I believe that too many people have fallen into the "if we don't vote for one (of the two) major candidates our vote is lost" trap. People should just outright vote for who they want, not try to second guess everyone else. If the major canditates actually saw raw voting figures on based on how people really think then perhaps we'd start to see real and lasting policy change.
I must be one of the exceptions. I prefer abstract video games over realism most days of the week. While my mother has snagged my Lynx and played more of Lexis than I have since it arrived a few days ago, I did actually buy it for me.
Rez is a total rip-off of Panzer Dragoon, which was a 3D version of Afterburner, which was a sprite-scaling, forward scrolling shooter. It is not worthy of effusive praise or high sales. It is abstract only in graphics, the gameplay is pure shooter.
Are we going to have a story for the sales data of every console for every country now? I heard it's not big in Mesopotamia, when's that story going to be posted?
As the son of a computer support person I played with such computers as a DEC10 via a green-screen terminal and a Kaypro II, later a Kaypro IV, running CPM. I did many a school assignment on the Kaypros. While I was exposed to the Mac (and the C64 and the Amiga), my experience was more along the PC lines with an Olivetti M24, an M300 and a 386-something, then my own PCs were clones: XT, AT, 386, 486 before I bought my own Olivetti Envision P75 (which is functional and hooked up but used only rarely).
I now collect of video games and computer stuff and have such things as the TRS-80 lovingly mentioned elsewhere, as well as a C64 with one of those new network adapters -- I just need more space to hook-up everything.
$51.2 million for the lawyers, anyone who had the ipod battery problem gets $20 off a select ipod accessory. Way to go.
Which accessory?
Seriously though, anyone who's ever bought a laptop knows that batteries like this have a life that's rough one half to one third of the life of the device and cost anywhere from $50 to $150 to replace. If you're going to sue anyone sue someone like Nintendo who discontinued their Gameboy Printer and the paper it prints on on the same day.
Extortion, bullying, lying, wasting the court's time, causing losses across an entire industry. When is a nice federal prosecutor going to knock on SCO's door and arrest someone?
SCO, n: a concise example of everything that's wrong with IP laws. example: Want to see how the DMCA is broken, go look at the actions of a SCO. Also, a company who's only product is lawsuits. example: That SCO only showed a profit because they forced another company to settle out of court. SCO, v: to lie about a technical issue in an effort to increase stock prices while the upper management sell their stock. example: That company is SCOing, lookout.
If you're telling me that I should have been tricked into falling in love with the US Democrats after reading Moore's book, I think you're a little off base.
I don't have Dude on hand, but I do have Stupid White Men and I quote: "You can choose between two political parties that sound alike, vote alike and are funded alike by the same exact wealthy donors". That sounds a little more than token. So, what's he selling? Voter apathy?
Ignoring for the moment that the mods are on crack for scoring a post consiting of only "N-Gage" Insightful and Interesting, I was actually expecting (based on the/. article title) a longer list of gaming industry decisions that turned out badly. The article is only five crap games, nothing really worthy of a/. thread.
Now, getting back to the "N-Gage" issue. While I totally agree that Nokia's marketing department should get a lifetime achievement award for fucking up, the product itself is actually pretty decent and has become the cheapest way to own a Series 60 mobile phone -- with a library of hundreds if not thousands of compatible applications. It's also become the mobile emulation platform with emulators for; Gameboy/GBC, ZX Spectrum, MAME, C64, MSX and NES.
Have you played the game? I would say it's humor is like the kind you would find in a tarantino movie, but on a much lower buget.
It's hard to know where to start with that line. The best way to describe my reaction to that description is that not only wouldn't I buy the product, but if anyone used a product described this way as an example of something bad I'd have to say "Well, you've got a point there".
I enjoyed Dude, Where's My Country?. I don't think you can just dismiss "political" books as easily as you have, especially when someone steals an entire US election. (Also, while Moore is obviously anti-Republican, he's not by any means complimentary about the Democrats either.)
Wake me when I can run a Distributed.Net client on my GeForce4 TI 4600, while it continues to display my 1280x960x32 desktop (and pauses gracefully while I run a 3D app).
Or possibly when I can run a nice compression package like 7-zip with hardware assist from the GPU...
Copyright is an incentive to create. People can share if they want. Without copyright, there would be no more incentive to create public works than there is today, perhaps even less. For example, the GPL relies on copyright to keep derivative works in the public domain.
If copyright didn't exist, the GPL would be unnecessary. It exists specifically to prevent people from taking from the public domain without giving back. If there was no copyright, everything you create would automatically be available to everyone.
