A Macintosh is a juicy delicious Apple. And no, juicy and delicious are not homosexual adjectives.
(Sex) Android is what the Google executive asked for, but he only had software engineers, so a mobile OS was the best they could do.
Windows on the other hand, is a generic name of an OS construct--depending upon if you count the GUI components and the browser as part of the OS. It is like naming a car "Steering Wheel" or an airplane "Wing" or naming a company after the CEO's penis. It's just silly.
For Hollywood, a game is 10% (or less) gameplay, 90% visuals, screw everything else. Is there any surprise they don't go for historical accuracy? It is like being shocked finding out strippers didn't graduate from some Ivy League style dance school.
They ruined movies by turning it into only action / adventure, romantic comedy, or kiddie show as a choice. Now games are mostly FPS crap with some RPG and RTS thrown in for good measure. Historical accuracy is only one small loss in a massive sea of crapulance. It's like they are trying to race to see who can make the next ET sequel.
Like it or not, a good part of gaming is still eye-candy.
When Hollywood took over the gaming industry, they made it about eye-candy. Most gamers cared about game play, but there are not many good game play based offerings anymore, so they don't pay much attention to mainstream games.
Really the current generation of games only concentrate on the visual aspect of the game. Apparently, the game developers don't focus much attention to game mechanics at all, or even debugging the mechanics they do have. For an example, read this comment.
If you have a chopper extraction, and lose a team member, cross a check point (oh did i mention no freaken quick saves?), then die... if you continue playing from the last check point you will never finish the mission, as the chopper won't take off as it waits to check for all the team mates.
So really, the reason you see so many gamers who want high resolution hardcore rendered movies is because they are the ones who are left after all this. The gamers who want real game play have to sift through indie offerings, if they have time. Though sometimes a game developer comes out with something which has decent game play.
This is part of the reason the only gaming device I own is a Nintendo DS. It has low graphics ablities, so for a game to succeed, it has to focus on gameplay. I didn't consciously do this. Even then many of the games suck since many of them are still in the "form is more important than substance" mindset.
...except for puzzle games, but I never really liked games which were exclusively puzzles. Also, I had two strokes (possibly other brain damage), and things which require certain kinds of thought like many puzzle games (and card games) eat up my available CPU time. I don't like turning around to do something and not remembering why I turned around!
Why spend so much effort cracking games? That effort could go to helping out an Open Source project and no one would try to stop you, and you could put in all the features you want.
If that were true, then Nutasshole couldn't be self-righteous. Don't take away the only thing he has!:'-(
I'd like someone to point out exactly where the other poster said he infringed the copyright of games. Doesn't look like it to me... Damn shills everywhere.
What are you talking about? Doesn't OpenOffice run over the X11 Windowing System? Just install it on a server and run it from your X terminal.
I hear X doesn't run well with high latency, but that is Al Gore's problem. It's his job to fix the innernet tubes! If you just can't live with it, I suppose you could try porting OO to PicoGUI.
The television "news" networks only report the "news" they think will attract teenagers and people casually flipping through the channels. The "news"papers now mostly publish articles to attract the crowd who reads tabloids. That's why you see stories such as: "Micheal Jackson's space alien baby gets in high speed ufo chase and blows up Brittney Spear's plastic boob factory."
Anyone looking for real news doesn't bother with those sources anymore.
This is not an excuse for poor education in the US, but you have to realize there is a large population of teenagers and children posting to slashdot. Some are trying to fake people into believing they know what they are talking about. Some of them are the trolls (who else but a 10 year old would thing poop eating jokes were funny.) Then again, some of them seem to be more well behaved and knowledgeable than some adults.
The Internet is the new babysitter, soon to replace the TV.
How much did your iphone cost? Does it run on batteries you can buy anywhere for cheap? According to the website this device runs on AAAs.
