At the end of the day you'd need some moderation or we'd just be replacing one guy who is considered by some/many/everyone-but-himself (delete as applicable) to be a muppet with a whole fscking Internet's worth of trolls.
Unless of course you want to add moderation, and then it really would be just like Slashdot all over again . . .
"Enjoy while you can, parasitical record exec! The winds are changing."
While I would love to agree, I just don't think this is the case.
Looking at the UK Top 25, I am totally willing to say that there is only one artist in there that I think makes 'music' - and that's Radiohead.
Although I have no idea of relative singles sales over time in the UK (and I can't be arsed to check them), I think this shows that singles at least are 0wned by people who like shit songs from leaching labels.
I haven't listened to music radio in two years. The only music I listen to I either get from CDs I buy at gigs or music I download from mp3.com on other people's recommendations. I know this is highly personal and all, but I dont't care.
I am drunk and I have karma to burn . . . And no. This isn't my sig . . . That down there is my sig . . .
OK, seriously, how many of the Slashdot crowd would actually buy this? I mean we're the kind of people they must be aiming for, but I can't see it sitting in the corner of my room. It'd give me nightmares. It looks like a cross between a psychotic gaenacologists favourite torture implement and one of the Machines from the Matrix. Either way, not something I'd want in my house.
If you want a conversational piece, buy a bonsai kitten or something . . .
Yeah, even Slashdot appear to have realised we're losing interest since they're so desparate they seem to have made the Space icon 1x1 on the front page . ..
"Aiee! I just clicked on a Space story by accident!" "Don't move, I'll get the disinfectant!"
At the end of the day it's the users who are going to decide what the 'preferred platform' is, and I know that a large proportion of graphic/web designers who could not be separated from their G4s without a crowbar and tub of Vaseline. Whatever Adobe say.
However, does this mean Adobe are going to start favouring Windows in terms of releases and support? I suppose that could make more of a dent . . .
Actually, I never realised quite how much he did do for the part - I just assumed he was a voice actor. I always thought the whole Serkis-for-Oscar-nomination-please people were just being facetious, but I'm inclined to agree with them now.
In a completely different direction, how did they do the compositing if he was actually in the original shots? Erase him out and then stick Gollum in? Seems like a lot of work.
That reminds of something the DVD commentry when Bilbo is invisible and running back to Bag End. Either Dominic Monaghan or Billy Boyd said that they shot the scene with Ian Holm in it and then edited him out. I was never quite sure if they were taking the piss or not . . .
The GUI is the bit that does what I tell it to do!
It's all that sinister back-end I-never-told-you-to-touch-that shinanegins that takes me the time to track down and disable . ..
Seriously, of all the of things that piss me off about Windows (and before I get stuck in a zealot cross fire - I use both regularly and bits of both annoy me) the GUI is way down on the list.
P.S. Is there an accepted spelling for shinanegins? Anybody?
IIRC, at the end of Dune 2, Paul had run away into the dessert leaving his children at the mercy of the Bene Gesserit etc. Lot of people were dissapointed with the fact that Paul turned out to be a sissy after all.
I must protest!
Paul Maud'dib was living the Fremen way! If you're blind (as Paul was) you're a burden to your people and you go into the desert to die. It was either that or live in hypocrasy. I thought it was a shame at first, but in the end I decided it's better to burn out than to fade away. After all, Paul bailed as the series got lame . ..
Like you said, the books got really freaky after the second one. God Emperor was just too weird for me, and I gave up on the last two because I thought the series was in a death spiral.
But if you reckon they were worth it, I may go back and give them a go. What does everyone else think?
Yeah, the guys over at HardOCP managed a stable overclock of a 3GHz P4 to 4.4Ghz, but it took them two tries. The first one they blew up at 4.2GHz, and the second one they managed to get to 4.4GHz stable but only with help of two Vapochill units (think refridgerator and you're getting there) as well as watercooling for the GPU.
That's the best clock I know of and I don't think anyone else has come close. Can anyone correct me? I'd be interested to see if that really was the fastest . . .
Yeah. It's a shame, because one having one of these things would be cool. I could finally retire my gi-fscking-normous old IBM full tower and replace it with an RJ45 ; )
I don't suppose there's 2000 other people out there thinking the same thing, are there? . . .
To be honest, I have no idea if this is true, but I see no reason why it should be. Just go back to gameplay. Make the games cheap and good fun. They may not last for as long as a fully cinematic, bump-mapped, Radeon-stretching, blah, blah, blah, but they'll pass the time.
