Arrgh. Nothing drives me crazier than people misusing 'evolution'. (except maybe people misusing 'literally')
Evolution is not a force. It is not trying to do anything to us. It is the effect of sexual reproduction. What is friction trying to do? What is erosion trying to do? Is water trying to find it's lowest level?
Please, please, please don't talk about the 'purpose' of evolution.
If you do business that crosses into our country, you need to be held accountable by our laws, whatever they may be. The same holds true in reverse - if we're doing business with your country, then once we, our product, or our communication crosses the border, it's susceptible to whatever laws you have up there
So if we do business with a country that doesn't really respect our copywright laws, like say Russia or China or India, we should just suck it up? Because we seem to be notoriously bad at that.
I hate to be a rtfa poster, but that's exactly what one of the competitors is suggesting. Although they seem to be focusing on teleoperation instead of autonomic tech.
You're assuming that the aforementioned businessman wants to make great games and is deeply deluded about how they are made.
On the contrary, he wants to pump out craptastic rewrites of crap with shiny new licensed properties associated to create 'synergy' and 'vertical integration' and recieve unreasonable piles of 'money' for his 'marketing savvy.'
If games are still being made by people trying to push the envelope that's going to mess up his marketing plan, isn't it? Bad executive! No yacht for you!
I hate to like, interrupt the "Up Vorbis, Down Real!" vibe we have going here, but if you look on the Vorbis homepage You'll notice that the Xiph.org foundation has recieved a big chunk of money from Real to keep doing their excellent work.
I don't really love the Real player either, but unlike many a software company, they are trying to support open formats. I think that should be the cause of praise, not derision
I loves me some Johnny Depp, but Rorshach? Are you kidding? You must be looking forward to that Elektra movie. First of all, he has to be explosively cruel. Depp does a lot of things well, but that's not one of them. Second of all, when the mask comes off, he's supposed to look like a runty little pug. Not a disheveld pretty boy. I'd say Christian Bale for the violence, but he's too pretty as well.
Max Perlich would be kind of perfect since you wouldn't expect his face to under that mask, but I actually doubt a lot of the Rorshach character is going to survive intact. First of all, the story of his becoming is way, way too dark for a Hollywood film. Second of all, it doesn't directly propel the story of 'saving the world' along, so I suspect it'll be excised. Ditto Dr Manhattan (george clooney? how about Guy Pearce?) killing Rorshach.
As for Tom Selleck as The Comedian. Truly, my sides split. I'll probably be spitted for saying this but I think a well directed Stallone would be good for that role. Check out the first Rocky or Copland for examples of his actual acting.
Ugh, I can't believe I'm having this discussion. Actually, considering the level of script this is going to end up as, we should just take your suggestions. Or better yet, use motion capture to have Tom Hanks play all the parts. So we can use the same molds when we force the toys down everybody's throat. (Rorshach! Now with real rapist murdering Karate chop!)
A couple years ago I was tired of Winamp seeming to eat a crapload of system resources and switched to Foobar 2000 and never looked back.
But Winamp was the first free gui audio player that I ever really enjoyed. I remember sending playlists to friends as a way to encourage them to download it.
Thanks for helping to make computers cool, Nullsoft. You were great.
Look, I'm not trying to be a knee-jerk, but I'd like a little evidence. A quick search on Security Focus shows IIS and Apache to be about dead even on vulnerabilities. That may not prove that oss is better, but it certainly suggests it's not any worse.
This article is full of speculation on mechanisms, without any real proof. It doesn't even bother to cite the bullshit MS funded studies.
If I want rabid fan baiting with no real evidence, well, I'm on Slashdot already, aren't I?
I totally agree. Freespace was the reason I bough a big fat joystick for my computer and aftet I had played both games about 12 times each, it just collected dust because I couldn't find any games I wanted to play with it.
And now, I'm thinking about buying another joystick and investing another month of drool time. Yet again, Slashdot screws up my marriage.
Yeah, but what the hell defines a 'Movie'? Seriously. Does it have to have an mpaa rating? Does it have to be feature length? Because if we're just talking about any time-based display of information involving simulated movement, well that bans most banner ads as well.
So is Verizon offering ad blocking as part of it's service? Or perhaps I could sue them for serving moving ads on my Verizon home page over my Verizon service, thereby forcing me to violate their terms of service. You know, if I used Verizon....
I guess we should ask who wrote this book? I mean, if Ken Brown just went around and asked a bunch of people for their opinion, then typed up the parts of others opinions he liked, and added some comments, then it looks like he didn't write his book did he? I think Tanenbaum should sue him for a slice of the royalties.
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You think a Jewish comedian wouldn't make some jokes about the SS classification? Cause I know I would.
Arrgh. Nothing drives me crazier than people misusing 'evolution'. (except maybe people misusing 'literally')
Evolution is not a force. It is not trying to do anything to us. It is the effect of sexual reproduction. What is friction trying to do? What is erosion trying to do? Is water trying to find it's lowest level?
Please, please, please don't talk about the 'purpose' of evolution.
If you do business that crosses into our country, you need to be held accountable by our laws, whatever they may be. The same holds true in reverse - if we're doing business with your country, then once we, our product, or our communication crosses the border, it's susceptible to whatever laws you have up there
So if we do business with a country that doesn't really respect our copywright laws, like say Russia or China or India, we should just suck it up? Because we seem to be notoriously bad at that.
