Don't forget alternatives to buying an Athlon 64 that can increase speed and productivity. A Dual-Processor machine can be a real speed boost, and is more natively supported. Likewise, faster system busses, more ram, and going to a RAID setup can increase speed. At that kind of cost, why not put everything in a RAM based rocketdrive? Have you maxed your graphics cards? Do you have a cheap 8139 NIC that taxes your processor?
Let's not forget human-centric productivity increasers, like macro-scriptable keyboards, larger moniters, and deleting AIM. Have you considered DVORAK?
There are many thing cheaper than an Athlon64 that will increase productivity. An intern, for example. Only when the system is both financially sound and better than the alternatives should the transition be undertaken. Perhaps you are the system network maintainer for Google, but for most people the Athlon64 just isn't ripe yet.
As a copy of the e-mail has now been posted, thereby confirming the story, I would encourage people to moderate the parent posting accordingly.
When exactly did the Gannett owned, Reuters dominated USA Today become a credible news source? Or CNN, notorious for parroting the positions of those with vested interests without even bothering to check if it makes sense or contradicts earlier statements? All of the mentioned periodicals are tertiary news sources... They rely upon other people who have seen the news, and are willing to talk about it. USA Today is arguably a quadiary news source, as it just recycles tertiary articles from other sources. The e-mail posted from the initiator of this project is a primary news source, and an article posted by someone who has seen this e-mail is a secondary news source. Primary and secondary news sources, while necessarily less well known as they do not focus on the dissemination of news, are a far more accurate source of information than those who re-release pre-digested data.
You just got the best news source you could hope to get, and you complained because it wasn't USA Today.
Sports games co-exist with other forms of sports entertainment. In the same way that a person may now go to a bar to watch the game, or throw a ball with their kids, or read Sports Illustrated, they may also now play the videogame. One could just as well argue that adults read the sports page instead of watching the game. If a college kid is playing a round of NBA Basketball between classes, that is not going to prevent them from playing in the intermural sports teams after dinner.
Videogames are now irrecoverably part of the sports ecosystem, the same way that radio broadcasts created sports heros and television broadcasts created the instant replay.
Lumping all videogames together in this article is unnecessary, and shows a lack of understanding on the part of the author. It's as if supporting sports gaming implies the support of Deus Ex. He doesn't say how non-sport television shows doesn't do anything but hurt... Or how bars that don't show the game are contributing nothing to the cause.
Honestly, professional sports is on a slow decline in this country because they are out of touch. While most kids are skateboarding, rock climbing, and doing other physical independent activities, sports broadcasters have stuck with the idea that large traditional team sports will always be the ideal. We're moving away from a team-oriented society, to one where individuals and very small groups work with a great deal of autonomy and specialized knowledge to achieve their ends. A weekly x-games show would probably be a hit with the ratings, but the chance to do such a thing has passed by the broadcasters (again) because of their lack of vision.
They might receive more sympathy, if professional sports weren't prohibitively expensive. Certainly, not being able to afford actually going to the game has nothing to do with waning interest. With tickets going for roughly the same price as a trip to the Opera, most people are priced out of seeing any professional event in person. Playing hockey will make you like the game, but seeing it in person will make you a fan of a team. That fandom is an essential part of the sporting ecosystem.
Part of the image of the classic baseball player was that of the clean-cut but slightly unshaven man sleeping in a bus on the way to his next game. They were hardworking individuals with a strong ethic, rough but approachable. With player salaries hovering around 800,000 per year, the image has changed to that of the pampered superstar, likely to get off the plane and have a manicure before being wisked away in a limo to the Park Plaza. Sure, they train all of the time, but that hard work is only emphasized in Gatoraid's commercials. And certainly, no modern sports star from the majors can be considered approachable, emulatable, or otherwise attainable. Tony Hawk retains this ability (and whose public stardom is based on his tremendously successful videogame) because Tony is "one of us" who worked hard and got good at a sport, but retains his middle class status. Barry Bonds is now firmly upper class, and would never be seen with any dirt on his uniform.
