According to both the official site and this ConsoleWire.com site, games need to explicity acknowledge broadband access as opposed to a standard modem so not all games will work.
What were they thinking with this? They've been developing this adapter for long enough (how long has it been since they announced it was in development?) that they should have created all their games with the future in mind. What's the point of creating great games with internet access, if you intentionally leave out any sort of high speed upgradeability.
There's no excuse for not planning for the future, and this is what Sega has done. If this system flops before the XBox and the PS2 and the GameCube, then good. They were slow and they didn't look forward far enough... killer flaws in the video game world.
Other stories about this (Inside.com, Salon.com)
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We are slowly moving towards an elimination of the drug war. People are realizing its ineffectiveness, libertarians are getting more votes nationwide, and ballot initiatives are looking to slowly change the system. Note this one from Boston:
The proposed law would expand eligibility for the program under which a person charged with a drug crime may request a court finding that he is drug-dependent and would benefit from court-monitored treatment. If the court so finds, and the person then successfully completes a treatment program, the criminal charges are dismissed. The proposed law would allow requests to enter this program by persons who are at risk of becoming drug dependent and by persons charged with a first or second offense of manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance, or possessing a controlled substance with the intent to do any of those things, or trafficking 14 to 28 grams of cocaine.
Eventually we'll learn and stop bothering people. Eventually.
That looks like a very EASILY produced phoney. I'm not sure that it is phoney, but if it is it would have been very easy. It's on a weird site and it's got no background as far as I can tell. They don't talk about where it came from or how it was captured or anything. Seems questionable.
Besides that though, doesn't it seem weird that they can admittedly take the text from project Guttenburg, and then throw on a ridiculous "You May Not Read This Out Loud" agreement to the end. Doesn't Project Guttenberg have some sort of GPL limiting what sort of stupid clauses may be attached to their works? If they don't have one, then maybe they should consider adding one.
McSWEENEY'S ISSUE #6
Featuring the music of They Might Be Giants In January, we will have ready, we hope, our new issue. This new issue will be like a regular nice issue of McSweeney's, except the good thing here will be that there will be a soundtrack disc included in the package. This music will correspond to each and every story or drawing in the issue. One piece of music for each piece of writing or artwork. This music will be made by a band called They Might Be Giants, though they will likely also ask other musicmakers, such as M. Doughty and Philip Glass, to compose songs for this soundtrack. It will be fun; you will see.
For those of you who don't know, McSweeney's is a cool quarterly literary magazine mainly populated by young authors. The last issue had a Ted Koppel (not a robot) on the cover.
Is this true? If so are they going to be original songs or just older songs already published?
"Exclusively for locating commercial, professional, technical and academic information, products and services." Well, ok, that's nice in practice, but how exactly are you goint to differentiate the millions of pages of the web. What's to say someone's personal site with some technical information, information that's more useful than something provided by Sony.com will get indexed.
I looked for several different things following that search engine and did not find a single item I was looking for. It seems that instead of limiting the searching area for us, it should simply index everything (like our favorite search engine) and then allow us to whittle down the information by whatever means we find neccessary. Allow us to use '-'s to get rid of information you don't want, don't do it for us.
even with the internet acccess, I still don't think the quality can ever compare to a real camera. the digital world still has a long way to go before it can compete.
But to the real point, Slashdot gets a bad rap in the comment sections a lot of the time. I know because I run a webpage that's got a similarly vocal clientel from time to time. You've got to understand that even though these guys may be getting paid to run this website by somebody out there in the real world, it is not by any of us. Sure, if we were paying for it we'd have the right to yell and scream, but we don't pay. We get this for free.
Even with the grammar and spelling errors, even with the repeat stories, even with the poorly checked links, this website is much more than I'm paying for it.
As much as it's annoying to see the same story twice, it's not a big deal. The same thing goes for a story that doesn't quite boil down the essence of the link perfectly. Sure, ok, they made a mistake here. So point it out on the talkback zone here, but there's no reason to attack the owners of the site personally. If it's incorrect, tell us what's right, don't act as if you're so high and mighty.
It's a mistake, treat it as such.
Slashdot fans... be patient and say thank you CmdrTaco and Hemos once in a while. It's not often on the web that you find something anywhere near as wonderful and useful as Slashdot, and when you do you should appreciate it. Attempting to tear it down piece by piece just shows how little respect you have for this service.
Thank you Slashdot folks, I appreciate the hard work you do and thank you for your effort.
Yes, but what if the redirector goes out of business? If Altavista can decide it's not worth it, so can the redirector. At least with the Server and the Domain, I know I've got no chance of being cut off. Unless, of course, NSI goes out of business and takes their database with them.... but then again, if that happens, I guess we're all screwed.
