Ubisoft has a looong tradition of messing up good games the second time around.
Beyond Good & Evil was, by all accounts, one of THE best games out there when it came out. It's like Zelda but with a camera and you control a hot chick with a jo staff. (Aside: you can pick it up on Steam, and using XPadder to map it to a joypad works lovely.)
The Splinter Cell games were also pretty damn good, but they've had a noticeable decline in quality over the years.
I swear, is someone at Ubisoft saying "Well, this game did really well... now how can we fuck up the sequel?"
Beyond Good & Evil 2 is coming out. I'm cautiously optimistic - knowing Ubisoft, they might just mess things up again.
It's a really BAD precedent to set, to legally enforce the idea that a software developer can FORCE a customer to use their product only in specific ways they outline.
Most people don't want a "problem that can be solved in an afternoon". They want stuff that just works.
One of the things Mac has going for it is that everything just works. It looks for Wifi automatically, stuff works as soon as its plugged in, etc. Everything is engineered well and runs pretty smoothly.
If you don't play games and you had a choice between a $1500 Mac computer and a $1000 PC of comparable power, I'd posit that a good lot of people would take the Mac. The $500 you save on the PC's initial purchase evaporates pretty quickly when maintenance, technical headaches, and other stuff get in the way.
Linux is lovely and amazingly moddable and configurable, but they need to make it much, much more user friendly for it to work. As it stands, there are so many flavors that no one is a real standout.
All of this is from the consumer's viewpoint, mind you, and not the business standpoint.
Can it? I mean, really, with all the safety features in nuclear power plants, are they even capable of "blowing up" or is it all just hogwash?
The only things that have went wrong with nuclear power plants have been meltdowns. There's only been, what, three or four meltdowns ever out of some 400 plants in the world? Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and one or two others that I can't quite remember.
That represents a roughly 1% failure rate. Yes, it contiminates the area. Some people get cancer and some people die. Chernobyl was due to poor engineering and incompetence of staff. Three Mile Island was basically a freak accident partially due to poor engineering - one reactor had a *partial* meltdown while the other was shut down for refueling, and the system couldn't vent the heat as it started to melt down.
Consider all of the people who have died over the years from nuclear accidents compared to the people who have died or been displaced from coal fires and coal mine cave-ins. Let's not forget the wars fought over oil and the international hair-pulling over natural gas.
Nuclear is a finite resource but it's wildly more efficient and reactor designs get safer every day.
I'm sure by now some submitters must have posted full page versions to the main story.
My guess is that the editors replaced it with a multipage version because they didn't want to piss off the people running the sites. After all, couldn't they make it more difficult for Slashdot to view articles if they wanted to (redirects for incoming URLs from Slashdot's IP(s))?
Considering how often it happens and how much most of us hate it, it's probably SlashPolicy.
I recall from an article that a farmer was hoping to get a tin roof for his family's home so their roof wouldn't leak any more. He makes about $100 a year.
specifically code a flaw in the code that's hard to find. a few months later, sell out the exploit. go back to the client and say "wow, these guys are smart, i didn't even think they could do that." then make more money fixing the flaw.
lather, rinse, repeat, and most importnatly in these troubled economic times, stay in business.
it's like a window company driving around at night and putting bricks through shop windows.
The 17th amendment is what really fucked things up IMO:
The selection of delegates to the Constitutional Convention established the precedent that states could choose Federal officials at a higher level than direct election. Originally, each Senator was to be elected by his state legislature to represent his state, providing one of the many necessary American governmental checks and balances. The delegates to the Convention also expected a Senator elected by his state's legislature would be able to concentrate on the governmental business at hand without direct, immediate pressure from the populace of his state, also aided by a longer term (six years) than the one afforded to members of the House of Representatives (two years).
Before this, Senators were accountable to the state's legislature. The State legislature represented the people more directly than a national Senator, so if someone in the U.S. Senate wasn't listening to the desires of the people they could get recalled very quickly.
Now it's down to popular vote, and the Senate seems to just be incumbent after incumbent, nothing ever really changing...
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Ubisoft has a looong tradition of messing up good games the second time around.
Beyond Good & Evil was, by all accounts, one of THE best games out there when it came out. It's like Zelda but with a camera and you control a hot chick with a jo staff. (Aside: you can pick it up on Steam, and using XPadder to map it to a joypad works lovely.)
The Splinter Cell games were also pretty damn good, but they've had a noticeable decline in quality over the years.
I swear, is someone at Ubisoft saying "Well, this game did really well... now how can we fuck up the sequel?"
Beyond Good & Evil 2 is coming out. I'm cautiously optimistic - knowing Ubisoft, they might just mess things up again.
It's emulation created using packet-sniffing and reverse-engineering. It wasn't stolen.
The felony he committed was to traffic that "Glider" product.
Isn't that kinda like suing Smith & Wesson because people get shot?
It's a really BAD precedent to set, to legally enforce the idea that a software developer can FORCE a customer to use their product only in specific ways they outline.
Newsflash: Apple already does this.
Man, when the Hell am I gonna get a LCARS-style Wall Panel for my house?
Mess around with some Majel Roddenberry sound clips in Audacity and get a custom Linux OS running on it and I'm golden!
Alternative choices:
*** STOP: 0x00007175
*** STOP: 0x0B00B1E5
People List?
Surely most cultures make lists and have words for people. So People List could work.
