Hey, I love my iPaq, but I run intimate Linux on it, and not PocketPC 2002, 2001, etc... (Something about being able to apt-get on a pda is really damn cool.)
The question is, Compaq is decidely pro-Linux, moreso than even Big Blue, but will we start seeing HP support Linux ports to the Jornada series? I LOVE the Jornada form factor, and it would be great if they did!
There was this game a long time ago by Bethesda called Daggerfall, that had a very large universe that had no real goals what-so-ever. The world was incredibly large (we're talking about wandering outdoors for hours between towns, and none was randomly generated!) The NPCs and town members were all created in such a detailed manner (with agendas and what not) and it still had the best "real-world" type experience I have ever seen. It was online, without being online.
I still remember being branded a criminal, riding on my horse to a town which ports it's fort gates up at night. I remember getting off my horse, looking around, scaling the wall... listening for guards, sneaking up behind them, knocking them out, and then climbing down into the town from the fort walls, and breaking into a house to find a bed to sleep at night. Now that was incredible.
It's a shame the 3D engine sucked... but they are making a new one with a new engine, that is going to be incredible. Daggerfall took over three years to make, and this one seems to be taking longer! I can't wait!
Hey I'd be complaining too if I "only" had a "10mb" disk! I remember back in the day I had all this stuff on my 20mb hard disk (police quest 2, wordperfect, GEOS) but wow, you got alot of stuff running on your 10megger:)
You know, we have it very good with Sony as the king of the hill nowadays. How many people here remember the nintendo-dominated 80s? Nintendo with a monopoly has to be scariest thing in the world. Here are some highlights on Nintendo in 80s:
1) The whole Zelda 2 x-mas diabocle. They didn't ship nearly as many units as demanded, hence this rose the price considerably. In fact, I remember 20/20s report, where they even found a warehouse of Zelda 2 cartridges that were just gathering dust, while mobs were trying to buy the game!
2) The fact that they COMPLETELY underestimate the intellects of the US market! How many RPGs were ported to the US? (As an example, look at the FF series and the Dragon Quest/Warrior series.) Whatever came to the US was either dumbed down or censored heavily. Nintendo never felt that US market was mature enough for some of their best games. Super Mario 2 is another example, where it wasn't ported to the US, because Nintendo thought it was too hard for americans.
3) The 2+ year lag between US and Japanese releases. Nintendo NEVER wanted to release US games anytime near their Japanese release dates. I don't even know why.
4) The awful, slave-like licensing agreements. Forget about Microsoft, the Big N didn't allow anyone to even buy blank cartridges without paying them a MAJOR licensing fee (and then they'd have the nerve to call their licensing fee the "Nintendo Seal of Quality.") Remember Tengen? They reverse-engineered the NES system, made their own black cartridges (including a superior Tetris) and were almost sued out existence by Nintendo! (Nintendo also made newer NES consoles not work with their system)
5)Then there's the Game Genie. Whereas other console makers (SEGA) embraced it, Nintendo took Galoob to court and kept the Game Genie in the court system for over a year. I remember having to order mine from Canada to get it.
6) Nintendo treats their 3rd party developers like shit and always has. That's why Square left, and why there are almost NO third party apps coming from Nintendo. (and that's true... come on, what NON-NINTENDO game do you want for the gamecube?)
Those are just some highlights off the top of my head. But let me tell you, if I had to choose between Nintendo or Sony, (or even nintendo vs MS), I will NEVER EVER CHOOSE Nintendo. With Sony, we have tons of GREAT RPGs coming over very quickly, fast translations, a company that has a VERY lax licensing policy, and most importantly, a company that doesn't think their market is a bunch of idiots.
Every day I realize more and more that/. is a whining majority opinion by people who have a passing opinion on things but never strong enough of an opinion on ANYTHING to do anything about it. It's like the guy in my office yesterday who said, "Hey man, Can you believe China got the 2008 olympics? that sucks." Yes we know it sucks, and yes everyone in my office thought it sucked, but nobody is going to do anything about it.
Look at what's gone down with slashdot around:
DeCSS is still banned, the DCMA is law, MSFT is still a monopoly, the Taliban bans the Net, MSN Messenger crashes for 7 days and it'll still be ok, there still is no good (honestly) usable office suite for linux, KIllustrator has to change it's name, Ximian Gnome is still broken on Debian, AOL hits 26 million users, MSNBC is still the #1 website on the net, and I can go on and on about all these things that have happened that slashdotters hate. Yet, nothing is done... NOTHING.
