I find it rather odd that Nintendo isn't mentioned for the launch of RE5, given that RE4 was a GameCube exclusive for close to a year.
I'm not sure what this means, though it could be simply that not enough is known about the Revolution yet to talk about RE5 being on that platform as well.
Elves bemoan low-wages, lack of health care coverage and union-busting tactics of "Claws." Factory operations also dogged by several documented instances of child-labor. Santa retorts that "immortal" Elves don't need health insurance, and says child-workers were being punished for being "naughty."
Forbes did a great job with these biographies, and the quote above is one of my favorites. It has to be one of the more entertaining things that I've read in some time.... which is kind of sad. We live in a very troubled world right now, but even Forbes plays off it well with bits like "Daddy" Warbucks and his Iraq defense contracts. It's nice to see that there can still be some good humor thrown around =)
I admitted right away in my first post that what I was discussing wasn't a complete analysis (as noted, ICQ has many of the features I discussed, too, but it has/had its other downsides such as spam and having to remember the ICQ number).
And as for AIM encryption.... yes, it exists, but last I checked, AOL sure wasn't making it easy to use. Maybe it has gotten better since I last used their client a couple years ago, though.
I was asked this question a few days ago, my response was that there is a little something from every network that I would like to combine for use into one standard.
MSN - Ability to change your nick. Ability to accept or decline others from adding you to their buddy lists. AIM - Ability to set auto-reply messages. Direct connect for quicker file transfers. Yahoo! - Ability to send messages to people that are offline that they will receive next time they sign on. Ability to go invisible.
There's stuff I'm missing, no doubt, and I didn't cover every protocol out there, but those are the major things for me.
I'm not sure of all of the Jabber specifications, but I know there's things in there that specify encryption stuff, among a number of other nice things.
Right now, I think strong encryption (like with the gaim-encryption plugin) between client to client (not client to server) is one big thing that all of the major players need to address.
That price is ridiculous. I've read on IGN that the license fees for games tend to be around $10 per disc. This would mean that to make up the lost money on each console sold, each customer would have to purchase 13 games.
I'm thinking that the average box doesn't have 13 games sitting next to it... (not at first, at the very least).
Ok, seriously.... whoever decided to call themselves "Massive Ads" must have been on some pretty potent drugs.
I mean, that can't really be the best way to advertise *their* service. They could have just as well have called themselves "Really Obnoxious, Intrusive, and Invasive Ads, Inc."
With a name like that, you can be sure I wouldn't be hiring them as *my* advertising company.
I don't particularly care which of these sites changes, but they both do some things that the other should, and neither do one thing that both of them should.
1. Slashdot should better enable the users to decide what content is posted, as Digg does.
2. Digg needs some serious help with its comment section
3. Digg needs to be open sourced to really attract the Slashdot nerds;)
4. Neither sites do this well.... but there should be a section, or some sort of system, where popular articles that are continuing to get a lot of comments/discussion/replies are still readily visible, *regardless* of how old it is.
I think one of the arguments for an open source "burst" would be the reluctance of the open source mentality to accept things such as DRM. While I am very much with the typical slashdot mindset that thinks of DRM as bunch of BS, the corporate world is still heading in that direction. If the open source community can't come up with something acceptable on the DRM front, it's going to give the closed source vendors such as M$ a one-up where there otherwise may have been an open source trend.
One of the problems that I have been struggling to grasp in terms of its impact on my job is how important of a role DRM is really going to take in the coming years. As a pretty much Linux-exclusive shop, and as a media company, we could be in a very awkward position in the coming years since we don't really support anything in the way of DRM right now, and there doesn't appear to be a lot of headway from the OSS perspective, either.
NO! the abuse of ptents is evil, and Google has yet to do this, they are just defending themselves in the arms race against ass-hats like Bezose and Gates And using this against them in the event of such an arms race would be abuse of the patents, and therefore evil.
Unless you are taking about a "defensive" patent, a patent to prevent somebody else from patenting something. But that's just lunacy, since you would already then have prior art.
And anyway, places like Amazon already do personalized results based on your purchase history. Wouldn't this be considered prior art? Clearly, personalized *anything* in an online world today should be considered obvious, and if it hasn't been done it's probably not because somebody hadn't thought of it, because it wasn't really technically efficient to do up until this point.
FTFA, $8 is the price that Sony is expected to be charging the content distributors. This is not the price that we would be paying as end consumers, which would look more like it would be to the tune of $10, or something along those lines.
Of course, this would probably all be highly compressed, DRMed to hell video files, too. Given that I can go to a local Wal-Mart or Target and get a lot of these old titles for $6 at full quality, and make my backups using something like CloneDVD, I'm not likely to be purchasing a $10 movie download anytime soon.
