Blah. I really do miss the old style 2d hand drawn games like the old Sierra games. 3d characters have no life to them. The engine and processor arne't powerful enough to do anything close to the kind of comical, zany reactions that 2d characters can. I saw Monkey Island 4 mentioned and I instantly got a hard on, but the 3d engine just ruins the game for me.
I wish, for once, that companies would do what's right for the right reasons rather than what's for the immediate good of their stock holders.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, if the majority of a company's stockholders don't like what's going on, they can fire the people in charge and put in someone who will look out for the immediate (and long term) good of the stock holders. There isn't a lot of room for idealism and business to share the same area.
Well, Jakob Grimm is a much cooler name than Jon Katz. That name will carry you until around 35, then you'll have to find something else to make yourself look cool.
The problem with turning specific topics off is that you then see NO news about that topic. Even something very important. Wouldn't a better solution be to not post trivial articles? "Microsoft Employee Spells Linux Incorrectly!" isn't really a worthy article to take up space on the front page. "Microsoft Employee Guns down Linus" would be.
Exactly my sentiments. It seems that the most important news (ie companies routing others into/dev/null) is spread around in the comments in articles. Those comments are, of course, moderated immediately to -1 by the moderation militia. A while ago when the tech stocks started dying off, it was only mentioned after weeks of complaining by the readers. Rob said it as off topic and uninteresting. Techs losing their jobs and half of their personal wealth is off topic and uninteresting?
Jon Katz. Why? He's proven himself to be completely disconnected from what he writes about, his articles are mindless drivel, and he annoys half the crowd. Isn't this a place for nerds, not for men around 30 trying to look hip?
Why isn't slashdot more responsive to the readership? How long have people been asking to be able to moderate the submission queue or even simply view the rejects? Does Andover want to keep some things out of the public spotlight?
Not to mention that half the news that gets posted (between the release announcements of Jayueiima Queeheez Gold Edition Volume 3 and such) is so late these days? Before, slashdot would be on the scene before most of the big organizations.
Yes, I could stop reading slashdot and go elsewhere, but I'd rather see slashdot go back more how it was in the old days. I've been reading slashdot for 2 years now and I don't want to see it go down like this.
Money certainly isn't everything nor can money buy everything. However, money certainly is the issue when dealing with human produced items/content. People aren't going to spend 40+ hours of their week for free. Like it or not, people have to make money to live in the world as it is. I'd like it as much as anyone else of money and all its evils were no longer necessary, but things simply didn't work out that way.
Alright, Tex. When you start paying for the services that you use every day on the web, then you can bitch and moan about having to view ads. Surely you don't think that running a server, having it hosted, and paying for content production is free. Should Yahoo, which is paying untold millions every year on hosting, suddenly drop all advertising? I'm sure they would if you would simply cough up the money so that they can still exist and make a profit. Until everyone starts paying for the services they use, people need to just shut up and count themselves lucky that they get all this great content for the price of viewing ads.
Hmm. Emulation. That's one I hadn't thought of, and it's a damn good idea. One thing about emulation is that it requires intimate knowledge of the system being emulated and any tamperproof equipment will be engineered specifically to prevent being looked into. Look how long it has taken to get to the state of emulation on the simple SNES. The SNES, although not well documented (and it some parts, not at all), wasn't made for the specific purpose of keeping itself closed. A black box that is built to keep anyone and everyone away from its internals would be fantastically harder to correctly emulate. The 'thousands of eyeballs' of open source wouldn't help much either. What is needed is not a large number of developers, but a few developers who specialize in the field.
Just because a few people pirate mp3s doesn't mean the RIAA will just lay down and admit defeat. They're going to do everything in their power to keep control of the music they publish.
However, if it can be held in an encrypted form until it is ultimately transfered to an analog signal, any reencoding would degrade the quality of the music. If the degradation is servere enough, then it will be worth it for most people to just buy the music in the encrypted form rather than deal with subquality encodings.
For instance, what could be done if the decrypting is done inside the speakers themselves? Capturing the digital signal before it reaches the speaker would be useless if the encryption algorithm is strong enough. Holding a microphone near the speaker wouldn't be an acceptable option as it would degrade the sound quality too much. And if the tamperproof hardware inside the speaker is well made, then it would be, for all practical purposes, impossible for the vast majority of people to intercept the digital decrypted signal.
Whether or not this is feasible or not is a whole other issue.
1. I don't have to agree that anyone is smarter than I. I may think the man is a complete fool.
2. I'm no one's god and my opinion shouldn't be taken just because of who I am. The same goes for everyone else.
I'm just a bit tired of reading so many people blindly repeat the "x is supporting linux. x is grandly intelligent." mantra. Each action/entity should be considered on its own merits, not just if it supports your personal position. Maybe the adobe guy makes a few good points or maybe he's a spineless corporate monkey. No one will know if they don't read beyond the second line.
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Blah. I really do miss the old style 2d hand drawn games like the old Sierra games. 3d characters have no life to them. The engine and processor arne't powerful enough to do anything close to the kind of comical, zany reactions that 2d characters can. I saw Monkey Island 4 mentioned and I instantly got a hard on, but the 3d engine just ruins the game for me.
I wish, for once, that companies would do what's right for the right reasons rather than what's for the immediate good of their stock holders.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, if the majority of a company's stockholders don't like what's going on, they can fire the people in charge and put in someone who will look out for the immediate (and long term) good of the stock holders. There isn't a lot of room for idealism and business to share the same area.
