The biggest hurdle I see from FFXI is going to be all the subscribers trying to play all at once when the game is first released. Battle.net got swamped by players when Diablo 2 was released because they went through a million copies in about two weeks. With the popularity of the FF titles (FFX sold about 4 million copies world wide, about a million of those in the US) I can see PlayOnline getting hammered unless there's some alternate direct network play available. That of course may not be possible with the style of the game but I suppose time will tell. Square's facing a playing population four times the size of Everquest's. That is an awesome amount of networking power to muster up.
That sort of leads to something I've been kicking around lately, I've noticed few if any games having modem to modem multiplayer options anymore. I know the venerable modem is a little long in the tooth but I like playing over one. The lag is virtually non-existant and the bandwidth of the connection is enough to play most types of games. I'm hoping in vain that maybe when modem and broadband adapters are more prevelent in the current generation of consoles that maybe a couple games have the option of a direct modem to modem connection. If you take a sample of ten people with GCs, one or two might have cable modems another one or two might have DSL but the others are going to still have a regular modem dialup. These are the people that would play a two player (or more) modem to modem game. You could have two players per console and have two consoles connected over the phone for up to four people to bash one another in Killer Instinct 8:Killerest Instinct of All or Ultra Smash Brothers Melee. I used to have a lot of fun playing Warcraft 2 and Diablo against my friends on a modem game. The internet is fine when I'm busting the skull of some dude from the east cost in CS but against my friend who lives a few miles away the extra overhead is just problematic, from my point of view at least.
Fucking shit, where did I say cable companies weren't going to have to raise prices? I was pointing out the original poster was a retard for thinking he somehow had rights to unlimited bandwidth despite the fact he's paying a fraction of what it really costs to deliver said bandwidth to him. All cable companies do is guarantee a pipe between the headend and your house and even then the bandwidth you've got available varies due to several factors. If the headend only has a T1 out to the rest of the world you're stuck because the bandwidth was only provided between your house and the head end. Besides no one signed some unmetered agreement, only a general terms of services, if the TOS says you've now got metered service, thats how it works. No cable company in its right mind would sign a residential service contract guaranteeing specific throughput. What part don't YOU understand. It isnt't that complex.
Yes. It costs a cable company from 900$ to 1200$ plus the cost of a cable modem to upgrade from an analog system to a digital one. This is separate from the aquisition cost of those customers. There's a bit of equipment necessary in order to set up data networks over CATV coax lines. The cost per customer goes up with the fewer number of customers in your area because a fewer number of customers subsidizing upgrade costs mean a slower rate of return on the investment. It would take a customer two and a half years to cover the subsidized cost of the cable system upgrade, this isn't even including the cost of the network bandwidth. Cable companies would just oversell their capacity like telephone companies but have a hard enough time getting customers in most areas the idea is moot. In some areas they can (in saturated markets) but in a majority of the country I don't think they're able to.
Remember cable companies have made their money in terms of equipment rentals and high service charges. Because cable modems are cheap and standard (meaning I can go buy my own that will work in most of the country) the high rental rates don't work as well. Also the service needs to remain competitively priced because the ILECs providing DSL to wider and wider coverage areas are looking to eat the cable co's lunch.
You didn't pay for shit no matter how much your adled mind seems to think so. It costs a cable company way more money to provide you with broadband than you pay in a month, more than you pay in a year. The problem is you're filling up a shared pipe, you maxing out your bandwidth is keeping some users from utilizing any of theirs and they are paying just as much as you are. Did you sign a contract that said unlimited bandwidth ANYWHERE on it or are you just assuming it is so because there is to quota currently in place. Stop with the retarded statements you're spewing forth, they don't follow logically and are based on either assumptions or ignorance on your part.
Making movies isn't a fucking commitee action. Just because you're a "fan" of a particular movie doesn't mean you somehow have a better idea on how the movie should be directed. That is foolishness. Are you going to go in and add a Gundam to Starry Night because you think it would fucking look better? What ridiculous crap. If you think you're such a badass editor why don't you do it for a living and make your badass movies that "fan" don't have to reedit. It is so easy to do of course you shouldn't have a problem.
