I do believe that only on Slashdot would we see someone correct an All Your Base quote, and then see that correction get modded to +4, Informative (for now anyway).
As long as the mods are feeling good about this topic for now, I'll just add that the poor translation comes from the Genesis game "Zero Wing" in case someone out there didn't know.
If I remember right, and it's been awhile, Stargate the movie had a scene with around 2000 extras in a single battle.
Yes, they had a very large group of extras and use rather primitive CGI to "clone" those extras into an even bigger group. While I just called the CGI primitive, it's important to note that is only compared to current standards. When the SG movie came out, most the effects were pretty spectacular, save a few moments of cheesiness.
Also, the SG movie was the first film to have an official Web site. I believe it even had a downloadable trailer. I'd hate to think what resolution that was in, heh.
I still find it ironic that software which is primarily used to violate copyright law (I know there are legitimate uses, but let's be realistic here) is protected by copyright law, and they won the case against the Kazaa Lite folks.
However, I don't see how this ruling changes anything. It doesn't matter what is legal where, because people will always find a way to swap files. There are a million peer-to-peer apps, there's IRC, there's UseNet... I cannot see how any ruling in any country is really going to change the way things are, because I cannot see how any nation can actually enforce that ruling. Perhaps that's one of the reasons they didn't rule against it in the Netherlands. How do you stop a country from swapping files? Even the RIAA with its police powers isn't able to do that here.
I'd like to believe that more workable business models will evolve that can exist peacefully with file swapping, but I guess only time will tell.
SOLDIER #1:
Where'd you get the data?
ARTHUR:
We found it.
SOLDIER #1:
Found it? In here? That's impossble!
ARTHUR:
What do you mean?
SOLDIER #1:
Well, there's no Internet access for miles.
ARTHUR:
The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
SOLDIER #1:
Are you suggesting data migrates?
ARTHUR:
Not at all. It could be carried.
SOLDIER #1:
What? A swallow carrying a case DVDs?
ARTHUR:
It could grip it by the edge!
SOLDIER #1:
It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound DVD case.
ARTHUR:
Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
SOLDIER #1:
Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
ARTHUR:
Please!
SOLDIER #1:
Am I right?
ARTHUR:
I'm not interested!
SOLDIER #2:
It could be carried by an African swallow!
SOLDIER #1:
Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point.
SOLDIER #2:
Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
ARTHUR:
Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!
SOLDIER #1:
But then of course a-- African swallows are non-migratory.
SOLDIER #2:
Oh, yeah.
SOLDIER #1:
So, they couldn't bring the DVDs back anyway.
SOLDIER #2:
Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?
SOLDIER #1:
No, they'd have to have it on a line.
SOLDIER #2:
Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!
SOLDIER #1:
What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
SOLDIER #2:
Well, why not?
My edition is also activation free. It's also the full version, so it can be installed on a blank hard drive.
I got it through the Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalogue (WISC) for that price. WISC is in charge of the software discounts for a number of schools, including Western Wisconsin Technical College, which is where I took some classes in 01-02.
I really wish I knew how that was legal. Microsoft, who have been declared an illegal monopoly, continue to flood the market by offering discounts their competition can't hope to match. And nobody does anything about it?
Heh, yeah. I mean, what the heck is the Linux community supposed to do in order to compete? Give software away? Err, oh, nevermind. Heh.
A quick glance at the article revealed that it was not ASCII art as I first imagined. When I read the headline, I immediately had a vision of a billboard looking a bit like TextMode Quake. I was most relieved to discover that I was wrong.
I misread that as "Retarded Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular" which might not be a stretch for a Slashdot headline.;)
I have a simple explanation for why end users aren't jumping on XP.... Perhaps they think "Windows 2000" must be better than "Windows XP" because 2000 is a really big number! Har har. Seriously, I bet that does have a bit of an impact on the end user. I mean, look how much MHz/GHz numbers impact sales. I think a lot of people simply see a big number and think it must be better.
As for those still stuck on win9x... well, they have my pity, but I can understand them. Who really wants to pay $100+ for a new OS, especially in a sluggish economy?
I'm pretty happy with XP. I think the fact that it was only $20 through my school helped me like it more.;)
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I've been waiting for a moment when this was slightly on-topic. Has anyone else noticed that Norton flags the official distributed.net client for Windows as a trojan?
Granted, there are some dnet trojans out there, but I think Norton goes a little overboard on this one. I don't see how dnet is less legit than SETI or Folding. Why not call those trojans, too?
