There are always people on Slashdot who confuse legality and/or property rights with right and wrong.
Just because you have the ability to take hardware out of spec does not mean the original manufacturer *has* to continue to interact with your modded hardware.
No, it just makes them complete assholes. Why should we be any less upset?
Look, I have no idea how it happened - I'm just really sleepy and can barely keep my eyes open - but when I first read the story title, I thought it said it was a "Vice President Game". Which I assume would consist of starting up the game and waiting upwards of four years for a dialog box to pop up letting you choose between "Yea" and "Nay".
Slashdot posts it because it's worth knowing what people are saying out there. It's irritating how everyone complains when Slashdot links to something people disagree with, as though it should never be done.
Just because it's dead wrong, that doesn't mean it isn't worth noting.
I fail to see how curse words stifle creativity. You could say the same thing about the word "cool". You could say the same thing about the words "good" or "bad".
Don't blame words for non-"creative" expression. And don't forget the involvement of tone and context in communication.
I find it rather terrifying that enough people who happened to have mod points decided to bring this up to +5 Insightful. I'm sorry, this bullshit is unacceptable (though he's right about the bin Laden family).
Yeah, does anyone know the actual origin of that story? It sounds to me like something that was originally written seriously - that it really was the author's fantasy.
I want answers, damnit! I'm Aussie, and not used to fighting these sort of things - Americans, what's the best way forward to make my voice heard?!
You are asking the absolutely last group you should ask for advice on this. We had an election blatantly stolen and fought back by making hanging chad jokes.
Although I'm glad for many reasons that we finally got rid of little Bush Jr. (John Howard) and replaced him Kevin Rudd, it's a disaster that they now want to impose this crap on everyone.
I'm not an Australian, but I was glad for you guys when that happened. John Howard seemed to me to be less Bush Jr. and more like Australia's belated answer to Reagan and Thatcher.
And you seem to still be belatedly following our narrative: Reagan/Thatcher being replaced by a liberal-talking Democrat/Labour politician who in reality is hardly any different.
Just wait for Obama to prove that all over again. You guys at least got rid of WorkChoices, didn't you?
As I said in another post: if there was any justice in the world, everyone everywhere would have a vote for the next American Emperor of Earth.
On the other hand, you're almost entirely wrong that there are real differences between "the two" candidates. On every fundamental issue, they're practically two mirrors facing each other. I suppose Obama's mildly better than John Kerry, who quietly ran on a platform of increasing the number of troops in Iraq, but only by that little bit. He is in no way, shape or form an antiwar candidate. Economy? He's as bought off as any presidential candidate. There has in fact been more corporate funding of him than McCain.
I understand that the world cares, and that it has every reason to. But both Americans and the rest of the world shouldn't be fooled by the differing rhetoric of these two twin candidates.
I've been thinking that a good (though completely unlikely) thing to do would be to release an expansion pack for each stage, turning each into more of a game in their own right.
Start with Cell. Turn it into a Cell/Fish stage (or just add a Fish stage instead).
Add something more to the Creature stage than just fighting or making friends with other species. I don't have any suggestions off the top of my head, but the possibilities are limitless.
I'm not sure what they were going for with the Tribal stage. It seems to be a simplified version of the Civilization stage, with some elements of the Creature stage. But perhaps it can be improved by making it not just about winning over (in either fashion) other tribes, but about building up culture and technology in order to unwittingly prepare for civilization.
Civilization stage. Bares little in common with the game of the same name. It's basically a really simple RTS. Easy solution: make it more complex and strategic. Oh, and make making religious units actually practical.
Space stage. Well, they're already working on expanding this one.
Allow players to choose to play the original or expanded version of each stage (or maybe make the expanded version something you "unlock" after beating the original version). After all, we already have the ability to skip stages already beaten.
Spore is a game with so many brilliant elements (generated music by Brian Freaking Eno, for fuck's sake!) and yet it's very mediocre at best on the actual gameplay. As it stands, it's a game for people who love the concept, not people looking for gameplay. But it could be so much more. Do it!
With WOW, Blizzard has a history of working with the WINE (well, Cedega) people to make it more or less "compatible" with GNU/Linux (perhaps we can call it WINE/GNU/Linux). Probably due to Blizzard's working with Cedega, the game is such that it runs well on WINE anyway. From from a guarantee for SC2 though.
Also, I agree about not wanting to pay for Cedega. It's a matter of principal. Me, I hope they go out of business.
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There are always people on Slashdot who confuse legality and/or property rights with right and wrong.
Just because you have the ability to take hardware out of spec does not mean the original manufacturer *has* to continue to interact with your modded hardware.
No, it just makes them complete assholes. Why should we be any less upset?
Clippy!
There is.
What's the benefit of it being open source? For the sake of my humanity-faith, I sure hope the project isn't attracting any volunteer developers.
Look, I have no idea how it happened - I'm just really sleepy and can barely keep my eyes open - but when I first read the story title, I thought it said it was a "Vice President Game". Which I assume would consist of starting up the game and waiting upwards of four years for a dialog box to pop up letting you choose between "Yea" and "Nay".
