Exactly. As I have often said, this entire Internet mess is the fault of George Bush. If we hadn't elected him, Linux would be running everywhere, Wikipedia wouldn't have misleading information, virii wouldn't exist, phishing would be non-existant, and Google wouldn't be trading our secret identities to the government for a pat on the head. Anyways, back to reality.
You are forgetting something:
Sony makes money via games sold, not PS3's sold. And the gaming service is free. If they open it up so I can play Tuxracer (free) from a free download, on my PS3, where are they going to find a profit?
have tried that and it doesn't work for me, or a lot of other people.
Yeah, you're right, X3 did suck...after all the work I went through to crack it, too. Ah, well.
I've played games that require Starforce 3...namely X3 and PoP:T2T. I can say that anyone willing to go through the required process to break these games has no life. Basicly, these games require a special piece of (illigal) software, and then, you have to physically unplug your IDE CD-ROM drive power cable. Every time you want to play That's something not many people are willing to go through, thus, Starforce is doing a good job. Now, read TFA, and notice that they are doing a little too good of a job; namely, harming legit systems. It's a mess.
But they haven't done all that great, either. I mean, you can run into the middle of the road stark naked and scream "GRAND THEFT AUTO!" at the top of your lungs and people will just look at you and say, "It's another one of those video game freaks".
Try the same thing but scream "NINTENDOGS!" and people will call the cops.
As big as Altavista was, there were at that time (circa 2000) a dozen or so search engines. Now, there are really two: google and yahoo. And, Altavista never did email, maps, personal webpages, or advertising. People would rather get everything from a source they can trust (Microsoft, anyone?) than use a different search engine, a different email, and yet another company for blogs. As good as MS's search engine may be, google has already dominated pretty much all the web-based products out there. (MS really just does local software).
Now, here's the kicker: Microsoft can pull this off if they do their bundling trick again. This isn't any different than what they tried with MSN search, but the bundling would actually work if the search engine was almost as good as Google.
Has caused me more headaches than anything else. Relatives/friends insist on using it and expect me to clean up their machines. Security is nonexistant, websites are allowed to execute programs on your harddrive (WTF kind of website needs to do that?), and, to add insult to injury, it got bundled with Windows to gain its marketshare.
Oh, and dont get me started on the proprietary extensions to HTML/CSS. argh!
People are already going to make billions on this. There is no need for them to charge $400 a bottle when they could sell it for $40. The extra money would just go to the pockets of the CEO's of the drug companies, with little going to the actual researchers.
That said, I have my douts as to whether this is real, or just a hype from some psudo-scientests trying to get investors to throw huge piles of money at them.
Read the discussion on digg about this. A lot of people are saying that BT is faster when they use encrypted data (links to the same article as here).
Obviously, this will work to a point. But, my school has taken this one step further. The admins block incomming access to every port. Thus, the only connections you can make a locally initiated connections. Net result: 2kb/s top speed, 0kb/s average speed. I've spent the last two years trying to get around this, to no avail.
A lot of people live in rural areas, and don't have anything. Not even dial up. On/., you don't hear a lot from these types, but they're out there.
I live in an area where the best I've got is dial-up (and 28.8k at that). Once an ISP gets out here, I'll be the first to switch to them. ON ONE CONDITION: They allow bittorrent traffic. Seriously, everyone I know who has gotten broadband has done so for P2P. Warez kiddies ^W^WLinux distro hunters are the cable companies biggest subscribers. They are shooting themselves in the foot by not supporting us.
thanks. That's the sweetest extention: Tab Mix Plus completely enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
I'm not sure why you weren't modded troll. Opera is a very good, solid stable browser. I know of several people which swear by it, and use nothing else. Personally, I use Firefox, (because of addblock), but Opera does the same things as FF, just as solidly, and it doesn't require extentions. Also, Opera has the ability to open a closed tab, something I really miss in Firefox. OTOH, FF has better bookmark toolbar support. Thus, both are great, and both serve different needs.
