This is a bit hazy, the way I think it stands now (IIRC) is that if it an OEM license, you/CANNOT/ put it onto a new system other then the one that it came with. However, if you buy a bare bones system, you can quailfy to buy an OEM license, you just need to ask the place that you are buying from.
Who says that you need to run the latest and greatest? I have my p133 sitting at school right now running slackware 4, KDE 1.1.2, with two 4 gig Hard Drives and 64MB RAM. Meanwhile, on my box at home, I jsut upgraded to KDE3RC3, 750Mhz, 384MB, 60G. At school, my computer is fine for exactly what I need, KDE has been stable, and honestly. Both machines are running at the same pace, and KDE 3 has more bells and whistles. If you don't want all the extra bells and whistles, why do feel like you need to upgrade?
The current versions of software are designed to run on recent hardware. This has always been true, if there is a need to upgrade your software, you may need to upgrade yours system.
"We do not intend to stand idly by while others build business illegally off of our music," said Matt Oppenheim
Call me old fashioned, but I always thought that music might belong to people that created, for example, maybe.... The artists?
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Imagine telling Mary soccer mom that the reason her computer is hobbled is to protect the profits of pornographers
Holy shit thats a good idea! I am just going to tell people this if the bill starts being talked about.
"You know that SSSCA? Well/I/ heard that its being pushed by a bunch of porno giants to protect their movies from being distributed online" I think there could be a major backlash from that. That is not a bad idea.
Yes, my idea changed from when I started typing to when I finished, as there isn't much of a way to get companies to open their code to people and to get people to do this without $$$. 'Volunteer' was the wrong word, but the group that would be doing it would be non-profit (I think, amd I right on that definition?). The only people making money off of this would be the game companies themselves, as non-profit groups do pay people salaries, and you really can't have peopel do this full time for free.
Would there actually be any intrest for a volunteer group of programmers to port games? I.E. A group of people doing what Loki was doing but in non-profit status?
I am picturing this: A group of coders being allowed by companies to port their code over to Linux. Companies takes a X% cut, programmers get paid so they can keep doing this, extra gets donated to FSF etc.
You know... If we had a Beowulf Cluster of Linuses...
*rimshot*
How about a RAIKA? A redundant array of Kernel Admins? Maybe keep them hot-swapable? That way, if one goes out to the pub, the other one can keep things going....
You know, after reading the story, I just got the impression that Reuters is saying: "There is this guy in Ireland who says that he built a perpetual mtion machine, about 99% of the world scientists say that is impossible, he show it to us and it looked like it worked, if its real this could be big". They aren't saying that this is real, and most importantly (unlike some of us) they are not taking a viewpoint that this is rubbish without knowing how the device functions for a long time people thought the world was flat and they accepted it without question, you never know, the 2nd law of thermodynamics may be looked upon this way in 1e3 years.
(Disclaimer: I still think this thing is a load of bullocks, but I still refuse to dismiss it without acknowledging that this person may or may have not done it. I'll believe it when he/she/it rips it apart and shows us how it works)
Phantasy Star Online has been a MMORPG on the Dreamcast Console for a long time. Its still pretty popular too, I wouldn't be suprised if its one the more popular Dreamcast Titles out there...
Apparently I need humor delimiters. I have no problem working with MS systems, and I am quite happy where I am. At home I use Linux. I just usually use that line when I am at my LUG and we swap war stories back and forth. Take a joke people!
After myself being called to fix a customer's sExchange (Yes, NT, I'm young and I need the money) server that barfed its guts on the floor because of this, you can hand them over to my IT dept, we really wanted to take them out back and flog them repeatedly last week.
A good requirements document will save you there. Outline what the program will and will not do, ahve the customer sign it, the customer can't complain. Good software engineering practices will save your arse every time.
OTOH, I've met clean-cut-god-like-programmers who work 9-5, wear ties, don't play with Nerf guns, and are mature. I work with two, they are lower-gods of C/C++. They can produce amazing programs, they don't have beards, and they smell normal. ^_^
The Mainframe programmers are a great exmple of this: When is the last time a Mainframe crashed?
The entire software-jockey approach (I love that term, I got it from a professor [software engineering, among other classes]) is make something moderately useful unleash it to the world, fix stuff afterwards. Microsoft is an excellent example of this. Things don't work like this in the real world. Designing a car is not unlike designing a software project, you have an objective, and you have a place where you begin, people do this in software projects all the time.
Read the Mythical Man month, its outlines how to do 'good' software engineering. Its a really good read.
