Some of the hilarious wording from the Punkbuster license agreement:
Licensee agrees that the invasive nature of PunkBuster software is necessary to meet this purpose and goal. Licensee agrees that any harm or lack of privacy resulting from the installation and use of PunkBuster software is not as valuable to Licensee as the potential ability to play interactive online games with the benefits afforded by using PunkBuster software.
That may have been valid in 2002 when Vorbis 1.0 was released, but by now its not much of an excuse. I have a Cowon G3 (released 2004) with official Vorbis support and it plays them without problems.
There's also the patent problem with MP3, although that should expire in the next couple of years.
If the company does have a competent IT department, the boss will at least know what the problem is, that it is being worked on and get an estimate when the service is expected to be back. Afterwards he'll get a report why it happened and what is being done to minimize the chance of a similar outage in the future.
I'm not saying all IT stuff should be done in-house, but if you go with a giant like Google (for whom Gmail and GoogleApps isn't their main business), this negligible transparency seems the most you can expect.
That reminds me of the Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie skit about Windows Whistler (XP):
MS Drone: "We've focused on the one single feature people use the most."
Reporter: "And that is...?"
MS Drone: "Solitaire! We've rewritten it from scratch!"
!!! Error: the weapons/missile-launcher package conflicts with another package; !!! the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together. !!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.
The iriver, Cowon iaudio and IOPS players all support OGG Vorbis - all three korean brands, so it seems that some people do care about the format. iriver and iaudio also have a big market share in korea (iPod is third, IIRC), so of course Samsung, a korean company will release a product that has at least the same features as their competitors.
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Licensee agrees that the invasive nature of PunkBuster software is necessary to meet this purpose and goal. Licensee agrees that any harm or lack of privacy resulting from the installation and use of PunkBuster software is not as valuable to Licensee as the potential ability to play interactive online games with the benefits afforded by using PunkBuster software.
That may have been valid in 2002 when Vorbis 1.0 was released, but by now its not much of an excuse. I have a Cowon G3 (released 2004) with official Vorbis support and it plays them without problems.
There's also the patent problem with MP3, although that should expire in the next couple of years.
Seriosly, what language is this: "QlpoOTFBWSZTWZCbNyYBVlN/"?
C in this case. The file format is a UUencoded .tar.bz2 archive.
If the company does have a competent IT department, the boss will at least know what the problem is, that it is being worked on and get an estimate when the service is expected to be back. Afterwards he'll get a report why it happened and what is being done to minimize the chance of a similar outage in the future.
I'm not saying all IT stuff should be done in-house, but if you go with a giant like Google (for whom Gmail and GoogleApps isn't their main business), this negligible transparency seems the most you can expect.
How about providing a link that doesn't require payment or membership? Like, say this one: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dfb/publications.html#Bacon04Unified
That reminds me of the Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie skit about Windows Whistler (XP): MS Drone: "We've focused on the one single feature people use the most." Reporter: "And that is...?" MS Drone: "Solitaire! We've rewritten it from scratch!"
"Compiling"? You must be joking...
pilot@JSF T=0900 $ emerge missile-launcher
Calculating dependencies... done!
!!! Error: the weapons/missile-launcher package conflicts with another package;
!!! the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together.
!!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.
pilot@JSF T=0902 $ emerge --pretend missile-launcher
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[blocks B ] engine/thrust-control (is blocking weapons/missile-launcher-1.0.3-r9)
[ebuild U ] misc/landing-gear-0.7.14-r2 [0.7.14-r1]
[ebuild N ] weapons/missile-launcher-1.0.3-r9
pilot@JSF T=0905 $
Broadcast message from radard (Fri Mar 16 09:05:31 2007):
WARNING: left aileron destroyed by enemy machine gun fire!
pilot@JSF T=0905 $ eject
The scientists will find jobs. Whether those will be in the US is questionable.
The iriver, Cowon iaudio and IOPS players all support OGG Vorbis - all three korean brands, so it seems that some people do care about the format. iriver and iaudio also have a big market share in korea (iPod is third, IIRC), so of course Samsung, a korean company will release a product that has at least the same features as their competitors.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
Be thankful they were successful!
Just imagine what a horde of uncontrolled microscopes might have done to the unsuspecting students and staff of Purdue...
Or, we'll turn most of Russia into a big ethanol farm... oh, wait...
In post-soviet Russia Ethanol fuels you.
The <br> element type is kept around for a few minority uses. Things like poetry, code listings,
You can use the <pre> </pre> tag for this.