Ever tried Nail Ale, Feral, anything from Cowamerup? And that's just local to my state.
America is truly famous for Miller, Coors, etc. Sadly, Australia is likewise famous for Fosters, which nobody actually drinks. The Fosters export lager is sold here as Crown lager, which is popular amongst the mainstream yuppie types.
But, it's also undeniable that the American macro brews are famous for low alcohol content and flimsy taste. Even Australian macro brews outperform them in terms of flavour characteristics and alcohol content, so you can easily see the validity behind the "close to water" euphamism.
I downloaded Office 2007 using some distribution technology called a downpour or torrent or something. I did it using Windows so it must be a Microsoft thing.
It seems to work just fine while I am trying it out.
It hasn't asked me for any money so I am just going to keep trying it. Bargain!
So they make it sound like a virus scanner... well we know Bill thinks Open Source is "viral" but this must be some kind of joke.
Wouldn't a better security tool be one that scans your system for closed source software?
I'm not saying that open source software is guaranteed to be more secure, but I find that because the source is open, it is easier for me to trust it. Who really reviews the code for open source packages they download anyway? I don't. But because I know that I could if I wanted to, and other people could if they wanted to (and some might?), for that reason I find it easier to trust it.
Proprietary software... now that is hard to trust.
So, we remove net neutrality, charge everyone much more for internet access as they previously paid, push the prices up enough that your demand drops to half what it was, and surprisingly, you only need half the bandwidth.
In other news, demand for inexpensive, useful products remains unchanged.
To see the new One TaserBot Per Citizen (OTBPC) project. That little guy, following you around with his taser, zapping you for jaywalking... it's just going to be awesome. Nobody will commit felonies like copyright infringement ever again!
This is simply a sting. A really, really poorly thought out one.
From a legal perspective, can they sue for copyright infringement if the license holders are the ones distributing the media?
That would be like writing a song, singing it, recording it to disk, offering the disk for free to anyone who wants it, then sueing everyone who picks up a free copy for infringing your copyright.
How can they possibly sue you for infringing copyright if they hold the copyright and they gave the copy to you?
I'm pleased to see a lot of very insightful answers, there's some good that the slashdot community is doing here by giving NYCL directions on where to attack the flawed methodology the RIAA is using to conduct terrorist activities on the general public.
Now I know terrorism is one step from Godwinism, but seriously, isn't that what the RIAA is really doing? Making enough noisy explosions and frightening people into submission for their own goals? "Boom! There's one infidel pirate bankrupt, one more pirate life destroyed. You could be next, unbeliever! Boom!"
The problem is that they're using the legal system as their means of terror. Thank goodness there are people like NYCL fighting for the general good. There are also laws that are meant to protect people from this kind of attack. But why aren't the "regular" heroes, like the police, helping stop the attacks, the spying, the harm to the people?
That means the games will be distributed for free, right? Just like TV!
Didn't think so.
I presume we will see, yet again, that the pirated versions of these games will probably have the ad mechanisms blocked or stripped out. Yet another instance of the pirate contraband being oh so much sweeter than the product the corporations want us to experience.
I feel sorry for the developers. I make the effort of paying for games I really enjoy. I won't enjoy any game loaded with advert spam.
It reminds me of an earlier article I saw on slashdot about a company wanting to distribute MP3s with ads tacked onto them. When are companies going to realise consumers just want the product? We want the song. We want the game. We want the movie. We don't want DRM, we don't want you replacing our IDE drivers with StarForce, we don't want adverts.
Clearly Universal is now making up the 15% they'll lose from digital sales from the new cash cow of this decade, litigation!
Especially now that some universities are bending over backwards to help the RIAA knife their students for cash.
Here's a question - we know that Apple dominates the licensed internet music sales business. If iTunes can't sell Universal music, will iPod owners everywhere resort to unlicensed MP3 downloads to make up the missing iTunes catalog items?
