...include a handly list of things to do besides game. Like 'Learn to change the oil or a tire on a car'.
See, I tried that. I stood in my driveway for like, geez, 30 minutes yelling "LFG change oil or tire" and the people in my neighborhood just kept shouting "shutup n00b" at me. I eventually gave up and went back to playing video games.
He's thinking about the near future, where most interesting new hardware would have a chain of trust that requires you to have secret keys to get your programs to run on it, and you will never get those secret keys.
So take it up with the hardware people, not software people. WTF is the point of the GPL then?
To guarantee access to the source code - which it is whether DRM is present or not. Linus doesn't want to use it, fine. I think he's an idiot for not getting it
So he's an idiot because he has a different point of view than you? Wow, that's a bullet-proof argument. I think he does get it. He wants his source code to be freely available to anyone who wants it, and it is. He doesn't think that hardware DRM issues should be fought with software licenses. Makes sense to me. But then again, I don't agree with you, so I'm probably an idiot too, right?
That being said, I hated their "choose from a list of really bad responses" thing that they added to later games. If a choice has to be made, make it in flight, not in the cutscene. Doing it in the cutscene just halts the action and reminds you that you're in a video game.
I agree with the last sentence, however I was actually OK with the cutscenes in the later games. IIRC, depending on what you said to people early on in the game made a difference of whether or not they helped you later in the game. IIRC, in WC3, if you said the wrong things to Rachael (the mechanic chick), she'd get mad at you. And in WC4, at the beginning of the game, you are at a bar and have the choice of buying this guy a drink. If you do, he gives you helpful info later on. They at least made them somewhat interactive and have an affect on the game (even though it was pretty minor). Then again, I'm a WC junkie so maybe I'm a little biased (except for WC5, never cared too much for that one...).
But to address some of your points: So if the bought and downloaded music is intended as a birthday gift for someone else, how will he/she be able to play it on his/her PC?
iTunes, and I would guess other music downloading services, offer gift certificates that you can give instead of the actual music itself. Or, you can always download the music and make an audio CD to give. Or how will I be able to play it on my laptop, if I downloaded it on my desktop?
Once again, iTunes, and I would assume other services might do the same, allow you to play a downloaded song on up to 5 different computers, as long as iTunes (or whatever software) is registered to you. The inability to playback bought tracks on the OS of your choice (say Linux)...is another pain.
When who's accountable? The disclaimer included with the last MS security update I downloaded read as follows:
In no event shall Microsoft Corporation or its suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if Microsoft Corporation or its suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Now, unless I misunderstood, it's telling me that if I install said security patch, and it breaks something, I can't hold MS accountable.
I'm not an AC, and my roommmate owns an Xbox360. He also has an Xbox and I have a PS2. We have them all hooked up next to each other. There's a difference between graphics on the Xbox and PS2, and graphics on the Xbox360.
And FWIW, I know quite a few people with HD-TVs. And most have it for no other reason that to watch sporting events (which would be my main reason for getting one). Having a gaming system that supports HD is just a bonus.
But to each his own, I guess...
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Google to Buy Opera?
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Seriously, why would you choose Opera over Firefox?
After having Firefox and Opera open all day at work (working on company's website), Firefox (v1.5) is currently taking up about 76MB of memory while Opera (v8.5) is sitting at around 22MB. And, Opera has a built-in mail client which I happen to like.
The danger to the solar system from rogue celestial bodies is immense.
It depends on what the definition of "is" is.
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Java Is So 90s
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Nonsense. A good programmer will code properly (structure properly, comment, etc.) regardless of whether or not the language encourages good coding practices.
Tommy Lee and Lars Ulrich are hardly significant in their bands.
I say they are significant, not because of their drumming abilities, but because of their impact on the band.
Lars is the one who started Metallica in the first place. I'd say that's pretty important to the band. Same with Tommy Lee, as he co-founded Motley Crue. And both were involved with writing the bands' songs. I'd hardly call Ringo Starr an outstanding drummer (and he wasn't even that involved with the song writting, IIRC) but most people wouldn't consider The Beatles to be The Beatles w/o him.
I mean am I wrong or does this seem like just another re-hash of the old tv/computers/comic books/gore movies and porn will rot your brain noise?
The day my comic books and porn start having things like "'lolz ur funny' she sed az a d00d sed a joke," then I'll agree. Last I checked, even Penthouse letters used proper grammar and spelling.
I'd rather have my kid learn from a properly written comic book than haX0r-speekish Shakespeare.
> Surf to/. A new story appears. > Click on story You feel something strange, like deja vu... > Check previous stories Your suspicions are confirmed! The new story is a dupe! > Return to new story and post comment about dupe Unfortunately, others have already posted comments about the story being a dupe. You are modded Redundant.
