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It's more likely the start of an effort to set the record straight rather than bury it. Or at least it should be.

For Mozilla's sake, I hope it was the design team they hired that did the knockoff rather than an inhouse designer. Although it's probably too early to jump to conclusions at this point.

It's quite nice to doodle mindlessly with http://i43.tinypic.com/svgk5c.png

How about letting you draw with white on the right click?

I don't know, I quite like the utilitarian feel to just leaving it vanilla.

Agreed. There is nothing wrong with protecting your work, just so long as that aspect is at no expense to your customer, and that's exactly what this is tailored to do. It's thoughtful, compassionate and convenient for everyone concerned.

Nothing to argue against.

Sadly it's likely to be hacked and cracked open within days, but I sincerely hope it gets the respect it deserves.

Some more detailed info here http://blog.linuxgamepublishing.com/2009/02/27/answering-the...

Firstly, sorry to hear about your health.

I'd approach similar, established companies that would be interested in acquiring your tech, or could use it in some form. As a last resort you could also consider splitting it up and selling it off in parts, assuming it's modular enough to do so.

You should go some way to getting a good amount of your investment back.

Good luck.

I used to have Opera read articles aloud to me while I worked. Sadly it's a bugged feature now, but it was good while it lasted.

A couple of points about this, it seems everywhere is jumping up and down pointing and laughing, but there's currently no crack for Assassins Creed 2 so pirates didn't profit and also, the problem is only local to the US. Internationally, the game works fine.

I also doubt it's a DDoS.

So many of these things resonate for me, I'm troubled by a good third of the problems, or the seeds of the problems outlined here. Some sterling advice that I'm going to heed well.

I think the nature of the failed startup is irrelevant as much of the advice is raw, yet vague enough to apply to many areas. Almost all startups are based on a good idea, their success or failure rests almost entirely on the back of the choices you make along the way. Thanks for sharing this.

WSJ video with Walt Mossberg http://online.wsj.com/video/digits-sony-takes-on-apple/0B34E...

*Anglo-Caribbean. An awful lot of the islands in the West Indies would take great offence to being called Jamaican. Also, West Indies is pretty much an unknown term in the US. Just another example of how complex the notion of race is internationally.

Pretty much a must-have for this if you don't want to type purple, red, blue, pink, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

Although, after doing this for a little while, I'm getting the feeling it's to measure people's endurance when filling out online surveys.

Agreed, although my reason is more to do with losing the better part of a days work trying to fix it.

Wow. I really used to like Nvidia, but I'm leaning heavily towards an ATi on my next upgrade.

In my case, it was Windows update iirc.

Exactly this has happened to me early this week with a 9800GTX+ (for some reason the drivers identify it as a 250GTS) except I was lucky enough to catch it before the GPU itself became damaged. I thought it was merely a broken fan, so went about ripping apart a case fan and McGyvering it onto the card.

However I haven't played any of those games, or really done anything terribly intensive aside from Zbrush and Maya, so I'm uncertain if it's related or merely a coincidence. Although, to be fair, I've never had a fan of any description die.

Does anyone know of some way to check or ultimately claim for this?

Well, not to troll, but I downloaded SH5 from a newsgroup to see if this claim is true (not a file sharing site as I don't have any wish to perpetuate the infringement and upload to others) and it's fine, I haven't noticed a single thing missing from the gameplay. I'll be uninstalling shortly and deleting the ISO, but I'm currently about 3 hours in.

Can you give specific info as to exactly what is missing?

It's a great game, I'll definitely be buying it when the DRM is gone despite not really being much of a gamer anymore.

I stress when, because it's the biggest backfire in copy protection history and Ubi know it. After all the development time and resource that has obviously gone into the DRM, I was surprised/amused to see that the hack is pretty much just a cracked exe.

"...carried out by relatively unsophisticated attackers using outdated botnet tools..."

Sounds exactly like a government launched attack to me. "Amateurs" are more likely than anyone to be using the cutting edge of botnet tools.

The analogy is more accurate if you were to say that someone took a sample of your DNA and used it to create an army of yous.

While reading that, for a moment I though that Google were using McAfee security and seriously pondered the wisdom in using their services anymore.

No idea then, sorry. Works fine on the two desktops and a laptop in front of me.

Edit: Ah, but I am using this skin: http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=9281

Holiday making in Palm Springs I would assume.

You click Save. Should be someplace lower down the page.

Is this on Windows? I don't think it has the same top border profile on the other OSs. You did click Save, right? Just checking.

The one thing Opera needs to do now is support it's userJS community, so many of Firefox's most popular extensions and plugins have been recreated for Opera, but few people know about them, making it somewhat of a deal breaker for many.

Sadly this is currently left to third parties like http://userscripts.org/

The reason for this is they're currently rather fiddly to install and configure for the layman, so if anyone knows how to create an all purpose and usable front end for javascripts, they're likely to be welcomed with open arms.

Paste opera:config#UserPrefs|ChromeIntegrationDragAreaMaximized into the address bar and set the variable to zero to have it catch clicks on the tabs at the very top of the screen.

I've got a pretty indepth knowledge of every OS I've used for any length of time. My first instinct with all things is to unscrew the lid and find out what makes it tick and for me, operating systems practically beg to be tinkered with,

Dwarf Fortress is one of my all time favourite twists on the Roguelike genre. Something Awful had a very amusing succession game that's worth a read too; http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Boatmurdered

Semi-related yet off-topic, but in not divulging their sales figures, Valve is hurting the PC as a gaming platform in huge and undeniable ways. They are, in essence, destroying it by making it appear that no one buys games for Windows. All format charts are dominated by console titles and almost all games are initially developed for those and pooly ported to the PC in what seems to be an afterthought. Piracy is then blamed for those apparently falling sales figures and the PC is no longer an attractive platform for development.