Hey, this is slashdot. You should be happy that I STFI (saw the fucking image). But RTFA? That's beyond most of us. I did notice that right after I posted though. Heh.
The slashdot summary was a bit misleading, and the true nature of the sample isn't mentioned until half-way down in the article.
Oh well. Big fuss over nothing, or at most, a very little something.
I agree. I once read that NASA is very possessive of their lunar samples, and Universities have to really beg, plead, and fill out reams of paperwork to get a few grams worth.
NASA calls lunar material priceless and so the first thing insurance companies ask them is how much would it cost to replace. So, NASA values it at the cost of sending up another Saturn V.
This sample should have been donated to scientific research. The fact that it could end up in the hands of a private owner who will do no more than say, "Look at my moon rock!" is disturbing. The article has an image of the rock. It's hard to judge size in the image, but it's more than a few grams.
Apparently, you've never seen Fire Truck (Atari, 1978)
No, I never have. I will be 22 years old on the 26th of this month. That makes 1978 a bit before my time.;)
My parents gave me an Atari when I was 9 or 10, though, because they were cheap and probably got a deal on it. However, I never played Fire Truck. But, Pole Position rocked!
I don't see anything other than the graphics that couldn't be accomplished on the n64 or possibly even the SNES.
Umm, couldn't you say that about the vast majority of video games in general? People upgrade for graphics, not gameplay. The GB and GBA have great games on very wimpy hardware.
Perhaps I'm wrong... can you point out a game that needs modern hardware for something other than its graphics?
They didn't introduce any new behaviors, they just added another way to map existing behaviors onto two controllers. Innovative idea, I'll grant, but I don't see this earn MK the title of "huge progress" on its own.
Well, not exactly. The driver has to start the power slide, the gunner has to push the right direction to get it going. So they kind of split a behavior in half, which we might as well call a new behavior.
And besides, the technical aspect of how it was done is not important: it's the end result. Does it feel like progress? Yes. To me, it felt like an advancement of astronomical proportions. That's what matters, and that's what reviewers should focus on. Perhaps everyone is thinking as left-brained as you are, denouncing the progress because it wasn't an astounding technical achivement but rather a gameplay enhancement. An enhancement that improved the gameplay dramatically. Hence, progress.;)
Sorry, but I read this and see this everywhere, and what I think is happening is one reviewer said it and none of the others have the balls to say it's not true.
The Mario Kart Double Dash that I played for the first time yesterday was a huge leap in progress compared to the SNES and N64 games.
First of all, the multiplayer co-op mode! Hello? Did you reviewers just not notice it? Or do you not know anyone else you can play it with? Lemme explain the co-op mode: One person steers, the other mans the weapons and does the power slides. And you can swap places! I'd file this one under "progress" people.
The reviews sound like this is Mario64 in GC graphics. It's not. This is a new Mario Kart game that represents the most progress in the series to date.
So slashdotters: Don't believe the reviews, they're mostly wrong. If you liked Mario Kart on SNES or N64, you'll love what they've done with it on the GC. It's that simple. If you don't like Mario Kart games, it's worth renting as the co-op mode might win you over.
Frankly, IMHO, the obsession with true-color images has more to do with public relations than true science.
As far as I know, Hubble does not produce true-color images. The images are assigned colors, usually based on things like temperature, etc.
While the images are more a picture of "visible light" than Chandra (which is an x-ray scope, I believe) and others, it's still not exactly what our human eyes would see if we could see it with them.
The following isn't a reply to your post, but just a general thought of mine... The Hubble can't last forever, and while most of us wish something could be done, I think it's best to be thankful that the thing lived, rather than mourn its death. Very few of NASA's projects have done so much for humanity's understanding of the universe as Hubble did. So, farewell, Hubble, and thank you.
Did Sega develop their own emulator for these ROMs, or are users instructed to use a particular existing one?
Myself, I find Gens to be the best (and it's open source, too). Makes me glad I hung on to all my old Sega CD games after mine up and died.
And lastly, what's a post without some piracy links? Over at www.suprnova.org there are torrents containing every Genesis game ever released in the US. Same for NES, SNES, and more.
The NES package of 700+ US titles is only 70 MB. Heh. Technology. It's funny.
The scourging of the shire isn't going to be in ROTK, and now Saruman isn't, either? What the hell? How do they explain where the Palantir (the seeing stone) came from? I was a little surprised to see one in Fellowship, but is that all we're going to see of it? We won't get to see Aragon reveal himself to Saruon through it and wrestle with him for control of it, while he flashes his sword at him?
