They made me change my name, it was a poop joke, but it was a scientific name not slang. So they made me change my name because they're on a power trip. So I became CrappyEULA.
This is great, all of these rediculous patents coming out are wonderful. Now MS, IBM, Google, and all the rest of the big dogs get to try to unfuck what they thought would be the best way to corner the market. Way to go patent happy companies, if you would have just tried to let the best code win you would have been fine but you had to patent everything in sight, now look at the mess you have to deal with.
I'll fix the patent system, ready? You can only patent an implementation of an idea, not an idea. For instance, you can patent your code, but not what it does. Or just hire some people down at the USPTO that aren't total fuckwits that understand this concept to begin with.
Remember those crazy prototypes where they could read data off of a silver disc with a laser? Total vaporware, when the hell is that crap ever going to be available.
How is this considered a/. topic? Wow 30,000 people die in Asia and this is sad? Let's make today's magic word "perspective." As in, you people have no perspective.
You BLOG about being so far behind the times that you're complaining about in a BLOG. If you wanted to make your point, you should have mailed this out USPS. Your bitchfest is just the same crap your parents said when they were making fun of the folks down the street with indoor plumbing and electricity for being too modern. You are old, a good measure of figuring out how old you are is how much you bitch about new stuff you don't understand.
So, if I can explain how IM works starting with electrons in a transistor making logic gates all the way through WAN protocols and all of the software crap, am I worthy? I mean, I expect everyone who uses IM to be able to lay out a CPU in silicon before they know enough to use it. That only took me two degrees and 6 years of engineering school, but hey that's reasonable right?
P.S. Hey smart guy, I make my own ringers for FREE! That's how smart you're not. 99 cents is rediculous.
Rich people win again!!! I like rich people because they're better than the rest of us. I think they should always get their way, because rich people are just better genetic material, it's true, ask them. The government knows it, it's just a matter of time before the rest of us catch on.
There only needs to be one corporation: MicroHaliRIMPAADellAppleMartopoly. And it will pay regular people the same wages, but rich people will get more. And it will know what we're doing at all times (to thwart terrorists) and have total control of all media. Like real communism (not ideal communism). Kind of like what's happening now, but without hiding the fact that regular people are getting shit on.
So, as long as a big company holds a patent, they can make money from it. Otherwise, the government will intervene and call something a secret even though it's available on the internet.
The real question is, what government employees took the money to make sure Lucent can't be sued?
The "entertainment" industry has become a money whore at the expense of quality. Let it die. Let the age of musicians publishing their own music on the Internet start. Censorship of good music could finally die.
It's not openly censored, but major labels ignoring inflamitory music unless it's guaranteed to make a boatload money needs to stop. Clear channel refuses to play music that people could possibly find offensive.
Movies are all sequels and new movies that appear to be original are old ideas put together in a slightly different way. Why do old movies and TV shows seem campy and the stories pretty thin? Those same ideas have been reused so many times the original idea seems stale. Look at Rocky, after that every sports movie has almost exactly the same theme and plot (back story, training possibly with montage, and big sports event) except that most sports movies have the hero win because that's easier to take than the hero losing.
Hollywood is crap, the music industry is crap, the people with the talent need to ditch the rich people leeching off of them and do something original and "risky."
In fact it won't work. They can't stop P2P, why do they think they can stop freedom of speech? Seriously, this is retarded. Porn, P2P, and freedom of speech are some hard hitting issues that the old government tries to get its hands into.
The US gov't is so bloated and inefficient, the Internet is a little out of their grasp. If they censor people here, they'll just move servers overseas.
The only thing the US gov't does quickly is kill people (Afghanistan, Iraq and Louisiana). Man they really hate dark people.
Of course making legal download more expensive will drive people right back to P2P. iTMS made it easy enough for Joe Idiot to download and pay for music and put it on his mp3 player at a good price point.
Raising the price will show consumers that they've been lured into something that will jack up the price as soon as they get hooked. CD prices haven't gone down, but they don't go up every year.
Actually, now that I think of that, it's kind of pissing me off that the music industry thinks they should get more money. Christ, they don't even make music, the artists do. And I guarantee the artists are going to go striaght to Apple to sell their next release if the industry keeps jacking people around.
I hope so. I don't care if any sequels make it over to this system (other than Zelda). It's time to wipe the slate clean.
Everything that can be done with a 2D side scroller has been done, and the industry moved on. Just making 3D versions of games is tired. Graphics can take a break from getting better as long as control and AI start coming first. It's time for a new way to interact with games that doesn't involve buying an arcade version of something.
