this word excepted, it doesn't mean what you think it means. ebert is more qualified to criticize art than you, it's what he does for a living. ebert is basically an art critic.
I'm with ebert. games themselves are not necessarily art, at least not in the same way as a painting or a film.
I used to work at a school, and we had to filter. Moreover, we had to spend money on it, so no DansGuardian on Squid. Verso's Netspective looked interesting, it would block p2p services by spoofing an RST packet. It would spoof an "image blocked" jpg, png, gif, etc. based on the ability to beat the internet's traffic back to the site.
and thank you for doing so. CmdrTaco was in clear violation of this policy. He should have named himself Taco and then pvp'd until he reached the rank of commander.
one thing the mono platform mmo games don't get -- my circle of friends is fairly well split between mac and windows users. we can't all play together if the game is just for windows. so what do we do? play world of warcraft. no one in my group wants to shell $500 for a PC that can barely play modern games.
In other words, they miss out on a network effect. I don't know how much of one but they lost 5+ sales within my circle of friends.
The comic / RPG shops up in the Twin Cities area are pretty good. You'll still see your share of weird stuff, though. I once walked past some dude reading some LARP sourcebook in his car in the parking lot of the Source, and his passenger seat was full of trash.
I mean, the greasy paper bags and paper wrappers filled up the floor. Then, they filled up the seat. They crested over the line of the passenger seat window like meniscus. It was obvious that he had not had a passenger in his car for quite some time. It was a 70 degree day, and he was wearing a trenchcoat, inside his car, with the windows up. I was boggled, utterly boggled. I had my own gawker slowdown walking past his car./no offense to you normal larpers
Hola, amigo! Try some of these corrections, they should help you in your quest to be a grammar Nazi. As it stands currently, you're just a grammar ese.
"Finally! I'm tired" or "Finally, I'm tired" would both work.
Try a comma here: "And yes, I'm shit tired..."
Regarding the substitution of 'to' for 'too': this is a common error. Don't worry, I see it all the time on slashdot: "just because they're too lazy."
Your meaning here is ambiguous. You should rephrase this: "Maybe it's a coincidence, but the fact that I'm not a native english speaker answers why people have such weak grammar and spelling."
"But by reading." This is a sentence fragment. You need a verb! Try this instead: "I didn't learn english by hearing, but by reading." Also, your parenthetical quote could just as easily be a full sentence in its own right.
Here's another correction: "In fact, I had some trouble..."
This is the big daddy of your grammar issues in this post: "it's common the rumor that americans are oh god the cream of the crop and they're so superior to us in everything." You need to put some double-quotes in there, maybe a comma or two.
This isn't wrong, per se, but it's kind of funny "And then I come... and end up making a huge O face," especially if you've seen Office Space.:)
Here to help! My sister and mom are both english teachers. Mom's a spanish teacher as well.
I take great offence to your post! First, there are many talentless people in hollywood that don't have boobs. They suck too, and it's unconscionable that you'd ignore them. Second, there are scores of talentless people that have boobs and yet no boob job. Top-notch boob jobs are not the sole indicator of suck. I dare say they are not even a primary indicator.
Well, one of the reasons is the AT&T lawsuit back in the early 90s. Linux took off while people were unsure of whether it was legal to use the BSD codebase.
The other is probably marketing. The BSDs didn't lag much behind linux in terms of popularity until IBM put a bunch of marketing dollars behind Linux. Then Linux really took off.
If you read the article, you'll see ESR say that most of the gearheads at work on the kernel *aren't* linux zealots.
IANAL, but I'd guess that it's covered under whatever fees streaming audio is supposed to pay (like radio). There was a hullabaloo all over slashdot all about it.
"I think that recent Brazilian moves towards FOSS are much more significant given Brazil's population and influence in South America."
I don't think this was done to steal Brazil's thunder, pal. I think it's just as significant for Microsoft to lose a paying customer of this size than failing to expand in a new market. The reason? Norway can afford Microsoft, monetarily. Norway can afford Microsoft up the wazoo -- the nation is apparently debt-free. Brazil isn't in the same situation.
It's interesting to note that in both cases, the switch apparently isn't about the money, it's more about the pragmatic freedom.
