Checked the list and noticed that two demos have this. Who in their right fucking mind would put any kind of copy protection on a demo? I thought the whole point of a demo was to get wide distribution and a positive impression of your product. This guarantees you will get neither.
It also makes me wonder if there is more to this than just copy protection. I can think of lots of things a TSR included in a demo might do, and copy protection isn't any of them.
While I don't disagree with anything you say, being poor in East Oakland is a serious lifestyle upgrade from being poor in West Oakland. Unless, of course, we're not talking about Oakland, CA.:-)
One thing to remember about global warming and cooling (both of which have happened before) is that the global ranges of both plant and animal species change with the changing climate. Reef building corals will be found at higher latitudes as the Earth warms. Ocean current patterns will change too, of course, more critacally in the Atlantic than the Pacific. Reefs may disappear in a particular place, but corals will still survive.
The mascot is a weasel. Let's all get together and rat out our pals and our underfunded school for not sending enough tax-payer dollars to the corporate overlords.
Sorry, I generally support lawful behavior and do not support piracy, but this is just disturbing.
Eureka. Yes, the "marine layer" is so thick today, you could let off a nuke at 20,000 feet, and we'd never know. I'm old enough that I've actually seen the sun. My kids still think its a myth. Good to know there's someone else from the former Russian part of California hereabouts.
I usually just use the cursor keys. My trackball works OK, but than acts very wierd after exiting MAME unless I reboot. I googled up some fanatic's page about setting up a dual trackball system, but it's obviously only for fanatics. One of the frustrations of the original standup console was that the controls weren't very precise, at least for me, but I never claimed to be very good at it, I just like the graphics and the music. Xevious, I was good at. Still am.
>As The SCO Group Inc.'s reseller and developer community gathers for its annual SCO Forum convention in Las Vegas this week, one question on many attendees' minds will be whether the company's future will be as a software vendor or as a litigator.
Just who is attending this thing? How large is their "reseller and developer community", and does it have anyone in it other than SCO employees? Where is it being held, the back room of the Denny's on Fremont Street? Anyplace else, and the hall is going to look rather empty.
I'm pretty sure the question about their future as either a software vendor or litigator has already been answered in the marketplace.
Friend of mine worked there for Bechtel for a number of years. After the foldup, he couldn't give his house away. Bad spot when you owe $50,000.00 on a hpouse now worth $0.50. Luckily, he had inherited the old home place, which he moved his family back into.
>Please note the positioning of periods, commas, and other similar punctiation inside the quotes.
You are espousing the American standard of punctuation, while the poster about whom you are complaining has used the English standard. You should make certain that said poster is not actually conforming to the grammar rules of English as taught in his home country before flaming. We have enough trouble with the US Congress acting as if the internet exists solely withing the US borders. The "technologically literate crowd" here at/. should certainly know better.
As to spelling, identify the correctly spelled word in each of the following pairs: [tire, tyre] [flavour, flavor] [colour, color].
>Cowboys doesn't seem quite right -- more kind of bandits.
Hmmm...Sidearms modeled after long-barreled cap and ball Smith and Wesson revolvers, worn low on the hip in gunslinger rigs, at least one episode where people are riding horses and wearing dusters and cowboy hats, they actually haul cows as cargo, and so on. Since I own horses and ride a lot, I don't see any of this as a bad thing. The Firefly universe is a bit seedy, but it works. You not only get westerns, but a bit of Dickens thrown in as well.
As parent notes, the characters worked. The Ron Glass character was developing nicely, as was the very messed up River. And, I would be happy to sit for hours and watch Jewel Staite do anything, anything at all. Seriously too bad the show got cancelled. It had some real potential.
600,000 1.8 inch drives per month according to a very quick google search. Total monthly production of all drives from all manufactureres will certainly exceed 1,000,000.
>Why is it scientists always use weird units? I have absolutely no clue of what "the implicit information storage that corresponds to all of the hard disks made in the world this year, multiplied by the number of years the universe has been around" actually represents in bytes.
