I am not alone in really wanting Halflife 2 (after really enjoying the first one), but not enough to go through all the crap they make you do(Steam). This maybe regular operating procedure for the everyday players, but HL was the last FPS game I played. This give me an option to actually play the game - hooray. (Lets hope it comes out before I am completely bored of games)
They can't really declare it freeware. What happens when Microsoft did comply, how can you just take that back. Will it mean that everybody who has copied it will now by in breach of copyright? Will it mean that Microsoft loses copyright on all it's products until it realeases new ones. It is a nice idea to think about, but infeasable.
Microsoft was surprised by the net, and only now have gotten the message. When they originally designed IE, the didn't forsee the myriad of problems that have come to it. They really don't like the net (or didn't), because they prefer to control everything that you have on your computer. With the net, you don't get that.
Exactly! Passionate people cause waves, speak out when they see that something is wrong, talk about others who are incompetent, even when they are their bosses. Obviously they have a different definition of passion - passion for wanting to fit in, and tow the management line. Passion about the posters that human resources put up (which are a complete joke) - is that real passion?
I used to see this confusion working at an American company in the UK. Since the boss of our department wasn't able to make the distinction, all the other managers either couldn't make understand the differrence, or were towing the party line. The problem was that they would work themselves ragger, be very tired all the time, and make a lot of mistakes and a few major ones at that. As a contractor, after I while I could see this very clearly, and working LONGER was perceived as better than working SMARTER. Maybe because it is easier to measure the time someone works, rather than how well they work - especially if your boss is incompetent.
You are spouting a lot of nonsense. I am glad most people don't believe what you are saying, or we would never have had any interesting devices in the first place. You can argue against extra funcitonality for devices, but it is going to happen. The only reasons it is not hapening now, is due to battery life, CPU power, and memory. These are quickly being overcome, even today a number of devices can be successfully merged (Telephone, PDA, mp3 player). Right now these devices aren't the best, because a lot of tech companies spend all the money on creating new technologies, and not a lot on interfaces, making thins intuitive and a pleasure to use. This will change, and will have to change. Even Apple is working on tech like this. Imagine an ipod sized device, with a full screen on one side, and able to take phone calls, movies, pda, wifi, and with a pleasant UI - it will happen.
(Just because you can site two popular devices, you seemed to be convinced that the world will never change)
Sorry lady, you seemed to have wondered off of the shopping network, and are now posting on a different site. Sorry that your internet has been disrupted, please click the back button on the web browser.
Or perhaps we should have a warning, not to be viewed by complete wusses.
Your really stretching your defintions here. It is not your belief in Maths that is working. That is not what belief means. That is knowledge of maths, that any two numbers can be multiplied together. If that is your religion, that is strange.
You don't really need to prove this to anybody, your beliefs don't need to be justified by this silly sort of logic.
Maybe we could join this idea with the anti-scammers we met last week. Get a scammer to draw out a few frames of the movie each, utilise a few different scammers, combine into a movie and watch the money come rolling in. There are certainly enough scammers out there for a few hundred movies.
Has everybody who used to know about computers just left slashdot and gone somewhere else? You do realise all you would do is run a program before you play the movie, play the movie, stop the program and it will automatically have created the decrypted movie in high resolution for you. It is not really that much trouble. And we can do this now, rather than wait. The point is, that they left a hole in their secure system, and there are probably many holes - so they should just stop wasting everybodies time, and forget the whole thing.
Your argument seems reasonble, except for the fact that Intel just sold of its embedded chip facilities, XScale. Seems like a strange move, if they want to move into new markets (which I agree, seems like a sensible thing to do)
Wow, please don't compare Scientific papers to Blogs - It is perfectly alright for bloggers to link to wikipedia, it is completely unacceptable for Scientific papers to do so.(unless you are writing a paper about wikipedia) I think it would be a valuable sign for telling how bad a paper is, by seeing if they have links to wikipedia.
I had no idea either. I was too busy oppressing the black man, and getting my KKK outfit from the cleaners. Now I can really oppress the black man, by buying a white psp. What you gonna do now, nigga!
Actually witches are making a comeback - they prefer the term wicca. Based on Pagan rituals (which is a load of bollocks on its own), I have met people calling themselved witches and warlocks (of course, I live in the UK - or loon island).
Microsoft has a huge advantage. They can offer this software free with Vista, which will be on the majority of new computers next year (over 90%). They can give free downloads when you purchase their player - or let you use another player. If they partner with the RIAA (and that is what they have been doing), they can offer a greater deal than apple.
My prediction, if people are lazy (and boy, are people lazy), then Microsoft will win this.
It just depends what the courts will do - if apple can stop them on supplying mTunes with Vista.
Good point. I remember when I first used this, I thought 'those windows programmers are stupid'. But once I learnt why, it seemed like a brilliant idea.
1. To get everybody to change at the same time (or very quickly)
2. To set-up a site that offers your own, plus ebays auctions. Just drain their database. Is this possible? Then you can offer a list of all items, from both setups.
Slashdot Mirror
I am not alone in really wanting Halflife 2 (after really enjoying the first one), but not enough to go through all the crap they make you do(Steam). This maybe regular operating procedure for the everyday players, but HL was the last FPS game I played. This give me an option to actually play the game - hooray. (Lets hope it comes out before I am completely bored of games)
So how is your sister today?
