Have you ever tried to copy 256MB over Bluetooth? It's just not worth it. I'm sure someone will do it to prove it can be done, but it's not ready to replace cables (or 802.11) for bulk data transfer.
Why are you posting on Slashdot instead of planning and executing a guerilla/terrorism campaign against the Chinese government? You obviously have no morals or sense of human decency.
The problem is that it is virtually impossible to suffer any significant reprisal for anything you do on the Internet. If you write like on a forum in English class, you will get low marks and (hopefully) some sort of negative reinforcement from your teacher/parents. If you do it on the Internet, nothing happens beyond a few people writing theoretically insulting things at you. If you're secure enough that getting flamed doesn't bother you, you have free reign to post pretty much whatever you want on message boards; the worst that will happen to you is that you made a bunch of distant strangers angry (and some people would take the latter as an incentive to do it in the first place).
The only way to keep a forum clean is to have admins with the will, available time, and dedication to enforce zero tolerance, but you can still only punish offenders to the extent that they care about having access to your message board. Even if you piss off a real script kiddie, the worst he can do is shut down your Internet access for a while, and for most non-Slashdot readers that's no big deal.
The most the GPL could reasonably demand is that it not be applied to software that contains said objectionable features. Making its use contingent on things with no obvious relationship to the subject of the license sets a very dangerous precedent- it's DRM and patents today, but what will Stallman want to forbid you doing tomorrow? Using Windows? Charging money for software? Voting for republicans?
A great deal of ex-commercial software that has been GPLed most likely could not have been GPLed had this restriction been in place. And it's very unlikely that any entity sitting on the fence regarding software patents and DRM is going to be swayed by whether or not they can use the GPL.
There was also the tiny matter of all the SA servers being located in New Orleans. He would have used his own payment system if it had been operational.
Tom obviously hasn't played Ninja Gaiden for Xbox.
This article doesn't seem to realize just how bad some of the trends whose passing he laments actually were. A game that forces you to start over doesn't make the endgame sweeter- it just generates a sense of tremendous frustration as several hours of progress is now completely wasted, and makes the earlier segments of the game unbearable as the player sees them over and over and over again. And "determine what you need to do next with very little in-game help" usually meant "Methodically try every single item in your inventory, then every pair of items in combination, until it works for a reason that may not be clear even after the fact". Game designers have realized that their aim is not to defeat the player and force him to give up as Tom seems to think is ideal, but rather to give the player an interactive escapist experience to partake of for a few hours, nothing more.
The EFF dings Apple for cutting the number of identical playlist burns from 10 to 7, while conveniently neglecting to point out that Apple simultaneously raised the number of authorizable computers from 3 to 5. If they're going to give "the real deal rather than spin" they should refrain from inserting spin themselves.
Carmack can't revolutionize anything without a small army of content creators. Do you think he draws all those normal maps himself in Photoshop, or models his own 150Kpoly monsters for his polybump processor? Without them, he'd have some technically excellent but ugly and non-entertaining tech demos, which he'd undoubtedly be very successful at licensing or publishing as research but which are a far cry from a true id game (cue the "but they're all tech demos anyway hurrr" posts).
The article has almost no details on how these mice were made. It also uses the words "discover" and "create" pretty much interchangeably. So are these mice the result of a deliberate experiment, cutting-edge genetic engineering, or a natural occurrence that a scientist luckily happened to notice as was the case with penecillin?
The networks are not designed for theoretical maximum capacity, they are designed for average peak observed capacity. If there are 1 million cell phones in use and only 10-20% of them are actively transmitting at a time during normal use, why shell out for 5 times as much infrastructure as is needed to support that level of use? A catastrophe like Katrina or 9/11 only happens once every few years; the rest of the time the excess capacity would only be draining resources - not just from the corporate bottom line, but from maintaining the 10-20% of the equipment that's actually used by subscribers.
This calculation assumes that random song picking is done every time the iPod switches songs, which is not the case. When you turn on shuffle and hit play, the songs are sorted into random order and then played in that order, so a particular song is guaranteed not to show up twice until all other songs are played (all else being equal). You can see this by skipping forwards and backwards during shuffle play- it will stay in the same order until you go off the top or bottom of the list or interrupt and restart playback.
There aren't any other (legitimate) sources of music that let me pay less than 99 for a song. My only alternative is to buy the entire CD at retail, which costs well over $10, and if I only want one song off it that's a waste. The ITMS wins hands down when compared to that.
You don't think there haven't been people saying this for every single platform launch for the past 20 years? The Xbox/PS2/GC generation was supposed to be the death of creativity and the video game market too, but it hasn't happened yet.
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Have you ever tried to copy 256MB over Bluetooth? It's just not worth it. I'm sure someone will do it to prove it can be done, but it's not ready to replace cables (or 802.11) for bulk data transfer.
If God really disliked America, he'd set off this. It would make Katrina look like a water balloon.
Why are you posting on Slashdot instead of planning and executing a guerilla/terrorism campaign against the Chinese government? You obviously have no morals or sense of human decency.
That laptop would go great with my 16 CD burners (and 24 CD readers).
