The problem with Battlebots is that it never really grows. It might help if the competitions were geared such that certain familliar bots fight more often. Like a celebrity bot. (Anybody remember Jay Leno's bot? heh)
I don't have any immediate ideas how they could easily incorporate that into their current system. Maybe they could have teams of bots?
... Take any old story from AP News Wire, twist the meaning of it so that it works in favor of something the/. community likes, then watch the comments roll in.
For example, take a story about a company that built a machine that had a defective component. Since the machine was built by the one company, you're free to call it proprietary. Since proprietary is the opposite of Open Source (which/. loves), then make sure to reemphasize the point that it is proprietary so that you can pretend that Open Source should have been the way to go.
As you can see, it can take very little spin-doctoring to get your story posted on/. All you need to do is pander to the people with extremist views. Everybody loves the chance to say 'I told you so!'
(Why do I have the feeling that my social satire will be read as trolling?)
"Honestly, I haven't even seen it yet, and the idea of seeing it on an IMAX doesn't pique my interest at all. "
Well I, for one, would love to see it on IMAX. I'd love to have the detail blown up so I can nitpick the mistakes in it some more. That way, I can appear to have a more sophisticated sense of taste! Armed with a bigger screen, I can finally prove to my friends once and for all that the movie is total garbage!!
Ummm. You're rapidly running out of choices there. If Intel and AMD lock ya out, what's left? PowerPC? That's fine and all, but you better start recompiling.
Oversimplify all you want, your lack of worry means you're vurnerable to a major... well it'd probably be more polite if I didn't paint you a picture.
Pity you got modded down, your satire about the topic article was very amusing. Too bad it was moderated down as off-topic even though it was about MS's DRM technology.
Oh well, I thought it was funny. So even though you took a needless karma bite, at least you have the satisfaction of knowing ya made somebody chuckle.
I'm glad you mentioned that. In my trips to both Australia and Brazil, I noticed that Diet Coke tastes subtley different than in the US. Heck, I've noticed it tastes different in California. I, as you can probably tell, drink way too much Diet Coke. It's funny because the friend I visted with in Brazil has also had Diet Coke in both USA and Australia and can't tell the difference.
That's why I wrote my post about concern over OGG vs. MP3 becoming a relgious battle. People tell me that Diet Coke tastes awful. Do you really think that my taste buds are going to suddenly go "oh wait.. you're right!"? It's the same with your ears. I can lightly detect the artifacts of Mp3, but they don't really bother me. They would if I listened to a higher quality version of the same song many times over. I can understand an audophile becoming adamant about their sound format.
I saw a few comments along the lines of "wowee, powerful!". I'm just curious what somebody'd want with a machine that powerful.
Me, personally, I do lotsa 3D stuff and would love to see what it'd take to bring that machine to it's knees. However, I get the impression I'm but of a few 3D dudes here. So what would you non-3D dudes wanna do with it?
"...anybody else reminded of the "Pepsi Challenge" by this?"
Funny you should mention that, that's why Coke released the 'New Coke', quickly followed by 'Coke Classic'. Turns out, a simple taste doesn't a good drink make. Heh.
Does that apply here? Not really. This is different formats, not a religious change. One gives you higher quality, one gives you higher availability. Use the right tool for the right job.
I just hope MP3 vs Ogg doesn't become a religious debate. There's room for both. Frankly, arguing over which is better is dorky. Education's okay, but I'm worried about people being 733T about it.
"I could never get into it. It just seemed like Days of Our Lives in spaceships. It had that same dark, dreary lighting and slow pace that is so typical of soap operas."
What I couldn't stand was the encounters they had with 'weird things'. I mean things that were weird for the sake of being weird. They lost me at the planet populated by lawyers.
Gotta agree about Enterprise. What I like most about that show is the dialog. It's so much different than the other Trek shows. I think a lot of people don't pick up on that and that's why they hate it.
I miss Quantum Leap over all of it. Scifi can be good, but you have to have good characters in it to make it work. QL decidedly proved that.
"The least you could do is download a few hours of commercials, and put them in the mix. If everyone was like you, television stations wouldn't make any money, and then, umm, uhh, that would be bad! Or something. Think of the children!"
Actually, if the networks would make their shows available (or streamable) with commercials I'd watch those instead, provided they're on faster connections. I'm only willing to meet them half way.
