There wasn't Outrun 2 for Amiga.
There were Outrun (crappy conversion by U.s gold),
Turbo Outrun (even worse) and Outrun Europa.
This last one was better than the other two, but was more or less a "Chase HQ/SCI" kind of game, and you had to collect microfilms stolen from Interpol.
No Outrunners for the Amiga IIRC.
Oh my god. I can remember when I was 10 and saw the original Outrun for the first time. It was awesome! Very nice to get on board of the model Ferrari, and (IIRC) having the fan blowing fresh air in the hair...
Graphics was astounding at the time.
My friends were even more impressed than me, because that game let you dream to be "on the road" with a fabulous blonde near you (at the time I didn't care of this detail, but they were AT LEAST 2 years older than me... mind you that at the time I was at a seaside summer camp, when I was older I started to care of that detail as well:D).
Outrun 1's music was awesome as well...
Now, to get ontopic: When this beast comes to the XBox, I really wonder how they will compress the landscape appearance of all the 15 levels to fit the XBox Ram, or if they will make things to be loaded on the fly like "SWIV" for the Amiga (so that you will have to load only 3 levels at a time, current level + the two other levels).
The landscape anyway seems to be a bit simplistic, maybe is Sega's choice of screenshots, but only this image shows a complex building on the roadside. This is fully in spirit with the original game... I only hope to see some parts with many of the wacky fake advertisement billboards that used to be there in Outrun, Turbo Outrun and the fabulous Super Hang-On.
This Outrun does not stand out for graphics (if you want to see one of the best graphics look this game here), but I really really hope that it will stand out again for the "Cool" factor. Outrun was cool as a snowball that did not melt in hell at the time (the second game that made that effect was Bubble Bobble).
Hope to see it soon in an amusement arcade here:) (or a good XBox conversion as well).
DRM, even in forms that were different from today, always accompained commercial home software.
More recently DRM taken the form of software watermarking firmware, which has to be circumvented by "modchips" in order to play unmarked content. Even if Modchips are illegal (now), I really doubt that people will stop creating, importing, installing them and copying games. I can remember unlicensed software copying being "high" on demand in C64 days, in Amiga days, in SNES days, in PC days and it is still strong now, even with DMCA/EUCD and all the rest of WIPO shite.
Anyway, DRM is not the thing that people need to consider when they buy a console. People considers which console has decent (from a "psychological" standpoint) games at a good price. Of course consoles which get easily DRM-removal devices are sold better than consoles that don't, because software on the former costs less for the user.
Maybe people will not know what the "DRM"-yadda-yadda is with all the WIPO shite surrounding it ("every thing you buy a copied game, God kills a kitten... please, think of the kittens..."), but people knows that in order to play you have to pay more for the software.
If $WHATEVER doesn't get decent software for the price people want to pay, $WHATEVER is screwed. Nintendo 64 tells the lesson. Gamecube tells the lesson. X-Box tells the lesson.
Anyway, 10$ a month for a videogame for me is a decent price, even if it is "rented".
They'd pass the costs on to the end-consumers, which I personally wouldn't mind so much. I know it takes money to properly dispose/recycle products - more money than the current "just put it all in a landfill" approach, anyways.
Actually in Denmark and Germany is like that. You pay a tin-can of beer some dollars more than the norm. BUT if you get back the can, you get a large discount (even 50%) on the next beer you buy.
Vending machine have as well a "dispose can here" slot, which give you credit to spend on your next beer:)
You remind me of a thing...
I can remember Sony's vice president being interviewed on an Italian videogame magazine (K, which sometimes used articles published from a the U.K. magazine "ACE", and some others time publishing material from the japanese magazine Login).
That time Sony's VP was saying that they would have began investing in the videogame market heavily, in fact some months later came out from Sony some videogames for Super Nintendo (I remember "Equinox") and Sega Mega-CD ("Hook").
Returning to the interview, Sony's VP said these literal words (more or less): "If the market wants it, we will be so dedicated to videogaming to arrive to bundle our videogames whith potato chips".
That happened, but Sega beat them to that.:)
Just note that tomcat is NOT a *complete* j2ee server (i.e. it's "just" a webserver - more or less). Then whether you actually need a complete j2ee server is a different matter.
+ + + +
I am quite sure to have read or heard somewhere (maybe at the Italian JavaConference that the Jakarta project wished to integrated an EJB container inside Tomcat for version 5.0 or 6.0. Can't find a reference however:(. Maybe it was too much Twix & Cappuccino.:(
+ + + +
Mental note: stop eating junk food before posting on slashdot.
