Heh. Well, I think that some of those lawyers actually believe in things like ethics and accountability. Anyway, even if that weren't the case, wouldn't they kick him out for being an annoying pissant all the same?
"but in the VAST majority of these type cases they end up losing or they win"
What happens in the remaining minority of these types of cases?
OR
In the VAST majority of slashdot posts the writer either makes his point coherently or they don't.
If it works on XP, what would stop it from running on 2000 other than a Microsoft desire to cripple it so that people have one more reason they must leave 2000 which still works fine for most tasks [as long as it's well patched]?
From what my sources tell me, the IE7 code has rambling, poorly constructed comments. 2000 prevents such code from running.
Look, at the moment, the only way a nostalgic fanboy can play chrono cross is to buy an old copy of the game. That money goes to squarenix. Who would buy an old snes cartridge though, if an awesome updated version was available for free??
What the group should do is send a letter to squenix saying, if we turn over all commercial rights and ownership of the game to you, and only ask for creative credit, can we keep working on this game? You can sell it for 39.99 and it will make a crapload of money, and you will have 0 cost.
My clan runs one of the premier "feel-good" servers in the nation. We are currently running Call of Duty. We have a large flux of players from around the nation, and are hosted on a backbone out of Abilene.
All clan members are rcon admins, and we have strict rules about not abusing these privileges. At the same time, we are empowered to kick people at our discretion.
Our philosophy is that the purpose of the game is to have fun - to that end DaC members almost always spread themselves out across teams, and there is no cursing allowed on the server.
Visit the webpage to grab the IP address and visit us if you have the game (if you don't, it's really quite good.) I'll keep an eye out for ya;-)
Teach yourself a Real Programming Language, preferably C or C++. Then get a book about data structures / algorithms. Next read up on number theory.
Throughout this period you should be writing experimental programs in all the various regions of programming - math, file I/O, interactivity, etc.
4th get yourself "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. Once you've learned C and gone through learning Lisp from this book, you'll be set to learn any programming language at all.
Your next task is learning low-level instructions. I suggest MIPS, or a simple subset thereof.
Next you'll want to pick up introductory books on networking, computer graphics, and AI. Once you've finished those, get the Dragon book and write a compiler (but don't use Fortran).
Ok, now you're almost a computer scientist.
The last three steps are:
Pick up the camel book, wonder why you bothered with the rest of it.
Get a job writing telemarketing tools in visual basic and wonder why you bothered with anything.
Get outsourced to India and fall back on your physician's skills, clusterbomb slashdot et. al. for sparking your unattainable dream.
For a one way mission, NASA would have to set up a satellite relay with a large amount of broadband so that they could stream entertainment, news, and video messages from earth to the colonists. I just wonder what the look on the controller's face will be the first time he gets a request for pornos to be streamed across a multi-billion dollar government satellite network:)
I'd suggest using a membership model, like a YMCA, for several reasons.
1) People hate paying money. If you only ask them to do it once a month, they'll be happier.
2) If people make an investment for one month, they will keep coming back, making friends and getting attached to the place. Suddenly you have a returning customer base.
3) This gives you membership promotion models, like bring in a friend and get a month free.
4) You have a much better grasp of your financial status because you can say pretty much what your income is for each month.
5) You know who's coming in and out of the building - theft becomes harder.
6) If you want, you can let people charge drinks and snacks against their accounts, bring guests for $5 bucks a visit, and all of this convenience makes your customers happy.
Remember, most geeks have to have plenty of money to support their geekery, so they'll be happy to pay you reasonable fees for services and convenience. I believe there was another thread recently where someone cast the slashdot community as valuing their time much more than their money - I would posit that this is true of your target audience in general.
One wonders how many weeks/months ago Darl thought of this, only to release it after the stock rise plateaued and started to drop.
One also wonders what else he's got up his sleeve. Is he planning to charge Spirit and Opportunity licences? What's the legal system like on Mars?
Or myabe he'll just take a page from the RIAA and start suing 12 year old end users.
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Josiwe
A company like Square-Enix could very easily maintain a stable of beta testers across 5-10 games, rotating in fresh blood every time to keep the pool alive as certain testers grow older and have less time to beta test. After each beta cycle non-responsive or poor quality beta testers could be thanked and excused from service - they could even maintain two pools, one for actual testing and one for winnowing out efficient beta testers.
Think of it like a job interview where the compensation is getting to play cutting edge games way ahead of the public as well as getting the developer's ear. And the company gets a small pool of very good testers (maybe 300) that they can count on to do good work and still be around for FFDQXXVI Online.
