Well, maybe not, but seriously, distributing modified binaries of pine is illegal, which really cramps my style;-). There are other mail readers I would reccomened over pine, namely mutt, or elm, spruce, sylpheed, or balsa, all of which are Free as in speech.
I think the real problem is that most movies are so rehashed, uninspired, and predictable these days that we can easily tell what the entire thing will be like regardless of the trailer.
I think I just might ditch Linux and my self-built box in exchange for an over-priced pre-fab system with WindowsXP so that I too can enjoy the thrill of displaying pictures, movies and DVDs.
I am the only one with my AGP slot as the first slot at the top on my motherboard? That means there's no open slot on the back of my case for that fan to stick out of. The only way I can see a contraption like that working is if it was taking up two PCI slots, which of course it doesn't... Any ideas?
Regardless of one's opinion on the legality of sharing as it relates to fair use, violating our fair use rights (the ability to time shift, format shit, make backup copies, record copyrigted material, etc, etc) in order to prevent us from possibly pirating intellectual property shouldn't be tolerated. If that's the case we're being punished for crimes we may or may not commit, and our fair use rights are trampled because in order to stop piracy, DRM would lock down media and devices and prevent us from doing perfectly legal things with what we buy.
1) Ogg Vorbis! Wishful thinking, I know, but perhaps the labels should jump on this band wagon before the patent holders come knocking when downloadable music becomes the new record industry business model. Not do metion the superior quality at lower bitrates....
2) If the selection is limited to only MP3s, I would want to have the option of downloading files at bitrates higher than simply 128kbs like Emusic currently only offers. Ideally I would have the option of getting any bitrate I want between 128kbs and 320kbs.
3) Clearly defined download limits. Recently an Emusic user was banned for downloading 200 albums in 3 days as an "unlimited" subscriber. No hard cap was set in the TOS agreement, and if I were hypothetically using a service like this, I would want to be very clear on just how "unlimited" my downloading abilities were.
4) Most importantly, I want to be able to formatshift, burn, mix, freely trade, and put the music files on any device I wish. I will never use a service that imposed DRM restrictions on my fair use rights, due to both principle and practicality.
I hope the media covers this when they do those "behind the scenes" pieces about the infrastruce that makes the games happen. Could be some seriously good press for Linux.
Wait...I just realized your post was a legitimate suggestion that could honestly enhance the gameplay experience...my mind must really be in the gutter.
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Even if it passes, it won't fly because a state can't legalize something that is federally outlawed.
Personally, I think the whole thing is silly anyways, there's more important things to worry about than one's ability to get high. Besides, people will do it regardless of the law anyway.
Newbies don't go to MacWorld (generally speaking) or any other trade show for that matter.
I take it you weren't at LinuxWorld this year;-).
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Minotaur is being developed as a Phoenix-style replacement for Mozilla Mail and News, except with the same UI as Mozilla. Eventually, Thunderbird will be developed from Minotaur, only with a Phoenix based UI.
Phoenix is cool and all...
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...but I hardly think we need to a new story notifying us of every new release (especially in these early alpha stages of binary only stuff). This is the forth Phoenix story (1, 2, 3, including a repeat) since its release, so how about we give it a break until a big milestone is hit?
Why exactly is this? Now, I've never used Minix, but I fail to see how, when there's free UNIXes availible to everyone, how one UNIX could be better suited to learning/teaching than another. Wouldn't using a "real" UNIX system be the best way to learn? Unless, of course, Minix has some special features that would evelate it beyond others. As far as I know, the only reason Minix was popular as a learning UNIX was because it was one of few that was available for people to use on their home machines.
Are there any plans to have this webcasted via audio or video, or at the vary least transcripted for our analytical pleasure?
MIT's page makes no mention of any intention to do this, and seeing how it will apparently be the "most technically detailed lecture publically given to date," I think that the public would benefit greatly from such a service.
I'm and old school gamer. I prefer things 2D over 3D, and think that then quality of the industry has taken a major dive since the popularization of the Playstation (and the ensuing "Playstation Generation) and blatant T&A based franchises like Tomb Raider et al. Naturally, I abhor BMX XXX to its core and wish nothing more than it's utter failure (and the failure of shovelware, gimmicky publishers like Acclaim). Because of this, my first reaction to this news was one of adulation if for no other reason than that this refusal to carry the game will result in fewer sales and send a message to Acclaim to maybe try making a real game instead of peddeling sex to horndog high-schoolers who for some reason think polygonal tits are real neat (trust me guys, flesh is much better).
However, upon further reflection, I realized that a bocott like this on the part of retail chains goes against something I value greatly: freedom. By not carrying these games, not only have Wal-Mart and others create undue hype and press for this piece of shit, but effectively takes power and freedom away from consumers to make their own choices by making them for them. This is not a good thing.
So, as much as I hope this game gets rejected "like a 32X-Sega Virtual Boy Hybrid from Atari*," I wish more that retail chains would stop making choices for consumers and creating hype for crap like this. We're the only ones it hurts, and Acclaim (the company who tried to advertise on grave headstones and offered $10,000 to the first couple to name their child "Turok") is banking on just this kind of publicity.
*Thanks to Dave Halverson of Play and formerly of GameFan for that tastey quote.
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Ah, I see. Good info, thanks for clearing that up.
Well, maybe not, but seriously, distributing modified binaries of pine is illegal, which really cramps my style ;-). There are other mail readers I would reccomened over pine, namely mutt, or elm, spruce, sylpheed, or balsa, all of which are Free as in speech.
I think the real problem is that most movies are so rehashed, uninspired, and predictable these days that we can easily tell what the entire thing will be like regardless of the trailer.
