Did anybody else get this far down in the article?
Scott Dinsdale, an executive VP of the Motion Picture Association of America, told the crowd that Microsoft and HP were using the Media Center Edition to "build a business on someone else's back." Asked to summarize Hollywood's attitude toward the PC, he said, "You don't screw with me, I won't screw with you. Don't play a movie on a PC ever again, and I won't say a word."
Just thought I would point it out, for those too busy to read all the way through.
Certain statements in this press release, including any statements relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and dependence of the Company on third-party manufacturers, general industry trends including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of the Company's new products, cmdrtaco's and michael's rampant homosexual love affair, and the Company's dependence on third-party developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled Certain Business Risks, for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties.
You have got to be the only troll to get modded to +5 practically every time you post. Quite a feat, actually.
One cannot legally rig up a shotgun or some other dangerous device to automatically discharge upon the violation of a perimeter, how is this different?
Then there was a slight whisper, a sudden spacious whisper of
open ambient sound. Every hi fi set in the world, every radio,
every television, every cassette recorder, every woofer, every
tweeter, every mid-range driver in the world quietly turned
itself on.
Every tin can, every dust bin, every window, every car, every
wine glass, every sheet of rusty metal became activated as an
acoustically perfect sounding board.
Before the Earth passed away it was going to be treated to the
very ultimate in sound reproduction, the greatest public address
system ever built. But there was no concert, no music, no
fanfare, just a simple message.
"People of Earth, your attention please," a voice said, and it
was wonderful. Wonderful perfect quadrophonic sound with
distortion levels so low as to make a brave man weep.
"This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace
Planning Council," the voice continued. "As you will no doubt be
aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the
Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route
through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of
those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly
less that two of your Earth minutes. Thank you."
I agree with your main point. I am a bit suspicious of your alleged 4GB drive from the "early 90's" though. I don't believe 4GB drives were even avaliable until the mid-90's. An interesting chart (that only applies to IBM drives) may be found here.
But there are plenty of applications for these things where the display is permenantly turned on...or high end adverts. ... having the damned thing fail after a mere 166 days would suck badly!
Well, it might not suck so badly. At least this may curb the intrusion of certain types of advertisements into real-life.
Standard UPC bar codes consist of a set of lines to mark the start of the code, the left hand part of the code itself, another set of marker lines, the right hand part of the code itself, and a third set of marker lines:
True...
The marker lines are "0101", "01010" and "1010" respectively, where 0 is white and 1 is black.
True...
Now, the encoding scheme is complicated, but it just so happens that "0101" if treated as data on the left hand side would decode to the digit "6".
Similarly, "1010" on the right hand side would decode to a "6" if it were data.
Here's where you diverge from the truth. Numbers are represented by 7 bars, each either black or white. The code for 6 on the left is 1011110, and on the right is 0101000 (where 0 is white and 1 is black). Thus, there is no 666 in bar codes. Not even kinda-sorta.
See my website for more info. Or, read the Snopes article on the matter. But please, stop spreading this dis-information.
And when the fossil fuels start to run out, we'll find it much easier to switch over to (solar/wind/fusion/whatever) if we only need to upgrade a few dozen large hydrogen-generation plants, instead of 50 million separate automobile engines.
I'm all for improving technology and such. I can't wait until the day that the internal combustion engine is a thing for museums. However, as it is often said, the Stone Age didn't end because they ran out of stone, nor the Iron Age because they ran out of iron. I hope and expect that we will soon move out of the Oil Age, but I don't think it will be because we run out of oil.
Credibility is a high stakes concern in this multimillion dollar industry.
Justin Hall
posted: 2003-04-10
The video gaming industry has come a long way.
Starting with the simple Pong game three decades ago and evolving into lavishly drawn interactive epics, the scale of games and the size of their audience has grown exponentially, with sales in the billions of dollars and major multinational corporations clamoring for a piece of the action.
But despite these signs of a fast-growing industry, the print and online publications that cover video games often employ fans who unwittingly make poor ethical choices.
