What I've repeatedly seen among RMS's advocates is a desire to allow him to do their thinking for them, rather than trying to think for themselves.
Funny, my experience says most people choose not to think about this particular topic at all. Click accept. Click Next. I was even once one of those people. As a software developer, suddenly I had to consider adding my own license to click through. First couple of apps had nothing, I was disgusted by the examples of licenses that were recommended to me. Then one day I stumbled out of MS-land and across the GPL. Made me think hard about the subject. Researched all I could find out about licensing and Open and Closed Source. Turns out it comes down to covering your ass and retail sales. No warranty, Can't Sue, Can't Copy, can't modify. The FSF has a great set of FreeSoftware Compatible ones. None of them convey my opinion as well as the GPL.
Linus believes individuals should have the right to think and act as they choose. He doesn't try and define freedom as paradoxically containing restrictions on people's thoughts and actions.
I'm sorry but isn't the Linux Kernel GPL v2.0 ?
I do not see the belief in the freedoms expressed by the FSF in the form of the GPL (including V3) as restrictive. I see it clearly stating your responsibility if you want to play. You don't want to play take your ball and go home. There are other licenses. I choose the GPL because I share in its beliefs and goals.
DRM is bad(mkay). The v3 gpl does not restrict you from choosing to implement DRM just saying if you do and license it under v3GPL you have to publish the keys with the source. Seems like a natural extension of you must publish the source that Linus had no problems restricting (EMPOWERING) his users with.
What's *your* opinion?
Let me check, Nope the article was not titled MrCopilot on GPL3 in Forbes
But it is sweet of you to ask.
My opinion is Ratify that beotch. Or I'm gonna ship the first product under GplV3.0Alpha.
I don't think Linus can switch to v3 even if he wanted to. Something about too many contributors to get permission to change it.
RMS does alot of thinking, he may even do it "for" all of us. But I do my own thinking too. I live by a simple creed, a good Idea, is a good idea no matter what its source. He just happens to be a reliable source. This way of thinking forces you to actually consider the content of an Idea.
Ok my turn, whats your opinion? Or are you full now.
Linus "I'm pretty happy with the GPLv2, and I just don't have the motivation or inclination to start talking to lawyers. I'm a programmer. I worry about kernel bugs."
RMS "Pragmatically speaking, thinking about greater long-term goals will strengthen your will to resist this pressure. If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it. ``Stand for something, or you will fall for nothing.''
Pretty much sums it up. I'm sure RMS doesn't like talking to lawyers either, he just has Beliefs and convictions that force him to. (No offense Mr MOGLEN)
I will adopt GPL v3 as soon as finalized. I have much more faith in the "Ramblings" of RMS than the casual "Who Cares" of Linus. Great as the kernel might be. Without the Convictions of Stallman and GPLv2, Most of us would still be Running Proprietary OS's and paying for several different Compilers and toolsuites and Graphical toolkits, ad infinitum. We have those choices now because Stallman sat down with a few lawyers despite his distaste for authority. There is something to be said about beating the big guys with their own stick, Software Licenses
Note to Article Author: I believe GCC is a little more popular (at least in terms of users) than Linux or Firefox. And that was written by?
His comments are still valid, I like a lot of developers got up to speed (through betas, ms seminars etc) with.net 1.0 at launch our app was fully compatible and then watched my app break in 1.1. We Released a patch and started directly on rewriting in other languages.
Vendor Lock-in is real and painful. If you use Microsoft's.Net it can be excruciating. The IDE is irrelavant to this topic. His points were that he shells out cash for an ide that is useless in as little as 18 months.
My apps have a little longer lifetime than that. And if it it executes today it should damn well execute tomorrow. There is no way around that problem using the.Net Framework, Hell you have to first decide which version (if any) the customer has. Very cumbersome for the support group. Not worth my time, maybe Enterprise apps where "standard clients" have assumed configurations I wouldn't have this problem, but my customers are across the spectrum. I swear, if I hear "How are we going to port this to the mac/linux?" concerning another.net app I am going to lose it. You just want to shake someone higher up and say if you want to be cross platform then you DO NOT BUY MS tools.MS=MSonly now and always.
