"Except that Google probably wouldn't do things like this."
More accurately: The perception is that Google probably wouldn't do this. We perceive it that way because Slashdot hasn't had an article making a mountain out of a molehill about every little bad thing Google does.
Whereas with Microsoft, most people around here would assume that Microsoft would sell kitten burgers in order to gain marketshare with IE. Not because MS has ever actually done this, but because Slashdot tells us that everything MS does is evil.
It's all about perception. We all sport woodies over Google, so we look at the positive side of whatever Google does. We all hate Microsoft, so we look at the negative side of what Microsoft does.
"Just more ammo for the mega-powers to say, "See, when it becomes mainstream, it becomes more insecure."
Maybe, but it's not the megapower's fault that they have that option ahead of them. Frankly, I find this funny. Every little IE bug has been blown out of proportion with that famous little jingle "Just another reason to switch to Mozilla/FireFox", and now MS has the chance to do the same thing.
"The portion of the anime audience with the technical know-how to operate bittorrent are probably already taking advantage of the great efforts of fansubbers, and those who may be introduced to bittorrent through ADV in some way will surely go on to find these resources."
One of the reasons that I don't have a broader anime library right now is that I basically have to order on-line to get it. (I live in a small town that doesn't have a lot of selection...) Speaking for my household specifically, the instant gratification factor of this distribution model is quite attractive. Yes, I could go download episodes on the web. I really don't want to. I don't want to go looking for them. I don't want to deal with questionable quality. I don't want to put together a bunch of.RAR files. (Note: Yeah, yeah, I know, bittorrent downloads don't typically use that.)
I'm not saying your point is invalid. I don't know what the masses will do. I can tell you that for the shows I'm fanatical about, I want them now now now and I'm willing to pay a reasonable price for the convenience. I doubt I'm alone.
"I haven't seen the blog but is there any idea as to how big the budget will be for this? "
Cohen talked about this a few years ago and he threw the number $10 million around. That is in no way indicative of what the actual budget would be (mainly because I think the implication was a theatrical release...) but you asked for 'an idea'.;)
Wish I knew where I read that. It might have been in an old IGN.com article. He basically said that Futurama would be well suited as a movie because even though it's a high budget cartoon (sadly, high enough budget that it prevented it from being picked up by another network) that it was so effecient that it'd be a very cheap movie. This was about the time he threw the 10 mil figure out.
Because of this article I'm referring to, I'm not really surprised that this may actually be happening. Very very very happy about it, but not surprised.
"Maybe that's because WinXP's default behaviour is to spontaneously reboot rather than BSOD."
I'm glad I caught this in meta-mod. Is it really that hard to believe that XP is actually pretty stable? "Oh, well it's rebooting all the time but you just never notice."
"Um, there's these things called Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). Start at around $50 for a 5 minute supply to your desktop computer"
My laptop lasts for four hours when there's "a power failure". I would love for my desktop to have at least 30 minutes of capacity. UPS's aren't sufficient for that kind of demand.
It's not the most important thing int he world to me, but I agree with the other poster that it's an enticing feature. That's one of the main reasons that my next desktop will likely be a laptop.
"Uh, there is nothing technical about scans of building facades..."
Uh, yeah there is. Perhaps you missed the following quotes from the article:
"Screenshots released a week earlier had many crying "fake!"
" Thanks to the extra grunt of the Xbox 360's ATI-designed Xenos GPU, the trackside eye candy is clothed in super-sharp 1024x1024 textures, rendered in astounding detail."
"You'd swear that was an actual photo, though I would assume it is just really high-quality artwork. "
"According to the Bizarre Creations Studio Update #6, this amazing texture is only a quarter of the final look. This base texture, called the Diffuse Layer, has three further layers of detail added to it: an Index Channel - is it glass, metal, brick etc?; a Specular Map to provide shine to the material, and finally a Bump Map to add the perception of depth through light & shadowing on a flat surface."
"This contains some 4964 individual textures, each of which as detailed as the fire station above. If you look closely at the full size image, itself massively scaled down for the web, you will see various building textures, various billboards and naturally a large collection of road signs."
The point is really simple: They're using 1024^2 textures with 3 layers of texture information, each. That's pretty damned nice on a technical level. If that's not technically interesting to you, fine, but for artists such as myself, this is a BFD. When gamers see the result,they'll think it's a BFD as well.
"In practice it is very much what you have said...."
No, it is not. I said to consider his motivations, I did not say it was okay to lie under oath. Motive is very much a factor in judging one's guilt. Toss it out and make everything statuatory, and justice never really gets served.
Given the amount of word smithing used in any given court case, I just cannot see why you'd be against the use of a little common sense.
"Way to go, Rockstar... we want the games industry to be seen as mature and respectfull and you pull an 15-year-old stunt on us all. Shame on you..."
