wtf is going on with slashdot right now? My last comment was modded to 5 last night, but now I see that it is unmoderated at 2. And the frontpage ask slashdot article about video on demand has comments disabled? WTF?
Truly this is the dawn of a new era of interactive entertainment for Linux. I mean, how can you not be *ahem* bowled over by Bowling USA! Or if tossing heavy balls is not your thing, then try your hand at every podunk dweller's favorite pastime (not including watching NASCAR) with Paintball Heroes!
Seriously, is this truly front page news? This seems more like a press release than a real story, and it's not really news to announce the Linuxification of Family Collection 1 and 2. And the last *real* game released by Hyperion for Linux was the poorly selling Shogo. It's gonna take more than a couple of B games to sprout a thriving Linux game community. Maybe the real starting point for Linux gaming is the distro for the PS2? At least I know one thing for sure: this is not it.
I dunno, I just noticed that most accepted Slashdot stories have at least 3 links, and linking to previous Slashdot stories seems to be popular. I guess the best way to answer your question is, "because timothy thinks so."
...No one can be told what encsub is...because they're all under NDAs.
Seriously though, read the following:
"The right way to look at this is you are putting a virtual set-top box inside your PC. You are essentially renting out part of your PC to people you may not trust..."
Aren't people who download Kazaa already doing that, since Brilliant Digital's spyware is installed with the program and can use the computer's CPU cycles and hard drive space without warning? It seems that unless there is a big enough hoopla made about Palladium, unsuspecting customers will have no idea of "Trusted Computing"'s true effects and limitations on usage. Just ask a non computer geek Kazaa user if they're concerned that Brilliant Digital has so much control over their computer, and if they give you a response other than a blank stare accompanied with a "wha?" I'll give you a Gummy bear (It's warm from being in my pocket).
...but instead of being open to anyone with access to the Internet, they reside on a specific college's internal computer network, known also as a "local area network."
So far so good, no misinformation yet. But then the spin gets started:
"These systems are best described as 'local area Napster networks,' said Cary Sherman, President, RIAA. 'The court ruled that Napster was illegal and shut it down. These systems are just as illegal and operate in just the same manner."
Ok, so now we're defining a LAN as a LANL? And Sherman is saying that a LAN is the same thing as Napster? But wait, it gets better:
"This is a particularly flagrant way to illegally distribute millions of copyrighted works over the Internet,' added Sherman. 'The people who run these Napster networks know full well what they are doing ?'"
The first quote already differentiated between LANs and the internet, but now they're being lumped together. Also, that question mark at the end is in the original article, and I think that it deserves to be there, since now we are referring to LANs specifically as "Napster networks." But wait, now things get really confusing:
"The perpetrators of these internal Napster networks named in the suits filed by the RIAA make use of software known variously as Flatlan, Phynd or Direct Connect."
Ok, so LANs are "Napster networks" which use software? I thought that Napster was software too, but now I see that it was a network, though I'm still not clear on whether it used software or not. Anyway, I learned a lot from this article, like the RIAA's music piracy hotline, 1-800-BAD-BEAT. Call in and report a rival company or school that is hosting a "Napster network," and keep America running!
Wired had an article late last year entitled Vision Quest about a similar topic. The doctor couldn't perform most of his techniques in the U.S. due to ethical laws, giving the article a real "Frankenstein" flair. Good read.
I hate Nintendo. I've bought almost every Gameboy released in the U.S. since its inception: The original Gameboy in 1989, the colored Gameboy (NOT the GB Color!) in 1995, the thin Gameboy in 1998, the Gameboy Color in 2000, and the GBA Advance in 2001, for which I even bought the Afterburner for $35 (it's now $25). Now Nintendo releases a Gameboy with a clamshell design, a built-in lighting system, and a rechargable battery, and again I am awash in gadget envy. Well, at least I can take solace in the fact that I'm not a total idiot, I didn't buy the Virtual Gameboy!
i wouldn't know what it takes to secure wireless access in a public/corporate setting, but here at the "crib" I secure my wireless network by restricting access to specified MAC addresses, limiting the router's IP broadcast to 3 IP addresses (the number of computers on the network), requiring a password for logon, and having each computer running a software firewall restricting all but the required ports.
I don't enable WEP encryption because I find that it cuts down bandwidth by 30-40%. Does that mean I'm asking for it? Calling all h4x0rs in Columbia, MO!
Well, good for Mac users, but the barrier to entry for Wi-Fi is so low that anyone (not virtually anyone, but anyone) with a PC or laptop can benefit. Wi-Fi compatible wireless access cards can be found for as little as $30, possibly less with rebates.
And as for Apple being ahead of the curve, the problem with that is that if they shipped wireless products before mid-1999, those products might not be compatible with existing networks. This is because 802.11b was ratified by the IEEE in mid 1999, and Wi-Fi is actually a superset of the 802.11b standards. So when companies jumped the gun and made products based on the draft form of the 802.11b standard, they basically made a proprietary technology with no guarantees that it can communicate with the eventual ratified standard.