Someone else metioned Java, not a bad idea for the webapps.
But not the only cross-platform solution, especially for executables. I'm digging qt-opensource-windows a-lot right now. Check it out http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/ Admittedly not the a webapp tool but a good app toolkit/framework. Great thing is if they increase their versions the old ones still work. Version 4 is current and I still develop in 3, being open source has the advantage of not ever disappearing.
I've questioned and disagreed with plenty of Bush's actions. Just not this one. While lefties are uniform in their hatred of everything Bush related, on the right we do debate the finer points of various policies.
This conversation, however, is about one thing: spying on our enemies.
Actually, No, this conversation is about spying on US citizens.
You know, Americans, with rights guaranteed by the constitution. Various laws have been enacted by Congress, giving the government the tools needed to wiretap foriegn and domestic targets. The current administration's opinions about whether these laws apply to it, are troubling to say the least. It was troubling to hear the AG give his LEGAL ADVICE that we do not have to adhere to the Geneva Convention, and then later say that the NSA's (WARRANTLESS, and Without Judicial Oversight) Domestic Wiretapping is legal, needed and appropriate is nothing short of sickening.
Right, Left, Center, Whig doesn't matter, Policies of this Administration are flawed in every area, certainly enough to cause dissent in his own party, and inflame those outside it. Military Decisions, Domestic Policy, Emergency Management, Fiscal Responsibility, Energy Policy, Enviromental Policy, Natural Resource Management, Economic Stimulus, Foriegn Policy, Diplomacy, Education, Scientific Research, Wiretapping, Torture. This Nixonian list literally goes on and on. There is so much, the opposition can't even focus on one thing before the Lt Commander-In-Chief shoots a 78 yr old man wearing a bright orange hunting vest, who apparently resembles a quail at 30 yards.
39 hours per work week (a couple minutes late every day) ... ...
2 hours.. porn
You have built up quit the tolerance, if it takes 24mins a day for your "fix".
Just how many years have you been on this schedule, Dr Jerkinstein?
we like to think that if it wasn't for the Bush administration, we wouldn't be going to war..... .... I leave to your imagination what would have happen if Bush was not the president.
You don't have to leave it to our imagination. No way we would be in Iraq with out dubya. No way we're getting out until "we" don't have to say President Bush. (Always be on the lookout for Jebya)
we should examine ourselves and take steps to make this world we live in a better place, whether it be voting, having discussions like these,...
Ok I get the gist, move on, introspection, gotcha. But for what its worth:
I'm all for discussion and voting it just seems like the voters at large aren't that interested in informed debate but gear up for another American Presidential Idol. Thats fine Ignorance is bliss, unfortunately the informed experience a daily gut wrenching feeling that can only be the polar opposite of bliss. I'm not bitter really.
....being more aware of woes in lands other than our own, etc.
I would add that we should also go out of our way to avoid directly contributing to those woes. Being the cause of several thousand deaths in the family, kinda makes it hard to win the hearts and minds of an indigenous people. Actually it goes a long way, towards recruitment efforts for just the sort of people were so very afraid of. For every known "BadGuy" we kill I would bet there are numbers of casualties of innocent or unknown affiliation. I guess we're supposed to hope that his brothers and sons were also in the blast, cuz if they weren't those "death to the infidels" guys are going to sound smarter and smarter. I'd love to quote numbers here but, Sec. Rumsfeld doesn't really count bodies just targets.
No offense meant to you B. Pascal, Actually it was refreshing to receive a polite post.
Seriously, what a hassle, with Kopete and AMSN, AFAIK they both have the ability to transcribe your chats at click of a button.
Good luck with you bot relations though.
I cited this example because it shows that there are circumstances when it is comprehensible for Politicians to withold the truth to the public.