No, didn't you learn in history class that the proper way to do it is to wait until the last couple days of your term then pardon like EVERYONE lol. I think just about every president pardoned multiple ppl in the last couple weeks in office
I'm Australian. Queen Elizabeth doesn't have a "term".
Yeah because strapping yourself into a giant metal tube with giant flat metal (or carbon fibre) struts on either side, filled with a volatile and extremely flammable liquid, sealed and pumped full of air at higher pressure than the outside, which then ignites the flammable liquid and uses it to pump exhaust air out the back so explosively that it pushes the entire mass thousands of kilometers at a distance completely incomprehensibly far away from the ground is otherwise such a pleasant and comfortable idea?
It is appealing to me that the dates should be more numerically sensible. I especially like yyyymmdd (greatest-middle-least), because you can perform some mathematic comparisons on those, more recent dates are ordinally greater than less recent dates. But the american format is all over the place, where you have middle-least-greatest magnitudes in that order. How is that sensible??
Sure, but Crysis, much like Far Cry, was never really about gameplay, it was all about the engine. This is the rare edition Eagles live at concert recording for the hi-fi fanatic. This is a game for gamers who are in it for the shiny hardware. You need something to put that gear through it's paces, right? This is a vehicle to show us what's possible. Hopefully the technologies and benchmarks set by this game will be adopted and integrated into future games with great gameplay.
The industry must move forward. If that were not true, Pac-man would remain today the pinnacle of cutting edge graphics and gameplay. That or computer chess (you can't say chess doesn't have good gameplay).
Before we had 3D graphics capability available to the masses, there were no first person shooters at all. Until we had broadband internet so widely available, MMORPGs just weren't feasible on the scale they are today. Who is to say what new game formats are discovered unless we keep pushing the envelope?
There's a lot of products that, today, we consider to be "just another this" or "dismal failure that". Like movies, right? Okay. So go back to 1950, look at the films that were released then, and you will pick up a couple of great, classic, gripping movies. And you will pick up 90% of movies released then that are truly awful. Is that so different from today? I say this isn't a new trend. I say history is quietly and happily repeating itself all around you. I dare say it's a vital process in the scheme of human literature creation.
Let's wind it back a bit more. The Mona Lisa is a portrait. There were portraits before that, why is the Mona Lisa so popular? Because DaVinci got it right. A little twist on the old format maybe. But he was making just another portrait. Would you have stopped him from making the Mona Lisa because we've already got heaps of portraits and they're all rubbish?
Remember that the report is concerned with only high severity patches. If you count all of the patches including low and high severity ones, of course it will outnumber the high severity ones.
I believe the same will be true for the Linux distros mentioned as well.
Of course... what constitutes a high severity patch is another question entirely...
Microsoft will compete with Google, maybe they will compete in terms of volume, so we will get about 2GB from MS and 2GB from Google as well. If I make up enough dummy accounts I can back my whole home network up over the wire. And distributed too! MS can keep one copy and Google can keep the other. That way if one destroys the other when the war comes, I'll still have a good backup.
Microsoft I am sure would enjoy selling a Vista license with every Apple fashion accessory (it also doubles as a real working x86 PC! And it comes in white!).
Clearly the problem is more in the cost of the new mandatory Vista on Apple licenses. If they're done on the cheap, Microsoft will miss a bit of revenue.
I'm a little surprised Apple is working on this, they've always wanted to be a bigger monopolist than Microsoft (Microsoft doesn't try to lock you into a hardware/software vertical monopoly). Jobs has always been adamant that Apple is a software company (I think this is strange, the primary business of Apple is MP3 players and DRM'd music distribution, although this is changing to just watermarking files so they can be traced). So why would Jobs want to water down his control over the Apple user by promoting more Windows apps? My gut feeling is that he is doing this to reduce the popular opinion that Macs "aren't compatible" and "can't run my apps" to buffer up his sales. But how he'll re-assert his control over the users is a mystery to me.
