Oh my gosh! It's just insane what M$ will make people do! I mean, I keep writing these "Hello World" programs in Visual Studio, but every new and unknown variation of the program that's compiled needs certification! How am I supposed to debug and test these things in a timely manner?
Well, I think that's a really sad idea. I noticed people in the article's comments were basically saying the same thing, as if he reached into the system and altered the code to do something bad. He crashed a non-critical system that was either poorly written or poorly tested using the expected input devices. Just goes to show how paranoid some people have become.
I know their entire business relies on DRM's success but every encounter I have had with it ended up being some sort of pain in the ass. How does DRM increase consumer value. Like, why should I be excited that I can't copy media from one format to another without it being a hassle? I wish Macrovision explained that statement.
Yeah, I know! My friend was talking to me and said "hey, did you read Slashdot recently? Some European is using Linux! Surely this individual will turn the tide on Microsoft's market saturation!"
Now that "some European" is using Linux maybe "some other European" will make the switch as well!
I've got to wonder if the people who identified the T shapes actually did it by seeing the shape itself or identifying them by color. All licensed Tetris games now apparently follow a guideline, part of which dictates the colors of the Tetrominos. I would guess that quickly identifying the outline of a shape suggests a greater visual acuity than identifying a shape by its color.
I really don't have a problem with WinAmp. In fact, I couldn't find a media player to replace it that either didn't look extremely fugly, had some sort of important feature missing, or whose performance was worse than WinAmp's.
You don't sound like a very nice person to work for. It's courteous to give notice in advance rather than either not showing up one day leaving everyone wondering where you disappeared to, or saying you're done then walking out without any time to train a new person or to finish up any projects that you might be working on. There are some idiots out there, but personally, as long as I'm still employed by someone, I'll put all of my effort into completing whatever was assigned to me.
It doesn't matter if your driver is a binary blob or not. Even the open source drivers have to be changed as internal kernel structures are modified. There's even a slight problem that if you want to support more than the most recent kernel versions in your open source driver, you might be forced to write multiple code paths to support the few differing structures that happened to change. It's not a big of a problem as I make it sound, but it's still an issue when you don't have a standardized interface to work with.
Pirating the VHD file shouldn't work because of the checks Vista does on boot up like XP. It will probably ask for reactivation if too many changes are detected..
If someone is using a VHD image for a backup, then why would they keep it on their hard drive? Wouldn't it make more sense to copy it to some sort of removable media?
Eh? The difference between the two: The windows fonts in the shown dialogs are rendered as-is with no alterations. The fonts in the Debian installer use some sort of "anti-aliasing" around the edges of the font making them look smoother. I wouldn't call that "smeared"; I think it looks nice.
That doesn't make any sense. I'd say the opposite is true. Anyway, I play a quick game on the DS instead of reading so sometimes I end up hanging around for a bit too long..
Elebits has a lot more value than Wairo Ware. I own both but there's more going on in Elebits.. It's a very fun game! Plus it has a map editor, multiplayer mode, and some other cute extras that make exploring each level worthwhile.
WarioWare is well done as usual, but it still feels way too short. It's at least more fun than the one on the DS, and there's certainly a lot of variety in what you end up doing. The graphics and sound are very nice and it has a bunch of multiplayer modes, although there's not much to do once you've discovered everything in single player and multiplayer was a big letdown - There isn't an option to use more than one remote, so you're forced to share one remote between everyone, which is not horrible, but the somewhat long pause between everyone's turn (while the single remote is being exchanged) can slow down the action sometimes. Not to mention that everyone is "supposed" to wear the wrist strap.. Some people aren't very good at putting their arm through that loop fast.
Both are fun games, but Elebits has way more replay value than WairoWare mostly because it's too easy to get turned off to WarioWare's not-so-frantic multiplayer modes.
WTF are you serious about the bank using nProtect? Is there a good reason for this? Because the nProtect rootkits don't actually do much to stop people who want to subvert them..
I'd drop that bank pretty quickly..
What are you talking about? I was expecting some still images but the movie they made was actually really well done. I think the message towards the end was slightly exaggerated as the guy who installed the pirated software instantly took down the entire corporate network which resulted in things such as "identity theft."
All of the Seagate drives I have have been excellent. No unusual readings from SMART or anything. Cooling helps. Although, I've had a lot of bad luck with Maxtor drives dying in the past.
It's harder to get a kernel that works nicely if a lot of people end up flocking to another version. This would leave 2.6 in a bad position because fewer people would be finding and reporting bugs, critical or not. One person can only do so much. Linux is very much a community project that needs participants to work well.
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Oh my gosh! It's just insane what M$ will make people do! I mean, I keep writing these "Hello World" programs in Visual Studio, but every new and unknown variation of the program that's compiled needs certification! How am I supposed to debug and test these things in a timely manner?
