Ran off skipping and giggling, like a 13 year old who just put toothpaste on the toilet seat?
Or do you really mean, slunk off, like my dog does when I walk in and find her curled up on top of the remains of the remotes for the TV, TiVo, DVD player and stereo?
My dog likes remote controls more than snausages.
OT: Anyone know where (brick and mortar) to get a replacement (original) TiVo remote?
Unless the estate (whoever that is) decides it's easier to settle for a quick million bucks now, because he/she's not emotionally attached to the fight.
It's still cheaper for Marvel to go that route in the long run. Hell, they may even have a deal ready to go with whomever survives Stan.
I don't know the details of this case. I just know there's a million and one ways for corporations to get out of paying their debts. Filing bankruptcy, selling the Marvel name and all IP to another company (owned by the same guys), and gee there's just not enough profit to pay Stan.
Thing is, he sued Marvel, he's entitled to 10% of whatever Marvel charged the movie folks for the rights to make spiderman, not 10% of what the movie made.
Paramount (or whoever) aren't even defendants in this suit, IIRC.
I know from TV sitcoms, this happens all the time.
Generally the inheritance is conditional upon spending the night in a haunted castle or mansion with three friends and a talking dog. It's known in legal circles as "Scoobus Doobus"
Ok, but say it's still not finally settled by the time he dies. He doesn't have the money, or even an actual judgement yet. Say that it's still all in litigation.
What exactly happens when a plantiff dies during a case he's about to win? Does the case get dropped? Can his lawyer continue the case on behalf of his estate? What generally happens, what happens if there are no living relatives, and the state takes over his estate?
Sort of offtopic, but I'm wondering if any lawyers know what the deal is in a case like this, because I've always wondered?
The whole point here is to try and run-out-the-clock on Stan Lee. The guys in his 80s. They're hoping he'll just go ahead and die before they have to pay. If he did die, does Marvel then owe Lee's children (does he have any?)
Insurance companies view this as a legit business practice. They'll often sit on someone's benefits, and make them jump through as many legal hoops as possible, if they know they have a terminal disease, or are otherwise close to death.
At any rate, we can all agree that Spiderman sucks.
CRTs these days commonly sync at upwards of 120Hz which equates to 120fps. The best any LCD fed via DVI can do (to my knowledge) is about 85fps.
We had practically the same article a week ago, but that one was about TVs. Bottom line, CRT's still have the best picture quality.
I can display anything from 640x480 to 1600x1200 natively with a CRT. Non-native resolutions on an LCD look like crap, and when you have a 1920x1200 res LCD, but only enough GPU muscle to drive Doom 3 at 1024x768, you gots problems.
I have no beef with LCDs, they have other advantages - space, space, showing off, space, trendiness and space, but that's about the end of it.
Huh? Open Source plays right into those plans. How exactly do you make a profit from free (gratis) software? By supporting it, and charging for the framework behind it.
What do you think IBM is involved with linux for? Forget up-front software costs, they want businesses to sign big fat zillion-dollars-a-year contracts.
If MSFT moves closer towards being a service provider, you just might see them offering and supporting OSS apps in the future.
This is not a MSFT thing, this is the entire software industry moving towards subscription/support based contracts.
OSS is driving this in a big way. If the software is gratis/free, then how do you profit? You sell the services you need to make it work, and support. IBM wants to dominate the IT services industry.
This is what businesses like, frankly, something that's a constant line item in the balance sheet, rather than having to spend X-zillion dollars at irregular intervals to roll out a new version or new app.
Are they just rebranding the "hotmail pro" service (whatever it's called) as "Outlook", in the same way Netscape is being branded as an ISP, or Napster as a music service?
It seems rebranding well known apps as pay-per services is all the rage.
Before you get all up in arms about Intel "banning linux" and being all evil and monopoly, blah blah, realize that Intel is a member of OSDL - Intel pays Linus to write linux.
This was all about not having their brand and logo associated with something that didn't work. This is a pat on the back for the kernel hackers who managed to get good solid support for the various Centrino components into the kernel.
So just take it for what it is. You can now say that linux officially works on Centrino laptops.
These are relatively poorly done computer renders that are based on the raw data, NASA/ESA will release much better, and more accurate images - which will take longer to complete.
They have an assload more data to put into them than the raw images released to the public.
Oops, I forgot where I was posting for a minute..
I *really* mean "hahah NASA are dumb because all americans suck!! ahhahahahahah NASA sucks!!! They are so dumb hahaha waste of money hahah!!!"
And the best games I've played have been unlicensed.
