Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---
I know the guitar hero nuts out there will disagree aggressively on this, but here goes. I sat through 3+ years of my college life playing GH games at my roommates' expense. They bought game after game--each version of the game was nearly identical to the others, the only thing substantially different being the songs. It hit me that people were paying $50 (and $60 for current gen consoles) for only new songs. Now I know the games come with a bunch of songs, but only a handful are actual versions; the majority are covers. In the age of consoles w/ harddrives and the existence of myriad music downloading services it seems odd to buy an entire game just to get some new songs.
Of course, there's nothing odd about this--it's by design. If folks are willing to shell out $50/$60, you bet your ass Activision will take it. I realize newer versions allow songs to be downloaded, but I don't believe this is very prevalent.
If I were Activision I would make a free downloadable version of the game built around downloadable content. An iTunesesque version, if you will. They could also release a SDK* (Song Dev Kit) so artists could sell their tracks via the service (or give them away if the artist is NiN-like). I believe this scheme would create a large song library, making users happy, whilst enable Activision to sit on their asses and light their stogies with $100 dollar bills.
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* Yes, I realize music authoring seems to be forthcoming in the GH.
So you definitely can't compare the 1989 numbers with the 2008.
Right, but the 50MPG figure takes into account those new standards. Hilariously, the highway mileage for that particular Civic before the 2008 adjustments was an even higher 56MPG. See for yourself. I have an 08 Civic. It's a small car no doubt, but it's a giant compared to the Civics of olde.
You may want to run smallpox cultures on the yearly $100k from Microsoft. Also, screen carefully any code submissions from the aforementioned containing fragments such as: "Diseases.smallpox.infect(apache_foundation);".
The fact that the WWW exists on a two-way network is its fundamental distinction from traditional one-way media. To say that the web today is no longer 'The Web' due to the introduction of more complex or proprietary content platforms is incorrect so long as the original mechanics (i.e. http and html) are still available and in use.
I'm not disputing that many would like to see the net put to use as another TV-like consumption platform through closed, proprietary, uncrawlable means. However, the myriad sites that enable and thrive on the participatory features of the web are considerable. The fact that it's so damn easy for even the average joe to make web pages these days (even if they are myspace pages) makes the current web more like 'The Web' than the TB-L web.
I thought TFA read like a rant by somebody mad AJAX and Flash (or Silverlight or whatever) exist because they are tough to index. Here's an idea: if we got rid of the web, it would be much easier to index the web!!
More people need to use these. Operating without a centralized Certificate Authority, GPG really depends on there being sufficient users to establish a web of trust.
I think people (in the US at least) either don't understand the simplicity of sniffing cleartext, or don't think they care. The aggravating part is that GPG can be really easy to use. Apps like Seahorse make key and keyring management trivial. There's a great Thunderbird plugin that makes signing and/or encrypting your mail no harder than it was before. (Yes, I know not everyone uses Linux and Thunderbird, but I trust GPG tools exist for other OSs/email clients)
Given a safe and ubiquitous encryption scheme, I can't think any reasons for sending text/data in the clear. Now all we need is a ubiquitous encryption scheme.
Doesn't the allowance of "unauthorized code" increase the usability of a particular device? Regardless, I'm getting pretty sick of the trend of buying a physical product and being limited in what I'm allowed to do with it.
Couldn't agree more. Awesome gadgets are awesome not because of advertised factory features, but because of the potential they have to do new things.
I doubt Nintendo (or Sony/MS) intends people to view their hardware as a 'gadget'. Consoles are the vehicles used by console makers to sell (paid) *licensed* software. If the Wii were sold as a 'gadget', there would likely be a bunch of FOSS software out there diluting the market for those who would publish the licensed stuff. From there licenses lose their value and Nintendo loses their meal ticket.
Breaking up libraries function-wise would make for a ton of http requests.
I don't disagree with your feelings on library laden sites, however. I use JQuery a fair bit, and it's not all that hard to cut the library down to cut down on size. Also, JQuery packed with variable renaming and base 62 encoding cuts the total size down to about 15KB.
Fundamentally Google's solution is not optimal, but javasript being javascript this solution is a decent approximation.
They seem to release linux binaries for many of their games. I like being able to play Doom 3 and ET:QW natively on my linux desktop. Though the HL2 series tends to work well through wine, it ain't perfect.
I would like to be able to buy more games for linux.
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Anyone have a link to the HD footage? The YouTube "Watch in high quality" version isn't hi def enough to read all the scary warning labels :)
I hope Microsoft doesn't donate any smallpox infected code to the Apache peoples.
Your post reminds me of a great poem:
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---
--Emily Dickinson
I suspect Ubuntu users may be too RISC averse to buy into an ARM given the sub-prime meltdown.
When are developers going to admit that they should just stick to the OS's GUI toolkit?
You mean like Apple did with Garage Band?
So I'm assuming the Enterprise D runs Linux then?
...from clownpenis.fart?!?
