I'm so sick of waiting for new episodes. Enterprise is, bar none, the best sci-fi show on TV.
That includes Farscape. "We fired our writers and hired a 6th grade creative writing class!"
I mean come on. Fucking telepathic clams? This is supposed to be quality!??! Not to mention that the alien races look worse than most Halloween costumes! If you think those are good, you obviously haven't been involved in any theater!
I'm looking forward to having some good sci-fi. Fortunately, even when Star Trek sucks (which Enterprise most definitely doesn't), it's better than Farscape, Babylon "We Love Politics" 5, and Star "Overacting is not optional" Wars.
I'm shocked and taken aback that tuition money from schools is going to fund this kind of stuff.
This is an obvious military technology being developed. As if we don't have enough weapons to destroy opposing cultures with.
What of the people who go to these schools that are pacifists? Their tuition is funding the throbbing war-machine of America, and I for one am horrified. The military should fund their own damn research, not use college students to design their swords for them.
Perhaps we should create a bill through the ACLU so you can opt-out of having your money (on taxes and on tuitions) go to military projects like this? Otherwise, Conscious Objectors aren't being represented.
Using a so-called "principle" like Occam's Razor to decide whether or not there is extraterrestrial life is insane. Occam's Razor doesn't take into account any actual science. Saying that something is simpler doesn't automatically mean it's right, or even that it's more likely to be right.
And anyway, nowhere in the Bible does it mention ET life. If there really were "aliens" then Jesus would have had to come and die for THEIR sins too. No alien-Jesus, no aliens.
It sounds like this guy is just some crackpot trying to push his views on all of us in a "scientific" manner.
Go here and change the category from "Sex, Extreme" to "Art and Culture".
We must preserve The Goatse for future generations. I'm positive it will go down as the internet equivalent of the Mona Lisa. We cannot allow a few conservatives and their offended sensibilities to block this True Piece of Art and Culture.
Who cares about Anime, and why is on slashdot? If I wanted to hear about japanesse kiddie shows, I'd head over to animefu!
This kind of stuff really doesn't belong on slashdot, especially when the founders of slashdot have a whole seperate site devoted to it. Take it over there. Slashdot is a site for educated discussion about computers, linux, and cyber-issues... NOT cartoons.
Come on, editors. Give us something interesting to talk about.
Copying a game does not take the game away from Nintendo.
What's your point? It's still an illegal copy of their intellectual property. It's their choice, not yours, as to how they licence it. If they cannot licence it and constrict the destribution of it via their licence, then who are we to whine whenever some corperation steals GPLed code and closed-sources it? It would be blatent hipocracy.
Arguments of "well, you can copy it! capitalism doesn't apply!" are irrelevant.
Yes, it's an ethical choice to be made, but spouting corporate morality (piracy = theft = lost sales =... = death of America!) won't get your argument anywhere.
I suggest you reread Plato, and his arguments about supporting the law. By not supporting the ethical laws of the land, you are simply inviting anarchy.
Those classic NES games are their IP. Granted, they're years old and not that many people have the systems to play them on anymore, but actions like this show that they're still commercially viable.
The problem with emulators is that of the ROM. ROMs can be distributed anywhere and everywhere, over file-sharing devices, eMail, and ftp warez sites. Due to the widespread theft of games in this manner, it's understandable that Nintendo doesn't support emulators.
From Nintendo's standpoint (which is quite legal), emulators encourage theft. They are accessories to the piracy of their IP, and I for one support their stance.
It's their games. They should be able to decide how to licence and distribute them.
Remember everybody, if you like the article then please buy the magazine! The articles, while provided free of charge, do not magically appear.
If you want more great articles like this, support Linux Journal. I know the idea of paying for something might go against some people's sensibilities (information wants to be FREEEEEEE!!! and such), but remember that in real life people need to eat. Please don't let the fine people at Linux Journal starve. Buy a magazine.
Especially considering the shit the Slashdot crew pulled when "Fascdot Killed My Pr" sold his account. And that was with no EULA at all to support you. You just screwed with him.
At least with a EULA we know our rights.
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Open the source, Palm!
So they can get the nimble development cycle of such projects as Mozilla and Gnome? I'm sorry, but I don't think so. Any operating system -- especially something embedded like PalmOS -- is going to be over the level of many programmers. I certainly wouldn't want to have to deal with lines and lines of palm assembly...
In the case of PalmOS, I don't see any advantage to opening the source. Palm does a good job with it, and I don't think there's enough "flashy" jobs to keep OSS programmers going.
Not to mention that they need the royalties from other companies licencing it.
I don't see them open-sourcing it anytime soon.
The extra ingredient is love.
