Classic arcades (my favs being Asteroids- most fun per megahertz, and a spaceship that behaves like it should, Xevious- most sweat when playing, Joust- best 2 player interaction and silly) needed to hook the player and entertain him for 3-10 minutes- of course champions went on for way longer but were a minority. Gameplay had to be optimized for enjoyment / time spent.
Nowadays games are kind of interactive movies where graphics kinda make you forget the old taste for playability per se, and they want to keep the player hooked. To justify the initial cost of buying the game or, worse, for the online live stuff. I gave up on them, can't afford three months of free time to finish deus ex.
They are a different experience anyway (the multiplayer dimension, and accurate 3d are awesome). Their educative potential is untapped. It would be nice to have a driving simulation with "reality mode" where after you crash you gotta go repair the car and have victims' lawyers at the door, a combat simulation where you get on the wheelchair for the rest of your life and so on. Instead of those parent advisory I'd put WARNING: unlike videogames, in life there is no second chance.
I dunno how many people will sony PR reach but the average joe that sees that sony dvds do not work on their recent equipment while other brands work flawlessly is likely to blame sony.
As for me i still have a boycott in place because of the cd rootkit, this doesn't help a bit making me reconsider.
> The biggest trick the Catholic church ever pulled was convincing the world he does.
I can understand doubts about the existence of a god, but this? You mean that after witnessing Windows and the RIAA you still don't believe in the existence of Evil Design? They are way too evil to have happened by chance.
So if one alters and renames the tcp/ip stack optimizing it for VoIP traffic can avoid this patent and be granted one because the enhanced tcp/ip stack is not tcp/ip anymore just as tcp/ip is different from the isdn network stack. No change to the network infrastructure level, just one more kernel module for *nixes. Could be worse.
This outlines a course of action I am critical of because i think too much money would be involved in litigation and you can't fight the money makers with money. But this is only my gut feeling and this idea deserves more recognition than a post deep in slashdot discussion theme. You might contact some anti-patents movement and submit it as an idea.
babelfish this in the meantime, then. Inventors working my themselves discovering amazing things and getting basically fought. I had seen the related video on national tv this ain't an april fool.
dunno, apple had ribbons in system 8 or even earlier maybe. And "tabbable" windows (windows dragged down would become tabs) which wasn't a bad idea in days where screen real estate was precious.
In totally unrelated news, Microsoft corporation has announced a slight change of M$ Vista logo into an animated one, which will feature flashes of bright yellow. Anonymous sources at Microsoft explain the move as "one of the few options to improve Vista appeal"
Bush is a religious troll, not a nutcase. Disobeying the one commandment means not being christian by definition, no matter the amount of bible verses one utters. According to the tale, even the devil tempted Jesus using the scriptures.
Dance tracks in the seventies were already more than 15 minutes long. Hits of Donna Summer as produced by Moroder, Cerrone, El Coco the first ones coming to mind. Dance mixes are 5 to 10 minutes long usually.
In fact IIRC the ps3 as a linux home computer must cope with 256mb all purpose ram, silly partitioning options and no accelerated graphics. If it had ram expansion slots and the graphic chip able to run accelerated video, you'd get a full featured linux desktop (or media center) and a game console at a reasonable price.
Since sony execs seem to want the "ps3 as a home computer" only for advertisement purposes, the disappointing sales serve them right.
Old MacOs let you keep how many versions you liked in the same partition, as each resided in a separate system folder. You could run the same app keeping the same prefs on different versions. For years installing or moving apps was simple as moving it, or its folder, around. Almost any app could use multiple profiles because opening a preference file, residing anywhere, launched the app with the chosen prefs.
no wonder first time i saw win98 installing on the hd he saw fit without asking me to choose, and requiring 3 reboots i laughed thinking some people had the nerve to diss the mac because it didn't have preemptive multitasking.
In fact it happened something just like that with Paul Thurrott and WGA
Besides, is anybody gonna trust one guy whose name begins with "SCO" anymore?:)
> Um, it is already this way for some people with those omnipresent telecoms like AT&T and Verizon
You have a point, as even here in Italy with all the supposed competition the physical lines still mostly belong to the old state carrier. I don't feel comfortable with that either.
