The very few Adobe products I have dealt with (Acrobat/Reader, Flash) are just, for lack of a better word, crap. Adobe Downloader? Why, oh God why??
Seriously though, they seem to be an incredibly irresponsible company. I *do* give them major props for porting Flash to Linux, but there is still much to be desired with that, and they seem to have done it and merely let it alone, with no future improvements until Flash 12 is out most likely. Flash 9 is still the one thing that crashes my browser in Linux. And it crashes often.
You'd think a company with as good of a reputation as Apple wouldn't make 'bricks' out of their latest offering, being the "green" company that they are^H^H^Hsupposed to be... What a kick in the face to everyone who paid $600 for one of these pieces of junk.
Well, at least I *tried* to post the original Smiley doc...but I got:
Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
Fucking SD. And here was the place I thought I'd never have to worry about the content of my reply. These filters are starting to piss me off.
Re:Nothing can truly replace a dedicated cabinet..
on
Project Arcade
·
· Score: 1
I know exactly what MAME is, what it does, etc... My point was that if you had a *favorite* game(s), and you really wanted the full arcade experience, you need to have the artwork (preferably the original cabinet that the game was built for). It's just more true to the game. But that's just collectors - the typical tech enthusiast/Slashdotter that likes video games probably wouldn't want to go that far, and would like many more games than just one in its original dedicated cabinet.
$2k? Wow. Must be a nice setup...I don't plan on spending more than $300 total restoring my game, although it was in fair condition, and I'm doing all of the stripping/re-painting myself. But that's part of the fun. I'm even thinking about seeing how to upgrade the CPU in the DD JAMMA board, to make it not lag so much...but that's a bit beyond my expertise.
Nothing can truly replace a dedicated cabinet...
on
Project Arcade
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
I own a Double Dragon arcade cabinet and am in the process of restoring it... For the ones who truly want to re-live the 'good old days', especially with a favorite game, you can't beat a dedicated cabinet (READ: *not* MAME).
The reason is simple: You get the cabinet's original dimensions, artwork (side-art, bezel art, banner art, control panel art) that was half the reason you loved the game in the first place. There was nothing like scanning an arcade for your favorite game and seeing it, all lit up, ready for you to pump in a few quarters.
Did you RTFA? You can verify your votes at a later time online with your vote tally. This is a major element in verifying election integrity. Sure, it isn't perfect - but what truly is? We're always chasing after a better solution, and this is definitely a better solution than what we have right now.
How about redundancy...I think we can all agree that the more independent, distributed systems that are in place to verify voting integrity, the better. It's hard to hack 10 separate systems to change voting results, especially if you have MD5 checksums (or another verifiable mean) to check your own vote. I personally think this should be a mandatory step in the voting process - verifying your results.
We need more than preaching to the choir - everyone should link to this from their blogs, post it as a bulletin to their friends on Myspace, etc. etc. etc.... the more people hear about these things, the more likely it will be that we actually start using OSS-based voting machines on a large scale.
Wouldn't building better water, road and electricity infrastructures be a better way to help the world? Most of the articles I read about OLPC mention Africa which is a place that often lacks the basic systems I just mentioned.
Better? I don't know if you can even put them in the same category.
The fact is, these computer hardware manufacturers and the OSS community are pulling their own resources together for the vision of bringing technology and information to parts of the world that don't yet have it.
How about asking the major electricity/water industry powers to pull together like Intel, AMD and others are doing to help better the world with respect to their specialties? I'm sure they have plenty of money to spend, and THEY are the experts in those fields, not AMD/Intel/others in the technology market.
Not that this security hole has much at all to do with it, but I strongly believe in positive thinking.
Maybe if we all chant, they will hear us.
Adobe will open-source flash. Yes. Adobe will open-source flash. Yes. Adobe will open-source flash. Yes. Adobe will open-source flash. Yes. Adobe will open-source flash. Yes. Adobe will open-source flash. Yes. Adobe will open-source flash. Yes. Adobe will open-source flash. Yes.
