Ah, but we have temperate summers (in southwestern Ontario anyway), nobody in their right mind really watches curling, and you can ignore the Quebecers. Some of them want to separate anyway;^)
Simple test, sniff the codec for any information going back to Real when you're streaming a movie or something similar that is not coming from a Real source.
I seriously doubt you'll find anything. I mean, do you REALLY believe they'd put spyware / adware INSIDE their codec?
HOW is the registry causing reboots?
And the fact is that it does matter whether it's InstallShield's or Windows' problem. Because people like you will say "oh, look, Windows needs to reboot all the time," when it really doesn't.
Eh, it's pretty easy to read. You're given a license to do practically anything with the software, such that the license is preserved, patent suits will automatically terminate any patent licenses that exist, etc.
The reason many of us Slashdotters don't like Flash is because:
a) content is locked down, and access depends on whatever the content provider wants to give us.
b) Flash is a medium primarily designed for animation and sound. Some of us, especially in a content-oriented website, don't want the content to be surrounded by things floating around and music in the background.
c) Flash is effectively controlled by Macromedia. Not that I'm claiming anything like SWF is a closed format (it isn't), but that Macromedia could change the player and put in mandatory advertising, or spyware, or whatever they wanted and we'd be forced to take it if we wanted to see new version Flash websites.
Now, Flash is a good medium for the things which is is designed for. However, I wish the trend toward websites entirely driven in Flash would slow down. It doesn't cost any more money to design in XHTML, and it doesn't cost a lot of effort either.
I was gonna say. The comment that this is a "giant leap backward for mankind" is just not fair. How can you expect everything to stay compatible while trying to lock down parts of the OS against attack? You wouldn't be saying something like that if it was Linux we were talking about.
Mwehehehe... I remember that. MSAV was like THE most buggy DOS TSR in existence. Although FASTOPEN (DOS command to irreperably damage all the files on your HDD in one step) was probably worse:^D
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed...?
Dubya: Slashdot isn't for you. Trust me on that one, buddy. :^)
IMHO, if I were a member of Greenpeace, and I was heading into ice-laden Antarctic waters, I wouldn't want to be in a wooden vessel.
Ah, but does the axe run Linux?
Hmmm...
*replaces LCD headlight in car with holographic projector projecting image of oncoming truck to the car ahead*
*while doing tech support, reads /. comment*
*looks down*
Ummm...
*tries to find case logger again*
Two words: Donald Rumsfeld
Ah, but we have temperate summers (in southwestern Ontario anyway), nobody in their right mind really watches curling, and you can ignore the Quebecers. Some of them want to separate anyway ;^)
NASA Considers Alan Parsons Project
from the one-miiiiillion-dollars dept.
Simple test, sniff the codec for any information going back to Real when you're streaming a movie or something similar that is not coming from a Real source.
I seriously doubt you'll find anything. I mean, do you REALLY believe they'd put spyware / adware INSIDE their codec?
HOW is the registry causing reboots? And the fact is that it does matter whether it's InstallShield's or Windows' problem. Because people like you will say "oh, look, Windows needs to reboot all the time," when it really doesn't.
The film WASN'T distributed by Disney. It was Distributed by Lion's Gate Films, a Canadian company.
Do you REALLY think that it's industry-wide though? I mean, that could just as easily have been PR spin which seems to have worked pretty well...
Your credit card gets charged. Any time we do an advance shipment we take your credit card number as collateral.
That's HP for ya.
Not theft, copyright infringement. Civil, not criminal. But yeah, not fair use.
:^P
Unless you're in Canada. Like me.
Damn right! Crack out those Telecine machines, folks! ;^)
Eh, it's pretty easy to read. You're given a license to do practically anything with the software, such that the license is preserved, patent suits will automatically terminate any patent licenses that exist, etc.
The reason many of us Slashdotters don't like Flash is because:
a) content is locked down, and access depends on whatever the content provider wants to give us.
b) Flash is a medium primarily designed for animation and sound. Some of us, especially in a content-oriented website, don't want the content to be surrounded by things floating around and music in the background.
c) Flash is effectively controlled by Macromedia. Not that I'm claiming anything like SWF is a closed format (it isn't), but that Macromedia could change the player and put in mandatory advertising, or spyware, or whatever they wanted and we'd be forced to take it if we wanted to see new version Flash websites.
Now, Flash is a good medium for the things which is is designed for. However, I wish the trend toward websites entirely driven in Flash would slow down. It doesn't cost any more money to design in XHTML, and it doesn't cost a lot of effort either.
The great part is, we're eliminating both a spammer, AND a part of AOL :^D
My theory is that the name Duke Nukem Forever is an inside joke about how long it will take before it is released.
OK, you're obviously from the emulation, abandonware, or warez crowd. Let me say this clearly:
THERE IS NO 24 HOUR RULE!
Distributing copyrighted music without the permission of the copyright holder is copyright infringement, pure and simple. Except in Canada.
We pwn j00.
The funny thing here is that this was moderated Informative :^D
I was gonna say. The comment that this is a "giant leap backward for mankind" is just not fair. How can you expect everything to stay compatible while trying to lock down parts of the OS against attack? You wouldn't be saying something like that if it was Linux we were talking about.
Mwehehehe... I remember that. MSAV was like THE most buggy DOS TSR in existence. Although FASTOPEN (DOS command to irreperably damage all the files on your HDD in one step) was probably worse :^D