If someone came up to me and said "I'm going to go home to play with my playstation" I'd look at them funny... because "play with my ___" will always sound dirty.
Uh...it will? "Going home to play with my Playstation" doesn't sound even remotely dirty. You're really reaching here to defend a bizarre product name. I can't count the number of times over the years I heard friends say they were going home to play with their Playstations or X-Boxes.
I Personally wish that people would stop consuming, and giving creed to closed OSes
Then make your open source OS as good or better. For me, that means you have to match or exceed OS X Tiger. Good luck, and I'll be awaiting the community's results!
The copy dialog window shows up as its own window that you can minimize/restore/whatever, and best of all, it doesn't hang/slow down the shell in any way.
Yes, in OS X, copy operations appear in one window. If you're moving or copying a file, and you move or copy another file, another progress bar is appended below the previous one in a single window. Actually, I think NeXT did this 15 years ago, but I could be wrong about that.
Note that XP and OS X (as of 10.3) get this badly wrong - the file copy dialog in both tends to be slow to repaint itself or to respond to window messages
Um...it does?
and if you use a separate explorer/finder window to try and access the destination you're copying to, the window lurches slowly to try and redraw.
Not on my old iBook G4 OR my Windows XP machine.
I appreciate those kinds of small changes, but it hardly merits an entire operating system upgrade. They could have easily been introduced in a smaller update or even perhaps a service pack (since Microsoft long ago broke its policy of not introducing new features in an SP).
April's release was noticeably better, and the Beta 2 preview - Build 5381, released to testers in early May - has been running flawlessly on my notebook for nearly three weeks.'
Wow! And to think, I've been running OS X Tiger since April of last year.
The NES originally came with no games. The Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt bundle was a special bundle. It's probably the one most people remember buying, so they assume the NES always came with a game.
That's silly, even a kid with no siblings has friends to play with, or parents. Someone buying the system just for themselves would still have a buddy to play against. And there might even be games that take advantage of two controllers used by both hands, like a virtual drummer.
Uh, because it's a lawsuit filed by Torrentspy and not a federal crackdown?
I'll never understand why Slashdotters get so upset that the FBI does its job and enforces the law in this country. That includes busts of the big piracy rings. You may think you're magically entitled to download everything on the planet with paying a dime to anybody ever, but the law (and common ethics) says otherwise, especially if you're a larger group with a widespread infrastructure facilitating the spread of piracy. The FBI will beat down your door and stop you from your economic sabotage.
The MPAA is like OJ. Even when they win, they will still be a loser. I still don't understand how they could have such a low understanding of technology that they would attack torrent sites anyway.
Torrent sites track torrents and provide a means of exchanging copyrighted materials. It's pretty cut and dry.
Besides, there is still the old idea that you can't call downloading "theft" because there really is no proven loser.
Then you can't call GPL violations "theft," but Slashdot does all the time. The loser is the person who owns the material who would normally have been compensated, but will not be because you downloaded without paying. Your downloaded files will be uploaded to other individuals who will also not pay. It's facilitation of copyright violation and withholding of revenues owed.
We should all of us contact a lawyer and have legal documents drawn up, and notorized that say something like "In the event that any digitally copyrighted material is found on this hard drive, let this document serve as a legally binding guarantee that said materials would never have been purchased otherwise and therefore no loss of revenue can possibly be proven solely based on the posession and or existance of these materials."
*rolls eyes* Yeah, that'll work.
It doesn't matter if you wouldn't have purchased something. How does that magically give you the legal right to have it? Do you understand capitalism and economies at all, or are you another dorm room kid with head-in-the-cloud ideals about how the real world works?
See, the problem is they have managed to convince too many judges that ALL of the material you or I may have on a hard drive would have absolutely been purchased had we not had the opportunity to download it.
It doesn't matter if you would or wouldn't have purchased the material. You ended up getting the material without paying for it when you had no right to, legally and ethically. You're essentially saying in that statement that you have a ton of stuff you would have never purchased, but you downloaded it anyway, which just bolster's the MPAA's position that the sites you got the material from should be shut down, so that the MPAA members' rights aren't being violated. The judges have to agree, because it's against the law to violate creators' rights and steal their stuff so you don't have to pay them for it. What gives you the right to do that?
I call bullshit. Who's with me?
Probably every other freeloader who has created an entire fictional belief system that scapegoats copyright holders so they don't feel guilty for pirating the fuck out of everything. "The MPAA made me do it! The RIAA made me do it!"
