Annoying and funny are not the same thing, editors.
Yes, they are. That's the first rule of Trolling. The point isn't to make you laugh, it's to make you complain, so they can laugh at you. I think they're doing a fine job.
If anonymous posting hasn't been disabled, then tell me, what's my name?
You don't know. Slash keeps exactly as much information about an AC as it does about a logged in users, except for an email address. Which is usually anonymous. So even if this had been real, you'd still be just as funny.
The worst part about this story
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Stopping Light
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· Score: 4, Insightful
is not that it's a year old Slashdot repeat; we're used to that. The problem is that the whole "stopping light" headline that all the mainstream journalists (who should know better) carry on it is baloney.
If a photon (light) hits an atom (matter), causing it's electrons to move to a more excited energy level, I defy you to "show me the light". You can't. You can show me a really excited electron, and if you're really clever like these folks at Harvard you can even get that atom to release the exact same light with the exact same waveform, but you haven't stopped light.
It's annoying. How hard is it to say you've "trapped" light?
Aw c'mon, you've got to post the CNN link, where a reporter under so much pressure to deliver a visual aspect to America's short-attention-span audience pasted a picture of a giant squid captured 8 years ago onto a story about an octopus.
What are you talking about? America is civilized, and guns aren't illegal. So is Canada. There are a bunch of unwashed loonies in Europe and then the squalor that is the rest of the world, but who cares about them? I mean seriously, who's wearing the pants in the relationship? Why do you think NATO is crawling with American troops? Who's going to do the fighting? The French? BWahahahaha! All they do is sell AK-47's to terrorists and eat cheese.
i don't think so. that's actually a shame. this page delves into it from a high level but doesn't hit the technical details. especially since they keep changing it.
interesting details:
there are places where no one can attack anyone (LPK), places where you can kill but not loot (NPK), and places where you can kill and loot items (CPK). walking into a CPK area always requires confirmation. additionally, players can set a "DUEL" flag which allows them to engage other players in NPK anywhere on the map, even in town, if both players have the flag set. In addition, killing another player in NPK gives you a certain amount of time during which anyone can attack you (and TRACK you) in NPK. This is called "blood time". you accrue almost none for killing someone stronger then you, and exponentially more for killing someone weaker than you. a level 124 player killing a level 10 player would spend the rest of the day with "blood on their hands".
also read about this, a portion of the game which is dynamically re-located and re-mapped continuously at runtime.
So now in Canada, I have to pay Britney Spears to record music I play on my own guitar. That's pretty cool if you're an idiot. Or Britney Spears. But I repeat myse..
Where text muds went 10 years ago. All the problems of grief players, player killing, user grouping, experience sharing, and dynamic landscape generation were solved in text based MUDS like this one years ago. Watching the graphical corporate players re-learn these painful lessons (with the added humor factor of corporate arrogance, pride, and a PR department) has had all the humor value of watching a blind baby learn to walk.
I'd pay $39.95 to put everyone who wastes their time on computer games on the Myst island. That way there'd be more resources left for the rest of us; you know, the people whose asses are not conformed to our Aerons.
Re:This is a trojan horse, plain and simple.
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The interesting battle would be carried out not in the code but in the EULA. Sure, the SpyWare is allowing the Spy to commit a crime by installing it on someone else's hardware. The Spy is guilty of the crime, but is the SpyWare guilty of the crime? That would depend on how much warning text they have placed in their EULA about the intended use of the product. I'm not qualified to evaluate legal agreements, so I'll leave it at that.
That's so cool that CmdrTaco was able to get a Linux version of WCIII. I was afraid he wouldn't be able to play it (I know he doesn't watch Quicktime movies because you can't play them in Linux) but apparently Blizzard has provided him with an advance release of the Linux port.
ya, i know it only gets the stub. hence, "apple is on to our game". they USED to change the file at download time, apparently now they change the HTML. i'd love to know how they know whether you've registered quicktime at the time your browser connects. very interesting. that said, your filename isn't helping:
xxxx@xxxx xxxxx]$ wget -U "QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)" http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/media/640/ ep2_clone_war_p640.mov --13:59:41-- http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/media/640/ ep2_clone_war_p640.mov
=> `ep2_clone_war_p640.mov' Connecting to starwars.apple.com:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 13:59:42 ERROR 404: Not Found.
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Annoying and funny are not the same thing, editors.
Yes, they are. That's the first rule of Trolling. The point isn't to make you laugh, it's to make you complain, so they can laugh at you. I think they're doing a fine job.
never joke about our rights.
/. 4/01 story.
but your rights are a joke! slashdot is a service provided to you for free!
and here i thought i would never laugh at a
If anonymous posting hasn't been disabled, then tell me, what's my name?
