I played the original "Manhunt" just because of the Rockstar name to it, and while confronting and horrific (yay, a murder simulator), it wasn't actually that much fun to play. Like GTA without the cars and replace slapstick with gruesome.
Sad but true, all this publicity is about the only thing that is going to get Manhunt 2 to sell, and it's probably still only going to get mediocre sales.
I run Vista just fine on my work Thinkpad, I shoved it on that and my home PC as well and they work great.
Since you seem to be making the judgement that "it works badly in two cases that I saw", I can suggest "it works fine in two cases I saw", thus equalling the strength and quality of your study and finding completely opposite results.
I've seen XP run like a dog on some systems. Does that mean XP "offers nothing" and "is an utter waste of time"? I've seen Linux run like a dog on some systems. Does that mean Linux "offers nothing" and "is an utter waste of time"?
Having said that, Vista needs a lot of work, there's no denying it could be much better than it is (much like XP when it was first released, much like NT4.0 was when it was first released, much like Windows 3.0 when it was first released....)
I highly doubt there is any real, non-falsified personal information in any of those! Not if any of the resume's I've ever seen have been any indication.
I was under the impression the device was going to be pretty solid and durable. If the mainboard fails and requires replacement within 10 minutes of operation... heck even the Xbox 360 has a higher MTBF than 10 minutes.
They did that with the Pazzak cards in KOTOR, I thought it was fun because it was a mini-game and worked really well in the theme that gangsters in space bars would play cards etc.
But "booster packs" and things dropping off fantasy monsters? Come on!
WoW does have the darkmoon cards that you can collect and turn in to make a darkmoon deck, but it's not a game, just a neat epic trinket.
If the game wasn't like a CCG so much as just a card game of some kind, and fantasy themed, it could work out allright. But boosters??
Not to be confused with in-game TCG. Lancelot and his buddies didn't sit at the round table playing Magic: The Gathering.
Having said that, even the keycode entry things being in-game is a small but glaring distraction. They should be available at the logon screen and appear, I don't know, through the in-game mail or something. So we don't have to run by the "Buy lots of boosters for the WoW-CCG" guys in BB.
MS uses the Linux environment for interoperability purposes. Sadly one of Linux's great strengths, openness, is being exploited by MS. It's easy for them to make Windows interoperate with Linux (you can do NFS mounts on Windows Server 2003 R2 for example, I found doing that far easier than trying to mount an NTFS5/SMB share from Windows Server from Ubuntu).
Trying to get Linux to interoperate with Windows on the other hand is a horrible task because the source for Windows is closed so you can't know exactly what is going on. Apparently they are supposed to open it up a little more because of the EU stuff but as far as I can see it's still a nightmare.
Anybody who is going to buy a car based on it's ability to detect a drunk driver is statistically the least likely to ever become a drunk driver anyway.
Next:
Nissan develops a new range of cars in different colour schemes specifically designed for the blind. Yamaha produces a new home theatre audio system for the deaf Nokia produces a new telephone for deaf-mutes. Nabisco produces peanut snacks for people with peanut allergies.
Was this guy hired to experiment with alternative operating systems on company time? Because from TFA, it looks like he's not one of the I/T guys.
So, he's
1) Violating company policy by installing unauthorised software 2) Violating company policy by removing the SOE placed on the company's workstation 3) Wasting company time by installing Linux instead of doing whatever it is he was hired for 4) Pissing off the I/T support to no end 5) Wasting a lot of their time when they have to reimage his PC because he manages to find something Linux couldn't do after all (like, some proprietary corporate app, gee we didn't think about that when we slapped the Ubuntu disk in did we?) 6) Violating company security policy by revoking the IT sections ability to supervise A/V protection, patching and data security (yes, data security is important under Linux too).
Frankly if this guy worked for any of the tier one companies I'm associated with he would be summarily dismissed or at the very least heavily reprimanded.
I'm not saying Linux doesn't deserve a crack at the workplace. But being a dickwad and installing software on the company PC that the company specifically doesn't want you to is just making Linux, FOSS and yourself look bad.
