AOL was forced into doing what they did, so that they don't get sued when the government walks in and confiscates everything in yet another mis-use of the Patriot Act.
Its OK to hand over your inaliable rights when its to protect you from the enemies your government made for themselves.
An American thinks it wasn't exciting because no one is going to die or be injured.
He can't see any interest in what's actually happening, he just wants to see blood and guts.
I think Darth Cow should be tied to the whale back for a few weeks. Maybe that kind of entertainment would prevent all those Dubyas down your way from wrecking our world.
If this were happening in the USA, maybe it would matter. Not in Canada.
Why?
Because in Canada, when legislation is found to be in violation of the Constitution or Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the legislation is overturned. We have judges that actually do what they were meant to do... protect our rights against what the lawmakers might try to do.
On the other hand, in the US, its perfectly fine, in fact downright encouraged to pass laws that take away even the most basic rights, with no regard whatsoever about any type of constitutionally gauranteed right. Judges are placed purly by political affiliation and pay back the government for their posting by ignoring rights where they see fit.
PATRIOT ACT!
You americans are living in 1930's Germany right now and don't even see it. Already thousands of American citizens have been held for days without charge, without being allowed to talk to a lawyer or even family, with no warrant and no probably cause. What a great way to treat your fellow citizens!
All because you let Dubya scare you. Take my rights away! Take my rights away! that will somehow protect me from the world!
Who cares if Linus is or isnt a billionaire? He chose to make his project open source and use that business model to make his keep. There's no reason to feel sorry for him. Most of the geeks on this board would have nothing to write about if they didn't have Linus's work to sponge off of.
I suppose you also believe the old lie that Apple created the mouse driven user interface and claim MS stole from them, while ignoring where it really came from?
Give me a break. This is just more griping about why you hate the guy on top.
If more of you would stop the griping, and instead work on being on top, technology would advance 10x faster.
You were ripped off? how? did you invent 'happy o's' cerial right before 'cheerios' hit the market? 9 times out of 10, the 'ripped off' guy is a fool who gave away his idea/money when everyone else would have known better.
Which reminds me... I have this friend in Nigeria who needs you to hold onto some money...
You don't really think the many space probes that have landed on mars were all absolutely perfectly sterilized do you?
We've planted life there. Maybe not the life that has made the extra methane, but either way there is life there.
Life on Mars does not require that life originated on mars. There are martian meteorites on earth, Presumably there are earth meteorites on mars... which could have seeded life there.
The poor guy whining in the article is just plain ignorant.
Of course you can't re-use a CD key! Thats the whole point of having a CD key. Obviously so that you have to buy the game from blizzard. His excuse that he really does want to pay blizzard, through the subscription fees just doesnt cut it. Everyone else had to buy the game as well as subscribe, so should he. How can he really prove he didnt just pirate the game to avoid the initial cost?
I'll have to assume it's his first mmorpg.
Everquest is up to its 9th expansion pack. Each one has had a CD key that could only be used once. After every expansion I've seen BASTARD companies like Electronics Boutique selling used copies of the expansions, without giving a damn that the buyer would never be able to use the software. Well at least with those expansions, the outside of the box says its not for resale after used!
Wake up, buy the box new you cheapskate, then enjoy the game.
PS, I hope you like spiders. Mainly green ones. But for some variation, there's the odd spot in the game where the spiders are off - green. Nice looking spiders, but not much else.
Popular Science is the comic book of science magazines. Even their most realistic articles have only a very minimal amount of reality in them.
Generally each story is written like a typical fox news sound bite... to grab the attention of whatever dumbass will stop to stare at the dead puppies inside.
The fact that its a lead story in this magazine pretty much gaurantees it wont be happening anywhere near as soon as what was written.
You hit the nail on the head on what the real problem is.
You don't need to keep up with anyone. Most mmorpg's have ample content now to keep you entertained at any level.
If people would just stop being power hungry, greedy bastards that think they must be on top or else be nothing, and just enjoyed the game at their own pace, there'd be no IGE.
You must be one stressed out freak in real life. When you see someone eating a donut, do you run out and get a better donut with sprinkles on it just to out do him?
IT WAS ENTIRELY ABOUT WMD's until none were found!
they only reason! only only reason!
Dubyafuck convinced Britain to join based on lies that Iraq could launch WMD's on 45 minutes warning. 2 years later Dubyafuck didnt even have the courtesy to tell Britain that they were giving up on the search for WMD's, having found NONE.
The WMD's that Saddam USED TO HAVE, that he used against his own people were GIVEN to him by YOUR OWN damn government during the Reagan years! Your country wanted saddam to use them against Iran, but OOOPS! he used them on his own people! YOUR country should be bombed into dust over handing the WMD's to dictators around the world to kill their own people. Those deaths are your fault!
