If either state had gone to Gore, we wouldn't have had this bunch of yahoos in office when the planes took off on September 11th, and this country might still be respected in the world.
ROFL!!!!!!!! I almost blew milk out my nose when I read this. Gore...good lord man, I understand you hate bush, whatever, but...Gore....that man...he's a nutbag. I'd rather have Oscar the Grouch for president than him.
You people live in fantasy land. You think all this hatred for the U.S. happened during the 4 years Bush was in office after that sleazebag Clinton. The reality is....oh what's the point. You've got your head way too far up your ass to pull out.
is why I wonder why anyone bothers to ask a question here. There are more wannabe commedians than there are people providing practical answers, which is pretty much the norm here. That and the 'you're an idiot for asking this question' posts. All we need now is some M$ bashing and everything will be complete.
At least this time some people actually DID manage to answer the question, which is far from the norm. Of course you have to wade through all the BS to _find_ these answers.
Ok let's just say the hydrazine wasn't an issue. (But the discussion on this and orbits has been GREAT!)
Boy and girls, the idea of the tech falling into the wrong hands is more than enough reason to take out the sat. Period. End of story. Everything else is just icing on the cake.
Actually, what is more amusing, is my dead ideals are why he gets to post on a site like this. As usual, most of the people in the world forget or just prefer to ignore that the only reason they aren't citizens of the state is due to the US. Yah yah, start your blathering - we are the only ones holding the wolves at bay and I for one hope we stop doing it - just to listen to the pleas for help when you are overran by either muslims or communists. Enjoy it.
I'm suggesting that a computer will never decide to suddenly stop working because it's bored, for instance. Or if I ask you to come up with a number between 1 and 100, the things that fashion that decision can't be accurately mimiced by an expert system because we really don't KNOW what affects it. No, of course it's not truly random either - but the factors that go into play on it are. Your feelings, the temperature in the room, are you posting to slashdot, blah blah.
My real point is that intelligence requires something besides a bunch of on/offs.
Hrm..Ok...sooo...if I get the information from someone that works there and I don't work there, I don't get hit with insider trading? I'm not sure I see the difference. The point is he has information he's not suppose to have - isn't that really the definition of insider trading?
Or is it the case that outsiders that get info from insiders are not hit with insider trading? I have no idea - if that IS the case, then ok.
EK
A computer can't generate a random number (yes I know they have faked it with arcing electricity and stuff) A computer is, as I hope most of you know, on/off values. Period. This will NEVER make an intelligence. Period. The only way we are ever going to make an AI (and GOD that word has been SO abused - these people are making expert systems NOT AI's) is to have a radical change in computer technology - and while we have some intrigueuing ideas, they have yet to be little more than a faster/smaller way to make bits.
It's a fantasy. All they are currently doing is making an expert system so fast it can fake intelligence..up to a point. The faster the computer, the more tricks you can build into it. But to suggest this is 'intelligence' - please.
I will add that a lot of this depends on what your definition is of 'intelligence' - and good luck getting a single answer to that.
And to those that suggest we have any clue how the brain works - all you have to do is try to deal with a semi-serious illness. Then you find out the dirty little secret - They really don't know how most of the human body works, much less something as comlex as the mind.
Just my.02
EK
And my P.S. Why, on a website as sophisticted and geeky as slashdot, is there no online spell checker? I suspect a lot of people here simply enjoy berating people for misspellings.
When did human rights start involving privacy? Maybe we should concentrate on getting the 'right to life' one straight before we start worrying about whether you can surf porn privately. How many countries in the world still simply kill people with different opinions (that blow hard chevez comes to mind, for instance...)?
If only it bothered me if we (the US) actually did try to bump Iran of the internet....
For some reason, it doesn't.
and, btw, to the previous poster, I seriously doubt they'd have to guess which lines to cut if they were doing it on purpose (though that is funny). I'd also point out it's more likely that someone over 'there' is doing the cutting than the US. But then again, we are the evil empire blah blah blah.
The fixes sound intersting - my background is 2.0 and up, though 3.0 sucked so bad we dropped it.
Some of my issues with 3.x:
Experience curves - you'd be level 20 in like 3 months. That's just silly. Apparently today's ADD claiming youth can't handle a game that doesn't 'ding' them ever few days. Wonder if this is in 4.0 (and yes I immediately changed the xp tables)
Death of multi-class. There was little point in being a 10th level x and a 10th level y - the 20th level x in the party would make you useless. Prestige classes just as bad. Why bother.