Let the IT guys work out which OS you can use. IT guys actually do know what Linux is. It's their job to evaluate OS technology and suitability for the enterprise, not yours. Seriously, some Linux "users" who don't have jobs in IT are the worst counterarguments for the OS I have ever seen. Amazingly management is going to listen to the IT guys before they listen to someone who isn't in IT but found some Ubuntu disks stapled onto a magazine (this does not qualify you to work in IT or subvert your corporate IT policy).
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Little off context there - DRM is not a law. Copyright is a law.
DRM is more like a fence, made to discourage people from breaking the law and trespassing over it. But most fences are trivial to get over or around.
No wait, sorry, some readers might not understand that. I'll put it in car analogy.
DRM is more like a car immobiliser, made to discourage people from breaking the law and stealing the car. But any good car thief can easily bypass it anyway.
Of course I have... but now all the other slashdot readers have also been reminded of these distros, hence me asking the question in/. instead of just wandering off to google.
Opaque housecurtains have been ruled unlawful evidence of hidden crime. Police will no longer require a warrant to break into any premises with opaque curtains, blinds or heavily tinted windows. Occupants will be arrested and charged immediately.
Because you know, open source eMule mods having a web interface that could be accessed from a phone or, well, anywhere, is completely different. And they've only had that for years.
I really believe BitTorrent is just a tad overrated. Or maybe I'm just bitter because it's not truly P2P, it's peer to lousy-tracker-with-no-seeds-that-shuts-down-after- a-week-because-mom-cut-the-network-cable-down-to-t he-basement to peer (P2L2P). Or maybe I've just had bad experiences with about 90% of the trackers I ever connected to.
I notice there was mention of Quake not having much of a storyline... that wasn't such a bad thing really, the plot wasn't much more involved than DooM, it's true.
But the level design really was very good. Because the level design was part of the imagery, there were areas you didn't have to go to, areas you could go to if you wanted, areas that made you think, "How can I get there? Do I need to go there? It would be interesting to go there!". Areas you could rocket jump into just for fun. Areas that you had to think and work within the environment a little to get out of (not just point and shoot!)
We don't get that kind of fun level design anymore.
Nowadays, it's pipe design. They design a pipe with a few bends and a few scripted events that you plod through in a set, linear fashion (no shortcuts, no optional detours). Every time you play it, sure, the outcome is more or less the same, but the journey is the same too! That helps the storytelling process, maybe. Sure as heck wrecks the fun of actually "playing" in the game.
"At some point there will be a case where an evildoer will use the defense that since the copyright holder didn't pursue company X 5 years ago they should be prevented from trying to do it now. And poof! The copyright will vanish or be declared null and void and with it the GPL distribution license that goes along with it."
That would be acceptable to me. Copyright expiring after 5 years because one person infringed it and didn't get caught?
Kicking a company in the nuts for violating the GPL is well and good, but when they are actively trying to make amends, isn't it bad for the FOSS community and PR in general to keep on kicking anyway?
Using the same mechanism as the RIAA to uphold freedom is good. Using the same sore-winner attitude as the RIAA and punishing people for the heck of it is bad.
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And yet Sony has walked away with less than a slap on the wrist.
Replace "Sony" with "Al Queda" or "North Korea" in the same story and see how it reads. Amusing, isn't it?
I played the original "Manhunt" just because of the Rockstar name to it, and while confronting and horrific (yay, a murder simulator), it wasn't actually that much fun to play. Like GTA without the cars and replace slapstick with gruesome.
Sad but true, all this publicity is about the only thing that is going to get Manhunt 2 to sell, and it's probably still only going to get mediocre sales.
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I run Vista just fine on my work Thinkpad, I shoved it on that and my home PC as well and they work great.
Since you seem to be making the judgement that "it works badly in two cases that I saw", I can suggest "it works fine in two cases I saw", thus equalling the strength and quality of your study and finding completely opposite results.
I've seen XP run like a dog on some systems. Does that mean XP "offers nothing" and "is an utter waste of time"?