Didn't he get his medals back after he died? The olympic committee isn't all THAT bad.. er.. yea. They're dicks.
You know you're one cool son of a bitch when new rules are named after you. Damn, I respect that fruity brit.
I prefer doing that in suburbian schools. Maybe it's just me though.
What about us poor folk with sub +1 bonus karma? Do the normal folks still have variable karma?
Who the hell mentioned microsoft? Jesus. Slashdotters will go to any stretch to try to bash microsoft. At least do so when it's on topic.
Well, Jakob Grimm is a much cooler name than Jon Katz. That name will carry you until around 35, then you'll have to find something else to make yourself look cool.
The problem with turning specific topics off is that you then see NO news about that topic. Even something very important. Wouldn't a better solution be to not post trivial articles? "Microsoft Employee Spells Linux Incorrectly!" isn't really a worthy article to take up space on the front page. "Microsoft Employee Guns down Linus" would be.
Exactly my sentiments. It seems that the most important news (ie companies routing others into /dev/null) is spread around in the comments in articles. Those comments are, of course, moderated immediately to -1 by the moderation militia. A while ago when the tech stocks started dying off, it was only mentioned after weeks of complaining by the readers. Rob said it as off topic and uninteresting. Techs losing their jobs and half of their personal wealth is off topic and uninteresting?
Jon Katz. Why? He's proven himself to be completely disconnected from what he writes about, his articles are mindless drivel, and he annoys half the crowd. Isn't this a place for nerds, not for men around 30 trying to look hip?
Why isn't slashdot more responsive to the readership? How long have people been asking to be able to moderate the submission queue or even simply view the rejects? Does Andover want to keep some things out of the public spotlight?
Not to mention that half the news that gets posted (between the release announcements of Jayueiima Queeheez Gold Edition Volume 3 and such) is so late these days? Before, slashdot would be on the scene before most of the big organizations.
Yes, I could stop reading slashdot and go elsewhere, but I'd rather see slashdot go back more how it was in the old days. I've been reading slashdot for 2 years now and I don't want to see it go down like this.
Suck my mother.
..just think of all the actual news that doesn't get posted because the front page space is taken up by things like this. Boggles the mind.
aFUCKINGmen! Tell it how it is, preach!
not the first person to think this article sucks. leave anime to cartoon sites. leave linux bigotism to slashdot.
Money certainly isn't everything nor can money buy everything. However, money certainly is the issue when dealing with human produced items/content. People aren't going to spend 40+ hours of their week for free. Like it or not, people have to make money to live in the world as it is. I'd like it as much as anyone else of money and all its evils were no longer necessary, but things simply didn't work out that way.
Alright, Tex. When you start paying for the services that you use every day on the web, then you can bitch and moan about having to view ads. Surely you don't think that running a server, having it hosted, and paying for content production is free. Should Yahoo, which is paying untold millions every year on hosting, suddenly drop all advertising? I'm sure they would if you would simply cough up the money so that they can still exist and make a profit. Until everyone starts paying for the services they use, people need to just shut up and count themselves lucky that they get all this great content for the price of viewing ads.
My GOD man. That was the most insightful thing I've read in years. Too bad it wasn't posted in a place that more people would read.
Hmm. Emulation. That's one I hadn't thought of, and it's a damn good idea. One thing about emulation is that it requires intimate knowledge of the system being emulated and any tamperproof equipment will be engineered specifically to prevent being looked into. Look how long it has taken to get to the state of emulation on the simple SNES. The SNES, although not well documented (and it some parts, not at all), wasn't made for the specific purpose of keeping itself closed. A black box that is built to keep anyone and everyone away from its internals would be fantastically harder to correctly emulate. The 'thousands of eyeballs' of open source wouldn't help much either. What is needed is not a large number of developers, but a few developers who specialize in the field.
Just because a few people pirate mp3s doesn't mean the RIAA will just lay down and admit defeat. They're going to do everything in their power to keep control of the music they publish.
I believe you, AC. I certainly do.
However, if it can be held in an encrypted form until it is ultimately transfered to an analog signal, any reencoding would degrade the quality of the music. If the degradation is servere enough, then it will be worth it for most people to just buy the music in the encrypted form rather than deal with subquality encodings.
For instance, what could be done if the decrypting is done inside the speakers themselves? Capturing the digital signal before it reaches the speaker would be useless if the encryption algorithm is strong enough. Holding a microphone near the speaker wouldn't be an acceptable option as it would degrade the sound quality too much. And if the tamperproof hardware inside the speaker is well made, then it would be, for all practical purposes, impossible for the vast majority of people to intercept the digital decrypted signal.
Whether or not this is feasible or not is a whole other issue.
It was terribly expensive and a bitch to get. If you count that as "opening the psx," then yes.
Use the power of open source to fix it.
Why are you dumping on microsoft for not innovating when you blatantly rip off a tired old phrase from other people?
Samba isn't a protocol. SMB is a protocol of which Samba is an implimentation.
1. I don't have to agree that anyone is smarter than I. I may think the man is a complete fool.
2. I'm no one's god and my opinion shouldn't be taken just because of who I am. The same goes for everyone else.
I'm just a bit tired of reading so many people blindly repeat the "x is supporting linux. x is grandly intelligent." mantra. Each action/entity should be considered on its own merits, not just if it supports your personal position. Maybe the adobe guy makes a few good points or maybe he's a spineless corporate monkey. No one will know if they don't read beyond the second line.