The same thing is happening with 802.11g today, as that standard will be ratified in July of this year. 802.11g products being rushed to market now have no guarantees of compatibility with the future standard. Personally, I would delay 802.11g purchases until at least July for fear of buying an incompatible technology, but YMMV.
...with a game called Majestic. Ron Dulin at Gamespot gave it a 6.7 and said "Majestic is a very passive experience, and as the novelty fades, so will your interest". The game faded after a couple of months because it just wasn't immersive enough, since you had to wait for phone calls or emails or faxes for the game to progress. It was also pretty linear and didn't take advantage of collaborative gaming. Maybe these new games can improve on that. I can imagine ARGs in which you join a government agency or revolutionary faction and work with other players on your side on different tasks set up by the game server, like collecting counterintelligence information on the internet and saboting the other team's networks and...umm, I think I let my imagination run wild there. Sorry.
Affordable x86 64-bit servers for the masses, this is going to revitalize AMD and really put it on the map as a serious challenger to Intel. I hope Chipzilla wakes up and sees that its incredibly expensive and backwards-incompatible Itanic 2 chips are the result of engineers developing for themselves instead of developing for the needs of their customers. Finally, AMD will be able to court the high profit business market, though I fear that they might alienate their hardcore enthusiast consumers in the process...
I think you misunderstood me. I'm not indignant or angry about studios re-releasing special editions of movies, I really can't wait to be fleeced of $70 for the ultra-mega-super-duper edition 6-disc trilogy! What I mean is that I want to spend some cash on a movie I already have because the new version has extended outtakes of the main character picking his nose. I love that stuff and don't mind spending money on it. Is that more clear? Hrmm, I always have to spell it out for clueless ACs...
...they cancelled it because the special edition was just the original Matrix DVD bundled with "Enter the Matrix", a making-of DVD that was previously only available as a separate purchase. That makes buying the "Special Edition" redundant because every geek worth his salt already has the Matrix DVD, so now they would have TWO identical DVDs and a making-of DVD. With that stupid project cancelled, the Wachowskis+WB can work on a TRUE special edition, possibly with more special features and commentary by cast members other than Carrie-Anne Moss. Of course, I can't wait to be fleeced of $70 for the ultra-mega-super-duper edition 6-disc trilogy set coming out after the release of the "The Matrix: Revolutions."
Seeing as our moon is 1/3 the size of the earth itself, and since they revolve around each other (hence the moon eclipsing the earth and vice versa), shouldn't we call earth/moon a two-planet system? Just some random musings...
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You're right, it's really terrible.
now u have to wait 20 seconds before hittoing reply?! Now ill never be first post...
Oh, and those are weird sculptures.
I need help.
kill me now.
Seriously, is this truly front page news? This seems more like a press release than a real story, and it's not really news to announce the Linuxification of Family Collection 1 and 2. And the last *real* game released by Hyperion for Linux was the poorly selling Shogo. It's gonna take more than a couple of B games to sprout a thriving Linux game community. Maybe the real starting point for Linux gaming is the distro for the PS2? At least I know one thing for sure: this is not it.
Wait a minute, yes they do!
Anyway, getting a story submitted on Slashdot is almost as cool as getting my letter printed in PCXL. Cool is a relative term, BTW.
I dunno, I just noticed that most accepted Slashdot stories have at least 3 links, and linking to previous Slashdot stories seems to be popular. I guess the best way to answer your question is, "because timothy thinks so."
Seriously though, read the following:
"The right way to look at this is you are putting a virtual set-top box inside your PC. You are essentially renting out part of your PC to people you may not trust..."
Aren't people who download Kazaa already doing that, since Brilliant Digital's spyware is installed with the program and can use the computer's CPU cycles and hard drive space without warning? It seems that unless there is a big enough hoopla made about Palladium, unsuspecting customers will have no idea of "Trusted Computing"'s true effects and limitations on usage. Just ask a non computer geek Kazaa user if they're concerned that Brilliant Digital has so much control over their computer, and if they give you a response other than a blank stare accompanied with a "wha?" I'll give you a Gummy bear (It's warm from being in my pocket).
So far so good, no misinformation yet. But then the spin gets started:
"These systems are best described as 'local area Napster networks,' said Cary Sherman, President, RIAA. 'The court ruled that Napster was illegal and shut it down. These systems are just as illegal and operate in just the same manner."
Ok, so now we're defining a LAN as a LANL? And Sherman is saying that a LAN is the same thing as Napster? But wait, it gets better:
"This is a particularly flagrant way to illegally distribute millions of copyrighted works over the Internet,' added Sherman. 'The people who run these Napster networks know full well what they are doing ?'"