Granted, not everything can make it into the film, but these were, for me, very memorable parts of the book. If they're being cut just to extend the battles or add new ones (ala Warg Riders in TT) I'll be disappointed.
Oh well. At least it won't be as bad as Matrix Revolutions. To quote Jon Stewart, that movie blows.;)
Slashdotters, you've got to learn not to insult the site you're wasting your time posting lists of things at. It makes you look pretty silly and opens you up to smart-ass retorts from people like myself.
Anyway, here's a couple of ads to ban:
1) Any Intel Ad Ever Made - It always has nothing to do with Intel processors. The ad may have something to do with computing in general, but even then it will focus on things that any processor from this century can do, like watching movies or burning CDs.
2) Movies can no longer say "The Number One Movie in America" in their ads. This is too misleading, as there are so many box office calculating tricks that can throw pretty rotten movies in this category.
Well, I guess those are the only two that irk me, but I don't pay much attention to television ads. I do remember when the G5 ad first started airing, though, and I remember thinking that someone was going to throw a fit over that statement. It seems you can't air a damn thing without pissing someone off.
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As long as the mods are feeling good about this topic for now, I'll just add that the poor translation comes from the Genesis game "Zero Wing" in case someone out there didn't know.
Yes, they had a very large group of extras and use rather primitive CGI to "clone" those extras into an even bigger group. While I just called the CGI primitive, it's important to note that is only compared to current standards. When the SG movie came out, most the effects were pretty spectacular, save a few moments of cheesiness.
Also, the SG movie was the first film to have an official Web site. I believe it even had a downloadable trailer. I'd hate to think what resolution that was in, heh.
However, I don't see how this ruling changes anything. It doesn't matter what is legal where, because people will always find a way to swap files. There are a million peer-to-peer apps, there's IRC, there's UseNet... I cannot see how any ruling in any country is really going to change the way things are, because I cannot see how any nation can actually enforce that ruling. Perhaps that's one of the reasons they didn't rule against it in the Netherlands. How do you stop a country from swapping files? Even the RIAA with its police powers isn't able to do that here.
I'd like to believe that more workable business models will evolve that can exist peacefully with file swapping, but I guess only time will tell.
Somehow, I have a feeling that you might be correct.
SOLDIER #1: Where'd you get the data?
ARTHUR: We found it.
SOLDIER #1: Found it? In here? That's impossble!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
SOLDIER #1: Well, there's no Internet access for miles.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
SOLDIER #1: Are you suggesting data migrates?
ARTHUR: Not at all. It could be carried.
SOLDIER #1: What? A swallow carrying a case DVDs?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the edge!
SOLDIER #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound DVD case.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
SOLDIER #1: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
SOLDIER #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
SOLDIER #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
SOLDIER #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point.
SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!
SOLDIER #1: But then of course a-- African swallows are non-migratory.
SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah.
SOLDIER #1: So, they couldn't bring the DVDs back anyway.
SOLDIER #2: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?
SOLDIER #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
SOLDIER #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!
SOLDIER #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
SOLDIER #2: Well, why not?
I got it through the Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalogue (WISC) for that price. WISC is in charge of the software discounts for a number of schools, including Western Wisconsin Technical College, which is where I took some classes in 01-02.
Heh, yeah. I mean, what the heck is the Linux community supposed to do in order to compete? Give software away? Err, oh, nevermind. Heh.
A quick glance at the article revealed that it was not ASCII art as I first imagined. When I read the headline, I immediately had a vision of a billboard looking a bit like TextMode Quake. I was most relieved to discover that I was wrong.
I have a simple explanation for why end users aren't jumping on XP.... Perhaps they think "Windows 2000" must be better than "Windows XP" because 2000 is a really big number! Har har. Seriously, I bet that does have a bit of an impact on the end user. I mean, look how much MHz/GHz numbers impact sales. I think a lot of people simply see a big number and think it must be better.
As for those still stuck on win9x... well, they have my pity, but I can understand them. Who really wants to pay $100+ for a new OS, especially in a sluggish economy?
I'm pretty happy with XP. I think the fact that it was only $20 through my school helped me like it more. ;)
Granted, there are some dnet trojans out there, but I think Norton goes a little overboard on this one. I don't see how dnet is less legit than SETI or Folding. Why not call those trojans, too?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031205l. jpg
The slashdot summary was a bit misleading, and the true nature of the sample isn't mentioned until half-way down in the article.
Oh well. Big fuss over nothing, or at most, a very little something.
I propose that someone add Radioactive Symbols where http://www.opte.org/ used to be in the map, since their server had a meltdown.
