Internet Explorer is what it is because Microsoft stopped thinking of it as a web browser and started thinking of it as a development platform. Many of the most abused, insecure features of IE (the infamous Browser Helper Objects being the best known example) were bloated on after a few versions in an attempt to make IE a more viable development platform.
It is precisely because Firefox lacks those "features" that I use it.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't- but effectively the legal facts of the case don't matter because defending yourself in court is so prohibitively expensive that almost anyone will fold and pull the "offending" material is rather than fight it out. Your legal system at work...
I think you are right on re: the characters in NGE not exactly fitting in with the Cartoon Network's usual fare. Not to mention all the [creepy/gory/sexual/just downright nuts] stuff I'd imagine they would have to cut in order to get it on tv.
But hey, if 99% of the people end up sitting there going "what happened?" and 1% goes "Wow, I guess there might be something more to Anime than Gundam Wing!" It will be a Good Thing.
(Not knocking GW btw.)
...new games that is. Starcraft was the straw that broke the camel's back, and it was goodbye Macintosh. Oh, that and paying twice as much for my hardware and upgrades because I couldn't build a Mac from parts. And lockups at least once a day. Did I mention no games? You can tell how much I miss Apple.
I'd love to be involved in unionizing the nation's coders but very few are positive about the idea. As far as I can tell, a lot of it is a feeling that unions are something blue collar that is beneath the dignity of programmers, along with a heavy dose of libertarian political ideals that trust the free market to take care of them (you'd think everyone would have puzzled that one out over the last few years)
All the same, it really does need to happen. At the rate programming jobs are being farmed out overseas and to H1B's, some collective bargaining with not only management, but the political system itself seems in order. In fact, having that voice in the political process would be much more critical than the contract negotiation.
Some of you Linux fanboys will line up to praise anything as long as it slams Microsoft apparently. This guys argument boils down to "Microsoft stole our syntax! They're an icky company!" - You can probably count the factually verifiable assertions he makes on the fingers of one hand, the rest is just that old familiar FUD, aimed paradoxically at the people who are most famous for the tactic. I guess that's poetic justice in a way, but shame on you otherwise intelligent people for not calling this interview the pile of corporate shill horsecrap that it is.
who are fighting each other in the market place... and there is space for multiple consoles in the market. Why is it that every console owner seems to want their console to have a monopoly?
That's an easy one... if PS2 had a monopoly I'd be able to play Halo without shelling out 300+ for a whole new console!!!
Yeah, good idea- let's abandon a publicly available open standard like HTML in favor of binding ourselves to some proprietary closed-source solution like Flash. After all, why get something for free when you could pay through the nose and be subject to the licensing whims of Macromedia until the end of time? Thanks but no thanks.
...The other being that people skin things to make them more efficient. Considering that probably the most common user skinning is done by people turning their winamp client into their favorite supermodel or tv show, this seems prima facie to be untrue.
I suppose if Nullsoft had done their job and hired interface diety Jef Raskin, people wouldn't feel compelled to skin winamp? That seems to me like saying if Microsoft had done their job properly people wouldn't feel the need to change their desktop background image.
Changing that image to a picture of, say, a landscape or sunset probably makes item selection.0001% less efficient, but surprise surprise, people do it anyhow. And I don't think they'd appreciate being prevented from doing it because Jef Raskin has decided that this particular shade of puce makes them two tenths of a percent more productive.
Hackers. Kiddies. Neither. Both. There's a fundamental problem with saying the "Slashdot Community" is on any particular side at all, it's just not that cohesive. Some people have posted very passionately against copyright infringement here. I don't know about anyone coming out in support of script kiddies, but I'm sure it's happened.
I think in general, people are more likely to support haxoring copyright protection schemes and stealing mp3's because they feel little or no sympathy for the corporations that are the victim, and because most of us have pirated mp3's and enjoy listening to them. On the other hand, DDOS attacks are an activity that knocks off our favorite websites and ISP's. We are all the victim and nobody benefits but a bunch of maladjusted teens who get to boast about how 31337 they are.
There are stories of white hats hunting down the ip's of spammers and doing various horrible things to them. Same attacks, different target, that makes all the difference in public opinion- here as elsewhere.
The New Maibatsu Monstrosity...
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... mine's bigger!
Call me a master of the obvious but....
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There were plenty of ground troops on the American side in Afghanistan- they just weren't Americans. The US provided air support, the Northern Alliance did the dirty work and exploited breaches blasted in the lines by the US air power. Until a robot ground solider is invented, the lowest common denominator of warfare will continue to be the infantryman.
Any government or corporation that puts anything into orbit that could even potentially be used as a weapon is going to face resistance from the entire world. Even if you went into contortions trying to prove that the tool could never be used for military purposes, the media would get ahold of the term "space lasers" and that would be curtains for the idea.
All of its predecessors were excellent, Final Fantasy VIII was, and still is, one of the best games ever made.
That's VIII- as in decimal 8?? As in the WORST FF game ever made? I have serious questions about this guy's sanity, to say nothing of his opinions on gaming.
Hardware reviews from Salon!??
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What's next, Ars Technica's take on national health care?? Tom's Hardware celebrity gossip? If you're going to post a hardware review, you should aim a little higher than the online version of "The Nation". Surely someone that knows what they're talking about has reviewed this product?
Video Games seem like a 'craft' to me...
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A video game is an object that has both aesthetic and functional characteristics, but the functional is more important- the art of a great game comes in that its fun to use, unlike something like film or sculpture which is appreciated passively and considered to be art.
Nice furniture falls in the same category I think.
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Internet Explorer is what it is because Microsoft stopped thinking of it as a web browser and started thinking of it as a development platform. Many of the most abused, insecure features of IE (the infamous Browser Helper Objects being the best known example) were bloated on after a few versions in an attempt to make IE a more viable development platform.
