Yes, some of them are. I know more than one person who believes humans were designed and put on this planet by aliens, and who couldn't give a crap about whether there's a God or not.
"The question is though (...) what boards offer four PCI-E x16 slots?"
I think I heard someone mention something about some computer with four PCI-E x16 slots the other day, but I can't quite remember what it was called... the name is stuck right on the tip of my tongue.. um... Quack Pro, maybe? No... that's not it...
Oh well... maybe I'll remember later.
Can anyone tell me what the typical operating frequency for the chip handling barcode recognition on a typical decade old point of sale system would be? Not 100 mhz, surely?
WTF? Your analogy to a home run in baseball is ridiculously dumb. We have hundreds upon hundreds of videos of baseball players scoring home runs at games. I myself, having been forced to play baseball back in primary school gym class, have even gotten lucky enuogh to score a home run or two, and I'm far from what anyone would call an athlete. Get a half dozen friends who enjoy standing around doing nothing, a bat, a ball and a video camera, go down to the nearest baseball field and you can produce incontrovertible video proof of the existence of home runs all day long. It's hardly a useful comparison.
Possibly. We won't know until we try, right?
And it's not like it isn't fair. They're free to beat on our OS, we're free to beat on theirs. If theirs doesn't take the hits quite as well and starts falling papart sooner, that's not our fault, is it? They're the ones who built it that way.
You will note that there are two large corporations with lots of money and large legal teams backing this project, who are both obviously interested in it succeeding. They're mentioned in the summary, I think you've probably heard of them.
... and, what's more, fraud is one of the world's oldest and most succesful business models! It's probably the most sustainable business model you could choose.
>Should he be "liberated" from that technology because it is proprietary, non free, non gratis, owned
>by the evil corporate horde?
It depends on whether you're using 'liberate' in the RMS sense or the G. W. Bush sense.
If you mean it in the Bush sense, and are liberating him by taking his technology away from him, then no, definately not.
If you mean it in the RMS sense, and are liberating him by giving him a free, gratis alternative that isn't owned by the corporate horde, that he's free to use or discard at his leisure, then yes, immediately. Yesterday, if possible.
If a customer goes into a store, buys an item, and it later turns out that the store was selling stolen merchandise, the customer is still liable for posession of stolen property. It doesn't matter one bit that they didn't know the item was illegal. The situation really isn't any different.
Auuuughhh! Gaaaahhh! Grrrrr! That's a right pain in the ass, isn't it?
You know what, this just may have changed my mind on the whole episodic thing. Not that Episode One wasn't great - it was absolutely awesome in content, if an hour or two shorter than I'd have liked, but spacing the episodes this far appart really makes this model a lot less attractive. It's bad enough with TV, where by the time one season premiers you've totally forgotten or just lost interest in the cliffhanger from the previous season's finale, and that's usually just a three or four month gap.
Seriously, the individual episodes need to be much closer together than that for people to maintain an interest in the series. At least every six months, if not every four... three would be heaven. Twelve is simply insane.
How is this news? All the D&D3.5E stuff (as well as the 3rd ed, 2nd ed, 1st ed stuff and the whole Palladium/Steve Jackson/White Wolf catalog as well) has been available in PDF format on #rpgbookz on irc.enerla.net for years! I've never heard of these 'DriveThruRPG' guys, though.
Ohhhhh. Sorry. I didn't notice the word 'selling'.
Not really. We'll juse make ripping software that introduces white noise on the bits that are below human perception, thus wiping out any watermarking.
>or if I want to run it in a VM and just let it think it has control.
You, sir, are an evil genius. That's an idea so twisted it just might work... I'm not sure how practical it is, but if it were feasible it could solve so many potential problems... granted, a lot of these potential problems aren't ~quite~ here yet, but it does seem pretty certain that they're on their way...
It's being worked on, though I don't think it's using the specific library mentioned by the article.
I'm not associated with those guys, but am certainly looking forwards to seeing the results of their work.