Some of the screenshots and videos for games like Crysis are really amazing. There's a long way to go, but we are definitely on the cusp of the next generation of games.
This is about right, when the Xbox came out, it was about on par with PCs at the time. 6 months to one year down the track, the top of the line PCs were way ahead. Now, the 360 and PS3 (which isn't living up to the hype, most of the graphics on 360 and PS3 are about the same despite the 360 being a year older) aren't competing with the top of the line PCs.
I think it would be funny to see Crysis ported to Xbox - didn't they port Far Cry to consoles? That would have been sad...
Yeah we can all take a perfectly good sentence out of context to make it seem nonsense, well done.
Any good scientist appreciates that there is never a bad result from an experiment, as every set of data recieved is informative.
Now you can use that data in bad ways, but even so, the use of that data provides an outcome. The value may not be high, and it may not be relevant to everyone (especially slashbots who are famous for dismissing things because it's an easy way to get karma, see any market research associated with Microsoft and the way slashdot treats it for an example), but the data is valuable to someone, especially if someone needed it so bad they funded research into it.
If you pay a lot of money for something, that something is then by the very theory that money has value of worth to you, and therefore cannot be described by any means as "worthless". Maybe to most people it is but at the time of you investing your money in it, is has worth. Even if it's just for the pure and noble purpose of you investing in something worthless to prove a point when arguing on the interwebs.
Did you read the rest of my comment or did you just jump straight into muckraking?
A lot of people don't seem to understand - information, whether valid or not, weighted or not, interpreted or not, is *always* valuable. Maybe not to you, thanks for playing, but it is valuable to someone.
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Ever tried Nail Ale, Feral, anything from Cowamerup? And that's just local to my state.
America is truly famous for Miller, Coors, etc. Sadly, Australia is likewise famous for Fosters, which nobody actually drinks. The Fosters export lager is sold here as Crown lager, which is popular amongst the mainstream yuppie types.
But, it's also undeniable that the American macro brews are famous for low alcohol content and flimsy taste. Even Australian macro brews outperform them in terms of flavour characteristics and alcohol content, so you can easily see the validity behind the "close to water" euphamism.
Rape.osx?
"Hi, I'm an apple..urrgh"
"unf unf unf"
Well it would be an interesting ad I guess.
I downloaded Office 2007 using some distribution technology called a downpour or torrent or something. I did it using Windows so it must be a Microsoft thing.
It seems to work just fine while I am trying it out.
It hasn't asked me for any money so I am just going to keep trying it. Bargain!
So they make it sound like a virus scanner... well we know Bill thinks Open Source is "viral" but this must be some kind of joke.
Wouldn't a better security tool be one that scans your system for closed source software?
I'm not saying that open source software is guaranteed to be more secure, but I find that because the source is open, it is easier for me to trust it. Who really reviews the code for open source packages they download anyway? I don't. But because I know that I could if I wanted to, and other people could if they wanted to (and some might?), for that reason I find it easier to trust it.
Proprietary software... now that is hard to trust.
So, we remove net neutrality, charge everyone much more for internet access as they previously paid, push the prices up enough that your demand drops to half what it was, and surprisingly, you only need half the bandwidth.
In other news, demand for inexpensive, useful products remains unchanged.
Or perhaps intestinators would be suitable as well?
Bet nobody gets that golden sci fi reference.
To see the new One TaserBot Per Citizen (OTBPC) project. That little guy, following you around with his taser, zapping you for jaywalking... it's just going to be awesome. Nobody will commit felonies like copyright infringement ever again!
You give the MPAA too much credit.
This is simply a sting. A really, really poorly thought out one.
From a legal perspective, can they sue for copyright infringement if the license holders are the ones distributing the media?
That would be like writing a song, singing it, recording it to disk, offering the disk for free to anyone who wants it, then sueing everyone who picks up a free copy for infringing your copyright.
How can they possibly sue you for infringing copyright if they hold the copyright and they gave the copy to you?
