Shockwave has its place, just like AOL -- if you can find a way to duplicate its capabilities with existing web standards, please enlighten me. I'm not much of a Shockwave user, though I sometimes pay that bowling game at shockwave.com to kill time at work.
If there is anything more evil than Satan himself, it's JavaScript. In the case of Shockwave, it's pretty necessary and that's the way it goes -- if you don't like it, don't use it (just like AOL).
Applause to the moderator with a sense of humor...
My experience is that the best way to get moderated as Offtopic is to mention that you are in the body of your post without mentioning it in the subject line. OTOH, people who include (offtopic) in the subject rarely get moderated down -- in fact, lots of them get moderated up.
Of course, the secret's out, so this post can't prove anything. Then again,/. karma is like money; life is pretty boring if you never spend it.
I want to see if I lose karma just for posting in this thread -- once a thread goes to -1, do its replies really matter, or are you moderator-bait for 'making it worse' by replying yourself?
And in other news, some other little-known company was acquired by an even less known company in an $80 stock swap deal.
On the display end of computing, lots of things change. Remmeber these being 'premium' monitor manufacturers?
NANAO
iiyama
NEC
Before NEC's PC division was bought out by Packard Bell, they were pretty good across the board, at least until they debuted the "world's fastest CD-ROM", which was a 3x (although you could call it triple-speed back then). Then came the ATAPI CD-ROM, and all of a sudden, the price of drives plummeted below $200, thanks to Mitsumi. Those folks have all but disappeared now, too!
I remember when S3 was the dominant graphics chip manufacturer, then Number Nine came out with the Imagine series, then Matrox debuted the Millenium. Diamond was the best manufacturer (and marketer) of cards using that S3 968 chip, which may be a historical reason why they made that stupid merger. I have no idea what Number Nine is doing right now, but they're off the radar screen. Matrox is still kicking, but nobody is giving them the attention they deserve. STB historically made crummy graphics cards, and it's only fitting that 3dfx now owns them.
Why, oh why, are there so many different monitor brands, how can they be so cheap, and why do most of them only appear in small shops and computer shows? Off the top of my head, I can name:
Komodo
ADI
Shamrock
AOC
Tatung
KFC (which is still a strange name)
Pacom (I own one)
MAG (heard from them lately?)
BTW, when did Cirrus Logic and Western Digital quit making graphics chips?
At any rate, I'm just backgrounding how much I know and remember about PC tech from 1994 to the present. In that time, I have never seen either of those two brands "in the flesh", or for sale on any website or Computer Shopper ad that I've read, but I have heard the names before -- supposedly Hercules had the fastest TNT2 just before they went under, but good luck finding one...
OK, there are nonproductive threads that never go away like first post, KDE/GNOME, NT/Linux (I'd use GNU/Linux, but that would be confusing), bitchin' Beowulf clusters, etc.
I would especially like to make "bad-attitude" posting an option in addition to posting as an AC -- such comments would be free from moderation, and viewable at the 0 or -1 threshold without loss of karma. That may seem a bit strange, but just by lowering your threshold (mine is at -1), you're asking for it.
Long comments are overrated. Why do I never see Read the rest of this comment... at the bottom of a page? My "Long Comment Bonus" is big (10000), and my "Max Comment Size" (4096), shows a whole lotta text. Sure, there are times when they're appropriate, if there's information to be shared (though a link would be better, if not as impressive). Slashdot forums are for discussions, not treatises.
I want a "Maximum Threshold" to complement the "Minimum Threshold", and I would set my range from -1 to 3 -- the trolls and flames are frequently more interesting than the lengthy comments I spoke of. This would also be a help to moderators, whose range could be set from 0-1 in order to sort out the gems from the germs.
or are acceptable at least, since many of them are aliens in the first place. Of course, the same is true everywhere else, but France may have a few more, as mentioned in another reply, thanks to Remulac;). My buddy Pete asked his former roommate if he was an alien or not, because he and I were pretty much convinced -- strangely enough, his roommate wouldn't give a straight answer. I'm also convinced that my ex-boss is an alien, but that's a different story that isn't suitable for Slashdot. Why are we looking to the skies to find ALF? THEY already walk among us! I participate in SETI@home just to boast about my AMD Athlon CPU to the people I work with, not because I think it's worth the effort... Implicit, explicit, true, or not, this law is in direct conflict with SETI, and would not hold up against the U.S. Constitution's 1st Amendment right to freedom of assembly. Free assembly is a good thing, but free C and a compiler is just a bit better -- my $0.02.
