Has everyone forgotten that there is no ONE linux(yes I know they are distributions) to build games for? How much R&D should a game developer spend on making sure that their game works on Ubuntu 7.10 vs 7.04 vs Fedora 2,3,4,5,6,7,8? Not to mention Debian, Slackware and the list goes on. And lets say developers settle on one distro of LInux to build games for. How many elitists are going to poo-poo the idea of them not building for the distribution of gaming choice?
And besides, with all the legal crap about this platform and that platform using GPL'd software to make money and having to open source their design, don't you think there would be some concern about having to divulge the source code for their game?
Was simply reading the material what the case is about? I thought they were looking for the people who posted it. How is Google Cache going to help you from getting caught posting the material?
Of course you would, no one on slashdot uses their legs for anything real other than getting up to get another Jolt cola. You can easily create a robot for that purpose, or use the beer throwing robot that student made a couple years ago.
I guess rating nanobots in "sperm power" would make more sense than.000000000001 HP, you can just say that little baby (no pun intended) takes 2000 sperm power.
I am surprised that MS doesn't allow you to purchase a Vista license that allows the use of XP if you would rather. I bet then they could really beef up their Vista sales numbers, even if only on paper. Who would be able to say that 75% of users purchased Vista but installed XP instead? Looks like they could "win" the numbers game.
I would probably rather have someone PAYING ATTENTION but going faster than the speed limit on a highway, than some jackass NOT PAYING ATTENTION, and going over the speed limit anyway, and talking on his cell phone during the whole trip!
First off it says "We the People of the United States of America" NOT "We the People in the United States of America" so the word "of" means it applies to those who make up the united states, not just anyone on standing on our soil.
as a cop you are public protectors, you are to PROTECT AND SERVE even the guy you are arresting based on your interpretation of the law. If any force is exerted you need to be punished HARD if it was inappropriate.
Are you sure? I just saw Transformers and the police car clearly said "To Punish and Enslave" on the side...
I think some of you have touched upon the success of the Wii and some are missing the mark. Let me give the reasons why we purchased a Wii.
I purchased a Wii for our family in April. I have a 4 year old son that LOVES it. The games we have for it so far are: Wii Sports (default), Wii Play, TMNT for Wii, Transformers, Madden '08. Let me list a few reasons why WE purchased the Wii: 1 - I saw it as a way for my kid to play games and NOT just sit on his butt all day doing so. So far this has proven fairly true. In the sports games he limits his own play by getting tired and wanting to turn it off by himself. Pretty good self control for a 4 year old if you ask me. 2 - It was cheaper than the others. Plain and simple. I didn't want to spend 400 - 600 dollars for a system for my kid to sit on but all day. 3 - I am NOT a hardcore gamer by any definition (except "owns a gaming console"). I enjoy gaming that I can sit down for 30 minutes, play and be done. Madden 08 is a good way of doing that, other than I get my ass kicked every time I go online...but I hope to get better...eventually. 4 - My freinds and family can come over and play without having to learn 250 different controller combinations to play a game well. So in short we can have fun with it with new people.
Since this is/. I will put this in a slightly different view that I am sure we can all relate to in some sense. I see the analogy of Wii as one like Windows versus Linux. Windows has an interface that is easy for users to USE. Linux is much sturdier in most sense, but the learning curve is steeper. MS did the smart marketing and made an easy to use system that is "playing catch-up" on security and other "hardcore" features. Linux was for hardcore people and is playing catch-up on ease of use. Which is more popular?? Wii can play catch-up on graphics much easier (I would think) than Xbox and PS3 can play catch-up on playability for the masses. It seems to me no wonder why Wii is doing better at this point.
We all know how the press can get stories wrong, especially technical ones. I am not 100% sure that this isn't a good idea. The press can misquote or take out of context just about anything, so when an engineer says something techincal but is misquoted about how bad things really are it just causes an uproar. No, I haven't RTFA yet, about to, but wanted to get my knee jerk reaction before I do...will post later if my thoughts change after RTFA.
Why does this make sense to everyone??? This is going to be taxpayer subsidized BUSINESS that the public municipalities and governments should be involved in.
Why doesn't anyone wonder why the government doesn't just deregulate the entire industry. The problem is that AT&T (as they seem to be the whipping boy here today) can get an exclusive agreement to operate in a location. Why not just disallow this and open up competition? All those of you who think this is SUCH a great idea...don't you realize that TAXPAYERS are paying for this! If you think regulations about filtering, download limits, etc apply on a service you PAY for then just wait 'til the government receives the bill for the amount of data transferred and complaints about service being slow. They will figure out how to stop P2P and large downloads and anything else that can be considered "the using of too much bandwidth."
Besides that, it IS unfair to ANY business when government enters that market. De-regulation is what should be happening and open up the markets to competition.
The text of Hamlet, even stripped of punctuation, contains well over 130,000 letters which would lead to a probability of one in 3.4×10^183946.
"The probability of Hamlet is therefore zero in any operational sense of an event...", and the statement that the monkeys must eventually succeed "gives a misleading conclusion about very, very large numbers."
I don't know, last I checked, Infinity was bigger than 3.4×10^183946.
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How many of those files are duplicates?
Has everyone forgotten that there is no ONE linux(yes I know they are distributions) to build games for? How much R&D should a game developer spend on making sure that their game works on Ubuntu 7.10 vs 7.04 vs Fedora 2,3,4,5,6,7,8? Not to mention Debian, Slackware and the list goes on. And lets say developers settle on one distro of LInux to build games for. How many elitists are going to poo-poo the idea of them not building for the distribution of gaming choice? And besides, with all the legal crap about this platform and that platform using GPL'd software to make money and having to open source their design, don't you think there would be some concern about having to divulge the source code for their game?