No more hobbits. Apparently all the years of Gygax (when he is sober) claiming that LOTR had no effect on the development of D&D caused them to make halfing simply minature people - that or the 'short fat' people in the world bitched until they were gone. I liked having hobbits in the game. (yes yes I promptly changed this too...)
I could go on and on but blah...bottom line is the d20 system sucks. I HATE that they snapped up so many franchises for it.
On to 4.x...from this article...
Sooooo will we be denying the WOW affect on this for the next 20 years as well? This thing reads like a dice version of WOW. Not a bad thing perhaps, but I'm starting to wonder why they are calling this D&D. I suppose the 1.0 people thought the same thing when 2.0 came out, but at least you could identify 3.0 as D&D.
All this aside, it would be nice if they come up with something cool. I was burned so bad by 3.x, I can't help but be skeptical. Time will tell.
Did you REALLY just say UN election oversight? Are you out of your skull?
First let me say, I TOTALLY agree with you that the election system is shot. It has been - the two party system is a joke and the way we vote is a joke (Voting should start across the US at say 7am ET and end 7am ET the next day AND should be on a weekend. The press should not be allowed to report exit polls until the election is finished - the speed in which they can do this has a DEFINITE effect on voting patterns. It's crazy that 1% of the votes can be in a voting district and they declare a winner) It's the UN part that is insane.
We are NOT like other countries that we push for election oversight on and I'm sick and damn tired of everyone trying to invoke some sort of moral equiavalence on this sort of thing. Hugo Chavez is a nut bug trying his best to become a dictator in a 'quasi-legal' manner. The level of fraud that he and other third world dicators are willing to use is way beyond anything that can occur here. You aren't going to see anyone getting away with mass death threats or anything like that over here. THAT is what the UN is SUPPOSE be making sure doesn't happen.
The sort of fraud that may or may not go on in the US is much more subtle and much harder to prove. If the the dems/reps could prove the reps/dems were doing fraund, do you think for ONE SECOND they wouldn't jump all over it? Seriously? With the level of outright insane hatred that the liberals have against conservatives these days? The PR coup that either side could win if outright fraud could be proven....
As far as the UN, they couldn't over see a high school election much less one with the complexity of ours (or apparently any third world one for that matter). The UN is simply a soap box for every two-bit wannabe dictator to take pot shots at the US. It has long since become useless. (Do I REALLY have to re-invoke the ol' human rights council where some of the biggest violators still reside?) When you have the likes of that moron Jimmy Carter running around the world rubber stamping bogus elections to prevent bloodshed, what hope is there that the UN is going to give the US a fair shake. It never does now. I can't wait to see if good ol' Carter backs that idiot Chavez - I'm surpised he didn't manage to win the 'president for life' election. I suppose any open fraud on that would have been obvious.
So please - the UN isn't an answer for much of anything anymore. IMHO, we should cease funding it - it hasn't managed to do anything useful in years (besides line the pockets of the people invovled with it).
And I agree - all the drm-less stuff hasn't had much effect yet. It will be interesting to see what occurs. Since most of this (or at least common wisdom seems to say it is) due to iTunes (Jobs) getting too much control, I wonder what sort of pricing structure will come to pass. I know that was one of the big sticking points with Apple - all tracks at.99 while the recording companies want to tier out pricing on newer stuff.
I'm betting they make it still not worth it, ie. I'm not paying $3 a track.
Uh...who is giving away free music? Ok, iTunes has some free tracks every week and I am sure there are others but here is the point:
Removing DRM != Giving Away Music For Free.
Since when does iTunes = no DRM? (Burning a compressed track so you can re-rip it doesn't equal no drm in my book)
Not disagreeing particularly with the direction of your statements, but that example is a bit flawed.
Of course - they didn't hire you therefore they must be evil. And that puts you 'in the know'.
Why couldn't I see it before now?
Almost blew milk out my nose on that one. (Come on mods, what makes that hyperbole informative?) On Brian Reid, well I see a wiki entry where he may or may not have been fired for his age. A quick search shows the law suit is still pending (there's actually very little online about it or him from yahoo or google) so I fail to see how this proves anything.
Maybe you are right. Maybe you are wrong. Nothing you've presented pushes it particularly in either direction - you simply sound like someone who's pissed they didn't get hired.
