I watched people pump quarters in, watched them play, remembered their moves then tried it myself and mastered it without emptying my wallet. It was amazing at the time, but laser discs are inherently limited. It WAS ahead of it's time.
Very annoying when the joystick wore out though. Ahh the black screen of doom as the laser disc accessed the appropriate death sequence. Those were the days.
FYI- from NTL M.D. today: "Our objective is only to limit very frequent or persistent heavy network use that can impact other customers. Therefore we will ONLY contact customers who exceed the daily data limit for three or more days in any consecutive 14-day period.", Sounds fair to me. There are relatively few bandwidth hoggs on any service who drive up costs and affect the service for everyone else, they want rid of them I would to if I were an NTL customer, why should ordinary users subsidize hoggs?
No I do get it. I disagree with you. Clearly their system can handle it or there would have been complaints about outages before now. They've decided to change the terms of service, as is their right. The intent is to stop bandwidth hoggs who drive up costs for everyone. Geeze 1GB a day on a regular basis, you need to be going some to pull that one off. I don't have any sympathy for someone who gripes at a 1GB per day cap (not even a cap, you just can't do it regularly), zero, zip nada. Tough titties.
I did read it, actually I saw it in the Reg sooner and the info say is there is not actually in the article. This is about people who regularly exceed that cap, not occasionally exceed it. Look you have options from other providers. We're talking about 1GB of transfer here, that's a lot of data, they could throttle bandwidth like so many services, that would be a worse solution.
Saying this is just 2.5 hours of the service only tells me they have screaming fast connections. It's a bullshit argument.
As usual their business is affected by a small pecentage of bandwidth hoggs, this sounds like a way to kick them, they should be applauded, let the hoggs pay for what they use.
You're a fool. The terms of this copyright is the GPL. It's *license* is the GPL, that's a *copyright* license that says you can use the software under certain conditions. By definition the testing of the GPL is a test of whether it is a watertight license withing the bounds of copyright law.
This all started with the inquirer, but even they said NVIDIA had requested 100,000 parts before they stop production. NV35 is due in less than 6 months so this isn't too surprising. NV30 is late and theyr'e going onto the next part sooner. It seems the story is getting more hysterical and distorted by each subsequent report.
It's real simple, if you want to download 1GB per day regularly then PAY FOR IT!
Geeze, why some people get all flustered when a cap is introduced on a low cost service is beyond me. Quit freeloading of other customers and pay for what you use.
This is a power grab by an internal Sun committee. It's riddled with scaremongering and concocted reasons why the ARC should control Java. It's a sign of deep malaise within Sun.
Look, they can copy it and sell it etc. what they can't do is refuse to give you their modified source, that's a condition of the GPL license. Are people still this dim when it comes to the fundamentals of the GPL? The OWNER sets the conditions for using their property, this is THE MAIN condition of the GPL, the GPL is your license from the owner to use the code.
This is entirely about the enforceability of the GPL. Your post summarizes the situation and most others that would give rise to a GPL violation. The enforceability issue arises because legally when you're giving it away, what are the damages or your losses w.r.t. someone taking it. This has EVERYTHING to do with enforcing the GPL, it boggles the mind trying to imagine what you envisage an enforceent scenario is if not this.
Geeze dude, if you're making a bomb you don't go getting certified and buying H2O2, that's just assinine. Like you say there are easier ways (fuel oil & fertilizer for example, every farm in the boodies has them). If this is the reason for no H2O2 then it's bloody silly. We're talking about an X team here for goodness sakes.
NASA has struck out more than once trying to design space vehicles. They go over budget and don't deliver then congress pulls funding. They need less beaurocracy and more risk taking, less obtuse human factors (etc) experiments and more direct application of ideas to manned missons. It's unfortunate but Space is dangerous and the price of safety is becomming inability to explore, not increased expenditure.
Their overheads and procedures cripple most efforts to do anything innovative.
Bergman seems lost when he talks about this. Nemesis and Final Frontier are the two lowest grossing ST movies ever. They each have stinking scripts. These facts are not unrelated. Bergman says he thinks he made a great movie, what is he smoking? He didn't make a movie, he made a big Star Trek episode.
All that shit about a clone, who gives a crap if it's Picard's clone, BFD. Even then DO something with it. Geeze infiltrate Strafleet, give the guy and army, do something. All the freak had was a ship with a nasty weapon that took 7 minutes to fire and a blood disorder requiring Pickard's juices. Both of these are useless and contrived plot devices that treat the audience like fools. Who came up with this crap? Most fans could do better.
