You are assuming that they will repeal the gas tax. Even if they do, with the additional fuel efficient cars running around, what is to keep gasoline at its current prices, or even recinding? Less demand on it? Yeah right.
You could reduce gasoline usage until it becomes a natural byproduct of making other fuels and plastics, where they have shitloads of it sitting around, and the price will skyrocket to keep profit levels at today's standards. They'll justify the cost in storage fees, etc.
Time to bite the pillow California, it's going in dry!
If the unit doesn't get power, it can't operate. Or you can pull it off your car and leave it in your driveway. Fill up cherry cans instead of your car.
I think that it's time to update the definition of "pirate video lab". How many DVD burners make a pirate video lab? One master, and you can burn to order rather quickly, especially if you have two or three burners.
I guess what I'm saying is if a person were to advertise his warez via e-mail, set up a website, and manage to stay under radar, then how to I convert his stupitiy into my financial gain? Surely $5,000.00 would be worth halting this, especially with the numbers the MPAA throws around. I don't think that it's unreasonable, especially if they hit him with civil charges.
And where's the reward for turning in the bootleg pirates? I have been looking all over for some kind of monetary compensation for being a snitch, but I couldn't find anything.
Do you expect me to turn them in because it's the right thing to do? Cross my palms with silver, and I'll be a Judas, but not until then.
Thanks for the update. It's been a while since I played around with it. The last time I spoke to Miguel about it, I was under the impression that the wine libs were there to stay. I guess that I'm a little bit out of date.
I haven't done much mono development lately, and when I did, it was only command-line apps. Maybe it's time to get back into it.
Miguel is the lead developer for gnome, and his pet project was creating a.NET framework for linux. It has since grown to be more than a pet, gaining the backing of Novell. It is not the easiest thing to get running on your system, but by far not the hardest.
It needs to be defended for a number of reasons. Linux zealotry (why would people move from Windows if all the software is cross platform?), laguage zealots (IMHO, C# is a nice language to program in, but the java guys scream bloody hell) and people afraid of MS putting the legal smack down on Linux over API issues,just to name a few.
Personally, I think that Miguel's reliance on WINE is a mistake, but we have discussed this here, and it does have immediate benefits for the windows.forms and directX stuff. I know people who are programming frontends on both Windows and Linux, using a combination of the GTK interface and Windows.forms, and they love it.
Have they put in the nagravision decoding algos?
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I have yet to view a listing for the bugfixes for Suse and Red Hat, but history shows that a majority of the patches are for applications, not the core OS.
The fact that you can break linux down into kernel, library, and application bugs, and with Windows you really can't.
Also, did MS also include patches to WinAmp, mIRC, etc? Of course not. They package one window manager, one filesystem, one kernel, one webserver, one sql server, one browser. Even at a patch per package ratio, they are losing.
I would say all three, and I would throw in a fourth person so we can split up round numbers. We don't want the pesky $1,000,000 split three ways problem. Who pays for the extra penny?
but a spiteful employee would encrypt the files, so that everyone thought they had good backups. del *.* generally shows up pretty quickly on networked drives. Compare restoring one backup to the process of resoring countless backups in the attempt to find an unencrypted file.
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it's generic stuff that's no different in communist China from the USA.
Like the idea of buying things for your family in order to placate them? Promoting mass consumerism as an effective way of life? Sounds like the Communist building blocks that the modern Chinese empire is founded on. (But it's probably because there is no official distrubitor of Maxis games as of yet, and all the games being retailled are pirated copies of varying quality)
Yes, because video gamers always make the best soldiers. Don't bother hitting up the high-school football team, or the track and field team, because they don't know that in war, when you get sniped, you're supposed to say "OMG you camping f4g!", or that if you get shot, you can keep your dignity by claiming wallhack.
Somehow, I'd take an army of manual labourers and people who can survive in harsh environments over a group of people who dwell in darkened basements anyday.
But consider the fact that the majority of Harvard graduates who are preparing to pass on in the near future are men who grew up in the age of sexual inequality, I'd say it was a smart business move. By the time the female Harvard graduates are ready to die and will $10 million, this guy will be long gone, and they can make it up with the next one.
It's an RPG, but not massively multi-player. There are some map hacks to get persistent items, but the online portion is essentially to gather a few of your friends together for a dungeon crawl.
I imagine that if the source were opened, then it could act as a client for a MMORPG, but as it stands, it is not.
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There comes a time when you just have to let go of the past. The floppy drive has the distinct scent of almonds, it's time to cut the gangrenous mess off.
The longer we use legacy hardware, the longer we are plagued with it. Get a CF reader, and boot from that. You're way better off. As an exercise in stress relief, smash the old floppy drive with a ball-peen hammer.
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Colloquialism. The jerry cans are bright red, so in my little part of the world, they've become cherry cans.
We also call dumpsters 'sasso bins', and a few other strange liguistic quirks.
You are assuming that they will repeal the gas tax. Even if they do, with the additional fuel efficient cars running around, what is to keep gasoline at its current prices, or even recinding? Less demand on it? Yeah right.
