Personally, I would rather have a personally written note without lines of beautiful prose. It comes from the heart that way and not some $1.99 card someone thought was cute. To me, time is the most flattering thing for someone to give. To have someone take a bit of their time to make me feel better is a wonderful feeling.
I mean no disrepect to the writers of Hallmark cards and such, as they're obviously good at what they do. I just feel that if you truly want to get your feelings across, sit down and write it out. I think most people would appreciate that more even if it didn't have any entertaining graphics or creative poems.
And what about those who have the time but don't have any interest in learning the intimate underpinnings of the computer? Some people just want to use a computer, not program it.
All the hardware in the world won't matter for the Squaresoft fans out there. Square has said it will only develop for the PS2 just like it did with the PS1. Personally, if I were to buy a console, I'd get a PS2 just because of that. Square makes very solid games.
There. ART! I'm using the characters and motions of my fingers commonly used in many western dialects. Someone pay attention to me and marvel over my creativity and artistic vision.
Wow.. now THAT is some TRUE karma whoring! Getting not one, but two posts up to +5 with a single joke. You, sir, are a respectable human being. Signal 11 could even learn a thing or 2 from you.
I've wondered that myself for quite some time. The only reason I can think of is to trap users in the site, so they'll spend more time, click on more ads, buy more things, etc. Which, of course, would cause a backlash from hell if anything like this was tried in a brick and mortar store. For some reason, people will accept most anything trampling over them if it deals with computers. Reliability, rights, safety. The public needs to be more demanding of their rights an expectations when it comes to technology.
Hm. Why does the MPAA care if players will play region 0 discs? As long as the region encoding works, the studios can region lock their discs, the home producers can non lock theirs, and everyone will be happy. This just seems like the MPAA simply wants to control everything about DVDs.
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Well, VA gave out a moderately expensive server. Regardless of slashdot's reasons for putting a link there, VA deserves the advertisement. I really hope a simple link doesn't start some bitchfest filled with conspiracy theories.
Fermat's side script amounted to something like "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theory, but this space is not large enough to accomidate it." Hardly a positive for the addition of side comments. He sent generations of mathematicians on a wild goose chase for 400 years before someone (Andrew Wiles) finally figured it out. Even then, the mathematics used weren't even thought of at the time of Fermat, so if he did actually have a proof, it still isn't known.
Fermat's little scribble on the margin of his book was far from informative. Useful, being that it inspired a lot of work in mathematics to be done, but not exactly informative.
I second the hell out of that notion. PT has a very original story line. Very engrossing as well. However, not much replay value after you beat it. The ending is pretty anticlimactic, but the game itself is loads of fun and so are the characters. Overall, a game well worth spending money on.
Yes! "Share" the music of every artist who DARES to have the gall to try to make a living! Keep it up and maybe you'll soon destroy all the artists who want to make music and get paid for the years of labor they put into it. After all, that's what slashdot is about, right? Sticking it to The Man(c) and the utter destruction of capitalism?
If you disagree with a group, write them and tell them. Metallica is against the unauthorized distribution of their music. Doing that right in their faces isn't going to do anything but give them more ammo in the courts. They can now say "hey, we tried to be nice and come to an out-of-court agreement, but obviously people don't care." and can bring in the lawyers and get napster itself shut down. Great work there, tex. We need more brilliants minds like yourself.
So, Jrod5000 at RPI, what do you plan on doing? Staging a bitchfest somewhere on the internet? No one outside of slashdot takes this place seriously. Go out and DO something and stop whining and bitching at your keyboard. If you believe so strongly in this, then get off your ass, go outside, spread the word about the evils of copyright, and make a change.
You just look like an ass when you do nothing but post a complaint to a message board on the web.
...however, how much are they willing to spend on software? As you've seen, napster is wildly popular around here and I'll bet my testicles it isn't just because people can find those wonderful independant artists.
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Personally, I would rather have a personally written note without lines of beautiful prose. It comes from the heart that way and not some $1.99 card someone thought was cute. To me, time is the most flattering thing for someone to give. To have someone take a bit of their time to make me feel better is a wonderful feeling.
I mean no disrepect to the writers of Hallmark cards and such, as they're obviously good at what they do. I just feel that if you truly want to get your feelings across, sit down and write it out. I think most people would appreciate that more even if it didn't have any entertaining graphics or creative poems.
