although the results are still slightly fitered, you are searching incorrectly.

the chinese people refer to the tiananmen square protest as the june fourth incident.

of course, tons of servers still run the 1.3 and 2.0 branches

these people don't care if they're in active development - and almost all of them are running them because upgrading isn't worth it for their application.

all these people care about are security patches. as long as that keeps happening, depreciate them all you want

it's just like people running 2.2.x kernels on high uptime servers. they don't want new features - if they were willing to install a new version of something every time a new feature came out, they'd be running 2.6.x now anyway. but they'll keep using it as long as reliability and security fixes keep rolling out.

but automatic updates are not disabled by WGA

i was working on a machine yesterday that had failed the WGA check, as soon as it was plugged back into the network, it began downloading security patches.

ironically, most users of pirated copies of windows completely disable automatic updates - for fear that it will "phone home" or install a newer copy of the WGA software that will defeat their cracks/workarounds.

it is access to microsoft's windows update site, as well as some of the material on downloads.microsoft.com that becomes unavailable after a WGA check.

if you manage to smokescreen your online identity with huge amount of positive material that bears your name (i.e. get your name on a lot of popular projects), with lots of cross linking, you will at the very least bury it into non-existance as far as search engines are concerned.

if it's result number 999 on google, i doubt your average employer will read that far into it, and if they do, the amount of positive things that have been said about you will probably outweigh the one negative result

and i'm not sure of US law in this manner, but is it legal to deny someone a job opportunity based on an alleged crime for which they were completely pardoned?

i don't know about that.

if you look through the alsa's driver list, you will find many professional-grade multi-channel interfaces.

the alsa project has brought support for some excellent professional interfaces - with a few exceptions, like motu (to me, motu have always been the tops for midi, but definitely not the best dacs out there)

a couple of layla 3Gs work great under linux for me, unfortunately the production software i want just isn't there.

i wouldn't say they're targetting linux first it for the hell of it..

many horrible "our first opengl software project" FPS games target linux initially, and for good reason

people expect so much less out of linux games, as there simply isn't much good entertainment software available to them. linux gaming addicts end up appreciating any peice of shit game they can get their hands on

windows users laugh at you when you release a work in progress, or something that is simply a peice of shit, as they're used to commercial grade game releases. that can be very hard to compete with, considering the development time that goes into even a passable 3d game.

so if your game sucks (or is in "permanent alpha"), guess where your largest audience is going to be

compuserve was the first thing i ever dialed with my first real computer, as it was the first actual service provider to have a local phone number in my area when i was a kid

i was completely in awe of it when i first used it, it cost me a good chunk of my allowance, but i remember it made the local BBS systems, as well as some other service providers that eventually crept into my area seem like toys

i used it for quite a long time even after everyone else had proper internet service (the internet took quite a while to get here)

i'll always have fond memories of it

suprised it took this long to die, but RIP anyways

there's no real apology for lawsuits in this article, in fact i don't think he mentions riaa or lawsuits once, or takes any kind of blame for the increasing flood of copyright infringement that's happened.

his 'fighting the consumers' thing speaks more to fighting what consumers want in release formats and product value rather than their constant legal confrontations on copyright infringement.

they're admitting to the realization that the format of the content they're releasing is responsible for lost sales, and confirming their success with formats such as itunes bundles

what he's come up with is anything but a 'rare apology', ALL the record executives realize that the audio cd retail distribution model is outdated, and most of them likely wouldn't be ashamed to admit that.