All traces of WMD's were destroyed in the first gulf war and in the subsequent 10 years of complete utter containment that rendered Saddam to be NO THREAT.
Meanwhile you are best friends with Pakistan, a NUCLEAR military dictatorship, and best friends with Libya, who's leader has way more money available to fund terrorism that Saddam ever had, and who has freely admitted to terrorist attacks that killed hundreds!
OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES! YOU ARE THE PROBLEM! YOU MAKE ALL YOUR OWN ENEMIES!
So, how's that search going for the true cause of 911 going? you know, that Bin Laden guy that your government trained and funded to fight against the soviets, but oops, decided to bite you back?
Let them charge whatever they want. The massive companies with money to burn will still burn it.
The rest of us that would never shelled out for oracle anyways will keep on using postgresql, to our advantage.
This goes beyond simple enterprise databases. Look at spatial databases. In Canada, it costs roughly $50,000 plus $13,000 per year in maintenance fees for an ArcSDE / Oracle based spatial database license.
Or, it costs nothing but your time if you choose to make an equally powerful, easier to use spatial database using PostGIS.
So, you can buy your spatial database, or you can have a database plus (at least in the purchase year) pay for a dedicated person to play with it for you.
Every one screamed and cried when the shuttle blew up.
Billions spent to see the crews of 2 shuttles dead.
They were horrible national tradedies in the bold name of science and exploration.
Yet most people think its just wonderful to spend far more billions murdering 100,000's in Iraq based on a lie. The US found no WMD's and recently gave up the search, happily knowing that most of you now think it was over 'freedom' instead of the constant drone of WMD threats Bush drilled into you before the war.
That's simply wishful thinking by someone who wants to see them fall.
We have that problem across canada regarding our governments.
People who don't like the leader of Alberta use that accounting excuse to show their disbelief that Alberta has ZERO debt and a good surplus.
Other people do the same to disbelieve the 8 straight years where the federal government has had a surplus and reduced the debt, saving $200 billion+ that may otherwise have been added to the federal debt.
But, just like with MS, the truth is in the strength of their economies. The strength is there and is obvious. It's just the blind haters that make your claims.
Go on hiding in your dark room, with your tin foil hat. I don't mind, and its no loss to the rest of the world.
No doubt your business is that of the typical IT dumbass... who keeps his clients computers just barely working safely so that you get to run in and be the hero every time some minor hiccup happens.
Where are all those people?... oh ya, in the third world countries where population growth is still out of control, where maybe 1 in 10,000 have a computer.
The problem wasn't even being exploited until a few days ago, as usual because the bastard hackers reverse engineered the patch itself to take advantage of the problem. That would have happened today, or 5 months ago... as soon as the patch was available.
Why not complain about the pricks that exploit the system? huh? or are you one of them?
Do you really think everyone simply gets paid for their time while the movie is made?
Often the actors, but also others including the production companies take a cut of the ticket sales instead of a flat hourly rate.
Why?... Lets look at the original star wars movie. Harrison Ford was paid $2000 straight. Alec Guiness took a cut of the ticket sales and made millions.
Regardless, take the profits out and you wont have any productions made.
MS just made its biggest quarterly profit ever, dispite not having Longhorn ready. Ya, MS is dying all right, by sufficating under all that money.
MS's future in the shorterm is in no way controlled my Longhorn. So many think that the only thing MS does is OS's, gripe about windows, yell and scream blah blah blah while they go on raking in the profits on a hundred other products.
Open your eyes.
Some journalist said the words you want to hear, and you got that warm fuzzy feeling from it.
Reality had nothing to do with it.
Far worse companies have survived far worse circumstances than that dolt thinks MS is in. Record profits without having to roll out a new OS. You all dream of being in such horrible circumstances.
"in fact, the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years"
It's true!... my 'moonlander' game is just as boring and simplistic on my 3800mhz P4 as it was on my old 12mhz 386.
hmm I wonder if this crazy com-pooo-ter has other uses? Maybe its advanced enough to play Pong now! I have to admit that after so many years of using it for nothing but moonlander, I am a little bored.
I bet its terrorists! I bet they stole my other 3788mhz!
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AOL was forced into doing what they did, so that they don't get sued when the government walks in and confiscates everything in yet another mis-use of the Patriot Act.
Its OK to hand over your inaliable rights when its to protect you from the enemies your government made for themselves.
How typical.
An American thinks it wasn't exciting because no one is going to die or be injured.
He can't see any interest in what's actually happening, he just wants to see blood and guts.
I think Darth Cow should be tied to the whale back for a few weeks. Maybe that kind of entertainment would prevent all those Dubyas down your way from wrecking our world.
If this were happening in the USA, maybe it would matter. Not in Canada.
... protect our rights against what the lawmakers might try to do.
Why?