6.0 X 10^8 drives x 100 GB/drive x 15 x 10^9 years x 1.1 x 10^9 bytes/GB = 9.9 x 10^29 bytes. More or less. Definitely a BFN. This should be enough for most mp3 and pr0n collections. For reference, the number of electrons in the universe is estimated at 10^79, a larger BFN.
Timeshifting and avoiding commercials can both be accomplished with the standard VCR. No problem. What the VCR can't do easily is download onto my laptop, so that I can watch a show while waiting at the airport.
> would state that not only is religion handled "ineffectively" in most games, but between the wish to be politically correct and catering to the predominantly anti-christian sentiments in the gaming community most games end up being downright disdainful of christianity.
Religion != Christianity. There are many more religions than Christianity, even in the US, and even in the parts of the US where "Christians" don't want to acknowledge that there are other religions.
>What the christian community urgently needs is a development company to emerge which can balance both the needs of the gospel, and the needs of the game playing experience.
When the "Christian community" can agree amongst itself on the meaning of the gospel, perhaps there will be some chance of this. The lions and the lambs will sit down together sooner than the Adventists will with the Catholics. Hmm... that might make a good Doom wad.
The OECD report does not give separate numbers for pirated downloads and those that do not infringe copyright. Despite a growing number of paid-for services like Apple's music site iTunes, however, experts say the vast majority of file swaps are still unauthorized.
The biggest growth in downloading last year was in "other files" - neither music nor film - which almost doubled their share to about a quarter of all downloads. The category includes software and pornography, but the report gives no breakdown between the two.
So, no breakdown of how much is actually illegal, just "experts say." I wonder how much of "other files" is accounted for by bloated Microsoft critical updates, service releases and patches? How much is tasteful internet erotica? How about digital video of my daughter's college graduation sent to relatives?
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Checked the list and noticed that two demos have this. Who in their right fucking mind would put any kind of copy protection on a demo? I thought the whole point of a demo was to get wide distribution and a positive impression of your product. This guarantees you will get neither.
It also makes me wonder if there is more to this than just copy protection. I can think of lots of things a TSR included in a demo might do, and copy protection isn't any of them.
>I live near tons of them in East Oakland.
While I don't disagree with anything you say, being poor in East Oakland is a serious lifestyle upgrade from being poor in West Oakland. Unless, of course, we're not talking about Oakland, CA.One thing to remember about global warming and cooling (both of which have happened before) is that the global ranges of both plant and animal species change with the changing climate. Reef building corals will be found at higher latitudes as the Earth warms. Ocean current patterns will change too, of course, more critacally in the Atlantic than the Pacific. Reefs may disappear in a particular place, but corals will still survive.
The mascot is a weasel. Let's all get together and rat out our pals and our underfunded school for not sending enough tax-payer dollars to the corporate overlords.
Sorry, I generally support lawful behavior and do not support piracy, but this is just disturbing.
Eureka. Yes, the "marine layer" is so thick today, you could let off a nuke at 20,000 feet, and we'd never know. I'm old enough that I've actually seen the sun. My kids still think its a myth. Good to know there's someone else from the former Russian part of California hereabouts.
Same here on the foggy north coast of California. I'm beginning to think that the meteors actually generate the fog.
I never made it to the last level on the standup.
>How are you going to emulate a 5.25 inch drive to read old disks?
Write an emulator for your 8 inch drive.I usually just use the cursor keys. My trackball works OK, but than acts very wierd after exiting MAME unless I reboot. I googled up some fanatic's page about setting up a dual trackball system, but it's obviously only for fanatics. One of the frustrations of the original standup console was that the controls weren't very precise, at least for me, but I never claimed to be very good at it, I just like the graphics and the music. Xevious, I was good at. Still am.
>As The SCO Group Inc.'s reseller and developer community gathers for its annual SCO Forum convention in Las Vegas this week, one question on many attendees' minds will be whether the company's future will be as a software vendor or as a litigator.
