Some years back my friend's older brother bought a few dozen copies of Mario/DuckHunt for a dime apiece. He then proceeded to go around town and throw them at people.
I think the situation lends iteslf to this sort of prankery!
Haven't game magazines, even those not owned by Nintendo, Sega, etc., always published screen shots and such? What business interest, exactly, is Nintendo trying to protect here?
Under department for this story it says l337 . What's a l337 ? Maybe you dropped a 4, making it l3374, that hot chick from DS9. Guys, guys, guys... Then again if techies could spell then e's wouldn't turn into threes.
It's The Internet, or rather, Information Technology. Evidence:
The invention has a fun element to it, because once a Ginger was turned on, Bezos started laughing his "loud, honking laugh". The internet has The Onion, right?
"...If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen." yeah, like San Francisco!
will "sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking." Sure sounds like the Internet to me.
"have a big, broad impact not only on social institutions but some billion-dollar old-line companies." IBM and Amnesty International, anyone?
"likely to run afoul of existing regulations and or inspire new ones," Napster and the DMCA, anyone?
"meeting with city planners, regulators, legislators, large commercial companies and university presidents about how cities, companies and campuses can be retro-fitted for Ginger." I cannot believe smart people like you are being snowed by this!
Perhaps the most telling item:[Kamen's]'s a single man obsessed with his work and out of touch with popular culture. Read the damn Tech section in the paper! DARPA beat you to it!
Ginger won't be revealed until 2002, the proposal says. Isn't that around 10 years since the web really was introduced, well, more like 12, but ballpark...
"The Internet changed the world, too" said one editor who considered the project, "but books about it don't really sell." Yep. Them Dummies books just pilin' up in the dumpster.
Sorry to spoil the game, but I think this guy is chortling mightily with his buds and knockin' back a Zima at the O'Reilley's Bar right now, thinkin' about what a bunch of suckers we all are.
About the only place you may leave more informed is a book store, which is why Amazon is really the only e-commerce operation that's making money: Amazon is losing money like Bill Gates with a hole in his wallets. They are running out of capital and probably will have to shut down in March or so.
People stereotype nerds need to get out more, that we are too removed from reality, and we fight that. And now, a chair? A chair? Who gives a flying s*** about a chair?!! People are starving in China! The WTO is out to manipulate whole nations!! Genetically engineered food is destroying the food chain! Idiots are being elected to the presidency! The speed limit is too low and so is my GPA! AUGHHHHH!
Couple weeks back, someone complained that slashdot polls are garbage, that they are just sort of weird and abstract and promote shashdot founders to "deity" level, particularly CowboyNeal. In my opinon, this poll shows that Slashdot, as always, is willing to take that kind of criticism and do something constructive with it. Cheers!
Piracy is ALWAYS wrong. It is the equivalent of theft. Except when you steal something, the original is not there anymore. When you pirate software or music, the original is still there, but the profits aren't. It's not quite the same.
I have an idea for the RIAA. If you want to listen to an MP3, you have to put the original CD in your computer. People would love that... Some sort of encrypted authentication thing. Of course, people couldn't freely copy CDs bit for bit. That's what DVDs are for, I guess.
Cause we all know if people use one particular compression algorithm, it has to be illegal. You'd think the people organizing such a convention would be more wise than to draw such weird distinctions.
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I find it amusing that there are 2 consecutive stories on the front page about 2600. Not the same 2600, but I like it. I don't know why...
I think the situation lends iteslf to this sort of prankery!
Haven't game magazines, even those not owned by Nintendo, Sega, etc., always published screen shots and such? What business interest, exactly, is Nintendo trying to protect here?
I noticed in the opening credits there is a lot of HTML code in the font "Skia." There were a lot of tags like:
Secure? Secure? What the hell sort of DTD-compliant doctype is that? The W3C is gonna have their ass!
Under department for this story it says l337 . What's a l337 ? Maybe you dropped a 4, making it l3374, that hot chick from DS9. Guys, guys, guys... Then again if techies could spell then e's wouldn't turn into threes.
Sorry to spoil the game, but I think this guy is chortling mightily with his buds and knockin' back a Zima at the O'Reilley's Bar right now, thinkin' about what a bunch of suckers we all are.
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Pretty damned amorphous, that's for sure!
Eatin' teenagers and all that! Ba-DUM cha!
So this conference is being held by the infamous Dr. Dobbs. The Church of the SubGenius strikes again! Beware Bob Dobbs!
Yah, I've encountered some of those... They're called programmers.
A titanium plated Tux!
Damn 31337 m0ng015!!!!
Man, the last thing you want to do is give Apple ideas about who to sue...
Who is going to attempt to patent this?
Amazon.
Of course it's unenforceable! Their best inspector is a bumbling fool who can't even pronounce "monkey" right!
About the only place you may leave more informed is a book store, which is why Amazon is really the only e-commerce operation that's making money: Amazon is losing money like Bill Gates with a hole in his wallets. They are running out of capital and probably will have to shut down in March or so.
the path of all-consuming evil...
The path of Digital Video Disc decryption...
And now our favorite video games are headed to the same fate? Damn!
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Why don't the Fremen wear sunglasses?
I need to sit down.
Oh yeah, vote Gore for Christ's sake!
Piracy is ALWAYS wrong. It is the equivalent of theft.
Except when you steal something, the original is not there anymore. When you pirate software or music, the original is still there, but the profits aren't. It's not quite the same.
I have an idea for the RIAA. If you want to listen to an MP3, you have to put the original CD in your computer. People would love that... Some sort of encrypted authentication thing. Of course, people couldn't freely copy CDs bit for bit. That's what DVDs are for, I guess.
But just because it's Napster DOES NOT mean that it's illegal! :P
Cause we all know if people use one particular compression algorithm, it has to be illegal. You'd think the people organizing such a convention would be more wise than to draw such weird distinctions.