I've seen Linux run like a dog on some systems. Does that mean Linux "offers nothing" and "is an utter waste of time"?
Having said that, Vista needs a lot of work, there's no denying it could be much better than it is (much like XP when it was first released, much like NT4.0 was when it was first released, much like Windows 3.0 when it was first released....)
What are people worried about?
They stole resumes!
I highly doubt there is any real, non-falsified personal information in any of those! Not if any of the resume's I've ever seen have been any indication.
Aids For Communicating With Hospitalized People?
Giving them AIDS will not help them communicate.
Replacing the mainboard already?
I was under the impression the device was going to be pretty solid and durable. If the mainboard fails and requires replacement within 10 minutes of operation... heck even the Xbox 360 has a higher MTBF than 10 minutes.
$100... you get what you pay for!
Warhawk was a great shooter on the C64.
Surely this game represents prior art and the trademark and so on is the property of the company/individual that originally developed it?
Or is Sony pulling a Disney or something?
I thought companies like Sony were supposed to respect copyright.
So what is the most likely outcome of the motion?
They did that with the Pazzak cards in KOTOR, I thought it was fun because it was a mini-game and worked really well in the theme that gangsters in space bars would play cards etc.
But "booster packs" and things dropping off fantasy monsters? Come on!
WoW does have the darkmoon cards that you can collect and turn in to make a darkmoon deck, but it's not a game, just a neat epic trinket.
If the game wasn't like a CCG so much as just a card game of some kind, and fantasy themed, it could work out allright. But boosters??
Not to be confused with in-game TCG. Lancelot and his buddies didn't sit at the round table playing Magic: The Gathering.
Having said that, even the keycode entry things being in-game is a small but glaring distraction.
They should be available at the logon screen and appear, I don't know, through the in-game mail or something. So we don't have to run by the "Buy lots of boosters for the WoW-CCG" guys in BB.
Oh? An action like, say, redistributing GPL protected software (with very valuable indemnity vouchers)?
MS uses the Linux environment for interoperability purposes. Sadly one of Linux's great strengths, openness, is being exploited by MS. It's easy for them to make Windows interoperate with Linux (you can do NFS mounts on Windows Server 2003 R2 for example, I found doing that far easier than trying to mount an NTFS5/SMB share from Windows Server from Ubuntu).
Trying to get Linux to interoperate with Windows on the other hand is a horrible task because the source for Windows is closed so you can't know exactly what is going on. Apparently they are supposed to open it up a little more because of the EU stuff but as far as I can see it's still a nightmare.
Isn't that just a little extremely antithematic?
It's supposed to be a fantasy game - CCG's are pretty starkly unfantasy.
What next, Coke ads? Nike armour? Toyota mounts?
Talk about ruining the illusion. Even WoW keeps a better grip (barely).
Anybody who is going to buy a car based on it's ability to detect a drunk driver is statistically the least likely to ever become a drunk driver anyway.
Next:
Nissan develops a new range of cars in different colour schemes specifically designed for the blind.
Yamaha produces a new home theatre audio system for the deaf
Nokia produces a new telephone for deaf-mutes.
Nabisco produces peanut snacks for people with peanut allergies.
Was this guy hired to experiment with alternative operating systems on company time? Because from TFA, it looks like he's not one of the I/T guys.
So, he's
1) Violating company policy by installing unauthorised software
2) Violating company policy by removing the SOE placed on the company's workstation
3) Wasting company time by installing Linux instead of doing whatever it is he was hired for
4) Pissing off the I/T support to no end
5) Wasting a lot of their time when they have to reimage his PC because he manages to find something Linux couldn't do after all (like, some proprietary corporate app, gee we didn't think about that when we slapped the Ubuntu disk in did we?)
6) Violating company security policy by revoking the IT sections ability to supervise A/V protection, patching and data security (yes, data security is important under Linux too).
Frankly if this guy worked for any of the tier one companies I'm associated with he would be summarily dismissed or at the very least heavily reprimanded.
I'm not saying Linux doesn't deserve a crack at the workplace. But being a dickwad and installing software on the company PC that the company specifically doesn't want you to is just making Linux, FOSS and yourself look bad.
