As I see it, they just don't have the time. They get hundreds of submissions a day, and having to check to make sure that story has never been mentioned + no other editors have approved that story would slow things down too much. As slashdot grows, expect the number of dupes to probably increase. I'm sure it is embarassing, but I'm also pretty sure they're doing the best they can. It really doesn't hurt anything, does it?
I personally the DMCA is abolished, especially with This Freedom of Speech issues notwithstanding of course. I know this has been said before (by a lot of people), but I actually do make a lot of copies of the CDs etc I own, (I'm a clutz, just broke a CD yesterday, was a CD-R though, thankfully). I expect the DMCA will end up just like the prohibition did, being repealed because it did more harm than good, and made a joke out of the law.
Heh, I just bought a new monitor and it can't even reach that resolution (its only a 17") I usually run games at 800x600 4x AA (I have a 1.2 T-bird, and a GF4, cpu isn't fast enough to get all those FPS anyway) I think that the focus for graphics cards will change from FPS to image quality, as thats whats really important anyway. would you rather have a card that could play Quake 3 at 500FPS, and look ok, or a card that could run Quake 3 at 60FPS, in photorealistic quality?
I think Microsoft has to learn that they can't just make incremental additions to their hardware, or current customers will feel cheated. Although I don't personally own an X-Box, I know someone who does, and if Microsoft doesn't offer this Media2Go service to current X Box users, I know he'll be angry (What they're describing is actually pretty much what he wants, he has broadband, and wants to be able to get things like music and movies, but still pay for them, etc)
Basically. I think the reason the RIAA is afraid of P2P is because with it, we don't need them anymore. Artists can now quickly and cheaply distribute their music over the internet, and continue making money the way they always have (concerts, merchandise(?) etc)
This used to happen to me when I was a little kid all the time, grew out of it I guess. The worst part for me is that when I would talk to my parents/doctor, they would always make jokes about it, and generally didn't beleive me =P I remmember it scared the hell out of me at the time;>
The Video section [online.no], particularly. I love the TechTV blooper, and the helocrash is entertaining. Poor helicopter, it never stood a chance. I hate to see a waste of a perfectly good machine.
Ahh, nothing goes together better than "this is a one of a kind peice, there is no other one like this particular one in the world...." *snap* "oh fu...shit! Oh my god...." =P
Bleck, 1.44mb floppies for game saves? Can you say frustration? =P (Ok, I just spent about 2 hours at a friends house going through about 20+ floppies trying to make a single boot disk, so maybe I'm biased against them now) Thank god USB Drives!
Since when do they have the right to "potential revenue streams" exclusive of our right to do whatever we want with the signals coming into our living room over the airwaves? And I suppose the fact that we're "not supposed" to watch foreign signals is enough reason to deprive us of the freedom to do so too, because it deprives local companies of revenues..?
The signals "coming into our living room over the airwaves" are copyrighted. I know copyrights don't often mean much anymore in this day and age, but the law is the law. They own the copyright, they get to decide how it gets used/distributed.
And so applying your logic further--wouldn't it make sense to illegalize Walmarts because it destroys "potential revenue streams" of the local markets and businesses?
First of all, this doesn't even make sense. Walmarts ARE local markets and businesses. Second of all, Walmart is not illegally taking the products they sell and then sell it to you. Walmart buys its products from suppliers, and then sells it to you. When you distribute TV signals over the internet, you are literally stealing copyrighted information, and distributing it, which is ILLEGAL
Fuck off with your b/s, you're just as clueless as your corporate master, consumer zombie sheep
This just makes you sound stupid. Consumer zombie sheep? What, Because he doesn't want to break the law? God forbid. Grow up and stop trying to "fight the power"
>IE killed Netscape, but Microsoft hasn't started charging for IE yet, have they.
You're the kind of guy that companies such as MS love. IE is not free. You *have* to buy their operating system (which costs lots and lots of money) to run it on Intel hardware.
So, do you still think IE is free????
Actually, I do. I know several people who own Apple Macintoshs Who use Internet Explorer and haven't paid Microsoft a dime for it. The real reason Microsoft made such a big deal out of the browser war is because the web was becoming a platform, which meant it was a threat to Windows. If Bill Gates had his way, the internet wouldn't be nearly as important.
