First Blizzard were "inspired" by the Warhammer Fantasy universe for Warcraft, then they were "inspired" by the Warhammer 40,000 universe for Starcraft.
Were Blizzard once again "inspired" by Games Workshops announcement of a Warhammer MMORPG? It's been said that Blizzard have been working on Warcraft Online for a year. Warhammer Online was announced in April 2000. You do the math.
I saw it on the sneak preview and laughed my ass off. There were some people there who hadn't seen any Kevin Smith movies and they laughed their asses off. It's just a funny movie. Go see it.
Maybe I'm missing the obvious. But how the hell is that going to get him money?
Yeah, you are.
If someone calls you from an ISP saying your current installation (and provider) is insecure, do you stay with that provider? If you move, where do you go? How about that those nice folks at Cwis, they seem to be on the ball...
Still, if you can explain to me WHY someone who had just supposedly *malicously* hacked into someones web site would phone the MANAGER of the company immediately to explain what they themselves had just done, then I might consider your opinions as being more than just those of someone who can't think for himself.
You'll note that I didn't say Brian West was lying. I simply said there was more to the story. Relying solely on an article that supports one sides story is not sufficient. But hey, I wouldn't want to suggest that your opinions are those of someone who can't think for himself.
But since you've placed me in the "them" corner, let's look at a motive. How about... for money? The oldest motive in the book. Here's a hypothetical;
Brian West works for Cwis, he cracked the website then contacted the Poteau Daily News in order to "rescue" them from the incompetence of his competitor, Cyberlink.
I have yet to hear any sane theory as to why Brian would intentionally probe a website
Want to play with Occam's Razor? How about this; Brian works for Cwis, he cracked the website then contacted the Poteau Daily News to "rescue" them from the incompetence of his competitor, Cyberlink.
I'm not saying that's what happened, just that you can't be sure that it's not what happened. People need to find out as much as they can from both sides of the fence before contributing to a "defense fund".
I suggest that before contributing to this defense fund, you learn a little more about the case. Go here and check out the Oklahoman News piece. There seems to be a few discrepencies between what West says happened, and what server logs are reporting.
The lack of authentication meant that anyone could edit the Poteau Daily News website by using FrontPage, without ever having to provide a password.
Oklahoman News:
Burchett told authorities that West said he accessed the web site by obtaining user names and passwords.
The newspaper said its user logs indicated hundreds of attempts to contact the web site Feb. 1. The affadavit said many of the attempts were efforts to access the files and scripts that cause the web site to operate.
With that in mind, let's not canonize Brian West just yet.
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In this case, Microsoft is forcing the merchants to do the bundling.
Oh please. Microsoft aren't "forcing" merchants to do bundling. Read the fucking article.
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Jesus, Michael. Scraping the bottom of the barrel for Microsoft bashing articles aren't you?
Console manufacturers have been doing this for years. Nintendo did this most recently with the Gameboy Advanced. It's Standard Operating Procedure. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's not like you don'thaveoptions.
So Evans Data Corp. presented a "study" that was funded by IBM at an IBM conference that said Java is going to take over the world and that Linux is swell. Well color me the suprised.
Seriously, folks. Does one avoid taking this kind of study with a grain of salt simply because it supports a Slashdot Approved Technology?
If this had been a study sponsored by Microsoft presented at a Microsoft conference supporting Microsoft technologies, people would be gathering up the pitchforks and flaming torches.
Feel free to mod this down to the pits of Hell, but we both know it's true.
Thank God the parent was modded up as informative. If people were to rely on submitter and editor commentary, they'd think Chapter 11 == Out of Business.
OUR RELIANCE ON THE SUPPORT OF LINUS TORVALDS AND OTHER PROMINENT LINUX DEVELOPERS COULD IMPAIR OUR ABILITY TO RELEASE MAJOR PRODUCT UPGRADES AND MAINTAIN MARKET SHARE
We may not be able to release major product upgrades of Red Hat Linux on a timely basis because the core of Red Hat Linux, the Linux kernel, is maintained by third parties. Linus Torvalds, the original developer of the Linux kernel and a small group of independent engineers are primarily responsible for the development and evolution of the Linux kernel. If this group of developers fails to further develop the Linux kernel or if Mr. Torvalds or other prominent Linux developers, such as Alan Cox, David Miller or Stephen Tweedie, were to join one of our competitors or no longer work on the Linux kernel, we would have to either rely on another party to further develop the kernel or develop it ourselves. We cannot predict whether enhancements to the kernel would be available from reliable alternative sources. We could be forced to rely to a greater extent on our own development efforts, which would increase our development expenses and may delay our product release and upgrade schedules. In addition, any failure on the part of the kernel developers to further develop and enhance the kernel could stifle the development of additional Linux-based applications.
WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY ASSEMBLE AND TEST OUR SOFTWARE BECAUSE IT CONSISTS LARGELY OF CODE DEVELOPED BY INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTIES OVER WHOM WE EXERCISE NO CONTROL, WHICH COULD RESULT IN UNRELIABLE PRODUCTS AND DAMAGE TO OUR REPUTATION.
Microsoft removed the Java environment from XP, thereby breaking thousands of Web sites that use Java. XP customers will face endless downloads to replace the functionality they'd come to expect.