Was simply reading the material what the case is about? I thought they were looking for the people who posted it. How is Google Cache going to help you from getting caught posting the material?
Trademark infringement. Just think all the Europeans who could confuse it with the Wii.
Of course you would, no one on slashdot uses their legs for anything real other than getting up to get another Jolt cola. You can easily create a robot for that purpose, or use the beer throwing robot that student made a couple years ago.
What exactly is the mass of a hole? Besides a donut hole.
Brings a whole new dimension to a blade server.
Once again, I thought Vista was supposed to be a complete re-write of Windows code. How do they manage to keep the same old buggy code from NT 4.0?
I guess rating nanobots in "sperm power" would make more sense than .000000000001 HP, you can just say that little baby (no pun intended) takes 2000 sperm power.
I am surprised that MS doesn't allow you to purchase a Vista license that allows the use of XP if you would rather. I bet then they could really beef up their Vista sales numbers, even if only on paper. Who would be able to say that 75% of users purchased Vista but installed XP instead? Looks like they could "win" the numbers game.
Lets just make the Second 1/31536000 longer. Then no need to adjust all the time.
They act as though we can save the world before dinner when they want something, and call us miserable worthless slacker bastards the next.
Well, even if they dont' expect us to save the world by dinner, they certainly seem to exepect us to do it for $11/hour.
Nuke 'Em High, it was documented in 1986. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090849/
They will be purchased and either absorbed and put into proprietary projects, or shut down by MS.
I would probably rather have someone PAYING ATTENTION but going faster than the speed limit on a highway, than some jackass NOT PAYING ATTENTION, and going over the speed limit anyway, and talking on his cell phone during the whole trip!
they would give me an option to NOT receive Lifetime and Oxygen channels.
First off it says "We the People of the United States of America" NOT "We the People in the United States of America" so the word "of" means it applies to those who make up the united states, not just anyone on standing on our soil.
as a cop you are public protectors, you are to PROTECT AND SERVE even the guy you are arresting based on your interpretation of the law. If any force is exerted you need to be punished HARD if it was inappropriate.
Are you sure? I just saw Transformers and the police car clearly said "To Punish and Enslave" on the side...
I give you kudos on this post...I am currently cleaning my monitor from the Dr Pepper that was just sprayed all over it. That was DAMN FUNNY!
I think some of you have touched upon the success of the Wii and some are missing the mark. Let me give the reasons why we purchased a Wii.
/. I will put this in a slightly different view that I am sure we can all relate to in some sense. I see the analogy of Wii as one like Windows versus Linux. Windows has an interface that is easy for users to USE. Linux is much sturdier in most sense, but the learning curve is steeper. MS did the smart marketing and made an easy to use system that is "playing catch-up" on security and other "hardcore" features. Linux was for hardcore people and is playing catch-up on ease of use. Which is more popular?? Wii can play catch-up on graphics much easier (I would think) than Xbox and PS3 can play catch-up on playability for the masses. It seems to me no wonder why Wii is doing better at this point.
I purchased a Wii for our family in April. I have a 4 year old son that LOVES it. The games we have for it so far are: Wii Sports (default), Wii Play, TMNT for Wii, Transformers, Madden '08.
Let me list a few reasons why WE purchased the Wii:
1 - I saw it as a way for my kid to play games and NOT just sit on his butt all day doing so. So far this has proven fairly true. In the sports games he limits his own play by getting tired and wanting to turn it off by himself. Pretty good self control for a 4 year old if you ask me.
2 - It was cheaper than the others. Plain and simple. I didn't want to spend 400 - 600 dollars for a system for my kid to sit on but all day.
3 - I am NOT a hardcore gamer by any definition (except "owns a gaming console"). I enjoy gaming that I can sit down for 30 minutes, play and be done. Madden 08 is a good way of doing that, other than I get my ass kicked every time I go online...but I hope to get better...eventually.
4 - My freinds and family can come over and play without having to learn 250 different controller combinations to play a game well. So in short we can have fun with it with new people.
Since this is
We all know how the press can get stories wrong, especially technical ones. I am not 100% sure that this isn't a good idea. The press can misquote or take out of context just about anything, so when an engineer says something techincal but is misquoted about how bad things really are it just causes an uproar. No, I haven't RTFA yet, about to, but wanted to get my knee jerk reaction before I do...will post later if my thoughts change after RTFA.
The origin of UFO pictures!
(equivalent) in Windows? The only thing I have found checking the access time on a file is as an alternative to the Now() function.
Why does this make sense to everyone??? This is going to be taxpayer subsidized BUSINESS that the public municipalities and governments should be involved in.
Why doesn't anyone wonder why the government doesn't just deregulate the entire industry. The problem is that AT&T (as they seem to be the whipping boy here today) can get an exclusive agreement to operate in a location. Why not just disallow this and open up competition? All those of you who think this is SUCH a great idea...don't you realize that TAXPAYERS are paying for this! If you think regulations about filtering, download limits, etc apply on a service you PAY for then just wait 'til the government receives the bill for the amount of data transferred and complaints about service being slow. They will figure out how to stop P2P and large downloads and anything else that can be considered "the using of too much bandwidth."
Besides that, it IS unfair to ANY business when government enters that market. De-regulation is what should be happening and open up the markets to competition.
The text of Hamlet, even stripped of punctuation, contains well over 130,000 letters which would lead to a probability of one in 3.4×10^183946.
"The probability of Hamlet is therefore zero in any operational sense of an event...", and the statement that the monkeys must eventually succeed "gives a misleading conclusion about very, very large numbers."
I don't know, last I checked, Infinity was bigger than 3.4×10^183946.