see the big subscribe now button on the top right corner of the page? What about the ads some of us are bound to click on? (TOSHIBA: Copy Fax Print at the bottom of the page)
He probably makes money off this, and that's not something I like.
...this is something that a lot of us are interested in.
I have no problem with WSJ submitting one or two articles that we might like now and again, but if it happens more than a couple of times, I'll start getting really worried. Bottom line: The occasional submission; OK, regular submissions; they're using us.
Yeah, they're free now. But, you can't download them without a VALID XP lisence.
It may be the the corperate will have WMP after all. But, what happens if corperate specificly blocks you from using DivX? Pirates want to be able to watch their favorite BSG episodes, so they'll have to buy the Ultimate Edition.
There is more viral marketing behind this game than you could possibly imagine. This game is a fucking legend. Every 10-year-old on AOL knows that when DNF is released, hell will freeze over, Elvis will return, and Linux will gain 100% marketshare.
Because of this, the instant it's released, a million people will rush to buy the game just because of the hype.
It may be that a week later, the game will turn out to be shitty, and no one will care, but I'm predicting that the game will at least cover its development costs within that first week.
you picked REALLY bad examples. Please tell me what's wrong with Bethesda. Oblivioin is freaking awesome. Bungie, while not nearly as good as they used to be (Marathon), have suffered a change in management, so it's to be expected.
A better example is EA Games. Seriously. Sequel heaven, and piss-poor management. Command and Conquer went from my all-time favorite franchise to a mediocre re-hash since they took it over.
I read a study a few years back about someone who lost his sight before he really understood the world -- like when he was 6 months old. Somehow, he regained his sight, but he went crazy.
His mind couldn't process the images he was picking up: he'd been able to touch animals his whole life, but he couldn't make the connection between the feel and the sight. See, your brain makes connections when you are about 3 years old. It learns what's what, and what you should expect about the world. IIRC, he ended up killing himself.
Is it still considered karma whoring if I already have good karma? Anyway, just use underrated and the person doesn't get the bonus. Whatever:
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea, the world's most wired country, is rushing to turn what sounds like science fiction into everyday life. The government, which succeeded in getting broadband Internet into 72 percent of all households in the last half decade, has marshaled an army of scientists and business leaders to make robots full members of society.
By 2007, networked robots that, say, relay messages to parents, teach children English and sing and dance for them when they are bored, are scheduled to enter mass production. Outside the home, they are expected to guide customers at post offices or patrol public areas, searching for intruders and transmitting images to monitoring centers.
If all goes according to plan, robots will be in every South Korean household between 2015 and 2020. That is the prediction, at least, of the Ministry of Information and Communication, which has grouped more than 30 companies, as well as 1,000 scientists from universities and research institutes, under its wing. Some want to move even faster.
"My personal goal is to put a robot in every home by 2010," said Oh Sang Rok, manager of the ministry's intelligent service robot project.
Reeling from the Asian financial crisis of 1997, South Korea decided that becoming a high-tech nation was the only way to secure its future.
The government deregulated the telecommunications and Internet service industries and made investments as companies laid out cables in cities and into the countryside. The government offered information technology courses to homemakers, subsidized computers for low-income families and made the country the first in the world to have high-speed Internet in every primary, junior and high school.
As with robots and most other specific technologies, the government has had a strong hand in guiding businesses and research centers. Failures have occurred -- most spectacularly in biotechnology, when the cloning scientist, Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, was exposed as a fraud -- but the successes are many.
South Koreans use futuristic technologies that are years away in the United States; companies like Microsoft and Motorola test products here before introducing them in the United States.
Since January, Koreans have been able to watch television broadcasts on cellphones, free, thanks to government-subsidized technology. In April, South Korea will introduce the first nationwide superfast wireless Internet service, called WiBro, eventually making it possible for Koreans to remain online on the go -- at 10 megabits per second, faster than most conventional broadband connections.
South Korea, perhaps more than any other country, is transforming itself through technology. About 17 million of the 48 million South Koreans belong to Cyworld, a Web-based service that is a sort of parallel universe where everyone is interconnected through home pages. The interconnectivity has changed the way and speed with which opinions are formed, about everything from fashion to politics, technology and social science experts said.
Chang Duk Jin, a sociologist at Seoul National University who has studied the effects of technology on society, said it had profoundly influenced domestic politics. Two years ago, after the opposition-led National Assembly impeached President Roh Moo Hyun, a consensus began forming on the Internet that the move was politically motivated -- two hours after the vote took place, Mr. Chang said.
"That quickly led to mass demonstrations," he said. "That kind of thing had never happened in Korea before. Everyone is connected to everyone else, so issues spread very fast and kind of unpredictably."
There has been at least one unpredictable side effect: fierce witch hunts. In a case that caused national soul-searching, a woman riding the subway with her dog last year refused to clean up after it defecated
Since computer geeks are somewhat stunted in their ability to do the latter due to emotional and mental disabilities, they seek their immortality by creating very public works such as [...] posts on Slashdot.
