Well, the reality is, this provides as legitimate use for P2P. You might find something in copyright law somewhere that states that redistributing something such as this is illegal, but like jaywalking, no one really gives a rats ass.
If you still aren't able to swallow your pride, you report back here with some proof that Microsoft is truly upset that people are sharing this over P2P... and you talk about ME reprsenting Microsoft, heh.
SP2 is a free update. If I download it, put it on a CD, and give it to someone else to install, it's not illegal. Likewise if I say "Hey, want SP2? Download it from my FTP." Now, if I MODIFY it and redistribute it, then yeah... but other than that, how would it be illegal?
There's nothing to "agree" to on the download page. The EULA is built into the setup.
I'm sure Microsoft doesn't mind the fact that people on P2P networks are sharing it. It takes the load off their servers.
I do have to say, it's quite odd how much RAM Firefox uses. I have Google's main search page loaded and it's using 48 megs! Before anyone suggest it's a botched install, this happens on several computers.
Not to sound like the odd man out, but seriously, it takes about 20 minutes to get used to switching back and forth between the flashlight...
Did you know you can do it quickly with the F key?
I could see if the ONLY way to switch was to scroll through your weapons list, but it's pretty automatic. If you need to see, hit F. If something runs at you, hit F again to switch back to your normal weapon, shoot it.
What confuses me is why SETI believes other beings even have or are sending out the signals we are looking for. If they don't know what's out there, how do they know what to look for, or do they understand that it's a pure gamble?
I mean, everything around us we take for granted... trees, air, rocks, animals, but if we were to witness another extraterrestrial civilization of sorts, we'd be in awe of the incredibly unnatural and twisted way things might be. Vise versa them to us. They might look at our "TV" and "Computers" and just utter a big ol "?" while we look at their... gadgets and react the same way.
Let's say a mysterious being came and offered you a chance to win a million dollars by giving him $1 per ticket and you had absolutely NO idea of who they were or what this "lottery" system was. You had no idea of the odds, you had no idea of the other winners.
120 tickets later, you would have no intelligent reason to believe that you could actually win. You wouldn't know.
The universe IS infinitely huge, so you'd figure there is some chance of being other intelligent beings out there. However... since we are the only planet that we know of that contains life, how can you even remotely determine that probability?
A part of me does believe that we just happened to be at the right place at the right time. I think it's by pure chance that something we are experiencing even exists.
The complete randomness and unpredictible nature of the universe *head explodes*
Ok, so Win XP 64-bit is in beta. Great! But where's everything else?
At what point are people actually going to start making 64 bit applications? I'm not talking 64 bit linux or anything like that, I'm talking consumer level apps and games.
I see a lot of people upgrading to 64 bit chips, but what good does it do if there's nothing to utilize them? Is it just for bragging rights or what?
I'm a programmer and I have yet to see a need to get a 64 bit chip.
Almost everyone I know who's tried Linux and doesn't like it dislikes it not because of the lack of software, but because of the lack of hardware support for very common items.
How many times has support for a piece of hardware (almsot always network related) been utterly screwed up because the manufacturer decided to use a different chip? For example, Linksys WPC11 cards work great up to v4, but after that aren't supported without additional help from NDISWrapper (if you're lucky) or Linuxant (costs $$, might as well go buy another card).
Granted, you wouldn't have this problem if you made sure that each piece of hardware you purchased was Linux compatible, but not everyone has that option.
Just because someone is your superior doesn't give them the right to BS around all day.
Believe it or not, you don't have to kiss your superior's ass all day long and listen to everything he barks out at you. Sometimes you need to bite the bullet and think outside of the box to accomplish what would normally never be brought to attention.
If that means spying on your boss when he's dickin around, so be it. Not everyone has to play the role of corporate drone, you know.
The guy knew his boss fucked around on the computer all day instead of doing his job and this was known to the employee who got fired.
He reported this to higher ups and they ignored it. The first mistake here is they should've listened. Since they didn't, the only other option was to take matters into his own hands.
Even if he wasn't an IT manager of sorts, he did the right thing in proving to higher-ups that his boss is doing nothing but wasting the company's money by playing solitaire and looking at stock market crap instead of working.
I'm sure there are tons of people out there who are looking for a job and would be more than happy to fill his position and actually do some work.
They should've fired the boss and gave the IT manager that position (provided it paid more).
Seriously though, because he's not a criminal. If I were to toss a pencil across the room and accidentally poke someone's eye out, you can bet your ass that'd be the last time I throw anything at anyone.