This goes back to the days when I played Hardball! on the C64. Baseball Stars, heh, what was that robot one on the NES? It was a blast, like Basebot 2000 or something.
I look forward to seeing developers looking to improved gameplay, or other features, to sell the game, rather than using "we gots all the players names" as a crutch.
But then I'm someone who likes sports, and sports games, but doesn't care for professional sports (except for the NHL, and who the hell knows if it'll even survive this lockout)
Most football video game players and not video game nuts. they're football nuts.
I disagree, I'd say at best it's an even mix. I like playing football games, and I don't think I could name more than three current professional players, and even then, I couldn't tell you who they play for.
I like the game of football a lot, however I don't care for the NFL.
There's a big market that just wants the best game, whatever that means to them (best looking, best playing, best online experience).
Wait a second, branding is the most important thing to a sports franchise. How could EA have ever survived without MLB branding in the past?
EA is still selling an unbranded product, while the slashbot wisdom would say that Take Two has a "monopoly advantage" because they have a branded product. It still affects EA the same way it affects anyone else, in a very small and inconsequential way.
Turns out, that official logo doesn't mean jack-shit when the games are on the shelves.
Thanks for calling my attention to this:...smaller rivals in the sector would certainly be squeezed out, such as Sony's MLB range
Heh... Sony is a "smaller rival" to Take Two...
I don't know how I missed that the first time. That's the single stupidest fucking "gamer journalist 2 the x-treame!!!" comment I ever read.
Hahahaha... Yeah, just like Red Hat and SuSe are really squeezing out "smaller rivals" like Microsoft.
Hahahahahahahhahaha
Sony, the "little guys" in the gaming world. ROFL.
Thanks for the laughs. Feel free to abuse your ability to modbomb me into silence, that's generally the way it works around here.
Konami, Capcom, and others have all made Marvel games in the past. Now it's just Activision. Because Activision/Neversoft backed a dumptruck full of cash to their door.
Every movie has a video game tie-in, and the maker of the game has exclusive video-game rights.
Exclusive deals for characters, and branding, are pretty much the backbone of the video game industry.
EA had exclusive deals with all the major leagues back in the 90s. So they got some new deals. Big whoop. It's the leagues decision to make. Quit pitching tantrums like there's some kind of law being broken, or that it's even morally or ethically wrong.
The NFL decided they only want EA to make NFL-based games. Whoopty friggin doo. Make an XFL based game then.
The best sports titles I've ever played didn't have official player names or logos.
If anything, this encourages innovation in the genre, because Sega and the rest need a better "gimmick" than just having a relatively current roster for each team. (they're never truly up to date since the games are usually gold before trading season is over)
While the move wouldn't hurt EA's baseball franchise...
A lot of you are wondering why it wouldn't hurt EA any more than anyone else. Of course, it would, but remember - we're supposed to hate EA.
If we admitted that this could "hurt" EA, in the same way EA's deals could hurt Take Two (et al), we're admitting that competition in the video game market is alive and well, and that exclusive rights are par for the course in the industry.
Activision has exclusive rights to make Spiderman games, but you don't see any articles about that, do you?
So basically, just think of EA as Microsoft, and Take Two as Apple.
DRM in Media Player is an affront to our rights online, and threatens our very freedom. DRM in iTunes is a brilliant business strategy from a company that "gets it". Or, MSFT pursuing action againt mikerowesoft.com (even though they HAVE to defend trademarks) was evil, but Apple suing a kid for passing on a rumor about the mini mac, well that's different because, umm, iPods have neato little scroll wheel things.
I hope this clears things up. Slashdot is best read and understood when peering through your navel, with your head shoved far up your ass.
Seriously, G4TechTV is more "on the ball" when it comes to reviewing current games.
This is just what we've come to expect from slashdot. Glowing book "reviews", complete with amazon referral links. Interesting tech "news", plagairized by Roland Piquapille for our reading enjoyment (and his ad revenue enjoyment).
Now they shill for EA, a company many/.ers despise.
Oh, and the review itself is awful. This guy cannot write. It's just big run-on sentences describing how he crashed up the car.
Here's my zonk-review of Halo 2:
One time I crawled behind and melee killed one of my clanmates in Halo 2 and then "teabagged" him and everyone was watching, and it was really funny because they were all laughing and then I got the gun and ran and shot another guy and then i got the bomb and went to arm it and they threw a grenade in there but i jumped then i hit the guy with the grenade then i armed the bomb and we scored and it was 1 to 0 but later we lost 2-1 because my stupid teammate didn't even know where our base was so he didn't get back to help stop them from arming the bomb, but later we were playing on zanzibar and i opened the gate and they drove the warthog in and shot up all the guys and took the flag because we were playing capture the flag and then they tried to drive it in the warthog but it got exploded so then i took the flag and ran and they were shooting at me but i got around the corner before they killed me and my shield charged back up and i scored.