I had a PHB who decided to b!tch every time a new system got a name he didn't like, saying things like "How do I know what this thing does without a descriptive name?". The truth of the matter is that he didn't *need* to know, because he'd never deal with the system directly by that name.
Several times, I was tempted to change the name of the zone file in named.conf, and set up a cron job to regularly change the serial on the original (now a dummy) file, but getting snitched out seemed too likely.
Perhaps I'll leave this suggestion here for anyone else whose supervisor has just as little imagination as my ex-boss -- someone brought up Soviet leaders already, so I need not go further down that road...
Electronic Arts actually happens to be mentioned at the bottom of the press release, and they also reference the game as SimCity™, emphasis on ™. This suggests that there was actually some cooperation going on between the two companies -- I wonder how much of the $29.95 goes to EA instead of Atelier?
How legal are all of these game clones coming out for the Palm, Handspring, Psion, etc.?
AMD has been swinging for years, but they finally made contact with the Athlon, and Intel wasn't able to make the counterpunch. We salute the new champ, because AMD wins in price and performance...
Google's team may have been being just a bit silly, but OTOH, they can't make a handler for every possible approach to the questions they want to answer differently.
Looking for sense in search engine data and results is like making a psychoanalysis of an IRC bot.
I'm not familiar with barley as a good source of potassium, but I could be wrong.
The neural system depends on potassium to function -- AC has a good point, something that I had forgotten from high school (wish I could forget *everything else*, too).
Make that RAN to the store to buy a bag of Ruffles, but when I got back weren't any chips wide enough to fit in a DIMM slot. It's a real shame, since potato chips are a hell of a lot cheaper than RAM these days.
If anyone knows where I can get some chips that are certified to run at 100MHz or higher and can store 64MB or better, please tell me what brand you got -- are they Ruffles, Lay's, Pringles, or what?
SSI -- there is the traditional copy protection in DVD that is also found in video tape, as well as region codes, and this CSS encryption. I have looked in the FAQ, but using anemic as a word to describe it would be giving too much credit.
I used to be a big time Phish fan until I saw them at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin, just before they released 'Billy Breathes'. When I came back home, I wasn't a fan of either Wisconsin or Phish. The whole thing stunk -- the roads jammed with cars, paying $10 for parking in a mass lot (as if there was an option), cops in Miller T-shirts busting kids for drinking (decent beer, not Miller), and a 15 minute death march (with horse apples on the trail). Finally, after getting in, the show had to be one of the worst on record.
The people of Burlington, WI and surrounding areas were extremely rude to my friends and myself in the two days surrounding that concert. It took about five minutes to calm a store clerk down because he asked for ID when I was buying cigarettes, and each time I attempted to reach for my wallet for cash and identification, he'd flip out and insist that I show POA. This took a couple minutes longer than a regular transaction. After breakfast at a local restaurant, my friends and I walked out and had a local say: 'Hrmph, must be a show at Alpine Today'. The group camp (which supposedly held 50 people at the time we reserved it) apparently it could only hold 20 the night after the concert. We were told that if that number was exceeded, people would get sent away. When my group got there, we bumped the number up to 19, but there was no way of telling whether the other people we invited got sent back or not...
I don't want to relive that nightmare again, and live Phish would do that for me. No more stinky Phish for this guy -- I go to the Winnipeg Folk Festival now, where the music is better, the people are cooler, and the natives are much, much nicer...
Whether it's Jesus or free software, both groups (or sections thereof) like to take popular concepts and put their own slant on them.
Everybody has heard a Christian flavor of their favorite musical genre(s), e.g. D.C. Talk, Stryper, Point of Grace, and similarly, there is a free adaptation of popular titles like Photoshop, MS Office, etc. (but strangely, nothing like AutoCAD). Whether the masses like it or not isn't really of any concern
There are many respectable hackers that are Christian, most notably Larry Wall, but also Ian D. Mead, author of UltraEdit, which happens to be the greatest text editor of all time (yes, better than VI).
Geekdom may be more genetic than cultural. Truth be told, geeks are an eclectic bunch. There are geeks who don't like sci-fi/fantasy, 'cardboard crack', comic books, or RPG's, and there may as well be Christian and Satanic geeks, too.