Effect number one:
Bring Gnome (which is part of Sun's "Madhatter Project" for a modern unified desktop) back under Sun's direct control.
Effect number two:
A complete j2eefree-speech webserver installation online in under two hours.
Effect number three:
???
Effect number four: PROFIT!:D
(or at least a major headache in Redmond).
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Please note that the Java Community Process controls the standard. Of course Sun is a major player in it, but its standards are published, stable, and you know that your code is still going to work in three years or more. Something that doesn't happen when you code in some strange languages.:)
If anyone is going to make a virtual machine platform which takes the general design of Java, adds 3 opcodes to the platform, removes parts of the core libraries and replaces them with optional APIs and ships the platforms as "Java", Sun is going to sue his ass off.
Sun is already strong on the lawsuit against Microsoft.
Microsoft back then tried to replace java access to native machine features - jni - with a Microsoft proprietary library accessing activex objects, and java remote invocation process - rmi, based on Corba's IOOP - with another library based on COM+...
Sun demonstrated that Microsoft was wrong, and then won the lawsuit... the outcome however (barring the monetary reimbursement part) was ludicrous.
At least now we Java Programmers are programming in REAL JAVA, which works REALLY on different platforms, and not something that remembers unportable C/C++ for the splintering and fragmentation between platforms, compilers and coding styles.
+ + + +
No, I don't want to start a Java vs C/C++ flamewar.
Java is a tool suited for some works.
C/C++ are two other tools suited for other works.
Intel: Linux 32-chip server rivals Windows posted by cdlu on Friday June 06, 2003 - [ 03:16 PM GMT ] Section: High Performance Computing : News Topic: High Performance Computing Read article at: zdnet.com.com
Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young operating system.
Sco's website got a major makelift, maybe waiting
for this very article to appear... let's look at..
this page
SCOsource is a new business division to manage its UNIX® System intellectual property. The charter of the new division is to create new and innovative licensing programs to meet the changing demands of today's market and to protect its intellectual property asset.
SCO is the owner of the UNIX Operating System Intellectual Property that dates all the way back 1969, when the UNIX System was created at Bell Laboratories. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, SCO has acquired ownership of the patents, copyrights and core technology associated with the UNIX System. The SCO source division will continue to offer traditional UNIX System licenses to preserve, protect and enhance shareholder value.
The third link here is Sco trying to submerge the Free Software Movement on the whole by taking out some two random phrases out of context and putting them in the mouths of RMS and Perens.
This is a very very dirty tactic Sco, and I deserve all the right to remind people that you were a dying company, selling an inferior technology, taking the road to extinction, then saved by a bunch of former employees who thrived thanks to linux, bought back for a dime or two.
I will only state the truth, don't you think?
+ + + +
I wonder when they are going to tell people that Linux helped Saddam Hussein fleeing the battlefield, or that the FSF headquarters has a time machine and they will use it to start a Soviet Revolution in the US instead of the War of Independence.
+ + + +
Did I tell you that I Hate Sco?
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If you download this, Darl will cry:
ed2k://|file|debian-30r1-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso|6 78395904|39BE2DD045C910DDC81B7FC882ABB203|/
Does it mean that I can't nickname SCO the Soviet Communist Operation anymore?:(
+ + + +
In truth I don't have anything against communist at all... well, in the country where I live, communism is something that would be better to encourage a bit more (hint: it's a western country with a madman chief of government obsessed with delusions of communist conspiracies trying to get him)
Also the economy is really stagnating, with companies trying to hire people for really brief amount of times, a rise in the "black jobs" (unregulated jobs with no taxes being payed on them), and major cuts on the wellfare state.
+ + + +
Ok, let's return to the point of the article...
it's good to have some groups of users tacking a civil protest to tell their upset against SCO's FUD tactics (not requests, maybe they are simply right from a legal standpoint, it's the tactic that SUCK anyway and in my opinion will not bring the IT market on SCO's side).
I'm wondering when we will begin to send them postcards or polite mails telling Darl and the others our opinion on the subject.
Anyone volounteering to do a first draft of a letter?
(My english sucks)
+ + + +
Finally SCO made the slashdot headlines again:)
It pratically means that more money will be spent on scientific research, which will inevitably have its fallout on the everyday life.
Technology will have major role, and it's my belief that even opensource software will be benefited by it.
