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> I know plenty of people who use the "Windows Classic" skin on XP, because that's what they're used to.
I use the classic skin on XP because Luna looks like something an intern slapped together in a week. I don't at home, because I have XP media center, and the skin on that actually looks halfway decent.
Aero gives us the strangest window metaphor yet: the frame is translucent, and the window pane itself is opaque. Joy.
(And no, I'm not really into OSX's unsubtle gaudy lickable widgets either)
Schutzstaffel... of course. Thanks! Maybe I'll fire it up under dosbox just to see if still sounds like "moosewaffles" to me. I knew they were saying "Mein Leben" from go, but yunno, there's something quite tragic and artistic about thousands of faceless enemies who go down with a death cry of "my name is--"
Overall, but you don't know it's from the card. Good speakers faithfully reproduce all the noise from the crappy consumer card.
Me, I just play games, and my hearing sucks anyway, so I don't much care. I'll probably have to do something about the fan hum if I ever use my PC as a tivo, but otherwise it doesn't bug me.
Wolf3d was really great with a soundblaster tho. I never figured out what the guards were saying. Something like "Luftwaffe"... while makes no sense to go running around saying the name of the wehrmacht air force, it was so muffled that you can't really tell. My roommate swore they were saying "Moosewaffles", so whenever one of us said something the other didn't understand, we would always reply "moosewaffles?"
My AC97 (which does EAX2 and DirectSound3d just fine thanks) has perfectly solid linux drivers. Until you want to do something crazy, like, oh, support headphones and s/pdif out at the same time. I'm not even talking about both signals at the same time (which would be nice), I'm talking about having to edit some crazy alsa config file just to make the other one work at all.
But I can't expect much, it's only the most common onboard sound chip on any PC.
It's great that you enjoy that style of game, it really is. I liked Katamari too. But none of us are really interested in your two-minute hate against fancy graphics. I bet God of War cost a lot to do the graphics on (and yeah, it's a last-gen title, but there'll be a GoW3). And guess what, Kratos wouldn't work as a Mii.
You've got a point. AV researchers have a lot of methodological research techniques, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the same amount of rigor goes into the opposition force. My thinking comes from an era where rigorous technical analysis is still something of a novelty in programming, so it's the leaps of insight or just single insanely-productive people that tend to come up with the best solutions (and attacks). I still think it's like that to a big degree, but you're right, malware creators certainly have the incentive to do the hard work without needing the l33t sk1llz.
Alabama hasn't disbarred him -- yet (he's not even licensed in Alabama). He got his pro hac vice status revoked on one case, along with 18 pages of blistering rebuke from the judge, an order to attach it to any further applications to practice in AL, a threat of contempt, and a referral to the Alabama bar's disciplinary committee.
Thompson, in Classic Jack Style, filed his own ethics complaint against the judge. I think hearings are still pending. This was in 2005. I think Florida might be through with him before Alabama even gets to him, or it's possible that AL is just waiting, since if he's disbarred in Florida and has no other practice, the Alabama issue will be somewhat moot.
Ah, I was duped by the rumor mill, sorry. That would explain the lack of any Sony branding on Xfire's site. Well, if Home is their offering, then well, it's going to be a problem. XBL is infrastructure. Home is an application.
The FTC investigates false and misleading advertising claims. And it's the SEC that is after companies for the stock options thing. Take Two is not entirely well-managed, but Rockstar's a property that is rather unlikely to go down with the ship.
> Do you really think you can compete with XBox Live?
They bought XFire, and XFire does a VERY good job being the de-facto XBL for the PC game front. Assuming Sony doesn't fuck it up (resume -->here<-- once you've finished laughing), then yes, they have a good chance.
Aside from his odd little rant at the Maxis Porn Simulator (aka The Sims 2), Jack's videogaming bete noir has consistently been Rockstar Games, transferred to Take-Two at large. Before that it was 2 Live Crew (yes, he was behind the campaign of hounding them)
Most viruses are exploited by organized crime nowadays, but someone has to discover the exploits in the first place. The motivations still remain for the various eccentric lone hacker genius types -- who are often well-paid by the organized crime types.
Who it really motivates are the white/grey-hat crowd who love to publicize a new exploit, and despite all the grumbling about disclosure, this sort of thing helps security in the long run.
I still have to remind people that the term "rootkit" didn't originate with Windows, and that Linux's defenses against them are still thin. How many distributions even run SELinux by default? How many entry points can be found to loading arbitrary kernel modules?
It's called Linspire. It still doesn't run over half the printers or wireless NICs out there. You'd have to sell the box too, and people interested in that sort of thing will buy a Mac.