If you were trying to make a joke, I guess I missed it.
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You wanna elaborate on how this isn't "good"?
They were spamming, they broke the rules google set, bammo, pagerank=0. They're still listed on Yahoo (and other search engines).
If google nuked the pagerank of someone who isn't intentionally spamming, like slashdot, we'd all have a right to be screaming bloody murder. But this makes perfect sense.
I think people are comparing flash to an animated gif. Both serve pretty much the same purpose most of the time, but flash (no matter how well written) is always going to hog more resources than a gif. Personally, I don't have flash installed. If I wanted to "spank the monkey and win a FREE OMG FREE xbox", I could probably track down the site without the add.
I have yet to see flash that did anything beyond eye candy. But, I would love it if any flash fanboy could prove me wrong (the odd game doesn't count).
Let me just say you have some balls (or karma to burn) saying that on slashdot. I'm impressed. But, lets talk rationally about Gates, since you brought it up.
Gates Foundation is about 28 billion, over five years. Now we look at the profits of MS: 36.84BN in 2004 (and I'm assuming the same for 2000/1/2/3). Same source says 39.79BN for 2005. I make this approximately a little less than 224BN for the last five years. Bottom line: Microsoft gave 12.5% of profits to the Gates Foundation. That's a lot, but they could have given a lot more.
Also, another point of interest: what about bundling IE with Windows? Or the forced upgrade cycles? Or.doc format keeping us locked into Microsoft Word?
why not ask us? Because maybe, just maybe, someone on here will make a really insightful comment which will change his mind one way or the other. Obviously, this person is having a hard time deciding. Asking slashdot will accomplish a couple of things: 1) Could help him change his mind 2) Helps raise awareness about software patents. I mean, seriously. The point of ask slashdot isn't to have half a million people help one person solve his tiny little problem. It's to help raise awareness about issues, and, if someone else has this problem come up in the future, the discussion we have here could help provide some background information.
...they just didn't pay you. They paid the marketing and development guys to make the CD's, they paid for the cost of the CD itself, the shipping charges, and the packaging. Not to mention the programers to make AOL in the first place. And you threw away their hard-paid-for product. After all the effort they put into marketing it to you, the least you could have done was install the thing. Geez.
There are sites out there that can provide you with bandwith. Sort of, that is. What I might do is host the webpage itself on your home computer, then link to one of the following for the actual distro.
http://www.rapidshare.de/ --> 100mb max size, limited downloads/hour, but it might work if you rar the distro. http://www.megaupload.com/ --> real slow, 250mb max size http://www.filefront.com/ --> not sure if they allow non-game related stuff, send 'em an email. Their speeds are slow but not bad (80-100k), and they would let you host the distro in one chunk, rather than needing rar files.
Couple more I haven't tried: http://www.uploadport.com/ --> Heard it had mixed speeds, and limits files to 100mb http://www.megashares.com/ --> Have heard good things about it. Pretty fast, and will allow 1.5 gig files.
What's with these mods... parent makes a damn good point. Like he said, twenty years ago, every damn person knew how to code, and could install software. Today, only "teh 1337" can do it. Schools are probably to blame, as is email. Most colleges/universities require students to get a computer. And, if they don't, peer pressure will just about force you to get one. What school's don't teach you, however, is how to use a computer.
My other point is email. Lots of "tech savvy" people got it, and encouraged their friends to get a computer/internet. Again, it's peer pressure forcing users to get computers, but not teaching them how to use them.
OTOH, it could simple be that increasing user bases lead to more idiots in general using the product.
Phase 1: Install Firefox
Phase 2: Right click FF icon --> properties --> change icon --> select IE icon
Phase 3: Delete old IE Icon from desktop
Phase 4: Rename Mozilla Firefox icon to Internet Explorer
Before you mod this funny, I have done this to at least half a dozen people's computers. They arn't smart enough to realize the difference (all they need is an address bar and bookmarks), so FF stays. Their computers get less spyware, they see less popups, I get less "OMG HELP ME" calls. Which brings me to Phase 5, which is profit.