Judging by the fact that Norwegian schools had to threaten a boycott of Office just to get a version in Nynorsk, I'm guessing that Redmond is more or less irrelevant to Norway.
Remember what Microsoft has to do to increase their stock prices: they have to grow. If they lose an entire freakin nation, that's a downturn. The more nations switch, the more other nations see that it can be done. If I was microsoft, I'd be freaked. Scandinavia has a bunch of tech that you're at least dimly aware of -- Ad Aware, Opera, Nokia....
there are a zillion different pdf implementations out there. It's a standard. Acrobat is just one of the proprietary systems out there that utilizes the pdf spec, which it does quite well. Apple has a license for it (Quartz is a replacement for the old DisplayPDF graphics engine they used to use back in the day).
It shouldn't alleviate necessity of E911 for VOIP at all. If a person runs VOIP, they have to implement E911. The ruling basically states that the FCC ruled correctly that cable isn't a common carrier. The FCC has rulings that VOIP calls must support E911. These two do not contradict each other. They are not mutually exclusive.
I'm guessing that the reason the kid got 12 days for disabling BESS is that mucking around or disabling a proxy can ruin the district's ability to get e-rate money back from the federal government.
I'm not saying it's not fucked up, I'm just saying that's probably why it happened that way.
You can always pretend that it's Vezzini from Princess Bride.
"There was a typo where an 'N' was supposed to be but there was an "M" instead. Inconceivable!"
I also like the fact that this Spencerian fellow advises me to dump my girlfriend if she doesn't like the same movies I do. Excellent love advice from slashdot.
Slashdot used to have techie articles like this all the time. I was actually glad to see that articles like this could still make it to the front page here and there. I don't think it's overlooked, but it doesn't have the media PR machine behind it that Linux has, not by a long shot. Yahoo! runs on FreeBSD. The big corps definitely use it. ISPs definitely use it. Webhosting companies definitely use it.
I'm not sure what you mean by business case documents. I'm guessing that's like brochures and PR materials for management. FreeBSD just started up a marketing team, you'll probably be seeing stuff like that more in the near future.
So you think they're dumping Darwin as a base? Listen folks, there's stuff that apple can't do because they're based off an open-source kernel. What stops a user from recompiling a kernel that doesn't have those limitations in it? You think they're dumping the darwin layer? I doubt it. Maybe they could do something in the Mach layer, but that's open source too.
If there's a signed kernel, there will be outcry amongst darwin coders. Some of whom, if you'll recall, work at apple. And every time the kernel changes version, it needs a new signature.
Criminy, the FUD about DRM is incredible here. Has apple released a statement about anything? No, it's just wild speculation on a billion fronts. Wait a while, take a few deep breaths, and take it easy.
Remember, their iPod comes in a box that says "don't steal music", and that's about the extent of it. If they didn't have to have to put DRM on audio tracks, they probably wouldn't. Apple is a creative company that wants you to be creative on their systems and they've got a good foothold on the FOSS model. Give them a shred of credit.
Plus, Steve Jobs has said before, and repeatedly, that DRM solutions don't work in the long run. Hymn is a fine example of that.
Duh! You could attach a generator to the wheels of the car that could be plugged in to the wall to charge the generators that power the plug in the wall where you will be plugging your car into.
Best of all, it's 100% efficient, just like the Cattus-Panes method of perpetual motion.
Nice try, whatever. Microsoft acquired Connectix, who made virtual PC for the Mac, which allows Macs to emulate an X86 environment. XNA / directX is already present on the damn machine. It's not that it's not possible. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's just that it's hard, and Microsoft doesn't want to expend the resources to do it 100%.
BTW, you accuse a lot of people of being fanboys, and checking your post history, it sounds like you're already dead set on the revolution and nothing else will suffice. There's nothing wrong with that. However, I'd like you to meet pot. Pot, meet kettle. You two should get along just fine.
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this word excepted, it doesn't mean what you think it means. ebert is more qualified to criticize art than you, it's what he does for a living. ebert is basically an art critic.
I'm with ebert. games themselves are not necessarily art, at least not in the same way as a painting or a film.
