You are right to some degree. There are no great FOSS games out there (not really). However, the spirit of FOSS is alive and well in modding.
Mods often surpass the original game they were built on and are made by enthusiasts. They have all the elements that you say are missing from FOSS games (central leadership, artists, etc).
It's just a shame that they're built on commercial products.
I really despise this kind of post, where each sentence is torn apart and commented on separately; usually with a sarcastic and snotty tone to it. In my opinion, it's just high brow trolling and makes the poster look like a right dick.
A friend of mine got a virtually identical letter for the same offense (downloading Two Worlds). He just completely ignored the letter and has never heard anything back since.
This company has sent hundreds of these letters out around the UK. My guess is that they've just cast a wide net and are looking to see what they catch. Anyone who responds to them is actually in more trouble than people who just ignore it.
Ok, mod me down as flamebait, but I actually think they might have a case here. I am not an American and I know nothing about baseball, but I would like to know who compiles all of the stats in question. It must be a lot of hard work getting all of the stats from every game played into a useable database. I mean, someone's got to monitor the game, then keep track of every miss, hit and run, then input that data into somekind of central database. That all takes time - somebody's time. That must be worth paying for. If I had gone to a game and painstakingly kept track of all that info, then you came along and made a bunch of cash from it, I'd certainly want some reward for my efforts.
Unless of course these statistics are recorded by fans, who release their data to the public for free. In which case I'd say the MLB haven't got a leg to stand on.
Apparantly Jennifer Aniston is looking to star in a movie version of Zora. It's quite an extraordinary story that this lady went through really. After reading the transcript I felt quite sorry for her, but also quite amazed.
You can read about Jennifer Aniston's bit here and the transcript of the audio file is here
Copernic looks great, but there is one reason why I will never, ever use it. I cannot stand the fact that it embeds the search field into my taskbar. I HATE that.
At least Google Desktop is just a icon is the icon-tray that gets hidden when I'm not using. Copernic is just always sitting there and that would bug the hell out of me.
Granted, I haven't actually installed it and I'm basing my entire comment on a few screenshots. So if there is another way to run it I'd be glad to know
Focusing on current technologies, it would appear on the surface that 1TB is going to take seem unnecessary to the average user. Even with HD content it still seems a bit excessive for those outside of the "power user" group.
But what about technologies that are still in the labratory development phase? Such as 3D Holographic Video? (You know, Obi-Wan style) Surely they are going to need storage in sevral orders of magnitude over what we've got now?
I'm sure they're are many other projects in the pipeline, in labratories across the world, that are going to lap up that 1TB like a hungry puppy, and your average user is going to inherit those storage needs...
On the other hand, my grandmother is 78 and lives in Trinidad (in the Caribbean). She is probably one of the safest and calmest drivers I've ever known. If anyone has ever been to Trinidad, or any third world country for that matter, they would understand how crazy and chaotic driving conditions are over there.
The fact that she has NEVER had an accident, and is completely calm amongst the maelstrom of insanity, is testament to her driving skill.
Of course, she realises that she cannot continue to drive for much longer, due to her worsening artheritis, but she defies the rule of thumb that all old people are terrible drivers.
Can anyone give me a serious reason as to why this might be useful at all? I mean, let's say the display can be reduced to something other than the "seventies calculator" look. What possible value does it posess?
I may be suffering a lack of imagination here, but this looks about as useful as those digital displays on cases in the nineties that told you the CPU clock speed...
Thanks mate. Didn't know about the filter list on the Geocities site. That drastically improves Adblocks effectiveness. Shame there isn't an auto-update for Adblock that does this automatically though...
Give it up. We have lost the cracker/hacker language war. When will the/. community get over the fact that the rest of the world calls 'em hackers now. All the kicking and screaming's not going to change anything.
I'm sure this has been mentioned on Slashdot before, but the BBC have seen this coming and have actually made quite a clever gimmick out of it. They are working on a system right now that will allow viewers to essentially time-shift their viewing by using P2P technology.
The idea being that viewers run a P2P app on their computer and can download any programme from up to a week ago. The load is shared around the network, with the BBC feeding new programs in after they have been broadcast. Of course, they'll be building some kind of DRM into the whole thing. From what my friend who's working on it told me, they will allow viewers to see a show up to a week after it's been broadcast.
This idea came from a discussion they were having about P2P users pirating TV shows, and how it would affect them. I think it's quite a clever idea and one that conforms to their commitment to the license-fee paying public.
Now I'm a heavy advocate of civil rights and all, but I don't see how this is really such a terrible, dangerous, run-and-hide-big-brother-is-coming thing. If they're evasedropping on public channels then what's the big deal? If you voice your intentions in a public space everybody has the right to listen.