Way to go, FUDslinger.
It's not installed by default, but it is featured prominently on the Windows Update page. Here's the description Microsoft has for it;
Microsoft Virtual Machine
Download size: 5.2 MB
You have probably heard a lot about Java and all the cool things it can do on the Web. The Microsoft Virtual Machine (Microsoft VM) is what you need to be able to see and interact with all those cool Java applets. It's a special place for the applets to run where they won't interfere with the rest of your system.
Changing them without my permission (such as adjusting my home page, or whatnot)
I guess this guy isn't using IE (which prompts you before allowing the home page to be changed via script). So which browser is this guy using? Allowing a site to change settings without any kind of prompt is ridiculous.
Want some cheese with that whine? I'm so sick of seeing people like Katz complain that "film x isn't nearly as good as it was in the Good Old Days" -- try watching Star Wars or the original Planet of the Apes without the decades of fanboy nostalgia. No doubt, they were good films but they weren't the be all and end all of film-making.
Do geek reviewers have a Review-o-Matic in the background somewhere they can just turn on, enter "remake", and leave it to do its thing?
*bzzt* *clik-t* *whirrrr* "Film X is indicative of filmmaking today, it has none of the mystique of the original masterpiece..." *clang*
If you can't judge a film on its merits, don't bother reviewing it. All I want to know as a moviegoer is was it any good.
A Smallville couple, Mr. and Mrs. Kent, were arrested today on child kidnapping charges. The couple alleges they "found" the child in a corn field near their farm. Mr. Kent is undergoing tests at the Smallville Psychiatric Hospital while the authorities attempt to locate the childs parents.
That's exactly what is going on. Take the Senator Seeks Injunction Against WinXP article from Tuesday... folks here were pretty quick to congratulate the senator on "getting it" and attacking Microsoft. But the fact is the only thing he "got" was bought for $52,000 by AOL/Time-Warner.
Beyond that, gamers are smarter, more likely to go to college, have more friends, read more, and get better-paying jobs than non-gamers.
You need to read some gamer forums. See how quickly those notions disintergrate. I suggest sCary's, Cut 'n Paste Extreme, and GameSpy. People think Slashdot trolls are bad? Gamer forums are easily 10 times worse.
I was contracted to write one a few years ago for installation onto all of a company's notebooks. Once a week it had to be reset, or the machine would purge documents and lock out.
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... until they give us text-mode 3D acceleration. Lynx users wont be ignored!
First Blizzard were "inspired" by the Warhammer Fantasy universe for Warcraft, then they were "inspired" by the Warhammer 40,000 universe for Starcraft.
Were Blizzard once again "inspired" by Games Workshops announcement of a Warhammer MMORPG? It's been said that Blizzard have been working on Warcraft Online for a year. Warhammer Online was announced in April 2000. You do the math.
... a Beowolf cluster of ScramJets!
If someone calls you from an ISP saying your current installation (and provider) is insecure, do you stay with that provider? If you move, where do you go? How about that those nice folks at Cwis, they seem to be on the ball...
But since you've placed me in the "them" corner, let's look at a motive. How about... for money? The oldest motive in the book. Here's a hypothetical;
Don't believe everything you read.I'm not saying that's what happened, just that you can't be sure that it's not what happened. People need to find out as much as they can from both sides of the fence before contributing to a "defense fund".
I suggest that before contributing to this defense fund, you learn a little more about the case. Go here and check out the Oklahoman News piece. There seems to be a few discrepencies between what West says happened, and what server logs are reporting.
Console manufacturers have been doing this for years. Nintendo did this most recently with the Gameboy Advanced. It's Standard Operating Procedure. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's not like you don't have options.
Seriously, folks. Does one avoid taking this kind of study with a grain of salt simply because it supports a Slashdot Approved Technology?
If this had been a study sponsored by Microsoft presented at a Microsoft conference supporting Microsoft technologies, people would be gathering up the pitchforks and flaming torches.
Feel free to mod this down to the pits of Hell, but we both know it's true.
Thank God the parent was modded up as informative. If people were to rely on submitter and editor commentary, they'd think Chapter 11 == Out of Business.
It's not installed by default, but it is featured prominently on the Windows Update page. Here's the description Microsoft has for it;
Do geek reviewers have a Review-o-Matic in the background somewhere they can just turn on, enter "remake", and leave it to do its thing?
If you can't judge a film on its merits, don't bother reviewing it. All I want to know as a moviegoer is was it any good.
It's funny until you realize that Scripps received a $20m grant from the Gates Foundation in 1999...
Scripps is a reciepient of Gates Foundation grants. Microsoft with nanotechnology... the Bill Gates as Borg icon is almost prophetic ;-)
A Smallville couple, Mr. and Mrs. Kent, were arrested today on child kidnapping charges. The couple alleges they "found" the child in a corn field near their farm. Mr. Kent is undergoing tests at the Smallville Psychiatric Hospital while the authorities attempt to locate the childs parents.
* The Slashdot story editors look at the ground and shuffles their feet.
That's exactly what is going on. Take the Senator Seeks Injunction Against WinXP article from Tuesday... folks here were pretty quick to congratulate the senator on "getting it" and attacking Microsoft. But the fact is the only thing he "got" was bought for $52,000 by AOL/Time-Warner.