User: Rico_Suave

So don't play those games...

On: Paul Steed Interview

Read a couple of reviews, and avoid those type of games. Problem solved.

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Then you don't have a creative bone in your body

On: MP3: On Artist Protection And Copy Protection

Otherwise you wouldn't be making such asinine statements.

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NAPSTER KILLS SMALL TIME MUSICIANS

On: MP3: On Artist Protection And Copy Protection

Absolutely. Does anyone here truly think that Metallica is worried about the possible 50K sales they would lose through Napster, compared to the millions CDs they sell annually? Of course not - this is about control of MY work as a musician, and anyone else who creates art for a living.

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90% of the people out there don't care.

On: MP3: On Artist Protection And Copy Protection

Most people can't tell the difference between a 160Kbps MP3 and a CD played through your average car/boombox speakers (which is where most music is listened to anyway). I've played an MP3 for a friend that had *serious* artifacting, and he couldn't tell that anything was wrong.. he said it sounded just like the CD (which it did not).

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Baptist Death Ray hit the nail on the head....

On: MP3: On Artist Protection And Copy Protection

I've been saying everything this guy said for months now. Napster is not bad because "Metallica Good", but because they are stealing from the smaller artists who live and die by miniscule sales.

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Re:Suck on this, Taco

On: How Is Wine Doing These Days?

Of course it is. If you can't laugh at the mentally instable, who can you laugh at?

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Re:games on Wine would be a step back

On: How Is Wine Doing These Days?

Hell, they're not bothering *now* to put out games in Linux. I don't thing a games-capable version of WINE would make any difference.

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Re:If linux is so good...

On: How Is Wine Doing These Days?

I can honestly say that after using Windows for 10 years, I have yet to have a single reason to run a linux binary.

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Re:more than m$ word

On: How Is Wine Doing These Days?

"Linux users need access to M$ word because other people don't realize or care that .DOC is not standard. "

If enough people use it, it is indeed a standard.

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Re:Diablo2?

On: How Is Wine Doing These Days?

So, it's good enough for you to use it, but you don't want to pay them for that right? Hypocrite.

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Re:FYI

On: Michael Abrash On X-Box Graphics

It's an add-on, which in the console world automatically means it will fail.

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Re:business as usual at MS, just like PocketPC

On: Michael Abrash On X-Box Graphics

So freakin what if they announced it long before the release date? Sony officially announced their PS2 the exact same day the Dreamcast was released in Japan - same tactics, yet you PRAISE Sony... hypocrite.

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Re:Graphics HW isn't everything

On: Michael Abrash On X-Box Graphics

Take a look at who is on board to develop - none of these developers are slouches, and most have previous console experience:

Electronic Arts

Konami

Koei

Namco

Acclaim

Infogrames

Activision

Capcom

Take-Two

Ubi Soft

Hasbro Interactive

THQ

Sierra Studios

Lionhead Studios

Midway

Universal Interactive Studios

Fox Interactive

Titus Interactive

Hudson

Bungie

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Re:Glaring omission: Programming APIs

On: Michael Abrash On X-Box Graphics

YEah - DirectX7 really sucks (NOT!)

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Re:What about Indrema?

On: Michael Abrash On X-Box Graphics

Name a video game system that had a successful upgrade (one that actually improved performance, not added features). You can't - console add-ons have almost always failed. And as far as "Gates and Co have no idea on how to run a console system business", neither did Sony prior to the Playstation.

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You're kidding, right?

On: Michael Abrash On X-Box Graphics

Macs are hardly "far more stable than Windows boxes". It's something called protected memory - Windows has had it for years, whereas Macs *still* don't

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Re:This is great to see

On: Amiga's New SDK: A First Glance

How was the Amiga the inspiration for Linux? Silly me, I always thought Unix (which is older than the Amiga) was the inspiration. Also, Commodore hasn't existed for the better part of a decade, and therefore does not own Amiga technology

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Re:Amiga

On: Amiga's New SDK: A First Glance

Your first sentence is prophetic. Of COURSE you don't get it - otherwise you would realize that this is not about developing software for the old Amiga hardware.

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Re:The Amiga sucked in it's day. Thank God it's de

On: Amiga's New SDK: A First Glance

Yeah - developing for 95% of the PC-buying public and making buttloads of money sucks! Communism rulz!

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Re:It's DEAD. Spell it with me D E A D.

On: Amiga's New SDK: A First Glance

True. It's like all these atheists complaining about Christians. If God doesn't exist, why are you acting so threatened???

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Idiot.

On: Amiga's New SDK: A First Glance

How could it have died "decades ago" when it didn't even exist prior to 1984 (less than two decades, for the math-impaired)

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Re:Here we go again....

On: Diablo 2 Finally Hits Shelves

Regarding #2 - Yep, the hypocrisy astounds me. Nice to know ethics can be bought by a bit of video game entertainment.

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Re:Whee

On: Star Wars Episode 2 Starts Shooting

I don't give a rat's a$$ about any of those things. I just want the DVD. I'm afraid I don't subscribe to the slashdot groupthink.

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Developer names easter egg in Internet Explorer 4

On: Easter Eggs in Open Source?

I don't remember the sequence of events, but it deals with the "About..." box and clicking on the Windows logo. If you do it right it will do a graphical display of everyone who worked on IE.

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Re:I'm just wondering...

On: Sony Unveils Portable Playstation

Speak for yourself. I like computers (I save "love" for actual people), but I still enjoy video games. One does not exclude the other.

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