If they actually can enforce this patent, we may suddenly start seeing people dropping JPEG support in exchange for PNG.
The easiest way for a replacement of a popular product to get accepted in the marketplace is if they 1) start charging for said popular product, or 2) stop supporting said product.
I personally don't think anything's going to come from this, but if it does, no big loss.
Sometimes the Mods are better than the originals..
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The Mod Squad
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I find that most Mods are reasonably pathetic, but sometimes they're better than the original game.
Counterstrike for Half-Life, Renegades for Tribes, etc.
Recently I've been playing a mod for Unreal Tournament called Thievery, although it's more of a Total Conversion than a Mod. Somehow they've stripped UT down and rebuilt it as a multi-player version of Thief. Don't know how they did it, but it's incredible.
Sure, a lot of PCs can be opened reasonably simply while the machine is on... but not like a Mac. The question is the accessability of the components, and the ease of opening, and having worked with Macs and PCs extensively, not a single case has ever come anywhere near as easy to access as the G3/G4 tower.
The naming thing isn't necessarily an open source issue, more of a "started by one guy working out of his house who's got a messed up sense of humor and is giving the software away for free so he doesn't have to worry about sales" issue. The same thing comes up whether it's open or closed.
The popular emulator Dos/Windows "Nesticle" comes to mind.
Anybody remember paying by the hour? With companies like AOL it used to be the only pricing scheme. But when all of the sudden you can go from paying $20 a month for a limited number of hours, or paying $20 a month for an unlimited number of hours...
The point is practically no consumer ISPs charge that way anymore. It's all flat-rate because people won't stick with a place that has it any other way. Sure, in some places people will be forced to pay it simply because they don't have any other way, but in urban areas people won't stand for it.
They'll try, I'm certain, but they're going to lose so many subscribers they're going to be scrambling to play catch-up with the ISPs that still have a flat rate.
Seeing as my original post got modded down as off-topic, despite having a legitimate question (my fault I know, I should have just asked the question and forgotten about the trolling joke), I'll ask it again:
Where can I see this film? Is it going to be sold on DVD? Is it going to be at every major film festival in the country? Has it been available on Gnutella since last January?
The point of a review is to let people know whether or not they would want to watch it. It would be handy to know exactly how we can watch it.
...that's actually one of the most on-topic posts so far...
(For those not familiar with TMBG, I'm not being sarcastic.)
Some just won't get it, even if they try...
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Movie Review: Gigantic
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It bothers me when people refer to people as 'terrible musicians'. Music, like many art forms is subjective. I never got the appeal of Picasso, but I don't think he's a 'terrible painter'.
The thing about TMBG is you have to have very eclectic taste in music to appreciate them. Their style is all over the place, and you can't just hear one or two songs and know what they sound like. If you were to play 'Boss of Me', 'Particle Man', and 'A Self Called Nowhere' next to each other, a newcomer would be hard pressed to believe it's the same band.
The depth of their songs comes from figuring out what exactly they're about. Their songs are rarely simply nonsense, they just don't ever directly tell you what they're supposed to mean.
'Birdhouse In Your Soul' for example. Here's a song that seems to make very little sense at all. The trick is that if you pay attention, it's a song written from the perspective of a nightlight shaped like a canary.
Someone once told me song lyrics are like poetry with a learning disability. TMBG lyrics are like poetry with a severe case of insomnia that can't stop giggling...
One thing that always bothered me about print magazines was that there were no policies on deceptive advertisements. Or more accurately, advertisements hidden as game previews.
You'd think a magazine would try to preserve their journalistic integrity by saying, "no, you can't run that," but instead magazines were (and I assume still are) filled with ads disguised as articles. The only thing that differentiates these from honest-to-goodness previews is the little "Advertisement" label at the bottom.
Always take previews with a grain of salt. Always.
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If they actually can enforce this patent, we may suddenly start seeing people dropping JPEG support in exchange for PNG.
The easiest way for a replacement of a popular product to get accepted in the marketplace is if they 1) start charging for said popular product, or 2) stop supporting said product.
I personally don't think anything's going to come from this, but if it does, no big loss.
I find that most Mods are reasonably pathetic, but sometimes they're better than the original game.
Counterstrike for Half-Life, Renegades for Tribes, etc.