I've heard the "I have nothing to hide" response many times. Look at it from outside the box:
It all comes down to WHO has this information (and for what purposes). EXAMPLE: I, for one, have a big problem with public security cameras. Why? I really don't give a sh*t if everyone watches me walk/drive/ride my bike down the street. The problem I have is that EVERYBODY can't watch me, as I could them. A few "privileged" people can. That gives them a certain power over the general public, which is bad (IMHO).
But why? Who cares if some guy/gal can watch me and others can't? Well, the thing is, we're all human. We all have the same fallacies, including when we're given a certain amount of power over others, we tend to want to use it. Some might just laugh at people picking their nose at a stoplight, others might start noting when certain people go certain places. This creates a very dangerous situation. Certain people will have a lot of information about other peoples' lives, which makes me, anyway, very uncomfortable. What if I have an argument with someone in another car at a stoplight? What if that person is the security monitor's friend? What if that person asks the security monitor to find out where I go after 5:00pm every day, so he can meet me there to put a bullet in my head? That gives them unfair advantage, because I cannot do the same thing. They are monitoring my life, but I can't monitor theirs. It's unbalanced, and unfair.
I believe Google is a GOOD company. They collect information about EVERYONE and EVERYTHING available on the web and beyond - and they allow EVERYONE access to it, not just a few people who might get power trips and use the information to their advantage.
I have no problem with having cameras IN MY HOME, as long as EVERYONE ELSE does too, and it's all available online for anyone to view - no special privileges, no "Access denied", and let's take it a step further and allow you to see who's viewed your cam and at what time. That's not 1984, that's just using technology in a fair manner.
I also have a problem with Myspace and "Private" profiles. That is completely counter-productive for a social networking site. The point is to meet other people, find out about them, etc...but if their profile is set to private, you can't see but their default pic and their headline. That just makes other people want to retreat into "security" mode because it makes them think they should hide their information, too. Now, you don't have a social networking site - you have a bunch of people who have advantage over others, because they can see your info but you can't see theirs in exchange.
I have a Youtube profile (link in my sig). I upload vlogs about my personal beliefs, things in my life, etc. because I saw others who were open with themselves and felt like I could benefit from doing the same thing. And I did. I feel so good about being able to put myself up where ANYONE can see and hear me speak my mind - it's made me a much stronger (and open) person. It creates a stronger community, based on openness and equal power over information. I can watch other peoples' vlogs/videos, and see what kind of person they are too. I've made many friends over YT, and I encourage everyone here to consider vlogging.
Now if YT made people start paying for the privilege of uploading videos, that creates separation too. Not everyone has 20 bucks (or even 5 bucks) a month to spend on something like vlogging. It would allow a certain subset of "privileged" folks to express themselves, and others not. That's bad.
It's the same with software. We *all* know open-sourced software is good because it allows anyone to see how it ticks, and modify it for themselves. But take what Microsoft did with the BSD TCP/IP stack (under the BSD license) - they took the code for free, and made billions off of it, giving nothing back (AFAIK). It creates imbalance, and imbalance is bad.
You give what you take, and that makes the world thrive.
Slashdot Mirror
The very few Adobe products I have dealt with (Acrobat/Reader, Flash) are just, for lack of a better word, crap. Adobe Downloader? Why, oh God why??
Seriously though, they seem to be an incredibly irresponsible company. I *do* give them major props for porting Flash to Linux, but there is still much to be desired with that, and they seem to have done it and merely let it alone, with no future improvements until Flash 12 is out most likely. Flash 9 is still the one thing that crashes my browser in Linux. And it crashes often.
He'll give you all the answers! I mean jeez, he made the damn thing, right?
Right?
Bueller?
The proof that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life is, that they have not contacted us.
McKellar graduated Summa Cum Laude
I wish she graduated *my* summa cum laude!
"Oh, it's the Internet that sucks, and not you, right? RIGHT?"