Something must have been wrong with your system, I think. My system is by all rights less powerful, a 2.4ghz P4 on a DFI 865PE motherboard with 1024mb of PC3200 and a 9600 Pro with the same specs, and it manages 30-40 frames inside in Oblivion, and 15-20 outside.
I'm still ditching it for a 6800GS later today though.:)
That's because heart attacks and such are serious business. I mean, it's life or death, man... so as a result, the medical industry is one of the least funny ones to work in. The computer industry, on the otherhand, can be hilarious.
So, essentially, as far as the ESRB is concerned, any game capable of taking an image and mapping it onto a surface should be rated mature, since, well, you could always hack it to display something obscene.
My computer only has an old CD/RW drive in it since I have been too cheap to buy a DVD drive for it, which occasionally inconveniences me when I would like to access files stored on a DVD, so I would love to get one of these free, downloadable DVD players you mention. Please provide a link.
The ads work completely fine and cause no noticeable lag or lockups for me while browsing over a VNC connection with both the client and server connected to the 'net via standard home DSL lines.
Perhaps the problem is your choice of an immature and inefficient proprietary protocol for your remote computing needs, not the ads themselves.
>Oh, and by the way, if you want to upgrade from the home version to home premium >version you have to reinstall. There will be no upgrade method provided
I was with you until I got to this bit. Assuming everything else you suggest is true, why would they make it dificult to change editions?
If your business model depends on conning customers into regularily 'upgrading' to a more featureful version of your product, you don't make it dificult for them to do. You make it as easy as possible.
You won't have to reinstall. You'll just have to click on the nice shiny 'Upgrade to Premium' button in your Start Menu, enter your credit card number, and wait 15 minutes.
Making it dificult for people to buy your product isn't the kind of poor business sense Microsoft is known for.
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Yes, some of them are. I know more than one person who believes humans were designed and put on this planet by aliens, and who couldn't give a crap about whether there's a God or not.
"The question is though (...) what boards offer four PCI-E x16 slots?" I think I heard someone mention something about some computer with four PCI-E x16 slots the other day, but I can't quite remember what it was called... the name is stuck right on the tip of my tongue.. um... Quack Pro, maybe? No... that's not it... Oh well... maybe I'll remember later.
Can anyone tell me what the typical operating frequency for the chip handling barcode recognition on a typical decade old point of sale system would be? Not 100 mhz, surely?
Security company? What's wrong with a good old safety deposit box at the bank?
Oh, come on already. Doesn't the joke get a little tired after the third time it's rep
WTF? Your analogy to a home run in baseball is ridiculously dumb. We have hundreds upon hundreds of videos of baseball players scoring home runs at games. I myself, having been forced to play baseball back in primary school gym class, have even gotten lucky enuogh to score a home run or two, and I'm far from what anyone would call an athlete. Get a half dozen friends who enjoy standing around doing nothing, a bat, a ball and a video camera, go down to the nearest baseball field and you can produce incontrovertible video proof of the existence of home runs all day long. It's hardly a useful comparison.
Possibly. We won't know until we try, right? And it's not like it isn't fair. They're free to beat on our OS, we're free to beat on theirs. If theirs doesn't take the hits quite as well and starts falling papart sooner, that's not our fault, is it? They're the ones who built it that way.
You will note that there are two large corporations with lots of money and large legal teams backing this project, who are both obviously interested in it succeeding. They're mentioned in the summary, I think you've probably heard of them.
... and, what's more, fraud is one of the world's oldest and most succesful business models! It's probably the most sustainable business model you could choose.
>Should he be "liberated" from that technology because it is proprietary, non free, non gratis, owned >by the evil corporate horde?
It depends on whether you're using 'liberate' in the RMS sense or the G. W. Bush sense.
If you mean it in the Bush sense, and are liberating him by taking his technology away from him, then no, definately not.
If you mean it in the RMS sense, and are liberating him by giving him a free, gratis alternative that isn't owned by the corporate horde, that he's free to use or discard at his leisure, then yes, immediately. Yesterday, if possible.