...Are you saying that, all these times I've modded goatse posts down, I was really blocking the ability of artists to express themselves? Oh, God! What have I done?
I don't understand why people don't like the look of slashdot. I've been visiting this site for several years and I'm not sick of the layout. It works.The design is simple, fast (most of the time), and works in any browser.
Often, I hear people say OMG DIGG IS TEH PRETTIER: I'd rather have a site which is fast and easy to navigate than a site which is all eye candy and takes an hour to load.
Not like we have it any different here in the US. Democracy is pretty much a joke these days. Here's an idea, though: Vote independent, or write in your own name. If enough people protest the system like this, eventually a cantidate will come along to take advantage of this.
Second Lego Star Wars. It's cheap, mad fun, and really easy to pick up and learn. Another game I play alot is Worms. Worms 3D is a bit confusing at first; all the other worms games are pretty easy to pick up, and simple to play. Just be sure to set the turn time WAY up. On the stratgy front, why not try OpenTTD. It's a game I've been investing way too much time in recently. It's simple to learn, but can go a long way. I havn't yet perfected all the stratgies in it, and I've been playing the game for almost EIGHT YEARS. Now that's replayability.
Lets try to reproduce the results in the same thing; then we'll be talking. Mice and humans have a fairly similar genome (98%, IIRC), but in case you haven't noticed, they're a little different (we're talking size here). It may be that if you feed small amounts of capcasin to a mouse, it will trigger apoptosis (intentional cell death). If you feed large amounts it will somehow be able to block apoptosis (ala retroviruses). As such, large amounts could cause cancer. Or, it could be that, in humans, capcasin always causes cancer. Who knows. We'll figure it out in a few years.
Disclaimer: Above is basicly a wild theory. I haven't looked at mice or carcenogens in years.
Try SuSE. Installation was as easy as: Insert CD Power on while holding C (boot from CD) Install I Agree to Novell's TOS I agree to Flash/Java TOS Finish.
Then, it was a quick hop over to ati.com, to download the video card drivers. Worked like a charm first try. I've even walked my grandmother through the install OVER THE PHONE. Come on, guys. Linux has a point and click graphical install, built-in drivers for most everything, and installes everything most people need by default.
It's an interesting browser. I recall trying back when I still used Mandrake. I saw Mozilla Firefox, with a slightly different skin, and only partial extention support.
Perhaps someone can inform me why exactly I would pick this browser over Firefox?
Slashdot Mirror
He's using slashdot as a site to push his agenda, he's not paying the site anything, and he's getting free advertising in exchange.
Like I said before, one or two articles I'm fine with, but more than that isn't cool.
It's like someone who's exploiting google pagerank. It's irritating.
Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Thanks, RovingSlug.
Guess his secret is safe enough, even if that is his real name. I bet they DID obfuscate it, anyway.
He probably makes money off this, and that's not something I like.
I have no problem with WSJ submitting one or two articles that we might like now and again, but if it happens more than a couple of times, I'll start getting really worried.
Bottom line: The occasional submission; OK, regular submissions; they're using us.
It may be the the corperate will have WMP after all. But, what happens if corperate specificly blocks you from using DivX? Pirates want to be able to watch their favorite BSG episodes, so they'll have to buy the Ultimate Edition.
Because of this, the instant it's released, a million people will rush to buy the game just because of the hype.
It may be that a week later, the game will turn out to be shitty, and no one will care, but I'm predicting that the game will at least cover its development costs within that first week.
Pirates probably want everything, so they'll need to get the the Uber Ultimate Edition of Needing to Activate With Microsoft.
Full article here
Please tell me what's wrong with Bethesda. Oblivioin is freaking awesome.
Bungie, while not nearly as good as they used to be (Marathon), have suffered a change in management, so it's to be expected.
A better example is EA Games. Seriously. Sequel heaven, and piss-poor management. Command and Conquer went from my all-time favorite franchise to a mediocre re-hash since they took it over.
right, but I was thinking: why haven't the mods deleted the tag like the did the "gay" tag?
I mean, yeah, its funny as hell, but really? Do we need it as a tag?
I've just saved myself AT LEAST 5 or 6 hours of fucking around google trying to find ways to get rid of some piece of spyware.
Come on. Who DOESN'T have time to install Firefox?
Now, how many people play Starcraft II?
Many blame the game's non-existance, but I feel the problem is in the conversion to 3D graphics.
Sheesh...when did you last get laid?
While I don't think we need another 200 comment discussion about it, the parent is fucking right.
End of story.
I read a study a few years back about someone who lost his sight before he really understood the world -- like when he was 6 months old. Somehow, he regained his sight, but he went crazy.
His mind couldn't process the images he was picking up: he'd been able to touch animals his whole life, but he couldn't make the connection between the feel and the sight. See, your brain makes connections when you are about 3 years old. It learns what's what, and what you should expect about the world. IIRC, he ended up killing himself.