RCA is notorious for making crappy products. (My apologies to the poster.) I worked at radio shack and one of the first thing I noticed was how shoddy all of the RCA products were. A lot of returns on these items, especially the DVD players. Also, an RCA Lyra player I once had was a total piece of crap. I've learned my lesson about buying stuff from them.
I have an RCA Lyra player, and it seems to work fine for me. Long battery life, durable (lets just say I'm clumsy), and it plays MP3 and WMA files, whats not to like? I also happen to have an RCA TV, which also works perfectly. If RCA can get the price of this thing to USD $250~$350 I'd probably buy one.
Since the content of games is driven by the largest market, perhaps America can look forward to games with less violence, and more sex. With games such as Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament being directly responsible for the Columbine massacre, I think this change in emphasis could only be a good thing. I've always been puzzled by our American morality whereby it is perfectly acceptable to show a person being violently physically assaulted, and yet to show two human beings making love is completely censored by our prudish tv networks.
Games were directly responsible for the Columbine Massacre? I consider myself a very ethical person (it is my beleif that killing a person is one of the worst things you could ever do) and I cringe at the thought of hurting another person, but I play all those games you listed about (as well as some others) The reason I play those games is because they're fun, and I can tell the difference between something on a TV screen or computer monitor and something in real life. Playing Grand Theft Auto for an hour everyday is not going to make you become some insane car jacker. The people who do horrible things like what happened in Columbine have problems, problems that have nothing to do with games. What sickens ME is that in this day and age people never want to take responsibility for their own actions, and blame it on things like video games, and movies. God willing, they will never discover books, or they'll have ratings too.
I have a keyboard like that, but the backspace button is broken =( Now I have one of those IBM Quick Access keyboards (one of the ones with the buttons on the top). Although I used to like the clicky keyboards, I know prefer the quieter clicks that have a more plasticy sound (as opposed to a loud metallic-like sound). I don't know why, though.
Since there were places that the US could (and did) test nuclear bombs, there is no reason for them to test it there. In addition, there was no radiation, and the survivors showed no signs of radiation poisoning. It was just a normal explosion, albeit a very big one.
Unfortunately they didn't release it under a real open source license like BSD. I can't take this and base my own game off of it without releasing source code. Basically this is a worthless release. I guess I'll have to continue with my plans to license the Q3A engine instead of looking at ROTT as a possible alternative engine.
Wouldn't you rather use the Q3A engine ANYWAY? Don't get me wrong, ROTT was a GREAT game, but its engine is WAY too old to create a new game (when you could be using the Q3A engine, anyway)
1)Open a CD Shop.
2)Sell the original with a copy CD with the tracks in mp3/ogg/whatever as a backup/digital medium copy.
3)Shovel millions to lawyers.
4)Counter sue for violating fair use.
5)After losing every court battle give up and bitch about it on slashdot. 6)???
7)Profit!
Yea, whats wrong with the old way? Surgeons working on their patients in person... The only way I see remote surgery as being safe at ALL is if it had its own seperate network (not part of the internet). The fact is that while the internet is pretty reliable when it comes to things like websurfing and email, when it comes to a life or death operation, it just isn't reliable enough.
The problem with wireless is, how are you going to make it secure? Well, I guess you don't really have to, but it might open up some interesting legal situations....
The worst part of it all is that if you fix it, and something breaks on it, it will forever be your fault. YOU broke it when you fixed it last time come and repair your damage, etc, etc.
I get that with my family all the time. I think the biggest mistake I made was making a computer for one of my relatives. It worked perfect when I gave it to them. A month later, hardly boots. (And its my fault) Fixed it, breaks again, (again my fault). The "It can't be my fault even though I'm the only one who uses this computer" syndrome that family members always seem to have is the main reason why I (and probably many other people) HATE giving support to our families
This is pretty easy to work around, and it wouldn't be illegal either. The reason you can have a music cd have computer data on it (and why you can update CD-Rs) is because on a cd player, the track that holds the cd information is the first track. On a computer, its the last. Basically, if your computer sees the outer track, it ignores the inner. All you would have to do is write a program that accesses the inner track directly and plays it. No decoding, etc (since the normal CD information IS on the CD).
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As I see it, they just don't have the time. They get hundreds of submissions a day, and having to check to make sure that story has never been mentioned + no other editors have approved that story would slow things down too much. As slashdot grows, expect the number of dupes to probably increase. I'm sure it is embarassing, but I'm also pretty sure they're doing the best they can. It really doesn't hurt anything, does it?
