A few comments ago I talked about an aunt and uncle that worship Disney. They are not alone in the Disney cult, the Disney cult has millions of members worldwide. Despite anything we say about "DRM IS BAD KTNX" the Disney cultists will follow their leaders into DRM hell, just to show the world that faith is believing.
All those folks that drive around with Mickey/Minnie vinyls on the back of their windows, all those people that go to Disney 5 times a year, all those people that own every Disney movie ever made will buy into this. They won't care about being locked in, all they're going to care about is that it's Disney.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
One of those new Weinersnitzel Angus beef dogs, 2 Chili Cheese Fry's burrito's, and a large mountain dew all while driving. I was struggling with the box my Angus Beef hot dog came in, and recklessly looked in my lap to figure out why I couldn't get the damn box open by touch.
I turn into a real stupid ass when I drive. My mind started to wander and I had this gruesome image of my head wearing a glass necklace (slang term for when your head goes through the windshield) with a hotdog still stuck in my mouth. This mental image disturbed me even further when I thought that some jackass would probably take a snap with his camera phone and my mug would be all over ogrish.com or the like for eternity.
Then I finished my hotdog, chili cheese fry burritos and washed it down with my soda, all while driving with my knees.
Iphone and the Ipod touch at best can compete with the portable market (unless apple figures out how to make the devices plug into a 1080p HDTV)
I don't think the I-game is eating away market share because it's Apple, I think it's the entire package tied in with it. It's a gaming device, and it works with Itunes.
All Sony/Nintendo has to do to compete with this is write a DS/PSP Itunes sync program, and the problem's solved. Change the image of the DS/PSP from being mostly gaming devices, to a multifunction device that happens to play games and they'll be OK.
And have the camera always pointed towards home. Then when the balloon bursts, instead of an out of control fall, they could have a nice controlled glide back to earth.
By giving the wings a ton of dihedral, it would automagically keep the camera steady on descent.
I just checked it out... This is WORSE than what music now was.
Music now was unlimited DRM WMA downloads. This is 5 unrestricted downloads? The DRM doesn't really bother me at all.
A few years ago AOL came out with Music Now. For $10 @ month I could download my fill of DRM'd WMA files. I didn't really mind the DRM that much because I had access to so much music. AOL sold Music Now to Napster.
Napster changed what was available. I used to be able to get a lot of Japanese music. Jpop, Enka, etc. OK I could still download music and use it with my DJ application (Virtual Vinyl) Still not a bad deal for $10 @ month.
Napster got sold to Best Buy. No more downloads. Streaming only. This service sucks.
Point is either of these companies can change their content delivery on a whim, and the consumer would be powerless to do anything about it. Like many others said, I'll just buy a USED CD and rip to MP3 from now on. Thanks for screwing over a legitimately paying customer Best Buy.
I know I'm not the only one. Sometimes when I get up in the morning I'll notice the computer has been rebooted due to some hotfix being applied, but other than that I avoid shutting down.
If I did shut down, wouldn't I just walk away? It's sort of like "If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" I can see shutdown times being important on laptops, but I would think hibernate and suspend functions are more important there right?
One of the primary reasons I disliked doom/quake was I knew it meant the death to other forms of input for video games for a long time to come. Ever since Thresh kicked everyone's butt at doom and later quake, I knew the keyboard mouse was here to stay.
The problem for me was I liked games that were 6FOA(6 Freedom of Axis)Descent being the most notable. At the time of Doom/Descent there was a lot of innovation for PC gaming. The Voodoo1 3d card came out, there was the spaceorb3d, the logitech mouseman, and various other input devices made for 6FOA type gameplay. Microsoft's Sidewinder joystick was wildly popular with the descent crowd (although I always preferred my thrustmaster)
I always felt like the only reason the kb/mouse was so popular was because it was what came with a PC by default. Linear plane FPS games only need a kb/mouse to give the player the maximum control they needed without having to spend extra on fancy controllers.
Linear FPS games stifled controller innovation for a long time. Up until the Wii there wasn't really anything new or innovative for 3d control.
