But what about people with legitimate images called "banner"? What about 1x1 spacer gifs that are actually needed? Your rules seem to be incredibly harsh.
Why not just make a creative/etc/hosts with addresses of advertisers? If you can't see their server, you can't see their crap.
Valve have said, publically, that they're putting the launch back to ensure those with the leaked source code can't engineer cheats/cracks/whatever for HL2. As they had the source code, it would be quite simple to do. Understandably, they don't want to release a huge game (possibly the biggest so far) to an army of 14-year-old script kiddies with the latest HL2 cracks, and watch them tear it apart.
They simply have too much riding on this game to take any chances.
Your idea about public contribution is pretty insane. Have you ever played many online games? As soon as there's a hint of a cheat for one, every little loser in the world uses it. Yes, theoretically, the game producer could make a flawless game impenetrable to even the most tenacious cracker, but that's never going to be 100% successful. It just takes 0.01% of a game to be vulnerable for it to be made useless online. The leaked code is 100% vulnerable - you do the maths.
I used to work for one, and they seemed very pleased with their technology that allowed them to bypass built-in javascript security measures to deliver adverts, etc. They didn't seem to mind the fact that they pissed everyone off who saw them. They even had full-page flash adverts.
I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, it was the most underhanded, unethical company I've ever worked for.
Something like this coming from people like those doesn't surprise me one bit.
Evidently. Is this something Americans are particularly proud of? This awe-inspiring two-facedness, making a mockery of everything America says it stands for?
Helped kill Americans?? What are you on about? There's no proof he did anything like that.
Bushs Sr. & Jr. killed more Iraqis than Saddam killed Americans.
Anyway, if you stoop to his supposed level, you're no better than they are. If you believe in freedom and justice as much as you appear to, you should want him to have a fair trial with the best defense possible.
The 40gig ipod isn't "big" - it's tiny. The difference in physical size between the biggest ipod and that device is minimal. Capacity-wise, however, it's a different story.
1.5gigs would disappear very quickly, that's for sure.
Seriously, if you have, you know that 1.5gigs is not many songs at all. The point of having a hard disk MP3 player is so you can keep a huge portion of your music on it. 1.5gigs isn't a huge portion of anyone's mp3/cd collection. Even if you don't see it coming, you'd grow out of 1.5gigs very quickly.
40gigs in an iPod is just enough for me, but I know I'll be cursing its size in a few months!:-P
You do if they have wooden sleepers. When the sleepers burn, the rails fail. With firebombs you can destroy the whole lot, with pretty inaccurate dropping. With explosive bombs, you've got to get close to the rails to destroy them.
True, except everyone else was there from the beginning. Those shows only focus on the last year of the war (which took place for over 5, for britain and the commonwealth, at least. Eastern Europe had their war start much earlier).
If you rely on those films for any sort of knowledge what-so-ever, you're going to end up with a crazy sense of history. really crazy.
Those films also failed to focus on what happened to the people caught up in the war. Those non-combattants who had to endure just as much as the trained soldiers. According to those films, they never existed.
You're completely sick! I hope you're not advocating the use of such techniques?? Show him a picture of his dead kids, then actively try to get him to dream about it, and when he's nice and suggestive you'd try and bring him round to your side?
They have special trials for people who do stuff like that in war, you know. My god.
Most people who have legit software/etc they want to distribute want them available reliably. Why go through the hassle of setting up seeds/torrents/whatever if they can just put it on an HTTP or FTP server and hand out a url? It's cheaper for them, easier to manage, and denies people the ability to freak with the contents of it.
True, P2P stuff is excellent, but there are easier and more reliable ways of downloading software.
This isn't a "This OS is better than that one! yah! boo!" post, but just the way I see it...
XP's GUI is pretty cool. It does adhere to its own rules (and even to peoples custom scripts working with custom graphics in other peoples custom apps - seamlessly).
Saying that DRM is a windows problem (and OSX doesn't suffer from it) is somewhat dubious. Ever used iTunes? That has as much DRM in it as WMP.
Can't uninstall IE or Outlook Express? That's because they're part of Windows. It's like me complaining that I can't uninstall BSD off my OSX box. Windows uses them for built-in address management (outlook) and HTML rendering (whatever you think of IE, it has a far superior renderer than any other browser out there).
It seems to me, with all due respect, that the GUI argument doesn't apply to Windows or OSX any more. It's a moot point. Both operating systems have highly-polished interfaces, that don't screw up and look professional. Linux, however, is miles behind on that front.
There is nothing a mac can do that a windows box can't. Adobe premiere, photoshop, whatever, all run on Windows. Macs, however, suffer a shortage of software and games (yes, you can get some games on both, but mac releases are often poor ports released 8 months after the PC version). I know plenty of people who love computer/video games and have macs, and who don't use their macs to play them. They have PCs or PS2s for games.
Macs are cool. I do love them. I do, however, know when another platform does things better than it. Same with Windows, same with Linux.