Recently I've been playing a mod for Unreal Tournament called Thievery, although it's more of a Total Conversion than a Mod. Somehow they've stripped UT down and rebuilt it as a multi-player version of Thief. Don't know how they did it, but it's incredible.
Obviously you've never opened up a Mac tower.
Sure, a lot of PCs can be opened reasonably simply while the machine is on... but not like a Mac. The question is the accessability of the components, and the ease of opening, and having worked with Macs and PCs extensively, not a single case has ever come anywhere near as easy to access as the G3/G4 tower.
There's a difference between a silent film and simply cutting out all the dialogue you know...
Although, honestly some movies would be better off with the mute button on...
Very much news for nerds. Metropolis is generally considered the first Sci-Fi film among other merits.
No, they just think they are. ;P
Actually, most people that use Macs are graphic designers. The first sign of an amateur graphic designer is one who uses Windows.
I remember it being stated somewhere that many of the popular Windows magazines are actually designed and laid out on Macs...
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure that it's illegal to tear people's legs off too... that must have hurt...
The naming thing isn't necessarily an open source issue, more of a "started by one guy working out of his house who's got a messed up sense of humor and is giving the software away for free so he doesn't have to worry about sales" issue. The same thing comes up whether it's open or closed.
The popular emulator Dos/Windows "Nesticle" comes to mind.
It's been a heck of a long time since I've heard of anyone using a search engine other than Google...
So really, how many people would honestly be affected by this?
I didn't look at the page in detail, but a link is given for Linux-based software...
And the page does mention that it uses syslog...
Anybody remember paying by the hour? With companies like AOL it used to be the only pricing scheme. But when all of the sudden you can go from paying $20 a month for a limited number of hours, or paying $20 a month for an unlimited number of hours...
The point is practically no consumer ISPs charge that way anymore. It's all flat-rate because people won't stick with a place that has it any other way. Sure, in some places people will be forced to pay it simply because they don't have any other way, but in urban areas people won't stand for it.
They'll try, I'm certain, but they're going to lose so many subscribers they're going to be scrambling to play catch-up with the ISPs that still have a flat rate.
Seeing as my original post got modded down as off-topic, despite having a legitimate question (my fault I know, I should have just asked the question and forgotten about the trolling joke), I'll ask it again:
Where can I see this film? Is it going to be sold on DVD? Is it going to be at every major film festival in the country? Has it been available on Gnutella since last January?
The point of a review is to let people know whether or not they would want to watch it. It would be handy to know exactly how we can watch it.
...that's actually one of the most on-topic posts so far...
(For those not familiar with TMBG, I'm not being sarcastic.)
It bothers me when people refer to people as 'terrible musicians'. Music, like many art forms is subjective. I never got the appeal of Picasso, but I don't think he's a 'terrible painter'.
The thing about TMBG is you have to have very eclectic taste in music to appreciate them. Their style is all over the place, and you can't just hear one or two songs and know what they sound like. If you were to play 'Boss of Me', 'Particle Man', and 'A Self Called Nowhere' next to each other, a newcomer would be hard pressed to believe it's the same band.
The depth of their songs comes from figuring out what exactly they're about. Their songs are rarely simply nonsense, they just don't ever directly tell you what they're supposed to mean.
'Birdhouse In Your Soul' for example. Here's a song that seems to make very little sense at all. The trick is that if you pay attention, it's a song written from the perspective of a nightlight shaped like a canary.
Someone once told me song lyrics are like poetry with a learning disability. TMBG lyrics are like poetry with a severe case of insomnia that can't stop giggling...
...if all of the previous posts are trolling?
Anyway, does anyone know how this is being distributed? I'm a big TMBG fan, but I don't know how I'll ever actually get to see this movie...
People like you give Flamebait a bad name...
One thing that always bothered me about print magazines was that there were no policies on deceptive advertisements. Or more accurately, advertisements hidden as game previews.
You'd think a magazine would try to preserve their journalistic integrity by saying, "no, you can't run that," but instead magazines were (and I assume still are) filled with ads disguised as articles. The only thing that differentiates these from honest-to-goodness previews is the little "Advertisement" label at the bottom.
Always take previews with a grain of salt. Always.
Nah, it's still got a ways to go. I'm sure it's just a matter of time tho.
Just keep watching the hof...
(Oh, by the way, congrats Taco!)
I can see it now... every geek on the web is going to be proposing on Slashdot now...
Perhaps now would be a good time to implement (-1 Cliched)...