The days of the 'software jockeys' are numbered. Businesses are not going to put up with the furry-toothed geek who works from 5-9 because it hurts productivity. For example: FTG come in at 5 codes until 9, leave, testers show up, program doesn't work, they have to wait until the next day for the FTG to fix the problem. Testers sit around twiddling their thumbs all day. This is stupid and businesses are not going to put up with it. Within 10 or so years, computer programming is going to be more of an assembly line business with each programmer doing a certain section of a large project, working 9-5 on a salary.
Honestly, I think its better this way, I speak from experience with the above example.
True, but we did drop them, almost immediately after production, IIRC (Feel free to correct me, its been a long time since I read 'Enola Gay')
If we launch a nuke, everybody who has ever pissed us off in the past (and maybe those who haven't) are going to shit themselves, and when people do that, I am quite sure someone is going to fire back. We see it, we launch at them (assuming it someone different), someone else sees that the baloon has gone up and might take that opportunity to fire at their worst enemy. Eventually, everyone fires and everyone dies. Watch the ending of WarGames, thats how wevery simulation ended, and I am quite sure thats how a nuclear strike will always end.
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Three Ways (Among many):
Police Work
'Special Operations' (Delta Force, HRT, Navy Seal, Rangers)
Diplomacy
There is not going to be some major gulf-war-style invasion of $country. Its going to be small raids and police detective work tracking people down and arresting them. If we strike back at civilian populations en masse, we are very quickly going to go from good guy to bad guy. Even military people know that.
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Yes, that does sound dirty, doesn't it?
Just because he is going to bed, doesn't mean he is getting sleep, I know that if I was in his position, I would not be sleeping to well myself. Plus, I take everything I hear from the news outlets (especially Fox, *shudder*) with a large helping of NaCl. Also, even if he is keeping to his regular routine, he is dealing with a little more on his plate the usual, which is probably requiring more sleep then usual.
I believe Bush is tired and stressed, along with all the other emotions that the people of the US is feeling right now, and he is doing a better then average job of handling it.
Ah yes grasshopper, but you are neglecting to see that this is not a country attacking us, else they would have been bombed back into the stone age by now./No one/ in the world community would support a nuclear response to this incident, Britain and NATO included, if we lose the support of our allies, we are fscked. Plus, a nuclear response would get/way/ out of hand/very/ quickly. One missle launched, no matter where is was headed, would instantly trigger everyone else to launch back at us. No questions asked.
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Several people in my office including me think they've decided to use a nuke and Bush is getting shook up about how HE is the one who is going to go down in history for authorizing it.
Or he could be going on his (probably) 26-27th hour without sleep and everything sort of caught up with him. I highly doubt the military would suggest a nuclear response for a conventional attack such as this. I/really/ doubt anyone, no matter how angry, would let this go that far, even SecDef Rumsfeld(sp) said that this would be a new kind of war and would not see such normal things as airstikes and troop landings.
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This is a bit hazy, the way I think it stands now (IIRC) is that if it an OEM license, you /CANNOT/ put it onto a new system other then the one that it came with. However, if you buy a bare bones system, you can quailfy to buy an OEM license, you just need to ask the place that you are buying from.
Now we'll see "X-Box is dying" posts... Thanks Hemos!
Maybe now I can sue Sony due to the fact that now that I play Everquest I have no life.
Who says that you need to run the latest and greatest? I have my p133 sitting at school right now running slackware 4, KDE 1.1.2, with two 4 gig Hard Drives and 64MB RAM. Meanwhile, on my box at home, I jsut upgraded to KDE3RC3, 750Mhz, 384MB, 60G. At school, my computer is fine for exactly what I need, KDE has been stable, and honestly. Both machines are running at the same pace, and KDE 3 has more bells and whistles. If you don't want all the extra bells and whistles, why do feel like you need to upgrade?
The current versions of software are designed to run on recent hardware. This has always been true, if there is a need to upgrade your software, you may need to upgrade yours system.
Call me old fashioned, but I always thought that music might belong to people that created, for example, maybe.... The artists?
Holy shit thats a good idea! I am just going to tell people this if the bill starts being talked about.
"You know that SSSCA? Well
But do you really want anyone with a Wireless card looking at all your pr0n surfing?
Yes, my idea changed from when I started typing to when I finished, as there isn't much of a way to get companies to open their code to people and to get people to do this without $$$. 'Volunteer' was the wrong word, but the group that would be doing it would be non-profit (I think, amd I right on that definition?). The only people making money off of this would be the game companies themselves, as non-profit groups do pay people salaries, and you really can't have peopel do this full time for free.
My bad. I think faster then I type.
Would there actually be any intrest for a volunteer group of programmers to port games? I.E. A group of people doing what Loki was doing but in non-profit status?
I am picturing this: A group of coders being allowed by companies to port their code over to Linux. Companies takes a X% cut, programmers get paid so they can keep doing this, extra gets donated to FSF etc.
