Would it be weird if an item trade company became so profitable that they could buy the game company itself? What a weird economic machine that would be.
I don't see a problem spending $50 for iLife, or for that matter, $130 (or so) for every next major OSX release. We pay for the latest and greatest video card, CPU, TV, Car, portable MP3 player, etc.. Why shouldn't software be the same?
I don't know about the rest of the/. world, but it's really cold today in the US Northeast, and all I can think about is getting a new super home heating system.
The indictment represents the first time the government has charged that using the Internet for recruitment, fund-raising, and other purposes constitutes aid under a law that makes it illegal to provide "material support or resources" for terrorist activity. Hussayen's lawyer, David Nevin, said he believes "there is substantial question about the constitutionality of this charge," contending that operating websites falls within Hussayen's First Amendment rights. Nevin denied that Hussayen has raised money for jihad or posted calls for violence. Hussayen is accused of moderating an Arabic-language e-mail group that posted instructions on how to train at a terrorist camp and issued an "urgent appeal" to Muslims in the military last February to provide information for use in selecting terror targets.
If he's being accused of these, then I see no problem.
Sorry, but I don't want to live in a country where people can yell "Fire" in a crowded theater without consequences.
I quit heavy caffeine use every year or so, and stay off for 6-9 months. I ween myself from 2 x-large coffees in the morning down to a medium, then quit cold-turkey. 2-3 days of raging headaches follow, but they go away after that. Stick it out, and use a pain killers, and you should be fine.
(Thanks for the reminder. I think I'll quit again)
Ok, technically it's not out this year, but they have started releasing beta copies to people.
Right before windows XP came out, the majority of home/business users were finally 'getting it' -- they were figuring out the filesystem, the menus, etc.
Then XP came out and turned their world upside down. Sure you can revert the theme and menus back to win2k, but I don't know anyone that has done that. Not to mention new features integrated into explorer, like CD burning and MP3 playing. Quite a steep learning curve for XP's majority users.
Longhorn is going to come out, and users buying a new Dell or Gateway will get it automatically. Sidebars, and SQL data storage? Their world will be turned upside down once again.
I can't agree with this more. I've especially disappointed by 2D-3D crossover games like Sonic the Hedgehog. It's a shame since CPUs and GPUs have enough power to do some interesting things they weren't able to do in the past (like complex special effects, alpha channels, anti-aliasing, or rendering vector graphics realtime).
Besides, 2D games have staying power. At least for me anyway -- Once in a while I'll drag out my Super Nintendo for some Super Mario Brothers.:)
The closest I've seen to a good 2D game these days is Vib Ribbon (for PS), although I haven't actually played it (it's japanese and hard to come by). Paper Mario isn't too bad if you have a N64 around (although it's more of a 2.5D game).
I got a Hauppauge WinTV with fm radio back in 1999 and i've been using it ever since. I love it. I've used it in windows, linux, and beos. I've never had any problems. I've recommended them to friends and they all love them too.
Seconded. I don't remember exactly which Hauppauge card I got (it's been around 3 years, and I since gave it to someone to experiment with), but I think it was the WinTV-D (with digital TV reception, which I never tried). I too used it under windows (using the player and playing with the windows streaming media server), linux, and beos with 100% stability and no problems. (I think I might've dabbled in *BSD as well, but I can't remember). It's a Brooktree 848 chipset, which looks pretty well supported in the opensource community.
You know, now that I think about it, with few exceptions, all the women I've ever known have always been really into abstract games, while all the guys I've known have been into realistic games. (Case in potint: I just finished a marathon 20 hour session with the Lineage RPG, while my wife was playing all kinds of weird flash games all day.) It would be interesting to see if tapping the abstract game market also resulted in reaching the female demographic.
What I'l love to know is, if I keep this in my bathroom, will the humidity from the shower kill it? Methinks it will be ok since I have a $20 clock-radio/CD player in there now, and it's ok. I don't know if I want to risk the $250 though...
Unfortunately, when OSX becomes popular enough, it will become a huge security target. But it won't be security exploits that pose a problem, it will be the same problems that plague Windows today:
Just like in the Windows world, it's social engineering that causes installation and execution of quasi-legal applications like Comet Cursor and Bonsai Buddy, as well as downright unethical and illegal programs (virus and worms) that get installed when a user is told "click on the.exe to see boobies." No type of security can possibly stop that type of human behavior (being an IT I'm convinced that education, warnings, and even threats can't stop it).
You can't copyright something you didn't write. Not counting works for hire and such -- but if they're claiming that they have aliens in far away galaxies working for them, they've got worse problems than copyright infringement.
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"How Well are Your Servers Handling MyDoom?" Pretty well. We're thinking of adding another cluster.
Just kidding, lawyers.
Would it be weird if an item trade company became so profitable that they could buy the game company itself? What a weird economic machine that would be.
I can't wait for this to hit the U.S.
"Your request to 'verizon.com' has been blocked due to inappropriate content. Thank you for using Cingular"
You're probably not reading this, but I was thinking about drivers and modules and crap...