> Oh yeah, and it's open source, so anybody who doesn't like part of it can fix it themselves.
I'm not quite sure if you were playing devil's advocate or are actually an RIAA-worthy ignorant copyright Nazi, but either way, you definitely didn't put much thought into your post.
Archive.org is archiving websites. All credit to the author, etc... remain.
Attribution actually doesn't actually have anything directly to do with copyright, though it's certainly unenforceable without it. Copyright means having the exclusive right to dictate the making and distribution of copies. That's all.
And yeah, it's a really hard line to draw in the digital age. Archive.org performs a really useful service, but they do seem to be operating outside the law (which badly needs updating, but the end result of that is usually to make things worse).
I can claim that if you speak to any words containing vowels to me that you're entering into a contract. It doesn't make it the slightest bit so.
Either she has the world's dumbest lawyer (RICO charges? please), or she's filing pro se (see previous about world's dumbest lawyer). In either case she's an ideal test case for the webcrawlers, because she will almost certainly get completely demolished in court.
She might have a copyright claim, but she couldn't even get that one up the steps. Did she even file for infringement?
This guy is seriously obsessive about some pretty small details. The logo is still instantly recognizeable and hardly butchered. He must have serious conniptions when he sees the animated version of the logo (on all Atari loading screens).
You want to talk about butchered logos, how about Cisco's new Fischer-price look?
> Is it even possible to be disallowed from filing lawsuits.
Partly -- google for "Vexatious Litigant". Florida passed such a law to amend their rules civil procedure in 2000. http://www.ccfj.net/VexLitbill.htm
This is a federal lawsuit though, and I'm not actually aware of any federal rules on vexatious litigation -- in fact, federal court is usually where such people go to keep filing their suits.
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> I know plenty of people who use the "Windows Classic" skin on XP, because that's what they're used to.
I use the classic skin on XP because Luna looks like something an intern slapped together in a week. I don't at home, because I have XP media center, and the skin on that actually looks halfway decent.
Aero gives us the strangest window metaphor yet: the frame is translucent, and the window pane itself is opaque. Joy.
(And no, I'm not really into OSX's unsubtle gaudy lickable widgets either)
Schutzstaffel ... of course. Thanks! Maybe I'll fire it up under dosbox just to see if still sounds like "moosewaffles" to me. I knew they were saying "Mein Leben" from go, but yunno, there's something quite tragic and artistic about thousands of faceless enemies who go down with a death cry of "my name is--"
Looks like Rob Enderle can find himself a place to work when he's done with his current gig.
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Works for me
> Wouldn't cheap speakers make it worse?
... while makes no sense to go running around saying the name of the wehrmacht air force, it was so muffled that you can't really tell. My roommate swore they were saying "Moosewaffles", so whenever one of us said something the other didn't understand, we would always reply "moosewaffles?"
Overall, but you don't know it's from the card. Good speakers faithfully reproduce all the noise from the crappy consumer card.
Me, I just play games, and my hearing sucks anyway, so I don't much care. I'll probably have to do something about the fan hum if I ever use my PC as a tivo, but otherwise it doesn't bug me.
Wolf3d was really great with a soundblaster tho. I never figured out what the guards were saying. Something like "Luftwaffe"
My AC97 (which does EAX2 and DirectSound3d just fine thanks) has perfectly solid linux drivers. Until you want to do something crazy, like, oh, support headphones and s/pdif out at the same time. I'm not even talking about both signals at the same time (which would be nice), I'm talking about having to edit some crazy alsa config file just to make the other one work at all.
But I can't expect much, it's only the most common onboard sound chip on any PC.
It's great that you enjoy that style of game, it really is. I liked Katamari too. But none of us are really interested in your two-minute hate against fancy graphics. I bet God of War cost a lot to do the graphics on (and yeah, it's a last-gen title, but there'll be a GoW3). And guess what, Kratos wouldn't work as a Mii.
You've got a point. AV researchers have a lot of methodological research techniques, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the same amount of rigor goes into the opposition force. My thinking comes from an era where rigorous technical analysis is still something of a novelty in programming, so it's the leaps of insight or just single insanely-productive people that tend to come up with the best solutions (and attacks). I still think it's like that to a big degree, but you're right, malware creators certainly have the incentive to do the hard work without needing the l33t sk1llz.
> Does anybody know the term for a "pseudo-lawyer" that's comparable to "quack" being used to describe a fake doctor?
Shyster. But he's not so much a fake or decietful lawyer so much as he is a garden-variety barking lunatic.