Why are you comparing a notably good movie (2001) to modern Hollywood tripe? Are you suggesting any movie directed prior to 1980 was better than anything directed after? How about I use your argument but with Shichinin no samurai, it is a classic and a notably good movie, anything not directed by Akira Kurosawa is crap and ought to be reedited in the Kurosawa style. Please. There's plenty of good directors and plenty of bad ones, comparing all directors to a "classic" or merely your favorite movie is stupid.
Fan re-edits are an indication that directors aren't doing their job? Nobody is sneaking into a film studio to take all the movie's raw footage and make a fan cut of it, they are just rearranging scenes to better suit their preference. That is not a fucking reedit. I don't think you've got the skill to edit a movie, if you did and had edited ANYTHING before you wouldn't make such retarded comments. By the time you're done editing anything, be it music, video, or literary you've seen it so many fucking times and are so displeased with it (even if it is good) that you can hardly stand to watch it. It isn't like people don't make their own movies, people make movies all the time just most people don't like them. Where can I buy a Dvd-cam anyhow, it would be interesting to get ahold of one of those.
Sometimes I like to play Devil's advocate, especially when a bunch of Linux weenies say stupid shit. It is entertaining and keeps my off the streets. Most of the time it is worth it because it is rare for slashdotters to see both sides of the coin concurrently. Then a story like this pops up. I simply cannot do anything but shake my head in shame at these people. What in the fuck are they doing patenting a pay for placement advertising scheme and why the fuck was this patent granted. This is a sad day indeed. When will the hurting stop and the healing begin?
I've seen lots of Apple commercials, some in fact are pretty good for advertising a computer. The recent iMac commercial where the iMac sticks its "tongue" out at the guy, that is just hilarious. It definitely gets the computer noticed because it is simple. There's no blah blah megahertz or "dude you're getting an iMac". It's like, hey look at this cool sucker. Don't you want one?
When it comes to a choice between a CD or online media for source code I would personally rather have the CD. I don't want a CD with free demos of shit and I definitely don't need yet another copy of Borland for Windows. However for a book with code samples or free resources like icons or license free graphics, I want a CD. Far too many times have I tried to follow an old hyperlink to something and had it not be there. Unless you get some sort of web analog of a cemetary's real estate contract I don't want shit on the web. If I'm trying to look something up quickly I don't want to run into a bunch of dead links which will inevitably happen. I like the info there in front of my in easily searchable and preferably indexed HTML. Provide an HTML bookmarks file that I can import into IE or Netscape too. If you're going to provide a shitload of references don't put the onus on me to organize the damn things. Out of date software I can deal with as long as you provide information on where I can get an updated version. What concerns me are code samples and digital copies of the text in the book.
Apple gets their advertising in the form of product placement. Mimi's iMac on the Drew Carry show, nearly all of the good guys in 24 using Macs, the ginormous impossible to miss Cinema display in Holden's studio in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Apple gets their stuff seen in the media in terms of a culture reference, if you think of Mimi's desk you think of a Grape iMac with Trolls on it. Not that everyone thinks of Mimi's desk but it is definitely a noticable prop. In ID4 Jeff Goldblum's character has a Powerbook which was part of a product placement plan because there was a deal on their website saying a Powerbook saved the world.
Asking what operating systems you can use to attract a sexual partner is like asking which overalls you should wear on a date to get you laid. One is just not condusive to the other.
Man I so agree with this. The last damn thing I want on a support page is "here's how to set up the mail or news client you DON'T use". The information that I want most of all on the page is just the raw data just like you suggest. I want the address of the mail server, the handshake protocol the dial-up uses, whether or not I need to use SPA when checking my e-mail.
Case in point, Earthlink isn't being very friendly with Evolution, it refuses to authenticate when I try to send e-mail. Outlook works fine however. Earthlink has pelnty of information on configuring Outlook but nothing at all on Evolution. I don't expect support of Linux but what would be really helpful is just the raw information I need to configure any mail client to use their SMTP servers. I mod you up with the moderation points of my mind.
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This is the four thousandth time this article has been posted here and it is still doesn't follow. Nobody is freezing photons, they're just getting them stuck in the middle of some molecules so they have to wait for another laser to be able to knock the photons loose again. Stopping photons is not the same as trapping them.
Broadcasting 1500 watts from a wireless card would be pretty interesting. Not only would it melt through the case of your laptop but the laptop would start to smell funny as it melted too. However if you used a highly directional antenna, that second or two before meltdown you could sterilize a several people standing in a line. I'd suggest aiming at those people already standing in line for Star Wars:AOTC. In the words of Artie, the strongest man in the world "soon you will be as cheese, boy -- melty, melty, melty."