Only if you execute it, not if you open it up in $TEXT_EDITOR.
If a customer goes into a store, buys an item, and it later turns out that the store was selling stolen merchandise, the customer is still liable for posession of stolen property. It doesn't matter one bit that they didn't know the item was illegal. The situation really isn't any different.
It would be highly amusing if this were implemented and some blackhat then discovered a way to exploit the testing scheme and take over the gateway.
Auuuughhh! Gaaaahhh! Grrrrr! That's a right pain in the ass, isn't it?
You know what, this just may have changed my mind on the whole episodic thing. Not that Episode One wasn't great - it was absolutely awesome in content, if an hour or two shorter than I'd have liked, but spacing the episodes this far appart really makes this model a lot less attractive. It's bad enough with TV, where by the time one season premiers you've totally forgotten or just lost interest in the cliffhanger from the previous season's finale, and that's usually just a three or four month gap.
Seriously, the individual episodes need to be much closer together than that for people to maintain an interest in the series. At least every six months, if not every four... three would be heaven. Twelve is simply insane.
How is this news? All the D&D3.5E stuff (as well as the 3rd ed, 2nd ed, 1st ed stuff and the whole Palladium/Steve Jackson/White Wolf catalog as well) has been available in PDF format on #rpgbookz on irc.enerla.net for years! I've never heard of these 'DriveThruRPG' guys, though. Ohhhhh. Sorry. I didn't notice the word 'selling'.
Not really. We'll juse make ripping software that introduces white noise on the bits that are below human perception, thus wiping out any watermarking.
>or if I want to run it in a VM and just let it think it has control.
You, sir, are an evil genius. That's an idea so twisted it just might work... I'm not sure how practical it is, but if it were feasible it could solve so many potential problems... granted, a lot of these potential problems aren't ~quite~ here yet, but it does seem pretty certain that they're on their way...
It's being worked on, though I don't think it's using the specific library mentioned by the article. I'm not associated with those guys, but am certainly looking forwards to seeing the results of their work.
Something must have been wrong with your system, I think. My system is by all rights less powerful, a 2.4ghz P4 on a DFI 865PE motherboard with 1024mb of PC3200 and a 9600 Pro with the same specs, and it manages 30-40 frames inside in Oblivion, and 15-20 outside. I'm still ditching it for a 6800GS later today though. :)
That's because heart attacks and such are serious business. I mean, it's life or death, man... so as a result, the medical industry is one of the least funny ones to work in. The computer industry, on the otherhand, can be hilarious.
So, essentially, as far as the ESRB is concerned, any game capable of taking an image and mapping it onto a surface should be rated mature, since, well, you could always hack it to display something obscene.
My computer only has an old CD/RW drive in it since I have been too cheap to buy a DVD drive for it, which occasionally inconveniences me when I would like to access files stored on a DVD, so I would love to get one of these free, downloadable DVD players you mention. Please provide a link.
The ads work completely fine and cause no noticeable lag or lockups for me while browsing over a VNC connection with both the client and server connected to the 'net via standard home DSL lines.
Perhaps the problem is your choice of an immature and inefficient proprietary protocol for your remote computing needs, not the ads themselves.
>Oh, and by the way, if you want to upgrade from the home version to home premium
>version you have to reinstall. There will be no upgrade method provided
I was with you until I got to this bit. Assuming everything else you suggest is true, why would they make it dificult to change editions?
If your business model depends on conning customers into regularily 'upgrading' to a more featureful version of your product, you don't make it dificult for them to do. You make it as easy as possible.
You won't have to reinstall. You'll just have to click on the nice shiny 'Upgrade to Premium' button in your Start Menu, enter your credit card number, and wait 15 minutes.
Making it dificult for people to buy your product isn't the kind of poor business sense Microsoft is known for.
Anyone in a hiring position at the company should really have enough experience to be doing Molten Core instead.