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Official Sega DC Keyboards are more like $10 brand new, or you can buy a PS2 to DC keyboard/mouse adapter for pennies. But if you can find me some BBAs for $60, please reserve me 20 of them.
(I'm dead serious. I'd buy 20 at that price, maybe up to 100.)
Adobe is in the right here! It's called KIllustrator, for God's sake! Any impressionable kid could take that to be a contraction of Kill-You Castrator.
Bravo bravissimo, Adobe. Thanks for Thinking About The Children (TM).
I used to post to/. from those very vt420s about two or three years ago, while my machines were pending repair work I never got around to doing.:) For people who are comfortable with Lynx (like all the little Pokemon-playing kids that could never wait for the unstable NT PCs to come back online -- zero in-house NT admins at the branches), those vt420s are great.
The sfpl admins wouldn't recompile Lynx for their VMS box with SSL and cookie support, though, so that's when I all but stopped using my Hotmail account.
Before I read your post, I had the same idea. I just sent one that said "Sorry, am I DOSing the Google lobby scroller?" Then, after reading this post, I did a search for "jerk off technique."
Hope those scroller babies don't log IPs. It would look like I was so bored (at work right now) that I decided to SPAM their scroller, which had somehow gotten me into some kind of masturbatory mood.
You could always buy the shit pie that is "Clash of the Bionoids." It's a horibbly-dubbed (Hong Kong-produced, I believe), heavily-edited, marketed-to-children version of Ai: Oboeteimasuka. It's horrendous, and I highly recommend it...buy a copy as a Christmas present for your worst enemy.
I think I bought mine for a few coins at Walgreens, just to see how bad it is. What I got was an EP-speed VHS tape with a huge tape spool, and it was impossible to watch with automatic tracking enabled. I think it had linear stereo tracks, though, so you may be in "luck" if you have a linear stereo VHS VCR, AND it still works. Heh.
To anybody who's seen it: "Shut...UP! You talk far too much!" (I still quote that line to my sister to this day. =)
It is officially "Annoyed Grunt," but it's spelled "d'oh" officially, and is spelled in the captions as "D-OHH."
(BTW, The Simpsons is the one show I watch with captions ON. The captioned jokes are funnier, as I'm assuming the captioners are sent scripts before they are censored by Fox execs. A true Simpsons fan, watching with captions on, knows what a "reverse convoy" is...watch Homer's lips as he "says" it. =)
Didn't you know? DC was running their rinky-dink operation out of a Japanese employee's house. You see, not having to take your shoes off to count the employees left signifies that there's nobody left, so who cares if you go stomping around their office/home, looking for employees to count, with your shoes on.
Let me see here...your new cd burning software will not burn songs unless they are digitally signed. In what way is this wrong?
Let's say I want to create a mix CD from live concert MP3s. Since this is/., let's say we're talking about the Minibosses, who distribute their unsigned MP3s freely. Will I be able to do it with Roxio's awesome software, without the cracks that will inevitably be released within a week of release?
In the end, no matter how much I like to download music, I have never fooled myself into thinking I was "sharing" among friends. stealing is stealing.
Stealing is stealing, but this isn't stealing. It's copyright infringement. Theft is the act of taking something away from someone with the intent of depriving that person of possessing what you've taken. Copying zeroes and ones while leaving the original data intact is not stealing, and U.S. law (on a good day) has different laws regarding each. All those mp3 lawsuits you keep reading about are for copyright infringement, not theft.
Don't get mad if the cops try to stop you. You whine about how stealing music makes you buy more music.
No I don't. But treating gnutella like a 24-hour all-request radio station does help me make smarter purchasing decisions about my music.
Now someone wants to make it easy for you and you go "no...but, I don't want to have to prove I bought it!" Give me one good scenario on how this is a BAD thing!
How does adding a corpo-funded layer of complexity to CD burning software make it easier for me to buy more music? Sounds like all it does is make it easier for EMI and their colleagues to keep CD prices nutrageously high, just to fund more copy-protection schemes like this one.
A question: How will Roxio prevent users from decoding MP3s into WAV/AIFFs, then burning them? Will it all of a sudden become morally wrong to burn arbitrary AIFFs? Somebody better tell the budding garage bands of the world that they are not welcome to use Roxio software.
IIRC, in Max Headroom, it was mandatory for citizens to own a television, and it was illegal to own a television that had a power switch to flick off. These Spanish protesters are there voluntarily, and only have their comforts out of ingenuity.
