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Comment: Missing, from the PC side. (Score 1) 183

by E-Sabbath (#36055892) Attached to: Smithsonian Unveils 'Art of Games' Voting Results

Good lord. If there's one game out there that's art, it's Planescape: Torment. And it's not there. The pure depth and richness of this game, and the questions it asks about human nature and evil make it every bit the game equivalent of any literary work.

Hm. Neither is Continiuum, (Alpha Waves) which is both historically significant and the equivalent of a tone poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_a6qMeWP8 (Alpha Waves)

Intel

Intel Unveils Next Gen Itanium Processor 169

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the who-doesn't-like-faster dept.
MojoKid writes "This week, at ISSCC Intel unveiled its next-generation Itanium processor, codenamed Poulson. This new design is easily the most significant update to Itanium Intel has ever built and could upset the current balance of power at the highest-end of the server / mainframe market. It may also be the Itanium that fully redeems the brand name and sheds the last vestiges of negativity that have dogged the chip since it launched ten years ago. Poulson incorporates a number of advances in its record-breaking 3.1 Billion transistors. It's socket-compatible with the older Tukwila processors and offers up to eight cores and 54MB of on-die memory."

Comment: Ars has a better article... and this is big. (Score 1) 423

by E-Sabbath (#33033468) Attached to: Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/apple-loses-big-in-drm-ruling-jailbreaks-are-fair-use.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Forget Apple: Look at what this does to DMCA takedowns!

First up: DVDs! Previous exemptions have been carved out for college professors who might use film clips in class. But note the broad nature of the new rule--it applies to everyone. As long as you are making a documentary or noncommercial video, you're in.

The exemption only covers "short portions of motion pictures," since the Register was not convinced that longer portions would necessarily be fair use. And if there's some other way of getting the clips short of bypassing DRM, you should take it.

Comment: Global Frequency was killed because it was leaked. (Score 1) 1115

by E-Sabbath (#32862720) Attached to: Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Global_Frequency

Great comic, really, really good TV pilot, done by the guy who did Blue Beetle, and is now doing Leverage. (Written by Warren Ellis.)
According to the story, Warner was so pissed about the pilot being leaked, they killed the show. God knows why, to be honest.

Comment: Re:I'm a professional Malware removal guy. Literal (Score 2, Informative) 319

by E-Sabbath (#31585660) Attached to: Malware Delivered By Yahoo, Fox, Google Ads

Same experience except: my sneaky trick is to install mbam on the infected computer, then run the same version of it off a flash drive. Surprisingly, it works.

Also, do you think using Foxit instead of Adobe might help? For that matter, setting PDFs to not auto-open?

Comment: If only they were safe. (Score 3, Informative) 1051

by E-Sabbath (#31389104) Attached to: Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking

The problem with this is, the advertisements themselves can not be trusted. Beyond the issue of the sound and animation, advertisements are a malware vector. I'm having a huge problem with 'Antispyware 2010' and its variants. One idiot claims he got his from Microsoft, because it says Microsoft on it. If they were less hazardous, I'd block them less. I turned off blocking for Project Wonderful and for Google's text ads, after all.

Comment: Dan 'I'm not a paid shill' Lyons? (Score 5, Insightful) 336

by E-Sabbath (#30261720) Attached to: Google-Microsoft Crossfire Will Hit Consumers

If you've been following Groklaw over the last few years, I should point out that Mr. Lyons is a huge SCO supporter. I can not say Microsoft pays him money, but anything and everything he says is designed to hit Microsoft's opponents from the side. He likes to say bad things about both Microsoft and Microsoft's opponent of the day, but in a way that Microsoft comes off the better of the two.

I'd put more trust into something John Dvorak had to say than Mr. Lyons.

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