Contrary to the opinion of some, I don't think that some day way back when there was meaningful content on the web. There's always the gems but they are usually floating in a sea of crap. Out of 100 websites on just about any subject there were a couple with anything at all meaningful and the rest just copied.gif files from the meaningful sites and always said "Welcome to..." on their damn home page.
While lack of good content is probably a signifigant factor in making people use the web less it is a factor that has always been present. It isn't like suddenly all the web content disappeared or something. It has never realy been there in spades. The dot com fallout has made it difficult to provide any content on the web without beating the shit out of viewers with advertisement enshrouded baseball bats. Where you used to be able to look at some dorky homepage with pictures of someone's cats with relative ease, now hosts want you to oogle at flashing ads that promote epilepsy and are just a plain practice of advertising jackassery. I'm not going to bother looking at a page requiring me to jump through hoops, I don't have that sort of attention span.
Six replies and not one fucker has said anything remotely meaningful. How dare I say anything against the grain of Linux for it is gospel from the mount! Out of Linus's ass it comes for your worship! You fucking short bus riding dimwits. The original comment was about how shitty closed source software is, like OSS is somehow magically better than that it tries so hard to mimic in functionality. You can't just throw caution to the wind and not have a CYA plan on the back burner if your software or hardware goes batshit. ML would definitely get sued for gross negligence if they ran some mission critical system on software written by people not even necessarily qualified to write such software that lost a billion dollar account. What fucking world do you live in?
Uh...Marril Lynch is working with terabucks. They NEED some sort of accountability or else they will have to take a loss due to system failure on the chin. What the fuck don't Linuxites understand about accountability? If the seat of your car is attached to the body with gum because someone on the assembly line fucked up and you fly out of the car in a wreck you're going to blame the manufacturer of your car. If a server hiccoughs due to a drunk...fix later bug in some OSS code and millions of insured dollars are lost to the depths of/dev/null, someone is going to be to blame. Kindly insert your retarded sentiments about blame and business up your ass where they belong. It wouldn't be cool for ML to lose an entire country's financial account because some 15 year old KDE contributer was operating on an out of bound pointer.
They can't. The bands have no say in how their music is sold, they gave up the rights to it. Without some sort of publishing infrastructure for their music they can't possibly make a living making music which means they lead the life of the bar band. There are bands who've come forward and said they didn't like how the RIAA was treating fans/consumers or the bands themselves. These bands of course have made their money and are popular enough to pick up a contract with any publisher if their current publisher decided to drop them because of their statements. Most bands' goal in life is to get signed and be able to make music professionally, telling the companies that allow them to do this to fuck off is not condusive to that career aspiration. You've also got a factual falacy stating bands are being ripped off by people not buying a 16$ CD. You'd do much more to support a band if you went and saw them in concert rather than bought their CD. They make a larger percentage off performances than they do off of albums they sell.
He tried to win an award for shortest series of shots in the history of any movie ever. It was like watching a flip book of different pictures and scenes and trying to make sense out of it all. Watching Moulin Rouge on acid wouldn't make you as dizzy at FOTR. Also how many of the scenes actually needed real direction? "Ok guys, walk along the top of that hill while the helicopter flies around filming", "Alright in this scene you're very scared...no no more scared than that. Don't worry we'll just move the camera around and cut the shot to two seconds so you look REALLY scared." I was kind of pissed FOTR won for cinematography actually, a failing third year art major with a Handicam could have shot that damn movie better.
How much do those drugs you're taking cost? Technological revolution, get off that short bus at the next stop and look around. Linux is no technological revolution. It must be nice to live in the purple haxe shrouded world you come from where Sony uses Linux because they are with the program. Linux has no licensing costs, Sony can distribute it to a bajillion PS2s and not have to pay a dime to anyone other than their own developers. If Sony jammed some proprietary OS on the PS2 with a licensing fee on the software itself they would NOT release it to customers, only to developers. Why is that so fucking hard to understand?