Yes, he made a stupid fuckin mistake, but he is NOT a threat to society.
Call it a lesson learned the hard way, but if you release him back into society, I can guarantee you he won't be a threat to anyone.
You can take a normal law abiding citizen who happens to make a mistake and put them in prison. What if you throw a nerf football at someone and it hits their eye and blinds them... does that make you a threat? Nope.
Marijuana is illegal, people still smoke it. Since alcohol and cigarettes are perfectly legal, it kinda makes the marijuana laws unjust.
People still smoke it, it's still illegal. Just because something is a law doesn't mean it has to be followed.
If 10 million people believe a foolish idea, the idea is still foolish.
Unfortunately, copyright is a touchy subject with the RIAA/MPAA bitching about P2P (and believe me, when they're done w/ the USA, if that ever happens, they'll hit the UK next), so it's hard to convince law makers that people need these chips for backups.
They merely see it as a tool that encourages pirating games.
I agree 100%, and I'm all for modchips whether you wanna use them for free games, to backup your old copies, or whatever.
I'm against the law, but it's hilarious how the author of the story chose to sugar-coat the real use of modchips.
I'm merely pointing out that most people get modchips to copy games, which is true. Where are the facts? Well, that's like saying that people who buy radar detectors are merely assuring themselves that cops are in the area instead of a tool used to help them speed.
C'mon now, let's at least be a bit realistic here.
"This means all homebrew and hobbyist coders in the UK can no longer modify their consoles to run games they have written."
Eh? You do realize that those people represent a very MINUTE portion of modchip users. Let's be blunt and to the point: modchips exist so one can copy and own PS2 games without paying for them. Flat out, that's what they're made for. That's what I use it for as well as almost every other modchip owner.
In any case, this law doesn't matter much. This is just another one of those laws that people make a big stink about that turn out to be nothing to worry about, and rightfully so because if it affects you, just order a pre-modded PS2 from a shop overseas. Problem solved. It's not like they're gonna scan mail and see a PS2 and decide to open it up.
The last story had peple saying it'd be Radeon 9800's and huuuge CPUs.
While it makes sense considering id always pushed the envelope on latest hardware (like 486 to pentium), those were usually drastic changes in hardware and performance. The difference between a 1.5 and 3 ghz CPU, even though one is twice as fast as the other, is minimal in immediate performance for most hardware & games of today.. so to think people will run out and buy entirely new ystems (going from 1ghz to 3 will need a new mobo & CPU of course as well as RAM) is a bit overestimating how much people want to play this.
I'm a programmer, so I of all people know what I need in terms of CPU, and to be honest, my computer I purchased 2 years ago (Athlon 1800) can run anything I throw at it, even the latest games.
It's good to see that it'll still run on systems that're 2-3 years old!
Yeah, there's a good idea....
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"Jesus: The FPS":
While demented soldiers and demons run around the battle arena trying to frag you and each other, your ask as Jesus The Peacemaker is to persuade them to stop fighting.
With a bag full of holy water and bibles, your task is to put and end to the violence.
Powerups include "Quad-prayer" (make them believe in you. If they fail, instill fear into them.) and "Persistent nagging" - If they ignore you, annoy the shit out of them until they listen....hm, on second thought: no.
If you played that and anyone knew about it, you'd probably get your ass kicked for being such a pansy, haha.
Not to mention, religious games (with the exception of Black and White) would be utterly boring, just like most religious movies.
...do you even know what you're talking about? Hahaha.
At the time, yes, they were top notch unless you wanted to drop $399 on whatever was elite.
There isn't a single thing my 9600 can't run at MAX right now. The thing that will change that is Doom.
Now, I know it's quite hard for you people to take some criticism about your precious id, but the point made in my original post (which every mod so blindly failed to realize) is a lot of people aren't gonna wanna drop cash for a new card.
Please explain to me how the fuck that's flamebait.
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*rolls eyes*
Another one of those people, heh.
Well, the reality is, this provides as legitimate use for P2P. You might find something in copyright law somewhere that states that redistributing something such as this is illegal, but like jaywalking, no one really gives a rats ass.
If you still aren't able to swallow your pride, you report back here with some proof that Microsoft is truly upset that people are sharing this over P2P... and you talk about ME reprsenting Microsoft, heh.
What the hell kinda thinking is that?
SP2 is a free update. If I download it, put it on a CD, and give it to someone else to install, it's not illegal. Likewise if I say "Hey, want SP2? Download it from my FTP." Now, if I MODIFY it and redistribute it, then yeah... but other than that, how would it be illegal?