<RANT> I hope to keep Slashdot as "news for nerds", not "news you can lose", and "stuff that matters", not "shut yer yapper", so given the events of the past few days, Roblimo and JonKatz have bcome the first entries in my authors.deny file. </RANT>
For once, the better product is succeeding, athough I don't think we should be cheering Mike Dell on his way to another $billion. Micron is still making the best mass manufactured systems...
It's a great exercise in novelty, but...
on
iBook boots Linux
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· Score: 1
I don't think it's gonna catch on. Let's face it, it's a purely academic thing, not something done from a practicality POV -- iBooks don't need security, stability, or a large stable of daemons/services and applications. They don't stay up for months, weeks, or even days at a time, and the bigger security issue is having the thing stolen for hardware, and nobody would take the thing seriously as a mission-critical system (unless you're operating the US Army's website).
iBooks take notes and write reports. If you expect anything more out of a notebook, then you're really looking at the wrong product.
My $0.02 -- still a long way from *any* kind of laptop...
Software is a tool. If you like the way Black and Decker's power tools work better than brand X, it may still be worth your while to spend the extra money, even if they come in factory sealed units that need to be serviced by the manufacturer. If you later find that you are unhappy with the quality of Black and Decker, then you use Brand X drills and modify them to suit your needs...
Free thought, free beer, and free love are all great things, but let's not leave out free competition!
Ugh, I feel stupid for having to defend this. I thought several relevant points were brought up --but some moderators don't read the entire comment before making a judgment.
Who knows? Maybe the Amiga OE will actually ship. I don't see it appealing to geeks, newbies, or anyone inbetween. Even if it does, there's no money to be made on support alone -- Amiga's market is Joe Sixpack, not the PHB's who buy Red Hat and get those $$$$ support contracts. Businesses can justify those costs, so there's no problem with free software (beer or thought). The home user (Amiga's market) isn't really interested and won't pay for it. Amiga can't make hardware, thanks to the whole Transmeta fiasco (they can afford free thought software, because they own the hardware), OSS advocates want the software to be free, and there's no money in support -- bye bye VC money, and Amiga (once again).
They have to make money somehow. Amiga is a company, not a community. If they do fold, they'll have the great legacy of Netscape, which is another company that gave up on a shoddy incomplete product, gave it away for free (as in thought) and then the world realized that it *was* a gift horse worth looking in the mouth.
That's my two cents -- it's all the money I have left after dropping VC into Amiga. I wonder if I can get some of it back by extracting it out of/dev/null...
No, I didn't read the article -- is everyone that interested in Amiga just because they're basing their OS on Linux? Commodore Amiga was one thing, but I'm not so sure about the new one.
What's really going on at Amiga? While they haven't been especially clear about what their plans are, they have said with a fair amount of certainty that they are doing software only.
I don't think the world is concerned or ready for the new AmigaOS, anyway. For me at least, the things dead before arrival, and a lot of it has to do with the conflicting news they were giving. Obviously, the company has no focus, and since there has yet to be a revenue stream, nobody's expecting them to make a profit. They probably never will. When the money runs dry, *then* they'll release some half-assed code to the public and fold, just like Lucid Emacs.
It's fine for your parents to drop thousands of dollars into a college education for yourself, then after graduation, give up all your worldly possessions and become a monk. This is capitalism, though, and *some* kind of a return is important. If Gateway (a major investor in Amiga) was particularly interested in open source, I'm sure they'd prefer to make a donation directly to the community.
I'd still like to see the 'source' opened to these products, since I don't think anyone is really interested in stealing them:
Col. Sanders' secret blend of 11 herbs and spices
The formula for current and previous releases of Coca-Cola
Yes, they publish anything that's funny or profitable -- when they do that, however, they give a subtle warning. Any story with an image of Fuller's London Pride on the right is untrue. If you follow the link below that image, they tell you how much it costs to get your own story published in The Register, true or otherwise...
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Shockwave has its place, just like AOL -- if you can find a way to duplicate its capabilities with existing web standards, please enlighten me. I'm not much of a Shockwave user, though I sometimes pay that bowling game at shockwave.com to kill time at work.
If there is anything more evil than Satan himself, it's JavaScript. In the case of Shockwave, it's pretty necessary and that's the way it goes -- if you don't like it, don't use it (just like AOL).