I used to work at a school, and we had to filter. Moreover, we had to spend money on it, so no DansGuardian on Squid. Verso's Netspective looked interesting, it would block p2p services by spoofing an RST packet. It would spoof an "image blocked" jpg, png, gif, etc. based on the ability to beat the internet's traffic back to the site.
and thank you for doing so. CmdrTaco was in clear violation of this policy. He should have named himself Taco and then pvp'd until he reached the rank of commander.
one thing the mono platform mmo games don't get -- my circle of friends is fairly well split between mac and windows users. we can't all play together if the game is just for windows. so what do we do? play world of warcraft. no one in my group wants to shell $500 for a PC that can barely play modern games.
In other words, they miss out on a network effect. I don't know how much of one but they lost 5+ sales within my circle of friends.
Royalty payments of $6-$8 per month? I wonder if they're all colluding on pricing again.
It's called the "Good Times" virus
The comic / RPG shops up in the Twin Cities area are pretty good. You'll still see your share of weird stuff, though. I once walked past some dude reading some LARP sourcebook in his car in the parking lot of the Source, and his passenger seat was full of trash.
/no offense to you normal larpers
I mean, the greasy paper bags and paper wrappers filled up the floor. Then, they filled up the seat. They crested over the line of the passenger seat window like meniscus. It was obvious that he had not had a passenger in his car for quite some time. It was a 70 degree day, and he was wearing a trenchcoat, inside his car, with the windows up. I was boggled, utterly boggled. I had my own gawker slowdown walking past his car.
ftp -a ftp.mozilla.org /net/ao16/lxmirror/ftp.mozilla.org/firefox/release s/1.0.4
bin
cd
um, okay. let me rephrase that: FTP isn't *that* hard for uhm, your average computer genius.
Hola, amigo! Try some of these corrections, they should help you in your quest to be a grammar Nazi. As it stands currently, you're just a grammar ese.
:)
"Finally! I'm tired" or "Finally, I'm tired" would both work.
Try a comma here: "And yes, I'm shit tired..."
Regarding the substitution of 'to' for 'too': this is a common error. Don't worry, I see it all the time on slashdot: "just because they're too lazy."
Your meaning here is ambiguous. You should rephrase this: "Maybe it's a coincidence, but the fact that I'm not a native english speaker answers why people have such weak grammar and spelling."
"But by reading." This is a sentence fragment. You need a verb! Try this instead: "I didn't learn english by hearing, but by reading." Also, your parenthetical quote could just as easily be a full sentence in its own right.
Here's another correction: "In fact, I had some trouble..."
This is the big daddy of your grammar issues in this post: "it's common the rumor that americans are oh god the cream of the crop and they're so superior to us in everything." You need to put some double-quotes in there, maybe a comma or two.
This isn't wrong, per se, but it's kind of funny "And then I come... and end up making a huge O face," especially if you've seen Office Space.
Here to help! My sister and mom are both english teachers. Mom's a spanish teacher as well.
I take great offence to your post! First, there are many talentless people in hollywood that don't have boobs. They suck too, and it's unconscionable that you'd ignore them. Second, there are scores of talentless people that have boobs and yet no boob job. Top-notch boob jobs are not the sole indicator of suck. I dare say they are not even a primary indicator.
Well, one of the reasons is the AT&T lawsuit back in the early 90s. Linux took off while people were unsure of whether it was legal to use the BSD codebase.
The other is probably marketing. The BSDs didn't lag much behind linux in terms of popularity until IBM put a bunch of marketing dollars behind Linux. Then Linux really took off.
If you read the article, you'll see ESR say that most of the gearheads at work on the kernel *aren't* linux zealots.
IANAL, but I'd guess that it's covered under whatever fees streaming audio is supposed to pay (like radio). There was a hullabaloo all over slashdot all about it.
"I think that recent Brazilian moves towards FOSS are much more significant given Brazil's population and influence in South America."
I don't think this was done to steal Brazil's thunder, pal. I think it's just as significant for Microsoft to lose a paying customer of this size than failing to expand in a new market. The reason? Norway can afford Microsoft, monetarily. Norway can afford Microsoft up the wazoo -- the nation is apparently debt-free. Brazil isn't in the same situation.
It's interesting to note that in both cases, the switch apparently isn't about the money, it's more about the pragmatic freedom.