By leaving the choices of what is presented up to a machine that is ultimately controlled by a few people rather than many editors across several outlets, we make ourselves vulnerable to suggestion or manipulation And this is why, when you go to google news, it says, in green font at the bottom of each story, FOX News - CNN - ABC News - New York Times - all 2,351 related
So far, it seems to me that taking the summary from one article and linking to several more is a pretty nifty idea. But then, I get all my news from slashdot, so I don't have to worry about the evils of google news;)
It's to prove you can. Just like the people who hack IE to run on Linux in WINE, there's a lot of geek credit (and 15 minutes of fame) to be gained by doing this. If I had a mac, I'd try for it.
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Exactly.
As I have often said, this entire Internet mess is the fault of George Bush. If we hadn't elected him, Linux would be running everywhere, Wikipedia wouldn't have misleading information, virii wouldn't exist, phishing would be non-existant, and Google wouldn't be trading our secret identities to the government for a pat on the head.
Anyways, back to reality.
You are forgetting something: Sony makes money via games sold, not PS3's sold. And the gaming service is free.
If they open it up so I can play Tuxracer (free) from a free download, on my PS3, where are they going to find a profit?
have tried that and it doesn't work for me, or a lot of other people.
Yeah, you're right, X3 did suck...after all the work I went through to crack it, too. Ah, well.
I've played games that require Starforce 3...namely X3 and PoP:T2T.
I can say that anyone willing to go through the required process to break these games has no life. Basicly, these games require a special piece of (illigal) software, and then, you have to physically unplug your IDE CD-ROM drive power cable. Every time you want to play
That's something not many people are willing to go through, thus, Starforce is doing a good job. Now, read TFA, and notice that they are doing a little too good of a job; namely, harming legit systems. It's a mess.
I mean, you can run into the middle of the road stark naked and scream "GRAND THEFT AUTO!" at the top of your lungs and people will just look at you and say, "It's another one of those video game freaks".
Try the same thing but scream "NINTENDOGS!" and people will call the cops.
Try it sometime, you'll see what I mean.
And, Altavista never did email, maps, personal webpages, or advertising. People would rather get everything from a source they can trust (Microsoft, anyone?) than use a different search engine, a different email, and yet another company for blogs.
As good as MS's search engine may be, google has already dominated pretty much all the web-based products out there. (MS really just does local software).
Now, here's the kicker:
Microsoft can pull this off if they do their bundling trick again. This isn't any different than what they tried with MSN search, but the bundling would actually work if the search engine was almost as good as Google.
Has caused me more headaches than anything else. Relatives/friends insist on using it and expect me to clean up their machines. Security is nonexistant, websites are allowed to execute programs on your harddrive (WTF kind of website needs to do that?), and, to add insult to injury, it got bundled with Windows to gain its marketshare.
Oh, and dont get me started on the proprietary extensions to HTML/CSS.
argh!
I think I just 1-UP'd you on the smart-ass score.
That said, I have my douts as to whether this is real, or just a hype from some psudo-scientests trying to get investors to throw huge piles of money at them.
Obviously, this will work to a point. But, my school has taken this one step further. The admins block incomming access to every port. Thus, the only connections you can make a locally initiated connections. Net result: 2kb/s top speed, 0kb/s average speed. I've spent the last two years trying to get around this, to no avail.
I live in an area where the best I've got is dial-up (and 28.8k at that). Once an ISP gets out here, I'll be the first to switch to them. ON ONE CONDITION: They allow bittorrent traffic.
Seriously, everyone I know who has gotten broadband has done so for P2P. Warez kiddies ^W^WLinux distro hunters are the cable companies biggest subscribers.
They are shooting themselves in the foot by not supporting us.
Tab Mix Plus completely enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
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If you were trying to make a joke, I guess I missed it.
They were spamming, they broke the rules google set, bammo, pagerank=0.