This article should be higher up in the HOF, or at least topping all the JonKatz `news for nerds' articles.
Sorry if this is flamebait, I just don't care about karma today.
Applause to the moderator with a sense of humor...
/. karma is like money; life is pretty boring if you never spend it.
My experience is that the best way to get moderated as Offtopic is to mention that you are in the body of your post without mentioning it in the subject line. OTOH, people who include (offtopic) in the subject rarely get moderated down -- in fact, lots of them get moderated up.
Of course, the secret's out, so this post can't prove anything. Then again,
Good Thing®
Good Thing©
Good Thing(tm)
etc...
I've seen the term here, in both the Jargon File and on Everything, but trademarks just don't seem to fit the term.
Censorship on Everything?
Fuck That .
I want to see if I lose karma just for posting in this thread -- once a thread goes to -1, do its replies really matter, or are you moderator-bait for 'making it worse' by replying yourself?
And in other news, some other little-known company was acquired by an even less known company in an $80 stock swap deal.
On the display end of computing, lots of things change. Remmeber these being 'premium' monitor manufacturers?
Before NEC's PC division was bought out by Packard Bell, they were pretty good across the board, at least until they debuted the "world's fastest CD-ROM", which was a 3x (although you could call it triple-speed back then). Then came the ATAPI CD-ROM, and all of a sudden, the price of drives plummeted below $200, thanks to Mitsumi. Those folks have all but disappeared now, too!
I remember when S3 was the dominant graphics chip manufacturer, then Number Nine came out with the Imagine series, then Matrox debuted the Millenium. Diamond was the best manufacturer (and marketer) of cards using that S3 968 chip, which may be a historical reason why they made that stupid merger. I have no idea what Number Nine is doing right now, but they're off the radar screen. Matrox is still kicking, but nobody is giving them the attention they deserve. STB historically made crummy graphics cards, and it's only fitting that 3dfx now owns them.
Why, oh why, are there so many different monitor brands, how can they be so cheap, and why do most of them only appear in small shops and computer shows? Off the top of my head, I can name:
BTW, when did Cirrus Logic and Western Digital quit making graphics chips?
At any rate, I'm just backgrounding how much I know and remember about PC tech from 1994 to the present. In that time, I have never seen either of those two brands "in the flesh", or for sale on any website or Computer Shopper ad that I've read, but I have heard the names before -- supposedly Hercules had the fastest TNT2 just before they went under, but good luck finding one...
OK, there are nonproductive threads that never go away like first post, KDE/GNOME, NT/Linux (I'd use GNU/Linux, but that would be confusing), bitchin' Beowulf clusters, etc.
I would especially like to make "bad-attitude" posting an option in addition to posting as an AC -- such comments would be free from moderation, and viewable at the 0 or -1 threshold without loss of karma. That may seem a bit strange, but just by lowering your threshold (mine is at -1), you're asking for it.
Long comments are overrated. Why do I never see Read the rest of this comment... at the bottom of a page? My "Long Comment Bonus" is big (10000), and my "Max Comment Size" (4096), shows a whole lotta text. Sure, there are times when they're appropriate, if there's information to be shared (though a link would be better, if not as impressive). Slashdot forums are for discussions, not treatises.
I want a "Maximum Threshold" to complement the "Minimum Threshold", and I would set my range from -1 to 3 -- the trolls and flames are frequently more interesting than the lengthy comments I spoke of. This would also be a help to moderators, whose range could be set from 0-1 in order to sort out the gems from the germs.
Reply to the thread I've just started.
or are acceptable at least, since many of them are aliens in the first place. Of course, the same is true everywhere else, but France may have a few more, as mentioned in another reply, thanks to Remulac ;). My buddy Pete asked his former roommate if he was an alien or not, because he and I were pretty much convinced -- strangely enough, his roommate wouldn't give a straight answer. I'm also convinced that my ex-boss is an alien, but that's a different story that isn't suitable for Slashdot. Why are we looking to the skies to find ALF? THEY already walk among us! I participate in SETI@home just to boast about my AMD Athlon CPU to the people I work with, not because I think it's worth the effort... Implicit, explicit, true, or not, this law is in direct conflict with SETI, and would not hold up against the U.S. Constitution's 1st Amendment right to freedom of assembly. Free assembly is a good thing, but free C and a compiler is just a bit better -- my $0.02.