Halo 2 is from microsoft so buy it because they deserve our money. Also buy the special edition headset. kthx bye
How the hell can I get a CommodoreOne? The last time I checked they weren't shipping to the US? Has this changed, or are there any resellers?
I really want one to monkey around with. Reconfigurable via FPGAs, it can turn into a C64, Vic20, Atari2600, Atari800..
This makes me wonder, though: They claim 1581 emulation using regular 3.5" PC drives. Back in the day, I was told this wasn't possible because they used completely different methods to write the disks? By emulation, do they mean the drive looks like a 1581, but writes differently, or that I could actually use the crates and crates of old disks I have?
It's not a "feature", it's just part of the design of the OS. It's just the way it is. Some day, someone will write a good VMM for AmigaOS.
Until then, keep mounting your linux swap files into ramdisks and tell yourself how much more efficient you are than all those other dummies who just access RAM directly.
The japanese Amazon lists it at 74,000 yen, I think. I can't read japanese, but the number where the price should be is 74,000, which would be around 620 bucks, I believe.
After tax and shipping charges, I don't think the profit margins are that fat.
Frankly, though, I wish slashdot would stop linking to retailers period. If I want to buy one, I'll find a retailer myself. Other than that, they're basically just schilling what looks like a useless device. I could get a linux powered small footprint laptop for 850 bucks, that'd only be a few inches wider.
The amazon referral links in every book review need to stop to. They turn reviews into thinly veiled sales pitches (ever seen a bad slashdot book review? Neither have I).
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What do you mean, ran off?
Ran off skipping and giggling, like a 13 year old who just put toothpaste on the toilet seat?
Or do you really mean, slunk off, like my dog does when I walk in and find her curled up on top of the remains of the remotes for the TV, TiVo, DVD player and stereo?
My dog likes remote controls more than snausages.
OT: Anyone know where (brick and mortar) to get a replacement (original) TiVo remote?
Unless the estate (whoever that is) decides it's easier to settle for a quick million bucks now, because he/she's not emotionally attached to the fight.
It's still cheaper for Marvel to go that route in the long run. Hell, they may even have a deal ready to go with whomever survives Stan.
I don't know the details of this case. I just know there's a million and one ways for corporations to get out of paying their debts. Filing bankruptcy, selling the Marvel name and all IP to another company (owned by the same guys), and gee there's just not enough profit to pay Stan.
Ya know what they say, debt is an asset.
Final judgement.. -1 zillion bucks!
Thing is, he sued Marvel, he's entitled to 10% of whatever Marvel charged the movie folks for the rights to make spiderman, not 10% of what the movie made.
Paramount (or whoever) aren't even defendants in this suit, IIRC.
I know from TV sitcoms, this happens all the time.
Generally the inheritance is conditional upon spending the night in a haunted castle or mansion with three friends and a talking dog. It's known in legal circles as "Scoobus Doobus"
Ok, but say it's still not finally settled by the time he dies. He doesn't have the money, or even an actual judgement yet. Say that it's still all in litigation.
What exactly happens when a plantiff dies during a case he's about to win? Does the case get dropped? Can his lawyer continue the case on behalf of his estate? What generally happens, what happens if there are no living relatives, and the state takes over his estate?
Sort of offtopic, but I'm wondering if any lawyers know what the deal is in a case like this, because I've always wondered?
But Marvel will appeal.
The whole point here is to try and run-out-the-clock on Stan Lee. The guys in his 80s. They're hoping he'll just go ahead and die before they have to pay. If he did die, does Marvel then owe Lee's children (does he have any?)
Insurance companies view this as a legit business practice. They'll often sit on someone's benefits, and make them jump through as many legal hoops as possible, if they know they have a terminal disease, or are otherwise close to death.
At any rate, we can all agree that Spiderman sucks.
CRTs these days commonly sync at upwards of 120Hz which equates to 120fps. The best any LCD fed via DVI can do (to my knowledge) is about 85fps.
We had practically the same article a week ago, but that one was about TVs. Bottom line, CRT's still have the best picture quality.
I can display anything from 640x480 to 1600x1200 natively with a CRT. Non-native resolutions on an LCD look like crap, and when you have a 1920x1200 res LCD, but only enough GPU muscle to drive Doom 3 at 1024x768, you gots problems.