"I mean you're throwing a ton of stuff on there, not using it for your system drive (I hope)"
Well, it depends on what you're doing. I have a DV camera that dumps the raw data from the tape to the computer via Firewire. It runs about 13 gigs an hour. Not only is it easier to capture than analog format, but it's lossless as well. You edit the video then play it back through your video camera at full broadcast quality.
I don't think it'll be too long (2-3 years maybe?) before these devices are extremely common. You can buy a Mac laptop right now, plug a DV camera in, Download/edit video, then burn it to a DVD that will play in most players.
I feel pretty good that it won't be long before people consider 100 gigs to be limiting.
"Piracy is the killer app for Telcoms and consumer electronics industries, unless it's in the Telcoms and consumer electronics."
If that were true, then how come the video game industry is thriving?
The Game Industry is not very far from the Entertainment Industry. They'd co-exist on a venn diagram with the *AA on one side and the Telcom/IT Industry on the other. If piracy was as destructive as they say, then the PC video game market wouldn't exist.
My personal theory is that the *AA has a monopolistic business model that earns them ridiculous amounts of money. With the internet, now they have to be fair like everybody else. Suddenly, it's not acceptable to say "You cannot return an opened CD" anymore. They'll have to *gasp* understand what customers want and give them the opportunity to decide "I really don't want that afterall."
Parent post was intended as a JOKE, not a troll. Reread it. I'm poking a little fun at the tendancy of some AC's to trick people into viewing that stupid goatse pic. I hardly think somebody's going to read my post and go "What a jerk!! I better argue with him!"
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"No replies yet, and it's slashdotted already?!?"
::eyeroll::
...uh.. provide free heating to.
Wouldn't most people read the article before replying?
Okay, getting back on topic, is it possible to aim these things? I have a noisy neighbor that I'd like to
The problem with Battlebots is that it never really grows. It might help if the competitions were geared such that certain familliar bots fight more often. Like a celebrity bot. (Anybody remember Jay Leno's bot? heh)
I don't have any immediate ideas how they could easily incorporate that into their current system. Maybe they could have teams of bots?
...why my key policies never get implemented. I hope the newspaper prints a retraction.
...trying to explain to my gf why I wasn't going to buy her a RIAA produced CD. Her eyes have an impressive range of motion.
Let's see:
Linux is free, it can be installed on damn near every computer, and ppl are sick of Windows.
Mac requires that you purchase a whole new computer, which costs a little bit more than Linux.
So... using the same kind of math, I'll create another type of statstic: shoes are outselling cars.
..Milhouse would have been a better name.
... Take any old story from AP News Wire, twist the meaning of it so that it works in favor of something the /. community likes, then watch the comments roll in.
/. loves), then make sure to reemphasize the point that it is proprietary so that you can pretend that Open Source should have been the way to go.
/. All you need to do is pander to the people with extremist views. Everybody loves the chance to say 'I told you so!'
For example, take a story about a company that built a machine that had a defective component. Since the machine was built by the one company, you're free to call it proprietary. Since proprietary is the opposite of Open Source (which
As you can see, it can take very little spin-doctoring to get your story posted on
(Why do I have the feeling that my social satire will be read as trolling?)
"Honestly, I haven't even seen it yet, and the idea of seeing it on an IMAX doesn't pique my interest at all. "
Well I, for one, would love to see it on IMAX. I'd love to have the detail blown up so I can nitpick the mistakes in it some more. That way, I can appear to have a more sophisticated sense of taste! Armed with a bigger screen, I can finally prove to my friends once and for all that the movie is total garbage!!
"At which point I use another processor."
Ummm. You're rapidly running out of choices there. If Intel and AMD lock ya out, what's left? PowerPC? That's fine and all, but you better start recompiling.
Oversimplify all you want, your lack of worry means you're vurnerable to a major... well it'd probably be more polite if I didn't paint you a picture.
Pity you got modded down, your satire about the topic article was very amusing. Too bad it was moderated down as off-topic even though it was about MS's DRM technology.
Oh well, I thought it was funny. So even though you took a needless karma bite, at least you have the satisfaction of knowing ya made somebody chuckle.
Cheers man.
I take back all the comments I made about the uselessness of hacking XBOXes. Please continue.
It works on iBooks too!! Cool!
I'm glad you mentioned that. In my trips to both Australia and Brazil, I noticed that Diet Coke tastes subtley different than in the US. Heck, I've noticed it tastes different in California. I, as you can probably tell, drink way too much Diet Coke. It's funny because the friend I visted with in Brazil has also had Diet Coke in both USA and Australia and can't tell the difference.