$ whois mindspring.com
...
ITCHY.MINDSPRING.NET 207.69.200.210
SCRATCHY.MINDSPRING.NET 207.69.200.211
I had a PHB who decided to b!tch every time a new system got a name he didn't like, saying things like "How do I know what this thing does without a descriptive name?". The truth of the matter is that he didn't *need* to know, because he'd never deal with the system directly by that name.
Several times, I was tempted to change the name of the zone file in named.conf, and set up a cron job to regularly change the serial on the original (now a dummy) file, but getting snitched out seemed too likely.
Perhaps I'll leave this suggestion here for anyone else whose supervisor has just as little imagination as my ex-boss -- someone brought up Soviet leaders already, so I need not go further down that road...
Electronic Arts actually happens to be mentioned at the bottom of the press release, and they also reference the game as SimCity™, emphasis on ™. This suggests that there was actually some cooperation going on between the two companies -- I wonder how much of the $29.95 goes to EA instead of Atelier?
How legal are all of these game clones coming out for the Palm, Handspring, Psion, etc.?
it doesn't beat the Athlon, either.
AMD has been swinging for years, but they finally made contact with the Athlon, and Intel wasn't able to make the counterpunch. We salute the new champ, because AMD wins in price and performance...
If you ask Google "What the best operating system in the world?", and all of a sudden the link order changes:
- Welcome to Microsoft's Homepage
- The Linux Home Page
- The FreeBSD Project
When you ask Google "What the best search engine in the world?", it replies:Google's team may have been being just a bit silly, but OTOH, they can't make a handler for every possible approach to the questions they want to answer differently.
Looking for sense in search engine data and results is like making a psychoanalysis of an IRC bot.
I'm not familiar with barley as a good source of potassium, but I could be wrong.
The neural system depends on potassium to function -- AC has a good point, something that I had forgotten from high school (wish I could forget *everything else*, too).
Make that RAN to the store to buy a bag of Ruffles, but when I got back weren't any chips wide enough to fit in a DIMM slot. It's a real shame, since potato chips are a hell of a lot cheaper than RAM these days.
If anyone knows where I can get some chips that are certified to run at 100MHz or higher and can store 64MB or better, please tell me what brand you got -- are they Ruffles, Lay's, Pringles, or what?
Don't try this at home, kids -- IANADBIPOOTV...
SSI -- there is the traditional copy protection in DVD that is also found in video tape, as well as region codes, and this CSS encryption. I have looked in the FAQ, but using anemic as a word to describe it would be giving too much credit.
What are the issues with liViD?
I used to be a big time Phish fan until I saw them at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin, just before they released 'Billy Breathes'. When I came back home, I wasn't a fan of either Wisconsin or Phish. The whole thing stunk -- the roads jammed with cars, paying $10 for parking in a mass lot (as if there was an option), cops in Miller T-shirts busting kids for drinking (decent beer, not Miller), and a 15 minute death march (with horse apples on the trail). Finally, after getting in, the show had to be one of the worst on record.
The people of Burlington, WI and surrounding areas were extremely rude to my friends and myself in the two days surrounding that concert. It took about five minutes to calm a store clerk down because he asked for ID when I was buying cigarettes, and each time I attempted to reach for my wallet for cash and identification, he'd flip out and insist that I show POA. This took a couple minutes longer than a regular transaction. After breakfast at a local restaurant, my friends and I walked out and had a local say: 'Hrmph, must be a show at Alpine Today'. The group camp (which supposedly held 50 people at the time we reserved it) apparently it could only hold 20 the night after the concert. We were told that if that number was exceeded, people would get sent away. When my group got there, we bumped the number up to 19, but there was no way of telling whether the other people we invited got sent back or not...
I don't want to relive that nightmare again, and live Phish would do that for me. No more stinky Phish for this guy -- I go to the Winnipeg Folk Festival now, where the music is better, the people are cooler, and the natives are much, much nicer...
Whether it's Jesus or free software, both groups (or sections thereof) like to take popular concepts and put their own slant on them.
Everybody has heard a Christian flavor of their favorite musical genre(s), e.g. D.C. Talk, Stryper, Point of Grace, and similarly, there is a free adaptation of popular titles like Photoshop, MS Office, etc. (but strangely, nothing like AutoCAD). Whether the masses like it or not isn't really of any concern
There are many respectable hackers that are Christian, most notably Larry Wall, but also Ian D. Mead, author of UltraEdit, which happens to be the greatest text editor of all time (yes, better than VI).