If it were true, It would show how unfit Churchill was to be PM. There are always other ways than letting innocents die. Fortunately I find it incomprehensible and so do many others.
Certainly Churchill thought that the raid was going to be over London. As he was preparing to leave Downing Street for Enstone in Oxfordshire he was handed a report from the Air Ministry which he took with him to read in the car. He did not get very far. On reading the document he ordered his driver to turn around and go back to Downing Street, explaining to his aide that the Air Ministry expected a major German raid on the capital that night. (Sir John Martin letter to The Times 28 Aug.76; Longmate, AIR RAID pages 57-58). After sending his staff away to a shelter, and accompanied by General Sir Hastings Ismay, Churchill went to the Air Ministry roof and there waited for the bombers which never came.
Proof enough that no one left the city to burn for reasons of high strategy is the fact that on the afternoon before the raid Bomber Command attacked 27 enemy airfields and even Berlin. The unfortunate fact is that the raid was expected over London, not Coventry. Even so, 119 aircraft were launched to protect the city once the bombers were seen to be heading for it. Coventry, as the historian Ronald Lewin has written, is a twice-crucified city: once by the bombers and then by those writers who, despite the evidence to the contrary, spread the lie that the city was martyred to protect "Ultra."
A common myth surrounding the bombing is that Coventry was deliberately sacrificed in order to prevent the Germans knowing that Enigma cipher machine messages were being read by British codebreakers. This has been proven untrue -- Winston Churchill was aware that a heavy raid was to take place, but it was not known where, and was expected to be in London.
I personally like a video review and I get most of mine from X-Play on G4. I know they are whores but they are honest whores. Nothing captures the essence of ultimate spiderman like the world's rudest Stan Lee impersonator. More importantly I can see the gameplay and Sessler is really fond of demonstrating why a game sucks showing you the terrible camera or ai or whatever. Plus Morgan is pleasing to look at if not listen to.
I also get a few mags like gamepro and I read every review, but I rarely find one that stands up to an established publisher with cash.
I didn't see anything in the article about censoring games, just censoring booth-babes, who usually have little to do with the game.
2 words.
DOA series.
Do we really need a naked woman to tell us to play CoD2? I don't think so
Need is a little strong. Ask us if we want a naked women to tell us to play video games. Hell, ask me if I'd like my fully-clothed wife to tell me to play video games. I think you see the point.
Your average gamer teen boy, would like nothing more than to split his time evenly between a scantily clad female and his xbox360. At these events he gets to live that fantasy, well until security asks him to leave.
The industry as a whole knows this and advertises accordingly, just as the automakers and blue jean makers and coffee makers (Ok maybe that's a stretch) Advertise this.
I could care less as I haven't been a teen ager for a very long time. But then the beautiful looking scantily clad woman I wake up next to never ruins my day with her attire. Her attitude but not attire.
Material, including live models, conduct that is sexually explicit and/or sexually provocative, including but not limited to nudity, partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms, are prohibited on the Show floor, all common areas, and at any access points to the Show. ESA, in its sole discretion, will determine whether material is acceptable."
Homer: Whoa, let's not go crazy, theres nothing wrong with a little Hey-Hey.
You can't take away the booth babes, that's the closest some of these guys get to a naked women all year long.
No Scantily Clad women, Next they'll want to do away with violence, crates, exploding barrells, and coin & jewel powerups. Where will it end?
What I do not think is that it is going to get as many cross platform games as this guy is suggesting. The fact that they are not using these "exotic" parts means that they will not be able to get these games from the multi-processor multi-vidcard systems to run without greatly cutting back on the amount of detail, size of levels etc...
Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but then I saw Half-Life 2 on the Xbox. We have a ps2 and a cube and a PC and we have games across systems. Negligible differences in graphics zero in gameplay. (Well O.K. Soul Calibur has Link or Spawn). Splinter Cell's games are a perfect example. On a standard TV I can see only the slightest difference. PC looks Stellar but not good enough for me to keep it installed when the cube has it.
