Just an aside: anyone still in high school, NEVER leave anything personal in your locker. I ran away once and they raided the thing for clues. They even dug up some personal poetry in my notebooks there.
Keep stuff like that under lock and key. In your room, and hidden.
Hmm. Well I don't know if you could argue that most of what is posted on Slashdot is "content". I try to incite conversation... and arguments. I like the verbal play, and it leads to interesting thoughts. But is that "content"?
I think Katz is a very eloquent speaker, and I enjoy reading his stuff. Plus, for someone relatively new to Slashdot (only about a year), reading Katz stuff is kind of interesting.
Download ISO from any site.
Place CD-R in drive (The tricky part: make sure it's 80 minutes).
Click "Start recording"
Every console maker's profits are nearly all in software sales. Hardware has traditionally been a loss of money.
I don't mind emultation for old games. It gives you a chance to relive some old favorites (particularly when the hardware is old and sometimes prone to failure) but enough is enough.
I don't think Sega lost the battle entirely due to pirate games, but I'm sure it created a good dent.
What a tragedy. Really. I really like this system.
One question: how will game development for it go. I know they plan to develop software for the PS2 and everything, but what about my other, little white box baby?
The guy immediately signs a paper that denies basic rights to hundred of thousands of women. If that doesn't send us back to the stone age, I don't know what will.
I know that several hundred people hate me for asking this stuff, but I've got to ask anyway: can this be done in Win2K? Would it require a download, like IPv6 on Microsoft's web site, or is it just not possible.
It'd be cool to filter out junk on my Apache/Win2K box.:)
I went through 3 DSL providers (including Verizon) and eventually settled on cable. I've been amazed.
Not only was the process a lot more painless (installing filters on all your phones, anyone), but I'm getting blisteringly fast speeds. My Verizon DSL was similar in speed to the original post. My cable is giving me upwards of 2-3 Mbps, way above the advertised 1.5.
And all those warnings about bandwidth dropping with more users? I've been on for close to 6 months, and my bandwidth has actually increased.
Generally I'm not a big fan of cable, but this is one field where they have the competition beat (and seem to have engineers who recognize the value of good routers).
Now let me go download a few MP3's in less than 10 seconds.:)
Present: Radio signals? What alien would use radio signals? They'd have better technology than that, right? Use light.
10 years later: What alien would use light? Use quantum particles.
10 years after that: What alien would use quantum particles? Use antimatter.
10 years after that: What alien would use antimatter? Use quark synthesis.
Eventually we're just going to find we should have been searching for bacteria on fallen meteorites.
MS might be stealing my purchasing history, but since their browser is under such tremendous scrunity I agree, it would have came out already (plus, there's a wallet feature in IE which next to noone uses).
AOL, however, just plain scares me with their marketing tactics. Not only do they nail you with advertising while on their service (my family had an AOL account from 1995-2000 -- I jumped ship but my little sister wanted to stay on), they even nail you after you leave!
I remember canceling the AOL account over the phone (after several insistent "no I do not want to stay on"'s. Then they said "OK, sir. Sorry for your cancellation. Now here's a special message" and they pitched their long distance plan.
What company uses these kind of tactics. It's sorta sick how newbies get roped into this shit.
References are said to be eliminated when I graduate from the college (in one semester).
As for the student, the ruling was held in both of our favors (and also, in effect, levied against both of us). Thus to settle tensions I have been made to live off campus which, while devastating, was my plan anyway (to get an apartment for my final semester). It's a harsh decision but it's better than not being allowed to graduate, which was a possibility.
To anyone who has similar charges levied against them, and are false, remember to be firm but tolerant. There are very strong emotions involved and even if you know you've done nothing wrong, remember the other person may feel you have.
No, it's not really a defense, but in a situation like this (when I didn't actually do what she said I did) being someone who doesn't normally go against others publically and verbally was actually quite a problem.