Shit, I wish my computer could do all that!
I think I just might ditch Linux and my self-built box in exchange for an over-priced pre-fab system with WindowsXP so that I too can enjoy the thrill of displaying pictures, movies and DVDs.
Will the innovation never cease at Redmond?
Yeah, I just realized that...where the hell is the delete button ;-)
I am the only one with my AGP slot as the first slot at the top on my motherboard? That means there's no open slot on the back of my case for that fan to stick out of. The only way I can see a contraption like that working is if it was taking up two PCI slots, which of course it doesn't... Any ideas?
Regardless of one's opinion on the legality of sharing as it relates to fair use, violating our fair use rights (the ability to time shift, format shit, make backup copies, record copyrigted material, etc, etc) in order to prevent us from possibly pirating intellectual property shouldn't be tolerated. If that's the case we're being punished for crimes we may or may not commit, and our fair use rights are trampled because in order to stop piracy, DRM would lock down media and devices and prevent us from doing perfectly legal things with what we buy.
2) If the selection is limited to only MP3s, I would want to have the option of downloading files at bitrates higher than simply 128kbs like Emusic currently only offers. Ideally I would have the option of getting any bitrate I want between 128kbs and 320kbs.
3) Clearly defined download limits. Recently an Emusic user was banned for downloading 200 albums in 3 days as an "unlimited" subscriber. No hard cap was set in the TOS agreement, and if I were hypothetically using a service like this, I would want to be very clear on just how "unlimited" my downloading abilities were.
4) Most importantly, I want to be able to formatshift, burn, mix, freely trade, and put the music files on any device I wish. I will never use a service that imposed DRM restrictions on my fair use rights, due to both principle and practicality.
...how many Libraries of Congress is this?
Is the interface a command line? If not, it's crufty ;-)
This means my insurance will cover the 23" Apple Cinema HD Display I've had my eye (pardon the pun) on right?
I hope the media covers this when they do those "behind the scenes" pieces about the infrastruce that makes the games happen. Could be some seriously good press for Linux.
/wishful_thinking
Wait...I just realized your post was a legitimate suggestion that could honestly enhance the gameplay experience...my mind must really be in the gutter.
If you're getting off to Doom, you've got bigger problems just being trained to be a serial killer ;-).
I reccommened Rez Special Edition with Trance Vibrator for all your "stimulating" videogaming needs...I mean your sore back...right...
Even if it passes, it won't fly because a state can't legalize something that is federally outlawed.
Personally, I think the whole thing is silly anyways, there's more important things to worry about than one's ability to get high. Besides, people will do it regardless of the law anyway.
Wouldn't that be AiboyNeal?
...let's just hope their latest scheme is as successful as Divx was ;-).
Its a third person shooter, not first, and although Nihilistic is doing most of the work, Blizzard is still watching it closely.
Also, Nihilistic was started by a group a programmers that left Blizzard after working on StarCraft.
Actually, Nihilistic is a bunch of ex-Lucasarts guys who left after doing Jedi Knight I.
Check it out here.
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This is by far to custom case I've ever seen.
Look a bit dangerous though
Newbies don't go to MacWorld (generally speaking) or any other trade show for that matter.
;-).
I take it you weren't at LinuxWorld this year
Minotaur is being developed as a Phoenix-style replacement for Mozilla Mail and News, except with the same UI as Mozilla. Eventually, Thunderbird will be developed from Minotaur, only with a Phoenix based UI.
...but I hardly think we need to a new story notifying us of every new release (especially in these early alpha stages of binary only stuff). This is the forth Phoenix story (1, 2, 3, including a repeat) since its release, so how about we give it a break until a big milestone is hit?
Why exactly is this? Now, I've never used Minix, but I fail to see how, when there's free UNIXes availible to everyone, how one UNIX could be better suited to learning/teaching than another. Wouldn't using a "real" UNIX system be the best way to learn? Unless, of course, Minix has some special features that would evelate it beyond others. As far as I know, the only reason Minix was popular as a learning UNIX was because it was one of few that was available for people to use on their home machines.
Are there any plans to have this webcasted via audio or video, or at the vary least transcripted for our analytical pleasure?
MIT's page makes no mention of any intention to do this, and seeing how it will apparently be the "most technically detailed lecture publically given to date," I think that the public would benefit greatly from such a service.
I'm and old school gamer. I prefer things 2D over 3D, and think that then quality of the industry has taken a major dive since the popularization of the Playstation (and the ensuing "Playstation Generation) and blatant T&A based franchises like Tomb Raider et al. Naturally, I abhor BMX XXX to its core and wish nothing more than it's utter failure (and the failure of shovelware, gimmicky publishers like Acclaim). Because of this, my first reaction to this news was one of adulation if for no other reason than that this refusal to carry the game will result in fewer sales and send a message to Acclaim to maybe try making a real game instead of peddeling sex to horndog high-schoolers who for some reason think polygonal tits are real neat (trust me guys, flesh is much better).
However, upon further reflection, I realized that a bocott like this on the part of retail chains goes against something I value greatly: freedom. By not carrying these games, not only have Wal-Mart and others create undue hype and press for this piece of shit, but effectively takes power and freedom away from consumers to make their own choices by making them for them. This is not a good thing.
So, as much as I hope this game gets rejected "like a 32X-Sega Virtual Boy Hybrid from Atari*," I wish more that retail chains would stop making choices for consumers and creating hype for crap like this. We're the only ones it hurts, and Acclaim (the company who tried to advertise on grave headstones and offered $10,000 to the first couple to name their child "Turok") is banking on just this kind of publicity.
*Thanks to Dave Halverson of Play and formerly of GameFan for that tastey quote.