She's a member of the Federalist Society, isn't that enough?
Strangely, I wonder if this is why they're protesting.
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The thing I miss the most in the Wii however are not its graphical capabilities, but games that show that the controls are actually good for something.
These things take time. Do you level a similar criticism at the PS3 because nobody is using all 9 cores to their fullest yet? The simple fact is that the Wii took all of the major game publishers by surprise. Everyone was gearing up for their PS/XB AAA's and once all of the 7G consoles were out, the Wii took off and the PS remained unfindable. This caused a mad rush to come out with launch-ish titles and first wave titles that were 90% ports from existing versions with a little bit of controller tweak.
We don't know what the Wii is capable of yet. People haven't figured it out, but that's not Nintendo's fault. It's something to look forward in the future, like the use of all of the PS3's number crunching power. Some things take patience, and some things take even more patience, since large companies dropped the ball and considered the Wii to be a pathetic cause prelaunch than it wound up being.
If the Wii comes to completely dominate the industry, there's a good chance a lot of really first-rate, complicated, serious games will never be released, in favor of hundreds of Wii sports clones.
If you don't regret this statement yet, you should. It's dumb.
95% of the people on slashdot seem to be rabid Nintendo-can-do-now-wrong Wii supporters, yet that 95% continues to insist that there's this huge horde of pro-Sony/MS fanboys, who never seem to actually show up.
From what I've seen, most of the PS/XBox market is not in the Slashdot demographic, they're in the Jerry Springer/Adam Sandler/NASCAR one.
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I don't want to get into any elitist intellectualizing about this, but there are a lot of hardcore gamers who have ignored Nintendo for a long time as a kiddie console. These gamers have grown up on the standard games that have become the 360 and PS3's stock in trade: mass market sports and Michael Bay action.
I think Nintendo has done a very smart thing by leaving Sony and MS alone to play out the tragedy we've seen many times before (e.g. ATI vs. NVidia). Trying to win a 3-way graphics battle is a losing proposition, so what other direction can video gaming go in? How about instead of increasing the number of pixel shaders or whatever, increase the ways that people can control a game? In the same way that we have not seen what the PS3 is capable of with its nine graphics cores and blah blah blah, we have not seen the limits of what the Wii control scheme offers.
So now we have a lot of gamers who grew up on the PS2 who now have become site writers and game reviewers, and they just can not make sense of the Wii's appeal. They start to use epithets like Grandparents and throw a giggly aside at "Cookin' Mama" about how it's kind of cool but what's the point? The Wii has caused tremendous congnitive dissonance in the gaming industry and it just so happens that a lot of loud people are writing about it.
The Wii is as significant a transition as the move to D-button gamepad controllers (Nintendo again), and now all of these game writers who are dependent on their DualShock style controllers are pissed that FIFA 08 doesn't come out for months and months so they turn their frustration to the console that *is* getting popular and playable games throughout its launch honeymoon. PS3 and 360 people are stuck waiting for the next wave and convincing themselves they like to using motion sense mode in Motorstorm.
How is that a myth? I think there are quite a few people who might have actually done that. Is there another way to provide and preserve freedoms?
Sure, they may have died for freedoms in that it was the reason they considered when putting themselves at risk, but that doesn't mean their dying had any further connection. Orthogonally, if it's not a myth then it should be easy to name off a few freedoms that we would not have if it wasn't for the people who thought they were dying for them.
Picture it: you walk downtown or to the (disgusting) strip mall, and you enter a "shop" (in which you either pay a nominal fee [say $5 in 2007 dollars], or the store is subsidized by corporate sponsorship). The shop contains a dynamic and broad array of products waiting you to try out.
Personally, I think a *lot* of consumers would go hog wild over an outlet like this: I'm somewhat surprised it hasn't already happened....
For those who modded this "interesting" and not "funny," this business model has existed since at least the 50s.
So while we should be vigilant we also should be thankful for the freedoms we have, grateful to those who died so that we could have them, and honor those who sacrifice so much to maintain them even to this day.
When I talk to "normal" people and mention GIMP, I'm always careful to call it the "GNU IMP graphics software". It is, otherwise, one of the most ridiculous names in modern software.
Honestly, this is like asking what is more useful - the Breaking News headline that you get from CNN, versus their CNN Presents
I figure it's like asking which is better, talking or reading. I'm glad we have the internet and people who read Jakob Nielsen to explain the fine points of these pressing issues to us.
In fact, closed source software that is not secure when the source code is visible is not really secure at all.
Exactly right. This story seems to be a muddying of the issues, since when you stand back it becomes apparent that copyright does not and has never had anything to do with computer security. Though the two may intersect at times, their relationship is orthogonal. That is, any correlation between copyright choices and security are merely illusions. This may be putting too fine a point on it, but this is where I start looking for ulterior motives.
Not only that, but people have already started camping out in line for this much anticipated bugfix release. Some say the people at the front of the line just want to resell the bugfixes on Ebay, but many people have said that they fully intend to use the bugfixes on their own machines.