You'd think a company with as good of a reputation as Apple wouldn't make 'bricks' out of their latest offering, being the "green" company that they are^H^H^Hsupposed to be... What a kick in the face to everyone who paid $600 for one of these pieces of junk.
That's what I use, and it's worked great for me for 5 years running.
http://www.centriccrm.com
Well, at least I *tried* to post the original Smiley doc...but I got: Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Fucking SD. And here was the place I thought I'd never have to worry about the content of my reply. These filters are starting to piss me off.
I know exactly what MAME is, what it does, etc... My point was that if you had a *favorite* game(s), and you really wanted the full arcade experience, you need to have the artwork (preferably the original cabinet that the game was built for). It's just more true to the game. But that's just collectors - the typical tech enthusiast/Slashdotter that likes video games probably wouldn't want to go that far, and would like many more games than just one in its original dedicated cabinet.
$2k? Wow. Must be a nice setup...I don't plan on spending more than $300 total restoring my game, although it was in fair condition, and I'm doing all of the stripping/re-painting myself. But that's part of the fun. I'm even thinking about seeing how to upgrade the CPU in the DD JAMMA board, to make it not lag so much...but that's a bit beyond my expertise.
I own a Double Dragon arcade cabinet and am in the process of restoring it... For the ones who truly want to re-live the 'good old days', especially with a favorite game, you can't beat a dedicated cabinet (READ: *not* MAME).
The reason is simple: You get the cabinet's original dimensions, artwork (side-art, bezel art, banner art, control panel art) that was half the reason you loved the game in the first place. There was nothing like scanning an arcade for your favorite game and seeing it, all lit up, ready for you to pump in a few quarters.
Did you RTFA? You can verify your votes at a later time online with your vote tally. This is a major element in verifying election integrity. Sure, it isn't perfect - but what truly is? We're always chasing after a better solution, and this is definitely a better solution than what we have right now.
How about redundancy...I think we can all agree that the more independent, distributed systems that are in place to verify voting integrity, the better. It's hard to hack 10 separate systems to change voting results, especially if you have MD5 checksums (or another verifiable mean) to check your own vote. I personally think this should be a mandatory step in the voting process - verifying your results.
Hearing is exposure. Don't underestimate exposure. Ever heard of the saying, "Even bad publicity is good publicity?"
We need more than preaching to the choir - everyone should link to this from their blogs, post it as a bulletin to their friends on Myspace, etc. etc. etc.... the more people hear about these things, the more likely it will be that we actually start using OSS-based voting machines on a large scale.
3 2 1, GO!
Like the $100 laptop is the first project that encompasses low-end CPUs.
Smear campaign?
Wouldn't building better water, road and electricity infrastructures be a better way to help the world? Most of the articles I read about OLPC mention Africa which is a place that often lacks the basic systems I just mentioned.
Better? I don't know if you can even put them in the same category.
The fact is, these computer hardware manufacturers and the OSS community are pulling their own resources together for the vision of bringing technology and information to parts of the world that don't yet have it.
How about asking the major electricity/water industry powers to pull together like Intel, AMD and others are doing to help better the world with respect to their specialties? I'm sure they have plenty of money to spend, and THEY are the experts in those fields, not AMD/Intel/others in the technology market.
An initiative to better the world.
You don't see that much these days.
Tried to post this in caps, but encountered a Slashdot "Lameness Filter"???
"Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING."
WTF??? I thought Slashdot was cared about freedom of speech/expression. Guess not!! Fucking nazis.
You can never take....our freeeeeeeeeeeeeedooooooooooooooom!!!!
=p
It only takes so much depriving human beings of their
Sense of privacy and individuality,
And increasing a government's
National opression and monitoring of its' citizens in every sense,
When citizens will become so depressed and feel so
deflated of their individuality,
And
Sense of personal freedom
That they will revolt.
Read your history books.