Why didn't VA Linux start a PAC group when it was at $100+/share? Why won't someone start a PAC right now with slashdotters opinions represented in our legislative process? MS has one, and we are starting to need one too.
We have millions of voices right now, and the mostly agree on most issues... let's have our voices heard. Right now, the only time are voices are heard is when some guy puts up a cool lego desk image on his DSL web server and finds out he has no net access for a few days.
You know... I was EXACTLY you two years ago (I'm now 22.) I went to a state university, never lifted a finger in CS courses, was the only freshmen in a junior/senior level OS design class, totally rocked, maintained a 4.0 and was bored to death doing it.
I then left school, went to work for a big wall st firm, did a great job and completely lost my sense of humility. I then transferred to a very very good engineering/CS school (read: top 5 in the nation) and let me tell you something...
After working ridiculous hours and barely pulling a 3.0, I realize I'm not hot shit. Trust me, you aren't either. If your State University was too easy, go to another state university or even a private college (trust me the debt pays itself off and the experience is worth the price tag) and challenge yourself more.
Just something to think about. IT doesn't require a brain. CS does.
Can you HONESTLY say that when you hear Illustrator in a "graphic-design" context you don't automatically think of Adobe Illustrator?
I bet if MS released something called MSOpen Source, which had nothing to do with open source , you would all jump down MS' throat, and if someone commented "But Open Source are real words, how can it be a trademark!" they would labelled a troll.
As a New Yorker, aside from the cabbies (which truly are the worst drivers in the world,) the average boston driver is worse than the average New Yorker. The Grid Iron street pattern of NYC makes sense, and we don't have to deal with the Big Dig.
A $100 entry fee is not what's keeping independent web sites from winning these awards. That entry fee is pretty low if you think about it. Can you imagine if the Oscars had a $100 fee to allow the nomination of anything (including my home videos?)
I think we're all becoming spoiled by the open nature of these online awards. At most, I think this fee is to discourage people from nominating their diaries and what not. I hate to say it, but the major reason that Big Media (TM) has sweeped these awards last year, is because they have the resources and manpower.
And yes, Slashdot itself has also become Big Media (in terms of the Internet.)
Great idea; why doesn't slashdot host it? I'm sure a very public challenge (or, more judiciously, offer) for a public debate on slashdot would get noticed widely enough that it would be difficult for MS spokesdrones^H^H^H^H^H^Hpersons to decline after calling linux a cancer and a threat to democracy....
Riiiight.... Let's have/. host a free vs. proprietary software debate with MS. That's about as fair as hosting a Civil Rights debate at the next KKK clan get-together or a debate about oil drilling amongst a bunch of oil barons.
And that's the major problem behind setting up a debate. Both sides will never agree on a fair unbiased location or panel, and they don't need to agree, because they don't have to by law (like the Presidental Candidates do, for instance.) And whatever side loses would claim bias.
At trade shows though it might work. Possibily distribute pamphlets with bullet points asking questions about MS, and then sitting back watching if MS responds (they do sometimes.)
MS responds to us literature we release now. That's possibily the only way you'd get a debate going.
I read the article several hours ago, so my memory may fail me, but didn't the SLUGs have a convention elsewhere in the same building? Wouldn't that mean they've paid for the privilege of giving out free stuff?
Not necessarily... I don't know about that convention, but here in NYC at PC Expo companies pay LOTS AND LOTS of money to put banners on the outside of the Javitz Center to advertise their booths and companies.
I bet MS paid a good bit of money to put up that display they had on the front of the building. The point is, they paid for that front-of-building advertising. The Linuxers didn't. And I love Linux, and I solely use debian now, but when I try to explain to my friends that Linux is more than a bunch of "crazy computer hackers with no real business knowledge" they can point to things like this, and I'd have no response. And that sucks.
Not to be a karma whore here, but I figure the working sites are important and after a search on the site I found the following working links on the anti-game bill veto:
That's true, there are sites that are very profitable because of the content they provide. The Wall Street Journal (and a slew of porn sites) have all been very successful, and they all charge quite a bit of change (WSJ is something like $80 a year.)
I think alot of media companies are going to realize they can't give their commodities away. It'll only be time till the magazines (time, usnews) and newspapers (mainly, the NY Times) start to charge for content. It HAS to start denting their paper sales eventually. Besides, I'd pay for an NYT online subscription (if it is a bit cheaper than paper of course.)