The sports moguls lost touch, plain and simple. This demonizing of videogames is just a sign of that.
But regional coding exists to allow staggered releases. By locking different territories, the theory goes, you can release videos in one market while creating pent-up demand in another, but without allowing importers to satisfy that demand. Nigel is arguing that not only is the demand is deflated by piracy, but by having these staggered releases they are responsible for creating a thriving pirate market. The regional coding is, therefore, a failure, and its removal will either force similar worldwide release schedules or will allow people who want to see movies to go to a secondary retailer like an importer and buy a legitimate copy.
Or equally important, when was the last time you answered the phone and got a machine on the other end of the line? They were legislated out of existence (or, popular usage at least). Now if you are the recipient of a scuzzy, spammy phone call it must be a human being on the other end of the line.
This law is a lot like that, and will probably be just as effective. No longer will you be spammed by the little guys selling unsavory things, just by the rich companies looking for new markets. Isn't America great?
Darl C. McBride Chris Sontag Robert K. Bench Reg Broughton Sean Wilson Larry Gasparro Jeff Hunsaker Ralph J. Yarro III Steve Cakebread Edward E. Iacobucci R. Duff Thompson Darcy Mott K. Fred Skousen Thomas P. Raimondi, Jr
If you see any of these people in years following the implosion of SCO, do not give them a job. Do not enter into contracts with them. Do not loan them your car. They have proven themselves incapable of planning for the future of a company and incapable of behaving like mature partners in the sphere of business. At a time when SCO desperately needs to be investing in research and development, these people are plunging the company into bankruptcy. They're taking a tremendous gamble with their shareholders money, a gamble which even if successful would only mean residuals on existing Linux implementations in the US, and a painful migration for everyone else to OpenBSD. They're betting everyone else's money on a long shot, and should be held accountable for their irresponsible actions.
Once again, those names are
Darl C. McBride Chris Sontag Robert K. Bench Reg Broughton Sean Wilson Larry Gasparro Jeff Hunsaker Ralph J. Yarro III Steve Cakebread Edward E. Iacobucci R. Duff Thompson Darcy Mott K. Fred Skousen Thomas P. Raimondi, Jr
if the GPL is an amalgamation of individual copyrights collected together, then SCO's code needs to be delineated for the end users. If the GPL is an umbrella copyright, then all of the developers need to know what is infringing so that it can be removed.
The secret is going to be out. Whether it happens now, when the accused is standing in court, or later when the judgement is handed down and something has to be done about the infringement, it is going to be out. The only way the secret could stay a secret is if the judge threw the bums out. Not a bad option, in my opinion.
At this point, a well-timed "leak" is in order. Those silly IBM lawyers and their unsecured FTP servers.
Before Wipeout XL, there was arguably two starting points for licensed music in games. The most obvious, was Road Rage for the Playstation. While the licensed music didn't make it into the the game proper, all of the menus / setup screens / shops used tracks from Soundgarden. At the time it was quite shocking, and the music fit well. If anything, that sold the game far more copies than it deserved.
Predating that, there was the little known BioMetal for the SNES... Yes, that's right, the SNES. That U.S. Developed games used MOD versions of 2Unlimited's excellent first album, a collection of mostly repetitive blips and beeps anyway (being dance techno). The soundtrack, however, turned out to be phenomenal, and particularly well suited to the shooter aesthetic. Sadly, the rest of the game wasn't quite as tight, and sales flagged.
Both soundtracks were excellent, but the games were terrible. I leave the consequences of this difference with Wipeout XL as an exercise to the reader.
Actually, I've wired mouse buttons to an old NES pad, which uses conductive rubber contact pads. They don't fit the traditional mouse form factor, but all it requires is a little cutting and soldering.