Well, I think that's a really sad idea. I noticed people in the article's comments were basically saying the same thing, as if he reached into the system and altered the code to do something bad. He crashed a non-critical system that was either poorly written or poorly tested using the expected input devices. Just goes to show how paranoid some people have become.
I know their entire business relies on DRM's success but every encounter I have had with it ended up being some sort of pain in the ass. How does DRM increase consumer value. Like, why should I be excited that I can't copy media from one format to another without it being a hassle? I wish Macrovision explained that statement.
I guess they were hoping that no one would bother to read it
Now that "some European" is using Linux maybe "some other European" will make the switch as well!
Looks more like my early attempts at programming in mode 13h in DOS.
Good thing the analog world doesn't suffer from jaggies. It's more like Gaussian blurring.
I've got to wonder if the people who identified the T shapes actually did it by seeing the shape itself or identifying them by color. All licensed Tetris games now apparently follow a guideline, part of which dictates the colors of the Tetrominos. I would guess that quickly identifying the outline of a shape suggests a greater visual acuity than identifying a shape by its color.
I really don't have a problem with WinAmp. In fact, I couldn't find a media player to replace it that either didn't look extremely fugly, had some sort of important feature missing, or whose performance was worse than WinAmp's.
You don't sound like a very nice person to work for. It's courteous to give notice in advance rather than either not showing up one day leaving everyone wondering where you disappeared to, or saying you're done then walking out without any time to train a new person or to finish up any projects that you might be working on. There are some idiots out there, but personally, as long as I'm still employed by someone, I'll put all of my effort into completing whatever was assigned to me.
It doesn't matter if your driver is a binary blob or not. Even the open source drivers have to be changed as internal kernel structures are modified. There's even a slight problem that if you want to support more than the most recent kernel versions in your open source driver, you might be forced to write multiple code paths to support the few differing structures that happened to change. It's not a big of a problem as I make it sound, but it's still an issue when you don't have a standardized interface to work with.
If someone is using a VHD image for a backup, then why would they keep it on their hard drive? Wouldn't it make more sense to copy it to some sort of removable media?
Yeah.. The only "upgrade" version I own is Windows 95.. And that required Windows 3.x to be installed to work. That was a while ago..
Eh? The difference between the two: The windows fonts in the shown dialogs are rendered as-is with no alterations. The fonts in the Debian installer use some sort of "anti-aliasing" around the edges of the font making them look smoother. I wouldn't call that "smeared"; I think it looks nice.
That doesn't make any sense. I'd say the opposite is true. Anyway, I play a quick game on the DS instead of reading so sometimes I end up hanging around for a bit too long..
Wait, what? Is that where bricks come from? I have to say I'm highly disturbed and hope you're not a contractor.
WarioWare is well done as usual, but it still feels way too short. It's at least more fun than the one on the DS, and there's certainly a lot of variety in what you end up doing. The graphics and sound are very nice and it has a bunch of multiplayer modes, although there's not much to do once you've discovered everything in single player and multiplayer was a big letdown - There isn't an option to use more than one remote, so you're forced to share one remote between everyone, which is not horrible, but the somewhat long pause between everyone's turn (while the single remote is being exchanged) can slow down the action sometimes. Not to mention that everyone is "supposed" to wear the wrist strap.. Some people aren't very good at putting their arm through that loop fast.
Both are fun games, but Elebits has way more replay value than WairoWare mostly because it's too easy to get turned off to WarioWare's not-so-frantic multiplayer modes.
WTF are you serious about the bank using nProtect? Is there a good reason for this? Because the nProtect rootkits don't actually do much to stop people who want to subvert them.. I'd drop that bank pretty quickly..
In the x86 world it is.. A word can be the width of the bus on other architectures.
No, it's more like - If Dannon tries to file a patent, Taco Bell already has prior art.
What are you talking about? I was expecting some still images but the movie they made was actually really well done. I think the message towards the end was slightly exaggerated as the guy who installed the pirated software instantly took down the entire corporate network which resulted in things such as "identity theft."
Wireless mouse. Seems kind of stupid though. It's like a wired mouse without the wire connected to the mouse itself.
All of the Seagate drives I have have been excellent. No unusual readings from SMART or anything. Cooling helps. Although, I've had a lot of bad luck with Maxtor drives dying in the past.
It's harder to get a kernel that works nicely if a lot of people end up flocking to another version. This would leave 2.6 in a bad position because fewer people would be finding and reporting bugs, critical or not. One person can only do so much. Linux is very much a community project that needs participants to work well.
They couldn't sue Microsoft for copying the Macintosh's look and feel in Windows so I doubt this will go very far.