Why should a closed source company such as Adobe promote open source software such as Linux? It goes completely against its goals.
Just look at the software that gives Adobe its huge bucket-o-cash:
Flash MX (You know, for authoring) Premiere Photoshop
Linux users (including me) completely hate that closed source model. For the Adobe execs, supporting Linux would be like allowing the enemy to enter their territory, IMHO. So they support Windows, knowing that the more time people can't install Linux, they'll still depend on a proprietary Operating System, with its proprietary applications.
In other words, they scratch Microsoft's back, and Microsoft will scratch theirs.
Otherwise, I can't find a valid reason why they wouldn't support Linux. Laziness, perhaps? When you got practically 100% (Adobe) of the 95% (Windows) of the Market, why bother with the stupid complaints of people who will never buy your products, anyway?
Oh, well, hey, if they say so on their own site, it must be true! Of course, my own subjective tests
There. Fixed that for you. For a test to be objective it must be run transparently, by third parties and various computers with different setups. I'd add that we need a double-blind test, but that's impossible regarding performance tests.
So please stop using the word "objective". Oh - if that was an attempt at sarcasm, sorry, you fail.
Piracy is what actually keeps the prices "low". If developers/publishers were the only entity to distribute a specific piece of software without alternatives, the cost would be higher as in every other monopoly.
WRONG. *A FEW* pirates are able to circumvent DRM. They're the ones that give the cracked versions to the rest of the pirates.
But if you're assumming that everyone who downloads and burns a cracked copy is therefore "able to circumvent DRM", then you're begging the question, because you're saying "DRM circumventers are pirates, therefore all pirates are DRM circumventers". DOH.
Cracked copies have NO DRM. And Consoles copy protection != DRM.
It'll just become another freak show competition. WE don't want a bunch of "The hulks" competing with each other to see which company has the better steroids mix.
In fact, by letting (and therefore FORCING) all competitors to get doped, we're just throwing our money at the big pharmas. Is that what a sports competition is about?
Ohayo = Good morning! Konnichiwa = Good afternoon! Konbanwa = Good evening! Okairi nasai mese goshiujin sama = I'm a gaijin otaku and all the japanese i've learned is from watching anime!
But do you really want TIE Fighter II, TIE Fighter II' Champion Edition, TIE Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Super TIE Fighter II: The New Challengers, Super TIE Fighter II Turbo, and Super TIE Fighter II Turbo HD Remix?
And don't forget Tie Fighter: The movie. Starring CG Raul Julia.
If one country (Georgia) moves their websites to some other country (the USA) and the aggressor (Russia) continues the cyber attack, is the aggressor committing an act of war against the "other country"?
The problem is that the attack is perpetuated using the "other country" machines. It's a botnet, remember? How did these machines get infected in the first place? The command and control may reside in South Korea, being sent remote instructions by someone in Russia. Who's the perpetrator in here? The virus autor? The botnet author? The man in power of the botnet? The man using the botnet (even if he's outside the attacking country)?
This was bound to happen - I just didn't expect it to happen so soon. And with the DNS cache poisoning attacks and the new man-in-the-middle attacks daemonstrated in Las Vegas, things will only get worse.
The enemy is at home, gentlemen. The internet is in Defcon 1.
In one of the past olympics, one guy lightened his flamable arrow with the olympic torch. Then he pointed to the big - whatever its name - and blam! There was the olympic fire.
According to my sources, the arrow flew over the whole stadium, and that the olympic fire was lightened electronically. The archer said he could actually aim at the exact spot, but he was ordered to shoot the arrow over it so that people wouldn't be disappointed if the arrow didn't make it.:-/
We're quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators.
This time it's Italy. They suffer from a really bad background as one of the IFPIs was formed in Italy during the fascist years and now they have a fascist leader in the country, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is also the most powerful person in Italian media owning a lot of companies that compete with The Pirate Bay and he would like to stay that way - so one of his lackeys, Giancarlo Mancusi, ordered a shutdown of our domain name and IP in Italy to make it hard to not support Berlusconis empire.
We have had fights previously in Italy, recently with our successful art installation where we had to storm Fortezza in order to get our art done. And as usual, we won. We will also win this time.
