Well since there's no feasible way to ensure a fair match, why not just let the bots go wild? Bring your best pet bot and fight it out with whatever the other guy's decided to bring along.
Will they also have this copy-protection thingamajig on them? I figured they'd replace IDE/SCSI drives anyways.
(I've got a bunch of HDs lying around. Maybe I should keep them as an investment..)
I took my bike to Vancouver when I rode down the coast to S.F. Nice city for biking. It took a lot less time to escape the suburban sprawl than it would here. Damn, it probably takes 2-3 hours nowadays if you start downtown. Assuming you survive the suburban road-rage that is. And with Harris/Mel in charge, things are only bound to get worse:(
Actually we used to have electric buses in Toronto, but they turned out to be too much of a hassle & too expensive.. they broke down *a lot*.
OTOH, we do have extensive streetcar and subway lines that aren't going away anytime soon. Streetcars do slow down the traffic in the core.. but that's a good thing. Keeps things more pedestrian friendly.
Most days however your best bet is a bike. Gimme a bike and I'll beat you anywhere, anyhow, anytime downtown.:)
I'll vouch for electric. My parents have had a rechargable one for 10 years without a single repair. The thing recharges silently in the garage when not in use.
With Napster you never know what the hell you're getting. A modem user is not going to want to pay money for a service where you don't know if you're getting a high-quality recording or someone's idea of a joke.
What kind of hacker needs everything working out of the box? This is a console for hackers, FFS!
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It should not be too hard to attract at least some graphic artists and designers for such projects.
Sure. Pay them fair wages and they'll make a Linux game for you (they won't do it for free after all since if they're any good they can work on paying Windoze, Sony, Nintendo, Sega and even Mac jobs).
Not very many people compress video regularly; that's a niche market, not a major factor.
Lots of solutions, need more users
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Hmm, well after reading a bunch of comments it would seem that there are plenty of anti-spam options out there, just not enough people using them. How do we convince a significant user base to use them, enough so that the spammers start feeling it big time?
BTW, in some cases I think it is fair to give away a valid e-mail address. If the company for example is providing me with a decent free service or software, I feel inclined to at least give them an occasionally-used yahoo or hotmail address of mine -- if they sell it, well, I did get their free product, so I can deal with it. OTOH, if I'm just checking out some web game/diversion for a major corpo, then I'll definitely supply them with a fake address.
What is Linux REALLY good at? Anything we as a group can code for it. THAT is the whole point of Linux and its only real strength.
And its weakness of course. How many graphic designers do you know who have the ability to contribute to open-source graphics application projects? Why do you think virtually all useful open-source projects are by developers for developers? This is not a bad thing.
But how about this for some examples. I buy FF9 for PSX, and I want the PC version
They are separate programs. Deveopers spend a lot of time and money to do a port. If they couldn't charge separately for it, they wouldn't do it and you wouldn't get a PC version.
1 You own the physical media and the right to use that media under specific circumstances.
2 That's not right. You own the physical media and the right to do anything the hell you want with that media, except for a few little things, like sell copies of the IP contained on that media.
Uh, that's redundant. You're just reiterating what the original poster said. You have limited rights to do what you want with it.
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Maybe ours is the only solar system that supports life.
After all, they're just making the RIAA even richer and more powerful.
You mean like game consoles?
C'mon guys, would ya please outlaw reverse-engineering? Please? Pleeeeeeease?
See "The Indian Runner", Penn's first film. It's his best. It's really intense and the photography is incredible.
Well since there's no feasible way to ensure a fair match, why not just let the bots go wild? Bring your best pet bot and fight it out with whatever the other guy's decided to bring along.
Mac has been dying since 1984.
Will they also have this copy-protection thingamajig on them? I figured they'd replace IDE/SCSI drives anyways. (I've got a bunch of HDs lying around. Maybe I should keep them as an investment..)
I took my bike to Vancouver when I rode down the coast to S.F. Nice city for biking. It took a lot less time to escape the suburban sprawl than it would here. Damn, it probably takes 2-3 hours nowadays if you start downtown. Assuming you survive the suburban road-rage that is. And with Harris/Mel in charge, things are only bound to get worse :(
Actually we used to have electric buses in Toronto, but they turned out to be too much of a hassle & too expensive.. they broke down *a lot*.
:)
OTOH, we do have extensive streetcar and subway lines that aren't going away anytime soon. Streetcars do slow down the traffic in the core.. but that's a good thing. Keeps things more pedestrian friendly.
Most days however your best bet is a bike. Gimme a bike and I'll beat you anywhere, anyhow, anytime downtown.
I'll vouch for electric. My parents have had a rechargable one for 10 years without a single repair. The thing recharges silently in the garage when not in use.
Now if only they could make cars do that..
Oh great, do we have to upgrade our entertainment media formats AGAIN?
only the shrinkwrap duh.
So who's going to be running game servers then?
will be OS 9.
With Napster you never know what the hell you're getting. A modem user is not going to want to pay money for a service where you don't know if you're getting a high-quality recording or someone's idea of a joke.
Hopefully in the near future a game will be something you can sit down and play endlessly, and have no fear of 'beating' if properly done.
Dude, that's how games STARTED. They need to axe all that useless storytelling to regain their former glory.
What kind of hacker needs everything working out of the box? This is a console for hackers, FFS!
It should not be too hard to attract at least some graphic artists and designers for such projects.
Sure. Pay them fair wages and they'll make a Linux game for you (they won't do it for free after all since if they're any good they can work on paying Windoze, Sony, Nintendo, Sega and even Mac jobs).
Oh damn. I don't know any artists that use Linux.
Smaller, cooler, quieter. My CPU is plenty fast.
Not very many people compress video regularly; that's a niche market, not a major factor.
Hmm, well after reading a bunch of comments it would seem that there are plenty of anti-spam options out there, just not enough people using them. How do we convince a significant user base to use them, enough so that the spammers start feeling it big time?
BTW, in some cases I think it is fair to give away a valid e-mail address. If the company for example is providing me with a decent free service or software, I feel inclined to at least give them an occasionally-used yahoo or hotmail address of mine -- if they sell it, well, I did get their free product, so I can deal with it. OTOH, if I'm just checking out some web game/diversion for a major corpo, then I'll definitely supply them with a fake address.
What is Linux REALLY good at? Anything we as a group can code for it. THAT is the whole point of Linux and its only real strength.
And its weakness of course. How many graphic designers do you know who have the ability to contribute to open-source graphics application projects? Why do you think virtually all useful open-source projects are by developers for developers? This is not a bad thing.
But how about this for some examples. I buy FF9 for PSX, and I want the PC version
They are separate programs. Deveopers spend a lot of time and money to do a port. If they couldn't charge separately for it, they wouldn't do it and you wouldn't get a PC version.
1 You own the physical media and the right to use that media under specific circumstances.
2 That's not right. You own the physical media and the right to do anything the hell you want with that media, except for a few little things, like sell copies of the IP contained on that media.
Uh, that's redundant. You're just reiterating what the original poster said. You have limited rights to do what you want with it.