I'm pleased to see a lot of very insightful answers, there's some good that the slashdot community is doing here by giving NYCL directions on where to attack the flawed methodology the RIAA is using to conduct terrorist activities on the general public.
Now I know terrorism is one step from Godwinism, but seriously, isn't that what the RIAA is really doing? Making enough noisy explosions and frightening people into submission for their own goals? "Boom! There's one infidel pirate bankrupt, one more pirate life destroyed. You could be next, unbeliever! Boom!"
The problem is that they're using the legal system as their means of terror. Thank goodness there are people like NYCL fighting for the general good. There are also laws that are meant to protect people from this kind of attack. But why aren't the "regular" heroes, like the police, helping stop the attacks, the spying, the harm to the people?
That means the games will be distributed for free, right? Just like TV!
Didn't think so.
I presume we will see, yet again, that the pirated versions of these games will probably have the ad mechanisms blocked or stripped out. Yet another instance of the pirate contraband being oh so much sweeter than the product the corporations want us to experience.
I feel sorry for the developers. I make the effort of paying for games I really enjoy. I won't enjoy any game loaded with advert spam.
It reminds me of an earlier article I saw on slashdot about a company wanting to distribute MP3s with ads tacked onto them. When are companies going to realise consumers just want the product? We want the song. We want the game. We want the movie. We don't want DRM, we don't want you replacing our IDE drivers with StarForce, we don't want adverts.
Yes, as a matter of fact Australia's independence was an entirely democratic process. No blood was spilled, unlike some countries I can think of.
Clearly Universal is now making up the 15% they'll lose from digital sales from the new cash cow of this decade, litigation!
Especially now that some universities are bending over backwards to help the RIAA knife their students for cash.
Here's a question - we know that Apple dominates the licensed internet music sales business. If iTunes can't sell Universal music, will iPod owners everywhere resort to unlicensed MP3 downloads to make up the missing iTunes catalog items?
No, didn't you learn in history class that the proper way to do it is to wait until the last couple days of your term then pardon like EVERYONE lol. I think just about every president pardoned multiple ppl in the last couple weeks in office
I'm Australian. Queen Elizabeth doesn't have a "term".
It's true the President has that kind of power, but isn't he supposed to at least try to seem impartial and not at all corrupt?
Are there any stipulations regarding the Presidential use of power at all?
Yeah because strapping yourself into a giant metal tube with giant flat metal (or carbon fibre) struts on either side, filled with a volatile and extremely flammable liquid, sealed and pumped full of air at higher pressure than the outside, which then ignites the flammable liquid and uses it to pump exhaust air out the back so explosively that it pushes the entire mass thousands of kilometers at a distance completely incomprehensibly far away from the ground is otherwise such a pleasant and comfortable idea?
And don't get me started on the food...
It is appealing to me that the dates should be more numerically sensible. I especially like yyyymmdd (greatest-middle-least), because you can perform some mathematic comparisons on those, more recent dates are ordinally greater than less recent dates. But the american format is all over the place, where you have middle-least-greatest magnitudes in that order. How is that sensible??
Sure, but Crysis, much like Far Cry, was never really about gameplay, it was all about the engine. This is the rare edition Eagles live at concert recording for the hi-fi fanatic. This is a game for gamers who are in it for the shiny hardware. You need something to put that gear through it's paces, right? This is a vehicle to show us what's possible. Hopefully the technologies and benchmarks set by this game will be adopted and integrated into future games with great gameplay.
The industry must move forward. If that were not true, Pac-man would remain today the pinnacle of cutting edge graphics and gameplay. That or computer chess (you can't say chess doesn't have good gameplay).
Before we had 3D graphics capability available to the masses, there were no first person shooters at all. Until we had broadband internet so widely available, MMORPGs just weren't feasible on the scale they are today. Who is to say what new game formats are discovered unless we keep pushing the envelope?
