An overly long, dull review of a content-free, moronic film, penned by a known idiot. What more can I say? As far as I'm concerned they only made this film to help sell all the leftover merchandise from the first disaster, it's pretty easy to slap a '2' on everything... Now when is Daredevil 2 coming out? That one was a real hit!
This is a very well-argued, balanced and interesting reply! I'd mod it up, but have already been involved in this discussion.
I do tend to agree with you. What your post gets at, I think, is the simple fact that this kind of thing is ultimately unenforceable given a sufficent level of technological literacy. At some stage it has to come down to trusting the consumer to pay for something that they like. Copyright holders shouldn't kid themselves... copyright and IP issues are facing the biggest problem in their brief lives.
And I have to say that in many ways, they have brought it upon themselves. By ripping artists and consumers off and maintaining price fixing cartels, the music, movie and to a lesser extent gaming industries have systematically alienated their consumer base. Their latest lawyer-based attacks on fileswappers may well have been the last straw... there's no trust and no respect any more (was there ever any, or was it simply that the technology wasn't around? I will leave this problem for the reader.:o)
You know, using Simpsons quotes like that (and all the other memes that get thrown around here like grass snakes in a sugarcane field) is actually a very subtle form of trolling... it really can be quite entertaining when people 'correct' others like that. Something to remember.
New, from Microsoft... DirectLaw 9.0b! Provides access to the lighning-quick gaming capabilities of the DirectTHEFT and QuickSuit API's and informs appropriate authorities of any 'irregularities'
DirectLaw.INI
[EULA]
EULA_gibberish_quota = huge
Longwindedness = yes
Impenetrable lawyerese = on
I think my copy of Simcity must have been cracked by the 'find a friend, copy the disk(s)' method that was all the rage back then. It still is, if you swap swap 'disk' with 'CDR' or more so, 'P2P client'
I remember something slightly like that... IIRC the original simcity came with a list of cities and (I'm a bit hazy on this; it was 12 years ago!) their populations, which were used in the copy protection scheme. This sheet was printed in red ink on white paper, which was allegedly impossible to photocopy, which my copy obviously disproved. I think you just had to turn the darkness level of the copier up. Tricky stuff. It was, as you suggest, more or less agonizing to read.
My personal favourite tho (and on of my favourite games over the last 15 years) is the original railroad tycoon check, which asked you to identify the name of an engine pictured onscreen. As the game was marvellously accurate and played in the main by trainspotterish types, this was not an issue. I knew them all after a fortnight and still know them now!
I haven't used TweakUI in 2K yet as it never seemed quite as necessary as it did in 98SE. I had just assumed that MS would continue to make it difficult for the non-technical user to turn it off, but there you go!
unfortunately this requires registry editing in windows 2000. Not nice! MS are getting very careful about their DRM technology, but they can never be careful enough to stop everyone.
I'm pretty sure you're right, you know. Once you've got a program that can display stuff remotely via HTTP, it's pretty easy to divert its attention to local files and folders, and import all the bugs and vulnerabilities into the core of the GUI. Aaargh.
Also, notice that explorer.exe is always running. IIRC this began with windows 95, but my memory is a little fuzzy here. I was only 14 when it came out after all. Anyway, even without any my computer or whatnot windows up, explorer.exe retains about 2 meg of memory, which goes up about 3 meg when you open a local page and 6 or so for a remote one.
One of the parent posters suggested somewhat facetiously that every Windows application is some kind of plugin to IE. They may be closer to the truth than they realised!
Damn right, Jim. Watch the process in win2K for example, when you switch from a local page of some kind to something on the net. explorer.exe grabs a bit more memory and continues running with the same PID. I don't know much about the internals of Win2K, but IMO IE and windows explorer are one and the same. I don't think we should infer too much from the different applications.
Because of the built-in nature of IE, it is in fact impossible to fully remove it from Windows 2K IME without breaking the OS. I suspect it is similar in XP also.
This is without a doubt the stupidest chain of modding I have seen in some time. Surely we need to talk about religion to bring out those kind errors from the mods?
A problem we are striking here is that for many words that we take to be pretty simple and obvious, like computer, have several broad meanings depending on what sort of person you are talking to. If you asked my mother-in-law, who honestly has difficulty changing the channel on the TV, what a computer was, I'm sure the standard response would roughly describe the device that I'm writing this post on. To most people, IMO, the everyday sense of computer is the one that would come to mind first.
However, as specialists (i.e. geeks), we are trying to draw a finer distinction and be more accurate with our use of the term. This meaning is then subdivided again depending on whether you are talking about embedded chips in DVD players or about AI and natural language processing with a linguist.