If I didn't have others to speak for me, and help myself speak, I would have been dead in the water.
If I had to pick a good teacher, it would be my most recent one, Michael Siff at Sarah Lawrence College. He helped me out of a sticky situation involving an internal sexual harassment suit with a female student (being a computer nerd, I was both devastated and afraid to make an argument for myself, in fear that I would bother people. I just wanted to be left alone -- which could have been my destruction because I would then fail to defend myself.)
Michael spoke on my behalf, continued to teach my 5 credit computer workload, and generally stuck up for me, both personally and professionally.
I don't know if "teaching Open Source" would be a consideration of what a "good teacher" is, but I know, as a friend, Mike was invaluable. Thanks, Mike.
One somehow imagines if all I posted was troll posts, that I'd have negative karma (or at least "regular" karma). Fact is, I've posted a number of posts -- against big business or for big business -- which people find cool to read. If you don't believe me, look at my user info.
I don't know why I'm even defending myself. It's only Slashdot, and I'm only some college kid. I'm not rich. I'm middle class but I'm comfortable. My mom has five kids, and my dad died when I was 13 of cancer. That's my self-righteous life story.
I occasionally try to produce interesting discussions playing the devil's advocate, but at the same time I usually go for Linux or against Microsoft.
I don't like zealots. They're frightening, for any cause. I also don't like flamboyant people, but that's another story.
It's Slashdot, it's enjoyable, and try not to take too many people's opinions as law. It's discussion.
With the PlayStation 3, Sony hopes to merge content from its other divisions, such as Sony pictures and Sony music, by establishing a direct chain of distribution and by having the PlayStation 3 serve as the platform hub.
A lot of these things were plan originally for the Playstation 2. It was supposed to have a hard drive built-in (now being added by a third party), ethernet and a remote for the DVD player (now being added by Sony). In addition, it was supposed to used Sony's Memory Stick, not their current memory card (Sony probably realized they needed backward compatibility with the interface to use the old Playstation games -- along with making an extra buck because people will pay anything for memory card [$30 for 128K of original Playstation memory nowadays, anyone?]).
The whole thing, in retrospect, was supposed to be a server for the home. The final product was a lot more toned down.
I don't know, but wouldn't this affect the cooking industry even more? I mean, I've seen potluck dinners and get togethers where the partipicants refer to the event as a "bake-off" all the time.
They may as well patent the word "bake" while they're at it.
From working for GameSpot briefly (along with the defunct Critics' Choice on AOL in 1995 -- a year before I jumped AOL's ship), I can tell you that Nintendo will ultimately win. First, they have brand recognition and kids buying up their Pokemon products no matter what.
More importantly, though, they can turn this against Daily Radar when they are allowed to publish things about Nintendo again (which they inevitably will) and deny them advertising. Then they will tell their licenses to deny them advertising. Some will follow suit, others will ignore Nintendo, but ultimately Daily Radar will lose some money in this fiasco.
It happened with us at GameSpot in 1997 with a company we gave a bad review to. More publicized was the Capcom/EGM debacle when EGM shot down one of their Street Fighter 2 clones.
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Keep stuff like that under lock and key. In your room, and hidden.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
I think Katz is a very eloquent speaker, and I enjoy reading his stuff. Plus, for someone relatively new to Slashdot (only about a year), reading Katz stuff is kind of interesting.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
Download ISO from any site.
Place CD-R in drive (The tricky part: make sure it's 80 minutes).
Click "Start recording"
Every console maker's profits are nearly all in software sales. Hardware has traditionally been a loss of money.
I don't mind emultation for old games. It gives you a chance to relive some old favorites (particularly when the hardware is old and sometimes prone to failure) but enough is enough.
I don't think Sega lost the battle entirely due to pirate games, but I'm sure it created a good dent.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
One question: how will game development for it go. I know they plan to develop software for the PS2 and everything, but what about my other, little white box baby?