Why don't you ask John Carmack sometime if it's okay that people download Doom 3 without paying him for the years of work he put into it? Carmack's a Slashdot hero around here...would be interesting to see people's reactions to his response.
Absolutely! Only the groups we like should be allowed to sue people! When the MPAA or the RIAA sues, it's bad, but Torrentspy is okay in my book, so we'll allow it.
You're right. The fact Torrentspy has filed lawsuit automatically makes it true, and the MPAA guilty.
This ties into the typical Slashdot theme:
1.) It's wrong for the MPAA to dare sue or do anything at all to prevent rampant unauthorized copying of its materials, even though it owns the copyrights to all of them.
2.) It's perfectly okay for torrent piracy groups to sue the MPAA, because it's funny and ironic! Ha ha! Take that, MPAA!
3.) It's also perfectly okay to sue when GPL code gets ripped off, because stealing GPL code is wrong. Even though we say "piracy isn't theft," we call it "stealing" when the GPL is violated. Piracy is only okay when we're stealing from a group we've been told to hate on Slashdot.
Basically, freeloaders who don't want to pay for stuff have crafted entire belief systems to justify what they do, scapegoating legal copyright holders when they do anything at all to fight back. So I'm sure we'll see a lot of cheering over this suit in the comments.
(Oh, and expect PNG support in IE7 to be downgraded)
Actually, this explains why PNG has been crippled for so very long in IE. They didn't want PNG to gain a foothold before they could introduce their unwanted Microsoft version.
I don't know what Microsoft is thinking. Their own image format? That's the last thing they should be introducing right now. This company is full of lunatics.
Sure it does. Slashdot is a pro-piracy haven. Everyone here thinks it's great that movies and music are pirated, and that it's all justified.
Of course, if someone rips off GPL code, that's a bad thing, and the offender should be sued. But MPAA/RIAA piracy? Have at it! Who wants to pay for what you can get for free?
Fox News reporting that the US Government allegedly pressured ICANN into denying the.XXX domain, despite orders not to do so.
Wow, according to the liberals of Slashdot, Fox News was in bed with the government and would never report this. Guess they were wrong.
Actually, every single liberal who has ever said Fox News' hard news reporting was biased has never, ever cited an actual example. And over 80% of journalists report themselves as Democrats...yet it's Fox News that's supposed to be biased. Sigh.
Hey, don't generalize the Mac community for the actions of a few. I'm sure you wouldn't want people thinking the Slashdot community was nothing but GNAA posts and anti-"M$" trolls. Every community will have its extremists, and that includes you Linux guys. Most Mac fans are graphic artists, film editors, musicians, etc. who are too busy getting work done on their shiny white plastic to care about some iPod suit. Of course, I can't speak for iPod fans, who form a much larger group of people than Mac fans.
The iPod community has more Windows users than Mac users, so again, don't lump us in with them.
No, she was always Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom in the original Japanese Mario games. For Super Mario 64, Nintendo decided to refer to her as Peach internationally. Toadstool was an America-only thing.
Not only is this game great (I love the old-school levels where running off the right side of the screen makes you appear on the left), but there's a Yoshi's Island 2 coming out for DS in the style of the first one!
Anyone remember the original Super Mario Bros. manual? Pipes were flowerpots, and coin blocks and other hidden items were actually Mushroom Kingdom citizens turned into stationary objects by Koopa's magic who give Mario powers as reward for freeing them. Goombas were corrupt Mushroom Kingdom rebels.
Oh my god, I'm an encyclopedia of Super Mario Bros. lore.
My only issue with the game is the over-reliance on Bowser, Jr., a character I value as highly as other overused throwaways like Wario. I don't get Nintendo's obsession with these secondary characters. Battling Bowser the two times that you do in the game is sheer joy. So why am I chasing Bowser, Jr. the rest of the time? I want to fight Bowser! It's just not as fun. It's like Nintendo is afraid to rely on their main characters or something. Super Mario Sunshine can't just be Mario, it has to be Mario and a talking water backpack. It can't just be Bowser, it has to be Shadow Mario and Bowser, Jr.
Either bring back classic Bowser, or bring back the Koopa Kids. *slams fist*
It's the Super Mario World inventory system. The game would have been far too easy if you could hoard a bunch of Mega Mushrooms.
I love the reliance on the fire flower. It makes it feel like SMB1, and it also removes the issue of how useless the fire flower was made in SMB3 and SMW.
Notice there are also no flying items, by design, to make the game even more platforming-centric. It's one of the best platformers I've played since Yoshi's Island.