Good to know I'm not the only one that noticed the right-handed bias.:) I've seen some devices that allow the screen to be rotated 180 degrees to accommodate lefties. Assuming it's not implemented now, I'd be suprised if they didn't add such a feature. I know quite a few left-handed geeks (myself included).
Actually gathering people up and playing at the table...are pretty much over.
I don't know about that. A good friend of mine got back into table-top RP not too long ago. He is now the DM for a weekly group of about a dozen or so people. Most of the people in his group were friends of his that didn't know each other, but were all looking for a group to play with. That's one of the reason he got back into it. I know this is one isolated instance of about 12 people, but I'd venture a guess that there are probably many people out there who would enjoy playing at a table, but may not know where to find one.
Using that logic, all software companies suck. I have yet to use a piece of software that was unhackable, uncrackable, and otherwise free of security issues.
You agree to it in the EULA. They aren't sneaking anything under the radar. The user can decide. If they decide they don't like it, then they shouldn't install WoW.
The EFF also said "Blizzard could get away with using The Warden because information about it was buried in licence agreements that few people read."
That's just stupid. People that have acutally played WoW know that Blizzard makes you scroll through the entire EULA before you can click "Accept". That's all they can do. It's not Blizzard's problem if said user doesn't actually read it.
You are correct. I suppose I should have been a little more detailed about that...
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I want to quickly download, install, poke around.
I can download the OpenBSD install CD, burn it, install it, and have a working system in less time than it takes me to download most Linux distros, especially since distros like Fedora, Mandriva, and SUSE (or OpenSUSE, whatever it's called now) have 3+ ISOs @ 650-700MB each to download.
(I don't know, maybe that's a slight exageration, but that's sure the way it feels.)
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I have to download a whole bunch of packages, make FLOPPIES
As someone who has installed OpenBSD before, I can tell you, it's really not that difficult. Download the install CD ISO and follow this: http://www.openbsd.com/faq/faq4.html#Install
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But I thought Sun's new chip was named Nia...
Oh wait...
I get it! +1, Funny for you.
See, I tried that. I stood in my driveway for like, geez, 30 minutes yelling "LFG change oil or tire" and the people in my neighborhood just kept shouting "shutup n00b" at me. I eventually gave up and went back to playing video games.
He's thinking about the near future, where most interesting new hardware would have a chain of trust that requires you to have secret keys to get your programs to run on it, and you will never get those secret keys.
So take it up with the hardware people, not software people.
WTF is the point of the GPL then?
To guarantee access to the source code - which it is whether DRM is present or not.
Linus doesn't want to use it, fine. I think he's an idiot for not getting it
So he's an idiot because he has a different point of view than you? Wow, that's a bullet-proof argument. I think he does get it. He wants his source code to be freely available to anyone who wants it, and it is. He doesn't think that hardware DRM issues should be fought with software licenses. Makes sense to me. But then again, I don't agree with you, so I'm probably an idiot too, right?
That being said, I hated their "choose from a list of really bad responses" thing that they added to later games. If a choice has to be made, make it in flight, not in the cutscene. Doing it in the cutscene just halts the action and reminds you that you're in a video game.
I agree with the last sentence, however I was actually OK with the cutscenes in the later games. IIRC, depending on what you said to people early on in the game made a difference of whether or not they helped you later in the game. IIRC, in WC3, if you said the wrong things to Rachael (the mechanic chick), she'd get mad at you. And in WC4, at the beginning of the game, you are at a bar and have the choice of buying this guy a drink. If you do, he gives you helpful info later on. They at least made them somewhat interactive and have an affect on the game (even though it was pretty minor). Then again, I'm a WC junkie so maybe I'm a little biased (except for WC5, never cared too much for that one...).
I'm not a fan of DRM.
/two cents
But to address some of your points:
So if the bought and downloaded music is intended as a birthday gift for someone else, how will he/she be able to play it on his/her PC?
iTunes, and I would guess other music downloading services, offer gift certificates that you can give instead of the actual music itself. Or, you can always download the music and make an audio CD to give.
Or how will I be able to play it on my laptop, if I downloaded it on my desktop?
Once again, iTunes, and I would assume other services might do the same, allow you to play a downloaded song on up to 5 different computers, as long as iTunes (or whatever software) is registered to you.
The inability to playback bought tracks on the OS of your choice (say Linux)...is another pain.
Amen to that.
when you're accountable to that many customers
When who's accountable? The disclaimer included with the last MS security update I downloaded read as follows:
Now, unless I misunderstood, it's telling me that if I install said security patch, and it breaks something, I can't hold MS accountable.
Oh boy, you've seen it on display.
I'm not an AC, and my roommmate owns an Xbox360. He also has an Xbox and I have a PS2. We have them all hooked up next to each other. There's a difference between graphics on the Xbox and PS2, and graphics on the Xbox360.