I just don't think it is realistic or possible to claim that there is just one sense of computer and that everything can then be sorted depending on some arbitrary parameters...
Why spend $X on a video card, $Y on memory and $Z on a CPU to upgrade and play the games, when you can just spend $Z for a new console?
Because I don't want to spend $Z every n months! And also, I like to get more than e hours of play out of my games.
The console certainly does some types of games a bit better than the PC; it's also great for 'on the couch' social gaming. For real games with substance and depth though, (like civ 3), the PC wastes heaps more time than my PS2.
I think this might possibly be an XP issue? Firefox 0.8 running under win2k SP4 has always behaved immaculately IME - commit charge around 170 mb. I'm sure this has already been said somewhere else, but it can be difficult to tell whether the fault lies between XP's sometimes-flaky (IMO) memory management and Firefox itself.
wow, looks like you hit some geekboy moderator nerve there, that "-1: flamebait" has got to be personal! Can't see any actual reason why your comment wasn't modded up, myself. If I had any points I'd spend them, anyone else?
So the parent poster finds Japanese people attractive? Big deal. It's a fine line between seeking out someone who you find attractive, and choosing someone based on their race, I agree, and trying to find a partner based on physical characteristics is a pretty pointless plan. However, I don't think it's your place to judge.
Also, your post begins by attacking overly generalized statements about groups of people, then ends by stating that "Japanese women are a bit immature". True, that's just your opinion, but if you want people to respect your views you may want to give a little ground yourself, rather than badgering the parent poster about being arrogant.
I can certainly see what you are saying, and I think it's completely true that relationships can't be based solely on physical things. Nevertheless, I don't think you have any right to criticise the parent poster's views though, or his alledged "showing off" (which I interpreted as simple pride about having an attractive SO!)
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An overly long, dull review of a content-free, moronic film, penned by a known idiot. What more can I say? As far as I'm concerned they only made this film to help sell all the leftover merchandise from the first disaster, it's pretty easy to slap a '2' on everything... Now when is Daredevil 2 coming out? That one was a real hit!
This is a very well-argued, balanced and interesting reply! I'd mod it up, but have already been involved in this discussion.
I do tend to agree with you. What your post gets at, I think, is the simple fact that this kind of thing is ultimately unenforceable given a sufficent level of technological literacy. At some stage it has to come down to trusting the consumer to pay for something that they like. Copyright holders shouldn't kid themselves... copyright and IP issues are facing the biggest problem in their brief lives.
And I have to say that in many ways, they have brought it upon themselves. By ripping artists and consumers off and maintaining price fixing cartels, the music, movie and to a lesser extent gaming industries have systematically alienated their consumer base. Their latest lawyer-based attacks on fileswappers may well have been the last straw... there's no trust and no respect any more (was there ever any, or was it simply that the technology wasn't around? I will leave this problem for the reader. :o)
You know, using Simpsons quotes like that (and all the other memes that get thrown around here like grass snakes in a sugarcane field) is actually a very subtle form of trolling... it really can be quite entertaining when people 'correct' others like that. Something to remember.
New, from Microsoft... DirectLaw 9.0b! Provides access to the lighning-quick gaming capabilities of the DirectTHEFT and QuickSuit API's and informs appropriate authorities of any 'irregularities'
DirectLaw.INI
[EULA]
EULA_gibberish_quota = huge
Longwindedness = yes
Impenetrable lawyerese = on
[COPY PROTECTION]
broken = quickly
serial algorithm = depressingly simple
Rampant piracy = yes
I think my copy of Simcity must have been cracked by the 'find a friend, copy the disk(s)' method that was all the rage back then. It still is, if you swap swap 'disk' with 'CDR' or more so, 'P2P client'
I remember something slightly like that... IIRC the original simcity came with a list of cities and (I'm a bit hazy on this; it was 12 years ago!) their populations, which were used in the copy protection scheme. This sheet was printed in red ink on white paper, which was allegedly impossible to photocopy, which my copy obviously disproved. I think you just had to turn the darkness level of the copier up. Tricky stuff. It was, as you suggest, more or less agonizing to read.
My personal favourite tho (and on of my favourite games over the last 15 years) is the original railroad tycoon check, which asked you to identify the name of an engine pictured onscreen. As the game was marvellously accurate and played in the main by trainspotterish types, this was not an issue. I knew them all after a fortnight and still know them now!
1001st post! w00t!