I have no beef with LCDs, they have other advantages - space, space, showing off, space, trendiness and space, but that's about the end of it.
No, you can finally stick a "Centrino inside" sticker on it, and resell it, without getting sued for misusing intel's trademark.
That will never be the case in the business world, which is where the money is.
No one really cares about Skeeter McGeek and his homemade linux machine.
Huh? Open Source plays right into those plans. How exactly do you make a profit from free (gratis) software? By supporting it, and charging for the framework behind it.
What do you think IBM is involved with linux for? Forget up-front software costs, they want businesses to sign big fat zillion-dollars-a-year contracts.
If MSFT moves closer towards being a service provider, you just might see them offering and supporting OSS apps in the future.
This is not a MSFT thing, this is the entire software industry moving towards subscription/support based contracts.
OSS is driving this in a big way. If the software is gratis/free, then how do you profit? You sell the services you need to make it work, and support. IBM wants to dominate the IT services industry.
This is what businesses like, frankly, something that's a constant line item in the balance sheet, rather than having to spend X-zillion dollars at irregular intervals to roll out a new version or new app.
At least, that's how I understand it.
Are they just rebranding the "hotmail pro" service (whatever it's called) as "Outlook", in the same way Netscape is being branded as an ISP, or Napster as a music service?
It seems rebranding well known apps as pay-per services is all the rage.
Intel and AMD are both members of OSDL.
Any "this one is more OSS-friendly than that one" insinuations you hear would pretty much be nothing but fanboy bullshit.
AMD doesn't have anything to maintain so far, since they have up until now just been doing CPUs, not whole-board solutions.
Before you get all up in arms about Intel "banning linux" and being all evil and monopoly, blah blah, realize that Intel is a member of OSDL - Intel pays Linus to write linux.
This was all about not having their brand and logo associated with something that didn't work. This is a pat on the back for the kernel hackers who managed to get good solid support for the various Centrino components into the kernel.
So just take it for what it is. You can now say that linux officially works on Centrino laptops.
These are relatively poorly done computer renders that are based on the raw data, NASA/ESA will release much better, and more accurate images - which will take longer to complete.
They have an assload more data to put into them than the raw images released to the public.
Oops, I forgot where I was posting for a minute..
I *really* mean "hahah NASA are dumb because all americans suck!! ahhahahahahah NASA sucks!!! They are so dumb hahaha waste of money hahah!!!"
And the best games I've played have been unlicensed.
This goes back to the days when I played Hardball! on the C64. Baseball Stars, heh, what was that robot one on the NES? It was a blast, like Basebot 2000 or something.
I look forward to seeing developers looking to improved gameplay, or other features, to sell the game, rather than using "we gots all the players names" as a crutch.
But then I'm someone who likes sports, and sports games, but doesn't care for professional sports (except for the NHL, and who the hell knows if it'll even survive this lockout)
Most football video game players and not video game nuts. they're football nuts.
I disagree, I'd say at best it's an even mix. I like playing football games, and I don't think I could name more than three current professional players, and even then, I couldn't tell you who they play for.
I like the game of football a lot, however I don't care for the NFL.
There's a big market that just wants the best game, whatever that means to them (best looking, best playing, best online experience).
Wait a second, branding is the most important thing to a sports franchise. How could EA have ever survived without MLB branding in the past?
...smaller rivals in the sector would certainly be squeezed out, such as Sony's MLB range
EA is still selling an unbranded product, while the slashbot wisdom would say that Take Two has a "monopoly advantage" because they have a branded product. It still affects EA the same way it affects anyone else, in a very small and inconsequential way.
Turns out, that official logo doesn't mean jack-shit when the games are on the shelves.
Thanks for calling my attention to this:
Heh... Sony is a "smaller rival" to Take Two...
I don't know how I missed that the first time. That's the single stupidest fucking "gamer journalist 2 the x-treame!!!" comment I ever read.
Hahahaha... Yeah, just like Red Hat and SuSe are really squeezing out "smaller rivals" like Microsoft.
Hahahahahahahhahaha
Sony, the "little guys" in the gaming world. ROFL.
Thanks for the laughs. Feel free to abuse your ability to modbomb me into silence, that's generally the way it works around here.
It's exactly the same thing.
Konami, Capcom, and others have all made Marvel games in the past. Now it's just Activision. Because Activision/Neversoft backed a dumptruck full of cash to their door.
Every movie has a video game tie-in, and the maker of the game has exclusive video-game rights.