I'm not limiting myself to allowing my zealotry dictate what tool I use for what job.;)
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Defend democracy? Why didn't they all kick the living shit out of Bush when he visited Iraq then :) He's the biggest threat to democracy since Hitler.
Do you know what a spacer gif is? It's not an invisible "tinfoil hat" tracking gif, btw. Removing a real spacer graphic will screw a site up.
Also, is it smaller than a suitcase?
Let me guess... you vote republican? :-P
Why not just make a creative /etc/hosts with addresses of advertisers? If you can't see their server, you can't see their crap.
They simply have too much riding on this game to take any chances.
Your idea about public contribution is pretty insane. Have you ever played many online games? As soon as there's a hint of a cheat for one, every little loser in the world uses it. Yes, theoretically, the game producer could make a flawless game impenetrable to even the most tenacious cracker, but that's never going to be 100% successful. It just takes 0.01% of a game to be vulnerable for it to be made useless online. The leaked code is 100% vulnerable - you do the maths.
You don't see what's funny about that, do you?
I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, it was the most underhanded, unethical company I've ever worked for.
Something like this coming from people like those doesn't surprise me one bit.
Fascists.
Evidently. Is this something Americans are particularly proud of? This awe-inspiring two-facedness, making a mockery of everything America says it stands for?
Bushs Sr. & Jr. killed more Iraqis than Saddam killed Americans.
Anyway, if you stoop to his supposed level, you're no better than they are. If you believe in freedom and justice as much as you appear to, you should want him to have a fair trial with the best defense possible.
Or is American hypocrisy alive and well?
I'm sure it'll suck up the juice when you're copying songs to it via wireless.
You think 1gb is enough, but your music collection is constantly growing. With 1.5gigs you're going to run out of space lot quicker than with 15gigs.
1.5gigs would disappear very quickly, that's for sure.
It was the first large-capacity firewired mp3 players that had a decent look and size. Nothing's come close to it.
You can tell it's a quality make when you use it. If you try any other mp3 players, they feel cheaper in your hand.
Seriously, if you have, you know that 1.5gigs is not many songs at all. The point of having a hard disk MP3 player is so you can keep a huge portion of your music on it. 1.5gigs isn't a huge portion of anyone's mp3/cd collection. Even if you don't see it coming, you'd grow out of 1.5gigs very quickly.
40gigs in an iPod is just enough for me, but I know I'll be cursing its size in a few months! :-P
You do if they have wooden sleepers. When the sleepers burn, the rails fail. With firebombs you can destroy the whole lot, with pretty inaccurate dropping. With explosive bombs, you've got to get close to the rails to destroy them.
Don't forget the chinditz in Burma, too. Unlike anyone else, they managed to beat the Japanese at their own game.
True, except everyone else was there from the beginning. Those shows only focus on the last year of the war (which took place for over 5, for britain and the commonwealth, at least. Eastern Europe had their war start much earlier).
If you rely on those films for any sort of knowledge what-so-ever, you're going to end up with a crazy sense of history. really crazy.
Those films also failed to focus on what happened to the people caught up in the war. Those non-combattants who had to endure just as much as the trained soldiers. According to those films, they never existed.
I mean, please. Those films were about as accurate as a blind marksman on a pogo stick.
They have special trials for people who do stuff like that in war, you know. My god.
not as bullshit as, say... YOUR MOTHER
True, P2P stuff is excellent, but there are easier and more reliable ways of downloading software.
Do you want your president getting away with all sorts? DUI, AWOL, Coke? Oh, wait...
XP's GUI is pretty cool. It does adhere to its own rules (and even to peoples custom scripts working with custom graphics in other peoples custom apps - seamlessly).
Saying that DRM is a windows problem (and OSX doesn't suffer from it) is somewhat dubious. Ever used iTunes? That has as much DRM in it as WMP.
Can't uninstall IE or Outlook Express? That's because they're part of Windows. It's like me complaining that I can't uninstall BSD off my OSX box. Windows uses them for built-in address management (outlook) and HTML rendering (whatever you think of IE, it has a far superior renderer than any other browser out there).
It seems to me, with all due respect, that the GUI argument doesn't apply to Windows or OSX any more. It's a moot point. Both operating systems have highly-polished interfaces, that don't screw up and look professional. Linux, however, is miles behind on that front.
There is nothing a mac can do that a windows box can't. Adobe premiere, photoshop, whatever, all run on Windows. Macs, however, suffer a shortage of software and games (yes, you can get some games on both, but mac releases are often poor ports released 8 months after the PC version). I know plenty of people who love computer/video games and have macs, and who don't use their macs to play them. They have PCs or PS2s for games.
Macs are cool. I do love them. I do, however, know when another platform does things better than it. Same with Windows, same with Linux.
I'm not limiting myself to allowing my zealotry dictate what tool I use for what job. ;)
Unless you create it at work, in which case the copyright most likely goes to your employer (read your contract! ;))
What do you want? Everyone walking around blindfolded so they can't see who's doing what?