You don't need it. It's just meant to be funny in light of recent events re: AACS key, particularly because you don't own the copyright to the poem. You pretty much don't own anything and yet can stop people from distributing a number.
What people need to realize is that the biggest allure of gaming consoles vs. pc's is that all you have to do is put in the disc (or cartridge, or whatever) and plug it in to the tv, flip the power switch, and the game is running. There's no installing, no dependencies, it always works, and very few game systems crash very rarely. That's why one company needs to get some initiative and build an open source minimum live-cd OS that all (or most) future computer games can be built for -- just restart your computer with the disk in and it'll boot up into the game instead of having the whole OS hassle with installing things and running it inside the window manager and what not. Consoles are becoming more and more like little computers -- they have hard drives and everything. The main differences are a) they plug into your tv and b) they don't have complicated operating systems that need to be dealt with in order to make games work. A) can be solved with either bigger, cheaper monitors or a simple cable for your computer to your tv. That's not the main problem. B) is more difficult -- in order to solve that, someone needs to build a livecd OS base that future games can be built to run on so that you can play games (and even install/save things on your hard drive) without dealing with your big, memory-using OS.
--Nick Gottlieb
One hundred cups of coffee doesn't kill you! Doesn't anyone here watch futurama? Obviously, one hundred cups of coffee merely allows you to move so fast (once you reach exactly 100) that it is as if time is nearly stopped and you can move at a normal rate. Everyone go see the Futurama episode where president Nixon gives out a $300 tax rebate and Fry buys (and drinks) 100 cups of coffee. There's no dying involved.
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You don't need it. It's just meant to be funny in light of recent events re: AACS key, particularly because you don't own the copyright to the poem. You pretty much don't own anything and yet can stop people from distributing a number.
I sent a DMCA notification letter to digg.com to get them to remove a posting of my number. Let's see who they side with this time.
What people need to realize is that the biggest allure of gaming consoles vs. pc's is that all you have to do is put in the disc (or cartridge, or whatever) and plug it in to the tv, flip the power switch, and the game is running. There's no installing, no dependencies, it always works, and very few game systems crash very rarely. That's why one company needs to get some initiative and build an open source minimum live-cd OS that all (or most) future computer games can be built for -- just restart your computer with the disk in and it'll boot up into the game instead of having the whole OS hassle with installing things and running it inside the window manager and what not. Consoles are becoming more and more like little computers -- they have hard drives and everything. The main differences are a) they plug into your tv and b) they don't have complicated operating systems that need to be dealt with in order to make games work. A) can be solved with either bigger, cheaper monitors or a simple cable for your computer to your tv. That's not the main problem. B) is more difficult -- in order to solve that, someone needs to build a livecd OS base that future games can be built to run on so that you can play games (and even install/save things on your hard drive) without dealing with your big, memory-using OS. --Nick Gottlieb
One hundred cups of coffee doesn't kill you! Doesn't anyone here watch futurama? Obviously, one hundred cups of coffee merely allows you to move so fast (once you reach exactly 100) that it is as if time is nearly stopped and you can move at a normal rate. Everyone go see the Futurama episode where president Nixon gives out a $300 tax rebate and Fry buys (and drinks) 100 cups of coffee. There's no dying involved.