Gamespot has bought up most good game sites and closed them with a redirect to their page and then locked most of their content so only subscribers can see it, even screenshots that are just given to them by publishers. It's high time they had some competition, any competition even from ain't it cool news.
There is value in the Mandrake distribution, installation and name. Are the investors in Mandrake supposed to just give that value away after losing their money?
You didn't ust have an earlier story about Foveon, you had an earlier story about exactly this sensor. Geeze at least wait for a new development before posting an article.
It's a completely honest demo. Just because you write something about their honesty doesn't make it fact. That single character model was very impressive and extremely realistic, the shader model had several parameters being computed in a very complex per pixel skin shader. It is what it is, there was no deception about what you were looking at, a picture speaks a thousand words. Unless you object to what you see what's the point of your complaint? Why is the parent +5 insightful? It's not even fair never mind insightful.
Of course it's a hoax, the whole thing reads like a comedy of errors where the poor servant Hodges is subjected to various nasty injuries as a result of Glitch's experiments.
Nope, not the same people. I for one think NASA should take more risks. That goes hand in hand with not loading school teachers and senators on manned missions. NASA is moribund and their inability to take risks is what keeps us from worthy projects like manned Mars missions. Heck now they're afraid to take risks with frikin robots because of possible negative publicity. How can a nation go from sacrificing thousands on the beaches of Normandy to being piss scared they might lose one soul reaching Mars in a truly historical accomplishment. Men die scaling Mount Everest each year, just because it is there. It has been done before but individuals still take that risk for the experience. NASA won't risk squat getting to Mars, but they'll spend billions floating what is in essence a giant unsophisticated tin can, in orbit, most of those billions getting blown on overly redundant safety systems and conservative approaches to design.
I don't know what's more arrogant, that you think you are in the right doing this or that you assume others will naturally align with your position. You're disruptive activities are not noble, you're no better than virus writers who get a kick from releasing their products in the wild. Your windows version threat demonstrates this.
Wait, shock horror, you mean you don't get source code with DRI drivers? Of course you don't and some of us have known this all along despite the FUD from it's proponents. Can we now dispense with the unfair criticism of NVIDIA for not having "open source) graphics drivers?
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Thanks for the link. Very interesting read.
I watched people pump quarters in, watched them play, remembered their moves then tried it myself and mastered it without emptying my wallet. It was amazing at the time, but laser discs are inherently limited. It WAS ahead of it's time.
Very annoying when the joystick wore out though. Ahh the black screen of doom as the laser disc accessed the appropriate death sequence. Those were the days.
But what about the enigmatic all-seeing gardener couple? Who the heck are they? It's been a while so admittedly my memory is sketchy.
FYI- from NTL M.D. today: "Our objective is only to limit very frequent or persistent heavy network use that can impact other customers. Therefore we will ONLY contact customers who exceed the daily data limit for three or more days in any consecutive 14-day period.", Sounds fair to me. There are relatively few bandwidth hoggs on any service who drive up costs and affect the service for everyone else, they want rid of them I would to if I were an NTL customer, why should ordinary users subsidize hoggs?
No I do get it. I disagree with you. Clearly their system can handle it or there would have been complaints about outages before now. They've decided to change the terms of service, as is their right. The intent is to stop bandwidth hoggs who drive up costs for everyone. Geeze 1GB a day on a regular basis, you need to be going some to pull that one off. I don't have any sympathy for someone who gripes at a 1GB per day cap (not even a cap, you just can't do it regularly), zero, zip nada. Tough titties.
I did read it, actually I saw it in the Reg sooner and the info say is there is not actually in the article. This is about people who regularly exceed that cap, not occasionally exceed it. Look you have options from other providers. We're talking about 1GB of transfer here, that's a lot of data, they could throttle bandwidth like so many services, that would be a worse solution.
Saying this is just 2.5 hours of the service only tells me they have screaming fast connections. It's a bullshit argument.
As usual their business is affected by a small pecentage of bandwidth hoggs, this sounds like a way to kick them, they should be applauded, let the hoggs pay for what they use.
You're a fool. The terms of this copyright is the GPL. It's *license* is the GPL, that's a *copyright* license that says you can use the software under certain conditions. By definition the testing of the GPL is a test of whether it is a watertight license withing the bounds of copyright law.
This all started with the inquirer, but even they said NVIDIA had requested 100,000 parts before they stop production. NV35 is due in less than 6 months so this isn't too surprising. NV30 is late and theyr'e going onto the next part sooner. It seems the story is getting more hysterical and distorted by each subsequent report.
It's real simple, if you want to download 1GB per day regularly then PAY FOR IT!