I don't see a problem spending $50 for iLife, or for that matter, $130 (or so) for every next major OSX release. We pay for the latest and greatest video card, CPU, TV, Car, portable MP3 player, etc.. Why shouldn't software be the same?
I propose we rename GNU/Linux to "I can't believe it's not Microsoft."
I don't think anyone pointed this out yet, but I'm sure you can fit millions of lines on 60 pages if they're mostly the same. For example:
/************ /* open file */ /* close file */
402,398 lines of:
402,398 lines of: ************/
921,765 lines of:
921,765 lines of:
etc...
I believe I hear the DMCA police coming.
Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if they whipped out the DMCA threatening letters for this.
I don't know about the rest of the /. world, but it's really cold today in the US Northeast, and all I can think about is getting a new super home heating system.
If he's being accused of these, then I see no problem.
Sorry, but I don't want to live in a country where people can yell "Fire" in a crowded theater without consequences.
School is a great place for a kid to learn a fact of life: that if you do something somebody doesn't like, a law can be found and applied.
I think the record industry needs to drop the rock-star mentality and go for the muffler man mentality. This requires more description:
/. that give me a new perspective.
wow, that was brilliant. I love reading postings like that on
I quit heavy caffeine use every year or so, and stay off for 6-9 months. I ween myself from 2 x-large coffees in the morning down to a medium, then quit cold-turkey. 2-3 days of raging headaches follow, but they go away after that. Stick it out, and use a pain killers, and you should be fine.
(Thanks for the reminder. I think I'll quit again)
Ok, technically it's not out this year, but they have started releasing beta copies to people.
Right before windows XP came out, the majority of home/business users were finally 'getting it' -- they were figuring out the filesystem, the menus, etc.
Then XP came out and turned their world upside down. Sure you can revert the theme and menus back to win2k, but I don't know anyone that has done that. Not to mention new features integrated into explorer, like CD burning and MP3 playing. Quite a steep learning curve for XP's majority users.
Longhorn is going to come out, and users buying a new Dell or Gateway will get it automatically. Sidebars, and SQL data storage? Their world will be turned upside down once again.
You may want to check into these retractible ear-buds, or the retractible handsfree cell earbud might be better.
I can't agree with this more. I've especially disappointed by 2D-3D crossover games like Sonic the Hedgehog. It's a shame since CPUs and GPUs have enough power to do some interesting things they weren't able to do in the past (like complex special effects, alpha channels, anti-aliasing, or rendering vector graphics realtime).
:)
Besides, 2D games have staying power. At least for me anyway -- Once in a while I'll drag out my Super Nintendo for some Super Mario Brothers.
The closest I've seen to a good 2D game these days is Vib Ribbon (for PS), although I haven't actually played it (it's japanese and hard to come by). Paper Mario isn't too bad if you have a N64 around (although it's more of a 2.5D game).
I got a Hauppauge WinTV with fm radio back in 1999 and i've been using it ever since. I love it. I've used it in windows, linux, and beos. I've never had any problems. I've recommended them to friends and they all love them too.
Seconded. I don't remember exactly which Hauppauge card I got (it's been around 3 years, and I since gave it to someone to experiment with), but I think it was the WinTV-D (with digital TV reception, which I never tried). I too used it under windows (using the player and playing with the windows streaming media server), linux, and beos with 100% stability and no problems. (I think I might've dabbled in *BSD as well, but I can't remember). It's a Brooktree 848 chipset, which looks pretty well supported in the opensource community.
You know, now that I think about it, with few exceptions, all the women I've ever known have always been really into abstract games, while all the guys I've known have been into realistic games. (Case in potint: I just finished a marathon 20 hour session with the Lineage RPG, while my wife was playing all kinds of weird flash games all day.) It would be interesting to see if tapping the abstract game market also resulted in reaching the female demographic.
God that was an amazing program with incredible potential. I was so sad when Adobe EOL'd it.
What I'l love to know is, if I keep this in my bathroom, will the humidity from the shower kill it? Methinks it will be ok since I have a $20 clock-radio/CD player in there now, and it's ok. I don't know if I want to risk the $250 though...
Thank you AC :)
Unfortunately, when OSX becomes popular enough, it will become a huge security target. But it won't be security exploits that pose a problem, it will be the same problems that plague Windows today:
.exe to see boobies." No type of security can possibly stop that type of human behavior (being an IT I'm convinced that education, warnings, and even threats can't stop it).
Just like in the Windows world, it's social engineering that causes installation and execution of quasi-legal applications like Comet Cursor and Bonsai Buddy, as well as downright unethical and illegal programs (virus and worms) that get installed when a user is told "click on the
5 Years experience administrating Windows 2000 server.
....the Sun guys gave it a kinda "who cares about waiting a few years for Longhorn, here's what you can do today!"....
Great. Now MS will be forced to release Longhorn prematurely, it will suck eggs, and we'll all be forced to use it at work.
You can't copyright something you didn't write. Not counting works for hire and such -- but if they're claiming that they have aliens in far away galaxies working for them, they've got worse problems than copyright infringement.
I'll just stick to copyrighting my genome.