But wait, my spam address for Slashdot was an altavista address! Now all those offers to sell me free toner will not get delivered? For every one Jon Katz rant I received 50 pieces of spam, it seemed like a fair punishment to keep my posting at a minimum. I suggest all trolls follow a similar procedure.
Two years ago I bought myself a domain. Ok, sure, it's a lot more expensive than using the free stuff that AltaVista gives you, but as long as I'm willing to shell out $35 a year plus another $100 or so for a server I don't need to worry about my provider cutting out on me. If the server host does, I can always change hosts.
So, if you do need email, the solution is simple: buy yourself a domain and give yourself whatever silly email addresses you like. I personally am a big fan of SLASHDOTSPAM@mydomain.com.
There is no way that either Napster or MP3.com will survive if they begin charging for what is, essentially, a free service. There is no basis for charging access to a service that merely provides you access to your own music. Bandwidth limitations on the net today are too slow to make this worthwhile. Sure, I'll put all my cds online for 45 bucks and then, when I want access to one not only do I need to reinsert the CD (what the hell, might as well listen to the CD) but I'm going to need to wait 45 minutes for the tracks to download. Sure, mp3s are small, but they're not THAT small.
I just don't feel that these services are going to be worth the money that will be charged, and for that reason I feel that all of these payperplay ideas are going to flop and flop quickly. Say goodbye to Napster, if they start charging they will die.
Lets hope everyone looks into advertising because that's the only way this will work.
I just can't help remember a documentary I saw once about the Doors just before or after (I can't remember which) Jim Morrison was arrested for indecent exposure in Florida. They had apparently carted out all the Floridian ultra Christian Youth to comment on the morality of the music and the Doors specifically. All we got were a bunch of glassy eyed Christian students saying things to the effect of
"Well I've never actually listened to the music myself, and I don't really know what it's about, but my minister has told me that it's evil and I really believe it. There's no reason that we should not put these people in jail and outlaw rock and roll, it's clearly ruining the youth and morality of America."
Needless to say, they were a bunch of idiots. I wonder if it's the same people who have just grown up, or if it's actually a new collection of idiots in charge of the recent anti-video game response. Hell, I wonder what George Bush thought about the Doors... because we all know what he thinks about all of us with our "darkened hearts" from using the net.
From the Wired articlue: "But its stock has taken a breathtaking fall, dropping from $151 to around $6 in less than a year."
Seriously, just look at this graph! If the stock prices, along with the firing of employees are any sign, then this is not merely due to "created by acquisitions, and said the move has nothing to do with any troubles at Red Hat."
It seems that some hooligan, and I do know who, used my computer and my login to post that ill thought out comment. I would like to apologize to Jon Katz for the remarks, they are not my own.
I am, however, rather amazed that he responded to it. I can't imagine why you'd bother to read the filth that rightfully gets moderated to -1 (this post included... damned housemates).
Ha, I thought you were talking about Europe (the continent). Blah, I thought that was intriguing so I went to my local friendly search engine only to discover you meant the moon orbiting Jupiter, not the fairly silly continent.
Well, if anyone wants to see pictures of this water under Europe phenom, you can check them out here.
This might just be me, but haven't they already established that there was indeed water on Mars in the past, leading to certain patterns of erosion and valleys and such. Stories like this and this and this (all from about a year ago) make me less impressed by this "announcement."
I think Nasa is just trying to do ANYTHING to get rid of their bad rap from the "faster, cheaper, more crashes" approach that led to the Mars debacles.
Call me selfish and Amero-Centric if you must, but I think that the world should adopt US standards, instead of us adopting worldwide standards.
Seriously, is there any reason for ME to buy a new phone?
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None of us young-uns can connect with hell, did you know that?
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The Omniputer was originally going to be called HAL, but there was an objection from the estate of Stanley Kubrick, the director who co-wrote the screenplay of 2001 with Clarke. That obstacle was overcome, but the backers decided that the name sounded too like the word 'Hell' and that it wouldn't have much resonance with younger customers."
The litigation did not focus on copyright infringement, as has the Napster case. In that suit, the recording industry is suing the song-swapping service in federal court for allegedly contributing to copyright infringement by allowing millions of people to download copyright music over the Internet for free.
It's not a question of copyright, it's a question of selling counterfit goods. It's like shutting down those guys on the street in New York selling the gucchi purses.
Ok, a lot of people are making comments about how it's ok to sell bootleg music, or bootleg software with this decision. It's not. In fact there is now more of a danger to the end seller than previously. When eBay was responsible, they were the ones who the businesses would sue (they've got the deep pockets) but if they suddenly can't sue eBay anymore, expect them to start suing the end sellers and buyers. This could get very ugly.