Just look at the quality of work turned out by amateur game developers in their spare time on GameDev and Flipcode and the like. The coders are there. A simple game doesn't need much in the way of level designers or artists. So where are the big costs?
Whatever. Feel free to flame me - I know shit about the industry - and I am probably missing something big.
I'm not sure I count as a "loyal customer" as I've never bought a GTA game in my life, but it's still cool.
I suppose the only reason more companies don't do this is simply the effort involved in updating them for modern systems - especially bearing in mind that they see no return. But I don't see any reason for companies not to release the source of their older games (a la Quake), and let the communities around the games update them.
When the L0pht group (now working for @stake) claimed in a Government Affairs Committee in May 1998 that they could make the Internet "unusable" in 30 minutes, they were largely talking about exploiting BGP.
RFC 2385 was released three months later referring to the problem . . .
Is this another case of some linux people hating a distro because it's too easy to use?
Too right!
If everyone learns how to use Linux then I lose my smug feeling of superiority.
Seriously, does this seem like hypocrisy run rife? Everyone says they want the world to use Linux, but when someone produces a distro that is easy enough for Win users to use as a stepping stone to *cough* 'greater things', everyone mocks it for being too dumbed down.
I wish some people would keep their attitudes in line with their principles . . .
Slashdot Mirror
/me hands MathJMendl a shovel and points to the desert
Good luck.
You're kidding, right?
See how badly Slashdot gets trolled?
At the end of the day you'd need some moderation or we'd just be replacing one guy who is considered by some/many/everyone-but-himself (delete as applicable) to be a muppet with a whole fscking Internet's worth of trolls.
Unless of course you want to add moderation, and then it really would be just like Slashdot all over again . . .
"Enjoy while you can, parasitical record exec! The winds are changing."
While I would love to agree, I just don't think this is the case.
Looking at the UK Top 25, I am totally willing to say that there is only one artist in there that I think makes 'music' - and that's Radiohead.
Although I have no idea of relative singles sales over time in the UK (and I can't be arsed to check them), I think this shows that singles at least are 0wned by people who like shit songs from leaching labels.
I haven't listened to music radio in two years. The only music I listen to I either get from CDs I buy at gigs or music I download from mp3.com on other people's recommendations. I know this is highly personal and all, but I dont't care.
I am drunk and I have karma to burn . . . And no. This isn't my sig . . . That down there is my sig . . .
What with PSX being the code for the original PlayStation format, isn't this going to get a little confusing?
Or is that only a British thing?
Oh the irony . . .
OK, seriously, how many of the Slashdot crowd would actually buy this? I mean we're the kind of people they must be aiming for, but I can't see it sitting in the corner of my room. It'd give me nightmares. It looks like a cross between a psychotic gaenacologists favourite torture implement and one of the Machines from the Matrix. Either way, not something I'd want in my house.
If you want a conversational piece, buy a bonsai kitten or something . . .
Amen.
A quick trudge of any *shudder* blog site is more than enough to convince me that everyone else leads a life as boring as mine.
Of course, it may just be that the people with interesting lives are out living them. Now there's a thought . . .
Yeah, I know this was thrown in for a + Funny, but in the past Slackware have actually had to retaliate in the version number wars . . .
Yeah, even Slashdot appear to have realised we're losing interest since they're so desparate they seem to have made the Space icon 1x1 on the front page . . .
"Aiee! I just clicked on a Space story by accident!"
"Don't move, I'll get the disinfectant!"
At the end of the day it's the users who are going to decide what the 'preferred platform' is, and I know that a large proportion of graphic/web designers who could not be separated from their G4s without a crowbar and tub of Vaseline. Whatever Adobe say.
However, does this mean Adobe are going to start favouring Windows in terms of releases and support? I suppose that could make more of a dent . . .
Actually, I never realised quite how much he did do for the part - I just assumed he was a voice actor. I always thought the whole Serkis-for-Oscar-nomination-please people were just being facetious, but I'm inclined to agree with them now.
In a completely different direction, how did they do the compositing if he was actually in the original shots? Erase him out and then stick Gollum in? Seems like a lot of work.
That reminds of something the DVD commentry when Bilbo is invisible and running back to Bag End. Either Dominic Monaghan or Billy Boyd said that they shot the scene with Ian Holm in it and then edited him out. I was never quite sure if they were taking the piss or not . . .
