There has been an update in the blog (http://piratbyran.blogspot.com/):
Polisen utförde idag en razzia mot The Pirate Bay, världens största Bittorrent- tracker. Sidan har i flera år varit en knutpunkt i världen för kulturintresserade människor i länder över hela världen. Allt från egenproducerade uppsatser till obskyr japansk musik till videos av Schlagerfinalen har spridits med hjälp av tekniken.
På själva servrarna har inget illegalt material funnits. Torrent-filerna, länkar som folk använder för att kopplas ihop och ladda det önskade materialet innehåller blott text som knappast är upphovsrättsskyddat.
"Antipiratbyrån har uppenbarligen vilselett polisen i det här fallet" uppger Tobias Andersson på Piratbyrån. "Man tycks ha intalat it-inkompetenta poliser att servrarna i fråga är fyllda med upphovsrättsskyddat material. Detta är ett grovt missbruk av skattepengar."
"Samtidigt har ett flertal andra sidor som funnits på närliggande servrar beslagtagits. Häri ligger det grövsta övertrampet. Antipiratbyrån har tydligen lurat polisen att samtidigt stänga ner sina antagonister, Piratbyrån."
"Piratbyrån har i 3 år verkat för en öppen debatt kring upphovsrättsfrågor och patent. Vi är mycket upprörda över att filmindustrin inte törs ta debatten, utan vill lura politiker och polis att kriminalisera motståndare och en stor del av svenska folket."
"Rent praktiskt innebär det här såklart ingenting för världens fildelare. Det finns tusentals andra sidor eller nätverk för dem att få det de vill ha. Folk byter bara ställe. Fildelningen fungerar likt en hydra, huggs ett huvud av växer det snart ut 2 nya."
Piratbyrån startades sommaren 2003 för att belysa och diskutera upphovsrättsfrågor. Piratbyrån menar att upphovsrätten i många fall har spelat ut sin roll och istället för att skydda tex artister snarare hindrar skapandet och göder ett fåtal. Sedan starten har cirka 60 000 medlemmar registrerat sig på hemsidan där man debatterar i forum och byter tips. Piratbyrån har även hållt föredrag i riksdagen, fört olika kampanjer och startat världens största bittorre
Tell your citizens that its cheaper and they'll thank you for it. The details about where the saved monegy goes usually become obfuscated however.
No no no, it is not about the money, you see, that is what made the Icaza's e-Mexico project fail, because he tried to sell "open source" as a cheaper alternative.
The real benefits for open source software is in the freedom and openess, you see, with closed source, the taxes that people are paying can go directly to developers of OpenSource from the country OR they can go to fund certain projects needed by the government but for which there are no human resources.
What I mean is, imagine for example if Mexican government engaged in an open source policy, almost every government office has an "IT department" which varies from a small office with 2 persons and 1 computer to some really big and complex Comp. systems departments.
Now, usually a lot of people on this departments play solitarie (I had a friend who was in one of these jobs during university). Instead of that, they would be the ones that contribute, mantain and manage the open source projects used IN their offices, for example, in the Federal Consumer Office (the one in charge to cope with companies abuse), they may need a database system. INSTEAD of making a half baked Excel sheet, there would be a sourceforge.net project of a proper database system which will be used by ALL the offices from all the states/cities in the country. Same thing with Worker's database applications.
There are applications so generic that all the offices use, for example OpenOffice. Maybe (well, it is not maybe...) some projects will be so complex that instead of making the people maintain it the government would allocate some funds.
Now, from the view of the people, they would be able to download these programs and use them, as they are free!, so, at the end of the day, the taxes they [we] will pay will in some way return to them as enhancements in their software.
I wrote a more extended idea of that to someone called Miguel Sandino (or "tigris") who I believe is known in the O.S. circles (and is mexican), because I believe it is the way to indtroduce software to the government. It is really simple, as I see it.
Haven't you tried having something like a "club", where people (kids) pay some certain cash and they get to play the machines for a month or so?
Also, there is the possibility of exchanging 1 arcade for 2 or 3 PS2 (ok ok and maybe 1 Xbox360) and charge for hour (in Mexico that is quite common). If the Arcades are not as "cost effective" as consoles, then buy consoles!.
If you do it as a club, you might ask for "wanted games" which you could buy. Also, you could make competitions and other things. Nothing would beat a good selection of games because, as other poster said, one of the "advantages" of arcades is that you spend $5 to play for an hour, as you only want to play for an hour and not to buy the game (the console).