We have already changed IP for the website - that makes it work for half the ISPs again. And we want you all to inform your italian friends to switch their DNS to OpenDNS so they can bypass their ISPs filters. This will also let them bypass the other filters installed by the Italian government, as a bonus. And for the meanwhile - http://labaia.org/ works (La Baia means The Bay in Italian).
And please, everybody should also contact their ISP and tell them that this is not OK and that the ISPs should appeal. We don't want a censored internet! And the war starts here...
I bought a few game DVD's back in the day where I was "good" and piracy was "evil".
The first game, Spiderman, sucked. I got ripped off, so there go my $60. I even got angrier after a few months later the same game was available for $20.
Then I bought a copy of the Robotech game, and it sucked big time. There go another $40.
Later I got Silent Hill 3, and unfortunately my DVD got scratched and could never play well after that. It kept crashing after a certain moment. I tried to fix it using DVD Skip Dr, and now the game was rendered completely unusable. There go $80.
In total, I ended up paying $140 for something that never worked at all.
I also purchased Castlevania: Lament of Innocence after I had bought a bootleg and decided I'd like to have the original. But without being able to make a backup copy, I fear my investment will go to the garbage, too.
So how do I get my money back? Well, simple. I get pirated games just to get from the videogames industry what they took away from me. And I swore I would never purchase an original game ever again.
My only exception is the Konami Castlevania games. Unfortunately I find no way to pay them without having to pay the middlemen which overinflate the prices to no avail. And I have no plans of purchasing an expensive console which will be obsolete in any minute. And due to stupid exclusivity contracts, there are no Castlevania games for the PC (even less for Linux). In order to punish the industry, I boycott them simply by playing through an emulator.
My message: I love the game, but I hate your commercial practices. Until you give me what I ask for, you won't be getting one yen from me. Sayonara.
Elminate the clean bright keys from the pool. Eliminate zero and one; the remaining pool has the combination. It's probably just four numbers, could be five.
First of all, you got this archaeological dig in Iceland. Then the Azores. Then the mayan jungle of Tikal. Also, you make a stop at Monaco and have a seance with the holder of an ancient atlantean disc. AND you have to rescue him from being kidnapped by the Nazis. Later, you go to the desert and have to deal with a greedy arab merchant. Later you take a balloon to Crete and find yourself trapped in THE labyrinth. Finally you have to steal a Nazi U-boat and get to the mythical city of Atlantis. And then you have to explore a new concentric maze to find the chamber of the gods before the Nazis - not before having a secret encounter with Nur-Ab-Sal, the evil spirit posessing the body of your new girlfriend.
This game became my new Indy standard, and this is why I wanted the Indy movie so much to have it. If you watched the latest Indy movie, play the game and you'll be more than cured.
I was disappointed at the latest Indy as well. It simply lacks the "mystic aura" that the other Indy movies have.
Raiders of the lost Ark: Ancient egyptian maps. Booby traps. The second half of a map that the Nazis lack. An infinitely powerful artifact. GOD's power.
Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom: Evil cults engaged in bloodthirsty rituals. The stones of the gods. Actual jungles with vampires. Passageways filled with all kind of creepy bugs.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Medieval writings of a Franciscan Friar. Biblical elements. The cup of Christ. Ancient roman catacombs hidden below a Church turned Library. A society designed to protect the secret of the grail. Henry Jone's Grail Diary. The canyon of the crescent moon. Three lethal tests to prove your faith.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Whee, communists searching for alien artifacts in a jungle so fake it looks like a walk in the park! Hey, is that James Dean? Whee, look, aliens!
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Why should a closed source company such as Adobe promote open source software such as Linux? It goes completely against its goals.
Just look at the software that gives Adobe its huge bucket-o-cash:
Flash MX (You know, for authoring)
Premiere
Photoshop
Linux users (including me) completely hate that closed source model. For the Adobe execs, supporting Linux would be like allowing the enemy to enter their territory, IMHO. So they support Windows, knowing that the more time people can't install Linux, they'll still depend on a proprietary Operating System, with its proprietary applications.
In other words, they scratch Microsoft's back, and Microsoft will scratch theirs.
Otherwise, I can't find a valid reason why they wouldn't support Linux. Laziness, perhaps? When you got practically 100% (Adobe) of the 95% (Windows) of the Market, why bother with the stupid complaints of people who will never buy your products, anyway?