You could reduce gasoline usage until it becomes a natural byproduct of making other fuels and plastics, where they have shitloads of it sitting around, and the price will skyrocket to keep profit levels at today's standards. They'll justify the cost in storage fees, etc.
Time to bite the pillow California, it's going in dry!
If the unit doesn't get power, it can't operate. Or you can pull it off your car and leave it in your driveway. Fill up cherry cans instead of your car.
I think that it's time to update the definition of "pirate video lab". How many DVD burners make a pirate video lab? One master, and you can burn to order rather quickly, especially if you have two or three burners.
I guess what I'm saying is if a person were to advertise his warez via e-mail, set up a website, and manage to stay under radar, then how to I convert his stupitiy into my financial gain? Surely $5,000.00 would be worth halting this, especially with the numbers the MPAA throws around. I don't think that it's unreasonable, especially if they hit him with civil charges.
And where's the reward for turning in the bootleg pirates? I have been looking all over for some kind of monetary compensation for being a snitch, but I couldn't find anything.
Do you expect me to turn them in because it's the right thing to do? Cross my palms with silver, and I'll be a Judas, but not until then.
Thanks for the update. It's been a while since I played around with it. The last time I spoke to Miguel about it, I was under the impression that the wine libs were there to stay. I guess that I'm a little bit out of date.
I haven't done much mono development lately, and when I did, it was only command-line apps. Maybe it's time to get back into it.
Miguel is the lead developer for gnome, and his pet project was creating a .NET framework for linux. It has since grown to be more than a pet, gaining the backing of Novell. It is not the easiest thing to get running on your system, but by far not the hardest.
It needs to be defended for a number of reasons. Linux zealotry (why would people move from Windows if all the software is cross platform?), laguage zealots (IMHO, C# is a nice language to program in, but the java guys scream bloody hell) and people afraid of MS putting the legal smack down on Linux over API issues,just to name a few.
Personally, I think that Miguel's reliance on WINE is a mistake, but we have discussed this here, and it does have immediate benefits for the windows.forms and directX stuff. I know people who are programming frontends on both Windows and Linux, using a combination of the GTK interface and Windows.forms, and they love it.
That'll get me to move from VDR.
Bring on the goatse jokes.
Haven't you been reading? It's Bill's fault.
I have yet to view a listing for the bugfixes for Suse and Red Hat, but history shows that a majority of the patches are for applications, not the core OS.
The fact that you can break linux down into kernel, library, and application bugs, and with Windows you really can't.
Also, did MS also include patches to WinAmp, mIRC, etc? Of course not. They package one window manager, one filesystem, one kernel, one webserver, one sql server, one browser. Even at a patch per package ratio, they are losing.
I would say all three, and I would throw in a fourth person so we can split up round numbers. We don't want the pesky $1,000,000 split three ways problem. Who pays for the extra penny?
I thought that it was free for personal use only.
What company do you work for again?
Heh. Loghorn will only be secure because the hardware requirements preclude anyone but the six richest Arab Shieks from running it.
but a spiteful employee would encrypt the files, so that everyone thought they had good backups. del *.* generally shows up pretty quickly on networked drives. Compare restoring one backup to the process of resoring countless backups in the attempt to find an unencrypted file.
it's generic stuff that's no different in communist China from the USA.
Like the idea of buying things for your family in order to placate them? Promoting mass consumerism as an effective way of life? Sounds like the Communist building blocks that the modern Chinese empire is founded on.
(But it's probably because there is no official distrubitor of Maxis games as of yet, and all the games being retailled are pirated copies of varying quality)
Yes, because video gamers always make the best soldiers. Don't bother hitting up the high-school football team, or the track and field team, because they don't know that in war, when you get sniped, you're supposed to say "OMG you camping f4g!", or that if you get shot, you can keep your dignity by claiming wallhack.
Somehow, I'd take an army of manual labourers and people who can survive in harsh environments over a group of people who dwell in darkened basements anyday.
But consider the fact that the majority of Harvard graduates who are preparing to pass on in the near future are men who grew up in the age of sexual inequality, I'd say it was a smart business move. By the time the female Harvard graduates are ready to die and will $10 million, this guy will be long gone, and they can make it up with the next one.
Unknowingly or not, it was a smart business move.
...I can tell you you can create some pretty cool stuff in a short time.
Like a webpage that formats your hard drive!
Do a google search on the e-mail. He's offered to sell private info to debt collectors, and appears to be quite active on the neohapsis sites as well.
Interesting reading.
I'll make it 600,001!
(Do you think that's enough incentive?)
Thanks, I didn't realize it was out of beta yet.
It's an RPG, but not massively multi-player. There are some map hacks to get persistent items, but the online portion is essentially to gather a few of your friends together for a dungeon crawl.
I imagine that if the source were opened, then it could act as a client for a MMORPG, but as it stands, it is not.
Anything of notice out there?
There comes a time when you just have to let go of the past. The floppy drive has the distinct scent of almonds, it's time to cut the gangrenous mess off.
The longer we use legacy hardware, the longer we are plagued with it. Get a CF reader, and boot from that. You're way better off. As an exercise in stress relief, smash the old floppy drive with a ball-peen hammer.