REAL Player is the MOST AWFUL, EVIL, PIECE OF SHIT PROGRAM IN THE WORLD.
Speaking from the windows perspective (it's not THAT bad for Linux,) it has to have the most awful installer in the world. It:
1) It installs MILLIONS of tray icons
2) It forces you to register tons of times
3) it changesyour default players (even though it asks, it does it regardless of what you say)
4) It's very hidden on the web site (plus is easy to find however!)
5) It's codec sucks. (sorenson might be not be around for linux, but it rocks) And it's not an open-source/closed-source issue either, since real is just as anal about their codec
6) When you install, it subscribes you to tons of mailing lists... and here's the kicker. When you install, it shows you a window with email lists you can join, and they are all unclicked... until you scroll to the bottom and see three clicked on by default! How evil is that!?
7) Even when all startup programs are closed and not setup for startup, there still is a sneaky one that pops up a month after install informing you "Did you know you're computer can make MP3s? Try RealJukebox!"
8) It comes with RealJukebox... more bloat.
Sorry, I know this was a bit offtopic. But I can't stand Realplayer advocacy. Real is an evil, evil company. Just because they support Linux, doesn't make them any better. It takes me 30 minutes to clean my system up from all the damage after a Real installation. And it still never gets completely clean.
So I take it to mean, that when you buy a book, you just are paying for the binding, and the paper... not the content inside it? Considering that books can be a useless piece of data as well.
Ultimately, the market determines if a good is a useful or useless object and sets prices accordingly. Apparently, other people disagree with you because the market price for a good character on Everquest or UO is $1000+
Just because YOU find it useless, doesn't mean it isn't. Obviously TONS of other people find software useful (it is a multibillion dollar industry)
And for the last software you bought, I refuse to believe that you did not pirate some things if the last thing you bought was Quake. Sure we are Linux/FSF people here, but you just gotta use commercial software sometimes. (especially with gaming!)
Face it, Linus is to Linux as Greenspan is to the market itself. To claim, that one man can't run (oversee) an OS and yet follow Greenspan to the point where a cough brings down the nasdaq is just purely hypocritical. Shame on you Deutche bank!
Honestly, DirecTV is very cool about this situation. They even have a guy on alt.dss.hack that TALKS to the hackers and actually goes about in conversation with them. They truly look at this as a game of chess, and I was always intrigued by the complexity of the "war" at times.
To show you how cool things have become... The latest trend in DSS is using emulation software on a PC to intercept the signal and then sending it to your reciever. It truly is an innovative solution!
I swear, words like ECMs (Electronic Counter Measures) that literally destroy cards, and Unloopers (thinks that fix "looped" or destroyed cards") really make this feel like some hollywood hacker movie. But it's not. It's for real! Damn, that is just too cool!
Let's play the "Stop the Anti-MS-FUD on slashdot" game./. has a tendency of trashing anything with the MS name (mice, xbox, pocketpc, dreamcast, etc..) with complete bias. Yet, they praise other things (yopi, itsy) without ever even touching them.
Ok, first... price. An iPaq could be had (with some searching) for about $490 (check pricewatch.) Let's compare that with a Palm Vx... $365.
Now... you're basically paying $120 for a feature set that is far superior to any palm. (ie full color pda, 32megs of ram, 200mhz processor, expansion capabilities, etc...)
PalmOS is superior to WinCE, or PPC? I guess CP/M is superior to Linux... you know, it requires less processing power, and so what if it doesn't run much of anything. Can linux fit in 64k???? Let's all switch back to CP/M!
Face it guys, if this thing was not running an MS os, you guys would ALL be salivating. It's Quake on a PDA!!! PocketPCs are FAR superior to Palms, and I have yet to see anything concrete stating otherwise.
Umm... there is a gamepad built into the iPaq and the Cassiopeia.
Unfortunately, the iPaq's gamepad doesn't have ANY diaginol (spelling) control (although you can push it.) What's worse, the diag's are read as button pushes for an application!
And you can't push two buttons at the same time. The cassiopeia doesn't have any of these constrants (but is a slower machine)
>> The controller design is very innovative. It feels very good in your hands but is extremely intuitive and usable
From what I've read, "No one knows how confusing GameCube may be to operate, however, as Nintendo has not allowed outsiders to touch it."