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
Now that would be entertaining.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
It'd be cool to filter out junk on my Apache/Win2K box. :)
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
Not only was the process a lot more painless (installing filters on all your phones, anyone), but I'm getting blisteringly fast speeds. My Verizon DSL was similar in speed to the original post. My cable is giving me upwards of 2-3 Mbps, way above the advertised 1.5.
And all those warnings about bandwidth dropping with more users? I've been on for close to 6 months, and my bandwidth has actually increased.
Generally I'm not a big fan of cable, but this is one field where they have the competition beat (and seem to have engineers who recognize the value of good routers).
Now let me go download a few MP3's in less than 10 seconds. :)
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
10 years later: What alien would use light? Use quantum particles.
10 years after that: What alien would use quantum particles? Use antimatter.
10 years after that: What alien would use antimatter? Use quark synthesis.
Eventually we're just going to find we should have been searching for bacteria on fallen meteorites.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
AOL, however, just plain scares me with their marketing tactics. Not only do they nail you with advertising while on their service (my family had an AOL account from 1995-2000 -- I jumped ship but my little sister wanted to stay on), they even nail you after you leave!
I remember canceling the AOL account over the phone (after several insistent "no I do not want to stay on"'s. Then they said "OK, sir. Sorry for your cancellation. Now here's a special message" and they pitched their long distance plan.
What company uses these kind of tactics. It's sorta sick how newbies get roped into this shit.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
Someone fill me in. I don't get the joke.
Or is it just a really bad typo?
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
As for the student, the ruling was held in both of our favors (and also, in effect, levied against both of us). Thus to settle tensions I have been made to live off campus which, while devastating, was my plan anyway (to get an apartment for my final semester). It's a harsh decision but it's better than not being allowed to graduate, which was a possibility.
To anyone who has similar charges levied against them, and are false, remember to be firm but tolerant. There are very strong emotions involved and even if you know you've done nothing wrong, remember the other person may feel you have.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
If I didn't have others to speak for me, and help myself speak, I would have been dead in the water.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
Michael spoke on my behalf, continued to teach my 5 credit computer workload, and generally stuck up for me, both personally and professionally.
I don't know if "teaching Open Source" would be a consideration of what a "good teacher" is, but I know, as a friend, Mike was invaluable. Thanks, Mike.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
I don't know why I'm even defending myself. It's only Slashdot, and I'm only some college kid. I'm not rich. I'm middle class but I'm comfortable. My mom has five kids, and my dad died when I was 13 of cancer. That's my self-righteous life story.
I occasionally try to produce interesting discussions playing the devil's advocate, but at the same time I usually go for Linux or against Microsoft.
I don't like zealots. They're frightening, for any cause. I also don't like flamboyant people, but that's another story.
It's Slashdot, it's enjoyable, and try not to take too many people's opinions as law. It's discussion.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
A lot of these things were plan originally for the Playstation 2. It was supposed to have a hard drive built-in (now being added by a third party), ethernet and a remote for the DVD player (now being added by Sony). In addition, it was supposed to used Sony's Memory Stick, not their current memory card (Sony probably realized they needed backward compatibility with the interface to use the old Playstation games -- along with making an extra buck because people will pay anything for memory card [$30 for 128K of original Playstation memory nowadays, anyone?]).
The whole thing, in retrospect, was supposed to be a server for the home. The final product was a lot more toned down.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
They may as well patent the word "bake" while they're at it.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
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All those games gone... imagine...
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
More importantly, though, they can turn this against Daily Radar when they are allowed to publish things about Nintendo again (which they inevitably will) and deny them advertising. Then they will tell their licenses to deny them advertising. Some will follow suit, others will ignore Nintendo, but ultimately Daily Radar will lose some money in this fiasco.
It happened with us at GameSpot in 1997 with a company we gave a bad review to. More publicized was the Capcom/EGM debacle when EGM shot down one of their Street Fighter 2 clones.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.