Does it actually matter what happens in the comments section? I'd be interested in knowing what percentage of regular Slashdot readers actually read the comments, and further, what percentage read the comments at a threshold other than 4 or 5?
I visit Slashdot 2 or 3 times a day, and very rarely do I actually read the comments of a story.
Yet, another part of me is saying "Ya know, I wish they diddnt have the power to do that. I mean, sure, they're cheaters, but they bought the game and now bungie gets to tell them how to play it?
They're not telling people how to play it, they're telling people how to play it on their servers (Xbox Live). If you had read TFA, you'd see that people are still able to play with their mods via system link. It's one thing if you hack the game for your own personal enjoyment, but completely wrecking their matchmaking service by unbalancing the game through cheating? C'mon, that's not even a fair comparison. It has absolutely nothing to do with your issue with software licenses.
For the most part these patents only exist to create some sort of nuclear stalemate - where your competitors are too afraid to sue you since it's certain that they violate some of your patents.
That's exactly what happens, although usually with a bit more negotiating than the Cold War.
When I worked at [large builds-everything company], I heard stories of the yearly "Lawyer's Meeting", where we would meet with [other builds-everything company] and the lawyers would actually sit down and negotiate "lawsuit trades" -- we wouldn't sue them over Patent X if they wouldn't sue us over Patent Y.
That might have just been one of those stories they told the summer interns, but it doesn't sound too far-fetched, if you ask me.
A sensible ordering/dating system would make RSS a great deal more powerful, and a great deal more sensible.
There already IS a dating sytem in RSS, see the optional channel elements "pubDate" and "lastBuildDate" in the RSS 2.0 Spec at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Oh god. This was rated 5? Now that's not very nice at all, at least I did my homework:-P
...while RSS is a reliable standard for updating information in message form, it currently has no logical way to organize that information in a way that could help subscribers keep track of what is being fed to them.
Which is exactly the way it SHOULD be done. Keep the management of the data seperate from the transmission of the data. Leave content management up to the APPLICATION.
Is it possible that hardware is going away first, with less effort going into embedded systems and more effort going into general microprocessors?
From what I've heard through the grapevine, it should be exactly the opposite. Interest will be swinging back into dedicated hardware rather than do-it-all processors, mostly due to power concerns in today's (and tomorrow's) portable devices.
I'm not proclaiming to be an expert on this by any means, so what the hell do I know?
The buyer will then need to make payment via the credit card on file with the Station Exchange service. Once the Exchange server has completed the transaction with the seller's PayPal account (minus a percentage of the transaction price), the item or character will be transferred to the buyer's game account.
Frankly, I'm surprised more MMO games haven't done something like this already, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
"It's true that many species, including insects, lizards and plants, do fine without sex, at least for a while."... don't forget about Slashdot readers... ZING!
Critics object that Netspeak ignores or violates the usual rules of punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure. It's peppered with strange abbreviations, acronyms and visual symbols. Its spelling can be, well, different.
What's so bad about Netspeak? Doesn't sound all that different from your typical Slashdot Article.
Spotted a "42" in the starfield background towards the end of the trailer... I'm quite sure there will be many, many things like this in the marketing blitz leading up to the movie's release.
My girlfriend and I were so obsessed with trying to catch every fish and insect in Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, that we once saw a Butterfly go by in the park and wondered "if we had that one"...
Yeah but you are also paying for that bandwidth. OTOH, if I were getting it for free then they can tell me what I can and cannot put up because in that case I am using their bandwidth that they are paying for.
Just because you pay for bandwidth, it doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want with it. Nobody's stopping you from using your right to free speech on your own time - but on somebody else's time/property it's a different story.
I have every right to stand on my lawn with my hair on fire screaming about whatever it is I believe, but if I do that in the middle of a department store, they have every right to kick me out.
Considering you're using the ISP's resources, is it really censorship? Nobody's stopping you from copying that text and handing it out to people using your own money and resources; but when you're technically using THEIR bandwidth, don't they have the right to say what you can and can't do with it?
It's such a shame that they refuse to play Ranma 1/2... though I don't know how the censors would react to a half-guy, half-girl character who somehow always has his, er, her chest exposed.
How could the government POSSIBLY read everything that is sent to them? I really just don't think it's even possible.
I mean, do you read EVERY comment here on Slashdot? Wow, you think we've got TROLLS around here? Just imagine the kinds of comments the GOVERNMENT gets!
i think its one of those things that nobody likes but companies make anyway, kind of like circus peanuts.
This is totally offtopic, and I'm sure it will get modded that way, but I don't think there is anything more puzzling than the circus peanuts. They're the opposite of delicious.
And they're one of those things that, no matter how often you say to yourself "These things are disgusting" you'll ALWAYS try one the next time someone offers you one, thinking that they really can't be that bad if they still make them.
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Does it actually matter what happens in the comments section? I'd be interested in knowing what percentage of regular Slashdot readers actually read the comments, and further, what percentage read the comments at a threshold other than 4 or 5?
I visit Slashdot 2 or 3 times a day, and very rarely do I actually read the comments of a story.
Yet, another part of me is saying "Ya know, I wish they diddnt have the power to do that. I mean, sure, they're cheaters, but they bought the game and now bungie gets to tell them how to play it?