I personally the DMCA is abolished, especially with This Freedom of Speech issues notwithstanding of course. I know this has been said before (by a lot of people), but I actually do make a lot of copies of the CDs etc I own, (I'm a clutz, just broke a CD yesterday, was a CD-R though, thankfully). I expect the DMCA will end up just like the prohibition did, being repealed because it did more harm than good, and made a joke out of the law.
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The numbers seem to be consistent, I guess. Kinda of cool to have a little insight to how Google works, IMHO.
Heh, I just bought a new monitor and it can't even reach that resolution (its only a 17") I usually run games at 800x600 4x AA (I have a 1.2 T-bird, and a GF4, cpu isn't fast enough to get all those FPS anyway) I think that the focus for graphics cards will change from FPS to image quality, as thats whats really important anyway. would you rather have a card that could play Quake 3 at 500FPS, and look ok, or a card that could run Quake 3 at 60FPS, in photorealistic quality?
I think Microsoft has to learn that they can't just make incremental additions to their hardware, or current customers will feel cheated. Although I don't personally own an X-Box, I know someone who does, and if Microsoft doesn't offer this Media2Go service to current X Box users, I know he'll be angry (What they're describing is actually pretty much what he wants, he has broadband, and wants to be able to get things like music and movies, but still pay for them, etc)
Basically. I think the reason the RIAA is afraid of P2P is because with it, we don't need them anymore. Artists can now quickly and cheaply distribute their music over the internet, and continue making money the way they always have (concerts, merchandise(?) etc)
Think of it as buying a copy of a Linux distribution, you don't have to do it, but your helping support the community, etc.
This used to happen to me when I was a little kid all the time, grew out of it I guess. The worst part for me is that when I would talk to my parents/doctor, they would always make jokes about it, and generally didn't beleive me =P I remmember it scared the hell out of me at the time ;>
The Video section [online.no], particularly. I love the TechTV blooper, and the helocrash is entertaining. Poor helicopter, it never stood a chance. I hate to see a waste of a perfectly good machine.
Ahh, nothing goes together better than "this is a one of a kind peice, there is no other one like this particular one in the world...." *snap* "oh fu...shit! Oh my god...." =P
Bleck, 1.44mb floppies for game saves? Can you say frustration? =P (Ok, I just spent about 2 hours at a friends house going through about 20+ floppies trying to make a single boot disk, so maybe I'm biased against them now) Thank god USB Drives!
Since when do they have the right to "potential revenue streams" exclusive of our right to do whatever we want with the signals coming into our living room over the airwaves? And I suppose the fact that we're "not supposed" to watch foreign signals is enough reason to deprive us of the freedom to do so too, because it deprives local companies of revenues..?
The signals "coming into our living room over the airwaves" are copyrighted. I know copyrights don't often mean much anymore in this day and age, but the law is the law. They own the copyright, they get to decide how it gets used/distributed.
And so applying your logic further--wouldn't it make sense to illegalize Walmarts because it destroys "potential revenue streams" of the local markets and businesses?
First of all, this doesn't even make sense. Walmarts ARE local markets and businesses. Second of all, Walmart is not illegally taking the products they sell and then sell it to you. Walmart buys its products from suppliers, and then sells it to you. When you distribute TV signals over the internet, you are literally stealing copyrighted information, and distributing it, which is ILLEGAL
Fuck off with your b/s, you're just as clueless as your corporate master, consumer zombie sheep
This just makes you sound stupid. Consumer zombie sheep? What, Because he doesn't want to break the law? God forbid. Grow up and stop trying to "fight the power"
>IE killed Netscape, but Microsoft hasn't started charging for IE yet, have they.
You're the kind of guy that companies such as MS love. IE is not free. You *have* to buy their operating system (which costs lots and lots of money) to run it on Intel hardware.
So, do you still think IE is free????
Actually, I do. I know several people who own Apple Macintoshs Who use Internet Explorer and haven't paid Microsoft a dime for it. The real reason Microsoft made such a big deal out of the browser war is because the web was becoming a platform, which meant it was a threat to Windows. If Bill Gates had his way, the internet wouldn't be nearly as important.
