Trying to saddle a software product with DRM/copy protection that is just going to piss off your customers doesn’t make you rich. Intuit learned this lesson the hard way. When Intuit launched the copy-control program, it predicted that revenue would increase, since customers who had previously purchased only one TurboTax program would have to buy …
I get the vibe that RSS is still a little too new for the powers that be to accept. Once you start using it however, RSS is one of those things that you’d come to miss REAL quick. I bet one year from now, most people will be finding interesting content from a website’s feed …
PHP Architect magazine has a more detailed response to Microsoft’s comparison of PHP and .NET . Good to see most of the points I had made earlier written up here.
Thanks to Google Groups and the atitvout project, I got my MAME Box outputting the display signal through the tvout. It didn’t work until I changed my X-Free config file to use the Vesa VBE driver instead of the ati driver.
Some of you fine readers may wonder why I’m rolling my own instead of going with a pre-exisiting package. It’s mostly a learning excercise and so I can practice new programming techniques (thanks php patterns) behind the scenes. This site is a convenient excuse and by-product Anyway, specifically I’ve finally gotten the administration scripts I …
The flaw, in Passport’s password recovery mechanism, could have allowed an attacker to change the password on any account to which the username is known. The simplicity of the attack method and the high value of the data frequently stored in Passport accounts–names, addresses, birthdates and credit card numbers–combined to make the vulnerability critical. …
Galactic Civilizations is a better MOO than MOO3, that’s my first impression having played the game for about a week now. I haven’t played MOO3 and based on the overall bad reviews of it I will stay away. StarDock’s game definitely has that “just one more turn” appeal that hypothecially may keep you up until …
If the USA does get it, it should only help the dying WUSA which has burnned through it initial investment money, has two of its media funders – Time Warner & Comcast – pulling out their involvement, and had its founding member take a paycut. I hope Women’s Soccer can make it as a pro-sport …