Market Expansion has taken a road where big companies now dominate every aspect of the markets, all the earth surface is known and mapped, and with the Internet the distance are shrinking more and more and more (hello to Slashdot readers from New Zealand, Brasil or Alaska).
The Space Race is the only thing that can make our world to get bigger. I hope all the interested parties in the new race into space succeed:)
+ + + + For the not so serious side of the post: today I've seen "Die Another Day". I like giant orbiting laser cannons like the Icarus, or Bloefield's satellite in Diamonds Are Forever, or even Akira SOL cannon or Dr. Evil "Alan Parsons Project".
I would like to start my backyard space project just to build one of those jewels. Oh, I know that I could buy one at http://www.villainsupply.com/superweapons.html bu t that's not the same thing;)
I don't understand why this made/. main page.
There is only a page put up by Jesse accounting
his part of the story.
Unfortunately there are no pictures, or
recordings, or testimonies of the RIAA lawyers
screaming, yelling and pleading in a court to
reverse the dismissal.
Not that I doubt Jesse's good faith, but we should
take ANY piece of information with a bit of salt.
We are not part of the RIAA and we don't have to
make FUD to live.
+ + + +
Please, leave out MAFIA from RIAA (see the MAFIAA
jokes)... Mafia is made of men, not of lawyers,
and in the end still has a code of honor...
- the companies are not producing the music, the
artists do. Without the artists, companies are
nothing. - companies have a role only of intermediators
+ + + + If I was to release a song to the world, and the company was to tell me "for your promotion we get 85 cents over your dollar" I would tell them, "screw you and your promotion".
Imagine somebody recording your phonecall and posting it on the web to make the fool out of you... suddenly 12yro's phone pranks and blackmail got a brand new sense -_-;
Also...
Imagine a cluster of perverts posting directly on bbs the pics they
snatch from showers, toilets...
"Hey, mom! It's you on Internet!"
"Oh my god! That's my company changing room!"
If I was Intel PR I would call this "Project Pandora"... a good nickname for the project, along of the lines of "Palladium" for Microsoft DRM.
(And in the myth of Iliad, the Palladium didn't prevent Ajax to do really really nasty things to Cassandra when she tried to take cover at the feet of the statue of Pallas Athena).
At the risk of sounding like I've missed the clue-train. Can someone please remind me of why I want to use a smart-phone (whatever that is) to move my mp3s around? I pretty much use my cell phone for, you know, calling people.
You may not see the need of it, but a cellphone (smartphone or not) is a kind of technology with which people is already friendly. A normal PDA isn't, is still a stranger in that respect.
But you wouldn't use it only to move mp3s, but to complement your PC capabilities.
The other side of the story could be (and I underline the "could be" part, you never know where standards where Microsoft is in go when they are inked down) a universal standard to have different PCs and different devices talking, so your (new) Ipod will talk to your (new) dvd-player and to your PC as well.
A really good way to transfer personal notes, reminders, trade business cards...
I only hope that these things will come pre-configured to avoid to be used as open http:// proxies, or for ping attacks and the like >_
You know... One ring to rule them all, one
ring to find them one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
And now, imagine a beowulf cluster of smartphones!
If I am not mistaken, barring the device discovery and control part, everything is already known, has a widely known standard, and is already interoperable. With the exception of DRM which is marked as "Proprietary/Vertical". Will that mean that Sony DRM stuff (which will work on a Montavista Linux Based platform will not be displayed on my Longhorn PC? That's crazy.
And what if this become a "standard" like Motif or CDE? (Yeah, a bloated, cumbersome standard, that Micrsoft will replace with something suited for her whims instead)
And free content will be able to circulate between one system and the other? Oh, yeah...
I can envision the chaos that will occur when I will be able to rip the movies from one of the n competing DRM technologies.
Everyone will be posting torrents on/, (slashcomma) with downloads to the "easy-do-it-all-crack-o-rama" program, and then will be out renting DRM "X" standard technology in order to spread the content between pcs, cellphones, and their taiwanese blueray players.
+ + + +
HTTP enabled phone.
Why I suddenly foresee http://4g.goatse.cx (don't follow that link even if it doesn't work) for the future cellphones?
Not totally related to what I was saying but worth a reply:)
Absolutely!
I used to buy DVDs like a trooper, I would select them carefully and mull over them so that I can have a collection of stuff I would like watch a few times since the things are so expensive. And somehow even with that I discovered that I never really watch them more then once. Ever the optimist, I wanted LOTR. It was 50 bucks Canadian. I thought that was a bit pushing it. I mean how greedy you can get. I could stand 25-30 range, but 50? Where does it gonna end?