I wish the big N nothing but luck (Anybody else feel like its just a little poetic justice after N strangled Sega Hardware year after year?)
Sounds like a problem with your business plan to me.
Sounds like the "phone" company is feeling a bit nostalgic to me.
What might make more sense would be a pay-per-use plan, where you pay a flat rate for X amount of bandwidth or whatever and more if you use more. But of course if customers don't like the complication, they will choose another ISP.
Are you out of your tree? Pay per minute is so 90s. Screw the hand, Bite your tongue. It makes no sense.
I had to forgoe long distance until this year, because I refuse to pay per minute(Free under Digital Cable now). I am still resisting cell phones until they give up caring about minutes. Plus the per kb on mobile web acces. Now you suggest our ISPs to go back to it. Get Bent. I will pay for service when it is unlimited or not at all. I have excellent Internet service and I pay for it but nobody sends me a bandwidth bill I get what I get and if I use it to its maximum throughput for 6 months, I still only pay monthly fee.Just as it should be.
Now My webhost is a different story, But I could just as easily host at home couldn't I.
I think we can all agree that the Xbox360 launch was dismal.
I think we can all agree that there is almost nothing that we ALL agree on.
If it takes Sony until November of this year to release the PS3, then if they are doing so to ensure a rock solid release with lots of really good software titles at the time of release, then by all means, take the time.There is no real point for Sony to release the PS3 before the holiday season. Selling the PS3 in April or May of this year may generate a few million in quick sales, but sales will drop off until the holiday season anyways.
Sony will release when they are ready. If they were ready they would have released alongside the Xbox360. But they aren't yet. Here's the real deal XBOX360 sales are higher than PS3 Sales at least and until after the PS3 ships. Funny thing I noticed during christmas though, Blue Hairs (No disrespect intended of course) were purchasing XBox 1 Forza Bundles because they were the only Xboxes in the store (Also the packaging was eerily similar to the 360).
I don't think Microsoft wins this round but they are certainly not out as bad off as sega for the last couple of its hardware years. From every 360 game I've seen, (Not Screenies) The visuals and sound are incredible, I haven't actually been able to play one yet but I haven't heard any complaints from the kids crowded around the kiosk at the WalMart. Face it man, every Manufacturer wants that must have christmas gift and this year it was MS. Next year it will be Sony. Although I'm still pulling for the suprise upset from the big N.
There is no PS3 on my list this year. However, if the Revolution comes I'll cough up my dough. (What a strange statement)
From all indications Live is a force to be reckoned with that Sony has zero interest in competing with, instead leaving it to developers. (They get points for including a browser in new PSPs and firmware.)
In my view at least Nintendo and MS see the internet as a feature not as a burden.
Whoah, since when does Stallman use the term "open-source"?
Ever since OpenSource became a movement, he has had to go about pointing out how almost counterproductive the "Open Source" movement's efforts are to the FSFs goals of Freedom for Users. Which, I'd guess, he has to do probably 5 times a day at a minimum.
Ever thought of offering editor jobs to a few grammar nazis? They love correcting submissions and ranting about them. Might be a good idea.
On a personal note Thanks man, I have thoroughly enjoyed/. since I first came across it lo those many years ago. Only relatively recently have I started to actively participate.
The anti-pro debates are a fun distraction. MS/MAC/BSD/Amiga/SUN/IBM/SCO(Are there any pro-SCO zealots left?)
I come for the news but I stay for the discussion. For the most part the current system works. Week in week out, I get interesting news and lively usually intelligent discussion. I wouldn't mind a -1 Bitching rating. (Would this post would become eligble?) Really that's my biggest beef with/. People complaining incessantly about dupes, or submitters, or spelling, or editors, or complainers (whoops, did it again).
Of the ideas put forth by the Crowd.
I agree that there are possible benefits to Story Moderation.
I agree that the Submitters URL should lead to their Slashdot User Page ( It is probably most representative of that persons position on a number of subjects and includes a link to their vanity domain.
