Programmers have been using this method for years. It's called Beta testing.
A page gets edited, new page is tagged 'beta', registered users check the page to make sure its clean and tag it 'stable' where it is then released to the rest of the world.
The fact that anyone can become a registered user makes this open-source, so the slashdot community should be behind it 100%!!
Laptops for kids is a great idea. It teaches them computer skills that are becomming required in the every day work place.
Laptops inside the classroom are a BAD idea for the younger ages because they are not mature enough.
When I was in K-12 I hated school as many kids did. If you give a kid who doesn't want to be in class a laptop then he/she will use that portal to distract them from school and use it as a tool for entertainment rather than a tool for learning.
Don't believe me? Just think back to math class and how much time people wasted messing around with their graphing calculators.. Imagine that multiplied by 100.
if you give private information to AOL and they release it publicly then you can get upset
if you post private information on "check-out-my-ssn.com" and its public to the whole world then you can't get mad.
How many times have you searched for your own name, just to see if anyone famous/rich has the same name.. or to see what kind of info about you is available.. now your name is in there with your search history!!
and like the time I searched for my phone number, and social security number, and license plate number, and my street address... all that info is saved in there with my search history too!!
Barbie dolls are now Adult Only toys, to be sold only in adult sex shops due to the fact that they have built-in nudity, and by modifying the doll (taking the clothes off) you can reveal said nudity which is not only unrealistic but exagerated for the purpose of sexual attraction (bigger tits)
But what if I want to turn the camera down to show the viewer what my new puppy is doing on the floor, will I need to slide the monitor to the edge of the desk and point it downward?
the 750 GB hd is really only about 700 GB due to the manufacturers counting 1,000 instead of 1,024..
Anyway, lets look at how much space that really is, and how easy it is to fill up.
DVD Movies range from 4gb to 9gb depending on film length and extras, lets settle on an easy middle number, 7GB average.
That is around 100 DVD's you could store on your hard drive (My room mate owns over 150 DVDs, so while it might be a large number to some, it is not so large to others)
That is not including TV series, if someone were to store 1 season of the show 24 on their media center pc it would take 45GB of space.
Also concider that HD movies are going to be around 30GB each
Video games are getting increasingly large, Recent games like
The Godfather (4.5gb installed)
LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth II (5gb installed)
TES: Oblivion (6.3gb installed)
World of Warcraft (5.3gb installed)
Tomg Raider: Legends ( 7.3gb installed)
Games are only going to get larger too.
This is not even counting people who dabble with video editing or anything like that, work-wise that consumes monsterous ammounts of HD space..
EA belongs under "can do no right"
They constantly suck up small companies that used to make AWESOME games, take over the popular franchises and drop them down the toilet with a hefy load of diareah.
Are there ANY good EA games except maybe some of their console sports games?
Being able to do what you're "not supposed to do".
Ever since the first TES game, Arena, I've loved this aspect and looked for it in other games.. If I wanted to, I could kill a guard and the game actually planned for that sort of thing.. I didn't instantly lose, the guard didn't kill me by looking at him, I was able to loot his body and the towns affection for me dropped... If I talked to a quest giver and realized that the quest was a sham (he was a guilty thief and was trying to frame someone else get me to kill them or something like that) I could kill him on the spot and achieve the goal without having to go through the story.. likewise I could kill a legitimate quest giver and never be able to recieve the award.
I've often looked for that kind of aspect in all the games I play. I'll go to do something "I'm not supposed to" just because it seems like it would be fun, only to find that the developers had taken the extra step and planned for that sort of reaction and gave you a result you wern't expecting.
Eastern RPGS don't have any room for that sort of open gameplay... you follow the story and if you don't then you're staring at a brick wall.
Theaters used to be a fuller more satisfying experience, but nowadays unless a theater is brand spanking new then it is likely that the audio equipment is 10+ years old.
Not only does the audio equipment suffer from degredation but how old was the technology when they first purchased it? It is likely that many entertainment enthusiests have BETTER audio systems at their home (albeit smaller) that reproduce the sound much more acurately.
How about the video also? This is the age of high def. I would rather watch a high def movie on a 50" screen than a regular def movie on a 200 foot projection..
If theaters want to attract people back then they need to do it with what they originally did it with.. by wowing the customers with technology that is not readily available in homes.. plus they need to make their popcorn and soda cheaper..
The appeal to watch a sports game on a huge screen is very appealing.