There's nothing to "agree" to on the download page. The EULA is built into the setup.
I'm sure Microsoft doesn't mind the fact that people on P2P networks are sharing it. It takes the load off their servers.
Try 475. At least, the one that's up on MSDN is 475.
it had:
1. Tabbed browsing
2. Password manager
3. Pop-up blocking
4. Download Manager
I do have to say, it's quite odd how much RAM Firefox uses. I have Google's main search page loaded and it's using 48 megs! Before anyone suggest it's a botched install, this happens on several computers.
Anyone know of a way to make it not use so much?
Not to sound like the odd man out, but seriously, it takes about 20 minutes to get used to switching back and forth between the flashlight...
Did you know you can do it quickly with the F key?
I could see if the ONLY way to switch was to scroll through your weapons list, but it's pretty automatic. If you need to see, hit F. If something runs at you, hit F again to switch back to your normal weapon, shoot it.
It's not rocket science...
What confuses me is why SETI believes other beings even have or are sending out the signals we are looking for. If they don't know what's out there, how do they know what to look for, or do they understand that it's a pure gamble?
... gadgets and react the same way.
I mean, everything around us we take for granted... trees, air, rocks, animals, but if we were to witness another extraterrestrial civilization of sorts, we'd be in awe of the incredibly unnatural and twisted way things might be. Vise versa them to us. They might look at our "TV" and "Computers" and just utter a big ol "?" while we look at their
Odds of winning the lottery are known.
Let's say a mysterious being came and offered you a chance to win a million dollars by giving him $1 per ticket and you had absolutely NO idea of who they were or what this "lottery" system was. You had no idea of the odds, you had no idea of the other winners.
120 tickets later, you would have no intelligent reason to believe that you could actually win. You wouldn't know.
The universe IS infinitely huge, so you'd figure there is some chance of being other intelligent beings out there. However... since we are the only planet that we know of that contains life, how can you even remotely determine that probability?
A part of me does believe that we just happened to be at the right place at the right time. I think it's by pure chance that something we are experiencing even exists.
The complete randomness and unpredictible nature of the universe *head explodes*
One day it'll be released to the masses.
:)
It'll be the "consumer's" way of saying, "Hey, govt., why don't you go fuck yourself?" with a big grin and the finger high in the air.
Ah, I can't wait
Ok, so Win XP 64-bit is in beta. Great! But where's everything else?
At what point are people actually going to start making 64 bit applications? I'm not talking 64 bit linux or anything like that, I'm talking consumer level apps and games.
I see a lot of people upgrading to 64 bit chips, but what good does it do if there's nothing to utilize them? Is it just for bragging rights or what?
I'm a programmer and I have yet to see a need to get a 64 bit chip.
Almost everyone I know who's tried Linux and doesn't like it dislikes it not because of the lack of software, but because of the lack of hardware support for very common items.
How many times has support for a piece of hardware (almsot always network related) been utterly screwed up because the manufacturer decided to use a different chip? For example, Linksys WPC11 cards work great up to v4, but after that aren't supported without additional help from NDISWrapper (if you're lucky) or Linuxant (costs $$, might as well go buy another card).
Granted, you wouldn't have this problem if you made sure that each piece of hardware you purchased was Linux compatible, but not everyone has that option.
The basically smothered 321 Studios with lawsuits until they folded. They weren't even ruled as being illegal.
I'd hate to see what the future brings. If a company doesn't agree with yours, they'll just bombard you with lawsuits and drain your bank.
That's not right at all. There really needs to be a law passed to prevent this type of bully tactic.
I heard in the next Rainbow Six that you'll be able to wipe out a sleeper cell of terrorists with just a roll of duct tape.
...and that only applies if you don't have balls.
Just because someone is your superior doesn't give them the right to BS around all day.
Believe it or not, you don't have to kiss your superior's ass all day long and listen to everything he barks out at you. Sometimes you need to bite the bullet and think outside of the box to accomplish what would normally never be brought to attention.
If that means spying on your boss when he's dickin around, so be it. Not everyone has to play the role of corporate drone, you know.
Firing him was most certainly NOT appropriate.
The guy knew his boss fucked around on the computer all day instead of doing his job and this was known to the employee who got fired.
He reported this to higher ups and they ignored it. The first mistake here is they should've listened. Since they didn't, the only other option was to take matters into his own hands.