I know the guitar hero nuts out there will disagree aggressively on this, but here goes. I sat through 3+ years of my college life playing GH games at my roommates' expense. They bought game after game--each version of the game was nearly identical to the others, the only thing substantially different being the songs. It hit me that people were paying $50 (and $60 for current gen consoles) for only new songs. Now I know the games come with a bunch of songs, but only a handful are actual versions; the majority are covers. In the age of consoles w/ harddrives and the existence of myriad music downloading services it seems odd to buy an entire game just to get some new songs.
Of course, there's nothing odd about this--it's by design. If folks are willing to shell out $50/$60, you bet your ass Activision will take it. I realize newer versions allow songs to be downloaded, but I don't believe this is very prevalent.
If I were Activision I would make a free downloadable version of the game built around downloadable content. An iTunesesque version, if you will. They could also release a SDK* (Song Dev Kit) so artists could sell their tracks via the service (or give them away if the artist is NiN-like). I believe this scheme would create a large song library, making users happy, whilst enable Activision to sit on their asses and light their stogies with $100 dollar bills.
_________
* Yes, I realize music authoring seems to be forthcoming in the GH.
Does it need to be an original idea for them to implement it? Are only original ideas worth adding to an OS?
"Those who fail to learn from UNIX are failed to repeat it."
So you definitely can't compare the 1989 numbers with the 2008.
Right, but the 50MPG figure takes into account those new standards. Hilariously, the highway mileage for that particular Civic before the 2008 adjustments was an even higher 56MPG. See for yourself. I have an 08 Civic. It's a small car no doubt, but it's a giant compared to the Civics of olde.
[Politics is] about focusing on non issues, or at least, focusing on issues that a very small minority finds irrationally important.
By that logic shouldn't politics be focused squarely on 2008 as the year Linux is ready for the desktop?!
Dear Apache Foundation,
You may want to run smallpox cultures on the yearly $100k from Microsoft. Also, screen carefully any code submissions from the aforementioned containing fragments such as: "Diseases.smallpox.infect(apache_foundation);".
Because sites that spread a relatively short article over 5 pages just to rake viewers across more ads deserve a good slashdotting.
The fact that the WWW exists on a two-way network is its fundamental distinction from traditional one-way media. To say that the web today is no longer 'The Web' due to the introduction of more complex or proprietary content platforms is incorrect so long as the original mechanics (i.e. http and html) are still available and in use.
I'm not disputing that many would like to see the net put to use as another TV-like consumption platform through closed, proprietary, uncrawlable means. However, the myriad sites that enable and thrive on the participatory features of the web are considerable. The fact that it's so damn easy for even the average joe to make web pages these days (even if they are myspace pages) makes the current web more like 'The Web' than the TB-L web.
I thought TFA read like a rant by somebody mad AJAX and Flash (or Silverlight or whatever) exist because they are tough to index. Here's an idea: if we got rid of the web, it would be much easier to index the web!!
More people need to use these. Operating without a centralized Certificate Authority, GPG really depends on there being sufficient users to establish a web of trust.
I think people (in the US at least) either don't understand the simplicity of sniffing cleartext, or don't think they care. The aggravating part is that GPG can be really easy to use. Apps like Seahorse make key and keyring management trivial. There's a great Thunderbird plugin that makes signing and/or encrypting your mail no harder than it was before. (Yes, I know not everyone uses Linux and Thunderbird, but I trust GPG tools exist for other OSs/email clients)
Given a safe and ubiquitous encryption scheme, I can't think any reasons for sending text/data in the clear. Now all we need is a ubiquitous encryption scheme.
Couldn't agree more. Awesome gadgets are awesome not because of advertised factory features, but because of the potential they have to do new things.
I doubt Nintendo (or Sony/MS) intends people to view their hardware as a 'gadget'. Consoles are the vehicles used by console makers to sell (paid) *licensed* software. If the Wii were sold as a 'gadget', there would likely be a bunch of FOSS software out there diluting the market for those who would publish the licensed stuff. From there licenses lose their value and Nintendo loses their meal ticket.
Just read Neuromancer. William Gibson is an author with considerable foresight
They should have called this device 'trodes'. Now I just need to get my hands on a Hosaka and I'll be set for cyberspace!
...until you drop (dead).
Breaking up libraries function-wise would make for a ton of http requests.
I don't disagree with your feelings on library laden sites, however. I use JQuery a fair bit, and it's not all that hard to cut the library down to cut down on size. Also, JQuery packed with variable renaming and base 62 encoding cuts the total size down to about 15KB.
Fundamentally Google's solution is not optimal, but javasript being javascript this solution is a decent approximation.
Renting a Lala track: $0.10.
Wireshark + Lala's policy of allowing a single play per track: Priceless.
Some things on the net are easy to wget,
For everything else there's Wireshark.
Install faraday cage in macbook chop shop.
Alternatively, wear Nixon mask while chopping (I am not a crook!).
They seem to release linux binaries for many of their games. I like being able to play Doom 3 and ET:QW natively on my linux desktop. Though the HL2 series tends to work well through wine, it ain't perfect.
I would like to be able to buy more games for linux.
...is the lack of the Windows key!