Yes, and in Europe we don't have 18 wheel trucks. Everything is pushed around on hand carts, making the roads a much safer place.
It wasn't an entirely stupid assumpted. Big 18-wheelers aren't necessarily needed everywhere. The biggest cargo trucks I've seen here in Japan are about the size of an American garbage truck, and even those take up the whole road, sometimes with both tires riding the white lines. Besides that, most stuff is transported here in 4-cylinder city trucks and mini-trucks.
I remember Andy Rooney doing a piece on the Smart Car and seeing him with about two or even three feet of headroom when he drove it around. Granted, he's probably pretty short and hunckbacked, but I bet I would have no trouble fitting in it, and I barely fit into my Toyota Levin with the seat all the way back. It's like a grown-up trying to ride a big wheel if you have to carry four passengers and have to bring the seat up.
Why doesn't someone sue Disney, Universal, or the other Major DVD producers? After all their TV ads almost all say OWN on DVD today.
Because the companies will get around it by saying something along the lines of the customers owning the physical medium the movie was printed on, not the data itself.
I noticed some of the GL extensions appear to be ATI-specific, so I snipped this from an earlier comment, which was probably snipped from the FAQ:
"Currently, the game will not run correctly on ATI cards using the fglrx driver. However, the ATI developers are working on new driver releases, and eventually the game will be supported." but DRI drivers might work, and either way the future looks promising...
Or at least some fast GDI routines and preferably an alpha channel in X. Windows has had GDI acceleration since Windows 95 and Linux still needs it. If Linux is already faster than Windows, this would definitely help it feel as fast as, or faster than, Windows.
And there will always be ways of convincing the user to run the evil code. Just look at this thing I ran into the other day. (Better have ActiveX set to always ask when you run it) I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it. It's now easier to present what the spyware wants you to do because of the information bar. Also, the path around it (clicking "don't install" a few times until the script hits the end) is a bit less obvious.
I think it's all about how firm the trademarks are held, and since it's Lucasarts that's involved, you'd probably have to be careful. I'm reminded of that Family Guy where Peter says, "It'll be so much fun, it should be illegal - like copyright infringement..... [head morphs into conveniently crude version of Mickey Mouse] Hoho! See you at the game, Joe!" Seth McFarlane would have probably landed into some trouble despite "fair use" if Mickey Mouse was more than just implied just because of the way Disney handles their trademarks.
Aren't most of the evil ActiveX spyware launchers "certified" anyway? I really don't think Trusted Computing has anything to offer since the business world accepts spyware as valid.
Problem is that they couldn't really make any cross-game inside jokes that use trademarks anymore, such as the Star Wars and Sam and Max costumes when Guybrush goes to pick up his party suit in Monkey Island 3. Then there's always the "Help me, . You're my only hope."
Look at me, I'm in fantasy land. Look at all the pretty colors!! Ooh, whatever I believe comes true for all. Tra la la la. Standing on your head is easier than sitting on a chair because I say it is. Woo dee doo.
For that matter, why hasn't anyone ported apt(By far the best system IMO) to windows?
Isn't the closest thing to package management in Windows so far the MSI package? It probably doesn't solve the shortcut issue, but I think I prefer it to RPMs placing links in five different places with KDE not being really sure whether it should parse it or not. (Fix the damn buggy menus, KDE!)
Anyone else notice how that "information bar" showed up right after SP2 came out with the exact same thing? It's things like this that make desktop Linux look like it's copying Windows way too closely.
Yet Apple forgot to account for those who have taser-butt fetishes. Tsk, tsk. You'd think they would know better than to leave that risk out in the open.
We actually ended up with quite a few dead birds in the yard because of our cat - one of which was a hawk. I'm still surprised that he managed to knock down a bird that big.
To not accept filenames with spaces within the last ten years is asinine. Now that people have moved beyond system files and crypticly named text documents in WordPerfect 5.1, it's fundamental for media being in a presentable form. Filenames of music and videos need to be able to correspond to their original titles so people can tell what the hell it is before opening it. It's not even that bad at the command line. Here's an example of running a ROM with a long filename in FCE Ultra:
Most long filenames with spaces are autocompleted when Tab is pressed anyway, so I don't see what the deal is. At least Apple// DOS 3.3 got it right. I always found ProDOS's restriction on spaces a pain.
And this excerpt from the entry shows that it's brand new indeed:
The US maintained two sites, in Wisconsin and Michigan, until dismantling them beginning in late September 2004.
But it showed up when I first saw the Slashdot article, which was 20 minutes after it was posted. Somebody was in the know and/or had a whole lot of extra time to burn when they wrote the entry.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, and if you though SUVs had a crappy turning radius before...
Yes, and in Europe we don't have 18 wheel trucks. Everything is pushed around on hand carts, making the roads a much safer place.
It wasn't an entirely stupid assumpted. Big 18-wheelers aren't necessarily needed everywhere. The biggest cargo trucks I've seen here in Japan are about the size of an American garbage truck, and even those take up the whole road, sometimes with both tires riding the white lines. Besides that, most stuff is transported here in 4-cylinder city trucks and mini-trucks.
