I'm sure Sony et al. want to make a medium that's not DRM-equipped, but remember--say it with me now--Sony is a company, and one that seeks money to operate. The guys with the real money happen to be the music/movie publishers, who are begging for a useful form of content protection so that the Internet doesn't continue to obsolesce any physical publishing that would tie the cost to the disc, and the disc to the music.
It's what we get for lauding an otherwise perfect disc format from a proprietary music/movie/game maker. I hope a Free Hardware Foundation, along with non-money-hungry media companies, counter this.
Oh, and (judging from the parent post) if you thought the SOCOM II lag was bad, wait for the SOCOM III viruses...
...the developers at Oddworld Inhabitants are accused of enslaving their programmers, amid their return to the video game industry. A five-minute audio clip, in which managers are apparently lashing employees and shouting at them "DO IT!", has been spreading online fast. This comes at a time when a sequel to the popular Oddworld series starring Abe the fugitive slave is being hotly anticipated.
Oddworld president Lorne Lanning had no comment; she waved our reporters away while she was polishing a leather whip and refused to take our multiple phone calls.
E, A, Sports. It's in the game. It will be in the sequel too, but with up-to-date rosters and a few extra unused features to make you actually pay for it.
...that "dooropen.wav" will be replaced by "dynamite_a_splode.mp3", the pop-up ads will be replaced by pop-up bombers, and the running little guy would carry an AK and shoot down people with a >90% Warning Level?
Those censored maps were USGS images, straight from the States (and censored by them too). If Mr. Smith thinks Google did that, he should also check them on World Wind.
In any case, I'd be bitch-scared like him, too, if that was my only nuclear reactor. With all the things publicly available on the Internet (for now), I'm sure government bigs everywhere are finally thinking of underground utility buildings.
...for the Unrated Version(tm) that reveals that the Invisible Woman was, in fact, simply a chick that became super-sexy thanks to the rays, but was edited out due to sustained nudity.
...but seriously, if those fillers could be pulled out by hand, I wonder how easily the others will be pulled out by atmospheric friction. If the adhesives of any other gap fillers are dried like the second one, I expect another disaster. Scary, but far too likely.
I'm glad I'm not up there; I'm just hoping they make it down here.
...this "Rival to Google's Start page" (the first version, anyway) has been around longer. Compare the releasedates, and remember that My Yahoo!, while not as easy to customize (you can't move sections by dragging), is far older than both.
I just love when people talk crap about beta products, and say what amounts to OMG F1R3F0X0r is t3h STANDARD COMPL14NT!!1!one on the right hand, while they make crappily marked-up Web pages and Windows altar sites on the left.
Sure, Fx, Opera, and perhaps even Lynx, Links and ELinks are more on the ball with standards than Grandpa IE, but it helps when we give then standard Web sites to comply with. I hope that Thurrott, the guys at Slashdot, and anyone planning to write Web pages are noticing what the Validator thinks of them. Between the browsers and parsers of the Web, it is easily the most standards-compliant of all.
I wish it came with a reference renderer though, that would make PNG page images from valid HTML, according to common screen sizes and print page dimensions.
...seeing an ad on a truck about two months ago saying that Verizon Fios "is here." Obviously, I checked their web site to see that it was not available in the Bronx yet.
I know a lot of game players in the land of Poe and Yankees who would love to have something of that speed to combat the "mad lag" they see. Sadly, some of them also chuck the boatload of dough to Cablevision. I hate them and cable companies who promote "triple/quadruple play" packages in general; it's like Microsoft, but with a monthly bill attached.
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Tolkien wouldn't be pleased. Then again, you might not have read the famous book trilogy, The Cache of the Cookies, too well.
For a while I thought that run.linux was the name of a new distro. You submitters, with your odd grammar ways...
Yup, they've definitely got that cartoony/gamey thing going on.
I have no wang
Your link made me an instant fan. Oh, and sig'd.
I'm sure Sony et al. want to make a medium that's not DRM-equipped, but remember--say it with me now--Sony is a company, and one that seeks money to operate. The guys with the real money happen to be the music/movie publishers, who are begging for a useful form of content protection so that the Internet doesn't continue to obsolesce any physical publishing that would tie the cost to the disc, and the disc to the music.
It's what we get for lauding an otherwise perfect disc format from a proprietary music/movie/game maker. I hope a Free Hardware Foundation, along with non-money-hungry media companies, counter this.