The XBox joypad looks pretty comfortable. According to people who actually handled it at the CES, it is supposedly VERY comfortable. Have you touched the controller yet? I don't think so, yet you even claim the NGC has a better controller, when nobody in the industry is allowed to hold one yet!
Speaking of Nintendo, I hope and PRAY Nintendo NEVER EVER regains any status near it's old NES/SNES days. Do you actually remember those days? Nintendo was comprised of the biggest group of bastards ever.
Lemme remind you of some things Nintendo did (move over MS!)
1) Remember the artifical shortages for video games... like the time Zelda 2 came out, and 20/20 even ran a 30 minute special on the limited quantity and ended up finding a WAREHOUSE FULL OF THEM!
2) Remember how Nintendo reacted to developer demand to making the N64 CD-based? They ignored them, (which means they lost most of them, including SQUARE!!!) and created a cartridge based system. Why? Because they control the cost and licensing of the cartridges, which is why even today "classic" N64 games cost $39.95.
3) Nintendo of America ALWAYS believed their audience was dumber, and inferior to their japanese market. I can sight NUMEROUS examples, including the censored FFIII (FF4 in Japan) that made it to America with many missing plot elements becasue they believed "American culture can't handle them." Oh, and there was also the dumbed-down version of FFV. At least Sony has never dumbed/censored the FF series (they even synced the numbering with the japanese system.) Oh, and the Japanese version of Super Mario 2 didn't make it to american shores until 7 years later (for the SNES) because they felt Americans wouldn't be able to handle so difficult a game.
4) Nintendo forces companies to get their products authorized for their machines. Remember when Galoob got sued for the Game Genie by Nintendo, and the judge stayed sales so people had to import it from Canada? No OTHER console company has ever sued a product... oh and then Nintendo also sued (and failed at it) TenGen for created "unauthorized" games. So essentially they designed new NESes that stopped them from working!
I can go on and on and on over Nintendo's ridiculous stances. You think MS with a monopoly is bad? You obviously don't remember Nintendo.
>> 1. Photoshop
>gimp
Recommending the gimp as a replacement to photoshop proves that you have never done any real design work in a real print house. Comparing the Gimp to Photoshop is like comparing a four-function calculator to a HP-48gx. The Gimp has pathetic CMYK support... especially when compared to PS6. And, whereas the gimp is a great product (don't get me wrong, I use it tons!) it lacks the finished quality of photoshop.
>> 2. Quark
>adobe's thing, framemaker. heard rumors it may be coming back to life on linux. This is probably your strongest point.
You're comparing Quark, the premiere desktop-publishing software, used by the entire newspaper/magazine industry to framemaker, a produce Adobe itself cancelled on the Windows end and replaced with InDesign? Get real.
>> 9. Outlook
>yeah, like you need a gui to read email. mail, mailx, mh, mutt, pine on the CLI off thetop of my head. www-email in any of several browser, and this includes calendar functionality. Oh and of course the 20+ gui email clients (kmail and balsa come to mind)
You've never actually worked for a large company (read: over 1,500 employees) ever have you? The strongest features of Outlook are it's groupware tools, and there's nothing like that for Linux. God help if you try to plan a meeting involving 15+ people in 5 different buildings without some groupware.
>> 10. $GAME (Everything except Quake3 I guess).
>www.loki.com for starters. More are out there.
Dude, let's be serious here... go to gamespot.com, dailyradar.com, gamesdomain.com, etc... and find me 3 games on the front page of any of those sites that are out for linux. Linux gaming is AT LEAST a year behind windows gaming. Remember the excitement when Descent 3 came out two years after the PC version? That highlights how pathetic Linux gaming truly is.
I'm not saying, Linux isn't getting there, and neither is the original poster of this thread. However, you have to realize that for some truly professional pieces of software, you can't find linux replacements.
MIT is a place of geeks, run by geeks. Thus, I doubt they would the lawyers for a frivilous lawsuit... Yes, this product is called Athena... yes, their computing cluster network is called Project Athena.
Are they at all related? no.
Would slashdot consider a lawsuit of this nature frivilous? yes.
Hence, I highly *HIGHLY* doubt MIT would sue over the name.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, I love my iPaq, but I run intimate Linux on it, and not PocketPC 2002, 2001, etc... (Something about being able to apt-get on a pda is really damn cool.)
The question is, Compaq is decidely pro-Linux, moreso than even Big Blue, but will we start seeing HP support Linux ports to the Jornada series? I LOVE the Jornada form factor, and it would be great if they did!