I disagree with: caps on submissions(not sure why) Banning certain submitters(won't stop them just inflame them) and finally the nofollow (I have not yet had an opportunity to exploit this) seriously it's probably a good idea.
I also applaud your new years resolution to have more open discussions with the users. Hope that works out well for you, my experience shows you get just as open to the nutjobs as you do the intelligent opiners. It always comes back to signal to noise ratio.
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Funny, my experience says most people choose not to think about this particular topic at all. Click accept. Click Next. I was even once one of those people. As a software developer, suddenly I had to consider adding my own license to click through. First couple of apps had nothing, I was disgusted by the examples of licenses that were recommended to me. Then one day I stumbled out of MS-land and across the GPL. Made me think hard about the subject. Researched all I could find out about licensing and Open and Closed Source. Turns out it comes down to covering your ass and retail sales. No warranty, Can't Sue, Can't Copy, can't modify. The FSF has a great set of FreeSoftware Compatible ones. None of them convey my opinion as well as the GPL.
Linus believes individuals should have the right to think and act as they choose. He doesn't try and define freedom as paradoxically containing restrictions on people's thoughts and actions.
I'm sorry but isn't the Linux Kernel GPL v2.0 ?
I do not see the belief in the freedoms expressed by the FSF in the form of the GPL (including V3) as restrictive. I see it clearly stating your responsibility if you want to play. You don't want to play take your ball and go home. There are other licenses. I choose the GPL because I share in its beliefs and goals.
DRM is bad(mkay). The v3 gpl does not restrict you from choosing to implement DRM just saying if you do and license it under v3GPL you have to publish the keys with the source. Seems like a natural extension of you must publish the source that Linus had no problems restricting (EMPOWERING) his users with.
What's *your* opinion?
Let me check, Nope the article was not titled MrCopilot on GPL3 in Forbes
But it is sweet of you to ask.
My opinion is Ratify that beotch. Or I'm gonna ship the first product under GplV3.0Alpha.
I don't think Linus can switch to v3 even if he wanted to. Something about too many contributors to get permission to change it.
RMS does alot of thinking, he may even do it "for" all of us. But I do my own thinking too. I live by a simple creed, a good Idea, is a good idea no matter what its source. He just happens to be a reliable source. This way of thinking forces you to actually consider the content of an Idea.
Ok my turn, whats your opinion? Or are you full now.
RMS "Pragmatically speaking, thinking about greater long-term goals will strengthen your will to resist this pressure. If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it. ``Stand for something, or you will fall for nothing.''
Pretty much sums it up. I'm sure RMS doesn't like talking to lawyers either, he just has Beliefs and convictions that force him to. (No offense Mr MOGLEN)
I will adopt GPL v3 as soon as finalized. I have much more faith in the "Ramblings" of RMS than the casual "Who Cares" of Linus. Great as the kernel might be. Without the Convictions of Stallman and GPLv2, Most of us would still be Running Proprietary OS's and paying for several different Compilers and toolsuites and Graphical toolkits, ad infinitum. We have those choices now because Stallman sat down with a few lawyers despite his distaste for authority. There is something to be said about beating the big guys with their own stick, Software Licenses
Note to Article Author: I believe GCC is a little more popular (at least in terms of users) than Linux or Firefox. And that was written by?
Ramble on RMS
*After coming up with 12 different endings for this joke I leave it open for debate.
You Really Should, you know. That Design & UI isn't all in the hardware.
Vendor Lock-in is real and painful. If you use Microsoft's .Net it can be excruciating. The IDE is irrelavant to this topic. His points were that he shells out cash for an ide that is useless in as little as 18 months.