Perhaps I'm a bit out of touch, but buying CD's at the grocery store? The last time I looked, they had a display with 16 variants on "Bing Crosby's Christmas" right next to the 25 copies of The Lion King.
Do they really sell CD's at the grocery store with non-trivial selection, or have people just started buying food at Walmart? Has living in large coastal cities all of my life skewed my perspective of the average grocery store? Is there really that much variance?
There are no voter eligibility standards in this country other than being over 18.
Simply being eligible to vote does not mean that someone actually can vote. In order to vote, one must be physically and mentally capable of voting. My grandfather in his final days might have been eligible, and perhaps even physically capable of voting if someone wheeled him into the room, but he was nowhere near mentally capable of voting.
You can make the voting process only so simple, but it is impossible to make it so simple that everyone can figure it out. Some people are just... baffled.
They won't let matches onboard. They will, however, let butane lighters onboard no problem. Maybe I'm just bitter that they made me throw out a much loved and empty 30 dollar Zippo while they politely told someone who was on the other side of the security checkpoint to please extenguish his cigarette until he was on the plane.
It's amazing how fast a little safety can be sold for a lot of money.
I believe I hod o perfectly occeptoble use of thot word.
It gets harder and harder as a game developer to admit to your profession in the company of non-gamers if they feel (incorrectly, but nonetheless) that you're selling violence porn to children. Perhaps this doesn't matter to the average person on the street, but if you make your living with videogames this is a big deal. If you have to live with the industry's reputation day in and day out, this is a big deal.
Rockstar is not wrong for doing what they are doing, and they shouldn't be censored. However, freedom of expression does not mean that we must like what someone is saying. Personally I wish Rockstar would exercise a little more self-restraint in their theming, if not for artistic reasons than for political ones. In GTA the moral vaccuum was integral to the gameplay, and was optional... You never had to run over the guy whose car you just stole, with the car you just stole. Manhunt could have been developed a million different ways while keeping the same gameplay formula, they just chose sadistic violence and controversy because they know it sells. It is within their rights, but it makes it no less of a sell out. And to do such after the firestorm over their previous game... It's like Mitnick finally being released from jail and being immediately arrested for hacking into Air Force One and killing the President.
Freedom of speech generally implies a level of maturity whereby people don't shove pictures of genetalia into the face of passing parents.
If I share a CD with a friend, part of that is because I want them to enjoy the CD and part of that is because they don't yet like the band enough to pay for the CD. A big part of trolling around on P2P apps is looking for new and unique music that you may not have heard of before, and certainly wouldn't be willing to pay for until you decided that you liked it.
On the other hand, what the Music Industry is offering, is a way to tell people what music is good, but not a way to actually show them. It's a form of becoming a mini-repository for links to available music... Music that the person thought was good enough to buy. In other words, popular music. While that idea is interesting and has at least some merit, why one would actually host such a thing on their personal machine and why other people would push for that standard is beyond me. Perhaps the idea was that someone should be able to share a file purchased from iTunes, and that other people in listening to a 30 second preview could decide if it was worth buying. But those people would necessarily already be on a file network where real files are shared. Why not just have a central repository... a great mall for music?
Ah well. A small group of programmers somewhere got a job doing this, and the RIAA is picking up the bill. I suppose worse things have happened.
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Don't forget alternatives to buying an Athlon 64 that can increase speed and productivity. A Dual-Processor machine can be a real speed boost, and is more natively supported. Likewise, faster system busses, more ram, and going to a RAID setup can increase speed. At that kind of cost, why not put everything in a RAM based rocketdrive? Have you maxed your graphics cards? Do you have a cheap 8139 NIC that taxes your processor?
Let's not forget human-centric productivity increasers, like macro-scriptable keyboards, larger moniters, and deleting AIM. Have you considered DVORAK?
There are many thing cheaper than an Athlon64 that will increase productivity. An intern, for example. Only when the system is both financially sound and better than the alternatives should the transition be undertaken. Perhaps you are the system network maintainer for Google, but for most people the Athlon64 just isn't ripe yet.