NASA calls lunar material priceless and so the first thing insurance companies ask them is how much would it cost to replace. So, NASA values it at the cost of sending up another Saturn V.
This sample should have been donated to scientific research. The fact that it could end up in the hands of a private owner who will do no more than say, "Look at my moon rock!" is disturbing. The article has an image of the rock. It's hard to judge size in the image, but it's more than a few grams.
No, I never have. I will be 22 years old on the 26th of this month. That makes 1978 a bit before my time. ;)
My parents gave me an Atari when I was 9 or 10, though, because they were cheap and probably got a deal on it. However, I never played Fire Truck. But, Pole Position rocked!
Umm, couldn't you say that about the vast majority of video games in general? People upgrade for graphics, not gameplay. The GB and GBA have great games on very wimpy hardware.
Perhaps I'm wrong... can you point out a game that needs modern hardware for something other than its graphics?
Well, not exactly. The driver has to start the power slide, the gunner has to push the right direction to get it going. So they kind of split a behavior in half, which we might as well call a new behavior.
And besides, the technical aspect of how it was done is not important: it's the end result. Does it feel like progress? Yes. To me, it felt like an advancement of astronomical proportions. That's what matters, and that's what reviewers should focus on. Perhaps everyone is thinking as left-brained as you are, denouncing the progress because it wasn't an astounding technical achivement but rather a gameplay enhancement. An enhancement that improved the gameplay dramatically. Hence, progress. ;)
The Mario Kart Double Dash that I played for the first time yesterday was a huge leap in progress compared to the SNES and N64 games.
First of all, the multiplayer co-op mode! Hello? Did you reviewers just not notice it? Or do you not know anyone else you can play it with? Lemme explain the co-op mode: One person steers, the other mans the weapons and does the power slides. And you can swap places! I'd file this one under "progress" people.
The reviews sound like this is Mario64 in GC graphics. It's not. This is a new Mario Kart game that represents the most progress in the series to date.
So slashdotters: Don't believe the reviews, they're mostly wrong. If you liked Mario Kart on SNES or N64, you'll love what they've done with it on the GC. It's that simple. If you don't like Mario Kart games, it's worth renting as the co-op mode might win you over.
End rant. Heh.
http://cmdrtaco.net/linux/images/flaunt_82397.jpg
In that image, you can see a screenshot of the old Chips and Dips site. Heh.
As far as I know, Hubble does not produce true-color images. The images are assigned colors, usually based on things like temperature, etc.
While the images are more a picture of "visible light" than Chandra (which is an x-ray scope, I believe) and others, it's still not exactly what our human eyes would see if we could see it with them.
The following isn't a reply to your post, but just a general thought of mine... The Hubble can't last forever, and while most of us wish something could be done, I think it's best to be thankful that the thing lived, rather than mourn its death. Very few of NASA's projects have done so much for humanity's understanding of the universe as Hubble did. So, farewell, Hubble, and thank you.
Myself, I find Gens to be the best (and it's open source, too). Makes me glad I hung on to all my old Sega CD games after mine up and died.
And lastly, what's a post without some piracy links? Over at www.suprnova.org there are torrents containing every Genesis game ever released in the US. Same for NES, SNES, and more.
The NES package of 700+ US titles is only 70 MB. Heh. Technology. It's funny.
Here's how Tycho at Penny Arcade feels about Warren Spector: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-07 -05&res=l
Granted, not everything can make it into the film, but these were, for me, very memorable parts of the book. If they're being cut just to extend the battles or add new ones (ala Warg Riders in TT) I'll be disappointed.
Oh well. At least it won't be as bad as Matrix Revolutions. To quote Jon Stewart, that movie blows. ;)
Slashdotters, you've got to learn not to insult the site you're wasting your time posting lists of things at. It makes you look pretty silly and opens you up to smart-ass retorts from people like myself.
Anyway, here's a couple of ads to ban:
1) Any Intel Ad Ever Made - It always has nothing to do with Intel processors. The ad may have something to do with computing in general, but even then it will focus on things that any processor from this century can do, like watching movies or burning CDs.
2) Movies can no longer say "The Number One Movie in America" in their ads. This is too misleading, as there are so many box office calculating tricks that can throw pretty rotten movies in this category.
Well, I guess those are the only two that irk me, but I don't pay much attention to television ads. I do remember when the G5 ad first started airing, though, and I remember thinking that someone was going to throw a fit over that statement. It seems you can't air a damn thing without pissing someone off.
Even though it's out for the GameCube now, Ikaruga is still worth mentioning. ;)