As an English person living in England, can I please request everyone stops calling Imperial 'the English system'? We use Metric nowadays! A4 all the way, baby!
It's all worth mentioning there's to more flash mobbing than just loading the images; they also encourage people to contact the hosts of the sites, call the authorities, and basically attack the 419ers from every angle.
I pretty much agree with everything you've said, but I would like to add a few things.
In my house, I have several hundred games. And before anyone starts gasping, I'm talking about *legally bought* ones. 30 on PS2, 20 on Gamecube, 10 on GBA, and a helluva-huge-number on PC. Not to mention the N64, a Dreamcast which my mates has 'borrowed' for a year or two now, and other stuff right back to the Spectrum... but the majority are PC games.
And this ALSO doesn't include all the games and hardware I've bought over the years and don't own anymore for whatever reason (although it does include gifts etc.) At the tender age of (just) 22 years, I've probably spent thousands, perhaps ten of thousands, of pounds into the games industry, heaven knows how.
And how many of those were worth the money? Quite a few, I'd say... A mixture of luck and judgement has let me avoid a good amount of the dross... but not all. A lot of them were *good*, but not as good as they cost me. (To be fair, there were others I would gladly have paid more for, but still.) Then still others were completely dire, or for whatever reason I couldn't play at all.
The first pirate game I got was Castlevania: SotN, because I'd bought it once, sold it, and then spent the next few years trying to find another copy after realisiing how stupid I was. (For the record, I wound up finding a copy and buying it... only to lose it somewhere. Figures.) A lot of the pirate games I've got follow this pattern... most are old NES games which I couldn't find if I tried, and even if I did, they'd cost way more than they're worth to me nowadays.
But when it comes to current games (and being generous here, current applies to anything in the last 5 or 6 years,) I have, at a guess, 10 pirated games, maybe 20, about half of which I haven't even installed yet, and a couple of which I intend on buying because they were actually good. As for the rest, as far as I'm concerned, that's compensation for money spent on crap over the years. I've more than paid my cash dues to the industry, and if anyone wants to talk to me about the morality of stealing those eight games left over, I'll ask them about the morality of coding games which are buggy, unplayable, incredibly short or just plain crap, and then telling everyone they're great and asking full price for them. And if they carry on, I'll make them buy Big Rigs: Over The Road. That'll learn 'em.
This is true, but it is, at least, a pointer to a *possible* problem.
Perhaps a better solution, in stead of justing denouncing what little he's found as nonsense, would be to test the theory? Start something up amongst the community to find out if this problem IS widespread? What sound cards do and don't work with what distros? And if they DID work, was it at-install, or was some faffing about required?
I think the one thing worse than blindly taking what the columnist has written as the truth, is blindly denouncing it as a lie.
As I recall from that article, he did say that one of the Linux distros he tested specifically stated that the card would work.
Let me just check;
"And in fairness, let me state loud and clear that only one of the Linux distributions I tried specifically claimed compatibility with the sound system in question; the others gave the usual vague assertions of broad compatibility, but didn't specify this exact sound system. I'm not claiming "false advertising" or any such thing."
Man, Toyota will never make it as a car company. They specifically told me the engine from my '67 Ford would work in my '98 Corolla...
Let me fill in a gap for you by saying the Sound Card on my Linux box, some old ESS card, wasn't detected upon install by Mandrake, and there doesn't appear to be an option I could find to add one post-install.
Knoppix, for the record, detects the same card fine. Seems to me that, for any given distro and sound card, YMMV.
Well, I have installed Linux a good few times in the last few years, and as a person without much *nix experience, let me assure you; Linux is more difficult to install.
With Windows, you basically just give it your region and your CD key and sit back. At one point you choose which of the optional components you want, from a list of about 50 in total.
With Linux, you give it your region, get questioned about partitions, (I tried explaining partitions to my dad the other day, I don't think he understood the concept,) get asked which version of xFree you want to use, get asked what kind your mouse is (at least, I did,) have to choose from several hundred optional programs (which is as much a blessing as a curse; when I come across something that says "Install this component if you need to use feature-that-you-have-no-idea-what-it-is-or-if-it' s-needed-for-some-core-funtionality", I just install it, and probably waste a lot of space that way,) and WHEN THIS IS ALL DONE, my sound card doesn't work. And I can't find any sort of option to add one post-install.
Yeah, Mandrake is easily as simple as Windows to install.
A quick check around my house shows that in most items I have, the volume dial turns clockwise for up.
The only ones I have which go anticlockwise are small portable devices where the dial is mounted along the bottom or right of the case... In which case, although the whole dial is moving anti-clockwise, the part being moved by the user moves right or up. Presumably, if the control was placed on the top or left of the unit, they'd (generally) make it turn clockwise, as with controls placed on the front of units.
A better analogy would be to say 'What if I started mounting volume controls on the top/back of items?'
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On my work machine, these sites look great, and show how impressively CSS can alter a site's appearance.
On my smartphone, these sites are all very readable black-and-white plain text pages.
If the CSS on Slashdot and LDP can be done so as to enhance presentation on CSS-compatible browsers, but without rendering it unreadable on none-CSS browsers, it should be advisable. From the looks of things, that should be very possible.