This is a different thing: what you experienced is the collector syndrome that overcomes us all over at one point in our lives.
When he bought his new CD player back in 1985, my father used to buy a lot of pop music. Then he was into the Laserdisc Fad in 1987 in and now he is into DVDs (he rents a lot of them, or sometimes his friends bring a rented DVD to watch it with us).
I used to buy a lot of magic:tg cards once and manga books recently. Eventually I got tired of magic and of mangas.
Some pal of mine recommended a P2P network. Ha! Now I watched impressive number of movies and all I can say is that MPAA will never see me again. I find that I delete a DVD rip after watching. They are not worth keeping. None of this crap is worth more then $1 to me. The only thing I regret is that I was a sucker for such a long time and spend over a grand on that crap. In retrospect, the only reason I did it was in a dellusion of being able to save on repeated rentals of those DVDs. Never happened. I feel now like the whole movie/music thing is some brainwash operation designed to milk me out of outrageous amounts of my hard earned money. I am free now. If the P2P nets ever stop... I had my fill already. I will bever spend money on that shit again.
Well, let me ask you a thing, can I?;)
You now are free from your compulsion of giving the money to an MPAA company, yet you still want to watch a lot of MPAA company movies. Why don't you go to a theatre instead with friends and watch a movie one time?
You don't strain your pc (even your pc has a cost in *DSL, maintenance and electricity billing), you don't strain your eyes with bad quality screeners, you don't strain your patience finding the real release of movie X (yeah, I know of the *reactor sites, but still they are not complete), and you can enjoy the movie with one of the best (yet affordable) video and audio quality.
Then, in my opinion you are free to do what you want to do, but you are punishing the real movie makers (which are not the companies, but the actors, actresses, and technical staff behind the movie)... If you go to the movies, you are not punishing the movie crew and still you are saying "50$ for DVD stinks".
By the way: I still like DVDs (and Laserdiscs) because sometimes you buy some good movies that aren't going to be re-aired or re-distributed:(, at least somewhere:(
Offtopic: I don't want to be there when Vivendi/Universal starts bossing people around with taxes on water since they bought their water company -_-;
Intopic: Anyway, I think that Opensource code is great because I could take freecraft code, put a brand new game (maybe a role playgame) and my former code isn't dead. Of course I should have thought of making my code reusable and modular enough, but the most important and reusable thing in computing is experience.
That's exactly what they want: drive the project underground. Same as DeCSS: you know you can't eliminate it entirely but just driving the project underground is enough. For example, that's why Linux distros can't ship with a DVD player by default.
Well.
If companies, expecially media companies, aren't mature enough to understand that by driving people underground they are telling people not to come back on the surface again (Joe: "oooh: thankz to the undergroundz scene I can have all the divx movies that I want, why should I come back to the surface to buy a legitimate copy of Warcraft: The Movie?") let them be.
These action hurt us, I agree, but these actions hurt THEM as well.
Do you remember where the IT world was going before Linux come along? Unix was going to die and everyone was going to buy Windows on their servers, and former major players like Unisys were abandoning Unix. Thanks to Linux the Unix market got a lot of fresh techies who underlined the greatness of that platform on the whole.
If thanks Sco linux disappears underground, then Sco will get back to the distruction as it was happening years ago (Sco was going to die anyway, her inferior Unix was too inferior to compete with *BSD, let alone with other commercial unices). Yeah, and the IT world will be all Bill-centered.
The freecraft people being pissed off, is, on the whole, a group of people which will deny to enter the videogame market with their talent, mostly since they will not go and face an interview at a media company saying "Yeah, and we were banished to the underground by blizzard because our FreeCraft stomped on their IP". They would rather enter other jobs, maybe as cooks. Yes, people from Blizzard will not find talented programmers, people will not buy their videogames (they will rather warez them since they will be crappier than Commodore 64 games), but you know what will happen? They will find the best meals at the restaurant in front of their offices. More cooks, more competition, more quality in the restaurants.
This is not anymore 1990's where you could be asked to do the R-Type conversion for the Amiga, after being sent a C&D letter:
http://ign64.ign.com/articles/074/074185p1.html
Back then it wasn't easy to find talented people, but it wasn't so hard to fine-tune your skills by programming. If Blizzard/Vivendi wants to burn all the steps by pissing off programmers, let them be.
