Reminds me of an up-to-date version of Hard Driving / Hard Driving 2 on the Amiga (probably on early PCs to) - they shipped with track editors as well, although I was always annoyed by the restrictions on track overlaps..
The DMCA and fellow Jackboot Laws? If the document can be classed as "protected", selling something to get around it may be a possible DMCA/EUCD violation (you can bet Microsoft would try for it if they could make a case for it).
Just wait until Outlook starts storing and transmitting the emails encrypted using a company or machine-based key system. Then things will get really nasty.
"Obvioulsy some people lack any trace of common sence, and need to be told every little thing."
Which assumes, of course, that they actually read them. My experience is that people will only look at documentation (printed or otherwise) when all other options - including helpdesks, support lines, friends, prayer and personal application to God or Godess of choice - have been exhausted. And then the read it incorrectly or misunderstand it and break it anyway.
My opinion is that companies that provide user obsequious documentation is preventing the correct course of evolution...
You have looked at their contact numbers right? No technical contact numbers, the only numbers they show are sales and PR (and I'm sure they'd have the faintest clue what datasheets are...) viaarena, the "technical support" site is virtually useless and has no contact numbers.
This started happening a LONG time before UO. Games have always shipped with noticable bugs (anyone remember Epic on the Amiga? Six years before UO and bugged to hell and back) although the trend has been getting worse, and companies have censored their message boards since the first one went up. UO may have been the first vsible manifestation of it for you, but some places were pros at the game before then.
No, apparen't SCO does. Well, according to Blake Stowell, Communications Manager:
"C++ is one of the properties that SCO owns today and we frequently are approached by customers who wish to license C++ from us and we do charge for that." March 4 2003
Zen Internet in the UK. I used to be with Demon, who had the same policy, but their service became.. less than impressive. I've heard complaints about some US ISPs, but I didn't realise the problem was so widespread.:/
What sodding nazi ISP do you use for Cthulhu's sake? Or, more to the point, why the hell are you still using them?
(yes, access to all but a small number of incoming ports to my lan is firewalled by me, but that's for security and it is my choice - I run servers, clients and do what the hell I like, and any ISP that would stop me doesn't get a penny of my money)
Forums have been doing this for years right? I mean even/. customises its user interface based on user preferences, users being identified by a unique ID in a cookie...
So what if they do catch on, do they care? After all, if they stop their little Johnny from having it he'll complain that Timmy in school has it, and.. well, you can guess the complaints. Parents will give it to their kids because they don't care enough to say no, explain why and make sure their kid understands why they aren't being allowed to do it. So much easier and quieter just to give them the cash, boot them out to the shop and pretend that everything will be okay because everyone else does it.
Just persuade Dubya that the patent office houses international terrorists (shouldn't be hard) and it'll be reduced to a pile of faintly radioactive rubble within a week.
Yes. So what if it is straight from the source? Who says the source is honest? And who selects what you hear about in the first place? Read medialens, FAIR or any of the other media monitoring organisations and then tell me you trust any of them anymore.
Definately not! That is a right reserved for multinationals! God forbid that a bunch of unwashed hackers and their legal thugs could threaten the Good and Honest Coporations working to make the world a better place!
No, hopefully they'll get blown off the face of the earth in a radioactive dustcloud after Darl and chums have been slowly and viciously tortured to the point of jibbering insanity (although it might be hard to tell when this has happened). Ah, a man can dream....
Ah, you appear to have inadvertently confused "computer terrorism" with "business innovation". The former can only be applied to individual computer professionals, groups of criminals who haven't paid the right bribes and Arabs in general while the latter is applied to businessmen who are the embodiment of the entrepreneurial methods of true Capitalism (ie: fleece the populace blind by any and all means possible).
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Reminds me of an up-to-date version of Hard Driving / Hard Driving 2 on the Amiga (probably on early PCs to) - they shipped with track editors as well, although I was always annoyed by the restrictions on track overlaps..
.. and posters who don't check their spelling and grammar aren't much better. Ho hum, that'll teach me for posting too fast in work. Again.
The DMCA and fellow Jackboot Laws? If the document can be classed as "protected", selling something to get around it may be a possible DMCA/EUCD violation (you can bet Microsoft would try for it if they could make a case for it).