Back in the day (3 years after I was born) this little gem of an arcade game was released. It was protest by parents groups, it was on 20/20. This was during that wacky time in the 70's when even stuff like AD&D was considered by some religious extremists to be a "Gateway to Satanic Worship"
OK so granted, our country is now fucked. China exports more goods to the US than we send to them. That's OK though because I see a little bit of history repeating.
Certainly we shouldn't take pleasure in others miseries, but I can't help it. You're (you are china) trying to restrict a game. I should cite some more recent examples, like the "Nintendo Seal of Excellence" where the crosses in the American version of Castlevania were removed.
Hopefully in my inebriated state I've somehow managed to convey a message here, and that message is "So what if they censor games now? The subsequent Chinese generations are going to be just as if not MORE into capitalism and consumerism than today's (just like with the US). At some point, some government official is going to realize that it's a huge waste of money trying to censor everything, and that department will get cut. It will probably have more to do with cost savings than some sort of moral obligation to the population.
Just look at how the internet has changed radio. Howard Stern gave up on terrestrial radio and FCC censorship. Same thing will happen in China. Just watch, and laugh at their governments laudable efforts to control it.
I never really respond to AC's but you seem to follow the same train of thought that I do so...
Maybe I'm just a pervert, but you ever notice how much makeup the girls on the live action Disney channel shows wear? It's not just makeup either, sometimes the clothes they wear are downright slutty.
One of my friends took his daughter to a Hanna Montana concert, he swore that she(Hanna Montana) danced like a stripper.
I have relatives that worship Disney. They go to Disneyland 4-5 times a year, buy up every DVD they put out, and one of them even has their bathroom painted to look like a Dalmatian, with little Dalmatian statues scattered about everywhere. It's scary.
That being said I hope this blows up in their face. I hope that people realize that the good wholesome fantasy world Walt set out to create is dead, and what's left is just a giant faceless corporation with their tentacles raping our society like a scene out of a Urotsukidji manga.
It would be nice to see a boycott over this.
So I have this on good authority from someone who works there...
A few years back the VA decided to start migrating from IIS to apache. At the same time they wanted to migrate file servers as well.
When MS caught wind of this, they told the powers that be at the VA, "You drop us, and we'll audit you." Part of the contract MS holds with the VA is they're allowed to perform a license audit any time they want.
The VA did its own internal investigation and figured out pretty quickly that MS had them, "Over the barrel" so to speak...
I don't think the Air Force really wants to use MS stuff, but if they're in a similar situation as the VA, this doesn't bode well for them.
I hope the Obama administration catches wind of this and puts a stop to this practice. It isn't right that my tax dollars are being forced into MS's pockets. I think in these rough economic times our government needs to really start exploring more OSS/free solutions out there.
Just a small nitpick but,
"And you already can't get the kids off Bebo without a crowbar.""
You're not really supposed to start sentences off with conjunctions. You could have dropped the conjunction, swapped you and already, and the sentence wouldn't have burned my honors English eyes as badly.
"Already you can't get the kids off Bebo without a crowbar.""
Still kind of shitty but better. I thought slash editors used to correct grammar and spelling mistakes?
I'm gonna get modded into oblivion. I don't care if you downmod me. I know what slash is all about.
He was questioned on the link between the decline of album sales and filesharing. Wallis told the court that his research has shown that there is no relation between the two.
I work in a very small segment of the music industry (karaoke). Lately piracy has been rampant in our industry, and by most peoples estimates, it's 9 out of 10 KJ's (Karaoke dJ's)pirate karaoke in their operations.
Last year for shits and giggles, I compiled some pretty compelling data showing the direct correlation between lost karaoke disc sales, and the rise of posts in a karaoke piracy newsgroup.
Before someone yells "Oh my, you could compare the rise of aids cases to lost sales and your graph would look the same" just shut up ok? Just shut the fuck up because you're another useless slashdot tool spouting the same "I HAVE A RIGHT TO STEAL OTHERS WORK" retoric that I've read on this fucking site for the last 10 years. There is a direct correlation between piracy and lost sales, I've seen it. Grow up.
