Did it ever occur to anyone that the majority of executables and drivers, even legitamate ones, are not signed? So what this article doesn't say, but suggests is that MS's solution to the whole security thing is to block out all unsigned exe's.
Am I wrong?
Free isn't free. The music expires over a period of time, and you can't put it on an mp3 player. Personally I subscribe to Ruckus, because it is free through my college. I wouldn't have signed up at all if I wasn't able to convert all the files to mp3 using TuneBite. Regardless, their interface is clunky and their software sucks and contains ads. If I didnt convert the songs it just wouldnt be worth it.
The whole reason we have a private company rating games is because if they didn't do it, the Govt. would step up and take the job. So what if the the ESRB isn't perfect. It's better than Uncle Sam breathing down the necks of stores and developers applying taxes for rating + such.
I beleive in the last year I may have lost somewhere around the vicinity of $6 billion due to theft. I performed a study asking 100 people if they had stolen my valuable toenail clippings, which go for $100 million apiece. I have accounted for the vast undercoverage of people who are lying to protect themselves.
Because of you theives I'll never see that $6 billion.
Agreed!:-D I don't beleive Intel was ever a monopoly, and AMD has proven that. They were simply the dominant company. I hope we have a more balanced processor market in the future.
Where I live, they get around monopoly laws by having two companies offer electricity. Their prices are almost identical, and are likely connected in some illegal ways. But for the alternative... would it be worth it to have two sets of telephone and electrical wires everywhere in the city? No... it would cost far more money for the construction.
Your thoughts?
I won't deny that Intel delays releases to acheive more profit. How is this illegal in any way? Let me put it into/. terms... If you had The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions already done at about the same time, is it illegal for you not to release them both at the same time so that you could earn more money by waiting a year to release Revolutions? NO. And it shouldn't be illegal.
However, this is in essence what Intel did, and now they are paying for it because this gave AMD the time to catch up. I'm a hardcore AMD fan, but don't go pulling things out of your ass saying these business practices are illegal.
It's not illegal to make a bad product. It's the consumer's responsibility to NOT buy products that suck, and the manufacturer's responsibility to try and make it better by either replacing the product or fixing the defect. Nowhere should the law step in. Suing over this is like suing McDonalds because you didn't like the taste of the burger. This is yet another reason to wait at least a year after any system comes out to buy it. Not only does the price go down dramatically, but all the major bugs like this should be worked out by then.
I say fuck these people and their sue-happy attidudes. There's too much of it goign around lately, and it's only getting worse.
How is a webmail service a 'clone' of a client-side email program? Gmail isn't a clone of anything. Yes, it's webmail, along with plenty of others out there, but It's unique.
I use Gmail's (free) pop forwarding into Thunderbird.
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Did it ever occur to anyone that the majority of executables and drivers, even legitamate ones, are not signed? So what this article doesn't say, but suggests is that MS's solution to the whole security thing is to block out all unsigned exe's. Am I wrong?
You guys are too late! It's no longer being publicized therefore it's no longer a threat.
Free isn't free. The music expires over a period of time, and you can't put it on an mp3 player. Personally I subscribe to Ruckus, because it is free through my college. I wouldn't have signed up at all if I wasn't able to convert all the files to mp3 using TuneBite. Regardless, their interface is clunky and their software sucks and contains ads. If I didnt convert the songs it just wouldnt be worth it.
It's been done
The whole reason we have a private company rating games is because if they didn't do it, the Govt. would step up and take the job. So what if the the ESRB isn't perfect. It's better than Uncle Sam breathing down the necks of stores and developers applying taxes for rating + such.
I beleive in the last year I may have lost somewhere around the vicinity of $6 billion due to theft. I performed a study asking 100 people if they had stolen my valuable toenail clippings, which go for $100 million apiece. I have accounted for the vast undercoverage of people who are lying to protect themselves.
Because of you theives I'll never see that $6 billion.
And such are the risks alpha testers take.
Agreed! :-D
I don't beleive Intel was ever a monopoly, and AMD has proven that. They were simply the dominant company.
I hope we have a more balanced processor market in the future.
They already have those... thousands of them in fact, in Windows XP.
Just for the record, Steve Jobs was the hippy.
Where I live, they get around monopoly laws by having two companies offer electricity. Their prices are almost identical, and are likely connected in some illegal ways. But for the alternative... would it be worth it to have two sets of telephone and electrical wires everywhere in the city? No... it would cost far more money for the construction. Your thoughts?
I won't deny that Intel delays releases to acheive more profit. How is this illegal in any way? Let me put it into /. terms... If you had The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions already done at about the same time, is it illegal for you not to release them both at the same time so that you could earn more money by waiting a year to release Revolutions? NO. And it shouldn't be illegal.
However, this is in essence what Intel did, and now they are paying for it because this gave AMD the time to catch up. I'm a hardcore AMD fan, but don't go pulling things out of your ass saying these business practices are illegal.
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Neutrino? What, Is that like the new Pentium or something?
So now the ability to buy or sell something at a certain price has been patented. What's left? The ability to go to the bathroom?
This is just the sort of thing that will make websites BLOCK *@aol.com.
If I hear one more person tell me the video games I play make me violent, I'm going to punch my dog.
That's a silly thing to say. Just because their companies are competing in a certain market doesn't mean they have to be hostile towards eachother.
Get with the program. Either buy a computer that supports these things or stop whining.
Are people surging to buy ipods because.... their old ones broke?
It's not illegal to make a bad product. It's the consumer's responsibility to NOT buy products that suck, and the manufacturer's responsibility to try and make it better by either replacing the product or fixing the defect. Nowhere should the law step in. Suing over this is like suing McDonalds because you didn't like the taste of the burger. This is yet another reason to wait at least a year after any system comes out to buy it. Not only does the price go down dramatically, but all the major bugs like this should be worked out by then.
I say fuck these people and their sue-happy attidudes. There's too much of it goign around lately, and it's only getting worse.
gotcha. Sometimes hard to sense sarchasm in text.
How is a webmail service a 'clone' of a client-side email program? Gmail isn't a clone of anything. Yes, it's webmail, along with plenty of others out there, but It's unique.
I use Gmail's (free) pop forwarding into Thunderbird.
Very nice... very nice...
Now I can photocopy my ass at 330 feet per minute!
Thank you IBM, for pushing the envelope once again.
Not entirely unrelated... For anyone who has some spare time and a TI-83 calculator, I conceived a set of functions to plot a Tie Fighter.
In Polar mode & radians,
r1 = tan(Theta^3)
r2 = -tan(Theta^3)
Window:
ThetaMin = -10
ThetaMax = 10
ThetaStep = 1
XMin = -10
XMax = 10
YMin = -10
YMax = 10
It helps to turn axes off.
Try it out... enjoy.