Go Nintendo, I never lost faith, but I was worried.
Finally someone tries something new. I'll gladly buy a Revolution over the other "next-gen" systems. At least this provides a new experience over a prettier experience.
I'm actually just fine with PS2 graphics, it's just that the gameplay is getting stale. Katamari is the only game I've played in a while that offers anything new in term of gameplay. I mean GTA:SA is an incredible game, but it's not new territory.
I'll take a guess that the revolution controller has a steering wheel attachment (but no force feedback, thanks USPTO). A sniper rifle attachment would also be really sweet. But this allows them to do so much more than Sony or M$ can accomplish with a standard controller. Granted, I never once considered the 360 given that games are even more expensive and mostly prettier versions of older games.
M$ and Sony are following the movie industry to a bad place full of sequels with better effects than the original. I'm betting that this console is the king of the next-gen systems among people with half a brain. The mindless droves will go with the other two, and I might buy a PS3, but this looks like some actual innovation. Wow, I haven't said that in a while.
I read about how he broke into her account. T-Mobile didn't fix the problem for weeks after this was made public. They got off easier than Gary Condit after 911.
Never mind. The podcasting buzzword rears it delightfully ignorant head. Maybe I should blogulate on why I love podcasts that use DRM on my XBox 360 with my iPod nano that I use before I check the blogosphere on Google with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates because they're on myspace, I'm so l33t!
Why do companies think that imposing their will upon people will keep customers around? If I had a TIVO I would cancel my subscription, run over it with my car and then mail it back.
Can anyone explain what this is helping? Who on this earth makes more money with this feature?
No, they use it to blogulate in the blogoshpere while using a DRM to ponder the blogtations.
Or, you could say that they update a web page daily. I don't understand why this crap is so popular. Did an internet buzz word make doing this popular? 10 years ago if I had an online diary, no one would've read it and I would have been made fun of, but slap a trendy word on it an it's the new pet rock.
Slashdot Mirror
To figure out if your doctor is a trendwhore.
They made me change my name, it was a poop joke, but it was a scientific name not slang. So they made me change my name because they're on a power trip. So I became CrappyEULA.
This is great, all of these rediculous patents coming out are wonderful. Now MS, IBM, Google, and all the rest of the big dogs get to try to unfuck what they thought would be the best way to corner the market. Way to go patent happy companies, if you would have just tried to let the best code win you would have been fine but you had to patent everything in sight, now look at the mess you have to deal with.
I'll fix the patent system, ready? You can only patent an implementation of an idea, not an idea. For instance, you can patent your code, but not what it does. Or just hire some people down at the USPTO that aren't total fuckwits that understand this concept to begin with.
Remember those crazy prototypes where they could read data off of a silver disc with a laser? Total vaporware, when the hell is that crap ever going to be available.
How is this considered a /. topic? Wow 30,000 people die in Asia and this is sad? Let's make today's magic word "perspective." As in, you people have no perspective.
You forgot to blogulate about this in the blogosphere.
Is this was gets written when they type for long enough?
You BLOG about being so far behind the times that you're complaining about in a BLOG. If you wanted to make your point, you should have mailed this out USPS. Your bitchfest is just the same crap your parents said when they were making fun of the folks down the street with indoor plumbing and electricity for being too modern. You are old, a good measure of figuring out how old you are is how much you bitch about new stuff you don't understand.
So, if I can explain how IM works starting with electrons in a transistor making logic gates all the way through WAN protocols and all of the software crap, am I worthy? I mean, I expect everyone who uses IM to be able to lay out a CPU in silicon before they know enough to use it. That only took me two degrees and 6 years of engineering school, but hey that's reasonable right?
P.S. Hey smart guy, I make my own ringers for FREE! That's how smart you're not. 99 cents is rediculous.
Rich people win again!!! I like rich people because they're better than the rest of us. I think they should always get their way, because rich people are just better genetic material, it's true, ask them. The government knows it, it's just a matter of time before the rest of us catch on.
There only needs to be one corporation: MicroHaliRIMPAADellAppleMartopoly. And it will pay regular people the same wages, but rich people will get more. And it will know what we're doing at all times (to thwart terrorists) and have total control of all media. Like real communism (not ideal communism). Kind of like what's happening now, but without hiding the fact that regular people are getting shit on.
So, as long as a big company holds a patent, they can make money from it. Otherwise, the government will intervene and call something a secret even though it's available on the internet.
The real question is, what government employees took the money to make sure Lucent can't be sued?
That the US gov't could give a shit about anything but big business. Fuck you Bush, and quit wasting my tax dollars.
