And flag burning should in fact be illegal, I think.
Bullshit.
A flag, take any flag you want, be it Germany's, U.S.A's or Canada's, is just a piece of hand-woven coloured cloth made in China.
It is not illegal to burn a piece of cloth. But once you attach certain maeaning to it, i.e. America's freedom or Canada's cold weather, they become symbols and you change the intention of flag-burning. It's like writing Perl code to decrypt CSS: Perl itself isn't illegal, but the code breaks patents/copyright/whatever.
Medium and intent are two different things. Let's keep'em separated, shall we?
Buy DRM-enabled crap, get fucked by the DRM-enabling company.
If it smells like shit and if it looks like shit, then it is probably digital restrictions management.
Even though I heard that Half-Life 2 was a decent game, I still haven't bought it. I practically stopped playing Half-Life 1 when Valve switched to Steam to authenticate players, because Steam didn't work in/on Linux. I know that Steam is supported by Cedega (WINE on drugs), but I'd rather not install a piece of DRM on my system even if it's running in a windows-emulating sandbox.
If I bought a game, why would I need to "authenticate"? Surely the fact that I bought the game in the first place is authentication enough to play the game. There is no reason for a developer (as in the guys who wrote the software) to implement a dehumanizing 'feature' like online authentication: it's a time-consuming and highly user-unfriendly idea. Another program to install; to run in the background; and to consume precious memory. "Why dehumanizing?", you ask? I am constantly reminded that Valve can cut me off of my entertainment anytime they want (or in this case, don't want).
Sure, go ahead and tell me "Surely someone will come along and crack it so I can play it without encumbrance". Really? What if not? Why do you wait for someone else who isn't in any way related to the game developers to reverse-engineer the executable to code an DRM-emulator. Look at the irony! Warez guys implementing an "DRM-emulator"!
Alek's Christmas Lights Webcam is back again which allows you to: 'pan/zoom the webcam and control the 17,000 christmas lights
Not only can we pan/zoom the webcam and control the 17,000 christmas lights - NO! We can also burn his house down by letting his web server die a horrible heat death.
I remember a representitive from EA visiting Carleton University to talk a little bit about game development and EA's corporate culture.
Do you know what the worst sin is when you work for EA? Not shipping a sequel on time (for Summer/Christmas holidays or when a new season of NHL/NBA/NASCAR starts).
He stressed the fact that EA is not about creating new ideas, but relying on "tried and tested concepts". He said, if you want to work on experimental stuff you better join a independent game company, because EA is all about creating sequels to NBA,NHL,NFS,etc.
So don't expect them to come out with The Next Great Game anytime soon.
Yeah... I still got a couple of those episodes on VHS tape. Maybe I should rip them...:)
Anyways, IIRC Mario was played by someone called Captain Lou Albano. They always were in the sewer setting (because they're plumbers and all) and had a huge rat as a pet that would occasionaly peek through the sewer grill.
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You finally figured out the penultimate step :)
6) Chop!
7) Profit!
Bullshit.
A flag, take any flag you want, be it Germany's, U.S.A's or Canada's, is just a piece of hand-woven coloured cloth made in China.
It is not illegal to burn a piece of cloth. But once you attach certain maeaning to it, i.e. America's freedom or Canada's cold weather, they become symbols and you change the intention of flag-burning. It's like writing Perl code to decrypt CSS: Perl itself isn't illegal, but the code breaks patents/copyright/whatever.
Medium and intent are two different things. Let's keep'em separated, shall we?
There you go guys.
Buy DRM-enabled crap, get fucked by the DRM-enabling company.
If it smells like shit and if it looks like shit, then it is probably digital restrictions management.
Even though I heard that Half-Life 2 was a decent game, I still haven't bought it. I practically stopped playing Half-Life 1 when Valve switched to Steam to authenticate players, because Steam didn't work in/on Linux. I know that Steam is supported by Cedega (WINE on drugs), but I'd rather not install a piece of DRM on my system even if it's running in a windows-emulating sandbox.
If I bought a game, why would I need to "authenticate"? Surely the fact that I bought the game in the first place is authentication enough to play the game. There is no reason for a developer (as in the guys who wrote the software) to implement a dehumanizing 'feature' like online authentication: it's a time-consuming and highly user-unfriendly idea. Another program to install; to run in the background; and to consume precious memory. "Why dehumanizing?", you ask? I am constantly reminded that Valve can cut me off of my entertainment anytime they want (or in this case, don't want).
Sure, go ahead and tell me "Surely someone will come along and crack it so I can play it without encumbrance". Really? What if not? Why do you wait for someone else who isn't in any way related to the game developers to reverse-engineer the executable to code an DRM-emulator. Look at the irony! Warez guys implementing an "DRM-emulator"!
This is fucking hilarious.
Gestrichpunktet in Deutsch :D
I was wondering if we educated our users better, would they understand that these Nigerian propositions are just unsolicited email?
They should've used an octet instead of one-and-a-half nibbles. ;)
"Keyboard, mouse, megaphone and display sold separately." :D
you get water-resistant stuff. That way you can dump your equipment in a tub full of water to clean the dust off.
that on January 9, 2006, I will predict that on January 7, 2007 Cringley will predict the same stuff he predicted one year earlier.
:>
p.s. Why is everyone so hooked on Cringley? Did I miss something?
It's been done before and it's called 'Creatures'. :D
That was easy
That would be a bleeding-edge installation. ;-)
Not only can we pan/zoom the webcam and control the 17,000 christmas lights - NO! We can also burn his house down by letting his web server die a horrible heat death.
Talk about an arsonist's dream.
Why is this modded insightful?
Spammers don't use legitimate email adresses or they fake email headers.
The overlay could even point out your plane in the sky with a nifty crosshair effect.
Invent Sovet Russia jokes, of course.
I thought they used low-power, embedded ARM chips for these kind of applications?
Looks like a human hair on the lense to me...
Sadly I got bad karma :-(
On an interesting side-note:
I remember a representitive from EA visiting Carleton University to talk a little bit about game development and EA's corporate culture.
Do you know what the worst sin is when you work for EA?
Not shipping a sequel on time (for Summer/Christmas holidays or when a new season of NHL/NBA/NASCAR starts).
He stressed the fact that EA is not about creating new ideas, but relying on "tried and tested concepts". He said, if you want to work on experimental stuff you better join a independent game company, because EA is all about creating sequels to NBA,NHL,NFS,etc.
So don't expect them to come out with The Next Great Game anytime soon.
People working in the Entertainment Industry are elgible for payed overtime.
No sir. Not gonna happen. Absolutely not. I assure you.
Canadian pie, eh?
Yeah... I still got a couple of those episodes on VHS tape. Maybe I should rip them... :)
:(
Anyways, IIRC Mario was played by someone called Captain Lou Albano. They always were in the sewer setting (because they're plumbers and all) and had a huge rat as a pet that would occasionaly peek through the sewer grill.
Does anyone remember the Super Mario Rap?
Ahh, memories