The problem is that it is virtually impossible to suffer any significant reprisal for anything you do on the Internet. If you write like on a forum in English class, you will get low marks and (hopefully) some sort of negative reinforcement from your teacher/parents. If you do it on the Internet, nothing happens beyond a few people writing theoretically insulting things at you. If you're secure enough that getting flamed doesn't bother you, you have free reign to post pretty much whatever you want on message boards; the worst that will happen to you is that you made a bunch of distant strangers angry (and some people would take the latter as an incentive to do it in the first place).
The only way to keep a forum clean is to have admins with the will, available time, and dedication to enforce zero tolerance, but you can still only punish offenders to the extent that they care about having access to your message board. Even if you piss off a real script kiddie, the worst he can do is shut down your Internet access for a while, and for most non-Slashdot readers that's no big deal.
The most the GPL could reasonably demand is that it not be applied to software that contains said objectionable features. Making its use contingent on things with no obvious relationship to the subject of the license sets a very dangerous precedent- it's DRM and patents today, but what will Stallman want to forbid you doing tomorrow? Using Windows? Charging money for software? Voting for republicans?
A great deal of ex-commercial software that has been GPLed most likely could not have been GPLed had this restriction been in place. And it's very unlikely that any entity sitting on the fence regarding software patents and DRM is going to be swayed by whether or not they can use the GPL.
He's not collecting welfare checks, he's making ends meet just fine.
It was a good joke, but not 100% accurate- The laser was invented in 1960, so it couldn't have been a 50s buzzword.
More like "OH NOES! An alternative to my current specialization! It requires adapting and additional investment, therefore I must fear it!"
That's not really a good comparison. Smoking is 100% preventable in theory, hurricanes and other natural disasters are not.
Can someone explain why I would have hooked my Blu-Ray player up to the Internet in the first place?
There was also the tiny matter of all the SA servers being located in New Orleans. He would have used his own payment system if it had been operational.
Tom obviously hasn't played Ninja Gaiden for Xbox.
This article doesn't seem to realize just how bad some of the trends whose passing he laments actually were. A game that forces you to start over doesn't make the endgame sweeter- it just generates a sense of tremendous frustration as several hours of progress is now completely wasted, and makes the earlier segments of the game unbearable as the player sees them over and over and over again. And "determine what you need to do next with very little in-game help" usually meant "Methodically try every single item in your inventory, then every pair of items in combination, until it works for a reason that may not be clear even after the fact". Game designers have realized that their aim is not to defeat the player and force him to give up as Tom seems to think is ideal, but rather to give the player an interactive escapist experience to partake of for a few hours, nothing more.
Of course you have a choice. Don't buy it. It's not like specific movies and music are essential to staying alive or a fundamental human right.
The EFF dings Apple for cutting the number of identical playlist burns from 10 to 7, while conveniently neglecting to point out that Apple simultaneously raised the number of authorizable computers from 3 to 5. If they're going to give "the real deal rather than spin" they should refrain from inserting spin themselves.
Carmack can't revolutionize anything without a small army of content creators. Do you think he draws all those normal maps himself in Photoshop, or models his own 150Kpoly monsters for his polybump processor? Without them, he'd have some technically excellent but ugly and non-entertaining tech demos, which he'd undoubtedly be very successful at licensing or publishing as research but which are a far cry from a true id game (cue the "but they're all tech demos anyway hurrr" posts).
The article has almost no details on how these mice were made. It also uses the words "discover" and "create" pretty much interchangeably. So are these mice the result of a deliberate experiment, cutting-edge genetic engineering, or a natural occurrence that a scientist luckily happened to notice as was the case with penecillin?
The networks are not designed for theoretical maximum capacity, they are designed for average peak observed capacity. If there are 1 million cell phones in use and only 10-20% of them are actively transmitting at a time during normal use, why shell out for 5 times as much infrastructure as is needed to support that level of use? A catastrophe like Katrina or 9/11 only happens once every few years; the rest of the time the excess capacity would only be draining resources - not just from the corporate bottom line, but from maintaining the 10-20% of the equipment that's actually used by subscribers.
This calculation assumes that random song picking is done every time the iPod switches songs, which is not the case. When you turn on shuffle and hit play, the songs are sorted into random order and then played in that order, so a particular song is guaranteed not to show up twice until all other songs are played (all else being equal). You can see this by skipping forwards and backwards during shuffle play- it will stay in the same order until you go off the top or bottom of the list or interrupt and restart playback.
There aren't any other (legitimate) sources of music that let me pay less than 99 for a song. My only alternative is to buy the entire CD at retail, which costs well over $10, and if I only want one song off it that's a waste. The ITMS wins hands down when compared to that.
You don't think they took that into account? Slowing growth does not necessarily imply imminent zero or negative growth.
"Integrity means doing the right thing when no one is watching." -anonymous
Then wait. Your place on the demand curve is entirely up to you.
So don't buy the $1200 bundle. The basic console and one game costs about $460.
You don't think there haven't been people saying this for every single platform launch for the past 20 years? The Xbox/PS2/GC generation was supposed to be the death of creativity and the video game market too, but it hasn't happened yet.