There was this game a long time ago by Bethesda called Daggerfall, that had a very large universe that had no real goals what-so-ever. The world was incredibly large (we're talking about wandering outdoors for hours between towns, and none was randomly generated!) The NPCs and town members were all created in such a detailed manner (with agendas and what not) and it still had the best "real-world" type experience I have ever seen. It was online, without being online.
I still remember being branded a criminal, riding on my horse to a town which ports it's fort gates up at night. I remember getting off my horse, looking around, scaling the wall... listening for guards, sneaking up behind them, knocking them out, and then climbing down into the town from the fort walls, and breaking into a house to find a bed to sleep at night. Now that was incredible.
It's a shame the 3D engine sucked... but they are making a new one with a new engine, that is going to be incredible. Daggerfall took over three years to make, and this one seems to be taking longer! I can't wait!
Hey I'd be complaining too if I "only" had a "10mb" disk! I remember back in the day I had all this stuff on my 20mb hard disk (police quest 2, wordperfect, GEOS) but wow, you got alot of stuff running on your 10megger :)
You know, we have it very good with Sony as the king of the hill nowadays. How many people here remember the nintendo-dominated 80s? Nintendo with a monopoly has to be scariest thing in the world. Here are some highlights on Nintendo in 80s:
1) The whole Zelda 2 x-mas diabocle. They didn't ship nearly as many units as demanded, hence this rose the price considerably. In fact, I remember 20/20s report, where they even found a warehouse of Zelda 2 cartridges that were just gathering dust, while mobs were trying to buy the game!
2) The fact that they COMPLETELY underestimate the intellects of the US market! How many RPGs were ported to the US? (As an example, look at the FF series and the Dragon Quest/Warrior series.) Whatever came to the US was either dumbed down or censored heavily. Nintendo never felt that US market was mature enough for some of their best games. Super Mario 2 is another example, where it wasn't ported to the US, because Nintendo thought it was too hard for americans.
3) The 2+ year lag between US and Japanese releases. Nintendo NEVER wanted to release US games anytime near their Japanese release dates. I don't even know why.
4) The awful, slave-like licensing agreements. Forget about Microsoft, the Big N didn't allow anyone to even buy blank cartridges without paying them a MAJOR licensing fee (and then they'd have the nerve to call their licensing fee the "Nintendo Seal of Quality.") Remember Tengen? They reverse-engineered the NES system, made their own black cartridges (including a superior Tetris) and were almost sued out existence by Nintendo! (Nintendo also made newer NES consoles not work with their system)
5)Then there's the Game Genie. Whereas other console makers (SEGA) embraced it, Nintendo took Galoob to court and kept the Game Genie in the court system for over a year. I remember having to order mine from Canada to get it.
6) Nintendo treats their 3rd party developers like shit and always has. That's why Square left, and why there are almost NO third party apps coming from Nintendo. (and that's true... come on, what NON-NINTENDO game do you want for the gamecube?)
Those are just some highlights off the top of my head. But let me tell you, if I had to choose between Nintendo or Sony, (or even nintendo vs MS), I will NEVER EVER CHOOSE Nintendo. With Sony, we have tons of GREAT RPGs coming over very quickly, fast translations, a company that has a VERY lax licensing policy, and most importantly, a company that doesn't think their market is a bunch of idiots.
Every day I realize more and more that /. is a whining majority opinion by people who have a passing opinion on things but never strong enough of an opinion on ANYTHING to do anything about it. It's like the guy in my office yesterday who said, "Hey man, Can you believe China got the 2008 olympics? that sucks." Yes we know it sucks, and yes everyone in my office thought it sucked, but nobody is going to do anything about it.
Look at what's gone down with slashdot around:
DeCSS is still banned, the DCMA is law, MSFT is still a monopoly, the Taliban bans the Net, MSN Messenger crashes for 7 days and it'll still be ok, there still is no good (honestly) usable office suite for linux, KIllustrator has to change it's name, Ximian Gnome is still broken on Debian, AOL hits 26 million users, MSNBC is still the #1 website on the net, and I can go on and on about all these things that have happened that slashdotters hate. Yet, nothing is done... NOTHING.
Why didn't VA Linux start a PAC group when it was at $100+/share? Why won't someone start a PAC right now with slashdotters opinions represented in our legislative process? MS has one, and we are starting to need one too.