For example, I myself can not afford an XBox360+HD-screen+games, but I would be really glad to go to a place like the one I described and be able to play it, better yet if you agreed to keep my savestates and things like that (for that reason I think a "club" like thing would work better).
Anyway, I still miss the days of MortalKombat and Street Fighter 2 (those were my Arcade games), It was really cool to go to the arcades, in fact I went each saturday to the arcades of one mall, where all my friends gathered to play arcades and all that.
For self-ego rising nothing beats a Mortal Kombat II winning spree of more than 10 uknown persons (better yet if you are something like 12 and the others are in their 16s or 17s) hehe.
there are hundreds or thousands of GPL game projects on SourceForge, and most of them are dead There are 22141 games listed in SourceForge. Of those, 575 (2.59%) are INACTIVE, 7637(34.5%) are in PLANNING. 6022(27.1%) are in PRE-ALPHA. 4302(19.43%) are in ALPHA 4453(20.1%) are in BETA 3592(16.2%) are in PRODUCTION-STABLE 460 (2.0%) are in MATURE.
Which does not add to 100% because some games have more than two states, however it seems there is a really high trend towards "Unfinished" games. Or as I read from some game developing book, EVERYBODY can have a good game idea, but it takes some hard effort to actually implement it, and it takes really hard nuts to finish it.
And as you said, a game is in fact FINISHED, not like said, OpenOffice, which will never be "finished", with games you can only make bugfixes, but a new game version is something completely different.
Touché, but then again, in that same sentence I said: My native tongue is not English but it kind of hurted my eyes to read the review (which was quite nice anyway).
And my commen was not [supposed to be] proof read before publishing in the front page of a very important news site.
I will tell you the main problem in a word: CONTENT.
For some strange reason, software developers enjoy giving away their work/time without expect anything in return, but please tell any decent designer, sound fx creator or graphics drawer to give away their time just "for fun" and you wont get really a lot.
In that way, open source will NEVER compete against the big studios. The only "hope" is to make people look at less "graphic intensive" but more "fun" and innovative games. With a bit of luck, Nintendo will aim that way, but I do not have much hope
In my uninformed opinion there really is no reason for paid-account MMORPGs to be closed source. They might say that it's to prevent cheating, but I say that open sourcing would kill cheating dead. --
The problem here is what happened to blizzard and bnetd, but, with an Open Source client it would be trivial to create servers and you wont be doing andy "reverse engineering" thus not breaking the law.
What is needed in these cases is the company to create a "community" with some value in order to persuade people to join. (Certified servers, fast servers, some kind of updates, etc)
I am currently making a 3D game in SDL and OpenGL. I was making the game from the ground up, when I thought of using a 3D/Game Engine.
I tried some of the free engines including CrystalSpace, unfortunately (at least, last time I checked) there ARE NOT precompiled libraries or binaries of that library. I tried compiling it but I really got pissed off after two hours of trying so I threw it up.
The problem with the Open Source engines (at least in my experience) is that they are not readily available, as a game programmer, I do not need/care to compile the library nor to modify it, I am completely happy with a.lib or.so and a bunch of.h files which I can compile and link in order to start to implement my idea right away.
It is quite simple really, and it is the way even some closed games have made money: SAS.
Yeah, the buzzword makes sense for games too, a company could make a game and give away the code while maintaining a good online game community/forums etc. Setup some servers and go!
What I would do is making open source the client, keeping the server, then, let the community improve the client and I would improve the network infraestructure, of course with the client code it would be deadly easy to replicate the server, but there is where the company would have to provide some *special* value on its servers (something like Xbox Live community).
Well, I understand this book must be an "introduction" but, I am sure there are several better books on OpenGL, personally I have read the "Beggining OpenGL game programming [Premmier Press]" which I think is quite a nice book if you are new to OpenGL.
I mean, besides of the OpenGL-QT bindings you will have to do (mostly just to create a GL window to render if it is similar to SDL) there is nothing magical in the GL-QT combination. I would recommend to get a nice KDE book AND a nice OpenGL book also, as the author said, besides the blue and red books (which I personally use just for reference . Another great book for OpenGl is the OpenGL Super Bible [Sams], and you can find a bunch of KDE books including the KDE Bible.