Does this sound insane?
You know... If we had a Beowulf Cluster of Linuses...
*rimshot*
How about a RAIKA? A redundant array of Kernel Admins? Maybe keep them hot-swapable? That way, if one goes out to the pub, the other one can keep things going....
OK, I'll just shut up now...
(Disclaimer: I still think this thing is a load of bullocks, but I still refuse to dismiss it without acknowledging that this person may or may have not done it. I'll believe it when he/she/it rips it apart and shows us how it works)
Phantasy Star Online has been a MMORPG on the Dreamcast Console for a long time. Its still pretty popular too, I wouldn't be suprised if its one the more popular Dreamcast Titles out there...
Unless they commented there code:
security_hole();       /*b1n l@d1n r00lz!*/
Apparently I need humor delimiters. I have no problem working with MS systems, and I am quite happy where I am. At home I use Linux. I just usually use that line when I am at my LUG and we swap war stories back and forth. Take a joke people!
After myself being called to fix a customer's sExchange (Yes, NT, I'm young and I need the money) server that barfed its guts on the floor because of this, you can hand them over to my IT dept, we really wanted to take them out back and flog them repeatedly last week.
A good requirements document will save you there. Outline what the program will and will not do, ahve the customer sign it, the customer can't complain. Good software engineering practices will save your arse every time.
Normally I don't feed the trolls but:
When is the last time that you swiped your credit card and didn't get charged?
Mainframes have uptimes measured in years, my personal favorite is a computer that was not shut off/power cycled for 9 years. Still in service too...
PCs have a long way to go before they can reach where mainframes have been for decades.
OTOH, I've met clean-cut-god-like-programmers who work 9-5, wear ties, don't play with Nerf guns, and are mature. I work with two, they are lower-gods of C/C++. They can produce amazing programs, they don't have beards, and they smell normal. ^_^
The Mainframe programmers are a great exmple of this: When is the last time a Mainframe crashed?
The entire software-jockey approach (I love that term, I got it from a professor [software engineering, among other classes]) is make something moderately useful unleash it to the world, fix stuff afterwards. Microsoft is an excellent example of this. Things don't work like this in the real world. Designing a car is not unlike designing a software project, you have an objective, and you have a place where you begin, people do this in software projects all the time.
Read the Mythical Man month, its outlines how to do 'good' software engineering. Its a really good read.
The days of the 'software jockeys' are numbered. Businesses are not going to put up with the furry-toothed geek who works from 5-9 because it hurts productivity. For example: FTG come in at 5 codes until 9, leave, testers show up, program doesn't work, they have to wait until the next day for the FTG to fix the problem. Testers sit around twiddling their thumbs all day. This is stupid and businesses are not going to put up with it. Within 10 or so years, computer programming is going to be more of an assembly line business with each programmer doing a certain section of a large project, working 9-5 on a salary.
Honestly, I think its better this way, I speak from experience with the above example.
True, but we did drop them, almost immediately after production, IIRC (Feel free to correct me, its been a long time since I read 'Enola Gay')
If we launch a nuke, everybody who has ever pissed us off in the past (and maybe those who haven't) are going to shit themselves, and when people do that, I am quite sure someone is going to fire back. We see it, we launch at them (assuming it someone different), someone else sees that the baloon has gone up and might take that opportunity to fire at their worst enemy. Eventually, everyone fires and everyone dies. Watch the ending of WarGames, thats how wevery simulation ended, and I am quite sure thats how a nuclear strike will always end.
There is not going to be some major gulf-war-style invasion of $country. Its going to be small raids and police detective work tracking people down and arresting them. If we strike back at civilian populations en masse, we are very quickly going to go from good guy to bad guy. Even military people know that.
Just because he is going to bed, doesn't mean he is getting sleep, I know that if I was in his position, I would not be sleeping to well myself. Plus, I take everything I hear from the news outlets (especially Fox, *shudder*) with a large helping of NaCl. Also, even if he is keeping to his regular routine, he is dealing with a little more on his plate the usual, which is probably requiring more sleep then usual.
I believe Bush is tired and stressed, along with all the other emotions that the people of the US is feeling right now, and he is doing a better then average job of handling it.
Ah yes grasshopper, but you are neglecting to see that this is not a country attacking us, else they would have been bombed back into the stone age by now.
Or he could be going on his (probably) 26-27th hour without sleep and everything sort of caught up with him. I highly doubt the military would suggest a nuclear response for a conventional attack such as this. I /really/ doubt anyone, no matter how angry, would let this go that far, even SecDef Rumsfeld(sp) said that this would be a new kind of war and would not see such normal things as airstikes and troop landings.