My point is: we can't do a lot alone for resolving the shitty situation of freecraft, yet we can do something for every oss developer: band together
and make the oss scene prosper, even if we have to move underground.
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There wasn't Outrun 2 for Amiga. There were Outrun (crappy conversion by U.s gold), Turbo Outrun (even worse) and Outrun Europa. This last one was better than the other two, but was more or less a "Chase HQ/SCI" kind of game, and you had to collect microfilms stolen from Interpol. No Outrunners for the Amiga IIRC.
Graphics was astounding at the time.
My friends were even more impressed than me, because that game let you dream to be "on the road" with a fabulous blonde near you (at the time I didn't care of this detail, but they were AT LEAST 2 years older than me... mind you that at the time I was at a seaside summer camp, when I was older I started to care of that detail as well :D).
Outrun 1's music was awesome as well...
Now, to get ontopic: When this beast comes to the XBox, I really wonder how they will compress the landscape appearance of all the 15 levels to fit the XBox Ram, or if they will make things to be loaded on the fly like "SWIV" for the Amiga (so that you will have to load only 3 levels at a time, current level + the two other levels).
The landscape anyway seems to be a bit simplistic, maybe is Sega's choice of screenshots, but only this image shows a complex building on the roadside. This is fully in spirit with the original game... I only hope to see some parts with many of the wacky fake advertisement billboards that used to be there in Outrun, Turbo Outrun and the fabulous Super Hang-On.
This Outrun does not stand out for graphics (if you want to see one of the best graphics look this game here), but I really really hope that it will stand out again for the "Cool" factor. Outrun was cool as a snowball that did not melt in hell at the time (the second game that made that effect was Bubble Bobble).
Hope to see it soon in an amusement arcade here :) (or a good XBox conversion as well).
DRM, even in forms that were different from today, always accompained commercial home software.
More recently DRM taken the form of software watermarking firmware, which has to be circumvented by "modchips" in order to play unmarked content. Even if Modchips are illegal (now), I really doubt that people will stop creating, importing, installing them and copying games. I can remember unlicensed software copying being "high" on demand in C64 days, in Amiga days, in SNES days, in PC days and it is still strong now, even with DMCA/EUCD and all the rest of WIPO shite.
Anyway, DRM is not the thing that people need to consider when they buy a console. People considers which console has decent (from a "psychological" standpoint) games at a good price. Of course consoles which get easily DRM-removal devices are sold better than consoles that don't, because software on the former costs less for the user.
Maybe people will not know what the "DRM"-yadda-yadda is with all the WIPO shite surrounding it ("every thing you buy a copied game, God kills a kitten... please, think of the kittens..."), but people knows that in order to play you have to pay more for the software.
If $WHATEVER doesn't get decent software for the price people want to pay, $WHATEVER is screwed. Nintendo 64 tells the lesson. Gamecube tells the lesson. X-Box tells the lesson.
Anyway, 10$ a month for a videogame for me is a decent price, even if it is "rented".
Actually in Denmark and Germany is like that. You pay a tin-can of beer some dollars more than the norm. BUT if you get back the can, you get a large discount (even 50%) on the next beer you buy.
Vending machine have as well a "dispose can here" slot, which give you credit to spend on your next beer :)
You remind me of a thing... I can remember Sony's vice president being interviewed on an Italian videogame magazine (K, which sometimes used articles published from a the U.K. magazine "ACE", and some others time publishing material from the japanese magazine Login). That time Sony's VP was saying that they would have began investing in the videogame market heavily, in fact some months later came out from Sony some videogames for Super Nintendo (I remember "Equinox") and Sega Mega-CD ("Hook"). Returning to the interview, Sony's VP said these literal words (more or less): "If the market wants it, we will be so dedicated to videogaming to arrive to bundle our videogames whith potato chips". That happened, but Sega beat them to that. :)
I wonder if they are worth more than the cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Yendor...
Correct. :).
Anyway... it's only matter of installing just one additional package
+ + + + :(. Maybe it was too much Twix & Cappuccino. :(
I am quite sure to have read or heard somewhere (maybe at the Italian JavaConference that the Jakarta project wished to integrated an EJB container inside Tomcat for version 5.0 or 6.0. Can't find a reference however
+ + + +
Mental note: stop eating junk food before posting on slashdot.
Bring Gnome (which is part of Sun's "Madhatter Project" for a modern unified desktop) back under Sun's direct control.
Effect number two:
A complete j2ee free-speech webserver installation online in under two hours.