Of course if you want to go the "student" way, there is, as I have found, PLENTY of information on all of these topics. Just get into Gamedev.net, the Nehes tutorials are one of the best in my opinion.
Now, if looking for game development I would personally incline to SDL, which will provide you with almost everything you need like input support (joystick, mouse, etc), audio and also OpenGL.
As a last comment, could I ask the SlashDot editors do to their job and check (at least) the book reviews grammar/spelling. My native tongue is not English but it kind of hurted my eyes to read the review (which was quite nice anyway).
It was dead simple to softmod it and install XBMC (for the average Slashdot reader, I guess)
I know the most obbvious answer for this is Google, but could you point to any webpage with instructions on how to do the soft modding? I would REALLY appreciate it:).
I think it's even better than porting picasa to linux.
I agree with you, at first I thought it was bad as "google would do better if they made a native (non Wine) version for Linux", for example using wxWidgets.
But then, I remembered that WINE is not an emulator! and if what google did was to improve WINE to make Picasa partially run on Linux that is GREAT!, I mean, Google could have just done their closed application for LInux (line Nero Linux, anyone remembers?) but they preffered to provide some support/code to an Open Source application!
And again as W.IsNot[(c)Microsoft Corporation)]. An Emulator, the performance is going to be exactly the same (or even better) for any other application that uses those LIBRARIES!
As someone else said in a previous post, if this company (Google) is going to support Open Source by polishing the compatibility with Windows, sign me up! we may get to the point where THE OPERATING SYSTEM IS TRIVIAL and our so loved Joe Sixpack or Jane Nanny will be able to go to PC-Mart, buy their PC-BannerMaker application and installed whenever they are!.
"The Inquirer has an interesting piece about a new Sony Patent on a technology that may possible prevent DVD disc media users from using their purchased disks in other machines after they have used them on a specific reader. Commentary also available on Joystiq. From the Article: 'While many are aware of the double profit companies make on pre-owned games, this would ensure the death of trading games between friends and even going to a friend's house to play a little multiplayer.'"
How would you know my motivation for buying software? I repeat, I bought software I recognised as flawed, in the expectation that it would get better in future revisions. It hasn't.
Sofware buyers have been gypped nto paying for the same damaged goods over and over again.
Then you are really stupid, you should do as I did, I am also expecting that Microsoft software will get better in the future revisions, that is WHY I am still waiting for those future revisions, meanwhile, I use the comparatively crappy (but otherwise free) open source "replacements"
hey mods, this is OFFTOPIC, this shameless plugs of Linux are stupid, please abstein from moderating AND commenting, yeah, we know L1nux ru73z but the OP did not care, go look for another Ask slashdot post that asks what operating system to use in order to have less viruses or security problems or whatever.
I mean, there are at least 1,000 reasons why someone would not change its current Operating System.
Yeah, I am a Troll in a forest of NErdlves, so what?
Nice summary, I just installed AVG Free and it deleted the keylogger I was using (it is my own laptop and I have always had a key logger), unfortunately I could not find an option to ignore the specific file/process, each time it was accessed AVG told me that I was infected with "trojan keylogger" and gave me the option to "ignore, heal, quarintine, etc.." but I had to click on ignore EACH time I used it or I restarted my computer (or I accessed the file in any way).
So, my question would be, does any of these 2 other AV has a way to "incoulate" or ignore certain file and process forever?
"Both drives of the blue ray disk and the hard disk are prepared standard as for PS3 which is loaded 2 models (as for color only clear black), the 20G byte model 6 ten thousand 2790 Yen (including tax), the 60G byte model becomes open price." [babelfish translation].
Which I translated to: Y 62,790 This (according to xe.com) is more or less $558.668 USD.
About the rest of your comment, I understand the frustration of seeing that corporations are selling things more expensive, but one of the things I have seen while in UK is that the quality of life is better than that of USA and a lot of other countries. One of the things I read somewhere is that, one of the main difference between UK and USA quality of life is that over here (UK) having a full time job with the "minimum" payment (I believe it is £5.05) is enough to live ok, while in USA having a job is sometimes not enough to survive (and that is why you see people having two jobs or sellling Tupperware [not that there is something wrong with selling tupperware of course =oP] ).
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Just as a side comment, I love SD cards, of course, everyone can have his preference but, that is the reason I bought a Canon camera and why I love my RCA SD-mp3 player and my small HP "SD reader" (so tiny and compact).