I've heard this a couple of times now and I don't really understand the argument. So what if the call was wrong about Florida early in the night? Lots of states were called, did each one of those affect the outcome in the West? If so, in which way? If it says that Bush won, did this encourage or decourage Bush voters? Did it encourage or decourage Gore voters? Basically it comes down to this:
Lots of states were called before voting concluded in the West, should each one of these be a basis for a challenge on the legitimacy of the election?
Even if the network call was wrong, who would that affect voting wise? Calling the election may affect turnout, but it wouldn't affect the percentage of Gore voters compared to Bush voters who DID turn out? Who do you think would be more affected by knowing the election was over?
That's all, I'm just tired of seeing people claim that call of Florida was an AWFUL thing: it wasn't. It really didn't matter (except that it made my night MUCH more exciting.)
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According to both the official site and this ConsoleWire.com site, games need to explicity acknowledge broadband access as opposed to a standard modem so not all games will work.
What were they thinking with this? They've been developing this adapter for long enough (how long has it been since they announced it was in development?) that they should have created all their games with the future in mind. What's the point of creating great games with internet access, if you intentionally leave out any sort of high speed upgradeability.
There's no excuse for not planning for the future, and this is what Sega has done. If this system flops before the XBox and the PS2 and the GameCube, then good. They were slow and they didn't look forward far enough... killer flaws in the video game world.
Here are some other stories about IT if you're interested in doing some more investigating:
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http://www.salon.com/books/wire/2001/01/09/ginger
http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=20218&
Eventually we'll learn and stop bothering people. Eventually.
It is in a directory called "ART" after all, implying that it is indeed nothing more than art.
I think we may very well be getting upset over somebody's idea of a joke.
That looks like a very EASILY produced phoney. I'm not sure that it is phoney, but if it is it would have been very easy. It's on a weird site and it's got no background as far as I can tell. They don't talk about where it came from or how it was captured or anything. Seems questionable.
Besides that though, doesn't it seem weird that they can admittedly take the text from project Guttenburg, and then throw on a ridiculous "You May Not Read This Out Loud" agreement to the end. Doesn't Project Guttenberg have some sort of GPL limiting what sort of stupid clauses may be attached to their works? If they don't have one, then maybe they should consider adding one.
- McSWEENEY'S ISSUE #6
For those of you who don't know, McSweeney's is a cool quarterly literary magazine mainly populated by young authors. The last issue had a Ted Koppel (not a robot) on the cover.Featuring the music of They Might Be Giants In January, we will have ready, we hope, our new issue. This new issue will be like a regular nice issue of McSweeney's, except the good thing here will be that there will be a soundtrack disc included in the package. This music will correspond to each and every story or drawing in the issue. One piece of music for each piece of writing or artwork. This music will be made by a band called They Might Be Giants, though they will likely also ask other musicmakers, such as M. Doughty and Philip Glass, to compose songs for this soundtrack. It will be fun; you will see.
Is this true? If so are they going to be original songs or just older songs already published?
"Exclusively for locating commercial, professional, technical and academic information, products and services." Well, ok, that's nice in practice, but how exactly are you goint to differentiate the millions of pages of the web. What's to say someone's personal site with some technical information, information that's more useful than something provided by Sony.com will get indexed.
I looked for several different things following that search engine and did not find a single item I was looking for. It seems that instead of limiting the searching area for us, it should simply index everything (like our favorite search engine) and then allow us to whittle down the information by whatever means we find neccessary. Allow us to use '-'s to get rid of information you don't want, don't do it for us.
That is all.
even with the internet acccess, I still don't think the quality can ever compare to a real camera. the digital world still has a long way to go before it can compete.
My mistake, not a full server. Just a cheapo host.
First off, 66666 is a damned good slashdot id.
But to the real point, Slashdot gets a bad rap in the comment sections a lot of the time. I know because I run a webpage that's got a similarly vocal clientel from time to time. You've got to understand that even though these guys may be getting paid to run this website by somebody out there in the real world, it is not by any of us. Sure, if we were paying for it we'd have the right to yell and scream, but we don't pay. We get this for free.
Even with the grammar and spelling errors, even with the repeat stories, even with the poorly checked links, this website is much more than I'm paying for it.
As much as it's annoying to see the same story twice, it's not a big deal. The same thing goes for a story that doesn't quite boil down the essence of the link perfectly. Sure, ok, they made a mistake here. So point it out on the talkback zone here, but there's no reason to attack the owners of the site personally. If it's incorrect, tell us what's right, don't act as if you're so high and mighty.
It's a mistake, treat it as such.
Slashdot fans... be patient and say thank you CmdrTaco and Hemos once in a while. It's not often on the web that you find something anywhere near as wonderful and useful as Slashdot, and when you do you should appreciate it. Attempting to tear it down piece by piece just shows how little respect you have for this service.
Thank you Slashdot folks, I appreciate the hard work you do and thank you for your effort.