Karaoke in America came from relative obscurity, one of those quirky things only "Asians" do. Then 2002 American Idol came out, and now EVERYONE wants to be a star. Karaoke venues started popping up everywhere, but hardly any of them are paying for their karaoke. It sucks, but ya, people steal music on the internet, sales drop for the karaoke labels, we get less karaoke.
It's already happening. Karaoke because it's a niche market, doesn't have the lawyers like the big labels do to fight it. I've seen 8 American karaoke labels die in the last 10 years, and as of now there's only like 3 or 4 left./end rant.
Hi because I go to a university so I can buy any off the shelf RC aircraft autopilot, throw it in a prebuilt airplane, throw it in the air and get school credits!
I'm a high school dropout who is perfectly capable of doing this. Yawwwn. Try doing something I can't do, like contributing code to an OSS autopilot package.
I'm sorry mods, slash... I just felt this story was too stupid for myself, therefore it must have been too stupid for the general/./pub Please do not mistake my cynical writing as flames. This story should be modded as
During Jobs last tenure at Apple, he did something incredible. He convinced a majority of record labels, artists, and producers to sell music electronically. Remember, this happened *AFTER* the music industry got a swift kick in the ass from the first round of P2P apps.
Though not the first to do it, it was the amount of music available on Itunes that got everyone else to do the lemmings thing, and jump aboard. Apple has secured themselves as a modern day music distributor.
Thank you for making it less sucky to get music Mr Jobs. I think it will be hard for anyone to screw up the perpetuating awesomeness that you created. Have a nice rest sir.
I live in California. A few years back, the voters passed the medicinal marijuana act, opening the gateways for use by cancer patients. Pot is *almost* decriminalized now.
I say *almost* because my pot dealers (plural) have been a pot dealers all their lives. Only difference now is they got a doctor to give them a pot prescription for "nerves" and instead of having to go through the old network of pot growers, they can pick up a few OZ's from any number of dispensaries here in the bay area. Sells their OZ's off as 8ths for 2x what you paid, and make a nice profit.
Then there is the supplier side. There is no regulation on where a club gets its pot. A few years back, we had a sheriff shot when he stumbled upon a pot farm on Mt Uhminum being run by mexican gangsters. Even though they couldn't find a direct connection to the clubs, many people suspected that that is where the weed was heading.
Did I mention ALOT of the marijuana dispensaries look more like a club or a coffee shop and less like a pharmacy?
Prohibition repeal needs to happen. We waste way to much money on the drug war. Not that i'm complaining about the lack of regulation with the medical marijuana situation in California as it works to my advantage. I am never more than 15 minutes away from multiple suppliers. This is pot I'm talking about though, a drug thought to be fairly benign by a majority consensus.
My fear though is that all forms of lawmakers, city, county, state and fed have all been riding the fail truck for a while now. I could see them doing something like selling out to a special interest drug lord and making laws that on the surface seem like they benefit us, but really only benefit the drug lord.
Some things need to be regulated, others don't. Weed should have no more regulation than beer or tobacco.
Even though the purpose of end drug prohibition would be to un-fuck things, given the track record of our politicians they're going to figure out a way to sneak a fucking in there, somehow.
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A few comments ago I talked about an aunt and uncle that worship Disney. They are not alone in the Disney cult, the Disney cult has millions of members worldwide. Despite anything we say about "DRM IS BAD KTNX" the Disney cultists will follow their leaders into DRM hell, just to show the world that faith is believing.
All those folks that drive around with Mickey/Minnie vinyls on the back of their windows, all those people that go to Disney 5 times a year, all those people that own every Disney movie ever made will buy into this. They won't care about being locked in, all they're going to care about is that it's Disney.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
One of those new Weinersnitzel Angus beef dogs, 2 Chili Cheese Fry's burrito's, and a large mountain dew all while driving. I was struggling with the box my Angus Beef hot dog came in, and recklessly looked in my lap to figure out why I couldn't get the damn box open by touch.
