...is HeUnique and why is he quoting an (roughly) anonymous idiot in a headline? I'm all for M$ bashing, but only when necessary. This is unwarranted, but then again, this is/., so I get to bitch about it;)
I sure hope it isn't these folks, altough they DO have a lot to teach about web design.;-)
I'm getting more and more exciting about Linux gaming, esp. DRI, OpenGl support, it's the biggest (IMHO) area for the home/desktop that L lags behind M$.
I'll throw in for the Wizardrys, my fav. series esp. 6 and 7. my faerie ninja was an unholy terror (esp, with Blindmeis's Implement of Death (not the real name, but you get the idea).
Dunno about populous, but the new one (Black & White, IIRC) looks dang fun.
Hopefully some of these companies will realize that thier old code is never going to be worth much but good PR (hint, hint).
re-volt rocks. Nobody else needs to do an RC car sim, game, or anything else. It's been done, grandly. It really reminded me (fun wise) of Rock and Roll Racing for the SNES (which, BTW was developed by Silicon and Synapse, later renamed to Blizzard)
Sonique, while it looks pretty and actually plays.mods correctly(which winamp doesn't), has a pretty damn bad interface
not to take this too far, but the sonique gui is about the best i've seen, as far as being both useful, easy, and cool as all hell. Some flash sites are about as close as i've seen (www.globz.com).
The knobs are awesome, click on a knob, move a mouse, seems pretty simple to me. The plugin/skin loading is two clicks (from 'net to screen) and works flawlessly. It's also improved (like all software should, M$) a lot over the past two releases. Still some quibbles, and a couple bugs, but it's a nice microbrew (free beer) and is sooo easy on the eyes.
try sonique with the "CoR's Cosmic Belt" vis, unless of course you don't like seeing cosmic tornadoes dancin' through the universe to whatever vibrations your heart desires.
The masses seem to be content with media being force fed to them by 20-second sound bytes and corporations that (for example) are capable of manufacturing, recording, distributing, and playing the music of an entertainer (for lack of a better word) under one corporate roof.
I was content too, until I grokked the 'Net and learned how to scavenge, gather, and interpret my own information. I think the best course of action is to make sure we continue to have an open and free media source. As more people move to it, the chances for education improve tremendously.
Don't forget the powerful of personal involvement either. I can't count the number of "real" conversations I've had about a wide variety of Internet issues. In almost every instance I have to educate them on what the issue is before I can go into my spiel about what it means. It takes time, patience, and empathy to overcome ignorance and apathy. Be patient, but never stop pushing.
it's a profit margin thing. If you sell more expensive stuff, it's much easier to add a bit of padding. You might make more money with a larger volume and a tighter margin, but that requires a much larger manufacturing/distrubtion infrastructure. They are also a "service/solutions" company, not a hardware or software vendor. And Linux isn't ready for Everyman's desktop, yet (Mozilla will surely help), although the company that figures out how to make it work will make a killing.
(like personal information being tranmitted to web sites)
for those using IE that haven't changed the default settings after they installed or upgraded, you should check under
Internet Options > Advanced
for the settings
Enable Page Hit Counting and Enable Profile Assistant (both are checked by default)
Make sure and right-click to read the "What's This" description and hate M$ all over again. You don't have to hide this stuff in code, just put it under "Advanced" "Security" settings and newbies will steer clear.
I am ofcourse not asking the minister of culture or the ministry to overrule Økokrim, but I would like for the minister of culture to tell the parliament if she is going to initiate a review of the laws related to Internet and modern entertainment industry, to see if the laws that ensure freedom of speech and democracy are strong enough, and to see if the current application of these laws is sufficient in this context.
Until now, the Internet has been very democratic, but the forces that want to put the Internet under strong commercial control and traditional power structures are strong, and this has to be avoided.
Wow, I didn't know there were/. readers in your parliament.
..to initiate a review of the laws related to Internet and modern entertainment industry,..
I would love to see a movement in the U.S. to do this very thing. I'd also like to see the public get involved. You find very few people in the general public who are sympathetic to the legislative needs of big business, esp. media/entertainment companies, outside of Congress that is.
I saw a flow-chart type thingy on one of my profs doors back at uni. that oulined who owned what for basically all media companies. Does anyone know if (where) there is one on the web?
Don't forget about TW Music's big merger with EMI, that Rolling Stone - Britney Spears album can't be far away.
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...dunno, but that SmokeMoreCrack call has got to be addi^H^H^H^Hrecursive.
This is a very important phrase (if our translation is accurate). I only think that any of this (DVDs,MP3s) is a problem when you try and *profit* from the use of protected media. The only time you are violating the agreement is when you do it for cash. I just don't think, given the Internet and all, that we need to have such onerous protections. Cracking down on the *selling* of protected media is fine, but not for stuff like this. A potential sale is to a real sale as my sperm is to my children. (I have no kids).
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...is HeUnique and why is he quoting an (roughly) anonymous idiot in a headline? I'm all for M$ bashing, but only when necessary. This is unwarranted, but then again, this is /., so I get to bitch about it ;)
How much money could it cost to do it? Haven't they already sunk a bunch of money into this by dragging it out?
I think that would be the rub for them.
Option 1 : Use mighty clock cycles to read what some cracker has on his already seized machine while he sits in jail.
.or.
Option 2 : Use mighty clock cycles to hear what terrorists/crackers "in the wild" are planning.
Limited resources being the name of the game, I know where I want my tax dollars, and, I think, so do (spooky voice) They.
like the lawyer says above this post, he was proven guilty, that changes things tremendously.