The first print magazine covering video games Electronic Games was co-founded by Bill Kunkel in 1981. Kunkel describes those early days in a recent interview: "To an extent, we were cheerleaders for the industry -- we loved these games, we wanted to see more of them, we wanted to keep writing about them."
Not much has changed in the past 20 years. Game publications and Web sites still mostly employ low-paid hobbyists who are easy targets of lavish marketing events that encourage inappropriate ties between game makers and game critics.
These unwholesome relationships were put under a spotlight by an article in the Los Angeles Times last August "Gamers' Perks, or 'Playola'?" by Alex Pham. In an interview with Online Journalism Review, Pham said she was motivated to write the piece when she discovered that game journalists "get to do outrageously fun things." She noted that software publishers arranged for journalists to shoot guns, skydive and race cars -- all under the pretense of researching video games.
Nowhere was Pham's article discussed more than FatBabies.com. Fatbabies traffics in stories of outrage in game development and game publishing -- gossip for game industry employees. Responding to Pham's story, a Fatbabies writer "FatGameSpotGuru" savagely derided most game journalists as biased amateurs who "wouldn't understand the concept of journalistic integrity if it came and bit them in the ass."
Into the Breach
I recently attended a game industry junket hosted by Ubi Soft to promote their Tom Clancy military-industrial techno-thriller video games. Editors and writers from a wide range of game industry and mainstream media were invited to the Presidio, a defunct military base in San Francisco. There, we had a chance to play the latest games, mingle with some of the game developers, eat delicious sandwiches and drink at an open bar. And a lucky few of us were chosen to "undergo real counterterrorist operative training" from a decorated federal marshal and close-quarters battle instructor.
One game on display, Rainbow Six 3, included a portion modeled after part of the Presidio -- we were going to play that level in real life. We were suited up in flak jackets and received air rifles loaded with plastic pellets. In small groups, we were sent out to storm a building, shoot hostiles, liberate hostages and neutralize a dirty bomb. It was an event lifted straight from the screen, a real-life game action. The other journalists, all men, all looking under 35, were psyched. And when I left in an unmarked white van in a black suit with a black gun and a black Rainbow Six 3 balaclava over my head, preparing to move through a darkened building with broken windows lead by a gruff middle-aged SWAT team member, shooting terrorists with glowing plastic pellets, I was completely enthralled as well.
Credibility
Junkets are nothing new in entertainment journalism. Writers covering the movie industry are invited to nice hotels to confer with stars over expensive meals. Pulitzer-prize winning film critic Roger Ebert says that when he first started working at the Chicago Sun-Times, reporters would accept any trip they were offered. Now, he says he pays his own expenses when attending industry events.
Aaron Boulding, editor in charge of IGN's Xbox coverage,
Uh, uh, loggin' in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got em all printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique!
Your laptop is a month old? Well, that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight.
This Disc contains super-secret measures to reduce your ability to listen to this music. It's probably for your own good, since the music is pretty unoriginal and bland anyway. But, if you still want to listen to it on your PC, MP3 player, DVD player, car CD player, or basically anywhere, you should probably buy a sharpie first.
Exactly. Everyone knows that going in with fat bombs that are only barely not WMD themselves is definitely going to kill loads of civilians. Nobody wants that, including Bush, Powell, et al. They want to take out as little as possible, namely the leadership. It's like people think that the goal is to kill as many people as possible. That's just sick. We'll do whatever we can to avoid all-out bombing, I'm betting.
It isn't clear that Saddam ordered this, or really had anything to do with the oil pumps (and it was a few pumps, not fields) being lit on fire. It was probably some scared troops, acting independantly.
People who just oppose any news about the war being on/.
To the third group: Why are you reading this, then? Nobody forced you to click on the story. Unless there's some sort of reverse-censorship software out there now. In which case, that would definitely be a good Slashdot story.
Slashdot Mirror
...a skinny Marvin, the depressed andriod?
What, so like Older Segways are getting less jobs than newer ones?
Oh, wait. Maybe I should read more than just the headline next time.
Just thought I would point it out, for those too busy to read all the way through.
Yeah, it sure sounds to me like they're not competing with Intel anymore.
NOOOOOO!!! Don't you dare let them take away my UHF!