I disagree - nowhere in the text did I mention Bonzai Buddy, free iPods OR how big J-Lo's butt is.
Not that this security hole has much at all to do with it, but I strongly believe in positive thinking.
Maybe if we all chant, they will hear us.
Adobe will open-source flash.
Yes.
Adobe will open-source flash.
Yes.
Adobe will open-source flash.
Yes.
Adobe will open-source flash.
Yes.
Adobe will open-source flash.
Yes.
Adobe will open-source flash.
Yes.
Adobe will open-source flash.
Yes.
Adobe will open-source flash.
Yes.
...who cares what one person has to say?
Goliath is getting angry. Brace yourselves, here comes the FUD!
If the GOVERNMENT isn't doing anything illegal, they have nothing to hide either. They should be as transparent to us as we are to them.
EQUAL RIGHTS. The government works for THE PEOPLE, not the other way around.
I've heard the "I have nothing to hide" response many times. Look at it from outside the box:
It all comes down to WHO has this information (and for what purposes). EXAMPLE: I, for one, have a big problem with public security cameras. Why? I really don't give a sh*t if everyone watches me walk/drive/ride my bike down the street. The problem I have is that EVERYBODY can't watch me, as I could them. A few "privileged" people can. That gives them a certain power over the general public, which is bad (IMHO).
But why? Who cares if some guy/gal can watch me and others can't? Well, the thing is, we're all human. We all have the same fallacies, including when we're given a certain amount of power over others, we tend to want to use it. Some might just laugh at people picking their nose at a stoplight, others might start noting when certain people go certain places. This creates a very dangerous situation. Certain people will have a lot of information about other peoples' lives, which makes me, anyway, very uncomfortable. What if I have an argument with someone in another car at a stoplight? What if that person is the security monitor's friend? What if that person asks the security monitor to find out where I go after 5:00pm every day, so he can meet me there to put a bullet in my head? That gives them unfair advantage, because I cannot do the same thing. They are monitoring my life, but I can't monitor theirs. It's unbalanced, and unfair.
I believe Google is a GOOD company. They collect information about EVERYONE and EVERYTHING available on the web and beyond - and they allow EVERYONE access to it, not just a few people who might get power trips and use the information to their advantage.
I have no problem with having cameras IN MY HOME, as long as EVERYONE ELSE does too, and it's all available online for anyone to view - no special privileges, no "Access denied", and let's take it a step further and allow you to see who's viewed your cam and at what time. That's not 1984, that's just using technology in a fair manner.
I also have a problem with Myspace and "Private" profiles. That is completely counter-productive for a social networking site. The point is to meet other people, find out about them, etc...but if their profile is set to private, you can't see but their default pic and their headline. That just makes other people want to retreat into "security" mode because it makes them think they should hide their information, too. Now, you don't have a social networking site - you have a bunch of people who have advantage over others, because they can see your info but you can't see theirs in exchange.
I have a Youtube profile (link in my sig). I upload vlogs about my personal beliefs, things in my life, etc. because I saw others who were open with themselves and felt like I could benefit from doing the same thing. And I did. I feel so good about being able to put myself up where ANYONE can see and hear me speak my mind - it's made me a much stronger (and open) person. It creates a stronger community, based on openness and equal power over information. I can watch other peoples' vlogs/videos, and see what kind of person they are too. I've made many friends over YT, and I encourage everyone here to consider vlogging.
Now if YT made people start paying for the privilege of uploading videos, that creates separation too. Not everyone has 20 bucks (or even 5 bucks) a month to spend on something like vlogging. It would allow a certain subset of "privileged" folks to express themselves, and others not. That's bad.
It's the same with software. We *all* know open-sourced software is good because it allows anyone to see how it ticks, and modify it for themselves. But take what Microsoft did with the BSD TCP/IP stack (under the BSD license) - they took the code for free, and made billions off of it, giving nothing back (AFAIK). It creates imbalance, and imbalance is bad.
You give what you take, and that makes the world thrive.