So you post a flamebait-y comment which you afterwards admit is "neither here nor there", someone bit, and you brilliantly retort by proclaiming the expected reaction all while not answering the question! Wow, YUO TEH MASTUR DEBAITORZ!!1LOL!one!
"FLAC is the Linux users lossless audio codec of choice"
Unless your doing some form of audio editing or "production" recording, is lossless really worth the extra size compared to a 192kbps Ogg or MP3? I usually have more problems with static from the stupid 3.5mm jack than a lossy format.
I don't think that the movie industry is going to survive much longer if it keeps on using cookie-cutter-plots.
I hope you're right, but I think Hollywood will continue to survive for quite some time rehasing the same old crap over and over. Actually, since some people are saying that the video game industry is rivaling Hollywood what else should Hollywood do but embrace it by showcasing other outlets to existing games? Hollywood's movie is just an ad for Corp X's game, so both benefit.
You've never seen Pokemon, Dragonball, or any other kids "anime", have you?
On TV, yes. On a big screen, no.
Kids would watch a Pitfall movie rendered on an Atari 2600, if you marketed it to them right.
Yeah, but kids are idiots.:) Anyways, anime is more of a "style", right? It'd look weird if you tried to render a Pokemon movie on a 2600 since you'd have jerky, pixely movements instead of a usual looking drawn momement. Pokemon and the others work because they are fairly fast paced, colorful, and have strange monsters.
I doubt that a NES, which was designed to send a pixel-y NTSC signal to a typical home TV would render well on a big movie screen. Granted, the South Park movie did well, but that 1) really wasn't based off a game, and 2) was geared more towards the funny/parody/profanity/semi-counter-culture crowd (not that there's anything wrong with that) than towards some sort of "gaming" crowd (where Hollywood is trying to be "true" to something). If you are targeting a younger (kids) audience, then image quality is pretty high on the list anyways.
Huh? There are two reasons Hollywood makes movies based off of games. 1) An already established storyline that some people will be familiar with. 2) It saves Hollywood writers from having to come up with anything original. It's a combination of marketing and idea recycling. Who in their right mind would go pay to see a movie that was rendered on an NES? (Citing your Mario Brothers example... Besides, if that were the case then we'd all miss out on Samantha Mathis)
So perhaps the title "Poor Spelling, Opinionated Yet Oblivious, Infinite Mod Point Mod Nazi, Unnecessary Editorializing, Anti-Dupe And Anti-Verification Story Posting Monkeys" would be a better title for them.
Is that like how the Slashdot moderation results in a balanced set of views?
Heheh, just like when someone gets modded "Flaimbait" for simply suggesting trying OpenBSD instead of Debian for a server (as seen in the recent 3.0r4 article). Given enough people and you'll likely see patterns in views. For lots of topics there can't really be a "balanced" view since everyone is going to have a different definition of "balance". Slashddot moderation isn't going for "balance" anyways, it's purely a populist/circlejerk tool.
a 6502-based MP3 player! (Or is that 6210?) Whichever, the "Commodore name" to most people isn't a modern-centric concept. It's a historical relic (an important one, sure, but has no basis in modern computing).
It was a hypothetical (though perfectly valid) case, and just because google doesn't see something on the net doesn't mean it doesn't exist (as suprising as that will be for some to comprehend). Not all domain names indicate the nationality of the server, ya know...
Does open vs closed source really matter when the government ends up owning and controlling all the software?
It does for Slashdot. Venezuela would suddenly become one of the bad guys though if the MPAA/RIAA were to get the Venezuelan government to crack down on.ve bittorrent sites...
In other words, random pundit predicts future slow sales of a MS product while competitors will thrive... AND SLASHDOT IS THERE! It's a good thing someone agrees with those articles, I wouldn't know how to react!
Or I knock up your wife, thereby "stealing" the use of her uterus/vagina from you for a period of time. Sure. And you either pay for an abortion or pay the expenses of raising a child, which is a drain on your resources (which could be "theft"). Then the little bastard breaks into my house and uploads all my music files onto his PC, but that isn't theft. Or maybe it is. I'm actually amusing myself with this analogy.
Correct, "theft" and "spam" mean two different things. Have a lollipop. But yes, in the sense that I can set your car on fire without stealing it isn't "theft" either. I suppose you could say that a spam-laden mail server is having "unauthroized resource usage" instead of "theft", though paying more for said resource usage can result in unauthorized money leaving one's wallet. In a sense that's theft.
There's no such thing as IP so I don't quite understand your "nonchalant attitude" comment.
I'd love to see you try that line in a courtroom. So you're another of the "only the laws I like apply" types. This mentality is a dime a dozen around here.
Perhaps, but then again I'm not terribly interested in the party line of an organization that does as much as they can to assimilate other people's work under their holy GNU banner (the whole "Oh, you should really call it GNU/Linux" mentality).
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So you post a flamebait-y comment which you afterwards admit is "neither here nor there", someone bit, and you brilliantly retort by proclaiming the expected reaction all while not answering the question! Wow, YUO TEH MASTUR DEBAITORZ!!1LOL!one!
Or the hordes of no-hygiene-skills male students that try to ask out smart gals by inviting them to the upcoming Star Trek convention...
Donald Knuth must have gotten a job over at Macromedia.