Geekdom may be more genetic than cultural. Truth be told, geeks are an eclectic bunch. There are geeks who don't like sci-fi/fantasy, 'cardboard crack', comic books, or RPG's, and there may as well be Christian and Satanic geeks, too.
<RANT>
I hope to keep Slashdot as "news for nerds", not "news you can lose", and "stuff that matters", not "shut yer yapper", so given the events of the past few days, Roblimo and JonKatz have bcome the first entries in my authors.deny file.
</RANT>
For once, the better product is succeeding, athough I don't think we should be cheering Mike Dell on his way to another $billion. Micron is still making the best mass manufactured systems...
I don't think it's gonna catch on. Let's face it, it's a purely academic thing, not something done from a practicality POV -- iBooks don't need security, stability, or a large stable of daemons/services and applications. They don't stay up for months, weeks, or even days at a time, and the bigger security issue is having the thing stolen for hardware, and nobody would take the thing seriously as a mission-critical system (unless you're operating the US Army's website).
iBooks take notes and write reports. If you expect anything more out of a notebook, then you're really looking at the wrong product.
My $0.02 -- still a long way from *any* kind of laptop...
Software is a tool. If you like the way Black and Decker's power tools work better than brand X, it may still be worth your while to spend the extra money, even if they come in factory sealed units that need to be serviced by the manufacturer. If you later find that you are unhappy with the quality of Black and Decker, then you use Brand X drills and modify them to suit your needs...
Free thought, free beer, and free love are all great things, but let's not leave out free competition!
Ugh, I feel stupid for having to defend this. I thought several relevant points were brought up --but some moderators don't read the entire comment before making a judgment.
/dev/null ...
Who knows? Maybe the Amiga OE will actually ship. I don't see it appealing to geeks, newbies, or anyone inbetween. Even if it does, there's no money to be made on support alone -- Amiga's market is Joe Sixpack, not the PHB's who buy Red Hat and get those $$$$ support contracts. Businesses can justify those costs, so there's no problem with free software (beer or thought). The home user (Amiga's market) isn't really interested and won't pay for it. Amiga can't make hardware, thanks to the whole Transmeta fiasco (they can afford free thought software, because they own the hardware), OSS advocates want the software to be free, and there's no money in support -- bye bye VC money, and Amiga (once again).
They have to make money somehow. Amiga is a company, not a community. If they do fold, they'll have the great legacy of Netscape, which is another company that gave up on a shoddy incomplete product, gave it away for free (as in thought) and then the world realized that it *was* a gift horse worth looking in the mouth.
That's my two cents -- it's all the money I have left after dropping VC into Amiga. I wonder if I can get some of it back by extracting it out of
No, I didn't read the article -- is everyone that interested in Amiga just because they're basing their OS on Linux? Commodore Amiga was one thing, but I'm not so sure about the new one.
What's really going on at Amiga? While they haven't been especially clear about what their plans are, they have said with a fair amount of certainty that they are doing software only.
I don't think the world is concerned or ready for the new AmigaOS, anyway. For me at least, the things dead before arrival, and a lot of it has to do with the conflicting news they were giving. Obviously, the company has no focus, and since there has yet to be a revenue stream, nobody's expecting them to make a profit. They probably never will. When the money runs dry, *then* they'll release some half-assed code to the public and fold, just like Lucid Emacs.
It's fine for your parents to drop thousands of dollars into a college education for yourself, then after graduation, give up all your worldly possessions and become a monk. This is capitalism, though, and *some* kind of a return is important. If Gateway (a major investor in Amiga) was particularly interested in open source, I'm sure they'd prefer to make a donation directly to the community.
I'd still like to see the 'source' opened to these products, since I don't think anyone is really interested in stealing them:
Yes, they publish anything that's funny or profitable -- when they do that, however, they give a subtle warning. Any story with an image of Fuller's London Pride on the right is untrue. If you follow the link below that image, they tell you how much it costs to get your own story published in The Register, true or otherwise...
Response 7: More FUD from Microsoft/ZD/Intel
Response 8: F1R$7 P0$7!
We all have those PHB's that can't adapt to the new stuff.