The concept is quite basic, Sony wants to release a development environment for the PlayStation. The PS2 has enough power it can run much of the same software a full fledged PC could, especially with the addition of a hard drive. They want to make say 30% markup on each dev kit they sell (hard drive and software). Linux makes the job simple because it comes in source form and has an open license meaning no royalty fees have to be paid to anyone. This signifigantly reduces the cost of releasing a dev kit for the PS2 and 3. Sony's Linux dev kit doesn't have anything on it that directly competes with Microsoft software. I don't know where in the hell you get this from. Linux on the PS2 doesn't deny Microsoft anything at all. If Sony stuck QNX or CP/M on the damn thing it still wouldn't matter.
What is it with people of your ilk accusing everyone lacking a bleary eyed retarded devotion to the Linux religion Microsoft sell-outs? The world is not nearly so binary as you're either with Linux or with Microsoft. That line of thinking is absolutely ridiculous. Linux is not a religion, the fate of the souls of the world do not depend on Linus fucking Torvalds. Stop being ao accusatory towards thosewho don't share your stupid fanatical devotion. The Force is not fucking with you even if you wear that Darth Vader helmet to protect your head when you fall down.
Actually people like Capcom and Konami have been doing this for a while. Their arcade boxes ran pretty select hardware for specific games which is one of the reasons arcade machines are so fucking expensive and the console versions of the games don't look quite the same. The games are almost always run inside of an emulator on the console which makes it cheaper to port games to consoles. Rather than rewiritng all games to specific console hardware they only have to write a snappy emulator for the console to run the game inside of. The SNES didn't have half the components that the SF2 arcade boxes had in them but Capcom made a really badass emulator that took advantage of what the SNES DID have. What Sun wants to do with Java and game consoles is extend that concept to a more general virtual machine than an emulator.
Or Linux doesn't require hefty licensing fees and already has a wealth of software available for it in source form which makes porting relatively easy. I don't think Sony gives a fuck about Microsoft, if it wasn't for MS Sony would have no PCs to sell anybody. Enabling Linux on the PS2/3 is logical because it is a fully functional OS that doesn't require obscene licensing fees which makes the cost to distribute it virtually nil. This anti-Microsoft hopefulness crap is just stupid.
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The biggest hurdle I see from FFXI is going to be all the subscribers trying to play all at once when the game is first released. Battle.net got swamped by players when Diablo 2 was released because they went through a million copies in about two weeks. With the popularity of the FF titles (FFX sold about 4 million copies world wide, about a million of those in the US) I can see PlayOnline getting hammered unless there's some alternate direct network play available. That of course may not be possible with the style of the game but I suppose time will tell. Square's facing a playing population four times the size of Everquest's. That is an awesome amount of networking power to muster up.
That sort of leads to something I've been kicking around lately, I've noticed few if any games having modem to modem multiplayer options anymore. I know the venerable modem is a little long in the tooth but I like playing over one. The lag is virtually non-existant and the bandwidth of the connection is enough to play most types of games. I'm hoping in vain that maybe when modem and broadband adapters are more prevelent in the current generation of consoles that maybe a couple games have the option of a direct modem to modem connection. If you take a sample of ten people with GCs, one or two might have cable modems another one or two might have DSL but the others are going to still have a regular modem dialup. These are the people that would play a two player (or more) modem to modem game. You could have two players per console and have two consoles connected over the phone for up to four people to bash one another in Killer Instinct 8:Killerest Instinct of All or Ultra Smash Brothers Melee. I used to have a lot of fun playing Warcraft 2 and Diablo against my friends on a modem game. The internet is fine when I'm busting the skull of some dude from the east cost in CS but against my friend who lives a few miles away the extra overhead is just problematic, from my point of view at least.
Fucking shit, where did I say cable companies weren't going to have to raise prices? I was pointing out the original poster was a retard for thinking he somehow had rights to unlimited bandwidth despite the fact he's paying a fraction of what it really costs to deliver said bandwidth to him. All cable companies do is guarantee a pipe between the headend and your house and even then the bandwidth you've got available varies due to several factors. If the headend only has a T1 out to the rest of the world you're stuck because the bandwidth was only provided between your house and the head end. Besides no one signed some unmetered agreement, only a general terms of services, if the TOS says you've now got metered service, thats how it works. No cable company in its right mind would sign a residential service contract guaranteeing specific throughput. What part don't YOU understand. It isnt't that complex.