This is completely ridiculous. Lumberjack's spend all day chopping down trees but they don't AXE EACH OTHER when they get angry. The kid who pulled the gun was a sick, twisted fuck who needs help and/or a safejacket.
Pull your thumb out of your ass and think before you post.
Obviously BB doesn't care about you or me. But your statement is naive. Some people are interesting to the guvermint, and these intrusions on privacy in the last couple years are very scary in a certain context. Read up on how the government monitored Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohammed Ali, and then tell me that nobody is watching.
Any gamer worth his salt can tell you who Cloud, Aeris, Tifa, Barret, and Sephiroth are. Not as many can tell you the names of more than one or two characters from each of the other FF games. This is why FF7 is the most memorable of the series - its characters.
The same goes for great anime - sure you may have liked Vandread or Gatekeepers or any of the recent spate of mass-production animes. But the reason everyone recognizes the names Ayanami Rei and Spike Spiegel is that the characters in Eva and Bebop are vivid, larger-than life characters that we all connect with on a deep level.
Great literature is the same way - from Arthur to Yossarian, Hamlet to Holden, great characters are what connect us to and captivate us with any story.
... should sue the shitty parents for plopping their kids in front of a tv, ignoring what they were watching and what games they were playing, and expecting the state school system to raise their kids for them.
When FF7 came outfor the PS1, Sony aired a series of commercials that absolutely blew my mind. It was (as I'm sure you all know) a revolution in the RPG genre and cinematic, CG-based game presentation, and the commercials documented the awesome production values and thematic, character-driven storytelling of the game. I went out and bought a ps1 and the game with 6 months of allowance and lawn-mowing profit the day the game came out, mostly due to those commercials (I had never played an FF game before that). At the risk of slashdotting the poor guy, here's a link to a fansite that hosts 3 of them: http://www.icybrian.com/ff7/art.html
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Heh. Well, I think that some of those lawyers actually believe in things like ethics and accountability. Anyway, even if that weren't the case, wouldn't they kick him out for being an annoying pissant all the same?
Mod parent up for delicately crafted sarcasm.
"but in the VAST majority of these type cases they end up losing or they win" What happens in the remaining minority of these types of cases? OR In the VAST majority of slashdot posts the writer either makes his point coherently or they don't.
If it works on XP, what would stop it from running on 2000 other than a Microsoft desire to cripple it so that people have one more reason they must leave 2000 which still works fine for most tasks [as long as it's well patched]?
From what my sources tell me, the IE7 code has rambling, poorly constructed comments. 2000 prevents such code from running.
Dear Slashdot, I have a large pile of DVDs in a disorganized mess in front of my tv. How can I organize them? (Do I get a FPP now?)
Look, at the moment, the only way a nostalgic fanboy can play chrono cross is to buy an old copy of the game. That money goes to squarenix. Who would buy an old snes cartridge though, if an awesome updated version was available for free?? What the group should do is send a letter to squenix saying, if we turn over all commercial rights and ownership of the game to you, and only ask for creative credit, can we keep working on this game? You can sell it for 39.99 and it will make a crapload of money, and you will have 0 cost.
My clan runs one of the premier "feel-good" servers in the nation. We are currently running Call of Duty. We have a large flux of players from around the nation, and are hosted on a backbone out of Abilene.
;-)
All clan members are rcon admins, and we have strict rules about not abusing these privileges. At the same time, we are empowered to kick people at our discretion.
Our philosophy is that the purpose of the game is to have fun - to that end DaC members almost always spread themselves out across teams, and there is no cursing allowed on the server.
Visit the webpage to grab the IP address and visit us if you have the game (if you don't, it's really quite good.) I'll keep an eye out for ya
- Josiwe[DaC]
Teach yourself a Real Programming Language, preferably C or C++. Then get a book about data structures / algorithms. Next read up on number theory.
Throughout this period you should be writing experimental programs in all the various regions of programming - math, file I/O, interactivity, etc.
4th get yourself "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. Once you've learned C and gone through learning Lisp from this book, you'll be set to learn any programming language at all.
Your next task is learning low-level instructions. I suggest MIPS, or a simple subset thereof.
Next you'll want to pick up introductory books on networking, computer graphics, and AI. Once you've finished those, get the Dragon book and write a compiler (but don't use Fortran).
Ok, now you're almost a computer scientist.