This sounds like a great little cheap device. If I can make and load my own articles (the site said something about updating with a flash card), then it could be useful for me. If this is programmable (open source mentioned) and has a touch screen like it appeared (video had someone typing search in a touch-screen keyboard), then it could have all sorts of uses. If you are rich enough to buy an iPhone, then obviously this device is not for you.
What about the inaccuracies which are in Wikipedia when you read it online? What about inaccuracies which are in any source (online, books, or other places)?
What is a reliable source, then? Should they travel to whichever university has the greatest expert on the subject and get an interview? Oh, not enough? So they have to do their own archaeological dig? Oh, but that would be prone to errors. Maybe they need to go back in time to witness the event.
From what I've seen, Wikipedia isn't any less accurate or bias than any dead tree encyclopedia. Anyone who says it isn't good enough for an elementary or high school report is an ass. In fact, for most research, Wikipedia is a decent starting point.
The problem is the cell phone cartel rigs all the phones to be either difficult or impossible for customers to copy their own data. The royals make sure everyone is dependent upon them, and if they screw up or just decide to throw your stuff out, you cannot do much about it. Classic type of problem when doing business with psychopaths...
So you think using questionable tactics to take total control of a market is not a crime? I suppose you would say Standard Oil's tactics of the early 1900s were okay. Perhaps you would say it would be okay for someone's "one true" church to encourage its members to refuse housing to "evil" non-members. If their members own most of the housing, and many people end up homeless (including you), you will just say "that is okay." After all, they are just trying to get more market share!
MaxW has a point. If you look at their strategy, it is apparent MS wants to have an AOL like service instead of the internet. A place where all media has to go through them to get to the masses.
I do not blame them. They are to pay salaries to 100000 employees. In their shoes I would do probably the same.
It is interesting how so many on slashdot justify psychopathic behaviour by saying "well, they did it to make money, so it is okay." Kidnappers, burglars, and robbers all do their crimes for money, so I suppose you would say they are okay?
I usually search for help forums, to see what kind of problems people have with it. You learn where / if it has conflicts, if it has serious problems, if those problems don't matter to you, how hard it is to get working, more or less what kind of experience you could end up with.
Oh how the users of slashdot have forgotten. The entertainment cartel tried to pass much worse. They tried to get laws passed which would require all computers to be DRM controlled.
Not only did they demand a system to keep their files from being copied (at great expense to your computer--they wanted every audio and video input to scan for watermarks. The standards would also require all multimedia hardware (sound cards, video cards, CD/DVD drives) to encrypt everything, so no one could tap into the lines to "steal" any content. They also asked for such features as the ability to erase "pirated"[1] files remotely.
Check out the SSSCA and CBDTPA. Note the euphemism "security" for DRM.
The PC-specific secret coding within "Palladium" that makes stolen files useless on other machines is physically and cryptographically locked within the hardware of the machine.
Palladium was renamed Next Generation Secure Computing Base. It was supposed to go into Longhorn (renamed Vista), but apparently they never got it working properly. Some say this is why Vista is so screwed up.
In fact, I would say the whole reason MS went into the game console business was to test out their DRM ideas so they can incorporate it into mainstream Windows. Game console companies lock down their computers[2] hardcore. It is difficult to run any "unauthorized" programs on their systems, and you risk being arrested for being a "pirate" if you do.
[1] "Pirated" files, meaning any file they don't like.
[2] A game console is just a computer with more emphasis on graphics acceleration and locked down so their manufacturer can charge "royalties" for the privilege of writing programs for their console. Look at the parts in a game console--CPU, GPU, and such. There is no reason you couldn't run a word processor or other programs on it if you were given approval. In fact even the Nintendo DS has a version of the Opera web browser for it.
Easy, just have some cannibal Frankensteins roaming around. The electrified doors will recharge the creatures, and they'll eat the dead bodies, bones and all. Yum. Just don't ask how we keep the zombie tigers in line, who keep the Frankenstein population under control.
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A Macintosh is a juicy delicious Apple. And no, juicy and delicious are not homosexual adjectives.