The first quote already differentiated between LANs and the internet, but now they're being lumped together. Also, that question mark at the end is in the original article, and I think that it deserves to be there, since now we are referring to LANs specifically as "Napster networks." But wait, now things get really confusing:
"The perpetrators of these internal Napster networks named in the suits filed by the RIAA make use of software known variously as Flatlan, Phynd or Direct Connect."
Ok, so LANs are "Napster networks" which use software? I thought that Napster was software too, but now I see that it was a network, though I'm still not clear on whether it used software or not. Anyway, I learned a lot from this article, like the RIAA's music piracy hotline, 1-800-BAD-BEAT. Call in and report a rival company or school that is hosting a "Napster network," and keep America running!
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Wired had an article late last year entitled Vision Quest about a similar topic. The doctor couldn't perform most of his techniques in the U.S. due to ethical laws, giving the article a real "Frankenstein" flair. Good read.
I hate Nintendo. I've bought almost every Gameboy released in the U.S. since its inception: The original Gameboy in 1989, the colored Gameboy (NOT the GB Color!) in 1995, the thin Gameboy in 1998, the Gameboy Color in 2000, and the GBA Advance in 2001, for which I even bought the Afterburner for $35 (it's now $25). Now Nintendo releases a Gameboy with a clamshell design, a built-in lighting system, and a rechargable battery, and again I am awash in gadget envy. Well, at least I can take solace in the fact that I'm not a total idiot, I didn't buy the Virtual Gameboy!
I wonder how long I can keep this up until my overall karma suffers...
...that I get modded down for asking /.ers to mod the parent up. Oh well, when life gives you lemons, mod -1 Offtopic.
If I had mod points right now, i'd give one to you. Absolutely hilarious.
I don't enable WEP encryption because I find that it cuts down bandwidth by 30-40%. Does that mean I'm asking for it? Calling all h4x0rs in Columbia, MO!
And as for Apple being ahead of the curve, the problem with that is that if they shipped wireless products before mid-1999, those products might not be compatible with existing networks. This is because 802.11b was ratified by the IEEE in mid 1999, and Wi-Fi is actually a superset of the 802.11b standards. So when companies jumped the gun and made products based on the draft form of the 802.11b standard, they basically made a proprietary technology with no guarantees that it can communicate with the eventual ratified standard.
The same thing is happening with 802.11g today, as that standard will be ratified in July of this year. 802.11g products being rushed to market now have no guarantees of compatibility with the future standard. Personally, I would delay 802.11g purchases until at least July for fear of buying an incompatible technology, but YMMV.
...with a game called Majestic. Ron Dulin at Gamespot gave it a 6.7 and said "Majestic is a very passive experience, and as the novelty fades, so will your interest". The game faded after a couple of months because it just wasn't immersive enough, since you had to wait for phone calls or emails or faxes for the game to progress. It was also pretty linear and didn't take advantage of collaborative gaming. Maybe these new games can improve on that. I can imagine ARGs in which you join a government agency or revolutionary faction and work with other players on your side on different tasks set up by the game server, like collecting counterintelligence information on the internet and saboting the other team's networks and...umm, I think I let my imagination run wild there. Sorry.
Affordable x86 64-bit servers for the masses, this is going to revitalize AMD and really put it on the map as a serious challenger to Intel. I hope Chipzilla wakes up and sees that its incredibly expensive and backwards-incompatible Itanic 2 chips are the result of engineers developing for themselves instead of developing for the needs of their customers. Finally, AMD will be able to court the high profit business market, though I fear that they might alienate their hardcore enthusiast consumers in the process...
...and yet they still can't make Frodo look like a guy.
The Centrinos are out and I had to buy a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a P4-M 1.80Ghz last Friday. I hate technology ;-)
I think you misunderstood me. I'm not indignant or angry about studios re-releasing special editions of movies, I really can't wait to be fleeced of $70 for the ultra-mega-super-duper edition 6-disc trilogy! What I mean is that I want to spend some cash on a movie I already have because the new version has extended outtakes of the main character picking his nose. I love that stuff and don't mind spending money on it. Is that more clear? Hrmm, I always have to spell it out for clueless ACs...
...they cancelled it because the special edition was just the original Matrix DVD bundled with "Enter the Matrix", a making-of DVD that was previously only available as a separate purchase. That makes buying the "Special Edition" redundant because every geek worth his salt already has the Matrix DVD, so now they would have TWO identical DVDs and a making-of DVD. With that stupid project cancelled, the Wachowskis+WB can work on a TRUE special edition, possibly with more special features and commentary by cast members other than Carrie-Anne Moss. Of course, I can't wait to be fleeced of $70 for the ultra-mega-super-duper edition 6-disc trilogy set coming out after the release of the "The Matrix: Revolutions."
Seeing as our moon is 1/3 the size of the earth itself, and since they revolve around each other (hence the moon eclipsing the earth and vice versa), shouldn't we call earth/moon a two-planet system? Just some random musings...