They're not telling people how to play it, they're telling people how to play it on their servers (Xbox Live). If you had read TFA, you'd see that people are still able to play with their mods via system link. It's one thing if you hack the game for your own personal enjoyment, but completely wrecking their matchmaking service by unbalancing the game through cheating? C'mon, that's not even a fair comparison. It has absolutely nothing to do with your issue with software licenses.
For the most part these patents only exist to create some sort of nuclear stalemate - where your competitors are too afraid to sue you since it's certain that they violate some of your patents.
That's exactly what happens, although usually with a bit more negotiating than the Cold War.
When I worked at [large builds-everything company], I heard stories of the yearly "Lawyer's Meeting", where we would meet with [other builds-everything company] and the lawyers would actually sit down and negotiate "lawsuit trades" -- we wouldn't sue them over Patent X if they wouldn't sue us over Patent Y.
That might have just been one of those stories they told the summer interns, but it doesn't sound too far-fetched, if you ask me.
A sensible ordering/dating system would make RSS a great deal more powerful, and a great deal more sensible.
:-P
There already IS a dating sytem in RSS, see the optional channel elements "pubDate" and "lastBuildDate" in the RSS 2.0 Spec at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Oh god. This was rated 5?
Now that's not very nice at all, at least I did my homework
...while RSS is a reliable standard for updating information in message form, it currently has no logical way to organize that information in a way that could help subscribers keep track of what is being fed to them.
Which is exactly the way it SHOULD be done. Keep the management of the data seperate from the transmission of the data. Leave content management up to the APPLICATION.
Is it possible that hardware is going away first, with less effort going into embedded systems and more effort going into general microprocessors?
From what I've heard through the grapevine, it should be exactly the opposite. Interest will be swinging back into dedicated hardware rather than do-it-all processors, mostly due to power concerns in today's (and tomorrow's) portable devices.
I'm not proclaiming to be an expert on this by any means, so what the hell do I know?
The buyer will then need to make payment via the credit card on file with the Station Exchange service. Once the Exchange server has completed the transaction with the seller's PayPal account (minus a percentage of the transaction price), the item or character will be transferred to the buyer's game account.
Frankly, I'm surprised more MMO games haven't done something like this already, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
oh yeah, and Contra...
Up, up, down, down, a, b, a, b, select, start
"The Konami Code" is:
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A
>> I watch CSI, you know!
>I've never heard this on CSI: "We searched CODIS and the National Geographic DNA Database."
No? It was the same episode where they searched Slashdot for people who could take a joke. They didn't find anything.
members of the general public will be able to mail in their own DNA on special cheek swabs.
You want me to voluntarily contribute my DNA so you can keep it on file somewhere? Not a chance! I watch CSI, you know!
"It's true that many species, including insects, lizards and plants, do fine without sex, at least for a while." ... don't forget about Slashdot readers... ZING!
Critics object that Netspeak ignores or violates the usual rules of punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure. It's peppered with strange abbreviations, acronyms and visual symbols. Its spelling can be, well, different.
What's so bad about Netspeak? Doesn't sound all that different from your typical Slashdot Article.
Spotted a "42" in the starfield background towards the end of the trailer... I'm quite sure there will be many, many things like this in the marketing blitz leading up to the movie's release.
My girlfriend and I were so obsessed with trying to catch every fish and insect in Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, that we once saw a Butterfly go by in the park and wondered "if we had that one" ...
Yeah but you are also paying for that bandwidth. OTOH, if I were getting it for free then they can tell me what I can and cannot put up because in that case I am using their bandwidth that they are paying for.
Just because you pay for bandwidth, it doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want with it. Nobody's stopping you from using your right to free speech on your own time - but on somebody else's time/property it's a different story.
I have every right to stand on my lawn with my hair on fire screaming about whatever it is I believe, but if I do that in the middle of a department store, they have every right to kick me out.
Considering you're using the ISP's resources, is it really censorship? Nobody's stopping you from copying that text and handing it out to people using your own money and resources; but when you're technically using THEIR bandwidth, don't they have the right to say what you can and can't do with it?
Just use a Mac. Their email client pretty much does this already.
It's such a shame that they refuse to play Ranma 1/2... though I don't know how the censors would react to a half-guy, half-girl character who somehow always has his, er, her chest exposed.
Ah, tax the hell out of it and pay for my retirement.
Hmmm, both p2p and "rolling your own" are two things that people could make a lot of money off of if they just made it legal :-)
I'm surprised this post didn't find some way to blame Microsoft...
It's really just a matter of logistics.
How could the government POSSIBLY read everything that is sent to them? I really just don't think it's even possible.
I mean, do you read EVERY comment here on Slashdot? Wow, you think we've got TROLLS around here? Just imagine the kinds of comments the GOVERNMENT gets!
It would be even more lame if he had this great idea and DIDN'T make a profit.
What's wrong with making an honest buck on a good idea?
This is totally offtopic, and I'm sure it will get modded that way, but I don't think there is anything more puzzling than the circus peanuts. They're the opposite of delicious.
And they're one of those things that, no matter how often you say to yourself "These things are disgusting" you'll ALWAYS try one the next time someone offers you one, thinking that they really can't be that bad if they still make them.
Sorry about that, had to be said.
... but what about the SMELL of that many computer nerds gathered in an area like that! I hope the place has proper ventilation.