We have millions of voices right now, and the mostly agree on most issues... let's have our voices heard. Right now, the only time are voices are heard is when some guy puts up a cool lego desk image on his DSL web server and finds out he has no net access for a few days.
You know... I was EXACTLY you two years ago (I'm now 22.) I went to a state university, never lifted a finger in CS courses, was the only freshmen in a junior/senior level OS design class, totally rocked, maintained a 4.0 and was bored to death doing it.
I then left school, went to work for a big wall st firm, did a great job and completely lost my sense of humility. I then transferred to a very very good engineering/CS school (read: top 5 in the nation) and let me tell you something...
After working ridiculous hours and barely pulling a 3.0, I realize I'm not hot shit. Trust me, you aren't either. If your State University was too easy, go to another state university or even a private college (trust me the debt pays itself off and the experience is worth the price tag) and challenge yourself more.
Just something to think about. IT doesn't require a brain. CS does.
Listen to yourselves!
Can you HONESTLY say that when you hear Illustrator in a "graphic-design" context you don't automatically think of Adobe Illustrator?
I bet if MS released something called MSOpen Source, which had nothing to do with open source , you would all jump down MS' throat, and if someone commented "But Open Source are real words, how can it be a trademark!" they would labelled a troll.
Adobe is right in this case.
America - Come and save our ass! - Sir Winston Churchill
As a New Yorker, aside from the cabbies (which truly are the worst drivers in the world,) the average boston driver is worse than the average New Yorker. The Grid Iron street pattern of NYC makes sense, and we don't have to deal with the Big Dig.
Wow... Someone mod this up!
A $100 entry fee is not what's keeping independent web sites from winning these awards. That entry fee is pretty low if you think about it. Can you imagine if the Oscars had a $100 fee to allow the nomination of anything (including my home videos?)
:)
I think we're all becoming spoiled by the open nature of these online awards. At most, I think this fee is to discourage people from nominating their diaries and what not. I hate to say it, but the major reason that Big Media (TM) has sweeped these awards last year, is because they have the resources and manpower.
And yes, Slashdot itself has also become Big Media (in terms of the Internet.)
There goes my Karma!
Great idea; why doesn't slashdot host it? I'm sure a very public challenge (or, more judiciously, offer) for a public debate on slashdot would get noticed widely enough that it would be difficult for MS spokesdrones^H^H^H^H^H^Hpersons to decline after calling linux a cancer and a threat to democracy....
/. host a free vs. proprietary software debate with MS. That's about as fair as hosting a Civil Rights debate at the next KKK clan get-together or a debate about oil drilling amongst a bunch of oil barons.
Riiiight.... Let's have
And that's the major problem behind setting up a debate. Both sides will never agree on a fair unbiased location or panel, and they don't need to agree, because they don't have to by law (like the Presidental Candidates do, for instance.) And whatever side loses would claim bias.
At trade shows though it might work. Possibily distribute pamphlets with bullet points asking questions about MS, and then sitting back watching if MS responds (they do sometimes.)
MS responds to us literature we release now. That's possibily the only way you'd get a debate going.
I read the article several hours ago, so my memory may fail me, but didn't the SLUGs have a convention elsewhere in the same building? Wouldn't that mean they've paid for the privilege of giving out free stuff?
Not necessarily... I don't know about that convention, but here in NYC at PC Expo companies pay LOTS AND LOTS of money to put banners on the outside of the Javitz Center to advertise their booths and companies.
I bet MS paid a good bit of money to put up that display they had on the front of the building. The point is, they paid for that front-of-building advertising. The Linuxers didn't. And I love Linux, and I solely use debian now, but when I try to explain to my friends that Linux is more than a bunch of "crazy computer hackers with no real business knowledge" they can point to things like this, and I'd have no response. And that sucks.
Not to be a karma whore here, but I figure the working sites are important and after a search on the site I found the following working links on the anti-game bill veto:
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http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?render
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?render
That's true, there are sites that are very profitable because of the content they provide. The Wall Street Journal (and a slew of porn sites) have all been very successful, and they all charge quite a bit of change (WSJ is something like $80 a year.)
I think alot of media companies are going to realize they can't give their commodities away. It'll only be time till the magazines (time, usnews) and newspapers (mainly, the NY Times) start to charge for content. It HAS to start denting their paper sales eventually. Besides, I'd pay for an NYT online subscription (if it is a bit cheaper than paper of course.)