Alabama hasn't disbarred him -- yet (he's not even licensed in Alabama). He got his pro hac vice status revoked on one case, along with 18 pages of blistering rebuke from the judge, an order to attach it to any further applications to practice in AL, a threat of contempt, and a referral to the Alabama bar's disciplinary committee.
Thompson, in Classic Jack Style, filed his own ethics complaint against the judge. I think hearings are still pending. This was in 2005. I think Florida might be through with him before Alabama even gets to him, or it's possible that AL is just waiting, since if he's disbarred in Florida and has no other practice, the Alabama issue will be somewhat moot.
Ah, I was duped by the rumor mill, sorry. That would explain the lack of any Sony branding on Xfire's site. Well, if Home is their offering, then well, it's going to be a problem. XBL is infrastructure. Home is an application.
The FTC investigates false and misleading advertising claims. And it's the SEC that is after companies for the stock options thing. Take Two is not entirely well-managed, but Rockstar's a property that is rather unlikely to go down with the ship.
> Do you really think you can compete with XBox Live?
They bought XFire, and XFire does a VERY good job being the de-facto XBL for the PC game front. Assuming Sony doesn't fuck it up (resume -->here<-- once you've finished laughing), then yes, they have a good chance.
I predict Home will be a dud though.
> jack seems to completely ignore games such as God of War
_ 08_05_01
Nothing more than a rather bland form letter at any rate: http://www.jackthompson.org/archives/index.htm#06
Aside from his odd little rant at the Maxis Porn Simulator (aka The Sims 2), Jack's videogaming bete noir has consistently been Rockstar Games, transferred to Take-Two at large. Before that it was 2 Live Crew (yes, he was behind the campaign of hounding them)
Most viruses are exploited by organized crime nowadays, but someone has to discover the exploits in the first place. The motivations still remain for the various eccentric lone hacker genius types -- who are often well-paid by the organized crime types.
Who it really motivates are the white/grey-hat crowd who love to publicize a new exploit, and despite all the grumbling about disclosure, this sort of thing helps security in the long run.
I still have to remind people that the term "rootkit" didn't originate with Windows, and that Linux's defenses against them are still thin. How many distributions even run SELinux by default? How many entry points can be found to loading arbitrary kernel modules?
> Why doesn't Ubuntu seal the deal?
It's called Linspire. It still doesn't run over half the printers or wireless NICs out there. You'd have to sell the box too, and people interested in that sort of thing will buy a Mac.
> Oh yeah, and it's open source, so anybody who doesn't like part of it can fix it themselves.
Way to know your market.
> Go back to making great mice, keyboards and joysticks.
That's like saying Lucas should direct more movies like The Empire Strikes Back.
(go look it up on IMDB)
> What, exactly, did the GP poster lose?
Credibility.
> One relevant issue in contract law is a meeting of the minds. Given that there was only one "mind" involved
One look at her website casts doubt on that number as well.
I'm not quite sure if you were playing devil's advocate or are actually an RIAA-worthy ignorant copyright Nazi, but either way, you definitely didn't put much thought into your post.
Sieg Heil baby. You lose.
Archive.org is archiving websites. All credit to the author, etc... remain.
Attribution actually doesn't actually have anything directly to do with copyright, though it's certainly unenforceable without it. Copyright means having the exclusive right to dictate the making and distribution of copies. That's all.
And yeah, it's a really hard line to draw in the digital age. Archive.org performs a really useful service, but they do seem to be operating outside the law (which badly needs updating, but the end result of that is usually to make things worse).
I can claim that if you speak to any words containing vowels to me that you're entering into a contract. It doesn't make it the slightest bit so.
Either she has the world's dumbest lawyer (RICO charges? please), or she's filing pro se (see previous about world's dumbest lawyer). In either case she's an ideal test case for the webcrawlers, because she will almost certainly get completely demolished in court.
She might have a copyright claim, but she couldn't even get that one up the steps. Did she even file for infringement?
This guy is seriously obsessive about some pretty small details. The logo is still instantly recognizeable and hardly butchered. He must have serious conniptions when he sees the animated version of the logo (on all Atari loading screens).
You want to talk about butchered logos, how about Cisco's new Fischer-price look?
> Is it even possible to be disallowed from filing lawsuits.
Partly -- google for "Vexatious Litigant". Florida passed such a law to amend their rules civil procedure in 2000. http://www.ccfj.net/VexLitbill.htm
This is a federal lawsuit though, and I'm not actually aware of any federal rules on vexatious litigation -- in fact, federal court is usually where such people go to keep filing their suits.
"Gravel in Pocket"?
I'm speechless.