Of course, one can always spoof their location.
Maybe I'll start using using Twitter to announce my all-day shopping sprees and then sit in the bushes outside waiting to catch any potential burglars... or get shot by said burglars.
Companies making games are usually doing it for the money. When a game doesn't seem profitable, drop it. Fans, on the other hand, don't care about the money but instead about the subject itself. There is till a Half-Life mod being made, shouldn't be too bad. Stargate: The Last Stand
Actually, it is a bug because you can log into a.b@gmail.com but not ab@gmail.com (assuming they were created seperately and with different passwords.) It seems like the login server checks for the dots but the email sorting aspect of the servcie ignores the dots. Poor engineering on the part of Google.
Check out the Logitech G5 or G7. A quick search on Newegg.com will find them. They are laser, with adjustable DPI from 400 to 2000, and have the interchangable weights. The mouse in the article is a joke compared to those two from Logitech.
Why do people still believe Blizz is running spyware on their computers? It was shown(months ago, by the way) that the alleged program just makes a hash of your running proccesses to check that they weren't altered to allow for cheating in WoW. No personal info of any kind can be retrieved from a hash, NONE; it is not spyware like the crap 180solutions will install on your PC. It says in their EULA that they do it and that they will prosecute anyone they find by this method that is trying to cheat. Learn the whole story behind something before spouting it off as truth.
Only problem the need to figure out is how to stop two plasma streams from passing through eachother. We'll probably have the effect looking real good in a few years but the theatrical presentation might take a while.
But what if that vegan was near-death and starving and required some source of sustinance and protein? That juicy-steak will be mighty tempting; sure they may get a bit sick because their bodies aren't used to eating meat but it would be just like the feeling you would have were you FORCED to actually install and use Windows. There can always be a situation in which you will do something you normally wouldn't do in order to get by.
The unique ID was only for ITEMS not GOLD. So much money gets tossed around in the economies of servers that you will waste a lot of disc space trying to log all of it.
Exactly what I was thinking. People won't just switch based on their own free will. They will switch when they see it as being a viable choice. To me, this means we need to forget about most people above the age of 25-30 and work on getting the younger generation interested and informed about alternatives. All this talk of govenments and schools switching over to OSS is promising but we won't really notice any impact on MS until years down the line when the children begin looking for jobs. They get to put more down on their resumes than MS products, showing that they are more adept to using a computer, no matter what OS or software is currently being used.
" End-users can't keep track of all this stuff. Please implement better project management practices and just do actual releases with a simple versioning scheme."
End-users don't care about versions numbers so your argument is pointless. The only people who care about version numbers are developers and without version numbers (even if they are some wacked number convention) those developers will be completely lost in their own project. The version numbers are there so the DEVELOPERS can manage their shit, not so users can decided which release if good for them. End-users will just click the "Download Latest version" and they'll get whatever the newest version is, without worrying about numbers.
"Analysts say the chip bundle and software will transform the PC into an all-purpose multimedia device designed to function as a CD and DVD player, digital video recorder, game console, as well as a machine for traditional data processing and Internet."
Uhh, thats already my computer. Its called get a DVD-ROM and TV tuner card and you have your multi-media computer.
Ok, cities around the country are considering Open Source. Are there going to be any sort of vote for whether a city wants to switch? Government is in place for the people and if their money is being thrown away on software that can easily be replaced then I would say most people would be in favor. If it did come down to a vote, I would expect the majority of people to go with the more cost effective solution.
yeah, It does suck for those college students who go to a tech school that KNOWS it has to limit ANY P2P bandwidth leaving the school. But of course, if you are going to a tech school, you should already have a linux box setup in someones apartment off-campus and be running the torrents from there.
Damn Microsoft, if you would just let us switch to Open Source without your bitching, maybe we can focus on spending less for maintaining our state systems and giving some money back to the community. I have no clue how much Mass has to pay Microsoft but I can ensure that it will always be more than just going with open source.
And Microsoft's little Open Source Initiative is a joke. I'm going to try and get some of the source but I highly doubt I'd get anywhere close to it. "Ohh, you're a college student looking to find out why Windows is programmed and structured in such a bizarre manner. Sorry, only businesses whose individuals we can keep a close watch on can view our code because we know that once large enough segments of our code gets leaked, we're pretty much fucked."