Even if he wasn't an IT manager of sorts, he did the right thing in proving to higher-ups that his boss is doing nothing but wasting the company's money by playing solitaire and looking at stock market crap instead of working.
I'm sure there are tons of people out there who are looking for a job and would be more than happy to fill his position and actually do some work.
They should've fired the boss and gave the IT manager that position (provided it paid more).
Because I am he who is known as I Am.
Seriously though, because he's not a criminal. If I were to toss a pencil across the room and accidentally poke someone's eye out, you can bet your ass that'd be the last time I throw anything at anyone.
Yes, he made a stupid fuckin mistake, but he is NOT a threat to society.
Call it a lesson learned the hard way, but if you release him back into society, I can guarantee you he won't be a threat to anyone.
You can take a normal law abiding citizen who happens to make a mistake and put them in prison. What if you throw a nerf football at someone and it hits their eye and blinds them... does that make you a threat? Nope.
Again, dumb mistake, but not a threat.
Marijuana is illegal, people still smoke it. Since alcohol and cigarettes are perfectly legal, it kinda makes the marijuana laws unjust.
People still smoke it, it's still illegal. Just because something is a law doesn't mean it has to be followed.
If 10 million people believe a foolish idea, the idea is still foolish.
Unfortunately, copyright is a touchy subject with the RIAA/MPAA bitching about P2P (and believe me, when they're done w/ the USA, if that ever happens, they'll hit the UK next), so it's hard to convince law makers that people need these chips for backups.
They merely see it as a tool that encourages pirating games.
I agree 100%, and I'm all for modchips whether you wanna use them for free games, to backup your old copies, or whatever.
I'm against the law, but it's hilarious how the author of the story chose to sugar-coat the real use of modchips.
I'm merely pointing out that most people get modchips to copy games, which is true. Where are the facts? Well, that's like saying that people who buy radar detectors are merely assuring themselves that cops are in the area instead of a tool used to help them speed.
C'mon now, let's at least be a bit realistic here.
"This means all homebrew and hobbyist coders in the UK can no longer modify their consoles to run games they have written."
Eh? You do realize that those people represent a very MINUTE portion of modchip users. Let's be blunt and to the point: modchips exist so one can copy and own PS2 games without paying for them. Flat out, that's what they're made for. That's what I use it for as well as almost every other modchip owner.
In any case, this law doesn't matter much. This is just another one of those laws that people make a big stink about that turn out to be nothing to worry about, and rightfully so because if it affects you, just order a pre-modded PS2 from a shop overseas. Problem solved. It's not like they're gonna scan mail and see a PS2 and decide to open it up.
The last story had peple saying it'd be Radeon 9800's and huuuge CPUs.
While it makes sense considering id always pushed the envelope on latest hardware (like 486 to pentium), those were usually drastic changes in hardware and performance. The difference between a 1.5 and 3 ghz CPU, even though one is twice as fast as the other, is minimal in immediate performance for most hardware & games of today.. so to think people will run out and buy entirely new ystems (going from 1ghz to 3 will need a new mobo & CPU of course as well as RAM) is a bit overestimating how much people want to play this.
I'm a programmer, so I of all people know what I need in terms of CPU, and to be honest, my computer I purchased 2 years ago (Athlon 1800) can run anything I throw at it, even the latest games.
It's good to see that it'll still run on systems that're 2-3 years old!
"Jesus: The FPS":
...hm, on second thought: no.
While demented soldiers and demons run around the battle arena trying to frag you and each other, your ask as Jesus The Peacemaker is to persuade them to stop fighting.
With a bag full of holy water and bibles, your task is to put and end to the violence.
Powerups include "Quad-prayer" (make them believe in you. If they fail, instill fear into them.) and "Persistent nagging" - If they ignore you, annoy the shit out of them until they listen.
If you played that and anyone knew about it, you'd probably get your ass kicked for being such a pansy, haha.
Not to mention, religious games (with the exception of Black and White) would be utterly boring, just like most religious movies.
Oh, and good luck finding a 9800 for under $200, like I said in my original post ;)
...do you even know what you're talking about? Hahaha.
At the time, yes, they were top notch unless you wanted to drop $399 on whatever was elite.
There isn't a single thing my 9600 can't run at MAX right now. The thing that will change that is Doom.
Now, I know it's quite hard for you people to take some criticism about your precious id, but the point made in my original post (which every mod so blindly failed to realize) is a lot of people aren't gonna wanna drop cash for a new card.
Please explain to me how the fuck that's flamebait.
How the fuck is this flamebait? You people are idiots.