The appeal to watch sports in 3d is nonexistant.
When people get together to watch a game they are always cheering booing, having fun, being noisy.. This is what you would find at a sports bar where it is acceptable.
I can't imagine this going over very well inside a theater where you are confined to your small seat.. the atmosphere is a lot different and I can see a lot of people getting annoyed at other people for being loud.
Exactly what kind of a website is this, if it is just an informational website about the company than it prolly could have been elegantly done in the time it took the poster to type up this cry baby post.
The article was pretty vague, but to suggest that one day people will just be able to move their character from game world to game world is absurd.
Aside from obvious "What is a hobbit doing on the deathstar" problem, gamers would never go for it.
one of the best aspects of a new mmo is that it is new, not just new to me but new period. I'm starting out fresh just like the world is, just like everyone else.. The "level race" starts over, I have the option to be a pioneer in the game.
By simply moving a character from place to place this eliminates the fresh new feel of a new mmo.
Although this certainly seems like some stupid gimmick Sony would try, "Transfer your EQ1 character to EQ2 for only $59.99!!!"
High-Def Blueray movie: $35.
Writable Blueray disc: $45.
At these prices you're losing money to priate a high def movie, seems like pretty good DRM to me!
or you could download a cracked game.exe (usually released by a group as quick as the day the game comes out) and forget that the game ever had copyright protection
Their point of saying it was undetectable to human ears was to say that it will not interupt a users listening experience with abnormalities. NOT to say that it was undetectable and uncircumventable.
Don't buy any music, online or off, just pirate it all.. that way if any of your music finds its way to p2p, it isn't "your" music and the RIAA won't go after you, just whoever you got it from..
Slashdot Mirror
The hacked pirated version is looking more appealing the more I read about vista
Programmers have been using this method for years. It's called Beta testing.
A page gets edited, new page is tagged 'beta', registered users check the page to make sure its clean and tag it 'stable' where it is then released to the rest of the world.
The fact that anyone can become a registered user makes this open-source, so the slashdot community should be behind it 100%!!
Laptops for kids is a great idea. It teaches them computer skills that are becomming required in the every day work place.
Laptops inside the classroom are a BAD idea for the younger ages because they are not mature enough.
When I was in K-12 I hated school as many kids did. If you give a kid who doesn't want to be in class a laptop then he/she will use that portal to distract them from school and use it as a tool for entertainment rather than a tool for learning.
Don't believe me? Just think back to math class and how much time people wasted messing around with their graphing calculators.. Imagine that multiplied by 100.
why do people make such god awful analogies?
if you give private information to AOL and they release it publicly then you can get upset
if you post private information on "check-out-my-ssn.com" and its public to the whole world then you can't get mad.
In late breaking news, Apple sues the band P.O.D. because the initials spell out the word pod.
Apple lawyers are also looking into suing farmers for growing "peas in a pod" and are rallying to get them to change the name to "peas in a blanket"
How many times have you searched for your own name, just to see if anyone famous/rich has the same name.. or to see what kind of info about you is available.. now your name is in there with your search history!!
and like the time I searched for my phone number, and social security number, and license plate number, and my street address... all that info is saved in there with my search history too!!
"But a 1920x1200 resolution often creates legibility problems for some users resulting from the tiny size of the default Windows font."
a 1920x1200 resolution produces the same scale of images and text as a 1600x1200 resolution, you just gain extra space on the sides.
First off, Mac users ... tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer
Pardon me while I L-O-L over here in the corner
Barbie dolls are now Adult Only toys, to be sold only in adult sex shops due to the fact that they have built-in nudity, and by modifying the doll (taking the clothes off) you can reveal said nudity which is not only unrealistic but exagerated for the purpose of sexual attraction (bigger tits)
There is something enigmatic about the character Kane that just makes the whole C&C series what it is, and what Generals was not.
Not only did Joseph D. Kucan do great acting for the games but he also directed them.
My Hero!
But what if I want to turn the camera down to show the viewer what my new puppy is doing on the floor, will I need to slide the monitor to the edge of the desk and point it downward?
the 750 GB hd is really only about 700 GB due to the manufacturers counting 1,000 instead of 1,024..
Anyway, lets look at how much space that really is, and how easy it is to fill up.
DVD Movies range from 4gb to 9gb depending on film length and extras, lets settle on an easy middle number, 7GB average.