There's a lot of products that, today, we consider to be "just another this" or "dismal failure that". Like movies, right? Okay. So go back to 1950, look at the films that were released then, and you will pick up a couple of great, classic, gripping movies. And you will pick up 90% of movies released then that are truly awful. Is that so different from today? I say this isn't a new trend. I say history is quietly and happily repeating itself all around you. I dare say it's a vital process in the scheme of human literature creation.
Let's wind it back a bit more. The Mona Lisa is a portrait. There were portraits before that, why is the Mona Lisa so popular? Because DaVinci got it right. A little twist on the old format maybe. But he was making just another portrait. Would you have stopped him from making the Mona Lisa because we've already got heaps of portraits and they're all rubbish?
Remember that the report is concerned with only high severity patches. If you count all of the patches including low and high severity ones, of course it will outnumber the high severity ones.
I believe the same will be true for the Linux distros mentioned as well.
Of course... what constitutes a high severity patch is another question entirely...
Why is that funny? That seems like a good idea to me.
Microsoft will compete with Google, maybe they will compete in terms of volume, so we will get about 2GB from MS and 2GB from Google as well. If I make up enough dummy accounts I can back my whole home network up over the wire. And distributed too! MS can keep one copy and Google can keep the other. That way if one destroys the other when the war comes, I'll still have a good backup.
Really? It broke my AACS encryption too! You bastards!
Microsoft I am sure would enjoy selling a Vista license with every Apple fashion accessory (it also doubles as a real working x86 PC! And it comes in white!).
Clearly the problem is more in the cost of the new mandatory Vista on Apple licenses. If they're done on the cheap, Microsoft will miss a bit of revenue.
I'm a little surprised Apple is working on this, they've always wanted to be a bigger monopolist than Microsoft (Microsoft doesn't try to lock you into a hardware/software vertical monopoly). Jobs has always been adamant that Apple is a software company (I think this is strange, the primary business of Apple is MP3 players and DRM'd music distribution, although this is changing to just watermarking files so they can be traced). So why would Jobs want to water down his control over the Apple user by promoting more Windows apps? My gut feeling is that he is doing this to reduce the popular opinion that Macs "aren't compatible" and "can't run my apps" to buffer up his sales. But how he'll re-assert his control over the users is a mystery to me.
Reality Distortion Field will help somehow?
Some of the screenshots and videos for games like Crysis are really amazing. There's a long way to go, but we are definitely on the cusp of the next generation of games.
This is about right, when the Xbox came out, it was about on par with PCs at the time. 6 months to one year down the track, the top of the line PCs were way ahead. Now, the 360 and PS3 (which isn't living up to the hype, most of the graphics on 360 and PS3 are about the same despite the 360 being a year older) aren't competing with the top of the line PCs.
I think it would be funny to see Crysis ported to Xbox - didn't they port Far Cry to consoles? That would have been sad...
Yeah we can all take a perfectly good sentence out of context to make it seem nonsense, well done.
Any good scientist appreciates that there is never a bad result from an experiment, as every set of data recieved is informative.
Now you can use that data in bad ways, but even so, the use of that data provides an outcome. The value may not be high, and it may not be relevant to everyone (especially slashbots who are famous for dismissing things because it's an easy way to get karma, see any market research associated with Microsoft and the way slashdot treats it for an example), but the data is valuable to someone, especially if someone needed it so bad they funded research into it.
Ahh, another slashdot rocket scientist.
If you pay a lot of money for something, that something is then by the very theory that money has value of worth to you, and therefore cannot be described by any means as "worthless". Maybe to most people it is but at the time of you investing your money in it, is has worth. Even if it's just for the pure and noble purpose of you investing in something worthless to prove a point when arguing on the interwebs.
Did you read the rest of my comment or did you just jump straight into muckraking?
A lot of people don't seem to understand - information, whether valid or not, weighted or not, interpreted or not, is *always* valuable. Maybe not to you, thanks for playing, but it is valuable to someone.