I hate to be a rtfa poster, but that's exactly what one of the competitors is suggesting. Although they seem to be focusing on teleoperation instead of autonomic tech.
You're assuming that the aforementioned businessman wants to make great games and is deeply deluded about how they are made.
On the contrary, he wants to pump out craptastic rewrites of crap with shiny new licensed properties associated to create 'synergy' and 'vertical integration' and recieve unreasonable piles of 'money' for his 'marketing savvy.'
If games are still being made by people trying to push the envelope that's going to mess up his marketing plan, isn't it? Bad executive! No yacht for you!
That's one way to look at it.
Another way might be that it's a constantly evolving open source project with a practically infinite number of contributers.
You may not appreciate the forks, but that doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it.
I hate to like, interrupt the "Up Vorbis, Down Real!" vibe we have going here, but if you look on the Vorbis homepage You'll notice that the Xiph.org foundation has recieved a big chunk of money from Real to keep doing their excellent work.
I don't really love the Real player either, but unlike many a software company, they are trying to support open formats. I think that should be the cause of praise, not derision
It's just a simulation of the average intelligence of a record exec.
Which is why it can run on a Commodore 64.
Didn't he say we were going to put a man on mars? Didn't I hear that?
I dunno, man. I go to my school board elections and talk to my local councilmen/women to see who I'm going to vote for. Don't you?
No?
Question answered.
about -7 years.
Iceland, DeCode. Google it.
Please, please, please be joking....
(you're thinking of star trek)
yeah, well as she points out, it's pretty much only 'pinkish-whites' who have the option of being color-blind. everybody else doesn't.
Please tell me you're joking. Please, I beg you.
I loves me some Johnny Depp, but Rorshach? Are you kidding? You must be looking forward to that Elektra movie. First of all, he has to be explosively cruel. Depp does a lot of things well, but that's not one of them. Second of all, when the mask comes off, he's supposed to look like a runty little pug. Not a disheveld pretty boy. I'd say Christian Bale for the violence, but he's too pretty as well.
Max Perlich would be kind of perfect since you wouldn't expect his face to under that mask, but I actually doubt a lot of the Rorshach character is going to survive intact. First of all, the story of his becoming is way, way too dark for a Hollywood film. Second of all, it doesn't directly propel the story of 'saving the world' along, so I suspect it'll be excised. Ditto Dr Manhattan (george clooney? how about Guy Pearce?) killing Rorshach.
As for Tom Selleck as The Comedian. Truly, my sides split. I'll probably be spitted for saying this but I think a well directed Stallone would be good for that role. Check out the first Rocky or Copland for examples of his actual acting.
Ugh, I can't believe I'm having this discussion. Actually, considering the level of script this is going to end up as, we should just take your suggestions. Or better yet, use motion capture to have Tom Hanks play all the parts. So we can use the same molds when we force the toys down everybody's throat. (Rorshach! Now with real rapist murdering Karate chop!)
A couple years ago I was tired of Winamp seeming to eat a crapload of system resources and switched to Foobar 2000 and never looked back.
But Winamp was the first free gui audio player that I ever really enjoyed. I remember sending playlists to friends as a way to encourage them to download it. Thanks for helping to make computers cool, Nullsoft. You were great.
Foobar 2000.
Tried it once, never looked back. And I was a huge Winamp fan.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
What the hell am I reading Slashdot for?
Seeya....
Yeah! And where's my damn jetpack!
(Maybe you should read one of the innumerable books describing how this is a NOT EASY problem)
Actually the patented Phantom Labs innovation was to skip step 2. That really speeds things up a lot.
Look, I'm not trying to be a knee-jerk, but I'd like a little evidence. A quick search on Security Focus shows IIS and Apache to be about dead even on vulnerabilities. That may not prove that oss is better, but it certainly suggests it's not any worse.
This article is full of speculation on mechanisms, without any real proof. It doesn't even bother to cite the bullshit MS funded studies.
If I want rabid fan baiting with no real evidence, well, I'm on Slashdot already, aren't I?
I totally agree. Freespace was the reason I bough a big fat joystick for my computer and aftet I had played both games about 12 times each, it just collected dust because I couldn't find any games I wanted to play with it.
And now, I'm thinking about buying another joystick and investing another month of drool time. Yet again, Slashdot screws up my marriage.
To give somebody something other to write than 'Frist Post!"
Yeah, but what the hell defines a 'Movie'? Seriously. Does it have to have an mpaa rating? Does it have to be feature length? Because if we're just talking about any time-based display of information involving simulated movement, well that bans most banner ads as well.
So is Verizon offering ad blocking as part of it's service? Or perhaps I could sue them for serving moving ads on my Verizon home page over my Verizon service, thereby forcing me to violate their terms of service. You know, if I used Verizon....
I guess we should ask who wrote this book? I mean, if Ken Brown just went around and asked a bunch of people for their opinion, then typed up the parts of others opinions he liked, and added some comments, then it looks like he didn't write his book did he? I think Tanenbaum should sue him for a slice of the royalties.
Say, $699 per book?
You got your Porn in my Videogame!
You got your Videogame in my Porn!
MMMMMMMMMMM..............