Think a single company having control on your email and phone conversation, your position and your internet browsing. I don't assert they're particularly evil (i use gmail too) but I don't feel comfortable anyway.
Besides, the whole discussion about subliminal messages and stuff always revolves around the assumption that the only conceivable objective for the broadcasting of such messages is to increase sales of the product. While not necessarily subscribing to people seeing a conspiracy, the syllogism "subliminal messages appear in ads, they do not cause more sale of the products, ergo they are not influential" always looked preposterous to me.
> what people do with that XBox once its been modified/hacked is illegal usually
So it's sometimes legal like running linux. I don't care about the percentage who does. I don't want restrictions to my activity dictated by international corporations, fullstop.
I also feel the xp desktop at work quite inefficient in performance (takes the same time to boot openoffice under windows on a 3ghz machine and under linux on my 667 laptop). I admit that my setup, with the latest vanilla kernel and debian unstable, is difficult to maintain sometimes, but at least it's my choice to run the latest available beta, not Microsoft departments'.
I agree in keeping as much as possible info as textual. Youtube videos animations flash... all things that in the end make it more difficult to classify and search for acquired info. It seems strange you equate css with js though. I don't recall many holes in the css rendering, nor them having a different quality than html rendering holes.
I'd not consider the speed of patching security holes because that starts from the official discovering of a vulnerability, which can happen well after black hat hackers have begun exploiting it.
Back to topic, i'm afraid i can't trust even the not evil google with searching sensitive data on the desktop. Especially on non free stacks like windows, where even a good behaving app still has to deal with the OS black box. The security threat is the app, not only its weaknesses.
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We can go beyond opinion a little, too.
Classic arcades (my favs being Asteroids- most fun per megahertz, and a spaceship that behaves like it should, Xevious- most sweat when playing, Joust- best 2 player interaction and silly) needed to hook the player and entertain him for 3-10 minutes- of course champions went on for way longer but were a minority. Gameplay had to be optimized for enjoyment / time spent.
Nowadays games are kind of interactive movies where graphics kinda make you forget the old taste for playability per se, and they want to keep the player hooked. To justify the initial cost of buying the game or, worse, for the online live stuff. I gave up on them, can't afford three months of free time to finish deus ex.
They are a different experience anyway (the multiplayer dimension, and accurate 3d are awesome). Their educative potential is untapped. It would be nice to have a driving simulation with "reality mode" where after you crash you gotta go repair the car and have victims' lawyers at the door, a combat simulation where you get on the wheelchair for the rest of your life and so on. Instead of those parent advisory I'd put WARNING: unlike videogames, in life there is no second chance.
I dunno how many people will sony PR reach but the average joe that sees that sony dvds do not work on their recent equipment while other brands work flawlessly is likely to blame sony.
As for me i still have a boycott in place because of the cd rootkit, this doesn't help a bit making me reconsider.
Sadly they are only using well established standard evil corporate tactics.
> The biggest trick the Catholic church ever pulled was convincing the world he does.
I can understand doubts about the existence of a god, but this? You mean that after witnessing Windows and the RIAA you still don't believe in the existence of Evil Design? They are way too evil to have happened by chance.
I expected a "when it's ready". You apostate! :)
So, in my usual way to celebrate a debian release let me say:
when will Lenny be out?
So if one alters and renames the tcp/ip stack optimizing it for VoIP traffic can avoid this patent and be granted one because the enhanced tcp/ip stack is not tcp/ip anymore just as tcp/ip is different from the isdn network stack. No change to the network infrastructure level, just one more kernel module for *nixes. Could be worse.
Or one could encapsulate ISDN over tcp/ip.
Patents are a way to make life miserable.
This outlines a course of action I am critical of because i think too much money would be involved in litigation and you can't fight the money makers with money. But this is only my gut feeling and this idea deserves more recognition than a post deep in slashdot discussion theme. You might contact some anti-patents movement and submit it as an idea.