Acceptable substitutes:
*Friend List
*Community List
*Home/House List
*Contact List
s/list/$OTHER_ACCEPTABLE_WORD that is similarly descriptive.
If a culture doesn't have a word for potato, I'm sure they could go with small brown thing.
(Aw crap, I hope I didn't just inspire another poop-related troll post.
Most people don't want a "problem that can be solved in an afternoon". They want stuff that just works.
One of the things Mac has going for it is that everything just works. It looks for Wifi automatically, stuff works as soon as its plugged in, etc. Everything is engineered well and runs pretty smoothly.
If you don't play games and you had a choice between a $1500 Mac computer and a $1000 PC of comparable power, I'd posit that a good lot of people would take the Mac. The $500 you save on the PC's initial purchase evaporates pretty quickly when maintenance, technical headaches, and other stuff get in the way.
Linux is lovely and amazingly moddable and configurable, but they need to make it much, much more user friendly for it to work. As it stands, there are so many flavors that no one is a real standout.
All of this is from the consumer's viewpoint, mind you, and not the business standpoint.
Can it? I mean, really, with all the safety features in nuclear power plants, are they even capable of "blowing up" or is it all just hogwash?
The only things that have went wrong with nuclear power plants have been meltdowns. There's only been, what, three or four meltdowns ever out of some 400 plants in the world? Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and one or two others that I can't quite remember.
That represents a roughly 1% failure rate. Yes, it contiminates the area. Some people get cancer and some people die. Chernobyl was due to poor engineering and incompetence of staff. Three Mile Island was basically a freak accident partially due to poor engineering - one reactor had a *partial* meltdown while the other was shut down for refueling, and the system couldn't vent the heat as it started to melt down.
Consider all of the people who have died over the years from nuclear accidents compared to the people who have died or been displaced from coal fires and coal mine cave-ins. Let's not forget the wars fought over oil and the international hair-pulling over natural gas.
Nuclear is a finite resource but it's wildly more efficient and reactor designs get safer every day.
I'm sure by now some submitters must have posted full page versions to the main story.
My guess is that the editors replaced it with a multipage version because they didn't want to piss off the people running the sites. After all, couldn't they make it more difficult for Slashdot to view articles if they wanted to (redirects for incoming URLs from Slashdot's IP(s))?
Considering how often it happens and how much most of us hate it, it's probably SlashPolicy.
Gas siphoning crime wave continues in Scotland, film at 11.
I recall from an article that a farmer was hoping to get a tin roof for his family's home so their roof wouldn't leak any more. He makes about $100 a year.
$15 is about two months salary.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andromeda#.22Fear_and_Loathing_in_the_Milky_Way.22
Gerentex: [to Trance] Aren't you dead?
Trance: I got better.
Gerentex: Huh. Lucky you.
Is that line really from Monty Python? I can't recall it from the few movies/shows I've seen.
So that's, what... 16 people and a midget? An amputee?
+1 Trance Gemini quote.
Wouldn't imaginary imaginary violence be real violence? This is kinda like the double-negative rule, isn't it? d:
think about it. it's job security.
specifically code a flaw in the code that's hard to find. a few months later, sell out the exploit. go back to the client and say "wow, these guys are smart, i didn't even think they could do that." then make more money fixing the flaw.
lather, rinse, repeat, and most importnatly in these troubled economic times, stay in business.
it's like a window company driving around at night and putting bricks through shop windows.
Slashdotters have alts?
What, were you bored with your original account and decided to roll a shammy?
I wouldn't say that. They're well on their way to having a monopoly on DRM. Hell, in 5-10 years, they may be the only company who still uses it.
This is in no way a compliment or indicator of their success. It is one of their largest failings as a company.
He's not treasonous, he's a "person of interest" who will go for an "interview" in a CIA "resort".
I hear they have jacuzzis! Well, something with bubbling water.
Is "whoosh" appropriate here? I mean, he got the joke. We need like... the opposite of whoosh here.
I'm going to go with the sound of a vacuum cleaner.
MWWUUURRRVROOOOOMnnneeeeyyyuuuUUURVROOOOMneeeeyuuurrrr
(2 eggs for the morning newspaper, a few grams of gold for the electricity etc)
Pssst.... that'd be currency. What, do you have a gold mine in your backyard?
And where did you get that gold? Oh, you traded some of your squash plants for a shiny metal?
Thanks a bunch! I have a meeting with a bunch of IT froshes on Tuesday and they will all get copies of this to read.
Why not just have a delay period of X days before a submitted bill can be voted on so Senators and Representatives have time to read it?/p?
The 17th amendment is what really fucked things up IMO:
The selection of delegates to the Constitutional Convention established the precedent that states could choose Federal officials at a higher level than direct election. Originally, each Senator was to be elected by his state legislature to represent his state, providing one of the many necessary American governmental checks and balances. The delegates to the Convention also expected a Senator elected by his state's legislature would be able to concentrate on the governmental business at hand without direct, immediate pressure from the populace of his state, also aided by a longer term (six years) than the one afforded to members of the House of Representatives (two years).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Historical_background
Before this, Senators were accountable to the state's legislature. The State legislature represented the people more directly than a national Senator, so if someone in the U.S. Senate wasn't listening to the desires of the people they could get recalled very quickly.
Now it's down to popular vote, and the Senate seems to just be incumbent after incumbent, nothing ever really changing...