By that logic, Palm should have never tried developing a PDA because they have, and always will, fail.. (ie: Newton, Psion, etc...)
As we all know, that didn't happen...
The morale of that story: If it's done right, it'll succeed. Will MS do it right? We'll see, but I've played with it and am very impressed.
REAL Player is the MOST AWFUL, EVIL, PIECE OF SHIT PROGRAM IN THE WORLD.
... more bloat.
Speaking from the windows perspective (it's not THAT bad for Linux,) it has to have the most awful installer in the world. It:
1) It installs MILLIONS of tray icons
2) It forces you to register tons of times
3) it changesyour default players (even though it asks, it does it regardless of what you say)
4) It's very hidden on the web site (plus is easy to find however!)
5) It's codec sucks. (sorenson might be not be around for linux, but it rocks) And it's not an open-source/closed-source issue either, since real is just as anal about their codec
6) When you install, it subscribes you to tons of mailing lists... and here's the kicker. When you install, it shows you a window with email lists you can join, and they are all unclicked... until you scroll to the bottom and see three clicked on by default! How evil is that!?
7) Even when all startup programs are closed and not setup for startup, there still is a sneaky one that pops up a month after install informing you "Did you know you're computer can make MP3s? Try RealJukebox!"
8) It comes with RealJukebox
Sorry, I know this was a bit offtopic. But I can't stand Realplayer advocacy. Real is an evil, evil company. Just because they support Linux, doesn't make them any better. It takes me 30 minutes to clean my system up from all the damage after a Real installation. And it still never gets completely clean.
So I take it to mean, that when you buy a book, you just are paying for the binding, and the paper... not the content inside it? Considering that books can be a useless piece of data as well.
Ultimately, the market determines if a good is a useful or useless object and sets prices accordingly. Apparently, other people disagree with you because the market price for a good character on Everquest or UO is $1000+
Just because YOU find it useless, doesn't mean it isn't. Obviously TONS of other people find software useful (it is a multibillion dollar industry)
And for the last software you bought, I refuse to believe that you did not pirate some things if the last thing you bought was Quake. Sure we are Linux/FSF people here, but you just gotta use commercial software sometimes. (especially with gaming!)
Face it, Linus is to Linux as Greenspan is to the market itself. To claim, that one man can't run (oversee) an OS and yet follow Greenspan to the point where a cough brings down the nasdaq is just purely hypocritical. Shame on you Deutche bank!
Honestly, DirecTV is very cool about this situation. They even have a guy on alt.dss.hack that TALKS to the hackers and actually goes about in conversation with them. They truly look at this as a game of chess, and I was always intrigued by the complexity of the "war" at times.
To show you how cool things have become... The latest trend in DSS is using emulation software on a PC to intercept the signal and then sending it to your reciever. It truly is an innovative solution!
I swear, words like ECMs (Electronic Counter Measures) that literally destroy cards, and Unloopers (thinks that fix "looped" or destroyed cards") really make this feel like some hollywood hacker movie. But it's not. It's for real! Damn, that is just too cool!
-Nick
Let's play the "Stop the Anti-MS-FUD on slashdot" game. /. has a tendency of trashing anything with the MS name (mice, xbox, pocketpc, dreamcast, etc..) with complete bias. Yet, they praise other things (yopi, itsy) without ever even touching them.
Ok, first... price. An iPaq could be had (with some searching) for about $490 (check pricewatch.) Let's compare that with a Palm Vx... $365.
Now... you're basically paying $120 for a feature set that is far superior to any palm. (ie full color pda, 32megs of ram, 200mhz processor, expansion capabilities, etc...)
PalmOS is superior to WinCE, or PPC? I guess CP/M is superior to Linux... you know, it requires less processing power, and so what if it doesn't run much of anything. Can linux fit in 64k???? Let's all switch back to CP/M!
Face it guys, if this thing was not running an MS os, you guys would ALL be salivating. It's Quake on a PDA!!! PocketPCs are FAR superior to Palms, and I have yet to see anything concrete stating otherwise.
-Nick (proud Cassiopeia owner)
Umm... there is a gamepad built into the iPaq and the Cassiopeia. Unfortunately, the iPaq's gamepad doesn't have ANY diaginol (spelling) control (although you can push it.) What's worse, the diag's are read as button pushes for an application! And you can't push two buttons at the same time. The cassiopeia doesn't have any of these constrants (but is a slower machine)
>> The controller design is very innovative. It feels very good in your hands but is extremely intuitive and usable
From what I've read, "No one knows how confusing GameCube may be to operate, however, as Nintendo has not allowed outsiders to touch it."