I believe people should standarize like that, I just buy SD compatible devices, likewise, I have some SD cards which I can use for whatever I feel, the biggest is a 2GB card, but the nice thing is that they are very small so I could carry 10 with me (of course I never do that, usually I only carry a 1GB SD on my RCA player and the 2GB in my camera if I use it).
Sony's memory stick is the antithesis of that, well, you may be able to do something similar only *if* all your products are sony but Uh, what asshole buys a Sony PC? (of course, the Mavicas seem really nice, but I have a little sony boycott going on since the rootkit thing)
Oh, and by the way, if someone is looking for earbuds for their Sony MDR-EX70LP Earbud Headphones and do not want to give a cent to sony (WTF a pair of earbuds replacement are something like $10) you can buy them from ebay (I bought mine from Hong Kong for only $3.00 including shipping =o).
I have yet to count the number of times I read this comments, and better yet, they always come after someone critisize the real lack of compatibility between OO.org and MS Office.
And moreover, how many Karma points does this comment gets each time, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MODS THIS IS UTTERLY REDUNDANT!
I agree that MS Office may not be good, in fact it is a P.O.Shit, and O.O.org is nice, (though a bit slow and big) and also free, but IT IS COMPLETELY AND PURE BULLSHIT to state that it is compatible with the other , and yes, if people want to put OOorg at the level of MS Office (as a replacement) then OOo MUST do what MSOffice does now, (as good or bad as it does it), while that does not happens just shut the fuck up and continue using your office suite while everyone else is happy using their POS. Micro$uck 0ff1ce (or however you want to call it).
yeah, sorry I just got pissed, in fact I will start with this, THIS IS THE FIRST COMMENT SAYING THE SAME OOorg-MSOffice compatibility.
And it is not really that slow and unreliable that for a lot of companies who preffer to run a setup wizzard instead of trying to figure out how to setup CVS or SV.
Just a week ago I tried to install CVS or subversion to make a Latex document repository, after reading the fucking manual and downloading this Explorer shell extension programs (dont remember their name) I got fed up and gave up, I supposedly made a repository directory and tried to create a new tree or whatever it is called but the darn shit just could not work.
No, I do not have the time to lose for that, I preffer software that *solves my problems* and not software that gets in my way
Of course people want dependable, that's why they're looking for something not laden with spyware, viruses, etc.
Sorry, you did not got FP.
I really hate the slashdotters that have this logic "ClosedSource -> Malware" or "ClosedSource->Bad", there are tons of applications that are closed source and DO NOT have any kind of crapware on them, a lot of them are even FREE.
Just because the author of a program do not want to give you his lunch for free does makes him baaaad, anti OpenSource or whatever, come on, get a grip!
how did slashdot editors managed to understand "ther people want the reliability and the dependability that comes from a commercial software model.'"" to "OpenSource is unreliable".
Hey, sometimes Open Source does it right, someties people preffer other ways. If THERE ARE companies that sell CLOSED software and services and their services al GREAT, yes this is FUD, but this time it is the editors the ones that are throwing it.
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Because in Comunist North America only old people play video games.
sorry, it had to be said
Tell your citizens that its cheaper and they'll thank you for it. The details about where the saved monegy goes usually become obfuscated however.
No no no, it is not about the money, you see, that is what made the Icaza's e-Mexico project fail, because he tried to sell "open source" as a cheaper alternative.
The real benefits for open source software is in the freedom and openess, you see, with closed source, the taxes that people are paying can go directly to developers of OpenSource from the country OR they can go to fund certain projects needed by the government but for which there are no human resources.
What I mean is, imagine for example if Mexican government engaged in an open source policy, almost every government office has an "IT department" which varies from a small office with 2 persons and 1 computer to some really big and complex Comp. systems departments.
Now, usually a lot of people on this departments play solitarie (I had a friend who was in one of these jobs during university). Instead of that, they would be the ones that contribute, mantain and manage the open source projects used IN their offices, for example, in the Federal Consumer Office (the one in charge to cope with companies abuse), they may need a database system. INSTEAD of making a half baked Excel sheet, there would be a sourceforge.net project of a proper database system which will be used by ALL the offices from all the states/cities in the country. Same thing with Worker's database applications.
There are applications so generic that all the offices use, for example OpenOffice. Maybe (well, it is not maybe...) some projects will be so complex that instead of making the people maintain it the government would allocate some funds.