(Sex) Android is what the Google executive asked for, but he only had software engineers, so a mobile OS was the best they could do.
Windows on the other hand, is a generic name of an OS construct--depending upon if you count the GUI components and the browser as part of the OS. It is like naming a car "Steering Wheel" or an airplane "Wing" or naming a company after the CEO's penis. It's just silly.
Yes, give Ballmer some nuclear chairs! That should do it.
For Hollywood, a game is 10% (or less) gameplay, 90% visuals, screw everything else. Is there any surprise they don't go for historical accuracy? It is like being shocked finding out strippers didn't graduate from some Ivy League style dance school.
They ruined movies by turning it into only action / adventure, romantic comedy, or kiddie show as a choice. Now games are mostly FPS crap with some RPG and RTS thrown in for good measure. Historical accuracy is only one small loss in a massive sea of crapulance. It's like they are trying to race to see who can make the next ET sequel.
When Hollywood took over the gaming industry, they made it about eye-candy. Most gamers cared about game play, but there are not many good game play based offerings anymore, so they don't pay much attention to mainstream games.
Really the current generation of games only concentrate on the visual aspect of the game. Apparently, the game developers don't focus much attention to game mechanics at all, or even debugging the mechanics they do have. For an example, read this comment.
So really, the reason you see so many gamers who want high resolution hardcore rendered movies is because they are the ones who are left after all this. The gamers who want real game play have to sift through indie offerings, if they have time. Though sometimes a game developer comes out with something which has decent game play.
This is part of the reason the only gaming device I own is a Nintendo DS. It has low graphics ablities, so for a game to succeed, it has to focus on gameplay. I didn't consciously do this. Even then many of the games suck since many of them are still in the "form is more important than substance" mindset.
...except for puzzle games, but I never really liked games which were exclusively puzzles. Also, I had two strokes (possibly other brain damage), and things which require certain kinds of thought like many puzzle games (and card games) eat up my available CPU time. I don't like turning around to do something and not remembering why I turned around!
Why spend so much effort cracking games? That effort could go to helping out an Open Source project and no one would try to stop you, and you could put in all the features you want.
If that were true, then Nutasshole couldn't be self-righteous. Don't take away the only thing he has! :'-(
I'd like someone to point out exactly where the other poster said he infringed the copyright of games. Doesn't look like it to me... Damn shills everywhere.
I thought Linus Torvalds was using Minix when he wrote Linux.
What are you talking about? Doesn't OpenOffice run over the X11 Windowing System? Just install it on a server and run it from your X terminal.
I hear X doesn't run well with high latency, but that is Al Gore's problem. It's his job to fix the innernet tubes! If you just can't live with it, I suppose you could try porting OO to PicoGUI.
The television "news" networks only report the "news" they think will attract teenagers and people casually flipping through the channels. The "news"papers now mostly publish articles to attract the crowd who reads tabloids. That's why you see stories such as: "Micheal Jackson's space alien baby gets in high speed ufo chase and blows up Brittney Spear's plastic boob factory."
Anyone looking for real news doesn't bother with those sources anymore.
This is not an excuse for poor education in the US, but you have to realize there is a large population of teenagers and children posting to slashdot. Some are trying to fake people into believing they know what they are talking about. Some of them are the trolls (who else but a 10 year old would thing poop eating jokes were funny.) Then again, some of them seem to be more well behaved and knowledgeable than some adults.
The Internet is the new babysitter, soon to replace the TV.
Street Performer Protocol.
How much did your iphone cost? Does it run on batteries you can buy anywhere for cheap? According to the website this device runs on AAAs.
This sounds like a great little cheap device. If I can make and load my own articles (the site said something about updating with a flash card), then it could be useful for me. If this is programmable (open source mentioned) and has a touch screen like it appeared (video had someone typing search in a touch-screen keyboard), then it could have all sorts of uses. If you are rich enough to buy an iPhone, then obviously this device is not for you.