Could you add a new rule to the front page:
if(category=="idle") {
dont_post_in_front_page();
}
Thank you.
Oh, well, hey, if they say so on their own site, it must be true!
Of course, my own subjective tests
There. Fixed that for you. For a test to be objective it must be run transparently, by third parties and various computers with different setups. I'd add that we need a double-blind test, but that's impossible regarding performance tests.
So please stop using the word "objective". Oh - if that was an attempt at sarcasm, sorry, you fail.
Piracy is what actually keeps the prices "low". If developers/publishers were the only entity to distribute a specific piece of software without alternatives, the cost would be higher as in every other monopoly.
Would????
Have you checked the price of Adobe products?
WRONG. *A FEW* pirates are able to circumvent DRM. They're the ones that give the cracked versions to the rest of the pirates.
But if you're assumming that everyone who downloads and burns a cracked copy is therefore "able to circumvent DRM", then you're begging the question, because you're saying "DRM circumventers are pirates, therefore all pirates are DRM circumventers". DOH.
Cracked copies have NO DRM. And Consoles copy protection != DRM.
Have you SEEN the swimmers? I know they're taking all sorts of tests to show they aren't doping, but perhaps they've just found another way.
Yup. It's called "speedo".
It'll just become another freak show competition. WE don't want a bunch of "The hulks" competing with each other to see which company has the better steroids mix.
In fact, by letting (and therefore FORCING) all competitors to get doped, we're just throwing our money at the big pharmas. Is that what a sports competition is about?
if only for their broadband.
Ohayo = Good morning!
Konnichiwa = Good afternoon!
Konbanwa = Good evening!
Okairi nasai mese goshiujin sama = I'm a gaijin otaku and all the japanese i've learned is from watching anime!
But do you really want TIE Fighter II, TIE Fighter II' Champion Edition, TIE Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Super TIE Fighter II: The New Challengers, Super TIE Fighter II Turbo, and Super TIE Fighter II Turbo HD Remix?
And don't forget Tie Fighter: The movie. Starring CG Raul Julia.
Just in case the article gets banned.
For posterity.
Bwahahahahaha.
If one country (Georgia) moves their websites to some other country (the USA) and the aggressor (Russia) continues the cyber attack, is the aggressor committing an act of war against the "other country"?
The problem is that the attack is perpetuated using the "other country" machines. It's a botnet, remember? How did these machines get infected in the first place? The command and control may reside in South Korea, being sent remote instructions by someone in Russia. Who's the perpetrator in here? The virus autor? The botnet author? The man in power of the botnet? The man using the botnet (even if he's outside the attacking country)?
This was bound to happen - I just didn't expect it to happen so soon. And with the DNS cache poisoning attacks and the new man-in-the-middle attacks daemonstrated in Las Vegas, things will only get worse.
The enemy is at home, gentlemen. The internet is in Defcon 1.
Is Down
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doo dee doo deeee dooooooo
The cheat is grounded!
This is a clear reference to the strongbad e-mail "Techno music".
On topic.
In one of the past olympics, one guy lightened his flamable arrow with the olympic torch. Then he pointed to the big - whatever its name - and blam! There was the olympic fire.
According to my sources, the arrow flew over the whole stadium, and that the olympic fire was lightened electronically. The archer said he could actually aim at the exact spot, but he was ordered to shoot the arrow over it so that people wouldn't be disappointed if the arrow didn't make it. :-/
From the webpage:
Fascist state censors Pirate Bay
We're quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators.
This time it's Italy. They suffer from a really bad background as one of the IFPIs was formed in Italy during the fascist years and now they have a fascist leader in the country, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is also the most powerful person in Italian media owning a lot of companies that compete with The Pirate Bay and he would like to stay that way - so one of his lackeys, Giancarlo Mancusi, ordered a shutdown of our domain name and IP in Italy to make it hard to not support Berlusconis empire.
We have had fights previously in Italy, recently with our successful art installation where we had to storm Fortezza in order to get our art done. And as usual, we won. We will also win this time.
We have already changed IP for the website - that makes it work for half the ISPs again. And we want you all to inform your italian friends to switch their DNS to OpenDNS so they can bypass their ISPs filters. This will also let them bypass the other filters installed by the Italian government, as a bonus. And for the meanwhile - http://labaia.org/ works (La Baia means The Bay in Italian).