The fact that the parent post is currently moderated down as flamebait, while other posts who are taking themselves (and alexchiu.com) waaaay too seriously are being moderated up has proven something to me: Alex Chiu is smarter than most of the people here, if only for the fact that some of you people think he's serious.
You're missing the point.
Those "testimonials" are being written by people who are in on the joke, unlike yourself. Lighten up...have you read his message board, and the hilarious responses provided there? --
...since the answer to this Ask Slashdot is a simple "They'll dub/sub, because they're not going to re-render the whole thing"...
As a fan of the Final Fantasy games, I'm extremely unimpressed with the bits I've seen and heard of the movie (rumors, finalfantasy.com trailers, etc.).
Final Fantasy is a franchise that has an almost unmatched recognition among console RPGamers. In a nutshell: color-coded mages, ninjas that can throw almost anything (9999 knife/spoon any one?), bare-handed martial artists that do more damage than the best-armed swordsmen, chocobos, moogles, Cid and his airship, espers, the concept of "pure/holy" spells (e.g. FFIV Pearl) and the "holy, yet evil" enemies that can't be damaged by them, etc. None of the games has ever taken place on Earth. These are what separate the FF series from every other Japanese console RPG. Which of these criteria does the movie match? Even the anime OAV series was in the true FF spirit, and that wasn't even produced by Sakaguchi Hironobu, while this movie is!
It looks to me like the movie is being treated as a showcase for what's possible in video-realistic CG with current technology, rather than an opportunity to expand the Final Fantasy mythos, or even just expose it to more people through the theater. It's as if it's being made by FF8 fans -- it's realistic and serious, but not fun. This is a shame, as the FF series has always (excepting FF8) featured great character design and in-game/cover art, not the photorealistically mundane designs in the movie trailers.
Bottom line, this movie is not traditional Final Fantasy. If it were released under a different name, die-hard FF fans would probably enjoy it more.
BTW, does it strike any one as odd that this page, linked from index.html (when viewed frameless), exists on the official site? Read that page with a frameless browser like Lynx...there's a link to some odd hentai FF site -- talk about fan service.
True political correctness means being morally responsible to all sides involved, not modifying the truth to accommodate popular regional tastes. If the movie needed editing for the Japanese audience, a politically-correct person just has to wonder how accurate/responsible the American cut is.
BTW, to me, there's no such thing as being too politically correct. The fact that the term has been co-opted by the anti-establishment media, and twisted to mean "lacking integrity for the consumer's sake" is a shame. Not offending people without reason is just common courtesy.
"Flamebait?" Would someone please mod the parent post back up as informative, please?
This AC has made a clear, valid, on-topic comment, without using offensive language, regarding the editor's assessment of the situation. Whether some reader finds it offensive that the U.S. has nothing to do with the story is that person's problem. (I'm from the U.S., and I think this AC's on the mark. The fact is, the GBA has already been released in Japan.)
Did the fact that this post was post #2 have anything to do with the downmod? That hardly seems like a relevant or fair criterion on which to base a moderation.
Thanks. (No need to downmod this post...I'll just post w/o +1 bonus, okay?:)
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You're right, BSD doesn't promote freedom. It promotes usage. With BSD, importance of the code is emphasized. With GPL, it's the importance of the code's freedom.
Okay, Apple uses an open source base OS (Darwin), which is based on BSD on Mach. They contribute their bugfixes back to the BSD crowd, which benefit them just as well as they benefit Apple.
Evan Leibowitch seems to think that by using open source software for the basis of their core OS somehow obligates Apple to open TrueType and QuickTime? When has Apple ever said that they would do that?
This ZD article has to be the toastiest flamebait I've read in a while. "Hey kids, all of a sudden Apple is raping open source, because they won't hand over the font and multimedia technology they never promised!"
No, this is different. If you read the linked article, you'll see that MS wants to limit the featureset of Matrix games for other consoles. Amazingly, this is being treated by everybody here like a sidenote, rather than the real meat and potatoes of the deal.
It's true though...exclusive licenses are a dime a dozen. That's why this is a big deal. This is less typical: Effectively MS is castrating any future Nintendo and Sony versions.
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Official Sega DC Keyboards are more like $10 brand new, or you can buy a PS2 to DC keyboard/mouse adapter for pennies. But if you can find me some BBAs for $60, please reserve me 20 of them.
(I'm dead serious. I'd buy 20 at that price, maybe up to 100.)
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Adobe is in the right here! It's called KIllustrator, for God's sake! Any impressionable kid could take that to be a contraction of Kill-You Castrator.