If anyone wondered why the FBI,CIA,NSA, etc. is fighting so hard against encryption, this is it.
I sure hope it isn't these folks, altough they DO have a lot to teach about web design.;-)
I'm getting more and more exciting about Linux gaming, esp. DRI, OpenGl support, it's the biggest (IMHO) area for the home/desktop that L lags behind M$.
I'll throw in for the Wizardrys, my fav. series esp. 6 and 7. my faerie ninja was an unholy terror (esp, with Blindmeis's Implement of Death (not the real name, but you get the idea).
Dunno about populous, but the new one (Black & White, IIRC) looks dang fun.
Hopefully some of these companies will realize that thier old code is never going to be worth much but good PR (hint, hint).
re-volt rocks. Nobody else needs to do an RC car sim, game, or anything else. It's been done, grandly. It really reminded me (fun wise) of Rock and Roll Racing for the SNES (which, BTW was developed by Silicon and Synapse, later renamed to Blizzard)
Sonique, while it looks pretty and actually plays .mods correctly(which winamp doesn't), has a pretty damn bad interface
not to take this too far, but the sonique gui is about the best i've seen, as far as being both useful, easy, and cool as all hell. Some flash sites are about as close as i've seen (www.globz.com).
The knobs are awesome, click on a knob, move a mouse, seems pretty simple to me. The plugin/skin loading is two clicks (from 'net to screen) and works flawlessly. It's also improved (like all software should, M$) a lot over the past two releases. Still some quibbles, and a couple bugs, but it's a nice microbrew (free beer) and is sooo easy on the eyes.
try sonique with the "CoR's Cosmic Belt" vis, unless of course you don't like seeing cosmic tornadoes dancin' through the universe to whatever vibrations your heart desires.
tell your friend running winamp to go get sonique and you can be jealous again. I keep bugging them for a linux version, but my bug isn't loud enough.
IE users might also want to check this post
Atomfilms
is it like the cluetrain?
The masses seem to be content with media being force fed to them by 20-second sound bytes and corporations that (for example) are capable of manufacturing, recording, distributing, and playing the music of an entertainer (for lack of a better word) under one corporate roof.
I was content too, until I grokked the 'Net and learned how to scavenge, gather, and interpret my own information. I think the best course of action is to make sure we continue to have an open and free media source. As more people move to it, the chances for education improve tremendously.
Don't forget the powerful of personal involvement either. I can't count the number of "real" conversations I've had about a wide variety of Internet issues. In almost every instance I have to educate them on what the issue is before I can go into my spiel about what it means. It takes time, patience, and empathy to overcome ignorance and apathy. Be patient, but never stop pushing.
it's a profit margin thing. If you sell more expensive stuff, it's much easier to add a bit of padding. You might make more money with a larger volume and a tighter margin, but that requires a much larger manufacturing/distrubtion infrastructure. They are also a "service/solutions" company, not a hardware or software vendor. And Linux isn't ready for Everyman's desktop, yet (Mozilla will surely help), although the company that figures out how to make it work will make a killing.
(like personal information being tranmitted to web sites)
for those using IE that haven't changed the default settings after they installed or upgraded, you should check under
Internet Options > Advanced
for the settings
Enable Page Hit Counting and Enable Profile Assistant (both are checked by default)
Make sure and right-click to read the "What's This" description and hate M$ all over again. You don't have to hide this stuff in code, just put it under "Advanced" "Security" settings and newbies will steer clear.
Since when is journalism about thruth, unbiased reporting?
up until the early 1900's?
I am ofcourse not asking the minister of culture or the ministry to overrule Økokrim, but I would like for the minister of culture to tell the parliament if she is going to initiate a review of the laws related to Internet and modern entertainment industry, to see if the laws that ensure freedom of speech and democracy are strong
/. readers in your parliament.
..to initiate a review of the laws related to Internet and modern entertainment industry,..
enough, and to see if the current application of these laws is sufficient in this context.
Until now, the Internet has been very democratic, but the forces that want to put the Internet under
strong commercial control and traditional power structures are strong, and this has to be avoided.
Wow, I didn't know there were
I would love to see a movement in the U.S. to do this very thing. I'd also like to see the public get involved. You find very few people in the general public who are sympathetic to the legislative needs of big business, esp. media/entertainment companies, outside of Congress that is.
I saw a flow-chart type thingy on one of my profs doors back at uni. that oulined who owned what for basically all media companies. Does anyone know if (where) there is one on the web?
Don't forget about TW Music's big merger with EMI, that Rolling Stone - Britney Spears album can't be far away.
...dunno, but that SmokeMoreCrack call has got to be addi^H^H^H^Hrecursive.
If you're outside the U.S. you just have to worry about the International Corporate Police. The power of greed is truly astounding, eh?
Relax, just a little bit. This is uncharted terrirtory for most of us, it's best to keep a level head.
This is a public forum.
Also, I should say that I really liked the style of the etoy press release. These guys are pretty good.
visit toywar.com, tell 'em I sent ya.
... resistance type efforts would be successful if they were run as well as TOYWAR. That's some kick-ass coding, cohesion. Resistance is not futile.
This is a very important phrase (if our translation is accurate). I only think that any of this (DVDs,MP3s) is a problem when you try and *profit* from the use of protected media. The only time you are violating the agreement is when you do it for cash. I just don't think, given the Internet and all, that we need to have such onerous protections. Cracking down on the *selling* of protected media is fine, but not for stuff like this. A potential sale is to a real sale as my sperm is to my children. (I have no kids).