While writing to the Copyright Office and expressing concern over whatever anti-circumvention technologies you would like access to is still a good idea, it's addressing symptoms, and not the problem.
Let's not be like the medical industry here. There is a proposal for cure out there. It's called HR 1201, "Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005". Write your local congressperson and get this legislation passed!
I thought about what you were saying, too. I guess it seems acceptable either way, to me.
As for the quotes... I *completely* agree with you. From what I've heard, the Brits do it the logical way, but traditional American English dictates that the punctuation always goes inside the quotes, even when it isn't part of the quote. I, for one, regularly break that style by putting the punctuation in the logical place. Not because I don't know any better (I deliberately do it every time), but because I disagree with how that aspect of our language is taught. The only way to change language is for the language to change....
This is all spelt and punctuated correctly, and contains no duplicated paragraphs! I noticed, too. Spelling is perfect, but not the grammar. It was great up until the point where he said "I've said my piece".
Here is the link to the Article the Parent Submitted. Note that at the bottom of the page, it says that the posted was not the original article, and links to the original - which was the one that the Slashdot editor used.
There was no inherent praise or comdemnation in that statement. Nintendo is taking a risk of their own with the Revolution controller. In fact, Nintendo appears to be going an entirely different direction than the traditional gaming community seems to be be ready for or expecting, and that may very well hurt them.
I can't recall any time in history that a gaming company has made consoles playable in a retail outlet before the launch of the console. I don't necessarily know that this is an inherently good or bad move to make.
From one perspective, it can build anticipation for the product to launch, and it generates exposure.
However, if the games aren't of the highest quality, it might be a let down for those spur-the-moment type of shoppers that may have otherwise have purchased the console had they not had opportunity to spend a few weeks in front of it to begin with.
Time will tell. I think regardless of anything, we can definitely say that Microsoft's approach to the XBox 360 has definitely taken a number of new moves that the industry had previously never made. Everything from the viral marketing, to the MTV official announcement, to the launch. They have all been non-traditional ways of launching a console. We'll see how well it pays off for M$.
I didn't see anything particularly nasty about Trip in his response. He didn't even appear particularly interested in placing game, but rather cleaing the air that the dispute was simply a matter of contract issues that required external resolution.
Now, does that make him evil or not? Well, I don't know. A lot of people may hate EA because of their offensive approach to things like getting exclusive NFL rights, and things like that, but in my mind that's the price of business. It's his job to make EA as much money as possible, and he definitely appears to be doing a good job at it. If you don't like it, don't buy EA's games. Yeah, I hate the idea that nobody else can make NFL titles, too, and I'm not a big fan of most of EA's games, but they must be doing something right or else they wouldn't be in the position that they are in today.
Hmm... no, I haven't heard of that. To be straight, though, it's not so much the engine that I love as it is, primarily, the Web Developer and similar extensions.
For browsing purposes I use Maxthon because of the gobs of features it has, as well as its speed. For work and developmental purposes I generally keep both Firefox and Maxthon open (Maxthon uses the IE engine).
I would gladly switch, as Firefox has most of the features of Maxthon in some way, shape, or form, but I can't justify it with the memory and slowness problems that I have.
To be fair, though, the slow factor only seems to be a problem after I have had Firefox minimized for a while without using it. The memory problem is pretty consistent, though...
I couldn't agree with you more. This is my main problem with Firefox. I think the browser has a lot of potential, but it's extremely slow and bloated. There's no reason why Firefox needs to be eating up 175MB of memory with only 3 tabs open. Not to mention the problems with its slowness after minimization and everything else that you noted. I've also noticed that it's slow to start upon initial start, as well.
The slowness factor and memory issues are the only things keeping me from using Firefox 100%. Things like the Web Developer extension are unmatched anywhere else, and when combined with some other really grat plugins, Firefox has all the right tools... now it just needs to focus on speed and those memory issues that have been around for such an awfully long time now....
Norm Coleman is my Senator, and I must say that I have been pleased with his approach to consumer rights and technology in general. He's also a supporter of HR 1201, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005 . While people may disagree with him, I definitely think that he's making an attempt to look out for the best interests of technological advancement with his constituents in mind, and not a corporate pocketbook.
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I find it rather odd that Nintendo isn't mentioned for the launch of RE5, given that RE4 was a GameCube exclusive for close to a year.
I'm not sure what this means, though it could be simply that not enough is known about the Revolution yet to talk about RE5 being on that platform as well.
