"Hey, douche! Man, get off my Slashdot if all you're going to do is waste my time with 'FIRST PROST!!!!' Comments! Asshole!";) Though the 1st amendment may not protect my karma...
However, charge for the Windows binaries/installer. Most Windows users will pay $20 rather than have to figure out how to compile it. If they do compile it anyway then their time is worth less than $20 so they could not have afforded it anyway.
But won't someone just compile it and then give the.EXE for free? Some people might still buy it from him since it is the 'official EXE', but many of them would just get the free EXE.
Goatse Guy in Hi-Def? He might need to re-shoot the picture. Which makes me ask, how much "classic" content will see absolutely _no_ benefit from Hi-Def formats, simply because there was never that much information about the picture to begin with? Will Steven Spielberg and George Lucas go back and digitally re-master all their works for another round of movie players? Will anyone go back and touch up Stanley Kubrick's works for that extra bit of perceived quality? Can they even sharpen the picture any more? Or do we go back and re-film everything, shot for shot?
I'm sorry, I didn't realize a company trying to protect it's investments was unethical. As a previous poster found, there is a single GET request with the "registered" serial number, followed by a 2x2 blank gif. The bandwidth usage is negligible, and it's the only secure way to ensure the product is a valid, legal license. With software piracy as it is, business are justified in taking actions like these to lock their investment down.
As to the address used... that's another point. It would be better to say (in the EULA, that you read, which it may, I don't own CS3 and haven't read the EULA) "This product connects to the internet once per run to verify it's authenticity" and connect to authenticate.adobe.com.
Phoning home is neither unethical nor immoral, and should be expected. It would, however, be nice to not try to hide the fact that that's what they're doing.
The LCARS interface, designed by Michael Okuda for TNG, is really a vision of what I would like to see. A large touch area that dynamically updates (intelligently - eg, the way I specify) its touch areas based on state. The keyboard in front of me takes most input, but I can touch specific areas on the screen for more esoteric actions - buttons, tabs, anything I'd normally "click" on. I can move my finger much faster and more precisely than my mouse, and I can type faster on a regularly sized keyboard than I can write, or text. So, take what works well (my hand) and put it closer to what I work with (the image). Multi-touch then becomes very useful, but not so ueber-expressive, a la "surface" or the others.
The only issue I have with LCARS as seen on-screen is the use of numbers instead of icons or text to convey information (but that's a trivial issue).
I like the war analogy - War against "environmental change, disease and international political and economic upheaval!"... so, because no one likes change, and everyone has their own goals and motives first, technological advancement will not meet its full potential. AKA, we need the buggers to attack so we can unite around Ender Wiggins.
He compared a catalogue of 18,000 X-ray sources from the German-American Rosat satellite, which operated from 1990 to 1999, with catalogues of objects that appeared in visible light, infrared light, and radio waves.
Makes me wonder how much data has been colected, but not analyzed, and what other astronomical wonders and oddities will be found when that data is analyzed.
"THe specialist software that it runs not yet being rewritten for vista"
Which, clearly, means it should be re-written for Linux before being updated to work with Vista. The largest hinderance to Linux adoption in the corporate world isn't Office vs. OpenOffice, or even really Windows vs Linux, it's all the smaller thrird-party or in-house apps written in VB/C#.NET by IT Techs who don't know the difference between an integer and a pointer.
Energy from sun + basic chemicals = basic chemicals necessary to life (methane, ammonia, water, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide, phosphate...). More energy and salts give you proteins... all having been demonstrated in lab settings.
Or, more eloquently by Darwin, "[In a] warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, lights, heat, electricity, etc. present, so that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes"
Would your experience have been better if one of the local fishermen had taken the time to put local information on Google? Google has seen an area of their services that falls short (small, Mom & Pop business listings) and taken initiative to fix and improve that area of their service. I can't see anything wrong with that, and can point to several other technology companies who could take a lesson in increasing stock value by providing quality, and letting quantity follow.