They're still listed on Yahoo (and other search engines).
If google nuked the pagerank of someone who isn't intentionally spamming, like slashdot, we'd all have a right to be screaming bloody murder. But this makes perfect sense.
Sort of.. You need a light source, and that can be a laser, but I don't believe it has to be.
Personally, I don't have flash installed. If I wanted to "spank the monkey and win a FREE OMG FREE xbox", I could probably track down the site without the add.
I have yet to see flash that did anything beyond eye candy. But, I would love it if any flash fanboy could prove me wrong (the odd game doesn't count).
Gates Foundation is about 28 billion, over five years. Now we look at the profits of MS:
36.84BN in 2004 (and I'm assuming the same for 2000/1/2/3). Same source says 39.79BN for 2005.
I make this approximately a little less than 224BN for the last five years.
Bottom line: Microsoft gave 12.5% of profits to the Gates Foundation. That's a lot, but they could have given a lot more.
Also, another point of interest: what about bundling IE with Windows? Or the forced upgrade cycles? Or .doc format keeping us locked into Microsoft Word?
MS stays #1 on my evil list despite what you say.
why not ask us? Because maybe, just maybe, someone on here will make a really insightful comment which will change his mind one way or the other. Obviously, this person is having a hard time deciding. Asking slashdot will accomplish a couple of things:
1) Could help him change his mind
2) Helps raise awareness about software patents.
I mean, seriously. The point of ask slashdot isn't to have half a million people help one person solve his tiny little problem. It's to help raise awareness about issues, and, if someone else has this problem come up in the future, the discussion we have here could help provide some background information.
...they just didn't pay you. They paid the marketing and development guys to make the CD's, they paid for the cost of the CD itself, the shipping charges, and the packaging. Not to mention the programers to make AOL in the first place. And you threw away their hard-paid-for product.
After all the effort they put into marketing it to you, the least you could have done was install the thing. Geez.
http://www.rapidshare.de/ --> 100mb max size, limited downloads/hour, but it might work if you rar the distro.
http://www.megaupload.com/ --> real slow, 250mb max size
http://www.filefront.com/ --> not sure if they allow non-game related stuff, send 'em an email. Their speeds are slow but not bad (80-100k), and they would let you host the distro in one chunk, rather than needing rar files.
Couple more I haven't tried:
http://www.uploadport.com/ --> Heard it had mixed speeds, and limits files to 100mb
http://www.megashares.com/ --> Have heard good things about it. Pretty fast, and will allow 1.5 gig files.
Today, only "teh 1337" can do it. Schools are probably to blame, as is email. Most colleges/universities require students to get a computer. And, if they don't, peer pressure will just about force you to get one. What school's don't teach you, however, is how to use a computer.
My other point is email. Lots of "tech savvy" people got it, and encouraged their friends to get a computer/internet. Again, it's peer pressure forcing users to get computers, but not teaching them how to use them.
OTOH, it could simple be that increasing user bases lead to more idiots in general using the product.
Phase 2: Right click FF icon --> properties --> change icon --> select IE icon
Phase 3: Delete old IE Icon from desktop
Phase 4: Rename Mozilla Firefox icon to Internet Explorer
Before you mod this funny, I have done this to at least half a dozen people's computers. They arn't smart enough to realize the difference (all they need is an address bar and bookmarks), so FF stays. Their computers get less spyware, they see less popups, I get less "OMG HELP ME" calls. Which brings me to Phase 5, which is profit.
And this is why, when you go to google news, it says, in green font at the bottom of each story, FOX News - CNN - ABC News - New York Times - all 2,351 related
So far, it seems to me that taking the summary from one article and linking to several more is a pretty nifty idea. ;)
But then, I get all my news from slashdot, so I don't have to worry about the evils of google news
Short answer: Because you can.
Celeron 2.93ghz, 1gig DDR RAM, 256mb Raedon 9550 160gig Maxtor.
Guess I won't be getting one of these babies anytime soon.