So is copyright infringement. The beginning of every movie tells you so.
No. Copyright infringement is a civil matter, that's why the RIAA is suing everybody...in civil court. Counterfeiting, on the other hand, may be what you're thinking of, which is the manufacture and/or distribution of copyrighted material without authorization. Any copyright infringement suits brought as a result of someone being busted for counterfeiting will be brought...in civil court.
Oh, maybe you meant just contracts between two corporations? Well, obviously that loophole would be exploited to the hilt, rendering the entire idea pointless.
No really, why don't you explain what this obvious loophole exploiting would look like? The only obvious one I can think of would be for the contract to be between a corporation and some kind of non-corporation, but I would think that a loophole like that would entail a corporation giving up some of the corporate protections that undergird their whole mode of existence.
what business is it of yours what contracts anyone else signs?
Okay, let's narrow it down a bit. How's this: Government and corporate contracts go into the database. It's a matter of public policy.
(when secret contracts are outlawed, only outlaws will have secret contracts)
Maybe, but it will be more easily apparent what behavior is not a matter of public knowledge. The government could reward publicizing contracts with tax breaks or whatever.
I think it will be one of those breakthroughs where you won't even realize how cool it is until you start seeing people wandering around with wireless devices that "just work", anywhere, without much thought of how or why.
How many of these have we seen in the last 20 years?
So you have a choice. One, give your two nickles up tomorrow (it will happen), or be in a position where it will cost someone three nickles to take your two.
Where's the part where you blow someone's house up because someone who lives there once wore a t-shirt with a picture of a nickel on it?
Of course it is - the whole point is to sort the bad apples from the good.
You also have to be able to figure out if the barrel is bad. I suppose there are consent decrees here and there, but that just goes to show you how endemic these things are. The "bad apple" theory is the first thing that comes out unless there's really egregious conduct going on.
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She's a member of the Federalist Society, isn't that enough?
Strangely, I wonder if this is why they're protesting.
The thing I miss the most in the Wii however are not its graphical capabilities, but games that show that the controls are actually good for something.
These things take time. Do you level a similar criticism at the PS3 because nobody is using all 9 cores to their fullest yet? The simple fact is that the Wii took all of the major game publishers by surprise. Everyone was gearing up for their PS/XB AAA's and once all of the 7G consoles were out, the Wii took off and the PS remained unfindable. This caused a mad rush to come out with launch-ish titles and first wave titles that were 90% ports from existing versions with a little bit of controller tweak.
We don't know what the Wii is capable of yet. People haven't figured it out, but that's not Nintendo's fault. It's something to look forward in the future, like the use of all of the PS3's number crunching power. Some things take patience, and some things take even more patience, since large companies dropped the ball and considered the Wii to be a pathetic cause prelaunch than it wound up being.
If the Wii comes to completely dominate the industry, there's a good chance a lot of really first-rate, complicated, serious games will never be released, in favor of hundreds of Wii sports clones.
If you don't regret this statement yet, you should. It's dumb.
95% of the people on slashdot seem to be rabid Nintendo-can-do-now-wrong Wii supporters, yet that 95% continues to insist that there's this huge horde of pro-Sony/MS fanboys, who never seem to actually show up.
From what I've seen, most of the PS/XBox market is not in the Slashdot demographic, they're in the Jerry Springer/Adam Sandler/NASCAR one.
I don't want to get into any elitist intellectualizing about this, but there are a lot of hardcore gamers who have ignored Nintendo for a long time as a kiddie console. These gamers have grown up on the standard games that have become the 360 and PS3's stock in trade: mass market sports and Michael Bay action.
I think Nintendo has done a very smart thing by leaving Sony and MS alone to play out the tragedy we've seen many times before (e.g. ATI vs. NVidia). Trying to win a 3-way graphics battle is a losing proposition, so what other direction can video gaming go in? How about instead of increasing the number of pixel shaders or whatever, increase the ways that people can control a game? In the same way that we have not seen what the PS3 is capable of with its nine graphics cores and blah blah blah, we have not seen the limits of what the Wii control scheme offers.
So now we have a lot of gamers who grew up on the PS2 who now have become site writers and game reviewers, and they just can not make sense of the Wii's appeal. They start to use epithets like Grandparents and throw a giggly aside at "Cookin' Mama" about how it's kind of cool but what's the point? The Wii has caused tremendous congnitive dissonance in the gaming industry and it just so happens that a lot of loud people are writing about it.
The Wii is as significant a transition as the move to D-button gamepad controllers (Nintendo again), and now all of these game writers who are dependent on their DualShock style controllers are pissed that FIFA 08 doesn't come out for months and months so they turn their frustration to the console that *is* getting popular and playable games throughout its launch honeymoon. PS3 and 360 people are stuck waiting for the next wave and convincing themselves they like to using motion sense mode in Motorstorm.
Because the average person that has even heard of Linux only knows of one distro: Ubuntu.