Geeze, why some people get all flustered when a cap is introduced on a low cost service is beyond me. Quit freeloading of other customers and pay for what you use.
This is a power grab by an internal Sun committee. It's riddled with scaremongering and concocted reasons why the ARC should control Java. It's a sign of deep malaise within Sun.
Look, they can copy it and sell it etc. what they can't do is refuse to give you their modified source, that's a condition of the GPL license. Are people still this dim when it comes to the fundamentals of the GPL? The OWNER sets the conditions for using their property, this is THE MAIN condition of the GPL, the GPL is your license from the owner to use the code.
This is entirely about the enforceability of the GPL. Your post summarizes the situation and most others that would give rise to a GPL violation. The enforceability issue arises because legally when you're giving it away, what are the damages or your losses w.r.t. someone taking it. This has EVERYTHING to do with enforcing the GPL, it boggles the mind trying to imagine what you envisage an enforceent scenario is if not this.
Geeze dude, if you're making a bomb you don't go getting certified and buying H2O2, that's just assinine. Like you say there are easier ways (fuel oil & fertilizer for example, every farm in the boodies has them). If this is the reason for no H2O2 then it's bloody silly. We're talking about an X team here for goodness sakes.
NASA has struck out more than once trying to design space vehicles. They go over budget and don't deliver then congress pulls funding. They need less beaurocracy and more risk taking, less obtuse human factors (etc) experiments and more direct application of ideas to manned missons. It's unfortunate but Space is dangerous and the price of safety is becomming inability to explore, not increased expenditure.
Their overheads and procedures cripple most efforts to do anything innovative.
Bergman seems lost when he talks about this. Nemesis and Final Frontier are the two lowest grossing ST movies ever. They each have stinking scripts. These facts are not unrelated. Bergman says he thinks he made a great movie, what is he smoking? He didn't make a movie, he made a big Star Trek episode.
All that shit about a clone, who gives a crap if it's Picard's clone, BFD. Even then DO something with it. Geeze infiltrate Strafleet, give the guy and army, do something. All the freak had was a ship with a nasty weapon that took 7 minutes to fire and a blood disorder requiring Pickard's juices. Both of these are useless and contrived plot devices that treat the audience like fools. Who came up with this crap? Most fans could do better.
This is good news.
Gamespot has bought up most good game sites and closed them with a redirect to their page and then locked most of their content so only subscribers can see it, even screenshots that are just given to them by publishers. It's high time they had some competition, any competition even from ain't it cool news.
There is value in the Mandrake distribution, installation and name. Are the investors in Mandrake supposed to just give that value away after losing their money?
You didn't ust have an earlier story about Foveon, you had an earlier story about exactly this sensor. Geeze at least wait for a new development before posting an article.
It's a completely honest demo. Just because you write something about their honesty doesn't make it fact. That single character model was very impressive and extremely realistic, the shader model had several parameters being computed in a very complex per pixel skin shader. It is what it is, there was no deception about what you were looking at, a picture speaks a thousand words. Unless you object to what you see what's the point of your complaint? Why is the parent +5 insightful? It's not even fair never mind insightful.
Of course it's a hoax, the whole thing reads like a comedy of errors where the poor servant Hodges is subjected to various nasty injuries as a result of Glitch's experiments.
Nope, not the same people. I for one think NASA should take more risks. That goes hand in hand with not loading school teachers and senators on manned missions. NASA is moribund and their inability to take risks is what keeps us from worthy projects like manned Mars missions. Heck now they're afraid to take risks with frikin robots because of possible negative publicity. How can a nation go from sacrificing thousands on the beaches of Normandy to being piss scared they might lose one soul reaching Mars in a truly historical accomplishment. Men die scaling Mount Everest each year, just because it is there. It has been done before but individuals still take that risk for the experience. NASA won't risk squat getting to Mars, but they'll spend billions floating what is in essence a giant unsophisticated tin can, in orbit, most of those billions getting blown on overly redundant safety systems and conservative approaches to design.
I don't know what's more arrogant, that you think you are in the right doing this or that you assume others will naturally align with your position. You're disruptive activities are not noble, you're no better than virus writers who get a kick from releasing their products in the wild. Your windows version threat demonstrates this.
Why harvest when you can mine?
Wait, shock horror, you mean you don't get source code with DRI drivers? Of course you don't and some of us have known this all along despite the FUD from it's proponents. Can we now dispense with the unfair criticism of NVIDIA for not having "open source) graphics drivers?
Sounds a lot like splatting, a common 3D volume rendering technique.