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Techno Teddy
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· Score: 4, Funny
Dress bear in shirt. Break lightsticks and attach to bear with duct tape. Place extacy hits on convenient locations on bear, using duct tape. Tape water bottles to teddy. Let sit for ten minutes, toss into pit of e-tards and let the fun begin!
SuSE, with UnitedLinux, had an innovative idea for selling Linux. They are within their legal bounds, and I see nothing wrong with a company taking full advantage of the GPL.
I guess this is just one more Linux company that's headed for the scrap heap. If they could have gained some respectability among business (which seemed to be their plan) they might have been able to earn money and succeed.
And really, who better than SuSE to lead the next wave of the revolution? Ah well... *sigh*
Whether it "sits well with you" or not doesn't matter. What matters is how they handle their company and corporate image (as in: how other businesses see them). If they're within the GPL/LGPL licence bounds then quite frankly I don't see what the problem is, and I doubt any corporate United Linux customer will care if the distro offends a few sensibilities.
If they can come up with an innovative way to sell Linux, more power to them. They'll be doing something nobody else has been able to do.
This consistently boggles my mind, all these companies saying "piracy costs us $500 mil a year". Listen, some third world family that makes $100 a month isn't going to pay $700 for office, alright?!?
Oh, and I'm sure that it's the third world families that make $100/month that are pirating music.
On their C-64 from 1986.
Much like our good friend, JUNIS FROM AFGHANISTAN.
Sorry, but most of the piracy is middle to upper-class teenagers and students... people who could pay for the music, but choose to pirate it.
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I see. Sounds like you're a "special" case.
I'd suggest trying out the Gnome distro from Ximian, HTH.
Some real sci-fi!
I'm so sick of waiting for new episodes. Enterprise is, bar none, the best sci-fi show on TV.
That includes Farscape. "We fired our writers and hired a 6th grade creative writing class!"
I mean come on. Fucking telepathic clams? This is supposed to be quality!??! Not to mention that the alien races look worse than most Halloween costumes! If you think those are good, you obviously haven't been involved in any theater!
I'm looking forward to having some good sci-fi. Fortunately, even when Star Trek sucks (which Enterprise most definitely doesn't), it's better than Farscape, Babylon "We Love Politics" 5, and Star "Overacting is not optional" Wars.
Michael Jackson is a special case.
He was born a poor black boy, and he'll die a rich white woman.
Welcome to Slashdot. This is stuff that matters.
Now shut the fuck up. If you want serious discussion all the time there are other options.
I'm shocked and taken aback that tuition money from schools is going to fund this kind of stuff.
This is an obvious military technology being developed. As if we don't have enough weapons to destroy opposing cultures with.
What of the people who go to these schools that are pacifists? Their tuition is funding the throbbing war-machine of America, and I for one am horrified. The military should fund their own damn research, not use college students to design their swords for them.
Perhaps we should create a bill through the ACLU so you can opt-out of having your money (on taxes and on tuitions) go to military projects like this? Otherwise, Conscious Objectors aren't being represented.
I wonder who is next ?
I really have no idea.
Really: Why must it be bounded by a beginning or end?
Entropy. HTH.
Using a so-called "principle" like Occam's Razor to decide whether or not there is extraterrestrial life is insane. Occam's Razor doesn't take into account any actual science. Saying that something is simpler doesn't automatically mean it's right, or even that it's more likely to be right.
And anyway, nowhere in the Bible does it mention ET life. If there really were "aliens" then Jesus would have had to come and die for THEIR sins too. No alien-Jesus, no aliens.
It sounds like this guy is just some crackpot trying to push his views on all of us in a "scientific" manner.
I've got a better idea.
Go here and change the category from "Sex, Extreme" to "Art and Culture".
We must preserve The Goatse for future generations. I'm positive it will go down as the internet equivalent of the Mona Lisa. We cannot allow a few conservatives and their offended sensibilities to block this True Piece of Art and Culture.
Vote early, vote often!
The first troll to get anything above a 0 mod point.
You're kidding... right?
Why the fuck are you reading and commenting on this topic at all?!!!!
Because I care.
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Steffan!??!
Who cares about Anime, and why is on slashdot? If I wanted to hear about japanesse kiddie shows, I'd head over to animefu!
This kind of stuff really doesn't belong on slashdot, especially when the founders of slashdot have a whole seperate site devoted to it. Take it over there. Slashdot is a site for educated discussion about computers, linux, and cyber-issues... NOT cartoons.
Come on, editors. Give us something interesting to talk about.
Who wouldn't like to see a Linux/Windows mine sweeper death match!