This is a great idea. This process has long ensured that the Linux kernel arrives on time and completely stable.
The security of Microsoft combined with the timeliness of Linux: the best of both worlds.
It was the demonstration video that made my jaw drop.
It was also the demonstration video that made the server drop.
As a copy of the e-mail has now been posted, thereby confirming the story, I would encourage people to moderate the parent posting accordingly.
When exactly did the Gannett owned, Reuters dominated USA Today become a credible news source? Or CNN, notorious for parroting the positions of those with vested interests without even bothering to check if it makes sense or contradicts earlier statements? All of the mentioned periodicals are tertiary news sources... They rely upon other people who have seen the news, and are willing to talk about it. USA Today is arguably a quadiary news source, as it just recycles tertiary articles from other sources. The e-mail posted from the initiator of this project is a primary news source, and an article posted by someone who has seen this e-mail is a secondary news source. Primary and secondary news sources, while necessarily less well known as they do not focus on the dissemination of news, are a far more accurate source of information than those who re-release pre-digested data.
You just got the best news source you could hope to get, and you complained because it wasn't USA Today.
Sports games co-exist with other forms of sports entertainment. In the same way that a person may now go to a bar to watch the game, or throw a ball with their kids, or read Sports Illustrated, they may also now play the videogame. One could just as well argue that adults read the sports page instead of watching the game. If a college kid is playing a round of NBA Basketball between classes, that is not going to prevent them from playing in the intermural sports teams after dinner.
Videogames are now irrecoverably part of the sports ecosystem, the same way that radio broadcasts created sports heros and television broadcasts created the instant replay.
Lumping all videogames together in this article is unnecessary, and shows a lack of understanding on the part of the author. It's as if supporting sports gaming implies the support of Deus Ex. He doesn't say how non-sport television shows doesn't do anything but hurt... Or how bars that don't show the game are contributing nothing to the cause.
Honestly, professional sports is on a slow decline in this country because they are out of touch. While most kids are skateboarding, rock climbing, and doing other physical independent activities, sports broadcasters have stuck with the idea that large traditional team sports will always be the ideal. We're moving away from a team-oriented society, to one where individuals and very small groups work with a great deal of autonomy and specialized knowledge to achieve their ends. A weekly x-games show would probably be a hit with the ratings, but the chance to do such a thing has passed by the broadcasters (again) because of their lack of vision.
They might receive more sympathy, if professional sports weren't prohibitively expensive. Certainly, not being able to afford actually going to the game has nothing to do with waning interest. With tickets going for roughly the same price as a trip to the Opera, most people are priced out of seeing any professional event in person. Playing hockey will make you like the game, but seeing it in person will make you a fan of a team. That fandom is an essential part of the sporting ecosystem.
Part of the image of the classic baseball player was that of the clean-cut but slightly unshaven man sleeping in a bus on the way to his next game. They were hardworking individuals with a strong ethic, rough but approachable. With player salaries hovering around 800,000 per year, the image has changed to that of the pampered superstar, likely to get off the plane and have a manicure before being wisked away in a limo to the Park Plaza. Sure, they train all of the time, but that hard work is only emphasized in Gatoraid's commercials. And certainly, no modern sports star from the majors can be considered approachable, emulatable, or otherwise attainable. Tony Hawk retains this ability (and whose public stardom is based on his tremendously successful videogame) because Tony is "one of us" who worked hard and got good at a sport, but retains his middle class status. Barry Bonds is now firmly upper class, and would never be seen with any dirt on his uniform.
The sports moguls lost touch, plain and simple. This demonizing of videogames is just a sign of that.