Yes. It costs a cable company from 900$ to 1200$ plus the cost of a cable modem to upgrade from an analog system to a digital one. This is separate from the aquisition cost of those customers. There's a bit of equipment necessary in order to set up data networks over CATV coax lines. The cost per customer goes up with the fewer number of customers in your area because a fewer number of customers subsidizing upgrade costs mean a slower rate of return on the investment. It would take a customer two and a half years to cover the subsidized cost of the cable system upgrade, this isn't even including the cost of the network bandwidth. Cable companies would just oversell their capacity like telephone companies but have a hard enough time getting customers in most areas the idea is moot. In some areas they can (in saturated markets) but in a majority of the country I don't think they're able to.
Remember cable companies have made their money in terms of equipment rentals and high service charges. Because cable modems are cheap and standard (meaning I can go buy my own that will work in most of the country) the high rental rates don't work as well. Also the service needs to remain competitively priced because the ILECs providing DSL to wider and wider coverage areas are looking to eat the cable co's lunch.
You didn't pay for shit no matter how much your adled mind seems to think so. It costs a cable company way more money to provide you with broadband than you pay in a month, more than you pay in a year. The problem is you're filling up a shared pipe, you maxing out your bandwidth is keeping some users from utilizing any of theirs and they are paying just as much as you are. Did you sign a contract that said unlimited bandwidth ANYWHERE on it or are you just assuming it is so because there is to quota currently in place. Stop with the retarded statements you're spewing forth, they don't follow logically and are based on either assumptions or ignorance on your part.
Making movies isn't a fucking commitee action. Just because you're a "fan" of a particular movie doesn't mean you somehow have a better idea on how the movie should be directed. That is foolishness. Are you going to go in and add a Gundam to Starry Night because you think it would fucking look better? What ridiculous crap. If you think you're such a badass editor why don't you do it for a living and make your badass movies that "fan" don't have to reedit. It is so easy to do of course you shouldn't have a problem.
Why are you comparing a notably good movie (2001) to modern Hollywood tripe? Are you suggesting any movie directed prior to 1980 was better than anything directed after? How about I use your argument but with Shichinin no samurai, it is a classic and a notably good movie, anything not directed by Akira Kurosawa is crap and ought to be reedited in the Kurosawa style. Please. There's plenty of good directors and plenty of bad ones, comparing all directors to a "classic" or merely your favorite movie is stupid.
Fan re-edits are an indication that directors aren't doing their job? Nobody is sneaking into a film studio to take all the movie's raw footage and make a fan cut of it, they are just rearranging scenes to better suit their preference. That is not a fucking reedit. I don't think you've got the skill to edit a movie, if you did and had edited ANYTHING before you wouldn't make such retarded comments. By the time you're done editing anything, be it music, video, or literary you've seen it so many fucking times and are so displeased with it (even if it is good) that you can hardly stand to watch it. It isn't like people don't make their own movies, people make movies all the time just most people don't like them. Where can I buy a Dvd-cam anyhow, it would be interesting to get ahold of one of those.
Sometimes I like to play Devil's advocate, especially when a bunch of Linux weenies say stupid shit. It is entertaining and keeps my off the streets. Most of the time it is worth it because it is rare for slashdotters to see both sides of the coin concurrently. Then a story like this pops up. I simply cannot do anything but shake my head in shame at these people. What in the fuck are they doing patenting a pay for placement advertising scheme and why the fuck was this patent granted. This is a sad day indeed. When will the hurting stop and the healing begin?
I've seen lots of Apple commercials, some in fact are pretty good for advertising a computer. The recent iMac commercial where the iMac sticks its "tongue" out at the guy, that is just hilarious. It definitely gets the computer noticed because it is simple. There's no blah blah megahertz or "dude you're getting an iMac". It's like, hey look at this cool sucker. Don't you want one?
When it comes to a choice between a CD or online media for source code I would personally rather have the CD. I don't want a CD with free demos of shit and I definitely don't need yet another copy of Borland for Windows. However for a book with code samples or free resources like icons or license free graphics, I want a CD. Far too many times have I tried to follow an old hyperlink to something and had it not be there. Unless you get some sort of web analog of a cemetary's real estate contract I don't want shit on the web. If I'm trying to look something up quickly I don't want to run into a bunch of dead links which will inevitably happen. I like the info there in front of my in easily searchable and preferably indexed HTML. Provide an HTML bookmarks file that I can import into IE or Netscape too. If you're going to provide a shitload of references don't put the onus on me to organize the damn things. Out of date software I can deal with as long as you provide information on where I can get an updated version. What concerns me are code samples and digital copies of the text in the book.