You're right, the composition of that poem took the entire development staff at Apple to complete.
We should all switch from Apple's "crappy kernel" to the wonderful Linux kernel, which is now so buggy even its major developers agree it needs a bug fix cycle.
Let's not forget programs like Kazaa, if it's even still around, which actually REQUIRE you to not only install, but keep the crapware on your system in order to run it.
Many programs don't alert you of any of the things they're installing. On, say, OS X, you'd get a security prompt if something tried to modify the system without your knowledge.
Defects in the operating system indeed.
Yes, indeed.
Of course, a lot of the nasty crap that gets on your computer without you DOING anything is generally on rathe questionable sites (e.g. Warez sites). This is thanks to lacking security in Internet Explorer, not the OS.
Internet Explorer is bundled with the OS and is tied to it. The lack of functional limited privilege accounts is also an OS flaw. All the little flaws in Windows build up to create a very tasty target for malware authors.
The MacBook should be able to play those HD trailers fine. The playback is entirely CPU-dependent (hardware-accelerated h.264 playback isn't enabled on the MacBook Pro/iMac), and since the MacBook is using the same Core Duo chips as the other Intel machines, it should play them just as well.
I can buy a Lenovo model for $899 with $100 rebate which is functionally equivalent to the MacBook.
Wow, I can buy a cheap piece of crap Chinese manufactured PC knockoff that will break down in six months, or I can buy a state-of-the-art machine with excellent hardware support and the OS X/iLife combo. Even a built-in webcam for videoconferencing.
The point is that people who think the MacBook is cheap are clearly not shopping around.
I'd state the opposite. Anyone who thinks the MacBook is not price competitive has not shopped around, or has ignored the price comparisons done in this very thread.
The Apple-is-overpriced argument died quite a while ago. The iMac and MacBook are pretty much #1 in price for features You get so much more than a comparitively priced Dell. There's no reason not to buy a Mac anymore.
You're right, I'm a victim because I've decided I only want a 10GB music player. Thank you for reminding me I'm a victim of my own choices. What would I do without you, "gomoX?"
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If someone came up to me and said "I'm going to go home to play with my playstation" I'd look at them funny... because "play with my ___" will always sound dirty.
Uh...it will? "Going home to play with my Playstation" doesn't sound even remotely dirty. You're really reaching here to defend a bizarre product name. I can't count the number of times over the years I heard friends say they were going home to play with their Playstations or X-Boxes.
I Personally wish that people would stop consuming, and giving creed to closed OSes
Then make your open source OS as good or better. For me, that means you have to match or exceed OS X Tiger. Good luck, and I'll be awaiting the community's results!
The copy dialog window shows up as its own window that you can minimize/restore/whatever, and best of all, it doesn't hang/slow down the shell in any way.
Yes, in OS X, copy operations appear in one window. If you're moving or copying a file, and you move or copy another file, another progress bar is appended below the previous one in a single window. Actually, I think NeXT did this 15 years ago, but I could be wrong about that.
Note that XP and OS X (as of 10.3) get this badly wrong - the file copy dialog in both tends to be slow to repaint itself or to respond to window messages
Um...it does?
and if you use a separate explorer/finder window to try and access the destination you're copying to, the window lurches slowly to try and redraw.
Not on my old iBook G4 OR my Windows XP machine.
I appreciate those kinds of small changes, but it hardly merits an entire operating system upgrade. They could have easily been introduced in a smaller update or even perhaps a service pack (since Microsoft long ago broke its policy of not introducing new features in an SP).
From the article:
April's release was noticeably better, and the Beta 2 preview - Build 5381, released to testers in early May - has been running flawlessly on my notebook for nearly three weeks.'
Wow! And to think, I've been running OS X Tiger since April of last year.
The NES originally came with no games. The Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt bundle was a special bundle. It's probably the one most people remember buying, so they assume the NES always came with a game.
That's silly, even a kid with no siblings has friends to play with, or parents. Someone buying the system just for themselves would still have a buddy to play against. And there might even be games that take advantage of two controllers used by both hands, like a virtual drummer.
Uh, because it's a lawsuit filed by Torrentspy and not a federal crackdown?
I'll never understand why Slashdotters get so upset that the FBI does its job and enforces the law in this country. That includes busts of the big piracy rings. You may think you're magically entitled to download everything on the planet with paying a dime to anybody ever, but the law (and common ethics) says otherwise, especially if you're a larger group with a widespread infrastructure facilitating the spread of piracy. The FBI will beat down your door and stop you from your economic sabotage.
