Seriously is this what Slashdot has come down to? Get your ideological news up so long as you can spin it into a technology issue?
"I just got an instant message from some [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27]. In case you didn't know [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27] believes in [IDEA#3] and [CONCEPT#14] and lately they've [GOSSIP#4], [MUDSLINGING#99]... shouldn't we all hate [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27] when they send spam?"
You want to ensure that your hack shows the voter that he/she voted wrong to "validate" the results...
Sure this has its problems but on the BRIGHT SIDE... How many people voted wrong with the punched cards, didn't check their work and NEVER REALIZED they voted for Pat Buchanan?
No, I'm saying that if Wal-Mart printed money then released this product exclusively at Wal-Mart stores as part of their Wal-Mart games service and then complained that they had no control over pricing...
Well you get the picture...
(And are you saying that nobody complains that the US Government has let gas prices get too high?)
"It's unfortunate that some people just sort of take the approach of, "oh, blame Microsoft first for everything;" that's not really constructive."
Okay sure... but this is a Microsoft published product (via XBox Live... I can't go to the store and purchase it) purchased using Microsoft Points (r)(tm) where 1600 points = $19.99 (or sometimes $24.99) and downloaded from Micrsofot XBox Live, a proprietary network built and run by Microsoft and accessible only via the XBox360, another Microsoft product.
So sure, Q! got greedy... but the gatekeepers let it happen. And the ultimate reflection is on the publisher and service provider. Microsoft.
"If someone does break a story from inside you immediately punish and isolate anyone who spoke to the reporter. You make them disown their words. You make them repent."
Okay, but what do you do when a reporter "gets the story wrong"?
"I haven't read his new book yet, just the reviews and excerpts. But from early accounts, State of Denial is his attempt to get back the ground he lost, despite having the best access.
Woodward didn't "suppress" the story. Rather, he couldn't imagine it. Those are the kinds of failures that interest me. Sometimes things are suppressed. Often, the truth eludes professional journalism because no one thought to look for it."
Ahh... you punish and isolate the reporter and force him to repent...
3:15 am in front of a 12" television with all the lights off and sound cranked up.
Land spaceship to pick up survivor. Survivor has a pink helmet on... white = good guy, green = evil alien, pink = ??? well we're not going to let him in until I get a better look.
">knockknockknockknockknockknock"
"gonna have to..."
Big alien head appears on my cockpit and starts trying to bash in the window. "BRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
AUUUUUUUUGGGHHH!! TURN ON THE SHIELDS TURN ON THE SHIELDS as in my haste, my hand bashes my Pepsi(tm) can knocking it across the room until I can hit 's' and fry the sucker.
---- "Boo" horror we pretty much have down. Besides "Rescue..." this has been used in Resident Evil, Doom, Unreal, etc to great effect.
"Creepy" horror we got with Silent Hill to great effect.
But the kind of deep "horror" that makes you lie awake at night? I dunno. I submit that that's only doable in books/movies because it's passive entertainment and so the viewer/reader is dragged along. But in interactive entertainment it's like negative reinforcement. You're going to have to do something to keep the player wanting to go forward while whacking them with things they dislike. (Unless you're into that sort of thing... or Goth... Kinda like that HR Giger game way back when... or... heh... Beyond the Forbidden Forest. Okay game but most of the fun was watching the grotesque ways you would die)
It depends on how you're using namespaces. If you're doing a "using namespace fred" in your.cpp file for your class definitions then that will give SlickEdit fits (at least with version 7 or lower... we since exorcised that code fromm our project so I'm not sure how the newer versions react to it.) Otherwise, I've had little complaints with its namespace handling in the most recent versions, including nested namespaces. I'm not saying it's code interpretation is perfectl mind you, but I've yet to find an IDE that doesn't have interpretation problems with something or another. I use Visual Studio.NET with Whole Tomato's Visual Assist and it's interesting to see what SlickEdit or Visual Assist will recognize or omit.
Yeah I know we're not supposed to discuss IDE's. But its class browser (which can handle multiple languages) can greatly simplify trouncing through a code base.
This isn't "politics". Sony is making a product that will sell or not.
Lest our gentle readers forget, a few weeks ago an analyst pointed out that Microsoft could've sold XBox360's for nearly $700 last year and the market would've purchased them all.
The XBox360 doesn't have HDMI at all! (Of course that's coming this year) The XBox360 was supposed to have HD-DVD and it doesn't. (Of course that's coming this year though who knows what port it'll hook up to. If I'm using the wireless adaptor and have two wired joysticks I have no spare USB ports for an HD-DVD player... oops, guess I'll have to get an XBox360 branded hub.)
Given what tech they were showing at E3 (very little), the truth of the matter looks like Sony can't build enough units to meet demand at an XBox360 competitive price point. So up the price which will cut down on the demand and also maximizes revenue generation. Then, in January, if sales are sluggish (and you've weeded out the production run kinks) drop the price to match the XBox360. If sales are still strong (and they could be) keep it at that price because the market will pay that much for it.