That's why I wrote my post about concern over OGG vs. MP3 becoming a relgious battle. People tell me that Diet Coke tastes awful. Do you really think that my taste buds are going to suddenly go "oh wait.. you're right!"? It's the same with your ears. I can lightly detect the artifacts of Mp3, but they don't really bother me. They would if I listened to a higher quality version of the same song many times over. I can understand an audophile becoming adamant about their sound format.
Okie, I'm done beating the horse.
I saw a few comments along the lines of "wowee, powerful!". I'm just curious what somebody'd want with a machine that powerful.
Me, personally, I do lotsa 3D stuff and would love to see what it'd take to bring that machine to it's knees. However, I get the impression I'm but of a few 3D dudes here. So what would you non-3D dudes wanna do with it?
"...anybody else reminded of the "Pepsi Challenge" by this?"
Funny you should mention that, that's why Coke released the 'New Coke', quickly followed by 'Coke Classic'. Turns out, a simple taste doesn't a good drink make. Heh.
Does that apply here? Not really. This is different formats, not a religious change. One gives you higher quality, one gives you higher availability. Use the right tool for the right job.
I just hope MP3 vs Ogg doesn't become a religious debate. There's room for both. Frankly, arguing over which is better is dorky. Education's okay, but I'm worried about people being 733T about it.
This site is really messing with my ability to use mouse gestures.
Too bad ya didn't get a +1 funny for that, it was funny. :)
"...kinda like a slashdot channel."
I dunno, I've seen that Goatse pic enough times already.
"I could never get into it. It just seemed like Days of Our Lives in spaceships. It had that same dark, dreary lighting and slow pace that is so typical of soap operas."
What I couldn't stand was the encounters they had with 'weird things'. I mean things that were weird for the sake of being weird. They lost me at the planet populated by lawyers.
Gotta agree about Enterprise. What I like most about that show is the dialog. It's so much different than the other Trek shows. I think a lot of people don't pick up on that and that's why they hate it.
I miss Quantum Leap over all of it. Scifi can be good, but you have to have good characters in it to make it work. QL decidedly proved that.
"The least you could do is download a few hours of commercials, and put them in the mix. If everyone was like you, television stations wouldn't make any money, and then, umm, uhh, that would be bad! Or something. Think of the children!"
Actually, if the networks would make their shows available (or streamable) with commercials I'd watch those instead, provided they're on faster connections. I'm only willing to meet them half way.
"I mean you're throwing a ton of stuff on there,
not using it for your system drive (I hope)"
Well, it depends on what you're doing. I have a DV camera that dumps the raw data from the tape to the computer via Firewire. It runs about 13 gigs an hour. Not only is it easier to capture than analog format, but it's lossless as well. You edit the video then play it back through your video camera at full broadcast quality.
I don't think it'll be too long (2-3 years maybe?) before these devices are extremely common. You can buy a Mac laptop right now, plug a DV camera in, Download/edit video, then burn it to a DVD that will play in most players.
I feel pretty good that it won't be long before people consider 100 gigs to be limiting.
...who's got creative ways of filling these drives?
:)
I have a DV camera that records at 13 gigs an hour. Plus I've got a home-brew PVR quietly capturing shows for em.
Anybody else doing anything interesting with 100+ gigs space? I just bought a 120-gig drive so I'm looking for ideas.
"Piracy is the killer app for Telcoms and consumer electronics industries, unless it's in the Telcoms and consumer electronics."
If that were true, then how come the video game industry is thriving?
The Game Industry is not very far from the Entertainment Industry. They'd co-exist on a venn diagram with the *AA on one side and the Telcom/IT Industry on the other. If piracy was as destructive as they say, then the PC video game market wouldn't exist.
My personal theory is that the *AA has a monopolistic business model that earns them ridiculous amounts of money. With the internet, now they have to be fair like everybody else. Suddenly, it's not acceptable to say "You cannot return an opened CD" anymore. They'll have to *gasp* understand what customers want and give them the opportunity to decide "I really don't want that afterall."
Parent post was intended as a JOKE, not a troll. Reread it. I'm poking a little fun at the tendancy of some AC's to trick people into viewing that stupid goatse pic. I hardly think somebody's going to read my post and go "What a jerk!! I better argue with him!"