Posted 12/03/2008 at 07:17:14pm

Once again, Micro$oft shows that it can't innovate, only copy.

 The "new" taskbar is almost identical to the bar in KDE 4.

Posted 12/01/2008 at 09:28:11am

A 1% increase isn't statistically significant because it's well within the margin of error for any study of this sort.

It would be more correct to say that there isn't a statistically significant difference between this years sales and last years.

Posted 11/09/2008 at 09:56:44pm

I'll give it about two months before the inevitable lawsuit from Apple.

Remember what happened when Gateway released a computer modeled that even bore slight resembelence to the original iMac.

Posted 10/23/2008 at 02:45:46pm

The infrastructure can't support those speeds even with DOCSIS 3..

You want to know why cable companies have issues with capacity? It's because they keep moving up the speed caps and allowing people more speed without upgrading their infrastructure. And then when problems start to occur as a result, they blame heavy downloaders and institute caps.

Stop overselling your bandwidth in a failed attempt to compete.

Posted 10/15/2008 at 09:08:16am

Windows 98 was codenamed Memphis, not Detroit.

Detroit was the codename for Windows 95 OSR 2 (The equivilant of a service pack back then)

Posted 10/14/2008 at 02:14:26pm

I hate McCain and Obama.  Anyone that votes for either of them is a sheeple.  Think for once and stop voting along party lines.  There are plenty of third-party candidates.

If Obama gets elected, you might as well rename the country to The Union of Soviet American Socialist Republics.

And if McCain gets elected, well, the country won't be around long enough to rename.

Posted 10/02/2008 at 08:59:13am

You still aren't getting it.

First of all, I don't play or subscribe to World of Borecraft let alone bot in it.

Second, as I stated earlier, I  aam opposed to cheaters in online games and I think they are scum.

However this court ruling has far reaching implications that go far beyond simple cheating.  This ruling opens the door for publishers to sue mod makers for copyright infringement because simplying loading an executable from the disk to memory now constitutes copying.  With the growing popularity of microtransactions and digital downloads, it's concievable that some publishers could view third-party mods as unwanted competetion.

It also provides a legal avenue to restrict how many times someone can use a piece of copyrighted material they purchased.  Since loading a file from the disk to ram is now copying under the court ruling, media companies are free to charge you on a per use basis (e.g you only get to copy this song to ram 5 times before you have to buy it again)

Posted 10/02/2008 at 08:59:10am

You still aren't getting it.

First of all, I don't play or subscribe to World of Borecraft let alone bot in it.

Second, as I stated earlier, I  aam opposed to cheaters in online games and I think they are scum.

However this court ruling has far reaching implications that go far beyond simple cheating.  This ruling opens the door for publishers to sue mod makers for copyright infringement because simplying loading an executable from the disk to memory now constitutes copying.  With the growing popularity of microtransactions and digital downloads, it's concievable that some publishers could view third-party mods as unwanted competetion.

It also provides a legal avenue to restrict how many times someone can use a piece of copyrighted material they purchased.  Since loading a file from the disk to ram is now copying under the court ruling, media companies are free to charge you on a per use basis (e.g you only get to copy this song to ram 5 times before you have to buy it again)

Posted 10/01/2008 at 04:57:04pm

Once again, Blizzard leads the way in abusing the legal system.  Rather than actually improving their game's technology to counteract MMOGlider, they go for the iron-fisted approach without a care as to the collateral damage it causes.

I'm all for stopping cheaters but the courts aren't the way to do it.  And the ruling that merely copying a computer program from the hard drive to memory constitutes copyright infringement is a very scary precedent that could easily be abused for the wrong purposes.

Posted 10/01/2008 at 03:39:58pm

This is incorrect.

Every federal circuit except the 7th and 8th (which favor big business) has ruled that software is sold and not licensed.

If you buy a book, you own it even though it's contents are copyrighted.  Software is, de jure, no different.  And no amount of EULA legalese changes that.