The MPAA is like OJ. Even when they win, they will still be a loser. I still don't understand how they could have such a low understanding of technology that they would attack torrent sites anyway.
Torrent sites track torrents and provide a means of exchanging copyrighted materials. It's pretty cut and dry.
Besides, there is still the old idea that you can't call downloading "theft" because there really is no proven loser.
Then you can't call GPL violations "theft," but Slashdot does all the time. The loser is the person who owns the material who would normally have been compensated, but will not be because you downloaded without paying. Your downloaded files will be uploaded to other individuals who will also not pay. It's facilitation of copyright violation and withholding of revenues owed.
We should all of us contact a lawyer and have legal documents drawn up, and notorized that say something like "In the event that any digitally copyrighted material is found on this hard drive, let this document serve as a legally binding guarantee that said materials would never have been purchased otherwise and therefore no loss of revenue can possibly be proven solely based on the posession and or existance of these materials."
*rolls eyes* Yeah, that'll work.
It doesn't matter if you wouldn't have purchased something. How does that magically give you the legal right to have it? Do you understand capitalism and economies at all, or are you another dorm room kid with head-in-the-cloud ideals about how the real world works?
See, the problem is they have managed to convince too many judges that ALL of the material you or I may have on a hard drive would have absolutely been purchased had we not had the opportunity to download it.
It doesn't matter if you would or wouldn't have purchased the material. You ended up getting the material without paying for it when you had no right to, legally and ethically. You're essentially saying in that statement that you have a ton of stuff you would have never purchased, but you downloaded it anyway, which just bolster's the MPAA's position that the sites you got the material from should be shut down, so that the MPAA members' rights aren't being violated. The judges have to agree, because it's against the law to violate creators' rights and steal their stuff so you don't have to pay them for it. What gives you the right to do that?
I call bullshit. Who's with me?
Probably every other freeloader who has created an entire fictional belief system that scapegoats copyright holders so they don't feel guilty for pirating the fuck out of everything. "The MPAA made me do it! The RIAA made me do it!"
Why don't you ask John Carmack sometime if it's okay that people download Doom 3 without paying him for the years of work he put into it? Carmack's a Slashdot hero around here...would be interesting to see people's reactions to his response.
Absolutely! Only the groups we like should be allowed to sue people! When the MPAA or the RIAA sues, it's bad, but Torrentspy is okay in my book, so we'll allow it.
The law according to Slashdot. *shudder*
You're right. The fact Torrentspy has filed lawsuit automatically makes it true, and the MPAA guilty.
This ties into the typical Slashdot theme:
1.) It's wrong for the MPAA to dare sue or do anything at all to prevent rampant unauthorized copying of its materials, even though it owns the copyrights to all of them.
2.) It's perfectly okay for torrent piracy groups to sue the MPAA, because it's funny and ironic! Ha ha! Take that, MPAA!
3.) It's also perfectly okay to sue when GPL code gets ripped off, because stealing GPL code is wrong. Even though we say "piracy isn't theft," we call it "stealing" when the GPL is violated. Piracy is only okay when we're stealing from a group we've been told to hate on Slashdot.
Basically, freeloaders who don't want to pay for stuff have crafted entire belief systems to justify what they do, scapegoating legal copyright holders when they do anything at all to fight back. So I'm sure we'll see a lot of cheering over this suit in the comments.
(Oh, and expect PNG support in IE7 to be downgraded)
Actually, this explains why PNG has been crippled for so very long in IE. They didn't want PNG to gain a foothold before they could introduce their unwanted Microsoft version.
I don't know what Microsoft is thinking. Their own image format? That's the last thing they should be introducing right now. This company is full of lunatics.
Sure it does. Slashdot is a pro-piracy haven. Everyone here thinks it's great that movies and music are pirated, and that it's all justified.
Of course, if someone rips off GPL code, that's a bad thing, and the offender should be sued. But MPAA/RIAA piracy? Have at it! Who wants to pay for what you can get for free?
Fox News reporting that the US Government allegedly pressured ICANN into denying the .XXX domain, despite orders not to do so.
Wow, according to the liberals of Slashdot, Fox News was in bed with the government and would never report this. Guess they were wrong.
Actually, every single liberal who has ever said Fox News' hard news reporting was biased has never, ever cited an actual example. And over 80% of journalists report themselves as Democrats...yet it's Fox News that's supposed to be biased. Sigh.
