I'm pretty sure that doesn't (and, in fact, couldn't) apply to resale. MS licenses Windows to European computer companies, but that does not give them the right to then tell those companies who they can and can't sell their computers to. In fact, considering how much hot water MS is ALREADY in with the EU over monopolistic practices, that kind of heavy handedness would almost certainly result in huge fines for them if they even tried.
Non-American companies are free to sell their computers to whoever they damn well please. Not every country still holds onto an ancient Cold War-era grudge against a guy who refused to kneel down to the mighty U.S. and let himself be assassinated.
my ISP (iinet) has repeatedly stated that it is only taking part in trial to demonstrate how badly it will fail
Thank god someone had the intelligence to see that they're only doing it as a way to tell the government "Screw you! We're going to obey you, but only for the irony, man!" Most non-smart people would cynically assume that their ISP was just falling into line because they're too scared of the government to say "no", and are merely offering a pathetic excuse for doing so by trying to pretend that they're not really caving in like a bunch of prison bitches.
You seem like a really smart guy to me, in how you saw through to your ISP's honesty. In fact, I am looking to recruit some really smart guys and offer them a unique real estate opportunity, available only to a select few particularly bright guys like yourself. Now some upfront investment may be required, but a guy as smart as you knows you have to spend money to make money. Now, I've got guys lining up around the block to take part, so if your interested, you'll need to respond quickly or you'll lose your chance. Just give me your bank account information and we can get started making you some big money!
They're not making a emulator for playing bootleg and pirated games, they're doing it for museums and archives. It's about preserving our cultural heritage for our kids. It's about our hist...
Wow, I can't even type that with a straight face. Whoever bullshitted their way into a grant for this deserves an award of some sort. Is there an award for bullshit artists, I mean besides political office?
Exactly like a much larger group of Republicans supported the bailout plan last year when Bush was President and the Democrats didn't have enough votes to pass it on their own. They're all happy to offer token resistance to money for corporations, just as long as they're sure that that resistance won't actually stop the money. Republicans and Democrats are both in the pockets of big business and don't give a rat's ass about what the people want.
The only reason McCain accepted public funding was because he HAD to. If he could have raised the kind of money Obama could, he would have turned down public money too. All politicians are scumbags who take advantage of naive dupes who are stupid enough to believe in them. They're hyper-ambitious assholes who would gladly crawl over their dead mother's body to win an election or garner more power for themselves. If you think your guy is an exception, that just means you're the naive dupe in the equation.
Unless you "involve" yourself by holding big fundraisers for them or getting them big campaign donations, they couldn't give a shit less what you think.
The PS3 CPU alone doesn't have anywhere anywhere near the muscle to handle this. And you can't access the any of the GPU muscle on a PS3 because Sony locked it down.
Speak for yourself. I like the "freedom" of watching HD content. I'm not going to be some technological luddite still watching shitty NTSC standard definition just for some bullshit cause, thank you very much. If you want me, you'll need to bring your cause into the 21st century. This is/. for Christ's sake!
I'm pretty sure the blind have been using this sort of software for years, in fact I'm sure of it. Are they also going to threaten Apple and all the other software vendors who supply this much-needed resource for the blind? Did they even *think* about the deeper implications of what they're saying before firing the opening volley in what is, at its heart, a blatantly pissy money grab?
In an age of sandbox games and FPS's with large open spaces, it's a little hard to do anything innovative with what is, at its heart, an old-school hallway runner. No matter how pretty you make the hallway, it's still just a hallway. And it didn't help that Doom 3 also aped its predecessors with scripted enemy appearances and an AI which consisted entirely of "run toward the player and attack."
Doom 4 would basically have to reinvent itself to modernize, but then everyone would complain that it wasn't true to its franchise. Probably best to just leave it alone.
Since the site is slashdotted and the summary is a little shy on details, can someone summarize how this thing works without cable? I know you can torrent some shows and watch some on sites like hulu, but that doesn't really "replace cable" (especially if you watch HD content). So how does this media center work with no cable input?
No, he's just asking for fairness. If MS can't bundle IE, then it's only fair to extend that to all the other apps they bundle (which presumably also give them an advantage over competitors). And the same thing should also go for Ubuntu and Apple, both of which also bundle a specific browser and many apps with their OS's too. The hypocrisy that surrounds this whole debate, and the level of anti-MS vitriol spewed forth anytime someone brings up the fact that they bundle what has become a basic app (a simple web browser) with their OS is absolutely ludicrous. This may have been a relevant debate back in the 90's (before the web became so ubiquitous), but no one in their right mind would release an OS anymore WITHOUT a web browser. Singling out MS and asking them to do that is unfair harassment.
Yeah, and after a few years of that they realized that assumption was stupid and got rid of the Articles of Confederation in favor of the Constitution.
I use Firefox exclusively, and including IE by default not only didn't stop me from downloading and using Firefox, it actually helped. How else was I supposed to access Mozilla's website on my new PC?
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I'm pretty sure that doesn't (and, in fact, couldn't) apply to resale. MS licenses Windows to European computer companies, but that does not give them the right to then tell those companies who they can and can't sell their computers to. In fact, considering how much hot water MS is ALREADY in with the EU over monopolistic practices, that kind of heavy handedness would almost certainly result in huge fines for them if they even tried.