Most people really won't have anything that interesting to listen to anyway. And I'm sure they're radars will be scanning for those l33t d00ds and crazy terrorists anyway. Good riddance to them.
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You are right to some degree. There are no great FOSS games out there (not really). However, the spirit of FOSS is alive and well in modding. Mods often surpass the original game they were built on and are made by enthusiasts. They have all the elements that you say are missing from FOSS games (central leadership, artists, etc). It's just a shame that they're built on commercial products.
I really despise this kind of post, where each sentence is torn apart and commented on separately; usually with a sarcastic and snotty tone to it. In my opinion, it's just high brow trolling and makes the poster look like a right dick.
A friend of mine got a virtually identical letter for the same offense (downloading Two Worlds). He just completely ignored the letter and has never heard anything back since. This company has sent hundreds of these letters out around the UK. My guess is that they've just cast a wide net and are looking to see what they catch. Anyone who responds to them is actually in more trouble than people who just ignore it.
Unless of course these statistics are recorded by fans, who release their data to the public for free. In which case I'd say the MLB haven't got a leg to stand on.
Wake me up when we can view 3D movies without the need for special glasses.
Apparantly Jennifer Aniston is looking to star in a movie version of Zora. It's quite an extraordinary story that this lady went through really. After reading the transcript I felt quite sorry for her, but also quite amazed.
You can read about Jennifer Aniston's bit here and the transcript of the audio file is here
Copernic looks great, but there is one reason why I will never, ever use it. I cannot stand the fact that it embeds the search field into my taskbar. I HATE that.
At least Google Desktop is just a icon is the icon-tray that gets hidden when I'm not using. Copernic is just always sitting there and that would bug the hell out of me.
Granted, I haven't actually installed it and I'm basing my entire comment on a few screenshots. So if there is another way to run it I'd be glad to know
Focusing on current technologies, it would appear on the surface that 1TB is going to take seem unnecessary to the average user. Even with HD content it still seems a bit excessive for those outside of the "power user" group.
But what about technologies that are still in the labratory development phase? Such as 3D Holographic Video? (You know, Obi-Wan style) Surely they are going to need storage in sevral orders of magnitude over what we've got now?
I'm sure they're are many other projects in the pipeline, in labratories across the world, that are going to lap up that 1TB like a hungry puppy, and your average user is going to inherit those storage needs...
On the other hand, my grandmother is 78 and lives in Trinidad (in the Caribbean). She is probably one of the safest and calmest drivers I've ever known. If anyone has ever been to Trinidad, or any third world country for that matter, they would understand how crazy and chaotic driving conditions are over there.
The fact that she has NEVER had an accident, and is completely calm amongst the maelstrom of insanity, is testament to her driving skill.
Of course, she realises that she cannot continue to drive for much longer, due to her worsening artheritis, but she defies the rule of thumb that all old people are terrible drivers.
Can anyone give me a serious reason as to why this might be useful at all? I mean, let's say the display can be reduced to something other than the "seventies calculator" look. What possible value does it posess?
I may be suffering a lack of imagination here, but this looks about as useful as those digital displays on cases in the nineties that told you the CPU clock speed...
Thanks mate. Didn't know about the filter list on the Geocities site. That drastically improves Adblocks effectiveness. Shame there isn't an auto-update for Adblock that does this automatically though...
Give it up. We have lost the cracker/hacker language war. When will the /. community get over the fact that the rest of the world calls 'em hackers now. All the kicking and screaming's not going to change anything.
I'm sure this has been mentioned on Slashdot before, but the BBC have seen this coming and have actually made quite a clever gimmick out of it. They are working on a system right now that will allow viewers to essentially time-shift their viewing by using P2P technology. The idea being that viewers run a P2P app on their computer and can download any programme from up to a week ago. The load is shared around the network, with the BBC feeding new programs in after they have been broadcast. Of course, they'll be building some kind of DRM into the whole thing. From what my friend who's working on it told me, they will allow viewers to see a show up to a week after it's been broadcast. This idea came from a discussion they were having about P2P users pirating TV shows, and how it would affect them. I think it's quite a clever idea and one that conforms to their commitment to the license-fee paying public.
Now I'm a heavy advocate of civil rights and all, but I don't see how this is really such a terrible, dangerous, run-and-hide-big-brother-is-coming thing. If they're evasedropping on public channels then what's the big deal? If you voice your intentions in a public space everybody has the right to listen. Most people really won't have anything that interesting to listen to anyway. And I'm sure they're radars will be scanning for those l33t d00ds and crazy terrorists anyway. Good riddance to them.
Does this mean they have double the pr0n?