I see this hyped all the time, but do people really use their laptops for serious gaming?
I don't use laptops for gaming, based on person experience. I'm a college student who uses a desktop at school and the family laptop at home. I recently got addicted to World of Warcrack, and I really needed a fix while I was home for Thanksgiving. Remember, World of Warcraft isn't an extremely demanding game compared to some of the FPS titles out there, but it ran sluggishly at times on my family's new laptop. We're talking about a desktop replacement type laptop, one of the big 9 lbs suckers with every option available (including a Radeon graphics chip, can't remember the exact number sorry). I turned all the graphics options down, used the lowest resolution, closed all other programs... still, it ran poorly.
As for people riding the bus playing a game, that's obviously BS. Most games are torture to play without a mouse--the trackpad doesn't cut it. My old laptop was great for working on reports while I was on the train in the morning, or surfing the web at the student center. But gaming? No way.
But wouldn't a company earning large profits from the patents expand, grow, create jobs, pay more taxes, and get the wheels of the economy going?
You were going for a +5 Funny with that tax thing, right? Because where I come from, America, the larger our corporations get, the better they get at avoiding taxation.
Well, if you say Windows installer, couldn't you also say RPM is the standard because it is part of the linux filesystem standard?
No, it isn't standard. Simple. It's popular, but it isn't a standard by any stretch of the word. It's just one of many package management systems. Also, I really dislike the idea of a "central repository". That's just my preference, I know, but I thought I'd throw it in:-)
Less of a threat and more of an alternative. Would more Unix-based alternatives on the market really be a bad thing?
Well yeah, more alternatives might be a bad thing, depending on how you look at it. One of my biggest gripes with Linux in particular is the abundance of distributions. While it's sometimes handy to have a distribution tailored to different groups of users, it is a pain to support and use.
I know every distribution wants to be unique and innovative, but why do we need so many different package managers, for example. I don't want 20 different text editors in my accessories menu; I want one that does the job really well. The same thing goes for distributions. I want one that does everything well. It would make users' lives easier and much less confusing. Hell, there isn't even a standard windows manager in use today. Come on people, if we ever hope to make Linux popular, it has to be standard, in every way possible. It needs a standard look and feel. It needs standard applications and protocols for installing programs. The way things look now, it won't be standard anytime soon. I know this article is about UNIX, but I think the same idea applies.
Apparently not much is Slashdot material these days but then again when it is posted all of the time does it not become the new defacto Slashdot material?
That's like saying George Bush sets the new standard for "presidential material". Just because he is the president doesn't mean he is everything a president should be, just like this story is on slashdot even though it isn't everything a slashdot story should be. "Slashdot material" is a constant term this equation.
PS - Sorry to make it political, but that's the best analogy I could come up with, honest.
Wait... what? This made it to slashdot's main page? I read the article, looking for anything that might be new, thought provoking or mildly interesting. What I found, however, was a rant about helicopters in BF2. It's the same type of rant you see all the time on gaming forums. It was fairly well-written, but the article really didn't even have much to do with persistent scoring. Mod me as a troll or whatever, but this really isn't slashdot material. It would find a better home on digg.com, a site without a traditional editorial system like/.
But what about new content published on XBOX Live? What about bug fixes? It seems to me that they would need somewhere to put all that stuff... Or maybe not. Either way I think I killed that "joke".
(Elder Scrolls) is for dirty D&D geeks that have no hope of ever talking to a woman - let alone touching one.
That's just not true! One time I was at a strip club and a stripper fell down because she was wearing stilettos. Anyway, on the way down to the floor, the back of my hand brushed against her shoulder. So yeah, we touch girls ALL THE TIME!!!
I don't know why the parent was modded +4 Funny, since that's a good point. What will people do if they bought the core version of the 360? Or am I just missing the joke?
If you took your disk to a friends, presumably you'd take your pc too?
I don't know about you, but I keep at least one "guest" PC in my home. If you ever have small LAN parties, this is a must... especially for your CRT-using friends.
What the hell is that supposed to mean. Just because Microsoft has registered "Windows" as a trademark doesn't mean there aren't lots of legal ways you can use the word, especially with it being just a generic word.
That's like saying African-Americans could vote in the 1880s. Yeah, technically they could in most places, but they had to pay a poll tax (which most could not afford). In this case the poll tax is tens of thousands of dollars in legal/court fees, and Jim Crow is actually Bill Gates in disguise. Thinking of it that way makes it all so much more sinister, no?:-)
The former dinosaurian population of the Yucatan Peninsula might disagree...
Oh ye of little faith. The dinosaurs were not killed by an explosion on the Yucatan Peninsula. Rather, the dinosaurs were intelligently removed from the Earth by the Creator. The crater was then carved deliberately (and obviously intelligently) by the Creator, to test our faith.
Of course, the irony is that residents in the school district will ultimately foot the bill, so in essence, although the Dwyer's win, they lose as well. If the court had really wanted to serve justice, some school officials should have been given the boot today.