Bravo bravissimo, Adobe. Thanks for Thinking About The Children (TM).
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My Apple //gs 3.5" drive made tha same sound. Ah, the memory of that sound makes my tummy feel warm...
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I used to post to /. from those very vt420s about two or three years ago, while my machines were pending repair work I never got around to doing. :) For people who are comfortable with Lynx (like all the little Pokemon-playing kids that could never wait for the unstable NT PCs to come back online -- zero in-house NT admins at the branches), those vt420s are great.
The sfpl admins wouldn't recompile Lynx for their VMS box with SSL and cookie support, though, so that's when I all but stopped using my Hotmail account.
(Posted from work with Lynx for Win32. :)
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Before I read your post, I had the same idea. I just sent one that said "Sorry, am I DOSing the Google lobby scroller?" Then, after reading this post, I did a search for "jerk off technique."
Hope those scroller babies don't log IPs. It would look like I was so bored (at work right now) that I decided to SPAM their scroller, which had somehow gotten me into some kind of masturbatory mood.
< tofuhead >
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You could always buy the shit pie that is "Clash of the Bionoids." It's a horibbly-dubbed (Hong Kong-produced, I believe), heavily-edited, marketed-to-children version of Ai: Oboeteimasuka. It's horrendous, and I highly recommend it...buy a copy as a Christmas present for your worst enemy.
I think I bought mine for a few coins at Walgreens, just to see how bad it is. What I got was an EP-speed VHS tape with a huge tape spool, and it was impossible to watch with automatic tracking enabled. I think it had linear stereo tracks, though, so you may be in "luck" if you have a linear stereo VHS VCR, AND it still works. Heh.
To anybody who's seen it: "Shut...UP! You talk far too much!" (I still quote that line to my sister to this day. =)
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Linn Minmay: A~ Hikaru!
Ichijou Hikaru: A~ Minmay!
Linn Minmay: A~ Hikaru!
Ichijou Hikaru: A~ Minmay!
Linn Minmay: A~ Hikaru!
Ichijou Hikaru: A~ Minmay!
Linn Minmay: A...HIKARUU~!
Ichijou Hikaru: A...MINMAAY~!
Hayase Misa: eeeEEH?!!! OI, NANYASORE~?!?! (This line added in Director's Cut.)
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With tux running in the kernel, it was only a matter of time before we had the next step: web server in the BIOS.
I smell innovation. Thanks Phoenix!
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It is officially "Annoyed Grunt," but it's spelled "d'oh" officially, and is spelled in the captions as "D-OHH."
(BTW, The Simpsons is the one show I watch with captions ON. The captioned jokes are funnier, as I'm assuming the captioners are sent scripts before they are censored by Fox execs. A true Simpsons fan, watching with captions on, knows what a "reverse convoy" is...watch Homer's lips as he "says" it. =)
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Wow, he writes like people talk!
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Didn't you know? DC was running their rinky-dink operation out of a Japanese employee's house. You see, not having to take your shoes off to count the employees left signifies that there's nobody left, so who cares if you go stomping around their office/home, looking for employees to count, with your shoes on.
At least, that's what I've heard. And you?
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Let's say I want to create a mix CD from live concert MP3s. Since this is /., let's say we're talking about the Minibosses, who distribute their unsigned MP3s freely. Will I be able to do it with Roxio's awesome software, without the cracks that will inevitably be released within a week of release?
Stealing is stealing, but this isn't stealing. It's copyright infringement. Theft is the act of taking something away from someone with the intent of depriving that person of possessing what you've taken. Copying zeroes and ones while leaving the original data intact is not stealing, and U.S. law (on a good day) has different laws regarding each. All those mp3 lawsuits you keep reading about are for copyright infringement, not theft.
No I don't. But treating gnutella like a 24-hour all-request radio station does help me make smarter purchasing decisions about my music.
How does adding a corpo-funded layer of complexity to CD burning software make it easier for me to buy more music? Sounds like all it does is make it easier for EMI and their colleagues to keep CD prices nutrageously high, just to fund more copy-protection schemes like this one.
A question: How will Roxio prevent users from decoding MP3s into WAV/AIFFs, then burning them? Will it all of a sudden become morally wrong to burn arbitrary AIFFs? Somebody better tell the budding garage bands of the world that they are not welcome to use Roxio software.
< tofuhead >
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IIRC, in Max Headroom, it was mandatory for citizens to own a television, and it was illegal to own a television that had a power switch to flick off. These Spanish protesters are there voluntarily, and only have their comforts out of ingenuity.