Hey, don't generalize the Mac community for the actions of a few. I'm sure you wouldn't want people thinking the Slashdot community was nothing but GNAA posts and anti-"M$" trolls. Every community will have its extremists, and that includes you Linux guys. Most Mac fans are graphic artists, film editors, musicians, etc. who are too busy getting work done on their shiny white plastic to care about some iPod suit. Of course, I can't speak for iPod fans, who form a much larger group of people than Mac fans.
The iPod community has more Windows users than Mac users, so again, don't lump us in with them.
No, she was always Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom in the original Japanese Mario games. For Super Mario 64, Nintendo decided to refer to her as Peach internationally. Toadstool was an America-only thing.
Not only is this game great (I love the old-school levels where running off the right side of the screen makes you appear on the left), but there's a Yoshi's Island 2 coming out for DS in the style of the first one!
It's Koopa's black magic.
Anyone remember the original Super Mario Bros. manual? Pipes were flowerpots, and coin blocks and other hidden items were actually Mushroom Kingdom citizens turned into stationary objects by Koopa's magic who give Mario powers as reward for freeing them. Goombas were corrupt Mushroom Kingdom rebels.
Oh my god, I'm an encyclopedia of Super Mario Bros. lore.
My only issue with the game is the over-reliance on Bowser, Jr., a character I value as highly as other overused throwaways like Wario. I don't get Nintendo's obsession with these secondary characters. Battling Bowser the two times that you do in the game is sheer joy. So why am I chasing Bowser, Jr. the rest of the time? I want to fight Bowser! It's just not as fun. It's like Nintendo is afraid to rely on their main characters or something. Super Mario Sunshine can't just be Mario, it has to be Mario and a talking water backpack. It can't just be Bowser, it has to be Shadow Mario and Bowser, Jr.
Either bring back classic Bowser, or bring back the Koopa Kids. *slams fist*
It's the Super Mario World inventory system. The game would have been far too easy if you could hoard a bunch of Mega Mushrooms.
I love the reliance on the fire flower. It makes it feel like SMB1, and it also removes the issue of how useless the fire flower was made in SMB3 and SMW.
Notice there are also no flying items, by design, to make the game even more platforming-centric. It's one of the best platformers I've played since Yoshi's Island.
You're right, the composition of that poem took the entire development staff at Apple to complete.
We should all switch from Apple's "crappy kernel" to the wonderful Linux kernel, which is now so buggy even its major developers agree it needs a bug fix cycle.
Let's not forget programs like Kazaa, if it's even still around, which actually REQUIRE you to not only install, but keep the crapware on your system in order to run it.
Many programs don't alert you of any of the things they're installing. On, say, OS X, you'd get a security prompt if something tried to modify the system without your knowledge.
Defects in the operating system indeed.
Yes, indeed.
Of course, a lot of the nasty crap that gets on your computer without you DOING anything is generally on rathe questionable sites (e.g. Warez sites). This is thanks to lacking security in Internet Explorer, not the OS.
Internet Explorer is bundled with the OS and is tied to it. The lack of functional limited privilege accounts is also an OS flaw. All the little flaws in Windows build up to create a very tasty target for malware authors.
The MacBook should be able to play those HD trailers fine. The playback is entirely CPU-dependent (hardware-accelerated h.264 playback isn't enabled on the MacBook Pro/iMac), and since the MacBook is using the same Core Duo chips as the other Intel machines, it should play them just as well.
Vista and OS X Leopard will include resolution-independent interfaces (OS X already supports it, but it's not implemented).
You should have opted for the higher resolution LCD, and you'd be able to have a sharper, easier-to-read interface next year.
I can buy a Lenovo model for $899 with $100 rebate which is functionally equivalent to the MacBook.
Wow, I can buy a cheap piece of crap Chinese manufactured PC knockoff that will break down in six months, or I can buy a state-of-the-art machine with excellent hardware support and the OS X/iLife combo. Even a built-in webcam for videoconferencing.
The point is that people who think the MacBook is cheap are clearly not shopping around.
I'd state the opposite. Anyone who thinks the MacBook is not price competitive has not shopped around, or has ignored the price comparisons done in this very thread.
The Apple-is-overpriced argument died quite a while ago. The iMac and MacBook are pretty much #1 in price for features You get so much more than a comparitively priced Dell. There's no reason not to buy a Mac anymore.
You're right, I'm a victim because I've decided I only want a 10GB music player. Thank you for reminding me I'm a victim of my own choices. What would I do without you, "gomoX?"