Apple gets their advertising in the form of product placement. Mimi's iMac on the Drew Carry show, nearly all of the good guys in 24 using Macs, the ginormous impossible to miss Cinema display in Holden's studio in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Apple gets their stuff seen in the media in terms of a culture reference, if you think of Mimi's desk you think of a Grape iMac with Trolls on it. Not that everyone thinks of Mimi's desk but it is definitely a noticable prop. In ID4 Jeff Goldblum's character has a Powerbook which was part of a product placement plan because there was a deal on their website saying a Powerbook saved the world.
We'll look back and see that CmdrTaco accomplished in one day what T(H)GSB could not accomplish in a week. Wooha.
Asking what operating systems you can use to attract a sexual partner is like asking which overalls you should wear on a date to get you laid. One is just not condusive to the other.
I mod you +1 Funny in the slashdot moderation system of my mind. Too bad that's too long for a .sig.
Man I so agree with this. The last damn thing I want on a support page is "here's how to set up the mail or news client you DON'T use". The information that I want most of all on the page is just the raw data just like you suggest. I want the address of the mail server, the handshake protocol the dial-up uses, whether or not I need to use SPA when checking my e-mail.
Case in point, Earthlink isn't being very friendly with Evolution, it refuses to authenticate when I try to send e-mail. Outlook works fine however. Earthlink has pelnty of information on configuring Outlook but nothing at all on Evolution. I don't expect support of Linux but what would be really helpful is just the raw information I need to configure any mail client to use their SMTP servers. I mod you up with the moderation points of my mind.
This is the four thousandth time this article has been posted here and it is still doesn't follow. Nobody is freezing photons, they're just getting them stuck in the middle of some molecules so they have to wait for another laser to be able to knock the photons loose again. Stopping photons is not the same as trapping them.
Broadcasting 1500 watts from a wireless card would be pretty interesting. Not only would it melt through the case of your laptop but the laptop would start to smell funny as it melted too. However if you used a highly directional antenna, that second or two before meltdown you could sterilize a several people standing in a line. I'd suggest aiming at those people already standing in line for Star Wars:AOTC. In the words of Artie, the strongest man in the world "soon you will be as cheese, boy -- melty, melty, melty."
Contrary to the opinion of some, I don't think that some day way back when there was meaningful content on the web. There's always the gems but they are usually floating in a sea of crap. Out of 100 websites on just about any subject there were a couple with anything at all meaningful and the rest just copied .gif files from the meaningful sites and always said "Welcome to..." on their damn home page.
While lack of good content is probably a signifigant factor in making people use the web less it is a factor that has always been present. It isn't like suddenly all the web content disappeared or something. It has never realy been there in spades. The dot com fallout has made it difficult to provide any content on the web without beating the shit out of viewers with advertisement enshrouded baseball bats. Where you used to be able to look at some dorky homepage with pictures of someone's cats with relative ease, now hosts want you to oogle at flashing ads that promote epilepsy and are just a plain practice of advertising jackassery. I'm not going to bother looking at a page requiring me to jump through hoops, I don't have that sort of attention span.
Six replies and not one fucker has said anything remotely meaningful. How dare I say anything against the grain of Linux for it is gospel from the mount! Out of Linus's ass it comes for your worship! You fucking short bus riding dimwits. The original comment was about how shitty closed source software is, like OSS is somehow magically better than that it tries so hard to mimic in functionality. You can't just throw caution to the wind and not have a CYA plan on the back burner if your software or hardware goes batshit. ML would definitely get sued for gross negligence if they ran some mission critical system on software written by people not even necessarily qualified to write such software that lost a billion dollar account. What fucking world do you live in?
Uh...Marril Lynch is working with terabucks. They NEED some sort of accountability or else they will have to take a loss due to system failure on the chin. What the fuck don't Linuxites understand about accountability? If the seat of your car is attached to the body with gum because someone on the assembly line fucked up and you fly out of the car in a wreck you're going to blame the manufacturer of your car. If a server hiccoughs due to a drunk...fix later bug in some OSS code and millions of insured dollars are lost to the depths of /dev/null, someone is going to be to blame. Kindly insert your retarded sentiments about blame and business up your ass where they belong. It wouldn't be cool for ML to lose an entire country's financial account because some 15 year old KDE contributer was operating on an out of bound pointer.