My apps have a little longer lifetime than that. And if it it executes today it should damn well execute tomorrow. There is no way around that problem using the .Net Framework, Hell you have to first decide which version (if any) the customer has. Very cumbersome for the support group. Not worth my time, maybe Enterprise apps where "standard clients" have assumed configurations I wouldn't have this problem, but my customers are across the spectrum. I swear, if I hear "How are we going to port this to the mac/linux?" concerning another .net app I am going to lose it. You just want to shake someone higher up and say if you want to be cross platform then you DO NOT BUY MS tools.MS=MSonly now and always.
Someone else metioned Java, not a bad idea for the webapps. But not the only cross-platform solution, especially for executables. I'm digging qt-opensource-windows a-lot right now. Check it out http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/ Admittedly not the a webapp tool but a good app toolkit/framework. Great thing is if they increase their versions the old ones still work. Version 4 is current and I still develop in 3, being open source has the advantage of not ever disappearing.
This conversation, however, is about one thing: spying on our enemies.
Actually, No, this conversation is about spying on US citizens.
You know, Americans, with rights guaranteed by the constitution. Various laws have been enacted by Congress, giving the government the tools needed to wiretap foriegn and domestic targets. The current administration's opinions about whether these laws apply to it, are troubling to say the least. It was troubling to hear the AG give his LEGAL ADVICE that we do not have to adhere to the Geneva Convention, and then later say that the NSA's (WARRANTLESS, and Without Judicial Oversight) Domestic Wiretapping is legal, needed and appropriate is nothing short of sickening.
Right, Left, Center, Whig doesn't matter, Policies of this Administration are flawed in every area, certainly enough to cause dissent in his own party, and inflame those outside it. Military Decisions, Domestic Policy, Emergency Management, Fiscal Responsibility, Energy Policy, Enviromental Policy, Natural Resource Management, Economic Stimulus, Foriegn Policy, Diplomacy, Education, Scientific Research, Wiretapping, Torture. This Nixonian list literally goes on and on. There is so much, the opposition can't even focus on one thing before the Lt Commander-In-Chief shoots a 78 yr old man wearing a bright orange hunting vest, who apparently resembles a quail at 30 yards.
Gonzalez http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2006/01/ag012406.html
FISA and NSA Links http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/#rept
2 hours.. porn
You have built up quit the tolerance, if it takes 24mins a day for your "fix".
Just how many years have you been on this schedule, Dr Jerkinstein?
You don't have to leave it to our imagination. No way we would be in Iraq with out dubya. No way we're getting out until "we" don't have to say President Bush. (Always be on the lookout for Jebya)
we should examine ourselves and take steps to make this world we live in a better place, whether it be voting, having discussions like these, ...
Ok I get the gist, move on, introspection, gotcha. But for what its worth:
I'm all for discussion and voting it just seems like the voters at large aren't that interested in informed debate but gear up for another American Presidential Idol. Thats fine Ignorance is bliss, unfortunately the informed experience a daily gut wrenching feeling that can only be the polar opposite of bliss. I'm not bitter really.
I would add that we should also go out of our way to avoid directly contributing to those woes. Being the cause of several thousand deaths in the family, kinda makes it hard to win the hearts and minds of an indigenous people. Actually it goes a long way, towards recruitment efforts for just the sort of people were so very afraid of. For every known "BadGuy" we kill I would bet there are numbers of casualties of innocent or unknown affiliation. I guess we're supposed to hope that his brothers and sons were also in the blast, cuz if they weren't those "death to the infidels" guys are going to sound smarter and smarter. I'd love to quote numbers here but, Sec. Rumsfeld doesn't really count bodies just targets.
No offense meant to you B. Pascal, Actually it was refreshing to receive a polite post.
Cheers.
How do you think that makes her feel?
Seriously, what a hassle, with Kopete and AMSN, AFAIK they both have the ability to transcribe your chats at click of a button.
Good luck with you bot relations though.
If it were true, It would show how unfit Churchill was to be PM. There are always other ways than letting innocents die. Fortunately I find it incomprehensible and so do many others.