Great points except for the technically-superior format statement - that's simply a matter of opinion. There's good and bad in both formats - it would be nice if they could have buried the hatchet early enough to combine what was good in both formats.
Instead we'll get an embolded sony bent on controlling more formats. Sorry, but despite the various posts in here, I despise sony - they are hellbent on owning formats whether they are better or not (memory sticks suck and will not die). Perhaps this article is incorrect about a USB war, but it doesn't change what sony has been and will continue to do.
Beware a company controlling a format that is also a content producer.
The competition for domain registerings is obviously starting to take a toll.
They also steal your domain for 24-48 hours if you change the DNS pointers. Rather than going ahead and pointing your site, it gets switched to their context search page. I've tried to drum up sum publicity behind this without much success - to me, it's even worse than what they are doing now. You can get around their crap on this by using the whois at a better registrar - if you already have your site at NetSol, well you either move it (which I'm in the process of doing..except..oh, to proetect me, since I change my e-mail address, they are locking up my domains for two months)..
NetSol sucks period and they need a spanking. They are way out of control.
And, if you read the linked article, you would know that *zero* donations from Wikipedia have anything at all to do with this: Wikia is a completely separate organization Which is why I put one wonders - honestly I'm not interested enough in wiki-anything to follow links to it. Good enough though, point taken. It was an uninformed jibe.
Also don't make the classic mistake of thinking that "open source" automatically means "volunteer coders". It generally does not, and the classic FUD from the proprietary world fails to describe reality for precisely this reason. I don't see that I said that anywhere, but in any case it's not what I was talking about - let me clarify - I was referencing the idea that open source is more secure because there are all these coders out there looking over the code for security/errors. I find that idea laughable. Don't get me wrong - I have no issue with open source - it's not what I do but that's not relevant to the idea of it. I just have an issue with this particular claim about it. There are strengths to open source, but to put a blanket 'more secure' on it is just silly.
All I know is Google attracts some of the top talent around the world and they have problems keeping the spammers out of thier page ranking system - and thats with the spammers having to guess how it works. So I'm just a bit skeptical that having the ranking system methodology public isn't going to help them, no matter what the system. I understand the idea of a white list..but that opens up other issues. Now there's a select bunch of people determing page rank - there are other posts concerning how this will sway the results, so I'll leave that to those posters. Who gets to determine who's on the white list? It brings to mind the recent article where every one got fired up over the edits made by the army guy. So many things are a matter of point of view - what happens when someone puts in a search for George W. Bush? Did you let the liberal minded people control the search results? See what I mean? It will be a fascinating thing to watch - we'll see what articles come up on slashdot about it.
Thanks for the reply,
EK
All this said, more choices are always welcome.
Linux didn't need any extra driver but Windows needed lots of extra drivers (Video, sound, network,...). HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH.
Did you smirk when you typed that?
Sorry, if you want to tout linux as better than windows, more power to you, but let's stick to reality when it comes to installing them. An SP2 installation is going to work on a 99% of the computers out there and maybe popping in a driver disk from the mfg or letting it update from M$. In any case, it's usually pretty simple. You CANNOT say the same for linux. Sure there are PCs it will just install on..of course then, depending on the flavor (that's one of it's biggest issues...still too many distros), you get to do the wonderful configuring blah blah blah. Oh and now we gotta find, download and manually install updates...blah blah...
Linux has things over windows - installing and updating it STILL is not one of them.
This is simply his response to Google starting what amounts to competition for wikpedia. I'm sure google is having quite the laugh from it - one wonders how much of the donations for wikpedia are being used towards this thing.
If you think wikpedia gets vandalized, wait until there's money involved. Wikpedia for all it's trappings, doesn't directly influence spam. But a search engine... IF, and this is a big IF, this thing becomes mainstream, having the code public will make it very easy for the bot herders to control it. The idea is simply flawed. Google is currently dealing with bot herders attempting to manipulate it's page ranks - while the idea of it being open source sounds great (well, ok it doesn't to me - I don't have the love affair with open source that most slashdotters do - I've never bought into the security myth that there's GOOD coders out there with so much free time on their hands that they are walking OTHER peoples code. I don't like doing that when I'm PAID to do it. Not too mention there just aren't that many good coders out there....but I digress) it's simply going to work right into the hands of the malware crowd - especially now that it's more organized crime than it is vandalism.