Um, to be fair, there was no way out. The media's on a witch hunt against Rockstar. In that event, no matter what they do, they'll be burned. If Rockstar had said: "Yes, there is sexual content in the game. It's very hard and impractical to get to." guess which part of that quote wouldn't have made it to the media.
It would have been better if the content wasn't in there at all. But let's be serious, there are a lot of people trying to find bs in that game. Personally, instead of losing respect for Rockstar, I've lost respect for those trying to tie them to the stake. "This was so important we needed Hillary Clinton to lead the parade!"
"So it's OK to lie under oath in court and make a mockery of a judicial proceeding if it is convenient for your to do so. That is an amazing attitude, dangerous too. "
You're right, that's an amazingly dangerous attitude. Pity that has little relevance to what I said.
Send the media out to dig up dirt on a politician, and before long you'll find all kinds of complexities that can be over-analyzed. Extremes go both ways. At some point a little common sense has to be injected into the situation.
"Things are far more complicated than you suggest."
"Things are really complicated, but I won't consider his motivations for lying on the stand! They're not that complicated!"
"You mean.mpg? Because that's what everybody has a player for, and that's what they didn't use."
I love how people on Slashdot spontaneously develop brain damage when it's time to counter a point. "I'm going to be extremely literal and win!!"
Bandwidth, dumb ass. WMV is a lot smaller than.MPG. This is such common knowledge that I cannot believe you'd actually go to the trouble. Lots of silliness born out of anti-Microsoft sentiment.
"Lied in court while under oath: Substantial, criminal, worthy of investigation and prosecution... No President should be allowed to lie under oath or in official legal proceedings. "
Consider this: Clinton was in his final years in office. He couldn't run again. His marriage, however, lasts the rest of his life. For all we know, he lied to save his marriage.
Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, we don't really know. But I'm not going to tar and feather the guy for lying about his sex life. It really wasn't the general public's business.
With that said, I'd probably have a different story to tell if it was clear that it caused him to not do his job properly.
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"Except that Google probably wouldn't do things like this."
More accurately: The perception is that Google probably wouldn't do this. We perceive it that way because Slashdot hasn't had an article making a mountain out of a molehill about every little bad thing Google does.
Whereas with Microsoft, most people around here would assume that Microsoft would sell kitten burgers in order to gain marketshare with IE. Not because MS has ever actually done this, but because Slashdot tells us that everything MS does is evil.
It's all about perception. We all sport woodies over Google, so we look at the positive side of whatever Google does. We all hate Microsoft, so we look at the negative side of what Microsoft does.
"Sure, it's chickenshit on Microsoft's part..."
Right. But if the roles were reversed, it'd have been a well played move by Google to protect themselves from competition!
"Just more ammo for the mega-powers to say, "See, when it becomes mainstream, it becomes more insecure."
Maybe, but it's not the megapower's fault that they have that option ahead of them. Frankly, I find this funny. Every little IE bug has been blown out of proportion with that famous little jingle "Just another reason to switch to Mozilla/FireFox", and now MS has the chance to do the same thing.
The golden rule applies to browser FUD, too.
Excepts when the incompetent jackass on the other end doesn't make one of them available.
I'm actually talking about news groups, though.
"The portion of the anime audience with the technical know-how to operate bittorrent are probably already taking advantage of the great efforts of fansubbers, and those who may be introduced to bittorrent through ADV in some way will surely go on to find these resources."
.RAR files. (Note: Yeah, yeah, I know, bittorrent downloads don't typically use that.)
One of the reasons that I don't have a broader anime library right now is that I basically have to order on-line to get it. (I live in a small town that doesn't have a lot of selection...) Speaking for my household specifically, the instant gratification factor of this distribution model is quite attractive. Yes, I could go download episodes on the web. I really don't want to. I don't want to go looking for them. I don't want to deal with questionable quality. I don't want to put together a bunch of
I'm not saying your point is invalid. I don't know what the masses will do. I can tell you that for the shows I'm fanatical about, I want them now now now and I'm willing to pay a reasonable price for the convenience. I doubt I'm alone.
"I haven't seen the blog but is there any idea as to how big the budget will be for this? "
;)
Cohen talked about this a few years ago and he threw the number $10 million around. That is in no way indicative of what the actual budget would be (mainly because I think the implication was a theatrical release...) but you asked for 'an idea'.
Wish I knew where I read that. It might have been in an old IGN.com article. He basically said that Futurama would be well suited as a movie because even though it's a high budget cartoon (sadly, high enough budget that it prevented it from being picked up by another network) that it was so effecient that it'd be a very cheap movie. This was about the time he threw the 10 mil figure out.