As for licenses, I agree with Stallman in that the game engine, which is more cases can be thought of at generalized software should be free, while the artistic part of the projects need to be considered as custom work and could remain non-free
There is a problem with making only part of a computer product open. The person who first writes the engine will feel like an artist who just created a story that uses that engine. It is a product created by an individual so there shouldn't even be a distinction between the engine and art/media/story. Both result from a creative process (although some people would argue how much creativity is really put into an engine) and should be on equal footing when it comes to dissemination of the product.
Very true, I must say. The constant worry over CD copy protection is completely detracting all attention from the CD's themselves, which the sales have not been all that great recently from what I've heard.
Of course, telling these companies not to bother with making such protections that will inevitablly be broken is like trying to convince a layman that the discovery of possible liquid water on Mars is the greatest discovery of the century. Nope, instead the greatest discovery of the century is getting into those pay-porn sites for free.
Its funny how a free piece of software like OpenOffice.org can out-do Microsoft Office. Every format that Office produces can be read by OOo but anytime you try opening a non-Office-formatted document in Office, it freaks out and asks you to define the encoding. But it doesn't have a single encoding that will work, ever. Yes, regular text and even RTF can be opened by Office but the point is Office just can't handle anything that wasn't originally created by MS.
Most software battles will come down to native-based vs. web-based. In both cases, its a matter of bandwidth. If bandwidth to the web is bad, native progs win out but if the bandwidth of the web grew larger than any single computer, we may end up running most of our apps remotely, limited only by the system we have.
I think this is a case of people ignoring history. We have a vast reservior of previous experiences from which we can learn from and instead someone ignores it all figuring this time will be different.
You have a point there. The FCC can only go so far until its to the point that it is the parent's responsibility to monitor their children's television activities. Kids can actually handle watching some of the more mature content out there as long as a parent is there to explain things to the kids. This PTC group is basically doing the job that most parents are neglecting to perform and sadly they become intrusive to the matters of other television users who would rather not hear their bitching.
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"... often bug finders simply turn down the cash. Between 10 percent and 15 percent ..."
Not too sure what connotations "often" has for others but 10-15% doesn't really seem that "often"
Of course, one can always spoof their location. Maybe I'll start using using Twitter to announce my all-day shopping sprees and then sit in the bushes outside waiting to catch any potential burglars... or get shot by said burglars.
So, kind of like Jack Thompson when it comes to video games?
Companies making games are usually doing it for the money. When a game doesn't seem profitable, drop it. Fans, on the other hand, don't care about the money but instead about the subject itself. There is till a Half-Life mod being made, shouldn't be too bad. Stargate: The Last Stand
Actually, it is a bug because you can log into a.b@gmail.com but not ab@gmail.com (assuming they were created seperately and with different passwords.) It seems like the login server checks for the dots but the email sorting aspect of the servcie ignores the dots. Poor engineering on the part of Google.
Check out the Logitech G5 or G7. A quick search on Newegg.com will find them. They are laser, with adjustable DPI from 400 to 2000, and have the interchangable weights. The mouse in the article is a joke compared to those two from Logitech.
Why do people still believe Blizz is running spyware on their computers? It was shown(months ago, by the way) that the alleged program just makes a hash of your running proccesses to check that they weren't altered to allow for cheating in WoW. No personal info of any kind can be retrieved from a hash, NONE; it is not spyware like the crap 180solutions will install on your PC. It says in their EULA that they do it and that they will prosecute anyone they find by this method that is trying to cheat. Learn the whole story behind something before spouting it off as truth.
Only problem the need to figure out is how to stop two plasma streams from passing through eachother. We'll probably have the effect looking real good in a few years but the theatrical presentation might take a while.
But what if that vegan was near-death and starving and required some source of sustinance and protein? That juicy-steak will be mighty tempting; sure they may get a bit sick because their bodies aren't used to eating meat but it would be just like the feeling you would have were you FORCED to actually install and use Windows. There can always be a situation in which you will do something you normally wouldn't do in order to get by.
Well, considering no car got past 8 miles last year, I guess the figured "Why bother?"
The unique ID was only for ITEMS not GOLD. So much money gets tossed around in the economies of servers that you will waste a lot of disc space trying to log all of it.