Yah, I still don't get why they won't add a mouse and 'keyboard' control (i.e. a hand control with keys as opposed to a qwerty'). The only issue I've seen is that consolers get freaking hostile whenever it's mentioned. The attitude is unbelievablely irrational - the name calling starts, etc. Looks like a race riot. It seems to me it would open up the consoles to PC Gamers - I'd rather play on my big screen TV with a console BUT I refuse to use a joystick to play an FPS. Thus, while I have a 360 (and a WII) I only play non-FPS games on it - which sucks as there are some nice ones on it. I've tried to use the joystick and it's just not worth it - the fact there IS an auto-aim tells you it sucks. The best joysticker is no match for a moderate mouser (on an even playing field - I've played a couple FPSs on consoles and PCs and I've pulled off WAY more head shots on the console - it's obvious even with auto-aim off there's a bigger hit zone)
I suppose there is some concern that mousers will own the joytickers in multi-player play but geeze is the best answer to that to simply ignore the market segment? I'd buy a PS3 right now if it had full mouse support (and no having it in UT is not full support - though the whining is funny to watch)
At least the Wii makes it a bit better with the wii remote - Metroid is pretty fun but starts to fatigue your hand after a bit. They really need a 'gun' controller (and not one of those stupid drop in things) that's easier on the hand. It's only a half answer as the joystick for movement is still, I dunno, just doesn't feel right.
Anyway, just my.02 - consolers feel free to attack me.
WHY is it a problem when people AT THE SOURCE of what the article is about post THEIR opinions on a matter? You people make me sick - get your heads out of your asses. The only reason most of you have a problem with this is because your part of the 'peace at any price' crowd and have an issue with Bush.
They aren't doing anything that isn't done every day on that worthless wikipedia site. Why is it that the detractors get to post whatever crap they want? Because that's typical liberal speak - silence the opposition (just watch what happens on 90% of the college campuses when a conservative trys to do a speech - people should be INCISED by the attempt to silence free speech, yet you LET THEM HIDE behind the idea that shouting down people is free speech)
I LOVE the edits they have a problem with. Changed Invasion to War. As someone else stated, neither is probably correct, but BY GOD (now that's funny) the liberals say 'Invasion' is the 'fact' here. As far as removing IDs, well sorry but that sounds like a good idea to me - where's the privacy advocates now?
How can you not SEE the hypocrisy? How can you be SO BLIND? The ONLY remote issue here..and it's VERY remote..is that it was part of his job to make changes. You think the mindless drones behind dailykos are NOT on wiki makeing changes all the time? Which is worse - a fanatic making changes or someone being paid to make changes? Careful on your answer there sport!
Pathethic. Most of you are just pathetic.
These guys now show an advertising (links) page whenever you attempt a DNS move despite the fact there's no reason for there to be downtime (assuming your website was up with the previous DNS).
Slashdot Mirror
ROFL!!!!!!!! I almost blew milk out my nose when I read this. Gore...good lord man, I understand you hate bush, whatever, but...Gore....that man...he's a nutbag. I'd rather have Oscar the Grouch for president than him.
You people live in fantasy land. You think all this hatred for the U.S. happened during the 4 years Bush was in office after that sleazebag Clinton. The reality is....oh what's the point. You've got your head way too far up your ass to pull out.
is why I wonder why anyone bothers to ask a question here. There are more wannabe commedians than there are people providing practical answers, which is pretty much the norm here. That and the 'you're an idiot for asking this question' posts. All we need now is some M$ bashing and everything will be complete.
At least this time some people actually DID manage to answer the question, which is far from the norm. Of course you have to wade through all the BS to _find_ these answers.
EK
Ok let's just say the hydrazine wasn't an issue. (But the discussion on this and orbits has been GREAT!)
Boy and girls, the idea of the tech falling into the wrong hands is more than enough reason to take out the sat. Period. End of story. Everything else is just icing on the cake.
EK
Actually, what is more amusing, is my dead ideals are why he gets to post on a site like this. As usual, most of the people in the world forget or just prefer to ignore that the only reason they aren't citizens of the state is due to the US. Yah yah, start your blathering - we are the only ones holding the wolves at bay and I for one hope we stop doing it - just to listen to the pleas for help when you are overran by either muslims or communists. Enjoy it.