Hmm, and I can't help noticing it's from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.
.
Yeah. Seen it already, thanks. Do you see what I see? Down the bottom of the page there you'll find a search box . .
Just when I though Taco was doing better on the dupes as well.
Worthless?
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The GUI is the bit that does what I tell it to do!
It's all that sinister back-end I-never-told-you-to-touch-that shinanegins that takes me the time to track down and disable . .
Seriously, of all the of things that piss me off about Windows (and before I get stuck in a zealot cross fire - I use both regularly and bits of both annoy me) the GUI is way down on the list.
P.S. Is there an accepted spelling for shinanegins? Anybody?
IIRC, at the end of Dune 2, Paul had run away into the dessert leaving his children at the mercy of the Bene Gesserit etc. Lot of people were dissapointed with the fact that Paul turned out to be a sissy after all.
.
I must protest!
Paul Maud'dib was living the Fremen way! If you're blind (as Paul was) you're a burden to your people and you go into the desert to die. It was either that or live in hypocrasy. I thought it was a shame at first, but in the end I decided it's better to burn out than to fade away. After all, Paul bailed as the series got lame . .
Like you said, the books got really freaky after the second one. God Emperor was just too weird for me, and I gave up on the last two because I thought the series was in a death spiral.
But if you reckon they were worth it, I may go back and give them a go. What does everyone else think?
Yeah, the guys over at HardOCP managed a stable overclock of a 3GHz P4 to 4.4Ghz, but it took them two tries. The first one they blew up at 4.2GHz, and the second one they managed to get to 4.4GHz stable but only with help of two Vapochill units (think refridgerator and you're getting there) as well as watercooling for the GPU.
That's the best clock I know of and I don't think anyone else has come close. Can anyone correct me? I'd be interested to see if that really was the fastest . . .
Yeah. It's a shame, because one having one of these things would be cool. I could finally retire my gi-fscking-normous old IBM full tower and replace it with an RJ45 ; )
I don't suppose there's 2000 other people out there thinking the same thing, are there? . . .
Also, does it really matter?
.)
Is there any 'propriety information' they've got that we want and that hasn't already been reverse engineered by someone@somewhere?
(I can't believe 'we' just slipped so easily off the tongue there - the politics of this place must be getting to me . .
To be honest, I have no idea if this is true, but I see no reason why it should be. Just go back to gameplay. Make the games cheap and good fun. They may not last for as long as a fully cinematic, bump-mapped, Radeon-stretching, blah, blah, blah, but they'll pass the time.
Just look at the quality of work turned out by amateur game developers in their spare time on GameDev and Flipcode and the like. The coders are there. A simple game doesn't need much in the way of level designers or artists. So where are the big costs?
Whatever. Feel free to flame me - I know shit about the industry - and I am probably missing something big.
I'm not sure I count as a "loyal customer" as I've never bought a GTA game in my life, but it's still cool.
I suppose the only reason more companies don't do this is simply the effort involved in updating them for modern systems - especially bearing in mind that they see no return. But I don't see any reason for companies not to release the source of their older games (a la Quake), and let the communities around the games update them.
"Due to information received by Big Brother about 'every ong revolting', all of the ongs will be pre-emptively destroyed. That will be all."
When the L0pht group (now working for @stake) claimed in a Government Affairs Committee in May 1998 that they could make the Internet "unusable" in 30 minutes, they were largely talking about exploiting BGP.
RFC 2385 was released three months later referring to the problem . . .
If you play Quake III with the levels in reverse order, you get a message from Bill Gates . . .
Is this another case of some linux people hating a distro because it's too easy to use?
Too right!
If everyone learns how to use Linux then I lose my smug feeling of superiority.
Seriously, does this seem like hypocrisy run rife? Everyone says they want the world to use Linux, but when someone produces a distro that is easy enough for Win users to use as a stepping stone to *cough* 'greater things', everyone mocks it for being too dumbed down.
I wish some people would keep their attitudes in line with their principles . . .
Yeah. Isn't this going to cause my virus checker to go apeshit?
I would rather hope that Norton would spot something writing to my boot sector . . .
What's right and wrong, good and bad, truth or lie is not decided by popular vote or public opinion
I agree. Right and wrong are personal.
What's right and wrong, good and bad, truth or lie is not decided by popular vote or public opinion - but by observable facts that exist independently
Observable facts that are indepentant? Here's a link. Scarey, huh?
Sorry if this made no sense. This is a pist post.