Certainly Churchill thought that the raid was going to be over London. As he was preparing to leave Downing Street for Enstone in Oxfordshire he was handed a report from the Air Ministry which he took with him to read in the car. He did not get very far. On reading the document he ordered his driver to turn around and go back to Downing Street, explaining to his aide that the Air Ministry expected a major German raid on the capital that night. (Sir John Martin letter to The Times 28 Aug.76; Longmate, AIR RAID pages 57-58). After sending his staff away to a shelter, and accompanied by General Sir Hastings Ismay, Churchill went to the Air Ministry roof and there waited for the bombers which never came.
Proof enough that no one left the city to burn for reasons of high strategy is the fact that on the afternoon before the raid Bomber Command attacked 27 enemy airfields and even Berlin. The unfortunate fact is that the raid was expected over London, not Coventry. Even so, 119 aircraft were launched to protect the city once the bombers were seen to be heading for it. Coventry, as the historian Ronald Lewin has written, is a twice-crucified city: once by the bombers and then by those writers who, despite the evidence to the contrary, spread the lie that the city was martyred to protect "Ultra."
From http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cf m?pageid=690 admittedly biased source.
A common myth surrounding the bombing is that Coventry was deliberately sacrificed in order to prevent the Germans knowing that Enigma cipher machine messages were being read by British codebreakers. This has been proven untrue -- Winston Churchill was aware that a heavy raid was to take place, but it was not known where, and was expected to be in London.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Coventry#2 0th_CenturyMuch less Biased.
Surely they use a combination of Windows Vista XPExtreme and SCO Unix.
I personally like a video review and I get most of mine from X-Play on G4. I know they are whores but they are honest whores. Nothing captures the essence of ultimate spiderman like the world's rudest Stan Lee impersonator. More importantly I can see the gameplay and Sessler is really fond of demonstrating why a game sucks showing you the terrible camera or ai or whatever. Plus Morgan is pleasing to look at if not listen to.
I also get a few mags like gamepro and I read every review, but I rarely find one that stands up to an established publisher with cash.
2 words.
DOA series.
Do we really need a naked woman to tell us to play CoD2? I don't think so
Need is a little strong. Ask us if we want a naked women to tell us to play video games. Hell, ask me if I'd like my fully-clothed wife to tell me to play video games. I think you see the point.
Your average gamer teen boy, would like nothing more than to split his time evenly between a scantily clad female and his xbox360. At these events he gets to live that fantasy, well until security asks him to leave.
The industry as a whole knows this and advertises accordingly, just as the automakers and blue jean makers and coffee makers (Ok maybe that's a stretch) Advertise this.
I could care less as I haven't been a teen ager for a very long time. But then the beautiful looking scantily clad woman I wake up next to never ruins my day with her attire. Her attitude but not attire.
Homer: Whoa, let's not go crazy, theres nothing wrong with a little Hey-Hey.
You can't take away the booth babes, that's the closest some of these guys get to a naked women all year long.
No Scantily Clad women, Next they'll want to do away with violence, crates, exploding barrells, and coin & jewel powerups. Where will it end?
Uwe Boll claims another victim.
Hey I know he was a spoiler and a can be a downer, but violence solves nothing man.
Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but then I saw Half-Life 2 on the Xbox. We have a ps2 and a cube and a PC and we have games across systems. Negligible differences in graphics zero in gameplay. (Well O.K. Soul Calibur has Link or Spawn). Splinter Cell's games are a perfect example. On a standard TV I can see only the slightest difference. PC looks Stellar but not good enough for me to keep it installed when the cube has it.
I wish the big N nothing but luck (Anybody else feel like its just a little poetic justice after N strangled Sega Hardware year after year?)
Sounds like the "phone" company is feeling a bit nostalgic to me.
What might make more sense would be a pay-per-use plan, where you pay a flat rate for X amount of bandwidth or whatever and more if you use more. But of course if customers don't like the complication, they will choose another ISP.
Are you out of your tree? Pay per minute is so 90s. Screw the hand, Bite your tongue. It makes no sense.