I'm suggesting that a computer will never decide to suddenly stop working because it's bored, for instance. Or if I ask you to come up with a number between 1 and 100, the things that fashion that decision can't be accurately mimiced by an expert system because we really don't KNOW what affects it. No, of course it's not truly random either - but the factors that go into play on it are. Your feelings, the temperature in the room, are you posting to slashdot, blah blah.
My real point is that intelligence requires something besides a bunch of on/offs.
EK
Hrm..Ok...sooo...if I get the information from someone that works there and I don't work there, I don't get hit with insider trading? I'm not sure I see the difference. The point is he has information he's not suppose to have - isn't that really the definition of insider trading?
Or is it the case that outsiders that get info from insiders are not hit with insider trading? I have no idea - if that IS the case, then ok.
EK
A computer can't generate a random number (yes I know they have faked it with arcing electricity and stuff) A computer is, as I hope most of you know, on/off values. Period. This will NEVER make an intelligence. Period. The only way we are ever going to make an AI (and GOD that word has been SO abused - these people are making expert systems NOT AI's) is to have a radical change in computer technology - and while we have some intrigueuing ideas, they have yet to be little more than a faster/smaller way to make bits.
.02
It's a fantasy. All they are currently doing is making an expert system so fast it can fake intelligence..up to a point. The faster the computer, the more tricks you can build into it. But to suggest this is 'intelligence' - please.
I will add that a lot of this depends on what your definition is of 'intelligence' - and good luck getting a single answer to that.
And to those that suggest we have any clue how the brain works - all you have to do is try to deal with a semi-serious illness. Then you find out the dirty little secret - They really don't know how most of the human body works, much less something as comlex as the mind.
Just my
EK
And my P.S. Why, on a website as sophisticted and geeky as slashdot, is there no online spell checker? I suspect a lot of people here simply enjoy berating people for misspellings.
When did human rights start involving privacy? Maybe we should concentrate on getting the 'right to life' one straight before we start worrying about whether you can surf porn privately. How many countries in the world still simply kill people with different opinions (that blow hard chevez comes to mind, for instance...)?
If only it bothered me if we (the US) actually did try to bump Iran of the internet....
For some reason, it doesn't.
and, btw, to the previous poster, I seriously doubt they'd have to guess which lines to cut if they were doing it on purpose (though that is funny). I'd also point out it's more likely that someone over 'there' is doing the cutting than the US. But then again, we are the evil empire blah blah blah.
EK
The fixes sound intersting - my background is 2.0 and up, though 3.0 sucked so bad we dropped it.
Some of my issues with 3.x:
Experience curves - you'd be level 20 in like 3 months. That's just silly. Apparently today's ADD claiming youth can't handle a game that doesn't 'ding' them ever few days. Wonder if this is in 4.0 (and yes I immediately changed the xp tables)
Death of multi-class. There was little point in being a 10th level x and a 10th level y - the 20th level x in the party would make you useless. Prestige classes just as bad. Why bother.
No more hobbits. Apparently all the years of Gygax (when he is sober) claiming that LOTR had no effect on the development of D&D caused them to make halfing simply minature people - that or the 'short fat' people in the world bitched until they were gone. I liked having hobbits in the game. (yes yes I promptly changed this too...)
I could go on and on but blah...bottom line is the d20 system sucks. I HATE that they snapped up so many franchises for it.
On to 4.x...from this article...
Sooooo will we be denying the WOW affect on this for the next 20 years as well? This thing reads like a dice version of WOW. Not a bad thing perhaps, but I'm starting to wonder why they are calling this D&D. I suppose the 1.0 people thought the same thing when 2.0 came out, but at least you could identify 3.0 as D&D.
All this aside, it would be nice if they come up with something cool. I was burned so bad by 3.x, I can't help but be skeptical. Time will tell.
EK
Did you REALLY just say UN election oversight? Are you out of your skull?
First let me say, I TOTALLY agree with you that the election system is shot. It has been - the two party system is a joke and the way we vote is a joke (Voting should start across the US at say 7am ET and end 7am ET the next day AND should be on a weekend. The press should not be allowed to report exit polls until the election is finished - the speed in which they can do this has a DEFINITE effect on voting patterns. It's crazy that 1% of the votes can be in a voting district and they declare a winner) It's the UN part that is insane.