Am I ticked about that? Yeah. I have enough spare cash floating around that I could be an early adopter, but I won't. $500 for a video game system (plus $40 for one more controller, plus $60 for ONE game so you're really looking at $600) is just ludicrous.
But then some people pay $100/month for cable TV with all the frills (not including broadband support).
But I'll pre-order a Nintendo wee-wee at $200 (maybe $250)...
But "No confidence" vote? Sony could be making the *perfect* video game system here and I still wouldn't buy it at that price point. On the other hand, if they make some really cool games for it and don't drop the price, maybe I will...
But that's what capitalism is all about Charlie Brown...
That's the key phrase. The FBI, Scotland Yard and other equivalent government police forces already share data of this nature. (IE large bank transactions, criminal histories, etc)
The reason it's specifically illegal to rebroadcast an OTA signal is because in the early days of cable, some of them resent the local OTA stations onto cable without paying the broadcasters. (I believe using the same argument of "adding value to the network signal").
The broadcasters didn't see it that way. If it was "adding value" then they wanted monetary compensation for the "value" that was being added. In other words, the cable companies were making money off the back of the content provided by the original broadcaster.
Since 1997, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been considering a treaty that would modernize broadcaster protection provisions of the Rome Convention to account for digital broadcasting and the challenges of online networks. The focus has been to protect broadcasters against signal piracy, particularly related to the unauthorized commercial retransmission of signals captured over-the-air or intercepted from satellite transmissions. One example of this was in 1999, when a company called iCraveTV captured U.S. television stations' signals and retransmitted them over the Internet without permission or license. Though a Canadian company, iCraveTV had registered its domain name in the U.S. so a U.S. court was able to exercise jurisdiction and end this piracy.
The iCraveTV episode demonstrated the vulnerability of broadcasting to unauthorized retransmission over the Internet that reduces revenue to broadcasters and the copyright owners whose works are being transmitted. Given the risks of signal theft and the potential harm to the broadcast industry, the United States has supported enhancing legal protections for broadcasters by updating the rights addressed in the Rome Convention.
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Propoganda.
Seriously is this what Slashdot has come down to? Get your ideological news up so long as you can spin it into a technology issue?
"I just got an instant message from some [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27]. In case you didn't know [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27] believes in [IDEA#3] and [CONCEPT#14] and lately they've [GOSSIP#4], [MUDSLINGING#99]... shouldn't we all hate [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27] when they send spam?"
Zonk: That's a good point, whaddy'all think?!
You want to ensure that your hack shows the voter that he/she voted wrong to "validate" the results...
Sure this has its problems but on the BRIGHT SIDE... How many people voted wrong with the punched cards, didn't check their work and NEVER REALIZED they voted for Pat Buchanan?
Technically... in Chinese legalspeek(tm) he's probably right.
It's not "censorship" it's "protection of the people from incorrect thoughts".
It's "Q?" Not "Q!"
So you think Microsoft doesn't protect its other producers from a rogue game company trying to undercut the competition?
Publishing is putting something on a distribution medium.
No, I'm saying that if Wal-Mart printed money then released this product exclusively at Wal-Mart stores as part of their Wal-Mart games service and then complained that they had no control over pricing...
Well you get the picture...
(And are you saying that nobody complains that the US Government has let gas prices get too high?)
So sure, Q! got greedy... but the gatekeepers let it happen. And the ultimate reflection is on the publisher and service provider. Microsoft.
That if I get a monopoly in Monopoly(r) that my future games have to be government regulated?
That I have to declare income taxes on all cash received while playing PayDay(r)
That I have to declare my tax status to the IRS when I finish the game of Life(r) and retire?
Will be the ultimate geek work out program..
We just haven't figured out how to build it yet.
"If someone does break a story from inside you immediately punish and isolate anyone who spoke to the reporter. You make them disown their words. You make them repent."
Okay, but what do you do when a reporter "gets the story wrong"?
"I haven't read his new book yet, just the reviews and excerpts. But from early accounts, State of Denial is his attempt to get back the ground he lost, despite having the best access.
Woodward didn't "suppress" the story. Rather, he couldn't imagine it. Those are the kinds of failures that interest me. Sometimes things are suppressed. Often, the truth eludes professional journalism because no one thought to look for it."
Ahh... you punish and isolate the reporter and force him to repent...
Got it...
Why wasn't this turned on by default?!
That's also a Democrat win... so it's not important and/or that's just getting back at "the man".
So now slashdot is reduced to pandering political gossip?
Any particular POLITICAL reason Slashdot waited until mid september to post a story about a JUNE Rolling Stone article?
First "scary" game.
3:15 am in front of a 12" television with all the lights off and sound cranked up.
Land spaceship to pick up survivor.
Survivor has a pink helmet on... white = good guy, green = evil alien, pink = ???
well we're not going to let him in until I get a better look.
">knockknockknockknockknockknock"
"gonna have to..."
Big alien head appears on my cockpit and starts trying to bash in the window.
"BRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
AUUUUUUUUGGGHHH!! TURN ON THE SHIELDS TURN ON THE SHIELDS as in my haste, my hand bashes my Pepsi(tm) can knocking it across the room until I can hit 's' and fry the sucker.
----
"Boo" horror we pretty much have down. Besides "Rescue..." this has been used in Resident Evil, Doom, Unreal, etc to great effect.
"Creepy" horror we got with Silent Hill to great effect.
But the kind of deep "horror" that makes you lie awake at night? I dunno. I submit that that's only doable in books/movies because it's passive entertainment and so the viewer/reader is dragged along. But in interactive entertainment it's like negative reinforcement. You're going to have to do something to keep the player wanting to go forward while whacking them with things they dislike. (Unless you're into that sort of thing... or Goth... Kinda like that HR Giger game way back when... or... heh... Beyond the Forbidden Forest. Okay game but most of the fun was watching the grotesque ways you would die)
It depends on how you're using namespaces. If you're doing a .cpp file for your class definitions then that will give SlickEdit fits (at least with version 7 or lower... we since exorcised that code fromm our project so I'm not sure how the newer versions react to it.) .NET with Whole Tomato's Visual Assist and it's interesting to see what SlickEdit or Visual Assist will recognize or omit.
"using namespace fred" in your
Otherwise, I've had little complaints with its namespace handling in the most recent versions, including nested namespaces. I'm not saying it's code interpretation is perfectl mind you, but I've yet to find an IDE that doesn't have interpretation problems with something or another. I use Visual Studio
Yeah I know we're not supposed to discuss IDE's. But its class browser (which can handle multiple languages) can greatly simplify trouncing through a code base.
For the Final Fantasy Olympiad XXVIII...
Okay... seriously... I guess if syncrhonized swimming is a "sport" than so is team DDR...
That they're this blatant about their piracy...
Or that their customer service is better than most "official" DVD publishers.
This isn't "politics". Sony is making a product that will sell or not.
Lest our gentle readers forget, a few weeks ago an analyst pointed out that Microsoft could've sold XBox360's for nearly $700 last year and the market would've purchased them all.
The XBox360 doesn't have HDMI at all! (Of course that's coming this year)
The XBox360 was supposed to have HD-DVD and it doesn't. (Of course that's coming this year though who knows what port it'll hook up to. If I'm using the wireless adaptor and have two wired joysticks I have no spare USB ports for an HD-DVD player... oops, guess I'll have to get an XBox360 branded hub.)
Given what tech they were showing at E3 (very little), the truth of the matter looks like Sony can't build enough units to meet demand at an XBox360 competitive price point. So up the price which will cut down on the demand and also maximizes revenue generation. Then, in January, if sales are sluggish (and you've weeded out the production run kinks) drop the price to match the XBox360. If sales are still strong (and they could be) keep it at that price because the market will pay that much for it.
Am I ticked about that? Yeah. I have enough spare cash floating around that I could be an early adopter, but I won't. $500 for a video game system (plus $40 for one more controller, plus $60 for ONE game so you're really looking at $600) is just ludicrous.
But then some people pay $100/month for cable TV with all the frills (not including broadband support).
But I'll pre-order a Nintendo wee-wee at $200 (maybe $250)...
But "No confidence" vote? Sony could be making the *perfect* video game system here and I still wouldn't buy it at that price point. On the other hand, if they make some really cool games for it and don't drop the price, maybe I will...
But that's what capitalism is all about Charlie Brown...
That's the key phrase. The FBI, Scotland Yard and other equivalent government police forces already share data of this nature. (IE large bank transactions, criminal histories, etc)
The reason it's specifically illegal to rebroadcast an OTA signal is because in the early days of cable, some of them resent the local OTA stations onto cable without paying the broadcasters. (I believe using the same argument of "adding value to the network signal").
The broadcasters didn't see it that way. If it was "adding value" then they wanted monetary compensation for the "value" that was being added. In other words, the cable companies were making money off the back of the content provided by the original broadcaster.
Only because iCrave had a US "location". If they had signed up with a Canadian domain the implication is that they would've been untouchable.
http://www.digmedia.org/content.cfm?id=7223
Since 1997, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been considering a treaty that would modernize broadcaster protection provisions of the Rome Convention to account for digital broadcasting and the challenges of online networks. The focus has been to protect broadcasters against signal piracy, particularly related to the unauthorized commercial retransmission of signals captured over-the-air or intercepted from satellite transmissions. One example of this was in 1999, when a company called iCraveTV captured U.S. television stations' signals and retransmitted them over the Internet without permission or license. Though a Canadian company, iCraveTV had registered its domain name in the U.S. so a U.S. court was able to exercise jurisdiction and end this piracy.
The iCraveTV episode demonstrated the vulnerability of broadcasting to unauthorized retransmission over the Internet that reduces revenue to broadcasters and the copyright owners whose works are being transmitted. Given the risks of signal theft and the potential harm to the broadcast industry, the United States has supported enhancing legal protections for broadcasters by updating the rights addressed in the Rome Convention.
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