I just wish I could remember the source.
Is it still considered karma whoring if I already have good karma?
Anyway, just use underrated and the person doesn't get the bonus. Whatever:
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea, the world's most wired country, is rushing to turn what sounds like science fiction into everyday life. The government, which succeeded in getting broadband Internet into 72 percent of all households in the last half decade, has marshaled an army of scientists and business leaders to make robots full members of society.
By 2007, networked robots that, say, relay messages to parents, teach children English and sing and dance for them when they are bored, are scheduled to enter mass production. Outside the home, they are expected to guide customers at post offices or patrol public areas, searching for intruders and transmitting images to monitoring centers.
If all goes according to plan, robots will be in every South Korean household between 2015 and 2020. That is the prediction, at least, of the Ministry of Information and Communication, which has grouped more than 30 companies, as well as 1,000 scientists from universities and research institutes, under its wing. Some want to move even faster.
"My personal goal is to put a robot in every home by 2010," said Oh Sang Rok, manager of the ministry's intelligent service robot project.
Reeling from the Asian financial crisis of 1997, South Korea decided that becoming a high-tech nation was the only way to secure its future.
The government deregulated the telecommunications and Internet service industries and made investments as companies laid out cables in cities and into the countryside. The government offered information technology courses to homemakers, subsidized computers for low-income families and made the country the first in the world to have high-speed Internet in every primary, junior and high school.
As with robots and most other specific technologies, the government has had a strong hand in guiding businesses and research centers. Failures have occurred -- most spectacularly in biotechnology, when the cloning scientist, Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, was exposed as a fraud -- but the successes are many.
South Koreans use futuristic technologies that are years away in the United States; companies like Microsoft and Motorola test products here before introducing them in the United States.
Since January, Koreans have been able to watch television broadcasts on cellphones, free, thanks to government-subsidized technology. In April, South Korea will introduce the first nationwide superfast wireless Internet service, called WiBro, eventually making it possible for Koreans to remain online on the go -- at 10 megabits per second, faster than most conventional broadband connections.
South Korea, perhaps more than any other country, is transforming itself through technology. About 17 million of the 48 million South Koreans belong to Cyworld, a Web-based service that is a sort of parallel universe where everyone is interconnected through home pages. The interconnectivity has changed the way and speed with which opinions are formed, about everything from fashion to politics, technology and social science experts said.
Chang Duk Jin, a sociologist at Seoul National University who has studied the effects of technology on society, said it had profoundly influenced domestic politics. Two years ago, after the opposition-led National Assembly impeached President Roh Moo Hyun, a consensus began forming on the Internet that the move was politically motivated -- two hours after the vote took place, Mr. Chang said.
"That quickly led to mass demonstrations," he said. "That kind of thing had never happened in Korea before. Everyone is connected to everyone else, so issues spread very fast and kind of unpredictably."
There has been at least one unpredictable side effect: fierce witch hunts. In a case that caused national soul-searching, a woman riding the subway with her dog last year refused to clean up after it defecated
...Are you saying that, all these times I've modded goatse posts down, I was really blocking the ability of artists to express themselves?
Oh, God! What have I done?
It works.The design is simple, fast (most of the time), and works in any browser.
Often, I hear people say OMG DIGG IS TEH PRETTIER: I'd rather have a site which is fast and easy to navigate than a site which is all eye candy and takes an hour to load.
just my 2 cents.
I suppose you could do worse.
Not like we have it any different here in the US.
Democracy is pretty much a joke these days. Here's an idea, though: Vote independent, or write in your own name. If enough people protest the system like this, eventually a cantidate will come along to take advantage of this.
Second Lego Star Wars. It's cheap, mad fun, and really easy to pick up and learn. Another game I play alot is Worms. Worms 3D is a bit confusing at first; all the other worms games are pretty easy to pick up, and simple to play. Just be sure to set the turn time WAY up.
On the stratgy front, why not try OpenTTD. It's a game I've been investing way too much time in recently. It's simple to learn, but can go a long way. I havn't yet perfected all the stratgies in it, and I've been playing the game for almost EIGHT YEARS. Now that's replayability.
As such, large amounts could cause cancer. Or, it could be that, in humans, capcasin always causes cancer.
Who knows. We'll figure it out in a few years.
Disclaimer: Above is basicly a wild theory. I haven't looked at mice or carcenogens in years.
Insert CD
Power on while holding C (boot from CD)
Install
I Agree to Novell's TOS
I agree to Flash/Java TOS
Finish.
Then, it was a quick hop over to ati.com, to download the video card drivers. Worked like a charm first try. I've even walked my grandmother through the install OVER THE PHONE.
Come on, guys. Linux has a point and click graphical install, built-in drivers for most everything, and installes everything most people need by default.
What more do you want?
I saw Mozilla Firefox, with a slightly different skin, and only partial extention support.
Perhaps someone can inform me why exactly I would pick this browser over Firefox?