I remember Andy Rooney doing a piece on the Smart Car and seeing him with about two or even three feet of headroom when he drove it around. Granted, he's probably pretty short and hunckbacked, but I bet I would have no trouble fitting in it, and I barely fit into my Toyota Levin with the seat all the way back. It's like a grown-up trying to ride a big wheel if you have to carry four passengers and have to bring the seat up.
What about the "death-in-any-front-collision-greater-than-15-MPH" Voltswagon Beatle?
It depends on what ratings the Yellow Submarine got in the goverment crash tests.
Why doesn't someone sue Disney, Universal, or the other Major DVD producers? After all their TV ads almost all say OWN on DVD today.
Because the companies will get around it by saying something along the lines of the customers owning the physical medium the movie was printed on, not the data itself.
and he kept shitting in his pants until he got up and refused to play any more of it...
You'd think he would have gotten up the first time he shit his pants. This guy's not like the other children, class.
Part 3 just made cron jobs illegal..oooooooops!
Click on the Games section of Slashdot and prepare to laugh your ass off.
Here you go, one news article right on top of the other
I noticed some of the GL extensions appear to be ATI-specific, so I snipped this from an earlier comment, which was probably snipped from the FAQ:
"Currently, the game will not run correctly on ATI cards using the fglrx driver. However, the ATI developers are working on new driver releases, and eventually the game will be supported." but DRI drivers might work, and either way the future looks promising...
Or at least some fast GDI routines and preferably an alpha channel in X. Windows has had GDI acceleration since Windows 95 and Linux still needs it. If Linux is already faster than Windows, this would definitely help it feel as fast as, or faster than, Windows.
And there will always be ways of convincing the user to run the evil code. Just look at this thing I ran into the other day. (Better have ActiveX set to always ask when you run it) I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it. It's now easier to present what the spyware wants you to do because of the information bar. Also, the path around it (clicking "don't install" a few times until the script hits the end) is a bit less obvious.
I think it's all about how firm the trademarks are held, and since it's Lucasarts that's involved, you'd probably have to be careful. I'm reminded of that Family Guy where Peter says, "It'll be so much fun, it should be illegal - like copyright infringement..... [head morphs into conveniently crude version of Mickey Mouse] Hoho! See you at the game, Joe!" Seth McFarlane would have probably landed into some trouble despite "fair use" if Mickey Mouse was more than just implied just because of the way Disney handles their trademarks.
Aren't most of the evil ActiveX spyware launchers "certified" anyway? I really don't think Trusted Computing has anything to offer since the business world accepts spyware as valid.
Sisco? Is that a brand like Sorny, Panaphonics, and Magnetbox? I guess you're lucky it still works.
If the copyright holder of windows forbids it..
It might be stupid, but they could do it legally...
It really isn't anything to worry about. Remember? Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers....Woooooooooo!
Bring Back Maniac Mansion
Okay
And this is always useful
Problem is that they couldn't really make any cross-game inside jokes that use trademarks anymore, such as the Star Wars and Sam and Max costumes when Guybrush goes to pick up his party suit in Monkey Island 3. Then there's always the "Help me, . You're my only hope."
I guess the rubber tree gag can still be used.
Look at me, I'm in fantasy land. Look at all the pretty colors!! Ooh, whatever I believe comes true for all. Tra la la la. Standing on your head is easier than sitting on a chair because I say it is. Woo dee doo.
Homer: By the way, I was being sarcastic.
Marge: Well, duh.
For that matter, why hasn't anyone ported apt(By far the best system IMO) to windows?
Isn't the closest thing to package management in Windows so far the MSI package? It probably doesn't solve the shortcut issue, but I think I prefer it to RPMs placing links in five different places with KDE not being really sure whether it should parse it or not. (Fix the damn buggy menus, KDE!)
Anyone else notice how that "information bar" showed up right after SP2 came out with the exact same thing? It's things like this that make desktop Linux look like it's copying Windows way too closely.
Yet Apple forgot to account for those who have taser-butt fetishes. Tsk, tsk. You'd think they would know better than to leave that risk out in the open.
I am kind of board.
Pine? Beechwood? Balsa?
Who knows? I have a hard time reading Engrish anyway.
We actually ended up with quite a few dead birds in the yard because of our cat - one of which was a hawk. I'm still surprised that he managed to knock down a bird that big.
To not accept filenames with spaces within the last ten years is asinine. Now that people have moved beyond system files and crypticly named text documents in WordPerfect 5.1, it's fundamental for media being in a presentable form. Filenames of music and videos need to be able to correspond to their original titles so people can tell what the hell it is before opening it. It's not even that bad at the command line. Here's an example of running a ROM with a long filename in FCE Ultra:
/mnt/win_c/FCEUltra/Blaster\ Master.nes
// DOS 3.3 got it right. I always found ProDOS's restriction on spaces a pain.
zorilla@localhost~>fceu
Most long filenames with spaces are autocompleted when Tab is pressed anyway, so I don't see what the deal is. At least Apple
And this excerpt from the entry shows that it's brand new indeed:
The US maintained two sites, in Wisconsin and Michigan, until dismantling them beginning in late September 2004.
But it showed up when I first saw the Slashdot article, which was 20 minutes after it was posted. Somebody was in the know and/or had a whole lot of extra time to burn when they wrote the entry.