Now, from the view of the people, they would be able to download these programs and use them, as they are free!, so, at the end of the day, the taxes they [we] will pay will in some way return to them as enhancements in their software.
I wrote a more extended idea of that to someone called Miguel Sandino (or "tigris") who I believe is known in the O.S. circles (and is mexican), because I believe it is the way to indtroduce software to the government. It is really simple, as I see it.
Haven't you tried having something like a "club", where people (kids) pay some certain cash and they get to play the machines for a month or so?
Also, there is the possibility of exchanging 1 arcade for 2 or 3 PS2 (ok ok and maybe 1 Xbox360) and charge for hour (in Mexico that is quite common). If the Arcades are not as "cost effective" as consoles, then buy consoles!.
If you do it as a club, you might ask for "wanted games" which you could buy. Also, you could make competitions and other things. Nothing would beat a good selection of games because, as other poster said, one of the "advantages" of arcades is that you spend $5 to play for an hour, as you only want to play for an hour and not to buy the game (the console).
For example, I myself can not afford an XBox360+HD-screen+games, but I would be really glad to go to a place like the one I described and be able to play it, better yet if you agreed to keep my savestates and things like that (for that reason I think a "club" like thing would work better).
Anyway, I still miss the days of MortalKombat and Street Fighter 2 (those were my Arcade games), It was really cool to go to the arcades, in fact I went each saturday to the arcades of one mall, where all my friends gathered to play arcades and all that.
For self-ego rising nothing beats a Mortal Kombat II winning spree of more than 10 uknown persons (better yet if you are something like 12 and the others are in their 16s or 17s) hehe.
To be honest, I also did the source compile on windows, but mainly because I'm crazy.
So what?, my dick is bigger than yours.
(note: the previous comment meant to be a joke...)
there are hundreds or thousands of GPL game projects on SourceForge, and most of them are dead
There are 22141 games listed in SourceForge.
Of those, 575 (2.59%) are INACTIVE,
7637(34.5%) are in PLANNING.
6022(27.1%) are in PRE-ALPHA.
4302(19.43%) are in ALPHA
4453(20.1%) are in BETA
3592(16.2%) are in PRODUCTION-STABLE
460 (2.0%) are in MATURE.
Which does not add to 100% because some games have more than two states, however it seems there is a really high trend towards "Unfinished" games. Or as I read from some game developing book, EVERYBODY can have a good game idea, but it takes some hard effort to actually implement it, and it takes really hard nuts to finish it.
And as you said, a game is in fact FINISHED, not like said, OpenOffice, which will never be "finished", with games you can only make bugfixes, but a new game version is something completely different.
Touché, but then again, in that same sentence I said:
My native tongue is not English but it kind of hurted my eyes to read the review (which was quite nice anyway).
And my commen was not [supposed to be] proof read before publishing in the front page of a very important news site.
Me comprendes?
I will tell you the main problem in a word: CONTENT.
For some strange reason, software developers enjoy giving away their work/time without expect anything in return, but please tell any decent designer, sound fx creator or graphics drawer to give away their time just "for fun" and you wont get really a lot.
In that way, open source will NEVER compete against the big studios. The only "hope" is to make people look at less "graphic intensive" but more "fun" and innovative games. With a bit of luck, Nintendo will aim that way, but I do not have much hope
In my uninformed opinion there really is no reason for paid-account MMORPGs to be closed source. They might say that it's to prevent cheating, but I say that open sourcing would kill cheating dead.
--
The problem here is what happened to blizzard and bnetd, but, with an Open Source client it would be trivial to create servers and you wont be doing andy "reverse engineering" thus not breaking the law.
What is needed in these cases is the company to create a "community" with some value in order to persuade people to join. (Certified servers, fast servers, some kind of updates, etc)
I am currently making a 3D game in SDL and OpenGL. I was making the game from the ground up, when I thought of using a 3D/Game Engine.
.lib or .so and a bunch of .h files which I can compile and link in order to start to implement my idea right away.
I tried some of the free engines including CrystalSpace, unfortunately (at least, last time I checked) there ARE NOT precompiled libraries or binaries of that library. I tried compiling it but I really got pissed off after two hours of trying so I threw it up.
The problem with the Open Source engines (at least in my experience) is that they are not readily available, as a game programmer, I do not need/care to compile the library nor to modify it, I am completely happy with a
It is quite simple really, and it is the way even some closed games have made money: SAS.