I'm not so sure the school system will have to pay for it. I was involved in a very similar case, and was awarded a substantial amount of money. The school system did not pay me, their insurance company did. You see, most towns insure their school officials for vast amounts of money in case they do something stupid (like try to censor a student).
Nice try! I already checked with my bank, and they said they wouldn't cash a check made out to my Everyquest handle. Unless... your name is really Baricom?!
Real networks may be close to winning a $750 million settlement agreement with Microsoft following Real's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.
I've always secretly been hopeful Real Networks would run out of money eventually, since their media software sucks and is a pain to even download, let alone install/uninstall. This $750 million settlement ruined my week. Thanks/.
You or me? Because no matter how much money Sony has paid Switchfoot for its work, they won't have enough to fend off the RIAA lawyers when they get sued for copyright infringement.
The best analogy I can come up with is this:
A Microsoft exployee working on Windows XP discovers that Windows Genuine Advantage is about to be implemented and posts instructions on how to circumvent it. Microsoft is feeding him and his family, Sony is feeding Switchfoot and its members' families. The Microsoft employee and Switchfoot both gave up rights when they signed their respective contracts.
As stupid and unjust as it may seem, Switchfoot has set themselves up for a major lawsuit.
Or.... Maybe it's just a conspiracy.
1. The RIAA told Switchfoot to post the story so they would get sued.
2. The RIAA sues Switchfoot to "prove" bypassing DRM is illegal.
3. Switchfoot's lawyers intentionally do a horrible job presenting their case in exchange for an RIAA pay off, and the RIAA wins.
4. Precendent now says that bypassing the DRM on these discs is illegal.
5. People are scared to post instructions on bypassing any form of DRM.
6. Profit!
No, the new site design is just a blank gray window with a never-ending browser status animation culminating in a message box that says "Host unavailable". I bet that only took three lines of CSS code.
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As for people riding the bus playing a game, that's obviously BS. Most games are torture to play without a mouse--the trackpad doesn't cut it. My old laptop was great for working on reports while I was on the train in the morning, or surfing the web at the student center. But gaming? No way.
Speaking as a fan of Digg:
We hate the comments system too.
I know every distribution wants to be unique and innovative, but why do we need so many different package managers, for example. I don't want 20 different text editors in my accessories menu; I want one that does the job really well. The same thing goes for distributions. I want one that does everything well. It would make users' lives easier and much less confusing. Hell, there isn't even a standard windows manager in use today. Come on people, if we ever hope to make Linux popular, it has to be standard, in every way possible. It needs a standard look and feel. It needs standard applications and protocols for installing programs. The way things look now, it won't be standard anytime soon. I know this article is about UNIX, but I think the same idea applies.
PS - Sorry to make it political, but that's the best analogy I could come up with, honest.
Wait... what? This made it to slashdot's main page? I read the article, looking for anything that might be new, thought provoking or mildly interesting. What I found, however, was a rant about helicopters in BF2. It's the same type of rant you see all the time on gaming forums. It was fairly well-written, but the article really didn't even have much to do with persistent scoring. Mod me as a troll or whatever, but this really isn't slashdot material. It would find a better home on digg.com, a site without a traditional editorial system like /.
But what about new content published on XBOX Live? What about bug fixes? It seems to me that they would need somewhere to put all that stuff... Or maybe not. Either way I think I killed that "joke".
Although I think core-tard is a great new word, I think it's Microsoft's fault for offering such a piece of shit version of a good console.
I don't know why the parent was modded +4 Funny, since that's a good point. What will people do if they bought the core version of the 360? Or am I just missing the joke?
Slashdot: Conspiracy theories for nerds, stuff that might have happened.
Nice try! I already checked with my bank, and they said they wouldn't cash a check made out to my Everyquest handle. Unless... your name is really Baricom?!
Stories about extreme animal fights are making headlines? Slashdot has turned into digg.com
:-)
Can you say "giant octopus eats shark"?
You or me? Because no matter how much money Sony has paid Switchfoot for its work, they won't have enough to fend off the RIAA lawyers when they get sued for copyright infringement.
The best analogy I can come up with is this: A Microsoft exployee working on Windows XP discovers that Windows Genuine Advantage is about to be implemented and posts instructions on how to circumvent it. Microsoft is feeding him and his family, Sony is feeding Switchfoot and its members' families. The Microsoft employee and Switchfoot both gave up rights when they signed their respective contracts.
As stupid and unjust as it may seem, Switchfoot has set themselves up for a major lawsuit.
Or.... Maybe it's just a conspiracy.
1. The RIAA told Switchfoot to post the story so they would get sued.
2. The RIAA sues Switchfoot to "prove" bypassing DRM is illegal.
3. Switchfoot's lawyers intentionally do a horrible job presenting their case in exchange for an RIAA pay off, and the RIAA wins.
4. Precendent now says that bypassing the DRM on these discs is illegal.
5. People are scared to post instructions on bypassing any form of DRM.
6. Profit!
The... but then the animation it... umm... stops but starts back up again.... the message box pops up and uhh... it culminates.
No, the new site design is just a blank gray window with a never-ending browser status animation culminating in a message box that says "Host unavailable". I bet that only took three lines of CSS code.