+4, Insightful?
-1, Crock of Shit is more like it.
not anonymous. love me.
And what about those who have the time but don't have any interest in learning the intimate underpinnings of the computer? Some people just want to use a computer, not program it.
If people have sex so easily, why can't I get laid?
All the hardware in the world won't matter for the Squaresoft fans out there. Square has said it will only develop for the PS2 just like it did with the PS1. Personally, if I were to buy a console, I'd get a PS2 just because of that. Square makes very solid games.
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There. ART! I'm using the characters and motions of my fingers commonly used in many western dialects. Someone pay attention to me and marvel over my creativity and artistic vision.
Still, it is a little lame to be copying off of transmeta like that though.
Still, it is a little lame to be competing with another company, though.
Wow.. now THAT is some TRUE karma whoring! Getting not one, but two posts up to +5 with a single joke. You, sir, are a respectable human being. Signal 11 could even learn a thing or 2 from you.
(-1, Overrated)
Is it just me, or is there no moderation in this story? I see no -1s traveling about.
I've wondered that myself for quite some time. The only reason I can think of is to trap users in the site, so they'll spend more time, click on more ads, buy more things, etc. Which, of course, would cause a backlash from hell if anything like this was tried in a brick and mortar store. For some reason, people will accept most anything trampling over them if it deals with computers. Reliability, rights, safety. The public needs to be more demanding of their rights an expectations when it comes to technology.
Careful, it's one of those urls-of-DOOM that's hard to back out of. Open it in a new window.
Hm. Why does the MPAA care if players will play region 0 discs? As long as the region encoding works, the studios can region lock their discs, the home producers can non lock theirs, and everyone will be happy. This just seems like the MPAA simply wants to control everything about DVDs.
Well, VA gave out a moderately expensive server. Regardless of slashdot's reasons for putting a link there, VA deserves the advertisement. I really hope a simple link doesn't start some bitchfest filled with conspiracy theories.
Fermat's side script amounted to something like "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theory, but this space is not large enough to accomidate it." Hardly a positive for the addition of side comments. He sent generations of mathematicians on a wild goose chase for 400 years before someone (Andrew Wiles) finally figured it out. Even then, the mathematics used weren't even thought of at the time of Fermat, so if he did actually have a proof, it still isn't known.
Fermat's little scribble on the margin of his book was far from informative. Useful, being that it inspired a lot of work in mathematics to be done, but not exactly informative.
It's not flamebait if it's true.
I second the hell out of that notion. PT has a very original story line. Very engrossing as well. However, not much replay value after you beat it. The ending is pretty anticlimactic, but the game itself is loads of fun and so are the characters. Overall, a game well worth spending money on.
Yes! "Share" the music of every artist who DARES to have the gall to try to make a living! Keep it up and maybe you'll soon destroy all the artists who want to make music and get paid for the years of labor they put into it. After all, that's what slashdot is about, right? Sticking it to The Man(c) and the utter destruction of capitalism?
If you disagree with a group, write them and tell them. Metallica is against the unauthorized distribution of their music. Doing that right in their faces isn't going to do anything but give them more ammo in the courts. They can now say "hey, we tried to be nice and come to an out-of-court agreement, but obviously people don't care." and can bring in the lawyers and get napster itself shut down. Great work there, tex. We need more brilliants minds like yourself.
So, Jrod5000 at RPI, what do you plan on doing? Staging a bitchfest somewhere on the internet? No one outside of slashdot takes this place seriously. Go out and DO something and stop whining and bitching at your keyboard. If you believe so strongly in this, then get off your ass, go outside, spread the word about the evils of copyright, and make a change.
You just look like an ass when you do nothing but post a complaint to a message board on the web.
I will personally ejaculate the day slashdot posts a story with no blinding errors.
...however, how much are they willing to spend on software? As you've seen, napster is wildly popular around here and I'll bet my testicles it isn't just because people can find those wonderful independant artists.
I think it all would be pretty funny though.
Mom isn't watching right now, timmy. You can use bad words.
Use NT to render him. That should make him plenty wobbly. :)
So, tell me.. what did the "open source community" do to keep intel honest?
Here's a mirror of the article..
Open source rocks. Closed source sucks. Any other argument is mere bigotry and ignorance.