Yeah, the buzzword makes sense for games too, a company could make a game and give away the code while maintaining a good online game community/forums etc. Setup some servers and go!
What I would do is making open source the client, keeping the server, then, let the community improve the client and I would improve the network infraestructure, of course with the client code it would be deadly easy to replicate the server, but there is where the company would have to provide some *special* value on its servers (something like Xbox Live community).
Well, I understand this book must be an "introduction" but, I am sure there are several better books on OpenGL, personally I have read the "Beggining OpenGL game programming [Premmier Press]" which I think is quite a nice book if you are new to OpenGL.
I mean, besides of the OpenGL-QT bindings you will have to do (mostly just to create a GL window to render if it is similar to SDL) there is nothing magical in the GL-QT combination. I would recommend to get a nice KDE book AND a nice OpenGL book also, as the author said, besides the blue and red books (which I personally use just for reference . Another great book for OpenGl is the OpenGL Super Bible [Sams], and you can find a bunch of KDE books including the KDE Bible.
Of course if you want to go the "student" way, there is, as I have found, PLENTY of information on all of these topics. Just get into Gamedev.net, the Nehes tutorials are one of the best in my opinion.
Now, if looking for game development I would personally incline to SDL, which will provide you with almost everything you need like input support (joystick, mouse, etc), audio and also OpenGL.
As a last comment, could I ask the SlashDot editors do to their job and check (at least) the book reviews grammar/spelling. My native tongue is not English but it kind of hurted my eyes to read the review (which was quite nice anyway).
It was dead simple to softmod it and install XBMC (for the average Slashdot reader, I guess)
:).
I know the most obbvious answer for this is Google, but could you point to any webpage with instructions on how to do the soft modding? I would REALLY appreciate it
I think it's even better than porting picasa to linux.
I agree with you, at first I thought it was bad as "google would do better if they made a native (non Wine) version for Linux", for example using wxWidgets.
But then, I remembered that WINE is not an emulator! and if what google did was to improve WINE to make Picasa partially run on Linux that is GREAT!, I mean, Google could have just done their closed application for LInux (line Nero Linux, anyone remembers?) but they preffered to provide some support/code to an Open Source application!
And again as W.IsNot[(c)Microsoft Corporation)]. An Emulator, the performance is going to be exactly the same (or even better) for any other application that uses those LIBRARIES!
As someone else said in a previous post, if this company (Google) is going to support Open Source by polishing the compatibility with Windows, sign me up! we may get to the point where THE OPERATING SYSTEM IS TRIVIAL and our so loved Joe Sixpack or Jane Nanny will be able to go to PC-Mart, buy their PC-BannerMaker application and installed whenever they are!.
"The Inquirer has an interesting piece about a new Sony Patent on a technology that may possible prevent DVD disc media users from using their purchased disks in other machines after they have used them on a specific reader. Commentary also available on Joystiq. From the Article: 'While many are aware of the double profit companies make on pre-owned games, this would ensure the death of trading games between friends and even going to a friend's house to play a little multiplayer.'"
You see? and everybody laughed when I was screaming that the end of the world was coming! =oP
How would you know my motivation for buying software? I repeat, I bought software I recognised as flawed, in the expectation that it would get better in future revisions. It hasn't.
Sofware buyers have been gypped nto paying for the same damaged goods over and over again.
Then you are really stupid, you should do as I did, I am also expecting that Microsoft software will get better in the future revisions, that is WHY I am still waiting for those future revisions, meanwhile, I use the comparatively crappy (but otherwise free) open source "replacements"
hey mods, this is OFFTOPIC, this shameless plugs of Linux are stupid, please abstein from moderating AND commenting, yeah, we know L1nux ru73z but the OP did not care, go look for another Ask slashdot post that asks what operating system to use in order to have less viruses or security problems or whatever.
I mean, there are at least 1,000 reasons why someone would not change its current Operating System.
Yeah, I am a Troll in a forest of NErdlves, so what?
Nice summary, I just installed AVG Free and it deleted the keylogger I was using (it is my own laptop and I have always had a key logger), unfortunately I could not find an option to ignore the specific file/process, each time it was accessed AVG told me that I was infected with "trojan keylogger" and gave me the option to "ignore, heal, quarintine, etc.." but I had to click on ignore EACH time I used it or I restarted my computer (or I accessed the file in any way).
So, my question would be, does any of these 2 other AV has a way to "incoulate" or ignore certain file and process forever?