The "entertainment" industry has become a money whore at the expense of quality. Let it die. Let the age of musicians publishing their own music on the Internet start. Censorship of good music could finally die.
It's not openly censored, but major labels ignoring inflamitory music unless it's guaranteed to make a boatload money needs to stop. Clear channel refuses to play music that people could possibly find offensive.
Movies are all sequels and new movies that appear to be original are old ideas put together in a slightly different way. Why do old movies and TV shows seem campy and the stories pretty thin? Those same ideas have been reused so many times the original idea seems stale. Look at Rocky, after that every sports movie has almost exactly the same theme and plot (back story, training possibly with montage, and big sports event) except that most sports movies have the hero win because that's easier to take than the hero losing.
Hollywood is crap, the music industry is crap, the people with the talent need to ditch the rich people leeching off of them and do something original and "risky."
In fact it won't work. They can't stop P2P, why do they think they can stop freedom of speech? Seriously, this is retarded. Porn, P2P, and freedom of speech are some hard hitting issues that the old government tries to get its hands into.
The US gov't is so bloated and inefficient, the Internet is a little out of their grasp. If they censor people here, they'll just move servers overseas.
The only thing the US gov't does quickly is kill people (Afghanistan, Iraq and Louisiana). Man they really hate dark people.
Wow, that's getting your priorities in order.
Another lump of money spent to develop a better lock. Then give the lock and the key to the same people that will break them both. Smart.
Of course making legal download more expensive will drive people right back to P2P. iTMS made it easy enough for Joe Idiot to download and pay for music and put it on his mp3 player at a good price point.
Raising the price will show consumers that they've been lured into something that will jack up the price as soon as they get hooked. CD prices haven't gone down, but they don't go up every year.
Actually, now that I think of that, it's kind of pissing me off that the music industry thinks they should get more money. Christ, they don't even make music, the artists do. And I guarantee the artists are going to go striaght to Apple to sell their next release if the industry keeps jacking people around.
I hope so. I don't care if any sequels make it over to this system (other than Zelda). It's time to wipe the slate clean. Everything that can be done with a 2D side scroller has been done, and the industry moved on. Just making 3D versions of games is tired. Graphics can take a break from getting better as long as control and AI start coming first. It's time for a new way to interact with games that doesn't involve buying an arcade version of something. Go Nintendo, I never lost faith, but I was worried.
Finally someone tries something new. I'll gladly buy a Revolution over the other "next-gen" systems. At least this provides a new experience over a prettier experience.
I'm actually just fine with PS2 graphics, it's just that the gameplay is getting stale. Katamari is the only game I've played in a while that offers anything new in term of gameplay. I mean GTA:SA is an incredible game, but it's not new territory.
I'll take a guess that the revolution controller has a steering wheel attachment (but no force feedback, thanks USPTO). A sniper rifle attachment would also be really sweet. But this allows them to do so much more than Sony or M$ can accomplish with a standard controller. Granted, I never once considered the 360 given that games are even more expensive and mostly prettier versions of older games.
M$ and Sony are following the movie industry to a bad place full of sequels with better effects than the original. I'm betting that this console is the king of the next-gen systems among people with half a brain. The mindless droves will go with the other two, and I might buy a PS3, but this looks like some actual innovation. Wow, I haven't said that in a while.
I read about how he broke into her account. T-Mobile didn't fix the problem for weeks after this was made public. They got off easier than Gary Condit after 911.
Never mind. The podcasting buzzword rears it delightfully ignorant head. Maybe I should blogulate on why I love podcasts that use DRM on my XBox 360 with my iPod nano that I use before I check the blogosphere on Google with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates because they're on myspace, I'm so l33t!
What do you mean? Jobs took a crap this morning and it wasn't on Slashdot, this is outrageous!
Why do companies think that imposing their will upon people will keep customers around? If I had a TIVO I would cancel my subscription, run over it with my car and then mail it back.
Can anyone explain what this is helping? Who on this earth makes more money with this feature?
No, they use it to blogulate in the blogoshpere while using a DRM to ponder the blogtations.
Or, you could say that they update a web page daily. I don't understand why this crap is so popular. Did an internet buzz word make doing this popular? 10 years ago if I had an online diary, no one would've read it and I would have been made fun of, but slap a trendy word on it an it's the new pet rock.
This is like Norton Utilities. Sure they work, but you shouldn't need them to begin with.
Why not buy a reliable car and not worry about it (or run Linux as the case may be)?
They will never figure out how to hack the gibson. Jobs, you're the man now dog.