Those "plastic bubble-3d games" just used parabolic mirrors to create the illusion of 3d. Many stores sell a little mirrored bowl that creates the same effect when one puts an object in it.
Another inside joke is the rendered teapot. A teapot was the first image rendered in 3D, so artists like to insert them as an inside joke.
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I can actually think of two (semi)good reasons for comdex to have an age restriction: 1) The need to limit the crowding somehow, and the best way to do this is to get rid of people who won't be buying much. 2) Legal liability: If a minor causes a lot of damage, it can be very difficult (read: impossible) to get him to pay for all of the damages as you can't make somebody pay what they don't have.
I know the latter is rather weak and suspect that it is the former lying behind the age restriction, but I'm also convinced that the Comdex planners have a team of lawyers advising them.
How is this offtopic? Not only did I reply directly to something mentioned in the post, but I raised an important (at least to me and many people that I know) issue that has no designated forum, and thus should be acceptable anywhere.
As a Greenpeace member who's been following the debate for over a decade, it's hard not to feel aggrieved at those with their own agenda who have pushed the theory that global climate change isn't happening.
I would greatly prefer if the content posters and the slashdot editors would have the journalistic integrity to not insert their own views into newsposts. I visit slashdot to stay current on interesting bits of news, not to read poster X bash corporations and pass it off as news. Were a reported for any semi-respectable newspaper to write something like that, he would most certainly be repremeanded, if not fired.
I think I speak for a large number of readers when I say that until I start see signs of good journalism developing here, I will not even consider paying real cash money for a subscription.
Some of the older video game themed movies are good. Don't forget The Wizard and War Games (yes, i know they aren't exactly the same as video-game-turned movies) just because the recent stuff sucks.
I really wish the slashdot editors and content posters would take a basic, high school level journalism class. It is not a reporter's job to pass judgement; he should simply state the facts and allow the reader to draw his own conclusions. I for one will not even consider paying for a subscription until Slashdot developes a modicum of journalistic integrity.
Several people have commented that the internet is a must for people with anything beyond automaton-style jobs. This simply is not true. The list of sites that I for ligitimate work related activities contains a few scholarly journals, http://mathworld.worlfram.com/, and maybe a few other sites. For most people (i.e. not people payed to develop/troubleshoot techncal products), a list of allowed sites will be sufficient except for maybe a few times a year, and then one can call Fred in the IT department to look it up for him.
But all of the really good baseball players are bought by American teams, so America has the only really good baseball league. That said, baseball is an American sport, poorly emulated elsewhere (because we get those who can do it well).
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I love it when people throw down vague references to New World Orders without even providing basic definitions. Another great way of making points is to say "you know this unless you're stupid." If you're going to present an argument, please try to provide some real support.
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The fact they started both World Wars and murdered over 10,000,000 innocent civilians during the last one could have had something to do with it. Why the hell was this modded up?
There's nothing more frustrating than getting on a 6 hour flight and knowing that you're laptop's going to be out of power half way through the flight.
His point was that every laptop manufacturer requires a differently shaped battery. Why can't manufacturers get together define battery form factors L, LL, and LLL, thereby allowing people to buy a replacement at their local computer store.
Actually, that is a truly elegant hack. The ideal hack is a simple (read elegant) solution to a problem. He managed to massively improve X's text antialiasing by changing a mere two lines of code. Impressive.
This fat web coder prefers PHP as it streamlines developement incredibly by allowing me to continue using my Dreamweaver templates for site-wide layout changes.
Why was this not posted on the front page? I think i speak for a large majority of the/. community when I say that a ruling in favor of cloning is both more interesting and more important than somebody's homemade PC case.
I've been running stably for over sic months on an overclocked Athlon Dragon board. I'm currently running XP, though i have also run Mandrake and Win2k. Were it not for the KT266 chipset, I would consider this a damn near perfect board.
Information wants to be free? I can reading this but nobody I've asked has ever been able to explain to me how they know that information wants to be free. It seems that most people who claim "Information wants to be free," actually mean "I want your information to be free." Were all information free, there would be no privacy.
There's one thing that people are failing to realize: The US has copywrite, trademark, and patent treaties with other nations. These treaties require all parties to honor the other nations' trademarks, copywrites, and patents. This is often taken advantage of by US companies that do not wish to go through the lengthy process of applying for these in the US (as I recall, mvp.com tradmarked their name somewhere in Africa).
By upholding foreign tradmarks in cybersquatting cases, all the courts are doing is honoring treaties we already have.
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The real question is: which is more painful to see, a Katz rant (also known as crapflood, a katzflood, and socialist ramblings) or goatse.cx?
Those "plastic bubble-3d games" just used parabolic mirrors to create the illusion of 3d. Many stores sell a little mirrored bowl that creates the same effect when one puts an object in it.
