.
Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? I don't want to post a bug because I suspect it's an installation/kruft issue,
but I can't think of anywhere else to look for help. It would be kind of nice to have working again since I use Mozilla Mail
(and that has the exact same problem!)
Thanks in advance,
Tri
Well, it's actually not really a bug. "con" *is* a reserved device name. It's the device name for console, in the same vein that "prn" is the device name for the parallel port printer. (Or whatever it's been redirected to?)
Integrated electronics like that are great for their simplicity, but if something in it fails then it's not so great.
I worked in a dept. store a long time ago, and the combo tv/vcrs used to come back all the time.
Usually, if they came back once, they ended up coming back for repairs multiple following times as well.
Of course, this was for Wards before they went under and the DFW repair center didn't seem to ever
bother doing a very exceptional job, so YMMV.
At least with a homebuilt PVR you could just swap out a part if it decides to die on you.