< tofuhead >
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The fact that the parent post is currently moderated down as flamebait, while other posts who are taking themselves (and alexchiu.com) waaaay too seriously are being moderated up has proven something to me: Alex Chiu is smarter than most of the people here, if only for the fact that some of you people think he's serious.
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You're missing the point.
Those "testimonials" are being written by people who are in on the joke, unlike yourself. Lighten up...have you read his message board, and the hilarious responses provided there?
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...since the answer to this Ask Slashdot is a simple "They'll dub/sub, because they're not going to re-render the whole thing"...
As a fan of the Final Fantasy games, I'm extremely unimpressed with the bits I've seen and heard of the movie (rumors, finalfantasy.com trailers, etc.).
Final Fantasy is a franchise that has an almost unmatched recognition among console RPGamers. In a nutshell: color-coded mages, ninjas that can throw almost anything (9999 knife/spoon any one?), bare-handed martial artists that do more damage than the best-armed swordsmen, chocobos, moogles, Cid and his airship, espers, the concept of "pure/holy" spells (e.g. FFIV Pearl) and the "holy, yet evil" enemies that can't be damaged by them, etc. None of the games has ever taken place on Earth. These are what separate the FF series from every other Japanese console RPG. Which of these criteria does the movie match? Even the anime OAV series was in the true FF spirit, and that wasn't even produced by Sakaguchi Hironobu, while this movie is!
It looks to me like the movie is being treated as a showcase for what's possible in video-realistic CG with current technology, rather than an opportunity to expand the Final Fantasy mythos, or even just expose it to more people through the theater. It's as if it's being made by FF8 fans -- it's realistic and serious, but not fun. This is a shame, as the FF series has always (excepting FF8) featured great character design and in-game/cover art, not the photorealistically mundane designs in the movie trailers.
Bottom line, this movie is not traditional Final Fantasy. If it were released under a different name, die-hard FF fans would probably enjoy it more.
BTW, does it strike any one as odd that this page, linked from index.html (when viewed frameless), exists on the official site? Read that page with a frameless browser like Lynx...there's a link to some odd hentai FF site -- talk about fan service.
< tofuhead >
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True political correctness means being morally responsible to all sides involved, not modifying the truth to accommodate popular regional tastes. If the movie needed editing for the Japanese audience, a politically-correct person just has to wonder how accurate/responsible the American cut is.
BTW, to me, there's no such thing as being too politically correct. The fact that the term has been co-opted by the anti-establishment media, and twisted to mean "lacking integrity for the consumer's sake" is a shame. Not offending people without reason is just common courtesy.
< tofuhead >
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"Flamebait?" Would someone please mod the parent post back up as informative, please?
This AC has made a clear, valid, on-topic comment, without using offensive language, regarding the editor's assessment of the situation. Whether some reader finds it offensive that the U.S. has nothing to do with the story is that person's problem. (I'm from the U.S., and I think this AC's on the mark. The fact is, the GBA has already been released in Japan.)
Did the fact that this post was post #2 have anything to do with the downmod? That hardly seems like a relevant or fair criterion on which to base a moderation.
Thanks. (No need to downmod this post...I'll just post w/o +1 bonus, okay? :)
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So if I'm not satisfied, what do I get in return? Personally, I think I'd like some rebate coupons for some reliable products.
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So, OS/2 Warp 5 is at version 1.0.0? Sounds very powerful...surely a scientist is behind this.
If it's enhanced for Pentium III, I am so there, dude.
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You're right, BSD doesn't promote freedom. It promotes usage. With BSD, importance of the code is emphasized. With GPL, it's the importance of the code's freedom.
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Okay, Apple uses an open source base OS (Darwin), which is based on BSD on Mach. They contribute their bugfixes back to the BSD crowd, which benefit them just as well as they benefit Apple.
Evan Leibowitch seems to think that by using open source software for the basis of their core OS somehow obligates Apple to open TrueType and QuickTime? When has Apple ever said that they would do that?
This ZD article has to be the toastiest flamebait I've read in a while. "Hey kids, all of a sudden Apple is raping open source, because they won't hand over the font and multimedia technology they never promised!"
< tofuhead >
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No, this is different. If you read the linked article, you'll see that MS wants to limit the featureset of Matrix games for other consoles. Amazingly, this is being treated by everybody here like a sidenote, rather than the real meat and potatoes of the deal.
It's true though...exclusive licenses are a dime a dozen. That's why this is a big deal. This is less typical: Effectively MS is castrating any future Nintendo and Sony versions.
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