The last three steps are:
Pick up the camel book, wonder why you bothered with the rest of it.
Get a job writing telemarketing tools in visual basic and wonder why you bothered with anything.
Get outsourced to India and fall back on your physician's skills, clusterbomb slashdot et. al. for sparking your unattainable dream.
*GASP* He's right!
David Lesar's degree is from UW!!!
Done to death but still...
1. Pass Stupid Bills
2. Lie to Public
3. ????
4. Re-election!
For a one way mission, NASA would have to set up a satellite relay with a large amount of broadband so that they could stream entertainment, news, and video messages from earth to the colonists. I just wonder what the look on the controller's face will be the first time he gets a request for pornos to be streamed across a multi-billion dollar government satellite network :)
I'd suggest using a membership model, like a YMCA, for several reasons.
1) People hate paying money. If you only ask them to do it once a month, they'll be happier.
2) If people make an investment for one month, they will keep coming back, making friends and getting attached to the place. Suddenly you have a returning customer base.
3) This gives you membership promotion models, like bring in a friend and get a month free.
4) You have a much better grasp of your financial status because you can say pretty much what your income is for each month.
5) You know who's coming in and out of the building - theft becomes harder.
6) If you want, you can let people charge drinks and snacks against their accounts, bring guests for $5 bucks a visit, and all of this convenience makes your customers happy.
Remember, most geeks have to have plenty of money to support their geekery, so they'll be happy to pay you reasonable fees for services and convenience. I believe there was another thread recently where someone cast the slashdot community as valuing their time much more than their money - I would posit that this is true of your target audience in general.
One wonders how many weeks/months ago Darl thought of this, only to release it after the stock rise plateaued and started to drop. One also wonders what else he's got up his sleeve. Is he planning to charge Spirit and Opportunity licences? What's the legal system like on Mars? Or myabe he'll just take a page from the RIAA and start suing 12 year old end users.
--
Josiwe
A company like Square-Enix could very easily maintain a stable of beta testers across 5-10 games, rotating in fresh blood every time to keep the pool alive as certain testers grow older and have less time to beta test. After each beta cycle non-responsive or poor quality beta testers could be thanked and excused from service - they could even maintain two pools, one for actual testing and one for winnowing out efficient beta testers.
Think of it like a job interview where the compensation is getting to play cutting edge games way ahead of the public as well as getting the developer's ear. And the company gets a small pool of very good testers (maybe 300) that they can count on to do good work and still be around for FFDQXXVI Online.
This is completely ridiculous. Lumberjack's spend all day chopping down trees but they don't AXE EACH OTHER when they get angry. The kid who pulled the gun was a sick, twisted fuck who needs help and/or a safejacket. Pull your thumb out of your ass and think before you post.
Obviously BB doesn't care about you or me. But your statement is naive. Some people are interesting to the guvermint, and these intrusions on privacy in the last couple years are very scary in a certain context. Read up on how the government monitored Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohammed Ali, and then tell me that nobody is watching.
Any gamer worth his salt can tell you who Cloud, Aeris, Tifa, Barret, and Sephiroth are. Not as many can tell you the names of more than one or two characters from each of the other FF games. This is why FF7 is the most memorable of the series - its characters.
The same goes for great anime - sure you may have liked Vandread or Gatekeepers or any of the recent spate of mass-production animes. But the reason everyone recognizes the names Ayanami Rei and Spike Spiegel is that the characters in Eva and Bebop are vivid, larger-than life characters that we all connect with on a deep level.
Great literature is the same way - from Arthur to Yossarian, Hamlet to Holden, great characters are what connect us to and captivate us with any story.
(I rue the day when viruses attack these carts, telling everyone to go buy Brand X).
Um, I don't think it is possible to rue an event which has not occurred...
Otherwise I rue the day SCO wins its law suit.
... should sue the shitty parents for plopping their kids in front of a tv, ignoring what they were watching and what games they were playing, and expecting the state school system to raise their kids for them.
When FF7 came outfor the PS1, Sony aired a series of commercials that absolutely blew my mind. It was (as I'm sure you all know) a revolution in the RPG genre and cinematic, CG-based game presentation, and the commercials documented the awesome production values and thematic, character-driven storytelling of the game. I went out and bought a ps1 and the game with 6 months of allowance and lawn-mowing profit the day the game came out, mostly due to those commercials (I had never played an FF game before that). At the risk of slashdotting the poor guy, here's a link to a fansite that hosts 3 of them: http://www.icybrian.com/ff7/art.html