besides the fact that there does exist more than one definition of 'cracker':) i think he was just being honest. he IS a cracker ("not to be confused with hacker")
after having read a bulk of the comments posted in regards to the.DOC file, i found myself so compelled to present an argument that actually DEFENDS microsoft. in a way i'm kind of pissed off that this is considered sacrilege, but i'll live with it for now. MS Word is actually a useful word processing application that works well! i will, however, agree wholeheartedly with those who believe the previous versions (prior to '97) were more stable and had a greater functionality than the current releases. honestly, Word IS the only reason i still have NT installed on my machine (WINE -- at least the version i tried -- didn't work with the NT registry)...perhaps i'm making it more of an issue than it warrants!
*my 2 cents* -raj jr "why can't we all just get along?" ps: he should've anticipated these comments about the.DOC file...plain text would've been just fine (and probably would've saved the/. crew the time involved in opening it)
interestingly enough, my webtv plus box (no flames please) powered off on every attempt I made to visit the page mindcraft had on their server containing the offensive messages:
there are no filters that I implemented on my account which would prevent me from visiting this page. do you think M$ is hindering their customers from reading hate mail associated with the software monster? If you have a webtv box, see if you can reproduce this same response... *my 2 cents*
pretty much what the subject says...I don't believe this acquisition will affect the end-consumer any time in the near-future. Diamond will be run as a subsidiary of S3, but business tactics and products won't change because of it.
*my 2 cents* -hajmola ps: i still despise S3 with a passion!
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just out of curiousity, has sega limited what ISP dreamcast users are permitted to connect to? is there a default provider?
pity my ignorance...
-raj jr
*to each his own*
-raj jr
ps: the smallest bit of 'non-advice' on this page
besides the fact that there does exist more than one definition of 'cracker' :) i think he was just being honest. he IS a cracker ("not to be confused with hacker")
*my 2 cents*
-raj jr
after having read a bulk of the comments posted in regards to the .DOC file, i found myself so compelled to present an argument that actually DEFENDS microsoft. in a way i'm kind of pissed off that this is considered sacrilege, but i'll live with it for now. MS Word is actually a useful word processing application that works well! i will, however, agree wholeheartedly with those who believe the previous versions (prior to '97) were more stable and had a greater functionality than the current releases. honestly, Word IS the only reason i still have NT installed on my machine (WINE -- at least the version i tried -- didn't work with the NT registry)...perhaps i'm making it more of an issue than it warrants!
.DOC file...plain text would've been just fine (and probably would've saved the /. crew the time involved in opening it)
*my 2 cents*
-raj jr
"why can't we all just get along?"
ps: he should've anticipated these comments about the
for some reason, I think Spock would have said "fascinating"...(he has used 'interesting', but most often uses 'fascinating')
maybe I'm just too damn picky
*my 2 cents*
-hajmola
reproduced the same response multiple times...I was using the remote, not sitting on it.
*my 2 cents*
-hajmola
ps: i also checked the source of the page and there didn't appear to be any webtv specific codes that would power off the box...
interestingly enough, my webtv plus box (no flames please) powered off on every attempt I made to visit the page mindcraft had on their server containing the offensive messages:
http://www.mindcraft.com/linux-net-rage.htm l
there are no filters that I implemented on my account which would prevent me from visiting this page. do you think M$ is hindering their customers from reading hate mail associated with the software monster? If you have a webtv box, see if you can reproduce this same response...
*my 2 cents*
-hajmola
pretty much what the subject says...I don't believe this acquisition will affect the end-consumer any time in the near-future. Diamond will be run as a subsidiary of S3, but business tactics and products won't change because of it.
*my 2 cents*
-hajmola
ps: i still despise S3 with a passion!