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As an English person living in England, can I please request everyone stops calling Imperial 'the English system'? We use Metric nowadays! A4 all the way, baby!
It's all worth mentioning there's to more flash mobbing than just loading the images; they also encourage people to contact the hosts of the sites, call the authorities, and basically attack the 419ers from every angle.
I pretty much agree with everything you've said, but I would like to add a few things.
In my house, I have several hundred games. And before anyone starts gasping, I'm talking about *legally bought* ones. 30 on PS2, 20 on Gamecube, 10 on GBA, and a helluva-huge-number on PC. Not to mention the N64, a Dreamcast which my mates has 'borrowed' for a year or two now, and other stuff right back to the Spectrum... but the majority are PC games.
And this ALSO doesn't include all the games and hardware I've bought over the years and don't own anymore for whatever reason (although it does include gifts etc.) At the tender age of (just) 22 years, I've probably spent thousands, perhaps ten of thousands, of pounds into the games industry, heaven knows how.
And how many of those were worth the money? Quite a few, I'd say... A mixture of luck and judgement has let me avoid a good amount of the dross... but not all. A lot of them were *good*, but not as good as they cost me. (To be fair, there were others I would gladly have paid more for, but still.) Then still others were completely dire, or for whatever reason I couldn't play at all.
The first pirate game I got was Castlevania: SotN, because I'd bought it once, sold it, and then spent the next few years trying to find another copy after realisiing how stupid I was. (For the record, I wound up finding a copy and buying it... only to lose it somewhere. Figures.) A lot of the pirate games I've got follow this pattern... most are old NES games which I couldn't find if I tried, and even if I did, they'd cost way more than they're worth to me nowadays.
But when it comes to current games (and being generous here, current applies to anything in the last 5 or 6 years,) I have, at a guess, 10 pirated games, maybe 20, about half of which I haven't even installed yet, and a couple of which I intend on buying because they were actually good. As for the rest, as far as I'm concerned, that's compensation for money spent on crap over the years. I've more than paid my cash dues to the industry, and if anyone wants to talk to me about the morality of stealing those eight games left over, I'll ask them about the morality of coding games which are buggy, unplayable, incredibly short or just plain crap, and then telling everyone they're great and asking full price for them. And if they carry on, I'll make them buy Big Rigs: Over The Road. That'll learn 'em.
This is true, but it is, at least, a pointer to a *possible* problem. Perhaps a better solution, in stead of justing denouncing what little he's found as nonsense, would be to test the theory? Start something up amongst the community to find out if this problem IS widespread? What sound cards do and don't work with what distros? And if they DID work, was it at-install, or was some faffing about required? I think the one thing worse than blindly taking what the columnist has written as the truth, is blindly denouncing it as a lie.
As I recall from that article, he did say that one of the Linux distros he tested specifically stated that the card would work. Let me just check; "And in fairness, let me state loud and clear that only one of the Linux distributions I tried specifically claimed compatibility with the sound system in question; the others gave the usual vague assertions of broad compatibility, but didn't specify this exact sound system. I'm not claiming "false advertising" or any such thing." Man, Toyota will never make it as a car company. They specifically told me the engine from my '67 Ford would work in my '98 Corolla...
Let me fill in a gap for you by saying the Sound Card on my Linux box, some old ESS card, wasn't detected upon install by Mandrake, and there doesn't appear to be an option I could find to add one post-install. Knoppix, for the record, detects the same card fine. Seems to me that, for any given distro and sound card, YMMV.
Well, I have installed Linux a good few times in the last few years, and as a person without much *nix experience, let me assure you; Linux is more difficult to install.
' s-needed-for-some-core-funtionality", I just install it, and probably waste a lot of space that way,) and WHEN THIS IS ALL DONE, my sound card doesn't work. And I can't find any sort of option to add one post-install.
With Windows, you basically just give it your region and your CD key and sit back. At one point you choose which of the optional components you want, from a list of about 50 in total.
With Linux, you give it your region, get questioned about partitions, (I tried explaining partitions to my dad the other day, I don't think he understood the concept,) get asked which version of xFree you want to use, get asked what kind your mouse is (at least, I did,) have to choose from several hundred optional programs (which is as much a blessing as a curse; when I come across something that says "Install this component if you need to use feature-that-you-have-no-idea-what-it-is-or-if-it
Yeah, Mandrake is easily as simple as Windows to install.
A quick check around my house shows that in most items I have, the volume dial turns clockwise for up. The only ones I have which go anticlockwise are small portable devices where the dial is mounted along the bottom or right of the case... In which case, although the whole dial is moving anti-clockwise, the part being moved by the user moves right or up. Presumably, if the control was placed on the top or left of the unit, they'd (generally) make it turn clockwise, as with controls placed on the front of units. A better analogy would be to say 'What if I started mounting volume controls on the top/back of items?'
On my work machine, these sites look great, and show how impressively CSS can alter a site's appearance.
On my smartphone, these sites are all very readable black-and-white plain text pages.
If the CSS on Slashdot and LDP can be done so as to enhance presentation on CSS-compatible browsers, but without rendering it unreadable on none-CSS browsers, it should be advisable. From the looks of things, that should be very possible.