Just wait until Outlook starts storing and transmitting the emails encrypted using a company or machine-based key system. Then things will get really nasty.
If you're serious, get a minicamera or pinhole digital camera. As my sig says...
"Obvioulsy some people lack any trace of common sence, and need to be told every little thing."
Which assumes, of course, that they actually read them. My experience is that people will only look at documentation (printed or otherwise) when all other options - including helpdesks, support lines, friends, prayer and personal application to God or Godess of choice - have been exhausted. And then the read it incorrectly or misunderstand it and break it anyway.
My opinion is that companies that provide user obsequious documentation is preventing the correct course of evolution...
You have looked at their contact numbers right? No technical contact numbers, the only numbers they show are sales and PR (and I'm sure they'd have the faintest clue what datasheets are...) viaarena, the "technical support" site is virtually useless and has no contact numbers.
Yeah, I guess those "50 to 100 years" are dog years rather than human ones ;)
This started happening a LONG time before UO. Games have always shipped with noticable bugs (anyone remember Epic on the Amiga? Six years before UO and bugged to hell and back) although the trend has been getting worse, and companies have censored their message boards since the first one went up. UO may have been the first vsible manifestation of it for you, but some places were pros at the game before then.
Yup, quite probably you did,
Oh for mod points :/
No, apparen't SCO does. Well, according to Blake Stowell, Communications Manager:
"C++ is one of the properties that SCO owns today and we frequently are approached by customers who wish to license C++ from us and we do charge for that." March 4 2003
Zen Internet in the UK. I used to be with Demon, who had the same policy, but their service became.. less than impressive. I've heard complaints about some US ISPs, but I didn't realise the problem was so widespread. :/
What sodding nazi ISP do you use for Cthulhu's sake? Or, more to the point, why the hell are you still using them?
(yes, access to all but a small number of incoming ports to my lan is firewalled by me, but that's for security and it is my choice - I run servers, clients and do what the hell I like, and any ISP that would stop me doesn't get a penny of my money)
Forums have been doing this for years right? I mean even /. customises its user interface based on user preferences, users being identified by a unique ID in a cookie...
<sigh>
Madness, utter madness...
So what if they do catch on, do they care? After all, if they stop their little Johnny from having it he'll complain that Timmy in school has it, and.. well, you can guess the complaints. Parents will give it to their kids because they don't care enough to say no, explain why and make sure their kid understands why they aren't being allowed to do it. So much easier and quieter just to give them the cash, boot them out to the shop and pretend that everything will be okay because everyone else does it.
Hell in a handcart I tell you.
Just persuade Dubya that the patent office houses international terrorists (shouldn't be hard) and it'll be reduced to a pile of faintly radioactive rubble within a week.
Yup, true. And Coporations? what is that idiot waffling about?
;)
Alternatively, I might have better things to do with my time than get picky about other people's rushed spelling
Yes. So what if it is straight from the source? Who says the source is honest? And who selects what you hear about in the first place? Read medialens, FAIR or any of the other media monitoring organisations and then tell me you trust any of them anymore.
"I thought had a reputation for honest writing/reporting."
If you believe any mainstream newspaper, TV or radio publication is honest these days, you need a serious reality check.
Definately not! That is a right reserved for multinationals! God forbid that a bunch of unwashed hackers and their legal thugs could threaten the Good and Honest Coporations working to make the world a better place!
</sarcasm>
"It's all the trivial purchases which people would rather not have spammers and governments with TIA programs keeping track of."
/me puts on his AFPB
And it isn't likely to happen, for exactly that reason. They'd get rid of cash today if they could get away with it.
No, hopefully they'll get blown off the face of the earth in a radioactive dustcloud after Darl and chums have been slowly and viciously tortured to the point of jibbering insanity (although it might be hard to tell when this has happened). Ah, a man can dream....
Ah, you appear to have inadvertently confused "computer terrorism" with "business innovation". The former can only be applied to individual computer professionals, groups of criminals who haven't paid the right bribes and Arabs in general while the latter is applied to businessmen who are the embodiment of the entrepreneurial methods of true Capitalism (ie: fleece the populace blind by any and all means possible).
Console games can be, and often are, as buggy as their PC counterparts, and you can't even patch them...
Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention:
Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.