Effect number three:
???
Effect number four: :D
PROFIT!
(or at least a major headache in Redmond).
+ + + + :)
Please note that the Java Community Process controls the standard. Of course Sun is a major player in it, but its standards are published, stable, and you know that your code is still going to work in three years or more. Something that doesn't happen when you code in some strange languages.
If anyone is going to make a virtual machine platform which takes the general design of Java, adds 3 opcodes to the platform, removes parts of the core libraries and replaces them with optional APIs and ships the platforms as "Java", Sun is going to sue his ass off.
Sun is already strong on the lawsuit against Microsoft.
Microsoft back then tried to replace java access to native machine features - jni - with a Microsoft proprietary library accessing activex objects, and java remote invocation process - rmi, based on Corba's IOOP - with another library based on COM+...
Sun demonstrated that Microsoft was wrong, and then won the lawsuit... the outcome however (barring the monetary reimbursement part) was ludicrous.
At least now we Java Programmers are programming in REAL JAVA, which works REALLY on different platforms, and not something that remembers unportable C/C++ for the splintering and fragmentation between platforms, compilers and coding styles.
+ + + +
No, I don't want to start a Java vs C/C++ flamewar.
Java is a tool suited for some works.
C/C++ are two other tools suited for other works.
It pinpoints to this zdnet article here.
Yeah Sarge. "My son sold stolen software and all that I got is this lousy T-Shirt"...
Their hipocrisy is endless...
SCO -> Soviet Communist Operation
Linux -> Chinese Communism?
Nope, look at this.
SCOsource is a new business division to manage its UNIX® System intellectual property. The charter of the new division is to create new and innovative licensing programs to meet the changing demands of today's market and to protect its intellectual property asset.
SCO is the owner of the UNIX Operating System Intellectual Property that dates all the way back 1969, when the UNIX System was created at Bell Laboratories. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, SCO has acquired ownership of the patents, copyrights and core technology associated with the UNIX System. The SCO source division will continue to offer traditional UNIX System licenses to preserve, protect and enhance shareholder value.
Interesting are also the side-links, expecially this, this other, and also this one.
The third link here is Sco trying to submerge the Free Software Movement on the whole by taking out some two random phrases out of context and putting them in the mouths of RMS and Perens.
This is a very very dirty tactic Sco, and I deserve all the right to remind people that you were a dying company, selling an inferior technology, taking the road to extinction, then saved by a bunch of former employees who thrived thanks to linux, bought back for a dime or two. I will only state the truth, don't you think?
+ + + +
I wonder when they are going to tell people that Linux helped Saddam Hussein fleeing the battlefield, or that the FSF headquarters has a time machine and they will use it to start a Soviet Revolution in the US instead of the War of Independence.
+ + + +
Did I tell you that I Hate Sco?
+ + + +6 78395904|39BE2DD045C910DDC81B7FC882ABB203|/
If you download this, Darl will cry:
ed2k://|file|debian-30r1-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso|
'Try communism - use Linux.'"
Does it mean that I can't nickname SCO the Soviet Communist Operation anymore? :(
+ + + +
In truth I don't have anything against communist at all... well, in the country where I live, communism is something that would be better to encourage a bit more (hint: it's a western country with a madman chief of government obsessed with delusions of communist conspiracies trying to get him)
Also the economy is really stagnating, with companies trying to hire people for really brief amount of times, a rise in the "black jobs" (unregulated jobs with no taxes being payed on them), and major cuts on the wellfare state.
+ + + +
Ok, let's return to the point of the article...
it's good to have some groups of users tacking a civil protest to tell their upset against SCO's FUD tactics (not requests, maybe they are simply right from a legal standpoint, it's the tactic that SUCK anyway and in my opinion will not bring the IT market on SCO's side).
I'm wondering when we will begin to send them postcards or polite mails telling Darl and the others our opinion on the subject. :)
Anyone volounteering to do a first draft of a letter?
(My english sucks) + + + +
Finally SCO made the slashdot headlines again
LET'S MODERATE SCO DOWN!!!
quite, parent shall be modded down immediately.
This is what I call sane irony ;)
I am really electrified by these news.
:)
u t that's not the same thing ;)
It pratically means that more money will be spent on scientific research, which will inevitably have its fallout on the everyday life.
Technology will have major role, and it's my belief that even opensource software will be benefited by it.
Market Expansion has taken a road where big companies now dominate every aspect of the markets, all the earth surface is known and mapped, and with the Internet the distance are shrinking more and more and more (hello to Slashdot readers from New Zealand, Brasil or Alaska).
