>The nicest part of all of this is Nintendo are mandating all games to
>support HDTV. PS2 can't support this - Sony won't tell us how the VESA
>modes of the chip work. I don't know what XBox's capability and
>position is on this.
Who cares? HDTV is a joke and a flop. It's pretty much been rejected by most consumers. Want proof? Just look at all the 25,27 and 32 inch TV sets walking out of the doors of K-mart,Wal-mart and Target stores. Also notice these places for the most part *DON'T* carry HDTV sets. And if you think for one moment these people are going to let people like you force them to either buy either a HDTV set or a converter box anytime in the near future you're kidding yourself. Watch as the "deadline" for the HDTV switchover comes and people totally ignore it.
>The starting price is MUCH less.. but, and this is funny, most
>retailers are ONLY offering "bundles" with certain games plus a couple
>extra controllers, and so on.
>
>
Bullshit. You can buy the plain PS2 unbundled package at EB,K-Mart and Wal-mart. It's in a blue box. The PS2 bundled package is in a red box.
>neccessary...try playing a videogame or buying a PC from a big-name
>company without an MSN product. But their actions can be curbed, and
>that is what is needed.
My Playstation 2 certainly doesn't have any MSN products.
>You./configure;make install as root, dont'cha? How does that make you
>any better than the os x users? How do you know there isn't a trojan
>in that Makefile..?
Nope. You can easily install the program pretty much anywhere you want to. I often./configure;make install in my ~/home directory.
>Nope. It's faster to swipe, print, and sign than wait for change.
>Plus, carrying cash is heavy and uncomfortable.
>
Bullshit. You've never been in a check-out line in a supermarket or department store, have you? The biggest hold-ups in most lines come from the people using their atm,debit and credit cards. The people using cash usally zip right through.
>And the TUCOWS and C|NET search pages don't serve you how?
Try too much fucking hype for various "services" that don't have anything to do with searching or anything else you may be doing at the moment.
>"And above all society needs to encourage the spirit of voluntary
cooperation in its citizens." 'Voluntary' is not about telling people
what to do. But the GPL is very explicit in telling people how they
may distribute the software. The GPL is basically saying 'here are the
rules for volunteering.' Strange.
>
>
You've never worked in a volunteer organization before have you? There are all sorts of rules like "No embezzling of funds" and so on and so forth.
>Every ed will say straight out they have a pro-linux bias, there's no
>attempt to disguise it. The anti-MS atmosphere isn't "Slashdot's dirty
>secret" as mod-losers like to claim, it's just part of the deal.
>Slashdot is a conversation, not a newspaper. I don't see why people
>criticize it for not being something it has never pretended to be.
Basically it's the "We-want-to-make-a-fast-buck" dot.com types who have
this problem with Slashdot because they really can't sucessfully
copy/clone it.
Slashdot really is a one-of-a-kind WWW site, and they resent the hell out
of it for this reason.
>I must say that Slashdot really needs to cool it with this anti-MS
>shit. My take on it is that the Linux community wants to bash MS until
>Linux becomes the #1 platform (for whatever market desktop, server,
>etc.) A classic game of "king of the hill" - and that is when we will
> find out how much bullshit occurs in the OS community.
>What am I talking about? Look at the title of this story.
>I'm not a Linux user - I can install/setup my hardware/configure the
>basic services. I'm simply not a big fan of it (yet) to switch over. I
>would however, rather see stories about Linux software releases, etc.,
>instead of this anti-MS propaganda.
>
>
There must have of been a lot of memos flying around Microsoft HQ
from the PR Slugs to you astroturfers this morning, eh?
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>The nicest part of all of this is Nintendo are mandating all games to
>support HDTV. PS2 can't support this - Sony won't tell us how the VESA
>modes of the chip work. I don't know what XBox's capability and
>position is on this.
Who cares? HDTV is a joke and a flop. It's pretty much been rejected by most consumers. Want proof? Just look at all the 25,27 and 32 inch TV sets walking out of the doors of K-mart,Wal-mart and Target stores. Also notice these places for the most part *DON'T* carry HDTV sets. And if you think for one moment these people are going to let people like you force them to either buy either a HDTV set or a converter box anytime in the near future you're kidding yourself. Watch as the "deadline" for the HDTV switchover comes and people totally ignore it.
>The starting price is MUCH less.. but, and this is funny, most
>retailers are ONLY offering "bundles" with certain games plus a couple
>extra controllers, and so on.
>
>
Bullshit. You can buy the plain PS2 unbundled package at EB,K-Mart and Wal-mart. It's in a blue box. The PS2 bundled package is in a red box.
>"Patel said MusicNet appeared to have the hallmarks of an
>anticompetitive business enterprise that ``looks bad, sounds bad and
>smells bad.''"
Does this mean that the RIAA and the others are follow the example of Microsoft and bitch about Patel's comments to the Supreme Court also?
It looks like Judge Jackson is becoming a very popular role model.....
>neccessary...try playing a videogame or buying a PC from a big-name
>company without an MSN product. But their actions can be curbed, and
>that is what is needed.
My Playstation 2 certainly doesn't have any MSN products.
>You ./configure;make install as root, dont'cha? How does that make you
./configure;make install in my ~/home directory.
>any better than the os x users? How do you know there isn't a trojan
>in that Makefile..?
Nope. You can easily install the program pretty much anywhere you want to. I often
>Nope. It's faster to swipe, print, and sign than wait for change.
>Plus, carrying cash is heavy and uncomfortable.
>
Bullshit. You've never been in a check-out line in a supermarket or department store, have you? The biggest hold-ups in most lines come from the people using their atm,debit and credit cards. The people using cash usally zip right through.
>And the TUCOWS and C|NET search pages don't serve you how? Try too much fucking hype for various "services" that don't have anything to do with searching or anything else you may be doing at the moment.
>"And above all society needs to encourage the spirit of voluntary cooperation in its citizens." 'Voluntary' is not about telling people what to do. But the GPL is very explicit in telling people how they may distribute the software. The GPL is basically saying 'here are the rules for volunteering.' Strange. > > You've never worked in a volunteer organization before have you? There are all sorts of rules like "No embezzling of funds" and so on and so forth.
>Every ed will say straight out they have a pro-linux bias, there's no
>attempt to disguise it. The anti-MS atmosphere isn't "Slashdot's dirty
>secret" as mod-losers like to claim, it's just part of the deal.
>Slashdot is a conversation, not a newspaper. I don't see why people
>criticize it for not being something it has never pretended to be.
Basically it's the "We-want-to-make-a-fast-buck" dot.com types who have
this problem with Slashdot because they really can't sucessfully
copy/clone it.
Slashdot really is a one-of-a-kind WWW site, and they resent the hell out
of it for this reason.
>I must say that Slashdot really needs to cool it with this anti-MS
>shit. My take on it is that the Linux community wants to bash MS until
>Linux becomes the #1 platform (for whatever market desktop, server,
>etc.) A classic game of "king of the hill" - and that is when we will
> find out how much bullshit occurs in the OS community.
>What am I talking about? Look at the title of this story.
>I'm not a Linux user - I can install/setup my hardware/configure the
>basic services. I'm simply not a big fan of it (yet) to switch over. I
>would however, rather see stories about Linux software releases, etc.,
>instead of this anti-MS propaganda.
>
>
There must have of been a lot of memos flying around Microsoft HQ
from the PR Slugs to you astroturfers this morning, eh?