Judging by the fact that Norwegian schools had to threaten a boycott of Office just to get a version in Nynorsk, I'm guessing that Redmond is more or less irrelevant to Norway.
Remember what Microsoft has to do to increase their stock prices: they have to grow. If they lose an entire freakin nation, that's a downturn. The more nations switch, the more other nations see that it can be done. If I was microsoft, I'd be freaked. Scandinavia has a bunch of tech that you're at least dimly aware of -- Ad Aware, Opera, Nokia....
Here's a boycott link from 2003 at the register: Windows and Nynorsk
there are a zillion different pdf implementations out there. It's a standard. Acrobat is just one of the proprietary systems out there that utilizes the pdf spec, which it does quite well. Apple has a license for it (Quartz is a replacement for the old DisplayPDF graphics engine they used to use back in the day).
Ghostscript and xpdf are already out there.
It shouldn't alleviate necessity of E911 for VOIP at all. If a person runs VOIP, they have to implement E911. The ruling basically states that the FCC ruled correctly that cable isn't a common carrier. The FCC has rulings that VOIP calls must support E911. These two do not contradict each other. They are not mutually exclusive.
I'm guessing that the reason the kid got 12 days for disabling BESS is that mucking around or disabling a proxy can ruin the district's ability to get e-rate money back from the federal government.
I'm not saying it's not fucked up, I'm just saying that's probably why it happened that way.
You can always pretend that it's Vezzini from Princess Bride.
"There was a typo where an 'N' was supposed to be but there was an "M" instead. Inconceivable!"
I also like the fact that this Spencerian fellow advises me to dump my girlfriend if she doesn't like the same movies I do. Excellent love advice from slashdot.
Slashdot used to have techie articles like this all the time. I was actually glad to see that articles like this could still make it to the front page here and there. I don't think it's overlooked, but it doesn't have the media PR machine behind it that Linux has, not by a long shot. Yahoo! runs on FreeBSD. The big corps definitely use it. ISPs definitely use it. Webhosting companies definitely use it.
I'm not sure what you mean by business case documents. I'm guessing that's like brochures and PR materials for management. FreeBSD just started up a marketing team, you'll probably be seeing stuff like that more in the near future.
2005 called, they want their flamewar back. :)
wherefore something?
therefore something!
So you think they're dumping Darwin as a base? Listen folks, there's stuff that apple can't do because they're based off an open-source kernel. What stops a user from recompiling a kernel that doesn't have those limitations in it? You think they're dumping the darwin layer? I doubt it. Maybe they could do something in the Mach layer, but that's open source too.
If there's a signed kernel, there will be outcry amongst darwin coders. Some of whom, if you'll recall, work at apple. And every time the kernel changes version, it needs a new signature.
Criminy, the FUD about DRM is incredible here. Has apple released a statement about anything? No, it's just wild speculation on a billion fronts. Wait a while, take a few deep breaths, and take it easy.
Remember, their iPod comes in a box that says "don't steal music", and that's about the extent of it. If they didn't have to have to put DRM on audio tracks, they probably wouldn't. Apple is a creative company that wants you to be creative on their systems and they've got a good foothold on the FOSS model. Give them a shred of credit.
Plus, Steve Jobs has said before, and repeatedly, that DRM solutions don't work in the long run. Hymn is a fine example of that.
Duh! You could attach a generator to the wheels of the car that could be plugged in to the wall to charge the generators that power the plug in the wall where you will be plugging your car into.
Best of all, it's 100% efficient, just like the Cattus-Panes method of perpetual motion.
Heh, it gets worse. Enderle was right too.
Enderle vs. Chaffin debate from macnewsworld.com
Nice try, whatever. Microsoft acquired Connectix, who made virtual PC for the Mac, which allows Macs to emulate an X86 environment. XNA / directX is already present on the damn machine. It's not that it's not possible. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's just that it's hard, and Microsoft doesn't want to expend the resources to do it 100%.
BTW, you accuse a lot of people of being fanboys, and checking your post history, it sounds like you're already dead set on the revolution and nothing else will suffice. There's nothing wrong with that. However, I'd like you to meet pot. Pot, meet kettle. You two should get along just fine.