Oh, and (judging from the parent post) if you thought the SOCOM II lag was bad, wait for the SOCOM III viruses...
...the developers at Oddworld Inhabitants are accused of enslaving their programmers, amid their return to the video game industry. A five-minute audio clip, in which managers are apparently lashing employees and shouting at them "DO IT!", has been spreading online fast. This comes at a time when a sequel to the popular Oddworld series starring Abe the fugitive slave is being hotly anticipated.
Oddworld president Lorne Lanning had no comment; she waved our reporters away while she was polishing a leather whip and refused to take our multiple phone calls.
More news, and the scandalous mp3 file, at 11. ;)
Try this:
E, A, Sports. It's in the game. It will be in the sequel too, but with up-to-date rosters and a few extra unused features to make you actually pay for it.
...that "dooropen.wav" will be replaced by "dynamite_a_splode.mp3", the pop-up ads will be replaced by pop-up bombers, and the running little guy would carry an AK and shoot down people with a >90% Warning Level?
;)
Not quite what the Feds want...I think.
Those censored maps were USGS images, straight from the States (and censored by them too). If Mr. Smith thinks Google did that, he should also check them on World Wind.
In any case, I'd be bitch-scared like him, too, if that was my only nuclear reactor. With all the things publicly available on the Internet (for now), I'm sure government bigs everywhere are finally thinking of underground utility buildings.
"You can find me in the club, forearm full of chips..."
(I'll let somebody else complete that, I'm tired now...)
Yeah, the theme park seems like a good idea.
All they need to do is advertise with the slogan COME HERE!!1!one and I'll be packing.
Did somebody command the author to rise from his grave?
...you were midgOWNED!!1 Gotta love those fakes.
Hopefully she hasn't seen your post. I don't want to see an "I don't think even my ex can talk that fast!" post in the upcoming dupe. ;)
Kristian Wilson clearly forgot the "oh wait..." part back then.
...for the Unrated Version(tm) that reveals that the Invisible Woman was, in fact, simply a chick that became super-sexy thanks to the rays, but was edited out due to sustained nudity.
Your sig ("Be incomprehensible. If they can't understand, they can't disagree"), oddly enough, applies perfectly well in this case.
...the PS2 will now be backwards-compatible with PS/2, which means I can use my 3-button mouse to play SOCOM II--YAY!!1
That's one million, gazillion, fafillion dollars. Make check payable to Meyers & Troyer Publishing d/b/a Project Preparation-H.
...as long as no one here starts thinking of putting their solid rocket booster into a space shuttle, I guess we're fine.
...but seriously, if those fillers could be pulled out by hand, I wonder how easily the others will be pulled out by atmospheric friction. If the adhesives of any other gap fillers are dried like the second one, I expect another disaster. Scary, but far too likely.
I'm glad I'm not up there; I'm just hoping they make it down here.
...this "Rival to Google's Start page" (the first version, anyway) has been around longer. Compare the release dates, and remember that My Yahoo!, while not as easy to customize (you can't move sections by dragging), is far older than both.
...neither page passes the Validator. Don't forget though, that you can also add a column to start, if you want to make use of, say, your 1080p screen. Not so with "ig". Also, compare the 60 or so errors across all three versions with the 200 or so on Google's single page.
Besides, start 3's other address has a l33t edge.
I just love when people talk crap about beta products, and say what amounts to OMG F1R3F0X0r is t3h STANDARD COMPL14NT!!1!one on the right hand, while they make crappily marked-up Web pages and Windows altar sites on the left.
Sure, Fx, Opera, and perhaps even Lynx, Links and ELinks are more on the ball with standards than Grandpa IE, but it helps when we give then standard Web sites to comply with. I hope that Thurrott, the guys at Slashdot, and anyone planning to write Web pages are noticing what the Validator thinks of them. Between the browsers and parsers of the Web, it is easily the most standards-compliant of all.
I wish it came with a reference renderer though, that would make PNG page images from valid HTML, according to common screen sizes and print page dimensions.
See Spy der Mann's post above, which quotes TFA correctly.
...seeing an ad on a truck about two months ago saying that Verizon Fios "is here." Obviously, I checked their web site to see that it was not available in the Bronx yet.
I know a lot of game players in the land of Poe and Yankees who would love to have something of that speed to combat the "mad lag" they see. Sadly, some of them also chuck the boatload of dough to Cablevision. I hate them and cable companies who promote "triple/quadruple play" packages in general; it's like Microsoft, but with a monthly bill attached.