Heya! a bit late, but I could find the a quote about the price of the PS3 in Japan:
From : itmedia in japan:
"Both drives of the blue ray disk and the hard disk are prepared standard as for PS3 which is loaded 2 models (as for color only clear black), the 20G byte model 6 ten thousand 2790 Yen (including tax), the 60G byte model becomes open price." [babelfish translation].
Which I translated to: Y 62,790
This (according to xe.com) is more or less $558.668 USD.
About the rest of your comment, I understand the frustration of seeing that corporations are selling things more expensive, but one of the things I have seen while in UK is that the quality of life is better than that of USA and a lot of other countries. One of the things I read somewhere is that, one of the main difference between UK and USA quality of life is that over here (UK) having a full time job with the "minimum" payment (I believe it is £5.05) is enough to live ok, while in USA having a job is sometimes not enough to survive (and that is why you see people having two jobs or sellling Tupperware [not that there is something wrong with selling tupperware of course =oP] ).
Just as a side comment, I love SD cards, of course, everyone can have his preference but, that is the reason I bought a Canon camera and why I love my RCA SD-mp3 player and my small HP "SD reader" (so tiny and compact).
I believe people should standarize like that, I just buy SD compatible devices, likewise, I have some SD cards which I can use for whatever I feel, the biggest is a 2GB card, but the nice thing is that they are very small so I could carry 10 with me (of course I never do that, usually I only carry a 1GB SD on my RCA player and the 2GB in my camera if I use it).
Sony's memory stick is the antithesis of that, well, you may be able to do something similar only *if* all your products are sony but Uh, what asshole buys a Sony PC? (of course, the Mavicas seem really nice, but I have a little sony boycott going on since the rootkit thing)
Oh, and by the way, if someone is looking for earbuds for their Sony MDR-EX70LP Earbud Headphones and do not want to give a cent to sony (WTF a pair of earbuds replacement are something like $10) you can buy them from ebay (I bought mine from Hong Kong for only $3.00 including shipping =o).
I have yet to count the number of times I read this comments, and better yet, they always come after someone critisize the real lack of compatibility between OO.org and MS Office.
And moreover, how many Karma points does this comment gets each time, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MODS THIS IS UTTERLY REDUNDANT!
I agree that MS Office may not be good, in fact it is a P.O.Shit, and O.O.org is nice, (though a bit slow and big) and also free, but IT IS COMPLETELY AND PURE BULLSHIT to state that it is compatible with the other
, and yes, if people want to put OOorg at the level of MS Office (as a replacement) then OOo MUST do what MSOffice does now, (as good or bad as it does it), while that does not happens just shut the fuck up and continue using your office suite while everyone else is happy using their POS. Micro$uck 0ff1ce (or however you want to call it).
yeah, sorry I just got pissed, in fact I will start with this,
THIS IS THE FIRST COMMENT SAYING THE SAME OOorg-MSOffice compatibility.
Because it is easy to setup?
And it is not really that slow and unreliable that for a lot of companies who preffer to run a setup wizzard instead of trying to figure out how to setup CVS or SV.
Just a week ago I tried to install CVS or subversion to make a Latex document repository, after reading the fucking manual and downloading this Explorer shell extension programs (dont remember their name) I got fed up and gave up, I supposedly made a repository directory and tried to create a new tree or whatever it is called but the darn shit just could not work.
No, I do not have the time to lose for that, I preffer software that *solves my problems* and not software that gets in my way
Of course people want dependable, that's why they're looking for something not laden with spyware, viruses, etc.
Sorry, you did not got FP.
I really hate the slashdotters that have this logic "ClosedSource -> Malware" or "ClosedSource->Bad", there are tons of applications that are closed source and DO NOT have any kind of crapware on them, a lot of them are even FREE.
Just because the author of a program do not want to give you his lunch for free does makes him baaaad, anti OpenSource or whatever, come on, get a grip!
how did slashdot editors managed to understand "ther people want the reliability and the dependability that comes from a commercial software model.'"" to "OpenSource is unreliable".
Hey, sometimes Open Source does it right, someties people preffer other ways. If THERE ARE companies that sell CLOSED software and services and their services al GREAT, yes this is FUD, but this time it is the editors the ones that are throwing it.
BURN KARMA BUUUUURN!!
Haha, no shit, with the right marketing the brits would buy that at £239, I mean, it is less than in America no lads?