Non-American companies are free to sell their computers to whoever they damn well please. Not every country still holds onto an ancient Cold War-era grudge against a guy who refused to kneel down to the mighty U.S. and let himself be assassinated.
my ISP (iinet) has repeatedly stated that it is only taking part in trial to demonstrate how badly it will fail
Thank god someone had the intelligence to see that they're only doing it as a way to tell the government "Screw you! We're going to obey you, but only for the irony, man!" Most non-smart people would cynically assume that their ISP was just falling into line because they're too scared of the government to say "no", and are merely offering a pathetic excuse for doing so by trying to pretend that they're not really caving in like a bunch of prison bitches.
You seem like a really smart guy to me, in how you saw through to your ISP's honesty. In fact, I am looking to recruit some really smart guys and offer them a unique real estate opportunity, available only to a select few particularly bright guys like yourself. Now some upfront investment may be required, but a guy as smart as you knows you have to spend money to make money. Now, I've got guys lining up around the block to take part, so if your interested, you'll need to respond quickly or you'll lose your chance. Just give me your bank account information and we can get started making you some big money!
Yeah, and I'm fucking your wife just to demonstrate that adultery is wrong.
Only if we're lucky.
Are you kidding? Sonic 2009 is WAY better than Sonic 2008!
I didn't say they wouldn't talk to you, I said they couldn't give a shit less what you think.
They're not making a emulator for playing bootleg and pirated games, they're doing it for museums and archives. It's about preserving our cultural heritage for our kids. It's about our hist...
Wow, I can't even type that with a straight face. Whoever bullshitted their way into a grant for this deserves an award of some sort. Is there an award for bullshit artists, I mean besides political office?
Is the judge going to 'ban' them from Texas?
Why not? They already ban "Book learnin' and them Commie Liberals" from everywhere but Austin.
Exactly like a much larger group of Republicans supported the bailout plan last year when Bush was President and the Democrats didn't have enough votes to pass it on their own. They're all happy to offer token resistance to money for corporations, just as long as they're sure that that resistance won't actually stop the money. Republicans and Democrats are both in the pockets of big business and don't give a rat's ass about what the people want.
You're right, how dare they expect us to develop software to help them read? Let them use their eyes just like the rest of us!
The only reason McCain accepted public funding was because he HAD to. If he could have raised the kind of money Obama could, he would have turned down public money too. All politicians are scumbags who take advantage of naive dupes who are stupid enough to believe in them. They're hyper-ambitious assholes who would gladly crawl over their dead mother's body to win an election or garner more power for themselves. If you think your guy is an exception, that just means you're the naive dupe in the equation.
Unless you "involve" yourself by holding big fundraisers for them or getting them big campaign donations, they couldn't give a shit less what you think.
Perhaps he should have specified the word LEGALLY.
The PS3 CPU alone doesn't have anywhere anywhere near the muscle to handle this. And you can't access the any of the GPU muscle on a PS3 because Sony locked it down.
Speak for yourself. I like the "freedom" of watching HD content. I'm not going to be some technological luddite still watching shitty NTSC standard definition just for some bullshit cause, thank you very much. If you want me, you'll need to bring your cause into the 21st century. This is /. for Christ's sake!
I'm pretty sure the blind have been using this sort of software for years, in fact I'm sure of it. Are they also going to threaten Apple and all the other software vendors who supply this much-needed resource for the blind? Did they even *think* about the deeper implications of what they're saying before firing the opening volley in what is, at its heart, a blatantly pissy money grab?
In an age of sandbox games and FPS's with large open spaces, it's a little hard to do anything innovative with what is, at its heart, an old-school hallway runner. No matter how pretty you make the hallway, it's still just a hallway. And it didn't help that Doom 3 also aped its predecessors with scripted enemy appearances and an AI which consisted entirely of "run toward the player and attack."
Doom 4 would basically have to reinvent itself to modernize, but then everyone would complain that it wasn't true to its franchise. Probably best to just leave it alone.
Silly rabbit, /. editors can't read. They just mash at the buttons until something happens.
Speaking of the 20's, did you know that the world's elephant population has more than doubled in the last 20 years?
Since the site is slashdotted and the summary is a little shy on details, can someone summarize how this thing works without cable? I know you can torrent some shows and watch some on sites like hulu, but that doesn't really "replace cable" (especially if you watch HD content). So how does this media center work with no cable input?
No, he's just asking for fairness. If MS can't bundle IE, then it's only fair to extend that to all the other apps they bundle (which presumably also give them an advantage over competitors). And the same thing should also go for Ubuntu and Apple, both of which also bundle a specific browser and many apps with their OS's too. The hypocrisy that surrounds this whole debate, and the level of anti-MS vitriol spewed forth anytime someone brings up the fact that they bundle what has become a basic app (a simple web browser) with their OS is absolutely ludicrous. This may have been a relevant debate back in the 90's (before the web became so ubiquitous), but no one in their right mind would release an OS anymore WITHOUT a web browser. Singling out MS and asking them to do that is unfair harassment.
Don't mod me troll if you can't answer my question, asshole.
Yeah, and after a few years of that they realized that assumption was stupid and got rid of the Articles of Confederation in favor of the Constitution.
I use Firefox exclusively, and including IE by default not only didn't stop me from downloading and using Firefox, it actually helped. How else was I supposed to access Mozilla's website on my new PC?
At least people expect the cops to break down your door in the U.S. Nobody expects the...
Oh, forget it.