But regional coding exists to allow staggered releases. By locking different territories, the theory goes, you can release videos in one market while creating pent-up demand in another, but without allowing importers to satisfy that demand. Nigel is arguing that not only is the demand is deflated by piracy, but by having these staggered releases they are responsible for creating a thriving pirate market. The regional coding is, therefore, a failure, and its removal will either force similar worldwide release schedules or will allow people who want to see movies to go to a secondary retailer like an importer and buy a legitimate copy.
Either way, regional encoding should go.
Yes, once making the frame applying complaint it is not it to be possible. You can enjoy and increase are high.
Step one, burn to CD. Step two, rip from CD.
Step three... There is no step 3. There is no step three!
Or equally important, when was the last time you answered the phone and got a machine on the other end of the line? They were legislated out of existence (or, popular usage at least). Now if you are the recipient of a scuzzy, spammy phone call it must be a human being on the other end of the line.
This law is a lot like that, and will probably be just as effective. No longer will you be spammed by the little guys selling unsavory things, just by the rich companies looking for new markets. Isn't America great?
...than to get the patent lawyers involved.
The executive board of SCO consists of:
Darl C. McBride
Chris Sontag
Robert K. Bench
Reg Broughton
Sean Wilson
Larry Gasparro
Jeff Hunsaker
Ralph J. Yarro III
Steve Cakebread
Edward E. Iacobucci
R. Duff Thompson
Darcy Mott
K. Fred Skousen
Thomas P. Raimondi, Jr
If you see any of these people in years following the implosion of SCO, do not give them a job. Do not enter into contracts with them. Do not loan them your car. They have proven themselves incapable of planning for the future of a company and incapable of behaving like mature partners in the sphere of business. At a time when SCO desperately needs to be investing in research and development, these people are plunging the company into bankruptcy. They're taking a tremendous gamble with their shareholders money, a gamble which even if successful would only mean residuals on existing Linux implementations in the US, and a painful migration for everyone else to OpenBSD. They're betting everyone else's money on a long shot, and should be held accountable for their irresponsible actions.
Once again, those names are
Darl C. McBride
Chris Sontag
Robert K. Bench
Reg Broughton
Sean Wilson
Larry Gasparro
Jeff Hunsaker
Ralph J. Yarro III
Steve Cakebread
Edward E. Iacobucci
R. Duff Thompson
Darcy Mott
K. Fred Skousen
Thomas P. Raimondi, Jr
if the GPL is an amalgamation of individual copyrights collected together, then SCO's code needs to be delineated for the end users. If the GPL is an umbrella copyright, then all of the developers need to know what is infringing so that it can be removed.
The secret is going to be out. Whether it happens now, when the accused is standing in court, or later when the judgement is handed down and something has to be done about the infringement, it is going to be out. The only way the secret could stay a secret is if the judge threw the bums out. Not a bad option, in my opinion.
At this point, a well-timed "leak" is in order. Those silly IBM lawyers and their unsecured FTP servers.
Hey... Isn't this what Freenet was made for?
Most applications that you "try, find out they are crap, and uninstall" leave pieces of themselves all over the system directory and registry.
Yeah, like bloody Win ME. I still find pieces of it stuck in my boots.
Before Wipeout XL, there was arguably two starting points for licensed music in games. The most obvious, was Road Rage for the Playstation. While the licensed music didn't make it into the the game proper, all of the menus / setup screens / shops used tracks from Soundgarden. At the time it was quite shocking, and the music fit well. If anything, that sold the game far more copies than it deserved.
Predating that, there was the little known BioMetal for the SNES... Yes, that's right, the SNES. That U.S. Developed games used MOD versions of 2Unlimited's excellent first album, a collection of mostly repetitive blips and beeps anyway (being dance techno). The soundtrack, however, turned out to be phenomenal, and particularly well suited to the shooter aesthetic. Sadly, the rest of the game wasn't quite as tight, and sales flagged.
Both soundtracks were excellent, but the games were terrible. I leave the consequences of this difference with Wipeout XL as an exercise to the reader.
How about a developer nano-ITX board?