Let the IT guys work out which OS you can use. IT guys actually do know what Linux is. It's their job to evaluate OS technology and suitability for the enterprise, not yours. Seriously, some Linux "users" who don't have jobs in IT are the worst counterarguments for the OS I have ever seen. Amazingly management is going to listen to the IT guys before they listen to someone who isn't in IT but found some Ubuntu disks stapled onto a magazine (this does not qualify you to work in IT or subvert your corporate IT policy).
Little off context there - DRM is not a law. Copyright is a law.
DRM is more like a fence, made to discourage people from breaking the law and trespassing over it. But most fences are trivial to get over or around.
No wait, sorry, some readers might not understand that. I'll put it in car analogy.
DRM is more like a car immobiliser, made to discourage people from breaking the law and stealing the car. But any good car thief can easily bypass it anyway.
Of course I have... but now all the other slashdot readers have also been reminded of these distros, hence me asking the question in /. instead of just wandering off to google.
Thanks for the info!
The thing about Linux is, why doesn't someone just make a pro-gamer distro? It's open source and GPL, so there is no reason why this can't be done.
Optimise everything for 3D acceleration etc. Bundle a bunch of open source games for the heck of it.
Or is there already such a thing? If so, what is it?
Opaque housecurtains have been ruled unlawful evidence of hidden crime. Police will no longer require a warrant to break into any premises with opaque curtains, blinds or heavily tinted windows. Occupants will be arrested and charged immediately.
What's next? Opaque clothes potentially hiding drugs, weapons?
Because only criminals desire privacy.
Because you know, open source eMule mods having a web interface that could be accessed from a phone or, well, anywhere, is completely different. And they've only had that for years.
- a-week-because-mom-cut-the-network-cable-down-to-t he-basement to peer (P2L2P). Or maybe I've just had bad experiences with about 90% of the trackers I ever connected to.
I really believe BitTorrent is just a tad overrated. Or maybe I'm just bitter because it's not truly P2P, it's peer to lousy-tracker-with-no-seeds-that-shuts-down-after
It was just damaged, probably someone dropped it and put it back in hoping nobody would notice.
Happens all the time! Although you would hope people would be more willing to own up to that kind of thing for anything life threatening.
I guess they never talk about the guy that dropped the o-rings while they were putting them on the shuttle, huh...
I notice there was mention of Quake not having much of a storyline... that wasn't such a bad thing really, the plot wasn't much more involved than DooM, it's true.
But the level design really was very good. Because the level design was part of the imagery, there were areas you didn't have to go to, areas you could go to if you wanted, areas that made you think, "How can I get there? Do I need to go there? It would be interesting to go there!". Areas you could rocket jump into just for fun. Areas that you had to think and work within the environment a little to get out of (not just point and shoot!)
We don't get that kind of fun level design anymore.
Nowadays, it's pipe design. They design a pipe with a few bends and a few scripted events that you plod through in a set, linear fashion (no shortcuts, no optional detours). Every time you play it, sure, the outcome is more or less the same, but the journey is the same too! That helps the storytelling process, maybe. Sure as heck wrecks the fun of actually "playing" in the game.
"At some point there will be a case where an evildoer will use the defense that since the copyright holder didn't pursue company X 5 years ago they should be prevented from trying to do it now. And poof! The copyright will vanish or be declared null and void and with it the GPL distribution license that goes along with it."
That would be acceptable to me. Copyright expiring after 5 years because one person infringed it and didn't get caught?
Awesome. Just awesome.
"Will ridiculously cheap laptops wean consumers off ridiculously fast components?"
I don't know, let's ask IBM and see how their super soaraway PC-Jr product is going...
Kicking a company in the nuts for violating the GPL is well and good, but when they are actively trying to make amends, isn't it bad for the FOSS community and PR in general to keep on kicking anyway?
Using the same mechanism as the RIAA to uphold freedom is good.
Using the same sore-winner attitude as the RIAA and punishing people for the heck of it is bad.