What? No mention of the Leisure Suit Larry franchise? These games were all about a dorky guy trying to get laid. You had to solve quests for condoms and get enough money to get an expensive hotel room for your liasons. That's about it. There was nothing socially redeeming about it- but it was fun.
That site is terrible- I especially like this bit on the right side:
The Hippodrome State Theatre is grateful to [image of Microsoft]
for its generous donation of software to meet our growing computer needs.
So it looks like Microsoft entered in some sort of oral contract with them to freely provide software. Who thinks that MS will bill them for license fees next year?
it never made sense why Micron would sell of a business line that was the only good alternative to Dell.
Um, maybe because they were not a good alternative. My company used to use all Microns for a few years. They all sucked when we bought them, and very few of them are still in use now because they have crashed, and it was cheaper to replace them then it would be to repair.
We have since gone to Dell, which are admittedly more expensive, but they work properly and have good support (though lately G'nesh Singh Bhudanaramading keeps answering the phone when we call- we never know what he is talking about, but when a new network card appears the next day, it usually fixes the problem...)
Well, the problem with that logic is that it is broken. Look at the Florida fiasco. There is a problem with our current voting method. People can't figure out how to make them work, and the machines are not punching cards all the way through. What we need is to have a neasy to use electronic system with a proper papertrail (like a printout that can be verified)
Of course there will still be room for all of the other companies that provide actual quality products. For instance, you don't see ZoneLabs suffering at the inclusion of a "firewall" in XP. The "firewall" is such useless crap that anyone who knows (or knows a geek who knows) will gladly run out and buy a proper firewall program. Of course ZoneAlarm is free, so....
Anyway, if MS's "antivirus" program is as useful as their "firewall", I think it will just make Norton et al. happy to be able to prvide an AV program that really fixes the virii.
arguments over whether it's a good idea to have separate women's matches
Oh come on! I think it is silly to have separate leagues for men and women in real-world sports, where it could be argued (not by me) that the physical differences between the genders would give one or the other an unfair advantage. In a virtual environment, even that would be voided. Why separate them?
Looks like Macrovision is getting in on the action and suing them also. Here is 321 Studio's response. I guess everyone wants a bite at the apple. I hope 321 Studios gets a good team of lawyers.
Anyway, even if they have to stop making the software, it will live on forever in p2p sharing perpetuity.
Can't we just take an image of a DVD like any other media format? Piracy will live on without overpriced software to facilitate it.
Actually, most burning programs won't let you copy even the image of a copy-protected disk. That is what DVDXCopy allowed you to do. Of course there are still plenty of other programs that will let you unencrypt and unprotect DVDs... Most of them are shareware or even freeware, like DVDShrink or DVDDecrypter
They might not be quite as easy to use as DVDXCopy, but they will get the job done.
I'm with you. I read that book about 10 years ago and found it earth-shatteringly dull. Some neat ideas, but the characters weren't that great, and it was definitely not what I would call a page turner. If you want some real futurism and mind-numbing conceptual sci-fi novels, try reading Philip K Dick.
Spammers only have to double their messages to go around this 'filter' to produce the same volume tomorrow as they produce today.
Actually, I would assume that it isn't exactly just cutting out 50% of emails by quantity. If they just sent out double the spam, but it was identical, the same filter qould block it. the spammers would need to send out twice as much spam, but it would have to be qualitatively different in order to get around the filter. Still 1/2 the spam is better than all of it...
For all of those who feel that driving a car under the influence of a cell phone is dangerous (and I include myself in that group), this is among the most foolish laws enacted in recent history. The driver of a given car should have his/her attention focused on the road. That is all. Not on the phone, or on the pizza they are trying to eat with one hand, not the beer in the other hand, not the wireless PDA that is streaming the latest slashdot rant (or Goatse pic if that is their preference...), and certainly not on the plastic tube that they have to blow into while they are speeding down the freeway. All this law is going to do is cause more people to find exciting ways around the device. Perhaps a law that makes the roads safer would be a better place to start than by just punishing everyone else on the road who has to deal with sober people having another reason to swerve around the lane while attempting to orally manipulate this device.
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What? No mention of the Leisure Suit Larry franchise? These games were all about a dorky guy trying to get laid. You had to solve quests for condoms and get enough money to get an expensive hotel room for your liasons. That's about it. There was nothing socially redeeming about it- but it was fun.
So it looks like Microsoft entered in some sort of oral contract with them to freely provide software. Who thinks that MS will bill them for license fees next year?
We have since gone to Dell, which are admittedly more expensive, but they work properly and have good support (though lately G'nesh Singh Bhudanaramading keeps answering the phone when we call- we never know what he is talking about, but when a new network card appears the next day, it usually fixes the problem...)
Well, the problem with that logic is that it is broken. Look at the Florida fiasco. There is a problem with our current voting method. People can't figure out how to make them work, and the machines are not punching cards all the way through. What we need is to have a neasy to use electronic system with a proper papertrail (like a printout that can be verified)
Of course there will still be room for all of the other companies that provide actual quality products. For instance, you don't see ZoneLabs suffering at the inclusion of a "firewall" in XP. The "firewall" is such useless crap that anyone who knows (or knows a geek who knows) will gladly run out and buy a proper firewall program. Of course ZoneAlarm is free, so.... Anyway, if MS's "antivirus" program is as useful as their "firewall", I think it will just make Norton et al. happy to be able to prvide an AV program that really fixes the virii.
Oh come on! I think it is silly to have separate leagues for men and women in real-world sports, where it could be argued (not by me) that the physical differences between the genders would give one or the other an unfair advantage. In a virtual environment, even that would be voided. Why separate them?
Anyway, even if they have to stop making the software, it will live on forever in p2p sharing perpetuity.
They might not be quite as easy to use as DVDXCopy, but they will get the job done.
Yeah- it's rough when you say "open boat.sea" and you get goatse.cx
I'm with you. I read that book about 10 years ago and found it earth-shatteringly dull. Some neat ideas, but the characters weren't that great, and it was definitely not what I would call a page turner. If you want some real futurism and mind-numbing conceptual sci-fi novels, try reading Philip K Dick.
For all of those who feel that driving a car under the influence of a cell phone is dangerous (and I include myself in that group), this is among the most foolish laws enacted in recent history. The driver of a given car should have his/her attention focused on the road. That is all. Not on the phone, or on the pizza they are trying to eat with one hand, not the beer in the other hand, not the wireless PDA that is streaming the latest slashdot rant (or Goatse pic if that is their preference...), and certainly not on the plastic tube that they have to blow into while they are speeding down the freeway. All this law is going to do is cause more people to find exciting ways around the device. Perhaps a law that makes the roads safer would be a better place to start than by just punishing everyone else on the road who has to deal with sober people having another reason to swerve around the lane while attempting to orally manipulate this device.