Elves bemoan low-wages, lack of health care coverage and union-busting tactics of "Claws." Factory operations also dogged by several documented instances of child-labor. Santa retorts that "immortal" Elves don't need health insurance, and says child-workers were being punished for being "naughty."
... which is kind of sad. We live in a very troubled world right now, but even Forbes plays off it well with bits like "Daddy" Warbucks and his Iraq defense contracts. It's nice to see that there can still be some good humor thrown around =)
Forbes did a great job with these biographies, and the quote above is one of my favorites. It has to be one of the more entertaining things that I've read in some time.
I admitted right away in my first post that what I was discussing wasn't a complete analysis (as noted, ICQ has many of the features I discussed, too, but it has/had its other downsides such as spam and having to remember the ICQ number).
And as for AIM encryption.... yes, it exists, but last I checked, AOL sure wasn't making it easy to use. Maybe it has gotten better since I last used their client a couple years ago, though.
I was referencing the native capabilities of the protocols, not the owners' clients.
;)
And I use gaim
Yeah, it's too bad that ICQ has that stupid number instead of a username, though. Numbers are hard to remember, hard to give to people on a whim, etc.
ICQ was so close to being perfect!
I was asked this question a few days ago, my response was that there is a little something from every network that I would like to combine for use into one standard.
MSN - Ability to change your nick. Ability to accept or decline others from adding you to their buddy lists.
AIM - Ability to set auto-reply messages. Direct connect for quicker file transfers.
Yahoo! - Ability to send messages to people that are offline that they will receive next time they sign on. Ability to go invisible.
There's stuff I'm missing, no doubt, and I didn't cover every protocol out there, but those are the major things for me.
I'm not sure of all of the Jabber specifications, but I know there's things in there that specify encryption stuff, among a number of other nice things.
Right now, I think strong encryption (like with the gaim-encryption plugin) between client to client (not client to server) is one big thing that all of the major players need to address.
It's bad because Wal-Mart doesn't sell AO games. (Nor do a number of other major retailers...)
That price is ridiculous. I've read on IGN that the license fees for games tend to be around $10 per disc. This would mean that to make up the lost money on each console sold, each customer would have to purchase 13 games.
I'm thinking that the average box doesn't have 13 games sitting next to it... (not at first, at the very least).
Ok, seriously.... whoever decided to call themselves "Massive Ads" must have been on some pretty potent drugs.
I mean, that can't really be the best way to advertise *their* service. They could have just as well have called themselves "Really Obnoxious, Intrusive, and Invasive Ads, Inc."
With a name like that, you can be sure I wouldn't be hiring them as *my* advertising company.
I don't particularly care which of these sites changes, but they both do some things that the other should, and neither do one thing that both of them should.
;)
1. Slashdot should better enable the users to decide what content is posted, as Digg does.
2. Digg needs some serious help with its comment section
3. Digg needs to be open sourced to really attract the Slashdot nerds
4. Neither sites do this well.... but there should be a section, or some sort of system, where popular articles that are continuing to get a lot of comments/discussion/replies are still readily visible, *regardless* of how old it is.
I think one of the arguments for an open source "burst" would be the reluctance of the open source mentality to accept things such as DRM. While I am very much with the typical slashdot mindset that thinks of DRM as bunch of BS, the corporate world is still heading in that direction. If the open source community can't come up with something acceptable on the DRM front, it's going to give the closed source vendors such as M$ a one-up where there otherwise may have been an open source trend.
One of the problems that I have been struggling to grasp in terms of its impact on my job is how important of a role DRM is really going to take in the coming years. As a pretty much Linux-exclusive shop, and as a media company, we could be in a very awkward position in the coming years since we don't really support anything in the way of DRM right now, and there doesn't appear to be a lot of headway from the OSS perspective, either.
NO! the abuse of ptents is evil, and Google has yet to do this, they are just defending themselves in the arms race against ass-hats like Bezose and Gates
And using this against them in the event of such an arms race would be abuse of the patents, and therefore evil.
Unless you are taking about a "defensive" patent, a patent to prevent somebody else from patenting something. But that's just lunacy, since you would already then have prior art.
And anyway, places like Amazon already do personalized results based on your purchase history. Wouldn't this be considered prior art? Clearly, personalized *anything* in an online world today should be considered obvious, and if it hasn't been done it's probably not because somebody hadn't thought of it, because it wasn't really technically efficient to do up until this point.
My vote on this patent? THUMBS DOWN!
FTFA, $8 is the price that Sony is expected to be charging the content distributors. This is not the price that we would be paying as end consumers, which would look more like it would be to the tune of $10, or something along those lines.