The Space Race is the only thing that can make our world to get bigger. I hope all the interested parties in the new race into space succeed
+ + + +
For the not so serious side of the post:
today I've seen "Die Another Day". I like giant
orbiting laser cannons like the Icarus, or Bloefield's satellite in Diamonds Are Forever, or even Akira SOL cannon or Dr. Evil "Alan Parsons Project".
I would like to start my backyard space project just to build one of those jewels. Oh, I know
that I could buy one at http://www.villainsupply.com/superweapons.html
b
I don't understand why this made /. main page.
There is only a page put up by Jesse accounting
his part of the story.
Unfortunately there are no pictures, or
recordings, or testimonies of the RIAA lawyers
screaming, yelling and pleading in a court to
reverse the dismissal.
Not that I doubt Jesse's good faith, but we should
take ANY piece of information with a bit of salt.
We are not part of the RIAA and we don't have to
make FUD to live.
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Please, leave out MAFIA from RIAA (see the MAFIAA
jokes)... Mafia is made of men, not of lawyers,
and in the end still has a code of honor...
Microsoft is suing NVidia for enabling Agp on NForce motherboards.
:(
Ballmer: "Before NVidia became involved, Linux posed little or no threat to Microsoft, or to other Operating System vendors."
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I think Darl Mc Bride should be moderated as Troll... now he and his Soviet Communist Operation
is making a mess out on Slashdot.
MODERATE SCO POSTINGS DOWN!
Artists still screwed.
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Rationale:
- the companies are not producing the music, the
artists do. Without the artists, companies are
nothing.
- companies have a role only of intermediators
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If I was to release a song to the world, and the company was to tell me "for your promotion we get 85 cents over your dollar" I would tell them, "screw you and your promotion".
Imagine somebody recording your phonecall and posting it on the web to make the fool out of you... suddenly 12yro's phone pranks and blackmail got a brand new sense -_-;
Also...
Imagine a cluster of perverts posting directly on bbs the pics they snatch from showers, toilets...
"Hey, mom! It's you on Internet!"
"Oh my god! That's my company changing room!"
If I was Intel PR I would call this "Project Pandora"... a good nickname for the project, along of the lines of "Palladium" for Microsoft DRM.
(And in the myth of Iliad, the Palladium didn't prevent Ajax to do really really nasty things to Cassandra when she tried to take cover at the feet of the statue of Pallas Athena).
You may not see the need of it, but a cellphone (smartphone or not) is a kind of technology with which people is already friendly. A normal PDA isn't, is still a stranger in that respect.
But you wouldn't use it only to move mp3s, but to complement your PC capabilities.
The other side of the story could be (and I underline the "could be" part, you never know where standards where Microsoft is in go when they are inked down) a universal standard to have different PCs and different devices talking, so your (new) Ipod will talk to your (new) dvd-player and to your PC as well.
A really good way to transfer personal notes, reminders, trade business cards...
I only hope that these things will come pre-configured to avoid to be used as open http:// proxies, or for ping attacks and the like >_ You know...
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
And now, imagine a beowulf cluster of smartphones!
If I am not mistaken, barring the device discovery and control part, everything is already known, has a widely known standard, and is already interoperable. With the exception of DRM which is marked as "Proprietary/Vertical". Will that mean that Sony DRM stuff (which will work on a Montavista Linux Based platform will not be displayed on my Longhorn PC? That's crazy.
And what if this become a "standard" like Motif or CDE? (Yeah, a bloated, cumbersome standard, that Micrsoft will replace with something suited for her whims instead)
And free content will be able to circulate between one system and the other? Oh, yeah...
I can envision the chaos that will occur when I will be able to rip the movies from one of the n competing DRM technologies.
Everyone will be posting torrents on /, (slashcomma) with downloads to the "easy-do-it-all-crack-o-rama" program, and then will be out renting DRM "X" standard technology in order to spread the content between pcs, cellphones, and their taiwanese blueray players.
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HTTP enabled phone. Why I suddenly foresee http://4g.goatse.cx (don't follow that link even if it doesn't work) for the future cellphones?
Absolutely!
I used to buy DVDs like a trooper, I would select them carefully and mull over them so that I can have a collection of stuff I would like watch a few times since the things are so expensive. And somehow even with that I discovered that I never really watch them more then once. Ever the optimist, I wanted LOTR. It was 50 bucks Canadian. I thought that was a bit pushing it. I mean how greedy you can get. I could stand 25-30 range, but 50? Where does it gonna end?