Thankyou! It appears that I may be an idiot! :o)
I haven't used TweakUI in 2K yet as it never seemed quite as necessary as it did in 98SE. I had just assumed that MS would continue to make it difficult for the non-technical user to turn it off, but there you go!
We went to war for this bloody free trade agreement and all its attachments, so it had better be worth it!
unfortunately this requires registry editing in windows 2000. Not nice! MS are getting very careful about their DRM technology, but they can never be careful enough to stop everyone.
I for one really hope that we "do a New Zealand", in so many ways!
But we have experienced equipment, like F-111's and Seahawks that fought in Vietnam... no better experience for the modern climate than that!
amusing... Twitter has responded to Bonch (further up!)Does that make this a meta-troll?
I'm pretty sure you're right, you know. Once you've got a program that can display stuff remotely via HTTP, it's pretty easy to divert its attention to local files and folders, and import all the bugs and vulnerabilities into the core of the GUI. Aaargh.
Also, notice that explorer.exe is always running. IIRC this began with windows 95, but my memory is a little fuzzy here. I was only 14 when it came out after all. Anyway, even without any my computer or whatnot windows up, explorer.exe retains about 2 meg of memory, which goes up about 3 meg when you open a local page and 6 or so for a remote one.
One of the parent posters suggested somewhat facetiously that every Windows application is some kind of plugin to IE. They may be closer to the truth than they realised!
Damn right, Jim. Watch the process in win2K for example, when you switch from a local page of some kind to something on the net. explorer.exe grabs a bit more memory and continues running with the same PID. I don't know much about the internals of Win2K, but IMO IE and windows explorer are one and the same. I don't think we should infer too much from the different applications.
Because of the built-in nature of IE, it is in fact impossible to fully remove it from Windows 2K IME without breaking the OS. I suspect it is similar in XP also.
I note that the original post has now been modded offtopic. Nice prediction!
This is without a doubt the stupidest chain of modding I have seen in some time. Surely we need to talk about religion to bring out those kind errors from the mods?
A problem we are striking here is that for many words that we take to be pretty simple and obvious, like computer, have several broad meanings depending on what sort of person you are talking to. If you asked my mother-in-law, who honestly has difficulty changing the channel on the TV, what a computer was, I'm sure the standard response would roughly describe the device that I'm writing this post on. To most people, IMO, the everyday sense of computer is the one that would come to mind first.
However, as specialists (i.e. geeks), we are trying to draw a finer distinction and be more accurate with our use of the term. This meaning is then subdivided again depending on whether you are talking about embedded chips in DVD players or about AI and natural language processing with a linguist.
I just don't think it is realistic or possible to claim that there is just one sense of computer and that everything can then be sorted depending on some arbitrary parameters...
Because I don't want to spend $Z every n months! And also, I like to get more than e hours of play out of my games.
The console certainly does some types of games a bit better than the PC; it's also great for 'on the couch' social gaming. For real games with substance and depth though, (like civ 3), the PC wastes heaps more time than my PS2.
I think this might possibly be an XP issue? Firefox 0.8 running under win2k SP4 has always behaved immaculately IME - commit charge around 170 mb. I'm sure this has already been said somewhere else, but it can be difficult to tell whether the fault lies between XP's sometimes-flaky (IMO) memory management and Firefox itself.
Scared of women!
wow, looks like you hit some geekboy moderator nerve there, that "-1: flamebait" has got to be personal! Can't see any actual reason why your comment wasn't modded up, myself. If I had any points I'd spend them, anyone else?
mmmm, nice stereotypes. Do you know any actual women at all, or is your knowledge of them based on romance novels?
So the parent poster finds Japanese people attractive? Big deal. It's a fine line between seeking out someone who you find attractive, and choosing someone based on their race, I agree, and trying to find a partner based on physical characteristics is a pretty pointless plan. However, I don't think it's your place to judge.
Also, your post begins by attacking overly generalized statements about groups of people, then ends by stating that "Japanese women are a bit immature". True, that's just your opinion, but if you want people to respect your views you may want to give a little ground yourself, rather than badgering the parent poster about being arrogant.
I can certainly see what you are saying, and I think it's completely true that relationships can't be based solely on physical things. Nevertheless, I don't think you have any right to criticise the parent poster's views though, or his alledged "showing off" (which I interpreted as simple pride about having an attractive SO!)
> reneder my windoze (ME) ioperable :)
How could you tell?
Back on topic, this 5-year chart of SCO's plummeting stock price is even more instructive. Note the spike where the FUD and lawsuits started to kick in, then the steady decline more recently.