Or, for those of you who don't have root access at VIA, how about a biometric flash drive? A decent smartphone? How about a working LCD display, with all the wiring pre-done please.
Actually, I've wired mouse buttons to an old NES pad, which uses conductive rubber contact pads. They don't fit the traditional mouse form factor, but all it requires is a little cutting and soldering.
Nah. "Star Wreck" implies that it got off the ground.
Oh, come now. You're post is obviously 30% troll, 30% insightful, and the last 10% offtopic.
Perhaps I'm a bit out of touch, but buying CD's at the grocery store? The last time I looked, they had a display with 16 variants on "Bing Crosby's Christmas" right next to the 25 copies of The Lion King.
Do they really sell CD's at the grocery store with non-trivial selection, or have people just started buying food at Walmart? Has living in large coastal cities all of my life skewed my perspective of the average grocery store? Is there really that much variance?
Great! Give SCO a reason to sue Microsoft.
There are no voter eligibility standards in this country other than being over 18.
Simply being eligible to vote does not mean that someone actually can vote. In order to vote, one must be physically and mentally capable of voting. My grandfather in his final days might have been eligible, and perhaps even physically capable of voting if someone wheeled him into the room, but he was nowhere near mentally capable of voting.
You can make the voting process only so simple, but it is impossible to make it so simple that everyone can figure it out. Some people are just... baffled.
They won't let matches onboard. They will, however, let butane lighters onboard no problem. Maybe I'm just bitter that they made me throw out a much loved and empty 30 dollar Zippo while they politely told someone who was on the other side of the security checkpoint to please extenguish his cigarette until he was on the plane.
It's amazing how fast a little safety can be sold for a lot of money.
I believe I hod o perfectly occeptoble use of thot word.
It gets harder and harder as a game developer to admit to your profession in the company of non-gamers if they feel (incorrectly, but nonetheless) that you're selling violence porn to children. Perhaps this doesn't matter to the average person on the street, but if you make your living with videogames this is a big deal. If you have to live with the industry's reputation day in and day out, this is a big deal.
Rockstar is not wrong for doing what they are doing, and they shouldn't be censored. However, freedom of expression does not mean that we must like what someone is saying. Personally I wish Rockstar would exercise a little more self-restraint in their theming, if not for artistic reasons than for political ones. In GTA the moral vaccuum was integral to the gameplay, and was optional... You never had to run over the guy whose car you just stole, with the car you just stole. Manhunt could have been developed a million different ways while keeping the same gameplay formula, they just chose sadistic violence and controversy because they know it sells. It is within their rights, but it makes it no less of a sell out. And to do such after the firestorm over their previous game... It's like Mitnick finally being released from jail and being immediately arrested for hacking into Air Force One and killing the President.
Freedom of speech generally implies a level of maturity whereby people don't shove pictures of genetalia into the face of passing parents.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a cursory search of uspto.gov shows multiple trademarks registered for "Windows" by Microsoft.
If I share a CD with a friend, part of that is because I want them to enjoy the CD and part of that is because they don't yet like the band enough to pay for the CD. A big part of trolling around on P2P apps is looking for new and unique music that you may not have heard of before, and certainly wouldn't be willing to pay for until you decided that you liked it.
On the other hand, what the Music Industry is offering, is a way to tell people what music is good, but not a way to actually show them. It's a form of becoming a mini-repository for links to available music... Music that the person thought was good enough to buy. In other words, popular music. While that idea is interesting and has at least some merit, why one would actually host such a thing on their personal machine and why other people would push for that standard is beyond me. Perhaps the idea was that someone should be able to share a file purchased from iTunes, and that other people in listening to a 30 second preview could decide if it was worth buying. But those people would necessarily already be on a file network where real files are shared. Why not just have a central repository... a great mall for music?
Ah well. A small group of programmers somewhere got a job doing this, and the RIAA is picking up the bill. I suppose worse things have happened.