This is a different thing: what you experienced is the collector syndrome that overcomes us all over at one point in our lives.
When he bought his new CD player back in 1985, my father used to buy a lot of pop music. Then he was into the Laserdisc Fad in 1987 in and now he is into DVDs (he rents a lot of them, or sometimes his friends bring a rented DVD to watch it with us).
I used to buy a lot of magic:tg cards once and manga books recently. Eventually I got tired of magic and of mangas. Some pal of mine recommended a P2P network. Ha! Now I watched impressive number of movies and all I can say is that MPAA will never see me again. I find that I delete a DVD rip after watching. They are not worth keeping. None of this crap is worth more then $1 to me. The only thing I regret is that I was a sucker for such a long time and spend over a grand on that crap. In retrospect, the only reason I did it was in a dellusion of being able to save on repeated rentals of those DVDs. Never happened. I feel now like the whole movie/music thing is some brainwash operation designed to milk me out of outrageous amounts of my hard earned money. I am free now. If the P2P nets ever stop... I had my fill already. I will bever spend money on that shit again.
Well, let me ask you a thing, can I? ;)
You now are free from your compulsion of giving the money to an MPAA company, yet you still want to watch a lot of MPAA company movies. Why don't you go to a theatre instead with friends and watch a movie one time?
You don't strain your pc (even your pc has a cost in *DSL, maintenance and electricity billing), you don't strain your eyes with bad quality screeners, you don't strain your patience finding the real release of movie X (yeah, I know of the *reactor sites, but still they are not complete), and you can enjoy the movie with one of the best (yet affordable) video and audio quality.
Then, in my opinion you are free to do what you want to do, but you are punishing the real movie makers (which are not the companies, but the actors, actresses, and technical staff behind the movie)... If you go to the movies, you are not punishing the movie crew and still you are saying "50$ for DVD stinks".
By the way: I still like DVDs (and Laserdiscs) because sometimes you buy some good movies that aren't going to be re-aired or re-distributed :(, at least somewhere :(
I WANT LABYRINTH! DAMNIT!
Offtopic:
I don't want to be there when Vivendi/Universal starts bossing people around with taxes on water since they bought their water company -_-;
Intopic:
Anyway, I think that Opensource code is great because I could take freecraft code, put a brand new game (maybe a role playgame) and my former code isn't dead. Of course I should have thought of making my code reusable and modular enough, but the most important and reusable thing in computing is experience.
Well.
If companies, expecially media companies, aren't mature enough to understand that by driving people underground they are telling people not to come back on the surface again (Joe: "oooh: thankz to the undergroundz scene I can have all the divx movies that I want, why should I come back to the surface to buy a legitimate copy of Warcraft: The Movie?") let them be.
These action hurt us, I agree, but these actions hurt THEM as well.
Do you remember where the IT world was going before Linux come along? Unix was going to die and everyone was going to buy Windows on their servers, and former major players like Unisys were abandoning Unix. Thanks to Linux the Unix market got a lot of fresh techies who underlined the greatness of that platform on the whole.
If thanks Sco linux disappears underground, then Sco will get back to the distruction as it was happening years ago (Sco was going to die anyway, her inferior Unix was too inferior to compete with *BSD, let alone with other commercial unices). Yeah, and the IT world will be all Bill-centered.
The freecraft people being pissed off, is, on the whole, a group of people which will deny to enter the videogame market with their talent, mostly since they will not go and face an interview at a media company saying "Yeah, and we were banished to the underground by blizzard because our FreeCraft stomped on their IP". They would rather enter other jobs, maybe as cooks. Yes, people from Blizzard will not find talented programmers, people will not buy their videogames (they will rather warez them since they will be crappier than Commodore 64 games), but you know what will happen? They will find the best meals at the restaurant in front of their offices. More cooks, more competition, more quality in the restaurants.
This is not anymore 1990's where you could be asked to do the R-Type conversion for the Amiga, after being sent a C&D letter:
http://ign64.ign.com/articles/074/074185p1.html
Back then it wasn't easy to find talented people, but it wasn't so hard to fine-tune your skills by programming. If Blizzard/Vivendi wants to burn all the steps by pissing off programmers, let them be.
My point is: we can't do a lot alone for resolving the shitty situation of freecraft, yet we can do something for every oss developer: band together and make the oss scene prosper, even if we have to move underground.