I turn into a real stupid ass when I drive. My mind started to wander and I had this gruesome image of my head wearing a glass necklace (slang term for when your head goes through the windshield) with a hotdog still stuck in my mouth. This mental image disturbed me even further when I thought that some jackass would probably take a snap with his camera phone and my mug would be all over ogrish.com or the like for eternity.
Then I finished my hotdog, chili cheese fry burritos and washed it down with my soda, all while driving with my knees.
Iphone and the Ipod touch at best can compete with the portable market (unless apple figures out how to make the devices plug into a 1080p HDTV)
I don't think the I-game is eating away market share because it's Apple, I think it's the entire package tied in with it. It's a gaming device, and it works with Itunes.
All Sony/Nintendo has to do to compete with this is write a DS/PSP Itunes sync program, and the problem's solved. Change the image of the DS/PSP from being mostly gaming devices, to a multifunction device that happens to play games and they'll be OK.
I just gotta run..
%SystemRoot%\system32\magnify.exe
Watching the video I thought the same thing about controlling the spin. All it would take is a rudder mounted on a boom (no elevator).
Then again, why not add an elevator, wings, ailerons, etc? They could add a pico pilot
http://www.u-nav.com/picopilot.html
And have the camera always pointed towards home. Then when the balloon bursts, instead of an out of control fall, they could have a nice controlled glide back to earth.
By giving the wings a ton of dihedral, it would automagically keep the camera steady on descent.
Anyone know how they're doing live video at sea?
I just checked it out... This is WORSE than what music now was. Music now was unlimited DRM WMA downloads. This is 5 unrestricted downloads? The DRM doesn't really bother me at all.
A few years ago AOL came out with Music Now. For $10 @ month I could download my fill of DRM'd WMA files. I didn't really mind the DRM that much because I had access to so much music. AOL sold Music Now to Napster. Napster changed what was available. I used to be able to get a lot of Japanese music. Jpop, Enka, etc. OK I could still download music and use it with my DJ application (Virtual Vinyl) Still not a bad deal for $10 @ month. Napster got sold to Best Buy. No more downloads. Streaming only. This service sucks. Point is either of these companies can change their content delivery on a whim, and the consumer would be powerless to do anything about it. Like many others said, I'll just buy a USED CD and rip to MP3 from now on. Thanks for screwing over a legitimately paying customer Best Buy.
The end of the video talks about hacks. These things sort of remind me of LED walls..
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/20/giant-cowboys-stadium-led-wall-caught-playing-xbox-360-during-do/
That's going to be insane to see a 25,000 square foot goatse staring up at you.
I know I'm not the only one. Sometimes when I get up in the morning I'll notice the computer has been rebooted due to some hotfix being applied, but other than that I avoid shutting down.
If I did shut down, wouldn't I just walk away? It's sort of like "If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" I can see shutdown times being important on laptops, but I would think hibernate and suspend functions are more important there right?
It's made by the germans! You know the Germans Make good stuff!
Oh wait, it was made at Stanford....
One of the primary reasons I disliked doom/quake was I knew it meant the death to other forms of input for video games for a long time to come. Ever since Thresh kicked everyone's butt at doom and later quake, I knew the keyboard mouse was here to stay.
The problem for me was I liked games that were 6FOA(6 Freedom of Axis)Descent being the most notable. At the time of Doom/Descent there was a lot of innovation for PC gaming. The Voodoo1 3d card came out, there was the spaceorb3d, the logitech mouseman, and various other input devices made for 6FOA type gameplay. Microsoft's Sidewinder joystick was wildly popular with the descent crowd (although I always preferred my thrustmaster)
I always felt like the only reason the kb/mouse was so popular was because it was what came with a PC by default. Linear plane FPS games only need a kb/mouse to give the player the maximum control they needed without having to spend extra on fancy controllers.
Linear FPS games stifled controller innovation for a long time. Up until the Wii there wasn't really anything new or innovative for 3d control.
Most innovative controller of all time? Steel Battalion controller.
http://www.steelbattalion.org/controller.php
Pure awesome.