IP isn't there to benefit the community, it's their to benefit the person that came up with whatever the IP happens to be.
This is a common error. IP laws were originally designed to provide an incentive to add to the public domain. Since they no longer result in any benefit to the public domain, they are therefore pointless.
I was scared by neither and simply found the US one boring. Does it have the photo stuff that the Japanese one has -- with the energy, where the girl had been peeping round the corner, half her face gives of this weird energy? Was there any energy stuff at all? I found that to be particularly well done. I should watch it again...
Secondly, no one is arguing against copyright. Everyone agrees Intellectual Property, from trademark law, to copyrights and patents, is a good thing.
I'm arguing against copyright. Not necessarily in the context of SCO vs The Real World, but I no longer believe that IP benefits the community, on balance.
Was Matrix Reloaded released this year? I tried going here to workout what I might have seen in the last 12 months, but there's so much crap. Anyone got a short list of this year's movies? I haven't seen most of the titles being discussed in this thread.
I bought Bowling for Columbine on DVD and it was probably the best movie I watched all year, but I think its original release was last year, possibly earlier.
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I believe that too many people have fallen into the "if we don't vote for one (of the two) major candidates our vote is lost" trap. People should just outright vote for who they want, not try to second guess everyone else. If the major canditates actually saw raw voting figures on based on how people really think then perhaps we'd start to see real and lasting policy change.
I must be one of the exceptions. I prefer abstract video games over realism most days of the week. While my mother has snagged my Lynx and played more of Lexis than I have since it arrived a few days ago, I did actually buy it for me.
Rez is a total rip-off of Panzer Dragoon, which was a 3D version of Afterburner, which was a sprite-scaling, forward scrolling shooter. It is not worthy of effusive praise or high sales. It is abstract only in graphics, the gameplay is pure shooter.
Are we going to have a story for the sales data of every console for every country now? I heard it's not big in Mesopotamia, when's that story going to be posted?
I now collect of video games and computer stuff and have such things as the TRS-80 lovingly mentioned elsewhere, as well as a C64 with one of those new network adapters -- I just need more space to hook-up everything.
Oh, wait, this is /., not Fark.
Seriously though, anyone who's ever bought a laptop knows that batteries like this have a life that's rough one half to one third of the life of the device and cost anywhere from $50 to $150 to replace. If you're going to sue anyone sue someone like Nintendo who discontinued their Gameboy Printer and the paper it prints on on the same day.
SCO, n: a concise example of everything that's wrong with IP laws. example: Want to see how the DMCA is broken, go look at the actions of a SCO. Also, a company who's only product is lawsuits. example: That SCO only showed a profit because they forced another company to settle out of court.
SCO, v: to lie about a technical issue in an effort to increase stock prices while the upper management sell their stock. example: That company is SCOing, lookout.
I don't have Dude on hand, but I do have Stupid White Men and I quote: "You can choose between two political parties that sound alike, vote alike and are funded alike by the same exact wealthy donors". That sounds a little more than token. So, what's he selling? Voter apathy?
Now, getting back to the "N-Gage" issue. While I totally agree that Nokia's marketing department should get a lifetime achievement award for fucking up, the product itself is actually pretty decent and has become the cheapest way to own a Series 60 mobile phone -- with a library of hundreds if not thousands of compatible applications. It's also become the mobile emulation platform with emulators for; Gameboy/GBC, ZX Spectrum, MAME, C64, MSX and NES.
I enjoyed Dude, Where's My Country?. I don't think you can just dismiss "political" books as easily as you have, especially when someone steals an entire US election. (Also, while Moore is obviously anti-Republican, he's not by any means complimentary about the Democrats either.)
Or possibly when I can run a nice compression package like 7-zip with hardware assist from the GPU...
How about a sign on a stick that reads "The person inside this building thinks your 12 year old daughter needs a bigger penis"?
Atari 2600 version, sorry, I was just going through all the years it hasn't been released in since it was announced. Heck, the PA strip is dated '99.
Previously on Duke Nukem Forever: Penny Arcade, Atari 2600. The Atari 2000 version is actually a real cart.
Ah, yes, sorry, missed a subtle distinction between the availability of source code and the right to copy the binary.
I was scared by neither and simply found the US one boring. Does it have the photo stuff that the Japanese one has -- with the energy, where the girl had been peeping round the corner, half her face gives of this weird energy? Was there any energy stuff at all? I found that to be particularly well done. I should watch it again...
I doubt it. Here's Moore's response.
I bought Bowling for Columbine on DVD and it was probably the best movie I watched all year, but I think its original release was last year, possibly earlier.