She was great the other night!
Are you trying to make a point, because I completely missed it? Are you talking about the article, or the parent to your post? Far too cryptic for me.
How does that sand taste down there.
Microsoft were never innovative, except in marketing and business (some would argue, the two most important things!)
They can't really declare it freeware. What happens when Microsoft did comply, how can you just take that back. Will it mean that everybody who has copied it will now by in breach of copyright? Will it mean that Microsoft loses copyright on all it's products until it realeases new ones. It is a nice idea to think about, but infeasable.
Microsoft was surprised by the net, and only now have gotten the message. When they originally designed IE, the didn't forsee the myriad of problems that have come to it. They really don't like the net (or didn't), because they prefer to control everything that you have on your computer. With the net, you don't get that.
Exactly! Passionate people cause waves, speak out when they see that something is wrong, talk about others who are incompetent, even when they are their bosses. Obviously they have a different definition of passion - passion for wanting to fit in, and tow the management line. Passion about the posters that human resources put up (which are a complete joke) - is that real passion?
Sorry mate, didn't mean to come of so hard. I agree with a lot of what you say, but can also see that the world is changing.
I used to see this confusion working at an American company in the UK. Since the boss of our department wasn't able to make the distinction, all the other managers either couldn't make understand the differrence, or were towing the party line. The problem was that they would work themselves ragger, be very tired all the time, and make a lot of mistakes and a few major ones at that. As a contractor, after I while I could see this very clearly, and working LONGER was perceived as better than working SMARTER. Maybe because it is easier to measure the time someone works, rather than how well they work - especially if your boss is incompetent.
You are spouting a lot of nonsense. I am glad most people don't believe what you are saying, or we would never have had any interesting devices in the first place. You can argue against extra funcitonality for devices, but it is going to happen. The only reasons it is not hapening now, is due to battery life, CPU power, and memory. These are quickly being overcome, even today a number of devices can be successfully merged (Telephone, PDA, mp3 player). Right now these devices aren't the best, because a lot of tech companies spend all the money on creating new technologies, and not a lot on interfaces, making thins intuitive and a pleasure to use. This will change, and will have to change. Even Apple is working on tech like this. Imagine an ipod sized device, with a full screen on one side, and able to take phone calls, movies, pda, wifi, and with a pleasant UI - it will happen.
(Just because you can site two popular devices, you seemed to be convinced that the world will never change)
Sorry lady, you seemed to have wondered off of the shopping network, and are now posting on a different site. Sorry that your internet has been disrupted, please click the back button on the web browser.
Or perhaps we should have a warning, not to be viewed by complete wusses.
Your really stretching your defintions here. It is not your belief in Maths that is working. That is not what belief means. That is knowledge of maths, that any two numbers can be multiplied together. If that is your religion, that is strange.
You don't really need to prove this to anybody, your beliefs don't need to be justified by this silly sort of logic.
Maybe we could join this idea with the anti-scammers we met last week. Get a scammer to draw out a few frames of the movie each, utilise a few different scammers, combine into a movie and watch the money come rolling in. There are certainly enough scammers out there for a few hundred movies.
I think they like the system they have at the moment - ship it direct to movie screens.
Has everybody who used to know about computers just left slashdot and gone somewhere else? You do realise all you would do is run a program before you play the movie, play the movie, stop the program and it will automatically have created the decrypted movie in high resolution for you. It is not really that much trouble. And we can do this now, rather than wait. The point is, that they left a hole in their secure system, and there are probably many holes - so they should just stop wasting everybodies time, and forget the whole thing.
OK then. I can see your problem with Scientific papers linking to wikepedia, but what is your problem with bloggers using this resource?
Your argument seems reasonble, except for the fact that Intel just sold of its embedded chip facilities, XScale. Seems like a strange move, if they want to move into new markets (which I agree, seems like a sensible thing to do)
Wow, please don't compare Scientific papers to Blogs - It is perfectly alright for bloggers to link to wikipedia, it is completely unacceptable for Scientific papers to do so.(unless you are writing a paper about wikipedia) I think it would be a valuable sign for telling how bad a paper is, by seeing if they have links to wikipedia.
I had no idea either. I was too busy oppressing the black man, and getting my KKK outfit from the cleaners. Now I can really oppress the black man, by buying a white psp. What you gonna do now, nigga!
Actually witches are making a comeback - they prefer the term wicca. Based on Pagan rituals (which is a load of bollocks on its own), I have met people calling themselved witches and warlocks (of course, I live in the UK - or loon island).
Microsoft has a huge advantage. They can offer this software free with Vista, which will be on the majority of new computers next year (over 90%). They can give free downloads when you purchase their player - or let you use another player. If they partner with the RIAA (and that is what they have been doing), they can offer a greater deal than apple.
My prediction, if people are lazy (and boy, are people lazy), then Microsoft will win this.
It just depends what the courts will do - if apple can stop them on supplying mTunes with Vista.
Good point. I remember when I first used this, I thought 'those windows programmers are stupid'. But once I learnt why, it seemed like a brilliant idea.
Yeah, or use a flash or CSS popup window - ever more convincing.
Does this mean we can go back to masturbating?
The trick is
1. To get everybody to change at the same time (or very quickly)
2. To set-up a site that offers your own, plus ebays auctions. Just drain their database. Is this possible? Then you can offer a list of all items, from both setups.