Yes, but what if the redirector goes out of business? If Altavista can decide it's not worth it, so can the redirector. At least with the Server and the Domain, I know I've got no chance of being cut off. Unless, of course, NSI goes out of business and takes their database with them.... but then again, if that happens, I guess we're all screwed.
But wait, my spam address for Slashdot was an altavista address! Now all those offers to sell me free toner will not get delivered? For every one Jon Katz rant I received 50 pieces of spam, it seemed like a fair punishment to keep my posting at a minimum. I suggest all trolls follow a similar procedure.
Ack, what a sad day this is.
Two years ago I bought myself a domain. Ok, sure, it's a lot more expensive than using the free stuff that AltaVista gives you, but as long as I'm willing to shell out $35 a year plus another $100 or so for a server I don't need to worry about my provider cutting out on me. If the server host does, I can always change hosts.
So, if you do need email, the solution is simple: buy yourself a domain and give yourself whatever silly email addresses you like. I personally am a big fan of SLASHDOTSPAM@mydomain.com.
There is no way that either Napster or MP3.com will survive if they begin charging for what is, essentially, a free service. There is no basis for charging access to a service that merely provides you access to your own music. Bandwidth limitations on the net today are too slow to make this worthwhile. Sure, I'll put all my cds online for 45 bucks and then, when I want access to one not only do I need to reinsert the CD (what the hell, might as well listen to the CD) but I'm going to need to wait 45 minutes for the tracks to download. Sure, mp3s are small, but they're not THAT small.
I just don't feel that these services are going to be worth the money that will be charged, and for that reason I feel that all of these payperplay ideas are going to flop and flop quickly. Say goodbye to Napster, if they start charging they will die.
Lets hope everyone looks into advertising because that's the only way this will work.
Needless to say, they were a bunch of idiots. I wonder if it's the same people who have just grown up, or if it's actually a new collection of idiots in charge of the recent anti-video game response. Hell, I wonder what George Bush thought about the Doors... because we all know what he thinks about all of us with our " darkened hearts " from using the net.
From the Wired articlue: "But its stock has taken a breathtaking fall, dropping from $151 to around $6 in less than a year."
Seriously, just look at this graph! If the stock prices, along with the firing of employees are any sign, then this is not merely due to "created by acquisitions, and said the move has nothing to do with any troubles at Red Hat."
It seems that some hooligan, and I do know who, used my computer and my login to post that ill thought out comment. I would like to apologize to Jon Katz for the remarks, they are not my own.
I am, however, rather amazed that he responded to it. I can't imagine why you'd bother to read the filth that rightfully gets moderated to -1 (this post included... damned housemates).
Very well, that is all.
Ha, I thought you were talking about Europe (the continent). Blah, I thought that was intriguing so I went to my local friendly search engine only to discover you meant the moon orbiting Jupiter, not the fairly silly continent.
Well, if anyone wants to see pictures of this water under Europe phenom, you can check them out here.
This might just be me, but haven't they already established that there was indeed water on Mars in the past, leading to certain patterns of erosion and valleys and such. Stories like this and this and this (all from about a year ago) make me less impressed by this "announcement."
I think Nasa is just trying to do ANYTHING to get rid of their bad rap from the "faster, cheaper, more crashes" approach that led to the Mars debacles.
Call me selfish and Amero-Centric if you must, but I think that the world should adopt US standards, instead of us adopting worldwide standards.
Seriously, is there any reason for ME to buy a new phone?
A non-embarassing way to order "Who let the dogs out" without haveing to know the name of the band or the name of the album.
Jackpot.
from the article:
The litigation did not focus on copyright infringement, as has the Napster case. In that suit, the recording industry is suing the song-swapping service in federal court for allegedly contributing to copyright infringement by allowing millions of people to download copyright music over the Internet for free.
It's not a question of copyright, it's a question of selling counterfit goods. It's like shutting down those guys on the street in New York selling the gucchi purses.
Ok, a lot of people are making comments about how it's ok to sell bootleg music, or bootleg software with this decision. It's not. In fact there is now more of a danger to the end seller than previously. When eBay was responsible, they were the ones who the businesses would sue (they've got the deep pockets) but if they suddenly can't sue eBay anymore, expect them to start suing the end sellers and buyers. This could get very ugly.
- Lots of states were called before voting concluded in the West, should each one of these be a basis for a challenge on the legitimacy of the election?
- Even if the network call was wrong, who would that affect voting wise? Calling the election may affect turnout, but it wouldn't affect the percentage of Gore voters compared to Bush voters who DID turn out? Who do you think would be more affected by knowing the election was over?
That's all, I'm just tired of seeing people claim that call of Florida was an AWFUL thing: it wasn't. It really didn't matter (except that it made my night MUCH more exciting.)