Exclusive deals for characters, and branding, are pretty much the backbone of the video game industry.
EA had exclusive deals with all the major leagues back in the 90s. So they got some new deals. Big whoop. It's the leagues decision to make. Quit pitching tantrums like there's some kind of law being broken, or that it's even morally or ethically wrong.
The NFL decided they only want EA to make NFL-based games. Whoopty friggin doo. Make an XFL based game then.
The best sports titles I've ever played didn't have official player names or logos.
If anything, this encourages innovation in the genre, because Sega and the rest need a better "gimmick" than just having a relatively current roster for each team. (they're never truly up to date since the games are usually gold before trading season is over)
While the move wouldn't hurt EA's baseball franchise ...
A lot of you are wondering why it wouldn't hurt EA any more than anyone else. Of course, it would, but remember - we're supposed to hate EA.
If we admitted that this could "hurt" EA, in the same way EA's deals could hurt Take Two (et al), we're admitting that competition in the video game market is alive and well, and that exclusive rights are par for the course in the industry.
Activision has exclusive rights to make Spiderman games, but you don't see any articles about that, do you?
So basically, just think of EA as Microsoft, and Take Two as Apple.
DRM in Media Player is an affront to our rights online, and threatens our very freedom. DRM in iTunes is a brilliant business strategy from a company that "gets it". Or, MSFT pursuing action againt mikerowesoft.com (even though they HAVE to defend trademarks) was evil, but Apple suing a kid for passing on a rumor about the mini mac, well that's different because, umm, iPods have neato little scroll wheel things.
I hope this clears things up. Slashdot is best read and understood when peering through your navel, with your head shoved far up your ass.
I already got sick of Burnout 3 back in November.
/.ers despise.
Seriously, G4TechTV is more "on the ball" when it comes to reviewing current games.
This is just what we've come to expect from slashdot. Glowing book "reviews", complete with amazon referral links. Interesting tech "news", plagairized by Roland Piquapille for our reading enjoyment (and his ad revenue enjoyment).
Now they shill for EA, a company many
Oh, and the review itself is awful. This guy cannot write. It's just big run-on sentences describing how he crashed up the car.
Here's my zonk-review of Halo 2:
One time I crawled behind and melee killed one of my clanmates in Halo 2 and then "teabagged" him and everyone was watching, and it was really funny because they were all laughing and then I got the gun and ran and shot another guy and then i got the bomb and went to arm it and they threw a grenade in there but i jumped then i hit the guy with the grenade then i armed the bomb and we scored and it was 1 to 0 but later we lost 2-1 because my stupid teammate didn't even know where our base was so he didn't get back to help stop them from arming the bomb, but later we were playing on zanzibar and i opened the gate and they drove the warthog in and shot up all the guys and took the flag because we were playing capture the flag and then they tried to drive it in the warthog but it got exploded so then i took the flag and ran and they were shooting at me but i got around the corner before they killed me and my shield charged back up and i scored.
Halo 2 is from microsoft so buy it because they deserve our money. Also buy the special edition headset. kthx bye
Speaking of CommodoreOne.
How the hell can I get a CommodoreOne? The last time I checked they weren't shipping to the US? Has this changed, or are there any resellers?
I really want one to monkey around with. Reconfigurable via FPGAs, it can turn into a C64, Vic20, Atari2600, Atari800..
This makes me wonder, though: They claim 1581 emulation using regular 3.5" PC drives. Back in the day, I was told this wasn't possible because they used completely different methods to write the disks? By emulation, do they mean the drive looks like a 1581, but writes differently, or that I could actually use the crates and crates of old disks I have?
I guess it doesn't matter, since I can't get one.
Why would you mount a swap partition in RAM?
It's not a "feature", it's just part of the design of the OS. It's just the way it is. Some day, someone will write a good VMM for AmigaOS.
Until then, keep mounting your linux swap files into ramdisks and tell yourself how much more efficient you are than all those other dummies who just access RAM directly.
The japanese Amazon lists it at 74,000 yen, I think. I can't read japanese, but the number where the price should be is 74,000, which would be around 620 bucks, I believe.
After tax and shipping charges, I don't think the profit margins are that fat.
Frankly, though, I wish slashdot would stop linking to retailers period. If I want to buy one, I'll find a retailer myself. Other than that, they're basically just schilling what looks like a useless device. I could get a linux powered small footprint laptop for 850 bucks, that'd only be a few inches wider.
The amazon referral links in every book review need to stop to. They turn reviews into thinly veiled sales pitches (ever seen a bad slashdot book review? Neither have I).