Exactly what I was thinking. People won't just switch based on their own free will. They will switch when they see it as being a viable choice. To me, this means we need to forget about most people above the age of 25-30 and work on getting the younger generation interested and informed about alternatives. All this talk of govenments and schools switching over to OSS is promising but we won't really notice any impact on MS until years down the line when the children begin looking for jobs. They get to put more down on their resumes than MS products, showing that they are more adept to using a computer, no matter what OS or software is currently being used.
" End-users can't keep track of all this stuff. Please implement better project management practices and just do actual releases with a simple versioning scheme." End-users don't care about versions numbers so your argument is pointless. The only people who care about version numbers are developers and without version numbers (even if they are some wacked number convention) those developers will be completely lost in their own project. The version numbers are there so the DEVELOPERS can manage their shit, not so users can decided which release if good for them. End-users will just click the "Download Latest version" and they'll get whatever the newest version is, without worrying about numbers.
"Analysts say the chip bundle and software will transform the PC into an all-purpose multimedia device designed to function as a CD and DVD player, digital video recorder, game console, as well as a machine for traditional data processing and Internet." Uhh, thats already my computer. Its called get a DVD-ROM and TV tuner card and you have your multi-media computer.
What? Genetically engineered virtual children is actual news?
Ok, cities around the country are considering Open Source. Are there going to be any sort of vote for whether a city wants to switch? Government is in place for the people and if their money is being thrown away on software that can easily be replaced then I would say most people would be in favor. If it did come down to a vote, I would expect the majority of people to go with the more cost effective solution.
yeah, It does suck for those college students who go to a tech school that KNOWS it has to limit ANY P2P bandwidth leaving the school. But of course, if you are going to a tech school, you should already have a linux box setup in someones apartment off-campus and be running the torrents from there.
Damn Microsoft, if you would just let us switch to Open Source without your bitching, maybe we can focus on spending less for maintaining our state systems and giving some money back to the community. I have no clue how much Mass has to pay Microsoft but I can ensure that it will always be more than just going with open source. And Microsoft's little Open Source Initiative is a joke. I'm going to try and get some of the source but I highly doubt I'd get anywhere close to it. "Ohh, you're a college student looking to find out why Windows is programmed and structured in such a bizarre manner. Sorry, only businesses whose individuals we can keep a close watch on can view our code because we know that once large enough segments of our code gets leaked, we're pretty much fucked."
As for licenses, I agree with Stallman in that the game engine, which is more cases can be thought of at generalized software should be free, while the artistic part of the projects need to be considered as custom work and could remain non-free There is a problem with making only part of a computer product open. The person who first writes the engine will feel like an artist who just created a story that uses that engine. It is a product created by an individual so there shouldn't even be a distinction between the engine and art/media/story. Both result from a creative process (although some people would argue how much creativity is really put into an engine) and should be on equal footing when it comes to dissemination of the product.
Very true, I must say. The constant worry over CD copy protection is completely detracting all attention from the CD's themselves, which the sales have not been all that great recently from what I've heard. Of course, telling these companies not to bother with making such protections that will inevitablly be broken is like trying to convince a layman that the discovery of possible liquid water on Mars is the greatest discovery of the century. Nope, instead the greatest discovery of the century is getting into those pay-porn sites for free.
Its funny how a free piece of software like OpenOffice.org can out-do Microsoft Office. Every format that Office produces can be read by OOo but anytime you try opening a non-Office-formatted document in Office, it freaks out and asks you to define the encoding. But it doesn't have a single encoding that will work, ever. Yes, regular text and even RTF can be opened by Office but the point is Office just can't handle anything that wasn't originally created by MS.
Most software battles will come down to native-based vs. web-based. In both cases, its a matter of bandwidth. If bandwidth to the web is bad, native progs win out but if the bandwidth of the web grew larger than any single computer, we may end up running most of our apps remotely, limited only by the system we have.
I think this is a case of people ignoring history. We have a vast reservior of previous experiences from which we can learn from and instead someone ignores it all figuring this time will be different.
You have a point there. The FCC can only go so far until its to the point that it is the parent's responsibility to monitor their children's television activities. Kids can actually handle watching some of the more mature content out there as long as a parent is there to explain things to the kids. This PTC group is basically doing the job that most parents are neglecting to perform and sadly they become intrusive to the matters of other television users who would rather not hear their bitching.