And FWIW, I know quite a few people with HD-TVs. And most have it for no other reason that to watch sporting events (which would be my main reason for getting one). Having a gaming system that supports HD is just a bonus.
But to each his own, I guess...
Seriously, why would you choose Opera over Firefox?
After having Firefox and Opera open all day at work (working on company's website), Firefox (v1.5) is currently taking up about 76MB of memory while Opera (v8.5) is sitting at around 22MB. And, Opera has a built-in mail client which I happen to like.
That's why I choose Opera over Firefox.
The danger to the solar system from rogue celestial bodies is immense.
It depends on what the definition of "is" is.
Nonsense. A good programmer will code properly (structure properly, comment, etc.) regardless of whether or not the language encourages good coding practices.
1. Blatantly rip off iPod.
uh, no...
the Nomad Jukebox was shipping about a year before the iPod was announced. Creative filed for the patent in January of 2001.
i hate this patent BS as much as the next guy, but Creative did not rip off the iPod.
Tommy Lee and Lars Ulrich are hardly significant in their bands.
I say they are significant, not because of their drumming abilities, but because of their impact on the band.
Lars is the one who started Metallica in the first place. I'd say that's pretty important to the band. Same with Tommy Lee, as he co-founded Motley Crue. And both were involved with writing the bands' songs. I'd hardly call Ringo Starr an outstanding drummer (and he wasn't even that involved with the song writting, IIRC) but most people wouldn't consider The Beatles to be The Beatles w/o him.
The drummer is the least significant component of any rock band.
Uh...
Tommy Lee?
Lars Ulrich?
Mick Fleetwood?
John Bonham?
Alex Van Halen?
Better let those guys know they weren't/aren't significant. So, how much rock music do you listen to?
I mean am I wrong or does this seem like just another re-hash of the old tv/computers/comic books/gore movies and porn will rot your brain noise?
The day my comic books and porn start having things like "'lolz ur funny' she sed az a d00d sed a joke," then I'll agree. Last I checked, even Penthouse letters used proper grammar and spelling.
I'd rather have my kid learn from a properly written comic book than haX0r-speekish Shakespeare.
Seeing as how there are no "open" game consoles, I guess us open source people are SOL when it comes to console gaming then, huh?
Oh, what I wouldn't give for a mod point about now...
Later that day...
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> Surf to
A new story appears.
> Click on story
You feel something strange, like deja vu...
> Check previous stories
Your suspicions are confirmed! The new story is a dupe!
> Return to new story and post comment about dupe
Unfortunately, others have already posted comments about the story being a dupe. You are modded Redundant.
Good to know I'm not the only one that noticed the right-handed bias. :) I've seen some devices that allow the screen to be rotated 180 degrees to accommodate lefties. Assuming it's not implemented now, I'd be suprised if they didn't add such a feature. I know quite a few left-handed geeks (myself included).
Actually gathering people up and playing at the table...are pretty much over.
I don't know about that. A good friend of mine got back into table-top RP not too long ago. He is now the DM for a weekly group of about a dozen or so people. Most of the people in his group were friends of his that didn't know each other, but were all looking for a group to play with. That's one of the reason he got back into it. I know this is one isolated instance of about 12 people, but I'd venture a guess that there are probably many people out there who would enjoy playing at a table, but may not know where to find one.
So go read the EULA on their website before you buy the game.
Here's the link: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/eula.html
There, I saved you $50.
Using that logic, all software companies suck. I have yet to use a piece of software that was unhackable, uncrackable, and otherwise free of security issues.
You agree to it in the EULA. They aren't sneaking anything under the radar. The user can decide. If they decide they don't like it, then they shouldn't install WoW.
The EFF also said "Blizzard could get away with using The Warden because information about it was buried in licence agreements that few people read."
That's just stupid. People that have acutally played WoW know that Blizzard makes you scroll through the entire EULA before you can click "Accept". That's all they can do. It's not Blizzard's problem if said user doesn't actually read it.
You are correct. I suppose I should have been a little more detailed about that...
I want to quickly download, install, poke around.
I can download the OpenBSD install CD, burn it, install it, and have a working system in less time than it takes me to download most Linux distros, especially since distros like Fedora, Mandriva, and SUSE (or OpenSUSE, whatever it's called now) have 3+ ISOs @ 650-700MB each to download.
(I don't know, maybe that's a slight exageration, but that's sure the way it feels
I have to download a whole bunch of packages, make FLOPPIES
No, you don't. There is an install CD available. http://www.openbsd.com/faq/faq4.html#MkCD-ROM
Download the install ISO, burn to CD, ta-da! Very difficult, indeed...
As someone who has installed OpenBSD before, I can tell you, it's really not that difficult. Download the install CD ISO and follow this: http://www.openbsd.com/faq/faq4.html#Install