Wow. It's such a simple question, but your answer immediately determines if you're a lifeless, antisocial dork or not!
...and slashdot caters to fucking idiots.
Thank you. Thank you. I'll be here all week.
Copying a game does not take the game away from Nintendo.
... = death of America!) won't get your argument anywhere.
What's your point? It's still an illegal copy of their intellectual property. It's their choice, not yours, as to how they licence it. If they cannot licence it and constrict the destribution of it via their licence, then who are we to whine whenever some corperation steals GPLed code and closed-sources it? It would be blatent hipocracy.
Arguments of "well, you can copy it! capitalism doesn't apply!" are irrelevant.
Yes, it's an ethical choice to be made, but spouting corporate morality (piracy = theft = lost sales =
I suggest you reread Plato, and his arguments about supporting the law. By not supporting the ethical laws of the land, you are simply inviting anarchy.
They're anti-theft.
Those classic NES games are their IP. Granted, they're years old and not that many people have the systems to play them on anymore, but actions like this show that they're still commercially viable.
The problem with emulators is that of the ROM. ROMs can be distributed anywhere and everywhere, over file-sharing devices, eMail, and ftp warez sites. Due to the widespread theft of games in this manner, it's understandable that Nintendo doesn't support emulators.
From Nintendo's standpoint (which is quite legal), emulators encourage theft. They are accessories to the piracy of their IP, and I for one support their stance.
It's their games. They should be able to decide how to licence and distribute them.
Remember everybody, if you like the article then please buy the magazine! The articles, while provided free of charge, do not magically appear.
If you want more great articles like this, support Linux Journal. I know the idea of paying for something might go against some people's sensibilities (information wants to be FREEEEEEE!!! and such), but remember that in real life people need to eat. Please don't let the fine people at Linux Journal starve. Buy a magazine.
Please. Do it for the authors.
Heh. Cute, Timothy.
Especially considering the shit the Slashdot crew pulled when "Fascdot Killed My Pr" sold his account. And that was with no EULA at all to support you. You just screwed with him.
At least with a EULA we know our rights.
Open the source, Palm!
So they can get the nimble development cycle of such projects as Mozilla and Gnome? I'm sorry, but I don't think so. Any operating system -- especially something embedded like PalmOS -- is going to be over the level of many programmers. I certainly wouldn't want to have to deal with lines and lines of palm assembly...
In the case of PalmOS, I don't see any advantage to opening the source. Palm does a good job with it, and I don't think there's enough "flashy" jobs to keep OSS programmers going.
Not to mention that they need the royalties from other companies licencing it.
I don't see them open-sourcing it anytime soon.
Raver Teddy
1 Techno Teddy
4 Lightsticks, assorted colors
1 Sparkly Shirt, toddler size
30 Count extacy hits
2 Bottles water, trendy brand preferred
1 Roll duct tape
Dress bear in shirt. Break lightsticks and attach to bear with duct tape. Place extacy hits on convenient locations on bear, using duct tape. Tape water bottles to teddy. Let sit for ten minutes, toss into pit of e-tards and let the fun begin!
I'm serious.
SuSE, with UnitedLinux, had an innovative idea for selling Linux. They are within their legal bounds, and I see nothing wrong with a company taking full advantage of the GPL.
I guess this is just one more Linux company that's headed for the scrap heap. If they could have gained some respectability among business (which seemed to be their plan) they might have been able to earn money and succeed.
And really, who better than SuSE to lead the next wave of the revolution? Ah well... *sigh*
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's legal.
Whether it "sits well with you" or not doesn't matter. What matters is how they handle their company and corporate image (as in: how other businesses see them). If they're within the GPL/LGPL licence bounds then quite frankly I don't see what the problem is, and I doubt any corporate United Linux customer will care if the distro offends a few sensibilities.
If they can come up with an innovative way to sell Linux, more power to them. They'll be doing something nobody else has been able to do.
I'm sorry. I must have typed the wrong URL into my browser.
Wait, no. This is Slashdot, not Freshmeat. You know, News for Nerds? Stuff that matters?
If I wanted to know about the latest linux software updates, I'd go to a site about... well... linux software updates.
Slashdot is not Freshmeat. Please do not treat it as such.
This consistently boggles my mind, all these companies saying "piracy costs us $500 mil a year". Listen, some third world family that makes $100 a month isn't going to pay $700 for office, alright?!?
Oh, and I'm sure that it's the third world families that make $100/month that are pirating music.
On their C-64 from 1986.
Much like our good friend, JUNIS FROM AFGHANISTAN.
Sorry, but most of the piracy is middle to upper-class teenagers and students... people who could pay for the music, but choose to pirate it.
I have very little sympathy.