Of course, this would probably all be highly compressed, DRMed to hell video files, too. Given that I can go to a local Wal-Mart or Target and get a lot of these old titles for $6 at full quality, and make my backups using something like CloneDVD, I'm not likely to be purchasing a $10 movie download anytime soon.
While writing to the Copyright Office and expressing concern over whatever anti-circumvention technologies you would like access to is still a good idea, it's addressing symptoms, and not the problem.
Let's not be like the medical industry here. There is a proposal for cure out there. It's called HR 1201, "Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005". Write your local congressperson and get this legislation passed!
I thought about what you were saying, too. I guess it seems acceptable either way, to me.
As for the quotes... I *completely* agree with you. From what I've heard, the Brits do it the logical way, but traditional American English dictates that the punctuation always goes inside the quotes, even when it isn't part of the quote. I, for one, regularly break that style by putting the punctuation in the logical place. Not because I don't know any better (I deliberately do it every time), but because I disagree with how that aspect of our language is taught. The only way to change language is for the language to change....
This is all spelt and punctuated correctly, and contains no duplicated paragraphs!
I noticed, too. Spelling is perfect, but not the grammar. It was great up until the point where he said "I've said my piece".
I was so disappointed =(
peace*
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/24onion .html?ex=1287806400&en=b40eb239c3b34014&ei=5090&pa rtner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Here is the link to the Article the Parent Submitted. Note that at the bottom of the page, it says that the posted was not the original article, and links to the original - which was the one that the Slashdot editor used.
There was no inherent praise or comdemnation in that statement. Nintendo is taking a risk of their own with the Revolution controller. In fact, Nintendo appears to be going an entirely different direction than the traditional gaming community seems to be be ready for or expecting, and that may very well hurt them.
I can't recall any time in history that a gaming company has made consoles playable in a retail outlet before the launch of the console. I don't necessarily know that this is an inherently good or bad move to make.
From one perspective, it can build anticipation for the product to launch, and it generates exposure.
However, if the games aren't of the highest quality, it might be a let down for those spur-the-moment type of shoppers that may have otherwise have purchased the console had they not had opportunity to spend a few weeks in front of it to begin with.
Time will tell. I think regardless of anything, we can definitely say that Microsoft's approach to the XBox 360 has definitely taken a number of new moves that the industry had previously never made. Everything from the viral marketing, to the MTV official announcement, to the launch. They have all been non-traditional ways of launching a console. We'll see how well it pays off for M$.
I didn't see anything particularly nasty about Trip in his response. He didn't even appear particularly interested in placing game, but rather cleaing the air that the dispute was simply a matter of contract issues that required external resolution.
Now, does that make him evil or not? Well, I don't know. A lot of people may hate EA because of their offensive approach to things like getting exclusive NFL rights, and things like that, but in my mind that's the price of business. It's his job to make EA as much money as possible, and he definitely appears to be doing a good job at it. If you don't like it, don't buy EA's games. Yeah, I hate the idea that nobody else can make NFL titles, too, and I'm not a big fan of most of EA's games, but they must be doing something right or else they wouldn't be in the position that they are in today.
I don't mean to be off topic, but this is on the front page, and for some reason it's not appearing in the RSS feed.
Hopefully this doesn't indicate any bugs in the code =)
Hmm... no, I haven't heard of that. To be straight, though, it's not so much the engine that I love as it is, primarily, the Web Developer and similar extensions.
For browsing purposes I use Maxthon because of the gobs of features it has, as well as its speed. For work and developmental purposes I generally keep both Firefox and Maxthon open (Maxthon uses the IE engine).
I would gladly switch, as Firefox has most of the features of Maxthon in some way, shape, or form, but I can't justify it with the memory and slowness problems that I have.
To be fair, though, the slow factor only seems to be a problem after I have had Firefox minimized for a while without using it. The memory problem is pretty consistent, though...
I couldn't agree with you more. This is my main problem with Firefox. I think the browser has a lot of potential, but it's extremely slow and bloated. There's no reason why Firefox needs to be eating up 175MB of memory with only 3 tabs open. Not to mention the problems with its slowness after minimization and everything else that you noted. I've also noticed that it's slow to start upon initial start, as well.
The slowness factor and memory issues are the only things keeping me from using Firefox 100%. Things like the Web Developer extension are unmatched anywhere else, and when combined with some other really grat plugins, Firefox has all the right tools... now it just needs to focus on speed and those memory issues that have been around for such an awfully long time now....
Norm Coleman is my Senator, and I must say that I have been pleased with his approach to consumer rights and technology in general. He's also a supporter of HR 1201, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005 . While people may disagree with him, I definitely think that he's making an attempt to look out for the best interests of technological advancement with his constituents in mind, and not a corporate pocketbook.