Certain statements in this press release, including any statements relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and dependence of the Company on third-party manufacturers, general industry trends including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of the Company's new products, cmdrtaco's and michael's rampant homosexual love affair, and the Company's dependence on third-party developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled Certain Business Risks, for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties.
You have got to be the only troll to get modded to +5 practically every time you post. Quite a feat, actually.
One cannot legally rig up a shotgun or some other dangerous device to automatically discharge upon the violation of a perimeter, how is this different?
Shotgun: Deadly force.
Stun Jacket: Non-deadly force.
It's sort of like invading and occupying a country just because they could be a threat in the future, we don't do tha...oh, wait.
No, it's like guarding the border to your country and pushing back anyone that tries to come in unauthorized.
...our favorite resume spammer, Bernard Shiffman!
When will we get this?
Then there was a slight whisper, a sudden spacious whisper of open ambient sound. Every hi fi set in the world, every radio, every television, every cassette recorder, every woofer, every tweeter, every mid-range driver in the world quietly turned itself on.
Every tin can, every dust bin, every window, every car, every wine glass, every sheet of rusty metal became activated as an acoustically perfect sounding board.
Before the Earth passed away it was going to be treated to the very ultimate in sound reproduction, the greatest public address system ever built. But there was no concert, no music, no fanfare, just a simple message.
"People of Earth, your attention please," a voice said, and it was wonderful. Wonderful perfect quadrophonic sound with distortion levels so low as to make a brave man weep.
"This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council," the voice continued. "As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less that two of your Earth minutes. Thank you."
The PA died away.
I agree with your main point. I am a bit suspicious of your alleged 4GB drive from the "early 90's" though. I don't believe 4GB drives were even avaliable until the mid-90's. An interesting chart (that only applies to IBM drives) may be found here.
So, I guess this guy is probably safe then.
But there are plenty of applications for these things where the display is permenantly turned on...or high end adverts.
...
having the damned thing fail after a mere 166 days would suck badly!
Well, it might not suck so badly. At least this may curb the intrusion of certain types of advertisements into real-life.
Standard UPC bar codes consist of a set of lines to mark the start of the code, the left hand part of the code itself, another set of marker lines, the right hand part of the code itself, and a third set of marker lines:
True...
The marker lines are "0101", "01010" and "1010" respectively, where 0 is white and 1 is black.
True...
Now, the encoding scheme is complicated, but it just so happens that "0101" if treated as data on the left hand side would decode to the digit "6". Similarly, "1010" on the right hand side would decode to a "6" if it were data.
Here's where you diverge from the truth. Numbers are represented by 7 bars, each either black or white. The code for 6 on the left is 1011110, and on the right is 0101000 (where 0 is white and 1 is black). Thus, there is no 666 in bar codes. Not even kinda-sorta.
See my website for more info. Or, read the Snopes article on the matter. But please, stop spreading this dis-information.
For anyone who is interested, and doesn't already know: http://www.timandjeni.com/study/upc.html
Hey wait a minute... I thought Best Buy was evil? Does anyone know how any of that got resolved, or if it did?
And when the fossil fuels start to run out, we'll find it much easier to switch over to (solar/wind/fusion/whatever) if we only need to upgrade a few dozen large hydrogen-generation plants, instead of 50 million separate automobile engines.
I'm all for improving technology and such. I can't wait until the day that the internal combustion engine is a thing for museums. However, as it is often said, the Stone Age didn't end because they ran out of stone, nor the Iron Age because they ran out of iron. I hope and expect that we will soon move out of the Oil Age, but I don't think it will be because we run out of oil.
my $0.02 anyway.
Ethics in Video Game Journalism
Credibility is a high stakes concern in this multimillion dollar industry.
Justin Hall
posted: 2003-04-10
The video gaming industry has come a long way.
Starting with the simple Pong game three decades ago and evolving into lavishly drawn interactive epics, the scale of games and the size of their audience has grown exponentially, with sales in the billions of dollars and major multinational corporations clamoring for a piece of the action.
But despite these signs of a fast-growing industry, the print and online publications that cover video games often employ fans who unwittingly make poor ethical choices.