OTOH, local fishing and hunting is more of an art, along with many other activities (writing, guitar, talking...), and social skills like these should probably be improved individually before turning to Google. I know if I were to plan a hunting or fishing trip, or start a band, or anything else that doesn't inherently involve a computer, people I know would be much higher on my list of contacts than Google.
Don't hold your breath. It took almost 3 years - and a new OS - to get Halo 2 to the PC. Halo is an XBox experience, not a PC experience, and it seems in Microsoft's best interest to keep it that way.
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IANAL, but it looks like/. says it belongs to you. They are just storing it and showing it to whomever possible. Kind of like that annoying 8-year old who keeps telling everyone what he heard Grandma say last Christmas when she poked herself quilting...
ATI does not support more than 2-3 generations of cards. Their driver development quickly stops
No shit. How much money does it take to research and deveop a new card, and how long is the expected card life? There is no incentive for them to maintain support for 2 generations ago, much less 4 or 8 or 10. No one will buy the 8500 when the X1500Pro is out, so why should they care? So you (read the plural Linux geek who thinks all software should be made with TLC) can use your drivers? Forget the simple fact you are *maybe* 1% of the market audience. Sorry, not evil, simply human.
Hell yeah! Just got out of the theater for our special 10:00 Thursday showing, and I must say the crowd was the best movie crowd I've ever seen. Cheering when snakes attack, cringing when other snakes attack, quoting lines from a film that *NO ONE* had seen "I'm tired of these mutherfucking snakes on my mutherfucking plane!".
I do believe that New Line cinema may have unintentionally hit upon a new type of film making, but much more and I'll be modded off topic. So, on to the next thread about films!
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You know, this protects flamers too...
;) Though the 1st amendment may not protect my karma...
"Hey, douche! Man, get off my Slashdot if all you're going to do is waste my time with 'FIRST PROST!!!!' Comments! Asshole!"
I was going to mod you +1 Insightful just to spite your notice, but you're already +5 Funny.
It's not that it's new, it's the quality of the algorithm.
Because that would be piracy.
My friend, as an consumer you must vote with your wallet and go to a (hopefully) lesser evil.
;)
(Disclaimer: I don't know what other options you have
Goatse Guy in Hi-Def? He might need to re-shoot the picture. Which makes me ask, how much "classic" content will see absolutely _no_ benefit from Hi-Def formats, simply because there was never that much information about the picture to begin with? Will Steven Spielberg and George Lucas go back and digitally re-master all their works for another round of movie players? Will anyone go back and touch up Stanley Kubrick's works for that extra bit of perceived quality? Can they even sharpen the picture any more? Or do we go back and re-film everything, shot for shot?
I'm sorry, I didn't realize a company trying to protect it's investments was unethical. As a previous poster found, there is a single GET request with the "registered" serial number, followed by a 2x2 blank gif. The bandwidth usage is negligible, and it's the only secure way to ensure the product is a valid, legal license. With software piracy as it is, business are justified in taking actions like these to lock their investment down.
As to the address used... that's another point. It would be better to say (in the EULA, that you read, which it may, I don't own CS3 and haven't read the EULA) "This product connects to the internet once per run to verify it's authenticity" and connect to authenticate.adobe.com.
Phoning home is neither unethical nor immoral, and should be expected. It would, however, be nice to not try to hide the fact that that's what they're doing.
He's not wearing any gloves! The safe Boy Scout in me is not impressed!
1. Intentional shortage
2. Reduce marketing spending
3. Hype via "Lone-Ranger" marketing
4. ???
5. Profit!
Maybe a quantum neural network can parse all languages to loglan, and there'll be no more ambiguity on the interwebs, ever!
Star Trek.
The LCARS interface, designed by Michael Okuda for TNG, is really a vision of what I would like to see. A large touch area that dynamically updates (intelligently - eg, the way I specify) its touch areas based on state. The keyboard in front of me takes most input, but I can touch specific areas on the screen for more esoteric actions - buttons, tabs, anything I'd normally "click" on. I can move my finger much faster and more precisely than my mouse, and I can type faster on a regularly sized keyboard than I can write, or text. So, take what works well (my hand) and put it closer to what I work with (the image). Multi-touch then becomes very useful, but not so ueber-expressive, a la "surface" or the others.