That is around 100 DVD's you could store on your hard drive (My room mate owns over 150 DVDs, so while it might be a large number to some, it is not so large to others)
That is not including TV series, if someone were to store 1 season of the show 24 on their media center pc it would take 45GB of space.
Also concider that HD movies are going to be around 30GB each
Video games are getting increasingly large, Recent games like
The Godfather (4.5gb installed)
LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth II (5gb installed)
TES: Oblivion (6.3gb installed)
World of Warcraft (5.3gb installed)
Tomg Raider: Legends ( 7.3gb installed)
Games are only going to get larger too.
This is not even counting people who dabble with video editing or anything like that, work-wise that consumes monsterous ammounts of HD space..
EA belongs under "can do no right" They constantly suck up small companies that used to make AWESOME games, take over the popular franchises and drop them down the toilet with a hefy load of diareah. Are there ANY good EA games except maybe some of their console sports games?
Being able to do what you're "not supposed to do". Ever since the first TES game, Arena, I've loved this aspect and looked for it in other games.. If I wanted to, I could kill a guard and the game actually planned for that sort of thing.. I didn't instantly lose, the guard didn't kill me by looking at him, I was able to loot his body and the towns affection for me dropped... If I talked to a quest giver and realized that the quest was a sham (he was a guilty thief and was trying to frame someone else get me to kill them or something like that) I could kill him on the spot and achieve the goal without having to go through the story.. likewise I could kill a legitimate quest giver and never be able to recieve the award. I've often looked for that kind of aspect in all the games I play. I'll go to do something "I'm not supposed to" just because it seems like it would be fun, only to find that the developers had taken the extra step and planned for that sort of reaction and gave you a result you wern't expecting. Eastern RPGS don't have any room for that sort of open gameplay... you follow the story and if you don't then you're staring at a brick wall.
Theaters used to be a fuller more satisfying experience, but nowadays unless a theater is brand spanking new then it is likely that the audio equipment is 10+ years old. Not only does the audio equipment suffer from degredation but how old was the technology when they first purchased it? It is likely that many entertainment enthusiests have BETTER audio systems at their home (albeit smaller) that reproduce the sound much more acurately. How about the video also? This is the age of high def. I would rather watch a high def movie on a 50" screen than a regular def movie on a 200 foot projection.. If theaters want to attract people back then they need to do it with what they originally did it with.. by wowing the customers with technology that is not readily available in homes.. plus they need to make their popcorn and soda cheaper..
The appeal to watch a sports game on a huge screen is very appealing.
The appeal to watch sports in 3d is nonexistant.
When people get together to watch a game they are always cheering booing, having fun, being noisy.. This is what you would find at a sports bar where it is acceptable.
I can't imagine this going over very well inside a theater where you are confined to your small seat.. the atmosphere is a lot different and I can see a lot of people getting annoyed at other people for being loud.
Exactly what kind of a website is this, if it is just an informational website about the company than it prolly could have been elegantly done in the time it took the poster to type up this cry baby post.
The article was pretty vague, but to suggest that one day people will just be able to move their character from game world to game world is absurd.
Aside from obvious "What is a hobbit doing on the deathstar" problem, gamers would never go for it.
one of the best aspects of a new mmo is that it is new, not just new to me but new period. I'm starting out fresh just like the world is, just like everyone else.. The "level race" starts over, I have the option to be a pioneer in the game.
By simply moving a character from place to place this eliminates the fresh new feel of a new mmo.
Although this certainly seems like some stupid gimmick Sony would try, "Transfer your EQ1 character to EQ2 for only $59.99!!!"
"NASA is reporting that two years into its 90-day mission"
Talk about overtime, you think the rover gets time and a half now?
High-Def Blueray movie: $35. Writable Blueray disc: $45. At these prices you're losing money to priate a high def movie, seems like pretty good DRM to me!
or you could download a cracked game.exe (usually released by a group as quick as the day the game comes out) and forget that the game ever had copyright protection
How many of those downloads were never even completed due to the user canceling the download or getting disconnected
that ValhallaHank has to find a new nickname?
Their point of saying it was undetectable to human ears was to say that it will not interupt a users listening experience with abnormalities. NOT to say that it was undetectable and uncircumventable.
Don't buy any music, online or off, just pirate it all.. that way if any of your music finds its way to p2p, it isn't "your" music and the RIAA won't go after you, just whoever you got it from..