"We're a good religion."
Another inside joke is the rendered teapot. A teapot was the first image rendered in 3D, so artists like to insert them as an inside joke.
I can actually think of two (semi)good reasons for comdex to have an age restriction:
1) The need to limit the crowding somehow, and the best way to do this is to get rid of people who won't be buying much.
2) Legal liability: If a minor causes a lot of damage, it can be very difficult (read: impossible) to get him to pay for all of the damages as you can't make somebody pay what they don't have.
I know the latter is rather weak and suspect that it is the former lying behind the age restriction, but I'm also convinced that the Comdex planners have a team of lawyers advising them.
How is this offtopic? Not only did I reply directly to something mentioned in the post, but I raised an important (at least to me and many people that I know) issue that has no designated forum, and thus should be acceptable anywhere.
As a Greenpeace member who's been following the debate for over a decade, it's hard not to feel aggrieved at those with their own agenda who have pushed the theory that global climate change isn't happening.
I would greatly prefer if the content posters and the slashdot editors would have the journalistic integrity to not insert their own views into newsposts. I visit slashdot to stay current on interesting bits of news, not to read poster X bash corporations and pass it off as news. Were a reported for any semi-respectable newspaper to write something like that, he would most certainly be repremeanded, if not fired.
I think I speak for a large number of readers when I say that until I start see signs of good journalism developing here, I will not even consider paying real cash money for a subscription.
Some of the older video game themed movies are good. Don't forget The Wizard and War Games (yes, i know they aren't exactly the same as video-game-turned movies) just because the recent stuff sucks.
I really wish the slashdot editors and content posters would take a basic, high school level journalism class. It is not a reporter's job to pass judgement; he should simply state the facts and allow the reader to draw his own conclusions. I for one will not even consider paying for a subscription until Slashdot developes a modicum of journalistic integrity.
Several people have commented that the internet is a must for people with anything beyond automaton-style jobs. This simply is not true. The list of sites that I for ligitimate work related activities contains a few scholarly journals, http://mathworld.worlfram.com/, and maybe a few other sites. For most people (i.e. not people payed to develop/troubleshoot techncal products), a list of allowed sites will be sufficient except for maybe a few times a year, and then one can call Fred in the IT department to look it up for him.
But all of the really good baseball players are bought by American teams, so America has the only really good baseball league. That said, baseball is an American sport, poorly emulated elsewhere (because we get those who can do it well).
I love it when people throw down vague references to New World Orders without even providing basic definitions. Another great way of making points is to say "you know this unless you're stupid." If you're going to present an argument, please try to provide some real support.
The fact they started both World Wars and murdered over 10,000,000 innocent civilians during the last one could have had something to do with it. Why the hell was this modded up?
This should reduce /.'s overhead some: Fire Jon Katz. It would make the users happy and save Slashdot some cash.
Actually, I do know Perl (and Java, and C/C++, and...). I just find that I can develop far faster in PHP, so I tend to use it more.
There's nothing more frustrating than getting on a 6 hour flight and knowing that you're laptop's going to be out of power half way through the flight.
You could just take a spare battery with you.
His point was that every laptop manufacturer requires a differently shaped battery. Why can't manufacturers get together define battery form factors L, LL, and LLL, thereby allowing people to buy a replacement at their local computer store.
If it really is that simple, why had nobody tried it before?
Actually, that is a truly elegant hack. The ideal hack is a simple (read elegant) solution to a problem. He managed to massively improve X's text antialiasing by changing a mere two lines of code. Impressive.
This fat web coder prefers PHP as it streamlines developement incredibly by allowing me to continue using my Dreamweaver templates for site-wide layout changes.
Why was this not posted on the front page? I think i speak for a large majority of the /. community when I say that a ruling in favor of cloning is both more interesting and more important than somebody's homemade PC case.
I've been running stably for over sic months on an overclocked Athlon Dragon board. I'm currently running XP, though i have also run Mandrake and Win2k. Were it not for the KT266 chipset, I would consider this a damn near perfect board.
Information wants to be free? I can reading this but nobody I've asked has ever been able to explain to me how they know that information wants to be free. It seems that most people who claim "Information wants to be free," actually mean "I want your information to be free." Were all information free, there would be no privacy.
A complete proof would require a complete system.
There's one thing that people are failing to realize: The US has copywrite, trademark, and patent treaties with other nations. These treaties require all parties to honor the other nations' trademarks, copywrites, and patents. This is often taken advantage of by US companies that do not wish to go through the lengthy process of applying for these in the US (as I recall, mvp.com tradmarked their name somewhere in Africa).
By upholding foreign tradmarks in cybersquatting cases, all the courts are doing is honoring treaties we already have.