We are NOT like other countries that we push for election oversight on and I'm sick and damn tired of everyone trying to invoke some sort of moral equiavalence on this sort of thing. Hugo Chavez is a nut bug trying his best to become a dictator in a 'quasi-legal' manner. The level of fraud that he and other third world dicators are willing to use is way beyond anything that can occur here. You aren't going to see anyone getting away with mass death threats or anything like that over here. THAT is what the UN is SUPPOSE be making sure doesn't happen.
The sort of fraud that may or may not go on in the US is much more subtle and much harder to prove. If the the dems/reps could prove the reps/dems were doing fraund, do you think for ONE SECOND they wouldn't jump all over it? Seriously? With the level of outright insane hatred that the liberals have against conservatives these days? The PR coup that either side could win if outright fraud could be proven....
As far as the UN, they couldn't over see a high school election much less one with the complexity of ours (or apparently any third world one for that matter). The UN is simply a soap box for every two-bit wannabe dictator to take pot shots at the US. It has long since become useless. (Do I REALLY have to re-invoke the ol' human rights council where some of the biggest violators still reside?) When you have the likes of that moron Jimmy Carter running around the world rubber stamping bogus elections to prevent bloodshed, what hope is there that the UN is going to give the US a fair shake. It never does now. I can't wait to see if good ol' Carter backs that idiot Chavez - I'm surpised he didn't manage to win the 'president for life' election. I suppose any open fraud on that would have been obvious.
So please - the UN isn't an answer for much of anything anymore. IMHO, we should cease funding it - it hasn't managed to do anything useful in years (besides line the pockets of the people invovled with it).
EK
P.S. Why isn't there a spell checker?
Free beer works for me.
.99 while the recording companies want to tier out pricing on newer stuff.
And I agree - all the drm-less stuff hasn't had much effect yet. It will be interesting to see what occurs. Since most of this (or at least common wisdom seems to say it is) due to iTunes (Jobs) getting too much control, I wonder what sort of pricing structure will come to pass. I know that was one of the big sticking points with Apple - all tracks at
I'm betting they make it still not worth it, ie. I'm not paying $3 a track.
Time will tell.
Removing DRM != Giving Away Music For Free.
Since when does iTunes = no DRM? (Burning a compressed track so you can re-rip it doesn't equal no drm in my book)
Not disagreeing particularly with the direction of your statements, but that example is a bit flawed.
Of course - they didn't hire you therefore they must be evil. And that puts you 'in the know'.
Why couldn't I see it before now?
Almost blew milk out my nose on that one. (Come on mods, what makes that hyperbole informative?) On Brian Reid, well I see a wiki entry where he may or may not have been fired for his age. A quick search shows the law suit is still pending (there's actually very little online about it or him from yahoo or google) so I fail to see how this proves anything.
Maybe you are right. Maybe you are wrong. Nothing you've presented pushes it particularly in either direction - you simply sound like someone who's pissed they didn't get hired.
Great points except for the technically-superior format statement - that's simply a matter of opinion. There's good and bad in both formats - it would be nice if they could have buried the hatchet early enough to combine what was good in both formats.
Instead we'll get an embolded sony bent on controlling more formats. Sorry, but despite the various posts in here, I despise sony - they are hellbent on owning formats whether they are better or not (memory sticks suck and will not die). Perhaps this article is incorrect about a USB war, but it doesn't change what sony has been and will continue to do.
Beware a company controlling a format that is also a content producer.
EK
The competition for domain registerings is obviously starting to take a toll.
They also steal your domain for 24-48 hours if you change the DNS pointers. Rather than going ahead and pointing your site, it gets switched to their context search page. I've tried to drum up sum publicity behind this without much success - to me, it's even worse than what they are doing now. You can get around their crap on this by using the whois at a better registrar - if you already have your site at NetSol, well you either move it (which I'm in the process of doing..except..oh, to proetect me, since I change my e-mail address, they are locking up my domains for two months)..
NetSol sucks period and they need a spanking. They are way out of control.
Point taken - however, it's also no secret how much pull Sony the content producer has with Sony the electronics maker. It WILL affect Blu-ray.
And still the PS/3 fanbois don't understand why it is BAD BAD BAD that blu-ray is winning.
Valid points - I just think it being open will make it that much easier.
In the end, however, it won't matter - as you have said, money will eventually be involved and therefore people will figure out how to manipulate it.
Did you smirk when you typed that?