The only issue I have with LCARS as seen on-screen is the use of numbers instead of icons or text to convey information (but that's a trivial issue).
Print view: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/print/0,1000000169,39291080-39001111c,00.htm
0I like the war analogy - War against "environmental change, disease and international political and economic upheaval!" ... so, because no one likes change, and everyone has their own goals and motives first, technological advancement will not meet its full potential. AKA, we need the buggers to attack so we can unite around Ender Wiggins.
17.857% of the market is willing to brick their phones
Makes me wonder how much data has been colected, but not analyzed, and what other astronomical wonders and oddities will be found when that data is analyzed.
As GP said
"THe specialist software that it runs not yet being rewritten for vista"
Which, clearly, means it should be re-written for Linux before being updated to work with Vista. The largest hinderance to Linux adoption in the corporate world isn't Office vs. OpenOffice, or even really Windows vs Linux, it's all the smaller thrird-party or in-house apps written in VB/C#.NET by IT Techs who don't know the difference between an integer and a pointer.
Energy from sun + basic chemicals = basic chemicals necessary to life (methane, ammonia, water, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide, phosphate...). More energy and salts give you proteins... all having been demonstrated in lab settings.
Or, more eloquently by Darwin, "[In a] warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, lights, heat, electricity, etc. present, so that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes"
Would your experience have been better if one of the local fishermen had taken the time to put local information on Google? Google has seen an area of their services that falls short (small, Mom & Pop business listings) and taken initiative to fix and improve that area of their service. I can't see anything wrong with that, and can point to several other technology companies who could take a lesson in increasing stock value by providing quality, and letting quantity follow.
OTOH, local fishing and hunting is more of an art, along with many other activities (writing, guitar, talking...), and social skills like these should probably be improved individually before turning to Google. I know if I were to plan a hunting or fishing trip, or start a band, or anything else that doesn't inherently involve a computer, people I know would be much higher on my list of contacts than Google.
Don't hold your breath. It took almost 3 years - and a new OS - to get Halo 2 to the PC. Halo is an XBox experience, not a PC experience, and it seems in Microsoft's best interest to keep it that way.
TFA is over 10 pages of 3 paragraphs...
http://www.cio.com/article/print/41140 is much nicer to read.
Surely, you meant the best ad agency.
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/. says it belongs to you. They are just storing it and showing it to whomever possible. Kind of like that annoying 8-year old who keeps telling everyone what he heard Grandma say last Christmas when she poked herself quilting...
IANAL, but it looks like
Hey! Don't diss my girlfriend for being geekier than me!
ATI does not support more than 2-3 generations of cards. Their driver development quickly stops
No shit. How much money does it take to research and deveop a new card, and how long is the expected card life? There is no incentive for them to maintain support for 2 generations ago, much less 4 or 8 or 10. No one will buy the 8500 when the X1500Pro is out, so why should they care? So you (read the plural Linux geek who thinks all software should be made with TLC) can use your drivers? Forget the simple fact you are *maybe* 1% of the market audience. Sorry, not evil, simply human.
Or, even tough he is not a video game character, maybe Samuel "The Man" Jackson? He's badass enough for this yet doesn't take himself seriously.
You want a motherfucking side of motherfucking snake with that? But there'd be a huge problem. The game only supports 3vs1. Too unbalanced.
Hell yeah! Just got out of the theater for our special 10:00 Thursday showing, and I must say the crowd was the best movie crowd I've ever seen. Cheering when snakes attack, cringing when other snakes attack, quoting lines from a film that *NO ONE* had seen "I'm tired of these mutherfucking snakes on my mutherfucking plane!".
I do believe that New Line cinema may have unintentionally hit upon a new type of film making, but much more and I'll be modded off topic. So, on to the next thread about films!