"FLAC is the Linux users lossless audio codec of choice"
Unless your doing some form of audio editing or "production" recording, is lossless really worth the extra size compared to a 192kbps Ogg or MP3? I usually have more problems with static from the stupid 3.5mm jack than a lossy format.
I don't think that the movie industry is going to survive much longer if it keeps on using cookie-cutter-plots.
I hope you're right, but I think Hollywood will continue to survive for quite some time rehasing the same old crap over and over. Actually, since some people are saying that the video game industry is rivaling Hollywood what else should Hollywood do but embrace it by showcasing other outlets to existing games? Hollywood's movie is just an ad for Corp X's game, so both benefit.
You've never seen Pokemon, Dragonball, or any other kids "anime", have you?
:) Anyways, anime is more of a "style", right? It'd look weird if you tried to render a Pokemon movie on a 2600 since you'd have jerky, pixely movements instead of a usual looking drawn momement. Pokemon and the others work because they are fairly fast paced, colorful, and have strange monsters.
On TV, yes. On a big screen, no.
Kids would watch a Pitfall movie rendered on an Atari 2600, if you marketed it to them right.
Yeah, but kids are idiots.
I doubt that a NES, which was designed to send a pixel-y NTSC signal to a typical home TV would render well on a big movie screen. Granted, the South Park movie did well, but that 1) really wasn't based off a game, and 2) was geared more towards the funny/parody/profanity/semi-counter-culture crowd (not that there's anything wrong with that) than towards some sort of "gaming" crowd (where Hollywood is trying to be "true" to something). If you are targeting a younger (kids) audience, then image quality is pretty high on the list anyways.
Huh? There are two reasons Hollywood makes movies based off of games. 1) An already established storyline that some people will be familiar with. 2) It saves Hollywood writers from having to come up with anything original. It's a combination of marketing and idea recycling. Who in their right mind would go pay to see a movie that was rendered on an NES? (Citing your Mario Brothers example... Besides, if that were the case then we'd all miss out on Samantha Mathis)
Heh, I meant to say "Anti-Dupe Checking". My brain is only running at about 70% today.
So perhaps the title "Poor Spelling, Opinionated Yet Oblivious, Infinite Mod Point Mod Nazi, Unnecessary Editorializing, Anti-Dupe And Anti-Verification Story Posting Monkeys" would be a better title for them.
Slashdot doesn't have editors.
That's funny, the "editors" seem to like the term.
So, instead of being misleading, the submitter could have said
Actually, "So, instead of being misleading, the Slashdot editor should have confirmed that...".
Too bad EA didn't do Unreal Tournament, it'd be funny if the coders mixed up their code and introduced a low gravity hack for Sims 2.
So... anyone got anything interesting to say?
My cat's breath smells like cat food. Well it does...
Is that like how the Slashdot moderation results in a balanced set of views?
Heheh, just like when someone gets modded "Flaimbait" for simply suggesting trying OpenBSD instead of Debian for a server (as seen in the recent 3.0r4 article). Given enough people and you'll likely see patterns in views. For lots of topics there can't really be a "balanced" view since everyone is going to have a different definition of "balance". Slashddot moderation isn't going for "balance" anyways, it's purely a populist/circlejerk tool.
Also, the GTA:Vice City C64 retro-intro (if ported) would actually be running in real time. :)
a 6502-based MP3 player! (Or is that 6210?) Whichever, the "Commodore name" to most people isn't a modern-centric concept. It's a historical relic (an important one, sure, but has no basis in modern computing).
It was a hypothetical (though perfectly valid) case, and just because google doesn't see something on the net doesn't mean it doesn't exist (as suprising as that will be for some to comprehend). Not all domain names indicate the nationality of the server, ya know...
Does open vs closed source really matter when the government ends up owning and controlling all the software?
.ve bittorrent sites...
It does for Slashdot. Venezuela would suddenly become one of the bad guys though if the MPAA/RIAA were to get the Venezuelan government to crack down on
Who cares? Either way it's just another mindless MS bash story submission.
In other words, random pundit predicts future slow sales of a MS product while competitors will thrive... AND SLASHDOT IS THERE! It's a good thing someone agrees with those articles, I wouldn't know how to react!
Or I knock up your wife, thereby "stealing" the use of her uterus/vagina from you for a period of time. Sure. And you either pay for an abortion or pay the expenses of raising a child, which is a drain on your resources (which could be "theft"). Then the little bastard breaks into my house and uploads all my music files onto his PC, but that isn't theft. Or maybe it is. I'm actually amusing myself with this analogy.
Correct, "theft" and "spam" mean two different things. Have a lollipop. But yes, in the sense that I can set your car on fire without stealing it isn't "theft" either. I suppose you could say that a spam-laden mail server is having "unauthroized resource usage" instead of "theft", though paying more for said resource usage can result in unauthorized money leaving one's wallet. In a sense that's theft.
There's no such thing as IP so I don't quite understand your "nonchalant attitude" comment.
I'd love to see you try that line in a courtroom. So you're another of the "only the laws I like apply" types. This mentality is a dime a dozen around here.
Perhaps, but then again I'm not terribly interested in the party line of an organization that does as much as they can to assimilate other people's work under their holy GNU banner (the whole "Oh, you should really call it GNU/Linux" mentality).