You don't know. Slash keeps exactly as much information about an AC as it does about a logged in users, except for an email address. Which is usually anonymous. So even if this had been real, you'd still be just as funny.
is not that it's a year old Slashdot repeat; we're used to that. The problem is that the whole "stopping light" headline that all the mainstream journalists (who should know better) carry on it is baloney.
If a photon (light) hits an atom (matter), causing it's electrons to move to a more excited energy level, I defy you to "show me the light". You can't. You can show me a really excited electron, and if you're really clever like these folks at Harvard you can even get that atom to release the exact same light with the exact same waveform, but you haven't stopped light.
It's annoying. How hard is it to say you've "trapped" light?
You'd think they'd be skilled at it right now. Just like Hollywood, they keep rehashing the same old stuff over and over again.
That's NOT TRUE! IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!
Aw c'mon, you've got to post the CNN link, where a reporter under so much pressure to deliver a visual aspect to America's short-attention-span audience pasted a picture of a giant squid captured 8 years ago onto a story about an octopus.
Apart from in most civilised countries ;-).
What are you talking about? America is civilized, and guns aren't illegal. So is Canada. There are a bunch of unwashed loonies in Europe and then the squalor that is the rest of the world, but who cares about them?
I mean seriously, who's wearing the pants in the relationship? Why do you think NATO is crawling with American troops? Who's going to do the fighting? The French? BWahahahaha! All they do is sell AK-47's to terrorists and eat cheese.
"The Judge ruled that even if the users violated copyright, Kazaa did not."
"Duh" added the Judge.
i don't think so. that's actually a shame. this page delves into it from a high level but doesn't hit the technical details. especially since they keep changing it.
interesting details:
there are places where no one can attack anyone (LPK), places where you can kill but not loot (NPK), and places where you can kill and loot items (CPK). walking into a CPK area always requires confirmation. additionally, players can set a "DUEL" flag which allows them to engage other players in NPK anywhere on the map, even in town, if both players have the flag set. In addition, killing another player in NPK gives you a certain amount of time during which anyone can attack you (and TRACK you) in NPK. This is called "blood time". you accrue almost none for killing someone stronger then you, and exponentially more for killing someone weaker than you. a level 124 player killing a level 10 player would spend the rest of the day with "blood on their hands".
also read about this, a portion of the game which is dynamically re-located and re-mapped continuously at runtime.
Fire Open Source Extremists.
So now in Canada, I have to pay Britney Spears to record music I play on my own guitar. That's pretty cool if you're an idiot. Or Britney Spears. But I repeat myse..
Finally, someone else gets to do the screwing.
Where text muds went 10 years ago. All the problems of grief players, player killing, user grouping, experience sharing, and dynamic landscape generation were solved in text based MUDS like this one years ago. Watching the graphical corporate players re-learn these painful lessons (with the added humor factor of corporate arrogance, pride, and a PR department) has had all the humor value of watching a blind baby learn to walk.
If you find that kind of thing funny.
You mean, weak like posting comments with the name "Anonymous Coward"?
I'd pay $39.95 to put everyone who wastes their time on computer games on the Myst island. That way there'd be more resources left for the rest of us; you know, the people whose asses are not conformed to our Aerons.
The interesting battle would be carried out not in the code but in the EULA. Sure, the SpyWare is allowing the Spy to commit a crime by installing it on someone else's hardware. The Spy is guilty of the crime, but is the SpyWare guilty of the crime? That would depend on how much warning text they have placed in their EULA about the intended use of the product. I'm not qualified to evaluate legal agreements, so I'll leave it at that.
That's so cool that CmdrTaco was able to get a Linux version of WCIII. I was afraid he wouldn't be able to play it (I know he doesn't watch Quicktime movies because you can't play them in Linux) but apparently Blizzard has provided him with an advance release of the Linux port.
Awesome! Any word on when we'll get ahold of it?
Maybe they should stop stealing Sun's valuable Intellectual Property!
Anyone know a quick and 100% effective way to disable the magnetic strip on my license?
It's electric!
This is totally half as good as Windows 95. I'm impressed!
As annoying as first posts? You decide.
Ahh, 1997.
In other news,
Playstation 2 Kicks X-Box Out of Market
ya, i know it only gets the stub. hence, "apple is on to our game". they USED to change the file at download time, apparently now they change the HTML. i'd love to know how they know whether you've registered quicktime at the time your browser connects. very interesting. that said, your filename isn't helping:
/ ep2_clone_war_p640.mov/ ep2_clone_war_p640.mov
xxxx@xxxx xxxxx]$ wget -U "QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)" http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/media/640
--13:59:41-- http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/media/640
=> `ep2_clone_war_p640.mov'
Connecting to starwars.apple.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
13:59:42 ERROR 404: Not Found.