Because of this article I'm referring to, I'm not really surprised that this may actually be happening. Very very very happy about it, but not surprised.
"Look mac, if you define your relationship such that you allow a woman to control you with sex, you've lost before you've even begun."
Yeah because if you had a chick, you'd make a totally risk a blow job to 'win'.
"Maybe that's because WinXP's default behaviour is to spontaneously reboot rather than BSOD."
I'm glad I caught this in meta-mod. Is it really that hard to believe that XP is actually pretty stable? "Oh, well it's rebooting all the time but you just never notice."
"Um, there's these things called Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). Start at around $50 for a 5 minute supply to your desktop computer"
My laptop lasts for four hours when there's "a power failure". I would love for my desktop to have at least 30 minutes of capacity. UPS's aren't sufficient for that kind of demand.
It's not the most important thing int he world to me, but I agree with the other poster that it's an enticing feature. That's one of the main reasons that my next desktop will likely be a laptop.
Hey, the desktops only migrated about a foot and a half.
Uh, yeah there is. Perhaps you missed the following quotes from the article:
The point is really simple: They're using 1024^2 textures with 3 layers of texture information, each. That's pretty damned nice on a technical level. If that's not technically interesting to you, fine, but for artists such as myself, this is a BFD. When gamers see the result,they'll think it's a BFD as well.
"Big Textures don't make games, they only make pictures."
Uh... right. But we *are* talking about those pictures, not the game. We're nerds, we find thetechnical stuff interesting.
"Will we get it before or after Duke Nukem Forever?"
*sniff sniff* There's a Longhorn variation of this joke not far behind. *Sniff sniff* It's not any fresher.
"- cell phone reception in the tube: ass."
You should find a better place to keep your phone.
Gee. Overrated. Don't hit reply or anything.
"In practice it is very much what you have said...."
No, it is not. I said to consider his motivations, I did not say it was okay to lie under oath. Motive is very much a factor in judging one's guilt. Toss it out and make everything statuatory, and justice never really gets served.
Given the amount of word smithing used in any given court case, I just cannot see why you'd be against the use of a little common sense.
"Way to go, Rockstar... we want the games industry to be seen as mature and respectfull and you pull an 15-year-old stunt on us all. Shame on you..."
Um, to be fair, there was no way out. The media's on a witch hunt against Rockstar. In that event, no matter what they do, they'll be burned. If Rockstar had said: "Yes, there is sexual content in the game. It's very hard and impractical to get to." guess which part of that quote wouldn't have made it to the media.
It would have been better if the content wasn't in there at all. But let's be serious, there are a lot of people trying to find bs in that game. Personally, instead of losing respect for Rockstar, I've lost respect for those trying to tie them to the stake. "This was so important we needed Hillary Clinton to lead the parade!"
"Yea at $100 4x4"? Thats quite a bit shellfish don't you think?"
These puns are making me crabby.
"Zoidberg isn't real. So, the answer is no."
What about 1,000 years from now?
"So it's OK to lie under oath in court and make a mockery of a judicial proceeding if it is convenient for your to do so. That is an amazing attitude, dangerous too. "
You're right, that's an amazingly dangerous attitude. Pity that has little relevance to what I said.
Send the media out to dig up dirt on a politician, and before long you'll find all kinds of complexities that can be over-analyzed. Extremes go both ways. At some point a little common sense has to be injected into the situation.
"Things are far more complicated than you suggest."
"Things are really complicated, but I won't consider his motivations for lying on the stand! They're not that complicated!"
"You mean .mpg? Because that's what everybody has a player for, and that's what they didn't use."
.MPG. This is such common knowledge that I cannot believe you'd actually go to the trouble.
I love how people on Slashdot spontaneously develop brain damage when it's time to counter a point. "I'm going to be extremely literal and win!!"
Bandwidth, dumb ass. WMV is a lot smaller than
Lots of silliness born out of anti-Microsoft sentiment.
"Lied in court while under oath: Substantial, criminal, worthy of investigation and prosecution. .. No President should be allowed to lie under oath or in official legal proceedings. "
Consider this: Clinton was in his final years in office. He couldn't run again. His marriage, however, lasts the rest of his life. For all we know, he lied to save his marriage.
Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, we don't really know. But I'm not going to tar and feather the guy for lying about his sex life. It really wasn't the general public's business.
With that said, I'd probably have a different story to tell if it was clear that it caused him to not do his job properly.
"WARNING!! The torrent file distributes a .WMV file!"
Warning? What, are we supposed to wave our pitchforks because they chose a format that most people have a player for?
"Old grandma hardcore" does not make me think "videogames"...." ...? I don't even want to know why you left in the middle of your post.
"Old Grandma Hardcore"
One tends to be very wary of headlines like this after reading a bunch of crap on bash.org.