RCA is notorious for making crappy products. (My apologies to the poster.) I worked at radio shack and one of the first thing I noticed was how shoddy all of the RCA products were. A lot of returns on these items, especially the DVD players. Also, an RCA Lyra player I once had was a total piece of crap. I've learned my lesson about buying stuff from them.
I have an RCA Lyra player, and it seems to work fine for me. Long battery life, durable (lets just say I'm clumsy), and it plays MP3 and WMA files, whats not to like? I also happen to have an RCA TV, which also works perfectly. If RCA can get the price of this thing to USD $250~$350 I'd probably buy one.
Since the content of games is driven by the largest market, perhaps America can look forward to games with less violence, and more sex. With games such as Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament being directly responsible for the Columbine massacre, I think this change in emphasis could only be a good thing. I've always been puzzled by our American morality whereby it is perfectly acceptable to show a person being violently physically assaulted, and yet to show two human beings making love is completely censored by our prudish tv networks.
Games were directly responsible for the Columbine Massacre? I consider myself a very ethical person (it is my beleif that killing a person is one of the worst things you could ever do) and I cringe at the thought of hurting another person, but I play all those games you listed about (as well as some others) The reason I play those games is because they're fun, and I can tell the difference between something on a TV screen or computer monitor and something in real life. Playing Grand Theft Auto for an hour everyday is not going to make you become some insane car jacker. The people who do horrible things like what happened in Columbine have problems, problems that have nothing to do with games. What sickens ME is that in this day and age people never want to take responsibility for their own actions, and blame it on things like video games, and movies. God willing, they will never discover books, or they'll have ratings too.
I have a keyboard like that, but the backspace button is broken =( Now I have one of those IBM Quick Access keyboards (one of the ones with the buttons on the top). Although I used to like the clicky keyboards, I know prefer the quieter clicks that have a more plasticy sound (as opposed to a loud metallic-like sound). I don't know why, though.
Since there were places that the US could (and did) test nuclear bombs, there is no reason for them to test it there. In addition, there was no radiation, and the survivors showed no signs of radiation poisoning. It was just a normal explosion, albeit a very big one.
Unfortunately they didn't release it under a real open source license like BSD. I can't take this and base my own game off of it without releasing source code. Basically this is a worthless release. I guess I'll have to continue with my plans to license the Q3A engine instead of looking at ROTT as a possible alternative engine.
Wouldn't you rather use the Q3A engine ANYWAY? Don't get me wrong, ROTT was a GREAT game, but its engine is WAY too old to create a new game (when you could be using the Q3A engine, anyway)
1)Open a CD Shop.
2)Sell the original with a copy CD with the tracks in mp3/ogg/whatever as a backup/digital medium copy.
3)Shovel millions to lawyers.
4)Counter sue for violating fair use.
5)After losing every court battle give up and bitch about it on slashdot.
6)???
7)Profit!
Yea, whats wrong with the old way? Surgeons working on their patients in person... The only way I see remote surgery as being safe at ALL is if it had its own seperate network (not part of the internet). The fact is that while the internet is pretty reliable when it comes to things like websurfing and email, when it comes to a life or death operation, it just isn't reliable enough.
The problem with wireless is, how are you going to make it secure? Well, I guess you don't really have to, but it might open up some interesting legal situations....
This is good, even if the performance benefits aren't that great, at least AMD is getting some support here, which is what it needs most right now
I agree! I used to think DOS was very nice, and then I met Linux =)
The worst part of it all is that if you fix it, and something breaks on it, it will forever be your fault. YOU broke it when you fixed it last time come and repair your damage, etc, etc.
I get that with my family all the time. I think the biggest mistake I made was making a computer for one of my relatives. It worked perfect when I gave it to them. A month later, hardly boots. (And its my fault) Fixed it, breaks again, (again my fault). The "It can't be my fault even though I'm the only one who uses this computer" syndrome that family members always seem to have is the main reason why I (and probably many other people) HATE giving support to our families
Do we really want out houses to be computer controlled? What if someone writes a virus, or figures out a way to hack it?
This is pretty easy to work around, and it wouldn't be illegal either. The reason you can have a music cd have computer data on it (and why you can update CD-Rs) is because on a cd player, the track that holds the cd information is the first track. On a computer, its the last. Basically, if your computer sees the outer track, it ignores the inner. All you would have to do is write a program that accesses the inner track directly and plays it. No decoding, etc (since the normal CD information IS on the CD).