The XBox joypad looks pretty comfortable. According to people who actually handled it at the CES, it is supposedly VERY comfortable. Have you touched the controller yet? I don't think so, yet you even claim the NGC has a better controller, when nobody in the industry is allowed to hold one yet!
Speaking of Nintendo, I hope and PRAY Nintendo NEVER EVER regains any status near it's old NES/SNES days. Do you actually remember those days? Nintendo was comprised of the biggest group of bastards ever.
Lemme remind you of some things Nintendo did (move over MS!)
1) Remember the artifical shortages for video games... like the time Zelda 2 came out, and 20/20 even ran a 30 minute special on the limited quantity and ended up finding a WAREHOUSE FULL OF THEM!
2) Remember how Nintendo reacted to developer demand to making the N64 CD-based? They ignored them, (which means they lost most of them, including SQUARE!!!) and created a cartridge based system. Why? Because they control the cost and licensing of the cartridges, which is why even today "classic" N64 games cost $39.95.
3) Nintendo of America ALWAYS believed their audience was dumber, and inferior to their japanese market. I can sight NUMEROUS examples, including the censored FFIII (FF4 in Japan) that made it to America with many missing plot elements becasue they believed "American culture can't handle them." Oh, and there was also the dumbed-down version of FFV. At least Sony has never dumbed/censored the FF series (they even synced the numbering with the japanese system.) Oh, and the Japanese version of Super Mario 2 didn't make it to american shores until 7 years later (for the SNES) because they felt Americans wouldn't be able to handle so difficult a game.
4) Nintendo forces companies to get their products authorized for their machines. Remember when Galoob got sued for the Game Genie by Nintendo, and the judge stayed sales so people had to import it from Canada? No OTHER console company has ever sued a product... oh and then Nintendo also sued (and failed at it) TenGen for created "unauthorized" games. So essentially they designed new NESes that stopped them from working!
I can go on and on and on over Nintendo's ridiculous stances. You think MS with a monopoly is bad? You obviously don't remember Nintendo.
-Nick
>> 1. Photoshop
>gimp
Recommending the gimp as a replacement to photoshop proves that you have never done any real design work in a real print house. Comparing the Gimp to Photoshop is like comparing a four-function calculator to a HP-48gx. The Gimp has pathetic CMYK support... especially when compared to PS6. And, whereas the gimp is a great product (don't get me wrong, I use it tons!) it lacks the finished quality of photoshop.
>> 2. Quark
>adobe's thing, framemaker. heard rumors it may be coming back to life on linux. This is probably your strongest point.
You're comparing Quark, the premiere desktop-publishing software, used by the entire newspaper/magazine industry to framemaker, a produce Adobe itself cancelled on the Windows end and replaced with InDesign? Get real.
>> 9. Outlook
>yeah, like you need a gui to read email. mail, mailx, mh, mutt, pine on the CLI off thetop of my head. www-email in any of several browser, and this includes calendar functionality. Oh and of course the 20+ gui email clients (kmail and balsa come to mind)
You've never actually worked for a large company (read: over 1,500 employees) ever have you? The strongest features of Outlook are it's groupware tools, and there's nothing like that for Linux. God help if you try to plan a meeting involving 15+ people in 5 different buildings without some groupware.
>> 10. $GAME (Everything except Quake3 I guess).
>www.loki.com for starters. More are out there.
Dude, let's be serious here... go to gamespot.com, dailyradar.com, gamesdomain.com, etc... and find me 3 games on the front page of any of those sites that are out for linux. Linux gaming is AT LEAST a year behind windows gaming. Remember the excitement when Descent 3 came out two years after the PC version? That highlights how pathetic Linux gaming truly is.
I'm not saying, Linux isn't getting there, and neither is the original poster of this thread. However, you have to realize that for some truly professional pieces of software, you can't find linux replacements.
MIT is a place of geeks, run by geeks. Thus, I doubt they would the lawyers for a frivilous lawsuit... Yes, this product is called Athena... yes, their computing cluster network is called Project Athena.
Are they at all related? no.
Would slashdot consider a lawsuit of this nature frivilous? yes.
Hence, I highly *HIGHLY* doubt MIT would sue over the name.