It is precisely because Firefox lacks those "features" that I use it.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't- but effectively the legal facts of the case don't matter because defending yourself in court is so prohibitively expensive that almost anyone will fold and pull the "offending" material is rather than fight it out. Your legal system at work...
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(Master of the Obvious)
I think you are right on re: the characters in NGE not exactly fitting in with the Cartoon Network's usual fare. Not to mention all the [creepy/gory/sexual/just downright nuts] stuff I'd imagine they would have to cut in order to get it on tv.
But hey, if 99% of the people end up sitting there going "what happened?" and 1% goes "Wow, I guess there might be something more to Anime than Gundam Wing!" It will be a Good Thing.
(Not knocking GW btw.)
...new games that is. Starcraft was the straw that broke the camel's back, and it was goodbye Macintosh. Oh, that and paying twice as much for my hardware and upgrades because I couldn't build a Mac from parts. And lockups at least once a day. Did I mention no games?
You can tell how much I miss Apple.
I'd love to be involved in unionizing the nation's coders but very few are positive about the idea. As far as I can tell, a lot of it is a feeling that unions are something blue collar that is beneath the dignity of programmers, along with a heavy dose of libertarian political ideals that trust the free market to take care of them (you'd think everyone would have puzzled that one out over the last few years)
All the same, it really does need to happen. At the rate programming jobs are being farmed out overseas and to H1B's, some collective bargaining with not only management, but the political system itself seems in order. In fact, having that voice in the political process would be much more critical than the contract negotiation.
nt = No Taurens
Hentai asside, hopefully we will be able to see things like Cowboy Bebop without the episodes being edited by censors (*ahem* Adult Swim *ahem*)
The buttons below were pretty cool too. One said "ok" and the other one said "lame!"
If you clicked the lame! button, you just got to fill out a little comment card, but the feature cracked me up the first couple times I saw it.
www.pricewatch.com, and www.resellerratings.com
Start with your lowest PW price and work your way up until you find a name you feel comfortable doing business with.
Some of you Linux fanboys will line up to praise anything as long as it slams Microsoft apparently. This guys argument boils down to "Microsoft stole our syntax! They're an icky company!" - You can probably count the factually verifiable assertions he makes on the fingers of one hand, the rest is just that old familiar FUD, aimed paradoxically at the people who are most famous for the tactic. I guess that's poetic justice in a way, but shame on you otherwise intelligent people for not calling this interview the pile of corporate shill horsecrap that it is.
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Every year there's another crop of 200 or so.
Assigning John's Deli to all, say, fighting pokemons makes everything easy to remember.
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Dorky.
who are fighting each other in the market place... and there is space for multiple consoles in the market. Why is it that every console owner seems to want their console to have a monopoly?
That's an easy one... if PS2 had a monopoly I'd be able to play Halo without shelling out 300+ for a whole new console!!!
Yeah, good idea- let's abandon a publicly available open standard like HTML in favor of binding ourselves to some proprietary closed-source solution like Flash. After all, why get something for free when you could pay through the nose and be subject to the licensing whims of Macromedia until the end of time? Thanks but no thanks.
I suppose if Nullsoft had done their job and hired interface diety Jef Raskin, people wouldn't feel compelled to skin winamp? That seems to me like saying if Microsoft had done their job properly people wouldn't feel the need to change their desktop background image.
Changing that image to a picture of, say, a landscape or sunset probably makes item selection .0001% less efficient, but surprise surprise, people do it anyhow. And I don't think they'd appreciate being prevented from doing it because Jef Raskin has decided that this particular shade of puce makes them two tenths of a percent more productive.
Of course they do... nothing's sexier than a man who's too lazy to walk short distances!
Why not ask for a telephatic user interface and the ability to cure cancer?
Hackers. Kiddies. Neither. Both. There's a fundamental problem with saying the "Slashdot Community" is on any particular side at all, it's just not that cohesive. Some people have posted very passionately against copyright infringement here. I don't know about anyone coming out in support of script kiddies, but I'm sure it's happened.
I think in general, people are more likely to support haxoring copyright protection schemes and stealing mp3's because they feel little or no sympathy for the corporations that are the victim, and because most of us have pirated mp3's and enjoy listening to them. On the other hand, DDOS attacks are an activity that knocks off our favorite websites and ISP's. We are all the victim and nobody benefits but a bunch of maladjusted teens who get to boast about how 31337 they are.
There are stories of white hats hunting down the ip's of spammers and doing various horrible things to them. Same attacks, different target, that makes all the difference in public opinion- here as elsewhere.
... mine's bigger!
There were plenty of ground troops on the American side in Afghanistan- they just weren't Americans. The US provided air support, the Northern Alliance did the dirty work and exploited breaches blasted in the lines by the US air power. Until a robot ground solider is invented, the lowest common denominator of warfare will continue to be the infantryman.
Any government or corporation that puts anything into orbit that could even potentially be used as a weapon is going to face resistance from the entire world. Even if you went into contortions trying to prove that the tool could never be used for military purposes, the media would get ahold of the term "space lasers" and that would be curtains for the idea.
SiteServer is a dead product.
...and go to law school. It's the only job the corporations can't outsource to some third world country where they can get away with paying less...
All of its predecessors were excellent, Final Fantasy VIII was, and still is, one of the best games ever made.
That's VIII- as in decimal 8?? As in the WORST FF game ever made? I have serious questions about this guy's sanity, to say nothing of his opinions on gaming.
What's next, Ars Technica's take on national health care?? Tom's Hardware celebrity gossip? If you're going to post a hardware review, you should aim a little higher than the online version of "The Nation". Surely someone that knows what they're talking about has reviewed this product?
Nice furniture falls in the same category I think.