Because in Canada, when legislation is found to be in violation of the Constitution or Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the legislation is overturned. We have judges that actually do what they were meant to do
On the other hand, in the US, its perfectly fine, in fact downright encouraged to pass laws that take away even the most basic rights, with no regard whatsoever about any type of constitutionally gauranteed right. Judges are placed purly by political affiliation and pay back the government for their posting by ignoring rights where they see fit.
PATRIOT ACT!
You americans are living in 1930's Germany right now and don't even see it. Already thousands of American citizens have been held for days without charge, without being allowed to talk to a lawyer or even family, with no warrant and no probably cause. What a great way to treat your fellow citizens!
All because you let Dubya scare you. Take my rights away! Take my rights away! that will somehow protect me from the world!
Who cares if Linus is or isnt a billionaire? He chose to make his project open source and use that business model to make his keep. There's no reason to feel sorry for him. Most of the geeks on this board would have nothing to write about if they didn't have Linus's work to sponge off of.
... I have this friend in Nigeria who needs you to hold onto some money ...
I suppose you also believe the old lie that Apple created the mouse driven user interface and claim MS stole from them, while ignoring where it really came from?
Give me a break. This is just more griping about why you hate the guy on top.
If more of you would stop the griping, and instead work on being on top, technology would advance 10x faster.
You were ripped off? how? did you invent 'happy o's' cerial right before 'cheerios' hit the market? 9 times out of 10, the 'ripped off' guy is a fool who gave away his idea/money when everyone else would have known better.
Which reminds me
So what you are saying is that once it succeeds, Al Gore will claim he invented it?
Big deal.
Microsoft is just finally doing something to fight against postgresql, which finally has a fast and easy install for windows machines.
You don't really think the many space probes that have landed on mars were all absolutely perfectly sterilized do you?
... which could have seeded life there.
We've planted life there. Maybe not the life that has made the extra methane, but either way there is life there.
Life on Mars does not require that life originated on mars. There are martian meteorites on earth, Presumably there are earth meteorites on mars
panspermia lives.
The poor guy whining in the article is just plain ignorant.
Of course you can't re-use a CD key! Thats the whole point of having a CD key. Obviously so that you have to buy the game from blizzard. His excuse that he really does want to pay blizzard, through the subscription fees just doesnt cut it. Everyone else had to buy the game as well as subscribe, so should he. How can he really prove he didnt just pirate the game to avoid the initial cost?
I'll have to assume it's his first mmorpg.
Everquest is up to its 9th expansion pack. Each one has had a CD key that could only be used once. After every expansion I've seen BASTARD companies like Electronics Boutique selling used copies of the expansions, without giving a damn that the buyer would never be able to use the software. Well at least with those expansions, the outside of the box says its not for resale after used!
Wake up, buy the box new you cheapskate, then enjoy the game.
PS, I hope you like spiders. Mainly green ones. But for some variation, there's the odd spot in the game where the spiders are off - green. Nice looking spiders, but not much else.
Popular Science is the comic book of science magazines. Even their most realistic articles have only a very minimal amount of reality in them.
... to grab the attention of whatever dumbass will stop to stare at the dead puppies inside.
Generally each story is written like a typical fox news sound bite
The fact that its a lead story in this magazine pretty much gaurantees it wont be happening anywhere near as soon as what was written.
You hit the nail on the head on what the real problem is.
You don't need to keep up with anyone. Most mmorpg's have ample content now to keep you entertained at any level.
If people would just stop being power hungry, greedy bastards that think they must be on top or else be nothing, and just enjoyed the game at their own pace, there'd be no IGE.
You must be one stressed out freak in real life. When you see someone eating a donut, do you run out and get a better donut with sprinkles on it just to out do him?
So go pay the exhorbidant rates, I dont mind one bit. Heck sign over your first born for some useless bragging rights for all I care.
... and with much smaller capital costs.
The 95% of us that will never need a cluster will get by just fine thank you
Stop changing history you dumbass bastard!
IT WAS ENTIRELY ABOUT WMD's until none were found!
they only reason! only only reason!
Dubyafuck convinced Britain to join based on lies that Iraq could launch WMD's on 45 minutes warning. 2 years later Dubyafuck didnt even have the courtesy to tell Britain that they were giving up on the search for WMD's, having found NONE.
The WMD's that Saddam USED TO HAVE, that he used against his own people were GIVEN to him by YOUR OWN damn government during the Reagan years! Your country wanted saddam to use them against Iran, but OOOPS! he used them on his own people! YOUR country should be bombed into dust over handing the WMD's to dictators around the world to kill their own people. Those deaths are your fault!
All traces of WMD's were destroyed in the first gulf war and in the subsequent 10 years of complete utter containment that rendered Saddam to be NO THREAT.
Meanwhile you are best friends with Pakistan, a NUCLEAR military dictatorship, and best friends with Libya, who's leader has way more money available to fund terrorism that Saddam ever had, and who has freely admitted to terrorist attacks that killed hundreds!
OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES! YOU ARE THE PROBLEM! YOU MAKE ALL YOUR OWN ENEMIES!
So, how's that search going for the true cause of 911 going? you know, that Bin Laden guy that your government trained and funded to fight against the soviets, but oops, decided to bite you back?
Let them charge whatever they want. The massive companies with money to burn will still burn it.
The rest of us that would never shelled out for oracle anyways will keep on using postgresql, to our advantage.
This goes beyond simple enterprise databases. Look at spatial databases. In Canada, it costs roughly $50,000 plus $13,000 per year in maintenance fees for an ArcSDE / Oracle based spatial database license.
Or, it costs nothing but your time if you choose to make an equally powerful, easier to use spatial database using PostGIS.
So, you can buy your spatial database, or you can have a database plus (at least in the purchase year) pay for a dedicated person to play with it for you.
Every one screamed and cried when the shuttle blew up.
Billions spent to see the crews of 2 shuttles dead.
They were horrible national tradedies in the bold name of science and exploration.
Yet most people think its just wonderful to spend far more billions murdering 100,000's in Iraq based on a lie. The US found no WMD's and recently gave up the search, happily knowing that most of you now think it was over 'freedom' instead of the constant drone of WMD threats Bush drilled into you before the war.
Why so two faced? huh?
Let's all dance blindly in ignorance!
Let's all see MS only one simple blind way, ignoring the truth simply because we hate them!
la lalal la la la!
I bet you also thought there were WMD's in Iraq.
That's simply wishful thinking by someone who wants to see them fall.
We have that problem across canada regarding our governments.
People who don't like the leader of Alberta use that accounting excuse to show their disbelief that Alberta has ZERO debt and a good surplus.
Other people do the same to disbelieve the 8 straight years where the federal government has had a surplus and reduced the debt, saving $200 billion+ that may otherwise have been added to the federal debt.
But, just like with MS, the truth is in the strength of their economies. The strength is there and is obvious. It's just the blind haters that make your claims.
Go on hiding in your dark room, with your tin foil hat. I don't mind, and its no loss to the rest of the world.
No doubt your business is that of the typical IT dumbass ... who keeps his clients computers just barely working safely so that you get to run in and be the hero every time some minor hiccup happens.
... oh ya, in the third world countries where population growth is still out of control, where maybe 1 in 10,000 have a computer.
Where are all those people?
Don't be so blind.
That's my point.
... as soon as the patch was available.
And It's fixed.
And It's gone.
The problem wasn't even being exploited until a few days ago, as usual because the bastard hackers reverse engineered the patch itself to take advantage of the problem. That would have happened today, or 5 months ago
Why not complain about the pricks that exploit the system? huh? or are you one of them?
Do you really think everyone simply gets paid for their time while the movie is made?
... Lets look at the original star wars movie. Harrison Ford was paid $2000 straight. Alec Guiness took a cut of the ticket sales and made millions.
Often the actors, but also others including the production companies take a cut of the ticket sales instead of a flat hourly rate.
Why?
Regardless, take the profits out and you wont have any productions made.
Problem has been fixed. Its a non-issue.
But what a great chance to re-iterate how much we all hate MS! hate hate hate! hate hate hate! woohhhh!
Get a frickin life!
YA RIGHT.
... and instead it creates new objects. Gee, no major security threats there.
maybe when it manages not to break the document object model on very simple standard code.
Flip the visibility of an object
Basic standard tag parameters ignored, breaking the rendering of web pages. Please please sign me up!
Ya, Firefox stays to strict internet standards, but not any standard anyone else uses.
MS just made its biggest quarterly profit ever, dispite not having Longhorn ready. Ya, MS is dying all right, by sufficating under all that money.
MS's future in the shorterm is in no way controlled my Longhorn. So many think that the only thing MS does is OS's, gripe about windows, yell and scream blah blah blah while they go on raking in the profits on a hundred other products.
Open your eyes.
Some journalist said the words you want to hear, and you got that warm fuzzy feeling from it.
Reality had nothing to do with it.
Far worse companies have survived far worse circumstances than that dolt thinks MS is in. Record profits without having to roll out a new OS. You all dream of being in such horrible circumstances.
translation from geek speak:
My balls are way bigger than yours! Sure, no girl has ever touched them, but they are way bigger!
Well sure it only takes 10 minutes now ... they took out all that stolen unix code!
"in fact, the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years"
... my 'moonlander' game is just as boring and simplistic on my 3800mhz P4 as it was on my old 12mhz 386.
It's true!
hmm I wonder if this crazy com-pooo-ter has other uses? Maybe its advanced enough to play Pong now! I have to admit that after so many years of using it for nothing but moonlander, I am a little bored.
I bet its terrorists! I bet they stole my other 3788mhz!