I had to forgoe long distance until this year, because I refuse to pay per minute(Free under Digital Cable now). I am still resisting cell phones until they give up caring about minutes. Plus the per kb on mobile web acces. Now you suggest our ISPs to go back to it. Get Bent. I will pay for service when it is unlimited or not at all. I have excellent Internet service and I pay for it but nobody sends me a bandwidth bill I get what I get and if I use it to its maximum throughput for 6 months, I still only pay monthly fee.Just as it should be. Now My webhost is a different story, But I could just as easily host at home couldn't I.
I think we can all agree that there is almost nothing that we ALL agree on.
If it takes Sony until November of this year to release the PS3, then if they are doing so to ensure a rock solid release with lots of really good software titles at the time of release, then by all means, take the time.There is no real point for Sony to release the PS3 before the holiday season. Selling the PS3 in April or May of this year may generate a few million in quick sales, but sales will drop off until the holiday season anyways. Sony will release when they are ready. If they were ready they would have released alongside the Xbox360. But they aren't yet. Here's the real deal XBOX360 sales are higher than PS3 Sales at least and until after the PS3 ships. Funny thing I noticed during christmas though, Blue Hairs (No disrespect intended of course) were purchasing XBox 1 Forza Bundles because they were the only Xboxes in the store (Also the packaging was eerily similar to the 360). I don't think Microsoft wins this round but they are certainly not out as bad off as sega for the last couple of its hardware years. From every 360 game I've seen, (Not Screenies) The visuals and sound are incredible, I haven't actually been able to play one yet but I haven't heard any complaints from the kids crowded around the kiosk at the WalMart. Face it man, every Manufacturer wants that must have christmas gift and this year it was MS. Next year it will be Sony. Although I'm still pulling for the suprise upset from the big N.
There is no PS3 on my list this year. However, if the Revolution comes I'll cough up my dough.
(What a strange statement)
From all indications Live is a force to be reckoned with that Sony has zero interest in competing with, instead leaving it to developers. (They get points for including a browser in new PSPs and firmware.) In my view at least Nintendo and MS see the internet as a feature not as a burden.
I guess I'll be cleaning out my office then.
That's Right Bill/Steve you just keep telling yourself that.
I know, when are we gonna break the lockin of proprietary community.
Are You sure? I could have sworn I saw a GPL'd program called Community 0.09 at Freshmeat.
Well, what are we then?
Saying it don't make it so, bro.
Ever since OpenSource became a movement, he has had to go about pointing out how almost counterproductive the "Open Source" movement's efforts are to the FSFs goals of Freedom for Users. Which, I'd guess, he has to do probably 5 times a day at a minimum.
On a personal note Thanks man, I have thoroughly enjoyed /. since I first came across it lo those many years ago. Only relatively recently have I started to actively participate.
The anti-pro debates are a fun distraction. MS/MAC/BSD/Amiga/SUN/IBM/SCO(Are there any pro-SCO zealots left?)
I come for the news but I stay for the discussion. For the most part the current system works. Week in week out, I get interesting news and lively usually intelligent discussion. I wouldn't mind a -1 Bitching rating. (Would this post would become eligble?) Really that's my biggest beef with /. People complaining incessantly about dupes, or submitters, or spelling, or editors, or complainers (whoops, did it again).
Of the ideas put forth by the Crowd.
I agree that there are possible benefits to Story Moderation.
I agree that the Submitters URL should lead to their Slashdot User Page ( It is probably most representative of that persons position on a number of subjects and includes a link to their vanity domain.
I disagree with:
caps on submissions(not sure why)
Banning certain submitters(won't stop them just inflame them)
and finally the nofollow (I have not yet had an opportunity to exploit this) seriously it's probably a good idea.
I also applaud your new years resolution to have more open discussions with the users. Hope that works out well for you, my experience shows you get just as open to the nutjobs as you do the intelligent opiners. It always comes back to signal to noise ratio.
You have got to be kidding, Anonymous Coward.
MySpace Users Revolting.