I would totally mod you up if I had points. Your comment was so poetically simple yet dead on. Thank you.
Please slashdotters, click..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_(1976_game)
For a little video game history in the US.
Back in the day (3 years after I was born) this little gem of an arcade game was released. It was protest by parents groups, it was on 20/20. This was during that wacky time in the 70's when even stuff like AD&D was considered by some religious extremists to be a "Gateway to Satanic Worship"
OK so granted, our country is now fucked. China exports more goods to the US than we send to them. That's OK though because I see a little bit of history repeating.
Certainly we shouldn't take pleasure in others miseries, but I can't help it. You're (you are china) trying to restrict a game. I should cite some more recent examples, like the "Nintendo Seal of Excellence" where the crosses in the American version of Castlevania were removed.
Hopefully in my inebriated state I've somehow managed to convey a message here, and that message is "So what if they censor games now? The subsequent Chinese generations are going to be just as if not MORE into capitalism and consumerism than today's (just like with the US). At some point, some government official is going to realize that it's a huge waste of money trying to censor everything, and that department will get cut. It will probably have more to do with cost savings than some sort of moral obligation to the population.
Just look at how the internet has changed radio. Howard Stern gave up on terrestrial radio and FCC censorship. Same thing will happen in China. Just watch, and laugh at their governments laudable efforts to control it.
I never really respond to AC's but you seem to follow the same train of thought that I do so...
Maybe I'm just a pervert, but you ever notice how much makeup the girls on the live action Disney channel shows wear? It's not just makeup either, sometimes the clothes they wear are downright slutty.
One of my friends took his daughter to a Hanna Montana concert, he swore that she(Hanna Montana) danced like a stripper.
I have relatives that worship Disney. They go to Disneyland 4-5 times a year, buy up every DVD they put out, and one of them even has their bathroom painted to look like a Dalmatian, with little Dalmatian statues scattered about everywhere. It's scary. That being said I hope this blows up in their face. I hope that people realize that the good wholesome fantasy world Walt set out to create is dead, and what's left is just a giant faceless corporation with their tentacles raping our society like a scene out of a Urotsukidji manga. It would be nice to see a boycott over this.
So I have this on good authority from someone who works there... A few years back the VA decided to start migrating from IIS to apache. At the same time they wanted to migrate file servers as well. When MS caught wind of this, they told the powers that be at the VA, "You drop us, and we'll audit you." Part of the contract MS holds with the VA is they're allowed to perform a license audit any time they want. The VA did its own internal investigation and figured out pretty quickly that MS had them, "Over the barrel" so to speak... I don't think the Air Force really wants to use MS stuff, but if they're in a similar situation as the VA, this doesn't bode well for them. I hope the Obama administration catches wind of this and puts a stop to this practice. It isn't right that my tax dollars are being forced into MS's pockets. I think in these rough economic times our government needs to really start exploring more OSS/free solutions out there.
Just a small nitpick but, "And you already can't get the kids off Bebo without a crowbar."" You're not really supposed to start sentences off with conjunctions. You could have dropped the conjunction, swapped you and already, and the sentence wouldn't have burned my honors English eyes as badly. "Already you can't get the kids off Bebo without a crowbar."" Still kind of shitty but better. I thought slash editors used to correct grammar and spelling mistakes?
I'm gonna get modded into oblivion. I don't care if you downmod me. I know what slash is all about.
He was questioned on the link between the decline of album sales and filesharing. Wallis told the court that his research has shown that there is no relation between the two.
I work in a very small segment of the music industry (karaoke). Lately piracy has been rampant in our industry, and by most peoples estimates, it's 9 out of 10 KJ's (Karaoke dJ's)pirate karaoke in their operations.
Last year for shits and giggles, I compiled some pretty compelling data showing the direct correlation between lost karaoke disc sales, and the rise of posts in a karaoke piracy newsgroup.
http://www.ourdjtalk.com/showthread.php?t=11423
Before someone yells "Oh my, you could compare the rise of aids cases to lost sales and your graph would look the same" just shut up ok? Just shut the fuck up because you're another useless slashdot tool spouting the same "I HAVE A RIGHT TO STEAL OTHERS WORK" retoric that I've read on this fucking site for the last 10 years. There is a direct correlation between piracy and lost sales, I've seen it. Grow up.