They can't. The bands have no say in how their music is sold, they gave up the rights to it. Without some sort of publishing infrastructure for their music they can't possibly make a living making music which means they lead the life of the bar band. There are bands who've come forward and said they didn't like how the RIAA was treating fans/consumers or the bands themselves. These bands of course have made their money and are popular enough to pick up a contract with any publisher if their current publisher decided to drop them because of their statements. Most bands' goal in life is to get signed and be able to make music professionally, telling the companies that allow them to do this to fuck off is not condusive to that career aspiration. You've also got a factual falacy stating bands are being ripped off by people not buying a 16$ CD. You'd do much more to support a band if you went and saw them in concert rather than bought their CD. They make a larger percentage off performances than they do off of albums they sell.
He tried to win an award for shortest series of shots in the history of any movie ever. It was like watching a flip book of different pictures and scenes and trying to make sense out of it all. Watching Moulin Rouge on acid wouldn't make you as dizzy at FOTR. Also how many of the scenes actually needed real direction? "Ok guys, walk along the top of that hill while the helicopter flies around filming", "Alright in this scene you're very scared...no no more scared than that. Don't worry we'll just move the camera around and cut the shot to two seconds so you look REALLY scared." I was kind of pissed FOTR won for cinematography actually, a failing third year art major with a Handicam could have shot that damn movie better.
How much do those drugs you're taking cost? Technological revolution, get off that short bus at the next stop and look around. Linux is no technological revolution. It must be nice to live in the purple haxe shrouded world you come from where Sony uses Linux because they are with the program. Linux has no licensing costs, Sony can distribute it to a bajillion PS2s and not have to pay a dime to anyone other than their own developers. If Sony jammed some proprietary OS on the PS2 with a licensing fee on the software itself they would NOT release it to customers, only to developers. Why is that so fucking hard to understand?
The concept is quite basic, Sony wants to release a development environment for the PlayStation. The PS2 has enough power it can run much of the same software a full fledged PC could, especially with the addition of a hard drive. They want to make say 30% markup on each dev kit they sell (hard drive and software). Linux makes the job simple because it comes in source form and has an open license meaning no royalty fees have to be paid to anyone. This signifigantly reduces the cost of releasing a dev kit for the PS2 and 3. Sony's Linux dev kit doesn't have anything on it that directly competes with Microsoft software. I don't know where in the hell you get this from. Linux on the PS2 doesn't deny Microsoft anything at all. If Sony stuck QNX or CP/M on the damn thing it still wouldn't matter.
What is it with people of your ilk accusing everyone lacking a bleary eyed retarded devotion to the Linux religion Microsoft sell-outs? The world is not nearly so binary as you're either with Linux or with Microsoft. That line of thinking is absolutely ridiculous. Linux is not a religion, the fate of the souls of the world do not depend on Linus fucking Torvalds. Stop being ao accusatory towards thosewho don't share your stupid fanatical devotion. The Force is not fucking with you even if you wear that Darth Vader helmet to protect your head when you fall down.
Actually people like Capcom and Konami have been doing this for a while. Their arcade boxes ran pretty select hardware for specific games which is one of the reasons arcade machines are so fucking expensive and the console versions of the games don't look quite the same. The games are almost always run inside of an emulator on the console which makes it cheaper to port games to consoles. Rather than rewiritng all games to specific console hardware they only have to write a snappy emulator for the console to run the game inside of. The SNES didn't have half the components that the SF2 arcade boxes had in them but Capcom made a really badass emulator that took advantage of what the SNES DID have. What Sun wants to do with Java and game consoles is extend that concept to a more general virtual machine than an emulator.
Or Linux doesn't require hefty licensing fees and already has a wealth of software available for it in source form which makes porting relatively easy. I don't think Sony gives a fuck about Microsoft, if it wasn't for MS Sony would have no PCs to sell anybody. Enabling Linux on the PS2/3 is logical because it is a fully functional OS that doesn't require obscene licensing fees which makes the cost to distribute it virtually nil. This anti-Microsoft hopefulness crap is just stupid.
Thats why it is fucking funny. Get back on the fucking short bus.