Maybe nowadays, but what about 10 years ago when this story was written the first time?
How is that a myth? I think there are quite a few people who might have actually done that. Is there another way to provide and preserve freedoms?
Sure, they may have died for freedoms in that it was the reason they considered when putting themselves at risk, but that doesn't mean their dying had any further connection. Orthogonally, if it's not a myth then it should be easy to name off a few freedoms that we would not have if it wasn't for the people who thought they were dying for them.
What myth?
That rights and freedoms are provided and/or preserved by those who die for them.
Picture it: you walk downtown or to the (disgusting) strip mall, and you enter a "shop" (in which you either pay a nominal fee [say $5 in 2007 dollars], or the store is subsidized by corporate sponsorship). The shop contains a dynamic and broad array of products waiting you to try out.
Personally, I think a *lot* of consumers would go hog wild over an outlet like this: I'm somewhat surprised it hasn't already happened....
For those who modded this "interesting" and not "funny," this business model has existed since at least the 50s.
So while we should be vigilant we also should be thankful for the freedoms we have, grateful to those who died so that we could have them, and honor those who sacrifice so much to maintain them even to this day.
This rationale illustrates a common myth.
I hope that everyone has moved beyond PHP 4.X by this point.
Someone forgot to tell Redhat. They only make PHP5 available for Release 5, which is very much in the minority of their installation base.
When I talk to "normal" people and mention GIMP, I'm always careful to call it the "GNU IMP graphics software". It is, otherwise, one of the most ridiculous names in modern software.
yes, but do you pronounce it "new," or "ganoo?"
Honestly, this is like asking what is more useful - the Breaking News headline that you get from CNN, versus their CNN Presents
I figure it's like asking which is better, talking or reading. I'm glad we have the internet and people who read Jakob Nielsen to explain the fine points of these pressing issues to us.
In fact, closed source software that is not secure when the source code is visible is not really secure at all.
Exactly right. This story seems to be a muddying of the issues, since when you stand back it becomes apparent that copyright does not and has never had anything to do with computer security. Though the two may intersect at times, their relationship is orthogonal. That is, any correlation between copyright choices and security are merely illusions. This may be putting too fine a point on it, but this is where I start looking for ulterior motives.
Not only that, but people have already started camping out in line for this much anticipated bugfix release. Some say the people at the front of the line just want to resell the bugfixes on Ebay, but many people have said that they fully intend to use the bugfixes on their own machines.
Sorry, but no. Your analogy is flawed-- Gates is Jobs, not Woz.
This is true. Paul Allen was the Woz of MicroSoft, for whatever that's worth.
>>Stealing your laptop is a criminal offense.
So is copyright infringement. The beginning of every movie tells you so.
No. Copyright infringement is a civil matter, that's why the RIAA is suing everybody...in civil court. Counterfeiting, on the other hand, may be what you're thinking of, which is the manufacture and/or distribution of copyrighted material without authorization. Any copyright infringement suits brought as a result of someone being busted for counterfeiting will be brought...in civil court.
Sounds like Apple is favoring its own stores over shipping product to AT&T outlets. Don't blame AT&T for that.
He can certainly blame the manager who wouldn't tell him the quantity available and lied about other stores not having them.
Oh, maybe you meant just contracts between two corporations? Well, obviously that loophole would be exploited to the hilt, rendering the entire idea pointless.
No really, why don't you explain what this obvious loophole exploiting would look like? The only obvious one I can think of would be for the contract to be between a corporation and some kind of non-corporation, but I would think that a loophole like that would entail a corporation giving up some of the corporate protections that undergird their whole mode of existence.
But maybe you see the situation more clearly.
There are plenty of people out there with more dollars than sense.
Right, because everybody who gets or wants an iPhone is stupid.
what business is it of yours what contracts anyone else signs?
Okay, let's narrow it down a bit. How's this: Government and corporate contracts go into the database. It's a matter of public policy.
(when secret contracts are outlawed, only outlaws will have secret contracts)
Maybe, but it will be more easily apparent what behavior is not a matter of public knowledge. The government could reward publicizing contracts with tax breaks or whatever.
I think it will be one of those breakthroughs where you won't even realize how cool it is until you start seeing people wandering around with wireless devices that "just work", anywhere, without much thought of how or why.
How many of these have we seen in the last 20 years?
"YOU WILL."
So you have a choice. One, give your two nickles up tomorrow (it will happen), or be in a position where it will cost someone three nickles to take your two.
Where's the part where you blow someone's house up because someone who lives there once wore a t-shirt with a picture of a nickel on it?
My point is that there is never a discussion of whether it's the barrel or not.
Of course it is - the whole point is to sort the bad apples from the good.
You also have to be able to figure out if the barrel is bad. I suppose there are consent decrees here and there, but that just goes to show you how endemic these things are. The "bad apple" theory is the first thing that comes out unless there's really egregious conduct going on.
Seriously, we all know that police brutality goes on. What we don't know is how much.
However much it happens it's the bad apples who are to blame.