Slashdot posts it because it's worth knowing what people are saying out there. It's irritating how everyone complains when Slashdot links to something people disagree with, as though it should never be done.
Just because it's dead wrong, that doesn't mean it isn't worth noting.
I fail to see how curse words stifle creativity. You could say the same thing about the word "cool". You could say the same thing about the words "good" or "bad".
Don't blame words for non-"creative" expression. And don't forget the involvement of tone and context in communication.
They also omitted the double T. So you should have said "brlnt!"
Does anybody know where to *find* these sites? Even Wikipedia won't supply links.
I find it rather terrifying that enough people who happened to have mod points decided to bring this up to +5 Insightful. I'm sorry, this bullshit is unacceptable (though he's right about the bin Laden family).
Yeah, does anyone know the actual origin of that story? It sounds to me like something that was originally written seriously - that it really was the author's fantasy.
Ha. That's one of the funniest things I've heard all day. (no sarcasm)
I want answers, damnit! I'm Aussie, and not used to fighting these sort of things - Americans, what's the best way forward to make my voice heard?!
You are asking the absolutely last group you should ask for advice on this. We had an election blatantly stolen and fought back by making hanging chad jokes.
Although I'm glad for many reasons that we finally got rid of little Bush Jr. (John Howard) and replaced him Kevin Rudd, it's a disaster that they now want to impose this crap on everyone.
I'm not an Australian, but I was glad for you guys when that happened. John Howard seemed to me to be less Bush Jr. and more like Australia's belated answer to Reagan and Thatcher.
And you seem to still be belatedly following our narrative: Reagan/Thatcher being replaced by a liberal-talking Democrat/Labour politician who in reality is hardly any different.
Just wait for Obama to prove that all over again. You guys at least got rid of WorkChoices, didn't you?
You may have a case, but crying "censorship" is going a bit too far. It's bias, something Slashdot has never claimed to be free of.
So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in.
I'm sorry, who exactly was saying this would happen? I don't recall anything like that.
It was always pointless. Just chill dude and stop taking it so seriously.
Well, I guess this answers the question, " Do inadequate fat men dream of inflatable sheep?"
Good. Now I can finally rest.
As I said in another post: if there was any justice in the world, everyone everywhere would have a vote for the next American Emperor of Earth.
On the other hand, you're almost entirely wrong that there are real differences between "the two" candidates. On every fundamental issue, they're practically two mirrors facing each other. I suppose Obama's mildly better than John Kerry, who quietly ran on a platform of increasing the number of troops in Iraq, but only by that little bit. He is in no way, shape or form an antiwar candidate. Economy? He's as bought off as any presidential candidate. There has in fact been more corporate funding of him than McCain.
I understand that the world cares, and that it has every reason to. But both Americans and the rest of the world shouldn't be fooled by the differing rhetoric of these two twin candidates.
I've been thinking that a good (though completely unlikely) thing to do would be to release an expansion pack for each stage, turning each into more of a game in their own right.
Start with Cell. Turn it into a Cell/Fish stage (or just add a Fish stage instead).
Add something more to the Creature stage than just fighting or making friends with other species. I don't have any suggestions off the top of my head, but the possibilities are limitless.
I'm not sure what they were going for with the Tribal stage. It seems to be a simplified version of the Civilization stage, with some elements of the Creature stage. But perhaps it can be improved by making it not just about winning over (in either fashion) other tribes, but about building up culture and technology in order to unwittingly prepare for civilization.
Civilization stage. Bares little in common with the game of the same name. It's basically a really simple RTS. Easy solution: make it more complex and strategic. Oh, and make making religious units actually practical.
Space stage. Well, they're already working on expanding this one.
Allow players to choose to play the original or expanded version of each stage (or maybe make the expanded version something you "unlock" after beating the original version). After all, we already have the ability to skip stages already beaten.
Spore is a game with so many brilliant elements (generated music by Brian Freaking Eno, for fuck's sake!) and yet it's very mediocre at best on the actual gameplay. As it stands, it's a game for people who love the concept, not people looking for gameplay. But it could be so much more. Do it!
That brings up an interesting question. Have you ever wondered that maybe you're a lesbian trapped in a man's body?
(Granted, I've never considered that you might actually be female.)
What about men?
Fine, I'm wrong. It is open source. I take but what I said, but it still makes me uneasy that it's the product of a for-profit company
Am I the only one left who still cares that Chrome is closed-source? Towards a Free future! Remember that?
Remember? Hello? Anybody there?
With WOW, Blizzard has a history of working with the WINE (well, Cedega) people to make it more or less "compatible" with GNU/Linux (perhaps we can call it WINE/GNU/Linux). Probably due to Blizzard's working with Cedega, the game is such that it runs well on WINE anyway. From from a guarantee for SC2 though.
Also, I agree about not wanting to pay for Cedega. It's a matter of principal. Me, I hope they go out of business.