Karaoke in America came from relative obscurity, one of those quirky things only "Asians" do. Then 2002 American Idol came out, and now EVERYONE wants to be a star. Karaoke venues started popping up everywhere, but hardly any of them are paying for their karaoke. It sucks, but ya, people steal music on the internet, sales drop for the karaoke labels, we get less karaoke.
It's already happening. Karaoke because it's a niche market, doesn't have the lawyers like the big labels do to fight it. I've seen 8 American karaoke labels die in the last 10 years, and as of now there's only like 3 or 4 left. /end rant.
Hi because I go to a university so I can buy any off the shelf RC aircraft autopilot, throw it in a prebuilt airplane, throw it in the air and get school credits!
Here's another brand of autopilot.
http://www.u-nav.com/
Here's a ton of videos of it being used in
http://www.u-nav.com/gallery.html
I'm a high school dropout who is perfectly capable of doing this. Yawwwn. Try doing something I can't do, like contributing code to an OSS autopilot package.
http://autopilot.sourceforge.net/
I'm sorry mods, slash... I just felt this story was too stupid for myself, therefore it must have been too stupid for the general /./pub Please do not mistake my cynical writing as flames. This story should be modded as
-1 unimpressive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKpP4Fe1YHE
Maybe it can't carry a payload, but it'll give you nightmares.
During Jobs last tenure at Apple, he did something incredible. He convinced a majority of record labels, artists, and producers to sell music electronically. Remember, this happened *AFTER* the music industry got a swift kick in the ass from the first round of P2P apps.
Though not the first to do it, it was the amount of music available on Itunes that got everyone else to do the lemmings thing, and jump aboard. Apple has secured themselves as a modern day music distributor.
Thank you for making it less sucky to get music Mr Jobs. I think it will be hard for anyone to screw up the perpetuating awesomeness that you created. Have a nice rest sir.
FP on an idle story is like saying "I GOT LAID IN A WHOREHOUSE"
It's not really a win :./
I live in California. A few years back, the voters passed the medicinal marijuana act, opening the gateways for use by cancer patients. Pot is *almost* decriminalized now.
I say *almost* because my pot dealers (plural) have been a pot dealers all their lives. Only difference now is they got a doctor to give them a pot prescription for "nerves" and instead of having to go through the old network of pot growers, they can pick up a few OZ's from any number of dispensaries here in the bay area. Sells their OZ's off as 8ths for 2x what you paid, and make a nice profit.
Then there is the supplier side. There is no regulation on where a club gets its pot. A few years back, we had a sheriff shot when he stumbled upon a pot farm on Mt Uhminum being run by mexican gangsters. Even though they couldn't find a direct connection to the clubs, many people suspected that that is where the weed was heading.
Did I mention ALOT of the marijuana dispensaries look more like a club or a coffee shop and less like a pharmacy?
Prohibition repeal needs to happen. We waste way to much money on the drug war. Not that i'm complaining about the lack of regulation with the medical marijuana situation in California as it works to my advantage. I am never more than 15 minutes away from multiple suppliers. This is pot I'm talking about though, a drug thought to be fairly benign by a majority consensus.
My fear though is that all forms of lawmakers, city, county, state and fed have all been riding the fail truck for a while now. I could see them doing something like selling out to a special interest drug lord and making laws that on the surface seem like they benefit us, but really only benefit the drug lord.
Some things need to be regulated, others don't. Weed should have no more regulation than beer or tobacco.
Even though the purpose of end drug prohibition would be to un-fuck things, given the track record of our politicians they're going to figure out a way to sneak a fucking in there, somehow.
No i'm the kind of guy who thinks;
a. Our soldiers shouldn't be overseas in the first place.
b. the ones that have had thier legs/arms blown off, should get new arms/legs. What the hell is a video game going to do for them?