Just who is attending this thing? How large is their "reseller and developer community", and does it have anyone in it other than SCO employees? Where is it being held, the back room of the Denny's on Fremont Street? Anyplace else, and the hall is going to look rather empty.I'm pretty sure the question about their future as either a software vendor or litigator has already been answered in the marketplace.
Friend of mine worked there for Bechtel for a number of years. After the foldup, he couldn't give his house away. Bad spot when you owe $50,000.00 on a hpouse now worth $0.50. Luckily, he had inherited the old home place, which he moved his family back into.
>3 out of 5 of the machines failed to come back up, and had to have both SP1 and SP2 removed via various hacks supplied by Microsoft.
Sounds like this puppy's ready to go gold.Contact could have been expected by 2010, but release of the BOINC software has delayed the seti@home project by at least 10 yers.
>Please note the positioning of periods, commas, and other similar punctiation inside the quotes.
You are espousing the American standard of punctuation, while the poster about whom you are complaining has used the English standard. You should make certain that said poster is not actually conforming to the grammar rules of English as taught in his home country before flaming. We have enough trouble with the US Congress acting as if the internet exists solely withing the US borders. The "technologically literate crowd" here atAs to spelling, identify the correctly spelled word in each of the following pairs: [tire, tyre] [flavour, flavor] [colour, color].
>Lets wait for something to happen three times before declaring it a part of our regular cultural fabric, eh?
No, at that point it is declared a conspiracy.>Cowboys doesn't seem quite right -- more kind of bandits.
Hmmm...Sidearms modeled after long-barreled cap and ball Smith and Wesson revolvers, worn low on the hip in gunslinger rigs, at least one episode where people are riding horses and wearing dusters and cowboy hats, they actually haul cows as cargo, and so on. Since I own horses and ride a lot, I don't see any of this as a bad thing. The Firefly universe is a bit seedy, but it works. You not only get westerns, but a bit of Dickens thrown in as well.As parent notes, the characters worked. The Ron Glass character was developing nicely, as was the very messed up River. And, I would be happy to sit for hours and watch Jewel Staite do anything, anything at all. Seriously too bad the show got cancelled. It had some real potential.
600,000 1.8 inch drives per month according to a very quick google search. Total monthly production of all drives from all manufactureres will certainly exceed 1,000,000.
>Why is it scientists always use weird units? I have absolutely no clue of what "the implicit information storage that corresponds to all of the hard disks made in the world this year, multiplied by the number of years the universe has been around" actually represents in bytes.
6.0 X 10^8 drives x 100 GB/drive x 15 x 10^9 years x 1.1 x 10^9 bytes/GB = 9.9 x 10^29 bytes. More or less. Definitely a BFN. This should be enough for most mp3 and pr0n collections. For reference, the number of electrons in the universe is estimated at 10^79, a larger BFN.Timeshifting and avoiding commercials can both be accomplished with the standard VCR. No problem. What the VCR can't do easily is download onto my laptop, so that I can watch a show while waiting at the airport.
Judge Roy Bean.
No, underwired.
> would state that not only is religion handled "ineffectively" in most games, but between the wish to be politically correct and catering to the predominantly anti-christian sentiments in the gaming community most games end up being downright disdainful of christianity.
Religion != Christianity. There are many more religions than Christianity, even in the US, and even in the parts of the US where "Christians" don't want to acknowledge that there are other religions.>What the christian community urgently needs is a development company to emerge which can balance both the needs of the gospel, and the needs of the game playing experience.
When the "Christian community" can agree amongst itself on the meaning of the gospel, perhaps there will be some chance of this. The lions and the lambs will sit down together sooner than the Adventists will with the Catholics. Hmm... that might make a good Doom wad.> Video and software downloads? Looks we're back to the roots here.
Yep, it's 2004, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has discovered that there are Warez D00dz. How amazing.