Maybe I'm being a little arty, but what I like so much about my polaroid and 35mm cameras is the limited amount of pictures I can take. Not only can I take a picture whenever I want (without having to wait for my digicam to boot up and focus), I have to decide whether it's worth one of my 10 polaroids per 15 dollar pack. I'll take my digicam to a tourist spot, sure, but if I'm going to the park I'm packing analog.
I'm sure it was just there for theatrical effect, but now all the sudden "distributing duplicates of a program that can't be considered actual property and thus can't be stolen" (the usual/. argument) is STEALING?
I've also been dabbling around in electronics lately, but I would rather mess around with microcontrollers n'shit! These books are all great basic stuff, but I really want to run before I can walk.
I don't suppose anyone has a "basic robotics" book suggestion that's anything more than a line following wheeled contraption?
Actually, I'm quite a big fan of SHMUPS, verticle scrolling in particular. Most modern ones allow for the option to rotate the whole screen
So dust off a gamepad and set your laptop up on its side, and bam- instant gaming goodness!
is that why the majority of HD torrents all came from cracked HD-DVDs, and soon from Blurays?
You can complain all you want about wanting to play your hd movies on linux, but the simple fact is that BD+ has kept blurays off torrent sites where people are certainly NOT "backing up," and that's the point of DRM, no matter how you would like to pretend they want to steal rights from the customer, it has always been about preventing people from just stealing the movie.
This has been bugging me for a bit, so I'm just going to get it off my chest, probably get modded flamebait or offtopic too
Everyone on the site seems concerned with privacy, doesn't it make you all incredible hipocrites to say that businesses and government aren't entitled to that too? It's not that I'm for govt spying or companies ravaging consumers, but just saying it's a bit hippocritical to have a wikileaks story frontpage every day after preaching about privacy.
I just can't figure out the issue. Windows ships with IE, OSX ships with Safari. Because more people use Windows, Microsoft should remove its first party program and OSX shouldn't?
I know what the real crying is about, and can sympathize that third party solitaire and redundant media players have no market, but I don't want to pay for a stripped down OS.
"7) Back to Performance - Flash is a dog on non-Windows OSes. "
It's a dog on windows os's too, xp or vista. Why is it my computer should have trouble with its core duo, when all it is doing is playing some derivitive tower defense game with a lot of particles. Flash makes the SNES look like a powerhouse.
Is anyone else getting sick of these "x TO x" stories?
My problem is not the story format itsself, as much as it is the title insisting something will happen, while the article is just speculating and rarely fact. Microsoft To Buy Yahoo. Yeah- that happened. (yeah, it was a real story, but "Microsoft Makes Yahoo an Offer" would be more accurate.)
As for the article, as an unfortunate HD-DVD player owner I look forward to the soon-to-be clearance titles I will be adding to my library.
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Maybe I'm being a little arty, but what I like so much about my polaroid and 35mm cameras is the limited amount of pictures I can take. Not only can I take a picture whenever I want (without having to wait for my digicam to boot up and focus), I have to decide whether it's worth one of my 10 polaroids per 15 dollar pack. I'll take my digicam to a tourist spot, sure, but if I'm going to the park I'm packing analog.
You're that much of a security nut that you won't open up the ports for steam? Might as well just shut down all http access while you're at it.
I'm sure it was just there for theatrical effect, but now all the sudden "distributing duplicates of a program that can't be considered actual property and thus can't be stolen" (the usual /. argument) is STEALING?
I'm looking over at my PS3 games, and they all have a little region 1 logo on them??
yeah, because having internet access is an inconvenience!
Too bad that even with current in-game advertising game costs still havn't gone down, thanks to game development costs rising.
Then only the outlaws will have cameras.
(and unless it involves steampunk I doubt Doctrow cares)
Sheeple? So let me get this right.. 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB?
what just happened, why is this in my rss, where am I?
I've also been dabbling around in electronics lately, but I would rather mess around with microcontrollers n'shit! These books are all great basic stuff, but I really want to run before I can walk. I don't suppose anyone has a "basic robotics" book suggestion that's anything more than a line following wheeled contraption?
Actually, I'm quite a big fan of SHMUPS, verticle scrolling in particular. Most modern ones allow for the option to rotate the whole screen So dust off a gamepad and set your laptop up on its side, and bam- instant gaming goodness!
Now could they just decide on 16:9 or 16:10?
"also new in firefox 4, speed dial"
Well, they might as well since Opera is all firefox is aspiring to be. Also: Didn't IE blur the lines of what a browser is a long time ago?
Hmmmm...
For a while now gamers have been complaining that in-game ads don't offset the cost of the game
So I don't get it, ad's have offset sony PC prices, and we're complaining about it?
is that why the majority of HD torrents all came from cracked HD-DVDs, and soon from Blurays?
You can complain all you want about wanting to play your hd movies on linux, but the simple fact is that BD+ has kept blurays off torrent sites where people are certainly NOT "backing up," and that's the point of DRM, no matter how you would like to pretend they want to steal rights from the customer, it has always been about preventing people from just stealing the movie.
How many starbucks do you think they'll end up raiding?
But quick poll:
Besides this one, have you ever actually been polled in the real world? Like a hardcore poll that ends up on CNN and stuff.
I can safely say that I don't know a single person who has been, and thus take every poll I see with a large grain of salt.
This has been bugging me for a bit, so I'm just going to get it off my chest, probably get modded flamebait or offtopic too
Everyone on the site seems concerned with privacy, doesn't it make you all incredible hipocrites to say that businesses and government aren't entitled to that too? It's not that I'm for govt spying or companies ravaging consumers, but just saying it's a bit hippocritical to have a wikileaks story frontpage every day after preaching about privacy.
I just can't figure out the issue. Windows ships with IE, OSX ships with Safari. Because more people use Windows, Microsoft should remove its first party program and OSX shouldn't?
I know what the real crying is about, and can sympathize that third party solitaire and redundant media players have no market, but I don't want to pay for a stripped down OS.
"7) Back to Performance - Flash is a dog on non-Windows OSes. "
It's a dog on windows os's too, xp or vista. Why is it my computer should have trouble with its core duo, when all it is doing is playing some derivitive tower defense game with a lot of particles. Flash makes the SNES look like a powerhouse.
and I just saw Brazil for the first time yesterday
Since I actually had to google "RMS" does it mean I must delete my /. account?
Why do you people continue to let the loudmouths at the piratbay represent torrenters? It's not even remotely the best tracker out there.
Is anyone else getting sick of these "x TO x" stories?
My problem is not the story format itsself, as much as it is the title insisting something will happen, while the article is just speculating and rarely fact. Microsoft To Buy Yahoo. Yeah- that happened. (yeah, it was a real story, but "Microsoft Makes Yahoo an Offer" would be more accurate.)
As for the article, as an unfortunate HD-DVD player owner I look forward to the soon-to-be clearance titles I will be adding to my library.