And please, everybody should also contact their ISP and tell them that this is not OK and that the ISPs should appeal. We don't want a censored internet! And the war starts here...
I bought a few game DVD's back in the day where I was "good" and piracy was "evil".
The first game, Spiderman, sucked. I got ripped off, so there go my $60. I even got angrier after a few months later the same game was available for $20.
Then I bought a copy of the Robotech game, and it sucked big time. There go another $40.
Later I got Silent Hill 3, and unfortunately my DVD got scratched and could never play well after that. It kept crashing after a certain moment. I tried to fix it using DVD Skip Dr, and now the game was rendered completely unusable. There go $80.
In total, I ended up paying $140 for something that never worked at all.
I also purchased Castlevania: Lament of Innocence after I had bought a bootleg and decided I'd like to have the original. But without being able to make a backup copy, I fear my investment will go to the garbage, too.
So how do I get my money back? Well, simple. I get pirated games just to get from the videogames industry what they took away from me. And I swore I would never purchase an original game ever again.
My only exception is the Konami Castlevania games. Unfortunately I find no way to pay them without having to pay the middlemen which overinflate the prices to no avail. And I have no plans of purchasing an expensive console which will be obsolete in any minute. And due to stupid exclusivity contracts, there are no Castlevania games for the PC (even less for Linux). In order to punish the industry, I boycott them simply by playing through an emulator.
My message: I love the game, but I hate your commercial practices. Until you give me what I ask for, you won't be getting one yen from me. Sayonara.
How do we know it's not a club of pranksters who want to fool the world into believing flat-earthers still exist?
The real threat is credit cards. And in so many more ways than you might think.
My credit card is a registered melee weapon. STAY AWAY!
Elminate the clean bright keys from the pool. Eliminate zero and one; the remaining pool has the combination. It's probably just four numbers, could be five.
Now take your Timex/Sinclair and do the math.
Let' see... *taps madly into his Timex/Sinclair*
And the result is...
12345
"Any suggestions for good stories about MS interoperability so far?"
Windows has interoperated with my trash can just fine. Does that count?
ARE YOU CRAZY!?! The trash can will explode!!!
I was a big fan of Lucasfilm's Indy games. The Last Crusade took me back to enjoying the "hidden parts that never appeared in the movie".
But the Fate of Atlantis was even better. Just take a look at some Indy 4 screenshots.
First of all, you got this archaeological dig in Iceland. Then the Azores. Then the mayan jungle of Tikal. Also, you make a stop at Monaco and have a seance with the holder of an ancient atlantean disc. AND you have to rescue him from being kidnapped by the Nazis. Later, you go to the desert and have to deal with a greedy arab merchant. Later you take a balloon to Crete and find yourself trapped in THE labyrinth. Finally you have to steal a Nazi U-boat and get to the mythical city of Atlantis. And then you have to explore a new concentric maze to find the chamber of the gods before the Nazis - not before having a secret encounter with Nur-Ab-Sal, the evil spirit posessing the body of your new girlfriend.
This game became my new Indy standard, and this is why I wanted the Indy movie so much to have it. If you watched the latest Indy movie, play the game and you'll be more than cured.
Ah, look, there's a youtube screenshot collection with Indy's theme playing on the background!
I was disappointed at the latest Indy as well. It simply lacks the "mystic aura" that the other Indy movies have.
Raiders of the lost Ark: Ancient egyptian maps. Booby traps. The second half of a map that the Nazis lack. An infinitely powerful artifact. GOD's power.
Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom: Evil cults engaged in bloodthirsty rituals. The stones of the gods. Actual jungles with vampires. Passageways filled with all kind of creepy bugs.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Medieval writings of a Franciscan Friar. Biblical elements. The cup of Christ. Ancient roman catacombs hidden below a Church turned Library. A society designed to protect the secret of the grail. Henry Jone's Grail Diary. The canyon of the crescent moon. Three lethal tests to prove your faith.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Whee, communists searching for alien artifacts in a jungle so fake it looks like a walk in the park! Hey, is that James Dean? Whee, look, aliens!
I want my childhood back! :( :( :(
What about the obvious "Indiana Jones and the Hunt for Duke Nukem Forever"?
I wanted "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The movie" :(
for DNSv2.
(whatever that means)
Insightful, underrated, funny, whatever. But it surely made my day.