Sorry, if you want to tout linux as better than windows, more power to you, but let's stick to reality when it comes to installing them. An SP2 installation is going to work on a 99% of the computers out there and maybe popping in a driver disk from the mfg or letting it update from M$. In any case, it's usually pretty simple. You CANNOT say the same for linux. Sure there are PCs it will just install on..of course then, depending on the flavor (that's one of it's biggest issues...still too many distros), you get to do the wonderful configuring blah blah blah. Oh and now we gotta find, download and manually install updates...blah blah...
Linux has things over windows - installing and updating it STILL is not one of them.
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This is simply his response to Google starting what amounts to competition for wikpedia. I'm sure google is having quite the laugh from it - one wonders how much of the donations for wikpedia are being used towards this thing.
If you think wikpedia gets vandalized, wait until there's money involved. Wikpedia for all it's trappings, doesn't directly influence spam. But a search engine... IF, and this is a big IF, this thing becomes mainstream, having the code public will make it very easy for the bot herders to control it. The idea is simply flawed. Google is currently dealing with bot herders attempting to manipulate it's page ranks - while the idea of it being open source sounds great (well, ok it doesn't to me - I don't have the love affair with open source that most slashdotters do - I've never bought into the security myth that there's GOOD coders out there with so much free time on their hands that they are walking OTHER peoples code. I don't like doing that when I'm PAID to do it. Not too mention there just aren't that many good coders out there....but I digress) it's simply going to work right into the hands of the malware crowd - especially now that it's more organized crime than it is vandalism.
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Yah, I still don't get why they won't add a mouse and 'keyboard' control (i.e. a hand control with keys as opposed to a qwerty'). The only issue I've seen is that consolers get freaking hostile whenever it's mentioned. The attitude is unbelievablely irrational - the name calling starts, etc. Looks like a race riot. It seems to me it would open up the consoles to PC Gamers - I'd rather play on my big screen TV with a console BUT I refuse to use a joystick to play an FPS. Thus, while I have a 360 (and a WII) I only play non-FPS games on it - which sucks as there are some nice ones on it. I've tried to use the joystick and it's just not worth it - the fact there IS an auto-aim tells you it sucks. The best joysticker is no match for a moderate mouser (on an even playing field - I've played a couple FPSs on consoles and PCs and I've pulled off WAY more head shots on the console - it's obvious even with auto-aim off there's a bigger hit zone)
.02 - consolers feel free to attack me.
I suppose there is some concern that mousers will own the joytickers in multi-player play but geeze is the best answer to that to simply ignore the market segment? I'd buy a PS3 right now if it had full mouse support (and no having it in UT is not full support - though the whining is funny to watch)
At least the Wii makes it a bit better with the wii remote - Metroid is pretty fun but starts to fatigue your hand after a bit. They really need a 'gun' controller (and not one of those stupid drop in things) that's easier on the hand. It's only a half answer as the joystick for movement is still, I dunno, just doesn't feel right.
Anyway, just my
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WHY is it a problem when people AT THE SOURCE of what the article is about post THEIR opinions on a matter? You people make me sick - get your heads out of your asses. The only reason most of you have a problem with this is because your part of the 'peace at any price' crowd and have an issue with Bush. They aren't doing anything that isn't done every day on that worthless wikipedia site. Why is it that the detractors get to post whatever crap they want? Because that's typical liberal speak - silence the opposition (just watch what happens on 90% of the college campuses when a conservative trys to do a speech - people should be INCISED by the attempt to silence free speech, yet you LET THEM HIDE behind the idea that shouting down people is free speech) I LOVE the edits they have a problem with. Changed Invasion to War. As someone else stated, neither is probably correct, but BY GOD (now that's funny) the liberals say 'Invasion' is the 'fact' here. As far as removing IDs, well sorry but that sounds like a good idea to me - where's the privacy advocates now? How can you not SEE the hypocrisy? How can you be SO BLIND? The ONLY remote issue here..and it's VERY remote..is that it was part of his job to make changes. You think the mindless drones behind dailykos are NOT on wiki makeing changes all the time? Which is worse - a fanatic making changes or someone being paid to make changes? Careful on your answer there sport! Pathethic. Most of you are just pathetic.
These guys now show an advertising (links) page whenever you attempt a DNS move despite the fact there's no reason for there to be downtime (assuming your website was up with the previous DNS).