Sorry! correct link is this
babelfish this in the meantime, then. Inventors working my themselves discovering amazing things and getting basically fought. I had seen the related video on national tv this ain't an april fool.
dunno, apple had ribbons in system 8 or even earlier maybe. And "tabbable" windows (windows dragged down would become tabs) which wasn't a bad idea in days where screen real estate was precious.
In totally unrelated news, Microsoft corporation has announced a slight change of M$ Vista logo into an animated one, which will feature flashes of bright yellow. Anonymous sources at Microsoft explain the move as "one of the few options to improve Vista appeal"
Bush is a religious troll, not a nutcase. Disobeying the one commandment means not being christian by definition, no matter the amount of bible verses one utters. According to the tale, even the devil tempted Jesus using the scriptures.
Dance tracks in the seventies were already more than 15 minutes long. Hits of Donna Summer as produced by Moroder, Cerrone, El Coco the first ones coming to mind. Dance mixes are 5 to 10 minutes long usually.
In fact IIRC the ps3 as a linux home computer must cope with 256mb all purpose ram, silly partitioning options and no accelerated graphics. If it had ram expansion slots and the graphic chip able to run accelerated video, you'd get a full featured linux desktop (or media center) and a game console at a reasonable price.
Since sony execs seem to want the "ps3 as a home computer" only for advertisement purposes, the disappointing sales serve them right.
Old MacOs let you keep how many versions you liked in the same partition, as each resided in a separate system folder. You could run the same app keeping the same prefs on different versions. For years installing or moving apps was simple as moving it, or its folder, around. Almost any app could use multiple profiles because opening a preference file, residing anywhere, launched the app with the chosen prefs.
no wonder first time i saw win98 installing on the hd he saw fit without asking me to choose, and requiring 3 reboots i laughed thinking some people had the nerve to diss the mac because it didn't have preemptive multitasking.
In fact it happened something just like that with Paul Thurrott and WGA :)
Besides, is anybody gonna trust one guy whose name begins with "SCO" anymore?
> Um, it is already this way for some people with those omnipresent telecoms like AT&T and Verizon
You have a point, as even here in Italy with all the supposed competition the physical lines still mostly belong to the old state carrier. I don't feel comfortable with that either.
Think a single company having control on your email and phone conversation, your position and your internet browsing. I don't assert they're particularly evil (i use gmail too) but I don't feel comfortable anyway.
Besides, the whole discussion about subliminal messages and stuff always revolves around the assumption that the only conceivable objective for the broadcasting of such messages is to increase sales of the product. While not necessarily subscribing to people seeing a conspiracy, the syllogism "subliminal messages appear in ads, they do not cause more sale of the products, ergo they are not influential" always looked preposterous to me.
> what people do with that XBox once its been modified/hacked is illegal usually
So it's sometimes legal like running linux. I don't care about the percentage who does. I don't want restrictions to my activity dictated by international corporations, fullstop.
Stop criticising me!
But I did not!
I also feel the xp desktop at work quite inefficient in performance (takes the same time to boot openoffice under windows on a 3ghz machine and under linux on my 667 laptop). I admit that my setup, with the latest vanilla kernel and debian unstable, is difficult to maintain sometimes, but at least it's my choice to run the latest available beta, not Microsoft departments'.
> [modern humans] have been around for 100's of thousands of years and they are not stupid.
How do you explain "windows being the dominant OS (yet)", then? Just curious.
I agree in keeping as much as possible info as textual. Youtube videos animations flash... all things that in the end make it more difficult to classify and search for acquired info. It seems strange you equate css with js though. I don't recall many holes in the css rendering, nor them having a different quality than html rendering holes.
I'd not consider the speed of patching security holes because that starts from the official discovering of a vulnerability, which can happen well after black hat hackers have begun exploiting it.
Back to topic, i'm afraid i can't trust even the not evil google with searching sensitive data on the desktop. Especially on non free stacks like windows, where even a good behaving app still has to deal with the OS black box. The security threat is the app, not only its weaknesses.