What about the inaccuracies which are in Wikipedia when you read it online? What about inaccuracies which are in any source (online, books, or other places)?
What is a reliable source, then? Should they travel to whichever university has the greatest expert on the subject and get an interview? Oh, not enough? So they have to do their own archaeological dig? Oh, but that would be prone to errors. Maybe they need to go back in time to witness the event.
From what I've seen, Wikipedia isn't any less accurate or bias than any dead tree encyclopedia. Anyone who says it isn't good enough for an elementary or high school report is an ass. In fact, for most research, Wikipedia is a decent starting point.
The problem is the cell phone cartel rigs all the phones to be either difficult or impossible for customers to copy their own data. The royals make sure everyone is dependent upon them, and if they screw up or just decide to throw your stuff out, you cannot do much about it. Classic type of problem when doing business with psychopaths...
HEY! Bubba not soft, Bubba be hard! Bubba mad. Bubba eat small furry creature now!
So you think using questionable tactics to take total control of a market is not a crime? I suppose you would say Standard Oil's tactics of the early 1900s were okay. Perhaps you would say it would be okay for someone's "one true" church to encourage its members to refuse housing to "evil" non-members. If their members own most of the housing, and many people end up homeless (including you), you will just say "that is okay." After all, they are just trying to get more market share!
MaxW has a point. If you look at their strategy, it is apparent MS wants to have an AOL like service instead of the internet. A place where all media has to go through them to get to the masses.
It is interesting how so many on slashdot justify psychopathic behaviour by saying "well, they did it to make money, so it is okay." Kidnappers, burglars, and robbers all do their crimes for money, so I suppose you would say they are okay?
This is exactly what we need. A way to push the internet into yet another one-way TV service. Maybe it should filter out http POST requests too.
"Using antivirus software is like having sex and getting an AIDS test ten years later."
Didn't I tell you to stop flipping off muscle-bound freaks?
I usually search for help forums, to see what kind of problems people have with it. You learn where / if it has conflicts, if it has serious problems, if those problems don't matter to you, how hard it is to get working, more or less what kind of experience you could end up with.
Oh how the users of slashdot have forgotten. The entertainment cartel tried to pass much worse. They tried to get laws passed which would require all computers to be DRM controlled.
Not only did they demand a system to keep their files from being copied (at great expense to your computer--they wanted every audio and video input to scan for watermarks. The standards would also require all multimedia hardware (sound cards, video cards, CD/DVD drives) to encrypt everything, so no one could tap into the lines to "steal" any content. They also asked for such features as the ability to erase "pirated"[1] files remotely.
Check out the SSSCA and CBDTPA. Note the euphemism "security" for DRM.
Palladium was Microsoft's answer to this. They tried to sell it as protection against viruses and such. Look in the section titled "How does Palladium work?"
Palladium was renamed Next Generation Secure Computing Base. It was supposed to go into Longhorn (renamed Vista), but apparently they never got it working properly. Some say this is why Vista is so screwed up.
In fact, I would say the whole reason MS went into the game console business was to test out their DRM ideas so they can incorporate it into mainstream Windows. Game console companies lock down their computers[2] hardcore. It is difficult to run any "unauthorized" programs on their systems, and you risk being arrested for being a "pirate" if you do.
[1] "Pirated" files, meaning any file they don't like.
[2] A game console is just a computer with more emphasis on graphics acceleration and locked down so their manufacturer can charge "royalties" for the privilege of writing programs for their console. Look at the parts in a game console--CPU, GPU, and such. There is no reason you couldn't run a word processor or other programs on it if you were given approval. In fact even the Nintendo DS has a version of the Opera web browser for it.
Easy, just have some cannibal Frankensteins roaming around. The electrified doors will recharge the creatures, and they'll eat the dead bodies, bones and all. Yum. Just don't ask how we keep the zombie tigers in line, who keep the Frankenstein population under control.