The first print magazine covering video games Electronic Games was co-founded by Bill Kunkel in 1981. Kunkel describes those early days in a recent interview: "To an extent, we were cheerleaders for the industry -- we loved these games, we wanted to see more of them, we wanted to keep writing about them."
Not much has changed in the past 20 years. Game publications and Web sites still mostly employ low-paid hobbyists who are easy targets of lavish marketing events that encourage inappropriate ties between game makers and game critics.
These unwholesome relationships were put under a spotlight by an article in the Los Angeles Times last August "Gamers' Perks, or 'Playola'?" by Alex Pham. In an interview with Online Journalism Review, Pham said she was motivated to write the piece when she discovered that game journalists "get to do outrageously fun things." She noted that software publishers arranged for journalists to shoot guns, skydive and race cars -- all under the pretense of researching video games.
Nowhere was Pham's article discussed more than FatBabies.com. Fatbabies traffics in stories of outrage in game development and game publishing -- gossip for game industry employees. Responding to Pham's story, a Fatbabies writer "FatGameSpotGuru" savagely derided most game journalists as biased amateurs who "wouldn't understand the concept of journalistic integrity if it came and bit them in the ass."
Into the Breach
I recently attended a game industry junket hosted by Ubi Soft to promote their Tom Clancy military-industrial techno-thriller video games. Editors and writers from a wide range of game industry and mainstream media were invited to the Presidio, a defunct military base in San Francisco. There, we had a chance to play the latest games, mingle with some of the game developers, eat delicious sandwiches and drink at an open bar. And a lucky few of us were chosen to "undergo real counterterrorist operative training" from a decorated federal marshal and close-quarters battle instructor.
One game on display, Rainbow Six 3, included a portion modeled after part of the Presidio -- we were going to play that level in real life. We were suited up in flak jackets and received air rifles loaded with plastic pellets. In small groups, we were sent out to storm a building, shoot hostiles, liberate hostages and neutralize a dirty bomb. It was an event lifted straight from the screen, a real-life game action. The other journalists, all men, all looking under 35, were psyched. And when I left in an unmarked white van in a black suit with a black gun and a black Rainbow Six 3 balaclava over my head, preparing to move through a darkened building with broken windows lead by a gruff middle-aged SWAT team member, shooting terrorists with glowing plastic pellets, I was completely enthralled as well.
Credibility
Junkets are nothing new in entertainment journalism. Writers covering the movie industry are invited to nice hotels to confer with stars over expensive meals. Pulitzer-prize winning film critic Roger Ebert says that when he first started working at the Chicago Sun-Times, reporters would accept any trip they were offered. Now, he says he pays his own expenses when attending industry events.
Aaron Boulding, editor in charge of IGN's Xbox coverage,
Tell me more about Saeed.
Uh, uh, loggin' in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got em all printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique!
Your laptop is a month old? Well, that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight.
Homestar Runner.
WARNING
This Disc contains super-secret measures to reduce your ability to listen to this music. It's probably for your own good, since the music is pretty unoriginal and bland anyway. But, if you still want to listen to it on your PC, MP3 player, DVD player, car CD player, or basically anywhere, you should probably buy a sharpie first.
Cost: Game Boy= ~$100. Powershot G3= ~$780.
Score: G3 2, SP 9
Which brings the totals to 53-60.
Thank you Slashdot! Now I have all the evidence I need to convince my wife to let me have the Gameboy Advance SP!
Exactly. Everyone knows that going in with fat bombs that are only barely not WMD themselves is definitely going to kill loads of civilians. Nobody wants that, including Bush, Powell, et al. They want to take out as little as possible, namely the leadership. It's like people think that the goal is to kill as many people as possible. That's just sick. We'll do whatever we can to avoid all-out bombing, I'm betting.
It isn't clear that Saddam ordered this, or really had anything to do with the oil pumps (and it was a few pumps, not fields) being lit on fire. It was probably some scared troops, acting independantly.
To the third group: Why are you reading this, then? Nobody forced you to click on the story. Unless there's some sort of reverse-censorship software out there now. In which case, that would definitely be a good Slashdot story.
That is all.